Unwilling Heaven-Defying Technology

Shi Fen knew clearly that the big shot who sent him here was a legendary figure from the Treasure Refining Realm.

However, this big shot was quite different from the "treasure refining" immortals in myths; these tools were simply too "high-tech." Sometimes Shi Fen even wondered if the mechanical path of the Origin Continent had reached a level of technology as impressive as this big shot's.

These "tools" were not only heaven-defying in function, but their work efficiency was also efficient to the extreme.

To give a few of the most intuitive examples:

The first was the Iron Refining Device.

Shi Fen only needed to throw a certain amount of iron ore into the furnace and press a button; one second later, he would obtain a square block of pig iron. If he wanted a larger block, he added more iron ore; if he wanted a smaller one, he added less.

Their refining time was always one second!

The second was the Raw Material Platform.

Shi Fen could infinitely claim all kinds of required resources from it. Iron ore, coke, limestone, rare metals, and various other raw materials were supplied in unlimited quantities.

As for "iron-based" raw materials, at first, there was only iron ore on it.

After Shi Fen used the Iron Refining Device to refine pig iron blocks, pig iron blocks immediately appeared on the Raw Material Platform. There was no need for Shi Fen to repeatedly refine iron; he could take pig iron blocks at will from then on. Upon discovering this, Shi Fen immediately used the Purification Device to create wrought iron blocks, and wrought iron blocks appeared on the platform instantly.

Every time Shi Fen refined a new type of raw material, another type would appear on the platform.

Because it was so convenient, Shi Fen could try forging the 52 types of "Nine-Fold Iron" to his heart's content.

The third was a special ability: One-Key Reset.

Shi Fen didn't need to organize anything himself; he only needed to press the button in the Qualification interlayer to restore everything in the Virtual Trial Space to its cleanest and tidiest state.

Because this place was called the Virtual Trial Space.

Shi Fen highly suspected that this place, much like the Virtual Universe, was completely virtual, which was the only way it could be so magical.

And these were just the most ordinary examples.

Beyond these, there were many cutting-edge technological "finished products" that existed in reality and had nothing to do with the Virtual Trial Space.

Among them, three outrageous examples left the deepest impression on Shi Fen.

Because of his frequent dealings with ores in his past life.

Shi Fen was most impressed by the Mining Vehicle.

The Mining Vehicle was 66 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 26 meters high. It looked a bit like a cross between a space shuttle and an SUV. The Mining Vehicle had no wings or wheels, and from a distance, it looked like an extremely exquisite "concept car."

It was entirely silver, with black decorative stripes along the edges of the "body." The "body" presented a perfect streamlined shape, with two doors on each side and a "hatch" at the "tail."

For such a small thing, its mining capability was terrifying.

Inside the Mining Vehicle, there were four independent areas.

Its structure was somewhat similar to a passenger plane. A passenger plane is divided into a cockpit, a passenger cabin, a cargo hold, and other sections.

The internal structure of this vehicle was not much different from a passenger plane.

The front of the vehicle was the Core Control Cabin, which could be entered from the two front doors. The rear carriage section was the Living Cabin for the onboard personnel, accessible from the middle door. The other two areas were two spatial storage cabins, both "embedded" in the vehicle. The hatch at the tail of the vehicle connected to these two spaces.

The four cabins were connected by doors. These doors could only be opened after authorization from the Core Control Cabin.

The internal space of the Core Control Cabin and the Living Cabin could be adjusted according to usage requirements.

Generally speaking, the Core Control Cabin could "seat" up to one hundred people. The normal capacity limit of the Living Cabin was 100 million people!

Yes!

The "User Manual" stated 100 million people.

Shi Fen had tried experimenting at the time and found that he could indeed change the internal space of the Core Control Cabin and the Living Cabin. The capacity limit Shi Fen could adjust to now was "seating" 100 people.

What was outrageous was that in both cabins, the seats had turned into 100, and there was even a public lounge area of considerable size.

Small exterior, massive volume.

The "Mining Vehicle's" navigational capability was equally exaggerated. Its speed could easily exceed the speed of light, and its own protective shield could easily withstand harsh cosmic environments.

As for the upper limit of its navigational capability, it was not recorded in Shi Fen's data.

How could this be a "Mining Vehicle"!

Shi Fen once felt that this "Mining Vehicle" was very much like a "flying palace-type treasure," where all four of its cabins were "small worlds," and "mining" was merely its auxiliary ability.

After pondering it for a while, Shi Fen understood.

Because the "Mining Vehicle's" mining capability was too exaggerated. If it didn't carry some combat personnel, the massive amount of ore collected would be very dangerous. One couldn't just do all that work for someone else's benefit, right?

The "Mining Vehicle's" most important function was mining.

The "Mining Vehicle" didn't need the onboard personnel to do anything; it could complete mining tasks all by itself.

The "Mining Vehicle's" two spatial storage cabins were the "Mineral Cabin" and the "Mechanical Cabin."

The "Mechanical Cabin" was relatively "small."

Inside, it was equipped with 200 million robots: 100 million Mining Robots and 100 million Ore Processing Robots. In addition to the robots, there was a Mechanical Maintenance Station in the center, responsible for the maintenance and energy transmission of the robots.

The two types of robots looked exactly the same, entirely silver, and about 3 meters tall.

Their material was excellent, allowing them to ignore various harsh working environments in the universe. They possessed auxiliary intelligent systems, making them clever "smart robots," and were equipped with storage spaces containing the tools they needed.

The working conditions for the robots are indifferent to any environment; they can truly operate anywhere.

To be mundane, from the surface to the Earth's core.

A bit more troublesome, within space turbulence.

A bit more difficult, inside a black hole...

Almost anywhere resources are produced, they can mine at will.

The "Mineral Cabin" is extremely "large," used to load vast quantities of ore.

Once the harvested ore enters the "Mineral Cabin," one hundred million Ore Processing Robots enter to perform preliminary processing, completing the separation of impurities from the minerals.

The finished ore and the separated impurities are placed in two separate zones within the "Mineral Cabin."

When the Mining Vehicle performs mining.

Its General Intelligent Control System first uses "on-board" detection devices to scan the entire ore vein area, obtaining the distribution and approximate locations of the target ore. After calculating the optimal mining plan, the General Intelligent Control System issues commands to the Mining Vehicle, releasing a large number of Mining Robots to carry out the mining work.

Once the Mining Robots reach the designated area arranged by the general system.

They first use their own small-scale detection devices to obtain information on all materials within the specified area, then the Mining Robots head straight for the target ore's location to excavate it. After finishing one area, they immediately head to the next, until all target ore in the designated area has been mined.

According to the calculations of the General Intelligent Control System, under normal circumstances, the Mining Robots complete their tasks simultaneously.

When Shi Fen uses it, he only needs to set the exact material to be mined, the work range, and the total collection amount, and that is all. Once set, the Mining Vehicle's intelligent control system dispatches a large number of Mining Robots to mine until completion.

There is no need for Shi Fen to do it himself.

This is the ultimate level of "foolproof machinery"!

Compared to this, its work efficiency is what makes Shi Fen feel the most apprehensive.

Generally speaking, when excavating the most common ore veins where mineral density is not high, 100 million robots working at full capacity can excavate at least one cubic kilometer of minerals per minute.

This is the efficiency when mineral distribution is very sparse.

If it is an ultra-low-grade ore, the efficiency will drop significantly.

If it is a rich ore, the efficiency will increase greatly.

At least one cubic kilometer of minerals per minute. This is just the average mining efficiency; it's simply absurd!

That is a cubic kilometer!

Not a cubic meter!

One must know that one cubic kilometer equals one billion cubic meters!

Converted, it can excavate one billion cubic meters of minerals in one minute.

No matter how large the mineral deposit, it cannot withstand this method of mining.

And that is per minute!

Working at this mining efficiency, even drilling through the Earth is not a very complicated problem.

In fact, the actual efficiency limit of the Mining Vehicle is uncertain.

After all, conditions such as mineral density, overall distribution, and the material properties of the minerals themselves are completely different.

Under the most ideal conditions.

The theoretical upper limit of mining capacity is ten thousand cubic kilometers per minute. However, such ideal conditions are almost impossible to occur. For instance, one of the conditions is one hundred percent mineral density.

How could that be possible!

Even if one were digging for stones on Earth, mining only quartz.

But on Earth, there is no place where the density of quartz is one hundred percent; there must be impurities in the quartz vein. Encountering impurities will inevitably reduce efficiency, making it completely impossible to reach the limit.

This value is purely a "theoretical value" used to demonstrate the machine's maximum capability.

The theoretical upper limit of the Ore Processing Robots' work capacity is similar to the former. Equally powerful!

These two theoretical values fully reveal the terrifying nature of the "Mining Vehicle."

The "Mining Vehicle" showed Shi Fen a brand-new technological horizon.

Shi Fen gained a great deal!

The "Mining Vehicle's" exaggerated work efficiency.

First, it has a certain relationship with the number of robots participating in the work. After all, the base of 100 million is right there.

Second, the continuous high mining efficiency benefits from its unique method of recovering ore, which is "spatial teleportation"!

The robots do not need to return to the Mining Vehicle.

Each robot carries its own spatial storage device. When the harvest within the spatial storage device reaches a certain amount, it automatically activates the "spatial teleportation" function, sending the harvest directly into the Mining Vehicle's Mineral Cabin.

Shi Fen knew without calculating that the energy consumption of such a miraculous working method for the Mining Vehicle must be extremely astonishing.

However, Shi Fen does not know what energy source the Mining Vehicle uses to provide such a massive amount of energy. There is no record of this in Shi Fen's "User Manual."

However, Shi Fen's "User Manual" did remind him that in this Virtual Trial Space, he does not need to worry about any issues related to energy consumption.

Shi Fen specifically inspected all the internal spatial data of the Mining Vehicle.

The Mechanical Cabin is a small world measuring 100,000 kilometers in length and width, with a height of 100 kilometers.

Its volume is equivalent to a small world with length, width, and height of 10,000 kilometers.

The Mineral Cabin is a super-large world measuring 10,000,000,000 kilometers in length and width, with a height of 10,000 kilometers.

Its volume is equivalent to a super-large world with length, width, and height of 1,000,000,000,000 kilometers.

The storage space of a Mining Robot is a small world measuring 10,000 kilometers in length and width, with a height of 10 kilometers.

Its volume is equivalent to a small world with length, width, and height of 1,000 kilometers.

To facilitate the transport and processing of ores within the work cabin, the storage space of an Ore Processing Robot is significantly larger than that of a Mining Robot; it is a small world measuring 100,000 kilometers in length and width, with a height of 100 kilometers.

Its volume is equivalent to a small world with length, width, and height of 10,000 kilometers.

Excluding the mining vehicle and other items, the value of these 200 million-plus world-class spatial storage devices alone is terrifyingly high.

Shi Fen knew very well that the most "expensive" part of the mining vehicle was its own "manufacturing technology." Such a heaven-defying combination of technologies was worth far more than the 200 million-plus spatial storage devices combined.

Top-tier robots paired with top-tier technology, utilized through the unified coordination of the mining vehicle's intelligent system, and operating with a complete disregard for energy consumption—this magical combination created the heaven-defying "mining vehicle."

This was a "wealthy beyond humanity" technological masterpiece!

Every scientific researcher, upon encountering such a technological masterpiece, would want to witness its full power with their own eyes. This was even more true for Shi Fen, who had spent his entire previous life working in scientific research.

Unfortunately, Shi Fen's authorization level had been too low before.

He couldn't even control the flight, let alone enter the Mechanical Cabin or the Mineral Cabin; he could only look at the Core Control Cabin and the Living Cabin.

At first, Shi Fen didn't care much about this.

But Shi Fen hadn't expected that he would fail to see the "mining vehicle" show off its might before he "died."

Such a powerful technological masterpiece.

Among all the "tools," if one were to rank them, the "mining vehicle" could only be considered mid-tier, relatively "plain and unremarkable."

Naturally, "tools" with "mining" capabilities would also have "tools" with "ore refining" capabilities.

This was different from the simple "Iron Refining Device," which was merely a "super-simplified" "Tech Tool" derived from this technological masterpiece.

This technological masterpiece was called the "Refining Furnace."

Its appearance was somewhat similar to the "Eight Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laojun," resembling a completely sealed tripod furnace. It carried a hint of "immortal grace."

On the front of the furnace wall, there was an operation panel full of technological flavor, which drastically changed the style of this "immortal Eight Trigrams Furnace." It seemed like the perfect product born from the fierce collision and fusion of classical mythology and modern technological civilization.

Its functions were quite "simple": it could not only complete the purification or refining of various ores but also separate and purify metal alloys into pure metal elements.

In terms of work efficiency, it was not much different from the mining vehicle.

Different materials corresponded to different work efficiencies.

The "Refining Furnace's" ability to process metal ores or metal alloys generally had an efficiency of processing 1 cubic kilometer of metal material per minute.

The theoretical upper limit of its efficiency was processing 10,000 cubic kilometers of metal material per minute.

Because he had the mining vehicle as a baseline, Shi Fen wasn't too surprised at the time. It was only the alloy separation function that left Shi Fen somewhat astonished.

The storage method of the "Refining Furnace."

It once again reorganized Shi Fen's view of technology.

On the edge of the silver operation panel of the "Refining Furnace," on both the left and right sides of the frame, there were three distinct grooves, each embedded with a small black metal sheet.

Of these three metal sheets, one stored raw materials, one stored finished products, and one stored residue.

Shi Fen had taken these three metal sheets off to study them; their appearance was identical. They were extremely thin, about one millimeter thick, and roughly the size of an adult man's fingertip.

After seeing their functions, Shi Fen was dumbfounded.

Inside this little thing, which was only one centimeter wide, two centimeters long, and one millimeter thick, was actually a super-large space with a length, width, and height of one trillion kilometers.

If it were merely a super-large space, Shi Fen wouldn't have been so surprised.

After all, the "mining vehicle" was also equipped with this kind of super-large spatial storage device. It wasn't just the "mining vehicle"; many "tools" were equipped with super-large spatial storage devices.

It seemed that super-large spatial storage devices were standard equipment for these tools.

But this metal sheet was different.

According to the information recorded in the manual.

It could be integrated into the human body; as long as a super-powerful individual didn't personally investigate, others would be completely unable to detect any flaws while the person was outside, making it an extremely secure spatial storage device.

It possessed higher security than space rings or World Rings.

The space inside could also be partitioned according to the owner's wishes, creating individual spatial compartments. The created spatial compartments did not interfere with each other.

Moreover, one could partition them as large or as small as desired, in any shape, and in any quantity.

There were no restrictions in this regard.

As long as the volume of the stored items did not exceed the total internal space, it was fine.

If one were to store the corpse of a bizarrely shaped monster, one could even create a "Monster Custom Packaging Box" that clung to the monster's skin, "embedding" the monster's corpse inside without leaving a single gap.

The key lies in this "Monster Custom Packaging Box." Because it has no seams and there is no wasted space, the volume is calculated based solely on the actual space occupied.

In other words, this metal sheet can truly fill its internal space completely, without the slightest bit of waste.

A World Ring with the same internal dimensions could never be filled to capacity when storing items. There simply isn't enough matter in the universe that could be stacked to a height of one trillion kilometers without sustaining damage.

Even if a user were to expend their own energy to suspend items in mid-air, they could technically fill the storage space, but who would be bored enough to waste their divine power on such a task? That would be the height of absurdity.

Furthermore, even these powerful beings would find it difficult to fill such a vast space.

Therefore, for a World Ring with an internal diameter of one trillion kilometers, items are generally only placed on the floor and are rarely stacked very high. Only in special circumstances would one use divine power to push the storage function to its absolute limit.

It is precisely for this reason that the power of the "metal sheet" becomes apparent.

Once Shi Fen awakens his spiritual force and binds it, he will effectively possess an ultra-large-scale storage device that is incredibly secure.

Living beings, all sorts of items—it can hold everything!

Yet, this is not the function that excites Shi Fen the most.

Because its storage capability goes beyond that; this is merely the most basic storage capacity of a "World Space" type treasure. Creating spatial partitions is simply for "convenience in access," allowing one to categorize and store various items in separate slots.

Its greatest utility is extending the "shelf life" of items.

Its ability to delay the degradation of stored goods is exceptionally superior.

Items that decay easily can have their shelf life extended by at least 100 million years when stored inside.

This applies to all kinds of inanimate raw materials as well as biological materials.

The "Big Shot" who bestowed this inheritance upon Shi Fen named this metal sheet a "Storage Card."

According to the introduction provided by this Big Shot, the "Storage Card" is a widely used, foundational, and mass-produced type of spatial equipment. It is typically a "standard accessory" for other "Tech Tools."

The "Storage Cards" that come with "Tech Tools" have their internal spatial partitions automatically set by the tool. Generally, these are small, flat spaces measuring 10,000 kilometers in length and width with a height of 1 kilometer; this is the standard configuration for "Tech Tools."

If the situation requires it, the tool will automatically adjust according to actual needs.

Upon seeing this introduction, Shi Fen was shocked at the time, and countless expletives instantly sprouted in his mind, elevating the status of the "Big Shot" in his heart by an immeasurable degree.

Following this introduction, Shi Fen examined many "Tech Tools" and found that they were indeed all equipped with "Storage Cards," typically three of them.

Some "Tech Tools," while lacking "Storage Cards," still possessed several slots. These tools shared a common trait: they already possessed one or several ultra-large-scale storage devices, providing sufficient internal space.

Perhaps for this reason, "Storage Cards" were not their "standard equipment."

Take the "Mining Vehicle," for example.

After discovering the "Storage Card," Shi Fen conducted further research and found three side-by-side slots in the Core Control Cabin.

Lacking any relevant information or manuals, Shi Fen made a bold guess.

The function of these three slots: one is responsible for collecting refined ore, one for collecting waste residue, and one for providing energy.

There is one "Tech Tool" that is an exception.

It is extremely unique; it has no internal storage space of its own and is not equipped with "Storage Cards" during normal operation, yet it possesses one hundred "card slots."

Its most basic function is to process the waste residue from the "Storage Cards."

It can perform material conversion, turning waste residue into useful resources.

The level of technology is heaven-defying!

At the time, Shi Fen thought he had struck gold.

Shi Fen felt that with this inheritance, he would surely carve out a path in this world. He might even become the most powerful existence, catching up to or even surpassing Luo Feng.

Shi Fen set a goal for himself back then: he must complete the task entrusted to him by this "Big Shot" within 18 years. Otherwise, if he were to meet the "Big Shot" in the future, he felt he wouldn't be able to hold his head up, having failed the expectations of such a figure.

Shi Fen made up his mind then and there: he had to exceed the requirements!

Because the "bait" dangled by the "Big Shot" was too tempting, it provided Shi Fen with unparalleled motivation. Combined with his own persistent, almost obsessive personality, Shi Fen was able to persevere for 18 years.

Yet in the end, he found himself walking toward death.

What a cursed inheritance. After the memories in his mind flashed back in an instant, Shi Fen only had time for that one bitter thought before his consciousness faded into total darkness.