Time: [8:33:12]
Today's Weather: Icy Rain
The bone-chilling, pattering icy rain hammered against the outside of the carriage.
Ye Qiyan leaned against the edge of the train window, a grin spreading across his face as he looked at the two brand-new materials placed before him.
"Good thing they all leveled up... otherwise, it really wouldn't have been enough."
[Nano Limit Data Chain (Level 10)] [Unified Will Cube (Level 10)]
After purchasing all the upgrade options, while his stamina and spirit were still ample, Ye Qiyan used Sublimation on this Level 9 mold that cost only 100 Train Coins.
The numerical value consumed by Sublimation was just as low as its price.
As for the effect...
[When materials of Level 9 or below are placed inside, there is a certain chance they will be elevated to a higher grade of the same type of material.]
It was indeed capable of promoting Level 9 materials to Level 10 due to Sublimation, but the success rate of this upgrade was roughly fifty percent.
As for how Ye Qiyan knew such a precise number?
Because the two materials consumed a total of four molds before they were finally sublimated to their current state.
With the materials secured, it meant he could completely begin manufacturing this blueprint.
[Nanite Swarm Modification Device Blueprint (Level 10)]
[Requirements: Nano Limit Data Chain + Unified Will Cube + Swarm Queen Insect + 500 Train Coins + 1000 Mechanical Parts + 100 Spirit]
[Nanite Swarm Modification Device: Place the insect swarm corresponding to the queen insect placed inside during manufacturing into the device, along with an equivalent mass of metal, to perform a group nanite transformation on the swarm.]
[This blueprint can only be used once, and the controller of the nanite swarm is permanently bound to the spirit consumer during manufacturing.]
"Although I'm broke, a blueprint also counts as a type of item, so I can use Major Consumption Reduction as a substitute."
Ye Qiyan decided to build this thing first and worry about the rest later.
With this thought, he took the blueprint and entered the Honeycomb Carriage.
Passing through the densely packed swarm of Giant Sting Bees, in the very center of the carriage within an area of extremely high temperature, the queen insect of the Giant Sting Bees was tirelessly engaged in egg-laying.
Sensing his arrival, the queen insect conveyed its respect to its master using the swarm's unique, specialized signals.
Upon learning Ye Qiyan's purpose, it was even more willing to offer up its own body, completely indifferent even if it meant death.
Although the manufacturing process of the blueprint itself wouldn't cause death.
Summoning the Processing Station, he placed the blueprint and materials upon it.
The blueprint flickered as Major Consumption Reduction was activated.
Dark golden light points seeped in from outside the carriage, merging into the blueprint.
As the silvery-white liquid condensed from these materials gradually fused with the queen insect.
Now, only the final material remained.
One hundred points of spirit from the manufacturer.
An azure-blue stream of light cascaded down from Ye Qiyan's fingertip.
Just before reaching the ground, it curved, transforming into countless threads that merged into the blueprint.
Instantly, the blueprint erupted with terrifying radiance.
The entire Honeycomb Carriage was filled with this brilliance.
The clanging of metal harmonized with the light, crisp hum of mechanical drives.
Until the light faded, the originally orange-yellow interior of the Honeycomb Carriage was now covered in a layer of silvery white tinged with azure blue.
A queen insect, now shrunk to a size many times smaller than before, appeared before Ye Qiyan.
[Nano Future Hive · Swarm Queen Insect]
[Can convert consumed metal into a combinable Nano Future Swarm, usable for operations such as healing mechanical bodies, flight, support, and defense.]
[Can freely assemble into Nano Future Swarms of different sizes based on the sole permanent binder Ye Qiyan's commands, for a series of tasks including combat, blocking, and collection.]
[This queen insect has changed its race to: Mechanical/Insectoid Lifeform]
[Spirit value is half of the binder's; any spirit-based effects suffered by the swarm will be 100% transmitted to the queen insect.]
[Due to special reasons, negative effects from low spirit will not cause an impact.]
[Module: Material Transport A+]
[Increases transport speed when moving materials.]
Nano Future Swarm.
These once ordinary bees, purchased by Ye Qiyan simply because he wanted honey, had now grown to such a level.
Level 10. Among all the Train Conductors across the Wasteland, this could even be considered many people's trump card.
But for Ye Qiyan, the biggest help this enhancement provided him was the increased efficiency in resource collection after battles.
The Raven demon is about to have some competition.
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A mere hundred points of spirit consumption was nothing. After finishing the enhancement of the Giant Sting Bees, Ye Qiyan immediately entered the Armament Hangar without pause and installed the [Carriage Void Modification Kit].
He also tried to use Sublimation on this modification kit. The consumption wasn't high, but the result was merely adding an [Advanced] prefix.
Apart from making the carriage's direct void descent faster, the essence of the ability did not change.
Consequently, among the four upgrade options, only the last one remained.
[Abyss Species · Heart Core]
"This cost me a thousand Train Coins. Don't disappoint me."
The equipment hangar zone of the Abyss Mech-soldier.
Ye Qiyan stood on the access platform.
One after another, damage control drones native to the Armament Hangar were performing maintenance on all the mech-soldiers.
His gaze was level with the Abyss Mech-soldier's still-unlit crimson eyes.
As the heart core was taken out.
Crimson light immediately locked onto Ye Qiyan.
The sliver of intelligence awakened by the [Machine Crisis] controlled that massive frame, conveying a deep craving towards Ye Qiyan, or more accurately, towards the heart core in his hand.
"Want it? Then have it."
The power of Sublimation gently brushed over the surface of the heart core.
A point of spirit merged into it.
Just as he had initially guessed, this item had no potential, or rather, no future.
But regardless, as the power named [Sublimation] fused with it, the unique mark belonging to Ye Qiyan would also be forever branded into its deepest core.
Now, as Ye Qiyan threw the [Abyss Species · Heart Core] towards the Abyss Mech-soldier.
Crimson brilliance blossomed from the mech-soldier's eyes.
The heart core surged, the space around it trembling in resonance.
Until the heart core shattered, and the black-red liquid sphere within it all flowed along the seams of the Abyss Mech-soldier, merging with it.
Its frame slowly leaned forward, breaking through the hydraulic systems of the hangar zone, and at this moment, it knelt on one knee before Ye Qiyan, before its master. A light screen with a black background and burning red characters appeared!
A single line of text flickered faintly upon it.
[The Abyss species, with no past, no future, no present, has at this moment obtained the first [Heart] of its race.]
After reading that line, the text transformed.
[But this is not permitted, nor will it be accepted by the [Abyss].]
[What a bold human. Are you attempting to challenge His authority?]
[Be careful. He has noticed you.]
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