Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1130 573: Old Man, Don’t Get Excited! (Part 3)

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Previously on Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'...
Li Banfeng searched Du Wenming's hideouts, finding a meeting room, a fish pond with eight million in cash, and finally Du Wenming's sealed laboratory hidden within a factory. The laboratory contained advanced equipment and a Dark Dimension Space. Inside the space, Li Banfeng discovered battery packs, a power distribution room, and Du Wenming's bedroom, where a surveillance camera revealed that Du Wenming himself was taken away the previous night by someone referred to as "the owner here."

The projector and camera communicated for a moment: "Seventh Guide, the camera's power went out, and it can't display an image."

Actually, there was no need to display an image, Li Banfeng could already speculate a bit. This was originally where Yu Yaoming lived, and Du Wenming had imprisoned him here.

After the battle in the laboratory, Du Wenming realized something was amiss and took Yu Yaoming away.

Aside from Yu Yaoming, by regular deduction, Du Wenming would take anything valuable with him.

Since everything was taken, why did the gloves say there are valuable items here?

Li Banfeng returned to the hallway and checked each room one by one.

He saw a warehouse, a restroom, a machine room, and a bathroom.

There was also a spacious dance room, with mirrors on the surrounding walls, flooring dedicated to dancing on the ground, and various lighting fixtures on the ceiling.

Under almost complete isolation from the outside world, Li Banfeng found it hard to imagine how Du Wenming had accomplished such a large project.

Surely he didn't do it himself, there must have been Craftsman Cultivators helping him, and they must have been high-level Craftsman Cultivators, possibly from the Snowflake Beach.

It's precisely because of this Craftsman Cultivator that Du Wenming could mask himself to look exactly like a puppet.

In the dance room, there was a cabinet, the cabinet was unlocked, and it contained quite a few dance textbooks.

Purely from a value perspective, these textbooks weren't precious, but for a Dance Cultivator, they might be equivalent to his secret martial arts manual.

Li Banfeng indeed noticed one set of textbooks, which taught the string puppet dance.

Such a dance indeed existed.

Li Banfeng gathered these dance textbooks, hoping to find a way to deal with Du Wenming within them.

Next to the dance room was a data room, which was completely empty; nothing was left behind.

Li Banfeng didn't hold out much hope for this hiding place anymore, and when he reached the end of the hallway, he saw the last iron door.

The gloves examined the door lock: "Boss, this lock's hard to open, you'll have to wait for me a bit."

The door lock appeared ordinary, showing no features, even after working for half an hour, the gloves couldn't open it.

He said there are valuable items behind the iron door, what could they be? Why did Du Wenming leave them here?

"Brother, don't bother with the door anymore, I'll just go through the wall."

"Boss, don't be reckless, you don't know the situation on the other side of the wall."

"I'll clear a path first then."

"Boss, this is someone else's territory, especially The Unnameable Place, it'd be better if we're cautious, if you accidentally open a path, and the whole building collapses, we'll suffer a big loss!"

Click~

After waiting ten minutes, the door lock finally opened.

Li Banfeng carefully opened the door, during which he maximized the Seek Fortune and Avoid Disaster technique, attentively perceiving the other side's danger.

The space outside the door seemed much larger than inside.

Beyond the door there was indeed danger, but it was within controllable limits. When Li Banfeng fully opened the door, he saw those two treasures and understood why Du Wenming didn't take them.

The treasures were too big.

Two spheres with a diameter of over ten meters were floating in the space outside, slowly rotating.

They rotated by themselves and orbited each other, like two planets drifting in the universe.

Li Banfeng couldn't tell what these spheres were made of, they looked like stones, but they also had hints of metallic sheen.

Not reflections, but the spheres themselves were emitting a faint glow, threads of light halo seemed like layered veins, passing across the spheres slowly.

"Are these the treasures you mentioned?"

"Yes, Boss!"

"Come, let's take them into the Portable Residence."

"They can't fit, our house isn't big enough!"

Just as the gloves finished saying this, Li Banfeng suddenly heard urgent whistle sounds.

Woo ah, woo ah!

The Old Man woke up?

So anxious just after waking up.

The gloves whispered a reminder: "Boss, there's no need for us to make a move for priceless things, the Old Man's quick, and he has a big hand, if you walk a bit closer, I reckon the Old Man will fetch them himself."

Li Banfeng took two steps closer to the spheres, and like magnets, they drew Li Banfeng toward them.

Where did this force come from?

Even if these two spheres were magnets, Li Banfeng wasn't made of iron, why was he attracted?

Using his own power, he resisted the spheres' forces, cautiously taking two steps towards them, stopping three meters away.

Can't get closer, anymore and he might not make it back.

If it were a land patcher, he'd already be stuck on the sphere.

The gloves noticed something stuck to the sphere, that object was of great value, likely made of gold.

It flew towards the sphere, its body nearly losing control.

Li Banfeng yanked back the gloves, exerting all his strength, pulling it back.

"Where are you going?"

"Boss, I picked up something nice, take a look..."

Before the gloves could reveal the nice thing, the two spheres suddenly shrank and then disappeared.

The space became empty, pitch-black, Li Banfeng heard a long whistle sound.

Woo~

The whistle was mixed with some laughter.

Ha ha ha!

The gloves wiggled a finger at Li Banfeng: "The Old Man got them, we can't go back empty-handed either, this is what I picked up before, Boss, take a look, it's pure gold."

Li Banfeng took a piece of gold from the gloves, judging from the shape and size, it seemed like a leaf.