Chapter 1480 - 1162 Giving Others a Chance_3

"This really is a new approach, indeed," he thought to himself. For a seasoned veteran like himself, overconfidence and empiricism were indeed deadly pitfalls. There was no danger in what was currently happening, but it served as a wakeup call for him.

After entering the slums, Long Yi began to search for a suitable location, and finally, he found a damaged courtyard. He scanned the area secretly with his Divine Power and found no outsiders.

Long Yi walked into the courtyard. It adhered to the classic metallic architecture of The Forgotten Ones, though many parts were already rusted. Unlike the wealthy who could afford to build using the new type of alloy, common folks could only use ordinary metals that rusted easily. Due to the lack of maintenance for a long time, many areas had rusted through, and big patches of rust would fall off with just a slight touch.

The people tracking Long Yi did not enter the courtyard directly but instead surrounded it. Long Yi immediately understood that they were probably working together.

"Come on, I’ll give you some motivation."

Long Yi drew his greatsword. In that instant, he felt a disturbance, but those people restrained their motions.

Taking out his greatsword, Long Yi began to feign busily taking out a device from his personal space, along with potions, gems, and several blocks of Energy Alloy.

At that moment, the group encircling the courtyard was preparing to raid, aiming to seize the greatsword and Henki.

"Boss, what’s he up to?" one of the subordinates asked the leader.

"Looks like he’s planning to enhance his weapon?" another person responded.

"In legends, this Henki can improve the Energy Alloy. From the looks of it, none of you move, let’s just watch patiently," the leader said.

"Yes!"

The crowd responded.

At first, Long Yi sensed that the people around him seemed anxious to act, but when he took out the greatsword and various other items, they stood still.

Could it be that they intend to watch?

A smile formed in Long Yi’s heart. Since you all want to watch, I’ll put on a show! Let’s see who can’t resist first!

In the dilapidated courtyard, Long Yi began assembling some devices he brought from the middle Plane. He had collected various random devices even though they were mostly useless. As his space was huge, he hadn’t thrown them away, and he quickly assembled a metal processing device. Then, he threw various chemicals into the sink, the energy flowed, and the water in the sink boiled. Long Yi directly threw a greatsword into the tank, and the boiling water instantly calmed down.

Then, Long Yi held a block of ready-made Energy Alloy, indistinguishable from the common Energy Alloy used by The Forgotten Ones. With a slight pat, the block of alloy immediately floated in the air, and Long Yi started tinkering around it.

At this time, another group of people from different families arrived around the dilapidated courtyard.

"Hey, where are you from? This isn’t a good place, leave quickly!" the earlier group whispered harshly.

"Not convenient? It seems quite convenient to us! We’re just having a look, don’t be so stingy," said a slick member from the later group.

"Alright, we have the same goal, so state your names. If we can’t handle it, we’ll leave," the leader of the first group said.

"..." The newcomers whispered a name. After a moment’s thought, the leader of the original group whispered to his men, "Let’s retreat."

In a blink of an eye, the group that occupied the position closest to Long Yi left cleanly, and the newcomers immediately took their place. Just then, two more groups followed.

"Wow, didn’t expect your family to be so interested in the new type of alloy," someone chuckled.

"What, are you here to dole out charity to the poor?" another laughed.

"Since you know which family we represent, why don’t you scram?" someone said impatiently.

"Ha ha, too funny. Do you still think you’re some great family, huh? In our family’s eyes, you’re nothing!" another added.

Four statements, each from different groups.

And all these words had already reached Long Yi’s ears. Before entering this place, he had set up some Crystal Poison listening devices around. Because of the perfect affinity with Crystal Poison, none of the Forgotten Ones, who lived around Crystal Poison every day, noticed anything unusual.

Indeed, I’m quite popular, Long Yi narcissistically thought.

"Fight! Bite! Bite! I don’t know anything here, you all hurry up and start fighting—that’d be fun!"

"Since we’re all here on family business, there’s no need for any disputes here. After all, our goal should be the same, right? Why not watch patiently and see exactly what this fool is up to, then we can talk," said the person who first occupied the closest position in the courtyard.

"Heh, you’re not in a hurry because you’re the closest, right? Whatever happens, you’ll get to it first!" someone sarcastically said.

"Well, I can’t help it, can I? Who asked me to arrive early?"

"You arrived early? Just now I thought I saw someone from a small family leaving the slum unwillingly. Isn’t it because you drove them away?"

"So what if I did? Do you want to try and drive me away too?"

"Of course not. Given there are so many people here, the idea of a fisherman gaining the advantage is rather unbearable."

Listening to this, Long Yi felt like he was about to explode. Why are you all hesitating so much? If you want to fight, then hurry up and fight. No, I think you definitely need some motivation!

With that thought, Long Yi threw the raw alloy he held next to the greatsword he had thrown into the sink earlier, whose surface originally damaged in battle had now completely repaired. He picked up the greatsword and immediately swung it around, the sound of the swing causing everyone secretly arguing in the shadows to stop and closely watch Long Yi’s movements.

"It feels, a bit too heavy," Long Yi muttered to himself.

Bang!

The tip of the sword actually broke off by hand. After looking at it, Long Yi casually threw the broken tip aside, and a new tip extended from the remaining part.

"Ha!" Long Yi started swinging the greatsword again, and though there was no flow of energy, the ground was full of marks left by the greatsword.

Suddenly, with a clang, the greatsword in his hand hit the fallen tip on the ground, cutting directly through the wall of a room in the courtyard and disappearing from sight.

"Ah?" In the eyes of everyone present, Henki paused for a moment, then shook his head and said,

"Never mind, I don’t need it anyway." (To be continued. If you like this piece of work, you are welcome to recommend tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)