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Chapter 393 Fina reveals a secret

"The progress is quite fast!"

Seeing Fina accept the robe and uniform, Feng Xue casually remarked.

Upon hearing this, Fina paused for a moment, but quickly recovered after Sarah's reminder. She shook her head slightly and said in Bessie's somewhat simple-minded tone:

"I almost thought I was no longer favored by the god of hunting, but fortunately the god still looked after me."

The priest in charge of registration didn't see anything wrong with the two newcomers' somewhat fanatical attitude. To gain divine favor, one's mental state must be adjusted to be what God likes. However, as time goes by, one's faith in God will eventually become more rational.

After bidding farewell to the priest, the two arrived at the residence assigned by the family. Compared to the dormitory, the property they owned as core members was significantly more luxurious, and servants cleaned it regularly, so they didn't need to worry about any logistical issues.

Logically speaking, the two of them should already be qualified to attend the Reid family's high-level meetings, but that's only in theory. For newcomers like them, the only thing they can do during meetings is to act as the atmosphere-maker and applaud after the high-level executives speak.

To truly participate in decision-making, one must at least complete several tasks and accumulate sufficient reputation and trust.

To maintain their public persona, the two had their servants prepare a huge feast and held a celebration banquet in Feng Xue's "new home." They drank from afternoon until late at night before Fina finally spoke through the nanomembrane:

"Are you interested in the secret I have?"

Feng Xue was stunned for a moment when she heard Fina's words, and then she remembered that when Fina told her that "Serafina Lupo is a humanoid phantom beast", she had mentioned that the phantom beast was only the surface and that she had a bigger secret.

"Is it because she suddenly feels she can trust me and is planning to share secrets? Or is she trying to use secrets to tie me to her side, ensuring I help her deal with the Reid family?" Feng Xue quickly considered Fina's reasons for speaking at this time, and then tentatively asked:
"As you can see, I am nurturing the god of the earth, so if it's about that, forget it."

This is a lie. If there really is a finished Earth God, it would be a treasure for Feng Xue. After all, it has been worshipped by this world for so many years and has not yet jumped out, which means that the other party's state is very abnormal. In that case, if she could find it, she might just give Kaguya an extra meal.

However, to avoid being held hostage by self-interest, he still pretended not to care.

He helped Fina because his own goal was to avoid Tiger Girl and nurture the Earth God. Their interests did not conflict, so he did it together as a matter of course. However, actively helping someone and being entangled in their interests are two different things.

However, Fina clearly didn't think that way. After hearing Feng Xue's response, she simply shook her head slightly before correcting her:

"It has little to do with the Earth God, otherwise I would have gone directly to the Land God Association."

At this point, she seemed to have drunk too much and lay down on the sofa before continuing to transmit her voice through the nanomembrane:
“During the Great Cataclysm, the Lubo family obtained a key from a vacationer. This key is related to the ultimate legacy of a pre-civilization. However, the key itself is extremely complex, and it's the kind of mechanism that changes over time, requiring extremely high computing power to activate. The civilian equipment currently unearthed doesn't have the foundation to run this key, and those top-tier devices are all in the hands of powerful forces. Even if they could be borrowed, the secrets possessed by the Lubo family would definitely be exposed.” “…” Hearing this, Feng Xue's lips twitched. However, considering their family's history seemed pointless now. He thought for a moment and roughly understood the Lubo family head's thinking—

"So your father plans to train an exceptional-level phantom beast as a bio-computer to run this key?"

“That’s right.” Fina, with her seemingly simple and honest appearance, revealed a thoroughly drunken smile, rolled around on the sofa a couple of times, and then continued to transmit her voice:
"Nanometers are excellent computing units. Although the computing power of a single unit is low, they can run complex programs when clustered together. It is speculated that as long as they can reach the excellent level, the precision of the nanometers of a mythical beast can drive the key to operate. However, the highest-level mythical beast discovered so far can only grow to the superior level. Therefore, although they have a great treasure, the Lu Bo family can only keep a low profile until the appearance of the Flashy Wild Wolf."

"Theoretically, the Wild Wolf Flash individual possesses exceptional talent, but this is only theoretical. Under normal growth conditions, unless the Beastmaster's own aptitude is extraordinary, reaching the half-step excellent level is the limit. However, if the Beastmaster can break through to the excellent level, there is no need to consider the issue of computing equipment at all, because the face of an excellent-level expert is enough to access those high-precision devices, and at the same time, they have the strength to guarantee that they can obtain all the benefits."

"Then there's the practice of fusing humans and magical beasts to further enhance the magical beasts' aptitude. It's like using the power of two magical beast users to improve the computing power of one magical beast. Of course, the eleven families, including the Reid family, don't know the truth about the key I have. They only know that the Lubo family has a pre-civilization ruin and that I have the key to the ruin."

"If you can't buy high-end chips, then you'll just build a whole-body CPU, right?" Feng Xue found the Lu Bo family head's thinking quite peculiar, but considering the post-apocalyptic nature of this world and the illiterate cultural atmosphere after the Great Cataclysm, she could only sigh that it fit the setting.

Of course, he didn't really care about that; he just wanted to know—

"After all that talk, what exactly is in that ruin? Is it worth your father going to so much trouble for? Isn't he afraid that it's just some nerdy guy storing junk? Or that the engineer who got blackmailed for the key is lying to your ancestors or something?"

“That’s still certain.” Fina sighed. Feng Xue suddenly felt that the woman’s emotions had changed, and immediately felt that she was about to say something outrageous.

Just as he was about to stop her, Fina spoke up—

"Because the location of that site is the base point where nanounits were released on a large scale back then, and it is also one of the origin points for the spread of mythical beasts on this planet. The reason why the twelve families were able to mass-produce high-quality mythical beasts is precisely because of the high abundance of nanounits here."

“So…” Feng Xue now understood why the eleven families could unite and wipe out Lu Bo’s entire family even though they didn’t even know what Lu Bo’s family had.

Fina nodded and said:

"Just as you thought, that ruin probably contains the core of nanotechnology. Perhaps... the central control console."

"Goodness, I thought it was a dress or that it couldn't fly, but you're telling me it's the Deep Blue Tree?"

(End of this chapter)