Chapter 208: Seismic Detection Instrument

The five arrangements stood like five solid pillars, supporting the great vessel "New Era" as it sailed steadily through turbulent waves. The keel of the Deep Space Mothership was slowly laid in the dry dock; the tendrils of Rule Analysis reached into the unknown abyss; the Civilization Ark was quietly constructed beneath the sea; the iron walls of security grew ever more formidable; and Qin Feng's own cultivation of power never ceased.

Amid this high-speed rhythm, a seemingly insignificant yet critically vital technological need was placed before Qin Feng—a completely new, ultra-high-precision real-time global geological activity monitoring and early warning system.

The catastrophic tsunami from the last underwater volcanic eruption had sounded the alarm for everyone. Although the Wealth Prediction function could provide advance warnings, its mechanism was obscure and could not serve as a conventional, explainable scientific early warning system. "New Era" needed its own "eyes" and "ears"—a system capable of sensing crustal movements in advance, especially geological disasters in surrounding waters.

This task was assigned to the Geophysics and Ocean Engineering Department under the Science Council.

The department head was a German-born elderly professor named Smith, known for his rigorous, even rigid, style. He led his team to quickly produce a monitoring network design based on existing cutting-edge technology: deploying numerous high-sensitivity seismic detectors, seafloor pressure sensors, and temperature-salinity buoys across the waters surrounding "New Era" and the major geological activity zones of Earth, forming a dense observation network.

The plan itself was unproblematic—conventional, the standard approach in academia.

But when this proposal reached Qin Feng for final approval, he glanced at it once and immediately rejected it.

"Not enough," Qin Feng said succinctly to Professor Smith, who had come to report.

Professor Smith pushed up his thick glasses, slightly indignant: "Mr. Qin, this is already the most advanced scheme internationally! Detection precision and coverage have reached the pinnacle!"

Qin Feng raised his eyes, looking at him, his tone calm: "Pinnacle? Professor Smith, are you referring to the 'pinnacle' that was caught completely off-guard by the last tsunami?"

Professor Smith's face flushed red; he stiffened his neck: "That was an exception! Volcanic eruptions above VEI-6 are inherently extremely rare—prediction is immensely difficult!"

"What I need is a system that can predict such 'exceptions,'" Qin Feng leaned forward slightly, his gaze carrying undeniable pressure. "The future of 'New Era' cannot rest on 'rare' events and 'luck.' We need absolute early warning capability—at least the ability to precisely pinpoint disasters of similar scale days in advance."

"Days?! That's impossible!" Professor Smith exclaimed. "With current human technology, even a few hours' relatively accurate prediction is already the limit! Crustal activity is too complex and variable—there is no hundred-percent predictive model!"

"Doesn't exist?" Qin Feng's lips curled into a faint smile. "That's only because, in your understanding, it doesn't exist."

He ceased arguing with Professor Smith and directly summoned the system interface, sinking his mind into the vast database of Super Technology.

He wasn't looking for the passive, traditional "seismic detector" that merely received seismic waves. That was too outdated, too reactive.

He wanted something that could actively "perceive" crustal stress accumulation, energy flow, and even partially "interpret" the Earth's internal "pulse"—a prophet's eye!

His consciousness rapidly scanned countless technological branches, bypassing conventional seismology and geomechanics, heading straight toward frontiers—and even taboo domains—involved in energy field perception, macroscopic quantum effects, and planetary-scale information retrieval.

Finally, a technical blueprint named "Earth Vein Resonance Harmonic Analysis Array" caught his attention.

The principle of this technology was profoundly esoteric: it did not directly detect seismic waves, but instead injected specific, extremely weak harmonic energy pulses into the crust, then monitored how these pulses interfered with and distorted the "background resonance" generated by mantle convection, tectonic stress, and other macro-geological activities.

By analyzing these minute distortion patterns and combining them with supercomputing power for reverse inference, it was theoretically possible to construct a real-time energy flow stress map of Earth's interior—like a doctor taking a pulse, allowing early "diagnosis" of which crustal regions were accumulating dangerous energy, and even predicting how and at what scale it would be released!

This had completely transcended the boundaries of current geophysics—it resembled more of a… planetary diagnostic technique!

This was it.

A flash of brilliance lit Qin Feng's eyes.

"Notify the Engineering Department and the Material Laboratory," Qin Feng instructed Su Wenqian, who waited nearby. "Cancel Professor Smith's original plan. The new monitoring system will be designed by me personally."

"Yes, sir," Su Wenqian replied without surprise, immediately complying.

Professor Smith opened his mouth to speak, but seeing Qin Feng's unyielding gaze, he swallowed his words, leaving with lingering doubts and a touch of offended resentment.

In the days that followed, Qin Feng devoted part of his focus to designing and manufacturing the "Earth Vein Resonance Harmonic Analysis Array."

Core technology came from Super Technology, but the specific engineering implementation required "New Era"'s existing industrial system. This involved manufacturing ultra-precise energy emitters, hypersensitive interference signal receivers, and a super algorithm capable of processing massive interference data and reconstructing real-time stress maps.

This was undoubtedly another challenge to the limits of current engineering.

But "New Era" had no shortage of courage or capability to challenge limits.

Under Qin Feng's direct guidance, special energy crystals were successfully synthesized; miniature harmonic emitter units were born one by one in dust-free workshops; quantum computer clusters dedicated to data processing were isolated and ran the core algorithm Qin Feng had written based on the system blueprint…

Months later.

Several specially modified engineering vessels silently departed from "New Era"'s Port, heading toward designated sea zones.

They were not deploying traditional sensor networks, but rather, like sowing seeds, dropped dozens of peculiar, black-sea-urchin-shaped metal spheres—the nodes of the "Earth Vein Resonance Harmonic Analysis Array"—onto the seabed.

Once sunk, these nodes automatically burrowed into rock layers, fusing with the Earth. They connected via special quantum communication, forming an invisible perception network covering key waters around "New Era" and the Pacific Ring of Fire.

When the final node was deployed, inside the main control center.

On the massive screen, the previously blank map began filling with countless fine, flowing lines and colors—representing invisible stress gathering, flowing, and seeking outlets beneath the crust.

"System self-check complete!" "All nodes connected normally!" "Energy pulse emission stable!" "Data stream reception… beginning analysis!"

As technicians excitedly reported, a dynamic, real-time 3D crustal stress map of the Pacific Ring of Fire slowly emerged in the center of the screen!

The map was so clear, so intuitive—it was like performing a high-definition CT scan on Earth!

Where pressure quietly accumulated, where energy flow formed anomalous vortices, where plate boundaries intensified friction—all were plainly visible on the map!

"My god… this… this is unbelievable!" Professor Smith, permitted to observe the final debugging, stared at the screen's hyper-accurate real-time data—far beyond his imagination. His earlier doubts and resentment had vanished; only profound awe and… fervor remained.

This was no longer a seismic detector! This was… God's Eye!

Qin Feng stood before the main console, watching the slowly rotating 3D map revealing Earth's pulse, a satisfied expression on his face.

With this system, "New Era"'s control over surrounding geological activity would rise to an entirely new dimension.

He could not only predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in advance, but perhaps even… guide or intervene in smaller-scale geological energy releases?

A bolder thought flashed through his mind.

Of course, that was a matter for later.

Now, he needed to ensure this Sea City-State would never again be caught off-guard by sudden, divine wrath.

He turned to Professor Smith, still stunned, and said calmly:

"Now, do you think it's enough?"

Professor Smith snapped back to reality, gazing at Qin Feng as if at a deity, bowing deeply, his voice trembling:

"Mr. Qin… I… I apologize for my earlier shallowness! This… this is no longer 'enough'—this is… a miracle!"