Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 845 - 779: You Want to Be a Pet Too?
[Puppet Yun Shu, power depleted, has shut down automatically for protection]
[Successfully recovered, please click to view puppet damage details]
[During a moment of crisis, puppet activated emergency recording function to preserve precious data, would you like to export?]
The slow-moving gray progress bar finally completed, adding an icon with Yun Shu’s avatar to the toolbar.
"Phew! Finally got it back!" Jiang Yuan let out a sigh of relief.
It was like snatching someone from a black hole, even if he didn’t witness the process, the thought was thrilling enough.
Clicking to export the emergency recording, he hurriedly opened the details to check Yun Shu’s current status.
[Encountered swallowing by a black hole (also known as Tianyuan, Ghost Realm) in the void, puppet Yun Shu’s stored energy fully depleted, needs energy source replenishment;
After losing the energy protective layer, struck by stray stones causing 20% body shape damage, needs repair;
Interfered by special energy emitted by the black hole, core damage 15%, unable to boot normally, needs repair...]
"This is a big problem." Seeing the need for repair marked in red font in the details, he quickly scrolled down to check the materials list.
Most required items were refining materials.
Fortunately, in the Flame Rat warehouse, the Golden Ridge Jade obtained from killing the first Foundation Establishment Realm low-level monster Flame Rat leader to the beast bones from slaying high-level demon beasts, everything was available.
That list mostly showed satisfying green conditions, except for two special materials needed for nourishing souls within the puppet.
The system specially marked that the appearance damage would require an artifact refiner to repair, while core damage needed a puppet master.
The final step was to supplement its Life Origin, enabling it to reboot and "revive."
Luckily, the courtyard had both an artifact refiner and puppet master, though it was uncertain if they could manage to repair Yun Shu.
Jiang Yuan first selected a guest room on the second floor of the house and placed the damaged and shut-down Yun Shu on the bed.
Her dress was severely damaged, with varying degrees of scrapes and burn marks exposed on the face, arms, and legs.
"What material is this crafted from, it feels just like a real person..." He pressed and pinched, aside from turning cold after shutdown, her skin still had a realistic feel.
However, despite the absence of blood, amidst the exposed wrapped pseudo-bone materials, it was somewhat hard to accept, just looking at it induced phantom pain.
The most severely damaged left cheek and shoulder position, the "skin and flesh" were scorched revealing "bone," clearly caused by a frontal collision.
[Click to view cached video]
Jiang Yuan was very curious about what a black hole looked like, the alarm sounded, the first moment to recover the puppet beauty, during the slow-moving progress bar time, what did Yun Shu experience? How did she end up so severely injured?
So, he eagerly opened the "video" exported to the Memory Stone.
"Buzz~"
Suddenly, the light around him dimmed, as if entering the void, an immersive experience.
Whether it was the emergency recording function’s inability to record sound or there was no sound in the void, the fact was the short under-minute footage was entirely silent.
He saw behind Yun Shu in the "lens," a black circle suddenly appeared and rapidly expanded.
Zooming in, circling to the other side to observe closely, he found the black hole in the video was surprisingly a plane! Like someone had cut a circle with black paper, floating within the void.
From both front and back views, it was a bottomless black "hole."
Despite the appearance of proximity on the video, Yun Shu was fortunate to be far from the black hole, thus having time to attempt escape, granting Jiang Yuan the chance to recover.
If it really appeared next to her, there would have been no escape, she would have directly fallen in.
The black hole seemed like a sudden collapse into a "big pit" within the void, its immense suction drawing in all floating objects within its influence range.
Yun Shu burning all energy failed in escape, after shutdown slid towards the inside of the black hole with numerous meteors, just on the brink of entering, the instant she was recovered, she vanished, and the recording ended there.
It’s really damned mysterious!
Had the response been any slower, she would have fallen into the black hole, never to return!
"No wonder it’s called Ghost Realm, this thing appears and disappears unpredictably, defenses are almost useless." Jiang Yuan closely observed the birth of the black hole and the destruction it caused.
While expressing sighs, he was also deeply curious about what lay within the black hole.
Could he build some Divine Artifact in the future, specifically for ventures inside to explore and unravel the mysteries of the black hole? 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
He glanced at Old Dog’s side quest, finally understanding why Miss Qi and Qing Niao both had low opinions of the void—high risk, low reward.
Yun Shu flew in the void for so long, if it weren’t for her unique structure that absorbed solar energy, merely using Immortal Jade as fuel would have cost a fortune.
Ultimately, only two pieces of Land Without Master were found, if the system hadn’t guaranteed fusion and acquisition, along with saving void refugees, the entire exploration process yielded almost zero profit.
Moreover, since she was a puppet, fundamentally different from regular cultivators, without many chaotic thoughts and concerns, exploring the void felt free and unrestrained.
For cultivators, they’d have to constantly consume spirit stones, flying day and night in the vast void might encounter nothing at all, if encountering peculiarities or black holes, those with few means generally had no hope of survival.
In this light, the reason behind void hunters selling void products at exorbitant prices became clear, every expedition cost a significant investment, and they’re all life-threats!
