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Jiang Ning followed behind the Black Tower puppet, looking around curiously from time to time, his eyes full of amazement.

"This is incredible... Seeing the Black Tower Space Station in person is a completely different experience from the game..."

He murmured to himself, his gaze unconsciously drifting to the giant viewing window beside him.

Outside the window lay the boundless universe, with galaxies cascading down and stars like shattered diamonds flowing silently. The extreme grandeur and profundity overwhelmed him, leaving him deeply moved.

"What are you muttering about?"

The black tower doll suddenly stopped and turned around abruptly.

Jiang Ning was so engrossed in the magnificent cosmic scene that he didn't stop in time and bumped straight into the doll.

"Whoa—!"

He snapped back to his senses, looked at the delicate little face so close to his face, hurriedly sprang up from the fallen doll, and took several steps back to create distance.

Almost at the same instant, a huge purple mechanical hammer flew past his cheek with a strong wind and slammed into the alloy wall behind him with a loud "boom", causing the wall to tremble slightly.

The Black Tower puppet's eyes suddenly turned cold, but it remained in the posture of throwing the giant hammer. Its originally mechanical and wooden tone became sharp and forceful.

"If there's a next time, this genius will throw you into space and turn you into drifting space junk."

Wow, he switched to himself online in a second.

Jiang Ning instantly realized that the puppet in front of him was definitely controlled by the Black Tower itself.

He touched his cheek, which was still chilled by the strong wind, and quickly replied, "Understood, Ms. Black Tower."

After issuing the warning, the doll slowly lowered its arm, its eyes returning to their programmed, wooden expression.

"Although you are a key experimental subject, you have no right to make unnecessary physical contact with the doll. This is the first warning, and the last."

Jiang Ning nodded repeatedly, indicating that he had made a mental note of it.

As soon as he finished speaking, the doll pointed to the heavy metal hatch to the side: "This will be your residence, and also your personal laboratory."

Jiang Ning stepped forward, and a miniature scanning port popped out from the hatch panel, with a red laser quickly scanning his face.

After a brief information comparison, a cold, mechanical voice sounded:

"Identity verification complete. Welcome, Special Experiment Subject A-091."

Wisps of white mist emanated from the edges of the heavy hatch as it slowly opened inward.

Jiang Ning cautiously peered inside.

The interior of the cabin is made entirely of smooth, silver-white alloy. The space is extremely spacious and filled with all sorts of intricately designed experimental instruments, with nothing else inside.

He stepped into the room, examined each piece of equipment in front of him, and quickly came to a sobering conclusion—

He couldn't even name the instruments, let alone operate them, and he'd never even seen most of them before.

As I felt a growing unease, the Black Tower puppet followed me in with small, quick steps, announcing in a mechanical tone:

"Until you complete the invention requested by Ms. Black Tower, your activity area is limited to a radius of five meters from the laboratory."

What? !

Jiang Ning suddenly raised his hand and weakly asked, "Um...Ms. Black Tower?"

The doll looked up at him and said, "Speak."

"What about my basic needs like food, drink, and toiletries?"

"We will have someone deliver supplies. Any other questions? If not, we can start work immediately."

Haha... work.

Yes, it's time to get to work...

Hehe... work...

Go to hell with your job!!!

Jiang Ning has no idea how he could make any kind of energy bottle!

They boasted to the heavens, then resorted to robbing Peter to pay Paul; now they've completely messed things up.

He was just an ordinary, miserable working man, good for nothing except being handsome. All the professional knowledge he learned in college had been wiped out during his working life, let alone knowing anything about cutting-edge technology from another world.

"System, help me!!"

Jiang Ning frantically called for the system in his mind.

Unexpectedly, the response to Jiang Ning was not the electronic voice of System [One], but another voice.

"Don't panic, don't panic, there's always a way."

Jiang Ning's act of clutching his head in despair suddenly froze, as he savored the familiar voice in his mind with disbelief.

"Brother! I knew you wouldn't abandon me and leave me to die!"

At this moment, the cold, mechanical yet ethereal voice of this "deity" sounded so warm and comforting to Jiang Ning.

"Okay, okay, I didn't give it to you."

"Wait a moment—I'll give you something really good, although I initially planned to put it as an achievement reward in the later tech tree..."

【Ding--】

A crisp system notification sounded in my mind.

"What good stuff is it, and why are you being so mysterious? Can it really save me from this emergency?"

Jiang Ning opened the system panel with some skepticism, and the familiar blue light screen suddenly unfolded.

A large, dazzling line of artistic font with highlight effects directly occupies most of the field of vision:

[Congratulations, host, on obtaining a special SSS+ level talent—[Divine Talent]!]

[Talent Effect: When conducting technology-related manufacturing and experiments, mental agility is increased several times, the probability of inspiration is greatly enhanced, and the rate of mental fatigue accumulation is significantly reduced.]

Jiang Ning stared at the exaggerated introduction, his lips twitching: "It all seems a bit unreliable..."

God-like talent? Hmm—could there be some side effects? Like turning into a comedic character with exaggerated facial expressions or something…?

"Don't question God! If you don't trust me, then go and confront Him yourself! I didn't force you to brag!"

The deity felt his authority was being challenged and immediately became enraged.

Jiang Ning sighed deeply, closed the system panel, and pulled his consciousness back to reality.

Staring at the pile of completely unfamiliar, sophisticated instruments before him, and meeting the Black Tower doll's cold, emotionless gaze, he forced himself to speak:

"Ms. Black Tower... these devices are so different from the structures in my original world. Could you please provide an instruction manual?"

These are all valuable instruments. If I accidentally break them, I couldn't afford to pay for them even if I sold myself."

The Black Tower doll lowered its eyes slightly, as if it were briefly thinking.

The doll's built-in processor synchronously transmits its requests to the Black Tower itself.

The other side of the distant universe.

Beep beep—

A sophisticated violet smartphone lights up with a notification.

On the soft, large bed, a young woman who bore a striking resemblance to the Black Tower doll, yet possessed a more mature and alluring charm, stretched languidly and picked up her phone to browse feedback messages.

A playful smile curved at the corner of his lips.

"Delaying time? A lame excuse..."

It doesn't matter, I'll give it to you.

"This genius wants to see just what tricks you can pull."

……

A stream of data flashed in the eyes of the Black Tower doll, which then took out a brand-new, slim smartphone from behind its back and handed it to him.

"All data has been imported into this phone. If there is a need for supplies or materials, applications can be submitted directly through the phone, and the logistics department will allocate resources as needed."

The prerequisite is that all applications must serve the experiment.

Jiang Ning reached out and took it, his fingertips tracing the fuselage, a surge of amazement welling up inside him.

The technological sophistication and craftsmanship of this product would have been something he couldn't afford even after working for two months in his previous life.

Did they just give him the Black Tower so casually?

It includes room and board, and a mobile phone. Apart from the lack of freedom and no salary, it doesn't seem to have any downsides...

Fine, I'll bear the consequences of my own boasting, even if it brings me tears.

He unlocked his phone and quickly browsed through the massive amount of data that Black Tower had imported in advance.

The hundreds of pages of professional explanations and illustrations, with their dense text, are dazzling to read.

"Hmm—this is interesting...is it trying to challenge the limits of my brain capacity?"

Jiang Ning silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Fortunately, the [Divine Talent] talent effect took effect.

Jiang Ning could quickly understand about 70-80% of the originally obscure professional terms by simply glancing at them with the accompanying illustrations.