"Where's the Station Master?"
Just then—
Zhou Mo rushed onto the City Wall and looked around in confusion before turning to Monkey beside him. "Didn't I just see the Station Master up here?"
"Where did he go?"
"The Young Master went to bathe."
"More good news?"
Zhou Mo froze for a moment, then quickly understood. Whenever something good happened, the Station Master would always bathe first. He scratched his head and grinned.
"Then congratulations to the Station Master on two happy occasions at once. I've got some good news to report to him too."
"What good news?"
"I have to tell him in person."
Rotten Monkey curled his lip and looked away from Zhou Mo without another word. Soon, Chen Fan returned after bathing and changing, took his place on the City Wall again, and confirmed the "eligible for qualitative transformation" upgrade path.
The instant he confirmed it—
The Cannon Tower installed on the City Wall began changing rapidly.
The original Level-5 Cannon Tower—
It was a cube-shaped structure made of brown stone bricks, one meter long and wide. A rectangular opening sat in the center of the side facing the enemy, with a white Paper Lantern hanging inside.
After the upgrade—
The brown stone bricks on the Cannon Tower's surface rapidly melted. In the blink of an eye, it became... an upright "Eerie Eye"!
One meter tall!
And relatively narrow.
Its surface was covered in a network of dark-Purple Grade veins. A light tap revealed it was warm, smooth, and hard.
There was no sticky feeling.
Within the Eerie Eye's pupil lay a constantly spinning, bottomless Dark Vortex, while blood-red Vein Patterns covered the white of the eye.
Then—
The Eerie Eye with its vertical pupil slowly closed. Its eyelid completely enclosed the pupil as it stood on the