"Is this your first time at Moonlight Throne, Mr. Ren Yu?"
Sam introduced the place with a smile. "Thanks to the Alliance Leader's efforts, we were able to build a testing facility spanning hundreds of mu this deep underground."
Ren Yu nodded. For a laboratory, this scale was absolutely enormous.
Looking through several open doors into the smaller labs, he saw researchers constantly tinkering with minerals and machinery.
Soon, Sam led Ren Yu onto a rapidly moving conveyor belt and said somewhat awkwardly, "It can't be helped. Doctor Tesla said we needed to save some funding, so we can only use this method to travel quickly."
Ren Yu glanced at the black conveyor beneath his feet, then at the various research rooms brimming with a futuristic atmosphere, and suddenly grinned.
"It's fine. I understand..."
After all, excavating hundreds of mu of open space underground was easy. Procuring all sorts of cutting-edge research equipment was the real challenge.
Those were the biggest money burners.
Even if Anti-Entropy had a bit of money, they still had to spend it frugally.
But why did this conveyor belt look more and more familiar to Ren Yu?
Suddenly, he smacked his forehead in realization.
Damn, isn't this the conveyor track used for producing large vehicles?
This was recycling waste!
That hot-tempered big sister Tesla really was a genius.
She had actually thought of using it to carry people.
After that, now interested, Ren Yu spotted signs of recycling waste everywhere.
—The lighting equipment had been repurposed from long-range lamps removed from armored vehicles.
—The shells of the containers had been made from metal stripped off Mechanical Titans.
—The temperature control systems installed at intervals looked more and more like heavily modified scrap from reactor coolers.
By the time he finished counting, Ren Yu had no idea how many little money-saving tricks he had found.
And by then, he had finally arrived beside a laboratory enclosed by a circular wall.
A circular steel wall dozens of meters tall and of unknown width surrounded this vast expanse of open ground.
"Mr. Ren Yu, I can't go any farther," Sam kindly reminded him. "The laboratory ahead is the core of the Moonlight Throne laboratory. Please be careful of danger and put on your protective equipment."
In Sam's eyes, this seemingly frail man without much flesh on his bones ought to be some kind of researcher.
"Alright."
Ren Yu nodded and was just about to step forward when Sam suddenly said with an awkward expression, "Please wait, Mr. Ren Yu. I just received word that the Alliance Leader left only seconds ago. However, Doctor Tesla just arrived. So, you see..."
"..."
Before Ren Yu could speak, the voice of a certain hot-tempered big sister came from behind him. "Well, if it isn't little Ren Yu. Are you here to pick up Exoskeleton Armor too? Planning to head to the Great White Shark cruise ship and teach those little girls from Schicksal a lesson?"
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Ren Yu turned around.
A young woman with red twin tails, wearing a suit dress and pink round-framed glasses, appeared before him.
She was holding an ice cream cone in her hand.
While licking it, she looked over at Ren Yu with a smug expression.
There was no mistaking it...
It was the hot-tempered big sister Tesla.
While Ren Yu was still stunned, she walked over and tossed several bags she had been carrying in her left hand, along with several hanging from her mechanical assistant, beside Ren Yu.
"Help me carry some of these. These things have worn me out so much my waist is starting to ache."
Ren Yu ignored her and casually asked,
"What are you doing here?"
"To fight! Didn't I just tell you?"
"The Great White Shark? The King of Gamblers Competition?"
"What else? Where did you think I was going?"
She righteously stuffed the nearly finished ice cream cone into her mouth and crunched it down.
Then Tesla clenched her right hand. With a click, the red steel gauntlet locked into place. She sneered. "I really want to see those little girls crying their eyes out."
"..."
Ren Yu ignored her.
Instead, his gaze fell on her red mechanical gauntlet, and he wondered, Does this thing really have combat capability?
It wasn't that he disrespected Tesla.
It was just because... she had never been a character who could fight.
After thinking it over, Ren Yu kindly advised her, "I think you'd better not go looking to get yourself killed."
At that, the hot-tempered big sister instantly grew impatient and snorted.
"None of your business. If we keep dawdling, we'll miss the ship. That bird's-nest-haired guy actually ran off early with Wadeline. He didn't even wait for me..."
She strode past Ren Yu while muttering to herself when the mechanical assistant's eyes suddenly lit up. Black-and-white bar-shaped beams swept across a completely empty wall.
Then something strange happened.
Before Ren Yu's astonished eyes, a door suddenly appeared. Tesla dragged the large and small bags on the ground inside.
Beside them, Sam consciously turned his head away, pretending he hadn't seen anything.
Not long after, Tesla hurried out of the laboratory again and tossed a black box at Ren Yu.
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