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Chapter 138 I'm Thinking of Smart Cities, the Righteous Children's Knights

The city lord of [Grasshopper] was making a big plan, while Meng Xiyue on the other side was also obediently releasing bait and showing off her talents.

While translating the 'cutting-edge contemporary academic research' of the planet Duling into 'local knowledge' that Qi cultivators could understand, she also developed some low-end money-making tricks such as making candles using insect oil and burning glass with flames to improve the quality of life of the indigenous people and gain some recognition.

After gradually gaining people's trust, she immediately began to show off her skills, demonstrating the "Decapitation Technique" she had learned from the academy.

They started by refining the most ordinary 'human-level skull', using the simplest and most unadorned methods to transform it into a basic 'skull server. Biological calculator', successfully completing calculations at the 'calculator' level, eliciting gasps of amazement.

She then persevered, and through rounds of trial and error, successfully created the "Classical Basic Mechanics Model" using human heads, which she then displayed, shocking many observers.

The strength of the [classical mechanics model] is not high; ordinary people can defend against it. However, this unprecedented 'mysterious power' and its mode of action, especially its implicit universality, made the cultivators of Grasshopper City feel a sense of upheaval.

Including the [Shadow/Holy Light Qi Refining Technique] created by Yuan Zhu, all of these require cultivation, in-depth contact, and mastery... before they can be made into one's own and reach a higher realm.

However, the Skull Servo that Meng Xiyue presented to Grasshopper City was different. Like firearms, it had almost no learning curve and could be used by anyone. This was quite amazing for Grasshopper City.

So the city lord waved his hand and said: I'll invest in your project!
Soon, more worthless 'heads' were removed from the plantation. Compared to the nutrient-rich torso and limbs, which are better suited for growing flowers and grass, the head certainly occupies a useless ecological niche in the 'human flowerpot world'.

Low-end skulls are not very valuable for growing herbs, but the "Top Three Flowers" needed for refining high-end pills must be cultivated and grown using "Heavenly Rank Skulls".

After a long time, the city lord even brought back several high-level skulls for Meng Xiyue to squander.

This young lady has a daring and aggressive personality; the word 'stage fright' simply doesn't exist in her dictionary. She's willing to take on any challenge.

Moreover, he never holds back, teaching whatever he has and cooperating unconditionally throughout the process, positioning himself as a 'captured, free tool'. He uses the same methods he uses to teach himself in the classroom to sell the knowledge he has learned to these indigenous people, answering all kinds of questions and resolving their doubts.

They even recorded their own teaching videos using the "Mouse" app and then spread them around via an "encrypted channel."

After being exposed by the spicy snack, Yuan Zhu was also forced to watch a segment of "Teacher Mengxi's Little Classroom," the content of which was so cringeworthy it made him want to rub his feet. This guy definitely has a talent for showing off; he has a performative personality.

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In the short video "Decoding Spicy Strips," Teacher Mengxi teaches the core knowledge of her "Knowledge School": cranial servo, or skull server.

Every head is priceless. The stronger the person, the higher the value of their head. Even an empty shell devoid of a soul still retains information about the 'skills' the deceased possessed in life, preserved within the brain's microscopic neural structure.

Even a skeleton that has been dead for a very long time and is completely decayed still retains a lot of information from its life. However, this kind of "information remnant" cannot be extracted, deciphered, or utilized by ordinary means.

But the "knowledge school" is an exception!
With her rudimentary skills as a mere 'sophomore,' Meng Xiyue was able to unleash the hidden potential of each 'monk's head' using crude methods, much like a seasoned computer repairman recovering lost data from a damaged hard drive.

By crafting a head that resembles a pseudo-True Qi martial arts model and connecting it to a 'tube worm (spiritual energy)' power cord, one can hastily activate the head and, with the help of spiritual energy infusion, perform simple True Qi martial arts techniques out of thin air.

This scene is extremely rudimentary within the [Knowledge School], something even a second-year university student could replicate; but for the cultivators of Grasshopper City, it's utterly absurd and defying logic. They can't understand it, they simply can't comprehend it!

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Using this 'cognitive gap', she successfully proved her own usefulness. She made a humble request: to have the Qi cultivators help her hatch the 'Mao Mao King's eggs'.

Because the city lord valued Mengxi highly, he had to take the eggs of the Momo King very seriously, cultivating and studying them as if they were a major enemy.

Meng Xiyue herself has absolutely no interest in raising insects, nor any particular intention about it. She simply tossed them out casually, hoping they would survive, and that would be considered her mission accomplished. Large-scale breeding would be even better if it became widespread.

Unaware of her thoughts, the city lord paid close attention to the 'alien insect eggs,' believing them to be a necessary part of the other party's [Head Skull Evil Art]. Thus, he relentlessly studied, experimented with, and modified them in various ways... His attention to and development of the insect eggs even surpassed that of Yuan Zhu.

After all, Yuan Zhu started from scratch all by himself and only managed to create a mutated version of 'Shadow'; but [Grasswing City] has mobilized the entire city's resources to develop insect eggs that surpasses [Pastoral Village]!
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Later on, the Grasshopper cultivators continued to provide Meng Xiyue with heads to practice on.

Originally just a 'purely academic' sophomore, he relied on his tough personality and fearless courage to happily practice in Kusajing Castle.

With a constant supply of free experimental materials, she practiced again and again. At first, she simply followed the instructions in the textbook, ruining one monk's head after another, creating seemingly impressive but ultimately baffling 'scrap' that shocked the local bumpkins.

Then, by accumulating experience from scratch, step by step, his skills gradually matured, which solidified his already confident Dao heart.

When the most perfect [Skull Servo] in her hands became synonymous with her own learning progress, Meng Xiyue had reached the pinnacle of her life, in sync with her learning progress!

But the next moment, she completely let loose.

Because beyond that lies a complete knowledge blind spot, with no way forward; therefore, she no longer needs a path, directly entering the unrestrained and imaginative realm of "my own contemplation," freely creating and expressing herself... fabricating the future of knowledge out of thin air, and realizing it through practice!
After all, the first person to reach this point didn't have any follow-up teaching materials; they could only try and explore again and again to create a path.
So, in a daze, she created this 'garbage head matrix' based on her gut feeling, and she was smug about it. A feeling of being a genius arose spontaneously, and she indulged in 'I think' and 'I'm crazy'.

On the other side, the city lord, unaware of the inside story, saw Meng Xiyue's cooperation and taught her whatever she had to say, answering all her questions. She even passed the lie detector test with her 'primordial spirit'. In particular, her 'confidence' and 'self-assurance' were so self-deceptive that they even fooled the city lord.

Faced with such an outstanding individual, single-mindedly pursuing higher academic goals, the city lord had no choice but to painfully exploit him. Thus, he boldly proposed various demands, such as connecting the [Skull Servo Matrix] with the 'Insect City. Protective Array'?
One dares to ask, and the other naturally dares to answer.

After a brainstorming session, Mengxiyue came up with an incredible solution: the "smart city".

Yuan Zhu listened to the [Mengxi Broadcast] and was utterly stunned by the young woman's astonishing wisdom after hearing this segment. What kind of 'human-headed Lei Jun' is this? Using a 'Heavenly Rank Skull' to create an [Intelligent Matrix Server], then merging it with the city's protective array, bringing 'Insect City' into the 'Human-Headed AI' era; and then popularizing 'Human Rank Intelligent Skull Server (Mobile Phone)' to ordinary people…

As a result, one side dared to think and the other dared to act, and their cooperation is currently going quite well.

Mengxi Yuebai, having become the City Lord, received a constant stream of heads for her to practice on, essentially starting her "summer internship" early and recklessly squandering the high-level resources the academy couldn't provide. Meanwhile, the Grasshopper City Lord was also freeloading off Mengxi, with her manually crafting various incomplete "fake server skulls," piecing them together to create a "mountain of shit servers," which might just give the Grasshopper's "city-protecting formation" a further round of contamination and evolution.

Even if the 'Skull Matrix' is a huge pile of garbage, don't underestimate the polluting properties of the [Foam World]!

World Will invested in Yuan Zhu, and also heavily invested in Meng Xi Yue, precisely because they wanted this huge investment! They wanted it because it was unreliable!

If it were a precise 'Genuine-Server Skull Matrix,' wouldn't that be a case of the [Knowledge School] invading and possessing [Insect City]? But if it's a large, solid mass, it's easier to corrupt it and claim it for oneself!

At the end of the broadcast, Meng Xiyue continuously analyzed her mental journey, boasted about her achievements and accomplishments, and even envisioned her bright future. She also welcomed other teammates to come to [Grasshopper City] to start a business with her, utilize the power of the insect city, grow bigger and stronger, and complete the mission.

"Being imprisoned isn't scary; we can always return. So, my friends, come and help me achieve my dream!"

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After listening to the other party's [Mengxi Broadcast], Yuan Zhu fell silent for a moment.

Little Spicy Strips replied, "What a fascinating experience, isn't it? She took the initiative and leveraged the power of an entire city. The influence she created is no less than yours, boss."

Yuan Zhu had to admit: "I was being conservative; her lethality is still greater than mine!"

Although he himself had also stormed a [Insect City] and even recklessly detonated the Holy Cough Bomb, his influence was definitely not as great as Meng Xiyue's. After all, his [Pastoral Village] was small in scale and developed slowly in pursuit of absolute control, relying entirely on his support.

However, Meng Xiyue took the opposite approach, letting go of everything, abandoning control, not caring about the subsequent chain reaction, and not pursuing any long-term benefits... She only coveted the immediate 'small gains', yet she was able to leverage an insect city to provide her with money and effort to help her complete the [Human Head Cultivation], and even created a whole bunch of strange 'Human Head Servers', accumulating a huge fortune for her own cultivation.

This will also have a profound impact, and can be further accelerated and expanded through the [Insect City]...

Although he was somewhat tempted, Yuan Zhu quickly made up his mind; he had no intention of replicating the other party's path.

Looking at the yet-to-arrive 'Rust-Red Sky', he waited quietly: "I wonder what the other two teammates are up to now? If anyone reaches the surface, they will definitely receive the [Dream Creek Broadcast]. If it's Zhou Chu... she might go to [Grasshopper City]."

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Meanwhile, the investigator that Yuan Zhu had been longing for was lurking in an underground cave on the outskirts of Firefly City, surrounded by more than thirty thin children with bewildered expressions.

At this moment, a little girl, dressed in rags but with the brightest eyes and in the best spirits, came to Zhou Chu: "Evil righteous big sister, the last new member has successfully overcome the self-restraint of the [Law] and formed the 'Law Chain'."

"Great!" Zhou Chu, clad in crimson knight armor with only his pretty face and ponytail exposed, stepped forward and smiled as he ruffled the little girl's hair. "From now on, as long as you uphold justice and adhere to the laws, you don't need to worry about becoming demonic and out of control, turning into a cocoon. Because you are all protected by the Pale Law."

The little girl pouted and retorted, "Justice can't put food on the table. We've all believed in the 'Law,' how are we going to survive? How will we get food after you leave? We'll die if we don't eat!"

"Of course, it's about upholding justice! This world is full of injustice, and everywhere is a battlefield for fighting the strong and helping the weak, spreading justice, and protecting kindness. As long as you practice the 'path of justice,' you can become stronger, gain power, restrain more corrupt forces, and turn them into your own."

The little girl continued to pout: "You forced us to do this, we don't care about justice."

“But you didn’t say that when I rescued you. You said you wanted to become like me and help more poor orphans.”

"Who knew the [Laws] were such an evil thing, requiring self-restraint? Damn it, I fell for your trick! You're so wicked!"

"Yes! The evil older sister!"

"A righteous female demon!"

"Bad woman!"

A group of children, forced to join the [Law System], surrounded Zhou Chu and launched an attack. He showed no anger, but instead smiled: "You're very lucky. Using the [Meridian Seeds] within your bodies as raw materials for the Laws, you can not only quickly cultivate 'Laws' to curb the risk of 'Human Cocoon Demonization,' but also, by practicing the Laws, bind and contain more 'polluted spiritual energy and immortal zombie whiskers,' strengthening the [Laws]. As long as you're a good person, you can survive even if you eat highly poisonous mushrooms."

"Today, I will also bestow upon you a share of the power of the [Armor], granting your laws the ability to contain and subdue 'Iron Poison.' Thus, as long as you diligently uphold justice, help the weak and oppressed, clean up the demonic insect pollution free of charge, and maintain the safety of the underworld, you will gradually restrain 'Iron Poison,' completing the [Armor Forging] without relying on insect-based pollution techniques, and acquiring the power of the Knights. Furthermore, relying on the [Laws], you will form your own [Knights of Justice], fighting like the 'Undead Knights' on the surface. Unite to fight against injustice and oppression, save your compatriots, and save your world!"

"You bad woman, are you telling the truth?"

"Can we possess the power of both a 'Qi Refiner' and a 'Dead Knight' at the same time?"

Zhou Chu nodded: "Yes, but all of this is the power of the [Laws]. By upholding your laws, you can restrain and subdue the 'Dao Seeds' and 'Armor,' and even more pollution, such as the [Immortals] and those [Giant Demonic Insects]..."

She clenched her fist, inciting the children before her: "Justice! Self-discipline!"

"Tch! When is that 'breeding insects' for resources you mentioned starting? I've already hatched the insects."

“Once you bind this armor gauntlet with your own ‘laws,’ I will help you contact a buyer.”

After saying that, Zhou Chu activated the power of the [Knight] system, disassembling a part of his armor and constructing a red metal glove on the little girl's right hand.

"Hiss!" "Hiss!"... Exclamations and gasps of surprise filled the air.

Even though they had accepted the idea that living people could control the 'knight armor', these kids still couldn't control their innate fear of 'knights'.

This woman is so evil! There's no turning back for us.

(End of this chapter)