Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 496 Everything Can Be a Weapon
The Ten Lords Conference is a meeting specially established by the company to manage various initiatives in the alien world.

The company selects the ten most representative forces in the alien world, and holds regular meetings to explain the company's various measures for the alien world in the coming period. They then go back and convey the information to various factions, and finally post the announcement on the alien world social software "Nadutong" developed by the company for a long time.

Block all your possibilities of cheating and taking advantage of loopholes.

This meeting of the ten leaders started with the story of Taoist Wang Ye, the successor of Fenghou Qimen, one of the Eight Great Skills, who returned to the capital and was frightened by the Maybach on the viaduct on a rainy night.

Those puppets that were chasing and blocking Wang Ye were all products created by the Sitong Company back then. Although most of them were destroyed later, there were still a few left and now appear in the world.

Wang Ye returned home safely in a Maybach to reunite with his family, but for Xu Xiang and Zhao Fangxu who handled the incident, the matter is not over yet.

The remains of the Thousand Machine Puppets that were destroyed by Zhao Fangxu's Great Hand Seal were all packed up by the company's trucks and sent to Fangshan, the former site of the company's predecessor, the Sitong Company.

There are only a few reasons why it is located in Fangshan.

First, it was remote enough. At that time, Fangshan had not yet been incorporated into the capital, and the main industry there was mining. There was enough raw materials and few people, which made it easy to conduct various experiments.

Second, in terms of transportation, the Beijing-Zhoushan Highway and the Beijing-Hankou Railway branch line are just enough.

Later, the Sitong Company was demolished and the Nadutong Company was established, but the old site was still preserved.

It is a secret base for Nadutong Company to detain some criminals from the alien world and develop products.

After dealing with Wang Ye's affairs, Xu Xiang and Zhao Fangxu drove here. After many turns and showing their credentials, they arrived at the base built on the mountain.

In addition to the staff from Nadoutong, there was also an outsider in the base at this time, Zhuge Qing, who was picked up as soon as he got off the plane and was the descendant of Wuhou Qimen who had the highest hopes.

Speaking of Zhuge Qing, he really suffered an unexpected disaster.

After losing to Wang Ye at the Luotian Grand Ceremony, he said that he didn't take it to heart. However, his half-brother Zhuge Bai came home and exaggerated the situation, saying that Zhuge Qing was treated so badly by Wang Ye, who was also a master of sorcery, that his Taoist faith was broken.

That's why three young men from the same clan, Zhuge Sheng, Zhuge Guan and Zhuge Meng, ran away from home secretly and came to the capital to compete with Wang Ye.

But before he could even start the competition, he happened to witness Wang Ye's terrifying scene on the overpass on a rainy night. He was also drafted by the Nadutong Company to help deal with the matter of the Thousand Machine Puppet that was chasing Wang Ye.

As soon as the matter was settled, the three of them were taken home by Wang Ye for arrangements. As for Zhuge Qing, as soon as he landed and greeted Wang Ye, he was taken away by people from the company, put into a car, blindfolded, blocked his ears, and taken to a secret base in Fangshan.

When Xu Xiang and Zhao Fangxu arrived, this descendant of the Zhuge family, who had already learned all of Wu Hou Qi Men and Wu Hou Shen Ji, was once again shocked by the same thing he had faced Wang Ye at the Luotian Dajiao because of the remains of these Thousand Machine Puppet Men.

Not only was their proud heritage Wu Hou Qimen defeated by Wang Ye's Feng Hou Qimen, but even the Wu Hou Shen Ji was now inferior to these puppet creations they saw before their eyes.

For the descendants of the family who carried the halo of Zhuge Wuhou, the greatest extraordinary person, there could be no greater blow than this.

"Tell me what you found up there."

"Tang Sect, Tiangong Hall, Wuhou Sect, and magic. These are the processing traces we detected on these old objects."

The personnel in charge of the relevant research named one by one which martial arts schools had used craftsmanship to refine these old objects. Zhao Fangxu and Xu Xiang frowned as they listened.

Although they also knew that they might not be able to find the mastermind behind the Eight Wonders from these discarded old objects, the fact that these traces of fine processing involved several well-known families and schools in the world of extraordinary people did give them a headache.

We can't possibly check all these sects based on the traces we've found, right?

"How's that young man inside?"

"I'm afraid this is a big blow. He carries the family's high hopes, but now both his magic and divine machine skills have been beaten to pieces. If he can't get over this hurdle, he will be ruined easily."

"If he can't even get over this hurdle, then the family's expectations of him will be in vain. I don't believe that his father didn't tell him that there are always people better than you and there are always mountains better than you."

"We have to give this young man some time. Uncle Zhang called us before and said that he owed the Zhuge family a favor and asked us to help them. Old Zhao, what do you think?"

"Now that everyone is ready to make a move because of the emergence of the Eight Great Skills, it is better to ease the situation than to block it. It is impossible to suppress them all the time, but there are some things that we need to be clear with them and draw a line. Whoever crosses the line will be destroyed."

"Then let's hold a meeting of the ten leaders. You go and I go?"

"I'll go, and I'll leave this young man to you."

"No problem, you should all go do your own things, I'll take care of this."

The two of them agreed on the rules after a few words, and the staff in the base went about their business. Xu Xiang straightened his clothes and walked into the laboratory.

Just as the two said, Zhuge Qing, as the most promising younger generation of the modern Zhuge family, could not take these two methods that crushed his family's unique skills in a normal manner, but he quickly controlled his emotions. After noticing Xu Xiang, the founder of Nadutong, coming in, he also maintained the courtesy that a younger generation should have.

After all, Xu Xiang's status and means are enough for a junior from the extraordinary world like him to respectfully call him Old Xu.

"Mr. Xu, I haven't done anything wrong. As for bringing me here in secret and putting on eye drops for me, I didn't do anything~"

Zhuge Qing's calmness and complacency made Xu Xiang look up to this most promising young man in the Zhuge family.

"I know that you have the two great skills of Wu Hou Qi Men and Shen Ji. For some things, asking an expert for advice is much more helpful than asking around. How about it, have you figured out what's going on?"

"A miraculous workmanship, turning decay into magic, even Wu Hou Shen Ji is inferior to him."

"Don't try to be clever in front of me, old man. There are only you and me here, and everyone else is busy with other things. Just speak up and tell me what you have seen. Don't worry, what you can say is not a secret."

"When I was young, I heard my father talk about the past of these eight strange skills. My father said that among these eight strange skills, there was a person who learned from the Tiangongtang mechanical school and mastered a mechanical skill called the Divine Machine Hundred Refinements. According to my father's story, it was a means of truly turning decay into magic. Whether in terms of the speed of making a divine machine or in terms of function, it was far superior to many mechanical schools in the world, including our Wuhou Divine Machine.

At that time, I still couldn’t understand why my father praised it so highly. Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, it is indeed the same as what my father said. If you really want to refine these things, they are nothing more than ordinary wooden blocks, iron frames and ropes, but they are combined into puppets as sensitive as humans. Wu Hou Shen Ji can’t do this... "This is the source of Zhuge Qing’s surprise.

You can think of the mechanical schools in the alien world as castrated versions of weapon refiners.

By selecting the right materials, using one's own sect's methods to warm the materials through Qi, and then transforming them, one can recreate the process, allowing these materials to be recombined into the objects one wants in a way that goes against materials science, and then give these divine creations the functions one wants.

Each step is a painstaking process and there is a failure rate. If you can produce 30% of the finished products out of 100% of the materials, it is considered efficient.

Even the Wuhou Divine Machine could only increase the production rate to about 50%.

Moreover, each material is not cheap, and is far from being as direct as the products that are made according to local conditions that you see in front of you.

"Oh? Then according to what you said, when your Zhuge family ancestor Zhuge Wuhou ordered his soldiers and craftsmen to cut down trees and used the Wuhou Divine Machine to make wooden oxen and flowing horses to transport grain out of Shu, he also used the Divine Machine Hundred Refinements, not the Wuhou Divine Machine that the Zhuge family women are learning now?"

Ah, this! Zhuge Qing was stumped by the question.

He didn't know how to answer for a moment. If he said no, then this story was mentioned in both the novel and the family records. If he said the novel was exaggerated, then there was a possibility, but he himself was the descendant of Wu Hou, and the story was passed down from generation to generation and he had seen it with his own eyes. There was no need to deceive future generations.

But if that's the case, then why can't the practitioners of the Wu Hou Shen Ji School in the family today create things with round logs like their ancestors did?
Is it a human problem?
Xu Xiang smiled and looked at Zhuge Qing who looked like he didn't know how to answer, then he waved his hand.

"Okay, I won't make it difficult for you kid. Come on, I'll take you out."

"Yes."

Zhuge Qing followed Xu Xiang obediently. With Xu Xiang leading the way, Zhuge Qing had the opportunity to take a peek at the full picture of the secret base of the Nadutong Company located at the old site in Fangshan.

This is a base that was hollowed out of a mountain and is modern, with an almost futuristic sense of technology.

The main color is cool, but it also has a bit of warmth.

Along the way, Zhuge Qing could also see many intelligent robots at work, including some lifelike robot dogs, whose movements and expressions were no different from those of real dogs.

Compared with the technological products seen on the market, Zhuge Qing understood that those here were obviously several generations higher.

"Don't worry, what I can show you is not a secret, and you will see it on the market in a few years. Zhuge Qing, let me ask you a question."

"Mr. Xu, please tell me."

"Don't you think that today's rapidly developing technology is a different kind of magic machine? Moreover, it is a magic machine that everyone can learn and use."

"What you said, Mr. Xu, is indeed correct. For example, my grandfather often said that in his generation, the telephone was a creation that they could not replicate. Now the telephone has evolved into a mobile phone, which is enough to know what is going on in the world without leaving home. A mobile phone not only has the ability to transmit messages over thousands of miles like the Wang family and the Secret Painting Sect, but can also record videos, take photos, and surf the Internet. This is just a change in a hundred years.

On the other hand, the divine machine of our alien world has been passed down for thousands of years, but if we really want to say that there has been any progress, then there has been no progress at all. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has stagnated. "

"Yes, you have this idea, and you can be the first among the young generation of the Zhuge family. Falling behind means being beaten. This sentence was applicable before and it is still applicable now. Many schools in the alien world always think that their things are superior to others and cannot be easily seen by others, but they cannot accept the rapid development of the world.

They don't learn, make progress, or cooperate. When they realize that they can't catch up and are about to be swept into the garbage dump of history, they become panic again and only think about destroying these products that threaten them, but don't think about cooperating and making progress together. Sometimes it's better to destroy such a world of aliens. Why come here? To annoy yourself?"

Zhuge Qing was also sweating profusely as he listened to Xu Xiang's heartfelt words.

Only you, Xu Xiang, can say this. If I dare to say this in front of my father and grandfather, I will be punished by the family rules on the spot and won't be able to get out of bed for a month.

Zhuge Qing didn't dare to respond to this, and couldn't respond. He could only focus his attention on the walls on both sides of the corridor. Suddenly, Zhuge Qing was attracted by a line of words hanging on the corridor and stopped where he was.

Xu Xiang, who was leading the way in front, also showed a triumphant smile. After walking forward a few steps, he turned around and walked towards Zhuge Qing.

Following Zhuge Qing's gaze, I looked at the line of words hanging at the end of the corridor.

There are not many words, only six, but they fully reveal the essence of all the mechanical schools in the world.

These six characters can be summed up in one sentence: Everything can be turned into a machine!
Just with this one sentence, Zhuge Qing's mentality, which had just been affected by the mechanical tricks on the Thousand Machine Puppet, was reshaped.

"Everything can be a machine. Isn't this a good phrase?"

"Mr. Xu, which senior wrote this? Is he still alive?"

"One of my elders passed away two years ago. The Thousand Machine Puppet Manipulators you just saw were developed by him. Don't worry, it's not the one you think."

"Is there any heir alive?"

"Yes, there are many, but they are not here. Although they are also employees of the company, whether you can meet them depends on fate."

After saying that, Xu Xiang walked forward on his own. However, Zhuge Qing's heart was already caught by Xu Xiang. Seeing Xu Xiang walking forward, he hurriedly followed him.

He wanted to meet the descendants of the man who wrote the words "Everything can be made into a machine" and see their methods and why they were so confident, confident that they were no less than those of the Eight Wonders!
No one knows whether Zhuge Qing finally got this information from Xu Xiang. It was just that after he got on the special car arranged by Xu Xiang, he left the base and arrived in the city.

Zhuge Qing was different when he got off the car.

Coupled with his already outstanding appearance and figure, he attracted the attention of many girls on the road who were preparing to start their nightlife. Some bold ones even came up to Zhuge Qing to ask for his contact information.

Zhuge Qing politely declined, took out his cell phone and made a call.

"Hey, Taoist Wang Ye, I'm coming out."

(End of this chapter)