Chapter 217: No Explosives, Yes Cannons!

Bai Mu Yun took a deep breath, restarted the car, but his actions were far rougher than before; after all, it was only a matter of time.

"...... No," he squeezed out from his teeth, "we haven't been found."

We only nearly got buried alive, intended to break out, but seeing Yue Chengzhang and Chi Jin An outside, we ended up tunneling underground like a field mouse for ages under the Supervision Bureau's eyes.

"Oh." Ying Duo looked a bit regretful after getting the answer; his expression made Bai Mu Yun's fist harden again.

Bai Mu Yun fell silent, slammed his foot hard on the brake, and sped the car away.

He feared that staying with the kid too long would make him lose control and drive the car straight into the Supervision Bureau's gate, then shout, "I've brought you the bounty, split it half and half!"

Damn, the Dome is full of lunatics.

One crazier than the next is bad enough, and there's also an illiterate.

Since Ying Duo can install Explosives under their noses without being detected, he believes detonating an Energy Core should be no problem.

Today's Bai Mu Yun still has a heap of complaints about the organization he's in, with nowhere to vent.

How to stop a sheep from goofing off?

Simple: toss it a mischievous Raven and a piece of Ying Guang Lu stone.

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The car performed a violently aggressive drift, stopping precisely in the back alley of Dream Illusion Bar; the tires screeched against the ground, startling several gray‑feathered Ravens foraging in the trash heap.

Fortunately, Bai Mu Yun's illusion shield covered it; otherwise his driving could have earned countless tickets from the Supervision Bureau.

Bai Mu Yun's face remained so dark it could drip ink as he got out, he didn't glance back at Ying Duo in the seat, and walked straight toward the bar's back door.

Ying Duo sluggishly followed out, seeming quite accustomed to Bai Mu Yun's rough racing style.

Through the empty hall they entered the familiar underground base entrance; Lu Mu was already waiting, leaning against a workbench piled with various parts and schematics, tossing a shiny coin.

Hearing the footsteps, he first saw the sour‑faced Bai Mu Yun, then the calmly expressioned Ying Duo behind, and immediately flashed a sly grin.

"Yo, bringing the kid back?" he deliberately elongated his tone.

Bai Mu Yun ignored him, walked to the adjacent secured gate, swiped his clearance, and the neatly arranged items inside made Ying Duo frown.

Inside were only a few standard Energy guns, while over three‑quarters of the space was packed with various Explosives, looking like an arms dealer's Explosives cabinet.

Bai Mu Yun knocked on the cabinet door, "Pack all these into your backpack; during the mission you only need to place them along the infiltration route and near the target, understand?"

Ying Duo glanced at the pile of Explosives, then looked up at Bai Mu Yun, his tone tinged with disdain.

"There's too much Explosives; better give me a few guns, and of course, a Cannon would be even better."

He already has a lot of Explosives in his own backpack; although he doesn't mind the excess, the rare procurement opportunity is here, and taking only Explosives seems wasteful.

"Ha!" Lu Mu snickered nearby, the coin flipping a graceful flourish between his fingers.

"Can your two hands even hold them? I give you guns for self‑defense and a finishing blow at crucial moments, not to make you a mobile arms depot."

He even wants a Cannon; I've heard that Ying Duo's unnamed space houses a few cannons with terrifying firepower.

Ying Duo shook his head, calmly retorting.

"I might not need them," he said, "but they can be used."

A few delicately built, somewhat vacuum‑cleaner‑shaped little robots were released by Ying Duo; they agilely climbed onto the workbench, lined up, their round sensor "eyes" flashing Ying Guang Lu light.

Lu Mu's coin‑flipping halted, his gaze at the little devices turned complicated.

These gadgets not only bullied his beloved in the Black Stone Mountain Range, but also attacked him.

Bai Mu Yun's eyes also fell on these little robots; the Rune circuitry is likely etched inside them, yet the eyes still shine with Ying Guang Lu glow.

So they run on Ying Duo's own energy?

"Your energy's glowing signature is too obvious; you still need more visual processing."

Bai Mu Yun immediately pointed out the key issue; it's not hard, perhaps just redesign the exterior.

He was more concerned about something else, "Do these little robots have reconnaissance functions besides shooting? Like image capture, signal detection, environmental analysis?"

Bai Mu Yun had to admit Ying Duo's talent in this area; Ying Duo just entered Mitra, and Mitra couldn't have handed him schematics for robots of this caliber.

Here in the Dome, Ying Duo's only blueprint source is him; aside from previously giving Ying Duo a batch of common gun blueprints, he hasn't provided any more.

That means these little robots were likely taken from some unlucky person's vacuum cleaner and modified by Ying Duo into this ghastly form.

Ying Duo nodded, then shook his head.

"I wanted to include it in the design, but lacked materials before, so I didn't install it."

After all, this was rushed out while fleeing, so reaching this level is already pretty good.

Bai Mu Yun hesitated hardly, pulling up the Dome's currently available resource list for Tianmian City.

This time, unlike last time when Ying Duo was dragged in as a filler, they have to wait until night to start the real operation, giving them time for thorough preparation.

After discarding some items, he tossed the resource list straight in front of Ying Duo.

"What materials are needed?"

Ying Duo took the list, and Yang Yixie, delighted, began a new round of the profit‑grabbing battle with Bai Mu Yun.

Lu Mu, bored waiting nearby, could no longer mind that his beloved had a past grudge with these robots, shuffled to the workbench and reached to poke one robot's "head".

The robot's sensor instantly turned toward him, and his gun emitted the sound of an energy bullet finishing its charge.

"Tsk, that's pretty alert."

Lu Mu withdrew his hand, walked half a circle around the workbench with interest, examining these delicately built little things.

"Last time these little things bullied my beloved... Hey, kid, can you equip them with something else? Like a bit of tranquilizer?"

"Can do."

Ying Duo replied simply, but compared to tranquilizer darts, tear‑gas rounds are definitely more useful.

He's not taking the sneaky route; blowing it up openly and boldly is more satisfying.