Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

The magic energy levitating sphere sent a signal to the main consciousness of the underground palace, and then the hidden stone door that had been tightly closed slowly moved to both sides.

What remains is the human boy's plan to take himself out.

The magical suspended sphere understood this to be that the human boy wanted to steal the Baron's technology by analyzing himself, and if he succeeded, it would be disastrous.

However, the magic energy floating sphere had no way to stop the human boy's actions. This small stone ball had no combat capability and did not even have a self-destruct function.

What's even worse is that once it leaves the underground palace, the magic energy floating sphere will stop functioning due to energy interruption. At that time, it will be completely at the mercy of this human boy!

——(No... No... I must find a way to stop him!)

Seeing that the human boy was already grabbing it and heading towards the gate, the magic energy floating sphere had no choice but to make up a lame lie in desperation.

"Human! Are you sure you want to take me out? If you take me out of the palace, there will be terrible consequences!"

9.121 - Hidden Workshop

"Oh? What terrible consequences?"

The boy's interested question was completely beyond the expectations of the magical floating sphere.

Looking at the boy's expectant expression, the magic energy floating sphere belatedly realized that his lie might have been in vain.

The lie that the magic floating sphere made up on the spur of the moment not only failed to scare the boy, but made him even more excited.

However, words spoken are like spilled water, and there is no way to take them back. Therefore, the magic energy floating sphere can only "bite the bullet" and continue to tell lies.

"I will self-destruct and blow you to pieces!" the magic energy floating sphere said confidently.

However, less than three seconds after saying this, the magical floating sphere regretted it.

The reason why it regretted was very simple, because this damn human boy threw it out the door without saying a word!

All this happened so suddenly that the magic energy floating sphere had no time to react. By the time it realized that it had been thrown out of the underground palace, it was already too late.

As the energy transmission from the underground palace was interrupted, the magical floating sphere lost all its mobility and instantly turned into an ordinary stone ball. Then it fell to the ground with a "bang" and rolled a long distance.

As for what happened later, the magic energy floating sphere had no chance to know, because it never had the chance to return to the underground palace and wake up again.

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In the underground palace, Jiang Ran stood there and waited for a while.

He neither waited for the stone ball to explode as it said, nor did he wait for the stone ball to float back by itself.

This stubborn stone ball, which refused to cooperate until the end, turned into an ordinary stone ball, lying quietly in the corner of the Wacono volcano ruins.

For safety reasons, Jiang Ran did not go out directly to pick up the small stone ball. Instead, he first memorized its location, then turned around and began to inspect the underground palace inch by inch.

What Jiang Ran cares about now is no longer the empty treasure chests, but the structure of this underground palace.

Through the battle just now, Jiang Ran discovered that this underground palace only looks simple on the surface, but actually has many hidden mechanisms, such as the ceiling mechanism that can transport the magic stone statue.

If you follow these mechanisms in reverse, what will you find in the end?

Jiang Ran did what he said, picked up the giant beast horn sword and acted as a demolition officer. While preserving the structural integrity of the palace as much as possible, he dug out many hidden things similar to conveyor belts along the way.

Finally, after smashing through a wall, Jiang Ran unexpectedly discovered a hidden workshop. In this workshop, there were a large number of equipment and materials piled up, including parts of various types of magic stone statues that Jiang Ran had just fought.

(Thank you, Little Stone Ball. If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have discovered this "secret treasure"~)

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In fact, during the battle just now and in the process of getting along with the little stone ball, Jiang Ran had more or less realized that the other party did not want him to take the things in the underground palace out.

Considering the various bizarre creations in this underground palace, Jiang Ran guessed that the real purpose of the small stone ball was to preserve the "special technology" in this underground palace.

Whether it's the 'sensing door stone' with special functions, the 'hidden stone door' that can open and close automatically, or the 'magic energy floating sphere' and 'magic energy automatic combat stone statue' that appear to have intelligence, these are technologies that Jiang Ran has never seen in the Prison Star world before.

Thinking that the owner of this underground palace was most likely a demon from hundreds of years ago, Jiang Ran immediately realized that even if all the treasure chests were empty, so what? This underground palace itself was very likely a huge "treasure".

That's why Jiang later dug deep into the ground to search for the hidden structure of this underground palace, and finally discovered this secret workshop.

After a preliminary look around, Jiang Ran thought it would be more appropriate to call this place an "automatic assembly workshop" because all the magical stone statues were assembled here and then transported to the hall of the underground palace.

Because Jiang Ran's shadow clones had just killed too many magic stone statues, this "automatic assembly workshop" now seemed to have insufficient spare parts to assemble new magic stone statues - Jiang Ran estimated that this was the fundamental reason why "Little Stone" admitted defeat.

However, although the magic stone statue could not be assembled, there was still another type of "unit" that was still being assembled and produced. This "unit" was the "magic floating sphere" that was exactly the same as the "small stone".

Jiang Ran walked to the only production line that was still in operation and observed it carefully. He found that there was a very interesting step in the entire assembly process.

In this step, the robotic arm-like "magic arm" will extract a small amount of blood from a bottle, then inject it into the spherical metal like the "core", and then assemble it into the center of the magic suspended sphere.

Jiang Ran used his identification ability to examine the bottle of blood and found out that it was the blood of the "Demon Baron Yeku".

The clever Jiang Ran immediately came up with an idea. He poured out all the blood in the bottle, then cleaned it. Finally, he cut his forearm, let his blood flow into the bottle, and then put the bottle back in its place.

So, will what happens next be as Jiang Ran wishes?

Jiang Ran didn’t know, but it was worth a try.

Following his guess, Jiang Ran first returned to the underground palace hall and destroyed the newly appeared magic energy levitation sphere without saying a word. Then, he rushed back to the "automatic assembly workshop". Sure enough, not long after, the magic arm on the assembly line began to assemble the new magic energy levitation sphere!

Full of anticipation, Jiang Ran watched with his own eyes as his blood was injected into the new core. What remained was to see whether his blood could make the magic energy levitation sphere function like the blood of the demon baron Ye Skull, and what difference would occur after the blood was replaced.

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A few minutes later, Jiang Ran rushed back to the underground palace hall and personally welcomed the new magical floating sphere descending from the hidden mechanism in the ceiling.

The magical floating sphere slowly floated in front of Jiang Ran, and then spoke words that made Jiang Ran extremely excited in an emotionless voice whose gender was difficult to distinguish.

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"The magic energy levitation sphere is in place, Master, please give the order."

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At this moment, Jiang Ran was so happy that he was about to explode!

He didn't expect that his sudden attempt would be so successful!

Moreover, now that we have already created a magical floating sphere that obeys our orders, does that mean that as long as we can make the accessories for the magical stone statue, we can mass-produce magical stone statues that obey our orders?

Just trying to imagine the future, Jiang Ran's hands were shaking with excitement. However, he quickly regained his composure because, firstly, there was a silly loli watching him and he had to maintain his persona; secondly, it would definitely not be easy to manufacture accessories that met the requirements, so it was too early to be happy now.

What Jiang Ran should do now is to first figure out what kind of help this magic floating sphere can bring to him.

"Magic levitating sphere, briefly describe all your functions," Jiang Ran said seriously.

Next, he will know whether this magical floating sphere is artificial intelligence or artificial stupidity.

9.122 - Return with a Full Load

"Okay, Master. Now let me introduce all the functions of this magical levitation sphere."

After hearing Jiang Ran's request, the magic energy floating sphere immediately began to describe its functions, and the description was simple and clear as Jiang Ran requested.

According to the Magic Energy Levitation Sphere, it has three main functions:

1. Intelligent and autonomous dialogue function;

2. Monitoring and eavesdropping functions;

3. The function of transmitting information to the "Underground Palace Center";

Combining these functions, the role of the magic energy levitation sphere in this "underground palace system" is very clear - it is actually equivalent to the eyes, ears and mouth of the underground palace, allowing the "underground palace center" that does not have sensory abilities to grasp the current situation and respond.

So, the question arises. Jiang Ran is very curious, does the "Magic Energy Suspended Sphere" obey the "Underground Palace Center"?

Jiang Ran immediately confirmed this with the magic energy levitation sphere, and the answer he received was that the magic energy levitation sphere would obey the "master" first, and the underground palace center second.

And at this moment, the "owner" of this "magic energy floating sphere" is Jiang Ran.

"Very good. I order you to stop transmitting information to the center immediately."

"I have followed your orders, Master."

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Jiang Ran had an intention in stopping the magic energy levitation sphere from transmitting information.

He wanted to know how the central authority of the underground palace would respond after he became "blind and deaf"?

Will they create a new magical levitating sphere to investigate the situation? Or will they use some other method?

It didn't take long for Jiang Ran to get the answer.

"Magic energy levitating sphere, have you received any orders from the 'Center' now?" Jiang Ran asked.

"Yes, this unit has received orders from the 'Center' and is still receiving them," the magical floating sphere replied.

"What are the specific orders? Tell me what they are."

"As ordered."

Under Jiang Ran's command, the magic energy suspended sphere told Jiang Ran that the "Underground Palace Center" was constantly ordering it to transmit current information back and asked it if there was any malfunction.

According to the order of priority, the magic energy levitation sphere had just accepted Jiang Ran's order and stopped all transmission of information to the "Underground Palace Center", so it did not send a single word back to the "Underground Palace Center".

Then, what followed was Jiang Ran's guess. He believed that the reason why the "Underground Palace Center" had not yet launched the next action was because it had been stuck with a bug.

Specifically speaking, the "Underground Palace Center" is probably in a state of confusion. It can detect the existence of the magic suspended sphere (and send commands), but it cannot wait for the other party's reply.

If the command can no longer be sent, the "Underground Palace Center" will create a new magic energy floating sphere, just like what happened after Jiang Ran destroyed the magic energy floating sphere just now.

And now, since the magical floating sphere is still alive, perhaps the "Underground Palace Center" will continue to send orders until... until the end of time.

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"Good, then nothing will bother us anymore."

Jiang Ran nodded in satisfaction, then found a place to sit nearby and began to obtain various information from the magic energy floating sphere.

In order to distinguish it from other magical floating spheres, Jiang Ran gave this loyal guy a name, "Iron Egg".

Tiedan told Jiang Ran a lot of important information, for example, all the basic information it knew was pre-entered by the "Demon Baron Ye Skull", and the logical thinking function was also written by the Baron.

Tiedan said that when the demons had not yet been invaded by humans, the baron who loved research and invention settled here. He was attracted by the unique geographical environment of the Wakno Volcano, so he dug out this underground palace to store his various rare treasures.

Later, under the protection of the "New God", the human army invaded the land of the demons on a large scale. The Baron was foresighted and took away the treasures in the underground palace and closed the palace gate.

Due to the hidden location of the underground palace and the numerous traps, if you don’t carry the “sensing door stone”, it is almost impossible to find the hidden stone door, let alone enter the underground palace.

So, just like that, the underground palace fell into a long sleep, and it was not until two or three hundred years later that it was awakened again by the mysterious young man Jiang Ran who broke into it.

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After listening to Tiedan's report, Jiang Ran verified his previous guess that the indigenous people of this land, to be more precise, at least the indigenous people within three hundred years, are actually demons, not humans.

If we look at the ongoing war in the Prison Star World from this perspective, it is no longer an invasion of the Human Alliance by the Prison Abyss Empire, but rather the demons trying to retake the land that once belonged to them.

However, this kind of thing is actually fine for Jiang Ran, after all, history is always written by the victors.

What Jiang Ran was more concerned about was why the little stone ball was so eloquent at the beginning, but the iron egg was now as rigid as a robot.

In response to this, Tiedan explained that all magical floating spheres are like himself after they are created.

The magic energy floating sphere No. 13 that Jiang Ran threw out before had developed that "inefficient" way of speaking mainly because it had existed for two or three hundred years.

Yes, Tiedan used the unique word "inefficient" to describe it here, which made Jiang Ran feel Tiedan's hostile attitude towards the small stone ball.

(Yes, very interesting. It is a huge unexpected gain to discover these.)

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Afterwards, Jiang Ran learned from Tiedan why the small stone ball became a dud just now.

It turns out that all the "magic autonomous action units" produced from the "automatic assembly workshop" need to rely on the magic power provided by the "underground palace center" to maintain their actions.

The range in which the "Underground Palace Center" can provide magic power is limited to this underground palace.

(That’s troublesome. If that happens, I won’t be able to get Tiedan to go out with me.)

Jiang Ran threw the problem to Tiedan and asked him to find a way to solve this limitation.

As it turned out, Tiedan really lived up to Jiang Ran's expectations. He first took Jiang Ran back to the "automatic assembly workshop" and led him to obtain the "design drawings" from a hidden storage box. Then he took him all the way to the "magic furnace ventricle" that had not been discovered before, so that the power center of the entire underground palace appeared in front of Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran looked at the "magic furnace core" which was even larger than a water tank, and knew that it was impossible to take this thing away. This also meant that he could not let Tiedan continue to operate outside for the time being.

However, now that he has obtained the design drawings, and has the ready-made accessories in the "automatic assembly workshop", "mastering the technology of the Demon Baron Night Skull" is no longer an impossible task for Jiang Ran.