Chapter 612

"What are you thinking about?" Wei Aola's voice interrupted his thoughts.

Jie Ming came back to his senses and shook his head: "Nothing. So since you're free, what do you plan to do?"

Wei Aola tilted her head and thought: "I don't know. Do you have any recommendations?"

Jie Ming glanced at the Nest on the laboratory table that was slowly returning to calm, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly. "There's really nothing fun for you to do here. How about I have the Black Giant priests take you around?"

"Fine..." Wei Aola rolled her eyes and turned to walk toward the door.

Halfway there, she suddenly stopped and said without looking back: "Don't get smug just because you've entered the Fate System. The old man said that entering is just the beginning, and the road ahead is still long."

Jie Ming smiled: "Got it."

Wei Aola walked to the door and suddenly stopped again.

She turned around and stared at Jie Ming with a vigilant face, like a cat with its fur standing on end.

Her fists were clenched tightly, waving in the air twice in a threatening manner.

"Also, you are not allowed to tell the old man that you have entered the Fate System knowledge." Her voice was very low, but every word was bitten very hard, "Otherwise I'll be dragged off for remedial classes again!"

Jie Ming looked at the fist waving in front of him, then looked at Wei Aola's face, which was written with "If you dare to tell, I will bite you to death," and nodded with a smile.

"Got it."

Wei Aola stared at him for a few seconds to confirm he wasn't just brushing her off, and only then slowly lowered her fist.

Jie Ming looked at her expression and found it funny.

It seemed Mentor Kemeili's "remedial classes" had left quite a psychological shadow on this senior sister.

She let out a long breath, but suddenly lost the interest to continue playing: "Forget it, I suddenly feel it's not interesting either..."

Jie Ming blinked, and to change the subject, he raised his hand and pointed to the gelatinous creature slowly wriggling in the center of the laboratory. "Since you have nothing to do now, senior sister, come and help me modify this."

Wei Aola's gaze fell on the large mass of translucent, blue-shimmering object, her brows furrowing slightly. "What is this?"

"A type of cannon fodder creature I created; I named it 'Nest'." Jie Ming walked to the laboratory table, his palm pressing on the surface of the gel, feeling the energy pulse inside it, "Of course, it no longer has the functions of a Nest at all."

Wei Aola walked a few steps closer, tilted her head to examine it, and gave a merciless evaluation: "The technology is a bit rough. What do you plan to change it into?"

Jie Ming did not refute.

The design of the Nest was indeed rough; although preliminary modifications had been made, most of the other technology was still stuff he had come up with before the information plane war.

Looking back now, there were places to optimize everywhere.

"Those creatures from the information plane... I should have told you after I came back, you still have an impression, right?" Jie Ming said.

Wei Aola nodded.

"I want the Nest to gain the abilities of an information creature to a certain extent." Jie Ming moved his hand away from the gel and drew a light screen in the air, which displayed densely packed modification plans.

After entering the Void Refinement Stage, Jie Ming's familiarity with information-based creatures had risen in a straight line.

Not only had he entered the Fate System, but he had also studied quite a few core modification materials from parallel worlds, and now he had considerable confidence in this plan. Wei Aola's gaze swept over the light screen without immediately commenting.

She walked to the other side of the laboratory and took out a small lens from her bosom.

The lens was aimed at the mass of gel, and pale green light swept over every inch of its surface.

"What is the core characteristic of an information creature?" she asked without looking up.

"Information state conversion. Temporarily converting matter and energy into information, transmitting it to another node, and then re-materializing it." Jie Ming said, "The Nest's regeneration ability is already very strong, but if the ability of information state transmission can be added, it won't just be regeneration, but true 'immortality.' As long as there are nodes, it can be resurrected infinitely."

Wei Aola put away the lens and nodded thoughtfully.

She looked at Jie Ming, her gaze carrying a trace of scrutiny: "What material do you plan to use as the core for information conversion?"

Jie Ming did not speak.

He walked to the safe in the corner of the laboratory, entered a long string of passwords, and pressed his palm to verify his soul fluctuations.

The safe door slowly opened, revealing rows of neatly placed blue crystals inside.

Entropy Brains.

He took out one the size of a fist, held it in his palm, and walked back to the laboratory table.

Wei Aola's eyes went straight instantly.

She stared at the blue crystal, watching the fine, dense light spots flowing slowly inside, her lips slightly parted.

"This thing is an Entropy Brain?" Her voice was a bit dry, "Outside, it's already been bid up to one billion high-tier military merits each."

One billion... Jie Ming's heart moved slightly.

When he left the information plane back then, the price of an Entropy Brain was 200,000 to 500,000 high-tier military merits each.

It had only been a few hundred years, and it had actually risen so many times.

However, it wasn't strange to think about it; the effect of the Entropy Brain was too heaven-defying, able to sort through everything a person had learned in their life from beginning to end, allowing those wizards stuck in bottlenecks for hundreds of years to break through overnight.

For something like this, there would be people buying it no matter the price.

"How many do you have?" Wei Aola's voice pulled Jie Ming back to reality.

"Enough." Jie Ming did not give a specific number, but pushed the Entropy Brain toward Wei Aola, "If you can help me complete the modification, I can give you one as a reward."

Although the value of the Entropy Brain was not low, for Jie Ming, its effect was already quite limited.

When he truly merges with the Dao later, the effect of the Entropy Brain on him will be reduced to a minimum.

What's more, he had used quite a few Entropy Brains over the years, and his body and soul had already remembered this feeling.

Jie Ming estimated that it wouldn't take many more uses before his body-refining technique could autonomously evolve the same ability.

Wei Aola's gaze jumped back and forth between the Entropy Brain and Jie Ming several times, her breathing clearly becoming a bit faster.

"Deal."

Wei Aola's voice was calm to the point of being deliberate, but her hand had already reached out and taken the Entropy Brain from Jie Ming's palm.

The action was so fast, as if she was afraid he would go back on his word.

Jie Ming's mouth twitched slightly.

Senior sister, at least be polite.

Wei Aola carefully put the Entropy Brain into her own spatial equipment, then walked back to the laboratory table, the expression on her face having switched from an unserious senior sister to a focused researcher.

On the light screen, the densely packed text and graphics were analyzed line by line by Wei Aola.

"The position of the information conversion node is wrong." Wei Aola suddenly spoke, her finger tapping on the light screen, marking one of the nodes in red, "You put it on the periphery of the core area; the delay in information transmission will be very large."

"That's for safety." Jie Ming explained, "If placed inside the core area, once the information conversion goes out of control, the entire Nest will collapse." "What is the probability of going out of control?"

"About three percent."

"Then there's no need to put it on the periphery."

Wei Aola's fingers moved rapidly on the light screen, dragging those marked nodes to new positions one by one.

"The core characteristic of an information creature is information state conversion. You put the conversion node on the periphery, which is equivalent to letting it strip off a layer of the outer shell during conversion. Should the stripped layer be transmitted? If not, it's a waste; if transmitted, the delay is too large. It's better to put it directly in the core area, one conversion, all packaged."

"As for the possibility of going out of control... the probability is not low, then add a few more verification nodes; although the speed will still be dragged down a bit, it's still much faster than putting it on the periphery..."

While speaking, the node structure had already been rearranged.

Under Wei Aola's clever arrangement, only a few verification nodes were added in the middle of this pile of nodes, and all the nodes were included. Jie Ming looked at the rearranged nodes and was silent for a few seconds.

Wei Aola's plan was more radical than his, but from a model perspective, it was indeed more suitable.

"And here." Wei Aola continued to write and draw on the light screen, her tone carrying a trace of disdain, "The direction of the energy circuit is too conservative. Are you afraid it will burn out? The tolerance of this gelatinous creature is much higher than you imagine; the circuit can be twice as dense, and the conversion efficiency will increase by at least twenty percent."

She modified it while speaking, her movements flowing like clouds and water, as if those densely packed structural diagrams were drawn by herself.

Jie Ming stood by, watching her renovate the modification plan from beginning to end, and a wonderful feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

This is a genius.

It wasn't that he didn't have the ability to change it for the better, but it would take more time.

And Wei Aola only needed one look to know where it could be optimized, where it could be radical, and where it could be risky.

That wasn't a gap in knowledge, but a gap in intuition and talent.

Wei Aola finished modifying the last place, straightened up, put the lens back into her bosom, and patted the non-existent dust on her hands.

"Done. Follow this plan, and the combat power will be at least forty percent higher than your original version." She paused, looking at Jie Ming sideways, "By the way, for this modification, do you need me to help you do it?"

Jie Ming looked at the plan on the light screen that had been modified beyond recognition, then looked at Wei Aola's face, which was written with "I have already entered work mode," and decisively shook his head.

"You just guide. I'll do the work."

Wei Aola hummed, not knowing whether she was satisfied or dissatisfied.

She pulled over a chair and sat down, crossed her legs, and raised her chin toward the laboratory table.

"Then let's begin."