The villain's way to tame the protagonist

It only took Ming Furo a moment to realize this, and then uncontrollable anger naturally rose from her heart.

Ming Furo almost instinctively wanted to wipe it out in an instant, but at the same time, Ming Furo suddenly had other ideas.

An idea that did flow very smoothly from her mind, but one that shouldn't have appeared at this moment.

In this situation, it would be undoubtedly wrong to still deny it when Ansel could stir up her emotions - Ming Fuluo thought.

Because he knew that he would choose to eliminate all unfavorable feelings, this must have been a deliberate design on his part.

Although no one knows why he did this, there is no doubt that not going along with Hydra's wishes is the right choice.

Besides...maintaining this emotion is, to some extent, a way of motivating myself.

Although I no longer have any expectations for Qi Shou, but when I think about how a guy like him can be so favored by Hydra... I have no reason to slack off at all.

There was no need to forcefully erase the emotion and remember it as a shame. As for the surface...still maintain that coldness of completely controlling the emotion, let him think that he had done it.

That's fine.

For Ming Furo, it only takes a moment to think, judge and choose, as if she is suppressing her emotions as an instinct.

Then, Ansher saw that Ming Furo's eyes and expression did not fluctuate at all, and his unreasonable preference for Xitana did not seem to have any effect on Ming Furo.

In response, Anser showed no emotion, but just smiled and threw the metal in his hand to Xitana: "Xitana, test it."

"what?"

The girl who took the metal block was slightly stunned: "What test?"

"Ming Fuluo's skills."

The small metal bug flew out from Anser's palm and landed on his shoulder, while Anser continued: "Try to break this thing."

This entire piece of metal is probably as thick as Shitana's fist. If a normal person heard this request, they would basically start to doubt whether Ansher is normal or not. But fortunately, our Miss Shitana has never been a normal person, and will never doubt that Ansher is abnormal.

"Breaking things... I'm really good at it!"

The girl put the piece of iron on the ground. Her dark red eyes, like those of an animal, seemed to only reflect its ordinary appearance, but in fact contained a scene that only she could see.

The power of the Wind Head instantly helped Shitana capture the flaw in this... armor, but what surprised Shitana was that this thing that Ming Furo made in a very short time was surprisingly solid and stable, and even the Wind Head only found a very tiny weak point.

But this is enough.

Xitana exhaled slowly, and the breath was as hot as steam. She clenched her fists slowly with excitement. As her muscles tensed, the beauty of strength floated on her slender arms. The wolf, who had never taken life seriously since arriving in the imperial capital, had joy in his eyes at being able to unleash violence at will. He raised his fists high, and then -

He held the airflow and even the ether in his fist, sweeping up visible air waves and blasting out an air circle that broke the sound barrier. The howling created by the torn wind was like the roar of a mad beast, and then it heavily slammed into the "armor" created by Ming Furo!

Ming Fuluo didn't know that a muffled sound could also be deafening.

The moment Hitana's fist collided with the small piece of armor, the floor of the alchemy workshop was severely ravaged first. With the armor block as the center, a dent with a radius of at least two meters was instantly blasted out on the entire ground. And this was because Ansher was there to help Hitana absorb the impact force, otherwise God knows how big this dent would have been.

“…Ah, did I overdo it?”

In the rolling air waves, Xitana shook her hands, straightened up, and looked at Anser nervously.

"It's normal for the alchemy workshop to be damaged. Don't worry."

Anser smiled and comforted him: "That's not a problem. Let's see what's happening with Ming Fuluo's armor first?"

Sitana put one hand on her waist and glanced at the metal block in the pit with confidence: "Of course I beat you... huh?!"

She just glanced at it and then turned her head to look into the pit, then said in shock:

"What's going on! Why isn't it broken?"

"..."

Ming Furo looked at the piece of armor in the middle of the pit, which was cracked and almost broken into two by a punch, and remained silent.

She underestimated Xitana's strength by one... or even two or three levels. The model built from the data collected during their first meeting was still too crude and one-sided.

If this was not the mechanical armor created by Anser, if it was replaced with some other "protective gear", it would have been smashed to pieces by Shitana's punch and turned into pieces as she said.

But Xitana herself was not satisfied with this result. She picked up the piece of metal that she had almost broken into two pieces and looked at Anser with a puzzled look on her face:

"Anser, why can't I even break something like this?"

Anser couldn't help but laugh and said, "What do you mean by this? You are not only looking down on Ming Fuluo, you are also looking down on me."

"!"

Miss Wolf blushed as she realized what was happening: "I, I didn't mean that, it's just... hey, I said the wrong thing."

She scratched her head and stuck out her tongue at Anser: "Anser, don't take it to heart."

The small metal bug on Ansher's shoulder was slowly flying towards the armor block in Hitana's hand. When it touched the surface, it suddenly shattered with a "crack". Before Hitana could react, she saw a little fluorescence oozing out of the shattered metal bug and silently sinking into the metal block.

"Try squeezing it harder," Anser said.

Hitana did as she was told. She was a little upset that she didn't crush the thing directly with her previous blow, so she roughly closed her fingers inward. As a result, just when she exerted force and felt a little resistance, a small piece of the armor was crushed by her?

"The strength is too low." Anser said, "If Xitana hadn't directly destroyed the entire structure of the armor, the preset ether would not have been able to penetrate the circuit. We still need to add a demolition function to it."

Ming Fuluo frowned. "It's too difficult. Its size is too small, and the ether circuit that can be engraved is so small. It's impossible for it to have the ability to break through the armor and store the ether to destroy the circuit."

"Then design another batch specifically for demolition?"

"No, this kind of division of labor will only reduce efficiency and is meaningless."

"Um……"

They inexplicably entered the discussion session, and the young Hydra stroked his chin, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in a brisk tone: "Then start with the ether, purify it, change its properties, and add elements... Change it in many aspects - such as trying to add elements such as chaos and erosion."

"good idea."

Ming Fuluo nodded almost synchronously with Anser: "But I only have some understanding of these elements, and I am not yet able to apply them to reality."

"This is not an area you can get involved in. Leave it to your guide friends."

Anser stretched himself and said, "In this way, it is almost finished."

“…Hmm? Ah?”

Sitana, who had no idea what they were talking about, looked confused: "Finished? How come it's finished?"

"We stay in the alchemy workshop to create alchemical weapons that can target armor."

Anser walked over to Xitana and ran his index finger across the surface of the armor block, brushing away the tiny fragments of magic gold.

"Since we have confirmed that the sample can work and the third-stage Ming Fuluo can be made, replicating it in the hands of the high-level Babel Tower will not be a problem. The next step is to improve and upgrade it based on the basics. There is no need for me to provide any direction in the future if there is no room for creativity."

Ming Furo's creative ability is still limited by her own strength, but the reason why she is the most suitable alchemist for Anser is that the key to realizing Anser's ideas is not strength, but talent.

Only those who can keep up with Anser's thinking and understand the intentions of all his ideas can turn them into reality.

Ming Furo looked at Ansher's profile, and a moment of trance flashed across her eyes.

Just now... just now, when she and Ansher were discussing possibilities almost seamlessly and reaching the optimal solution at the fastest speed, Ming Furo thought for a moment that she had returned to three years ago.

For a moment she thought that the excitement and joy with which Anser talked about those ideas were as real as they had been three years ago.

Of course, it was only for a moment.

Ansir Hydra, he doesn't care about his ideals, he himself has no ideals, he has never looked forward to that new era, that brand new future, everything is just a lie he made up to make himself surrender.

He puts himself above everything, just as he puts his ideals above everything else. The two of them are destined to be incompatible and unable to walk on the same path.

Ming Fuluo stopped talking, and her renewed collaboration with Ansel ended so casually.

"Well...Anyway, Anser means that we can go now, right?"

"Well, there is nothing for us to do here anymore."

"Finally done!"

Xitana cheered excitedly: "I want to go out for a big meal! It's really uncomfortable to be stuck here all the time--"

boom! ! !

The terrifying roar from above interrupted Hitana's words.

The girl was startled and looked up, wondering: "What's going on? Someone was doing an experiment up there and it exploded?"

Ming Furo's expression suddenly changed at this moment. She immediately rushed out of the alchemy workshop without even caring about Ansher and Xitana, which was completely inconsistent with her usual style of never being impatient.

"...What's wrong with her?" Xitana looked at Ansher blankly.

Anser did not answer this question, but held Xitana's hand and said with a chuckle:

"Shitana, you are curious about what the mechanical suit is, right?"

"Yeah. After hearing you talk so much to that guy, of course I'm curious."

"Then I'll take you to see it now."

Young Hydra found the appearance of that thing from his memory library and smiled meaningfully:

"You can see the 'gadget' I created."

*

Ming Furo left the alchemy workshop as quickly as possible and rushed to the Roaring Land, where she saw a large group of Tower of Babel scholars around her.

This place was close to the largest activity square of the Tower of Babel. All of them looked up with dull eyes, looking at the huge monster that occupied the square.

A... knight.

A cold, ferocious, angular, iron giant knight.

It is at least sixty meters tall, emitting a cold, dark iron glow all over its body. The heavy armor gives people a suffocating feeling of oppression, but the human body is far more flexible than the Alchemy Fortress.

"Everyone at Babel, how are you doing?"

The voice of Conrad Shenghui was suddenly heard among the Iron Knights. This most outstanding young man in the Ether Academy appeared in the square of the Tower of Babel so openly as an attacker.

"I don't know if you guys at the Tower of Babel are aware of what you are doing. I'm here just to inform you of one thing."

"The Ether Institute has already completed the masterpiece of this drama. You...don't fall behind."

Ming Furo, like other members of the Tower of Babel, looked up at the terrifying giant without saying a word.

However, her silence was not due to this "alchemical weapon" that had never appeared in front of the world, but because the Ether Institute had built a finished product with such a high degree of completion in just five days.

This suffocating feeling of oppression... Ming Fuluo would not be wrong, this was definitely not something used to decorate the facade or to boost momentum.

This is real mechanical equipment, the most likely first-stage mechanical equipment to be realized among the three stages of mechanical equipment envisioned by Anser.

【Weaponry and Material Armament】

Chapter 8: The Idealist Gradually on the Road to Despair (K)

"A Luo, have you ever seen the sky of the South Territory?"

"…Don't bother me with meaningless questions at this time, Anser."

Ming Fuluo hugged her knees, looked up at the starry night sky, and said expressionlessly.

After Ansel discovered her "hobby", she sometimes had to be pulled out by Ansel to relax.

Although she had to, after a few times, Ming Furo stopped resisting.

Anser also looked up at the sky. He did not stop talking because of Ming Fuluo's words. He said enthusiastically: "The sky in the South Territory is not as blue as that in East Port, but it is very clean. It is always so clean that it makes people feel comfortable physically and mentally. It is a very happy thing to live under such a sky."

Ming Fuluo just held her chin and still ignored Ansher.

The young Hydra raised his eyebrows slightly and said unhappily, "If you continue to be so self-centered, I will leave first. You can watch it slowly by yourself."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stood up and was really ready to leave.

However, a slender, white hand immediately grasped Anser's wrist.

"Since you brought me up here," Ming Fuluo looked up at Anser expressionlessly, "you have to waste time like me. You are not allowed to do anything else."

"Then why don't you talk to me about something? Aren't you bored?"

"...I really don't understand why someone like you knows me so well."

Ming Fuluo sighed silently: "So, what do you want to say?"

"The sky."

"Well, I know the sky in the south is very beautiful. I will go there if I have the chance." Ming Furo said this with a calm tone, as if saying "I'm just being perfunctory."