Chapter 125: Mechanical Core, the Possibility of Mass-Produced Robots

Refine!

After the skeleton warriors moved all the black iron and bronze robot corpses to one place, Su Hao continuously used the Item Refining Technique on these corpses.

After Su Hao used the Item Refining Technique for the 32nd time, a skill rune deep in his soul suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and its aura became stronger.

At that moment, a message popped up before Su Hao's eyes.

【Congratulations, the proficiency of Item Refining Technique has reached minor accomplishment, the speed of refining items is faster, and it can now refine Fourth Rank Supernatural items!】

"Oh ho, the proficiency has finally increased; this is an unexpected joy!"

Su Hao slightly raised his eyebrows, his face showing surprise and delight.

After the proficiency of Item Refining Technique reached minor accomplishment, the refining efficiency also became even faster.

Furthermore, the items that could be refined were also upgraded to Fourth Rank, which was relatively important for Su Hao.

Based on the current situation, perhaps not long from now, he will be able to come into contact with Fourth Rank Supernatural items.

As proficiency increased, these First Rank and Second Rank Supernatural robot corpses were refined one after another in less than ten minutes.

After the bloody red light faded, the corpses of hundreds of robots completely disappeared, leaving on the ground a large amount of black and bronze-colored unknown metal, as well as hundreds of structurally complex mechanical spheres.

These mechanical spheres can be divided into two types according to the different materials used.

One type uses the black metal from the black iron robots, and the other uses the bronze metal from the bronze robots.

Su Hao received the two mechanical spheres handed over by the skeleton warrior and used the Item Appraisal Technique on them.

【Bronze Mechanical Core】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

Effect: The mechanical core is the processing system and energy center of the bronze robot, and simultaneously the core component for manufacturing bronze robots.

Place the mechanical core together with the bronze alloy into the Bronze Mass-Production Robot Manufacturing Device.

By consuming sufficient energy, according to the pre-set program, it can autonomously assemble the corresponding type of Second Rank Supernatural bronze robot.

……

【Black Iron Mechanical Core】

Supernatural Grade: First Rank

Effect: (omitted)……

"Mass-Production Robot Manufacturing Device?"

Su Hao slightly lowered his head, showing a thoughtful expression.

As for these black iron and bronze mass-produced robots, Su Hao didn't think highly of them.

Now he can use his own bones to summon Second Rank Supernatural skeleton warriors, as well as the more powerful Tyrant Demon Bull and Demon Flame Pumpkin Head.

In terms of defending his territory, as long as there are enough plants, Xiao Anni can continuously summon mutated plants to guard the territory.

So, Su Hao's forces are not lacking in combat units.

However, this mass-production robot manufacturing device does pique his interest.

If black iron and bronze robots can be mass-produced, this would be equivalent to a stable and precious trade commodity.

Even if Su Hao himself has no use for it, later taking it to trade with the Divine Xia will surely yield a great deal of good things.

Without saying anything else, if hundreds of mechanical cores could be made into black iron and bronze robots, Divine Xia would definitely be willing to pay any price to obtain them.

Currently, Divine Xia's official main force consists only of First Rank Supernatural beings; they don't even have a single Second Rank Supernatural.

If they could obtain this batch of bronze and black iron robots, Divine Xia's official combat power would instantly increase by a large margin.

As his partner, the stronger Divine Xia's official strength becomes, the more resources it can acquire, and the greater the benefit to Su Hao.

No matter how you look at it, this is a good thing that yields multiple benefits.

"Wait a minute, since the black iron and bronze robots are produced by the robot manufacturing device,"

"Then are the energy mechanical shield, source laser gun, and the ammunition for the energy laser gun also manufactured from the corresponding devices?"

Su Hao stroked his chin, feeling that this possibility was quite high.

Unlike the black iron and bronze robots, these Energy Laser Gun weapons have greater utility for Su Hao.

The Energy Laser Gun is powerful; among many Second Rank Supernatural weapons, it is considered exceptionally outstanding, and ordinary Second Rank Supernatural beings find it difficult to block its energy beam attack.

The Energy Mechanical Shield's defense is not bad; it can block the skeleton warrior's brute force charge head-on, leaving only a small dent, so blocking the attacks of other Second Rank Supernatural beings without damage should also be fine.

If in the future all skeleton warriors could be equipped with an Energy Laser Gun, supplied with sufficient ammunition, and also carry an Energy Mechanical Shield, they would have a powerful long-range attack means, need not suffer useless blows during a charge, and furthermore have the Energy Mechanical Shield to better resist the enemy's attacks.

As for whether there are devices to manufacture Energy Laser Guns and such equipment, once one enters this Pyramid, the answers should be obtainable.

Afterward, Su Hao used the Item Appraisal Technique on the black-colored and bronze-colored metals on the ground, respectively.

He learned that these two black and bronze-colored metals are the black iron alloy used to refine black iron robots, and the bronze alloy used to refine bronze robots.

Moreover, these two metals themselves have decent hardness; if placed in the hands of a foundry master, they can be used to forge decent weapons and armor.

Regardless of whether refining devices can be found inside the Pyramid, these are good things, and Su Hao naturally would not let them go.

He looked at the metal covering the ground, then glanced at the not-so-distant Pyramid.

Even before entering the Pyramid, he has already harvested this much material; if he were to go inside the Pyramid, his Storage Bags might not be enough.

After a moment's thought, Su Hao took out the Secret Veil, ordered the Giant Panda and the skeleton warriors to stand guard, and then dove right in.

From the shelter to this Pyramid, Su Hao spent over ten hours; now it's roughly the second day, i. e., around 4–5 a. m. on the 18th day.

That is to say, today's synthesis count has been refreshed, and a new synthesis can be performed.

Taking advantage of the moment, he synthesized the Storage Bags on his person; if he could restore the storage function of Su Lu's huge Storage Bag, then Su Hao would not have to worry about storage space for a long time.

To ensure the success rate of the synthesis, Su Hao first took out three 20m×20m×20m Storage Bags for synthesis.

He obtained a single 100m×100m×100m Storage Bag.

Next, Su Hao combined this newly synthesized Storage Bag with Su Lu's Storage Bag.

Su Lu's Storage Bag is a Third Rank Supernatural item, and the time required for synthesis is correspondingly longer.

After a full hour or so, the golden light sphere wrapped around the two storage bags finally burst into a dazzling flash, completing this synthesis.

Within that dazzling golden light, a plain gray storage bag fell into Su Hao's hands.

【Third Tier Lightweight Storage Bag】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect 1—Storage: contains a storage space of 1 km × 1 km × 1 km.

Effect 2—Lightweight: items placed inside this storage bag will have their weight greatly reduced.

……

"The storage function has been restored, and it even gained an extra weight‑reduction effect—this is great!"

Su Hao nodded in satisfaction and stepped out from the hidden veil.

As for the remaining three synthesis chances, Su Hao did not rush to use them.

The time is still early; with Su Hao's current combat power, even if he meets a Third‑Tier Supernatural Being, he has a fighting chance and a good probability of victory, so there's no urgent need to boost his strength.

He also has nothing urgent to synthesize, and besides, he doesn't know what rewards await inside this pyramid.

So, Su Hao plans to first finish exploring the pyramid before deciding anything else.

"Collect!"

Su Hao looked at the metal and mechanical spheres scattered around, and with a thought he stored them all in his storage bag.

Those black iron and copper alloys are much heavier than ordinary metal; if stored in a regular bag, hauling this much material would add at least ten to twenty catties.

But with the lightweight storage bag, the weight increase is less than one catty—this weight‑reduction effect is quite excellent.

Afterward, Su Hao stowed the hidden veil, mounted the giant panda, and led the tyrannical devil ox and skeleton warriors toward the pyramid's gate.

This pyramid, serving as an important research institute, naturally has a gate that is not easy to enter.

If anyone else came here and saw the complicated devices on the gate, they'd surely be clueless about where to start, but Su Hao had no such worry—he looked at the towering, all‑silver‑white high‑tech gate about three meters high, and his mind stirred slightly.

"Identify!"

The next moment.

Before Su Hao's eyes, a piece of information about the gate popped up.

【Gate of the T235 Experimental Base】

Supernatural Grade: Third Tier

Effect: made of silver alloy, the gate can block most attacks from Third‑Tier Supernatural Beings.

Activation method: insert an identity verification card and solve three related problems in the mechanical field.

……

"You have to solve a puzzle just to open a door? This has to be Lars's laboratory!"

Looking at the identification result showing the activation method, and recalling his memory of Lars, Su Hao could basically confirm that this T235 Experimental Base belongs to Lars.

As for the method to open this gate, Su Hao found it completely impractical for him.

Leaving aside the identity verification card, just the three mechanical‑field problems give Su Hao no chance of solving them.

Asking him to solve a quadratic equation would be no problem, but expecting him to resolve specialized mechanical‑related issues is hardly fair.

"What a pity……"

Su Hao gently stroked the gate's surface and sighed regretfully.

Since regular means won't work, he'll have to resort to unconventional methods to get inside.

Although the identification noted that ordinary Third‑Tier Supernatural Beings could destroy this gate,

but Su Hao still has confidence in his destructive power—fifty‑ton Gravity Rock Axe combined with his terrifying strength makes that force no joke.

It's a shame such a fine gate can't be taken whole; Su Hao feels sorry about that.

Click—! Click—! As Su Hao touched the gate, suddenly the sound of gears turning came from inside.

The next moment.

This Third‑Tier Supernatural gate slowly opened to the left, revealing a passage about three meters high and wide.

"Huh? Does this gate also have telepathy?"

Su Hao blinked—he hadn't even moved, yet the gate opened on its own; that doesn't feel right.

"Let's go in and see what's up!"

After glancing at the people beside him, Su Hao then rode on the giant panda's back, leading his followers into the pyramid's interior.

Wanting to kill them all is no easy task.

After entering through the gate, Su Hao arrived at a passage over two hundred meters long.

Although the passage isn't very long, its traps are numerous—just a few steps in and one encounters a trap; within that short two‑hundred‑meter stretch, Su Hao faced as many as five traps.

Especially the final laser trap: the energy lasers emitted from the walls are as penetrating as the blue lasers from the Energy Laser Gun.

If Su Hao hadn't distributed the Energy Mechanical Shields to the skeleton warriors before entering, this single mechanism would have wiped out half the skeletons and the demonic flame pumpkin heads.

After passing through the laser trap, Su Hao glanced back at the passage.

"Let's see if we can tear this passage apart on the way back."

Su Hao gave a silent nod, turned around, and took in his surroundings.

This is a super‑vast hall, over thirty meters high and more than three hundred meters long and wide.

On the wall opposite the passage sits a device that looks like an elevator.

On the left and right walls stand two giant robot statues, each about ten meters tall.

Besides that, the hall has no other decorations.

However, lacking decorations does not mean there are no other items.

In the hall's corners stand over five hundred giant robots about three meters tall, each wielding a blade roughly 1.5 meters long and made entirely of bronze alloy.

After Su Hao entered this hall, the robots' movements paused in unison, and the white light in their eyes instantly turned red as they all turned to look at Su Hao.

"No access token detected; classified as intruder; authorized to attack!"

The next moment.

These new bronze robots, gripping their long swords with both hands, sprinted from various positions within the hall toward where Su Hao was.

"They look different from the bronze robots outside, but their strength should also be Supernatural Second Stage."

Sensing the aura emanating from these robots, Su Hao roughly gauged their strength.

Judging by the performance of the skeleton warriors and tyrannical devil oxen outside the pyramid, dealing with these new bronze robots wielding long swords poses no problem.

But when Su Hao saw the panda take two slices of purple gold bamboo from its storage bag and eat them leisurely, he changed his mind.

One of the main purposes of this outing was to properly train the panda so that it could become a monster king as soon as possible.

If we let it live so leisurely, what's the point of bringing it out?

After realizing this, Su Hao patted the panda's head, lay down on its back, and said expressionlessly:

"Gu lu gu lu qi, go take care of these bronze robots!"

"Roar? (Me? With so many robots, you want a single bear to handle them?)"

The panda blinked slightly, pointed at its own nose, then glanced at the skeleton warrior army beside it.

"Aren't there plenty of lackeys? Why do I have to go up? I just want to lie quietly in the shelter, happily munching on purple gold bamboo and enjoying the flower spirits' massages..."

"Cut the nonsense, get up if I say so—look how lazy you've been these days, you even need Hua Yao and the others to slice your purple gold bamboo for you; hurry up and get moving!"

Su Hao slapped the panda on the back of its head, shoving it forward, completely ignoring its resentful little eyes.

"They're just Supernatural Second Stage bronze robots—you're not incapable of beating them; with that little scheming of yours, I still couldn't tell? 'Roar (... Sure enough, last time's incident was still noticed by the boss, and now they're even giving me tiny shoes...)'"

The panda muttered softly, fixing its gaze on the bronze robots sprinting toward it from ahead.

"Roar! (Petrify!)"

Although the panda now has four hearts and ultra-regeneration, barely qualifying as immortal.

But if its body is injured, it still feels pain.

To make this battle go more smoothly, he immediately used Stone Skin, fully petrifying his epidermis; outwardly, he looked like a stone-carved panda statue.

The only difference from ordinary stone carvings is that, after using Stone Skin, the panda's speed is hardly affected.

He merely shifted his stance and was already in front of a bronze robot.

With a "bang," that bronze robot didn't even react before its entire head was smashed by the panda's slap.

Its upper torso caved in, and it flew backward tens of meters, crashing heavily to the ground, motionless thereafter.

With the Ice Wolf Speed passive skill, plus the panda's formidable physique, even the extreme cold ice wolf Su Hao once encountered couldn't match the panda's speed today, let alone its strength.

In recent combat drills, the panda's powerful slap could even split Su Hao's sturdy bones in two.

Even though the bronze robots' alloy is fairly hard, it cannot compare to Su Hao's bones, so naturally they couldn't block the panda's slap.

However, there are over five hundred Supernatural Second Stage bronze robots in this hall, and they certainly won't stand still and let the panda attack them.

Right after the panda smashed a bronze robot with a slap, the surrounding robots' red eyes flickered; based on the panda's recent performance and Su Hao's group's positions, they quickly devised corresponding tactics.

The more distant robots, following different trajectories, flanked from all directions, gradually forming an encirclement that trapped the panda inside while cutting it off from Su Hao's side.

At the same time, about fifty bronze robots armed with long swords were positioned between Su Hao and the encirclement to block his support, intending to first take down the isolated panda.

As for that, Su Hao only wanted to say, the idea sounds good but it's useless!

Daily ten-thousand-word update completed.

(End of chapter)