The Creators: From Night City

Like Sisyphus pushing a boulder, he carried the stone pillar and stepped into the eyewall step by step.

All kinds of debris sucked into the storm were endowed with terrifying speeds. Together with the powerful airflow, they bombarded the armor of [Power] unscrupulously. Under the mighty force of nature, the tough and thick armor soon deformed and became damaged.

Fortunately, Jiang Bing quickly carried the stone pillar through the eyewall and entered the calm eye of the storm.

Himiko, with honey on her lips, suddenly shut up.

Along with the wailing of the torque rotors and titanium alloy skeleton at the joints of [Power], Jiang Bing lifted one end of the stone pillar high and smashed it directly onto the platform where Himiko was kneeling.

Faced with the earth-shattering blow, Himiko, like a dried corpse, actually floated down from the high platform where she had stayed for hundreds of years at the last moment.

The price she had to pay was that her body, which was already on the verge of breaking, was now melting rapidly like ice under the scorching sun, peeling off and disappearing.

Without the stability of the platform, Himiko has entered the inevitable countdown to death.

"I want you~"

Before she could finish her sentence, Jiang Bing, who had burst out at full speed, grabbed her and threw her to the ground.

Jiang grabbed the thirteen narrow ropes behind Himiko's head without hesitation, and tore them off Himiko's body along with a lot of hair.

What a joke! Do you really think the "craftsman's" eyesight is just for show? From the moment you enter the door, this thing has been emitting light wantonly.

Jiang Bing's eyes were almost blinded!

Sure enough, as these narrow ropes were pulled off, the storm, which had already begun to weaken, quickly dissipated like duckweed without water.

"I~"

"Bang." Jiang Bing punched Himiko's dry face hard, blocking her sweet words back into her stomach.

"I, I, dog-foot I!"

Then he added two more punches, dragged the dead dog-like Himiko to the stone pillar, and crushed her back and forth with the stone pillar like rolling dumpling wrappers.

He didn't feel relieved until Himiko was almost turned into a pile of powder and completely lifeless in the eyes of the "craftsman".

Chapter 48: Truck-sized Gold Nugget

Wait until the storm subsides.

Jiang Bing cast his gaze towards the high platform that was smashed open by the stone pillar. In the wreckage of the stone platform, a metal pillar was exposed, extending straight down, and it was probably deep enough to reach the belly of the mountain.

From the perspective of a "craftsman", this piece of metal is emitting a huge light.

So Jiang Bing climbed up onto the platform, but instead of kneeling like Himiko, he reached out his hand directly.

As soon as Jiang Bing's fingers wrapped in gauntlets grasped the metal pillar, his consciousness seemed to flow out of his palm, extending rapidly downward along the pillar, passing through the thick mountain, and finally falling into Himiko's tomb in the belly of the mountain.

As consciousness continued to sink, it eventually fell into a huge silver ore at the end of the pipe.

"boom!"

Jiang Bing's consciousness was like a supernova explosion. Amplified by the unknown silver ore, it penetrated the mountain and spread in all directions.

Yamatai, where the storm has dissipated; Laura and her group anxiously waiting halfway up the mountain; Mackinaw Larimore parked in the ship graveyard; and even further away.

Jiang Bing could even see cargo ships sailing in the distant sea.

The feeling was so wonderful that Jiang Bing couldn't help but expand his vision outward without limit.

Nagoya, Sendai, Pyongyang, Seoul, the bustling cities and dense crowds, all come clearly to my mind.

At this moment, everything within the reach of the wave is included in the "field of vision".

However, the wailing of his body quickly pulled Jiang Bing back from this state of 'omniscience'.

Jiang Bing came back to his senses and wiped the blood flowing from his nose. His body, which had not been injured in the series of battles, now seemed hollowed out and indescribably weak.

The system popped up a prompt after being silent for a long time.

System prompt: Due to your previous behavior, your composition strength increased by 0.2, and your existence strength decreased by 0.3

The personal attribute panel is being listed for you.

Name: Jiang Bing

Qualification: [Apprentice Craftsman]

Class Level: 2 (98%)

Domicile: B33 plane origin planet (Earth)

Location: Earth, numbered HXXD-G9233

Presence Strength: 2.6 (originally 2.9)

Composition strength: 3.4 (originally 3.2)

Creator Database Access Level: 1 (71%)

Number of craftsman badges: 14

Jiang Bing wiped the blood from his nose again and uttered a graceful greeting.

"C!"

No wonder Himiko keeps changing bodies. This is like using her life force to gain power.

…………

After Jiang Bing sent away Laura and others who wanted to take him off the island, he entered the tomb of Himiko in the mountain alone and found this silver ore.

After a preliminary study of this silver ore that was as big as two Behemoth trucks, Jiang Bing sighed.

If an ancient person accidentally picked up a tablet computer with unlimited power and the ability to connect to the Internet regardless of space, how would he use it?

Himiko's answer was to use it as a mirror.

This is considered to be the most secret tomb chamber of the Yamatai Kingdom, and the origin of this meteorite is recorded in gold and silk.

Yes, this piece of ore was picked up by Himiko!

Along with it, golden ore was also discovered, which was made into narrow baskets.

With the analysis of the "craftsman" and a few simple experiments, Jiang Bing quickly mastered most of the properties of this ore.

This ore, temporarily named α, has been found to have two characteristics.

The first characteristic is assimilation.

All metal materials that come into contact with it will be temporarily assimilated by it and have the ability to connect with consciousness.

The efficiency of assimilation is also very high.

Only a weight of less than ten grams is needed to allow Jiang Bing's consciousness to flow unhindered in [Power], allowing it to be controlled as easily as Jiang Bing's original body, achieving a state of unity between man and armor.

This is absolutely the most needed product for craftsmen right now, no doubt about it!

It is worth mentioning that assimilation is not permanent. If α is separated from [power], [power] will lose the above characteristics.

Therefore, the correct use of alpha ore is as a raw material, to be integrated with other materials and give these materials assimilation properties.

The second characteristic is that it has the ability to amplify human consciousness or mental power.

It can also allow people to enter a state where their vision is infinitely expanded, but Himiko and Jiang Bingyong's personal experiments have verified that entering this state requires kryptonian life.

Jiang Binglao felt that this function might be due to the fact that the volume of this α ore was too large, and it resulted in a derivative function of aggregation.

Then Himiko used it to play tricks and developed evil uses such as possessing another's body.

In fact, the intuition of a 'craftsman' told Jiang Bing that as long as α was used, the body would be burdened. However, if the amount was controlled well, the body of an ordinary person could not only withstand it, but could even slowly increase the strength of existence through such exercise.

Jiang Bing’s previous suicidal behavior verified this speculation.

However, if the amount of α is too large, large enough to cause the user's body to fall into a state of overload, the huge load will crush the human body.

Eating too much ginseng causes nosebleeds.

Although the full effects of α are not known, its role for "craftsmen" is still unparalleled, especially for Jiang Bing at this stage.

And I just happened to fall into this world, and just happened to fall near it.

This made Jiang Bing want to ask it when he summoned the [key] to open the door to the 'warehouse'.

"Did you do this on purpose, or was it an accident?"

…………

As Azure Vision said, time has no meaning in this 'port'.

The door to the 'warehouse' in the Tomb Raider world has remained open for over a day, with no sign of closing, and the starlight in the [Key] shows no signs of diminishing.

Just as Jiang Bing was holding the [key] and gesturing back and forth on the wall on the other side, trying to open another portal to the cyberpunk world, thus using the "warehouse" as a transit station to build a portal between the two worlds.

Azure Vision was like an old security guard on patrol, strolling through the suddenly appeared light curtain and into the "warehouse".

It saw through Jiang Bing's thoughts at a glance.

"Don't waste your time. This bug was fixed 11 epochs ago."

Hearing it say this, Jiang Bing could only stop what he was doing.

No wonder no matter how hard he tried, there was no response.

"Why are you here?"

Because of what Azure Vision had reminded him before leaving, the relationship between the two sides is still quite harmonious.

"You have a passage that has not been closed. Let me take a look."

The Blue Vision looked like an elevator inspector whose elevator door couldn't be closed because a customer had blocked it.

Jiang Bing asked cautiously, "Does this behavior violate the regulations of the 'port'?"

The Blue Vision raised its floating body (eyes) and stepped over the soil piled up into small hills. It then walked around the area filled with wood, bamboo, various plants, and animal carcasses. After passing by a dozen sika deer trapped in wooden fences, it stopped in front of a large pool in the corner that was more than half a person's height.

Gazing at the various marine fish swimming in the pond, Azure Vision replied calmly, "That's not the case. It's just that someone forgot to lock the door, causing a large amount of 'hazardous waste' to flow into the 'warehouse', causing serious pollution."

"Hazardous waste?" Jiang Bing savored the words of the Blue Vision.

"A bunch of disgusting, distorted monsters."

Listening to the tone of Blue Vision, the guy who forgot to lock the door didn't seem to let in some deformed monster, but more like a bunch of running monsters.

"What happened to the person who forgot to lock the door?" Jiang Bing continued to inquire about the situation.

Perhaps Jiang Bing's question did not violate the regulations, or it is possible that the Blue Vision wanted to use this story to criticize Jiang Bing, so it responded very straightforwardly.

"What else can I do? I got a bunch of fines and now I have to clean the warehouse myself."

It was a great warning, and instantly extinguished many of Jiang Bing's dark thoughts.

The Blue Vision continued to wander around the 'warehouse'. When it passed by the huge piece of α ore, it suddenly stopped and said something in a surprised and doubtful tone that shocked Jiang Bing for a whole year.

"Hmm~? Where did you get such a big piece of [Mithril]?

Azure Vision moved closer to the ore, staring intently with its eyes wide open.

"It's still at the 'λ' (11) energy level!"

【Mithril】!

Jiang Bing suddenly understood.

If the previous description of the exploration of the two characteristics was a bit confusing, the root cause may be that this is not something purely technological.

However, if the two characteristics are transferred to the magic side, it is obviously much simpler and easier to understand.

[Mithril] has the property of conducting spiritual power. Just add a small amount of it as raw material to forge items that carry spiritual power.

At the same time, [Mithril] can also increase mental power to a certain extent according to the amount added.

However, if the increase in mental power is too large, maintaining this state of mental power overload for a long time will cause mental power backlash and cause the body to collapse.

In this way, α ore is indeed more suitable as a precious raw material for forging magical items.

The craftsman's intuition gave Jiang Bing an instant inspiration. This characteristic seemed to be most suitable for forging magic wands.

"I said I found it in that world, do you believe it?" Jiang Bing pointed at the portal that had not yet closed.

The Blue Vision disappeared from Jiang Bing's sight almost instantly, and when it reappeared, it was already next to the portal.

This move made Jiang Bing's pupils shrink suddenly. He had no idea how it reached the door.

The Azure Vision did not enter it. The huge eyes just flashed blue light a few times and then slowly floated back to its original place.