The Schemes Lu Yuan Brought
Last night, after I finished brewing Dragon Blood Potion in the independent Potion Room and cleaned all the utensils and surfaces I had used, I came out to find the night was already getting dark. The streetlights on both sides of the road had been turned on one by one, emitting a faint glow. The Research Room next door was also quiet; Gregory was no longer inside.
Lu Yuan didn't linger near the Training Ground; he went back to his residence and got a good night's sleep.
After having breakfast the next morning, feeling that his blood and energy were much more abundant than the day before, he took the small wooden tag and went to Gregory's Research Room again, ready to continue to fulfill the agreement he had made the day before and officially start to counterattack the Person-Finding Inscription that had been seized from the Heretic.
The Formation Patterns on the stone gate glowed faintly the moment the wooden plaque was affixed, and the heavy stone gate slid open with a thud, releasing a familiar smell of gunpowder mixed with the aroma of Ore.
Gregory had clearly been in the Research Room since early morning, and was currently standing in front of the large workbench fiddling with several unassembled custom-made metal spheres. Hearing the door open, he looked up, and upon seeing Lu Yuan, his face, which was covered in dark circles, immediately lit up with surprise.
He didn't even bother with pleasantries, and rushed to the table, spreading out the parchment copy containing the Heretic Person-Finding Inscription, along with the original Inscription sample that he had specially made a rubbing of when he seized it from the Heretic, in the center of the table, making room for Lu Yuan to come forward and take a look.
Lu Yuan walked to the workbench and stood there, looking down at the two parchment sheets covered with intricate patterns. A faint wisp of reason quietly entered the depths of his left eye, and the Worm of Knowledge wriggled slightly in the depths of his eye with a hint of helplessness.
With the Gray-White Text appearing in his vision and the guidance from Oden in his mind, the true structure of the Heretic Person-Finding Inscription was clearly laid out in Lu Yuan's eyes.
This Heretic Inscription is completely different from the regular single-line basic Inscription. In Lu Yuan's perception, the entire Inscription presents an extremely strange centripetal vortex shape. Upon closer inspection, it also resembles a spider web that collapses inward layer by layer, belonging to a Compound Interlaced Circuit with a rather tricky structure.
The entire Inscription pattern is supported by three triangularly distributed Pattern-Setting Node as its foundation. These three Pattern-Setting Node are specifically used to capture the rational fluctuations and warm blood sources emitted by the living people around them. The dozens of fine Line Tracing connecting the three nodes all twist and collapse towards the very center in circles along a strange arc.
Once the Spirit Infusion is activated at the very center of the Inscription and reason is infused into it, the flowing reason will follow the inward-collapsed Line Tracing to form an invisible Mental Undercurrent. Unconsciously, it will interfere with and distort the sense of direction of the living people around it, like a whirlpool at the bottom of the water, pulling the prey that enters the range step by step into the center of the Inscription.
Oden, who had been hiding in Lu Yuan's mind, followed his gaze and examined the rubbing sample from beginning to end, and couldn't help but click his tongue in comment:
"The Inscription these Heretic created are quite insidious, using the fluctuations of a living person's sanity as bait. But if you want to help this kid use them in reverse, it's not difficult. Just reverse the inward-collapsed flow Line Tracing and replace them with outward-radiating perception circuits."
Lu Yuan nodded inwardly. The line of thought that Oden pointed out was completely consistent with the circuit direction he saw. As long as the logic of the Pattern-Setting Node and the Line Tracing was understood, it was indeed not a difficult task to reverse it.
He pulled out a wooden chair in front of his workbench and sat down. He took a quill pen, a bottle of prepared developing Mo Shui, and several blank sheets of parchment paper from the side. He then combined the techniques of Pattern Setting, Line Tracing, and Spirit Infusion he had previously mastered with the flowing structure of Interlaced Inscription.
In front of Gregory, he picked up his pen and dissected each inward- Line Tracing step by step in reverse.
Gregory stood aside, waiting for Lu Yuan to make his move. Now, as long as this set of Inscription was done, the rest would be much simpler. It could be said that success or failure hinged on this one move.
Lu Yuan controlled the pen tip as it moved swiftly across the rough parchment. Before long, under the watchful eyes of Gregory and Oden, Lu Yuan had deduced and drawn two different reverse deduction schemes and a completely new Inscription design.
The first draft paper depicted the first Reverse-Attraction Scheme, with the Inscription patterns on the paper extending completely outwards, resembling thorny claws or sharp lines radiating outwards.
Lu Yuan pointed to three nodes on the drawing with his pen and explained to Gregory had come closer that this plan completely reversed the original inward-converging Line Tracing, so that after the Inscription was Spirit Infusion, it would have a positive attraction to the rational fluctuations and blood energy emitted by the living people around it.
Once the second layer of the bomb is successfully detonated, the thorny claw-like Inscription engraved on the third core shell will, like a leech attracted by blood, use the impact force generated by the blast wave of the second layer to actively veer towards living people or fast-moving targets in mid-air.
Gregory's eyes lit up, but before he could even applaud, Lu Yuan changed the subject, pointing out the unavoidable flaw in this Reverse-Attraction Scheme:
"This pattern of patterns that directly attracts and pulls outwards consumes a great deal of sanity when activated. Moreover, once your third core is filled with High-Grade Holy Water or Contamination liquid, the overall weight will increase significantly, and the deflection distance that this Inscription alone can achieve will become very limited."
Upon hearing this, Gregory stroked his chin, looking at the heavy, specially made alloy core shell on his desk. He had to admit that Lu Yuan had hit a nerve. The metal core filled with medicinal liquid was indeed quite heavy. If it could only deflect an inch or two in mid-air, its practical combat value would be greatly reduced.
Without pausing, Lu Yuan reached out and pushed the second completed draft paper right under Gregory's nose. It presented the second set of Landing-Point Detection Exclusion-Zone Scheme, with patterns resembling interlocking double rings spreading out like water waves. This was the Booby Trap that the two of them had agreed on in the Research Room yesterday.
On this design, Lu Yuan further simplified the originally complicated outward expansion Line Tracing, transforming them into a double-ring wavy pattern with inner and outer nesting. The outer Line Tracing are responsible for silently spreading outwards like a spider web after the third core is blown away and lands, specifically for sensing the presence of living people and the airflow vibrations caused by high-speed movement within a certain range.
The innermost inner Line Tracing is tightly bound to the inner wall of the core, directly connected to the detonation core of the third layer.
As long as a living person steps into the sensing circle of the outer ring water ripple pattern, the aura fluctuations captured by the outer ring will instantly ignite the inner ring along the intersecting nodes, detonating the third core layer on the spot!