Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Time slipped away amidst Bale's busy work, and it wasn't until Edu returned home and exclaimed in surprise that Bale snapped out of his reverie.

"Mr. Bell, what are you doing?"

Edu was startled when he got home. He walked close to the wall to avoid stepping on the various objects Bell had scattered throughout the house.

Meanwhile, Edu looked around, trying to see if Bale had once again taken advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on the house.

"Stop looking around, Edu kid. Do I look like the kind of rat that destroys houses?"

A shout brought Edu back, and Bell, clutching a piece of paper, jumped onto Edu's shoulder and stuck the paper with the magic formula printed on it directly to Edu's collar.

In an instant, Edu's aura faded, and his facial features changed drastically.

"What is this?"

"A small tool to change one's appearance."

Looking at the mess scattered all over the room, and Bell frantically measuring his physical condition, Edu suddenly felt that Bell was about to do something.

Bell didn't intend to hide it from him, and earnestly said to Bell:

"I originally wanted to interact with you as an ordinary mouse, but now it's too late. I'm not pretending anymore. I am the King of the Bamboo Forest. I'm coming clean."

With his hands shrugged, Bell said that the Bamboo Forest was now in a critical moment of life and death, and as the king of the Bamboo Forest, he had decided to save it. Edu was the chosen child and the first person to save the Bamboo Forest.

He told a cliché story, leaving Edu confused, but he quickly recovered.

For him, nothing, no matter how strange, is strange when it appears on Bell.

After all, ever since he met Bell, all sorts of strange things have been happening around him. He suddenly became a hot genius and was even able to study at a music academy. It all felt like a dream.

Chapter 126 Portable Rat Set

“I understand the reasoning, but Mr. Bell, I have a question.”

Edu accepted the story of Bell being the master of the Bamboo Forest with astonishing speed and prepared to recruit him as the first hero to save the Bamboo Forest.

Bell said he needed to conceal his appearance and approach high-end groups in various guilds to raise resources for saving the bamboo forest.

Edu said this was not a problem and that he would follow Bale's arrangements completely.

But now, Edu has a question in his mind.

"Mr. Bell, my strength is too weak. If I just show up in various guilds like this, won't I get thrown out?"

Although Edu could accept Bell's proposed action plan, he felt that if he carried it out, he would most likely be seen as a fraudster and beaten to a pulp.

In response, Bale said there was no need to worry, as he had everything planned out.

"At this point, you'll need to put on the set of equipment I designed."

To make Edu stand still, Bell first attached a magical paper that concealed his aura and altered his appearance to his collar, and then put a hastily made metal lining on Edu.

Bell supported Edu's nape from behind, channeling his magic into the metal wires while simultaneously communicating with Edu's magic through his powerful mental energy.

It took Bell about five or six minutes to complete the adjustment, and an external magic cycle based on his magic appeared on Edu.

"This is the portable rat armor set I created. You should adapt to the changes in my magic and feel the changes in your body."

Bell used his mental power to manipulate magic, and Edu's body moved accordingly. He first slowly grabbed the broom in the room and walked step by step to the center of the room.

This is Bale familiarizing himself with the Ratman suit he created. As Bale adapts, Edu's movements gradually quicken and become more coordinated and rhythmic.

Using mental and magical stimulation to take over Edu's body, Bell's mental and magical energy acted like electrical stimulation signals, while Edu's body was like muscles that contracted after being stimulated.

"how do you feel?"

"I can't quite explain it. It's like I'm observing my own body's movements; it's a very strange feeling..."

Edu was somewhat bewildered, while Bale continued his actions.

He manipulated Edu's body, wielding the gun techniques he remembered, and in an instant, he wielded the broom in Edu's hand with great skill.

"As I expected, my intermediate-level spearman knowledge and skills were able to be transferred to Edu."

The knowledge and skills originated from Bell, and with the combination of magic and mental power, they were successfully replicated on Edu, but this replication was not perfect.

There was a noticeable delay between Edu's actions and Bell's mental energy output, about 0.2 seconds, which was due to the iron ingot, a conductive material, affecting Bell's operation.

If Edu were to be allowed to fight in actual combat, Bale would have to deal with the huge delay and rely solely on prediction to defeat his opponent.

This is a difficult thing, but compared to minor issues like delays, the fact that Bell successfully implemented the portable mouse suit is truly outrageous.

Without those 150 points of mental strength and Edu's complete cooperation, Bell simply couldn't have done it.

“According to the stories from my hometown, you should go out and tell the people who bullied you that things change over time.”

"What does it mean?"

After jumping off Edu, Bell disassembled the various parts of his old rat suit and told him a story about how he was deified.

"It's about a young man who was ridiculed as a loser, but through climbing step by step, he successfully reached the top of the world. A very important character in the story is an old man in a ring, who is the young man's mentor and guides him along the way."

"Like Mr. Bell?"

"more or less."

Scratching his head, Bell continued designing and perfecting his personal rat suit.

The metal wires constructed from iron ingots needed to be finer, arranged in a more rational manner, and woven into a leather lining.

The Outer Form of the Old Rat Set consists of a set of leather armor and a hooded cloak that conceals its aura and alters its appearance.

"Mr. Bell's design looks amazing, but Mr. Bell, do you know how to sew or knit?"

While Bale was working enthusiastically, Edu's curious question left Bale somewhat embarrassed.

He only designed the internal structure of the portable rat suit; for the external leather armor and other components, he only had a rough idea and no detailed design.

After all, Belle didn't have any sewing skills.

He used the adventurer knowledge and equipment forging knowledge he absorbed through [Fire-Loving Wisdom] to barely create the internal structure of his personal Rat Old Set.

"If we're going to disguise ourselves with a completely new identity to approach those high-level adventurers, our equipment has to be top-notch; it has to be extravagant enough to impress them."

Bell was somewhat surprised that Edu had suddenly found a detail he had overlooked.

Edu said he has been observing all sorts of people in the market these days, especially adventurers from out of town.

Adventurers with dazzling and sophisticated equipment usually attract a lot of attention in the market, much like people who flaunt their wealth by driving sports cars.

"These kinds of people are usually not here to fight; many of them are here to do business, such as bringing goods from other places to sell or quickly buying up supplies produced in the City of Bones."

Edu recounted his discovery, which gave Bell a completely new perspective.

He knew what identity he should use in the markets and various professional guilds of Cangxing City.

After dinner, Bell and Edu went out.

Edu, carrying the lining of Bell's old rat suit, arrived at the home of the Asian weaver in Azure Star City.

At that gathering of demi-humans, Bell only ate and drank, but Edu left his contact information with the group of demi-humans. The demi-humans were used to sticking together for warmth, and they all said that if Edu needed help, he should just come to them.

This time, Edu planned to ask the leopard weaver for help.

Belle has already drawn up the blueprints. For a life skills professional like the leopard woman who is only half a step away from becoming a high-level weaver, fulfilling Edu's request is not difficult.

I don't know if it's because of Edu's constitution, but this guy is very popular with older women, and the leopard woman agreed very readily.

She said she and her husband would work together to get the thing made as quickly as possible, and that they hadn't even received a deposit.

"The leopard woman is a very skilled weaver, and her husband is a very skilled leatherworker. With their help, I believe we will soon see the complete portable rat suit."

Chapter 127 The Gunman Named 'Ning'

“Edu, the leather suit you’re making may look rough, but the design is exquisite.”

It took Sister Leopard two days to perfect the portable rat outfit.

This is a very fast crafting speed, since she doesn't need to consider the actual protective effect of the equipment or additional magical protection capabilities; she only needs to assemble it according to Bell's design blueprints.

"It's strange, really. The design of this garment only focuses on the part that facilitates the transmission of magic, without considering any specific protective performance. The design is novel but very impractical. It must have been designed for a certain situation or profession."

"Please keep this equipment a secret."

Edu received the Rat Old Man Set from the leopard woman and thanked her profusely.

The market price for this set of equipment is fifty gold coins, but as a fellow demi-human, the leopard-woman only charges Edu thirty-five gold coins for material costs.

Edu, who didn't have that much money on him, originally planned to give ten gold coins first and then find a way to slowly make up the balance later, but the leopard woman indicated that he didn't need to give the money in a hurry.

"Although I don't know what you need this equipment for in such a hurry, I still have to remind you to be careful in everything you do. If something really happens that you can't handle, just come to us. At worst, we'll send you to Sixwings City."

After receiving the portable rat armor set from the leopard woman, Bell still needs to refine it. The framework she provided is not the complete set; there are still various detailed parts to refine, and the magical effects have not yet been added.

Simply taking the framework created by Bell and applying it elsewhere won't be very effective.

During the two days of crafting the set, Bell followed Edu to the music academy to explore the structure of the magic circle. Although he didn't dismantle it to understand its structure, Bell still gained some understanding of the magic circle's composition.

Meanwhile, over the past two days, Bell has been keeping abreast of various market information in order to make his subsequent identity fabrication more plausible.

Of course, Bell's main focus during this period was still on further improving the old mouse suit.

Back at Edu’s house with the set of equipment, Bell immediately went into overtime mode, disassembling the stitched leather armor and adding all sorts of parts and details.