After several months of simple and uneventful campus life, Cheng Huaijin received a notification that Ross Mechanical Life Group would be inviting her to visit its headquarters this weekend!
I can finally go collect the five million!
Just as Cheng Huaijin was excitedly thinking about what luggage to bring, his communicator received a notification urging him to complete the task.
Oh no! I almost forgot about the Overlord Bounty Hunter Guild quest!
...But there's still some time before the end of the year, let's put it aside for now, hahaha.
Cheng Huaijin silently turned off the notification and added the task to his calendar. He would definitely do it when he returned from the Machinery City!
The Machine City, as its name suggests, is a city built entirely of machinery.
Its original form was a steel city, renowned worldwide for its numerous steel mills. However, with the advancement of technology, heavy industry gradually declined, and the steel industry suffered a severe blow. Especially after the rise of beast taming, people paid more attention to environmental protection and looked down on polluting industries like steel, leading to the city's rapid decline.
Until Astaria Ross appeared, she transformed steel into biomechanical machinery and even created a completely new species, the Mecha Beast, breaking the tripartite balance of power between the Beastmaster Alliance, the Pet Center, and the government organizations in the Beastmaster World, and introducing a new force—the Mecha Beastmasters.
To commemorate Ms. Astaria Ross's immense contributions to the Mechanical City, the city built a landmark 101-story building, named the Astaria Tower, and gifted it to Ms. Astaria Ross.
The headquarters of Ross Mechanical Life Group is located in this building.
Because it was a rather formal visit, Cheng Huaijin even went out of his way to buy a casual suit. And you know what? Wearing the well-fitting blazer and trousers, he actually looked quite presentable!
Of course, Chaohuan also received a small bow tie and a little jacket, which it adored, and had Cheng Huaijin take countless photos of it. Cheng Huaijin directly helped it register a personal account on the Beast Taming Forum, named "Queen Chaohuan" (Chaohuan chose the name itself), and selected the ten best-looking photos to post.
"This will be your photo album from now on. You can go up and look at it whenever you want." Cheng Huaijin patted Chaohuan's head.
"Huanhuan!" Chaohuan's eyes sparkled with excitement.
So Cheng Huaijin and Chao Huan dressed up smartly and took a Ross Mechanical Special Envoy aircraft to visit the headquarters on the weekend.
This was Cheng Huaijin's first time riding in such a proper aircraft! Along the way, they would pick up the champions of other competitions sponsored by Ross Mechanical Life in other cities, and everyone would ride together to the headquarters for a visit.
The headquarters also specially assigned a guide to introduce the group to them and provide guidance.
Led by the guide, Cheng Huaijin and Chao Huan followed the main group to the headquarters of Ross Mechanical Life. After countless fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, iris recognition, body scans, and security checks, they were finally able to enter.
So tiring! Getting through a door is such a hassle.
Cheng Huaijin wiped her face and suddenly felt something bump into her waist. She turned around sharply and saw a drone flashing red light.
For some reason, the red light made Cheng Huaijin's heart skip a beat, and a sense of unease arose within her. She subconsciously took out her communicator and checked again the award notification message that Ross Mechanical Life had sent her earlier.
There seems to be no problem, but something still feels off.
Her gaze fell on the last line of the message.
Please note that for the security of prize collection, winners must not disclose their prize information to others; otherwise, their prize collection eligibility will be revoked.
I hadn't noticed this before, but now I find it a bit strange.
During the competition, it was announced on-site that the champion would receive a mechanical beast. Why are you now saying not to disclose the prize information? Isn't this just pointless?
Furthermore, how does the organizer determine whether the award recipient has disclosed information to others?
Were they spying on the award recipients' communicators?!
Cheng Huaijin's hair stood on end. He tried logging into the Beast Taming Forum, and it worked.
She tried texting Fang Juexia: "Xiaxia, I've come to collect my award."
Cheng Huaijin stared at the message interface. The little circle indicating that the message had been sent kept spinning. After a while, the message was successfully sent, but there was no reply.
The unease in Cheng Huaijin's heart grew deeper and deeper; now, nothing seemed right.
"Then welcome again to the headquarters of Ross Mechanical Life Group!" the guide said with a smile.
Cheng Huaijin looked up and realized there were many more people present. It turned out that they were all champions from various competitions sponsored by the Ross Group!
Wow, this one is 5 million, how many 5 million would that be for so many people! This big company is really rich.
Why put all the champions together in one space?
Cheng Huaijin observed the surrounding passageways and mechanical doors, and vaguely felt that this place was like a secret room.
The complicated entry procedure makes it difficult to get in... and even more difficult to get out!
“Super Illusion,” Cheng Huaijin called softly, his tone calm.
Chao Huan immediately noticed Cheng Huaijin's emotions. His curious gaze remained, but it also carried a hint of wariness.
Cheng Huaijin followed the people inside. Inside this building, Cheng Huaijin saw almost no humans; it was almost entirely filled with robots or mechanical beasts.
"Please look to my left, everyone. This is the testing area for our latest S-series mechanical beasts. We can see... %*￥%￥4*/7"
A burst of sparks suddenly appeared above the guide's head, followed by incomprehensible mechanical sounds emanating from his mouth.
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