Chapter 166: Why Does My Class Panel Have an Anime Art Style?

"H-hello?"

No response.

Seeing the figure beside the coffee table not moving at all, Lu Ke gradually grew bolder.

By now he had realized this was probably an alchemical creature made by Li Ang.

Lu Ke circled the Corpse Watcher a few times, clicking his tongue in wonder.

The Viceroy's residence naturally had creatures with similar functions, but those had all been purchased by his father from elsewhere.

For example, the golems used to guard the house, and the robot maids who looked after daily life.

Something like the creature before him, though, Lu Ke was seeing for the first time.

"But why does it look not very smart..."

Watching the Corpse Watcher not move at all, Lu Ke could not help stroking his own chin, then issued a command.

"Go turn on the TV for me."

Seeing the Corpse Watcher carry out his order somewhat stiffly, this young master's eyes could not help but light up.

Basement.

Just as Lu Ke was having the time of his life playing with the Corpse Watcher, Li Ang was carefully studying the blueprints he had newly obtained.

At this moment, the cold workbench was covered in white paper inscribed with precise patterns.

【K-78 Federal Military Standard Pistol】, 【Patterson Improved Multi-Barrel Machine Gun】.

"Worthy of a planetary Viceroy — all good blueprints."

Li Ang certainly did not think the blueprints in the ring, or that heart, could have been obtained by Lu Ke alone.

To say there was no hint from that planetary Viceroy behind it — he would not believe it.

Still, he had to thank Lu Ke; without this young master, Li Ang would have had no way to get in touch with the Viceroy's residence.

As for what that Viceroy wanted...

Casually investing in a promising young man — wasn't that a perfectly normal thing?

It wasn't as if he'd paid any great price for it.

After studying the blueprints in detail, Li Ang took out a vast quantity of metal from the ring Lu Ke had handed him.

Only this batch of metal was clearly not the rare stuff from last time, though of course it wasn't run-of-the-mill either.

【Unnamed Metal: possesses excellent ductility, heat resistance, and corrosion resistance.】

As Heaven and Earth as Furnace unfolded, the unknown metal was swiftly stripped of impurities, then shaped into parts one after another.

Before he knew how long had passed, the mountain of metal that had originally been piled before Li Ang had mostly vanished, replaced by heaps of parts.

'Done.'

Looking at the considerable amount of metal still left before him, he could not help sighing.

'【Long Zhi's Greed】 really delivers.'

Under normal circumstances he simply would not have had this much metal left over.

'Well, might as well refine it all into alchemy bullets for Lu Ke.'

Thinking so, Li Ang continued to activate Heaven and Earth as Furnace, refining bullets of the corresponding caliber based on the firearms.

The metal kept dwindling, until in the end it all became bullets lying on the ground.

After finishing Lu Ke's order, Li Ang returned to the first floor, ready to let the other man assemble them.

Only just as he stepped into the living room, he saw Lu Ke and a young man staring wide-eyed at each other.

It was Mo Di.

At this moment, Lu Ke noticed Li Ang's arrival and hurriedly said, "This guy just barged into your house out of nowhere — luckily I subdued him."

Hearing this, Li Ang glanced at Mo Di, who was drinking water with an expressionless face, and fell silent.

Subdued, huh.

Mo Di was a powerhouse of the Second Energy Level — Lu Ke seemed not to have noticed that.

After a while, Li Ang finally said, "He's from the Federal Inspection Bureau."

"?" Lu Ke froze, then widened his eyes in disbelief and looked at the young man on the sofa: "Huh?"

As the son of a planetary Viceroy, he naturally knew what the Federal Inspection Bureau was — the place was crawling with bloodsuckers — ahem, elites.

Only, why would someone from the Federal Inspection Bureau show up in a place like this, and his father didn't even know about it?

The inspection that comes once every five years clearly wasn't due yet.

While Lu Ke was racking his brains, Li Ang asked Mo Di, "What is it?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the perfectly intact Corpse Watcher in the living room, and could not help feeling a little regret.

Unaware of Li Ang's thoughts, Mo Di set down the water glass in his hand and said, "We can't find Brando."

These past few days, the Inspection Bureau personnel led by Mo Di had secretly searched for Brando's trail, yet had repeatedly failed to locate the man's true body.

"... And then?"

Li Ang could not figure out why the other man had come to find him.

He was no longer an operative of the Security Bureau now — there was no need for him to follow the other's orders.

"I need—"

Mo Di had only just begun to say something when a tremendous boom suddenly rang out from the heavens above.

The young man, whose words had been cut off, could not help but knit his brow slightly.

Li Ang, meanwhile, strode quickly to the window and looked outside.

After a while, he turned to look at Mo Di: "I think you won't need to look anymore."

"?"

Mo Di was first stunned, then walked over to the window as well, and immediately an unexpected scene appeared before his eyes.

At this very moment, the energy shield that should have been protecting Pioneer City was dissolving into crystalline light that scattered into the air.

The swarm of bugs surged into Pioneer City like a tide, and wherever the eye could reach, massive worms occasionally drilled up through the ground.

Such a scene needed no further explanation.

Pioneer City No. 66 had officially fallen.

Deleted a lot and rewrote, so it's a bit late.

There's still one extra chapter to be posted later.