Chapter 206 - 202: The Amazing Mechanical Beast

Chapter 206: Chapter 202: The Amazing Mechanical Beast

It was just a miniature tiger Mechanical Beast, with no combat capabilities—a toy-type Mechanical Beast.

Compared to large-scale Mechanical Beasts, this miniature version was much simpler, with fewer parts.

However, even assembling this miniature Mechanical Beast was no easy task.

Some parts were particularly tricky to assemble, and the slightest mistake would cause the entire Mechanical Beast to become misaligned.

Lin Feng spent an hour assembling the palm-sized miniature tiger. Because it wasn’t painted, it didn’t look very appealing.

’Something feels missing.’

Lin Feng carefully examined the wooden miniature tiger on the table and flicked its motion control switch.

The miniature tiger’s left front paw slowly lifted, and it began to run forward.

It ran with a bouncing, hopping gait that looked rather adorable.

He stared at the little wooden tiger, completely unable to figure out where it was getting its energy from.

’Whatever. If I can’t figure it out, I won’t bother. The things I’ve been experiencing can’t be explained by science anyway.’

No longer fixated on the energy source, Lin Feng realized this miniature tiger Mechanical Beast would indeed make a good toy.

If it was painted and covered with a layer of fur, it could probably pass as a plush toy.

Unfortunately, this thing only worked within the bounds of Lin Xian Village. Outside the village, it was just a little wooden tiger.

’Perhaps I could create some of those legendary wooden oxen and flowing horses.’

Of course, the Mechanical Beast catalog didn’t include wooden oxen and flowing horses, but it did have similar transport-type Mechanical Beasts.

As for the super-large Mechanical Beasts, they looked incredibly cool, like giant robots.

Right now, Lin Xian Village had too few Carpenters. A single large Mechanical Beast required over a million parts, making it completely impossible to manufacture.

Otherwise, he would have definitely had the Woodworking Workshop start producing large-scale Mechanical Beasts.

Placing the miniature tiger in a display cabinet, Lin Feng headed outside.

...

Inside the Barracks, twenty-five trainees were standing in front of the training ring, watching the person on it perform.

"Coach Zhou, can you do it or not?"

"I don’t think so. Those moves are just too difficult."

"Anything Boss Lin provides is bound to be good, it’s just too hard to learn."

The people at the Blacksmith’s Shop were unwilling to learn that Forging Technique, but the trainees here at the Barracks were willing to give it a try.

At that moment, Zhou Xing stood in the ring, a large iron hammer in his hands, trying to perform the moves.

When he was about two-thirds of the way through, he just couldn’t continue.

"It’s no use. These moves are impossible for a human to perform."

He felt that if he continued, he might just twist his own arm off.

"Someone else, swap me out."

Yang Chengshu said, "Stop shouting. Coach Xue and I just analyzed it. This set of moves is fundamentally impossible to complete."

"Coach Yang, no way! This is something from Boss Lin!"

Yang Chengshu was also puzzled. According to summaries from netizens and Lin Xian Village employees, anything the boss provided was guaranteed to be good and even have special effects.

But this Forging Technique, which was said to be able to strengthen the body, was simply impossible to perform.

In fact, forcing it could even cause injury.

"Maybe this training method requires something else to go with it."

"I think it’s because we’re too old. Our bodies are too set in their ways to do it."

"Get outta here. Even with Coach Zhou Xing’s flexibility, he couldn’t do it. Do we need to find a gymnast?"

After a heated discussion, they concluded that the set of moves was truly impossible to perform.

When Lin Feng had taken out this set of moves, he too had assumed that others could gain its body-strengthening effects through training.

Because there were no instructions, he had overlooked the phrase "blacksmiths use this method for hammering."

If everyone could really use it, then the soldier training method from the Barracks reward and that Body Strengthening Technique would be completely meaningless.

The quest reward items in Lin Xian Village were literal. Their effects didn’t extend beyond their literal descriptions.

After determining that this method couldn’t be learned, the trainees in the Barracks didn’t force the issue.

The effects of their training over the past few days were already showing on their bodies; everyone was starting to develop muscles.

Because these changes were all broadcast on a livestream, it had also attracted the attention of many netizens.

Some wealthy people who wanted to get in shape had already started asking when the next training session at the Barracks would be.

The only bad news was that this kind of training wasn’t very friendly to women who wanted to lose weight.

It did help one slim down, but the training also resulted in building powerful muscles.

After training for a while, a soft girl would turn into a rock-hard tomboy.

Of course, those who trained like the Lin Xian Village employees didn’t have this problem, as their training load wasn’t as heavy.

Wan Jianghong, who had been training at the Lin Xian Village Barracks for the past few days, noticed that something seemed off about their training regimen.

In the patrol team, a few people were gathered together, discussing this matter.

"Captain, why do I feel like my training volume has been cut in half, but not only have I not regressed, I’ve actually improved?"

"You feel it too? I thought it was just my imagination. Captain, what’s going on?"

Someone explained, "I heard from the people training in the Barracks and the original security team members from Lin Xian Village that training inside the Barracks is more effective."

Wan Jianghong waved his hand dismissively. "I’m aware of this. Lin Xian Village was never normal to begin with, so a few strange things are to be expected."

His experiences during this time had made him understand that this Lin Xian Village held many secrets.

Their team had clearly been brought here as security guards to provide cover for those five strangers.

Wan Jianghong didn’t want to get involved in such matters. Right now, he just wanted to be a proper security guard and protect the safety of Lin Xian Village.

Only if his superiors truly summoned him for a task would he report what he had discovered in full detail.

For now, he just wanted to be a security guard, work hard, earn money, and hopefully bring his wife and child over.

Meanwhile, progress at the psychiatric treatment Research Institute was much more encouraging. The first patient, Xu Song, was close to making a full recovery.

Moreover, the patients who arrived later also confirmed that Lin Xian Village could treat mental illnesses.

Many psychiatric patients or their families who heard the news began to ask how they could get a treatment spot in Lin Xian Village.

Unfortunately, Lin Xian Village hadn’t opened up any official channels for this treatment. The only information they could find was that the provincial hospital was conducting cooperative research with Lin Xian Village.

To get a treatment spot, aside from going through Lin Xian Village itself, the only way was through the provincial hospital’s selection process for trial participants.

Getting in through Lin Xian Village was basically out of the question. Without special connections, there was no way in.

Besides, after just releasing a thousand slots, Lin Xian Village wouldn’t be accepting new patients until the current ones were treated.

The provincial hospital route was also difficult. The selection process was very strict, and the number of spots was extremely limited.

There was one other method: becoming an employee of Lin Xian Village. They had priority in arranging for their family members to receive treatment in the village.

Although this was the simplest method, it was also the hardest. Opportunities to work in Lin Xian Village were now extremely difficult to come by.

Lin Xian Village wouldn’t hire outsiders for simple positions, and the competition for technical jobs was incredibly fierce.

After coming out of his room, Lin Feng went directly to the Medicine House.

The Medicine House’s quest was almost complete. The reward, a hemostatic powder formula, would become another classic medicinal product of Lin Xian Village.

As the name suggested, this product, like the Clearing Heat and Stopping Cough Pills, could be mass-produced and sold.

He had come over mainly to check on the Medicine House building and see in which direction it could be expanded to increase its size.

Otherwise, with the Medicine House’s current size, they wouldn’t be able to produce any new medicines that came along.

Just now in his room, he suddenly realized that the upgrade function could actually be used to expand the floor space of existing buildings.

Originally, upgrading worked by adding materials to improve a building.

Given the current situation, he didn’t dare do it that way, so he had to find another method.

If he couldn’t modify the original building, then he would just add a new structure to it.

During an upgrade, as long as he could incorporate the new structure, he would achieve his goal of upgrading and expanding.

Buildings with insufficient space, like the Land God Temple and the Medicine House, could be expanded this way.

’If I had thought of this method earlier, I shouldn’t have upgraded these buildings by two levels at once.’

Lin Feng was discovering that there were quite a few hidden rules. If used correctly, some of them offered immense benefits.

"Boss Lin!"

Hearing the voice, Lin Feng turned to see it was Ni Zhonghai.

Ever since his youngest daughter had come and caused a scene, the man seemed afraid that Lin Xian Village would kick him out over it.

He had pulled some strings to send his youngest daughter away, directly disowned her, and even issued a public statement.

His eldest son had been vexed by his younger sister’s unreasonable behavior at the company and at home as she fought with him over the family inheritance.

But before he could even figure out a solution, his sister went and shot herself in the foot, leaving him both shocked and delighted.

It was a case of ’sitting at home when good fortune falls from the sky.’ It wasn’t the schemers you had to fear, but the fools who had a sudden spark of inspiration.

Although he hadn’t come to Lin Xian Village, he had allocated another sum of money to the hospital being built outside the village.

"Boss Ni, how is your treatment going?"

"Good! Very good! Excellent! The doctor said my cancer cells are shrinking, and the treatment is very effective.

Especially the cancerous lesions in my stomach—they’re improving. There’s a high chance of a full recovery. Thank you, Boss Lin."

Ni Zhonghai was genuinely happy. The doctor had told him that even if they couldn’t completely eradicate the cancer cells, his life would no longer be under threat.

During this time, many people had approached him, wanting to know about his treatment.

In the face of their inquiries, he hadn’t revealed a single detail.

He knew very well that as the only test patient at the moment, all the treatment resources would be focused on him.

If there were more test patients, the doctors’ attention on him would surely decrease.

"Congratulations then, Boss Ni."

"Mr. Lin, I heard you’re planning to build a private zoo. As it happens, I own a private zoo and can donate some of the animals to yours."

"Donate animals? I don’t need any at the moment." Lin Feng refused decisively.

This was a piece of information Ni Zhonghai had picked up by overhearing a conversation between doctors.

He had analyzed all the available information on Lin Xian Village and found that there was no area where he could be of help.

Even if he could help, he wouldn’t get the chance to intervene. There was a whole crowd of people outside waiting for an opportunity.

Any opportunity to get on good terms with Lin Xian Village would be snatched up by the people already inside before the news could even get out.

For example, the information he obtained showed that Lin Xian Village was looking to hire a group of chefs.

Before he could even make a move, the chefs at the Lin Xian Village Restaurant had already solved the problem for Lin Feng.

As for the construction in Lin Xian Village, people sent directly from the higher-ups were handling it, leaving no opportunities for them at all.

Since Lin Xian Village wasn’t developing externally and Lin Feng stayed cooped up inside, there was no way to curry favor with him.

The main problem was not knowing what he liked or what he needed.

After analyzing all the data, he found only two areas where he might have a chance to get involved.

One was the private zoo, which outsiders didn’t know about yet, and the other was Lin Xian Village’s agriculture.

This was the advantage of being treated in Lin Xian Village: you could learn information unknown to the outside world.

For example, regarding Lin Xian Village’s agriculture, he had received information that the village would be starting a round of planting after the New Year.

This round of planting would require many special plants and rare medicinal herbs, and he was already having his company use various channels to acquire these resources.

While Lin Feng was inspecting how to expand the Medicine House, a temple being built not far from Lin Xian Village also began its promotional campaign.