Chapter 448: One group after another, they've turned this place into a gold mine!

Alright, alright! Stop pinching me! I was wrong!

This is just a prototype, I promise you! I'll improve it later!

Zhang Jie couldn't bear Xiao Jiu's tyrannical twisting, could only plead for mercy; there was nothing he could do—Fly Xiao Jiu was just too silly.

Alright, alright, give it a try!

Xiao Jiu looked unwilling, trying to shake the fly wings behind her.

I thought at most it would just flutter in place twice, but I never expected that in the next moment Xiao Jiu shot off like a tiny rocket.

Humans!!!! ~~~~

Xiao Jiu's incomprehensible Insect scream sounded from near to far, finally turning into a meteor that disappeared from the two's sight; seeing this, Zhang Jie couldn't help but shiver.

Cough, good thing I didn't use myself as the experiment, otherwise I'd have been smashed to pieces.

Um.....

Will she come back to eat?

She probably won't be back anytime soon.....

Hum.....

A faint humming sound rang out; before Zhang Jie could react to what it was, Qiong had already drawn her sword, pointing it at the Insect Disaster inside the glass cabinet behind her.

Where did you pull that sword from?

Why is it still alive?!

At the time I wanted to kill this Insect disaster directly, but the scavenger knowledge Zhang Jie gave her told her that Zhang Jie needed this thing, so she brought it back.

I was clearly sure this thing was a dead insect carcass, so why did it revive?

Doubting, not understanding, fear—various negative emotions welled up from her heart, and then she was shocked to see Zhang Jie directly reach out and grab it.

!!!

Human! Put it down, it'll bite you!

Zhang Jie gave the other a strange look, then placed this palm-sized Insect disaster in his palm.

I saw that the other didn't try to attack Zhang Jie, but instead relaxed and lay contentedly in his palm, shaking its insect limbs and wings, then let out a 'ga' cry.

Qiong:???

This is.... an Insect Disaster??

Strictly speaking, it's not an Insect Disaster.

But rather, it's something I made using the principle of Ship Life...

Insect disaster Ship Life.

?

In just a short while, the old lady Ship Girl was shocked three times; she, somewhat dazed, pointed at the Insect disaster in Zhang Jie's hand and said shakily.

You mean... this thing is a Ship Life?

Insect-form Ship Life?

Exactly.

Oh right, thanks for giving me the Space Component manufacturing technology; now I've basically grasped a prototype for creating Ship Life.

Qiong's mouth unconsciously opened wide; she didn't expect that, relying on this six-hundred-year-old core knowledge, the other had filled in the final piece of the Iron Law Star Alliance's Ship Life manufacturing puzzle.

This person is... simply a monster!

Is this what a genius monster is?

Unbeknownst to them, a certain pitiful small civilization obtained the Space Component manufacturing technology from three hundred years ago, but obviously they failed to grasp the essence of this technology.

Zhang Jie achieved this; although it's only a prototype now, perfecting it is merely a matter of time.

"Uh-oh, I seem to have become a traitor....."

Humans!!!!

Xiao Jiu's voice suddenly came from far to near; before Zhang Jie could react, her little fist slammed into his stomach.

Pff....

"The returning Xiao Jiu punched you into a folding screen; Qiong watched this and blurted: 'Your relationship is really good, huh!'"

"One sentence made Xiao Jiu's CPU smoke, not because she felt her CPU smoke from that sentence, but because figuring out how to explain her inner thoughts to Qiong made her CPU smoke....."

"Cough, anyway, Xiao Jiu stopped harassing you, ran back to her little room with a face of shame and anger, looks like she isn't planning to come back for a meal."

"And you, under Qiong's scrutinizing gaze, placed this half-finished little Insect disaster into the incubation chamber, after all whether it can truly grow as Zhang Jie envisioned remains unknown."

"As a soldier's caution, Qiong still hasn't given up guarding this little Insect disaster, fearing it might suddenly lash out and hurt someone; seeing she really has nothing to do, you arranged a series of caretaking tasks for the little Insect disaster for her."

"For example, feeding screws, feeding scrap iron, daily interaction and such; so when Qiong realized what she was doing, she only then realized you had made her a nanny..."

"The work at the scrap yard is going very smoothly, thanks to having an extra scavenger Ship Girl, your trash-picking plan got a huge boost, and plus you've reached a cooperation with those clubs' repair departments, so your parts are basically never running out."

"So you began remaking, assembling those discarded parts into new ship components to sell back, and even because the quality was so good you received more orders, quickly becoming a somewhat famous repairman."

"Everyone around knows that there's a repairman at the Scrap Recycling Station with extraordinary skill, and as long as you pay enough, anything can be fixed!"

"Including Ship Life!"

"Thus, under this enormous fame, trouble and opportunity came knocking at once; the first to arrive was trouble, a group of people treating this place as a gold mine, coming in waves."

"One group after another, they really treated this place as a gold mine!"

"If this keeps up, don't blame me for putting a cannon at the door...."

Xiao Jiu shook her hands, bundling a few humans together; Xiao Jiu, full of stubborn strength, tightened the rope she had tied, causing those young troublemakers to roll their eyes straight.

"Human, I'm going to deliver these to the Public Security Bureau."

Qiong hoisted these guys onto her shoulder with one hand and walked out step by step.

"Sigh, people fear fame, pigs fear getting fat...."

Soon after, another figure appeared in sight; the cowlick that Zhang Jie had stuck on Xiao Jiu's head for fun sprang up instantly, and Xiao Jiu looked warily at the approaching person.

This time, it looked like they weren't here to cause trouble.

That person carried a big bag, bulging, stepping heavily, walking slowly toward here.

"Stop! What are you doing?"

Xiao Jiu looked like a lackey, and when the other person saw Xiao Jiu, they were first puzzled, then scrutinized them closely.

"Are you...... Ship Life?"

Xiao Jiu instantly became alert, holding up a steel pipe they had somehow broken off, looking ready to fight if not explained.

Little did they know, her actions basically confirmed her identity, and the person opposite instantly became excited.

"It's Ship Life! Really!"

"The rumors are true!"

"You can fix it! You can fix Ship Life, right!"