The girl brushed her lightly calloused hands over the bracelet, inevitably grazing Lin Guang's skin: "But with the boss here, it's much easier, not as uncomfortable."

Lin Guang was about to say something when he suddenly heard a very out-of-place comment in her calm voice.

"The boss is the best."

Lin Guang couldn't help but shiver, feeling goosebumps rising: "Where did you learn that phrase?"

Zumama blinked innocently:

"Ah, does it sound strange to say that?"

"I think it was recommended to me by Liko, from some work; it seemed like this could be a critical hit to guys..."

Liko's mouth dropped open: "Master? How could you just say that?! And I meant for you to understand, not just copy it—"

Lin Guang sighed.

"...If you want me to accompany you to see the Angry Iron Plate, just say so, no need to beat around the bush."

"Oh yeah! The boss is the best!"

This time it was genuine.

...…

Several hours later.

Outside the Senran Studio.

In that rainforest patch.

At the moment, the sky had completely darkened, the sunlight filtering into the rainforest had vanished, leaving only that pile of spirit gold mechanical parts stacked like a mountain, shimmering with a little radiance.

Lin Guang and Zumama, who came to see him off, walked nearby.

He reached out with his right hand, the one wearing the python bracelet, touching these parts, and used his amplified spiritual power to feel the lingering information within them.

After a while, Lin Guang suddenly spoke.

"Remarkable."

"Huh? Boss, what did you say?"

"I said you're truly remarkable."

Lin Guang looked up at the small mountain in front of him.

——These parts were terribly scrapped.

The spiritual materials, their ether had completely dissipated, and after the spirit rune array was damaged, naturally no one would use them, they almost had no value for recycling.

But looking at this pile of parts, Lin Guang seemed to see Zumama from ten years ago, just after she arrived in this world.

People from the Terra World, when they come here, seem to have parts of their body become energy-fied and thus age freezes, so you can't judge their age by appearance.

But Lin Guang could feel that the source stone in her body recorded only over twenty years of information.

That is to say, when she traversed, she might have only been a few years older than Lisa.

Just ten years of cultivation without a contractor and breaking through the 50-level threshold?

Even for a regular spirit master, that would seem incredible, almost only prodigies could achieve this, but it was accomplished by Zumama.

What kind of effort, what kind of process did the lone Zumama go through to climb to where she is now?

The information stored in her body's source stone was not complete, so Lin Guang couldn't fully understand her past.

But at least after living with Zumama for two months, occasionally engaging in those mysterious exchanges of information, he finally understood why these things were piled here, refusing to move them even if useless.

Her attitude towards these things is...

Teacher.

Perhaps Zumama later came into contact with more advanced technology and education, mastering many methods of making mechanical spirit beasts and spiritual artifacts.

But without a doubt, the origin of almost all her incomprehensible techniques, those methods difficult for ordinary people to understand, that technology... stemmed from these parts, piled like junk.

She absorbs information from the material through the source stone, and her steel attribute makes her more familiar with metal spiritual materials.

Therefore, her techniques are not entirely idealistic.

Essentially, it is a kind of dark logic that others can't think of, based on sensibility and instinct, reading the massive amount of information absorbed in the source stone.

Just like a black box of a model trained on big data from the ether network.

Perhaps each step can be traced.

But when combined together, it becomes astounding and hard to replicate.

Her level progresses so fast, perhaps because the essence within the discarded spirit gold became the nourishment for her growth.

"Ha... not that remarkable."

Zumama lifted her head, also somewhat recalling.

"It's just because I had the good luck to meet Big Sister."

"Big Sister...?"

Lin Guang had heard this term from her mouth for the second time.

Zumama imitated his gesture, reaching out to touch these parts.

"Big Sister is Big Sister."

She slightly tilted her head, swaying her blue-dyed hair, a face full of reminiscence: "Back then, the place where I arrived in this world was the outermost part of the Outer Fifth Ring of Coastal City, a very, very remote corner."

"I didn't know what happened, just opened my eyes to see many very tall buildings, and the towering Sky Arena."

"I just stood there dazed, watching for a long, long time."

"Until... Big Sister appeared."

"That was a small, square, self-moving car, which stopped in front of me, with gentle lights glowing."

"Then it suddenly spoke to me."

Zumama couldn't help but smile: "Back then, I didn't understand a word of Great Xia Language, didn't know what it was saying."

"I only knew it could talk, and seemed to have its own emotions and consciousness."

"I have loved machinery since I was a kid, and had never seen such machinery before; at the time, it was like I went crazy, ran over and touched it all over, wanted to see how it was constructed."

She smiled a bit embarrassed: "As a result, Big Sister seemed scared by me, kept backing off, making 'beep beep' warning sounds, and used its mechanical arm to block me; I couldn't move, so I started talking to it."

"Spoke a lot, but it was a chicken talking to a duck; only I was there excited, and eventually, Big Sister seemed unable to bear it, finally spoke to me."

"Unexpectedly, she used Terran Universal Language, and told me a lot, then..."