Internet Addict Teen

After the upgrade, the rewards had also become all kinds of equipment blueprints, along with improvements to learning speed and logical thinking.

Ye Yun sighed. Recently, he had more or less finished learning some simple blueprints and weapons knowledge, but what he lacked now was good materials.

For example, high-temperature-resistant metals, hundred-forged steel, rubber, and other materials.

The more ordinary ones were manageable; he could buy them in Nuoding City. But some of the more precious ones were hard to get.

So for now, he had only made four Desert Eagles, over two hundred .50 AE rounds, one 100-cubic-meter Storage Space Ring, and a few game consoles for entertainment.

The bullet heads were Spiral Armor-Piercing Bullets made from the hundred-forged steel Tang San had brought back, and they could effectively pierce soul-power defenses.

Considering that even Tang San's cold hidden weapons could deal considerable damage to soul masters, the Desert Eagle could absolutely slaughter most of the soul masters on Douluo Continent.

The only pity was that the materials were not good enough. The bullets might not be able to pierce a Title Douluo's soul-power defense.

Just then, the dorm room door was pushed open from outside.

Tang San stepped inside, filthy from head to toe, carrying a heavy package in his hand.

With a muffled clang, the package smashed heavily onto the floor. All sorts of metal ingots inside knocked against one another, producing a deep, heavy impact.

"Brother Yun, I got the materials you wanted."

Tang San wiped the dust from his face. "It's just that the hundred-forged steel is still short by half. The blacksmith shops here have too low an output. I had to forge the remaining portion myself by working overtime."

Ye Yun's eyes lit up. He immediately got out of bed and casually picked a piece of metal from the package, weighing it in his hand.

This batch of materials was a grade better than last time, enough to forge basic protective armor.

"Thanks for the hard work, Little San. Once the follow-up materials are gathered and the technology is a little more mature, I'll make you a set of protective armor too."

At those words, warmth filled Tang San's heart, and most of the fatigue from days of running around and forging steel instantly faded.

Ye Yun took a handheld console out of the Storage Ring and tossed it to Tang San.

Tang San reached out and caught it steadily. His fingertips rubbed over the cool body of the device, his eyes full of curiosity. "Brother Yun, is this the game console you mentioned before?"

He turned it over and studied it. The game console was about the size of two palms. In the center of the body was embedded a piece of gray, opaque glass, and four function buttons were neatly arranged on both sides. Its design was strange.

"That's right. I'd wanted to give it to you before, but you were always running around and I never had the chance. I'll turn it on for you. Try playing it."

Ye Yun stepped forward and pressed the power button. The handheld console's screen lit up with a pale white glow, and several pixel-style game icons lined up on the display.

Following Ye Yun's instructions, Tang San opened Super Mario. He was still a little unfamiliar at first, his fingers pressing the wrong buttons in a panic, causing the character to frequently fall into deep pits and crash into monsters.

After he slowly figured out the pattern of the controls, his fingertips grew more skilled. He controlled the little man as it shuttled through bricks and knocked out mushrooms, gradually becoming immersed.

Across two lives, he had never seen such a novel thing before, and in the blink of an eye, he was completely drawn in.

No matter how Ye Yun called out from the side, he only kept staring at the screen, casually answering with a few "mm"s and "ah"s, unwilling to move his gaze from the handheld console even a little.

Ye Yun shrugged helplessly, already used to this. When Xiao Wu had first gotten the handheld console, she had been the same way, carrying it everywhere all day and forcibly staying up for two nights straight immersed in the games.

Ye Yun did not disturb him either and prepared to head to the woods behind the school to forge the defensive armor.

After arriving at the old spot, Ye Yun skillfully took out the Multifunctional Portable Laboratory he had been rewarded with when he broke through level 20 and pushed the door open to enter.

Although the laboratory did not look big from the outside, its interior had been expanded, so it was fairly spacious.

Ye Yun threw the entire piece of hundred-forged steel, along with various auxiliary alloy materials, into the core furnace.

Scorching flames surged and rolled, completely smelting all the materials into pure crimson molten steel.

At the same time, he lightly tapped the operating console with his fingertips and entered precise body data into the forging device one by one: his complete body measurements, shoulder width, waist and hips, limb proportions, and so on.

Rumble—

The laboratory's forging machinery began operating. Precision mechanical arms rose and fell in coordination, while molten steel slowly flowed along the preset molds, pouring in, compressing, and taking shape.

A short while later, all the armor components had been fully forged.

Ye Yun's gaze sharpened. He placed the chest armor on Workbench No. 1, picked up his tools, and began the crucial microcomponent integration.

This workbench was specially responsible for engraving micro-circuits. The precision components of the game console motherboard had been processed and shaped using it.

The core blueprint for the current defensive armor was taken from the damage-reduction module of the Glamoth Iron Cavalry.

However, the relevant technology of the Glamoth Iron Cavalry had not yet been fully digested. The finished product he could make right now was only a stripped-down version with reduced functionality.

But if the [Erudition] Path was used to fill it as the energy core, it should still be able to display decent defensive effects.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Ye Yun walked out of the laboratory, exhausted from head to toe. Only after personally putting it into practice did he understand the difficulty of research and development. Even though it was only a stripped-down Glamoth defensive armor, he had still failed several times in succession. All the scrapped armor had been thrown into the furnace to be reforged. After repeated setbacks, he finally managed to make it successfully.

Ding. Successfully created three-star defensive armor. [Erudition] energy +350.

He raised his hand and rubbed the summoner set to automatic defense at his neck, a smile climbing onto the corners of his mouth.

Sure enough, the more complex the thing he made, the more Path feedback he received. Previously, making a handgun or a game console had only increased it by 30 each. He wondered how much energy he would gain if he made an orbital strike cannon in the future.

Ye Yun shook his head and prepared to return to the dormitory to get a good sleep.

As soon as he entered, he discovered Tang San and Xiao Wu each sporting a pair of panda eyes, holding game consoles and playing games.

Super Mario and Contra background music kept playing nonstop.

"Wait, isn't it class time right now? And you're all holed up in the dorm playing games??"

"I already know everything the teachers teach at school. It makes no difference whether I go or not, and besides, I think balancing work and rest is very important."

Tang San did not look up, his eyes fixed tightly on the screen, his body swaying slightly along with the game.

On the other side, Xiao Wu lay on the bed with her legs crossed, hammering away at the buttons.

"Brother, you know me. I wouldn't listen even if I went anyway, so I might as well stay in the dorm and play games comfortably."

Ye Yun was speechless. So these two had turned into internet-addicted teenagers, had they?

He could not be bothered to say anything more. He reached out and shoved Xiao Wu's legs, which were propped on his blanket, off to the side, then flopped onto the bed, ready to seize the time and catch up on sleep.

But he had not slept for long when an itch suddenly brushed the tip of his nose. He frowned and rubbed at it casually, but moments later, that ticklish feeling came again.

Ye Yun's first thought was that Xiao Wu's game console had run out of power and she wanted to wake him up to charge it.

Without thinking, he raised his hand and swept it out sharply, intending to give this mischievous little rabbit a small lesson.

"Ah~!"

A soft cry suddenly rang beside his ear. Hiss... that voice did not seem to be Xiao Wu's.

Ye Yun's movement froze. He instantly realized something was wrong and opened his eyes to look.

He saw Ning Rongrong with more than half her body sprawled over the bed, while his own hand was firmly wrapped around her waist.

Her face had flushed bright red, and her eyes were filled with panic and shyness. Though she was still young, she had secretly read plenty of romance novels, and for a moment, all kinds of knowledge surfaced in her mind, to the point that she even forgot to get up.

"What are you two doing!"

Xiao Wu, off to the side, immediately tossed aside the game console in her hands, her eyes going wide as saucers. She stepped forward and yanked Ning Rongrong out of Ye Yun's arms.