My Ironclad System is ahead of schedule.

The plump woman selling bread said to Bronya with a teasing look on her face.

Upon hearing this, Bronya quickly explained, "This is Ji Yuan from the outside world. He came here to help us, Beloberg."

After she finished explaining, Bronya realized what the plump woman was teasing her about, and a shy expression immediately appeared on her face. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan quickly and quietly kept a distance from Bronya.

"These two are quite shy."

Watching their actions, the plump aunt couldn't help but tease them.

Ji Yuan and Bronya quickly left.

There were quite a few people making these jokes, and they didn't stop until the two of them reached outside the city.

Bronya apologized to Ji Yuan: "I'm sorry, I've never traveled alone with a boy before. So, the residents found it a bit strange. If there's any misunderstanding, I'll explain to Miss Tingyun."

"It's alright, let's get back to business," Ji Yuan said, waving his hand.

"My teacher is just ahead, let's go over there right away."

After he finished speaking, he pointed ahead.

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Amidst the snowstorm in Belleburg, Ji Yuan vaguely saw a beautiful woman holding a pipa standing in the wind and snow. The hem of her cheongsam swayed slightly, and her long, neatly styled black hair curled in the wind, exuding a unique poetic charm.

"What a beautiful scene."

Even Bronya, who had met Nguyen Mai before, couldn't help but mutter to herself upon seeing this scene.

This kind of temperament is truly rare.

Ruan Mei then saw Ji Yuan and Bronya approaching. She stepped forward and looked at the two of them.

"teacher."

"Ms. Nguyen Mai".

Ji Yuan and Bronya greeted her.

Nguyen Mai nodded slightly and said in a very gentle tone:

"I've already installed the star core using the Black Tower method. The rest will depend on the lab being fully set up. By the way, didn't you say you were bringing over the Rift Creature? Let me take a look."

Seeing her like this, Bronya's already calmed heart became even more composed.

While on the spaceship, Nguyen Mai was focused on her experiments, and Bronya didn't have much contact with her. But now, how could such a gentle person be an evil scientist?

What Hanabi said is completely unreliable.

Just as Bronya was thinking this, Ruan Mei smiled and opened the box behind Ji Yuan, taking out a Rift Creature. A wisp of energy appeared between her fingers, which she then slashed across the Rift Creature's body, tearing it open and gutting it.

Throughout the entire process, Nguyen Mai's smile remained unchanged.

This made Bronya's heart, which had just sunk, soar instantly.

If this isn't a mad scientist, who is?

Bronya had doubted Hanabi's claims earlier, but now she felt that Hanabi was being too conservative.

Looking at Bronya, who was in a state of shock, Ruan Mei glanced at her and asked Ji Yuan, "By the way, why did you bring her here? Judging from her appearance, she doesn't seem to be of any help to the experiment."

Ji Yuan immediately explained, "Teacher, she suspects that we will use the people of Belloberg as test subjects. I told her that I don't think much of the human bodies in Belloberg, and then I brought her here to take a closer look."

Hearing her student's explanation, Nguyen May looked at the shocked Bronya and comforted her, "Little sister, don't worry, I'm not interested in the creatures here. Unless some rare plants or animals appear, but you humans won't be among them. My student and I came here with only one thing that truly interests us..."

As Nguyen Mai spoke, she pointed to the star core, which was now well preserved.

“Our only target has always been this star core. Unless there’s a problem with the star core, Beloberg is perfectly safe.”

Hearing the first part of Nguyen May's sentence, Bronya felt relieved. However, after hearing the second part, she couldn't help but ask, "What was the success rate of your previous star core experiments?"

"Star core experiments? I've never done that."

Nguyen Mai was still smiling, but to Bronya, that smile was terrifying.

No, I've never done that before?

Bronya wanted to retort again, but after glancing at Nguyen Mai's smiling eyes, she immediately swallowed her words.

There is both good and bad news for her now.

The good news is that the people of Belloberg don't have to worry about being used as test subjects; the bad news is that the entire planet is now being used as a testing ground.

"Don't worry, the teacher is just joking. Belloberg still owes me money, so nothing will happen." Ji Yuan patted Bronya's shoulder to comfort her.

Bronya felt a little relieved.

At this moment, Ji Yuan asked that crucial question.

"Bronya, I'm asking you, who told you that we were using people as test subjects?"

"It was Hanabi who said it."

Bronya thought for a moment and decided to reveal Hanabi's name. After all, Hanabi started the whole thing, and Bronya felt no guilt about betraying her.

Upon hearing that it was fireworks, Ji Yuan clenched his fist.

"As expected, none of those 'Masked Fools' who believe in Ahab are good people. They could all be executed without leaving any innocent victims."

He made up his mind that once he got back, he would definitely take revenge on Hanabi and make her understand the consequences of his treachery.

"Is Hanabi the Masked Fool?"

Bronya asked Ji Yuan.

"Yes, she's one of the Masked Fools. From now on, don't believe a word she says, not even a single punctuation mark."

"Well, I see."

Bronya nodded seriously.

At this moment, the ship carrying scientific research equipment also landed. Ji Yuan immediately said to Bronya, "Let's go, I'll go and research ways to deal with the Rift creatures, you just watch from the side."

"Uh-huh."

The spaceship carrying scientific equipment was designed from the outset. Once it lands, it will naturally transform into a small experimental center, where Ji Yuan and Ruan Mei can conduct their experiments.

After the pilots left the spaceship, they went directly to find the rest of the company. Ji Yuan and his two companions followed. Ruan Mei wanted to head straight to the laboratory to begin her experiments, but she was stopped by Ji Yuan after only taking two steps.

"Teacher, please wait a moment."

Ruan Mei looked at Ji Yuan, who then drew his longsword, Tianqiong, from his waist and swiftly unleashed a burst of sword energy. After the sword energy passed, all three of them heard a 'sizzling' sound.

"Those people in the company secretly installed surveillance devices."

Ji Yuan said to Ruan Mei.

Their primary experiment is to create artificial Commanders. If they succeed, it will have a completely different impact on the entire galaxy. Commanders are the pinnacle of a power's military might; if they can be artificially created, the balance of power between many factions will be shattered.

The impact of this event can be said to be no more serious than the death of the Star God.

If the company had known the information in advance, who knows how many problems would have arisen.

Ruan Mei said dismissively, "Well, although I don't have your mechanical knowledge, I guessed they would do this. Originally, before you found these, I planned to create some disgusting little guys to give those people being monitored by the company some mental torture. Now it seems that I've saved myself the trouble."

Thinking of the disgusting little gadgets his teacher had made, Ji Yuan couldn't help but shudder.

That kind of thing is truly indescribable; it would drive an ordinary person insane if they saw it.

Looking at the damaged camera, Ji Yuan felt that he had done a good deed.

At least I'll keep you mentally sound.

At this point, Ruan Mei had already placed all the Rift creatures on the testing table and started dismembering them into pieces. Fortunately, these were all energy beings, otherwise Bronya really wouldn't have been able to bear watching this scene.

Ji Yuan leaned over, and he and Ruan Mei each held an instrument.

“Come on, these life forms are products of energy. If we want to develop organisms that can counter them, we simply need to find a new type of organism that can absorb this energy…”

"Yes, that's what I was thinking too. Teacher, Belloborg doesn't have much energy. If we want to mass-produce them, why don't we create a creature similar to the parasitic wasp and use the energy of the rift creatures to fill the energy gap..."

"if it is like this……"

Bronya watched quietly as Ji Yuan and Ruan Mei discussed their conversation. At first, she could understand the gist of it, but when they started using various technical terms, Bronya became completely confused.

But a feeling of sympathy for those beings from the rift couldn't help but arise in his heart. Their fate after encountering these two powerful figures was far from pleasant.

After discussing for a while, Bronya said to Ji Yuan, "Well, I'll leave first. Bellober still has things to take care of. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you today."

"It's alright, the misunderstanding is cleared up." Ji Yuan was very magnanimous towards Bronya. However, after forgiving Bronya, he expressed his absolute unwillingness to forgive the culprit.

"Bronya, when you get back, tell Hanabi that I'll be back."

"Well, I know."

Bronya was equally angry.

I wish I could stab Hanabi's nostril with the tip of my gun right now.

"Ms. Nguyen Mai, I'll be leaving now." After saying goodbye to Nguyen Mai, Bronya left.

[You helped Bronya, the legendary High Guardian of Ariello-VI, escape a scam; the system rewards you with a map of Belloborg.]

Upon seeing the reward, Ji Yuan glanced at the map in his own space.

Then he discovered that the map inside was much larger than the current one in Beloborg.

In particular, many parts of it are marked with mechanical patterns.

Is that where the machinery is placed? I wonder if the builders placed it there before, or if it was built later.

Ji Yuan plans to go and take a look at it later.

On the other side, after seeing Bronya completely leave, Nguyen Mai casually tossed aside the half-decomposed Rift creature.

"You can finish the rest of the work. Creating these creatures is really not challenging."

"Nguyen Mai said casually."

Ji Yuan nodded in understanding.

Ruan Mei then looked at Ji Yuan and reached out her hand expectantly.

Ji Yuan was taken aback.