Chapter 1340

"Launching the small tree-men?" Hearing such words, even Lisa couldn't continue her report. Everyone hurriedly soul-shifted or star-shifted to Ang's location.

Arriving here, they discovered that Ang had actually taken out the Spraying Melon and was adjusting its angle. Beside him were Deity Diluni and Xisilu, who were using equipment to adjust the star map and then explaining it to the Spraying Melon.

"So troublesome. Just tell me which one it is, and I'll aim it myself," the Spraying Melon said somewhat irritably.

Adjusting the orientation was not this troublesome at all. It could aim as long as it was told which one it was. Why did it have to turn so many degrees and minutes? It gave it a headache just listening.

"At this position of this one, sixty degrees and seventy-two minutes down, sixteen degrees and twelve minutes to the right," Deity Diluni said.

The Spraying Melon said irritably: "How much are these degrees and minutes anyway? You made up these units; how do I know how much to adjust? Can't I just spray at this point?"

Deity Diluni hurriedly said: "No, no, that's the Divine Star. If you spray the seeds onto the Divine Star, doesn't that mean sending them to their deaths? Only this position has a large plane. This was selected from the observation results of our Astrological Association for hundreds of years. If you deviate even a little, you won't be able to spray it on."

The Spraying Melon said in a dilemma: "But if you say it like this, I can't aim accurately either. My aiming is done through the nozzle. I suck in a mouthful of space; look, the space is deformed, and the distant object is magnified. I suck in another mouthful, magnify it again, and I can aim at a very distant place. If you say so many degrees and minutes, how many mouthfuls do I have to suck?"

"Then for this Divine Star, after you magnify it, can you see the planes near it?" Deity Diluni asked.

"Can't see, it's too dark," the Spraying Melon said.

Deity Diluni and Xisilu looked at each other, realizing that this was a bit unreliable. The Spraying Melon's spatial spraying was entirely a talent, just like a person's eyes can see things, but you tell him to look in the direction of ninety-six degrees. Who knows where ninety-six degrees is? There are no rulers in the eyes.

"What to do? Bring a crystal mask over? Let it aim through the crystal mask first, and then remove it before launching?" Deity Diluni suggested.

Du Luo Ken directly rejected this proposal: "No, the precision is not enough. If you want the Spraying Melon to be able to aim, the crystal mask needs to be very large. It's impossible to make such a large size absolutely flat. If there is even a tiny bit of deformation, who knows where the position will deviate to after aiming."

Flatness on an astrological scale, when placed on a mask, might be a difference of zero point zero zero zero something millimeters. Even if an Alchemy King like Du Luo Ken took action himself, it would be impossible to achieve this precision, not to mention having to "mask" it?

Any movement, and such a large mask might deform; even thermal expansion and contraction would cause deformation. So the option of adding a mask under the eyepiece like an astronomical telescope was absolutely impossible.

Deity Diluni and Xisilu discussed several more plans, and even mobilized the research students of the Astrological Association to use their imagination.

The Divine Light Alliance and the Empress Feilie Empire had the largest Astrological Association in the void, with hundreds of thousands of astrologers and thousands of astrological colleges, comparable in scale to the Mage Association of the Chaos Plane.

Originally, Anthony found it difficult to understand such a large-scale Astrological Association. Astrologers didn't have any output, and their combat power wasn't strong. How did so many people live? Did they all go to the entrance of the vegetable market to tell fortunes for people?

Anthony's original understanding of astrologers was limited to fortune-telling, looking at terrain, and predicting the future and love—deceptive things. However, he later discovered that this was not the case. The void navigation of this world was very developed, and a large number of airships shuttled between major planes, with a much larger transport volume than teleportation arrays.

Such airships required a large number of astrologers to guide the direction, so there was a demand for employment.

Anthony had long ago indirectly controlled the Astrological Association through Tianya of the Star Astrological College. Once the most advanced astrological tower and astronomical telescope of Deity Diluni and Xisilu were in place, Anthony immediately issued research student quotas through Tianya.

For one, it could increase Tianya's prestige; for another, it could deepen control over the entire Astrological Association, and even the elite of the entire Empire and Alliance, through these research students.

Thirdly, these research students were all genius astrologers. Genius was just the threshold to step into this step, and they often had many brilliant ideas.

"Can we enlarge the star map and place it directly in front of it, letting it aim according to the star map? Is it okay?" As expected of a genius research student, someone soon suggested.

Deity Diluni thought for a moment and said: "The difficulty is still very great. How to ensure the accuracy of the star map after magnification?"

While speaking, Deity Diluni looked at Negris: "Lord God of Knowledge, only you can quickly calculate the void-level star map. The accuracy of the star map depends on your help."

Negris put his claws on his waist: "No problem, just calculating a star map, a small matter. Ang, you come to help calibrate. The position of the star map is calculated, but it also needs you to calibrate it in front of the Spraying Melon."

Ang nodded.

This was a complex system engineering project. The amount of calculation and the difficulty of calibration involved could not be completed by dozens of people. Under normal circumstances, they would need to build a star tracker first, at least on the scale of the Star Burst array.

This work was replaced by Ang.

Secondly, they needed hundreds of people to calculate the star map, enlarge the small star map proportionally, and calculate their running trajectories.

This work was completed by Negris.

The most important things were settled, and the rest of the people only needed to help.

A star map was enlarged in front of the Spraying Melon. Negris kept calculating its running trajectory and reporting numbers constantly.

Deity Diluni and other astrologers were responsible for adjustments, while Ang was responsible for calibrating the large star map and the small star map to ensure that the operation on them was synchronized and identical.

And the Spraying Melon began to suck in "air." With every mouthful, a large amount of space was sucked into its body. The Spraying Melon swelled a little, then sucked in another mouthful, and swelled a little more. Repeating this, the Spraying Melon soon swelled into a round watermelon.

Ang took out a small tree-man. The small tree seedling said a lot of "ya ya ya" to it, and finally plucked a leaf and inserted it on the top of the small tree-man's head.

The small tree-man said a lot of "ya ya ya," then obediently crawled into the fruit shell and closed the fruit shell by the way.

Ang thought of something and hurriedly knocked on the fruit shell. The small tree-man blankly opened the fruit shell. Ang took out insect ash liquid and poured it inside until the fruit shell was half full.

"Ya—" The small tree-man sent a message of gratitude, closed the fruit shell again, and before long, the fruit shell grew back into a sealed state.

With the powerful vitality of the insect ash liquid, even if the small tree-man didn't spray onto the plane, it could survive in the void for a long time until it encountered the next place where it could grow.

(End of chapter)