Chapter 38: Treasury Study

“To become an apprentice,” Elrond looked at him with a smile.

Probed or counter-probed, what was the best course of action? Acting stubborn and rigid was the way. No matter what Zate thought, denial was the only thing that Elrond could do.

“Kid, don’t be overly arrogant here. Be careful, or I’ll make you pack up and leave,” said Zate.

“You will have to give me sufficient reason. Since you hired me, then I’m an employee here. If you fire me for no reason, you’ll have to compensate me with three times the salary.”

“Kid, how dare you be so shameless to cheat me?” Zate slammed the table and stood up.

“Grandpa, the labor law seems to be so. Furthermore, it is illegal to fire an employee without a reason. We will have to bear the corresponding legal responsibility and we will be given a fine.” Mary added insult to injury.

Zate was so angry that his face turned red. He pointed at Mary and asked, “Are you still my granddaughter? Why are you speaking up for him?”

Mary cringed and said, “I’m just telling the truth.”

“I’m not eating anymore. I’m full of anger.” Zate put down his bowl, hoping that his granddaughter would coax him.

But Mary did not say anything.

She thought that Zate was just plain rude. Who wanted to bother about him? She only needed the handsome young man. Working with Elrond would be a joy.

Seeing that his granddaughter’s nonchalance, Zate became angrier.

“Kid… You…”

“Bam—”

Elrond suddenly slammed the golden revolver on the table, giving Zate a huge shock.

“Look, I’m here to work. I’m indeed just an apprentice, but I have a sound personality. Please don’t insult me. You asked me why I did I come here? I’m here to gain more knowledge because I want to understand the secret of this gun.”

“If you can tell me what is the secret of this gun, I’ll leave immediately,” said Elrond.

The grandfather and granddaughter exchanged glances. What was so special about that revolver?

Seeing Elrond push the revolver over, Zate’s curiosity was piqued. Wasn’t this an old gilded pistol? What was so special about it?

He didn’t know what Elrond was up to.

Elrond knew that Zate was obsessed with machinery.

The most boring thing in life was that all mechanical principles felt so simple, while the greatest joy was to study new mechanical knowledge.

Zate picked up the Golden Revolver and was shocked. “It’s so heavy. Could this be made from pure gold?”

He was extremely surprised. In this era, gold was an ultra-westernized metal. It was even more precious than diamonds. But someone used it to make a gun.

He opened up the Golden Revolver and took a careful look, but did not find anything special about it.

After studying it for a long time, he still could not figure out anything about it. “Kid, what are you up to?”

Elrond, who had just finished two bowls of rice, walked to Zate. “Promise me this. If you can’t get any findings, don’t tell anyone else about this, okay?”

“Who says I can’t get any findings?”

Zate’s anger flourished in a second. He didn’t expect that a person who was able to research the mechanical arm would speak without thinking.

Mary was also very curious, and she came over to study it together.

However, the two of them looked at it for 10 minutes, and there was still no result.

This made Zate slightly embarrassed.

Elrond thought to himself, “Anything else would probably not faze you. This is produced by the system. If you manage to get any findings on it, the system can be made redundant.”

Thinking of this, he held the Golden Revolver and said, “Are there any targets here? I’ll do an experiment to show you, and you’ll understand.”

The three of them came to the backyard. It was a shooting range and a large open space.

Holding the Golden Revolver, Elrond started to shoot.

After four to five consecutive shots, he didn’t stop and continued to shoot without loading any bullets. Soon, he had fired a dozen over shots.

“How is this possible?” Zate and Mary widened their eyes, dumbfounded.

They clearly saw the maximum number of bullets that the Golden Revolver could hold was six. What was going on?

Where did the extra bullets come from?

Holding the Golden Revolver, Elrond walked to Zate and said, “This is a family heirloom, and I treasure it very much. If you can figure out why it has unlimited bullets, I will leave immediately without a word. I will also tell you everything about my identity.”

After that, Elrond passed the revolver to Zate.

Zate took the revolver and ran into his laboratory.

Elrond was not afraid that Zate would destroy the revolver.

With Zate’s capability, he would not be able to destroy the Golden Revolver or understood its principles.

After having his meal, there were no repair tasks. So Elrond went straight into the mechanical materials room.

If he hadn’t entered this room, he would never have known that it was full of books. Seeing the books on the shelf left Elrond astounded.

Voyage was an interstella game. In the initial stage, all the occupations came from Earth.

However, this was a virtual reality game.

If one wanted to learn any useful knowledge, the game’s system would give a simple notification.

Everything had to be obtained through one’s efforts.

Otherwise, most ordinary players could only live a life of being nurtured by another ordinary person.

What was meant by being nurtured?

The system would evaluate every player and character after some time, according to the quests distributed to them.

These players who did not obtain any game skills could not become psionics.

People such as mechanics and warriors were categorized as ordinary people by the system.

These ordinary people would be assigned an identity based on their dissatisfaction with reality.

For example, a loser in reality who worked hard for his whole life would still be an ordinary person.

But the system could arrange for that person to be a tycoon’s son.

In this way, he would live a carefree life in the gaming world.

Moreover, as long as the players didn’t seek trouble, it would always remain like this.

An ugly girl might become a model and live the life of a socialite.

Those who didn’t have any educational qualifications in the real world might become respected professors.

This was the reason why so many people went crazy when Voyage was first launched in Elrond’s previous life.

Once they became addicted to Voyage, they practically could not extricate themselves.

Their actions caused the real world to collapse.

In the end, the real world merged with the gaming world.

Elrond suspected that this was the will of all living beings. They thought that the game was real, so they forcefully turned the virtual world into reality. It eventually resulted in the destruction of the world in his previous life.

The study room in front of him was simple but somewhat messy.

There were countless entry-level mechanical books on the bookshelf.

These were simply soul treasures for the players who chose the mechanics class.

The books here were so rare that those players who chose to take up the mechanics class might not chance upon it.

Even with the system notification, the chances of obtaining one were extremely low.

“Manufacturing and Research on Robots”

“Basic Knowledge of Weapon Materials”

“Basic Knowledge of Weapons”

…

He casually picked up the book “Basic Knowledge of Weapons” and flipped through it.

“Ding, you have learned the Basic Knowledge of Weapons.”

The system gave a prompt. Elrond casually flipped through the book and gained the knowledge.