051 Research Failure

Li Kai's Grocery Store.

The bloated Hao Zhijian pushed open the door to the workshop and excitedly said, "Lu Wu, let's duel!"

Lu Wu and Li Kai, who were busy, glared at him and shouted, "Get lost!"

"Oh, okay!"

The bloated Hao Zhijian shivered all over, and his head shrank back.

He obediently backed out and closed the door behind him.

Thus, Hao Zhijian's first attempt to challenge Lu Wu to a duel ended in failure.

Inside the workshop,

After driving Hao Zhijian out, Lu Wu and Li Kai continued their work.

To be precise, Lu Wu was busy, while Li Kai was helping him out.

At this moment, Lu Wu was occupied with something he had been researching for a month, the Summoning Beast Equipment.

In the past month, Lu Wu had been frantically searching for knowledge about the Summoning Beast Equipment.

However, Lu Wu was disappointed that after a month of hard work without proper channels, he hadn't gathered much information.

There was almost no relevant knowledge, and all he learned in one month were just a few simple facts.

Nonetheless, the information wasn't entirely useless.

As far as Lu Wu knew, Summoning Beast Equipment could be roughly divided into two types:

One type was Companion Equipment, and the other was non-Companion Equipment.

The former included the Little Skeleton's Charging Baseball Bat, which was an advanced mutation. Only the Little Skeleton could use it, making it exclusive equipment.

The latter was more diverse.

Some came from Secret Realms, some were accidentally created by Summon Beast Cultivators, others mutated due to the environment, or were ancient weapons and items that mutated.

Despite their types, none of these items were common or popular on the market.

This was because non-Companion Equipment had many limitations. Even the pieces in Li Kai's store were mostly for display and hadn't sold in half a year.

In contrast, Companion Equipment, or the Companion Equipment cultivation business, was quite a hot commodity.

One reason was that Companion Equipment had a certain growth potential. More importantly, high school competitions allowed the use of Companion Equipment, which alone created a huge market for it.

Lu Wu learned that the cost of cultivating a piece of Companion Equipment ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions.

This was based on the uncertainty of the attributes and abilities of the Companion Equipment and the uncertainty of successful cultivation.

Don't complain about the high price. This was the only legal way to cheat!

Oh, by the way, this information came from Hao Renjie, who planned to bring money to Li Kai, or rather, to Lu Wu.

After learning this, Lu Wu's emotions were incredibly complex.

He was amazed by the craziness of the wealthy and deeply understood the costly nature of the Summoner profession. He also slightly understood why Ye Qingxue looked down on him upon realizing he wasn't rich. Moreover, he couldn't help but despise Li Kai.

That guy ran a store but didn't even know about such a lucrative avenue.

This insight made Lu Wu very interested in this business. Earning millions without worrying about success or failure was a surefire way to make money. If he could start this business, he would soon achieve many of his little goals.

This was why Lu Wu had been intensely researching Companion Equipment over the past month.

However, cultivating such equipment was not easy.

Especially for Lu Wu, who lacked relevant knowledge. His only way to study was by examining the accidental success of the Little Skeleton's Charging Baseball Bat.

Studying this single case was unimaginably difficult.

In the past month, Lu Wu had spent an enormous amount of effort and conducted countless experiments.

Each experiment cost at least tens of thousands of dollars.

After a month, he hadn't successfully created Companion Equipment and had already spent one hundred to two hundred thousand.

Lu Wu's current mood was imaginable.

Under these circumstances, Hao Zhijian still dared to provoke him. Wasn't that courting death?

If Lu Wu hadn't been making a final effort, he would have made Hao Zhijian cry.

Twenty minutes after driving Hao Zhijian out, Lu Wu and Li Kai finally completed their preliminary work.

Yes, they had cooked another pot of soup.

Despite the soup in front of them being a dark, foul-smelling concoction even Tuantuan avoided, it was the result of Lu Wu's hard work over the past month.

"I have reached the limit of everything I can study about Companion Equipment.

Based on the available information, Companion Equipment formation seemed to be related to the Summoner's emotions. Ideally, a bond between the Summoned Beast and the item was necessary.

In other words, the Summoned Beast must like the item for it to advance.

To meet this requirement, I changed Little Skeleton's equipment several times, swapping the Flying Knife for Flying Needle until it was satisfied."

"Additionally, I modified the soup based on the previous Little Skull Soup, extracting and enhancing possible factors."

"In short, this is the best I can do now. Whether it succeeds depends on this attempt.

If it fails, it proves that my knowledge is insufficient to touch this domain. In that case, I must temporarily give up on the Companion Equipment project."

"Mr. Lu will surely succeed!"

Unlike the anxious Lu Wu, Li Kai had blind confidence in him, and Lu Wu didn't even know where this confidence came from!

"Let's hope so!"

After taking a deep breath, Lu Wu pushed the fully armed Little Skeleton into the soup.

Then, he and Li Kai began a tense and long wait, which lasted three hours.

Three hours later, the Little Skeleton emerged from the soup.

The moment it came out, Lu Wu rushed over to check all its equipment.

Baseball bat, no change.

Flying Needle, no change.

Cloak, no change.

Shoes, no change.

Leather armor, no change.

In other words, Lu Wu's month of hard work, consuming nearly two hundred thousand dollars, ended in failure.

Despite anticipating this result before the experiment, Lu Wu still felt significantly unhappy when it became reality.

"It seems I'll have to wait until I get my professional license to access more information for Companion Equipment."

After trying to calm himself and saying this, Lu Wu immediately opened the workshop door and grabbed the bird-brained Hao Zhijian standing outside laughing foolishly.

"Didn't you want to duel with me? Let's go!"

With that, Lu Wu dragged the bewildered Hao Zhijian away!