The Floating Laboratory Takes Shape

The Floating Laboratory Jingjing suspends hundreds of meters in the air, like a lonely Meteorite defying the laws of gravity.

Su Luo stood on the edge of the rock base, which he had compressed to the extreme, leaving only a few dozen square meters. His strange cloak fluttered in the frigid air. He stood with his hands on his hips and his brows furrowed slightly.

"My Mana is almost gone."

Although it was only a small rock, the long flight had made the already thirsty Mana Pool even drier, with little Mana left.

His eyes sharpened, and Mana flowed around him. Several condensed, almost tangible, blazing white fire lines burst forth from his fingertips, accurately killing several unsuspecting flying Mutated Beasts that dared to approach.

Immediately, the wind, carrying the rocky foundation beneath their feet, adjusted its direction and sped towards the outline of an abandoned city.

The city was destroyed at some unknown time, but it wasn't abandoned when Su Luo fled from Hudu.

Ten minutes later, the Laboratory hovered above the desolate city.

Looking down, Su Luo saw various Mutated Beasts wandering sparsely among the ruins.

He raised his hand, and a dense barrage of exploding fireballs rained down, striking the monsters precisely and instantly turning them hot and scorching.

A shadow loomed overhead, beneath which Mutated Beasts howled, rolled, and struggled.

The shadow slowly descended, eventually settling in the center of the relatively empty city square.

Su Luo's figure flashed, transforming into a streak of light, and shot straight towards the depths of the underground control room of a nearby upscale residential area.

Su Luo's target is the energy storage battery pack used to control high-voltage switches in the power distribution room of a residential community or building.

DC power supply battery packs are typically lead-acid batteries, which have low self-discharge rates and are sealed for protection, allowing them to be stored for a relatively long time.

Unfortunately, the community's facilities had been destroyed by the Mutated Beasts, and the two culprits were also found nearby, having been electrocuted to death.

Serves you right.

Su Luo touched her chin and discovered a blind spot.

The restricted, Aberration Energy drives the Mutated Beasts to frantically pursue flesh and blood, while ignoring their companions.

Perhaps this mechanism can be used for operations.

Flying again to the next neighborhood... there simply wasn't a battery pack available.

After visiting three different neighborhoods, Su Luo finally found one with electricity and immediately moved half of Laboratory over to prepare for building a temporary device.

Su Luo pulled out a yellowed operation manual from a dusty drawer in the duty room and, combined with the modern electrical knowledge she had accessed on her laptop, began to work.

More than an hour later, Su Luo clapped his hands, and a strangely shaped device, crudely constructed from a battery pack, Constant Spell pack, and bizarre wiring, emitted a low hum.

Who cares how ugly it is, as long as it works.

Looking at the slowly accumulating Mana Pool, Su Luo maintained the device while retrieving relevant knowledge from the USB drive and learning a little more.

After a while, seeing that the Mana Pool was half full, Su Luo flew out with the Auto Pickup wires and various tools.

The target this time is the surrounding equipment and various energy storage facilities: residual Sun photovoltaic panels with supporting energy storage batteries, various emergency energy storage systems, backup power for data centers and base stations...

Using magical abilities combined with his newly acquired electrical engineering knowledge, he began constructing a temporary, area-wide power network, aiming to drain most of the remaining electricity in the city.

More than twenty hours later, the Floating Laboratory was completely transformed and set off again.

The original simple rock base has been replaced by a huge rectangular alloy platform smelted and reshaped from the city ruins. Its surface is uneven and shimmers with various colors, and it is piled with a large amount of steel.

On the platform is a large, more functional experimental bench that Su Luo rebuilt using various industrial parts and tools he had scavenged.

Two newly constructed large Mana Pools are next to an Optimization Second-Generation Semi-Automatic Mana Conversion Device, with significantly improved efficiency.

The Wind-Type Flight System has also been completely rebuilt, and now it can operate stably with only minimal mental guidance, greatly reducing Su Luo's burden.

Starting a few hours ago, the surrounding Mutated Beasts seemed to have received a unified command, becoming extremely frenzied and beginning to charge at Su Luo recklessly.

It seems that Dongli Cang has made his move.

Su Luo calmly burned the endless stream of attackers, watching them turn to ashes in the flames, and a thought gradually became clear.

Since everyone is so hospitable, let them all become my provisions.

With this in mind, Su Luo began standing Mana Pool, rapidly converting Fire Elements and various constant Spells.

Outside the Laboratory, the piles of spare steel floated out, and even steel was constantly flying off the Laboratory floor.

Under high temperatures, the steel begins to weld and twist... eventually assembling into concentric steel rings of varying diameters, each constantly imbued with different fire Spells.

These nested rings, gradually decreasing in size from the outside in, form a complex three-dimensional defense system surrounding the Laboratory.

Several hours later, Su Luo stopped, exhausted.

The act of absorbing and releasing half of the Mana Pool made his face slightly pale, but a hint of satisfaction still flashed in his eyes as he looked at the nascent, flame- Burn steel globe surrounding the Laboratory.

"Although it's only half finished, let's test the results first."

"Yuan Shen, start!"

A particularly ferocious Bone-Winged Bat Monster broke through the clouds, a hint of doubt flashing in its scarlet eyes.

Its companions that had gotten close before were all killed from tens of meters away, but this time it almost crashed into that strange, big, fat, red iron bird.

However, the moment it passed through the two outermost rings of flame, the flames that had been flowing smoothly between the rings suddenly erupted, turning into a destructive fire net that instantly engulfed it and burned it into a charred mess.

The last thing it saw before it died was a ring of even more, denser inner rings, Burn with the same deadly flames, like layers of gateways to hell.

Energy-Harvesting Ring of Fire System!

It sounds scary, but it's actually an improved, aerial version of the incinerator at the bottom of the previous large pit.

Every Mutated Beast that crashes into the ring formation will have its life and biomass burned by the instantaneous Burn of flames and Infestation and transformed by the Fire Element.

Some of the Fire Element was used to maintain the ring's own Burn and defense, while the rest was collected by slightly rough pipes and flowed along the pre-set path into the semi-automatic conversion device in front of Su Luo, eventually becoming pure Mana and being injected into the thirsty Mana Pool.

At this moment, from a distance, Su Luo's Floating Laboratory looked like a giant fireball suspended in the air.

With a diameter of forty or fifty meters, it was engulfed in raging flames and dazzling light. Its outer layer was a death aura that constantly burned the Mutated Beasts, while its core was smaller, serving as its quietly operating Floating Laboratory.

Although maintaining the entire system's flight and operation consumes a huge amount of resources, the almost endless Mutated Beasts driven in from all directions by Dongli Cang have become the best source of "fuel".

The calculations show that the net Mana gain is already positive.

It was just that Su Luo had a hard time maintaining the device.

After all, there are no rearview mirrors in the Laboratory.

Dongli Cang is not a pointed one.

The Mutated Beasts do not speak the same language.

Hundreds of countries around the world have been wiped out, how did Su Luo survive?

This experience is invaluable.