Chapter 113 Scales and Eyes <TOC> Chapter 115 Orphanage
Translator: SumTLMan
Li Mu, donning a black cloak, sat cross-legged on the roof of the bell tower. It was here that Li Mei had once picked off the security officers of the security forces one by one with an anti-material rifle.
He completed the preliminary training of the Divine Eye Technique in the Exile Realm, making his pupils appear even more unfathomable, like the depths of a serene pool.
The Divine Eye Technique was unlike other techniques, with almost no room for extrapolation, but it had a high affinity with the Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation Method.
The modified Divine Eye Technique developed by Lia, through the use of Shock Calamity, maintained the psychic energy in a state of high-frequency vibration, accurately following the route of the technique.
Under this state, the efficiency and effectiveness of cultivation were improved by at least threefold.
Now, he could easily count the number of fine hairs on an ant’s antennae from a hundred meters away.
Flocks of birds descended and settled around him, their pitch-black eyes gazing at him.
On the bell tower, at least three hundred birds of various species gathered, strangely maintaining silence.
Li Mu activated his ability, Dream Tether, to read the memories of these birds through their dreams. In an instant, countless complex images were transmitted into his mind.
These complex information streams were enough to overwhelm a person’s mind.
However, he only served as a relay station, forwarding this information to Lia, the brain within the vat, who then analyzed the useful information from it.
Moments later, Lia had sorted out Hicks’s recent activity route from tens of thousands of hours of memories.
Li Mu took out a handful of rice grains soaked in the Sun Spring and scattered them on the ground.
The birds remained motionless until Li Mu uttered a bizarre, ancient tone.
“┯┱┣┡┼.”
Only then did they orderly peck at the rice on the ground.
Appearing as a colossal flying creature in the sky of Avonigarda City, it was difficult for Li Mu to evade the radar detection of the affiliated forces and wasn’t suitable for reconnaissance. Thus, he opted for these small, ubiquitous birds.
Compared to insects, these birds could accept more complex commands, and their souls were strong enough to support the dream world.
These birds had either been taken into the Exile Realm by Li Mu or were offspring bred within it.
In the Exile Realm, Li Mu could directly command them through his consciousness, but not outside of it. To address this, he implanted the Holy relic Soul Whisper, allowing these birds to understand his commands.
Li Mu watched the images sorted out by Lia.
As expected, Hicks had gone to the Kallari Sect to investigate the awakened with control over the White Steel Broken Stream and Electrokinesis techniques. What better place than the Kallari Sect for such an inquiry?
He closed his eyes, casually entered the dream of a raven, and then summoned Tippolava Momo.
Moments later, Tippolava Momo appeared in the dream. He looked around at the simple dream and then focused his attention on Li Mu.
“Turlichen Nu’er, your actions are still as fast and violent as ever.”
Tippolava Momo said somewhat helplessly, having stolen the trusted assassin of Rajaral, he was naturally well-informed about the situation in the city of Avonigarda.
While Li Mu was indeed efficient, he was also too high-profile. It was easy to expose his identity as a diver and involve other divers.
There were quite a few powerful awakened ones in the city of Avonigarda, and even he didn’t dare to be too conspicuous.
“It is for the survival of us divers. In the face of life and death, I would rather make mistakes than do nothing at all,” Li Mu replied.
Tippolava Momo could only shrug, as he still needed Li Mu’s help.
“The information you asked me to investigate, I have found. The Santanu family has been pursuing a man named Naro Kuja, who was once an orphan adopted by an orphanage funded by the Santanu family. The family is very wary of this man, and there is little information about him, only a kill order has been issued. He is believed to have organized and led an armed group of about sixty people, conducting activities against the Santanu family.”
Li Mu believed that the Santanu family, which had ruled the Avonigarda Province for hundreds of years, must have some unknown dark history and that there must be opposition forces.
Therefore, he asked Tippolava Momo to take advantage of his position to see if he could find any useful information.
“An orphanage?”
Li Mu propped his chin with his hand:
“With the Santanu family’s way of doing things, they would actually run an orphanage?”
The Santanu family’s reputation in the Province of Avonigarda was not good, although they had not oppressed the civilians to the point of causing riots like some other states, it could be said that the people were barely surviving.
A thought crossed Li Mu’s mind, confirming that there must be a significant problem with the orphanage.
He closed the dream, and the already fragile dream began to crumble slowly.
“This information is very useful, and I will make good use of it.”
In the quiet bell tower, suddenly a group of birds took off like a dark cloud, dispersing and flying to every corner of the city of Avonigarda.
Someone curiously climbed up the bell tower, only to find that it was already empty.
Li Mu quietly returned to his hiding place in the underground river, tearing off his cloak.
He had already dispatched several of the smartest crows among the flocks to keep watch on the orphanage around the clock.
Shen Luoyan was seated at a work desk, processing the psychic metals she had previously harvested.
Beside the work desk lay a sleek, sci-fi-style rifle.
“What’s this?”
He picked up the rifle; its slender, silver-gray body was exceptionally lightweight and perfectly balanced.
“This is a magnetic railgun rifle I made using iron-electric stones as the guide rail. The body is made of an alloy of air-patterned aluminum and blood-iron, and the internal supercapacitor can discharge at full power five times, supporting ultra-high-speed discharge.”
Shen Luoyan explained.
The most challenging part of the entire railgun rifle was actually the internal capacitor, which took her quite some effort. If the discharge rate of the capacitor wasn’t fast enough, there would be a slight delay after pulling the trigger before the bullet was fired.
This could be fatal in battle.
However, Shen Luoyan had mastered more than one method of producing supercapacitors, so it wasn’t a problem for her.
“So this is made for Li Mei, how powerful is it?”
Li Mu curiously raised the rifle and aimed it.
“Using the armor-piercing bullets made from the blood-iron I produced, it can penetrate 90 millimeters of homogeneous steel within 600 meters.”
Shen Luoyan said with some pride.
Li Mu gasped; he was certain he couldn’t withstand a shot from this railgun rifle, and few awakened beings below the third energy level could resist it either.
Even the main armor of powered armor wouldn’t hold up against it.
“However, the recoil of this rifle is also very high, making long-range sniping quite difficult. It’s probably only Li Mei who can make good use of it.”
As she spoke, Shen Luoyan handed a handgun to Li Mu.
“You can use this instead.”