Upon confirming that the Ancient One and members of the China Dao Men were indeed in the laboratory, Liu Xing contacted the system again, saying, "System, can I now request the automatic defense robots to cease their pursuit of the creatures in the laboratory? They were all sent by me in advance."

After a moment, the system replied, "Of course, because you are now the sole controller in the research facility. I have transferred all my privileges to you. However, due to the facility’s long neglect, many subsystems are malfunctioning. So, I cannot contact the automatic defense robots anymore. If you want to stop them, you must personally go to the laboratory and issue commands to them."

As expected.

Liu Xing knew this module wouldn’t be so straightforward. The permissions transferred to him by the system probably only allowed him to open doors...

But it was better than nothing.

So, Liu Xing had to bring along Zhang Jingxu and others to the laboratory.

On the way to the laboratory, Liu Xing didn’t forget to ask the system where suitable weapons could be found in the research facility.

After all, if they couldn’t "persuade" the automatic defense robots, they would have to resort to force...

This time, the system finally came through. It quickly located a Security Guards room for Liu Xing. Although the Ancient One had taken away most of the weapons when they evacuated the research facility, they left behind some weapons that were deemed harmless by the Ancient One—such as an electric shock gun that dealt 2d6 damage and had a 100% paralysis effect on certain enemies...

The electric shock gun of the Ancient One was different from that of the Yis People. It looked somewhat similar to those old-fashioned box guns, with a "magazine" at the bottom for storing Ancient One crystals.

Because the Ancient One had retreated to the depths of the sea many years ago, human knowledge of them was very limited. Even the items left behind by the Ancient One were scarce. Among them, the most famous item was the Ancient One crystal.

Simply put, the Ancient One crystal was a "magic battery." Depending on its size, it could store different amounts of magic value, which could be used by the Ancient One for spellcasting or directly provide energy for weapons or equipment.

So, the electric shock gun in Liu Xing’s hand was actually a magic weapon. However, because it used energy provided by the Ancient One crystal, it could only be used five times and only twice per minute.

The reason why this electric shock gun could only be used twice per minute was because the Ancient One crystal had a very peculiar characteristic: when extracting or using the magic value inside the Ancient One crystal, it would rapidly cool down. Therefore, if too much magic value was extracted from the Ancient One crystal at once, its temperature would drop too low, eventually causing some weapons and equipment without anti-freezing measures to malfunction.

Of course, the electric shock gun in Liu Xing’s hand was considered a non-"lethal" weapon for riot control by the Ancient One, similar to the tasers used by police officers in the real world. It was not considered a regular weapon, so it hadn’t undergone the corresponding treatment. Therefore, it could only be used twice within a minute. And if you used it for the second time within a minute, it would cause frostbite judgment to the person holding the gun.

But what made Liu Xing speechless was that although there were several electric shock guns in the Security Guards room, they had to be certified as Ancient One before they could be used, and they couldn’t be authorized to others. So, Liu Xing couldn’t distribute these electric shock guns to Zhang Jingxu and others.

Therefore, Liu Xing carried two electric shock guns on his waist and held another one in his hand as he continued with Ling Ishikawa and others toward the laboratory.

On the way, Liu Xing still had some doubts. "Why wasn’t that Ancient One recognized by the system as a member of the Ancient One clan? This shouldn’t be the case."

At this point, Zhang Jingxu spoke up, "Right, didn’t I tell Ryuusei before? That Ancient One, Chrisiano, was once imprisoned near Magic Capital in a cave. Perhaps it was locked there for other reasons at that time?"

Liu Xing raised an eyebrow, understanding the implication of Zhang Jingxu’s words, suggesting that Chrisiano’s identity might be questionable.

In the Cthulhu RPG Game, since there were traitors, there might also be traitors among the Ancient Ones, the Yis People, and so on. And advanced races like the Ancient Ones should have the ability to completely exclude those traitors from their own race, known as "stripping Ancient One status."

So, it was normal for Chrisiano not to be recognized as a member of the Ancient One clan now.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing suddenly doubted whether it was a good choice to come to Chrisiano. Because the purpose of coming to Chrisiano was to fulfill the cooperation goal with Sirius, to get a new body for Sirius. But Chrisiano had already betrayed the Ancient One clan. Would it still help Sirius honestly?

Liu Xing was skeptical about this.

But now, no matter what, they had to rescue Chrisiano, because if they didn’t, their main quest as a group would not be completed.

Since the laboratory was located on the upper level of the research facility, and the elevators in the research facility were all out of order, Liu Xing and the others spent half an hour before they reached the outside of the laboratory.

But fortunately, as they passed by the display screens along the way, Liu Xing would contact the system to observe the situation inside the laboratory. They found the situation inside the laboratory was relatively optimistic. Chrisiano and his group somehow managed to block the pursuit of the automatic defense robots, and they were currently hiding in a small room for rest.

But there was also bad news: one member of the China Dao Men was injured.

"Let’s go. Let’s hurry in and rescue them," Liu Xing said, opening the door to the laboratory.

The moment they entered the laboratory, Liu Xing smelled a strange smell, one that made him feel like he was in a hospital.

But before Liu Xing could think further, he saw an automatic defense robot looking at him.

However, this automatic defense robot no longer had the ability to attack. It had been split in half, with its head lying on the ground, and its body leaning against the nearby table, with the barrel twisted and deformed.

Looking at this automatic defense robot that had lost its attacking ability, Liu Xing decided to go up and try his hand, to see if he could control this automatic defense robot.

Liu Xing walked forward and followed the system’s prompt to place his hand on the head of the automatic defense robot. Then he saw a red light emanating from the head of the automatic defense robot, enveloping his hand.

After a moment, the automatic defense robot spoke, "I am at your service, my master."

It seemed that his permissions had been authenticated.

Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed that his Ancient One identity carried weight here.

Now, Liu Xing was extremely grateful for his "extra effort" in the Underground Ruins of Fisher’s Village, obtaining the identity of the Ancient One clan. Otherwise, in this module, he and his team would probably be in big trouble.

However, now Liu Xing found it troublesome that he had to place his hand on the head of the automatic defense robot for identity verification. And because the defense system in the research facility had collapsed, there was no way to use the defense system to coordinate and deploy all the automatic defense robots in the research facility. So now, the program for each automatic defense robot in the research facility operated independently. This meant Liu Xing had to personally go find each automatic defense robot and verify his identity.

Moreover, according to the system’s assessment, some automatic defense robots might ignore Liu Xing’s identity and attack him before identity verification.

The probability of this was fifty percent.

Liu Xing couldn’t help but stroke his chin.

Honestly, Liu Xing always found the most frustrating probability to be this fifty percent. The reason was simple: this fifty percent probability was very tantalizing. Trying it felt risky with only a fifty percent success rate, but choosing to give up felt regrettable with a fifty percent chance of success.

But now, Liu Xing was still quite hesitant because if he lost this gamble, he would likely end up with laser holes all over his body...

As Liu Xing contemplated, he continued forward with Zhang Jingxu and the others towards Chrisiano’s location.

Along the way, Liu Xing’s group encountered several malfunctioning automatic defense robots, all of which were disabled.

"It seems that this Chrisiano still has some skills. These automatic defense robots should all have been disabled by it," Ling Ishikawa remarked.

Zhang Wenbing nodded beside him and said seriously, "Chrisiano’s strength is indeed very impressive. I’ve seen it make a move before, and it instantly killed a fanatic believer in a villa. Moreover, the ways these fanatic believers died were all different. So, some members of the China Dao Men believe that Chrisiano is actually a summoner, capable of summoning various mythical creatures to fight for it."

A summoner?

Liu Xing couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow because in the Cthulhu RPG Game, summoners were a scarce profession. After all, the mythical creatures in the Cthulhu RPG Game were not to be trifled with, and most of them had superhuman intelligence. It wasn’t easy to make them obey commands.

As for "summon/send back" type of magic spells, strictly speaking, they were just one-time summoning magic spells. These magic spells were only responsible for summoning mythical creatures, but they didn’t guarantee that the summoned mythical creatures would obey the summoner’s commands. So, most people who used these summoning spells were basically killed by the summoned mythical creatures.

Therefore, in the Cthulhu RPG Game, it was almost impossible for players to become summoners, except for secret cult leaders like Liu Xing, who had the opportunity to become "pseudo-summoners" with the support of their top bosses. Other player professions could just sleep.

However, for those NPCs with more casual settings, there were still quite a few great wizards who doubled as summoners. But for races like the Ancient Ones, which were highly technological, wizards were already very rare, let alone summoners.

So Liu Xing was very suspicious of the authenticity of Zhang Wenbing’s information.

But the ability to kill multiple enemies in various ways at once was indeed quite special.

As Liu Xing pondered, he examined the "injuries" of these automatic defense robots and found that each one had different injuries. Some looked like they had been forcibly dismantled, while others looked like they had been attacked by magic, as there were traces of frost or flames on their bodies.

If all these were caused by Chrisiano alone, that would be interesting.

Soon, with the help of the system, Liu Xing found the small room where Chrisiano and the others were trapped. However, there was a hurdle in front of the door—a perfectly intact automatic defense robot.

Now, there were only two options for Liu Xing: one was to directly gamble on the fifty percent success rate, approach the automatic defense robot, verify his identity, and have the chance to subdue the automatic defense robot without bloodshed, then rescue Chrisiano and his group.

But there was still a fifty percent chance that the automatic defense robot would launch an attack and kill him with one move...

The other option was to take the initiative, use the electric shock gun to shoot the automatic defense robot twice first. Even if he couldn’t directly kill the automatic defense robot, he should be able to paralyze it.

But the biggest downside of doing this was that it might leave Liu Xing with one less powerful ally because if he could verify his identity, then Liu Xing could control the automatic defense robot.

It was another dilemma.

Liu Xing shared his thoughts with Zhang Jingxu and the others.

After thinking about it, Zhang Jingxu said, "I think for the sake of safety, we should directly take out this automatic defense robot. After all, I don’t think Ryuusei, you can dodge the attack of the automatic defense robot."

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