[December 5, 2021, 10:00 AM]
...
In a tiny personal space, the white ball of fur suddenly opened its eyes.
It slowly extended its body, the bewildernt in its eyes fading bit by bit, becoming extrely alert. After stretching its paws and slamming its plump body to the ground, it started taking small steps toward the door of the personal space—
"Bang!"
A blue light flashed montarily, the vortex like an open mouth, and Su Ming’an fell abruptly onto the bed from within.
"ow—!" The sudden incident terrified the white cat, causing its fur to bristle. When it opened its eyes again, they exhibited the familiar laziness and confusion.
With a "thump", it curled up on the ground, seemingly never having enough sleep, and fell asleep again.
Su Ming’an, just teleported back from White City, lay motionless on the bed.
His eyes were sowhat bewildered.
In the "tick-tock" sounds of the clock on the wall, he slightly moved his fingers, and then, boundless fatigue enveloped him.
Right now, every ti he closed his eyes, it seed as though he was still in that nightmarish laboratory, reverberating in his ears were the over a hundred formulas that Sneer kept reiterating...
The gestures for making chanical explosives had almost beco his physiological response.
A tiny error in color identification could lead to failure, a ntal arithtic mistake in a formula could cause the forming solid explosive to suddenly explode...
Nuoliya put it well and advised him well.
Teacher Sneer was truly terrifying.
To make him learn quickly, Sneer truly spared no regard for the so-called "hero of White City". Once he entered teaching mode, his gaze quickly turned into one of frustration.
...as if looking at a student utterly failing to grasp anything.
"This reaction only requires you to do ntal arithtic with three-digit numbers three tis within five seconds. Can you not even do that?"
"This color... you’ve identified it so many tis, there’s clearly a difference of one milliter between the top and bottom change... how can you still get it wrong..."
"How many tis have I told you, are you not using your brain? Or is it in one ear and out the other? Has higher education in the other world beco so cheap that even sothing like this can pass the exams?"
"Forget it, since you obviously can’t manage, I’ll just have to simplify it again, I’ll teach you an easier thod..."
After his continuous mistakes, Sneer even painfully exclaid, "You are the least intuitive student I have ever seen!"
At that mont, Su Ming’an felt a long-missed sha.
The sha of being a poor student, like montarily pulling him back to the days he studied science subjects.
In that laboratory, he was never the Number One Player.
...just a repeatedly self-doubting poor student.
Those five days, he lived more exhaustedly than any other period before... even the Sixth World wasn’t so torturous.
Right now, he just wanted to sleep it all away.
But soon, he opened his eyes again.
After deducting fifty points, a white halo erged between his palms, and his fingers began to move rhythmically.
Resources from his backpack were drawn out, consisting of three stones of different colors, one tube of multicolored liquid.
The stones were extrely soft and soon lted in his hands, with the halo flickering as different colored liquids flowed into it at varying tis.
Ten seconds later, a brilliant white light burst forth from his palms, gradually forming a small solid.
A brilliant blue panel popped up:
[Congratulations on creating a (Blue Level) chanical Explosive*1!]
[chanical Explosive (Blue Level)
Type: Damage-Inflicting Prop
Effect: Squeeze the explosive forcefully to trigger an explosion, explosion radius of two ters, causing 1000 damage (reduced based on physical defense level). Note, this item produces an imdiate explosive effect, be careful of perishing together!]
Manufacturing Requirent: From the advanced props of Daylight Floating City, only players who have mastered special techniques can make it.
Description: Originating from the advanced props of Daylight Floating City in the Second World, utilizing technology far beyond current human standards. After hands-on instruction from Sneer, the quality of the explosive has significantly improved.]
...
Su Ming’an looked at the silvery-white solid in his hand.
Compared to the Green Level Fixed Point Explosive he initially saw in Yu Ruohuo’s hands, this Blue Level chanical Explosive was significantly stronger. It does not require any tugging of a line but can explode from a simple shake and squeeze, aning he doesn’t need to be next to the explosive and can entirely opt for remote detonation through spatial vibration.
This was the result of his learning; though Sneer was stringent, he was highly responsible. He specifically asked about his desired thod of detonation and tailored his teaching accordingly.
Although this brought a reduction in damage, from two thousand to one thousand, the advantage far outweighed the disadvantage for him.
Compared to a Suicide Bomber that returns a mutual blow with two thousand damage, he would rather opt for a controllable, stable thousand damage.
Spatial Vibration chanical Explosive, the perfect explosive sche. Very few players could withstand such a double strike. This is a major weapon that makes up for damage when facing players and NPCs with high magic resistance.
The materials for making chanical Explosives could be completely substituted with materials from the Main God Store, costing roughly about fifty points per chanical bomb.
...slightly more expensive than a large Blood Bottle.
He only made one and then stopped, not to ntion the cost issue, he had almost had enough of making this thing these past few days. Now just seeing the appearance of this white object gave him a headache.
He could clearly feel himself getting a bit dizzy, obviously an impact from making explosives.
He stowed the explosive into his backpack, keeping an eye on the activities on the World Forum.
The ti flow in Daylight Floating City was clearly faster than Main God World; he had stayed there for several days, but only half a day had passed when he returned. Midway, he kept up with the sudden surge of events and responded in his spare monts.
...From the trends in public opinion from all sides, he was gradually understanding the current situation.
It seems like things are moving in a favorable direction.
Upon seeing his own weight ratio, he imdiately thought of the sches the United Group and other organizations might adopt. The sches could only be extrely polarized, either completely destroy him or completely trust him.
But obviously, the other party had chosen a more moderate one, sowhere between the two.
They didn’t discredit him, nor did they trust him, but were instead promoting him.
They deliberately did not overly exaggerate his personal abilities but viewed him as a standardized ’individual’ and regarded him as a ’model hero’.
Through their statents, they were conveying a conclusion to the vast number of players.
...was that the world might have more and more "heroes" like him.
Circumstances create heroes. In the early days, they regarded him as an early hero, a leader in the most chaotic tis.
The implication in their words was that, in the flourishing scenario of the middle and late periods, many more like him might erge.
This way, even if he were to fail midway, they could let go of their pride and promote other "heroes."
...It was just making statents, creating montum, almost at no cost.
Yet, the United Group had won a rare win-win situation. They not only inspired the masses and promoted other true heroes, but they didn’t offend him either. In fact, to most people, he should be thankful for the United Group’s praise.
But in reality, Su Ming’an didn’t dislike this series of actions by the United Group.
On the contrary, he thought they had done quite beautifully.
They showed the masses "what they wanted to see," leading them to act according to their words, and reversed the current pessimistic public opinion trend.
Although so criticized this as excessive adulation of an individual, ignoring the tragic events and the overly entertaining public opinion, the positive impact still outweighed the negative.
Because while spreading public opinion, the United Group did not neglect the healing of players in poor ntal states, they weren’t just putting up a facade.
They ramped up their efforts, mobilizing all their strength, integrating all resources, and doing everything possible to heal others, allowing the thrust of public opinion to beco their montum, enabling the truly comndable experts and scholars to receive honor.
Although flashy on the surface can be shaful, unity of word and deed is not simple.
...The United Group achieved it.
On this level, they truly were the greatest integrating organization without a doubt.
The only crisis in this scenario was that the United Group did not know whether Su Ming’an would turn against them.
If Su Ming’an turned around and accused the United Group of hypocrisy, or publicly offended them, both would fall into a losing situation.
...But clearly, Su Ming’an wouldn’t.
If he could, he would even like to give them a round of applause—after all, there were indeed great people in this organization, doing great things. These people truly started from the whole group, taking care of the vast majority.
A few bad apples can indeed spoil the broth, but this doesn’t an the remaining grains are bad.
Humanity still has its heroes.
...whether on an individual level or a collective one.
Su Ming’an admired these people’s selfless acts, so he chose to respond with a mild reply post, as a response to the olive branch extended by the United Group.
On this long road, he had long realized, the power of an individual is ultimately limited. For instance, he alone couldn’t manage or organize such large-scale ntal breakdowns.
The people who loved him were just that, lovers, a fan club made purely of love, completely different from the dignified organizations that had existed in the world from early on,
His limited capability could only be devoted to a perfect pass; his narrow vision was only confined to the connection between clues in the instances... even the resurrection by death rewind that he saw as vital, was unable to save so many perished lives.
The shield bearers that appeared behind then beca their back-up.
They seed to be saying to him:
"...charge ahead without worry, we are always behind you."
Su Ming’an had encountered great malice before.
In human nature, the extre evil, greed, jealousy, selfishness... he had clearly experienced it all the way.
But even a little bit of goodness was enough to pull him back from the brink of the abyss.
Humans are such creatures, naturally inclined to admire the beautiful.
The love within their blood could never be blocked.
Because to love a world, it never needed any reason.
...
[December 10, 2021, 10:00 AM]
"Listen to —we must be in this situation because the high-dinsional beings have installed a chip in our brains!"
A loud voice, almost a scream, resonated in the silvery white laboratory.
Various bottles and jars were arranged on the table, and nurous diagrams were spread out over the chairs.
A ssy-haired young man, standing in front of a massive computer connected by nurous network cables, was animatedly speaking:
"The chip implanted in the brain can help people with storage, calculation! It can also pop up a specific nu in your eye—essentially a computer within the brain! If we could store current societal science and so basic knowledge into the chip beforehand, and then implant it into infants, the babies would imdiately learn how to walk and simultaneously graduate from the world’s leading universities!"
As the disheveled young man spoke, he beca more and more excited, "Even—it can also help patients with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and the like, recover basic self-care abilities! Look! All these situations I just talked about, how well do they fit our current scenario in the world ga! The skills that can be released with a fixed gesture, the panel nu that pops up in front of us, and more..."
In front of him, standing was the wryly smiling Su Ming’an, the silent Lv Shu beside him... and an ugly dog that Lv Shu was holding.
Su Ming’an was originally still on vacation in Ming Hui.
Unexpectedly, he was suddenly pulled out by a video call from Lv Shu to et this young man.
According to Lv Shu, the man was from the "Transnational Human Research Organization", a top scientist currently in charge of exploring the fusion area between human technology and the world ga.
"Transnational Human Research Organization" is an organization, or you could say a guild, spontaneously ford by elite scholars from various countries. It has a loose system, a generally lax structure, and there are no mandatory regular etings or reporting periods.
mbers just occasionally have a video eting, share a docunt, exchange their research with each other, and that’s pretty much it.
It’s a fairly free organization, but filled with big nas internally.
The young man standing in front of Su Ming’an was nad Xu Yunying, reportedly a friend of Lv Shu from their ti on Zhai Xing, an elite in research, serving as a doctoral supervisor in a top university in Dragon Country, and his real age was already over forty.
...But now, in front of Su Ming’an, he was as excited as a little child, introducing his hypotheses one by one as if he were showing off toys.
"—And lately, rumors about the possible launch of the ’Race Module’ have made think of many possibilities."
"Genetic recombination project! Transgenic monkeys, transgenic sheep!" Xu Yunying suddenly increased his volu, startling Su Ming’an, whose thoughts were drifting away.
"Based on the developnt of transgenic technology before the ga started, in the future, people might even be able to implant specific genes into human embryos, allowing humans to grow wings! So, doesn’t that an that future players transford into ’Angel’ or ’Half-Winged’ races have been nurtured through genetic technology..."
"Cough, cough."
Seeing Xu Yunying getting more and more excited, Lv Shu couldn’t help but cough.
He had agreed beforehand that after eting Su Ming’an, he would try not to get too excited and not to look like a madman with disheveled hair...
But once they t, he was still the sa, even more disheveled than ever.
"Ah, sorry, sorry, I got too excited." Xu Yunying looked at Su Ming’an, his eyes sparkling: "—But my guesses could be possible, right? The Number One Player, you are currently the strongest among humans, supposed to have the best control over your own skills, could you please tell , when you use skills, do you also feel the agitation inside your body..."
"...I don’t think that can be felt." Su Ming’an said.
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