Chapter 241-1: Natural Disaster Gathers Strength, Heavy Punch Online (1) |
Emperor’s Mound Village, library.
Alan held a thick book and came to the reading area to sit down.
After opening the first page, the Brain Overclocking Inherited soul embedded in the first position of the star vein slot abruptly activated.
His body gave a slight jolt, and he felt a surge of current shoot from his spine straight into his brain.
In an instant, a frenzy inside the skull began.
The blood vessels at his temples throbbed rhythmically like war drums being struck.
The entire world became completely different.
First, his vision suddenly became crystal clear. The words on the page seemed to come alive, leaping out of the book and turning into dancing characters that poured into his mind.
In this process, the senses were magnified without limit.
His thinking speed was elevated to an unbelievable level.
Texts that had been obscure and difficult now automatically linked to information in his memory bank.
Every word and every paragraph could find a corresponding knowledge system in the memory bank for verification.
Because Monster World did not have the materials used by the Lunar Eclipse race in reality, the spatial science knowledge system was entirely different.
So a great deal needed to be learned and understood from scratch. This was also why he dismantled the Force Savage Axe and invested all levels into Brain Overclocking.
War in the real world could break out at any time. He had to seize the moment and craft a spatial teleportation array as soon as possible.
Throwing himself completely into the content of the book, Alan found his thinking speed had risen to a height unattainable in reality.
Concepts that had been hard to grasp now only needed a glance before his mind would fill in the rest, turning them into vivid pictures.
The memory bank was like a dictionary.
Every passage he read would automatically be recombined, analyzed, and summarized in his mind.
Meanwhile, his memory was strengthened to the extreme. The words he read were branded into his mind like a searing mark.
It was as if his brain had become an infinite-capacity library.
His body also entered a wondrous state during this time.
His breathing grew slow and deep, his heartbeat steady and strong, as if completely out of sync with the rhythm of the external world.
His fingers unconsciously slid along the page with his gaze, and the tips seemed able to feel the weight of the words.
In this state, time grew blurry.
In only a few seconds, Alan had flipped through more than a dozen pages.
Every page was rapidly absorbed and transformed into his own knowledge reserves.
During this time, new ideas kept welling up in his mind.
Alan paused, then summoned the library’s search bar and began to look for new books.
Among the dozen or so pages he had just skimmed, some knowledge could not match anything in his memory and was hard to understand.
So before he continued reading forward, he needed to comprehend that portion.
After he entered the relevant terms, the corresponding books flew out from the library and hovered above Alan’s desk.
Then a third book, a fourth book…
Alan’s gaze switched rapidly among six books.
In the Brain Overclocking state, his thoughts were like a precision machine, efficiently processing every segment of information.
Once inside his brain, these pieces of knowledge gradually assembled into a complete knowledge framework, becoming clear and three-dimensional.
Much of the content had never been covered by the Lunar Eclipse race’s existing knowledge system.
The spatial system knowledge in the books was interpreted in finer detail.
While studying, Alan learned that the core of a spatial teleportation array lay in the channel.
Worlds did not directly dock with each other. To travel to another world, you first had to tear through the world barrier, then cross the void to reach the other world.
Each world in the void was like a glowing bubble.
Before the bubble was pierced, it was difficult to see what scene lay within.
The function of a spatial teleportation array was to establish a shortcut route that docked two worlds, quickly reaching the other world.
Such teleportation arrays could be one-way arrays, or stable channels that remained continuously open.
There were many ways to construct a spatial teleportation array.
The most effective method was to master spatial rule power and drive the rules with consciousness to directly unfold a space-jump.
Second-best was to use spatial materials to construct the array.
For example, the popular spirit ore Space-Origin Stone in the Rimewinter Snowfield belonged to this type of special material.
Other usable materials included Voidstone, Sky Rend Rock, Space Anchor Stone, Rift Crystal, and so on.
The characteristic of spatial materials was that they could withstand the pressure of the void environment and keep the spatial tunnel running continuously and stably.
Ordinary materials were easily crushed by pressure in the void, which was why spatial materials were generally several times more expensive than normal spirit materials.
Immersed in the sea of knowledge, Alan even felt a subtle joy in his heart, as if his knowledge progress bar was steadily filling.
He continued flipping downward.
The next-best method of constructing a spatial teleportation array was to use energy to tear the world barrier and build a purely energetic spatial channel.
This was also the choice of the vast majority of racial forces.
For example, in the early days the Skyfire hierophant king used this method to bring his people down into Monster World.
Not only did the process consume energy at a ferocious rate, the energy tunnel was also extremely unstable.
A stabilized energy tunnel was somewhat better, at least able to keep the tunnel open for a long time.
But if it was a one-way teleportation array, it was essentially a life-risking transmission.
After the teleportation started, people would fly forward within the tunnel while the tail end of the tunnel was gradually breaking down and dissipating in the void.
When the teleport ended, the tunnel closed with it.
There was also the risk of being swept away by a spatial countercurrent during the process.
If an energy tunnel ruptured in the void, the rift formed would produce terrifying distortion and suck in living beings near the rupture point.
They would become completely lost in the void, though most likely shredded by the spatial countercurrent.
At this point, Alan’s memory automatically wove a scene.
You could compare an energy-constructed spatial tunnel to a submarine sailing at a depth of ten thousand meters beneath the sea. If the submarine ruptured, the living beings inside would be subjected to terrifying high pressure.
The body would explode in an instant within the spatial countercurrent.
Unless the flesh was strong enough to withstand the pressure of the void, crossing the void and walking freely.
At that level, the flesh alone would be enough to tear space, using qi and blood to construct a spatial tunnel to travel between different worlds.
After initially grasping the spatial science knowledge system, Alan summoned his friend list and began contacting his racial kin.
The spatial system was complex. It would be hard for him alone to master it in a short time.
He decided to divide the knowledge into multiple fields, assign each to a different racial member to study, and then complete the construction of the spatial teleportation array together.
When the time came, they would inform the players of the location.
Let the players head to the small world and sow chaos among the forces that wanted to invade Earth.
At present, the various races on Earth had already grasped part of the information on the unknown invading force. When they went to that small world, they would certainly find that the technological system mastered by that small world’s race was very similar to that of the alien force invading Earth.
But this was easy to explain.
In the public information released by the Lunar Eclipse race, the original intent behind creating Monster World was to train troops.
Now they faced a crisis of alien invasion.
Then creating a simulated opponent in Monster World to conduct various experiments and tests was reasonable. It hardly needed explanation. The management of each race would naturally think along those lines.
This issue had already been explained as early as half a year ago, with ample groundwork laid.
His mission was only one, to craft the spatial teleportation array as quickly as possible.
Before long, 12 members of the Lunar Eclipse race arrived at the library.
After asking, Alan learned that the 12 members currently had a total of 1.27 million sacrificial power.
This portion of sacrificial power all came from the Dark Land.
They had players who purchased the Dark Land pay sacrificial power in Monster World to receive a refund at 1.5 times the real world amount.
This made quite a few owners of the Dark Land feel they had profited, and they proceeded to request refunds in droves.
The refund process was handled by these 12 members of the Lunar Eclipse race.
The entire process was actually very simple and did not require logging off to record anything.
There were three key points in the publicly released refund procedure of the Lunar Eclipse race.
Refunds were only supported for players who purchased the Dark Land, and would be carried out in Monster World by paying sacrificial power.
Players requesting a refund needed to, as required, send their Earth citizen identification code information to any one of the 12 Lunar Eclipse race registrars in the game.
Players requesting a refund needed to attach sacrificial power equal to 1.5 times the refund amount in the email.
So the 12 racial members received sacrificial power paid by players via in-game mail. Every email contained the personal identification code information sent by the player according to the refund procedure. The racial members only needed to open the email during a livestream and glance at it.
Starnet would read the identification code on the email through the livestream footage, confirm the amount of sacrificial power, and complete the fund transfer in the real world the next second.
Even a single racial member could complete this task.
But to make refunds more efficient, all 12 handled the refund matters together.
Alan planned to use all of the 1.27 million sacrificial power obtained from refunds for constructing the spatial teleportation array this time.
If the sacrificial power was not enough, they would find a way to make up for it.
No matter what, they had to turn the offline war into an online war.
In reality one could be meek, but online they had to strike with a heavy fist.
He instructed the 12 racial members to dismantle all Inherited souls other than Qi Eater, purchase Brain Overclocking, embed it, and then a new round of study began.
Alan divided the spatial system knowledge into 13 fields, assigning a portion to himself and to each racial member respectively.
The interrelated parts would be studied by himself.