Leader Chen had a different opinion: "What if they were just interested in the little Drought Fiend earlier and wanted to study it, so they didn't act immediately?"
"How will we know if we don't try?" Chen Xianzhi insisted.
Jia Weixin pondered slightly and said, "You handle this matter. Try your best not to engage with those eerie beings."
"Yes, Commander." Chen Xianzhi respectfully accepted the order.
Before long, the aircraft returned to the safe zone.
Although the Firepower Flying Disc had eliminated the little Drought Fiend, causing the temperature to drop back to over two hundred degrees, giving many people confidence, the safe zone was still filled with unease, and the oppressive atmosphere was palpable.
After parting ways with Yang Yuan and Jia Weixin, he headed straight to his factory.
On the way back to the factory, he glanced up at the experience of his Firepower Flying Disc, finding that he was just two and a half days away from reaching level ten.
'Two and a half days...'
"Yang Yuan, you're back. Eat something first; you haven't eaten for a long time." Zhao Jiayan and Jiang Yiyi immediately came up to him.
"I'll just eat something simple."
Yang Yuan handed the box containing the Drought Fiend Core to Zhao Jiayan, ate a bit, and drank enough water, then went to the printer.
In nearly three days, even though he had been assembling the Firepower Flying Disc, he had Zhao Jiayan watch over the printer, so it hadn't lost any experience.
[3D Printer Lv.2: 3037/80 (Upgradeable)]
"Over three thousand experience, not bad. Let's upgrade it then."
With a thought, he began upgrading the 3D printer in front of him.
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[3D Printer Lv.3: 2957/160 (Basic version 3D printer, can print items with a material hardness not exceeding 5; Upgradeable)]
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[3D Printer Lv.4: 2797/320 (Upgraded 3D printer, can print items with a material hardness not exceeding 6, with a certain degree of detail refinement; Upgradeable)]
"Upgraded version?"
Yang Yuan's eyes flashed: "Continue upgrading."
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[3D Printer Lv.5: 2477/640 (...Upgradeable)]
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[3D Printer Lv.6: 1837/1280 (...Upgradeable)]
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[3D Printer Lv.7: 557/2560 (Enhanced 3D printer, can print items with a material hardness not exceeding 9, adds scanning function, maximizes detail refinement; Not Upgradeable)]
"Enhanced version? Can print items with a material hardness not exceeding nine?"
Yang Yuan nodded in satisfaction: "It can scan? And the printed items can be as refined as possible, not bad."
The 3D printer had undergone a significant change in appearance, with more exquisite design, but also a larger size.
The 3D printer now was two meters long, one and a half meters wide, and one and a half meters high, like a large counter.
The original operation buttons and the simple screen on the counter's surface had been replaced with luxurious touch-screen displays.
He casually picked up a steel ingot, placed it in the feeding port, thought for a moment, and suddenly tried to activate the scanning function.
Immediately, all objects within a ten-meter radius were mapped onto the screen.
These included himself and everything within that range.
Even the six little girls inside the safe house were mapped onto the screen.
Yang Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, then casually selected Jiang Yiyi, who was playing with the six little girls, to scan.
Without any noticeable reaction from Jiang Yiyi, a 3D model of her soon appeared on the screen.
This was a vivid model, almost like a real person.
"Let's print one and see."
Just as Yang Yuan was about to choose to print, he noticed that some new options had appeared.
Besides printing the entire model, there were also options for printing specific parts.
For example, you could choose to print only the head, the limbs, or just the torso.
Indeed, you could even choose to print just one organ from the internal organs.
"This... so detailed?"
He felt a wave of joy, then unhesitatingly chose to print each module separately.
But when he selected this printing method, it then displayed whether to print independently or choose an embeddable style.
'So intelligent? Then of course, it's embeddable.'
The printing began.
About a minute later, a small metallic head was printed.
Then came the internal organs, body shell, followed by the left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot—
It took a good half-hour to finally print out all the modules.
Yang Yuan found that each of these modules was highly detailed, including pores and the blood vessels of the heart, all perfectly positioned.
Of course, it also included the stomach and various other organs; everything found in Jiang Yiyi's body was here.
Finally, even metallic clothing was printed, made to be embeddable.
'Not to mention anything else, using this to study the human body, it's indeed a Divine Artifact.'
He was genuinely surprised and delighted, then began assembling these small modules.
First came the internal organs and body shell to form the torso.
Then, the limbs were assembled onto the torso.
Finally, the head was attached.
Once everything was assembled, he also attached the clothing.
When the last clothing module was installed, a string of data appeared above the small metallic figure's head.
This was a palm-sized metallic figure, visually identical to Jiang Yiyi.
If you were to nitpick, the only difference was that the metallic figure looked very rigid, lacking any spirituality.
This was understandable, as it was printed, not handcrafted by a master Carver.
[Puppet·Jiang Yiyi Lv.1: 0/5 (Metal Figurine; Not Upgradeable)]
Yang Yuan toyed with this little thing, its joints were fixed, unable to move, and it lacked an Energy Core, hence couldn't move on its own.
'How does one gain experience with such an item?'
There was an experience readout, and an experience requirement for leveling up, indicating it was capable of gaining experience.
But how exactly was such an item meant to gain experience?
He played around with the metallic puppet, even trying to help it walk manually.
Despite all his efforts, it gained no experience.
It wasn't until he was losing patience and about to set it aside that suddenly—
[Experience +1]
The metallic figurine's experience increased by one point.
Yang Yuan was momentarily stunned: "Where did this experience come from?"
He quickly reviewed what he'd done but found nothing particularly special.
Then he thought about the nature of this metallic figurine...
'What's the purpose of a figurine? Could it be that merely playing with it earns experience? Or perhaps it gains experience just by being displayed? Is it that simple?'
So he attempted to continue playing with it.
Sure enough, after another minute, another point of experience was added.
"It's actually true..."
With a thought, Yang Yuan headed to the safe house and handed the small figurine to Jiang Yiyi: "Yiyi, this is for you. Play with them."
Jiang Yiyi paused when she saw the metallic figure of herself, then happily accepted it: "Thank you, big brother."
She had played with dolls when she was very young; after more than three years, she'd nearly forgotten that joy, and hadn't expected to have such an opportunity again now.
Although this 'doll' was made of metal and in her own likeness, it did not diminish her affection for it.
This metallic figurine was purely to test the effect of the seventh-level printer, real business comes first.
Yang Yuan smiled as he patted the little girl's head, then called over a soldier and handed the Killing Sniper Rifle to him: "Find a Superpower User with great physical strength to use this gun, and shoot as before, as much as possible. If it breaks, bring it to me, and by no means try to fix it yourself."