"You possess the Lamp Holder and can resist temptation without killing people?" The Blacksmith praised, "Before your batch, I've t many players with Lamp Holders and their upgrade accessories, who constantly fought and killed each other... you're the first I've seen who has gathered all the Lamp Holder's components and yet isn't a Bloody player, and the only one at that."
"You seem very knowledgeable about the function of the Lamp Holder." Li Zheng stared at the Blacksmith, trying to figure sothing out.
"Of course." The Blacksmith said, dropping a bombshell on Li Zheng: "Because this is the first piece I helped my teacher create, and the idea to add the murderous treasure-stealing feature ca from back then."
The Blacksmith was involved in the creation of the Lamp Holder's lantern?!
And the most troubleso functions actually originated from him?!
Li Zheng looked at the amiable Blacksmith in front of him, suddenly feeling a chill inside.
This was a madman who personally added the murderous treasure-stealing feature to ensure the Lamp Holder could be synthesized into a complete entity!
What kind of disregard for human life does it take to do sothing like this?
"If anyone in this world can improve it, it's none other than ." The Blacksmith held the Lamp Holder's lantern in one large hand, "No one understands the Lamp Holder better than I do!"
"Then I'll trouble you with this." Li Zheng adjusted his mindset; he needed help now, regardless of the kind of man the other was, even if he didn't like him, he'd have to endure.
"It's a small matter. How do you want to improve it?" The Blacksmith pondered for a mont and asked, "If I rember correctly, the only effect of the complete Lamp Holder is to enter so mysterious space, you... can't enter?"
"I can enter." Li Zheng explained his request, "My demand is simple, I hope the Lamp Holder can transform its ability to traverse space into opening a portal between two spaces. Is it possible to achieve this feature?"
Hearing this request, the Blacksmith was slightly moved, "The space the Lamp Holder traverses cannot be directly accessed in our world. Opening a portal might be difficult.
After all, this portal cannot detach from a person's Spiritual Domain, or else the Outer World laws would instantly destroy it.
Therefore, I can't fulfill your request."
"A portal can't exist in our world?" Li Zheng frowned, this ans his previous plan of using the Bodhi Tree to train experts would be difficult.
He couldn't possibly stay in one place forever, acting as a 'Gatekeeper,' could he?
"This issue isn't absolute." The Blacksmith said ambiguously, "Perhaps soone can achieve it, or perhaps technological levels will surpass a few more tis and find a way. But for now, I can't achieve such an effect."
"Hmm, understood." Li Zheng thought for a while and told the Blacksmith, "Then please modify it to open a portal in the Spiritual Domain, allowing to see outside after entering that space."
"That's easy." The Blacksmith assured, "I can get it done within ten days."
"About the compensation..."
Speaking of compensation, Li Zheng felt a bit awkward; having the Blacksmith personally modify sothing so challenging would likely require a hefty price, wouldn't it?
"Compensation?" The Blacksmith turned and walked towards the back door of the shop, "You've already paid."
Already paid?
Li Zheng was slightly taken aback, then realized.
It seems the Blacksmith, as in the Matrix before, would make a free item for soone who proposes ideas beneficial to the developnt of the Blacksmith Shop.
He didn't expect to run into such a good thing today; indeed...
It's a stroke of luck.
Thanks to Mo Li, if she hadn't dragged him around as a receptionist in District 902 for two days, he would have arrived at the Blacksmith Shop two days earlier.
If only Senior Brother He Nan and Zi Yuan were in the shop at that ti, there would have been no ability to modify the Lamp Holder, nor could he have caught the Blacksmith's return.
"Ten days..." Li Zheng smiled at Zhan Zhouzhou, "Why don't we take advantage of these ten days and visit District 38 again to fulfill your long-standing wish for Gravity Room training?"
"No need."
Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhouzhou shook her head in refusal and tapped the translator she was wearing on her ear, "I listened to what you said just now; since there's ready-made, why go far and wide?"
Saying that, she brightly walked quickly towards Pasi owing.
"..." Li Zheng reminded her from behind, "Take it easy, his real strength can beat us both thirty tis in a row!"
"Calm down." Zhan Zhouzhou said without turning her head, "I'm not stupid."
"... Let's hope." Li Zheng sighed helplessly; how many won can stay rational in front of cat repairs?
Not to ntion won, even among n, there are plenty of cat slaves!
Many people in this world see cats and can't move; they have to interact with them before anything else.
"Pasi ow isn't stupid, he knows your teacher's attitude towards you well. Zhan Zhouzhou, as your friend, even if a little excessive, he can't say anything." Zi Shu patted Li Zheng's shoulder and said, "You two should rest in the Blacksmith Shop's guest room for these ten days while I show you around."
"Great, thanks so much, I was just worried about not having a place to stay nearby." Li Zheng checked the signs of nearby shops with the pad's translator while coming here; the nearest inn-type shop is five hundred houses away from the Blacksmith Shop.
Or rather, shops that can accommodate people are almost exclusively gathered near Teleportation Gates; you can't really see them elsewhere.
Zi Yuan stayed and thought for a bit, "I'll go with you guys."
Seeing this, Zi Shu glanced at his brother.
Zi Yuan raised his hand to scratch his cheek, his gaze guarded with a touch of embarrassnt.
Zi Shu shook his head amusingly; the third eye on his forehead glared at Zi Yuan and led Li Zheng to the Blacksmith Shop's side entrance.
"Behind the shop is the workspace; it gets noisy if there's work going on inside, so the guest rooms are placed on both sides, the space is a bit small."
Zi Shu introduced as he walked, opening the side door to reveal a not-too-large corridor; if the Blacksmith ca in, he'd fill it up just walking through.
The small corridor only had two doors opposite each other, aning there were only two guest rooms in the Blacksmith Shop.
"The other side has the sa layout, but those rooms are for my senior brothers and my brother. The teacher is staying in the Outer City for a while, so I have to accompany him, so there's a room on this side where I live."
Listening to this, Li Zheng had a slight sense of foreboding.
Sure enough, Zi Shu continued, "So you'll have to share a room with your friend."
Living together with Zhan Zhouzhou?
Li Zheng didn't mind much.
He was just worried Zhan Zhouzhou wouldn't agree.
"Of course." Zi Shu added, "If you want to share a room with , that's alright too..."
"No!"
"Absolutely not!"
Before she finished speaking, Li Zheng and Zi Yuan, both shocked, cut off her words simultaneously.
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