Elemental Bombs, Poison Gas Bombs, Sonic Bombs, Gravity Bombs... paired with different Life Soul traits, they made Qin Ye increasingly certain of a growth path centered on creating Psionic Bombs.
But he had found no answer in the Testing Tower's Life Soul archive to the problem of getting caught in his own explosions.
When in doubt, ask Guide. Qin Ye chose to seek a solution from Guide.
In response to his question, a humanlike look of thought appeared on the surface of the Guide Water Orb. It conjured a hand, propped up its chin, and rubbed it repeatedly before speaking:
[The Testing Tower's Life Soul database only records a portion of Primordial Abilities. Many unknown Primordial Abilities remain scattered throughout Monster World. What is certain is that Spatial Teleportation-type Primordial Abilities must exist. If you can obtain such an ability, you will certainly be able to teleport across space.]
[For example, you could open a spatial passage in front of you and throw a Psionic Bomb into it, teleporting it somewhere far away for a precisely targeted explosion.]
Hearing Guide's explanation, Qin Ye immediately grew interested:
"Where can I hunt Primordial Monsters with spatial abilities?"
[I cannot answer that question. Monster World is boundless, and its terrain underwent drastic changes after the Dark Tide swept through. Where Primordial Monsters with specific abilities are scattered is a complete unknown. If you are lucky, they might be right here in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range. If you are unlucky, they might be in the extremely distant Great Northern Frontier.]
At that, Qin Ye was dumbfounded:
"Isn't there a function for locating Primordial Abilities?"
[Perhaps there will be in the future, provided you can reclaim a Node Domain with the ability to locate Primordial Abilities.]
"So where is a Node Domain that can locate Origin Primordial?"
[I don't know.]
Qin Ye: ...
Just then, a notification sounded in Qin Ye's mind:
[Challenger notification: An important notification has been detected in the virtual Game Pod. Would you like to log out and check it?]
Qin Ye did not hesitate after receiving the notification and immediately logged out.
Meanwhile, the Sky Dome Research Center had convened a meeting over an email Qin Ye had sent.
After reading the email and realizing that its attached link allowed them to download a cracked version of Darklands, the staff member who received it promptly passed the news to Sky Dome Senior Management.
But to the senior management's surprise, the download link had permission restrictions, preventing them from downloading it.
They immediately reported the problem to the Network Security Center, hoping it could bypass the restrictions and help complete the download.
But the response was that the security center's AI had no authorization to bypass the restrictions behind the link and download its contents. They could only wait for download access to be opened.
After receiving that reply, the staff member chose to send Qin Ye a message, hoping he could copy the downloaded files and transfer them to the Sky Dome Research Center.
But Qin Ye's reply disappointed the Sky Dome Research Center once again.
The downloaded game files were locked behind permissions and could not be sent to the Sky Dome Research Center through file transfer.
In the end, the Sky Dome Research Center's senior management decided to keep a constant watch on the link and wait for download access to reopen.
When this news reached the weapons research department at the Sky Dome Research Center, the Weapons Research Personnel could no longer stay calm.
If it truly achieved the one hundred percent Virtual Reality described in the email, it would be the perfect testing ground for dangerous weapons.
At 11:50 that night.
It was almost time for another round of Qualification Distribution on the Darklands Official Website, with one million slots available for the Human Federation to snap up.
A group of gray-haired old men from the Sky Dome Research Center's Weapons Research Department opened the Official Website on time and waited to grab their slots.
At midnight, the countdown on the Official Website reached zero.
The slots sold out in less than a second.
Inside the office of Weapons Laboratory-A1, an old man sat at a desk, staring at his screen. His hair was sparse and disheveled, and he wore a blue uniform, but his eyes were exceptionally bright.
Looking at the failure notification that popped up on the webpage, Yang Tianxuan could not help shaking his head in disappointment.
The difficulty of securing a slot truly gave him a headache.
Before this, he had considered using technological assistance, but no script could read the Official Website's information, making it completely unworkable.
Thinking of how Qin Ye's email confirmed that the game perfectly simulated reality and could host experiments with all kinds of dangerous weapons, he could barely contain his eagerness.
An absolutely safe testing site-it was practically the Weapons Research Department's dream sanctuary.
Nanoviruses, Weather Weapons, the Sky Curtain Arsenal... research and testing for much of the advanced technology provided by the Alien Races carried certain risks, making experiments impossible to conduct.
Weather Weapons, for example: arbitrarily manipulating weather patterns could very well bring disaster upon Earth's ecosystem.
But in a game environment with one hundred percent realism, they could experiment with all their envisioned weapons and only apply the technology in reality once it was fully mature.
This would eliminate the series of severe environmental damage and dangers to personal safety that immature technology might cause.
The problem was that slots for Darklands were far too difficult to secure. He had already submitted several requests to his superiors, hoping the Human Federation could obtain additional game slots through diplomacy, but he had yet to receive any reply.
Having failed to secure a slot yet again, Yang Tianxuan felt helpless.
Just then, he suddenly remembered the link in Qin Ye's email.
He immediately opened the mailbox on his virtual desktop and clicked the link attached to the email.
The webpage that appeared was extremely plain, almost entirely blank, with only a downloadable compressed file in the center.
The moment Yang Tianxuan clicked download, Qi Sheng received feedback. The Star Network IP information showed the Weapons Research Department at the Dome Research Center.
Having learned of the Weapons Research Department's existence through Qin Ye's memories, he promptly opened up additional slots for it.
Ding!
At the crisp download notification, Yang Tianxuan was stunned.
The last time he clicked it, the notification had said that download access to the file was not open.
But this time, it had actually opened.
Before trying, he had not even held much hope, yet he had actually managed to download the game.
Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately clicked the Group Chat Software in the bottom-right corner.
Yang Tianxuan (Weapons Research Department director): @everyone, notify everyone to click the link Qin Ye sent and download the game immediately!
After tagging everyone three times in a row, Yang Tianxuan could not help bursting into laughter.
The disappointment of failing to secure a slot vanished completely.
As for whether the downloaded game files would run, he was not worried at all.
The message from the security center had explained that this pirated link had very likely been leaked from within the Eclipse Race and could connect to the Star Network for online play.
Watching the progress bar fill, a bold idea took shape in Yang Tianxuan's mind.
Experiments required vast amounts of resources, and there were only two ways to obtain resources in the game world.
One was to spend money topping up and purchase resources from other players to cover research and development consumption.
The other was to establish a powerful faction in the game and take control of some resource production.
The first method required applying to his superiors for game funding, a cumbersome process that demanded detailed explanations.
But the second method carried no such concerns.
Thinking of the super geniuses under him across various fields of weapons research and development, Yang Tianxuan immediately had the idea of forming a powerful faction in the game.
He did not know how other players played the game.
But since it was a game that perfectly simulated reality, he and the members of the Weapons Research Department could absolutely build a Technological Weapons Legion from scratch and compete with other players for the game's resources.
And actual combat could also test the power of their new weapons.