Chapter 968: Chapter 447: Never Felt This Happy Playing in a Band _2
"...Too many complicated things have happened in a short time, and my mind is a bit overwhelmed, I actually forgot the most important thing.
"Silence Canyon"... Silence Force Field, we haven’t found a suitable response yet. The height difference of over a thousand meters, along with the unique rock wall structure, makes climbing hopeless..."
"Therefore, falling into this place, the default outcome is usually death—in fact, without your pills, I should have died from the impact and the Silence Force Field. Rescue is unrealistic and won’t happen."
Zhu Ning’s words were heavy.
Indeed, I completely mistook the priorities and the focus.
A brief silence enveloped the two of them.
Lin Li had nothing to say either. So this canyon is a thousand meters deep? That is indeed a bit beyond Lin Li’s capability.
Buy a hot air balloon from reality?
It might fit in the gourd, but the paperwork and procedures would probably be quite troublesome, right?
And at a thousand meters high, it’s really hard to ensure there won’t be any errors during flight.
"Let’s focus on staying alive first," Lin Li could only say,
"After you tell me the specific situation of this canyon, I’ll find a way about how to leave, but before that, you can’t die. So first tell me whether resources like food and water mean anything to you, and if so, what kinds you need..."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Ning raised her head, but her gaze first landed on the phone in Lin Li’s hand.
A faint, barely noticeable ripple appeared on the surface of her body, as if trembling.
"Mr. Lin Li..." Zhu Ning began to speak, but instead of mentioning anything about food, she hesitated with curiosity:
"You mentioned earlier ’based on my exploration and attempts’, and discovered that the height is over a hundred meters. Did you use the reality equipment you brought with you for this detection?"
"Yes," Lin Li thought, and a small drone was immediately taken out from the Fire Separation Sword Nourishing Gourd, landing steadily on the waterproof cloth:
"It flew over a hundred meters high, but unfortunately, there was still endless thick fog and rock walls above, couldn’t see the canyon’s edge."
Zhu Ning’s attention immediately locked onto this drone.
"Could you... demonstrate it?"
"Sure."
Lin Li naturally didn’t mind and demonstrated how to operate the drone in front of Zhu Ning, even letting her try it herself.
"Without internet, I can’t transmit images in real-time, otherwise it would be more convenient."
When the drone disappeared into the thick fog and returned, they reviewed the footage captured by the onboard camera, Lin Li added.
Zhu Ning fiddled with it using her ’hand’, then looked up at Lin Li after a moment: "Mr. Lin Li, I have a bold request."
Lin Li: "You knew it was bold and still mention it?"
Zhu Ning: "..."
Seeing Zhu Ning suddenly freeze, Lin Li chuckled and asked, "Does it have to do with my bull?"
"...It has nothing to do with it."
"Alright, then it’s not bold at all, go ahead and ask."
Though a little thrown off by Lin Li’s mood, Zhu Ning quickly regained focus and pointed at the drone, saying:
"May I disassemble this ’drone’? I want to study its internal structure."
Lin Li raised an eyebrow slightly, but then nodded: "Sure."
A little under several thousand, something he could afford to lose.
"Thank you!"
After getting permission, Zhu Ning examined the screws on the drone, and then her ’hand’ began to gradually reshape until it became a screwdriver perfectly fitting the screw threads, and she started unscrewing the screws.
Having just taken out a toolbox from the Fire Separation Sword Nourishing Gourd, Lin Li watched this scene with some surprise.
"Zhu Ning, can people from your world transform their bodies into any shape, and even have hardness?"
The screwdriver Zhu Ning’s body had just turned into couldn’t unscrew if it were limp.
"We can morph to a certain extent,"
Zhu Ning replied, pausing her work to explain to Lin Li:
"For instance, the whole body can become a cube, rectangular prism... but if we want to purely stretch into a narrow, several-meters-long cylinder, we can’t stretch that much, it’s beyond the limit."
"Though we appear to be shapeless blobs, we actually have the concept of limbs and a head, and these five limb areas are where shape-shifting is most flexible."
Zhu Ning shook the ’screwdriver’:
"But there is a cost to shape-shifting; transforming expends our nutrients, roughly equivalent to physical strength, and the higher the precision and more details, the faster it consumes stamina, so generally, to conserve strength, everyone goes limp.
The reason I maintain a humanoid form similar to yours is to make you feel somewhat accustomed, and the pills within me are also providing endless nutrients and stamina.
However, no matter how much nutrition I have, I still can’t shape-shift with the same detail as you, like this hair of yours; my body simply can’t support transformations of such precision.
As for hardness, we can indeed generate certain hardness, but it’s quite limited and can’t last long..."
Upon hearing this, Lin Li realized.
He originally thought Zhu Ning and her kind could transform as freely as shapeshifters, but now it seems they couldn’t reach that level at all.
"Then it seems these tools are still meaningful to you."
Lin Li then handed the toolbox to Zhu Ning.
Once Zhu Ning saw the contents clearly, she nodded immediately: "This indeed helps me a lot, if I were to create them myself, it would waste a lot of time."
Equipped with the tools, Zhu Ning skillfully continued to disassemble the drone.
