"Earthquake!"
"How can a magnitude 6 quake feel this strong?!"
"Quick, get to the earthquake shelter!"
After the earthquake occurred, people in cities near the epicenter imdiately felt it.
So walls inside the shelters developed fine cracks, cups on tables were shaken to the ground, and people rushed to hide in the structurally reinforced rooms designated for earthquake protection.
Many people initially didn't think a magnitude 6 earthquake was that terrifying, but when the seismic source was very close to their own location, that intense shaking sensation still made their hearts pound with fear.
At that mont, a warning sound also blared from the shelter's loudspeakers: "A magnitude 6 earthquake is currently erupting. The seismic source is very close to this city. All personnel, please imdiately take your ergency food packs and enter the earthquake shelters! I repeat..."
Inside the earthquake shelters, people crowded together, each holding the official-issued earthquake ergency kits, nervously enduring every passing second.
If there was anything to be thankful for, it was that the earthquake brought by the rules had a clear five-minute ti limit. As long as they endured those five minutes and then carefully dealt with any subsequent secondary disasters, they could relax.
anwhile, in the epicenter area, several hovering platforms constructed using Mind Power items were set up.
The people responsible for transmitting Mind Power to Guan Tong stood on these platforms. Guan Tong himself stood atop the Geomantic Pillar, using shadow ropes wrapped around the pillar's body to maintain his balance and prevent himself from being shaken off.
At this mont, he had one hand pressed on the pillar's top and the other hand holding the Positive Magnet, continuously absorbing the Mind Power provided to him by the Ascendants on the platforms.
After being converted by the [Wordless Book] in his embrace, all this Mind Power was injected into the Geomantic Pillar to cause damage.
But compared to before, this ti's efficiency was much slower. Guan Tong was outputting at his maximum "power" every second, yet because the appetite of the level 6 Geomantic Pillar was huge, converting over 350 points of Mind Power per second still wasn't enough.
From the start until the five-minute limit ended, less than 80% of the Geomantic Pillar's outer shell had been destroyed, a far cry from the previous results where they completely destroyed it within five minutes.
"Rumble rumble..."
As soon as ti was up, the Geomantic Pillar descended. Guan Tong jumped onto a patch of intact ground, frowning deeply as he looked at the sinkhole.
Dragon Soul also jumped down from the hovering platform, his expression just as grim.
"With so many people transmitting, we actually failed to destroy this Geomantic Pillar within the ti limit. This ans that for the level 7 Geomantic Pillar three days from now, even multiplying the number of people several tis won't be enough!"
"Correct."
This ti, they had assembled a high Mind Power transmission team of over 250 people, yet they only reduced the earthquake's destructive power by less than eighty percent. If a level 7 earthquake erupts next ti, even if the number of people reaches a thousand, the degree of reduction will only be even lower.
The key problem here still lies in the insufficient conversion efficiency per unit of ti...
Guan Tong thought to himself, injecting 350 points of Mind Power per second into the [Wordless Book] still wasn't enough. Facing super-high-level major earthquakes, this amount was too little. Combined with the ti limit, it was completely a drop in the bucket.
But the question was, how could he increase it significantly again?
Continue raising his Mind Power upper limit? Guan Tong had already received two upper limit enhancent items from the authorities. Getting more wasn't realistic.
And even if the authorities had more and were willing to give them to him, the amount one enhancent could provide would still be far from enough compared to what a major earthquake required.
Unless he prepared a massive amount of Mind Power in advance, just like when he first solved the level 2 Geomantic Pillar... In other words...
Guan Tong looked at the remaining piece of [Mind Soft Candy] in his hand, and a flash of inspiration struck his mind.
Prepare a large, no, a colossal amount of reserve Mind Power in advance!
Not during the earthquake, but during the interval period before the earthquake occurs. For 72 hours, continuously have others transmit their Mind Power to , and I, without interruption, use the power of the [Wordless Book] to convert it into reserve Mind Power on my status panel.
The current conversion efficiency is 10:1, 10 points of Mind Power converted into 1 point of reserve Mind Power. If he operates at maximum power every second, converting 350 into 35 points, then he could convert 2100 points of reserve Mind Power per minute, and 126,000 points of reserve Mind Power per hour!
126,000 per hour, 24 hours non-stop per day equals 3,024,000 points, over three million reserve Mind Power!
Guan Tong's heart raced wildly. If he possessed such an enormous amount of reserve Mind Power, he could, upon first contact with the Geomantic Pillar, output and convert it into cracking force at a terrifying efficiency... Then, even facing a super-high-level major earthquake, there would be hope for a solution.
Moreover, this could also reduce the number of people in the transmission team.
This was only level 6, and the epicenter already had many large fissures that swallowed so people's lives. Although they could use items to create hovering platforms, the range affected by seismic waves definitely wasn't limited to the ground.
Especially for subsequent super-high-level earthquakes, in the epicenter area, hovering five or ten ters above ground would be aningless. Unless they could hover into the stratosphere like an airplane, they would definitely be impacted by the seismic waves.
In that case, putting himself aside, the Mind Power transmission team would absolutely suffer heavy casualties. If they could reduce the number of people, it would undoubtedly save lives.
But...
According to the [Wordless Book]'s 10:1 conversion efficiency, for him to have three million reserve Mind Power, he would need thirty million points of Mind Power input from external sources!
Thirty million points of Mind Power, how many Ascendants would need to be gathered to input that for him?
Probably hundreds of thousands...
In other countries, achieving such a thing would be very difficult.
But in Beixing, with its concentrated population, if the highest-level decision-makers agreed, there was a possibility of doing it.
This gave rise to two problems.
First, if he proactively made this request, he would expose his secret of being able to store reserve Mind Power.
This was acceptable to Guan Tong, because he was doing it to save people. The real problem was the second one.
That was, would the high-level decision-makers agree to this plan? Would they worry that giving the Mind Power of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Ascendants to one person would make that person a huge potential threat?
Guan Tong thought to himself: If I were a high-level decision-maker, could I trust an unidentified person and be willing to concentrate the Mind Power of hundreds of thousands or millions of Ascendants and give it to him? What if this person harbored ill intentions? How dangerous would he be wielding such a vast amount of Mind Power?
Especially since Guan Tong knew that after he manipulated the shadow to save people this ti, the authorities could already confirm he was Shadow.
And the extent to which Shadow, possessing a massive amount of Mind Power, could unleash his combat power had already been revealed during the previous "Holy Grail" competition...
"Mu Tong?"
Dragon Soul's voice sounded. Guan Tong stopped his contemplation and said to the forr, "Regarding the handling of subsequent high-level major earthquakes, I have an idea."
"What idea? Do you need
to relay it to Dr. Zhang?"
"Dr. Zhang probably doesn't have the authority to decide on this matter." Guan Tong said. "I need to directly contact the person in charge of the Counterasures Research Office."
Guan Tong thought to himself, the person in charge of the Counterasures Research Office probably didn't even have the authority to make this decision. They would definitely need to seek the opinion of the high-level decision-makers.
It was just that he had no channel or thod to contact the nation's high-level decision-makers. He could only find the highest-level person he could reach, which was Gao Liangwei.
Hearing this, Dragon Soul's expression turned serious. He knew Guan Tong definitely wasn't joking, and he knew that their current conversation was already being listened to by the person in charge, Gao Liangwei himself.
Because every earthquake handling operation was transmitted back to the office via real-ti live streaming.
Sure enough, the very next second, Gao Liangwei's voice ca through his earpiece.
"I agree to speak with him directly."
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