Mr. Bottle's habit of doing good deeds without asking for payment naturally made him extremely popular. But his movements were unpredictable, and he never stayed in one place, making him very difficult to find.
That is a problem... Hmm, but I remember a "folk remedy." I don't know whether it'll work, but I can find a chance to try it next time. Maybe it'll lure him out.
Chen Lun thought.
He then took two ink bottles out of the Blood-Poem Ring.
The two ink bottles looked roughly alike, but the base colors of their glass bodies differed slightly. One was red, the other blue.
Chen Lun first toyed with the red one, thinking:
Over a dozen, nearly twenty bottles of Red Ink have already been produced. Aside from those that need to be sold to recover the costs, I still have four or five bottles on me.
This specially made Fragmentation Explosive had been tested in actual combat. It was immensely powerful and very useful.
When he had rescued the Pompeii family, it was by using two bottles of Red Ink to blow up the Sequence 8 Raven that he had tipped the scales of victory toward his side.
Setting down the Red Ink, he picked up the Blue Ink.
This is the high-explosive incendiary bomb Connie made to my specifications. There are only a handful of sample bottles right now...
Chen Lun carefully cradled it in his palm.
Although Connie had added three safety mechanisms, this thing belonged to the "ready to serve the instant you open it-extremely convenient" category.
If he really did accidentally set it off by failing to hold it steady, he would be fine, but the entire building would probably be done for.
According to Connie's explanation, once activated, it would rapidly explode and burn,