When Jon found Lia, she was sitting in front of a strange PuPu, staring in a daze, her cute little head tilted.
Her petite body shimmered in the moonlight, pure and alluring.
The yellow PuPu before her was extremely bizarre.
For some reason, it was continuously spinning.
When Jon got closer, he was astonished to realize that this didn’t seem like just one PuPu, but several.
The outermost PuPu wrapped around the others inside, and the ones actually spinning were the ones within.
The yellow PuPus seemed to find it amusing, treating the rotation like somersaults, playing joyfully.
“Uh… What is this…?”
Jon didn’t understand.
Why was the PuPu spinning? So strange? Wasn’t this an electric PuPu?
And it spun so smoothly.
“Ah! Friend! You’re back! Lily missed you so much! Lily wants to share with Friend!”
Hearing Jon’s voice, Lia sat up at once, bounced cheerfully, and in a few moves climbed onto the hero’s shoulder, giving Jon’s head an enthusiastic hug, her soft chest unknowingly pressing against his earlobe.
“Why is the PuPu spinning?”
Jon was puzzled.
“Hmm… Friend, do you know the basic electric magic, [Magnetic Attraction]?”
Lia began to explain in a naive, innocent tone.
Jon nodded.
[Magnetic Attraction] was a simple spell, though few people learned it.
It was mainly used to ambush in battle, to deflect the angle of enemy weapon attacks, assist in defense or counterattack.
Aside from that, if you lost some small metal thing, you could use this magic to attract it from nooks and crannies.
He had never realized this spell was of the electric type.
“Lily discovered that [Magnetic Attraction] creates north and south poles for Pu. Like poles repel, unlike poles attract, so Lia made a Cylinder PuPu and four Spindle PuPu tangled together.”
Lia jumped down to demonstrate for Jon.
She took out the four Spindle PuPu from inside the Cylinder PuPu—they looked like pancakes sliced into eight pieces, connected diagonally, crossed and combined, then reassembled into a ‘pancake’ shape.
This ‘pancake’ fit perfectly into Cylinder PuPu No. 1.
Lia placed the ‘pancake’ inside, and it immediately spun a bit, then settled into a position, motionless.
“See, see~ Because like poles repel and unlike poles attract, as long as you place the Spindle PuPu that activate [Magnetic Attraction] inside, they’ll automatically spin to align the positive and negative poles.”
“Then why was it spinning non-stop just now?”
Jon was still baffled.
“Mm… I made them switch between two frequencies of [Magnetic Attraction], one positive, one negative. That way, their poles constantly change, both ends continuously turning toward the opposite pole, so they keep spinning~”
Lia explained calmly, not caring if Jon understood.
It sounded complicated, but it was essentially the working principle of a primitive direct current motor.
Except, Lia replaced the permanent magnet and armature with PuPu carrying [Magnetic Attraction], simulating a motor’s structure.
Luckily, the motor didn’t suffer from any incompatibility.
Jon listened to Lia’s excited explanation, his mouth slowly dropping open.
…He didn’t understand a single word.
But that didn’t stop him from praising his own ‘genius Pu girl’ and giving her plenty of encouragement and emotional support.
Regaining his senses, Jon reached out to affectionately rub Lia’s little head, his tone gentle.
“Very impressive, Lily. This little toy is really well made.”
“This isn’t a toy!”
Lia shook her head, then summoned several dozen more PuPu.
She had carefully named each of them with fitting titles.
“Tire! You form the tire! Drive shaft! You form the drive shaft! Steering wheel! You form the steering wheel! Oh, and…”
A few dozen seconds later, a group of oddly shaped PuPu clustered together, forming a…
Tractor.
Lia piloted this ‘PuTractor’ around Jon.
Jon’s expression shifted from confusion at first, to blankness, and finally to worldview-shattering chaos.
“Lily, y-y-you’re way too smart!”
So smart it was almost scary.
For a moment, he even wondered if his PuPu was the reincarnation of some mysterious arcane scholar…
But the things she created were too unusual—Jon had never heard of them, and their principles and appearance were completely different from anything familiar on the continent.
This dispelled his suspicion that ‘Lia was a reincarnated arcane scholar.’
After all…this kind of imagination was far beyond what any human could conceive.
If any human had made such a thing, Jon would’ve had to crack open their skull to check for unknown substances.
Maybe this was just the genius of the Pu race.
“Look, look!”
Lia’s pretty face beamed as she invited Jon to sit.
“Friend! Come play!”
Only then did Jon realize that Lily had even reserved a seat for him.
No wonder this ‘Pu monster aggregation’ was so big.
Suddenly, he became curious about how it would feel to sit on it.
Before long.
A magical scene unfolded on the streets of Hope Town.
The hero paraded openly atop a bizarre aggregation made up of countless PuPu.
The ‘PuTractor’ slowly rolled into Teacher Jonathan’s house.
The next second—
“AAAAAHHH!!!”
A heart-piercing scream echoed through the tent.
Royeh, wearing nothing but a bedsheet, tore open the curtain and fled.
The hero followed behind, repeatedly apologizing.
After calming himself, Royeh still couldn’t look at the ‘PuMonster’ by the roadside, speaking in terror.
“Brother Jon, you’re here to see my dad, right? He went to the warehouse to get money. He plans to buy more grain in the City with my brother before prices skyrocket.”
“Thanks.”
Jon nodded, rubbing Lia’s little head a couple of times.
Since he urgently needed to discuss countermeasures with Teacher Jonathan, he didn’t continue to play and mess around with Lia.
Abandoning the Pu vehicle, he set off on foot.
Lia took another solo test drive, soon discovering a few minor issues with this ‘Electric Vehicle.’
First of all… PuPu get thirsty.
Though thirsty PuPu would still follow orders, they would subconsciously drift toward water sources.
Gradually, the entire structure would fall apart.
Outfitting every PuPu with a Water Supplement System was clearly unrealistic—at most, only critical systems could be equipped.
So for long-term stability, it was still necessary to develop some Metallurgy Industry and replace fixed parts with other materials.
Secondly… PuPu were very flexible, but their hardness and rigidity were insufficient.
Q-bouncy, Q-bouncy—like this Pu vehicle, if it crashed, Lia inside would feel the whole world go ‘Duang~.’
Obviously, such soft materials were unsuitable for most mechanical structures.
Lia thought to herself:
‘It seems there’s no problem using PuPu to build the Core System, but it’s still necessary to blend in other materials for external Armor to support the framework.’
The success of the motor was a great beginning.
She had already solved the core foundation of industry—Power.
Next, as long as she kept climbing the metallurgy technology tree, she could create many things to arm the PuPu, strengthen Pu soldier combat power, and gain the strength to protect herself and establish a PuNest!
Lia already felt a beautiful future waving at her.
However.
Before building the factory.
She needed to catch a few succubi for ‘power generation’ first.
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