Chapter 575 574 Old Flywheel and His Hungry Factory for 'Huo
Chapter 575 574. Old Flywheel and His Hunger Factory - Additional update for the brothers "Huo Zheng is very good" [1630]
The strange owner of Hungry Mountain called out Murphy's name and called him the "famous" lord. This fully shows that someone outside Transia has paid attention to Murphy.
But your lord is not surprised.
Shani had reminded her that the Thieves Guild established by halflings monitors the entire continent. It is the largest intelligence organization in the continent, and Su Ke Feilun is a halfling with mysterious origins. He can use the channels of the Thieves Guild to understand what the situation is.
Unbelievable things.
As far as Murphy's own thinking is concerned, he believes that a guy who can gain a foothold in a place like Hungry Mountain is definitely not stupid. The behavior of Su Ke Feilun recruiting a group of trolls as bodyguards seems funny, but
This guy is definitely one of the most complex people Murphy has faced since his rebirth.
As we all know, in most contexts, "complex" means "dangerous".
After passing the level of the Four Hungry Brothers and being able to walk from the platform on the mountainside into the hidden space of the mountain, Murphy soon felt a wave of heat hitting his face.
As he walked through the passage of the natural cave, he saw several armed bugbears patrolling ahead.
It was a humanoid creature with green skin and a body of more than two meters. It was shorter than the jackal barbarian, but taller and stronger than humans.
Their most famous feature is a pair of sharp ears, which are very similar to the ears of elves, but their appearance is much sloppier and slicker than that of elves, mainly because these guys have fangs and long hair.
Their whole bodies are covered with hair that is not thick, giving them a wild look.
Bugbears are also indigenous creatures in the Dark Mountains. The individual differences of this race are huge. The bugbears in front of Murphy are normal individuals, but Tris has seen huge bugbears that are the same size as a young troll.
They do not have their own civilization, but bugbears are one of the few highly intelligent creatures in the Dark Mountains, so they have a city of their own near the Eternal Rift.
Bugbears have a peaceful personality, and they also have certain psychic talents. They occasionally organize their own caravans to travel around the Dark Mountains to do small business. There are also some bugbear travelers and mercenaries on the mainland. These guys have brains.
It's easy to use and has the same dexterity as a human's fingers, so it can make pretty good products.
This is the first time Murphy has seen bugbears, and it is also the first time he has seen so many bugbears together.
Looking in the direction of the bugbear guards wearing rough but heavy steel armor, Murphy could see a "mountain factory" in operation. Tools like waterwheels rotated to lift the magma below and send it to forging.
In the groove, while the steam was rising, several bugbear workers were carrying heavy ore and pouring it on top of the magma.
Then the operator at the top pulled the lever and let the heavy forging hammer fall, hitting the ore with a loud bang and sparks flying.
It was a quite delicate device. The forging hammer smashed the ore and then melted the minerals in the magma smelting. It followed the flow path to the next step, where it was divided into three different groups of workers, one carrying the forging hammer and striking the iron block.
There are those who forge weapons, and there are those who are carrying molds to cast some parts, and finally there are a group of bugbears who are manipulating strange tools to refine the ore.
The entire factory is very large, and there are a lot of bugbear workers. At a glance, it can be seen that at least two hundred people are working.
It can be said to be in full swing.
Murphy also saw something very similar to a mine cart track, which extended directly from the center of the factory to a natural cave below. There were also some bugbears there waiting for carts of iron ingots to be sent there for secondary processing.
processing.
This is not just a simple factory, they have developed the concept of a "processing center". At least there are three workshops for weapons, armor and engineering items in the area that Murphy can see.
Luk Feilun must have spent a lot of thought and a huge amount of money to create such a grand scene in Hungry Mountain. I heard that he has been here for more than forty years. It seems that this halfling warlord is really quiet.
It was a big job without making any noise.
More importantly, on the way to the laboratory, Murphy saw bundles of weapons and boxes of armor being packed up, seemingly to be transported to other places.
These weapons and armor are not designed for use by humans, dwarves, or vampires.
"This bastard is doing business with the Jackals! The weapons he makes here are all used by the Jackals to wage war. Zhuo, if I were a hero, I would find a way to blow up this evil factory right now.
Sadly, I am not."
Murphy had a clear understanding in his heart.
He snorted. As a vampire, he felt uncomfortable in this scorching place, so he quickly moved forward and followed the guidance of the core orb towards the laboratory of Sulq Feilun.
That place is deeper into the factory, with a hole in the mountain.
And it wasn't until this moment that Murphy finally realized why Luke Flywheel chose Hungry Mountain as his base camp. This is an active volcano, and there is enough magma and heat below to provide the necessary forging materials for the factory.
This guy is really crazy.
Isn't he afraid that some silver dwarf earth priest with a strong sense of justice will pass by here one day and use "volcano activation" to increase all his inheritance and himself?
Um.
Considering that even Marshal Loren needs to buy the computational orbs that are prohibited from being exported by halflings from Sulq Feilun, this guy probably isn't afraid.
Well, mastering the core technology is awesome. Doing whatever you want is not enough to describe the arrogance of this wild warlord, Su Ke Feilun.
"Hey, stop! You need to search yourself before going in."
Just as Murphy entered the cave where the laboratory was located, a sharp sound with a strange metallic sound sounded in the darkness in front of Murphy, causing the vampire to frown immediately.
It was a halfling dressed in assassin attire. Judging from the silhouette, he seemed to be a woman.
Halflings, as the name suggests, are individuals half the height of humans.
They are very short, even a little shorter than dwarves, and their bodies are very thin and slender.
However, most halflings are not ugly, and their appearance is as "refined" as their bodies. This allows the civilized camp, which always likes to judge people by their appearance, to undoubtedly confirm that halflings are members of the civilized people.
What's more, halflings possess the best wisdom on this continent.
The brains of these little people are really very useful, and they can empathize with humans. Most of the emotions between the two parties are mutual, and this creates a rather embarrassing fact, such as hybrids.
The largest number of mixed-race species on the continent are humans and elves. After all, in human legends, elves have always been synonymous with beauty, purity and nobility, but the second-largest number of mixed-race species, well, if you have seen little Sharon's mother, you will
You know, degenerate things like humans will go into heat with halflings.
Ah, it sounds like this civilization is hopeless.
In Murphy's previous memories, he had seen halflings doing business in his long-forgotten and lost hometown of East Prussia, but these timid "pacifists" almost never went to Transia.
They feared the rudeness of the Transians, and the Transians, who worshiped strength, rightly despised the weakness of the halflings.
But this was not the main reason why Murphy felt that the halfling assassin in front of him was strange.
Murphy had no ill feelings towards halflings. What really made him frown was that the guy in front of him had no "blood" in his body. After the previous binding candidate awakened the scarlet secret power, Murphy could sense and manipulate blood, but this guy in front of him had no "blood" in his body.
The guy has no weaknesses that he can exploit.
"Are you a robot?"
Murphy said vigilantly:
"Has the black technology of halflings developed to this extent?"
"Robot? Ha, what a stupid layman's term."
The halfling assassin whose identity was revealed made a harsh sneer. The guy approached Murphy nimbly, then raised his head and stared at him. Under the assassin's mask was a pair of weird, lifelike ruby eyes.
she says:
"You are definitely not a steam engineer, and I don't expect your stupid vampire brain to have even a shred of wisdom. I'm going to search you. You don't have any quirks, do you? You shouldn't bite me on the neck and try to turn me into a
A vampire, right?”
"You don't even have blood, madam. The blessing of midnight has left you forever. You have lost the possibility of walking into the night forever in your life, but I don't think you will feel regret."
Murphy stretched out his arms and said:
"Just search it and don't touch it."
"Ha, you vampire is much easier to talk to than your compatriots who came before. They are all a bunch of idiots, you know? They call me a monster. Bah, a bumpkin who has never even seen the Mysterious Steam Golem!
Too lazy to talk to them more."
The voice was harsh. The little man who called himself "Steam Golem" quickly touched Murphy's clothes. There was a strange instrument on her wrist that was beeping like a detection device.
When the mechanical shotgun was fired, the thing suddenly made a shrill sound.
"Wow! A marvel of engineering!"
The chattering little man screamed:
"The thing that can transform must be a miraculous creation! Maybe it's the legacy of the Creator! You vampire are so mysterious. Hey, can you let me see your big baby? Handsome vampire, I promise I'm just taking a look. I haven't seen you for a long time.
I have never seen such a powerful creation heritage.”
"Of course I can touch it for you. After all, I came here with good intentions."
Murphy glanced at the guy, who took off his shotgun and said:
"But you can't watch it in vain, right?"
"I have no money. Everything I have belongs to Sulk Flywheel. As you can see, the poor halfling in front of you has lost everything, leaving only a functioning brain."
The steam doll pretended to be pitiful and said:
"I don't have any property of my own. In fact, as long as Fei Luan gives an order, I will pop out the high-powered cutting saw on my wrist to slit your neck, and add two high-explosive gold-fired bombs to your heart.
For someone who was once a high-ranking member of the Assassin's Guild, it's pretty miserable that I'm in this situation, isn't it?"
"Since you were a member of the Assassin's Guild before, are you still taking jobs now?"
Murphy handed the changing shotgun of the Vientiane Device to the steam golem, and he said:
"Now I really need some powerful people to support my camp on the barren mountain side. If you can make it cheaper, I will be happier."
"Oh, as long as Fei Luan agrees, I have no problem."
The demon was playing with this cool mechanical shotgun very happily, and she said:
"You can call me 'Jasmine', of course it's a code name, but I think we are already friends, so if someone places an order to offer a reward for your head in the future, I will try to do it with a gentler, handsome vampire guy.
Go quickly, the flywheel is waiting for you.
Oh, as an extra reminder, don't touch any liquid he pours for you. In addition to being a powerful engineer, Flywheel is also a master alchemist.
That guy is a real genius!
It's a pity that he was dumped by his girlfriend and cheated on by his best brother, which has caused his brain to be a little abnormal now."
"Thanks for reminding."
Murphy smiled, straightened his clothes and put the necessary evils in the storage box at the door. Then he opened the door to the laboratory. Then he wondered if he had opened the wrong door and entered a room full of people.
In the "garbage dump" of mechanical parts.
In the corner of the rather large mountain laboratory were stacked the remains of several strange steam walkers with missing arms and legs. In the opposite corner stood a complex coil device that was still shining with electric arcs.
The bookshelf where books are supposed to be placed is filled with all kinds of weird engineering objects. What is hard to understand is that between a black multifunctional wrench and a silver automatic screwdriver, there is a piece that has been eaten and is still there.
Teeth-marked roast leg of lamb.
The owner of this place, the wild warlord of Hungry Mountain, His Excellency Luc Flywheel, is wearing engineering goggles similar to VR glasses, standing busy in front of a halfling girl who is suspended in the air.
He held the pliers that danced with sparks in his left hand, and held a cable in his right hand. He kept talking to himself like a genius psychopath immersed in his own world, while the halfling girl he hung up with three chains was naked.
It makes this scene look full of a certain "restricted-level" flavor.
However, to be honest, there is nothing interesting at all.
Because the halfling girl who was hung up was a steam golem just like Jasmine outside the door.
Her limbs and torso had been disassembled.
The strange thing like a circuit board on her chest was taken out and put aside. Suk Feilun put a strange device consisting of five computing orbs connected in parallel into the heart position of her chest. He is now trying to activate this "mechanical device".
heart of".
This scene looks horrifying.
But Murphy did not interrupt the process. On the contrary, he took the core orb and recorded the scene with great interest. He used this thing as a "development material" and threw it on the forum, which would definitely cause a lot of people to scream.
"Hey, hold this cable for me. I have to fine-tune the current to get Dina's 'heart' running again. Those damn Twilight Cultists almost destroyed her last hope.
Fortunately, Jasmine arrived in time and pulled my poor student back from hell."
Su Ke Feilun shouted to Murphy behind him very irritably. The vampire lord shrugged and stepped forward to hold the cable with sparks flying. He took this opportunity to glance at Su Ke Fei Lun.
This guy is a typical halfling mechanic.
The extremely smart type with an awkward Mediterranean hairstyle, but other than that, there is not much about him that is eye-catching. He is just like an ordinary middle-aged halfling, but look at him
You can tell by being so skillful in modifying the settings of this magical steam golem in front of you that this guy is definitely not an ordinary person.
After all, Murphy had just learned this term a few minutes ago, and he was certain that little Sharon had never described this high-end-sounding branch of engineering, so little Sharon, who was judged to be the "first engineer in Transia", also
never heard of that.
This stuff is definitely "restricted" taboo knowledge in the field of engineering.
Build a humanoid Gundam with your bare hands?
It sounds very high-end!
"You just mentioned dusk."
Murphy maintained his posture of holding the cable and said softly:
"So they are also your enemies? Do you know that Dusk is driving the Black Scourge behind the Gnolls? If you knew, why did you still sell weapons to the Gnolls?"
"You have too many problems. I can only tell you that there are many things in this world that you can't just stop doing if you want to."
Luk replied casually:
"Even if there weren't as many weapons as I sold, the jackals wouldn't be gentler when they entered the mainland, and those idiots couldn't find the positioning devices hidden in those weapons, which made the assassins' guild clear out during the war.
At least there is a guide for action.
Young vampire, you can't just take things at face value.
As for dusk
They are a big problem, I admit that, but my relationship with them is not so bad that you have a life-and-death relationship with them, so if you are trying to persuade me to join you, then you can give up.
Old Flywheel lost everything when he was young. What this terrible world will look like in the future has nothing to do with me!
As you can see, I am just a wild warlord who is not able to be civilized. I can only maintain my life by selling some contraband.
Hurry up!"
He said something, and Murphy immediately touched the cable in his hand forward to the strange "mechanical heart" on the chest of the demon in front of him. As Sulq Flywheel pulled down the operating lever, a current of a specific frequency surged out.
, causing the "sleeping" steam golem in front of him to let out a series of screams.
The good news is that she seems to be "alive".
The bad news is that this guy's head was "exploded", allowing Murphy to finally see clearly the "secret" hidden in the brain of this monster.
It was an "organ" protected by a special spherical cover. The complete brain was immersed in a transparent liquid. There were weird electrodes underneath that were connected to the golem's engineering body, making this scene look horrifying and evil.
“Do you use ‘wetware’?”
Murphy said something in surprise. Su Ke Feilun next to him wiped the oil on his hands and grabbed the coil pistol at hand. He said:
"Do you still know about wetware? Hey, he seems to be an expert. I like experts. After your brains are removed, they will become the best wetware. I have never used a vampire's brain to make a golem. I heard that you
It can regenerate, but I don’t know if a new brain can grow after the brain is removed?”
"Shua"
The coil pistol with a beating light point was pressed against Murphy's chin. The strong paralysis made Murphy almost lose control of his body at this moment, but the scarlet secret power was also ready, allowing him to "pin" the halfling in front of him.
blood flowing through the heart.
Sultan Flywheel took off his goggles, revealing two terrible scars, which immediately filled his plain face with "story" eyes. He stared at Murphy with a gentle and horrifying look, and said:
"Then, let's get down to business, thief Murphy! Loren paid the money but didn't receive the goods. You intercepted the goods without paying. Not only did you greatly damage my credibility, but you also made me
Lost an important customer.
How are you going to compensate me?"
"Giving you another important customer?"
Murphy shrugged and said:
"I heard that you have a lot of accumulated calculation orbs in your hand? Very good, I want them all!"
