Shameless Warlock - Chapter 45

Chapter 45: Substitute for Mage Hand

Xu Nan was instantly angered when he saw it. He immediately replied, “Son, do you still want someone to help you settle your bills?”

Song Xiaocheng immediately replied, “Dad, I was wrong!”

If it wasn’t for the fact that resonance between Ron Warlocks was very strong, Xu Nan might have suspected that Song Xiaocheng had the same job as him and was currently doing a long-term mission named [Recognizing a thief as your father].

This despicable brat had no moral principle at all. Maybe, only Lu Junyi could barely be comparable to him.

Xu Nan’s social skills could be considered as not bad. Thus, many people expressed their concern, and even more people liked his post in the passing.

Even Lu Junyi who went to look for Wenxin also replied, [Brother, you mean for the next twelve months, you don’t want to be a human?]

Xu Nan coldly laughed in his heart.

(You were just a vet when you operated on me, did you treat this daddy as a human before?)

He opened up his private messaging app, “How’s the situation with the hospital now?”

Lu Junyi replied, “Still okay, the little lass isn’t as fierce as before. I finally know the waters here are very deep. I can’t get the hospital’s original territory back, but I and the damn tranny are thinking of a solution to get a part of it. I have to head out to other places now, so you should be more careful. Oh ya, for that place of yours, the longer you can hide its existence, the better. I keep feeling that right now, some people are starting to get more anxious about seizing resources.”

Lu Junyi spoke vaguely on purpose.

However, Xu Nan immediately understood it. No matter the era, resources were always exceptionally important. This was especially so in a chaotic period.

The people of the current era’s sensitivity and high regard for resources far surpassed the lifeforms of the Puluo World. Xu Nan himself wanted to construct an underground city because he wanted to be there for a few of his friends, giving them preferential treatment compared to the rest of the people on Earth.

This matter and him joining the Thousand Awn Agency shouldn’t be in conflict.

There was no need for intelligent people to go against the will of the country, let alone Xu Nan, who felt that he was still quite a hot-blooded patriotic youth. As long as the Thousand Awn Agency didn’t touch his core benefits, everything could be negotiated.

After all, his strength wasn’t powerful enough yet.

For the next half of the day, Zhang Yingluo brought Xu Nan around to several departments and to do all the procedures, including his identification re-application, the examination of his personal record, etc. Luckily, Xu Nan’s history and background were clean. The only flaw he had was falsifying his job the last time he registered.

Now, the Thousand Awn Agency was going to change their style. No one would bother about such a small detail. In any case, Xu Nan was adamant that the job inheritance was very messy, and he himself also couldn’t be sure of what job he had. In this case, no one could say anything to that.

What was worthy of a mention was that Zhang Yingluo put in a lot of effort during this process. From this, Xu Nan could tell that she was already a familiar face in the Thousand Awn Agency. Many staff with cold expressions immediately hastened their action speed when they saw Zhang Yingluo personally bringing him over.

…

In the evening.

“Alright, everything is complete. Basically, you satisfy the requirements to be an official member. Next, as long as you pass a tutor’s interview, you will head over and participate in the training camp for the new members.”

Zhang Yingluo smiled gently; there was a trace of excitement in her eyes. “I still have other matters, so I won’t send you off. Junior brother Xu Nan, I’m cheering you on!”

Xu Nan felt some gratitude. Zhang Yingluo had been accompanying him through all these processes sincerely without mentioning any compensation. This could be considered as him owning her a favor.

From Lu Junyi’s mouth, he knew something about this senior school sister’s true background. Her ancestors were in-laws of the Ye Clan of Jiangdong. Thus, the Zhang Clan had an extremely wide and deep influence in H City.

Xu Nan was just an insignificant character that accidentally joined a group like the Thousand Awn Agency. If he didn’t have any background, it was very easy for him to drift with the waves and end up in an awkward situation.

Today, the act of Zhang Yingluo bringing him into the Thousand Awn Agency was basically giving Xu Nan a temporary label that his backer was the Zhang Clan. If others wanted to probe him or make things difficult for him, they most probably had to think twice.

Hence, Xu Nan sincerely expressed his gratitude.

Zhang Yingluo waved her hands and spoke forthrightly, “No problem. I still have to thank you for your help! The people in the upper-echelons kept refusing to let me go on missions. Previously, they said that I needed to register ten job-holders to qualify. Now, they want me to formally invite official members to hold me back. Just so nicely, you made up for the last slot I lacked previously. So, I’m going to look for them now and see if they still have any reasons to obstruct me!”

Xu Nan’s face was filled with black lines.

Most probably, the leaders of the Thousand Awn Agency would feel some headache to manage a rich, energetic, and bellicose young miss from a powerful background.

“If you see Lele, remember to tell me. Her mother is very worried about her.”

After Zhang Yingluo said this, she hurried off.

Xu Nan also left the nursing home.

…

On the public bus.

He texted Qin Lele on Wechat, “What’s going on with you? You didn’t even tell your family that you are heading out?”

Qin Lele swiftly replied, “My family only consists of my mom! She usually doesn’t have time to care about me.”

Xu Nan felt slightly embarrassed. After all, Qin Lele had been following him to explore underground. He felt like he had the responsibility of being a half-guardian to her.

“In that case, where are you now?” Xu Nan asked.

“I’m going to the airport to fetch my mom! She suddenly became crazy and decided to come back from overseas!”

Qin Lele then sent an emoticon of disbelief.

Xu Nan thought for a little. “Do you need my help with anything?”

After sending this sentence out, he began to regret it. How could he not understand the personality of his law enforcement captain? What if Qin Lele wanted to get more benefits and asked him to visit her mother?

However, Qin Lele’s reply was different from usual. “No need!”

This was unscientific.

Xu Nan felt somewhat depressed. At the next second, Qin Lele’s reply came in.

“I will accompany my mom to shop for a day. I will return tomorrow! I cannot allow my mom to see you. If she saw you, my hopes would be completely dashed…I don’t want to call you dad!”

Xu Nan, “???”

He suddenly felt very curious about what sort of strange woman Qin Lele’s mom was!

…

He then returned to the underground city.

The base was running very well; its operations were now barely up to standard.

With the great demon heart as the source of energy, the flying battleship base now had the capital to activate many constructs and abilities it had.

His interview with a tutor from the Thousand Awn Agency was arranged for the day after tomorrow, during the evening. Xu Nan still had sufficient time to settle some of his on-hand matters.

The first matter was his lack of manpower.

The reproduction rate of the imps was ordinary, and they were only good because they were durable. During these days, Xu Nan had sent a group of imps to a location near the foundation base to check the mines. Other than them, there were the little mechanical demons who were responsible for the main physical labor in the base.

However, the mechanical demons were after all, not intelligent lifeforms. They could only complete the most basic orders.

Xu Nan wanted to see if it was possible to set up a farming area underground or not. Clearly, the little mechanical demons and imps weren’t suited for this type of job.

Xu Nan felt that it was time for him to try and craft more high-graded alchemical lifeforms.

After all, this place wasn’t the Puluo World, there was no way for him to purchase slaves to do his bidding.

Luckily, in the previous monthly mission, Xu Nan managed to draw out all the stage 1 alchemical blueprints from the lottery wheel. It was known to all that Lost Paradise had blatantly copied all the alchemical creations of the arcanist empire.

In other words, Xu Nan had all the stage 1 alchemical blueprints of the arcanist empire.

“Which one should I pick?”

Xu Nan glanced at the pile of blueprints before him, and he felt a headache. Learning alchemy required a large amount of time and energy. If Xu Nan wanted to gain proficiency fast, he could only depend on spamming his shameless points. His shameless points weren’t little, but they couldn’t be considered a lot as well. He wasn’t able to use them casually.

Besides, the materials needed to create alchemical items were too expensive. Although Xu Nan had conned a bunch of good stuff from the seventh alchemy center, his wealth still couldn’t rival nations’.

On the aspect of creating alchemical items, he had to deliberate carefully.

After looking through many blueprints, he was still unsatisfied. Xu Nan then fixed his gaze on the last piece of the light-blue alchemical blueprint.

[Initial-grade inflatable golem]

[Product description: The inflatable golem can satisfy the requirements of all low-grade alchemists. Its flexibility, power, and durability was highand a high cost-performance ratio… Some alchemists even felt that the inflatable golem could become their lifelong assistant or even partner. Naturally, we welcome all alchemists to find out more about its usage. Generally speaking, the inflatable golems are considered reusable consumables.]

[Main function: Provide simplistic and low-cost manpower]

[Secondary function: A substitute for mage hand]

Xu Nan read the explanations repeatedly and discovered that the manufacturing cost of the initial-grade inflatable golem seemed to be just a little higher than the little mechanical demons. But this golem possessed elementary intelligence. As long as he installed the core module, it would have intelligence roughly equal to a six-year-old human child.

Also, the inflatable golem was agile and flexible, with many unique characteristics that the little mechanical demons didn’t have.

The only flaw was that it couldn’t be used for combat.

This was fine. Xu Nan’s purpose in creating a new alchemical lifeform was mainly to fulfill the internal needs of his base.

At the very least, he could use it to plant some crops and let it be in charge of farming.

Doing things the moment he thought of them; this was Xu Nan’s style.

He set up an alchemy building in the foundation base. Then, he opened up his workstation and got busy for an entire night.

The next morning.

A brand new inflatable golem was created. Xu Nan chose the no. 13 model; the outer appearance was a blond young woman.

Everything was prepared, the only thing lacking was to inflate it.

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