Sky Dome Technology Research Center

Chapter 32: Sky Dome Technology Research Center

Origin Altar.

Upon receiving the guidance feedback, Qi Sheng immediately switched his perspective to the area where the explosion occurred.

The explosion's power was not significant, only shattering three bluestone bricks on the ground. It only cost 0.05 points of Sacrificial Power to self-repair.

However, he was very curious about the cause of the explosion.

With lingering doubt, he asked the guidance to replay the scene his clone had witnessed.

When he saw player Qin Ye examining a Level 1 Spirit Stones, Qi Sheng felt puzzled. He then zoomed in on the internal view of the Spirit Stones.

"Is he rearranging the internal structure of the Spirit Stones?"

[Boss, I've extrapolated based on the structure he arranged. I think he might be trying to create a Spirit Energy Bomb.]

"What do you mean?"

[Simply put, it's changing the arrangement of energy particles within the Spirit Stones to form a new structure that triggers an instantaneous energy collapse reaction upon conscious activation. But this is just my extrapolated guess; I can't be certain it's the answer.]

The guidance's reply sparked Qi Sheng's intense interest in this player.

When the Challenger System was first established, what he valued most wasn't the players' fearlessness in the face of infinite respawns, but their creative ingenuity.

For example, turning a war game into a farming simulation, or using specific loopholes and bugs to create unexpected maneuvers that even the developers hadn't conceived.

Before his transmigration, he was an avid gamer himself and had witnessed many players' imaginative ideas within games.

To verify his hypothesis, he retrieved the memory archive information of this player's replicated body in the monster world.

The conclusion was as the guidance had stated: this player intended to apply real-world Spirit Energy Bomb technology to the game.

This discovery filled Qi Sheng with greater anticipation for the player's future development.

Exiting the game pod, Qin Ye realized that the game Dark Land had a far more terrifying potential than he had initially imagined.

Perfectly simulating reality meant that many extremely dangerous experiments in the real world could be simulated within the game world, and the data obtained would directly drive advancements in real-world technology.

He walked to his desk and sent his findings via email to the Sky Dome Technology Research Center.

The Sky Dome Technology Research Center was a special institution established by the Human Federation specifically for researching alien technology. He was a member, seconded to the cave trading market as a manager.

While waiting for his respawn cooldown, Qin Ye began reviewing recent applications for entry into the trading market from alien races.

Half an hour later, an email notification popped up in the lower right corner.

Opening the email, Qin Ye discovered it was from the Sky Dome Technology Research Center headquarters.

[Sender: Sky Dome Technology Research Center]

Subject: Regarding your proposal for virtual testing of dangerous weapons

Content: Hello, D-class administrator of the Cave Trading Market. Your suggestion to test dangerous weapons in a virtual environment has been received by headquarters. After consulting with my superiors, I have the following reply for you:

1. Upon the release of Dark Land, the Sky Dome Center began preparations to enter the game and attempt to conduct dangerous weapon experiments in a virtual environment.

2. Dark Land, developed by the Moon Eclipse Clan, uses the Star Net's real-name registration system for subscriptions. We also have no special privileges to bypass the application process and enter the game directly. Unfortunately, no one at headquarters has managed to obtain a game qualification to this day.

3. The Sky Dome Center has submitted an application to the Human Federation Council, attempting to request a batch of game qualifications from the Moon Eclipse Clan that bypasses the lottery system. (The Federal Council has not yet responded.)

After reading the email, Qin Ye was speechless.

He hadn't expected that the Sky Dome headquarters, possessing top-tier authority within the Human Federation, couldn't even obtain game access.

This showed how insane the hunger marketing for Dark Land was.

In this new era where Virtual Game Pod had become commonplace in households, the Human Federation had a population of 2 billion. However, Moon Eclipse Clan only issued one million game qualifications to the Human Race in each round, which was like a drop in the ocean.

At this moment, he thought of the Welfare Officer who had sent the pirated link. A bold idea surfaced in his mind:

"Perhaps I could send the pirated download link to the Sky Dome Center, letting them download the pirated version to enter the game."

Without hesitation, he immediately sent the link to the Sky Dome headquarters via email.

4 hours later.

Three deafening explosions echoed across the Ancient Battlefield outside Emperor's Tomb Village. Flesh and blood scattered everywhere.

[Challenger Prompt: Killed Evil Spirits Lifeform: Blood Corpse. Gained 125 Evolution Points, rewarded with 24 Sacrificial Power. Eagle Head Demon level +1.]

[Challenger Prompt: Killed Evil Spirits Lifeform: Blood Corpse...]

The prompts continued to sound in his mind. Qin Ye couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He hadn't expected that a casual thought would actually come true in the game.

A Spirit Energy Bomb made from Level 1 Spirit Stones could kill a Level 10+ Blood Corpse with just three bombs.

More importantly, the Spirit Energy Bomb dealt area-of-effect damage. Three bombs in total killed 8 Blood Corpses, raising his Eagle Head Demon's level to 10.

If bombs made from Level 2, or even higher-level Spirit Stones, were used, he could imagine how powerful they would be.

Although creating Spirit Energy Bomb had a cost, requiring the purchase of Spirit Stones from the mall to craft them, the profit generated far exceeded the cost.

This discovery gave Qin Ye a wild idea.

Perhaps he could build a Star Vein style around the Spirit Energy Bomb.

With the idea in mind, Qin Ye immediately returned to Emperor's Tomb Village and entered the Test Tower.

For the next few hours, Qin Ye experimented with different Fate Souls to complement the use of the Spirit Energy Bomb.

His preferred Fate Soul wasn't the Eagle Head Demon, but the Sea Stone Fate Soul.

The Sea Stone's innate ability was to continuously and rapidly restore mental energy even in a normal state.

Creating a Spirit Energy Bomb required strong mental energy as support. The three Level 1 Spirit Energy Bombs he'd just made had drained his mental energy, making it impossible to create more in a short period.

However, after equipping the Sea Stone Fate Soul, his mental energy sustain would be greatly enhanced.

For his other Fate Souls, he chose those that boosted mental energy or were related to mental recovery, aiming for sustained bombardment.

After a simple test of his initial Star Vein combination, Qin Ye discovered a major problem.

The game lacked a friendly fire exemption mechanism, and the immensely powerful Spirit Energy Bomb could easily affect himself.

How to solve this issue? He thought of two viable solutions.

First, find Fate Souls that could resist the bomb's impact and pair them to increase his own defense.

Second, find a Fate Soul that allowed for extremely long-range throws, enabling him to toss the Spirit Energy Bomb outside of his own blast radius.

After careful consideration of which of these two options to choose, Qin Ye believed the second one was more reliable.

There were many choices for defensive Fate Souls, but achieving ultimate defense required pairing multiple defensive Fate Souls. For example, the popular Immobile Undying Flow on the forums was centered around the Stone Gargoyle, supplemented by a series of HP-regen and defense-boosting Fate Souls.

However, the Star Vein slots were limited in the early game, and boosting the bomb's explosive power was key. Equipping multiple defensive Fate Souls didn't align with his envisioned growth path for the Spirit Energy Bomb.