How should I explain this?
Yesterday, I asked Ms. Herta in the Little Black Room, and she said I wouldn't be dissected, but that was on the premise that I didn't cause trouble.
Now, the situation is basically a face-to-face confrontation.
I don't want to be studied by Ms. Herta!
Although Bai Luan was somewhat flustered inside, he remained as steady as an old dog on the surface.
"Uh... well..."
"I just saw this little thing flying. Did you make it?"
Ms. Herta's words gave Bai Luan inspiration, making him think of a way to muddle through.
"Didn't I see Ms. Herta's magic carpet a while ago? I learned a few tricks from it, so I made this little guy.
But unfortunately, my craftsmanship isn't great. This little guy can only fly for a short time and can't stay suspended, which is why it fell just now."
"Oh? Really?"
The Herta Puppet raised an eyebrow with interest, looking at the paper crane lying in Bai Luan's hand:
"Show me."
"Alright."
Bai Luan turned around and looked at the paper crane in his hand.
I hope Chizuru cooperates with me.
Bai Luan tossed the paper crane into the air with both hands.
Chizuru flew up, but instead of flapping its wings like before, it now seemed to be suspended in the air; its wings didn't move at all.
Well done!
Bai Luan was so excited he wanted to punch the air!
Chizuru cooperated perfectly, and even came up with a way to make Bai Luan's previous words more believable!
Not flapping its wings directly reduced its biological feel by more than half; now Chizuru looked more like a technological creation.
After hovering for a while, Chizuru suddenly became unstable, floated up and down twice, and then fell.
Bai Luan reached out and caught the falling Chizuru.
Originally, the system said Chizuru could take care of itself, and Bai Luan was a bit skeptical, but now seeing Chizuru's perfect cooperation, Bai Luan believed it.
Such good cooperation.
Chizuru's brilliant performance made Bai Luan breathe a sigh of relief.
He turned around, facing the Herta Puppet again, and just caught a glimpse of blue data streams flashing in the Herta Puppet's eyes.
Is the puppet... recording something?
Forget it, I'll just go with the flow. There's nothing else I can do now.
"As you can see, Ms. Herta, this creation is not yet perfect; it has obvious flaws."
"One day, just by looking at it, and you made it?"
"No."
Bai Luan smiled and shook his head.
"I'm not that much of a genius. After you left, I went back to study it for a long time. Of course, I didn't damage the carpet."
"Being able to understand this genius's invention is enough to prove you have good talent."
"Not at all... haha..."
Bai Luan forced a smile.
"You can't hide for long."
Ms. Herta's words from the Little Black Room last night resurfaced in his mind.
He had only just decided yesterday to contend with Ms. Herta in the Little Black Room, and today he almost exposed himself.
Should he say it's Ms. Herta, as expected?
"It seems you're adapting to the work quite quickly."
Ms. Herta's words immediately activated Bai Luan's work radar.
There's a saying: as long as you're excellent enough, you'll have endless work.
"Ms. Herta, I think I still need time to adapt to this job."
"Don't worry, deliberately making things difficult for subordinates is something only incompetents do. This genius doesn't have the time for that.
I only came this time to confirm that you won't mess everything up here."
"That's good."
Even more terrifying than a pile of work is having a boss who does nothing but talks too much while you're trying to do a pile of work.
However, if Ms. Herta were to actually step in and help, Bai Luan would have to worry about whether he could keep his job.
The Herta Puppet walked around the Botanical Garden, checking on Bai Luan's work situation.
"Hmm, it seems there are no problems. Then I'll leave this place to you. I'll come back to check again in a few months."
"No problem."
"As I said before, as long as you do this gardener's job well, you'll be qualified to stay here, so I won't introduce you to other tasks for now.
Of course, if you really want to learn more, just stop one of 'me', any 'me' is qualified to teach you."
Bai Luan nodded:
"Understood."
"I'm leaving."
The Herta Puppet waved her hand casually as a farewell and left swiftly.
After the Herta Puppet left, Bai Luan breathed a sigh of relief.
He finally managed to muddle through.
After the Herta Puppet left, Chizuru, who had been lying still pretending to be a machine, moved a few times and then returned to its lively, biological state.
"Well done, little guy."
Chizuru tilted its head, seemingly very happy.
Bai Luan settled Chizuru down a bit, then used the Inspiration Shroom and plants to warn them about Chizuru's presence, to prevent Chizuru from being hunted by some plants as live prey.
After all this was done, the gardener's work was finished. According to Ms. Herta's arrangement, after completing this job, it was all free time.
So Bai Luan light-footedly ran home, transported all the valuable metal plates to the nearest laboratory, and began to build his flying backpack.
The flying backpack Bai Luan wanted to build was also very simple: just create a bunch of nanorobots that would normally be hidden in clothing and assemble into a flying backpack when needed.
He chose nanorobots because once the design blueprint for one was done, the rest could just be copied.
Moreover, by inputting blueprints of other mechanical structures into these nanorobots, they could be transformed into other mechanical creations, which was extremely cost-effective.
Although manufacturing such nanorobots required extremely high-precision instruments, Ms. Herta's place had laboratories that were among the best in the entire universe, so there was no need to worry about hardware.
As for the design blueprint for these nanorobots, he had already pestered and painstakingly grinded it out in the Little Black Room, and now he just needed to replicate it in reality.
Bai Luan moved back and forth between the various facilities in the laboratory, constantly inputting one parameter after another, occasionally stopping in front of one to observe the production status.
Soon, this laboratory, which had not been used by anyone for a long time, began to operate again.
Bai Luan, after confirming that everything was on track, waited quietly to the side.
Although this was his first actual use of this laboratory, he showed no signs of awkwardness, every movement exuding the effortless ease of extreme familiarity.
There was no other way; he had used this laboratory too many times in the Little Black Room. Bai Luan could complete these steps with his eyes closed, and he had experienced various unexpected situations countless times.
Having been tempered by a thousand trials, he was not afraid of any unexpected situations.
After getting all projects underway, Bai Luan found himself with nothing to do.
No matter how skilled he was, building things still required waiting.
In his leisure time, Bai Luan looked at the scanner.
Just one scan could reveal the internal structure of an item.
Suddenly, he had an urge to scan something and see its internal structure.
Human curiosity is unstoppable.
It's like when you're scrolling through short videos and encounter those famous 'speed bumps'—buying abandoned warehouses for blind boxes, forging sword competitions, hydraulic presses crushing various items, what something looks like under an XX magnification microscope...
If I'm going to scan, what should I scan...
Oh, right.
Bai Luan pulled a pocket watch from his person.
He had found it among the pile of miscellaneous items Ms. Herta had given him.
How about I look at the inside of this pocket watch?
They say pocket watches are very intricate things.
Soon, the scanner and assembly machine were assembled by Bai Luan. Bai Luan placed the pocket watch under the scanner, then activated the scanner.
The scanner emitted blue light, scanning the pocket watch from various directions, and then a projector on the other side projected a blueprint of the pocket watch.
Bai Luan looked at the blueprint projection, manipulating it to flip left and right, just like the real thing.
"Let me see your internal structure."
Bai Luan waved his hand.
With Bai Luan's wave, the blueprint projection of the pocket watch immediately disassembled, turning into piece after piece of parts. Soon, the projections of the scattered parts almost filled the entire laboratory.
Looking at those individual parts, Bai Luan was dumbfounded.
There must be at least a thousand parts, right?
Sure enough, nothing from Ms. Herta's place was simple.
Bai Luan waved his hand again, turning off the projection.
Looking at the pocket watch lying under the scanner, an even bolder idea popped into Bai Luan's head.
How about...
I take it apart and look?