The room was in utter disarray, with all kinds of documents piled into mountains.
A man in a white lab coat stood by the window. Outside, white clouds occasionally drifted past.
A firearm lay before him. Its body was mainly black, but its stock and magazine looked like pale purple crystals. Many vine-like tendrils also wound around it, fused with the entire weapon. (PS: There is an illustration at the end of the chapter.)
"Is this a rule-type weapon? What exactly does it do?" the man asked.
"Professor Wen, here is the complete information on this weapon."
A man in military uniform beside him handed over a transcribed intelligence report.
The professor took it and read it, then knitted his brows tightly. "This Uncanny Artifact's rule effects are indeed powerful, but these side effects... Trading this for someone else's rule-type Weird Crystal would be taking far too much advantage of them, wouldn't it?"
"Professor, we mobilized all our resources and searched for ten days, and this was the only rule-type ranged Uncanny Artifact we found. If it's unsatisfactory and we have to keep looking, there's no telling how much longer it will take."
Hearing the uniformed man's words, Professor Wen let out a helpless sigh. He understood that the man had a point.
Finding even this one had already been far from easy.
After all, rule-type Weird Crystals were extremely rare to begin with, and even fewer people were willing to use them to forge Uncanny Artifacts. And it had to be a ranged uncanny weapon? That made it even more like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Finding this one really could be considered a stroke of extraordinary luck.
"All right, then. We'll go with this."
"However, I don't think that Luo Fan is an easy person to