Thunder and Time!

"I was only calculating my net worth. I never planned to sell them."

"You can control the Mechanical Puppets and boost our combat strength. If we ever go somewhere like the Outer Realm Battlefield, we can even use them to pose as Mechanical Race experts."

"As for all that metal, you can't possibly eat that much, can you?"

Oriana nodded and reminded him, "Master, I don't just need to devour metal. I also need to devour more kinds of matter—Organic Matter, Inorganic Matter, Energy Bodies... All matter in the universe is on my menu. That is decided by the Master of Matter."

"Only after devouring and deconstructing them can I achieve the 'Creation from Nothing' you spoke of!"

Jiang Zhe's mouth twitched. "So if you only devour metal, you'll become malnourished, and I need to buy you other materials from across the universe?"

Oriana nodded and spread her hands at Jiang Zhe.

"Ahh~ My Thunder Prison Realm only needs to devour Thunder Attribute treasures!"

Master and servant were both resource-devouring gluttons, like Goldenhorn Giant Pigs...

"Our combination is the true Devouring the Starry Sky, isn't it?"

Jiang Zhe suddenly turned to the mechanical dog and asked, "Alpha, can those three types of Class C Production Lines still operate normally? Are any raw materials missing?"

"My lord, I have carefully maintained every production line over these tens of thousands of years. Nothing will go wrong!"

"You needn't worry about raw materials for now either. Before the former master met with disaster, he had just purchased a batch of materials, and less than forty percent has been used."

"Good dog!" Jiang Zhe praised.

He raised a hand and patted Alpha's head.

The latter panted, "Huff, huff," utterly delighted.

"Doggy, give me exact figures. How much can they produce?"

After calculating for a moment, the mechanical dog immediately answered, "Over a million Class C9 Alloy Spaceships, over a hundred million protective Class C Mechanical Puppets, and nearly ten thousand Class C9 Superior Laser Guns!"

The numbers were enormous. His head hurt...

Jiang Zhe froze for a moment, then carefully did the math and noticed something was wrong.

"How much can a Class C9 Alloy Spaceship containing Mechanical Race technology sell for?"

"About ten thousand Cosmic Currency."

"What?" Jiang Zhe's eyes widened. "A million spaceships can sell for a hundred billion Cosmic Currency, and that's only 0.1 Hunyuan Units in revenue?"

It made him blurt out a question from the depths of his soul.

"Is money really that hard to earn?"

He lowered his head and looked at the vast Puppet Legion projection beneath his feet, representing fixed assets worth nearly 1.3 million Hunyuan Units.

The difference between the two was like heaven and earth!

When he looked at Oriana and Alpha again, both of them nodded repeatedly.

At that moment, a seed was planted in Jiang Zhe's heart.

—Making money through honest means was too slow. He still had to learn from Luo Feng. Killing aliens really was damn fast money!

Especially Mechanical Race Immortals!

Still... there was an upside.

At the very least, the value of the three production lines had fallen from something that would tempt a Marquis Immortal to something that would tempt an Impoverished Immortal.

He had overestimated their value just now.

"If I can enter the core ranks of the Virtual Universe Corporation, I can safely leave the three production lines at home to develop a business."

After leaving Virtual Space, Oriana brought Jiang Zhe into the World Bracelet.

Above the Mechanical Factory.

Standing atop the Sky-Escaping Shuttle, Jiang Zhe looked down at the boundless silver city below.

There were no skyscrapers in this "city."

There were only enormous mechanical devices as huge as monsters—Smelting Furnaces, Forging Hammers, Etching Knives, Mechanical Arms, conveyor belts, Welding Stations... forming one production line after another.

Every few minutes, a squad of Class E9 Mechanical Puppets patrolled through the passageways between the various functional areas.

"What abundant Universe Source Energy. As expected of a world built from Cosmic Crystal. It's perfect for cultivating Gene Primordial Energy."

Jiang Zhe sighed.

Looking down at the intimidating Mechanical Puppets below, he suddenly asked, "Anna, if you controlled the Class E9 Mechanical Puppet Legion, could you possibly contend with a World Master?"

Asking it that way...

He himself knew perfectly well that the chances were slim.

"Completely impossible. It would even be difficult to contend with a Domain Lord Level expert!" Oriana declared.

"First, my current Computational Power is insufficient, so I cannot control too many Mechanical Puppets. Second, I have no Law Comprehension at all and cannot make the Mechanical Puppets unleash law-based attacks."

"And Domain Lord Level experts can all comprehend the Universe Source Laws. They would toy with me at will."

Jiang Zhe continued, "Then shake apart the Puppets' internal structures and take away our Class E9 Mechanical Puppets?"

A certain future city lord had done plenty of that on the Outer Realm Battlefield.

"It wouldn't reach that extent. To shake apart a Class E9 Mechanical Puppet, one would need at least high-level World Master strength."

As soon as she finished speaking, Oriana fixed Jiang Zhe with blazing eyes. Her meaning was obvious.

—Master, it's time for you to work harder!

"OK!"

"I understand. I've always been working hard to comprehend the Thunder Origin Law."

Jiang Zhe shrugged.

Only once he understood the Profound Law Mysteries could Oriana gain something for nothing through her Proxy Talent.

Then, she would be able to control the Mechanical Puppets and unleash attacks containing laws.

Uh... for a moment, it was hard to tell who was the master and who was the servant.

"Master, let's hurry into the tower."

"The Mechanical Race also needs to comprehend Source Laws, and it just happens to match your attribute. I hope we can find something useful."

"Mm, I hope so too."

Then master and servant flew one after another toward the towering spire at the center of the "city."

Forged from silver metal, the tower stood like a heavenly pillar, nearly ten thousand meters tall. Its interior was filled with Energy Reactors that supplied power to the entire Mechanical Factory.

At the top floor was a room nearly ten thousand square meters in size.

Oriana had already taken over the tower's control system.

As soon as the two flew close, the floor-to-ceiling window before them slowly opened, ushering them into the room.

It was a hall nearly a hundred meters high, filled with a sense of technology and metal.

After surveying the sparse decorations, Jiang Zhe became interested in the workbench placed at the very center of the hall.

He walked over.

He sat in the nearly three-meter-tall High-backed Metal Chair and looked at the welding torch and the half-welded Circuit Board on the workbench.

Jiang Zhe could already picture a Mechanical Race Immortal moving a welding torch back and forth across a Circuit Board.

The "Circuit Board" was around a meter long and nearly sixty centimeters wide, dull white in color, with a material resembling hard wood fiberboard.

Its rough surface was densely covered with neatly arranged bright silver protrusions, likely numbering over ten thousand.

Its use was probably... to use the welding torch to connect the protrusions one by one, forming a complete circuit diagram.

The more Jiang Zhe examined the half-finished product on the table, the more he sensed a special resonance from it.

In a daze.

He saw his Stabbing Spear, the true meaning of "speed," incomparably swift and fierce!

"It's time!"

Jiang Zhe suddenly jolted awake. He leaned over the workbench and carefully ran his fingers over the half-connected circuit diagram.

"There really are traces of Source Laws..."

"But unfortunately, it's too crude, and it's only a half-finished product."

Oriana suddenly raised a hand and pressed it onto the workbench, forcefully cracking and taking control of the mechanisms within, forcing out what had been hidden inside.

"Master, take a look at these two. They're probably its source!"

Click—click—

The mechanisms inside the workbench slowly activated.

Part of the tabletop pulled apart to either side.

Two "Circuit Boards" rose from the dark hollow beneath, appearing before Jiang Zhe.

They were the same size and shape as the half-finished product.

However, they were dark purple and bright silver Metal Plates, exquisitely crafted.

On the dark purple Metal Plate were seventy-two bright silver protrusions.

On the bright silver Metal Plate were nine dark purple protrusions.

The distinct marks left by the welding torch connected the protrusions to one another, forming intricate circuit diagrams.

The instant he saw them, Jiang Zhe was drawn in by the circuit diagrams' special rhythm.

His consciousness blurred.

Jiang Zhe seemed to see thunderclouds shrouding the sky, stars exploding, celestial bodies evolving, and the Rotation of Time.

"Thunder!"

"Time!"

What a strange thing. The third round of recommendations had continued.

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