Chapter 181: Chuangxin Garden (1/2)

The stone puppet lumbered towards her, the arm that she broke limped to the side. Although the stone was cracked, it was held together by the bronze and silver veins.

As it charged at her, she moved forward to attack but suddenly missed!

”What?!”

To her surprise, the puppet turned after it left its room and walked down the stairs, ignoring her. As she watched it leave, she found that every room on the sixth floor had the same puppets descending to the lower floors. Each one went to their own rooms, grabbing the tools inside.

In a matter of minutes, they gathered in the halls and created a square formation. Each one equipped with watering cans and little shovels, ready for the day's work

Ming Yue watched from the second floor with amazement.

With all of them together, she counted a 12 by 12 square for a total of 144 of these puppets. She noticed some words painted on the backs of all of them.

”Chuangxin Garden? The Garden of Innovation?”

Reading it to herself, She began to speculate many things about this place. Although this place and the others were known as ”Pavilions”, it seemed that they seemed more like research stations. With strange apparatuses made from glass and steel, furthermore the books she had taken from the cottage were filled with all sorts of notes pertaining to botany. It was possible that the garden was lead by one person and this person lived here. With the number of puppets she saw, it really was believable. Just one person and their army of puppets, the thought of it was terrifying.

With the Ren Hua Battlefield being a former great empire, it would be scary to imagine their strength in the current times. If such a person could control hundreds of human puppets, who knew what kind of experts existed back then. Ming Yue couldn't help but respect this person as she watched the puppets prostrate in front of the hall. As for what, Ming Yue had noticed that the front of the hall had a banner that unfurled just now. It revealed the words ”Chuangxin” written in bold green letters.

A minute passed and then they proceeded to exit the mansion and work in the garden. Even though they were puppets, they worked with skill, harvesting and maintaining the garden. Some carried baskets on their backs.

Despite being out in the open, the puppets did not care for her. Even the one who she had broken did not care for her. In fact, its arm had been fixed though she did not know when or how it happened.

She noticed a small group of puppets that went off in different directions toward the fifth zone, carrying their shovels and watering cans.

”Strange, where are they going? They couldn't possibly be going off to hunt”, she thought.

Judging by the strength of the first puppet she examined, the combined power of all of them was equal to that of a powerful Rank 5 beast. This was only a group of ten and yet they walked into the fifth zone.

Was there some sort of secret to them?

Were they just going out to gather herbs?

Even if it was, they still risked battle with the other denizens of the Ninth Flower Garden.

Ming Yue took another look at the puppets working tirelessly before tailing one of the groups.

As she followed, the puppets continued to go deeper and deeper into the garden. Strangely enough, she saw nothing in their journey. There were no beasts, not even a sound from them. Hours passed and there was still no sign. There were even times where they stopped to gather and the things they took were of a quality similar to the Immortal Siren Flower. Despite all that they had in their baskets, it seemed that no creature dared to approach them. Strangely enough, she could hear the sound of a beating heart, the same one from the mansion.

Knowing that the puppets seemed to ignore her, she walked up to them and looked at them, trying to see what exactly was going on. Then she saw something that she had never seen before.

”The-their chest! It's open!”