Chapter 700: Chapter 343: Key of Activation (Part 3)
Loken took out a sheet and handed it to Li Ang, who examined it closely and found that it was a thumbnail of the ancient giant ship.
Other thin sheets also contained information from various angles, not a complete blueprint, but it could be deduced that beneath the City of the Ship’s Rudder lay a massive ship.
"The remains that held these sheets died in a room resembling a workshop. Karon and I deduced from the traces that he was destroying and hiding these sheets before he was killed, and after not finding the most useful information, the murderer left in a rage after causing destruction."
Upon hearing this, the analysis unit said: "Analysis, summary, deduction... These remains likely belonged to the Great Witch who led the construction of the Fallen Island Battleship, who lost his life to prevent the Deus People from obtaining information about the battleship."
"I agree with this conclusion," Loken said.
Li Ang was puzzled: "The Deus People should be a very powerful race. Didn’t they discover these things?"
"They discovered it, but the issue lies in the fact that the ancient giant ship... the Fallen Island Battleship requires the most critical crystal chip to activate, which is the Key of Activation as mentioned by the phantom. Without it, the Deus People probably can’t move that seemingly impossible-to-fly giant ship."
Loken sighed: "The Island Founders, judging by their habits, like to blend themselves with machinery and metal, but the hiding method of that Great Witch still commands my respect."
This habit of the Island Founders can be seen in the information from the Mechanical Creation Furnace Guard and the Golem Master Professional Inheritance. Li Ang nodded.
"Much of that skeleton was metallic. We marveled at the ancient people’s ability to replace parts of their skeleton and internal organs with alloys and machinery. The Key of Activation was disassembled into multiple fragments and forcibly inserted into different bone crevices and mechanical internal organs."
Loken scratched his slightly bald head: "It was precisely because over the long years he turned into bones that we could see the shiny thing in the crevices of his skeleton, thus obtaining the Key of Activation. It seems in the distant past, his spirituality could still stir magic power, and the mechanical part of his body also emitted energy fluctuations, which hid those crystal chip fragments with their mysterious magical fluctuations.
"Do you know how to assemble the Key of Activation into a whole?"
"The fragments themselves can self-assemble. Of course, back then, Karon half-negotiated, half-forcedly took on the task of repairing the crystal chip, and I was more curious about the wonders of the Fallen Island Battleship, so I took the metal plate recording information to search, creating the situation we have today."
"Your old friend is quite like my previous captain, no wonder they’re working together now," Li Ang shrugged.
Loken chuckled, shook his head, and didn’t say much more.
"The Mechanical Creation Furnace still holds many secrets, but let’s explore them in detail another time. It’s getting late, and our plan must progress steadily."
Li Ang scanned the control panel, then looked up at the core of the furnace.
"Since the Fallen Island Battleship already has a Decomposition Ship Cannon, there’s no rush to build one. Let’s proceed to rescue the workers and their families from the seven shipyards."
While saying that, he started operating the Mechanical Creation Furnace, and once again, the complex mechanical structure above began to work, a trace of warmth emanating from the center.
"What are you doing?" Dorothy leaned over and asked.
"Just in case, I want to create something. It’s a good time to see how marvelous this furnace is."
Li Ang smiled, looking at Zoe and ALulu: "I still owe you two a sword and a shield, don’t I?"
