577.Chapter 575: 574 Old Flywheel and His Hunger Factory for “Huo

Chapter 575: Old Flywheel and his Hunger Factory – For Brother “Huo Zheng Quite Good” [1630].

The strange owner of Hunger Mountain called Murphy’s name and called him a “famous” lord, which fully indicates that there are people outside of Transylvania who have already paid attention to Murphy.

But His Lordship was not surprised.

Shani had reminded her that the Thieves’ Guild established by the halflings monitored the whole continent, which was the biggest intelligence organization in the continent, and Thicke Flywheel was a halfling with a mysterious origin, it was not a strange thing for him to be able to use the Thieves’ Guild’s channels to learn about the situation.

As far as Murphy’s own musings were concerned, he thought that a guy who could stand firm in a place like Hungry Mountain could definitely not be some kind of stupid white sweetness, Thiok Flywheel’s behavior of recruiting a group of ogres as escorts looked amusing, but this guy was definitely one of the most complicated people Murphy had to deal with since he was reborn.

As we all know, in most contexts, “complex” means “dangerous”.

After passing the barrier of the four hungry brothers, Murphy was able to walk from the platform on the mountainside into the hidden space of the mountain, and soon felt a wave of heat hitting his face.

When he walked through the natural cave, he saw several heavily armed bear goblins patrolling in front of him.

It was a humanoid creature with green skin and a body of more than two meters, shorter than a jackal savage soldier, but taller and more robust than a human.

Their most famous feature was a pair of pointed ears, much like those of the elves, but their grooming was much more scruffy and smoky than the elves’, mainly because these guys had fangs and long hair.

Their entire body is covered in not-so-thick hair, giving them a savage look and feel.

Bear Goblins are also the indigenous creatures of the Dark Mountain Range, this race has huge individual differences, these Bear Goblins in front of Murphy belong to the normal individuals, but Tris has seen a huge species of Bear Goblins that are the same size as the young Ogre.

They do not have their own civilization, but the bear goblins are one of the few creatures in the Dark Mountain Range with high intelligence, so they have a city of their own near the Eternal Rift.

Bear Goblins have a peaceful personality and some psionic talent, they will occasionally organize their own caravan to travel around the Dark Mountains to do a little business, there are also some Bear Goblin travelers and mercenaries on the continent, these guys have a good brain and their fingers are as flexible as humans, so they can make pretty good goods.

This is the first time that Murphy has seen bear goblins, and it is also the first time that he has seen so many bear goblins gathered together.

Following the direction of those bear goblin guards wearing rough but heavy steel armor, Murphy could see a “factory in the mountain” in operation, tools like waterwheels rotating to lift the magma below into the forging grooves, and several bear goblin workers carrying heavy ores poured on top of the magma in the hot air.

Then the operator high above pulled the lever to let the heavy forging hammer fall, bang on the ore in the sparks.

It was an ingenious device, after the forging hammer smashed the ore and let the minerals in it melt in the smelting of the magma, it went to the next process along the flow channel, where it was divided into three different streams of workers, there were those who carried forging hammers and struck the iron to forge weapons, and those who carried molds and poured some parts, and lastly a group of Bear Goblins manipulating peculiar tools were refining the ore.

The entire factory area is very large, the number of bear goblin workers is also quite large, at a glance there are at least two hundred people laboring.

It could be called a fervent work.

Murphy also saw a very similar to the mine car track things, directly from the center of the factory extends to the bottom of a natural cavern, where there are some bear goblins waiting for a carload of iron ingots were sent over for secondary processing.

This is not just a simple factory, they have developed a “processing center” concept, at least Murphy can see the area there are weapons, armor and engineering items in three workshops.

Thicke Flywheel must have spent a lot of effort and a huge amount of money to create such a big scene in the Hungry Mountain, I heard that he has been in this area for more than 40 years, it seems that this halfling warlord has really made a big job without saying a word.

What’s more, Murphy saw bundles and bundles of weapons and crates and crates of armor being loaded up on the way to the lab, seemingly to be transported to other places.

The style of these weapons and armor were not for humans, dwarves or vampires.

“This bastard is doing business with the jackals! The weapons he’s making here are for the Jackals to use in waging war, blanch, if I were a hero, I would have found a way to blow up this evil factory by now.

Sadly, I’m not.”

A realization came to Murphy’s mind.

With a grunt, not comfortable for him as a vampire in this scorching place, he walked briskly forward to follow the guidance of the core jewel toward Thicke Flywheel’s lab.

That place was deeper in the factory, just a hole in the mountain.

And it wasn’t until this point that Murphy realized with hindsight why Thiok Flywheel chose Hungry Mountain as his home base; it was an active volcano with enough magma and heat below to provide the factory with the necessary forging materials.

This guy was really crazy enough.

He is not afraid that one day some silver dwarf high priest with a strong sense of justice will pass by here, and with one shot of “volcano activation”, all of his foundations along with himself will be destroyed?

Uh-huh.
Considering that even Marshal Loren needs to buy the arithmetic beads that are forbidden to be exported by the halflings from Thicke Flywheel, this guy is probably not afraid.

Well, mastering the core technology is awesome, and doing whatever he wants doesn’t even begin to describe the arrogance of this wild warlord, Thicke Flywheel.

“Hey, stop! You need to be searched before going in.”

Just as Murphy entered the cave where the lab was located, a sharp voice with a bit of a strange metallic tone rang out in the darkness ahead of Murphy, causing the vampire to frown instantly.

It was a halfling in assassin’s attire, and from the silhouette it seemed to be a woman.

A halfling was, as the name implied, an individual half the height of a human.

They were short, even a little shorter than dwarves, and their bodies were thin with a sense of slenderness.

However, most of the halflings are not ugly, their appearance and their bodies have the same kind of “exquisite” feeling, which makes the civilization camp, which always likes to judge people by their appearance, undoubtedly confirm that the halflings are the members of civilization.

What’s more, the halflings possessed the first-class intelligence on this continent.

The brains of these small people are really good, and they can empathize with humans, and most of their feelings are mutual, which creates a rather awkward fact, such as the mixed race.

The most numerous hybrids on the continent are humans and elves, after all, in human lore elves have always been synonymous with beauty, purity and nobility, but the second most numerous hybrids uh, if you’ve ever met little Sherron’s mother you’d know that degenerate things like humans go into heat with halflings
Ah, sounds like this civilization is hopelessly lost to me.

Murphy remembered seeing halfling merchants in his long-forgotten and vanished hometown of East Prussia, but these timid “pacifists” almost never went to Transylvania.

They feared the roughness of the Transylvanians, and the Transylvanians, who worshipped strength, rightly despised the weakness of the halflings.

But that wasn’t the main reason why Murphy felt that the halfling assassin in front of him was strange.

Murphy did not have any bad feelings towards halflings, what really made him frown was that there was no “blood” in the body of the guy in front of him, after binding the candidate and awakening the scarlet secret energy, Murphy could sense and manipulate the blood, but the guy in front of him did not have any weaknesses that could be exploited by him.

“You’re a robot?”

Murphy said warily:

“Has the Halfling’s black technology developed to this point?”

“A robot? Ha, what a stupid layman’s term.”

The Halfling assassin whose identity had been called out let out a piercing scoff as the fellow moved deftly close to Murphy, then raised his head to stare at him, with a pair of strange, unmistakable ruby eyes underneath the assassin’s veiled face.

She said:

“You’re certainly not a steam engineer, and I don’t expect even an ounce of intelligence to be born in your stupid vampire brain… I’m going to search you… You don’t have any quirks, do you? Shouldn’t have a bite on my neck to try and turn me into a vampire?”

“You don’t even have any blood, ma’am, the blessing of midnight has left you forever, you’ve lost a possibility of walking into the night for the rest of your life forever, but I don’t really think you’re going to feel sorry for it.”

Murphy stretched his arms out flat and said:

“Search, just don’t touch.”

“Ha, you vampires are a lot nicer to talk to than those of your compatriots who came by earlier, who were a bunch of dumbasses, you know? They called me a monster. Bah, a hick who’s never even seen an Occult Steam Wraith!

Don’t bother talking to them much.”

The voice was ear-piercing, the small person who called herself “Steam Puppet” moved nimbly and touched Murphy’s clothes, there was an odd instrument on her wrist that ticked like a detection device, and when she was close to the mechanical shotgun behind Murphy’s back, the thing suddenly made a piercing sound.

“Whoa! An engineering marvel!”

The chattering little man screamed:
“A thing that morphs must be a miracle creation! Maybe it’s the legacy of the Creator! You’re a mysterious vampire, hey, can I see your big baby? Handsome vampire, I promise I’m just looking, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen such an awesome legacy of creation.” “Of course I can touch it for you, I’m here with good intentions after all.”

Murphy glanced at the guy as he removed his shotgun:

“But you can’t look at it for nothing, can you?”

“I don’t have any money, everything I have belongs to Thicke Flywheel, and as you can see, the poor halfling in front of you has lost everything but a functioning brain.”

The steamy mannequin feigned pity:
“I have no possessions of my own, in fact at a single command from Flywheel I would have to pop out the high powered cutting saw on my wrist to slit your neck and patch your heart with two more gold burning high explosives.

For someone who used to be a high-ranking member of the Assassin’s Guild, it’s pretty miserable that I’ve ended up in this position, isn’t it?”

“Since you were a member of the Assassin’s Guild before, do you still take jobs now?”

Murphy handed the shotgun that the Manifestation Device had changed into to this Steam Demon Puppet as he said:

“I’m in great need of some powerful people to support my camp over at Desolate Mountain, so if you can do it cheaply, I’ll be even happier.”

“Oh, as long as Flywheel agrees, I have no problem with that.”

That demonic puppet was very pleased to play with the cool mechanical shotgun as she said:

“You can call me ‘Jasmine’, it’s a code name of course, but I feel like we’re already friends, so I’ll try to be gentle with my hands if someone places an order for a bounty on your head in the future, handsome vampire boy.

Get going, the flywheel is waiting for you.

Oh, and as an extra reminder, don’t touch any of the liquids he pours for you, Flywheel is a master alchemist in addition to being an awesome engineer.

That guy is a real genius!
Unfortunately, being dumped by his little girlfriend and being green by his best buddy has caused him to be a bit off in the head right now.”

“Thanks for the reminder.”

Murphy smiled, straightened his clothes and put the Necessary Evil in the storage box by the door before pushing open the door to the lab, then he wondered if he opened the wrong door and entered a “dump” full of all kinds of mechanical parts.

In the corner of the rather large mountain laboratory were stacked a few strange, missing arms and legs of the remains of the steam walking machine, in the opposite corner stood a complex coil device still flashing arcs of electricity.

The shelves that should have held books were covered with all sorts of strange and bizarre engineering objects, and incomprehensibly in the middle of a black multi-function wrench and a silver auto-driver sat a roasted leg of lamb that had been eaten and still had teeth marks on it.

And the owner of this place, the wild warlord of Hungry Mountain, His Excellency Sulphurk Flywheel, was wearing an engineering goggle that looked just like VR glasses, standing in front of a busty girl suspended in the air and busy.

He was holding a sparking pliers in his left hand and grasping a cable in his right hand, muttering to himself like a genius psychopath immersed in his own world, while the halfling girl, suspended by three chains, was naked, which made the scene look full of some kind of “restriction class” flavor.

However, to be honest, it’s not interesting at all.

Because the suspended halfling was a steam puppet, just like Jasmine outside the door.

Her limbs and torso had been taken apart.

Strange things like circuit boards were taken out of her chest and put aside, and Thicke Flywheel put a strange device consisting of five arithmetic beads in parallel to the heart in her chest, and he was now trying to activate the “mechanical heart”.

The scene looks terrifying.

But Murphy did not disturb this process, on the contrary, he was interested in taking the core pearl to record this scene, using this thing as a “development material” into the forum, will definitely cause a wave of people to scream.

“Hey, hold this cable for me, I have to fine-tune the current to get Dina’s ‘heart’ going again, those damn Twilight Cultists almost destroyed her last hope.

Luckily Molly got there just in time to pull my poor student back from hell.”

Thicke Flywheel shouted to Murphy behind him in great annoyance, the vampire lord shrugged and stepped forward to take hold of the sparking cable, he took the opportunity to glance at Thicke Flywheel.

The guy was a typical halfling mechanic.

The smartest kind, with an awkward Mediterranean haircut, but other than that, there wasn’t much striking about Thiok Flywheel, just like an ordinary middle-aged halfling, but just by looking at how skillfully he was modifying the settings for the godly steam puppet in front of him, it was clear that this guy was definitely no ordinary person.

After all, this term was only learned by Murphy a few minutes ago, and he was certain that Xiao Xuelun had never described this branch of engineering that sounded very high-end, so Xiao Xuelun, who was judged to be the “No. 1 Engineer in Transylvania”, had never heard of it either.

This thing is definitely a “restricted” taboo knowledge in the field of engineering.

Building a humanoid Gundam with his bare hands?
That sounds very advanced!

“You just mentioned Dusk.”

Murphy maintained his grip on the cable as he spoke softly:

“So they’re your enemies too? Did you know that Dusk was pushing the Black Plague behind the Jackals? If you knew that, why did you sell weapons to the Jackals?”

“You have so many questions, all I can tell you is that there are a lot of things in this world that you can’t just stop doing if you want to.”

Thicke replied in a casual tone:

“Even without the little weapons I sold, the Jackals wouldn’t have been any gentler when they killed their way into the continent, and the fact that those idiots couldn’t discover the locator device hidden in that batch of weapons gives the Assassin’s Guild’s people at least a guide for their removal operations in the war.

Young vampire, you can’t take things at face value.

As for the Dusk.
They’re a big pain in the ass, I’ll give you that, but my relationship with them isn’t so bad that you’re on the same level of immortality with them, so if you’re trying to persuade me to join you, you can give up.

Old Flywheel lost everything at a young age, and what this awful world becomes in the future has nothing to do with me at all!

As you can see, I’m just a wild warlord who’s hard to make it to the big time now, and can only sell some contraband to make ends meet like this.

Hold on tight!”

As he said that, Murphy immediately touched the cable in his hand forward to the strange “mechanical heart” on the chest of the puppet in front of him, and as Sulphur Flywheel pulled down the lever, a specific frequency of electric current surged out, causing the “sleeping” Steam Puppet in front of him to immediately let out a series of screams. A series of screams.

The good news is that she seems to be “alive”.

The bad news is that this guy’s head was “blown” off, allowing Murphy to finally see clearly the “secrets” hidden in the brain of this kind of puppet.

That is a special sphere cover was used to protect the “organ”, complete brain immersed in transparent liquid underneath the strange electrodes connected to the puppet’s engineering body, making this scene looks creepy and evil.

“You’re using ‘wet parts’?”

Murphy said in amazement, and next to him, Thicke Flywheel wiped the grease from his hands while grabbing the coil pistol in his hand as he said:
“And you know about wetware? Gee, looks like an insider, I like insiders, your brains make the best wet parts when you take them off. I’ve never used a vampire’s brain to make a magic doll, I’ve heard you guys can regenerate, I wonder if you can grow a new brain after your brain is removed?”

“Swish.”

The coiled pistol of pulsating light dots was pressed against Murphy’s chin, and the strong paralysis made Murphy almost lose control of his body for a moment, but the scarlet secret energy was also ready, allowing him to “pinch” the blood that was flowing through the heart of the halfling in front of him.

Thicke Flywheel took off his goggles, revealing eyes with two horrible scars that immediately filled his plain face with a “story”, while staring at Murphy with a gentle yet frightening gaze, saying:

“So, it’s time for us to get down to business, Murphy the thief! Loren paid but didn’t receive the goods, you didn’t pay but intercepted the shipment. Not only have you tarnished my credibility considerably, but you’ve also cost me an important customer.

How are you going to pay me back?”

“To your other important customer?”

Murphy said with a shrug:

“I heard that you’re holding a lot of backlogged arithmetic beads? Great, I’ll take them all!”

(End of chapter)