"You said that the Deer Hunter president brought a newcomer here to modify the weapons, and he also wanted to let this newcomer join the team—"
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in surprise: "——But this new guy said that he can join the Deer Hunter team, but the only condition for him to join the team is that you modify the weapon for me?"
General Hua wiped his mouth and said, "Yes, this newcomer knows that I am the best modifier in the game. He asked me to modify your weapon and make it suitable for you, greatly improving your combat and defense capabilities."
General Hua Gan's eyes fell on Bai Liu's hands: "It was this new guy who came up with the idea of transforming your wallet into gloves."
"He wants you to have a pair of black leather gloves that can perfectly cover your hands, are suitable for using a whip, and can always access banknotes without being easily injured."
"In order to recruit this newcomer into the guild, our president agreed to this newcomer's outrageous request."
When General Hua Gan said this, he couldn't help but show anger on his face, but he quickly suppressed it.
"In order to fulfill the requirements of this newcomer, the president negotiated with your investor Charles. Originally, it was agreed that I would only modify your weapon, but later, Charles kept nagging me, and the president actually agreed to let me modify your entire team!!"
"This is a disgrace and betrayal to the weapon modification engineers within the guild!"
Bai Liu released his hands that were holding General Hua Gan: "But you still agreed."
Hua Gan let out a breath of suffocation from Bai Liu's casual comment and lowered his head in frustration: "...Yes, I can't go against the president's request."
He paused, and then said, "Even if you get my soul, I will not serve anyone other than the Deer Hunter Guild. Just kill me."
Bai Liu raised his eyes to look at Liu Jiayi beside him and gave her a questioning look. Liu Jiayi shook her head at him with a sigh, indicating that she could stop.
——As General Hua Gan said, he would rather die than serve anyone outside the guild.
Unlike the reserve team members who are trained in large numbers, and also different from data engineers like Wang Shun who communicate with many people, the guild's control over the transformers is extraordinary. Even if Bai Liu gets General Hua Gan's soul, it will be very difficult to get this iron-hard, hard-to-swallow guy to compromise.
The transformers are different from players with constant desires. Their desires and souls have been integrated into everything through long-term polishing and tempering, becoming invulnerable to swords and guns. They do not communicate with others, but only with their subordinates' red-hot weapons of desire. They are beings where the weapons are greater than the people.
The guild they belong to is the one that created their favorite weapon, otherwise the modification engineers would not choose to be in this guild.
Transformers will never betray their "instruments", let alone the guild they created, so they are the most loyal members of the guild.
Hua Gan will be the best transformer and naturally the toughest one among all transformers.
If Mu Sicheng hadn't controlled the apprentice from the beginning, this guy would definitely not say a word.
After receiving Liu Jiayi's signal, Bai Liu calmly changed his tone: "I won't ask you to serve us all the time, we just want to know why."
"You have to protect your guild, and I also want to protect the members of my guild." Bai Liu smiled, "Can you tell me some useful information? For example, who is the new member who asked you to transform me?"
This does not touch the guild's core secrets. After all, the team members will be escorted out to meet the public sooner or later.
General Hua Gan hesitated for a while, but finally chose to speak: "I don't know who it was. When the president brought him here, he was wearing a mask covered in blood."
"But the guy's special weapon is a long green plastic toy gun."
Bai Liu slowly played with the long hook beside the stove: "Mr. Hua, there is no way to get rid of this kind of information."
General Hua gritted his teeth and continued, "I won't tell you what his skills are, but I can tell you what happened during the transformation."
"The material of the gun was very strange. It looked like a plastic trumpet gun. It dissolved in less than one second after being put into the magma."
Hua Gan frowned and fell into reminiscence: "I have modified many weapons, but I have never seen such a strange weapon and such a strange owner. The weapon has obviously been dissolved, but this person is sitting next to it, humming a song without any hurry."
"I had no choice but to keep pouring materials into it to try to saturate the magma's solubility and then extract the gun."
When General Hua Gan said this, he showed a bit of pain on his face: "--Half of the warehouse's materials were thrown in, and the magma didn't move at all. I realized something was wrong."
"These materials were not dissolved at all, but eaten by this gun!"
"I put a lot of materials into it, and the guild's warehouse was emptied. This gun was not used up yet, and finally the president had to go to Charles to buy new materials. It was at this time that he got in touch with Charles."
General Hua Gan let out a long sigh: "Charles agreed to provide us with a large amount of materials for free, but at the same time asked me to modify the weapons for your entire team."
"That day I kept pouring materials into it, even a lot of skill weapon cutting pieces, but the gun never came out. It was like a huge black hole, devouring other people's desires and souls insatiably."
"...I have never seen such a greedy skill weapon."
General Hua Gan looked at the flaming pot in a trance. "Finally, the president got a piece of dirty wallet leather from Charles, saying it was the remnant for your initial weapon transformation."
"I threw the leather in, the magma started to boil, and I saw the dissolved remains of the gun gathered around the leather, just like crystal nuclei precipitating from a saturated solution."
General Hua Gan looked up at Bai Liu and said in a dry voice, "When my magma was about to burn out, a sniper rifle condensed at the bottom of the pot. I was afraid of it just by looking at it."
"If the process of forging your gloves makes me feel controlled, then the gun feels like a bottomless hole. If I look at it, my soul will be swallowed up and I will never be able to return."
Tang Erda, who had been silent on the side, suddenly stopped breathing.
Bai Liu put down the long hook. He seemed to sense something and touched the metal ring at the opening of his glove with two fingers, and narrowed his eyes.
General Hua Gan noticed Bai Liu's gaze and sighed, "It seems you guessed it. Yes, the metal ring on your glove is the material of the gun."
"And it's not residual material, it's core material."
"After getting the gun, the new guy with blood all over his mask asked me what materials were needed to modify the gloves. Gloves, which are non-offensive skill weapons, are very difficult to modify. However, this new guy didn't care about the modification process of his own weapon, but was very concerned about the modification process of your weapon."
"I said that if your wrist strength is not good enough, the gloves generally pursue lightness, but in this case most of the high-end materials cannot be used in your gloves because they are too heavy, so the basic value of the gloves cannot be improved."
General Hua took a deep breath and said, "After hearing what I said, he asked me if the material used to make his gun was high-quality enough."
"I say enough, absolutely enough, but your gun is already a completely modified gun. Taking a part from anywhere will destroy the integrity of your weapon."
"And by that time, he had already established a soul connection with the fully modified weapon. The weapon was a derivative of himself. If he dug a piece out of the gun, even if it was just a scrap, he would feel the pain."
"But he asked, why should I give you scraps?" General Hua Gan's expression twisted as if he had seen a monster. "Then this guy dug out the core of his gun, threw it into the magma, and left."
"...I tempered a lot of weapons during this time, but the core of his gun seemed to have melted, with no reaction at all."
Hua Gan looked at the metal ring on the edge of Bai Liu's gloves with a complicated look: "But today, the moment your gloves came out of the oven, I saw this metal ring and I knew it was the material of his gun core."
Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then stood up and said, "General Hua, I promise as Bai Liu that after this cooperation, I will not use your soul to do anything that is detrimental to your original intentions. But in return, I hope that you can do your best to transform my team members this time."
After saying that, Bai Liu waved his hand. Mu Sicheng stared at General Hua Gan doubtfully for a few seconds, then released the claws that were holding his apprentice.
The apprentice collapsed to the ground, exhausted, and huddled up in fear, looking at these people.
General Hua Gan looked at Bai Liu in astonishment, who released the man without hesitation. He paused for a long time before he sneered and replied, "Take money from people and be loyal to them. The people are guilty, but the weapons are not. No matter what you did, your weapons are innocent."
"I won't blame the instruments for your mistakes, so I will treat them well."
Bai Liu nodded in admiration, then smiled and said, "Of course, in addition to this, I have another unwelcome request for General Hua Gan."
"I hope to place an order with the appraiser of the King's Guild in your name."
General Hua asked, "What do you want to identify?"
Bai Liu clasped his hands together, his eyes dim and unclear: "These gloves on my hands."
General Hua Gan took over the conversation with understanding: "--And all the weapons that I have modified? This is fine, you can identify them and I will help you place the order."
After saying this, the transformer, whose soul was no longer in his hands, patted his butt, stood up, and then helped the paralyzed apprentice up.
This man really acted as if nothing had happened. He pulled over the monkey paw that Mu Sicheng was holding his apprentice, put on a magnifying glass and began to study it seriously.
Bai Liu sat in the corner, lowering his eyes to examine the pair of gloves on his hands. Tang Erda stood behind him without knowing when, and spoke in a hoarse voice: "...It's Xiao Chou."
"Well, I guessed it." Bai Liu said, "But I don't understand why he did this for me. Xiao Chou probably doesn't know me now."
"But his every move shows that he knows me very well..." Bai Liu half closed his eyes, "If Xiao Chou knows what my skills are and what I will do, then he asked this transformer to take the initiative to transform my behavior, just like packaging this transformer and giving it to me as a gift."
Tang Erda said in a deep voice: "Xiao Chou knows that you can use your skills to control this transformation engineer."
Bai Liu grabbed the edge of the glove and pulled it down. He looked at the metal ring on the edge of the glove thoughtfully: "And this material too. He took the initiative to blend the best materials and arranged them, and then just waited for me to come and receive them."
"I know what he did, but the question is why did he do it?"
Tang Erda said: "If it is another world line, I know why Xiao Chou would do this."
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked over.
"The best materials, the best transformation engineer..." Tang Er sighed with a complicated heart, "Xiao Chou in other world lines always gives you the best, because in his eyes, only the best can be worthy of you."