Chapter 1363 - 1037: Grand Construction Creates Miracles

Chapter 1363: Chapter 1037: Grand Construction Creates Miracles

"I always feel like someone’s thinking about me."

Back in Dragon Scale Village, Huai Shi suddenly sneezed, wiped his nose, and said with certainty, "It must be some lady thinking about me."

"Oh, come off it."

Raymond rolled his eyes, "Maybe it’s a man thinking about you?"

"You should reflect on that." Huai Shi thought for a moment and curiously asked, "Why aren’t even men thinking about you?"

"..."

Raymond’s expression twitched as he started to deeply regret: why would he mess with this little Wang Ba in such a pointless topic?

But the sadder part was realizing this wasn’t the first time he was reflecting on it.

Why hadn’t he learned his lesson!

Next time, best not to get involved in this kind of talk.

"I say, can you hurry up?"

He stared straight at the shadowless lamp overhead, lying sprawled on the operating table.

His chest wide open.

Indeed, in a physical sense, completely open.

After his own skin opened up, there were no ordinary human bones or organs underneath. After undergoing Fourth Stage metamorphosis, he had completely become part of the Sun Boat, ready to switch between flesh and steel at any time.

Now lying on the operating table, like the Terminator waiting for transformation on a machine bed.

With experience gained from last time, Huai Shi was now quite adept, skillfully removing screws and steel plates with an electric screwdriver, then fitting other newly made equipment and instruments inside.

After tightening the screws, Huai Shi patted Raymond’s arm.

No instructions needed; he simply turned over easily, and a connector popped out from the steel spine on his back.

What follows was the real focus.

Huai Shi opened the incubator beside him and carefully lifted a heart-sized iron box, feeling its icy touch, from which a hazy frost appeared after just a few seconds.

If he hadn’t worn gloves, his fingers would have nearly frozen on it.

"Hang in there," Huai Shi said, "The temperature will be a bit low."

"Hurry, hurry."

Raymond gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and his face twisted in agony, letting out an ear-piercing scream.

Because the liquid within the iron box was now completely injected into his spinal central, rapidly spreading throughout his body.

An icy cold swiftly enveloped him from inside out.

The steel heart was pounding madly, producing furnace-like heat, but that heat was barely enough to protect his soul from being torn apart by the cold borne from calamity during metamorphosis, unable to hinder its spreading.

At the moment of completing the injection, Huai Shi quickly retreated, raising an arm to shield his face.

Frosty wind swept across.

Raymond had already frozen into an ice sculpture.

Traces of residual liquid dripped from the iron box, enveloping the whole rudimentary operating room in a mournful white.

If it weren’t for Huai Shi’s Source Substance transformation resisting the calamity’s erosion, he would’ve probably been included too.

Despite the Ruins’ blockade, the temperature across Dragon Scales Village instantly dropped, making countless Dog-headed Men shiver.

——Styx Beta Serum.

The liquid substance extracted by Gregory after Huai Shi had boiled the entire Hundred Eyes Village into clear soup, combined with Raymond’s plasma and nurtured to yield this result.

It’s also one of the necessary components for the Eternal Path’s High Stage Sublimators.

In primitive witchcraft, its predecessor was called the Waters of the Styx, possessing the essence of the Abyss along with terrifyingly low physical temperatures capable of freezing and destroying everything it touches.

But for the Sun Boat or Anubis, even for Osiris and Horus, it’s an essential component of the Sublimator’s blood structure.

Otherwise, human nerves couldn’t simultaneously connect tens of thousands of different instruments, conveying heaps of information while resisting the dreadful heat generated by the body’s operation.

It’s a protective layer between the soul and flesh, ensuring the Sublimator’s soul is not burnt by overly massive miracles.

Just like the water-cooling liquid inside a computer case.

Its existence makes safe operations and overclocking possible, and serves as the foundation for a series of tricky maneuvers; otherwise, it would be joking with both Sublimator’s and Sun Boat’s lifespans.

Even the Eternal Path can’t withstand its terrifying cold and erosion of the soul and flesh for low-stage Sublimators. Unless they have gone through Fourth Stage Source Substance transformation, completely merging their soul with miracles, rash installation would be suicidal.

Now, Raymond has been utterly engulfed by the plasma’s icy chill.

But beneath the thick layer of ice, those eyes were still flickering, glowing.

As time passed, the dissipating chill began to slowly decrease, as if being locked within that shell, gradually restoring the operating room’s temperature to an acceptable range for humans.

Soon, beneath the ice, Raymond’s fingers struggled to move, eyes shifting to gaze at Huai Shi.

Seeking help.

Huai Shi picked up A-Fang... Upon seeing the terrified look beneath the ice, he hesitated for a moment and switched to the hammer from the surgery box.

The ice was shattered swiftly, and a shivering Raymond staggered out from it, almost unable to stand. He was still exuding a terrifyingly low temperature, devoid of any blood color.

"It froze, froze me to death!"

His lips quivered, face pallid, "Water, any hot water?"

"Here, big brother, drink molten iron; it’s stronger."

Huai Shi grabbed a sealed metal barrel and stuffed it into his arms.

Was prepared long ago.

Right now, Raymond’s body temperature is still below minus hundred degrees. Ordinary water hasn’t even been poured into his mouth and is likely to freeze completely, rendering it useless.

"No way, the engine’s power isn’t enough, almost didn’t withstand it."

Raymond kept sneezing, hugging a barrel of iron water for warmth, while Huai Shi kept changing it for him.

Relying on the heat from the Casting Furnace, the heart’s engine kept pressurizing, barely getting through the toughest stage.

Ultimately, it’s the basic conditions in Hell that are simple, otherwise, the whole set of instruments including the framework would be replaced.

However, the temporarily rushed production of Styx Plasma was barely hitting the qualifying line, and follow-up replacements would likely be necessary. Now with both barely adequate, things could barely keep going.

Compared to Raymond, who nearly froze to death over here, the Red Dragon in the workshop was full of firepower, with the Sun Boat roaring in the hot heat of the wheel chamber:

"Damn it, I’m on fire!!!"

"Is that it? Is that it? You’ve got to be kidding, right?"

Beelzebub, while operating countless mechanical arms for maintenance, also outputting sarcastically over the broadcaster: "You’ve got to be kidding, right? There’s no way a countryside machine just added a bunch of trash engines and got this excited, right?"

"At least I have an engine, better than some who don’t even have one, the machine is incomplete!" Red Dragon sneered. "What’s wrong? Little brother, why aren’t you speaking now? Got triggered?"

"Just wait, you damn creature, I’m installing Osiris’s self-destruct matrix on you right now!"

"Come on, whoever chickens out is a dog!"

"Dogs bark again!"

"Dogs don’t chicken out!"

"Dogs bark again!"

...

Amid deafening roars, Gregory, controlling the Mystic Ritual beside, couldn’t help but scratch his head and looked at Anton: "These two have been cursing each other from morning till now, is there something wrong with their heads?"

"One is AI, and the other is a dragon, they’re getting along fine, as long as things aren’t delayed."

Anton calmly watched the readings on the large screen: "Line two’s operation is a bit unstable?"

"That bunch of Dog-headed Men are too slow, it’s still Huai Shi’s Ravens that work better. Send them for two more shifts, no sleep, don’t sleep."

Gregory watched the Ravens working diligently at all parts of the Mystic Ritual and satisfactorily crossed his legs.

At this moment, almost all of Dragon Scales Village had turned into an extra-large production workshop.

Under the Mystic Ritual that Fish Ball brought, this place can be considered equivalent to within Helios, isolating Hell’s erosion.

The laws from Current Circumstances operate here, covering all production steps.

Starting from moving out a lathe from the truck’s reserve, Anton finished the first workshop in three hours.

Except for the casting and rough processing parts being separately assigned to Huai Shi, all the other forging, stamping, welding, heat treatment, even assembly and testing steps were taken over by him alone.

Regrettably, the electrical engineering-related steps have overly demanding requirements from outside, making it impossible for free production. Some parts and important equipment can only use the reserves from the truck or simply dismantle the original instruments for re-modification.

The gap is still too big.

In comparison, the demand for labor isn’t too exaggerated—most of the miscellaneous things the Dog-headed Men can handle, while the parts on the production line that need coordination and precision operation are handled by the Crow Flock.

Under incentive from rewards, the Ravens’ work enthusiasm is high, producing excellent results.

Incidentally, Huai Shi’s rewards are mysterious small discs hidden under Raymond’s cabinet...

The project’s progress is even smoother than anticipated.

To truly verify whether they have the capability to alter the Sun Boat, they did not aim too high initially, just chose the outer armor project.

With Huai Shi providing materials and forging, further processed and modified by Anton, finally Gregory finished Mystic Ritual etching and refining.

Supervising the whole process was Beelzebub.

It only took one day for all the armors to be produced and assembled. All parameters were up to standard, except for insufficient durability due to the rough production process, with no shortcomings. But nobody expected them to last long, at most for a month, then go back to Current Circumstances for thorough remodeling.

Besides, Professor Anton and Gregory cooperated on a trial, using the precious materials provided by Five Eyes and the remaining iron nails to make two sets of engine units.

One set, as expected, was scrapped, while the other set narrowly succeeded after gaining experience from the former.

Now with assembly done, it’s equivalent to temporarily adding a small heart to the Sun Boat, directly boosting the Sun Boat’s power by thirty percent.

Making Beelzebub a bit stirred for the past days, constantly mumbling something about ’changing fate with a bet ship, creating a miracle with grand construction’, repeatedly urging Huai Shi to go have some massacres in Hell, to accumulate Osiris soon, and stop taking the Red Dragon’s bird crap...

Like this, after a mere thirty-six hours, with the Casting workshop door opening, the terrifying and majestic outline appeared along with Red Dragon’s explosive debut BGM.

The former golden Sun Boat had now turned entirely black, expanded more than a whole size larger.

Layers of heavy armor covering the hull, becoming thoroughly part of the ship along with the Conductive Matrix, and looking through Sun Boat’s miracle catalysis, was like dragon scales.

It’s like a former sailing warship immediately stepping into the era of Iron Armor ships, with thick smoke billowing from the chimney, yet the prow still retaining the previous dragon-head bow image, with the Bahamut Holy Badge’s giant sail emblazoned in the center of the ship, moving freely without wind.

Paddles on both sides stirring the virtual Waters of the Styx, also emanating blade-like light.

"It’s working well, it’s working well!"

Even though Raymond initially didn’t shout so aggressively, now holding the helm excitedly, unwilling to let go.

Just gotta admit, no wonder it’s the Road of Eternity for its price matching its worth, after gritting teeth and investing in a Hundred Eyes Village straight away, it immediately became different.

"Next up, it’s about time to visit the remaining friends."

Huai Shi pinched his chin, smiled with anticipation.

One and a half days were also enough for them to receive the news of Hundred Eyes Village’s destruction and make a response, right?