Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

Silver Wolf was immediately surprised: "You need inspiration to defeat the company's mechs?"

"I'm pretty free right now anyway, why don't you tell me about it?"

She immediately became interested. After all, having heard that a tiger was trapped in a cave by a flock of sheep and dared not come out, who wouldn't want to take a look? Even if it was just through surveillance footage.

[Gold Sand: That's really offensive.]

[Star: What's so special about this? She's practically using the company network like a dungeon crawler, and it's not even a high-difficulty one.]

The story of how the troublemaker Scott challenged the troublemaker on March 7th will be told in detail.

Master Gongshu appeared beside them as if in a flash, blending in naturally.

March 7th was extremely dissatisfied after hearing this: "Hey, why am I also considered a 'meddlesome person'?"

[March 7th: The introduction wasn't like this before. Why are the lines different this time?]

[Star: Maybe the last king is afraid of being accused of reusing materials because he keeps showing the same subtitles.]

[March 7th: ...This isn't a game, so what's this about reusing assets?]

After hearing this, Silver Wolf crossed his arms and said nonchalantly, "Oh, is that all?"

March 7th, hands on hips, said with utmost seriousness, "What do you mean by 'just this much'? You're not underestimating me, are you?!"

Master Gongshu's head kept turning as the group talked, and finally he couldn't hold back any longer. He spoke in a half-opera-like tone, with a compassionate tone, "Alas, these young people nowadays... I've been standing here for ages, and they've completely ignored me!"

[March 7th: Huh? When did you suddenly appear? There wasn't a third person before Xing introduced us, was there?]

[Star: Oh ho, there's someone standing here? I was looking down at Silver Wolf the whole time, almost thinking it was a telephone pole. I was wondering why the telephone poles on the Immortal Ship were moving.]

[Silver Wolf: What do you mean? Gongshu is a bit tall, but I'm not actually lying on the ground like a wolf. How did you manage to ignore him?]

[Star: Hehe~~]

Xing then continued in Gongshu's operatic style, "Is the newcomer the most skilled craftsman in melting gold and iron?"

Master Gongshu, head held high and chest puffed out: "It is indeed I, the old man!"

"Master Gongshu is a veteran player of the Ether Front," Silver Wolf said calmly.

[March 7th: Is Master Gongshu really that trendy? He can actually play with Silver Wolf like that?]

[Star: You really can't judge a book by its cover. Looking at Master Gongshu's beard, I thought he was the kind of person who would sing traditional Xianzhou opera in a park while playing background music on a tape recorder.]

[Gongshu: Oh? Indeed, a divine calculation. Not bad, this is also one of my hobbies.]

Gongshu turned around and said to Silver Wolf, "I've found out the information you wanted, but..."

March 7th had a strange feeling of déjà vu, like terrorists meeting with a mole within the police force: "If it's important news, shouldn't we avoid it?"

Silver Wolf didn't seem to care much: "No need for that. If you're interested, feel free to stay and listen."

"A while ago, a player from the Etherfront posted that he had caught a rare dual-attribute Ether Spirit - possessing the characteristics of both Mechanical Ether Spirit and Alien Ether Spirit."

"In other words, its prototype has a mechanical soul similar to the alien ether spirit, enough to cause the ether front's system judgment to be biased... So I asked the knowledgeable Master Gongshu, and now I'm here to talk about this."

"Etheric spirits also have [rare species]?" Xing's eyes lit up. "Can I have one too?"

Silver Wolf waved his finger: "No. Even if you want to collect Ether Spirits, you have to follow the rules. Experienced players will find out the information themselves."

Gongshu recounted what he knew in detail. It was said that the Bureau of Works did indeed have a "Golden Man Gatekeeper" who was very similar to the one circulating online. But the bad news was that the Golden Man, because it was too special, had been thrown into the scrap metal pile as a broken machine.

But Silver Wolf was not about to give up so easily. He hurriedly went with Gongshu to rummage through the garbage dump of the Gongzao Company.

Perhaps because there was no bucket, Xing wasn't interested in it at all. It wasn't until they ran into each other again the next day that she finally asked about it.

Silver Wolf looked disappointed: "Oh, you've come at the right time. Master Gongshu helped me dig out the scrapped [Golden Gatekeeper]... Unfortunately, let alone the [Mechanical Soul], it doesn't even have the most basic [program] now."

[Star: The Machine Soul is displeased, and commits suicide to return to heaven!]

March 7th scratched his head: "Do machines have souls...? You could ask Mr. Screw Gum directly, he might have the answer?"

"What I want is the etheric spirit, not a philosophical answer." Silver Wolf was furious at the mention of that cyborg genius. "Besides, you expect me to ask him politely? No way!"

Xing casually remarked, "It's not like he banned 76 of your game accounts."

Silver Wolf immediately bristled, "You're not allowed to mention this again. I can ban your game account too, want to try?"

Coming to her senses, she was unwilling to have made a wasted trip and said with a headache, "What should we do now?"

On March 7th, he asked another person, "Did you ask Master Gongshu what he said?"

Silver Wolf shook his head: "He's more realistic and doesn't believe in the 'mechanical soul theory'."

[Screwgoom: If you're not interested in clever philosophical debates, then we have a perfect example right before our eyes to prove that intelligent machines can indeed give birth to souls. Miss Lakshmi, her thinking has already broken free from the constraints of ordinary AI formulas.]

[Black Tower: Ha, that's quite an interesting soul, one in a million even among humans.]

[Sai Fei'er: Not so common. That soul is too fascinating; the physical body can't hold it back at all.]

Silver Wolf, however, refused to believe it and voiced his last hope: "...Have you heard of the [Mechanical Spirit School]? They were one of countless extinct schools of erudition, active before the Imperial War."

"These people argue that [machines, from the moment they are born on the production line, possess an inherent soul, but are unable to express it due to the limitations of their physical form, just like humans]."

"This group has a whole set of mysterious rituals for communicating with machines—but everyone thinks they're crazy."

[That Summer: Ha, so this time the truth really is in the hands of the majority.]

[Star: The Knowledge Society... psychic abilities...? Is this something a scientist would do? What kind of weirdos does the company sponsor? With so much money to burn, wouldn't it be better to sponsor impoverished interstellar wanderers, like me?]

Silver Wolf: Don't underestimate them. Although these people are probably not entirely normal, they're not without results.

Silver Wolf recounted vividly, "I heard that all members of this school perished in the interstellar war... Guess what, the attacked flagship returned to their home planet."