It's not just about using brainpower for mining.
This device continuously stimulates different parts of the brain while it is being used.
It wasn't a hallucination, but rather a direct physical stimulus that caused the brain to produce corresponding emotions.
Negative emotions, positive emotions, and then they are transformed through a part of the brain's processing power.
These emotions were transformed into corresponding magic in a bizarre way.
This machine is no ordinary machine.
With all Three Corpses fully functional, this kind of mining is not a difficult task for Three Corpses brains. With a little disguise, the feedback the machine can get is only that the computing power is low, which is not enough to make them optimize themselves.
Moreover, as a witch, the negative emotions she can provide are clearly beyond those of a regular mining machine.
With high output and low computing power, in the end, the entire factory had to allocate additional mining machines to provide computing power here, helping her transform negative emotions into Filthy Magic Power.
Most of the Filthy Magic Power generated from this transformation is still needed to maintain the existence of the Witch Shion herself – the machines in this mine are not powerful enough to steal the Filthy Magic Power from her.
Shion allocates the resources herself to ensure that the input and output of the other party are basically normal, so that it will not be detected that optimization is needed. Then all the remaining Filthy Magic Power will be left behind.
This method of converting magic meant that Shion didn't need to keep her consciousness in the witch's Three Corpses, which was quite convenient. She even planned to lie there like this forever.
She turned into Shion, stealing electricity and exploiting the factory's computing power.
Hidden among the many gears, stealing opportunities from the factory—this is the way of the underworld.
Now that she no longer needed to maintain the Witch Shion, the consciousness controlling Witch Shion became slightly freer, merging with the Magic Sense to transform into divine thought, which followed the machine's cables to survey the entire mine's structure.
The mining farm is very large. In addition to the mining platform, there are many other platforms, each with a different structure and internal operation.
It's not just mining; there also seems to be waste disposal work going on here, with several platforms below incinerating and sorting garbage.
There was also a huge pile of corpses.
There were almost no corpses in the garbage dumps outside, but beneath the factory, piles of churning bodies lay scattered about.
Each corpse was perfectly preserved, without any damage, and the ones handling the corpses were a group of Calamity Beast.
That's right, they were a group of humanoid Calamity Beast. Although they looked very much like humans, with hands and feet and even wearing clothes, the structure of their heads was undoubtedly that of pure Calamity Beast. Shion could not possibly mistake that pure, Filthy Magic Power.
"I heard that Raincoat caught another new 'chicken' this time?"
"They dragged me to work in the mining industry."
"It's a pity, it's been so long since I've had any live ones."
"Be content. In a place like the outer perimeter of Chongxu, we lowly beasts can only eat scraps. The lion's share goes to those above us—"
It can even speak human language.
Shion's divine sense thus attached itself to one of the Calamity Beast.
The Calamity Beast's head resembled that of a deer, while next to it was a lizard-like Calamity Beast, which was processing the corpses while flicking its forked tongue as if it could sense something.
As the Calamity Beast rummaged through the human corpses being transported away on the machine, it suddenly grabbed one and said to the Calamity Beast controlled by Shion, "See this one?"
The deer tilted its head to look at the carcass; its belly was somewhat swollen.
The lizard- Calamity Beast's forked tongue twitched, and it snorted coldly, "Study hard, this is good stuff."
"Why?"
The Calamity Beast lightly scratched its belly with its claws. "Look, so much ointment!"
The deer's eye twitched, and it instinctively held its breath. "That's probably constipation, isn't it?"
"Look at this one too, it's also top-quality, it's lava-filled!"
"That's diarrhea."
"This one has popping boba, it tastes great."
"That's hemorrhoids—"
Exhausted, the deer, which had intended to ask something, was rendered speechless by the stench of blood.
Only after the corpses were taken away did the Calamity Beast pat it on the shoulder. "You need to study hard. There's a bonus for picking out the best ones. How long will it take to leave this wretched place and go to the Chongxu with just your fixed salary?"
Upon hearing this, the elk immediately nodded, "You're right."
The entire factory was actually quite silent, with only workshops and machines everywhere, the humming of various machines, and the meshing of gears.
When the wind blows through a seemingly deserted forest, the waves of leaves create an atmosphere of desolate lifelessness and emptiness.
In this steel forest, only this small platform, where the Calamity Beast reside, possesses a touch of life.
The Calamity Beast mimicked human voices, reminding Shion of the stories of how, after ascension, the celestial realm was controlled by powerful demons.
But these Calamity Beast seem to be nothing more than low-level creatures; the way they're hammering screws here doesn't seem like they're anything more than human-demon hybrids.
How do we get to Chongxu?
While picking up the corpses nearby, the elk casually asked a question.
Sure enough, the Calamity Beast lit a cigarette and tapped its forehead.
Those hands were covered in scales, but they were still human hands. "Look at you," she said, asking again.
The elk had probably asked many times before, judging from the lizard Calamity Beast's somewhat impatient tone.
The deer glanced at the cigarette butt near its mouth. It was a very simple, ordinary cigarette, but the way it smoked, flicked the ash, and even blew smoke rings was just too human.
The anthropomorphism has reached a somewhat terrifying level.
"We indigenous people, as long as we earn enough money here, we'll be able to go back sooner or later. Chongxu, that place is all about money. We're lucky to even have a way to survive. Don't think about anything else. Look at these corpses, who among them wasn't better than us back then? In the end, they all died like stray dogs on the roadside—"
Hearing that the other party was willing to talk about Chongxu, the deer continued to ask, "Is it just us natives? What about the outsiders? Like that outsider who was grabbed by the Raincoat before?"
"I'll spend my whole life mining."
The Calamity Beast sneered, "You've become a mining machine and you still want to get out? Your brain will have gone mad in a few years."
"What if it's not broken?"
"You little brat," the Calamity Beast flicked cigarette ash at its face and chuckled, "Still dreaming? Don't worry about our factory's mining machines, none of them will survive. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter. Outsiders without residency or local blood can't get into the Chongxu."
Finally, they got to the point. The elk blew on the air without making a sound.
The cigarette ash fell into the lizard Calamity Beast's eyes, and the lizard Calamity Beast was immediately burned and kept rubbing its eyes.
"So that means as long as you possess a local like us with bloodlines from Chongxu, you can get in?"
What is "body possession"?
"It means taking over someone else's body."
"It's unlikely. The Chongxu is very strict. The path to enter the Chongxu through possession has long been blocked. Souls all have the Chongxu Mark. Without the mark, you can't enter. Moreover, the Chongxu actively absorbs people after they reach the standard. No one knows where the Chongxu Void is or how to actively enter it. You can only wait for the Chongxu to come and pick you up after you reach the standard."
"I see, thank you."
The lizard paused, tilting its head and frowning as it looked at the deer. "You, no, you're not—"
Nodding, the elk reached out and grabbed the lizard Calamity Beast's head.
Before the other person could react, he slammed his hand down onto the machine below!
The machine that was originally processing the corpses began to grind the lizard Calamity Beast's head with a hissing sound!
After the lizard Calamity Beast was stuffed inside, the elk jumped in on its own.
A piercing alarm quickly blared throughout the factory!
Even Calamity Beast involved in accidents will call the police.
It seems the safety officers here are rather lax, but the factory's safety awareness makes up for it.
Shion withdrew her Magic Sense and nodded in satisfaction.
Gou Dao? Anyone can do that.
The Witch Shion was sleeping in the factory, while the Dragon Lord Shion above her, in order to ensure the world's authority and security, also began to meditate.
In fact, it doesn't require much effort to control.
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When Jiang Si emerged from the Illusory Moon Cave Abode, having already deactivated her transformation, she looked up at the sky.
He could vaguely see his own Dragon Lord form in the distance.
Now, he can choose any of the Three Corpses to transform into. Because Bingtang had been nagging him about it, Jiang Si still chose to use the original Shion when he returned.
Dragon Lord Shion stayed up there with the Emperor and the others.
Even when the Dragon Lord Shion is meditating, the Emperor and the Little Black Dragon can still come out and chat with the Fengqin, which can only exist in the chaotic space.
Let's see if these two can learn a thing or two of my negotiation skills and extract more information from Fengqin.
According to the information we now know, the area where the Witch Shion was mining was indeed not Chongxu, but rather the outer perimeter of Chongxu.
This is easy to understand.
Classic gathering places outside the underground city, Wanbao Island, a market town in the Chaotic Star Sea, a large-scale extraterrestrial space station, an interstellar civilization expedition team, and the suburbs outside the fifth ring road of Beihai ----
I felt a little relieved; the real Chongxu wouldn't be so incompetent after all.
What a low-level Calamity Beast knows might not be true, Witch Association might not be reliable either.
It seems this gold miner still needs some work.
The Emperor and the Little Black Dragon, those two idiots, spent most of their time asking about Lu Ya.
It's completely useless anyway.
Bingtang also emerged from the Illusory Moon Cave Abode, saying, "Don't forget the time."
As she spoke, she put the little gloves she had knitted on Jiang Si's hands and straightened his collar. "You also need to be careful with Keke's matter. Don't rush things or force things to grow too fast."
"Know."
After saying that, Bingtang Tang waved her hand slightly and saw Jiang Si off.
Actually, Jiang Si wasn't interested in being a best man at first.
After all, the previous annulment of the engagement in the Land of Mirrors had already made him somewhat averse to weddings.
But Bingtang said that she could borrow the venue to give him a perfect wedding ceremony to cancel his marriage.
This inevitably made Jiang Si somewhat tempted.
Although the original plan eventually got back on track, the fact that I misremembered the lines and the roles were switched halfway through made the performance quite unsuccessful and unpleasant.
Without a complete understanding, it's difficult to borrow his profound meaning.
If we could have a perfect cancellation of the wedding, it would make up for all the regrets.
However, since they were just best man and maid of honor, it was uncertain how much they could actually do, and Jiang Si didn't have high expectations.
As Jiang Si walked along the road, looking around at the celebrations in Beihai, she felt somewhat annoyed.
Photos and portraits of Shion, along with various hastily produced merchandise, can now be seen everywhere on the streets of Beihai.
The Azure Cloud Sect already had related business, but in reality, the sales of surrounding products had always been only so-so.
When the Beihai was saved from the Calamity Human Realm last time, the related buzz had already increased.
Of course, this was limited to Beihai, and because it required authorization from the Azure Cloud Sect, Bingtang was very strict about copyright, which meant that after saving Beihai last time, the spread of Shion to the surrounding areas was not as fast.
After saving South China and destroying the Land of Mirrors, the market demand for the area around Shion exploded. The production chain prepared by Bingtang was also completed, causing Shion to spring up like mushrooms after rain in various places.
The highest demand is in South China; I heard that an autographed photo of Shion there has fetched an astronomical price.
Jiang Si started to consider whether she should take some autographed photos to make some money.
Although he's not short of money now, it's like when you're terrified of being poor; you'll want to take advantage of even the smallest things, and besides, that autographed photo of Shion was really expensive.
"Wow, the boyfriend of a big star."
After walking through the streets and arriving at the park, Jialan arrived there ahead of time as agreed.
Sitting on the swing that the Shuangsheng used to sit on, swaying back and forth, Jialan looked around at the itasha (decorated car) of Shion, the balloons of Shion, and the huge posters of Shion, and couldn't help but sigh, "A global superstar! Don't you regret it? Breaking up with such a superstar, you'll never have another chance."
Jiang Si ignored her, and simply took out a Miracle Seed from her pocket and tossed it to Jialan.
While still swinging in the air, Jialan quickly jumped up from the swing and grabbed the seed.
After seizing the Full Bloom, replicable Miracle Seed, before she could even react, the swing behind her caught up.
It slammed hard into the back of her head.
Ouch!
Jialan, holding the Miracle Seed, suddenly threw herself onto the ground.
It took him a while to get up. He casually brushed the dirt off himself, stopped the swing from flying towards him again, and gave Jiang Si a reproachful look. "Be careful, this thing is so valuable!"
"I've brought you the Full Bloom Miracle Seed."
Jiang Si said calmly, "The information regarding the Land of Mirrors's Full Bloom technique is almost complete, but you know the rules."
"I know, I know. You won't hand it over to us until you tell us how to get to Chongxu."
Gently stroking this Full Bloom Seed that only the Land of Mirrors could create.
Jialan finally smiled, "Truly worthy of being called the Land of Mirrors. We've searched many worlds, but none have been able to replicate the Full Bloom Miracle Seed like this. In terms of ability, the Land of Mirrors is perhaps far more astonishing than the Azure Cloud Sect."
"Say what you're saying in your sleep."
I was referring to the technology aspect.
" Azure Cloud is the strongest in every aspect."
"Alright, alright, I didn't expect someone with thick eyebrows and big eyes like you to be Azure Cloud fan too."
Jialan said casually, then took out her phone again, "Actually, me too."
Jiang Si looked at it and saw it was Magical Girl Idol Project.
Several Shion of Full Life.
"You must have smoked too, right?"
"No."
"Damn it, where did this fake fan come from?" Jialan glared at him resentfully. "It's because of fake fans like you that our Shion's gacha pool can't reach the top!"
There was also the Shion card pool, which was jointly promoted by the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and the Azure Cloud Sect last time, and its sales figures were not low at the time.
However, in the Magical Girl Idol Project, she was actually ranked quite low, considering that when the gacha pool was released, the popularity of Magical Girl Shion wasn't that high.
There is still considerable prejudice against the Azure Cloud Sect and Shion in many places, which means that after covering the publicity, there wasn't much revenue left from that card pool.
Most importantly, Shion's ranking in the banner was not high at the time, which made Shion's fans lose face and feel that Shion was not a big name, so the fans did not have the confidence to go out and fight.
"Strong combat power? What's the use of strong combat power? What's your rank in the gacha pool? Are you even worthy of being compared to my Little Larkspur and Iris Baby?"
" Iris, please stop trying to piggyback on my fame and elevate your own status."
"Here we go again. It's clearly Shion trying to scam us; her shameful behavior is on full display!"
Jialan had seen many conversations like this.
But now there's no need to worry. While Shion is sweeping across the real world, Shion fans are also sweeping across the internet, and everything is peaceful with no one daring to criticize her.
The fans' disgraceful behavior is always linked to their idols; when the idol sweeps all before them, everything becomes much easier.
"Actually, there's a secret I haven't told you. I'm actually a huge fan of Shion. I manage the supertopic for her. I don't know how many Little Black I've dealt with for Shion. Oh, I mean banned accounts, not killed people."
"I know, I'm asking about Chongxu."
"But actually, I'm not the only big fan of Shion. There's another one who's really amazing, Sonora. She actually does real-life unboxing videos. Of course, she didn't kill anyone, but she can easily make people depressed."
That's enough. What I asked was—
" Sonora is the necessary key to enter the Chongxu."
One sentence silenced Jiang Si. Jialan held the seed, looking at Jiang Si through it, "Do you know Sonora is a vampire?"
"Not cosplay?" Jiang Si said with a hint of disdain, "That's just child's play."
"No," Jialan, somewhat speechless, "They are real vampires."
"Once bitten by a vampire, not only will your bloodline change, but your soul will also be marked, making you a local of Chongxu." Jialan swayed on the swing. "That's why the guild leader sent her here."
"However, they are, after all, a powerful clan that controls immigration resources," Jialan said with an expression that suggested she couldn't afford to offend them, "The conditions for letting vampires bite people are very stringent."
"Especially Sonora."
As she spoke, the girl mischievously tilted her head to look at Jiang Si: "First, you have to win her over, make her fall for you, only then will it be effective."