[You're overthinking it. Comparing Hairball to an excavator, the separately extracted purification mechanism is like a child's plastic shovel. Sure, it can dig too—but what are you planning to dig? Sand? Flour?]
"...Damn, you're even mocking me now." Jiu Ming froze for a while, then waved a hand.
[I'm merely stating a fact. Did you think the former shopkeeper had never considered this idea?]
"Of course not. Anyone could think of it, really—but only if you gave enough information first." Jiu Ming said with a curl of his lips. Panel-kun was sometimes like toothpaste in a tube; don't expect him to voluntarily squeeze anything out. If you wanted to know more, you could only squeeze harder yourself!
"Fine. How many pieces would this thing need to be split into before the extracted purification mechanism can destroy it?"
[0.8 percent.]
Looking at the coin-sized Twisted Aberration in his hand, roughly the size of a one-yuan coin, Jiu Ming couldn't help smacking his lips. The difference was really a little huge...
A little too huge!
Was the extracted purification mechanism really this pathetic? An aberration this small could only deal with 0.8% of its mass. Put nicely, it was still somewhat useful. Put bluntly, what the hell was it good for?!
At full effectiveness, it could chew through any Twisted Aberration. At its lowest limit, it was utterly useless. Sure enough, with the Mysterious Shop's support and without it, they weren't even the same mechanism...
It had directly degraded from a supercomputer to a primitive calculator. It truly fit that saying: you never know until you look, and once you do, it'll scare you senseless. The former shopkeeper had probably abandoned whatever plans he had after learning this. There was simply no feasibility whatsoever!
[Are you still planning to continue trying?]
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