There was a rest room in Building Three of the laboratory complex, with a single bed and a private bathroom. Cai Jingwen had prepared it for him in advance.
Chen Siyao sent him a message every two or three days. They were short. "Have you eaten, big brother?"
"Yang Wanqing borrowed your gaming account. Did you know?"
"Xiao Yue carried off the slippers again."
Chen Hao's replies were even shorter. "Yes." "Let her." "Leave her alone."
Progress in the laboratory was slower than expected.
There was just one main bottleneck in mass-producing the Consciousness Helmet... the Psychic Metal Sheets.
Chen Hao had refined the metal sheets in the previous two helmets using the Bagua Furnace, with raw materials from the supplies in his Qiankun Bag.
Those materials were rare treasures even in the cultivation world. They simply did not exist on Blue Star.
That left only one option: find substitutes.
They had to use metals and psychic ores available on Blue Star, processing them through specific techniques to reproduce the Psychic Metal Sheets' core function: carrying and transmitting divine sense signals.
It sounded simple enough in a sentence. Actually doing it was a nightmare.
Over the first two weeks, Chen Hao and Professor Qian Huiru's team tested more than sixty combinations of psychic ores.
Each combination had to be smelted, purified, die-cast, engraved with formation patterns, and then tested for signal transmission efficiency.
More than sixty combinations. Every last one failed.
Even the combination with the highest transmission efficiency reached only forty-seven percent of the original.
Below seventy percent, the fidelity of the divine sense simulation plummeted. Entering the Training Pavilion felt like watching a PowerPoint presentation. There was no immersion.
In the third week, Chen Hao changed his approach.
Instead of pursuing higher transmission efficiency in the materials themselves,