My Players Are So Fierce

“I’m planning to develop a safer and more powerful Black Soganite.

I thought it wouldn’t be too difficult, but it turns out understanding this periodic table is not so easy, and it also proves that people from different worlds have a talent for making explosives far beyond my imagination.

This is the ninth time I’ve failed.

But I feel I’m not far from success.”

“Uh, good luck!

My determined girlfriend.”

Murphy quipped, taking out his pocket watch to check the time, and said:

“I need to discuss the new interface design for the Calculating Pearl with Old Flywheel.

Do you want to have dinner together tonight?”

“No, I’m busy these days.

I need to finish the Black Soganite before the internal testing starts.”

Triss rolled up her sleeves and picked up some very technical materials again.

While busy, she said to the regretful Murphy:

“But once I finish this task, we might revisit our private world…

There’s a projector there, right?

You better pick out a few literary films I like in advance.”

“Alright, I’ll also prepare a candlelight dinner that can lift your spirits, and I’ll cook it myself.”

Murphy walked to the laboratory door, turned back, and said:

“Should I order in advance, my Queen?”

“Go, go, don’t joke around, I’m busy here.

Be careful I don’t mess up a formula and blow up the entire Blood Vulture Corridor.

You know, Burning Gold Powder can also be used to accelerate the explosive reaction of TNT.”

“Then make sure your hand doesn’t shake.

The Midnight Tower’s foundation has just been laid.

If you blow it up, Professor Chen will definitely come at you with a shovel.

Don’t be so stressed, Triss, rest well.”

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When Murphy returned to his office, Old Flywheel was already waiting for him.

Although this cynical old fellow maintained his cold attitude against everything, he was indeed very dedicated when discussing his area of expertise.

Given the continuous uncovering of Burning Gold Ores, Old Flywheel evidently intended to perfectly fulfill his agreement with Murphy.

Which was regarding the program upgrade of the Calculating Pearl.

“My old partner has received my letter.

She plans to accompany Captain Paula’s airship to Transylvania in a week, and will also bring the Three and a Half Generation Treasure Orb promised to you.

But there won’t be many.”

Old Flywheel held a special device for adjusting the spiritual energy factors of the Calculating Pearl, which resembled a mechanical tuning fork.

As he adjusted the Calculating Pearl to an “editable state,” he said:

“Recently, research on the fourth-generation Extended Calculating Pearl at Shaldo University is nearing completion, and they have greatly reduced the number of semi-finished products consumed.

My old partner used her connections to get only about thirty pieces.

Unlike these mass-produced items, each piece needs to be manually reset by me.

I’ll mimic the strange program in your Core Bead for its program adjustment.

Today, we’ll only discuss adjustments for these ordinary type pearls.

Let me tell you first, its computing power means it can’t have complex functions, and since you completed a group edit of spiritual energy factors on them with your strange bead, their computing power has been squeezed, so my adjustments can only be minor tweaks at most.”

At this point, Old Flywheel suspiciously glanced at the Core Bead hanging on Murphy’s chest.

His scarred eye blinked as he said:

“I’m really wondering now who helped you adjust the Core Bead’s operation mode.

These days, I’ve been researching the mutated arrangement of spiritual energy factors, and I can confirm this wasn’t done by Minkus.

Because the arrangement and combination of those spiritual energy factors have never appeared before.

Even my mentor, who invented the Calculating Pearl, very likely hadn’t advanced the verification to this extent.

To be blunt, that thing’s technological content is so high that it makes me feel shocked.”

“Stop probing, there’s no way an engineering idiot like me could have handled such a complex thing.”

Murphy waved his hand and said:

“I’ll be upfront with you, I brought this thing into a relic of creation…

You get my point?”

“Oh!

I see!

So the Core Bead resonated with Creator Technology?

That would explain it!”

Old Flywheel’s eyes lit up, stroking his silly yet imposing handlebar mustache, he said:

“Actually, when my mentor invented the Calculating Pearl back then, he precisely got the idea of using spiritual energy factors to simulate a difference engine from exploring a relic of creation.

He once told us that the technology of Half-body Man is merely built on the lousy foundation of this Age of Chaos—a ‘pseudo-science.’

He said true knowledge is hidden within the creator’s blueprint!

Unfortunately, the Half-body Man race, like the rest of the world, has been altered by spiritual energy, and we missed the chance to truly delve into that great technology.

Furthermore, the relics of creation on the Continent are mostly monopolized by various organizations, and since Half-body Men are pacifists, we really can’t find a complete relic of creation to explore on a technological level, so…”

“Boom”

A bluish energy battery was tossed onto the table by Murphy, who said to Old Flywheel:

“Help me complete the program upgrade and finish the airship modification project, then train a batch of engineering apprentices for me, and I can provide you with this kind of thing.

Directly from the Golden Age, an energy polymer, even some simple Creator Technology.