Chapter 244: Game Pool

"You said that the Deer Hunter Chairman brought a newcomer over to remodel weapons the other day, and that he was going to let the newcomer join the team-"

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "--But this newcomer says he can join the Deer Hunters, but the only condition for his joining the team is that he asks you to remodel my weapon for me?"

Hua Gan will wipe the corners of his mouth, "Yes, this newcomer knows that I'm the best reformer in the game, and the requirement is that I must reform your weapon, and that I must reform it to fit you, and greatly increase your combat and defense."

Hua Gan's eyes fell on Bai Liu's hands, "The idea of transforming your wallet into a glove was suggested by this newcomer."

"He wants you to have a pair of black leather gloves that will wrap around your hands perfectly, be suitable for whipping, and be readily accessible for paper money without getting hurt easily."

"In order to recruit this newcomer into the guild, our president agreed to this newcomer's outrageous request."

Hua Gan couldn't help the anger that appeared on his face as he spoke, but he quickly pushed it down.

"In order to fulfill this newcomer's request, the Chairman negotiated with Charles, your investor, and originally the deal was that I would only modify the weapon for one of you, but then after being wheedled by this Charles bastard, the Chairman actually agreed to let me modify it for your entire team!!!"

"This is a disgrace and a betrayal to the weapon modifiers who belong exclusively within the Guild!"

Bai Liu loosened the hands that were holding Hua Gan down, "But you still agreed."

Hua Gan put a mouthful of turbid air was lightly blocked in his chest by Bai Liu, and disappointedly lowered his head, "...... Yes, I can't disobey the president's request."

He paused and added, "Even if you get my soul, I won't serve anyone else but the Deer Hunter's Guild, so kill me."

Bai Liu raised his eyes to Liu Jiayi next to him and gave her a questioning look, Liu Jiayi sighed and shook her head at him, indicating that he could stop now.

--As Hua Gan will say, he would rather die than serve anyone outside the Sanhedrin.

Unlike the mass-trained reservists, and different from the datamancers like Wang Shun who communicated with multiple people, the guild's control over the reformers was extraordinary, even if Bai Liu got Hua Gan's general's soul, it would be a difficult task to make this iron-tough, hard and soft guy compromise.

Reformer and desire constant player is different, their desire and soul early in the long polishing and tempering in the fusion of all things, become invulnerable to swords and spears, they do not communicate with people, but only with their men a handful of burnt red desire sharpened weapon communication, is the existence of the instrument is greater than the person.

And the guild they were in was the one where they built their favorite piece of weaponry, or the reformer wouldn't have chosen to stoop to the level of this guild.

Modifiers would never betray the Ware, let alone the guild they built, so they were the most loyal in the guild.

Hua Gan will be the best reformer, naturally the hardest of reformers.

If Mu Sicheng hadn't taken control of the apprentice right from the start, the guy surely wouldn't have said a word.

After getting a sign from Liu Jiayi, Bai Liu calmly changed his tone, "I won't ask you to serve us all the time, we just want to know why."

"You have to protect your guild, and I have to protect my guild members." Bai Liu smiled, "Can you tell me some useful information? For example, that rookie team member who asked you to remodel for me, who was it?"

This one doesn't touch the confidential core of the guild, after all, sooner or later the players are going to have to be pulled out to meet people.

Hua Gan General hesitated for a long time, but chose to speak, "I'm not sure who exactly, when the Chairman brought him here, he was wearing a mask full of blood."

"But the guy's skill weapon is a very long green plastic toy gun."

Bai Liu slowly and methodically toyed with the long hook at the side of the boiler, "Mr. Hua, there is no way to get rid of us with this kind of information."

Hua Gan will grit his teeth and move on, "I won't tell you what his skills are, but I can tell you what happened during the remodeling."

"The gun was made of a very strange material, it looked like a plastic flail gun that dissolved in less than a dimensional second after being placed in the lava."

Hua Gan wrinkled his brow as he slipped into remembrance, "I've remodeled quite a few weapons, and I've never seen such a strange weapon, and such a strange owner of a weapon, who obviously had the weapon dissolved, but this person was sitting next to him, humming without any urgency at all."

"I had no choice but to keep betting material into it in order to fish out the weapon, trying to saturate the magma with solubility and precipitate the gun out."

Hua Gan will say here, with a bit of a meaty look on his face, "-- half of the warehouse's materials were thrown in, and the magma didn't move at all, that's when I realized something wasn't right."

"These materials aren't being dissolved at all, they're being eaten by this gun!"

"I threw a lot more material into it, the guild's warehouse was emptied, and the gun hadn't even had enough, and finally the president had to go to Charles for new material, and that's when he hooked up with Charles."

Hua Gan will let out a long breath, "Charles promised to supply us with a large amount of materials free of charge, but at the same time asked me to modify the weapons for an entire team of you."

"I kept betting materials into it that day, and even bet a lot of cut pieces of skill weapons into it, but that gun never precipitated, just like a huge black hole that never satisfies and devours other people's desires and souls."

"...... I've never seen such a greedy skill weapon."

Hua Gan will look at the fiery red boiler in a trance, "In the end, the President got a piece of dirty wallet leather from Charles, saying that it was a remnant of a preliminary weapon modification for you."

"I cast this piece of leather in, and the magma boiled, and I saw the remains of that gun after it had dissolved gather around this piece of leather in a pile, like crystalline polynuclei precipitating out of a saturated solution."

Hua Gan will tilt his head back to gaze at Bai Liu, his voice dry, "My magma was on the verge of burning dry when the bottom of the pot coalesced with a sniper/gun that just made me start to get scared when I saw it."

"If the process of forging your gloves is what makes me feel controlled, that gun feels like a hole so deep that one look at it will devour my soul, never to return."

Tang Er, who had been silent on the sidelines, hit a stuttering breath.

Bai Liu lowered the long hook, and he seemed to feel something as he ran two fingers through the metal ring of his glove opening and narrowed his eyes.

Hua Gan would notice Bai Liu's line of sight and let out a long sigh, "Looks like you guessed it, yes, that metal ring on your glove is the same material that was on that gun."

"And it's not residual material, it's core material."

"That newcomer with blood all over his mask, after getting that gun, asked me what materials I needed for the transformation of my gloves, gloves are very hard to transform for a non-attacking skill weapon, and this newcomer is not interested in the process of transforming his own weapon, but is very interested in the process of transforming your weapon."

"I'd say if your wrist strength isn't good enough, gloves generally go for lightness, but then most of the advanced materials aren't available for your gloves because they're too heavy, and therefore don't improve the base value of the gloves."

Hua Gan will take a deep breath, "Upon hearing me say that, he asked me if his gun was advanced enough to be used as material."

"I'd say that's enough, completely, but your gun is already fully modified, and taking a portion of it off from whatever would destroy the integrity of your weapon."

"And by that time he had established a soul connection with the fully modified weapon; the weapon was a derivation of himself, and he would have felt the pain of digging a hard piece off such a gun, even if it was a marginal piece."

"But he said, why should I give you a rimfire?" Hua Gan General's expression twisted up as if he'd seen some monster, "Then the guy gouged out the core of his own gun, threw it into the lava, and walked away."

"...... I also quenched quite a few weapons in the middle, but it was like his gun core had literally dissolved, and it didn't respond at all."

Hua Gan will look at that metal ring on the edge of Bai Liu's glove with complicated eyes, "But today, the moment your glove came out of the oven, I saw this metal ring, and I knew it was the material for his gun core."

Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then rose, "Mr. Hua Gan General, I make a promise as Bai Liu that I will not use your soul to do anything detrimental to your original intentions after this collaboration, but accordingly, I hope that you can use your best efforts to transform my crew this time around."

After saying that, Bai Liu waved his hand, and Mu Sicheng stared at Hua Gan skeptically for a few seconds before releasing his grip on the apprentice.

The apprentice was paralyzed with weakness, shrinking into a ball of hindsight as he looked at the men.

Hua Gan will look aghast at Bai Liu, who is quick to release the man, and pause for a long time before snorting and responding, "Take the man's money, be loyal to the man, the man is guilty, the weapon is not, and no matter what you have done, your weapon is innocent."

"I will not count your wrongdoings against the ware, and will naturally treat them well."

Bai Liu nodded appreciatively, then smiled and said, "Of course, in addition to that, I have an unkind request for Mr. Hua Gan General."

"I wish to place an outside order in your name with the King's Guild of Appraisers."

Hua Gan will ask: "What do you want to identify?"

Bai Liu clasped his hands together, his gaze obscure, "I have these gloves on my hands."

Hua Gan will pick up the conversation with understanding, "--and all the weapons that have been modified by me, right? This is fine, feel free to appraise them and I'll place the order for you."

With that said, the reformer, whose soul was no longer in his own hands, patted himself on the back and stood up, then ground the limp apprentice.

The man literally acted as if nothing had happened, ripped off the monkey's paw that Mu Sicheng was holding his protégé in, put on a magnifying glass and began to study it in earnest.

Bai Liu sat in the corner, lowering his eyes to examine the gloves on his hands, Tang Er hit at some point stood behind him and spoke in a muffled voice, "...... are clowns."

"Well, I guessed." Bai Liu said, "But I don't understand his reasoning for doing this for me, and the Joker shouldn't know me by now."

"But again, his every move shows that he knows me exceptionally well ......" Bai Liu half-lidded her eyes, "If the Joker knows what my skills are, and what I will do, then the fact that he allowed this reformer to initiate to remodel my deeds, it's very much like wrapping this remodeler as a gift to me."

Tang Er hit murmured, "Joker knows you can use your skills to take control of this reformer."

Bai Liu tugged on the edge of his glove and pulled it off, he looked thoughtfully at the metal ring on the side of the glove, "And this material as well, he took it upon himself to have the best fusion of materials rectified and then just waited for me to come and receive it."

"I know what he did, but the question is why did he do it?"

Tang Er typed, "If it was any other world line, I can see why the Joker would do it."

Bai Liu looked up.

"The best material, the best reformer ...... " Tang Er hit with a sigh full of complexity, "The clown of the other world line always offer the best to you, because in his eyes, only the best can be worthy of you. "