Apocalypse Forecast

Chapter 1023: Chapter 791: Don’t Forget the Traditional Skills

”Name?”

”...Huai Shi.”

”Gender?”

”Male.”

”Age?”

”...”

”Age?”

In the long silence, Huai Shi closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and turned to look at the man behind him: ”I say, do you guys have to?”

He pointed at the safe, couldn’t help wanting to chop it open with an axe: ”For the damn identity verification, do you really need to go this far?”

”Ah, well, didn’t everyone say you like it?”

Raymond was dumbfounded: ”This was specially made for you by the Great Grandmaster! Saying something about not forgetting traditional skills...”

Huai Shi was furious.

”Can’t you guys do something from the Yang Realm that he wouldn’t like?”

”It’s just an identity verification, don’t take it too seriously.” Raymond raised his hand, pointed at the safe, and reminded: ”Time’s almost up, hurry up, if you get it wrong three times, the lock core automatically locks...”

”Age?”

The stiff electronic voice on the safe urged.

Huai Shi rolled his eyes: ”Eighteen!”

An ear-piercing alarm sounded, and the electronic voice immediately rose high, filled with murderous intent: ”Wrong answer, lock core locked, engine overload operation, self-destruct preparation—3! 2! 1!”

Huai Shi’s eyelid twitched wildly, and before he could tactically fall down, he saw the safe door pop open with a bang, spraying out a large amount of confetti.

”Surprise!”

Raymond, blowing a party whistle, jumped out from behind: ”Surprised or not, amazed or not!”

”You mother...”

Huai Shi drew out the Axe of Anger, leaped and slashed at Raymond’s old face, roaring, ”This damn thing is called a surprise!”

”Wait, wait, chop me to death if you have to, but don’t damage this, it’s super expensive, wait!”

Raymond shrank behind the safe, as the mechanical pivot turned, layer by layer of sealed alloy opened. The alchemy matrix hidden within was reorganized, lifting up the most core item inside.

Inside the layer-by-layer open safe, a head-sized 24-faced polyhedron slowly rose.

It seemed like an artwork carved from obsidian, but the countless tiny patterns on it resembled matrices formed from overlapping characters, reversing gravity, floating in the air, reflecting waves of mysterious light.

The Utopia IV Type V4.12.

A large framework core meticulously crafted by the Creator, in short, it is the ’heart’ and engine that allows a large fixed framework to exist for a long time.

By burning source substance, drafting laws, maintaining the effects preset by the Creator.

Although it does not possess extremely offensive and defensive power or various enhancement of special abilities, as the most balanced IV type, it is undoubtedly the most suitable item for the current Tanbo Inner Circle.

Also an indispensable part of a campus or defensive link.

The Utopia’s framework core was once Utopia’s best-selling product, known for its stability, efficiency, and perfect cost-performance ratio, equipped in countless small gathering areas on the border and in Hell.

Now exclusively monopolized by the Ivory Tower, and after years of upgrades, has entered the 4.12 version. Frameworks used in the Current Circumstances such as this medium-to-large type require years to custom order, and the price is meaningless, having value but unavailable on the market, usually as precious resources exported as exchange currencies.

In conventional mode, it inherits large-scale local network, simultaneously runs over ten thousand source substance communication threads, twenty-four-hour full-domain no-blind-spot surveillance, radar, identity authentication, and maintenance of various law modules...

Simply put, it’s a god-mode covering the Tanbo Inner Circle.

Though not as flexible as the Creator himself, it can still achieve various effects including weather control through command retrieval.

Among them, ’cognitive operation’ is also the most important.

Limited source substance interference with ordinary people entering it. Though not as buggy as the astronomical society’s memetic control, it can make beastified characteristic beings less conspicuous.

Allowing those entering it to subjectively ignore some not-so-important things.

At this moment, underground in the core area of the Tanbo Inner Circle, Huai Shi carefully carried the box in his hand through the heavily sealed gate. With the assistance of more than a dozen scholars, he embedded the framework core into the base.

As waves of light lit up, countless characters and laws emerged from the core, slowly rotating. With the scholars’ calibration, they accessed the externally reserved interfaces one by one.

First was the control of the core department of the Current Circumstances Campus, followed by the management of the campus’s outer layer, then further extending outward, covering all the streets of the entire Tanbo Inner Circle in a snap of the fingers.

In an instant, everything seemed to be under control.

Huai Shi flipped through the thick manual in his hand, carefully following the steps, and with the guidance of the accompanying scholars, set all parameters correctly, finally breathing a sigh of relief.

Even though everything was under control, he really couldn’t handle this thing at all.

A mistake in a decimal point or parameter could cause unpredictable adverse consequences. This is not something you can just casually mess with. If even a slight error in air composition occurs, in less than half an hour, there would be tens of thousands of poisonings and deaths.

Each adjustment of this thing requires dual source substance authentication from Huai Shi and management staff, just to prevent any misguided child from accidentally pressing it twice and sending the entire region’s people collectively to heaven.

Until the end, with the resonance between the framework core and the Ivory Tower, the data channel opened, and the projection of the Ivory Tower on the distant border descended into this massive underground facility, prompting all participants to applaud with excitement.

No matter the construction level on the surface campus, only the smooth operation of this framework core is the foundation for establishing the Current Circumstances Campus.

Whether from decrees, records, or actual management, at this moment, the Tanbo Inner Circle is entirely under Huai Shi’s control.

The assurance that Tanbo Inner Circle is independent from Kyoto, independent from Yingzhou Phylogeny, and the entire Yingzhou lies in the fulfillment of threefold conditions of name, law, and fact.

It is almost like a nation within a nation.

Anyone with eyes can see that the main school of the Ivory Tower has essentially placed the Tanbo Campus in a free-range state, with Huai Shi grabbing hold of all personnel and financial matters, and administratively, it’s entirely up to his word.

It seems like the first step of returning the Ivory Tower to the Current Circumstances after fifty-seven years is entrusted to him.

”What a colossal pressure.”

Huai Shi sat in the chair, gazing at the framework matrix on the dome, unable to suppress a sigh.

It’s been over a month since he was officially discharged from the hospital.

Vice Principal Isaac had left after handling the aftermath of the Swamp Man Syndrome, being too busy with the main school to have the time to worry about the Tanbo Campus.

The remaining myriad of issues were all thrown at Huai Shi.

Huai Shi could only herd ducks onto a shelf, solving them one by one.

Now, at least he managed to set up a framework, which can be considered a phased achievement.

The construction of the Tanbo Campus can be said to be a long-term task, serving as the Current Circumstances Campus of the Ivory Tower, and also as an entrance for students in the current world.

It bears the responsibility of selecting good candidates for the main school.

At the same time, it’s also a group with education as its main business core.

Apart from four primary schools already established and a middle school under construction, there’s a university for ordinary people nearing completion.

With the help of the channels of the Ivory Tower, Huai Shi is gradually fulfilling his previous promise to the Tanbo Inner Circle.

Clean drinking water, healthy food, stable order, equal medical care, and ultimately... sound education.

Taking the campus as the core, replacing the former Alliance, to effectively govern and rule over the current Tanbo District, now the Current Circumstances Climate Campus and Tanbo Inner Circle are almost becoming Huai Shi’s private property.

Simultaneously, it has also taken on a huge loan and debt.

Not to mention the excessive debt ratio of the current Tanbo Inner Circle, Huai Shi himself is only one step away from becoming a defaulter.

The supply in other areas can be seen as support for subordinate units, but Huai Shi himself still owes Luo Su a correction value of 0.093%!

Moreover, he never imagined, even in his dreams, that the reason for his bankruptcy was actually raising cats...

Over a month ago, War and Peace turned seventeen hundred Ravens into Yin Souls at once, which consumed not Source Substance, but the correction value of the Ivory Tower!

Showing off is satisfying for a moment, but repaying is a crematorium.

And correction values are not something that can be transferred at will, unless it’s a succession among The Crowned Ones, otherwise it belongs to whoever it is.

The gold card standard given by Super World Ambition, the issuer of ”Card of Ten Thousand Ages,” also attributes a correction value of 0.5% to the Tanbo Inner Circle represented by Huai Shi.

If Huai Shi can really provide the future he promised for Tanbo, the changes triggered in the next thirty years would be enough to meet the standard.

But now... Huai Shi only got 0.05%.

Huai Shi’s individual correction value does not count towards the Ivory Tower; even what he uses to supply the divine nature of the Great Priestess is not enough!

Therefore, the correction value he consumed from the Ivory Tower can only be gradually compensated by enhancing the Ivory Tower’s influence on the world.

Simply put, it’s working.

That old turtle Luo Su’s calculations are astutely precise: as long as Huai Shi settles the Current Circumstances Campus, this debt will definitely be repaid, and there will even be something left over! By then, proving your ability and talent, it won’t be a waste for the organization to send you so many benefits...

But from this point, it coincides with Huai Shi’s next goal.

Only, when he snapped out of his long contemplation, he saw the person before him.

Perplexed.

”Why haven’t you left yet?” Huai Shi asked.

Are you going to stay for dinner?

”Hmm? Didn’t I tell you? That must have slipped my mind!”

Raymond slapped his forehead and pulled out a crumpled personnel transfer from his pocket. ”Recently the main school isn’t lacking drivers, the principal thought I still have so many loans unpaid, so he sent me over to be a utility man.”

Huai Shi’s eyelid twitched wildly.

Great, another mouth to feed...

Even the landlord’s house has no surplus food!

”Alright then, assigned as the head of the security team.” Huai Shi sighed: ”I happen to need a driver lately, it won’t begrudge you, right?”

”I am a Third Stage Sublimator, a battle-hardened mercenary, an elite second fifth of the Eye of Nightmare... you want me to be your driver?” Raymond widened his eyes in outrage: ”Are you insulting me, Huai Shi? This isn’t something a few hundred yuan raise can fix!”

Huai Shi couldn’t help but roll his eyes: ”How much do you want then?”

”At least two thousand!”

”One thousand, not a penny more.”

Huai Shi got up and tossed the car keys from his pocket: ”Let’s go, have a meal first, we have to meet the people from the bank in the afternoon, time is tight.”

Yet another loan to apply for.

His heart aches...

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