Mechanical Pioneer Under One Person

Chapter 27 Lottery and Metaphysics

After several days of rest, Liu Ke recovered completely and the fatigue gradually disappeared from his body. Only the wound on his leg would take some time to heal.

After defeating the fat beggar in the integrated pipeline corridor, his karma points reached 115 points, and he could draw the lottery immediately.

It was just that the battle was fought at such a fast pace that the next wave of attacks came just as the fat beggar fell. Since there was no time to be distracted, there was naturally no way to "sharpen the sword before the battle."

Today, seeing that his body had almost recovered and it was an auspicious day as he had looked up, Liu Ke simply decided to "start drawing" and use his "harvest" to make some improvements.

[Ten Thousand Worlds] is divided into technology and cultivation categories. After the last lottery, Liu Ke wanted to draw a cultivation category to test the waters.

But when I think of the happy smile of a certain girl in the simulated 'amusement park' a few days ago...

Liu Ke also felt that compared to cultivation, the effect of technology at certain times... might be more immediate.

Moreover, since [Wanjie] divides technology and cultivation into two equal categories, it means that their potential is similar and their strength is also certain.

After some consideration, Liu Ke chose to draw the technology category and was prepared to stick with it until he had drawn all the prizes in this "prize pool".

In fact, this inconsistent behavior that "goes against the decisions of our ancestors" is not surprising. People often do things that are inconsistent with their predetermined plans.

The military situation is ever-changing, the shape of water is ever-changing, and the fastest-changing thing in the world is thinking.

If everyone can strictly follow their own plans, there won't be so many people who are obsessed with the stock market.

Now that he had made the decision, Liu Ke connected his consciousness to the [Ten Thousand Worlds] system and then clicked [Lottery].

The system's main menu immediately switched, revealing a lucky draw interface reminiscent of a domestic online game. However, instead of a weapon pool or character pool, it was simply divided into two categories: technology and cultivation.

After switching to the [Technology Category], you can see that above the lottery button, like a large screen in a shopping mall, the items that may be drawn in this [Prize Pool] are continuously scrolling and displayed.

Liu Ke's mouth twitched as he muttered to himself, "No matter how many times I come in here, I always feel that the designer of this system is full of bad taste."

See what is displayed?

Razdunk's Big Red Button

【Bamboo Dragonfly】

【Zaku】

Gauss Sniper Rifle

【Zhuge Liannu】

Typography

[2023 Jiumu Smart Toilet]

……

This display bar keeps scrolling and never repeats. The above are just the tip of the iceberg of the countless prizes in the prize pool.

But... Liu Ke felt nauseous just looking at it.

It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that this is a big poison pool. After all, there is no limited UP or anything like that. It’s a matter of one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten.

But Liu Ke still felt the gap between the upper and lower limits of the prize pool was a bit too wide, especially the smart toilet, which was ridiculous and clearly no different from a "thank you for your patronage" sign.

It would be fine if it was just the toilet, but at least the 2023 model toilet is indeed more advanced than the 2015 model.

But can this "printing technology" also be counted in this? It's not like I traveled back to ancient times to start a business, so what use would printing technology have?

There are already many strange materials in the world, and it is easy to draw "outdated" products. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is disgusting.

Of course, even though the technology category is like this, the cultivation category next to it is not much better.

Liu Ke had also seen the pond over there, which contained [Spring Cicada], [Sidong Fist - First Style], [Sunflower Manual], [Fragments of Daqian Record], [Military Killing Fist], [Three Stages of Fighting Power Quick Training] and the like.

I can't say that what was shown was bad, just difficult to evaluate. Especially the fragments and the first form, which were clearly "drawing constellations," requiring multiple draws to fully learn.

Fortunately... whether it is technology or cultivation, there is a prompt in the lower right corner of the overall lottery interface.

Newcomer draw - Rarity up (1/3)

It is very exciting to have this up. When I drew it for the first time, I used this mechanism to draw compound No. 5, and now I have two more left.

But it also means that after this number of times is used up, there is a high probability that you will draw [Smart Toilet] and [Printing Technology]... these useless things.

Pursing his lips, he stopped thinking about it. Liu Ke realized that he had forgotten to do some "procedures", so he quickly went to get a kettle of hot water and poured it into the washbasin, then stripped naked.

After all, lottery is a 'metaphysics'... So, before you draw, you naturally have to burn incense and bathe.

The main purpose of this bathing and burning incense was to comfort himself. After all, Karma Points were hard to come by, and if he spent over 100 points and got nothing, Liu Ke could pass the blame for his failure on to the people he had worshipped, preventing himself from falling into anxiety.

He took out a towel, dipped it in the hot water in the basin, and began to wipe himself. Actually, he didn't have to be so special and take a shower in the dormitory. He could also go to the bathhouse.

His leg injury hadn't fully healed yet, so he was drying himself in the dorm to avoid infection from the dampness of the bathhouse. Plus, since this class was physical education, he was the only sick person allowed to stay in the dorm, so he wasn't embarrassed.

The scrubbing process took seven or eight minutes. There is also a disadvantage to using this method to take a shower, as you will still be wet for a while after washing.

Fortunately, the weather was not cold, so he took off his clothes first and planned to put on clothes after his body was dry.

"Master, there are still 5 minutes until your alarm."

Huh? So fast?

Liu Ke checked the time in his mind and found that it was indeed almost the 'auspicious time' of 10:10.

He didn't care that he hadn't put on his clothes yet. He quickly opened the package under the bed and opened the incense burner and incense sticks he had bought from Pinduoduo. He also scooped some soil from Wang Kangyang's large potted plant and poured it into the incense burner, lit the incense sticks, and inserted them.

After placing the incense burner, he picked up his phone and pulled out an AI-synthesized picture of a "group photo of scientists from ancient and modern times, China and abroad" from the photo album.

Then he put the phone on the bed and propped it up with a mineral water bottle.

Seeing that the auspicious time was approaching, he quickly stood up and prepared to worship these "human stars" and draw a good future.

Not wearing any clothes... well, it's still considered as a sincere act.

Just as he stretched his hands above his head and prepared to make a move, his mobile phone's selfie camera suddenly turned on and a sound came from the receiver again.

"Liu Ke, what are you doing......"

The voice fell silent midway through.

The person who was spying on him through his phone's selfie camera was none other than Gao Jueshan.

It would be fine if it happened normally, but this scene... is really indecent.

Liu Ke's face twitched violently like Zhao Si's. He quickly picked up the towel on the bed and tied an apron around himself. He said in a dull tone, "Can you have some basic manners?"

"Don't you think this is despicable?"

There was a sudden "puff" sound from his cell phone microphone, and then he heard a low voice saying "naked man".

Then... the black wall reminded him that Erzhuang had left.

"Blackwall! What's wrong with you? Where are your defenses?"

"Master, three days ago, you upgraded Ms. Gao's access permissions to 'Friendly Visitor.' Your phone was set as a non-essential item and is not listed as a 'non-accessible device' under that permission."

Damn it! AI really has no future!

After trying hard to calm himself down and not thinking too much, Liu Ke blushed and bowed deeply to the ancestors.

Then, in a hurry, I chose to draw.

smoke!

In Liu Ke’s eyes, a white meteor shower flashed across the entire system interface.

One of the meteors broke away from the shower and became the star of the camera. It first turned blue, then purple, and flew faster and faster.

As the stardust spun, the meteor eventually turned orange, its speed stopped increasing, and the color finally froze.

Orange? A higher grade than Compound 5?

It’s shipped!

As the meteor shattered, the item he drew was revealed.

In the settlement screen, a blueprint flew out from a distance, and before it could land steadily, another blueprint flew closer in a spiral.

Finally, hundreds of drawings gathered here like flying birds, one after another, and were then stacked together to form a booklet.

The top cover of this booklet is a photo of a family of three eating.

The child is a little girl, holding a slice of pizza with her mother, while her father is holding a hamburger towards the camera.

This family’s outfits… look very high-end, and the photo shoot took place in a river view room.

The booklet slowly transformed into a folder icon and was transferred to a storage device with a technological aesthetic.

At this moment, there was an extra item in Liu Ke's system's [backpack].

Chapter 28 Reactor

Congratulations, you have won the legendary item [Reference Book for Little Morgan].

Huh? What's that? I've never heard of it before.

Liu Ke focused his attention on the newly drawn item, and then his eyes gradually widened.

Reference Book for Little Morgan

Category: Recipes/Blueprints

Rating: Legend

Effect: After use, increases Intelligence by 5 and grants [Curse of Knowledge]. Additional Intelligence is gained based on the user's learning progress, up to a maximum of 30 points.

Comment: This is a gift Iron Man Tony Stark left to his daughter Morgan on the eve of the war. It contains a set of family photos, a set of Tony's personal biography and photos, as well as blueprints of his armor and many of his inventions, and of course, love.

Seeing this, Liu Ke's cheeks puffed up and he began to pinch his waist and breathe heavily.

"Developed"

Tony Stark, the chief of the Novice Village in the Marvel world, is so wise that he is well-known even in the universe. He is known to everyone.

Let's put it this way, in the novels that Liu Ke read in his previous life, there were tens of thousands of "time travelers" who chose to sell hot dogs, hamburgers, and Chinese food under the Stark Tower, just to establish a relationship with the chief of Marvel's Novice Village.

There are even some time travelers who keep an eye on Stark's whereabouts in the Marvel world every day, just to short Stark's stock when Stark is kidnapped and disappears, and then buy it heavily, taking advantage of the announcement of the Ark Reactor to raise the stock price and make a fortune, killing both the bulls and the bears!

Liu Ke patted his cheek, then put on his clothes and chose to use the storage device in the system.

The next moment, the storage device appeared in his hand. Holding the storage device, Liu Ke could even feel his hand trembling slightly.