Side Effects

"Did this happen during any of my previous teleportations?" Su Ming asked.

In order to assemble the new carriage, Su Ming conducted three teleportations in the past ten hours, replenishing a large amount of equipment and parts to the other world.

"No, the minimum amount we've transferred before was five tons," Xiao Cheng said. "The SD data card you're transferring now only weighs less than 2 grams. We speculate that your Magic Power is too abundant relative to the size of the SD card, causing a jump in the level of order absorbed!"

Is this an advanced version of "Summoning of All Things"?

Su Ming tried again, and as long as he controlled his power appropriately, he could still use the same ordinary "Summoning of All Things" as before.

So this is a good thing.

"What level of material matter can I now access?" he asked.

"We need to design an experiment to verify this," Xiao Cheng replied. "Please give us some time."

"Understood!"

On the Doomsday Locomotive side, the update progress bar for the new industrial control system finally came to an end, and a "Upgrade successful" message popped up on the screen.

"The SD card that was just transferred is working properly," Su Ming reported to Xiao Cheng.

This situation was entirely expected—after Su Ming's abilities improved, the transmission of order and the reorganization of other worlds would only become more precise and closer to the original template on Earth.

Just like jumping from 1280×720 HD resolution to 7680×4320 8K ultra-high definition, the level of detail in the picture will definitely be greatly improved.

At least, it won't have any negative effects.

****

Inside the cab, Younier completed the statistics on the load table.

"Our current total weight has reached 6,200 tons." She looked worried. "With such a heavy train, can it really start smoothly?"

"God said, 'I don't know.'" The Gospel answered honestly.

"Let's give it a try first," Su Ming said.

According to the simulation data from the Jisu team, the Youth Civilization can theoretically operate normally under the current load.

However, with such an astonishing load capacity, no one can guarantee that it can operate independently.

Following the procedure for starting under heavy load, the Gospel first attempted to reverse to reduce the gap between the carriages. However, since the reversing direction was uphill, the train could not move backward even an inch after only half of the carriages had been compressed together.

When attempting to tow forward, the heavy carriages sank into the snow, and the locomotive's power output was simply insufficient to pull so many carriages at the same time.

For a moment, this giant iron dragon found itself in a dilemma, stuck on the vast snowfield.

After finishing dinner, Zijin went back to her room to rest; there was no need to disturb her with something like this. Su Ming picked up the communicator and connected with Bowers, "Organize a wind mage squad to assist the train in starting with magic."

"Receive!"

Most mages have some knowledge of one or two elements, the only difference being their level of proficiency. Under Bowers's arrangement, the necromancers who had also mastered the wind element quickly dispersed to various carriages and began casting Levitation Spell.

Like sparks, cyan magical halos lit up one by one on the snow-white surface of the carriages. These points of light quickly merged into one, eventually enveloping the entire train in a soft cyan magical field.

The effect of hundreds of mages casting spells simultaneously was astonishing; even the Youth Civilization, weighing six thousand tons, had its weight significantly reduced.

"That's enough, that's enough! Half the weight is enough!" Su Ming hurriedly turned on the train's public address system. "Any more and the train will float away!"

Upon seeing this, Gospel immediately pushed the power control lever, and high-pressure steam surged into the main generator, distributing the output current to the three power units located throughout the train. Driven by the powerful current, the electric motors emitted a deep roar, and the tracks began to slowly turn.

The first journey of the Doomsday Locomotive under full load has officially begun.

With the help of Levitation Spell, the train started moving without any trouble and began to glide across the snowfield. Magical halos flowed in the air, leaving a dreamlike blue trail behind the train.

As the train left the Sheltered Valley, the terrain began to drop noticeably, and the train's speed steadily increased.

"Disable Levitation Spell for all!" Su Ming issued the order.

The moment the magical field dissipated, the train lurched, compacting the snow below and leaving deep tracks. But quickly, the behemoth regained its balance and continued its steady journey forward.

As the speed increased, the snow kicked up by the tracks splashed to both sides, making the entire train resemble a silver dragon galloping across the snowfield.

The gradient of the downhill section began to increase, from the initial 30 per thousand to 50 per thousand, then to 80 per thousand, and even to steep sections exceeding 10 per thousand.

The train's speed quickly exceeded 60 kilometers per hour! At this speed, the massive train began to shake violently.

"Gospel, why are you driving so fast!" Su Ming gripped the handrail tightly and questioned.

"There's a steep uphill ahead," Gospel explained. "We need to speed up to get through!"

Su Ming looked up and saw that there was indeed a valley below, and the terrain would rise sharply after crossing it.

"Damn it!" Su Ming cursed.

Hansite had been focused on familiarizing himself with the upgraded system when he noticed the problem. He immediately activated the siren and issued a collision warning over the loudspeaker. The passengers in the carriage frantically grabbed onto whatever was secure to them.

From a distance, the enormous white train, accompanied by a deafening roar, plunged into the valley. The tremendous sound was blocked by the mountains on both sides, as if suddenly silence had fallen.

But soon, the sound reappeared, and it burst out of the valley with even greater ferocity, charging towards the steep slope like a soaring dragon, its tracks carving deep furrows in the snow.

Su Ming, in the driver's seat, felt as if he was about to be thrown off his seat; one can imagine the chaotic scene inside the carriage.

[Su Ming!] Zijin's angry mental fluctuations suddenly came through.

Su Ming sensed the girl gripping the edge of the bed tightly with one hand, rubbing her bruised forehead with the other. "[You told me to rest early just so you could prepare this kind of special service for me?]"

Ahead, the train finally passed the steepest uphill section, and the Gospel was immediately guided onto a relatively flat section of track.

"There was a slight mishap, but I'm working on it," Su Ming explained.

"Why did you choose such a bumpy route?" Younier asked. "Wasn't it driving quite smoothly before?"

"This is the best route recommended by the navigation system," Hansite explained awkwardly, pulling up the route map. "I didn't notice the slope just now."

"Switch to manual navigation immediately!" Su Ming ordered. "You will assist Gospel in route selection."

"Understood." Hansite immediately switched to the manual control interface and began working in conjunction with the Gospel.

****

Su Ming brought up the navigation system interface and examined it carefully. He discovered that the upgraded navigation algorithm had planned a near-limitless path for the Youth Civilization.

This route, which is theoretically the shortest, requires frequent use of steep slopes to accelerate, creating dramatic undulations. To make matters worse, it also includes several sharp turns that are close to 90 degrees.

Great! If we keep going like this, it will perfectly make up for Su Ming's regret of never having ridden a roller coaster!

[Miao Xin, go and find out who was responsible for writing this software upgrade!] Su Ming said angrily.

An emergency meeting was quickly convened on Earth. After comparing the data, the problem was quickly identified: a serious error had occurred in the core parameter settings.

The intelligent navigation system designed by the software development team for the train allows for dynamic adjustment of more than twenty key parameters, including maximum steering angular velocity, vertical acceleration threshold, and the weighting coefficients of speed and comfort in path planning.

To reduce Su Ming's workload, the engineers completed a full set of tests in a virtual environment and carefully configured an optimized set of default parameters so that he could use it directly.

However, for some reason, a negative sign appeared before the bump assessment coefficient. This caused the navigation algorithm to pursue the maximum undulations and turns in the resulting path!

With remote guidance from technical support, Su Ming corrected the parameter, and the malfunctioning system immediately returned to normal.

[Zijin, the navigation issue has been resolved.]

[Hmph...] Zijin mumbled sleepily, burying her face in the fluffy pillow, [If you wake me up again... I'll... zzz...]

"[... Goodnight, Su Ming.]" the girl suddenly whispered, her voice carrying an inexplicable sweetness.

Su Ming's hand trembled slightly, [...] Goodnight.

***

The adjusted train finally got back on track. After further fine-tuning various parameters for heavy-load operation, the giant dragon began to speed across the snowfield quickly and steadily, the snow kicked up by the tracks shimmering silver in the moonlight.

After assigning the driving duties to Newman and Hansite in shifts, Su Ming left the noisy cockpit. He went to the work area, lay down on a chair, closed his eyes, and switched his focus to Earth.

Before me stood Sangzi, whom I hadn't seen for some time. She was intently focused on her laptop, her fingers flying across the keyboard, the blue light of the screen reflecting on her serious face.

"What important project have you been busy with lately, Ms. Sangzi?" Su Ming asked.

"I'm in charge of the research and development of the cross-dimensional communication system," Sangzi replied without looking up. After finishing her task, she finally looked up at Su Ming, who was controlling the Little Spiky Head. "Sorry, we just finished resetting the SD card data anomaly."

"You figured it out so quickly?" Su Ming was somewhat surprised.

"Actually, the problem is simpler than you think." Sangzi picked up a Flash Memory card from the table. "It's from your spell upgrade—you should understand how Flash Memory cards store data, right?"

"NAND flash memory, floating gate transistor structure." Su Ming was familiar with these due to personal interest. "Utilizing the quantum tunneling effect, electrons are injected into completely insulated floating gates—charged gates represent 1, and uncharged gates represent 0. From the moment I first mastered ' Summoning of All Things,' I was able to transmit these charge 'orders' together completely."