The workshop was deathly silent, no one responded.

But in the silence, the head in Ji Jue's hand seemed to move slightly, as if out of curiosity. But that was just a natural twitch caused by the mutated erosion.

The eyes remained hollow.

"So lonely, it's been so long, no one has spoken."

Ji Jue sat in the chair, sighing as he stroked the head in his hand: "Thankfully you came to visit, otherwise I might find a volleyball and draw a face on it to make a friend."

The head was silent, just as hollow as a mirror's reflection.

"In your view, what is the world like?"

Ji Jue asked curiously: "Not what you see in front of you, not something far away, not even this Luye Island. But, this world."

He lifted his hand, fingers curling and contracting.

"The feel when you touch, the wind against your face, the smell in the air when rain falls, the heartbeat intervals, the pulse, all exactly like reality.

A few days ago, I tried performing a minor surgery on myself, and even the condition of the internal organs was no different from reality. To achieve such a level of realism, this must be a Heavenly Artisan, right?

So, have you ever thought that perhaps this fake world is not much different from the real world?"

"Though I know it is fake, it should all be event simulation, there could be air walls or other obstacles—"

Ji Jue shrugged: "But I just can't help it."

So why not give it a try?

After all, the opportunity is right here; it's hard to miss by just walking by.

Since I'm here, and the child is still young.

"Anyway, after the showdown is over, everything will revert back to normal, right?"

He looked around and asked softly: "So why not take this moment, while the showdown is still ongoing, to test your own limits?"

At that moment, accompanied by a vast echo ebbing like the tide, mercury flowed through the walls, with a pumping roar, as if from a hydraulic press, emerging from the ground below, unveiling layers of sealed structures.

The workshop rooted deep in the earth veins slowly rose...

Then, the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked.

The flame element explosives buried in the rock detonated in chains, sending air waves and fire surging outward, evaporating the rainwater.

The mud slid down like a tide.

And the towering mountains, like peeled oranges, revealed the metallic cold gleam within.

The workshop functioned, rotating.

Like a Rubik's Cube.

The enormous structure rose under the guidance of tracks, unfolding layer by layer.

And at the mountain's peak, behind the slowly opening gates, a dark well-like abyss appeared, followed by mercury flowing upward against the rock, hardening, instantly turning into a gigantic, silver gleaming vertical shaft.

After shedding the restraints of other modules, the core melting furnace workshop, accompanied by the contraction of walls and ceiling, gradually rose, supported by mercury.

Like a bullet being chambered!

Countless Mercury Hands came from all directions, welding light burst forth, sealing Ji Jue and the 'visitor' within. When the final rivet was driven into the steel, the rough and bizarre rocket, already on its launch pad, was ready!

From the end of this metal shaft, looking upward, one could see nothing but pouring rain, pitch-black clouds, and no sight of the distant night sky or stars.

In a darkness filled only with void.

"To be honest, when I was a child, my first dream was to become an astronaut."

In the flow and transformation of Mercury Clothing, a buffer suit appeared on Ji Jue, wrapping him into a big fat person, and placing the crucial guest into another container.

Right next to him, not interrupting the enthusiastic conversation.

"After I got into Tianmen, I actually thought, if I could become an engineer, I would submit my resume to the Federation Aerospace Bureau! Even if I couldn't become an astronaut, if a rocket I built could reach the moon, it would count as realizing my dream, right?"

"But unfortunately, that damn Congress gave up the moon landing project to start some space war..."

"Damn the space war, space-based weapons, and whatever space strikes!"

"Who the hell cares!"

Ji Jue cursed, pounding a fist on the box containing the head: "Those power-obsessed scumbags, how could they understand the beauty of technology and exploration, right?

Counting on those idiots to one day contribute to aerospace, I'd rather do it myself!"

Boom!

With a loud bang, the fixed racks fell off, dissolved, turning into mercury flowing in all directions.

The melting furnace overclocked, intense heat rising in the narrow cabin, shockwaves trembling fiercely, gray-black spiritual fragments burst forth.

From the reactor compartment, from those batteries, the souls of the evil beings howled silently and shattered in the flames of the melting furnace, turning to ashes from the extrusion.

In their place, the bottom spewed out blood flames!

"Don't be afraid, this is a small step for modern alchemy, but a giant leap for human aerospace!"

Seated in the multi-layer protection safety chair, Ji Jue patted the 'roommate' on the head, cheering: "With this experience, even if I went to the Desert Market to run for champion, I could tell the brothers— our gang made it to the moon! Right?"

Boom!!!!

The roar of the explosion erupted beyond the layers of seals, the ground trembled violently, raging flames spurted up, surging through the narrow metal shaft.

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