Their commission was suspicious.

To use an imperfect analogy, it's like some people, during their "post-coital reflection," feel that it's all their cherished memories that caused them to lose control, harm their bodies, and waste their lives.

So in a moment of impulse, he deleted all his treasured items! Now that Lei Dian has seen Lei Dian truly resurrected in front of him, Lei Dian has a premonition that he has seemingly dug his own grave.

General Thunder's only underlying logic is to execute eternity. Now, Chen Luo's changes to Inazuma can hardly be called eternity; he has practically given Inazuma a completely different appearance.

Lei Movie suspects that his Thunder General will go out of control.

"You're really ruthless to yourself," Chen Luo couldn't help but say.

"So...do you have a solution?" Lei asked for help.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Take Down General Thunder]: As a puppeteer, what kind of puppeteer are you if you can't even handle a mere General Thunder puppet? Give him a little puppeteer's shock! Quick!

Reward: 600 Primogems + [Five Years of Programming, Three Years of Bug Fixing: From Beginner to Dead - The Programming Puppeteer]

Difficulty: 3 stars

The reward for this quest, besides the raw gems, has the longest name Chen Luo has ever seen, bar none. Moreover, it possesses a special magic that makes one's liver ache just by glancing at its name.

However, this book, "53," might actually be useful to Chen Luo.

Chapter 1977 Chen Luo: Thunder General, be good, your mother doesn't want you anymore, but I do!

"Solving General Thunder's problem isn't too difficult. I have a method that costs money and a method that doesn't. Which one would you like to choose?"

After glancing at the commission reward, Chen Luo asked.

"Tell me more?"

"Well, the way to get money is for me to take you on as a student and teach you some puppetry techniques, so you can personally modify the underlying program and logic of General Thunder. The tuition is 2 Paradise Gold Coins."

"So expensive?"

"What do you mean it's so expensive? This is a puppeteer's secret technique! It's always been this price. If you think it's expensive, why don't you think about your own reasons? Is it because you haven't worked hard enough?" Chen Luo retorted.

Are Paradise Coins easy to obtain?

“As long as you enter the bar, there are opportunities to earn Paradise Coins everywhere. The reason why Shenzi and your sister don’t have many Paradise Coins is because one of them never thought about earning Paradise Coins, and the other earned Paradise Coins while playing games. She earned 30,000 Paradise Coins and spent 25,000 Paradise Coins on in-game purchases… No wonder they’re not rich,” Chen Luo said.

Although Chen Luo only gives each person who explores a new safe point between 1000 and 1 Paradise Coins, the treasure chests obtained by bar patrons on the safe point map are the main source of Paradise Coins.

If you complete the entire exploration and sell the rare items to the amusement park, you can earn over 10 amusement park coins, and that's just for one day's earnings.

It's a bit dangerous...

However, the patrons in the bar can immediately escape the battlefield by summoning the bar, so they are much safer.

Exploring the Dimensional Sea is such a lucrative job, but ordinary Dimensional Sea adventurers can't summon a bar to immediately escape the battlefield.

If it weren't profitable, why would anyone do such a dangerous job?

Lei, who is not only a master of lightning but also a martial artist, is perfectly suited to explore the Dimensional Sea.

The only downside is that her doll-like form might cause some trouble.

"Hehe." Raiden chuckled sheepishly.

Raiden is the one who earned 30,000 Paradise Coins and spent 25,000.

"I think that only by buying better equipment can I become stronger and acquire Paradise Coins more quickly," Raiden Shin continued to argue.

"Yes, yes, yes, if you don't eat your fill, how can you have the energy to lose weight?" Chen Luo believed Lei Dian's nonsense.

“I really can’t come up with 2 gold coins right now. What about something that’s free?” Lei Yingdian asked.

Lei Movie is now too embarrassed to bother Chen Luo any further.

After all, it seems that everyone in Inazuma needs Chen Luo's help.

It's not that Inazuma can't live without Chen Luo, but she would be better off with his help.

If the people were to process the pain of war on their own, it might take a very long time to alleviate their suffering.

Food is a major problem, at the very least.

It's not very obvious from the perspective of Inazuma Castle, after all, it is still the capital of the entire Inazuma Kingdom, just like in Akame ga Kill!, the imperial capital is also very prosperous.

“Don’t worry about whether it’s troublesome for me. Anyway… you can owe me, or sell your life for it. As for not paying… you can use this Thunder General puppet as a substitute for now. We’ll temporarily exchange Thunder General puppets, and I’ll use puppet magic to repair the Thunder General you created.” Chen Luo beckoned his finger towards Raiden Shin, and a barely perceptible wisp of lightning suddenly appeared on Raiden Shin’s forehead, disappearing in an instant.

As the lightning disappeared, a palm-sized doll appeared in Chen Luo's hand.

“This is…” Lei Yingdian looked curiously at the palm-sized doll that was practically identical to himself.

"This is also a Thunder General doll, obtained by some chance. Don't be fooled by its small size, it can grow bigger."

"Snap!" Chen Luo snapped his fingers, and the Thunder General puppet, which was originally the size of a palm, transformed into an adult size.

“Sigh, if Shadow uses this puppet, then what should I use?” Raiden Shin objected.

"Now that you have a physical body, you don't think you can still live there, do you?" Chen Luo rolled his eyes at Raiden Shin.

“This puppet is very obedient. Until I tame your Thunder General, you can use this puppet temporarily. I will take care of fixing that stubborn Thunder General for you,” Chen Luo said.

"May I?"

"can."

"Want to give it a try?" Chen Luo asked.

"...Give it a try?"

Feeling the 5-star praise from Raiden for this doll, Raiden Movie also became somewhat curious about it.

The experiment was not difficult.

Lei Yingdian was able to reside in the body of the Thunder General puppet using the method taught to him by Yae no Miko, making it even easier to change the puppet's body—as simple as an ordinary person changing houses.

"A fantastic experience." The voice that came out of the Thunder General doll after it opened its eyes was that of Thunder Movie.

The voices of the Thunder movie and the Thunder General doll are very similar, only the intonation is slightly different, but it is still relatively easy to distinguish them.

"And it seems quite comfortable inside," Lei Yingdian said after a moment's hesitation.

"Of course."

After all, this is a random item.

It might be made of some particularly precious materials.

This Thunder General doll might be worth 10 Teyvat continents.

They might even say it's cheap.

The Thunder General puppet itself has the ability to contain souls, so sitting inside the Thunder General puppet will not make you feel bored or tedious at all.

While the Raiden General doll possesses a certain degree of self-awareness, its primary function is as a prop. Just as the Raiden General doll never rejected the idea of ​​Raiden Shin residing within its body, the Raiden movie also went without incident.

"Okay, let's do it this way." Lei Yingdian finally agreed to Chen Luo's suggestion.

Before Chen Luo repairs the underlying program of Thunder General, Thunder Movie will temporarily reside in the body of Thunder General puppet.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

However, at that very moment, General Thunder, who had lost his home in the Thunder Movie, suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of lightning streaked across his alluring purple eyes.

"You want to betray eternity?" The puppet general stared expressionlessly at Lei Yingdian, who was temporarily using the body of the lightning general puppet, and questioned him.

“But the situation has changed now,” Lei Yingdian said.

"..." The puppet general glanced at Raiden Shin, who seemed somewhat helpless.

“I acknowledge that the situation has changed, but the assistance of outsiders is not the reason you changed eternity. This body symbolizes supreme majesty, is granted the power to rule a nation, embodies everything of the Thunder General, and naturally inherits the pain of constant loss as you move forward, as well as your determination to reach eternity.”

"Everything is about resisting wear and tear. Determination, courage, love, and hatred will all change and become distorted over time. Only the laws remain eternally unchanged."

"The outsider does seem to have given Inazuma a bright future, but he also made it clear that he will not help Inazuma forever, and the people of Inazuma must solve their own problems." General Raiden's idea was extremely stubborn.

Although General Raiden, having inherited the pain of Raiden's constant loss on his journey, felt a sense of joy at Raiden's return, this was not the reason Raiden gave up on eternity!

When designing Raiden General, Raiden anticipated that he might abandon the idea of ​​eternity in the future, so he made maintaining eternity the underlying logic of Raiden General.

Lei Movie's original intention was to do things no matter how difficult they were, but now they have become a high wall that Lei Movie has to overcome.

As a product born to combat wear and tear, General Thunder's will surpasses that of most living beings and is almost unshakeable.

Simply put... it means the program is going to fight the programmer!

Just like Void Archives, who, after achieving a perfect ending in Honkai Impact 3rd, still enjoys causing trouble.

The underlying logic of the Void Treasury is to annihilate all Honkai, even if it means taking all Honkai to the moon. It must be completely annihilated! Absolutely!

Then Void Treasury became the guide.

They brought in extraterrestrial beings who can devour all energy, intending to drag the Honkai energy on Earth and the Moon down with them!

Forget about whether humanity will be destroyed; just tell me if the Honkai energy will disappear after this plan succeeds.

The facts have proven just how important it is to have a backup plan.

In the original storyline, if Raiden Mei had been just a little more patient when Velvet was about to tell her about the back door of the Void Archives, and had listened to what the Void Archives' back door actually was, she wouldn't have been so thoroughly manipulated by the Void Archives.

Velvi, 5 years ahead of the world!

500 years in another world!

Neither Lei Movie nor General Thunder could convince the other; for a puppet with self-awareness but programmed, nothing could be said.

"Do you want to be my enemy? I am your past, I am the unchanging law, I am the eternal guardian." The purple light in the puppet general's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Slap!" Yae no Miko slapped Chen Luo on the back of the head.

"Stop eating your watermelon, hurry up and think of a way to break up the fight... Oh, by the way, give me a piece of melon, I want a cantaloupe."

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"Ah, trying to break up a fight. Oh, okay." Chen Luo paused for a moment, then put down the watermelon in his hand.

“Good boy, doll, your mother doesn’t want you anymore, but I do.” The world seemed to freeze, and Chen Luo, who was sitting not far from the doll general, suddenly appeared next to the lightning general, and his hand was already on the lightning general’s head.

"..." General Thunder, who seemed about to attack at any moment, seemed to have really given up the idea of ​​attacking after being comforted by Chen Luo in such a monotonous way.

A proper head pat should still be highly effective when applied to non-human beings!

The entire planet couldn't withstand Chen Luo's caresses, let alone a mere puppet.

And don't forget, Chen Luo has the achievement of being a "doll enthusiast".

"..." Seeing Chen Luo resolve the impending conflict in this way, Lei Yingdian was momentarily at a loss for words.

But what Chen Luo did seemed to only address the symptoms, not the root cause.

"General, lend me your dolls for a while, and until they're repaired, use my twin dolls instead. Is that alright?" Chen Luo asked Lei Yingdian, the owner of the Thunder General.

"no problem."

[Ding! Mission complete!]

Done, mission accomplished.

The goal of creating a sensation with such a small doll has been achieved!

This is also a solution.

After Chen Luo obtained the Puppeteer's Edition of 53, he could begin modifying the underlying program of the Thunder General.

Although, from a general rational perspective, modifying the underlying logic of a puppet that already possesses self-awareness would be quite troublesome, Chen Luo had just glanced at the mission rewards, which seemed to be a good fit for his expertise.

Just like rewarding Elena with hair regrowth magic for regaining her hair...

Fortunately, this time Chen Luo completed the commission through a special method first, obtained the commission reward, and then did the commission.

However, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to destroy General Thunder's self-awareness, it would actually be quite simple for Chen Luo to modify the underlying logic of this puppet.

However, the methods and concepts behind the creation of General Thunder are completely different from the puppetry techniques that Chen Luo has learned.

Controlling General Thunder is easy; whether it's furniture mastery, puppeteer skills, or even deep-level consciousness modification, it's all possible. But getting General Thunder to change willingly is very difficult.

"Come to the bar tonight, and the revisions will be almost finished by then," Chen Luo said, looking at the booklet (Puppeteer 53) in his hand.

"So fast?"

"If it weren't for the fact that I have things to do at noon and in the afternoon, and I might not even make it to the evening." Chen Luo snapped the book shut, and it turned into specks of light and vanished, along with the gold and silver books placed next to him.

No matter what you get, throw it into the river first to see what happens; that's in line with the character of a river god.