Chapter 245: Su Xingyan
“Miss Su?”
Lin Ye noticed that Su Lingxi was lost in thought and reminded her.
Su Lingxi came back to her senses from the task page. “It’s nothing. It’s about time. Let the construction team start!”
“By the way, I want to ask if there is anyone in Tang’an City who knows the art of mechanisms.”
“The art of mechanisms.”
Lin Ye murmured. Although he didn’t know why Su Lingxi was concerned about the art of mechanisms.
But he did know something.
“Tang’an City is the most prosperous city in the Mortal Realm. There are all kinds of magical people.”
“Although there are few people who know a little about the art of mechanisms, there are indeed some.”
The so-called art of mechanisms was something linked to the technology of this world.
Various tools made by cultivators using the energy in spiritual crystals could be called the art of mechanisms.
For example, the engine in the spiritual ark needed spiritual crystals as energy.
The better the spiritual ark, the higher the quality of the spiritual crystals required.
“I wonder what Miss Su wants to do by finding someone who knows the art of mechanisms?” Lin Ye asked.
Su Lingxi: “I just want to make something. Just tell me the location, and I’ll go there myself.”
“There is a shop specializing in the art of mechanisms in the southeast of the city. Miss Su might as well go and have a look.”
Lin Ye took out a map of Tang’an City and pointed to the location on it.
Su Lingxi looked at the map and memorized the location in her heart. After giving some instructions to Yun Qianrou and Lin Ye, she set off.
Following the guidance of the map, Su Lingxi soon arrived at the place involving the art of mechanisms in the southeast of the city.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw that the shop was full of all kinds of strange mechanism objects.
An old man with white hair and beard walked out of the inner room. He looked Su Lingxi up and down and asked, “Miss, do you have any needs regarding mechanisms?”
Su Lingxi nodded and said, “I want to make some special mechanisms. I wonder if Senior can undertake it?”
With that, Su Lingxi took out the blueprint she had prepared in advance and placed it on the table.
The old man stroked his beard and smiled. “As long as Miss can explain the requirements clearly, there is no mechanism in this world that I cannot make.”
As he spoke, the old man picked up the blueprint and examined it.
Su Lingxi roughly described the mechanism she wanted to make.
After listening, a trace of surprise flashed in the old man’s eyes. “Miss’s idea is novel, but the required materials are quite difficult to find. But since you are here, I will take this job.”
“I wonder how many such mechanisms Miss wants, and how long it will take for delivery.”
Su Lingxi hadn’t expected the old man to agree so readily. She was afraid that the old man wouldn’t understand her blueprint.
In fact, this old man was a master who had previously made spiritual ark engines.
Actually, what Su Lingxi wanted to make was very simple, that is, a mahjong sorting machine that could be installed on the table.
To put it bluntly, the custom-made tables and chairs upstairs were also to cooperate with this machine.
Thereby transforming the upstairs into an automatic mahjong table.
Using spiritual crystals as energy to drive the automatic absorption and sorting of mahjong tiles.
So Su Lingxi required a lot of these machines.
“I want one hundred, to be completed within twenty days.”
The old man hadn’t expected Su Lingxi to say this number.
Although he was an expert in the art of mechanisms, he also knew what Su Lingxi wanted to do with so many gadgets.
But he took the money and did the work without asking too many questions, just stating his requirements.
“Twenty days is a bit rushed. This old man needs to hire other helpers.”
“But this machine is small, it’s just a bit troublesome to find materials and the quantity.”
“So this old man asks for one hundred and twenty high-grade spiritual crystals. I don’t bargain.”
“Miss can come and pick them up in twenty days.”
The old man was very straightforward, and Su Lingxi agreed after thinking about it.
After she paid one hundred and twenty high-grade spiritual crystals, her inventory was left with thirty high-grade spiritual crystals.
This was also within Su Lingxi’s expectations.
She needed to use the remaining thirty high-grade spiritual crystals to buy a certain number of mahjong tiles.
By then, the money would be almost spent.
The transaction between the old man and Su Lingxi was quickly concluded. Su Lingxi couldn’t help but take a few more looks at this mechanism workshop for the first time.
Suddenly, her gaze fell on the humanoid puppet.
Her eyes narrowed, and she looked at this puppet very seriously.
Not because there was anything strange about this puppet, but because this puppet had a faint trace of demonic energy.
“This is…”
Seeing Su Lingxi looking at the puppet, the old man smiled. “Miss, could it be that you are interested in this puppet?”
“Puppet?”
It was the first time Su Lingxi had heard the word puppet in this world.
Puppet… was it what she thought it was?
Seeing that Su Lingxi didn’t recognize it, the old man smiled and explained, “To be honest, Miss, this puppet was obtained from the Demon Realm.”
“Demon Realm!”
“Sure enough…”
Su Lingxi pretended to be surprised, but in her memory, few people in the Demon Realm engaged in the art of mechanisms.
No…
It seemed that there was someone in the Demon Realm who particularly liked to research things.
The old man continued, “This puppet is powered by demonic crystals from the Demon Realm. Demonic crystals and spiritual crystals are actually essentially the same.”
“But the difference is that demonic crystals can store spiritual energy.”
“Like the puppet Miss sees in front of you, there is also a demonic crystal in its body, but the demonic crystal in its body has been exhausted.”
“Originally, it had the strength of the Golden Core realm.”
Su Lingxi: “You mean that this puppet is powered by demonic crystals and can also fight?”
The old man: “That’s right. Demonic crystals are extremely mysterious. This thing has been soaked in dark spiritual energy for a long time, and the substance in its body has changed.”
“So the puppet powered by it cannot be controlled by common sense.”
“But how can something from the Demon Realm… be here with you?”
Su Lingxi was a little surprised. It wasn’t good to keep this thing here.
The old man didn’t care. “I asked a friend to bring this puppet back from the Demon Realm. My friend is a member of the Demon Hunting Squad, and this is his trophy.”
“I’m just doing some research when I have nothing to do. Don’t worry, Miss. I’ve already greeted the relevant departments.”
Su Lingxi nodded. Looking at this puppet, she felt inexplicably familiar.
“May I ask… who in the Demon Realm can make such a thing?”
The old man thought for a moment.
“This is not a secret. Do you know the former Female Demon Lord?”
“She had three talented disciples under her command.”
“Among them, the second disciple, Su Xingyan, was a genius in the art of mechanisms.”
“Many powerful demonic weapons in the Demon Realm were developed by Su Xingyan. Part of the strength of the Demon Realm is inseparable from demonic weapons…”
Hearing this, Su Lingxi’s memory flashed with her back.
Su Xingyan stood in front of the window of the Demon Hall, the moonlight shining on her silver hair.
She tied up a high ponytail and turned back to smile at Su Lingxi in her memory.
Su Lingxi looked at her cold features full of longing.
“Master… I miss you.”
