Chapter 398

After Ying Duo learned the specific situation of the Dome side from Hua Jian Lei, he arranged the division of labor.

The Dome side is as corrupt as Tianmian City; according to the information gathered by Hua Jian Lei, it is similar and has reason, after all the Dome is a newly risen force in recent years, although it develops rapidly, some deep-rooted ideas are hard to change.

Including some systems being the same, it is definitely more convenient to make improvements based on the existing foundation rather than completely overturning and starting over.

Moreover, the interior of the Dome is even more complex: the Field Operations Department, Weapon R&D Department, Foreign Affairs Department, Logistics Department, and Mutation Department; although the heads of each department are said to be of equal rank, there are actually hierarchies, and often the three department heads of Field Operations, Foreign Affairs, and Mutation represent the Dome in making decisions.

Although he already had some awareness of the power of his cheap teacher, but every time at this point, others would always say to him, 'Your teacher is really awesome.'

When several people asked how they should enter the Dome's interior, Ying Duo did not explain much, merely letting them hand everything over to him.

"Simply put, a high-status NPC gave me Dome vice-department-level authority, so we can walk around the Dome Headquarters as we please."

There is really too much to delve into in that sentence.

But they can play together with entropy increase for so long; a key point is that they never pursue the details others are unwilling to say.

After Yang Yixie finished assigning tasks, he also had to go back.

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Ying Duo walked around Yang Yichen's bedroom, preparing to first do soundproofing work.

He had done quite a bit of this in Tianmian City, but there he could occasionally grab a few NPCs as laborers; here he could only rely on his own energy to hold it up.

After installing the soundproofing equipment, Ying Duo then dumped out a bunch of parts from his backpack, basically taking them in piles, the classification already sorted in his backpack.

Yang Yixie had long planned to change his main weapon, but while traveling with Luo Jinyou he could only first experiment with a few of his ideas; only when he had enough space and time like this could he fully focus on researching a new weapon.

He had already imagined making this cannon barrel countless times in his mind, but remembering it clearly is one thing, being able to replicate it is another.

After all, what he could do was merely take the rune circuit recorded in the weapon blueprint fragments obtained by dismantling that cannon, dismantle and test it again, then engrave it onto the new weapon.

【Modification failed! Modification proficiency +132, part durability -23】

【Modification failed! Modification proficiency +124, part durability -31】

Yang Yixie already felt a headache; although he had guessed that designing the blueprint entirely himself and thus manufacturing the weapon would be difficult, he did not expect that even just the production of parts would already have multiple mistakes.

After all the parts were finished processing, the first assembly failure occurred at three in the morning.

The cannon barrel's rune circuit had been engraved, but when he tried to inject energy into it, the energy directly annihilated with the rune circuit.

A burnt smell seeped out from the metal gaps; Ying Duo frowned, removed the burnt parts and tossed them aside.

The second failure occurred at four in the morning; he switched to better materials, adjusted the rune circuit based on the previous foundation, but the energy output became unstable again, the runes at the cannon barrel interface flickered on and off a few times, then went out completely.

Ying Duo stared at the extinguished cannon barrel for a few seconds, then took it apart and started over.

Third, fourth, fifth——

Failure.

Failure.

Failure.

Ying Duo's expression didn't change much; he just kept taking apart and reassembling, his finger movements becoming faster and steadier.

At five in the morning, Ying Duo lowered his head to glance at the parts scattered all over the ground, completely unable to tell which were yours and which were mine.

This time, he did not rush to act.

He closed his eyes, mentally went through the entire assembly process once, then began to work.

Ying Guang Lu lines wandered everywhere in the small room, neatly arranging the parts Ying Duo needed for assembly in midair, pulling them closer, welding……

When he snapped the last outer shell into place, his finger traced the cannon barrel surface, feeling the cold metal; he slowly infused energy, which filled the cannon barrel along the rune circuit.

Until a window popped up before his eyes, indicating the cannon barrel's energy had been fully filled.

【Obsidian Annihilation Cannon (Low-End Version)】 (purple)

Durability: 10000/10000

Energy consumption: 500/shot

Traits: sturdy, quick to charge

Purple quality.

Ying Duo stared at those characters for a few seconds, the corner of his mouth twitched; although stiff, he indeed smiled.

Although it is a imitation of the cannon he used in Tianmian City, due to many missing parts in the blueprint, most of the design was still done by Yang Yixie himself.

Considering many factors, the fact that this cannon could be built is already a miracle.

Although the imagination was wonderful, once he actually started building it, Yang Yixie had already prepared himself for failure.

But in the end it still succeeded.

Ying Duo placed the cannon barrel on the ground, stood up and moved his stiff neck a bit.

His Ying Guang Lu hair was messed up from his own rubbing; looking up, he saw faint light seeping in from outside the window.

It dawned.

Ying Duo glanced at the time on his communicator; it was ten minutes until six in the morning.

He immediately began cleaning up the mess on the ground, picking up the burnt, scrapped parts and scattered screws of all kinds, stuffing them all into his backpack.

The more careless he had been when taking them out, the more embarrassing the cleanup now; the small robots originally made by imitating sweeping robots finally got to do their proper job.

Hearing footsteps outside the door, Ying Duo immediately put the last few soundproofing devices into his backpack.

The footsteps paused at the room's door, then a knocking sound rang out.

"Xiao Xie?"

Yang Yichen's voice came from outside the door, sounding muffled through the door panel.

"Are you up? I made some porridge, come out and have some."

Ying Duo looked around, confirming nothing was missed before opening the room door.

Yang Yichen stood outside the door wearing a wrinkled shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, hair uncombed, with a few cowlicks sticking up.

But when Yang Yichen saw Ying Duo, he also froze for a moment.

Probably because on his younger brother's face there are a few black stains, Ying Guang Lu's hair is even more messy like a bird's nest.

"...... What were you doing last night?" Yang Yichen asked.

Ying Duo looked at him expressionlessly, "Didn't do anything."

Yang Yichen's gaze shifted from Ying Duo's face, he glanced around the room, and saw nothing.