So, Mu You revealed additional information regarding Red Sleeve Qiluo to everyone, including ways to counter her attacks, so no one else would fall victim to her again.
The ’Bucket Approach’, this was a method he and Lin Xue had personally tested; it could perfectly suppress Red Sleeve’s chains.
Moreover, after her defeat, Red Sleeve’s weakness had been exposed. It was unlikely that she would show up again soon; otherwise, if Red Sleeve was captured, the identities and locations of her backers would be at risk of being exposed. Judging from their cautious behavior, it’s very likely they wouldn’t let Red Sleeve show up again.
All in all, this matter was temporarily settled.
By the time Mu You returned to the pet shop, it was already noon. He had been busy all day and finally had time to log into the game.
His game character was still trapped in Clockwork City, and he needed to transfer his character out first.
Half a day had passed since then. Mu You thought that the goblins should have cancelled the space barrier by now, right?
However, when he logged into the game and saw the pop-up notification, he was taken aback.
[You are appearing in the wilderness...]
Mu You was taken aback.
He was clearly offline in Clockwork City, so how did he end up in the wilderness once he got online? Could the offline position move?
Mu You was confused and hurriedly controlled his character to look around.
[You wander around, surrounded by barren plains. It’s not a place you are familiar with, and there’s no one in sight...]
[You reach the west side of the plain and finally see an Acidic Swamp. It looks vaguely familiar.]
[Large amounts of discarded alchemical waste have accumulated here. The familiar smell and the littered scenery swiftly confirm your suspicions. This is indeed the garbage dump outside Clockwork City where you used to scavenge. In just one day, everything has changed...]
He didn’t find the Clockwork City, but he did find the original garbage dump.
Which means it’s not that his login location has changed, but rather the Clockwork City itself has disappeared!
"So, does this mean the Clockwork City grew legs and can move?"
Mu You quickly guessed the possibility.
The goblins were trying to kill him before. After he skillfully logged off, they searched for him for a day to no avail and probably assumed he had escaped.
His Mechanical Armor Skin was a huge threat to Clockwork City. Letting such an enemy escape would definitely make the goblins uncomfortable; they would feel the enemy could return at any time. That’s probably why they took Clockwork City and fled.
Mu You was speechless when he realized the truth.
Though this was a strange situation, it was fine. He was thinking of how to escape, but the goblins fled first. This also saved him the trouble of outsmarting the goblins.
[Within the dizzying sensation of teleportation, you appear in Dawn City.]
Once back in Dawn City, Mu You went to find Old Goblin Eugene.
Ever since this mad alchemist was rescued by him from the Dark City Temple, he has been staying in Dawn City.
Mu You thought that perhaps this fellow could be a public NPC in Sky City once he had finished making the Energy Conversion Device.
[You took out the Ancient Power Furnace, the Golden Gearwheel, and a hundred Robot Coils—three mission items —and handed them to Old Goblin Eugene.]
[Eugene’s expression surprised when he saw what you took out. As an Alchemist, he knows how difficult it is to gather these three items. He didn’t expect you to have found them so quickly, and he asked what had happened. You chose...]
The system then prompted him to choose whether to tell the truth. Mu You decisively chose "no."
After all, Eugene was a goblin. If he told him about the uproar in Clockwork City, where he destroyed the clock tower and scared the goblins into running away, Eugene might turn against him and refuse to make the furnace.
[Eugene didn’t ask more when you remained silent, took the items you brought, and went back into his workshop.]
[Ancient Energy Converter is under construction. Estimated completion time: 48 hours...]
Ancient Energy Converter... From the name, it seems like the Old Goblin plans to integrate the Energy Conversion Device directly into the Ancient Power Furnace. Once it’s done, his Mechanical Armor Skin won’t need to add Demon Crystals anymore. He can simply put the Forest Spirit Core in there and get a steady supply of energy.
The construction would take two full days. Impatience was of no use, so in the game, Mu You clicked on the ’City Lord’ option.
After a day of automatic construction, the City Lord’s Castle was successfully upgraded to LV3. The population limit increased by another 10 million, and it also granted more building permissions.
As usual, Mu You added population, upgraded the four temples, Scarecrow, training ground, and so on.
Besides that, he also promptly built three new buildings.
First and foremost was the Underground City.
This was information given by the Son of Heaven. The truth could be found at the bottom of the Underground City.
Dawn City had been hurrying to progress in construction all this while for this very reason, and it was finally ready to start.
After selecting the construction, Mu You hurriedly checked the information.
[Underground City: It is located underneath Sky City. It was built by ancient fools for the tribe to train their combat abilities and levels. Only residents of this city can enter. It is divided into seven levels. The lower the level, the more difficult and dangerous it is.
To enter the Underground City, one needs to consume one point of Fool Prestige. Each person can enter up to three times a day, each time lasting for a maximum of one hour. If one is on the verge of death or exceeds the time limit in the Underground City, they will be automatically teleported back to the surface.]