Meanwhile, inside the Magic Cube Maze, in the Production Workshop.
A dense array of Metallic Circular Platforms stood in neat rows, a full hundred of them crisscrossing the space, working at full capacity to produce a new batch of Worker Bee Puppets.
Flamelike radiance roamed over each one. Materials were constantly fed into them, suspended and burned, melted and cast into workpieces and Origin Devices of various specifications, then lifted by force fields and floated away.
One could vaguely make out that each row of Metallic Circular Platforms performed a different task. Even within a single parent device, the contact points and casting positions differed.
Together, they formed a coordinated production line. Starting with materials fed in from the left, mechanical probes periodically emitted magnetic origin force fields to transport them through the air and adjust their positions and angles. The workpieces accumulated like grains of sand building a tower. By the time they emerged from the room on the right and were transported to the next Production Workshop for assembly and debugging, they were fully formed puppets.
Meanwhile, in the Metal Room on the other side, a Transparent Crystal Cylinder resembling a gigantic reservoir constantly bubbled as though boiling.
Spirit materials that Li Chen had purchased and obtained through trades beforehand were continually dropped in from above. Under the precise control of the programs operated by Heavenly Pivot, those materials had already been kneaded into roughly human shapes-cloud mud conglomerates seemingly stamped from the same mold. They bobbed one after another in the great pool of churning bubbles, like dumplings being lowered into a pot.
And indeed, it was rather like boiling dumplings... After just under an hour, the bobbing human-shaped forms began changing color one after another and gradually floated to the surface.
Machines equipped with mechanical arms