"Waaaaah!"
"Waaaah!"
"Waaaaaah!"
When Lu Dahai said he wanted to play a couple of rounds, Old Five immediately became interested.
I've even stopped watching anime.
It chirped excitedly twice.
That's right, it only has two hobbies: watching anime and gambling!
What kind of playing cards, dice, mahjong?
It likes anything related to gambling.
According to the Old Five's own account, the reason he liked to gamble was simply because his two hundred years of life had been too uneventful.
There was not a ripple whatsoever.
Now that it has gained sentience, it has found a trace of the feeling that makes its heart beat faster in this aspect.
"Waaah? (Mahjong?)"
"No way! Who has the life to play mahjong with you? You spend half an hour thinking about every single tile."
Lu Dahai shook his head like a rattle drum.
He and Old Five had only played mahjong once.
The Foundation Establishment True Person was inherently intelligent, and Lu Dahai had been playing mahjong for many years.
You can figure out the cards and count them in the blink of an eye.
Unfortunately, the Old Five is a slowpoke. It's not that he's slow at calculating; he's just simply used to being slow.
The first time he played mahjong, he, Zhang Xuanqing, and Old Five Maozi, the two of them and the two demons, fought for a full eight hours, but only played a few rounds in total.
From that moment on, he vowed never to play mahjong with Old Five again in his life.
It's a bit of a pity about the Old Five; of all the gambling games, he was most obsessed with mahjong.
Seeing that Lu Dahai was unwilling, it had no choice but to lower its head and reply sullenly.
"Waaaaah (Then you choose)."
"Let's play dice! Where's the Maozi? Call Maozi over, I'll be the dealer and you two guess odd or even."
Lu Dahai reached out and touched it.
He pulled a dice cup from the Storage Bag of his jacket.
"Waaaaah! (I'm calling it!)"
Upon seeing the equipment, the Old Five also became interested.
He pulled a cell phone out from under the bed.
Rough fingers tapped rapidly on the screen.
The lock screen wallpaper is a photo of it with a woman dressed as a zookeeper.
Upon unlocking the screen, a pleasant ringtone immediately sounds.
"They gave me rat poison!"
"After eating two packets, I felt instantly so high!"
"It tastes good~ But it's too hard on the head~"
"I'd be in serious trouble if I didn't get hit twice!"
Everyone here hates and dislikes me.
"I'm just struggling to make a living~ that's true~"
The abstract ringtone made Lu Dahai's lips twitch involuntarily.
He has reminded his team member many times.
Since it's a government-affiliated institution, it should at least be somewhat respectable.
The ringtone is too abstract; what will others think? They'll say that the Cultivator Group aren't doing their jobs properly.
As for the Maozi" he mentioned, it was the veteran member who had accompanied Bureau 749 in its cultivation research, the Spirit Machinery creature Brocade Fur.
To be honest, the entire Bureau 749 has many experimental workshops.
No one could have imagined that this creature, with its bionic mechanical body and the soul of a white rat, could survive for seventeen or eighteen years.
After all, following Brocade Fur, the Soul Dao Workshop conducted subsequent bionic soul experiments.
There are many success stories, but they all disappear within a few months or years.
Only Brocade Fur not only survived, but also participated in the research of the Cultivation Method experimental workshop.
Having mastered a Demon Race Cultivation Method passed down by Lu Li, he is now a genuine Late Qi Refining Spirit Machinery rat demon.
He is also an honorary member of the Cultivator Group, and usually assists various workshops in conducting experiments.
"Chirp chirp chirp?"
"Waaaaah?"
"Chirp chirp!"
"Waaaah!"
After a brief, cryptic exchange, the Old Five put down his phone.
A short while later, the knocking sounded again.
A palm-sized, silver-white bionic mouse with a metallic sheen floated in.
"Everyone's here! Fire!"
"It's settled then, let's play it safe this time. No one can cheat or use Spiritual Power."
"I'll temporarily shut down my Divine Sense. Maozi, you turn off your Red See-Through Eye too."
"We will be fair, just, and transparent!"
Lu Dahai shook the dice excitedly.
In addition to their monthly salary and allowance, members of the Cultivator Group also receive a portion of cultivation resources.
There is Auspicious Grain Spirit Rice, as well as Elixir and Spirit Stone.
Although it wasn't much, it was still a very rare resource for everyone's spiritual practice.
These resources can not only help them improve their cultivation, but also provide better support for their research.
As the leader of the Cultivator Group, Lu Dahai's cultivation salary was naturally higher than others.
As soon as the words were spoken, a bright light flashed before the eyes of both demons.
They immediately gathered around the bed.
The clattering sound of dice filled the air.
The one person and the two demons were having a great time.
The spirit rice was counted out by the grain, and the Spirit Stone were crushed and divided into small handfuls.
You bet on odd, I guess even.
It wasn't until midnight that Lu Dahai emerged from the Old Five dormitory, his face flushed.
Only a tortoise and a mouse remained, filled with endless regret.
"Chirp chirp chirp! (Lost again!)"
"Waaaaah~! (I feel like something's not right.)"
"Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp! (It's all your fault, my salary for this month is gone again, don't call me again next time!)"
Brocade Fur's voice was somewhat excited.
It was by nature stingy, and it had saved up two ounces of spirit rice but was reluctant to consume it itself. Who would have thought it would end up in someone else's hands?
The Old Five watched the restless Brocade Fur without saying a word.
He simply pulled out another dice cup from behind him and waved it around.
"Waaaaaah? (How about I lend you some, and we play a couple more rounds?)"
Brocade Fur paused, looking at Old Five's sincere face, and at Gui Lao's taciturn manner.
With a sharp slap of its slender forepaw, it cried out, "Squeak! (Come on!)"
Lu Dahai was unaware that after he left, the tortoise and the rat resumed their penniless ways.
I felt exceptionally peaceful and serene during my meditation that night.
Until the next day, Monday morning.
A busy week has officially begun.
Inside the Artifact Refining Industrial Production Workshop.
Zhou Zhenhua and other members are having an intense discussion about the design concept of Space-Based Orbital Spirit Core Cannon.
Upon seeing Lu Dahai enter, the group hurriedly came to greet him.
" True Person Lu, you've finally arrived!"
"We've been waiting for you. Come on, Xiao Yang, prepare the experimental materials."
"We must determine the core parameters of the main materials today."
After that, a huge crane boom in the experimental workshop transported a piece of dark blue spiritual stone slab.
It was the top-tier fourth-order spiritual material that Lu Li had sent back— the Dark Ink Metal Stone!
Lu Dahai wasted no time and threw himself into his work.
After several electronic sensors were connected to his body.
The Divine Sense penetrated the Dark Ink Metal Stone, carefully perceiving its density, material properties, and the efficiency of Spiritual Power conduction.
Data streams were transmitted through his senses and uploaded to the quantum computer.
Valuable data models were quickly built.
The 3D design blueprints for the Demon-Expelling Space-Based Orbital Spirit Core Cannon are adjusted in real time.
The hexagonal cannon barrel is entirely black.
The muzzle has a multi-faceted composite structure, and the tail is engraved with many intricate Artifact Inscription.
It looks like a giant laser cannon from a science fiction movie.
Anyone who sees it knows that this thing will become a deadly weapon!
I finished collecting experimental data from the Dao of Artifact Refinement workshop this morning.
In the afternoon, Lu Dahai immersed himself in the Anti-Gravity Spiritual Energy Domain discussion in the Dao of Formations workshop.
Discussions are certainly not held at a conference table.
Lu Dahai, a Foundation Establishment True Person, is currently floating in an anti-gravity experimental chamber.
It felt like we were in outer space, our bodies floating upwards.
The researchers were all on high alert, and Li Mingyuan was the first to speak.
"Everyone, prepare to increase power!"
"Testing the Foundation Establishment's resistance to gravity compression!"
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There's a surprise in this chapter! Let's see who can find it first!