Chapter 338: Day 768 (2) – High Speed Travel

Chapter 338: Day 768 (2) – High Speed Travel

I checked everything over once more including Abs clothing to make sure there was nothing hidden. I had its rod placed into the slot of my armor at the base of my spine, touching my skin. I could imagine a pet master, having rods all over their body.

“The mask and cloak, wear them.” I handed her a plain white mask. She put it on and secured it. “I won’t be able to speak once we are with other people. Any last questions or concerns?” I asked.

“Maybe later, and we need to practice to get signals down,” Fuyuka said and I nodded.

“Agreed. What is your Spirit stat?” I asked her.

“About 100, why?” I let out a sigh.

“Really?”

“We don’t use skills. My Body stat is at 1,200 right now. Why?” she asked.

“Not even for void zones?” I asked.

“Spirit helps with them?” she asked back and I let out a sigh. These rebels were clearly lacking in every way.

“Yes. Well, you can handle a bit of exposure. Do the tribes go near them?” I asked.

“They try not to, but they go where the monsters are. Only a level 3 zone would be safe from prying eyes,” Fuyuka explained to me.

“Then we will loop around to the zone you and your companions were using but on the West side. Practice there for a full day, rest up. Then go for the Forbidden City by way of the North Road from Qingdao,” I explained.

“Got it,” Fuyuka said. She was already much better than Bao Wang, not constantly complaining. I guess when you are the Butcher of Beijing serving up people patties to save a couple points, you are also not a nice person in general. It wasn’t unexpected for a person’s job to bleed over into their personality. Rather it was the exception when that wasn’t the case, at least from my experience.

But I wasn’t a people person. Another reason I didn’t want to do the speaking. “Well, at least your Body stat is high enough for this travel method. Come here,” I told her and she walked over to me. “Turn around, I am going to lift you up by your back.”

She listened to me, and I easily lifted her up with one hand. I had Abs come in close to me. “Acid Shot,” x40. I melted the cart and everything left behind. If there was some kind of tracker it could disappeared with everything else. I lifted Abs up with my other hand.

“This won’t work,” Fuyuka said and I agreed. I set them both back down and had Abs turn into a chair with hand holds on the back. I had Fuyuka sit down on Abs and picked up the stone chair. It was more that I had the human shaped body bend like it was already sitting down and the legs folded up under the rear, since I wasn’t going to take off Abs’s clothes it was wearing as a disguise.

I took off slowly at first, then quickly picking up speed once I got the hang of the new weight distribution. Fuyuka’s head was just below mine so we could talk loudly to each other while moving, but for the first part I wanted silence to watch out for other people.

While the Almighty System allowed a lot of power with stats, it didn’t give people perfect control over their bodies. They could use more or less force on an object, and have time slowed down with a high Mind stat, but one didn’t suddenly have very precise control. That was why Abs looked completely unnatural.

I kept experimenting, trying to transition between facial states, but the rock shifting wasn’t like human muscle. It was like the golems from the tower. After an hour of frustration, I gave up. I went back to perfecting the face, ears, hair, and everything else.

The face and clothing combined were decent, but they weren’t good. If it was me, I would know something was wrong. The wound helped sell it. I had seen enough blood and dried blood to get the coloration and scabbing correct.

Once I felt I couldn’t do anymore, I had Abs stand up and I removed its outer layer of clothing. I then had it move about. Working and varying its gait. The hands were something I hadn’t done yet, so I brought out the rock stubs and carefully got to work, focusing through the rod to make them as perfect as possible.

I had almost made the sleeves longer, but I didn’t want to risk altering the outfit in any way. Once I got the hands and wrists done. I had Abs move them about. The main thing would be having it put the hands on top of the store pillar.

I practiced the motion of moving the hands from behind and putting them on an imaginary pillar or pointing at something. That would be the sign to kill that person horribly with melting. I would be telling myself, or Fuyuka would clue me in, but that would be the Divine Empress’s way of signaling to kill a person.

It would require come more practice, but the movements were coming along nicely when Fuyuka woke up. The fact that everything changing shape was hidden beneath clothing was the key. I had to make the Divine Empress’s hand match what I needed when I removed them from the sleeves behind her back. I wouldn’t be able to do any adjustments while they were in front of her.

“It still looks...questionable?” Fuyuka said and looked at me.

“It is flat and doesn’t look alive. That is as good as it is going to get,” I replied and I had Abs gesture. Put its hands behind its back and do another gesture. I then had it move about. “What do you think?”

“It would only fool an idiot or coward. Hopefully neither are in short supply,” Fuyuka said.

“That is why we need to have a kill message. You think someone is about to cause an issue, say something about them and I will have the Divine Empress point, then I will kill them. Just murder our way through people until they stop asking questions.”

“If this works, I am never believing in human intelligence ever again,” Fuyuka muttered. “Fine. We can try it that way. Let’s go through the phrases I want to use. I gave it a lot of thought on the run over.”

She began listing off phrases. I noted they were different than what Bao Wang had used and brought this up.

“There are different ways to say things just like in English. Those sayings may have worked for him, but these are the ones and phrases I am comfortable using, and understanding their social implications. Also I have heard them used in the Empire before, so I wouldn’t worry too much.” I nodded at this.

Like English, there were many words for the same thing in Chinese, but the context and general use of these words mattered. That was why I went with what Fuyuka felt comfortable with and not what Bao Wang would be using.

It was a headache relearning things but we had the time now and the heist was right around the corner. I insisted that she make her phrases separate and clear as a stand-alone thing she would say. Otherwise, there was too big a risk I would misunderstand or not pick them up.

Everything was slowly coming together despite the countless setbacks.