Roaming the universe, all thanks to your many dark skills!

Over the next day or two, the carving books, tools, and materials that Rosen had purchased that evening began to arrive.

So apart from his internship in the hospital, Rosen spent most of his time learning and practicing sculpture.

In fact, for Rosen, getting started with carving is not a difficult task. After all, he has LV3 mastery of knife skills and LV4 antique identification, which makes his starting point much higher than other beginners.

Or to be more precise, he actually knows everything, but he just lacked the opportunity to integrate it into another skill.

Now the opportunity has come. As long as he uses the knife in his hand to express his knowledge and understanding of antiques, especially Buddha statues, gold and stone carvings, on the stone in front of him, a lifelike stone sculpture will naturally be created.

It was indeed successful, but he did not learn a new skill.

This made Rosen feel quite complicated, but he did not give up. Instead, he practiced carving even harder...

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"Assistant, I want to know what worlds I can choose for my next adventure?"

"Your alternative worlds are: 1. Alita: Battle Angel, 2. Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Wrath of Xiangxi, 3. Train to Busan, 4. Pacific Rim, 5. Random"

"1. Alita: Battle Angel."

"Are you willing to spend 3200 points to enter the currently selected world?"

"Yes."

"Do you want to enable permission: Travel companions? The current number of companions that can be brought: 2, alternative companions: 1 Diana, 2 Luo Youwei, 3 Tony Stark, 4 Bruce Banner, 5 Steve Rogers."

"no."

"Before entering the current world, did you use the authority: upstream?"

"Yes."

"The authority has taken effect. The countdown to officially entering the world is 119:59:59."

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In the apocalyptic era, half-human, half-machine physiological structures have become quite common. Humans and mechanically modified humans coexist, and the law of the jungle is the only law of survival.

One day, surgeon Dyson Ede found the remains of a cyborg girl in a garbage dump and took her home. He gave her a prosthetic body that was originally prepared for his deceased daughter and named her Alita.

After waking up, Alita completely lost her memory and knew nothing about her own life.

But she developed a strong interest in this colorful, yet violent and cruel world.

By chance, Alita was surprised to discover that she had an extraordinary fighting talent.

But before she could be happy for too long, huge troubles came one after another. Repeated battles and hunting stimulated her awakening. Alita gradually realized that she was destined to be born for battle.

What made her even more curious was the mystery of her own life experience...

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In the 26th century, the vast and magnificent floating city of Salem towered high above, and below was a shabby garbage dump filled with all kinds of scrap metal, and a scrap iron city made up of narrow, cramped and overcrowded buildings. (Note)

The morning light poured down from the sky, bringing warmth to Salem, but cast a huge black shadow over the garbage dump below.

At this moment, a black-haired man was walking in the garbage dump.

Although the surroundings were filled with pungent oily smells and metal garbage, he gave people the feeling of strolling in a garden and enjoying the boundless spring scenery, his eyes scanning the surroundings as if looking for something.

He stopped in front of a huge pile of metal garbage that looked like a small mountain and had been there for who knows how many years.

With a casual move, a thick vine with a huge flower ball on top emerged from the mud at his feet. It was actually a poisonous flower vine.

This man is of course Rosen who has traveled to this world a long time ago.

"Take it out." Rosen ordered casually.

hiss.

With a cry, the poisonous vine sank into the soil. When it reappeared a moment later, it had a huge metal insect egg in its mouth.

This metal insect egg was extracted by Rosen after he killed the Diamond Demon. At that time, it was only about one foot tall and was still in the process of hatching.

But now it has expanded a full circle, and its state has changed to hatched. When Rosen saw it, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

The successfully hatched metal insect eggs are Rosen's greatest achievement since he came to this world early by traversing the river.

At first he came to the garbage dump just to find Alita as soon as possible.

However, this landfill is full of metal garbage thrown from the city of Salem in the nearly three hundred years since the Battle of Skyfall. One can imagine how vast its scope is and how huge the amount of discarded metal is.

It's really not something that Rosen could search through in a day or two.

Although the idea of ​​taking Alita away early failed, Rosen unexpectedly discovered that the metal insect eggs that had been motionless since entering here and since they were in his hands actually reacted.

So he thought that this was probably the best place to hatch metal insect eggs, and immediately let the poisonous vines bury them underground in the largest metal garbage dump.

Apart from Rosen coming here for a walk every day without fail, most of the time it is the poisonous vines that silently guard here and help Rosen find Alita's remains.

This wait lasted for nearly five months, until today, the metal insect eggs that had been in the incubation stage finally changed their state.

In ecstasy, Rosen couldn't wait to see what would hatch from the metal insect eggs.

When he took it in his hand, Rosen not only felt the coolness of the metal and the slippery taste of the flower vine's saliva, but was also pleasantly surprised to detect a slight vibration coming from within the insect egg, as if the life nurtured within it had awakened.

Just as he was thinking about how the metal life inside would break out of the shell, he suddenly saw dozens of tiny cracks suddenly appear on the seamless metal insect egg, and then began to slide and flip, making a sound that Rosen was very familiar with: crackling.

The next moment, a giant metal insect nearly one meter long and with a ferocious appearance appeared in front of Rosen.

This thing is like a miniature version of the Drill Demon. Judging from its shape, it does look a bit like a metal earthworm, but it is covered with sharp spikes and drills all over its body, making it look quite aggressive.

Especially the front end of the body, in addition to the mouth full of sharp teeth, there are also dozens of slender tentacles with sharp drills and serrations, making it look even more ferocious and terrifying.

At this time, it was crawling in Rosen's hand. Apart from scanning Rosen's appearance and recognizing his master at the beginning, it did not dare to look up at him again. It was so respectful that it was almost humble. It did not have the arrogance, domineering and lawless spirit of the Li Zuanmo in the original plot at all.

"Ding, the new mechanical monster has recognized you as its master. From now on, it will completely obey your orders. Even if you tell it to die, it will do it without hesitation."

"Note: Loyalty is priceless, please treat your servants well."

Rosen stroked its smooth back and said, "From today on, you will be called Huang Quan." (Note 2)

Huang Quan nodded, making a series of metallic friction sounds.

Note: Some versions translate it into Steel City. I personally prefer this Scrap Iron City because it has more of a doomsday flavor.

Note 2: The earthworm has no sharp claws or strong bones, but it eats dust from above and drinks water from below, and it is very focused!