Chapter 279: Problems Arise: Solving the Transfer Array Issue

The Spirit Hall

Currently, every department is busily handling matters following the World Advancement; although four months have passed, there is still a lot of work that needs to be completed.

This advancement brought enormous changes to Douluo Planet; many houses and farmlands were destroyed, and people's lives were severely affected.

Farmland is easier to deal with, as it only needs to be replanted, but the reconstruction of houses requires more time and energy.

Due to the limited number of construction workers, four months later, the process of reconstruction is still ongoing.

Moreover, after the World Advancement, the surface area of the planet increased, and the land of the continent expanded, which caused the locations of some villages to shift by over a hundred miles compared to before.

In order to adapt to the new environment, it is necessary to re-plan their lives and rebuild their homes.

Taking advantage of this, the Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires had major cities gather many of the common people.

Many of these common people have been farmers for generations, and now they are migrating to the areas around the cities to begin new lives.

The continent has grown larger, and there is much more open space around the cities, which is perfect for settling these common people.

Why must these common people be gathered near the cities? Because their original villages have shifted too far away; if they are too far from the cities, many things become very inconvenient.

Usually, the fruits and vegetables grown in the villages are transported to the cities for sale; if the distance is great, this cost undoubtedly increases.

Since everything needs to be rebuilt anyway, and there is land available, it is simply better to rebuild villages for them around the cities.

Previously, Jerry's divine sense could cover the entire Douluo Planet, but after this advancement, the world has increased by at least ten times compared to before.

With this increase, Jerry's divine sense can only cover a little over one-tenth of Douluo Planet.

This situation leaves Jerry feeling a bit between laughter and tears; he used to be able to see the entire Douluo Star with a single thought, but now he can only see a small portion.

The areas covered by his divine sense are places where Jerry can use Teleportation; now that the planet has grown larger, he can no longer teleport as he pleases.

After Jerry returned this time, the Great Elder came directly to him.

"Jerry, you've finally returned, that's great!"

Seeing Jerry, the Great Elder was instantly overjoyed; these four months had truly worked him to death.

After the World Advancement, all the Transfer Arrays stopped functioning normally.

Previously, many tasks were carried out using the Transfer Arrays, but now that the Transfer Arrays cannot be used, these tasks have become complicated.

Take the courier business, for example; transportation between the Two Great Empires and the Spirit Hall has had to rely solely on Spirit Guidance Planes during this period.

Furthermore, after the world grew larger, it takes a day and a half for a plane to fly from Wuhun City to Heaven Dou City; compared to before, many tasks have been dragged down.

Aside from Jerry, there is only one Top Grade Soul Guidance Master in Wuhun City now: the Twelfth Elder, Gong Ya.

However, after Gong Ya inspected the Transfer Arrays, she found that everything was normal, yet they simply would not activate; she did not know what was going on either.

Gong Ya's knowledge as a Soul Guidance Master was all learned from what Jerry left behind, and now that Gong Ya is responsible for the work of the entire Research Department, she has much less time for research, so she has not focused her time solely on the field of Soul Guidance.

Since Gong Ya could not solve it, and all the Soul Guidance Masters in the Spirit Hall could not solve it either, this is why four months have passed and the Transfer Arrays have still not been repaired.

Therefore, the Great Elder was ecstatic upon seeing Jerry.

Finally, there is someone who can solve the problem of the Transfer Arrays; not to mention anything else, he has been worried to death these past few months, having to fly up into the sky every day just to get home.

Furthermore, there is another problem that others did not notice, but the Great Elder did: all the Floating Small Courtyards have lowered slightly.

Although it is not very obvious, they have truly and realistically lowered; the Great Elder also mentioned this problem to Jerry.

There is also the issue of the Energy Storage Devices, which are now constantly having problems and experiencing lag.

Whenever there is lag, Wuhun City suffers a total power outage.

And sometimes the energy conduction is unstable; in the past few months, because of this reason, accidents involving Soul Guidance Devices have already occurred several times.

Now, many people have developed doubts about Soul Guidance Devices, and sales have decreased significantly.

Just hearing about these few problems made Jerry's head ache.

World Advancement—how did it cause so many issues?

Jerry knows without even thinking that the workload to solve these problems is immense.

Jerry also speculated on the causes, and there are three in total.

First, the world has grown larger, causing the coordinates of the Transfer Arrays to become chaotic;

Second, the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth has increased, making the operation of the Energy Storage Devices in previous Soul Guidance Devices unstable;

Third, the gravity of the world has increased, causing some previous Anti-gravity Devices to also experience problems.

In fact, there are other effects following the World Advancement, but they are not obvious and have not been discovered yet.

However, Jerry can already think of a few.

The impact of this World Advancement is multifaceted.

From one to ten, the change is not very large, but the change from ten to a hundred is too great.

It has now been confirmed that after this World Advancement, the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth has become one hundred times what it was before.

Gravity will also become one hundred times greater.

Compared to these two aspects, the issue of the territory growing larger is not really a problem at all.

These two aspects have the most direct impact on the entire continent.

The most urgent task at the moment is to solve the problem with the Transfer Arrays, so Jerry came to a Transfer Array to take a look.

A problem appeared in the first segment of the Rule Rune of the Transfer Array; the meaning of the first segment of the Rule Rune is to detect the Transfer Array.

Upon this detection, the Transfer Array has a problem and simply cannot start.

The ones with problems are the second and fourth segments of the Rule Rune.

The meaning of the second segment is the name and location of the Transfer Array.

The name is fine, but there is a problem with the location; this problem arose because the planet grew larger, causing the relative positions to change.

This location is only detected when the Transfer Array is first set up and activated; after the detection, the location is fixed.

Previously, there was no feeling that being fixed was a problem, but now that the planet has grown larger, the location has become an issue.

This allowed Jerry to directly discover the principle behind this location detection.

It turns out the center of the relative position is the core of the only Life Planet in the Douluo Star System.

No wonder; the Teleportation Array Jerry set up on the Moon had no issues.

Because relative to the position of the core, they had not changed, but those inside the planet were different; after the planet grew larger, the surface of the planet expanded, the original positions shifted, and thus the teleportation located on the planet's surface encountered problems.

The original position coordinates are now estimated to be underground, which is why the detection failed.

The planet's volume increased, which means all relative coordinates inside the planet have changed.

Sigh, these Teleportation Arrays are too troublesome; there are so many, and all of them need to be adjusted.

Furthermore, Jerry thought of another problem: even if they are adjusted this time, if the world advances again in the future and the planet grows again, these Teleportation Arrays will fail once more.

However, Jerry's vision and knowledge are different from before, so he will modify the second section of the Rule Rune as a whole.

Jerry set the parameters for the position in the second section as variables; after activating the Teleportation Array, the second section of the Rule Rune will first automatically detect the position coordinates.

In this way, even if the world advances next time and the Teleportation Array fails, one only needs to turn off the Teleportation Array and restart it.

As for the fourth section of the Rule Rune, it is the setting for the Energy Storage Device.

Now, it is not just the Energy Storage Device of the Teleportation Array that has problems, but all Soul Guidance Devices with Energy Storage Devices have encountered issues.

The absorption amount is overloaded; originally, the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth was one, and the absorption amount of the Energy Storage Device was also one, but now the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth has become one hundred, while the absorption amount of the Energy Storage Device has not changed.

Now, absorbing one unit of energy is one hundred times what it was before, which means the absorption speed has increased by one hundred times, and the materials of the Energy Storage Device cannot withstand a speed of one hundred times.

Fortunately, the materials Jerry chose to make the Energy Storage Devices were all top-grade materials; if they were ordinary materials, they would likely have exploded directly.

Because the Energy Storage Devices used by the Spirit Hall are all very large, large-scale equipment must use top-grade materials.

Moreover, the Soul Guidance Device issue mentioned by the Great Elder should be the ones made by the students of the academy; they are still in the learning stage and have made many Soul Guidance Devices, so the cost would be too high if they all used top-grade materials.

If low-grade materials are used, there would be no problems if the world had not advanced.

Top-grade materials can withstand a soul power concentration of one hundred times; now it is just a matter of the absorption parameters, so reducing the absorption amount will suffice.

Subsequently, Jerry began to adjust the parameters of the absorption amount.

Reducing the absorption amount means slowing down the absorption speed, which can solve this problem.

The total capacity of the Energy Storage Device is fixed; the total amount equals the absorption speed multiplied by the absorption time, and the absorption speed is the amount absorbed per hour.

Now, one only needs to reduce the parameter of the absorption amount.

Adjusting the absorption amount requires adjusting the Absorption Rune; previously, to absorb energy quickly, it was set to absorb energy from the space within a hundred meters, and the absorption amount was set to ten units of energy per second.

Jerry started modifying this parameter directly and finally found that if it were one unit of energy per second, the overall material could withstand it and it could be used normally.

Even though it is one unit of energy, this one unit of energy is one hundred times what it was before, so the overall energy absorption speed has still increased, and this increase is exactly the maximum level the material can withstand.

If the world advances again, this absorption amount will likely need to be changed to zero-point-something units of energy per second.

This is the only way to solve it for now; after all, the inherent characteristics of the materials are difficult to change.

However, now that the soul power concentration has become one hundred times higher, he believes that after decades or a century, more top-grade materials will be born inside the planet, and by then, it might be possible to replenish the energy of the Teleportation Array instantly.

Waiting for more top-grade materials to be born inside the planet takes too long, so Jerry thought of going into the universe to search for materials.

In the Douluo Star System, there are a total of nine planets; according to their distance from the Sun from near to far, Douluo Star is the third planet.

Besides this, like Douluo Star, there is a satellite like the Moon orbiting it.

Jerry has checked that there is also a satellite orbiting the outer periphery of the sixth planet, and there are two satellites orbiting the ninth planet.

So, besides Douluo Star, there are eight planets and four satellites; these planets have been exposed to the universe, and there should be many materials inside them.

Moreover, these materials were born in the violent and active soul power in the universe, so their performance should be better.

However, the immediate priority is to solve the problem of the Teleportation Array before going to search for materials.

After modifying the second and fourth sections of the Rule Rune, the Teleportation Array started successfully immediately.

But it cannot be used yet, because only this one is working.

It is not just about repairing this one Teleportation Array; the others must also be modified.

Because the meaning of the fifth section is the teleportation point name and teleportation point position; the teleportation point name is fine, but the teleportation point position has a problem.

This does not need to be re-engraved, because Jerry had long ago separated this part and made it into a separate teleportation card; he only needs to modify the teleportation card.

However, the mobile phone's teleportation function cannot be used now either; sigh, this is a huge project.

He was just showing off at the time, wanting to add this teleportation function to the mobile phone; if it didn't have this function, he wouldn't have to worry about the mobile phone this time.

Inside the mobile phone are miniature Teleportation Arrays, which can only teleport small objects; they cannot teleport anything too large.

Jerry's original intention in making mobile phone teleportation was to make it more convenient for himself to buy things; everyone felt it was practical and more convenient than sending express delivery, so it was connected to the Network Mall, and later it was used comprehensively.

Small objects that can fit in a space of 15x15x15 cubic meters can be teleported.

The energy device of the mobile phone has limited storage; teleporting things that are too large consumes a lot of energy, and the mobile phone is too small to carry a large energy storage space.

The mobile phone's Transmission Module is built-in; it seems he can only upgrade the mobile phones and replace all the Transmission Modules.

Subsequently, Jerry organized the places where the Teleportation Array needs to be modified.

Modifying these Rule Runes requires a Level 9 Soul Guidance Master to repair them.

But right now, in Wuhun City, there are only Jerry and Gong Ya who are Level 9 Soul Guidance Masters.

The Fairy Clan now has many ordinary Level 9 Soul Guidance Masters; after all, they all learn through Bloodline Inheritance and learn faster.

But Jerry does not want to expose the Fairy Clan right now.

If he remembers correctly, Jerry made one hundred million mobile phones with teleportation functions, and that was done inside a Small World; now he has to labor again.

His master, senior sister, and junior sister have enough Spirit Power, but none of them have reached the level of a Level 9 Soul Guidance Master; they cannot be counted on.

Hu Liena's Spirit Power is also at level nine, but he does not know to what extent her knowledge of Soul Guidance has reached, or what level of Soul Guidance Master she is.

Only Gong Ya is available; Gong Ya is currently in charge of the entire Research Department, so he cannot ask her to put down her work and make Transmission Modules with him.

Sure enough, at critical moments, he still has to do it himself.

According to Jerry's current Spirit Power, he can skillfully make ten thousand Transmission Modules at the same time; any more than that, and it becomes a bit difficult to control.

This is not like Sword Manipulation or anything; it requires splitting one's focus to engrave every single Transmission Module.

Jerry looked at the clones he could use right now; including his original body, there were 106 of them, so he would start by modifying the Teleportation Array!

The number of Teleportation Arrays was relatively small, so they could all be modified within a single day.

After that, it would be time to produce the Spirit Guidance modules; for 106 units, producing 1.06 million modules at a time, one hundred million Transmission Modules would require one hundred batches.

If there were enough materials, he could do two batches a day, and if he worked overtime, three batches would also be possible, but working overtime was impossible; Jerry would never work overtime in this life.

Calculated this way, it could all be completed in fifty days; as for replacing the Transmission Modules, he would leave that to the students of the Spirit Hall Academy, as replacing the modules directly was quite simple, and it would also serve to test their practical skills.

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(End of this chapter)