5 – The Black Wind Bandits

“Terminator! Awesome! 3 terminators acting as my bodyguards – not even Earth’s heads of state could get to enjoy such treatment!” Yang Feng looked at the 3 humanoid robots in front of him. He couldn’t help exclaiming: “Terminator bodyguards, this is a man’s fantasy!”

In front of Yang Feng stood 3 humanoid robots with cold expressions. The robots wore black sunglasses and black cloaks, looking like very cool and lofty figures. The bladed robot carried a two-handed super-alloy battle blade on its back, the gunner robot carried a 12.5 millimeter heavy machine gun on its back, and the artillery robot carried a 120 millimeter heavy artillery.

The 3 humanoid robots had great research value. If sold on Earth, each one of them would go for 100 million RMB or higher. By selling one of them, Yang Feng could have a worry-free life.

3796 reminded:

The bladed robot’s initial form was that of a beast with 8-bladed arms. Now, it was simplified to a human form by Yang Feng and its fighting strength dropped considerably.

Yang Feng smiled and explained: “The fighting ability of the beast form may be much more powerful than that of the human form. However, this is a human society! Therefore, humanoid robots are much more practical than beast-shaped ones.”

3796 said:

Yang Feng said: “By the way, help me deduce how long I have to cultivate the Thunder Ox Art in order to promote to a Great Knight.”

3796’s eyes flashed with red light and it used its super-computing ability to carry out the deduction.

Twenty seconds later.

Yang Feng felt incredulous, saying: “How is that possible? Obviously, the Thunder Ox Art is a martial art that can be cultivated until the Great Knight rank! Additionally, it went through your optimization, so how come I can’t even promote to a Knight?”

Said 3796 mercilessly.

“Extreme waste!” Yang Feng was speechless. How could he have imagined that his cultivation aptitude was actually that bad.

3796 said consolingly:

Yang Feng was speechless, but he still felt better.

Yang Feng asked: “Is there any solution to this? Didn’t the xizu have cultivation methods?”

3796’s eyes flashed with red light and it advised.

Yang Feng laughed, saying: “Ha-ha, we’ll talk about it later! I have no intentions of becoming a robot, for now.”

Yang Feng got a goose that laid golden eggs, aka 3796. He had yet to enjoy the benefits of this goose. He was unwilling to become a robot, at least not until he was forced to.

Yang Feng had a bad premonition, saying: “Star river golden flower, true sun water, seven-colored amethyst fruit, star field embryo membrane, can you produce these treasures?”

“A level-7 portable fortified stronghold!” Yang Feng was speechless.

The requirement in terms of materials and their preciousness for every consecutive level of the portable fortified stronghold increased geometrically. Yang Feng had never even heard about many of these materials. There was no telling how long it would take him to build a level-7 portable fortified stronghold.

Yang Feng said: “One step at a time! First make me a level-5 liquid metal robot. Lower its weight as much as possible and augment the thickness of its armor after transformation!”

“The liquid metal robot!”

……

Outside the Autumn Leaf Town, there was a wide expanse of very fertile, black soil.

Many emaciated, dirty peasants, as if ants, laboriously worked underneath the sun.

Forming a beautiful of scenery, dazzling rice crops waved in the wind.

Suddenly, the sound of horseshoes came from afar. When the peasants, who worked the fields, looked up, they saw a fully armed cavalry cloaked in black speeding over.

“The black wind bandits! They’re the black wind bandits!!”

“The black wind bandits!”

“…”

Alarmed voices rang in the area. With appalled expressions, the peasants abandoned everything and scrambled to flee.

The cavalrymen cloaked in black, with sinister smiles on their faces, rushed towards the Autumn Leaf Town alike sharp arrows bowstring.

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

A resonant alarm reverberated in the Autumn Leaf Town. Alarmed, the Autumn Leaf Town people hid in their homes and grabbed weapons, shivering.

“Close the gate! Close the gate immediately! Hurry up, fools! For your own sake, quickly close the gate!” At the Autumn Leaf Castle’s gate, an officer with a pale face directed warriors to close the castle’s gate.

Under the officer’s scolding and cursing, the castle’s gate finally started to close.

“Master, it’s bad! The black wind bandits are here! The black wind bandits are here!!” With a pale and frightened expression, the butler Liu stormed into the castle’s garden and shouted towards Yang Feng.