Do they not want later players to pass the trial?
David was taken aback by the question and instinctively asked, "Is there any evidence?"
"It's just speculation."
Li Ang shrugged, saying casually, "But one thing is certain, Solomon deliberately died in this room."
He stepped forward, embraced the Mage Tower with his arms, assud a horse stance, exerting force simultaneously with his arms and waist, much like the legendary Monk Lu Zhishen pulling out weeping willows by brute force,
and lifted the Mage Tower effortlessly with sheer strength.
"Give
a hand."
Li Ang nodded at Ding Zhensi, who hurried forward to help. Together, they gently placed the cylindrical Mage Tower on the ground.
Once the Mage Tower was lowered,
everyone saw that the floor tiles beneath it were missing, revealing a bunch of what appeared to be electrical cables,
connected to a groove at the base of the Mage Tower.
"This Mage Tower was deliberately placed here,"
Li Ang squatted down to inspect the electrical cables in the floor and said, "The Mage Tower is connected to the Sacred Mountain trial's formation through cables in the walls,
creating lifelike illusions—
originally, the setting of this glass wall was to evoke the intruder's fear and create the most unwanted sight.
Now, it has transford into producing lifelike illusions with Solomon as the protagonist."
Having changed into new clothes, David's expression subtly shifted as he slowly said, "That illusion was indeed strong. I suspect it selectively exaggerated Solomon's real power—
he didn't release many types of spells during the entire process,
and his behavior pattern masked the rigidity of being an illusion with indifference and scorn, fearing to be recognized too quickly.
Moreover, during the effect of the illusion, the room was filled with starlight, leaving no path to exit—the illusion seed to even distort my sense of distance."
If Li Ang and the others hadn't arrived,
David might have been trapped here for a long ti; he lacked large-scale attack thods, unable to directly sweep the entire room with wide-range attacks without knowing the Mage Tower's location,
thus damaging the Mage Tower's main body,
if he didn't want to be exhausted to death, he would either have to use a one-ti task departure voucher to leave or use his hidden trump card in advance.
"Hmm."
Upon hearing David's statent, Li Ang nodded,
Solomon's Mage Tower, along with this room's illusion device, could trap a powerful David for a long ti,
it stands to reason that it could easily trap so Hero Teams.
"It's a pity Hoenhem isn't here; otherwise, he might have discovered more."
Li Ang lowered his gaze to those cables, showing so regret,
Solomon's Mage Tower, and the patterns behind the glass mirror involved a vast amount of profound mystical content,
Li Ang, a re enthusiast in mysticism, naturally couldn't comprehend it completely,
let alone infer the essence of the Sacred Mountain trial from subtle details.
"Where does the energy that maintains all these chanisms co from…"
Li Ang mused, using his knuckles to tap on the glass mirror, producing a dull, long sound.
Just as the players thought previously, the most precious aspect of this script task isn't the clearance reward,
but the naturally nurtured and developed technology tree in the script world.
Said to contain omnipotent wishing capabilities, the Sacred Mountain is undoubtedly the pinnacle of transcendent power system in this world.
"The technological developnt level of this world is vastly different from Earth,"
Ding Zhensi surveyed the room, saying, "However, to power so many rooms, it's either done through physical cables to transmit energy,
or through more advanced technologies, such as remote energy supply, delivering energy directly to each room without cables."
Remote power supply technology has actually been under research in the Special Affairs Bureau,
Based on the extrely limited content Ding Zhensi has learned, the Special Affairs Bureau plans to implent remote energy systems in new city buildings,
Combining the human civilization's power generation technologies (thermal, nuclear, wind energy, etc.), with the Heterodox Academy's devices that transform spiritual energy into electrical energy,
forming a dual-track system,
to power an entire city building, allowing most equipnt to run without cables.
Additionally, the Special Affairs Bureau has another plan for widespread promotion of spiritual power cultivation techniques,
Truly enabling the general public to possess transcendent power—the productivity of transcendents being tenfold or even hundredfold that of ordinary people,
Large chanical engineering projects requiring ten days of work hours to complete, like constructing houses, digging tunnels, building ships,
Might easily be replaced by a simple talisman, a spell, or an incantation,
Dramatically boosting productivity.
Billions of transcendents, even those of the lowest level, can effect earth-shaking changes, creating a technological gap between nations composed of mortals,
Not even on the sa level, forming an insurmountable technological barrier akin to modern humans versus the inhabitants of ancient caves.
Of course, a plan is just a plan; widespread promotion of spiritual energy cultivation techniques isn't as simple as imagined, affecting every aspect, requiring consideration of nurous factors.
Social humanities, internal conflicts, industry upgrades and elimination, education, dical care, changes in family relationships due to nationwide longevity...
The calculations, simulations, investigations, and examinations involved are astronomical,
A slight mishap could lead to pain and even collapse,
It must be approached cautiously.
anwhile, the universal applicability of spiritual energy cultivation techniques must be considered,
And if spiritual energy declines again in the future, causing transcendents to shrink—now with widespread promotion of spiritual energy cultivation techniques,
If spiritual energy wanes, there's a high possibility of encountering technological deterioration and interruption.
Ding Zhensi doesn't fully grasp such complexities, but since Li Ang brought up the energy system of the whole Sacred Mountain, he is quite interested,
Imdiately activating the sensors of the Kui Ox cha, expending cha power to scan this room.
It would be ideal to discover the energy system.
While observing the external structure of the Mage Tower, Li Ang casually asked his companions, "By the way, if a highly efficient energy system is discovered in the script world, how much would organizations in the real world be willing to pay for it?"
"You an like the energy system based on the Deity Mutant Octopus in the Lost World?"
Ding Zhensi thought for a mont and said, "They'd likely spare no expense.
Efficient energy is the cornerstone of modern industry,
Our Special Affairs Bureau's equipnt research departnt previously studied that Mutant Octopus as a divine entity, with the body's solution having an energy density far exceeding batteries and petroleum,
and highly compatible with modern industry; a slightly diluted bottle could directly be used for power generation, practically a black technology.
During the Door Contention War,
so players, realizing their inability to continue competing, took a few bottles of the Mutant Octopus's blood, returned to the real world, and sold them to the European Heavy Industry Group, reportedly for a very high price.
If it's a complete system, it would be priceless—after all, real-world nuclear fusion reactor technology is far from being extensively practically available,
"Any organization wants to have more choices to deal with the potential war after the door opens."
Li Ang pondered, "Really..."
"Why ask this,"
Ding Zhensi laughed, "Do you have technology in this area, Brother Li?"
After losing to Li Rising in the arena stage of the door war, Ding Zhensi checked the internal files of the Special Affairs Bureau about Li Rising,
knowing Li Rising's personality characteristics and power system, and knowing that Li Rising is the owner of the Immaculate Furnace Shop on the Ga Square, good at biological modification technology.
In a way, he pretty much understood this identity of Li Rising.
"Yeah,"
Li Ang extended plant fibers on his palm, examined Solomon's corpse, and casually said, "I have a perpetual motion machine technology that I want to sell."
"What?! Perpetual motion machine?"
Ding Zhensi instinctively wanted to retort but held back,
The other two also looked over, Liu Wu Dai's eyes were full of calm, while David squinted, listening intently.
"Yeah, it's my latest unique invention,"
Li Ang casually explained, "I found that as long as you lock two workers together, you can form a perpetual motion machine that continuously produces clean energy."
Ding Zhensi was taken aback, "Huh? What do you an?"
"What he ans is,"
Liu Wu Dai calmly explained, "Workers are above n; two above n locked together will form a perpetual loop."
?
Is this even possible.
Ding Zhensi's mouth twitched, wanting to speak but stopping.
"By the way, I am not implying that the modern corporate work environnt is like locking workers in a cage."
Li Ang casually said, "I was also a worker before becoming a player. I'm thirty-seven years old this year, was the foreman of a construction team, and because I was poor, I could only use credit to celebrate my daughter's birthday,
deeply understanding how hard it is for workers.
But now I'm a player, and I have so assets in the Ga Square.
I plan to create a lending app specifically for players who are too poor to scrape by, offering low-interest ga currency loans,
No interest in thirty days, and a daily interest of only one hundred and nine after thirty days,
By advertising in the Ga Square, it will definitely be profitable."
...
Ding Zhensi opened his mouth, wanting to say sothing,
Forget it, forget it, taking it seriously ans losing.
He scratched his head and continued scanning the entire room with the sensor,
While Li Ang, observing Solomon's corpse, had a gleam flash deep in his eyes.
Actually, after the door war ended,
he also thought about cultivating a new mutant octopus, as a special unit of the Bug Nest,
which could continuously produce clean energy,
The powerful attributes of the mutant octopus would also allow it to beco a new generation of mothership-level units.
He even deliberately left a portion of the mutant octopus body tissue.
Unfortunately, neither Li Ang nor the Bug Nest Brain Worm could clone life forms from the mutant octopus body tissue,
with the strange characteristics of the mutant octopus — probably missing the most crucial elent,
which is the mutation source causing the octopus to mutate in the Lost World comic.
Without the mutation source, it's just a regular octopus.
Just as the group silently searched the room,
Li Ang and David's walkie-talkies simultaneously emitted sounds, with Hoenhem's voice coming from them, "This is Hoenhem, anyone there?"
"Yes."
Li Ang pressed the button, "I've t up with David, Ding Zhensi, and Miss Liu temporarily, and we don't know Amber's location yet.
Where are you now?"
"I just escaped from a room,"
Hoenhem's voice chuckled bitterly, "This room is quite... strange.
All small gas."
Li Ang raised an eyebrow, "Small gas?"
"Yes, similar to what's in an arcade, equipped with many devices that require competitions of boxing strength, basketball shooting, single-player billiards (requiring clearing the table in one shot), and a large apparatus similar to a dance machine."
Hoenhem quickly said, "Not deadly but very troubleso, requiring full concentration and passing all challenges in one go, with no distractions.
Otherwise, you get kicked back to the starting point to start over."
Hoenhem's tone was slightly embarrassed, sounding like he didn't want to discuss it further,
before acquiring transcendent powers, he was quite uncoordinated in body and eye-hand coordination,
This ti, he cheated using Magic Artistry to pass the trials of that room."
Li Ang and Hoenhem quickly exchanged information. Due to Hoenhem having a walkie-talkie main unit that could locate other walkie-talkies, he actively moved,
approaching Li Ang and others.
According to the walkie-talkie location function display, Hoenhem was diagonally below the room where Li Ang and others were located, and he could pass the pattern marks left by David earlier,
So twenty minutes later, Hoenhem hurriedly arrived and t up with the others.
After the etup, everyone knew why Hoenhem didn't want to elaborate on his experience in that room.
At the mont, a few colorful stickers given by the arcade were stuck on his forehead, and his trench coat was covered with colorful paint.
He looked like an Arican teenager with dreadlocks.
Swish.
Hoenhem plucked the colorful stickers off his forehead and placed them above his hair, explaining with slight embarrassnt to David and others who looked amazed and amused, "That room doesn't have deadly elents, but if you fail to clear all challenges at once,
a sticker will be slapped on your forehead, and you'll get sprayed with colorful paint that cannot be removed."
To demonstrate the chanism of these things to others, Hoenhem casually unbuttoned the top button of his coat and pulled the collar outward,
As a result, the paint at the collar quickly dissipated and reappeared on the vest under the coat.
"In any case, it doesn't really affect actions, so just let it be."
Hoenhem sighed, not too bothered. The first-tier players are generally extre pragmatists, such minor issues can't distract players, "How far have you advanced in the strategy?"
"Studying the corpse of this magic professional."
Li Ang patted the Mage Tower, "Co over and have a look."
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