Chapter 761: Chapter 547: Joining _1 Chapter 761: Chapter 547: Joining _1 Even though Duanmu Huai thought that the Miguel Research station was not worth much, the Foundation clearly disagreed – it’s quite understandable, though. After all, players in the game were desperate to explore Miguel’s lair, stripping it down to even the bottom of their beds, so the more resources that the Foundation could gather, the more their rewards would decrease.
In this world where Duanmu Huai is the only player, it’s possible this is the first fully harvested Miguel Research Station. Therefore, the Foundation was exceedingly generous. Not only did they raise Duanmu Huai’s rank to C Level, but they also gave him vast reward points. They furthermore unlocked several of the Foundation’s special technology projects.
However, for Duanmu Huai, the most significant reward was indeed the Skrenton Anchor of Reality Stability.
“Hmm……how should I trade, I wonder…”
Staring at the project details on the computer screen, Duanmu Huai fell into deep thought. There are several ways to trade the anchor with the Foundation. One is to directly use reward points to purchase, after all, the anchor is a consumable. Just using it isn’t much of a worry.
It’s like buying a gun at a gun shop. It may be a bit bothersome, but as long as you have money, you can buy it.
Although this is relatively convenient, Duanmu Huai did not like it. This was equivalent to placing his lifeline in the hands of the Foundation. Furthermore, he had to fight an Evil God and needed to mass purchase the anchors of reality stability. You can buy one or two guns with no issue, but if you want to buy thousands or tens of thousands, you would have to locate an arms dealer for wholesale.
Putting aside whether the Foundation has such high output or not, Duanmu Huai doesn’t wish to entrust such a matter of life and death to other forces.
The other method, naturally, is to buy the blueprint and manufacture it on his own.
This would consume more reward points – of course, consumption is not Duanmu Huai’s concern. His worry is whether or not Tribunal’s technology can manufacture such a thing.
Even in-game players were not fools; many tried to exchange for the blueprint of the anchor and intended to manufacture it on their own. However, they ultimately failed due to technical or raw material reasons. A player eventually risked his life to investigate, discovering that the manufacture of the anchor was related to a particular item within the Foundation known as the “Mechanical Descent”.
Simply put, if you can obtain the “Mechanical Descent”, then the manufacture of the anchor would not be an issue.
However, conversely, if you don’t have the “Mechanical Descent”, manufacturing the anchor will be very difficult.
The Foundation seems pretty adept at ripping off players.
Of course, players also aren’t so easy to be taken advantage of.
Although some players hoped to obtain the “Mechanical Descent” through official or unofficial channels, unfortunately, it seemed to be the Foundation’s top secret. Players tried various methods, but they could not get any further information about the “Mechanical Descent”.
Among the research staff currently under Duanmu Huai, Sherry specialized in biotechnology, Lumiaire in electronics, Lani in magic and astronomy, and there was no familiar face in the field of physics. Even if he brought back the blueprint, Kukulu and Maria, armament experts, would probably just stare and be unable to make heads or tails of it.
After all, if asked to make a cannon or an aircraft, they could manage, but when it came to things like eleven dimensions and the hourglasses of reality, it might as well be gibberish to them.
If it comes down to it, should I go take a look myself?
Although no player in the game ever obtained the “Mechanical Descent”, they knew that it was located in a secret base beneath the Yellowstone National Park. Duanmu Huai thought that if worse comes to worst, he would make a covert trip there – after all, he did have the Heart of the Blood Raven, who knows if he could silently “borrow” it without getting caught?
“Knock, Knock, Knock.”
Just as he was contemplating, there were knocks at the door, followed by a maid approaching.
“Sir, Miss Mary is here.”
Soon, Mary entered the study, she looked quite serious and somewhat anxious.
“What brings you here today?”
Duanmu Huai looked at Mary curiously and asked. Mary, however, seemed a bit hesitant. After keeping silent for a moment, she finally spoke up.
“I would like to ask… can I join the Tribunal?”
“Oh? Weren’t you quite hesitant before?”
“Indeed, but… what happened at the Baskerville Manor made me realize… this world is actually quite dangerous.”
As she was speaking, Mary looked at Duanmu Huai.
“To be honest, I used to think my world was very peaceful and ordinary, but… there are indeed dangers in this world, aren’t there?”
Given her experiences with Dark City, the Antarctic Shoggs, and the Baskerville Hellhound incident, even a naive person like Mary wouldn’t consider these occurances to be mere coincidence.
“Of course there are dangers.”
“So… if I join the Tribunal, can I gain the strength to eliminate these threats?”
“If you want to, you will have to practice… But how come you seem to have changed your mind all of a sudden?”
Duanmu Huai looked at Mary curiously. He remembered that Mary was quite hesitant previously.
“Because… I don’t want to put my friends in danger.”
Mary hesitated for a moment, then spoke softly. This was the conclusion she came to after much deliberation once she came back: for instance, if Duanmu Huai and Lorena weren’t available, if she and others had gone to the Baskerville Manor as invited, would they have encountered danger? Mary couldn’t say they definitely wouldn’t encounter danger. In fact, Sherry had already encountered a dangerous situation once before, but she merely forgot about it.