NOVEL WEB Chapter 221: New Material? Unknown Territory!
[You gained Steel X4]
[You gained Steel X5]
[You gained Steel X12]
[You gained ...]
Under Lin Yue's continuous operations, the bent Tokyo Tower finally completely snapped from the previously bent middle section.
Boom!!
After a brief metallic screech, the half-section tower gradually sank earthward under Earth's gravity, eventually making an extremely terrifying crashing sound on impact!
A cloud of dust billowed up from beneath the half-section, finally drifting into mid-air.
"How does that children's rhyme go? Tokyo Tower falling down, falling down, falling down~"
Lin Yue hummed a tune and began the next phase.
One must admit, with the High-Precision Research Workstation, collecting these materials has become much easier than at the start.
As long as the Storage Space is sufficient, what's left is to collect, collect, and collect again.
Although these were just ordinary steel materials and couldn't be used in high-precision tasks, if stored in enough quantity, they would eventually serve a purpose.
Lin Yue continued this tedious collecting activity, while Bai was rather excited, flying continuously in the sky as if searching for any unlucky mutated winged dragons to vent its pent-up combat frustration.
One has to admit, currently, there doesn't seem to be any monster that can challenge this little fellow. From the initial giant rats to the later monster winged dragons, tentacle monsters, and giant spiders, none could stand a chance against Bai.
It's just that the tentacle giant creature; neither he nor Bai had ever fought it.
Speaking of which, the last time they came here, there was indeed a tentacle giant creature.
Even this Tokyo Tower was snapped by it.
"Wonder if it's still around? Although it's a herbivore, it's still a monster from the Otherworld." Lin Yue always considered it a threat.
Maybe it's due to its size, or because it once extinguished a sea of flames sweeping the streets in Paris.
He always felt a special sentiment towards it.
To be specific, that is… hostility.
The fear humans have towards creatures immensely larger than themselves often comes from within, and some people have a specific condition—megalophobia.
In ancient times, many totemic creatures humans worshiped were described with "immense" size.
Kun, Peng, and Dragons—these giant creatures from ancient Tang Country legends—no matter which one, all evoked both fear and reverence.
Even in games and movies, giant creatures could become the final "Boss," highlighting the protagonist's humanity's insignificance.
But to Lin Yue, who had slain the giant creature Ox-Carrier Serpent Dragon before, the significance of giant creatures wasn't limited to treasure chests.
The exhilaration of defeating such formidable foes is incomparable!
Isn't there a saying?
If it has a health bar, I'll even kill God to show you!
Moreover, whether it be tentacle giants or monster winged dragons, these were never originally Earth's creatures.
According to the information Lin Yue currently has, they are more likely native to the Otherworld.
Since they're not Earth's insects, exterminating them all is what must be done.
Lin Yue doesn't see the Otherworld as a favorable place.
Lack of water resources, nonexistent fruits and vegetables, and disasters occurring every seven days—if not for treasure chests, the Otherworld would be a Hell.
But this Secret Realm's Earth, although it looks like decades have passed and everything looks like wasteland, is nonetheless humanity's homeland, humanity's territory.
If given a choice, Lin Yue would prefer to start over in this land of ruins.
Who wants to endure seven-day cycle disasters? Isn't starting anew on Earth more inviting?
[Storage Space is insufficient]
The steel blocks dropped, and Lin Yue realized his Storage Space had unknowingly filled.
Looking at the yield, wow, 289 steel blocks.
That's quite a lot.
But it doesn't seem like much time has passed?
"Bai!" Lin Yue called to Bai, who had just sliced an approaching monster winged dragon in half in the air, signaling that they should return for now since they couldn't carry any more materials.
Bai glided in a circle and landed at Lin Yue's feet, though Lin Yue noticed it was holding a long knife in its claws.
[Steel Knife]
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"Bai, where did you get this?"
"Gawoo." Bai pointed to the park beneath the tower, where Lin Yue had first entered when he came to this Secret Realm of Tokyo Tower.
"From there? Let's go check it out!" Lin Yue climbed onto Bai's back as it glided towards that direction.
Steel Knife, he had never seen anything like it before.
In all the design blueprints, weapons had been either wood, stone, or iron, and no one had ever unearthed a blueprint for anything other than those three materials.
Though he had indeed crafted items like the M19 Pistol which required alloys, weapons like swords, spears, daggers, or arrows had never been made of anything like this.
Bai landed, folding its wings, as Lin Yue slid down from its back, brandishing the steel knife.
It pointed ahead, and Lin Yue saw a slit in the ground clearly made by a knife's thrust.
Bai took the knife from here... wait, there seems to be blood on the ground?
Lin Yue noticed dark spots soaked into the soil, staining nearby grass, indicating someone injured had left the knife?
"Bai, is there someone, or a corpse nearby?"
"Gawoo." Bai nodded and led the way, with Lin Yue following closely. After passing a familiar gray-white building, he saw the place where he once fought.
Hotel!
Is someone in the hotel?
However, Bai turned and led him to the tall grass on the right of the hotel.
A large patch of man-high weeds seemed cut down, collapsed more than halfway.
And in the midst of the collapse, Lin Yue found a human corpse.
Its torso was torn nearly in half, exposing the face of a sharp-nosed, deep-eyed person with red hair, bearing a large wound on the neck.
"The body... seems to have been dead for a while."
The odor was quite pungent, but Lin Yue still noticed a shining spot nearby.
As long as it's not rotten, the light indicating Storage Space persists.
Yet, with the body producing such a strong stench here openly, why hadn't some monster winged dragon or bug devoured it?
Filled with perplexity, Lin Yue took the Iron Spearhead and touched the light.
[You gained 4 cubic meters of Storage Space!]
[You gained Steel Spear X1, Steel Dagger X1, Steel Bow X1, Steel Sword X1, Drinking Water 12L, Roasted Jerky 1kg, Camping Tent X1, Steel Arrows X22]
Wow, was this guy a steel enthusiast or something?
How did he come to possess this much steel equipment?
It didn't take long for Lin Yue to figure it out.
He unsheathed the steel knife and laid out the items obtained from the corpse's Storage Space.
After a thorough inspection, he confirmed his suspicion.
"Indeed, these items, are all handcrafted!"