Li Guanqi and Han Mengyao held hands and walked in the forest, gradually leaving the birch forest.
After climbing two more hills, a vast plain appeared in their sight.
In the vast fertile fields, many large machines can be vaguely seen doing agricultural work, and not a single person can be seen at all. It is a completely automated machine operation.
And further away, there are cities.
It was a high-tech city that Li Guanqi didn't even know how to describe.
Looking from a distance, the main color of the entire city is silvery white with a sense of technology. Almost all of them are high-rise buildings, often several hundred meters or dozens of stories in the air.
In addition, there are many suspended flying cars hovering in the city, stopping in front of the traffic lights in the sky, waiting for the green light to pass.
However, what intrigued Li Guanqi the most was the huge "ring".
A huge silver-white ring almost surrounded the entire city. It flipped back and forth over the city. Its length was estimated to be... uh, hundreds of thousands of meters?
"What is that?"
Li Guanqi looked at Han Mengyao beside him.
"We call it Sky Ring!"
Han Mengyao looked at the huge ring with unabashed pride and pride on her face.
"In Extraordinary Year 74, we successfully built this huge psychic device, its full name is - Dream Sky Psychic Ring!
It is the energy core of the entire Dream Viewing Sanctuary. It can convert spiritual power efficiently and charge all the psychic equipment in the shelter through air... Well, if it is easier for you to understand, it is air charging."
"Charge?"
Li Guanqi was stunned, "But aren't all psychic devices capable of automatic charging? Don't they have a conversion chip that can automatically absorb spiritual energy and convert it into spiritual power?"
"But the speed is too slow and the loss rate is too high."
Han Mengyao explained softly: "Those psychic devices, relying on conversion chips, can indeed recharge automatically, but their conversion efficiency is quite low.
The conversion chip is not a magician. It cannot convert as much spiritual energy as you absorb into spiritual power.
Those chips can't do that.
For example, 100 points of spiritual energy can be condensed into 1 point of spiritual power.
Then you magicians, if you want to obtain 1 point of spiritual energy, you only need to introduce qi into your body and absorb 100 points of spiritual energy.
But the conversion chip doesn't work.
If the transformation chip wants to obtain 1 point of spiritual energy, it must absorb 1,000 points or even 3,000 points of spiritual energy for transformation.
In the process of "absorbing spiritual energy and converting spiritual power" of the conversion chip, a large amount of spiritual energy will be decomposed into other useless substances during this process, which is equivalent to loss. This is a high degree of waste of spiritual energy.
And the conversion efficiency is also very slow.
If it were an ordinary small psychic lamp, it would certainly be enough.
It can be replaced by large psychic equipment, which is completely insufficient.
Well, have you seen that farmland?
If those large agricultural machinery still use that kind of conversion chip, if you want them to work for 5 minutes, you have to let them lie in the warehouse and recharge automatically for a few days.
In this case, what is the point of this machine?
Therefore, between Extraordinary Year 1 and Extraordinary Year 20, the emerging psychic equipment may seem magical, but in fact they are all small garbage that cannot be used. They are fine for daily use equipment and entertainment toys. I really want to use them for scientific research.
It doesn't work at all.
This was also the case in my dream viewing sanctuary in the past few decades.
It wasn't until Transcendent Year 74 that the appearance of the sky ring completely changed the situation!
It’s the same metaphor as before.
Suppose, you magicians, if you want to obtain 1 point of spiritual power, you need to absorb 100 points of spiritual energy.
Then, if the sky ring wants to obtain 1 point of spiritual energy, it only needs to absorb 10 points of spiritual energy!
And the conversion speed is also very fast. We have also added the function of charging through the air. All the psychic equipment in the entire Dream Viewing Sanctuary have been added with sub-chips of the sky ring, which can echo with the sky ring.
Recharge anytime and anywhere.
As long as the mechanical parts of the entire Dream Observation Shelter’s psychic equipment are not damaged, its energy will never be exhausted and it can continue to operate and work 24 hours a day!”
The more Han Mengyao spoke, the more excited the expression on his face became.
Finally, he raised his arms high, looked at the sky ring of the city in the distance, and laughed loudly:
"This is an epoch-making technological creation!"
"..."
Li Guanqi looked at the excited smile on her face and couldn't help laughing for a moment, shaking his head and laughing.
For some reason, he just found it funny.
Because when he looked at Han Mengyao at this time, he thought of the strange world, Dean Ma Yuan who invented the blood measuring ruler, and Mars who invented the strange blood potion.
It seems that these inventive people especially like to use the word "epoch-making".
I feel so happy inexplicably.
"Did you invent this sky ring?"
Li Guanqi looked at Han Mengyao with a smile and joked.
"You can't say that."
Han Mengyao shook his head first, and then said with a smile: "The Sky Ring was not created by me alone. For its appearance, all the people in Guanmeng Sanctuary and all the scientific researchers in the institute have made contributions that cannot be ignored. This
It is the invention of all of us and the glory that belongs to all of us!”
"...Eh?"
Li Guanqi was stunned, "Really, is it your fault?"
He was just joking...
"What if?"
Han Mengyao was also a little confused and looked at him blankly.
"Are you a scientist yourself?!"
Li Guanqi looked shocked, and it was only now that he finally realized this.
He always thought that these things were the results of the scientific research team under Han Mengyao.
But he ignored one possibility.
What if... Han Mengyao herself is the backbone of this scientific research team?
"certainly."
Han Mengyao was confused, "I am the chief researcher of the Dream Observation Research Institute. This is not just a title, it is the real deal... Hello!"
As she said that, she wrinkled her little nose, glared at Li Guanqi, and said displeasedly: "Let me be humble with you, do you really think that the sky ring was invented by everyone? There is nothing wrong with saying that, but you really have to say it.
If I contribute, my contribution alone accounts for 90%!"
Li Guanqi was stunned and could not come back to his senses for a long time.
After a long while, he said blankly: "I, I just never thought that one day I would have a scientist wife."
"hey-hey!"
As soon as she heard the word "wife", Han Mengyao lost all her anger and smiled, "Isn't that right?"
After a while, Li Guanqi finally remembered something and asked quickly: "You, how many levels of soul do you have?"
"Third level."
Han Mengyao smiled and said, "According to the information left by Taoist Lin in the Penglai archives, my current soul realm should be considered the peak soul of the God Refining Realm.
A soul of this strength has given me very strong analytical and computing abilities, plus I have lived for more than a hundred years and have a strong physical body. These allow me to have a lot of time and energy to conduct non-stop scientific research.
."
"I see……"
Li Guanqi smiled.
"How about it?"
Han Mengyao hugged Li Guanqi's right arm and leaned on his shoulder, smiling, "Isn't your wife very powerful?"
"certainly!"
Li Guanqi nodded heavily, "The sky ring is simply an epoch-making invention that transcends human beings. Before this, I didn't even dare to think that there could be such a thing in the world. Not only could it isolate the entire city's equipment,
It can charge energy and convert spiritual energy more efficiently than a spell caster. It is simply an epoch-making great invention!"
"whee!"
The smile on Han Mengyao's face became even brighter.
When Li Guanqi saw her like this, he couldn't help but smile.
ask:
How to make a scientific researcher happy?
answer:
Blow, blow as hard as she can, on her invention.
"Would you like to take the psychic speeder?"
Han Mengyao suddenly looked at Li Guanqi expectantly, "You disappeared in the first year of Chaofan. You must have never ridden on the psychic speeding car that only appeared in Chaofan's 18th year, right?"
"really."
Li Guanqi nodded.
He had seen psychic speeding cars in the Minghua Tribe, but he had never ridden one.
"drop!"
Seeing Li Guanqi nodding, Han Mengyao lowered her head, clicked a few times on the silver bracelet on her left hand, and swiped left and right on a small projected screen, and soon several slowly rotating speed car structures were brought up.
picture.
They are all hovercrafts without wheels, with different styles.
"Which one do you like?"
Han Mengyao looked at Li Guanqi with a smile.
"Well...that's it."
Li Guanqi pointed to the first flying car on the projection screen.
It was a red hovercar with large golden letters spray-painted on the body - [Dream Viewing - 7].
"Watching Dreams for Seven Generations."
Han Mengyao also smiled and clicked on the structural diagram of the car, with a flash of reminiscence in her eyes, "I personally built each of the Guanmeng series of speed cars. This is the seventh and last one."
"boom!"
Before Li Guanqi could respond to her words, a streak of red light flew past the horizon at an alarming speed. With bursts of roaring and whistling sounds, it finally landed on the field, keeping a close relationship with the grass below.
A few centimeters apart.
Hovering car.
It has a streamlined red body, an alloy shell full of technological texture, and only two seats. The overall appearance is similar to that of a Rolls-Royce supercar, except that the wheels and exhaust pipes are missing, and there are thin red slits on the body.
, red light emanates from inside.
"Why does it look like a Rolls-Royce?"
Li Guanqi couldn't help but asked with a smile.
"Then there's no way..."
Han Mengyao scratched his head, "I am an inventor, not a designer, and when I was at Chaofan University, I used to ride Penglai's Rolls-Royce all day long. This model has left a deep impression on me. Over the years,
I always subconsciously make cars based on previous car styles... Oops!"
As she said that, she directly took Li Guanqi's hand with her left hand and opened the car door with her right hand.
"No time to explain, get in the car quickly!"
"Haha, okay."
Han Mengyao sat directly in the left driving seat of the hovercraft, while Li Guanqi sat in the right passenger seat... which was actually the only passenger seat.
"boom!"
Han Mengyao held the steering wheel with both hands and stepped on the accelerator. The hovering car made a powerful roar, sprayed blue flames from its tail, and rushed directly into the sky at an astonishing speed.
The red speed car hovered back and forth over the entire Dream Viewing Sanctuary, and from time to time it did some stunts such as "rolling", "sprinting" and "flying upside down".
While driving, Han Mengyao's face was filled with excitement.
Li Guanqi, on the other hand, looked at her profile quietly with gentle eyes.
He is different from many men. He actually has no feelings about things like "cars" and is not very interested.
Compared to the experience of riding a hovercraft, he was more pleased with the smile on Han Mengyao's face at this moment.
"boom--"
Han Mengyao drove a suspended flying car, carrying Li Guanqi, and kept flying at high speed in the sky, on the ground, and in the streets and alleys of the city.
During this period, from time to time, when someone saw this car [Guanmeng-7], they would take the initiative to stop, salute Han Mengyao, and call him Lord.
The etiquette is to place your right hand on your left chest and lower your head slightly.
Well, no one calls her Evil Phoenix Queen anymore.
After traveling through the city for ten minutes.
Li Guanqi also had a general understanding of this "future city". He didn't know how to describe the overall style. Anyway, it was very technological. He couldn't understand all kinds of strange and weird equipment, and he didn't know how powerful it was.
The tall buildings in the entire city have almost turned into giant advertising screens. Various advertisements are placed on the outside of the buildings, and purple and blue neon lights are flashing.
This is almost a real [Cyberpunk 2077] world.
In the city streets, many humans with mechanical prosthetics were walking, either mechanical arms or mechanical eyes... Li Guanqi even saw a big brother who was very special.
He has no legs, and his lower body is completely like a mechanical horse.
Mechanical Centaur?
And it's worth mentioning that... this person is an inferior conjurer.
It seems that unlike the wasteland, in the Dreaming Sanctuary, they have discovered the existence of spell talents.
"Nuclear war has had very serious consequences."
Seeing that Li Guanqi seemed to be paying special attention to these people on the street, Han Mengyao next to him explained softly: "Although this is an alien space, it is actually connected to the main space of the outside world, and the spiritual energy from the outside world will flow in. Likewise,
Nuclear radiation and heterogeneous blood viruses will also contaminate this place.
What is helpless is that... although our technology is booming, after the fusion of nuclear radiation and the alien blood virus, it becomes a completely new substance, and we cannot stop it at all.
We call it "nuclear blood virus".
Affected by nuclear hemovirus, the disability rate of newborn babies is frighteningly high. On average, 3 out of 10 babies will have varying degrees of physical deformity... Later, I developed mechanical prostheses and the brain chip.
Simply transplanting this chip into a person's brain will allow them to control the mechanical prosthetic limbs on their body with great flexibility.
It was only later that I realized it was no longer necessary.
Because starting from the extraordinary... well, probably the 62nd year of the extraordinary, the deformed babies born in the shelter have evolved a strange organ in their bodies. Moreover, they all have the talent for spells and can learn spells and become
A magician.
They have the talent to perceive spiritual power and control spiritual power.
A scientific researcher named Zheng Hai gave me inspiration.
He said,
'Since these disabled people can control spiritual power, wouldn't it be enough to let them use their spiritual power to control mechanical prostheses?'
I think it makes sense.
Then based on his words, I invented a simpler mechanical prosthesis.
It does not require various complicated structures or transplanting brain chips.
All it takes is one psychic core.
Because conjurers can control spiritual power, they only need to match the psychic core to directly control mechanical prosthetics through the psychic core.
In this way, even if the mechanical prosthetic limb is just an iron shell, as long as there is a psychic core inside, these people can control the mechanical prosthetic limb without causing inconvenience to their lives... Hmm? Watching chess, what's your expression?
"
As Han Mengyao was talking, she found that Li Guanqi's expression was extremely strange.
"I……"
Li Guanqi hesitated to speak, but for a moment he didn't know where to start.
so.
The sorcerers of the New Age, and their mechanical prosthetics... originated here, and were invented by Han Mengyao!
This sense of confusion is so amazing...
"Meng Yao."
Li Guanqi looked at her who was driving, and chuckled: "Actually, the weird world that we extraordinary people go to is very likely, no, it should be said that there is a 99% possibility, it is the future world long, long time later, in that
At this time, they are still using your mechanical prosthetic limbs, which are the psychic prosthetics you invented."
"ah?"
Han Mengyao was startled.
"What's wrong?"
Li Guanqi was a little confused, "Aren't you happy? That will be thousands or even tens of thousands of years from now. Human beings in the future will still use your scientific inventions."
"This is not something to be happy about."
Han Mengyao held the steering wheel with both hands, with a complex expression on her face, "If what you said is true, it has been so long. Haven't people developed the technology for body regeneration yet? But the team under me that specializes in studying alien blood is now
It’s almost been researched.”
"Forehead……"
Li Guanqi was speechless for a moment, "Actually, there is, but they don't use it, but... well, it involves things like culture, and I can't explain it in a few words."
For New Age conjurers, physical disability is a sign of talent.
Of course, some people will choose to regenerate limbs to cover up, such as the prairie girl Mu Ya that Li Guanqi once met.
But more conjurers don't like this.
They prefer to use luxurious mechanical prosthetics to express themselves, this is what they like best.
"I really have a lot of things to ask you."
Han Mengyao looked at the situation on the street in front of her and said with a smile: "About the weird world, what the future will be like, what you have been doing during the time you left, and what I have experienced in the past hundred years, there are many, many, many, many, many things I
There are really so many things I want to talk to you about.”
"Me too."
Li Guanqi nodded, looking serious.
After the sweet moment of reunion after a long separation, he knew that it was time to bring up those heavy things.
For example, how did Han Mengyao find this alien space with abundant products at first glance?
The physical resources of this small world are definitely not trivial, otherwise it would be impossible to support the vigorous development of Dream Viewing Sanctuary.
Also, why did Guan Meng Sanctuary shrink into this alien space, isolated from the world, and disappeared after 50 extraordinary years?
Also, who is the enemy that Han Mengyao has been avoiding, the enemy that can tear apart time and space with a single photo?
And the one that Li Guanqi personally thinks is the most important... the issue between Han Mengyao and Evil Phoenix.
In Extraordinary Year 18, Han Mengyao went to the North Pole to resolve the matter between her and the Evil Phoenix. What was the final outcome of that matter?
There are too many more.
"Let's talk later, okay?"
Han Mengyao drove the hovercraft and left the city, arriving in a mountain forest filled with birds and flowers, and stopped in front of the courtyard door of a small mountain villa.
She turned her head, looked at Li Guanqi in the passenger seat, and said softly: "My father-in-law and mother-in-law don't like the noisy city. They lived here all the time before they were alive. I usually live here too. I often clean their room. Now...