Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

"I just happened to see it." Li Ang said.

"Don't take those things as the true level of the shipyards. They are just things that were casually put together in less than a day. They are just to deceive people." Locke said.

Xiao Mo asked with a smile: "Uncle, what did you go to the ground to check?"

"After visiting the homes of several old friends, I can almost confirm that most shipyards were forced to do so."

Locke said that among the twelve shipyards, perhaps only the Kongyan Shipyard cooperated with outsiders and attracted powerful force to control the others.

Xiao Mo said: "My friend has some old grudges against those people, plus I have some hatred for them, so we have to unite and fight against them together."

Locke swept a sharp gaze over Leon and his group, then extended his hand: "Anyone who can cause unhappiness to Kong Yan, or even blow it up into the sky, is my friend."

Li Ang shook hands with the old man and felt the oil on his hands.

After introducing the members of his side, Locke asked Neil to arrange accommodation for everyone to stay temporarily while planning the counterattack in the long run.

"Don't be so reserved. Take a rest first and we'll discuss a solution later."

Everyone outside was afraid of this great engineer, but Li Ang and his party did not expect that he was quite easy to talk to.

As soon as they left the house, Xiao Mo smiled and said, "It went quite smoothly. It seems the engineer really likes you guys."

"Where to begin?"

"For those he dislikes, he either doesn't bother to talk to them or simply chases them away."

Morales turned to look at Andasu and nudged Leon with his elbow. "You guys really have your own requirements for selecting members. Not all of them are criminal."

"What do you mean not entirely... Oh, forget it."

Li Ang has decided to accept the pressure he will face in the future. After all, he has really caught an incredible opportunity.

Neil led everyone through the corridor of the ancient ship. After the tension of arriving in a strange place passed, everyone was amazed at the magnificence of this ancient civilization's creation.

The reason why it is described as magnificent is because this "Island Builder" has really applied metal craftsmanship to the extreme. The internal passages of the ship are shining with gold, and the different plates are cleverly embedded together, creating obvious distinctions through shapes and shadows. The lighting is not strong, and the reasonable design makes the passages magnificent. The ancient civilization not only has excellent engineering technology, but also has a high level of aesthetics.

A closer look revealed that many parts were not made of metal, but of a magic-conducting material with a metal-like texture. This was a ship after all, and being made entirely of metal would make it too heavy.

Even though he had read a lot of science fiction works before, Li Ang was still amazed at the unique scene before him.

The lounge that Neil found for everyone was a separate one-bedroom, five-living room unit. It was a rest area unit built inside an ancient ship. The circular activity room in the middle was not spacious but not crowded either. It had six evenly distributed doors. One led to the external corridor, and the other five were crew rooms.

The doors of these rooms are all metal doors that are mechanically controlled and retracted horizontally into the wall, which is quite sci-fi. Inside the rooms are many contemporary daily necessities of Newbis, which were obviously added later by the people from the Shadow Factory.

"There are systems in the ship to maintain temperature and supplies, but we haven't been able to activate them."

Neil pointed to a bed and said, "This metal-like bed board should be able to adjust the temperature as needed. The water pipes and food conveyor belt in the lounge are temporarily out of service. You need to get water from outside. I'll have someone bring it in regularly. I'll take you to the cafeteria later for dinner."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

After Neil left, Zoe walked around the house and immediately ran to Leon.

"Are you going to talk about making our ship like this again?"

"No, yes, no..."

The girl was a little anxious and waved her hands, unable to speak clearly.

She struggled for a moment before finally saying, "...I mean, we can build our own boat here!"

As soon as Zoe said this, the other three members of the Star Flower Troupe also became interested.

"That's true," Andasu said. "What we lack is space for shipbuilding, and there are many slipways here."

Alulu stood at the door of the activity room and looked outside. Through the transparent windows in the corridor, she could see other shipbuilding locations in the underground space, and in the distance there were locations that were not being used by the Shadow Factory.

"We can discuss it with Mr. Locke." said Xiao Niu.

"Oh? Am I going to witness the birth of a legendary airship?" said Huozui Zhongde.

"Are you still there?" several people asked in unison.

"Oh, I heard a lot of amazing things along the way. I guess no one would believe it if I recorded it as a travelogue, but it's also a valuable experience." The man wearing a mask sighed.

"I was just thinking about it. It's indeed possible to do this. I'll mention it to him when we discuss it later."

"Yeah!" Zoe raised her hands.

"Then we must give it a name," said Dorothy.

"It must be a good ship, so it's called 'Good Ship'!" Zoe said immediately.

"That's absolutely not possible!" Li Ang firmly denied it.

The girls looked at him strangely, as if they didn't understand why he was so inexplicably excited.

"This name is indeed a thoughtless one," said Andasu.

"Then call it 'The Boat of Flowers'. It fits the Star Flower Troupe's meaning perfectly," said Dorothy.

"Aren't you just putting yourself in there?" Zoe frowned.

"Ah, I was discovered."

Since Leon specifically linked the meaning of the team name to them when the Star Flower Brigade was established, Zoe could intuitively think of this aspect.

"It's called 'Leon's Harem Airship'." Xiao Mo said with a smile.

The scene suddenly became quiet, and the girls' cheeks flushed, but no one denied it for a moment.

Morales originally wanted to embarrass Leon, but when he saw this scene, he smacked his lips, feeling very uncomfortable.

Then, his brows tightened, and he felt a sharp blade piercing him. His eyes shifted and he saw the black-haired girl named Meluna staring at him as if he were a dead person.

"Hey, Leon, why does your woman seem to want to kill me?" Xiao Mo shouted.

After he shouted like that, Meluna's murderous intent faded, and he inexplicably scratched the brown animal ears on his head.

"Take your time to think about the name of the ship. Once the construction really starts, it will take at least half a month." Li Ang said.

I'm exhausted today, it's time to have a good rest.

Because of Xiao Mo's surprise attack, everyone had no food to eat, and now he led them to the cafeteria of the Shadow Factory.

Perhaps because the people here are mainly workers, the cafeteria really makes Li Ang feel a sense of déjà vu. He used to live in a workers' compound for a long time.

The girls sat there eating, and Leon, Farina and Morales found a chance to get together.

The three of them chatted about the past for a while, especially Will, who could even compile a joke collection about the old captain's jokes and jokes.

"Can you tell that joke again?" Xiao Mo asked Li Ang.

"Which one? Was he furious because his ultimate move was blocked by the demihuman leader? Or was he unable to buy equipment because his wife discovered his secret money? Or was he boastful but then had his defense broken by Kitan?"

"You guys." Farina looked at the two of them with a smile on her face as she talked and laughed.

These things are always interesting to talk about among old friends, but they are like incomprehensible books to those who have not experienced that time.

After a few laughs and chats, the light-hearted atmosphere gradually faded away. Now it is no longer the past, everything is different.

Xiao Mo held onto the railing, watching the workers at the Shadow Factory returning to work under the lights, and said, "The people here work very hard, or perhaps it's hard to describe it that way, because they're not working for anyone, but for themselves."

"I was just about to ask, what exactly caused them to break up with the big shipyard?"

Xiao Mo leaned on the railing, his head tilted back, and his animal ears drooped down.

"I think it's about the same as us."

Leon was stunned, and so was Farina.

At this moment, the "we" Duncan Morales was referring to was naturally not the Super Lucky Group he was in now, but the Pinnacle of the Soul.

What happens at the pinnacle of the soul is that the leader who is the real core of the team retires, and the ideas of the successor conflict with those of most of the old members, which eventually leads to the disintegration of the original members.

Li Ang touched his chin. "Are you saying that the people in these shipyards also have differences in their philosophies?"

"From what I know, Uncle Locke and the director of the Kongyan Shipyard were close friends. Later, the director wanted to expand production, but Uncle Locke disagreed. This was because expanding production would inevitably lead to a decline in quality."

Farina said, "It doesn't sound like the hatred is so intense that you want to blow up the Sky Flame Shipyard."

"The above is just a polite statement."

Xiao Mo sighed. "I guess I've heard more news, so I know a little more. The production expansion of Kongyan Shipyard and some other large factories is not simply a reduction in quality. Instead, they deliberately create defects to shorten the service life of the products as expected."

"That's right. He had a conflict with the boss on the ground just because of this," said Li Ang.

"For customers who have unlimited boat usage, this behavior means they'll just spend a little more money, but for the adventurous air cavalry groups, it's a problem."

Xiao Mo tapped his fingers on the railing. "Have you heard? Kangtanduo's own shipyard was half-dead, but now it's starting to invest more in construction again, and the guild is also transferring purchase orders to other places with shipbuilding industries."

"No wonder the group liked to find their own way out so early on."

Li Ang had heard of these phenomena, and now he knew the truth behind them. He originally had a system, but he only came here to find a dock conveniently, and ended up encountering these things again.

But just like Meimei said, this is actually inevitable. The dark tide of the empire is bound to come, and it just stirs up all other latent darkness.

"Uncle Locke has another opinion. He believes that the traditional shipbuilding industry in the Helm City will also be impacted by emerging powers like the island nation of Makena. If it doesn't uphold the reliable quality cultivated over a long period of time, it will actually be rapidly destroying itself."

"Very far-sighted." Li Ang commented.

"So, what he wants to do is to take back everything that the Helm City should hold on to."

"That's great. It's reassuring to work with this kind of person."

Li Ang and Xiao Mo looked at each other, saw the trust in each other's eyes, and nodded.

After returning to the house, Li Ang waited for everyone to go to bed and then went out alone again.

He looked at the miniature map given by the system and prepared to go to the door of the "Hidden Location: Furnace of Creation" to take a look.

296. The Obscurer

The reason why Leon cares about this hidden place is that its name is very close to "Furnace of Creation" in the current common language of Newbis.

He wasn't a linguist, but he had a basic understanding of the logic of how languages connect. The existing common language of Newbis combined many features of ancient languages and incorporated terms from lost civilizations, all of which were provided by scholars from Thousand Towers City.

The core of the mechanical island left by the island forger, the "Furnace of Mechanical Creation", is only one suffix different from the "Furnace of Creation", as if it is clearly written that the two are related.

However, if it weren't for the information provided by the system, he wouldn't have known this.

He raised his left hand slightly, and spiritual control spread out like an aura. Ever since he got the Devil's Hand, his spiritual control has improved like a rocket, and every move he makes is improving.

The most obvious thing is that his professional experience as a sorcerer is also increasing rapidly.

[Cultivated profession: Spellcaster]

[Level: 9. Next level

Compared to the 36000 or so experience points on the career panel when he first acquired the system, he has improved a lot.

A large part of it was the experience gained after developing new spells. The system rewarded him a lot, but he did not deliberately practice casting spells in the following days. The vast majority of the remaining experience was automatically increased by the demon curse.

After restraining the curse and obtaining the Devil's Hand, the experience gained automatically every day will be greater, but this is not necessarily a good thing. Power that is not obtained by oneself must have a price.

The devil's claws were hidden under his robe sleeves, and the shadow factory members he met along the way were all prompted by the shallow spiritual drive and turned a blind eye to Leon's progress.

After crossing the last guard line and reaching the location marked on the system map, the traces left by the Island Builder civilization are also very clear. There is no energy input in the corridor ahead, but it can be seen that it is very different from ordinary passages. There are track-like grooves on the walls and the ground, and it seems that there were originally transportation vehicles that could travel in it.

There was no one in the passage, so Leon walked deeper into the darkness and turned on his adventure lantern.

Not long after walking forward, we saw a heavy metal gate.

It is locked by some kind of mechanical latch, and obviously cannot be opened without activating the corresponding mechanism.

And don't even think about destruction.

【Gate of Creation】

A mechanical gate reinforced with conceptual-level power. A well-chosen attack with the power of the law might break it, but it's subsequently reinforced with power of the same level, making it indestructible to powers less powerful than the gods.

The information provided by the system shows that the Island Builder used the power of the 9th level to build this gate. Even a legendary strongman cannot break it easily. He needs to master the appropriate laws.

But it was later reinforced by someone unknown, so that even the legendary power could not break it.

Who reinforced this door? Or rather, these doors?

There are currently fourteen existing core tunnels. If all fourteen gates have been reinforced, it must have been done intentionally by later generations.

In this case, the door must be opened in the right way.

Li Ang condensed a ball of light elements to illuminate the space. Now that the passage was deep, he was not afraid of being discovered by people outside.

The light illuminated every part of the gate, but he couldn't find any place where the mechanism was.

Perhaps it utilizes rune technology similar to that of magical civilization, requiring specific energy to open. Perhaps the switch controlling this gate is not here, but on a central control console. With the Island Builder's technical level, this is entirely possible.

He reached out and touched the door, but felt no magic. He could only observe the complex spirituality that firmly maintained its material toughness and structural stability.