Poverty makes me capable of anything.

This is what Anran most wants to create right now.

Besides, looking at her abundant free experience points and the blueprints that had already been realized, Anran decided to take another gamble.

Last time, combining the blueprints allowed her to create a flat, self-destructing robot. What will she create this time?

Oh, and there are also mechanical engineering books from the R&D center.

Other NPCs can only use these books to learn, but Anran, like the player, has a chance to learn the blueprints!

Chapter 57 Random Numbers [777]

Compiling blueprints and understanding them through books are the most luck-dependent ways to obtain blueprints.

Anran's luck wasn't exceptionally good, but it certainly wasn't bad either.

Moreover, she wasn't aimlessly synthesizing the blueprints.

Instead, experience points will be spent to combine two blueprints only if there is a possibility that they can be combined.

This increases the chances of obtaining satisfactory drawings.

[Koz Long Range Sniper Rifle] + [Improved X9-Tactical Visor] + 300 EXP.

Combining!

The surreal animation stirred Anran's heart.

What kind of blueprints will be revealed?

"Ding! Blueprint synthesis failed."

An Ran's lips twitched.

Okay, this is normal operation.

In the process of secondary combination!

"Ding! Blueprint synthesis successful. You have obtained the new blueprint [DW Sniper Rifle]."

The gun was fired.

An Ran immediately opened the blueprints to take a look.

A 5.56mm caliber sniper rifle with an effective range of 500m and a maximum range of 2500m.

Aside from its superior optical scope, it's no better than the Kornet long-range sniper rifle in any aspect.

It's useless.

An Ran shook her head in disappointment.

She didn't give up and invested another 300 experience points.

Repeat three times.

The blueprints provided this time finally satisfied Anran.

G7.

It's also a 7.62mm sniper rifle with an effective range of 1000 meters, but its main advantage is its significantly improved shooting accuracy and reduced wind drift.

Compared to Colin's gun, the G7 is a significant improvement.

There are 25000 experience points remaining.

Anran has become completely addicted to working with blueprints.

She combined the [High-Energy Bomb] with ordinary bullets, using 200 experience points to create the special seed bullet [High-Incendiary Bullet].

It can not only be injected into the human body for burning, but also serve as a light source, making it a rare and exquisite product.

In a mistaken operation, the [Super Endurance Pressure Cooker] and [Mechanical Slingshot] were combined, and after using 300 experience points, a [Pressure Catapult] was miraculously created.

It appears to have extremely broad application prospects.

An Ran then planned to combine the [Pressure Ejector] and [Exoskeleton Armor], but she immediately gave up when she saw that the combination required 2000 experience points.

The high level of crafting experience indicates a certain probability of crafting a very powerful blueprint, but the drop rate of such a blueprint is very low.

If you're a little unlucky at this point, even if you throw all 24000 experience points at it, you might not be able to combine them successfully.

An Ran understood the importance of knowing when to stop while things were going well.

If you're too lucky, your luck might turn bad.

So after stopping the blueprint assembly, Anran resumed mechanical manufacturing.

Having just finished a few new blueprints, Anran couldn't wait to turn them into physical objects.

The sound of machinery running filled the workshop again.

An Ran ate something casually at noon, but she didn't skimp on Ella's meals, providing her with plenty of copper and iron.

After spending half the morning playing in the workshop, Ella lost interest in going there again in the afternoon.

Ella had just recently learned how to use the internet, so Anran let her stay home and study it on her own.

Ella has mastered most of the common sense. In just one month, she has grown rapidly. Although she has not received systematic training, her ability to adapt to life in the outside world is clearly no less than that of an average high school student.

The problem of spending money can now be completely avoided, because Ella not only knows the value of money, but also knows how to use it to buy things.

"Dong dong!"

Anran knocked on Gray's office door.

Not long after, a voice came from inside saying, "Please come in."

When Anran walked in, Gray was sitting behind his desk, leisurely drinking tea and reading the newspaper.

Those wicked office workers!

An Ran gave a scathing critique.

"Oh, it's Anran. Are you here to buy something from me again, or have you thought it through and decided to become my student?" Gray put down his newspaper.

I keep thinking about it.

An Ran glanced at the newspaper Gray was reading.

It turned out to be a military and political newspaper published internally by the government.

The top news item right now is praising the recent achievements of the research and development center.

Tsk—

An Ran blinked.

“I’m here to deliver the second blueprint to you as promised.” With that, An Ran took out Colin’s sniper rifle blueprint.

She now has better blueprints, so she doesn't feel bad about spending the money.

"Ah."

Gray immediately sat up straight, his previous lazy demeanor completely gone.

He picked up the blueprints on the table and began to examine them carefully.

An Ran was completely ignored by him.

Because she had other things to do, Anran patiently stayed.

Gray looked at the blueprint five times, like a hunter who had finally found his prey after a long drought, and enjoyed the thrill of it five times over.

Afterwards, Gray felt refreshed and showed no signs of fatigue.

"I've given you the blueprints, but I have another request."

“Go ahead,” Gray said, in high spirits.

“I’ve been feeling a bit stuck lately and need to read more books and materials on mechanical engineering to solidify my understanding. Could I borrow some of the books in your center’s collection?” An Ran said.

“Well…” Gray hesitated for a moment, “Due to regulations, although I am the director, I still cannot show you those classified documents, but you can look at the books outside the document room as you like.”

This is enough.

An Ran was overjoyed.

If you were to ask where the most comprehensive collection of mechanical books could be found in 1886, it would undoubtedly be the research institute in the new city, which served as the administrative center.

Although the research and development center in Twin Moon City is currently struggling, it used to be a branch of the research institute, so it doesn't lack information.

Speaking of the research institute, An Ran felt that if the knowledge book for becoming an intermediate mechanic existed in number 1886, it must be here. She would like to visit it when she has the chance.

“I’ll activate the permissions for you in a bit,” Gray said.

"Thank you."

Anran thought to herself, "This old man can be quite nice sometimes."

After the access was granted, An Ran couldn't wait to enter the archives.

The area around the archives is filled with large, heavy bookshelves.

She wandered around the archives a few times, found her target book, and began reading.

This is where the game's superiority becomes apparent.

With the progress bar constantly replaying in my mind, I can finish a book in about seven minutes on average.

Sometimes it's simply about accumulating knowledge so that it can be used to synthesize blueprints later.

Some rather specialized books brought Anran unexpected benefits.

Robot Behavior, Intelligence +1.

"Robotic Arm Applications" yielded the blueprints for a three-axis robotic arm.

"Instantaneous Explosive Force of Mechanical Impact", Intelligence +1.

"The Accidentality of Transmission", drawing [777] was obtained.

An Ran was extremely satisfied with the huge gains, not only enriching her knowledge and increasing her intelligence, but also gaining two important blueprints.

By the way, what's with that [777]?

An Ran suddenly remembered the name of that strange blueprint.