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Chapter 419 - 387 Speed of Light

Chapter 419: Chapter 387 Speed of Light

The meeting concluded amidst a heavy atmosphere, with each faction returning to prepare for the significant change that could arrive at any moment.

Li Cheng first went to the Toy Factory, handed over the inventory list, and let the Smart Core crush the artifacts, refine points, and upgrade the factory.

He returned to the real world, sat in front of his computer desk, casually scrolling the mouse wheel, frowning in thought.

On the player forum, the official account of the neighborhood committee posted a pinned message, revealing the preliminary investigation report on Yakai Quan’s case.

The conclusion provided was that Yakai Quan self-destructed because he had once mistakenly entered a forbidden zone and a tumor bomb was implanted inside him by a Security Guard.

The committee announced the coordinates of the forbidden zone and made a great show of setting up automated magic arrays resembling airport security checks at each telephone booth for teleportation outside the slum.

They also announced a collaboration with the Bell Tower Mage Association to launch Golem Guards with law enforcement capabilities, patrolling the slum 24/7 in the coming weeks.

This statement was 80% true and 20% false. Most forum users, seeing the committee invest heavily in security checkpoints, stopped doubting and gave it likes.

An American user even praised the committee’s professionalism and service attitude below, recounting how a black relative of his was once suspected and searched by Washington officers just for holding a bottle on the street.

During the search, the officer mistook the relative’s hemorrhoid for internal drugs, scratching vigorously for three minutes and causing severe physical and mental harm.

Back then, if only there were such advanced magic security arrays and Golem Guards, this wouldn’t have happened.

Uh...

Li Cheng browsed the cluttered posts, rubbing his temples.

Unlike some characters in literary works, he didn’t think that the more turbulence in the situation, the more reshuffling of social order, the more beneficial it was for the Transcendents. Capable of overpowering kingly presence, forming his own force within moments, and ruling in chaotic times.

First of all, this time they’re facing exotic civilizations with top-level Transcendents of their own.

Who knows how long their Slaughter Field Game has been going, how many Demigods and True Gods there are, how many large-scale destructive means they hold.

Meteor strikes, neutron annihilation, genetic viruses, earthquake triggers, memetic contagion...

Any one of these could severely damage human civilization and even Earth itself.

Under a collapsed nest, no egg is left intact. A typical Lv20’s resistance to natural disasters is no different from ordinary people.

Secondly, even from a pragmatic perspective, a safe and stable external environment is more conducive to the growth of Transcendents—overall peace means rapid resource and information flow, allowing players to exchange what they need...

"Please don’t scratch everywhere, the trend requires scratching, if you’re not careful there’s no scratching, Wooh~"

Gray Rain hummed a tune as he walked into the study, seeing Li Cheng’s serious expression, he curiously asked what happened.

Li Cheng explained briefly, and after listening, Gray Rain scratched his head, immediately pulled out his phone, opened Taobao, and ordered an enterprise-level large-capacity solid-state drive.

Li Cheng was momentarily stunned, "What are you doing?"

"Doomsday backup."

Gray Rain explained matter-of-factly: "If the Otherworld really invades and triggers some world war, players might manage to hide in some corner of the Slaughter Field.

But industries like movies, music, video games, novels, short videos on Earth will certainly collapse.

You’ve got to prepare ahead of time, download everything you can onto offline hard drives as a backup."

"Any other time you don’t use your brain, but at times like this your intelligence takes the high ground, huh."

Li Cheng rolled his eyes, "I’ll take another trip to the Toy Factory, remember not to shop on Taobao, use my forum account to place an order with the Whale Song Organization, their Quantum Disk can hold 200TB."

The information technology of the Whale Song Organization far surpasses the global standard, one of its listed companies recently launched an online AI service, capable of generating vivid video images from texts, pictures,

and achieving seamless coherence, consistency, multi-subject without any awkwardness. It can even automatically do storyboarding and montage cuts.

Much better than the poorly made superhero movies in Hollywood that overuse CGI effects in recent years,

it caused a huge uproar in public opinion arenas, with filmmakers, writers, actors, special effects artists, makeup artists, and sound engineers from all over the world marching in protest, demanding the technology be banned.

Officials from various countries and online opinion leaders also expressed concerns about this technology being used in online fraud, infringement of citizen image rights, and other criminal activities.

Since the Whale Song Organization wasn’t short of money, this business was just technical accumulation, so they conveniently took down the program.

Of course, there were hackers trying to attack the Whale Song Organization’s servers, stealing the program for profit, but the ultimate result...

was naturally being hacked back by Whale Song with superior technical prowess, sending out friendly inquiries like "Hello, is this Mr. Michael from New York Long Island?"

Li Cheng’s thoughts wandered as he strolled to the entrance of the Toy Factory.

The factory itself had undergone significant changes, having upgraded from level zero to level one as all departments were completed.

As far as the eye could see, the area had quadrupled in size, with all weeds cleared inside the park, and a uniformly styled paved surface on the ground,

The crushing room and refining room have been relocated to different buildings, connected by aerial corridors. The exterior of the corridors is circular glass, while the interior is equipped with light rail trains.

Mechanical Servant laborers and production materials can be quickly transferred via these light rail trains, further enhancing production efficiency.

At the periphery of the core department, large rectangular or cylindrical buildings are situated.

Looking at the intricate pipeline system, it appears to be a distillation tower, absorption tower, reactor tower, cooling tower, exhaust tower, and wastewater treatment facilities.

"Honorable factory owner, you’re here."

The Smart Core gently floats over, perhaps due to the factory upgrade. It also emits a red glow inside, looking more advanced.

"Looks good."

Li Cheng nodded; the factory upgrade only required sufficient exotic points, but the layout, production line planning, and design style of the upgraded buildings all needed manual design.

If done well, it looks clean, neat, grand, and beautiful.

If done poorly, it becomes messy, complex, and extremely ugly, emphasizing just functionality.

"Your satisfaction is my greatest affirmation."

The Smart Core slowly floats ahead as Li Cheng passes through the newly transformed factory.

Along the way, those cylindrical robots excitedly stand at attention when they see him, shouting "Prosper! Han!"

Li Cheng tried to ignore the slogan laden with flaws and asked the Smart Core, "By the way, what about the factory defense system? Why haven’t I seen it."

"It’s all underground, at the factory perimeter."

The Smart Core said, "The defense system is primarily composed of three parts: first, an electromagnetic shield that can prevent radar detection and spiritual energy probes.

Second, an optical deflection generator that can distort the light at the factory’s perimeter, achieving invisibility.

The third is an integrated weapon station that can fire high-energy lasers."

Accompanied by the Smart Core’s explanation, manholes at the factory perimeter automatically moved aside, revealing numerous hive-shaped turrets.

To demonstrate its power, one of the turrets fired a red laser across two kilometers of wasteland beyond the factory, instantly leaving a long, narrow scorch mark. Grass burned and rocks shattered along its path.

Li Cheng smacked his lips, the Smart Core keenly sensed his expression, "You’re not satisfied?"

If it were before, this laser defense system comparable to a mid-tier Transcendent’s full strike was indeed quite strong.

However, now having heard about advanced technologies from the Exotic Civilization via the Side of Truth, the situation doesn’t seem optimistic.

Li Cheng waved it off without further explanation, "Have you finished making the artifact I asked for earlier?"

"It’s completed."

The Smart Core directed cylindrical Mechanical Servants to bring over a meticulously complex device.

The device is about the size of a palm, made of pure white metal, resembling a braided loop connected at both ends, its surface entwined with numerous bronze wires.

The Smart Core explained, "This artifact incorporates S-level technology, A-level intelligence, A-level special relativity, A-level general relativity, A-level anti-gravity, C-level bronze, B-level alternating current, A-level nuclear energy, B-level dream, B-level levitation and other concepts, manufactured into this technology artifact.

Please inspect."

[Item Name: Floating Engine]

[Type: Technology Artifact]

[Quality: Epic]

[Special Effect 1: Anti-Gravity. Passively active, installed on the surface of a object, generates a force field allowing the object to float ignoring gravity. The field space cannot exceed one cubic kilometer]

[Special Effect 2: Segmentation. Actively active, the Floating Engine can be divided into up to ten parts, each part capable of creating an anti-gravity vector field, sharing the vector field space quota]

[Special Effect 3: Curvature Propulsion. Actively active, after setting a direction, distorts space-time, compresses the front space, expands the rear space, creating a warp bubble to achieve faster-than-light travel. Only effective when holding at least 60% of the Floating Engine]

[Special Effect 3 Consumption: 150000 spiritual power value per second, specifically depending on the size of the force field]

[Special Effect 3 Cooling Time: 10 seconds]

[Use Conditions: None]

[Remark: The basic speed of Curvature Propulsion is 1.001 times the speed of light, investing more spiritual energy can increase flight speed]

[Remark: Prior to activating Curvature Propulsion, direction and propulsion time can be set in advance. The minimum spiritual power value consumption for single activation is at least 300 points]

[Remark: "Next, I will demonstrate how to achieve faster-than-light travel to the leaders and colleagues," said Professor Wang mysteriously, picking up a flashlight and starting to run]

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