Since Xu Huo was examining it, the others naturally had the sense not to crowd around and risk seeming like they were snatching food from a tiger's mouth. They stood obediently behind him, turning their attention to the rest of the room.
Without question, this was a study Carmen Field had arranged within the instance site. Many places on the walls bore traces of stickers, though only blank scraps remained now. There were also some tools for crafting items nearby, most of them already damaged.
"This should have been where Mr. Carmen made items," Lou Shang said. "Could the Combat Angel have been made here?"
Xu Huo had already seen the Combat Angel's design sketches—or, more precisely, part of them. They showed hand-drawn item limbs, with some components disassembled, but the materials of those components were not labeled.
Judging from the original concept, the Combat Angel should have looked like a robot. Not the kind of Android common nowadays, either, but something with a metallic texture, clearly distinguishable from a "person."
"Mr. Carmen had taste." Fu Kuan glanced at it from afar. "A robot should look like a robot."
The others offered no opinions. Nowadays, the game had not only extremely lifelike Androids but also giant robots specifically designed for combat or industrial operations. Some wealthy districts, for example, used armed robots on a large scale. More common, however, were robots only slightly larger than humans, which helped lessen the intimidation and instability people associated with robots.
Humanoid androids were also highly controversial. While their excessive realism undoubtedly represented an advance in human technology, it also made the boundary between humans and Androids easier to blur.
"Did the Combat Angel really look like this?" Xu Huo turned and asked the two Bodyguards behind the young man.
The young man thought