Chapter 410 Lu Wenwu: I want to eat
"I'm super, Tang!"
Lu Wenwu blurted out subconsciously.
"No, is this car that powerful? It can still drive after killing so many family members?"
"The Ship of Theseus, maybe with a little luck, who knows? Anyway, selling it after repairs will make more money than just scrapping it. That's it."
Wang Banxian shrugged his shoulders, imitating Lu Wenwu's movements. The artificially reinforced joints moved up and down, making him look like a robot, which was a bit scary.
"You may not believe it, but the car wasn't too badly damaged after it went down the overpass. It's been repaired and put in the 'defective goods' section to be resold."
"Ah? So your client has no objection?" Liu Lin'an, who had been listening for a while, interrupted. "Logically, this rotten car should belong to him, right?"
Wang Banxian spread his hands and said, "He bought insurance, and the insurance company directly traded in his old car for a new one. Anyway, it looks new, but it's hard for me to say whether it's truly new or not. After all, I'm not a car dealer."
"None of this matters. What matters is what your client wants and how much is the compensation?"
Lu Wenwu held Maomao in his arms, a hint of interest in his smile showing on his face.
"Now that you mention it, I suddenly think this matter seems very interesting. My intuition also tells me that the events behind this are far-reaching and should be helpful in completing my final trial."
"A deposit of 100,000 credit points, plus another 400,000 after the deal is done. That superstitious guy gave me almost all the cash he had on hand, asking only that I investigate everything thoroughly and catch that ghost, which I don't know if it really exists, to comfort his family's souls in heaven."
Wang Banxian directly projected some information from his artificial eye in the form of a holographic projection and presented it in front of the two of them.
"By the way, has Fifth Brother undergone prosthetic transformation? Let's add each other as friends. I'll send the information directly to you so it will be more convenient for you to look at it."
"No, I don't need those things. How can a mere iron object compare to my forged body?" Lu Wenwu shook his head and pulled out a cell phone from his pocket. "I'll use this."
"Well"
Looking at the "mobile phone" in front of him, which was made up of many computer parts like a big brother, Wang Banxian's mood suddenly became complicated.
It was difficult for him to describe the feeling.
It's almost like the feeling you get when you see the elders in the sect still using old-fashioned keypad machines.
As he operated, he said, "If Fifth Brother isn't used to prosthetic implants, genetic modification surgery or some organ enhancements are also possible. I remember there seems to be a place selling watch terminals in Upper Town. I can buy one when I have the money."
"That's not necessary, it's a waste of money."
While Lu Wenwu was looking through the information on his mobile phone, he casually placed his left hand on Wang Banxian's wrist.
As a wisp of pure spiritual energy passed by, Wang Banxian's eyes immediately widened.
Feeling the comfort and moisture like soaking in a hot spring, an expression of astonishment instantly appeared on his face.
"Fuck!"
"V me 50, I will give you spiritual energy. As long as you have enough money, I can help you return to the peak of Yuanying in a minute."
Lu Wenwu, who had finished reading the information, smiled slightly, cut off the spiritual energy supply, and retracted his fingers.
"But there's a small problem. With your body transformed into this bird-like form, even your Dantian and meridians are gone. Can you really mobilize your spiritual energy to 'rebuild' your Nascent Soul?"
"And I just checked your physical condition. That intermediate genetic enhancement modification is not a good thing. It's even worse than the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin in the bodybuilding circle."
"Although it brings you strength far beyond that of an ordinary person, it also shortens your lifespan and makes your flesh, blood, and cells extremely unstable. Without spiritual energy nourishment or other solutions, your body will collapse within ten years at most."
“Fuck!”
Wang Banxian spat out another mouthful of national quintessence.
"I fucking knew these ditch vampires had bad intentions. If the enhancement transformation really had no side effects, why would they open it to everyone?"
"It would be great if spiritual energy could nourish the body. If the meridians and dantian are not there, it won't affect them."
"Our Xuanling Sect originally used Taoism to enter the immortal path. Unlike other sects, we actually refine our bodies during the Qi Refining stage. Finally, when we advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, we re-open the Dantian, shatter our meridians and reshape them, and finally complete the advancement."
"If Fifth Brother can really get a large amount of spiritual energy in this Absolute Spirit Land, as long as the spiritual energy is adequately supplied, I am confident that I can return to the peak of the Golden Core within a year. As for the Nascent Soul, it's hard to say. I don't even know if there is such a thing as a Heavenly Tribulation in this world."
"That depends on whether you have enough credit points."
This time it was Lu Wenwu's turn to spread his hands helplessly.
"I need enough nutrients to open the void channel and forcibly absorb spiritual energy. You know how much nutrients are contained in ordinary food, and there will be losses during conversion."
"That's a bit of a problem." Wang Banxian frowned. "What if I give all my credit points to you, Fifth Brother, and all the resources are used to unlock your cultivation, and then you lead me through the S-rank advancement trial, do you think there's a chance?"
"It's fine to take you with me, but there's no need to give all the resources to me. The marginal effect is too great." Lu Wenwu shook his head. "According to my estimation, even if I devour everyone in the city, I still can't return to my peak. I'm on the path of body refinement, and the nutrients I need are too numerous for ordinary cities to provide.
"Once my strength recovers to a certain level, my energy consumption will be alarmingly high. By then, I will need to continue eating to replenish nutrients and keep the void channel open to ensure energy supply in order to maintain daily activities."
"Essentially, this is just like that elementary school word problem of draining water while filling it up. Without any external replenishment and relying solely on that small pipe, there's a limit to how much strength we can recover, no matter you or me."
This is an unsolvable problem.
In the case that the world itself is completely devoid of spiritual energy, the nutrients in ordinary food alone are simply not enough to meet his daily needs, let alone restore the purity to the level of dozens of dignities.
After selling some supplies in the morning, Lu Wenwu exchanged the remaining items for high-grade nutritional paste, except for the necessary survival supplies and some credit points for emergencies.
If his current purity is measured by the [Body] attribute, it is around 200 points.
It doesn’t mean it can’t be higher.
If all the resources he had were converted into purity, perhaps he could increase it by another fifty points.
If this is true, then the consumption of daily actions will be too great, his combat endurance will be drastically shortened, and the cost-effectiveness is a bit low.
This can only be achieved if Lu Wenwu can continue to make a fortune and have a continuous supply of high-end nutritional paste, or even more advanced military nutritional capsules.
Otherwise, you can't just call for a pause and ask for a ceasefire after the fighting has just started for one minute so that you can have a meal first and then continue, right?
"I understand. If that's the case, then I might as well not recover my cultivation and just stick to the path of prosthetic transformation until the end."
Wang Banxian's eyes suddenly became firm, as if he had made some kind of decision.
"Fifth Brother, you need spiritual energy yourself, and Maomao will definitely need some as well. If you're the only one taking care of two people, everyone's cultivation level will be even lower. Since this is a cyberpunk world, and I've already integrated into it, there's no need to spend too much. Just stick to one path."
"Under the current circumstances, if the methods we know of cannot restore your cultivation to a level that can overwhelm an entire city, then if we want to complete the main mission, we can only rely on local methods to assist. Coincidentally, I have some knowledge of hacking techniques."
"I will proceed with further brain development and supercomputing chip implantation as planned. I also have the credit points from this mercenary mission. Take them all, brother Wu, and exchange them for cultivation. I'm leaving my life entirely in your hands, Maomao."
"Okay, I'll treat you to egg-filled pancakes when I have the conditions." Lu Wenwu agreed without any pretense.
He is not a fool who doesn't know how to adapt.
When there is no opportunity to directly push forward with brute force, some external help is indeed needed.
"Although I don't quite understand what you are saying, I will do my best to help!" Liu Linan consciously did not ask any questions.
"You old cripple, stop charging into battle and just be my bodyguard."
Wang Banxian smiled and put his arm around his neck, tapping the black steel soldier's prosthetic limb with his fingers.
"Then we can do it like in the game. Fifth Brother and Maomao will lead the attack, I'll provide technical support, and Lao Liu will take care of the logistics and just cover me while I work."
"Don't underestimate me, you charlatan! Fifth Brother made me such a powerful prosthetic limb. I'm pretty powerful now!" Liu Linan complained. "Fifth Brother said that this set of prosthetic limbs specifically enhances throwing ability. Now I can throw grenades like cannonballs!"
"Okay, okay, that's not right! Someone's trying to block the door! My damn surveillance camera has been hacked!"
Wang Banxian's face suddenly changed drastically when he was halfway through his words. He tapped his temple quickly with his fingers and stood up abruptly.
As he stood up, the wall behind him moved with the vibration and cracked in the middle, revealing a secret passage leading downwards.
"Fifth Brother, Lame Man, hurry! The security precautions I set up have been triggered. A large number of people are heading towards this safe house, carrying a large amount of weapons and equipment. There are at least several hundred of them, and they are most likely coming for us!"
Liu Linan, unaware of what was going on, was dragged into the passage by Wang Banxian, followed closely by Lu Wenwu and Maomao, who seemed to be lost in thought.
Entering the passage, the group moved forward quickly.
Wang Banxian closed the passage door and activated the security procedure.
Every time they walked a certain distance, a heavy steel gate would fall from behind, blocking the passage.
"No, what's going on?" Liu Linan was bewildered. "How dare someone in Lower Town bother you? Aren't you a guest of honor among those gentlemen in Upper Town?"
"You're nothing but a bunch of idiots. They're just trying to get some good luck with my metaphysics. No one really takes me seriously," Wang Banxian complained. "You even called me a charlatan. You can tell I'm usually a scammer. Don't those people know what level I'm at?"
"And those people probably weren't coming for Wang Banxian," Lu Wenwu said quietly from behind. "They were coming for you. Oh, or to be more precise, they were coming for Maomao and my corpses. Their methods of concealing their identities are still a bit crude, and it's hard to hide them from the eyes of those with ulterior motives."
"Carrion birds?" Liu Linan was shocked. "But I've already disguised myself! How could they..."
"With your level of social experience, you're bullied all day long even for picking up trash, and you can't even bring yourself to kill someone. Without your buddies protecting you, do you think you can protect your high-end employee-produced prosthetic body produced by Zulong?"
Wang Banxian strongly criticized Liu Linan for his lack of self-awareness.
"I can tell with my knees how terrible your anti-reconnaissance capabilities are, and I can tell with my butt that you don't understand anti-tracking."
"If you really had returned home empty-handed, there might have been a slight chance of everything going smoothly. But you happened to have returned with something, and the scavenger birds had lost people, lost credit points, and still hadn't gotten the item. Who else should they look for if not you?"
"Carrion, carrion, you don't really think they'll let you go, do you? My reputation isn't that valuable, at least not as valuable as these two genuine experimental subjects."
"If a child is carrying gold through the market, who else should he rob if not you?"
Liu Linan's face flushed and he wanted to make some excuses.
But in the end he still didn't say anything.
Indeed, as a corporate dog who worked diligently in the first half of his life, and who has been struggling to survive by scavenging after being optimized in recent years, he really doesn't understand what anti-reconnaissance and anti-tracking are.
Being able to think of disguise and "safe house" is already an extraordinary performance.
Wang Banxian also knew that he couldn't be too demanding of his unfortunate and cowardly friend, so he stopped complaining and instead comforted him and taught him some life-saving tips while moving forward quickly.
As a normal immortal cultivator, when he went to dungeons, he was often matched with an underworld immortal cultivation world that could not be cleared by brute force.
When it comes to saving one's life, he is well versed in the art of survival.
Calculation, back-up plan, strength, trump card, external force, preparation, plan, helper, defense. None of them can be missing.
This is also why he spent a lot of money to build three secret escape passages.
Yes, three, not just one.
The most surprising thing is that these three secret passages will fork in the middle, leading to a total of nine different locations.
Every time he made a random choice, even Wang Banxian himself was not sure which path he would take.
The main point is that a cunning rabbit has three burrows to prevent the spring from being blocked.
It turned out that his advance preparation was very useful.
When the group dug a hole next to the pier under a bridge in the stinky ditch outside the lower city of Coconut Juice City, there was indeed no one in sight.
"Damned scavenger bird, don't let me, the Taoist master, recover my strength. If I were still a Nascent Soul cultivator, I would slap him and make him merge with Mother Earth!" Wang Banxian cursed after closing the safety door.
Liu Linan sighed and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry to have caused you trouble, you charlatan."
"Brother, you're right. If it weren't for you, Old Deng, I wouldn't be able to see Fifth Brother, right?" Wang Banxian patted his shoulder and turned to ask, "Fifth Brother, what should we do now? My home is in the residential area of Grides. We have the protection of the joint patrol team, so it should be safe. The scavenger birds won't be so bold as to force their way in."
What Wang Banxian meant was that they should make a tactical retreat first and not engage in a head-on confrontation with the enemy.
It's a bit irrational for the three of them to fight against the largest gang in the city.
But Wang Banxian overlooked one thing.
reason?
Mr. Lu never does anything rational.
A kind smile appeared on Lu Wenwu's face: "If the enemy can go, I can go too. Now I have no choice but to adopt my elder brother's tactics!"
Wang Banxian & Liu Linan:?
May I ask who your eldest brother is?
"Change all your tactics! Let's go straight to their base camp, cause a scene, and take the leader's place!"
Lu Wenwu clenched his fist, took out a few tubes of high-quality nutritional paste, threw them into his mouth along with the packaging, and absorbed them instantly.
He couldn't help licking his lips, his eyes full of relish for the food.
"There should be a lot of valuable stuff there! I can't wait to have a feast!"
(End of this chapter)
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