Chapter 325: A Program by the God of Joy?

"Welcome. Four beauties, what would you like to drink?"

Brenna brought Yun Mu and the others into a tavern in the old western district; it looked somewhat deserted, likely because it was morning.

For a tavern, the night is usually when business begins.

After all, most people have to go to work during the day, and besides, if one drinks too much during the day, one cannot simply go to sleep like at night.

However, because Luke himself is the owner of this tavern, he does not need to pay himself a salary, and at the same time, the place where he lives is right here.

Even during the day, the front door of this tavern remains wide open.

"What do you have?"

Brenna did not reply, but Yun Mu, who was to the side, asked with more interest.

"Here is the menu."

Luke skillfully handed the yellow cardboard on the tabletop to her.

Yun Mu took a rough look and found that there were quite a lot of items on it, and she could not understand the names of many of the drinks, so she put the cardboard back.

"Do you have any recommendations?" she said.

"Oh, you actually chose to consult me?" Luke chuckled and raised an eyebrow, his beard-covered mouth curling slightly upward.

"Try this."

He skillfully took half a lemon from under the counter and used a juicer to squeeze the lemon juice into a glass. "Freshly squeezed lemon juice, I hope you like it." He grinned and said, "This glass is on the house."

Yun Mu was slightly stunned, then thanked him: "Thank you."

After a pause, she looked at the lemon juice in front of her and said: "By the way, isn't this a tavern?"

"Heh heh." Luke laughed with feigned profundity: "Minors are prohibited from drinking alcohol~"

"Ah, this..."

Yun Mu had wanted to accuse him of why he thought she was a minor, but after thinking about the age of this body, she did not say the words out loud.

Come to think of it, minors aren't allowed to drink in the Federation either.

"Hehehe, there is no such law here in the Federation." Just then, Brenna, who was sitting beside Yun Mu, suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled softly.

"Hm?"

Before Yun Mu could react to what she meant, Brenna immediately added: "Get me a glass of lemon juice too, informant Luke."

"Of course, no problem, Princess." Luke stood straight, bowed slightly to Brenna, and then placed a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice in front of Brenna in the same manner.

"Wait, she is the informant?" Yun Mu looked at Luke with some surprise.

Wasn't it said that the informant only agreed to meet here, not that they lived here? How did they become the tavern owner!? "Well, maybe I remembered wrong." Facing Yun Mu's puzzled gaze, Brenna turned her head and said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Hehehe, the Princess is busy with official business, it is normal to remember wrong." Luke defended her at this time, and he looked at Lita and Iliyasi to the side: "What would the other two ladies like to drink?"

"Mm, I want to try this."

"I, I'll have the same as Miss Yun."

Lita and Iliyasi replied respectively.

"Alright, coming right up~" Hearing what the two said, Luke skillfully began to mix the drinks.

And after he started mixing, Brenna asked him: "How are those things I asked you to investigate earlier going?"

"Those technologies regarding Human Body Modification... honestly, I don't have much of a lead." Luke said, looking quite troubled.

"The development of Prosthetic, as well as documents related to Human Body Modification, those are all internal secrets of large companies. To obtain this knowledge through normal channels without being detected is simply an impossible mission."

"What about abnormal channels?" Brenna noticed the key point in his words and spoke up.

"... Hmm, about that." Luke rubbed his chin, then poured the mixed drink into a glass and placed it in front of Lita.

"Mm, thank you." Lita thanked him subconsciously.

"In the Black Market, as well as some gangs and Prosthetic doctors, I have investigated them all. If you're talking about core data, that's definitely not there, but they are quite knowledgeable about how to install Prosthetic without meeting safety regulations."

"Does the Princess need this data?"

"Uh..." Brenna's eye twitched slightly. She thought for a moment and said: "Let me see it."

After all, this was data Luke had collected with great effort; what if it was useful? Thinking this, Brenna took the data from Luke's hand.

Meanwhile, Yun Mu, Lita, and Iliyasi were drinking their beverages slowly on the side.

Just like that, after about ten minutes passed, Brenna, having finished reading the data, sighed slowly and laid it flat on the table.

"These things are useless." She said.

What was recorded on it were all the steps and tools required for Prosthetic installation, and at most, it just explained the technical names and principles used by specific Prosthetic. But what's the use of just having the principle? Anyone knows that a steam engine is driven by water vapor, but just knowing that, can one build a steam engine? Nonsense.

Furthermore, the 'principles' written inside were even simpler and more abstract than 'a steam engine is driven by water vapor.'

If one could create mechanical Prosthetic comparable to the Federation's based on these principles, those big companies would have gone bankrupt long ago! "It seems I can only think of other ways."

That is true, but how can one obtain the data in the hands of those big companies? Since it concerns secrets, the financial magnates of those companies would absolutely not leak it, especially to someone of her status.

I wonder if bringing out the God of Decay and Necromancy would be useful... Brenna remembered the Stone that Fen Yege had given her back then. Forget it, she'd better think of a way herself.

Casting aside the thought of using the Stone, Brenna looked at Luke.

"You've been active within the Federation for so long, do you have any leads or suggestions?" Holding the attitude of giving it a try, she consulted him.

She hadn't expected Luke to give any useful suggestions, but to her surprise, he suddenly told her: "Actually, if you're talking about a method, there is one."

"Hm?"

"The Joy Sect's 'Joy and Fun Limited Liability Company' recently started a new program. According to reliable sources, as long as you become the 'Champion' of that program, you can make any one request to the company."

"Although the Prosthetic technology of Joy and Fun Limited Liability Company is only at the top of the second tier, I think this is the technical data most likely to be obtained by the Princess."

"Joy and Fun, Limited Liability Company?" Yun Mu, sitting beside Brenna, muttered the name with a puzzled look.

What kind of crazy name is that? And this program, can you really make any request after completing it?

"It's true." Seeming to see Yun Mu's thoughts, Luke explained to her: "Joy and Fun Limited Liability Company is an asset of the Joy Sect."

"Although the followers of the Joy Sect are all people who like to watch the fun, they are actually surprisingly trustworthy."

"Perhaps she just thinks it would be interesting."

"By the way, this program was decided by the Faceless Fool Airui Laya, an attendant of the Joy God; she seems to have received some kind of divine oracle."

"A divine oracle?" Lita couldn't help but exclaim: "If that's the case, doesn't that mean this program is the will of the God of Pleasure and Chaos?"

"Perhaps." Luke spread his hands: "That's all I know; for specific details, we'll have to wait until the production team starts recruiting."

"It should be within these next two days, just wait a little."

"I understand. This is very important information. Thank you for your hard work, informant Luke." Brenna said after a moment of contemplation.

"It is my honor to be of service to you." Luke bowed and saluted.

"Speaking of which." Yun Mu, who was to the side, thought of something at this moment and said: "Do you know what the name of that program is?"

"Well," hearing her words, Luke recalled for a moment and said: "I can't quite remember, I only recall the program code name, it seems to be called... Old Days?"

"Old Days?" The four people present frowned upon hearing this name; clearly, they all remembered the unmanned mechanical bodies they encountered in the wild yesterday.

"Is it related to those Old Legion?" Yun Mu asked with some confusion.

"Don't look at me like that." Luke waved his hands helplessly: "I don't know anything."

"... Alright." Looking at Luke's expression, which did not seem fake, Yun Mu withdrew her gaze with some regret.

Old Days... For some reason, a figure suddenly appeared in Yun Mu's mind.

That was the deputy conductor they met on the Magic Train yesterday.

Beast God Cult... It is said to be a sect that worships the Beast God; before the Federation was established, its scale was not at all inferior to the Dark Night Sect.

Almost all Beastkin worship their ancestor, the Beast God Robert.

It was just that in the final period of the Orc Empire, the Beast God Robert, who practiced nepotism, ultimately failed to manage the country well.

He indulged his own desires, and even often messed around with his own descendants.

If he encountered a creature he took a fancy to, regardless of status, age, or gender, and it didn't even necessarily have to be a person, that guy could still jump into action.

It was, just very outrageous.

One can imagine what it would be like to have such a guy manage a country for over a thousand years.

Ultimately, the Beastkin, who could no longer endure Robert, united in an uprising and finally overthrew the rule of the god.

They became the current Orc Federation.

And the once glorious Beast God Cult fell into decline, eventually embarking on the path of becoming an evil cult.

To the point where everyone shouts for them to be beaten today.

Come to think of it, the Old Legion seems to have appeared only after the empire collapsed.

Therefore, there are rumors among the people that those Old Days mechanical bodies were things created by the Beast God Cult, or creations made by the Beast God before he was overthrown, specifically used to suppress riots and the like.

Hmm... Without any basis, Yun Mu's intuition told her that this program codenamed 'Old Days' was definitely related to those Old Days mechanical bodies.

Besides that, the people of the Beast God Cult definitely could not escape involvement.

It was just that, when all was said and done, these were only her personal intuitions.

There was no evidence.

If she could, she also hoped that this intuition was wrong.

But once she thought about how this program was something specifically created by the God of Pleasure and Chaos through a divine oracle, she felt her intuition was correct.

She could only hope that the God of Pleasure and Chaos would not come up with anything shocking.

Yun Mu prayed in her heart like this.

She really did not want to be dragged into any more troublesome matters!

(End of this chapter)