Weapons Research Department

Chapter 33: Weapons Research Department

Elemental bombs, gas bombs, sonic bombs, gravity bombs... Paired with different Soul Characteristics, Qin Ye became increasingly certain about developing a growth path centered around psionic bombs.

But he couldn't find a solution in the Test Tower's Soul Characteristic library for the problem of the explosion affecting himself.

When in doubt, ask the Guider. Qin Ye chose to seek a solution from the Guider.

Facing his inquiry, the Guiding Water Orb displayed a human-like thoughtful expression. It rubbed its chin with a materialized palm before speaking:

"The Test Tower's Soul Characteristic database only records a portion of Primal Abilities. A large number of unknown Primal Abilities are scattered throughout the monster world. I can confirm that there are definitely spatial teleportation-type Primal Abilities. If you can obtain such an ability, you will certainly be able to achieve cross-spatial teleportation."

"For example, you could open a spatial channel in front of you and throw the psionic bomb into it, allowing it to teleport to a distant location for a precise explosion."

Hearing the Guider's explanation, Qin Ye's interest was immediately piqued:

"Where can I hunt Primal Monsters with spatial abilities?"

"I cannot answer that question. The monster world is vast and boundless. The world's terrain underwent drastic changes after the Black Tide swept through. It's entirely unknown where Primal Monsters with specific abilities are scattered. If you're lucky, they might be in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range region. If you're unlucky, they could be in the extremely distant Great Northern Territory."

Upon hearing this, Qin Ye was dumbfounded:

"Isn't there a function to locate Primal Abilities?"

"Perhaps in the future. That is, if you can reclaim the Node Domains that possess location-type Primal Abilities."

"So where are the Node Domains that can locate Primal Abilities?"

"Unknown."

Qin Ye: ...

Just then, a prompt sounded in Qin Ye's mind:

"Challenger Prompt: Detected important notification information in the Virtual Game Pod. Do you wish to exit and view it?"

Upon receiving the prompt, Qin Ye didn't hesitate and exited the game immediately.

At this time, the Skydome Research Center convened a meeting due to an email sent by Qin Ye.

After reading the email's content, the staff who received it realized that the attached address allowed for the download of a cracked version of Dark Land. They immediately relayed this information to Skydome's upper management.

However, to their surprise, the download link had permission restrictions, making it impossible to download.

They promptly reported this issue to the cybersecurity center, hoping they could bypass the permissions to complete the download.

But the feedback they received was that the cybersecurity center's AI had no authority to bypass the restrictions behind the link to download content. They could only wait for the download permissions to be activated.

The staff who received the reply then chose to send a message to Qin Ye, hoping he could copy and transmit the downloaded file to the Skydome Research Center.

But Qin Ye's reply once again disappointed the Skydome Center.

The downloaded game file was locked by permissions and could not be sent to the Skydome Center via transmission.

Finally, Skydome Center's upper management decided to constantly monitor the link's activity and wait for the download permissions to be reactivated.

When this news reached the Weapons Research Department of the Skydome Research Center, the weapons researchers were completely unsettled.

If the game could truly achieve 100% virtual reality as stated in the email, it would be a perfect testing ground for dangerous weapons.

That evening, at 11:50 PM.

Dark Land's official website was about to release a new batch of qualification slots. Among them, the Human Federation had 1 million slots available for purchase.

At Skydome Center's Weapons Research Department, a group of white-haired elders opened the official website precisely on time, waiting to purchase.

The time struck midnight. The countdown on the official website's page reached zero.

The qualification purchase ended in less than 1 second.

At this moment, in Office A1 of the Weapons Laboratory, an elder sat at his desk, staring at the screen. His hair was sparse and messy, and he wore a blue uniform, but his eyes were exceptionally sharp.

Looking at the failure prompt that popped up on the webpage, Yang Tianxuan couldn't help but shake his head in regret.

The difficulty of purchasing qualification slots was truly a headache for him.

Before this, he had considered using technology, but no script could read the official website's information, making it impossible.

Thinking of the email from Qin Ye, which confirmed the game's perfect simulation of reality and its suitability for testing various dangerous weapons, he felt an unbearable itch.

An absolutely safe experimental environment – this was simply the dream sanctuary for their Weapons Research Department.

Nanite viruses, weather weapons, sky shield armories... A large amount of advanced technology provided by alien races could not be tested due to inherent risks, preventing experiments from even starting.

For example, with weather weapons, arbitrarily controlling weather changes could potentially lead to a catastrophic ecological disaster on Earth.

But in a 100% realistic game environment, conceptual weapons could be experimented with. Once the technology was fully mature, it could then be applied to reality.

This would eliminate the severe environmental destruction and personal danger that could occur during the immature stages of technology.

The problem was that Dark Land's game qualifications were too difficult to obtain. He had applied to his superiors multiple times, hoping the Human Federation would acquire additional game qualifications through diplomatic means, but he had yet to receive any response.

The purchase failed again, and Yang Tianxuan felt helpless.

Just then, he suddenly remembered the email address Qin Ye had sent.

He immediately opened his email on his virtual desktop and clicked on the address attached to the email.

The pop-up webpage was extremely plain, an almost completely blank page with only a compressed file link in the center for download.

The moment Yang Tianxuan clicked download, Qi Sheng received feedback. The StarNet IP information displayed in the Weapons Research Department of the Dome Research Center.

Having learned of the Weapons Research Department's existence through Qin Ye's memories, he decisively approved the additional quota.

Ding!

Accompanied by a crisp download notification, Yang Tianxuan was stunned.

The previous prompt had indicated that the file's download permissions were not yet open.

But this time, it was open.

Before even attempting it, he hadn't held much hope, yet he had actually managed to download the game.

Without a moment's hesitation, he decisively opened the group chat software in the bottom right corner.

Yang Tianxuan (Director of Weapons Research Department): @everyone, notify everyone to immediately click the link address sent by Qin Ye and download the game!

After tagging everyone three times in a row, Yang Tianxuan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The disappointment of failing to snatch up the game vanished.

As for whether the downloaded game file could be run, he wasn't worried at all.

The information from the security center stated that this pirated link had likely leaked from within the Moon Eclipse Clan, and it could connect to the StarNet to play online.

Watching the loading progress bar, a bold idea formed in Yang Tianxuan's mind.

The experimental process required a massive amount of resources, and there were only two ways to obtain resources within the game world.

One was through pay-to-win, purchasing resources from other players for research and development.

Or, establish a powerful faction within the game to control some of the resource production.

The first method required applying for game funding from higher-ups, a cumbersome process that needed detailed explanations.

However, the second method had no such concerns.

Recalling the super geniuses under his command across various weapon research fields, Yang Tianxuan immediately conceived the idea of forming a powerful force within the game.

He didn't know how other players would play the game.

But since it was a game that perfectly simulated reality, he and the members of the Weapons Research Department could completely build a technological weapon legion from scratch to compete with other players for in-game resources.

Furthermore, actual combat could verify the power of new weapons.

(End of Chapter)