Their commission was suspicious.

When an interest becomes a job, that's when your suffering begins.

But thinking about it carefully, Chen Luo's job is that of a traveler and a puppeteer, so it doesn't seem like a big problem.

Raising 16 armed puppets is already quite troublesome, not because they eat a lot. As a combination of weapons and soul steel, armed puppets only need enough energy to sustain themselves.

The main reason is that Chen Luo's house isn't that big.

However, Chen Luo couldn't possibly keep up with 16 armed puppets, and sooner or later he would have to pass the burden onto the Fire-Chasing Moth.

Anyway, the 16 armed puppets will be raised by the Fire Chaser, and the 108 armed puppets will also be raised by the Fire Chaser, so it seems there is no difference. It's just that Chen Luo needs to repair these armed puppets before handing them over to the Fire Chaser.

Moreover, the larger the base number, the higher the probability of picking out an excellent and interesting armed doll.

That's good news.

As for whether the Fire Moth will accept the Armed Doll... as long as the Armed Doll has high performance, the Fire Moth will not refuse.

Moreover, armed puppets don't necessarily have to go to the battlefield; it seems perfectly fine for them to assist in experiments, like the armed puppet Klein.

However, unlike the armed doll Klein, these defective armed dolls were probably made from weapons and are not very suitable for working in a laboratory.

Or maybe we should go back and ask around to find some partners for these armed dolls. Like... Pado.

I'm not exaggerating, but Pado is really even worse than the Armored Doll!

Moreover, the small size of the armed dolls can help with search and rescue operations in some confined spaces on the battlefield.

After careful consideration of how to deal with these armed dolls, it seems there are many ways.

As long as the armed puppet isn't sent to Qian Jie's side, there won't be any problem with him being Qian Jie's adjutant.

Therefore, Chen Luo accepted all of these armed puppets without hesitation.

“Leave your palm print and iris on this computer,” Einstein said, pointing to the futuristic-looking computer in front of him.

The warehouse where Chen Luo and Dr. Einstein were located was quite spacious. It was more like a special operations center than a warehouse. It was bright and airy, and there were some toys matching the size of the armed mascots nearby… but no mascots were playing with them.

The beds where the armed dolls slept looked just like charging cages.

It's not that Dr. Einstein was bad to these armed dolls, but rather that armed dolls should be treated this way, since they were created as tools and consumables.

Giving them basic intelligence is also intended to allow them to improve their combat effectiveness as they fight more battles, gradually adapt to the battlefield, and slowly reduce their mortality.

In this large, futuristic warehouse, there is only this one control center, and all armed dolls are prohibited from approaching it.

After listening to Dr. Einstein's words, Chen Luo imprinted his palm on the palm-sized screen. After several scans for confirmation, the data was being entered.

“After your information is entered into this control center, it doesn’t mean that you are the highest-level holder of the armed puppets. In fact, I had already arranged this before you came. The purpose of you entering your information now is to tell the AI ​​network that is connected to all the armed puppets that you are the holder of these 108 armed puppets. If they cause any trouble, you will be responsible,” Einstein said.

"It doesn't matter, I'll take the blame." Chen Luo was quite confident about this.

"This system is connected to the AI ​​network that controls all the armed puppets, right?" Chen Luo suddenly asked Einstein again to confirm.

“That’s right. Unless there’s an emergency, there might be armed dolls that temporarily refuse to accept the AI ​​network’s commands… for example, defective ones.” Dr. Einstein’s gaze drifted towards the armed dolls hiding in a corner of the warehouse.

Dr. Einstein has done his best to treat these armed dolls well. The composition of these 108 armed dolls is extremely complex. Some are defective products resulting from inadequate preparation in the early stages of the experiment, while others have combat or mental deficiencies due to unexpected weapon malfunctions.

If nothing unexpected happens, once the Armed Doll Project is fully completed, there will be no more defective line masters.

If these defective armed dolls hadn't met Chen Luo, they would most likely have been discarded... truly discarded.

Chen Luo made a sudden movement as he scanned the palm prints of the armed puppets while Dr. Einstein was looking at them.

The AI ​​network that controlled all the armed puppets fluctuated for 0.0001 seconds before being instantly taken over by the swarm network.

Your Mu Continent's armed puppets are quite impressive, but now they belong to me!

Isn't this also a form of NTR?

An individual connected to a group network through dollification is different from an individual who was originally a doll and then taken over by the group network.

Special entities like armed dolls, whose thoughts can be transcribed in a data-driven manner, are taken over by the group network as soon as they are connected to it.

Their physical data is recorded by the swarm network, and their minds are retrieved by the swarm network before they die completely, and then they are reborn in the doll world.

Chen Luo has already found a home for the armed puppets—Silver Earth.

Because both the golden and silver Earths are located further away from the Earth to better match the size of the sun and moon from the perspective of the Earth itself, and their size is correspondingly reduced. However, this makes the various facilities on the silver Earth more suitable for the size of the armed dolls.

After taking over the AI ​​network of the armed puppets using the collective network, Chen Luo didn't do anything else. He left the rest to the collective consciousness of the armed puppets.

"Now they belong to me?" After doing all this, Chen Luo came to Dr. Einstein's side and looked at the defective armed dolls.

"They're yours now. But can you really afford to support them?"

"It doesn't matter, the Firemoth will take action. My influence is still quite useful among the Firemoth's higher-ups. As long as there is even one person among the Firemoth's higher-ups who hasn't become a Fusion Warrior, they will never refuse my simple conditions."

“…That’s great. So how do you plan to take them away?” Dr. Einstein asked.

Dr. Einstein knew that Chen Luo's situation was something he could only envy.

Einstein heard that Chen Luo's special ability could only suppress Honkai energy to a certain extent. If this ability were in someone else, they would probably just be captured and used as a guinea pig for research.

But if this ability were combined with his ability to perform fusion surgery, it would be a decisive blow.

"You are now the highest authority holder of these 108 armed puppets. This command has been programmed into their systems, and many of them have been reworked and transformed into your desired form... If you give them orders now, none of the armed puppets will resist. So, do you need me to help you transport these puppets back to the Moth of Fire ahead of time? Or should I keep two around?" After explaining the situation of these defective armed puppets to Chen Luo, Einstein asked the question.

“Let’s keep them with us. That way, while accompanying Sister Wilvi on her magic tour, we can make full use of the time to fix their flaws,” Chen Luo said.

"Stay? Do you mean all of them, or just a few?"

"Of course we kept them all! After all, a qualified puppeteer cannot show favoritism."

"...I must warn you beforehand that although the plan for armed puppets will be fully implemented after today and will soon be in the public eye to resist the Honkai, walking 108 armed puppets on the streets will still cause a great deal of chaos," Einstein warned.

For a considerable period of time to come, armed dolls will become synonymous with soldiers.

Anyone would be hard-pressed to remain calm upon seeing 108 soldiers following Chen Luo in neat rows.

It's like if you send a soldier to guard the door of a shop, the shop, no matter how bustling it was before, will instantly become deserted.

"Don't worry, I'll show you the latest technology of our Fire Moth!" Chen Luo said as he beckoned Hua over and placed the kettle in Hua's hand on the ground.

In short, if you have anything good, just say it's from a fire-chasing moth!

"Little ones, bring your luggage and line up," Chen Luo shouted at the armed mascots who had been clinging to the edge of the warehouse, too afraid to approach, since he arrived.

As the highest authority over the armed puppets, under Chen Luo's orders, the armed puppets brought their belongings and came to Chen Luo, spontaneously lining up.

At first, Dr. Einstein didn't know what Chen Luo was trying to do, but when he saw the armed puppets jumping into the kettle and disappearing under Chen Luo's command, Einstein instantly understood why Wilhelm had said that Chen Luo wasn't performing magic tricks at all.

This is not magic at all!

"This...this is the latest technology of your Fire Moth? A spatial storage device?" Einstein didn't dare to disturb Chen Luo, but instead asked Vervie next to him.

“Uh, this is classified technology. Yes, that’s right, it’s classified technology.” Velvi hesitated before continuing.

Velvi knew what was going on but couldn't reveal the truth. Moreover, after seeing that Einstein was indeed deeply shocked, Velvi felt that this was very much in line with her magician's aesthetic—surprise!

Before long, the armed dolls, carrying their families and luggage, all disappeared into the kettle.

"May I touch the kettle?" Einstein asked.

"Please go ahead," Chen Luo said.

Einstein picked up the kettle and didn't feel any weight at all.

The latest technology for the Fire-Chasing Moth? Don't be ridiculous!

Chapter 1744 Einstein: The Wandering Earth/Continental Project, Initiated!

"Can I take this?"

“Okay.” Einstein nodded as he looked at the toy Chen Luo was pointing to—a toy prepared for dolls but never played with.

They're just some children's toys.

"Can I take this?"

“Okay.” Einstein nodded as he looked at the portable armed doll rest boxes that Chen Luo was pointing to.

This thing can only be used by armed dolls, so Chen Luo took it without a second thought.

Compared to that, Einstein was more curious about how much stuff Chen Luo's kettle could actually hold.

Isn't that amazing?

"Can I take this?"

"Okay... wait, what are you referring to?"

“Land,” Chen Luo said.

"……no!"

"Oh, then let's compromise. Can I take this machine with me?" Chen Luo patted the big machine standing next to him.

This is a fully automatic, multi-functional solar generator used to power this warehouse.

The solar energy function is not needed in the warehouse, but it can be used to store Honkai crystals.

This generator is also connected to a high-performance processor, which is used to connect to the AI ​​network of the armed doll and to adjust the doll's body.

"...Okay, but I have one request."

"any request?"

"What exactly is the working principle of that kettle you're holding?" Dr. Einstein was completely baffled.

"I've explained, Doctor, and you're just going to let me take this big thing?"

“You can take it without explaining, just consider it payment for my fusion surgery,” Einstein said.

"Oh." Chen Luo nodded, saying as he put the big thing into the pot-shaped world.

"Dr. Einstein, you know about the Sea of ​​Quanta, right?"

“...I’ve heard about it.” Einstein nodded.

As one of the most brilliant researchers in this civilization, Einstein naturally knew that there was a base on the moon, and that the Fire Moth itself was divided into two parts, one on the ground and one on the moon.

And some secrets are recorded on the moon...

Einstein also knew what the Second Herrscher's ability was—the Herrscher of the Void possessed the ability to connect to the imaginary space.

The current pre-civilization already has a basic understanding of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers and the Sea of ​​Quanta.

Otherwise, Dr. Einstein wouldn't have been able to actively sink the entire Mu continent into the Sea of ​​Quanta when the Ninth Herrscher was about to sink it.

It is said that the second Divine Key possessed by the Fire-Chasing Moth has the ability to observe other parallel worlds, and the creator of the second Divine Key...

Dr. Einstein couldn't help but glance at Vervie next to him.

"It's good that you know the basics of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers and the Sea of ​​Quanta. Now I'm going to explain the principle behind this prop called the World in a Pot."

"Okay, go ahead and tell me."

"Trees and the sea are in a competitive relationship. The so-called quantum sea is the graveyard of world bubbles. Those world bubbles in Chen Dao's quantum sea will be slowly digested by the quantum sea sooner or later. This is an unavoidable fact. The principle of this world in a pot is to restrain a world bubble that is about to dissipate and make it trapped in a special tool, so that it temporarily becomes a storage tool."

"In other words, the crystal ball inside the pot is a world in itself. Although it appears to be inside the pot, it is actually still adrift in the sea of ​​quantum mechanics. This crystal ball is merely a channel connecting to that world bubble."

"Although we have captured traces of this world bubble, we are powerless to retrieve it from the Sea of ​​Quanta, and therefore powerless to prevent its demise. In about 13 days, this crystal ball will completely disappear, and this item will naturally become unusable at that time," Chen Luo said, spouting nonsense with a straight face.

Meanwhile, Einstein, standing nearby, was stunned by the idea of ​​a fire-chasing moth.

"Really?" After glancing at Einstein, Wilvi moved closer to Chen Luo and asked in a low voice.

"Of course it's fake. How would I know how this prop works?" Chen Luo replied softly.

Chen Luo wasn't lying; he genuinely didn't know the principle behind the world within the pot.

If it were merely about creating a bubble world, Chen Luo could barely manage it with his current strength—by utilizing the powers of the Herrscher of the Void.

However, the world within the pot in Chen Luo's hands can extract a possible future timeline from another world, and the effect is so outrageous that it can be described as abnormal.

Chen Luo, of course, couldn't do such a thing now...

Unless Chen Luo is willing to go bankrupt.

Adding some raw stones might make it work... but the amount of raw stones needed might be a bit too much.

If 1 raw stones can't solve the problem, then bring 2; if 2 isn't enough, then bring 4...

But clearly, this is more expensive than an SSS-level talent; nobody would be willing to do it.

Wishes will be answered, but using raw stones to make wishes is beyond Chen Luo's imagination.