CHAPTER 531: CHAPTER 207: FURTHER PLANS

The first experiment failed just like that.

Zhang Feng, based on this result, realized that the previous Compression Array was unreliable, so he continued to optimize it.

But after Old Liu and the others recovered from the shock, they were filled with endless fear.

"Luckily this weapon was not constructed in reality..."

Old Liu also felt real fear inside the virtual world, even his back was soaked.

"Yes, President Liu..." The third person in charge of the data center was also immensely fearful.

During this period, he had been supervising the construction within the Virtual World and knew the reasons behind it,

"The flaws in the real experimental data are related to too many factors, and our control over new technology is not sufficient.

It’s just like you said, thankfully it was tested in the Virtual World.

If it was in our..."

He looked at the Earth that had become a fireball,

"Alas, the scenarios in the Virtual World play out as if they were real..."

"Mr. Zhang, we humans are fortunate..."

"God bless us..."

"President Zhang... President Liu... we..."

As Old Liu and others started speaking, some people also expressed their feelings of fear.

Additionally, those in charge of construction offered apologies to Zhang Feng and others.

However, Zhang Feng shook his head, not the slightest bit angry.

The same was true for Old Liu and others.

Because this was not about inspections or basic errors by the staff, but about a 15-kilometer interstellar weapon structure that human civilization had never encountered before.

Moreover, it involved top-notch and precise technologies.

It was impossible to achieve success in one go through simple reviews and construction arrangements.

The virtual testing itself was to better, more realistically, and directly expose these issues.

The result was indeed real—the ’basketball’ was lost without success.

Such interstellar weapon testing was entirely a one-time thing.

Humanity quickly obliterated itself.

But when the researchers were building it, they aimed for one-time success to avoid wasting Federation resources.

Because it seemed to be constructed in the Virtual World with zero cost data.

However, the operation and maintenance costs of virtual buildings and superconductive buildings, as well as equipment maintenance in the data center’s virtual research hall, were astronomical each day.

Of course, compared to real construction, these were minor expenses.

And compared to Earth being gone, this was a happy outcome for everyone.

...

In the following few hours, Earth did not recover.

It wasn’t that it couldn’t be restored, but everyone was conducting a technical review.

All the researchers and decision-makers like Old Liu opened the experimental report from the void to observe the reasons for the loss of control.

Even though Old Liu and others did not understand much, the current civilization’s leap was irreversible and imperative.

Therefore, to adapt to the future era and not be discarded by the times, they had to understand some things.

Including learning within the Virtual World, which was the same as in the real world.

The current Virtual World, with rapid technical calculation and improvement, could fully simulate people’s basic memory and thinking state.

For example, when researchers had inspirations, they could concretize the formulas in their minds and discuss them with team members.

The virtual neuron information was not only viewed by Zhang Feng, but also supplemented in the databases of superconductive and virtual buildings.

The Virtual World was becoming more and more perfect.

It also utilized this kind of thinking analytical ability.

The disassembly of the Golden Core in another Virtual World also used such an analytical method, allowing artificial participation to pair with quantum and illusory buildings for calculations.

This way, a person’s thoughts could be quickly materialized and then analyzed by quantum means.

A 15-kilometer precise interstellar weapon could form an ’incomplete state’ so quickly, thanks to this computational method.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to calculate the theories of interstellar weapons and Compression Array within a few years.

...

Everyone was still reviewing.

Zhang Feng returned to reality to continue learning his own stuff.

Because his personal mental capacity was negligible compared to the collective and quantum computing.

Therefore, matters related to the Compression Array were left to them.

After all, different people are suited for different tasks.

Insisting on material reality is also for farming and harvesting.

Including the collection of meridians and Inner Strength, which could be halted because it had reached 100%.

The saved testing resources could be used for function checks or Spiritual Qi detection.

This followed after he disseminated the cultivation technique six months ago, and now many people were starting to get into cultivation.

Additionally, the cost of ordinary Spirit Stones had dropped below two thousand per piece since the last planting harvest.

The current price was five thousand for three pieces.

Considering the overall resident wages of the Federation, amidst major development, excluding high-income groups, ordinary people had reached about twenty thousand per month.

Thus, getting three pieces a month was still achievable.

Especially as more and more Spirit Stones were bought, and more and more were scattered.

The current average Spiritual Qi value on Earth had reached 0.003.

Simply put, every cubic meter of air globally contained Spiritual Qi.

Everyone’s breathing brought Spiritual Qi into themselves.

With the current technological achievements,

The planning department also predicted that without major breakthroughs, the global Spiritual Qi level would reach 0.1 in approximately four years.

It’s worth noting, two years ago, only the Extraordinary Homeland had a faint amount of Spiritual Qi.