Polluted Core

Zhou Changqing had been feeling troubled lately.

A week had passed since the expedition to exterminate the Iron Lizard.

The arrival of the third batch of test players had only excited him for a moment.

For most of the time, Zhou Changqing had to deal with complicated magic.

As a member of the core group, he had recently been studying the structure of the magical network in Jost's laboratory.

In the past, Zhou Changqing had always thought that, as a senior engineer, if he could travel back to ancient times, he could probably develop plenty of technology beyond that era by simply farming and building things.

But now he finally understood that he was not a jack-of-all-trades after all. He only knew what he had mastered. If one wanted to advance technology in ancient times, even with modern knowledge, one would still need cheats.

Without proper smelting techniques, it was impossible to manufacture components capable of withstanding stress. Without mining technology, one could not even find ore, let alone all the petroleum-based chemical materials and various tools and machines. Not a single one could be missing.

The leap from an agrarian civilization to the modern age could not be made in one step.

Thus, even though he possessed advanced communications theory, he still had to study magic bit by bit and understand its properties before he could contribute to the design of the magical network.

At times like this, learning ability was the most crucial thing.

For example, Jost had now basically grasped modern communications technology. Although he lacked practical experience, his theoretical knowledge would certainly not lose out to that of a master's student in a related field. Zhou Changqing, however, was still at the level of a middle-school student of magic.

"I originally thought magic would be simple,