I am the one running the game

Chapter 979 What a coincidence, I am a magician

The life of guarding the pond is still so boring. The only way he can get news from the outside world is from the people who deliver supplies to him.

Fortunately, the person who came was a human being. It was obvious that the sky demons didn't have much interest in doing this kind of errand work.

So Lu Xingshi learned that the town was conducting a census recently.

As for where he puts his energy? Of course, he puts it on absorbing the giant god.

You can't just keep paying attention to those air demons in the town. They're just rats crossing the street and won't amount to anything. It's better to focus on your own business.

So as long as the other party is not within his range, Lu Xingshi will ignore him.

"Why is someone running towards me and is injured..." Lu Xingshi muttered. The other party was not a magician, but just an ordinary person.

Fortunately, when the other party was running away, there was no Kong Mo chasing him.

Then, he met Lu Xingshi who was fishing.

When Lu Xingshi has nothing to do, he goes fishing. He can go fishing for ten days without doing anything for eleven days, and the extra day is overtime.

This made Lu Xingshi doubt that there were no fish in the mountain lake or pond, until a fish provoked him right next to the bait.

"You...why is there someone here?!" The man was also shocked when he saw Lu Xingshi.

"As for fishermen, it's normal for them to refresh anywhere, especially in the vegetable market." Lu Xingshi complained.

After hearing Lu Xingshi's words, the man didn't feel anything, but became more alert.

"As for you, you're seriously injured. Let me bandage you." Lu Xingshi said casually.

"No need. I advise you to leave town as soon as possible. Something...is not right here." When he said the last three words, the man's expression became hesitant.

Just as he finished speaking, a shrill whistle suddenly sounded.

They saw a long, sharp bomb in the sky, dragging its tail flame towards them.

As soon as Lu Xingshi saw it, he realized that this person might have known the secret of Kong Mo, which was why he was being hunted down.

What? You have to come here in person to hunt him down? Then the technology of the Sky Demon will become useless.

"Oh no, it's the air demon's missile. Damn it, it's too late!" The opponent's face turned pale and he wanted to escape, but the spiked bomb was already within reach.

As his despair was rising, he saw the bomb being torn apart in mid-air by some invisible force.

"What a coincidence. I'm a magician, although only a junior one. But my spiritual floating cannon is a complete magical device and its power is still quite good." Lu Xingshi said with a smile.

"So, there are demons in this town, right?" Lu Xingshi added.

"It's not that there are demons in the town, it's that the town is full of demons." The man said bitterly and introduced himself. His name was Bula. He discovered the truth by chance and escaped.

"In this case, the census is targeting people like you who know the truth." Lu Xingshi thought it made sense.

"Now that you know the truth, my advice is to run away," said Bra.

When Lu Xingshi heard this, he scratched his head and said, "It seems a little late."

Several sky demons wearing high-tech armor and carrying high-tech weapons have arrived.

It was obvious that Lu Xingshi had just blocked the spiked explosive bomb, letting Kong Mo know that he had failed to silence the witness and that there were still troublemakers, so he sent his elite troops over.

The Sky Demon launched the attack without saying a word.

Lu Xingshi controlled the mental floating cannon to fire bursts, but it didn't even break the opponent's shield, it only caused slight ripples.

As a basic magic device, even the final model is no match for the high-end technology of the sky demons.

"The gap in equipment is too big." Lu Xingshi had anticipated this, so he used his telekinesis to raise the mental floating cannon and smashed it directly on the fastest air demon with extremely powerful force.

The air demon was smashed into a bloody mist on the spot.

As for using telekinesis to control atoms, interfere with physics, and so on, he can do it, but the problem is that the cost is much higher than just picking it up and smashing the opponent to death.

Do you really think that you can do this kind of operation just by moving your hands?
It is true that given a fulcrum, the entire earth can be pried up, but this fulcrum does not come out of thin air. It is not something that can appear just by saying it. What's more, not only a fulcrum but also a lever is needed.

Just use force to achieve miracles, and the cost will be lower.

Just like robots will not replace humans, because robots cannot take the blame and if there are problems, the boss will be responsible for fixing them. Unlike humans, who earn three thousand a month, they will go to the doctor themselves when they are sick and buy themselves coffee when they are tired. It is still the employees' own money that is spent.

The difference can be seen in cost.

This scene immediately caused the remaining air demons to stop charging and turn around to escape.

Unfortunately, facing Lu Xingshi's new use of the spiritual floating cannon, he couldn't run far and was smashed to pieces on the spot.

"You...you are not a high-level magician, are you?" Bra's face was full of shock. He knew about the mental floater, but the problem was that he had never seen such an outrageous use.

"How is that possible? If I were a high-level magician, I wouldn't be guarding the pond here."

"I'm just an ordinary person, with a little more strength." Lu Xingshi said seriously. However, if he took the professional title exam, he could indeed get the title of senior magician. As for the title of master magician, this requires not only hard strength, but also sufficient connections and background.

Because the number of master-level magicians released by the Empire each year is limited. As for the highest-level grandmaster-level magician, that is certified by the Empire and cannot be obtained by one's own.

"You call this strength?" Bra looked strange, but finally said with a sad face, "Let's go quickly. The Sky Demon will probably come again to kill us."

"The empire has been really...sigh, previously there was the robot attack, and now a small town has been occupied by the sky demons." The other party said helplessly.

The robots are the former magic device clan, and they are not the magic device slaves controlled by the empire, but the magic device clan that survived.

It has evolved into a robot.

"This group of robots have not been exterminated yet?" Lu Xingshi was also a little surprised when he heard this.

Robots cannot reproduce, so if one dies, one less will be left. It stands to reason that three years have passed, and even if they have not been exterminated, there is absolutely no way to organize enough robots to attack the empire.

"No, the leader of the robot is in a lot of trouble. He killed a Grandmaster Mage not long ago. The repercussions of this incident caused the Empire to intensify its suppression of the robot, which led to the subsequent impact."

The two chatted as they walked away.

Lu Xingshi also learned that the robots actually had the ability to reproduce, but it was not through mitosis or hermaphroditism. Instead, they separated their own energy and injected it into the magic device, making the magic device active.

This technology is said to have come from the Empire's pseudo-spark source and was improved by the robot leader.

However, there is still a big gap compared to the real fire source, and it is also different from the fake fire source.

Every time a magic device is activated to become a robot, at least 30% of the energy is consumed, and it is not easy to recover.

There is no way to activate it on a large scale.

The most important thing is that the animated robots are not like the normal magic devices. They have powerful powers and corresponding inheritance at birth and need to grow and learn.

However, robots are not humans after all. Instead, they have inherited many advantages of intelligent machines. Therefore, they grow and learn much faster than humans. If the energy supply can keep up, they can fully grow up in about three days.

The power of the robots now exceeds that of the sky demons, otherwise why would the human empire choose to prioritize dealing with the robots instead of the sky demons.

"The internal troubles are indeed serious." Lu Xingshi said. It is estimated that it is not only because of the lack of care, but also may be related to the internal affairs of the empire.

The empire successfully got rid of the giant corporations, but at the same time it also absorbed the various legacies of the giant corporations and did not carry out overly cruel purges.

This has led to many people becoming officials directly from large companies, and maintaining certain attitudes that they should not have.

Just like Lu Xingshi, he is like that.

"Actually, it's not that bad. As long as they can destroy the air demons and the robots, no matter how much trouble the higher-ups make, it won't affect us." Bula complained.

After all, no matter how chaotic the top management is, the targets of exploitation will not be people like them at the bottom.

They have better people to exploit, and the lower-class people are more of a breeding ground for cultivating magicians.

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"Let them escape. We have to evacuate here." The mayor was unwilling to give up.

As for sending more people to chase them? Through radar, we can find that the two have left the town. If we chase them again, no matter what we do, it will attract attention.

It will be too late to leave by then.

The group of sky demons looked frustrated. They had been running this town for several years and finally had a place to live, but it was gone just like that.

"We can't just leave like this. We have to make them pay the price!" A Sky Demon said bitterly, "Detonate the energy depot and raze this place to the ground to cover our evacuation."

This proposal was unanimously agreed upon by all the sky demons.

However, the mayor refused without hesitation: "No, this is not a cover-up at all, you just want to vent your anger."

"Once it explodes, human magicians will arrive even faster. No one will be able to escape then."

I won't make any cover-ups or excuses.

After the mayor exposed their little tricks, the group of air demons stopped talking.

The mayor's prestige is still very high, at least no Kong Mo dared to refute him.

"After leaving, we will head north to the Yaoling Shelter." The mayor immediately determined the target.

Every Sky Demon stronghold is called a sanctuary, not only to commemorate the Sky Demon Empire that was once built on the Black Hole Sanctuary, but also to suit their current situation.

The air demons that leave the shelter will only be killed by humans.

"But the Yaoling Shelter is not close to us, and I heard that the management there is radical."

"Will we become cannon fodder if we go over there?" Youkongmo asked worriedly.

"Go, there is still a way to survive. If you don't go, you will die." The mayor did not persuade him, but said directly: "If you don't want to go, you can leave on your own. I won't stop you."

(End of this chapter)