Chapter 140 - 117: The Essence of the Dream

Chapter 140: Chapter 117: The Essence of the Dream

"Hahaha, it’s finally done."

"CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP!"

Inside the metal fortress, Chen Qi and the Red Falcon King, master and servant, celebrated their deep bond and the partial success of their grand undertaking.

The Longevity Hormone was truly incredible. After five consecutive injections, the Red Falcon King not only completed the Assimilation of the chip, but its cellular vitality even returned to its peak.

Generally speaking, a Red Falcon can only live for about 30 years.

Chen Qi’s Red Falcon King had already lived for 15 years. It was considered to be in the prime of its life, but it had just started to go downhill.

But the Longevity Hormone had directly restored its cellular vitality to its state from five years ago.

That was the most vigorous and high-spirited phase of its avian life.

It was safe to say the Red Falcon King had hit the jackpot this time.

Setting aside Chen Qi’s technical contributions, the market price of the Soldier’s Rations Pills and Longevity Hormone alone cost Chen Qi at least 20 million.

He had truly spared no expense.

And the Red Falcon King itself had only cost 800,000.

Of course, it certainly wasn’t worth that little now.

A bird that could merge with a chip was likely the only one of its kind in the nearby Inner Worlds.

Chen Qi was very confident about this.

It might have seemed like he succeeded on the first try, but this was built on the foundation of Chen Qi’s miraculous touch.

This was especially true of the resentment-weaving technique originating from the King’s Game. The level of technical skill it required was astonishingly high for the nearby Inner Worlds, more than enough to create a technological barrier.

"Xiaohong, you truly have Great Blessings Equal to Heaven!"

"You’ll have to work hard to pay off your debt from now on!"

Chen Qi murmured to himself as he stroked the Red Falcon King’s small head. The bird nodded incessantly, showing great awareness.

Of course, Chen Qi wasn’t a heartless boss.

The Red Falcon King had just "survived a life-and-death ordeal," so he definitely had to let it rest for a while.

’As for how long... probably about five hours.’

’That will be enough time for me to finish programming the chip.’

After giving the Red Falcon King some water, Chen Qi let it rest inside the metal fortress while he went out to the metal ritual array.

...

"Xiaobai, come out!"

Chen Qi issued the summons, and a plump, silvery-white metal sphere emerged from the ground.

This was the Source Ore, now having completed its digestion and successfully "slimmed down."

From its appearance alone, it didn’t seem to have changed at all.

But its Spirituality frequency had increased slightly, reaching 3.7.

Of course, the biggest change was to its own Spiritual Energy limit, which had actually doubled to 60 Spiritual Energy points.

Correspondingly, its Spiritual Energy Capture Ability had improved dramatically, enough to supply Chen Qi’s current needs.

In addition, the Source Ore’s Metal Control ability had also advanced by leaps and bounds.

If not for this, Chen Qi would not have been able to replicate the chip.

The internal structure of the chip was incredibly complex and precise. For Chen Qi to be able to fabricate a chip by hand was nothing short of an Extraordinary miracle.

Never mind an ordinary Transcendent; even a Controller with the Metal Control ability might not have been able to do it.

In a way, this was the Source Ore’s innate talent, so naturally, it could perform the task to perfection.

...

"Xiaobai, time to get to work."

As Chen Qi gave the command, the Source Ore glowed brightly.

In the next instant, the original ultra-high-pressure Spirit Furnace ritual array began to squirm, its original patterns and lines gradually disappearing.

But then, new patterns and lines emerged, far more complex and precise than before.

If Trudeau were here, he would discover that this new ritual array was very similar to the trap that had been used to ambush him.

What Chen Qi was creating this time was also a virtual game login device, but it had undergone many modifications.

After all, what he was about to connect to was not ordinary virtual game data, but the Blood-colored Chip from the Black Blood Federation.

’I’ve had this chip for so long, and today it’s finally being put to use.’

’I remember how I originally needed to find Yu Dongcheng to decrypt it. But now, several months later, Yu Dongcheng is still struggling with the R-type login device, while I can already create virtual games myself.’

’The Chaotic City deserves much of the credit for my success.’

’But I don’t underestimate Yu Dongcheng. The R-type login device involves deep memory, and even just assembling the equipment is a highly technical task.’

After teaching himself these skills, Yu Dongcheng’s greatest value to Chen Qi was now only that combat memory buried deep in his mind.

But even the current Chen Qi was incapable of using external means to probe the deep memories of the brain.

Unless he dared to pull a part of Yu Dongcheng’s Spirituality into the world of Spirituality, but that would be a death wish.

Although Chen Qi could now casually create a virtual game login device with the ritual array, it was, in essence, still just an ordinary model.

It could only access the shallow memories of the human brain.

For example, during the battle with Trudeau, the virtual world had only been able to present a very short combat segment.

If the virtual illusion Chen Qi created were powerful enough to probe deep memories, he wouldn’t still be in the dark about the origin of the B3-grade Biological Gene Module.

...

The human brain holds mysteries beyond imagination.

The memories stored within it are layered.

The outer layer of memory is like the part of an iceberg visible above the sea; it can be easily accessed simply by breaking through the brain’s barrier.

The deep memory, however, is a vast ocean. Only by locking onto a specific memory can it be retrieved.

And the difficulty of doing so is comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

What’s more, there is another barrier between the outer and deep layers of memory.

Chen Qi couldn’t even break through this barrier yet, let alone find a needle in the ocean.

So the R-type login device, which could do all of this, was just that precious and terrifying.