Chapter 33: Weapon Research Department

Elemental bombs, poison gas bombs, sonic bombs, gravity bombs... matching different Painful Painful Minghun traits, Qin Ye became even more convinced of the growth path centered on crafting spiritual energy bombs.

But how to solve the problem of the explosion affecting himself, he had not found an answer in the Painful Painful Minghun library of the Test Tower.

When facing indecision, ask the Guide; Qin Ye chose to seek a solution from the Guide.

Facing the inquiry, the surface of the Guide's water sphere manifested a human-like expression of thought; after a phantom hand cupped its chin and rubbed it repeatedly, it spoke:

【The Painful Painful Minghun database in the Test Tower only records a portion of Meng Yuan Chu abilities; a vast number of unknown Meng Yuan Chu abilities are scattered throughout the Monster World. What can be confirmed is that there must be space-transportation type Meng Yuan Chu abilities. If you can obtain such an ability, you will certainly be able to perform cross-space transportation.】

【For example, you could open a spatial channel in front of you, throw the spiritual energy bomb into it, and it would be transported to a distant location to explode precisely.】

Hearing the Guide's explanation, Qin Ye immediately became interested:

"Where can I hunt Meng Yuan Chu monsters possessing space-type abilities?"

【I cannot answer this question. The Monster World is vast and boundless; after the Black Tide swept through, the world's terrain underwent drastic changes. Finding where specific Meng Yuan Chu monsters with particular abilities are scattered is completely unknown. If you are lucky, they might be in the Emperor's Tomb Mountain Range region; if unlucky, they might be in the extremely distant Great Northern Region.】

Hearing this, Qin Ye was instantly stunned:

"Is there no function to locate Meng Yuan Chu abilities?"

【Perhaps there will be in the future, provided you can reclaim the Node Domain that possesses the ability to locate Meng Yuan Chu.】

"So where is the Node Domain capable of locating Meng Yuan Chu?"

【I do not know.】

Qin Ye:...

Just then, a prompt sounded in Qin Ye's mind:

【Challenger Prompt: Detected important information in the Virtual Game Pod. Do you wish to exit and view it?】

Receiving the prompt, Qin Ye did not hesitate and immediately exited the game.

At this time, the Sky Dome Research Center held a meeting because of an email sent by Qin Ye.

The staff member who received the email, upon reading its content and realizing the attached address could download a cracked version of Dark Land, decisively conveyed this news to the Sky Dome high command.

But what surprised the high command was that the download link actually had permission restrictions and could not be downloaded.

They decisively fed this problem back to the Network Security Center, hoping they could bypass the permissions to help complete the download.

But the feedback received was that the Security Center's intelligent brain had no permission to bypass the restrictions behind the link to download the content; they could only wait for the download permission to be actively opened.

The staff member who received the reply subsequently chose to send a message to Qin Ye, hoping he could copy and transmit the downloaded file to the Sky Dome Research and Development Center.

But Qin Ye's reply disappointed the Sky Dome Center once again.

The downloaded game file was locked by permissions and could not be sent to the Sky Dome Center via transmission.

Finally, the high command of the Sky Dome Center decided to monitor the link's movements constantly and wait for the download permission to open again.

When this news was conveyed to the Weapon Research Department of the Sky Dome Research and Development Center, the weapon researchers completely lost their composure.

If it truly could achieve the 100% virtual reality mentioned in the email, this would simply be a perfect dangerous weapon testing ground.

That night at 11:50 PM.

The Dark Land official website was approaching the time for a new round of qualification releases, among which the Human Federation possessed 1 million qualification slots available for purchase.

A group of elderly men with graying hair from the Sky Dome Center's Weapon Research Department opened the official website on time to wait for the purchase.

Time reached 12:00 AM, and the countdown numbers on the official website page hit zero.

The qualification purchase ended in less than 1 second.

At this moment, in Weapon Laboratory - Office A1, an elderly man sat before a desk, gazing at the screen; his hair was sparse and disheveled, he wore a blue uniform, yet his eyes were exceptionally bright.

Gazing at the failure prompt popped up by the webpage, Yang Yang Tianxuan couldn't help but shake his head in regret.

The difficulty of purchasing the qualifications truly gave him a headache.

Before this, he had also thought of using technology, but no script could read the official website information; it was simply not feasible.

Thinking of the email content sent by Qin Ye which confirmed the game perfectly simulates reality, where various dangerous weapon experiments could be conducted there, he felt an uncontrollable itch in his heart.

An absolutely safe experimental venue; this was simply the holy grail of their Weapon Research Department's dreams.

Nano-viruses, weather weapons, sky-curtain weapon arsenals... the vast amount of advanced technology provided by the alien races led to experiments that simply could not be conducted due to certain risks in research and testing.

For instance, with weather weapons, casually manipulating weather changes could very likely lead the Earth's ecosystem to face a disaster moment.

But in a game environment with 100% simulation fidelity, weapons in the concept could be experimented upon, and once the technology was fully mature, it could be applied to reality.

This eliminated a series of severe environmental destruction and personal dangers that could be caused during the immature technology stage.

The problem was that the Dark Land game qualifications were too difficult to snatch; he had applied to the higher-ups several times, hoping the Human Federation would acquire extra game qualifications through diplomatic means, but to date, no reply had been received.

The purchase failed again; Yang Yang Tianxuan felt helpless in his heart.

Just then, he suddenly thought of that email address sent by Qin Ye.

He immediately opened the email on the virtual desktop and clicked the address attached to the email.

The popped-up webpage was very simple, a page almost completely blank, with only a downloadable compressed package in the center position.

At the exact same moment Yang Yang Tianxuan clicked download, Qi Sheng received feedback; the Star Network IP information displayed the Weapon Research Department of the Sky Dome Research and Development Center.

Learning of the existence of the Weapon Research Department through Qin Ye's memories, he decisively opened an extra slot for them.

Ding!

Accompanied by a crisp download reminder, Yang Yang Tianxuan was instantly stunned.

The prompt displayed the last time he clicked indicated that the file had not opened download permissions.

But this time it actually opened.

Before trying, he hadn't even held much expectation, yet he didn't expect to actually download the game.

Without the slightest hesitation, he decisively clicked the group chat software in the bottom right corner.

Yang Yang Tianxuan (Director of Weapon Research Department): @Everyone, notify everyone to immediately click the link address sent by Qin Ye and download the game!

After @-ing everyone three times in a row, Yang Yang Tianxuan couldn't help but laugh heartily.

The disappointment from the failed purchase vanished instantly.

As for whether the downloaded game file could run, he had no worries at all.

The message from the Security Center explained that this pirated link was likely leaked from within the Eclipse Clan and could connect to the Star Network to play the game online.

Watching the progress bar load, a bold idea was born in Yang Yang Tianxuan's mind.

The experimental process required consuming vast resources, and there were only two ways to obtain resources from the game world.

The first was to spend real money to recharge, purchasing resources from other players to fund research and development.

Or to establish a powerful faction within the game to control part of the resource production.

The first method required applying to superiors for game funding, a tedious process needing detailed explanations.

But the second method carried no such concerns.

Recalling the super geniuses in various weapon research fields under his command, Yang Yang Tianxuan immediately formed the idea of building a powerful faction within the game.

He was unclear how other players played the game.

But since it was a game with perfect realistic simulation, he and the members of the Weapon Research Department could build a technological weapon army from scratch to compete with other players for resources in the game.

And actual combat could also test the power of new weapons.

(End of this chapter)