Chapter 70 - His majesty the pope who spreads the holy light (13) (1/2)
Chapter 70
His majesty the pope who spreads the holy light (13)
Translated by: Niladri
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Recap: The dwarf craftsman Brian is gifted the Thunder’s Wrath artifact by Lu Heng and the former takes him to meet his goblin engineer friend, Kukuwei. Kukuwei is excited to see the artifact, but is even more excited to see the steel doll which Lu Heng (MC) had found in Ionas’s lair. And now…
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Kukuwei put the steel doll down on the desk, muttered something, and rushed into the workshop.
Lu Heng could hear the sound of rummaging through the boxes and cabinets in the workshop. Then Kukuwei ran out with a strange little device in his hand.
“Two friends from outside, do you have Demonic beast Crystal Nuclei here? It doesn’t need to be too high-level.” Kukuwei said, “My inventory is short of them because of the experiments.”
Lu Heng, naturally did not lack crystal nucleii. He took one from the storage ring and handed it to Kukuwei.
Kukuwei took over the nucleus and put in that strange little device. Then he opened the belly of the steel doll and put the device in.
“Oh, where’s the controller?” Kukuwei worriedly scratched his head. “If the controller is lost, it would be troublesome.”
The green-skinned goblin was so anxious that he ran frienziedly around the area while murmuring about getting the engineers from his race to study the controller and stuff like that.
Lu Heng stared at the empty black box on the table and felt that the volume of the open space seemed to be different from that of the outside. He took it and knocked at the bottom of the box. The sound was clear and crisp, and indicated that it was indeed hollowed. He put the box next to his ear and shook it gently, trying to discern if something was hidden inside.
“Kukuwei, the controller may be hidden in this interlayer, but there seems to be no gap to open it.” Lu Heng said.
Kukuwei took over the box and studied it over and over for a while, then exclaimed in frustration, “I can’t get it out. The seal at the bottom of the box is a switch, but the corresponding seal’s ring fell into the depths of the earth during the Armageddon.”
“Can’t this box be opened by force?” Lu Heng took the box again and looked at it. He found that he had not seen the ring in his memory. It seems that it was lost by the goblins during the Armaggedon, as Kukuwei said.
“This is the work of Master Locke. It’s made of solid-compact alloy. External forces can, in no way… destroy it?” Kukuwei’s words were stuck in his throat. He could hardly believe his eyes.
He almost screamed from what he was seeing. He saw the man named Ionas, who had never opened his mouth so far, take the box from the white-robed priest’s hand, twist it gently and pull it again. The super-compact alloy box, which was the pride of goblins, was opened like a can.
“Thank you very much.” Lu Heng took the open box, took out a device half the size of his palm and handed it to Kukuwei.
Kukuwei blankly accepted the controller and it was probably the stupidest this super IQ goblin engineer ever felt.
The eyes of the steel doll started to give off red light. Perhaps because it had remained dormant for so many years, there was a squeaking click at its joints. However, being under the control of Kukuwei, the steel doll nevertheless made a difficult bow, and then the red light in its eyes was extinguished.
“God of forging, what am I seeing!” Brian rubbed his eyes incredulously.
“This is nuclear technology of another era!” Kukuwei said.
“Nuclear technology? Is that like your nuclear car?”
“No, no, that’s a totally different thing. A nuclear car is just a moving, simple machine. This nuclear puppet is an epoch-making item!” Kukuwei got excited and his speech grew more rapid.
Kukuwei’s men kept fiddling with the puppet’s parts: “Energy devices are not durable, low-level Demonic beast Crystal Nuclei can only support…”
Well, the goblin engineer got into research frenzy again.
“Our energy devices need improvement. With this experimental puppet, many of the theoretical data left behind by Master Locke can be validated… Oh, damn it. There’s too much work. Time is precious, time is precious.” Kukuwei suddenly stopped. “Dear human friend, the goblins need your help.”
“Say it, please.” Lu Heng nodded.
“We need to promote nuclear technology! We should develop nuclear technology as soon as possible, especially combat-type nuclear puppets. As if his words were not convincing enough, Kukuwei paused. “It involves the life and death of all living beings on the mainland!”
Did this goblin race know something?