"Let's give it a try!" Chen Tianyi said with a bitter smile.
"The other branches all have teams of dozens of people. It'll probably be really tough for just the two of us!"
"Senior Brother, how about we try to recruit some people to help us?" Hu Ke'er asked softly after hearing Chen Tianyi's words.
"Not a good idea." Chen Tianyi shook his head.
"Who would help two orphans like us? The people from other branches are naturally in teams. Their senior and junior brothers and sisters have been together day in and day out. Don't you think it's a bit unrealistic to try to poach people from them?"
"You're right." Hu Ke'er nodded.
"Hey, by the way, Senior Brother Chen, how are the spots for the inner - sect test allocated? What are the requirements to take the inner - sect test?"
"One must at least be an outer - sect disciple, like the two of us. There are no other rules." Chen Tianyi replied softly.
"I see. So those workers won't be able to take the inner - sect test, right?"
"Yeah." Chen Tianyi nodded.
"They didn't even pass the outer - sect test, so naturally they don't have the qualification to take the inner - sect test."
"I see. That's such a pity..." Hu Ke'er said with a look of regret on her face.
"What's there to be sorry about? Little Junior Sister, don't tell me you want those workers to take the test. Not only is it against the rules, even if the rules allowed it, their cultivation levels are far from enough, okay?" Chen Tianyi said.
"Well, I could provide them with weapons. If there are enough of them and they're equipped with weapons, they could be really powerful!"
Not to mention those powerful spirit - stone refining workers with strong physical bodies, even ordinary people who haven't practiced could increase their combat power dozens of times if they had guns and cannons in their hands. With a large enough number, they'd be like an army!
"Forget it, Little Junior Sister. Stop daydreaming. Those workers aren't eligible to take the test anyway. It's definitely not going to work. You might as well try to see if anyone is willing to team up with us. Maybe there really will be someone who wants to join us!" Chen Tianyi shook his head and said.
"Fine. Then I'll go and see if anyone is willing to team up with the two of us." After saying that, Hu Ke'er turned around and ran out of the Taoist temple.
"Hey hey hey, Little Junior Sister, you're really going?" Seeing Hu Ke'er actually turn around and leave, Chen Tianyi was a bit stunned.
"Everyone else has been together for a long time. No matter how hard you try, you won't be able to poach people from others!"
"It's okay, Senior Brother Chen. Just let me give it a try!"
Anyway, the Thousand - Machine Umbrella wasn't finished yet, and she had nothing else to do for the time being. So she might as well give it a try. After all, as the saying goes, as long as you swing the hoe hard enough, no corner is too hard to dig!
With this thought in mind, Hu Ke'er started her plan to recruit people.
Well, if she wanted to recruit people, first she had to let everyone know about it. She had been in Longhu Mountain for a long time, but she still didn't know much about the other branches. If she went there rashly, it would be too difficult. Such an unannounced visit to poach people would be lucky not to get her kicked out. So she had to come up with a smarter way to spread the word.
Since she wanted to spread the word, she needed to make it known to everyone. The place should have a large flow of people and a certain degree of privacy. In this case, the most suitable place for Hu Ke'er to publicize her need for teammates was the cultivation room that Chen Tianyi had taken her to before.
First of all, the cultivation room would be visited by disciples who needed to practice. The biggest event in the sect recently was the inner - sect test. Most of the people who went to the cultivation room regularly these days should be those preparing for the inner - sect test. And people usually went to practice alone. So if someone was really interested, they wouldn't feel embarrassed because of their companions, or give up because of their companions' persuasion.
With this in mind, Hu Ke'er decided to put up an advertising sign at the entrance of the cultivation room and wait inside the cultivation room.
She decided to act right away. With this thought in mind, Hu Ke'er came to the entrance of the cultivation room. After getting the consent of the guards at the door, Hu Ke'er made a wooden advertising sign and planned to write an advertisement for finding teammates on it.
"But how should I write this advertisement?" Hu Ke'er frowned slightly and thought for a while as she looked at the empty plaque in front of her.
"Well, I'll write 'The inner - sect test is approaching. I sincerely invite reliable teammates. As long as you have a high enough cultivation level, you can join the team and receive a large amount of spirit stones and powerful weapons! If you're interested, please go to Cultivation Room D3.' "
Hu Ke'er wrote down the room number of the cultivation room she had just rented on the advertising sign, then inserted it firmly at the entrance of the cultivation room and gently clapped her hands.
"Well, this should do it~"
With this thought in mind, Hu Ke'er clapped her hands, then found the cultivation room she had just rented and walked in.
"Well, now it's like an angler waiting for the willing fish to bite the hook. I wonder if anyone will come!"
After Hu Ke'er finished all this, she wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in her advertising sign. After all, as Chen Tianyi said, everyone else was already in natural teams, and it would be very difficult for her to poach people.
With this thought in mind, Hu Ke'er began to wait in the cultivation room. One hour, two hours, three hours... It was already dark outside, but not a single person came to her cultivation room.
"It seems it really won't work—" Although Hu Ke'er was very patient, she felt a bit discouraged when no one showed up after waiting for so long.
However, Hu Ke'er didn't just sit around doing nothing during these three hours. She had previously wanted to make an engine driven by spiritual energy. She first drew the prototype of a simple engine she had learned in mechanical studies, and then started to modify it.
"Well, it seems that modifying this thing is much more troublesome than I thought!"
When she used to do industrial design, Hu Ke'er always used corresponding computer drawing software. It was much more troublesome to draw by hand!
Just the difficulty of modifying the engine had exceeded her expectations, not to mention the other parts. Coupled with the fact that her advertisement seemed to have no effect at all, this made her even more irritable. For a moment, she didn't have the mood to continue drawing the blueprints.
"Forget it. It's so late. I'd better go back and see..."
"Knock, knock, knock."
Just as Hu Ke'er was about to pack up and go back to the Flying Tiger Hall, she suddenly heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
"Um, hello. May I ask if you're the one who wrote the sign outside?"