Why is my skeleton so defective?! Do you even love me?!
If I hadn’t been nearly blown to bits this time, I would’ve still been in the dark!
Wei Xiaoqing’s skeleton doesn’t have these flaws!
Her skin is obviously tougher than mine, too! We both got hit by the explosion, but I was almost blown to smithereens, hello?!
Jingwei raised an eyebrow and glared.
"What’s that supposed to mean? Can’t you read? Do you have any idea how expensive titanium alloy is these days? Of course we have to be economical! Besides, you just have slightly uneven shoulders and some prostate damage. It’s not a big deal. You raise boys to be tough, but you pamper girls, understand? You’re a big guy; how can you compare yourself to Xiaoqing? Now hurry up and get in the Gray Tide to melt yourself down and forge a new body! What are you doing, just standing there waiting to rust?!"
The tirade left Shen Xiaofeng speechless and choking back sobs. The power to his artificial lacrimal glands instantly cranked to maximum as he wept.
"Waaaah... C-can I choose a different gender?"
’Being human is just too hard!’
’And being a man is even harder!’
The sky gradually darkened. The commotion from the natural gas explosion during the day had completely subsided, and the small courtyard, already on the outskirts of the city, once again fell silent.
Shen Feng woke the dozen or so brain-modified evolved individuals. After the deep physiological and mental Hypnosis, Han Feng and the others looked at Shen Feng as if gazing upon a Divine Spirit, ready to obey his every command.
They were especially thrilled at the thought that they were following the father of the Whispering God—a Divine Spirit himself. Their futures were bound to be limitless.
Joy and elation filled every one of their hearts.
The Cloned Body in the cloning tank was also ready. This Cloned Body had no consciousness of its own; it was a spare body Shen Feng had originally prepared for himself, but now it could be put to use.
After being modified to show explosion damage and other wounds, the lifeless corpse of the Cloned Body was handed over to Han Feng and his men as proof of their mission’s completion.
At Han Feng’s call, several refrigerated delivery trucks appeared outside the small courtyard. After loading the Cloned Body’s corpse, the group immediately drove away as instructed by Shen Feng, as if they had never been there.
According to the orders from the father of the Whispering God, they were only to return and report to their superiors. They were forbidden from revealing a single thing about him.
In a few days, the father of the Whispering God would seek Han Feng out and help him gradually take control of the entire Purification Society.
A few hours after the group of Purifiers left, in the early hours of the morning, Shen Feng finally emerged from the small courtyard with a backpack on and pulling a suitcase. He headed for the railway station.
His appearance had been disguised by the Gray Tide. He looked like an ordinary, tall, middle-aged man and didn’t attract much attention.
Jingwei, Shen Xiaofeng, and Wei Xiaoqing had temporarily abandoned their physical bodies and entered the cloud network.
The equipment in the underground space of the courtyard would be left here for the time being, guarded by the Gray Tide.
After this period of research, Jingwei had long since figured out the equipment’s operating principles and manufacturing methods. Now, with the evolved Beast Gold Gray Tide, she could simply build a new set at their new residence.
As the saying goes, a crafty rabbit has three burrows. This small courtyard could also serve as a backup base.
He walked to a relatively busy street, hailed a taxi, and soon arrived at the Tai City Railway Station.
Jingwei had already taken care of buying the ticket and selecting a seat, so he didn’t have to worry about it.
Soon, Shen Feng was seated on the high-speed train as it rumbled forward.
Looking through the window at the brightly lit small city gradually receding into the distance, Shen Feng felt a sense of unreality.
Although he had left Tai City many times, even leaving Huaxia for places like America, this was the first time he was truly moving away from the small city where he had lived for over a decade.
In a daze, he felt as if in that moment he wasn’t the Commander of the Salvation Army, not the Savior who had saved several worlds, but just an ordinary teenager about to take his college entrance exams, facing a long journey away from his hometown.
"Xiaofeng, stop spacing out! Come and see, your subordinates in the Salvation Army seem to have actually come up with something!" Jingwei’s voice rang in his mind, pulling Shen Feng from his hazy thoughts.
His Silicon-Based Brain instantly extended its mental tendrils and entered cyberspace.
The next moment, he had entered the Water World Apocalypse within True Apocalypse Game 1.0.
Before him was the game’s simulated Meteorite Laboratory in the Shield UY Star Realm. Jingwei’s consciousness had already been here for a long time.
"What happened?" Shen Feng asked, but his attention was immediately drawn to a void in space.
There, a blue point of light was suspended, bobbing gently.
It was a silver metal sphere the size of a finger, engraved with various patterns and circuits.
Surrounding this blue point of light was a group of men and women not wearing spacesuits—all of them top physicists recruited by Shen Feng.
According to the realism settings of True Apocalypse Game 1.0, if these people appeared in the vacuum of space, they would have been frozen solid or died from cerebral hemorrhage on the spot.
But now, they showed no signs of discomfort. Instead, their faces were filled with elation. Some were so excited they were shouting in the vacuum, while others were weeping uncontrollably.
Shen Feng understood instantly. This was a Quantum Force Field Core!
These physicists had successfully created a Quantum Force Field Core based on the data he had provided!
Although it was a digital simulation, the fundamental principles were the same. With sufficient equipment in the real world, it could be perfectly replicated!
"These guys really know their stuff. They’ve simplified the circuitry of the Quantum Force Field Core. This greatly increases the success rate; it might even be possible to mass-produce it," Jingwei remarked admiringly. "But that’s not all. Take a look at this."
With a wave of her hand, her and Shen Feng’s consciousnesses appeared in another space. This was a laboratory inside a massive, hollowed-out meteorite.
The space was about the size of a soccer field. A huge machine, three stories tall, stood in the center. It was shaped like a giant onion and surrounded by a ring-shaped particle accelerator.
An Energy Beam shot out from the onion-shaped machine, holding steady in the void. The thick beam blasted a hole the width of a finger.
Hundreds of meters away from that hole, an identical one appeared, from which energy was dissipating.
This was a Space Wormhole Generator!
A perfect reproduction, and it had even been optimized. It was smaller and could even control the Wormhole’s point of origin within a certain margin of error.
"Even though this is a Virtual Space, everything operates strictly according to the physical laws of the real world. They actually did it," Jingwei said, her voice filled with excitement.
Shen Feng was equally excited.
The significance of this Space Wormhole Technology was simply monumental.
Spatial travel meant a completely different future for all of human civilization.
With this technology, humanity would no longer be confined to this tiny planet but could open its arms to the entire cosmos!
With humanity’s current space-faring technology, a trip to Mars takes half a year, and launching every kilogram of supplies into space costs a fortune.
If they could master Space Wormhole Technology, none of this would be a problem anymore!
Human civilization would no longer be a weak civilization confined to Earth but would become a cosmic-level civilization!
The significance of this device far surpassed even that of the Quantum Force Field Core!
Of course, the prerequisite was that this device could actually be built in the real world.
The scientists present had clearly understood this point as well. They all stared at the Wormhole Generator before them, their faces a mixture of shock, ecstasy, and other complex emotions.
They understood better than anyone the significance of a stable, controllable Space Wormhole Generator.
Shen Feng carefully examined the virtual model of the Space Wormhole Generator, observing all the data, and quickly came to a conclusion.
’This thing... it can really be built in the real world.’
However, while the various required materials could be simulated in the Virtual World, acquiring them in the real world would be far more complicated.
After a moment of thought, Shen Feng said:
"Select those who are willing to go. Take the Undersea Space Wormhole to the real Shield UY. Give them enough testing grounds and energy supplies. At all costs, build the controllable Space Wormhole Generator!"
Jingwei replied:
"Alright, I’ll make the arrangements now. I bet every single one of them will want to go... Real-world experiments are far more tempting than those in a virtual game."
Shen Feng nodded.
"No matter what, ensure the safety of these scientists."
After lingering for another moment in True Apocalypse Game 1.0, Shen Feng’s consciousness withdrew from cyberspace, returning completely to his Silicon-Based Brain and his seat on the high-speed train.
By now, the train had completely left Tai City and was about to cross out of Lu Province on its way to Hai City.
Outside was a stretch of fields, with only the scattered lights of distant villages visible.
Shen Feng glanced at the scattered lights, then looked up at the night sky.
It was a perfectly clear night. The sky was full of brilliant, twinkling stars, like countless bright lamps illuminating his path forward, and the path of human civilization.
Shen Feng suddenly smiled, the weight on his heart lifting.
Everything he had been worried about before suddenly seemed less important.
’Whisperers, the Master of the Void, higher-dimensional lifeforms... all these beings confined to Earth... they’re not such a big deal after all.’
’Humanity’s future lies in the sea of stars!’