CHAPTER 662: CHAPTER 282: ARTIFICIAL RELICS (6K)

"What? The fusion tower exploded?"

Honestly, this news indeed caught her by surprise.

"Just yesterday that fusion tower was perfectly fine, how did it suddenly explode?"

Bai Yi instinctively asked, but then fell silent immediately.

The explosion had just occurred, and even Bai Fa and the Mechanical Brain Worm responsible for the construction couldn’t possibly detect the cause immediately.

Moreover, the most important thing now was to quickly handle the aftermath of the Star Ring explosion.

According to the news uploaded back from the Star Ring, it wasn’t just one explosion; two fusion towers exploded simultaneously.

The two successive explosions directly blew off a section of the Star Ring. The massive Star Ring lost its support, and the force of the explosion pushed the Star Ring toward the planet.

This caused the broken section of the Star Ring to currently be falling into the atmosphere under the influence of gravity.

Luckily, this section of the Star Ring isn’t too large; Rand can support it alone. However, Rand can’t support the remaining larger part of the Star Ring.

After the Star Ring broke, a huge gap appeared in the originally stable structure. If it couldn’t be filled in time, the result of the remaining larger part falling was inevitable!

At this moment, with the residual magical rift after the explosion of the two fusion towers, repairing it was simply impossible. It had to be smoothed out quickly.

Not many people could do this kind of work, as it’s not a reality issue, but a special phenomenon at the level of magic power.

If the mother nest of the Second Tier was completed, things would be much easier. With You’s expertise in regulating magic power, this phenomenon could quickly be smoothed out, but now she was the only one sharing the power who could handle it.

After selecting a few capable Hero Units, Bai Yi’s Avatar hurriedly led the team away.

It wasn’t clear from the ground. Only by actually being on the scene could one witness the horror of this explosion.

Although the materials used for constructing the Star Ring were already the best magical alloys available, and by rights, the strength shouldn’t be weak, at least by the construction techniques of the Star Ring, it could withstand several high-power fusion cannon shots.

But as a product of the same magic fusion principle, the result of a fusion tower explosion was far more terrifying.

The Star Ring, originally close to two hundred meters wide, was torn like paper. The twisted appearance of the metal components involved, like pretzels, already proved what it had gone through.

And more critically, in a magic power viewpoint, there was a constantly expanding rift at the gap, spewing magic power and continuously damaging the Star Ring.

"I didn’t expect that just yesterday I was wondering what to do if this thing exploded, and today it exploded right away.

It seems there’s indeed some risk with magic fusion, but luckily this time it was the Star Ring that exploded. If it had exploded inside the planet, the losses..."

Bai Yi felt a bit relieved and thankful for the good result and immediately issued commands on the network to start working.

"Magic, stop here."

Beside her, the Grand Judge, who had been promoted to the Seventh Rank, raised his hand with a theorem of rules, and the previously surging magic power was instantly slowed down.

Then Bai Yi began to mobilize the shared power, and the magical rift started to gradually shrink and close.

The entire process lasted for half an hour before the rift completely disappeared.

The flare of magical eruption flashed.

The stagnated magic power exploded again after losing its constraints, but Bai Yi, who had prepared in advance, had already led the team away with no one harmed.

"Let’s go, to the next one."

After busying themselves for another half an hour, smoothing out the second rift, the remaining repair work would have to wait for Rand and the brain worms to handle.

After confirming that the issue above was completely resolved, the body on the ground turned to Bai Fa and asked:

"Was the problem found? Did the fusion tower’s design have an issue?"

"There’s already some speculation. The problem isn’t with the fusion tower."

Bai Fa first stated the conclusion and then slowly explained, "These two fusion towers were not built simultaneously.

The first fusion tower went through a pre-challenge with yesterday’s parameters, and today’s start was smooth without any anomalies.

The issue occurred after the second fusion tower was completed.

As soon as the second fusion tower was started, everything changed. First, abnormal parameters appeared in both fusion towers, the magic power output started to increase, and then both fusion towers went into overload and ultimately exploded."

"Was it because of a problem with the second fusion tower?

No, these two are strictly the second and third towers. The actual first one is on the ground.

But that fusion tower has no anomalies. What’s the difference between it and the two in the sky..."

Bai Yi suggested a possibility but immediately dismissed it herself.

After a long silence in the network, Bai Yi proposed another possibility:

"Could it be a distance issue?"

This possibility immediately reminded Bai Fa and the other research witches who came along.

"It really could be."

"Since we have no other leads, why not test it out."

"I think it’s a good idea..."

After some discussion in the network, the testing plan was quickly decided.

Continuing to test on the Star Ring was definitely not feasible; the earlier incident had already set the Star Ring’s progress back by a day’s time, and they couldn’t afford more trouble.

Thankfully, in the meantime, about ten spaceships had been produced and were perfectly suitable for experiments.

With Bai Yi’s approval, the experiment was swiftly arranged.

A small accident was averted, but returning to the interrupted experiment might cause further disruptions.

Coincidentally, due to the earlier incident, all Seventh Rank units working for her had been summoned back, including those stationed in the instance.