69novels Chapter 163 The Idea of Building a Floating City
Chapter 163 The Idea of Building a Floating City
After logging off, Long You, who hadn't slept well for two nights in a row, went straight back to his dorm and slept soundly. He needed to work on the Pearl of Imagination, but he could only begin practicing after he had fully recovered.
Long You, who slept straight through to the next day, only told the other students in the Soul Guidance Department about his guess about the sandworm mother nest after dawn. This outrageous yet reasonable guess was somewhat of a blow to the students in the Soul Guidance Department.
Using artificial intelligence reconstruction technology, the Soul Guidance Department had already reconstructed a 3D image of the monster mountain range on the map and determined its volume.
Now that they know the monster mountain range is actually a sandworm nest, meaning the size of the mountain range is equal to the size of the nest, everyone in the Soul Guidance Department begins to worry about the sheer number of sandworms. They seriously doubt whether they truly have the ability to face millions, even tens of millions, of sandworms.
"I have a suggestion: let's live in peace. Those sandworms are not really a threat or adversary to us. Their target is always minerals, and the excrement they leave after consuming minerals will actually benefit us."
In other words, as long as we don't block the sandworm swarm's path, the sandworm swarm can coexist peacefully with us.
"How is that possible? We need to build cities on the surface, where sandworms will come to the surface at night to move around and excrete."
Even if these sandworms don't attack the city, as long as they are active, we can't cultivate farmland, there will be no harvest, and therefore no one will come to settle. Without people, the establishment of a city is simply absurd.
"Who says cities can only be built on the ground? We have mastered anti-gravity levitation technology, and we can build a floating city."
"Floating city?"
Having not experienced the mind-blowing world of online novels that Long You had in his previous life, the students of the Soul Guidance Department, despite being very receptive to new things, still never imagined that a city could be built floating in the air.
Long You's idea of building a floating city sparked a lot of imagination among the Soul Guidance Department members, who began to actively consider the feasibility of this plan.
"Can anti-gravity levitation technology really make a city float? How will the energy problem be solved?"
"Existing anti-gravity levitation technology cannot achieve this, but it can be modified. As for the energy issue, I already have a solution."
As you know, I've always been very impatient with charging baby bottles, and I've long wanted to create a soul tool that can be automatically charged.
To be honest, I've had the blueprints for this kind of self-charging soul tool for a long time, but I've never been particularly satisfied with the final result of these design drawings.
Firstly, the manufacturing difficulty of these design blueprints is extremely high; at the very least, a level seven soul tool master would be needed to create them. Secondly, the charging efficiency is too low; even a level seven charging soul tool would take a whole day to fully charge a level six milk bottle soul tool.
I spent ages asking someone to make a high-level soul tool, but the charging efficiency was so low it was outrageous. I really couldn't accept a soul tool of this quality.
But everyone was lucky. Just last night, I optimized a charging soul tool, or rather, a soul power generating soul tool, that was efficient enough.
Although this thing is classified as a level six soul tool, the difficulty of making each part can be reduced by dividing the work, and then they can be assembled together.
This soul tool, if placed in a windy natural environment, can generate enough soul power to fill a level six milk bottle every hour.
"What about higher-level ones? Is the amount of soul power generated each hour enough to fill a corresponding higher-level milk bottle soul tool?"
"Theoretically, that's true. However, even if we make higher-level soul power generating soul tools separately, it's not very feasible. If we manage to make them, their soul power generation efficiency will drop drastically."
In light of this, I plan to visit Teacher Fanyu later and ask him to create an eighth-level soul power generation soul tool. Firstly, to see its actual effect, and secondly, to see if I can find a shortcut to directly transfer this item to the Panlong Realm online game by scanning and uploading equipment.
After all, this isn't combat equipment; maybe we can find a loophole!
"Alright, let's go online first. You can go find Teacher Fanyu. Um, as long as Teacher Fanyu agrees to help with the production, you don't need to rush to go online. Take a good look at the production process. If we can't find a loophole, we'll still need to do it ourselves."
And if we really want to use this to support your envisioned floating city, we'll probably need to build quite a few.
"That's why I wanted to find a loophole! In reality, if we really want to use this kind of soul power generation soul tool as a supporting energy source to levitate the city in mid-air, we basically need six to ten level nine or higher soul power generation soul tools as the core, supplemented by a large number of level eight soul power generation soul tools."
However, as you know, the academy might be able to make just one level nine soul power generation soul tool, which is enough for us.
However, the academy cannot currently produce six to ten units, and even if it could, Panlong Intelligence would not allow us to bring all of these level-nine soul tools into the Panlong Realm virtual game.
"Why don't we tell the academy about our plan to build a floating city? Maybe they'll support us."
"Yes, I'm sure the academy will support our idea. But at the same time, there's another thing I'm also sure of: the floating city that the academy helped us build in the Panlong Realm will definitely not be our Soul Guidance Department's base."
"Uh, that makes sense."
"Keep up the good work, young men. Even if we can only build a few floating houses right now, we can still use them as our base, and an absolutely awesome one at that."
Long You went to find Fan Yu, while the other students in the Soul Guidance Department immediately started scanning the map after logging in.
If Long You's guess is correct, then the location of the vanished Monster Mountain Range, no matter how deep, must contain countless high-quality finished rare metals. Once these finished rare metals are found, Long You's guess will be confirmed, the plan to expel the sandworms can be changed, and everyone can start preparing to build the floating city.
There's no need to go into detail about using the soul-guided detection device to scan the map, and there's no need to dedicate all our manpower to this task.
If we want to build a floating city, we will need a lot of money and resources within the Panlong territory. Therefore, we cannot let go of the caravan that is about to arrive in Tiemeng City. We must sell a batch of soul tools.
The scene shifts to the Soul Guidance Department's teaching building, where Long You finds Fan Yu with a stack of printed soul tool design blueprints.
As someone who is quite obsessed with soul tools, Fan Yu is now familiar with and looking forward to receiving the new soul tool design and production blueprints from Long You.
Each time Fan Yu conquered a new soul tool blueprint, he could feel his soul tool mastery improving. So this time, as usual, Fan Yu didn't ask any questions, directly took the blueprint from Long You's hand, and then waved Long You out of his office.
Having stolen a half-day of leisure, Long You, who had no intention of logging into the Panlong Realm, began to wander around Shrek Academy. He hadn't seen Xiao Muyang and Da Bai for a whole vacation and wondered where they had gone off to.
Shrek Academy, which is mostly empty of students, is quiet, but Long You can still feel its unique charm as he walks through it.
After wandering around for a while, Long You still couldn't find Da Bai and Xiao Muyang. Considering that these two probably wouldn't be wandering into the beast fighting area for no reason, Long You reluctantly turned his attention to the inner courtyard.
The reason they didn't take the two pets home during the holiday was because an elder from the Sea God Pavilion in the inner courtyard had taken a liking to them and wanted them as companions during the break. The elder's authority left no room for refusal, so Long You and Bei Bei had no choice but to obediently abandon their plan to bring their little pets home.
Now it seems that the old man from the Sea God Pavilion was indeed looking for a companion, because he directly brought Da Bai and Xiao Muyang into the inner courtyard, into a place where they could feel the aura of the Tree of Life at all times.
"Ah, the inner courtyard... I don't crave anything else there, except the Tree of Life. If I could make a pillow from a branch of the Tree of Life, my sleep quality would definitely improve dramatically."
However, this kind of thing is destined to be unattainable if one doesn't want to become too deeply tied to Shrek Academy! I'm a little envious of Xiao Muyang and Da Bai. I wonder if Da Bai can achieve a small breakthrough in cultivation under the aura of the Tree of Life.
After indulging in a pleasant meal, Long You returned to the Soul Guidance Department's teaching building. By the end of the morning, Fan Yu, as a genuine Level 8 Soul Guidance Master, had undoubtedly thoroughly studied the blueprints for the newly acquired Soul Power Generating Soul Guidance Device.
Long You needs to seize the opportunity to enter Fan Yu's laboratory and observe the process. If he misses the window of opportunity when Fan Yu moves from the office to the laboratory, Long You might be locked out. Because Fan Yu, who is fully immersed in the work of creating the soul tool, will not tolerate anyone interrupting his work rhythm.
However, things took an unexpected turn. Fan Yu did indeed plan to begin creating the soul power generating soul tool after his lunch break. But this time, Fan Yu wasn't going to create it directly in reality; he wanted to conduct a simulation in the Panlong Realm.
Now Long You was in a bit of a predicament. He wanted to try to find a loophole with a physical machine, but now that Fan Yu was being made directly on the Panlong Realm line, Long You intuitively felt that there was no loophole left for him to exploit.
Watching Fan Yu walk into his office cubicle, Long You stood there stunned for a long time, then sighed helplessly and turned to walk downstairs to the No. 11 test area.
Relying on others is not as good as relying on oneself. Since there are no loopholes, then one should rely on strength. With his soul power level raised to level 49 and with the help of his martial soul consciousness, Xiao Yan, constantly restoring his soul power, Long You felt that he could challenge a level 6 soul tool.
The blueprints for this soul power generating soul tool were indeed finalized last night, but Long You has already tried it in the Pearl of Imagination. A 100% success rate is not yet achievable, but trying it in reality is not out of the question.
Long You had long since mastered the entire process of creating the soul tool. The whole process of forging the core magic array metal base was also the process of Long You adjusting his state.
An hour later, six nearly circular polyhedrons of rare Spiritforged metal, each about twenty centimeters in diameter, were forged.
When Long You first wanted to create a soul tool that could automatically generate soul power, he naturally thought of a series of environmentally friendly power generation methods that he had already verified in his previous life, such as solar panels and wind turbines.
However, after repeatedly failing to achieve the desired result, Long You realized he was wrong.
Although he always referred to the baby bottle soul tool as a portable power source and jokingly called the soul masters who replenished the baby bottle's soul power "human charging stations," soul power is actually not electricity. Soul power is a unique free energy in this Douluo world.
Although it is called a soul power generating soul tool, Long You does not actually need to generate soul power. He only needs to enable the soul tool to actively absorb and store the free soul power in the surrounding environment, just like a soul master.
The whole process involves many aspects, some of which look similar to the wind turbines of wind power generation. However, the purpose of this rotating wind turbine is not to cut the magnetic field, but to stir the air and make the surrounding air flow quickly so that it can gather and attract more free soul power.
In addition to this, Long You also needs to add a component to this soul tool that can identify free soul power. Just like how an oxygen tank contains liquefied oxygen that has been separated and compressed, rather than air with a complex composition.
The windmill wheel rotates and stirs the air, identifying and activating the soul-guiding arrays for absorption and compression.
In short, each of the six core array metals created by Longyou needs to be inscribed with an extremely complex composite inscription array to form a brand new core array.
While inscribing a single core array is complex, it's generally still within the capabilities of a level 5 Soul Master. However, for this Soul Power Generating Soul Tool to reach its theoretically maximum power, it needs to achieve a balance among the six core arrays as much as possible. This requires Long You to inscribe the core arrays in one smooth motion, ensuring they correspond seamlessly to each other.
For Long You, a Soul Master and Level 5 Soul Master whose current Soul Power level is only 49, this seamless process was the biggest challenge. With insufficient Soul Power reserves, even if he could barely complete the inscription of all the core magic arrays, Long You would find it difficult to guarantee the quality of the inscription.
Now is the time to test Long You's ability to control his soul power, as well as Xiao Yan's ability to recover his soul power.