Chapter 43: Getting a Soul-Phone, Illustrious Virtue Hall (1 / 1)
If such a thing truly existed, the level of organization and efficiency in human society would be raised to a terrifying degree. But at the same time, she also realized Lin Yu's ambition and the immense benefits inherent in this move.
"This... sounds even more grand than the 'phone' you mentioned," she said subconsciously.
"Exactly. The Soul Network is the infrastructure, and the Soul-Phone is the access terminal. Combining the two creates a brand-new information age," Lin Yu nodded.
"And we, who master the core technology and network nodes, will become the rule-makers of this era. A steady stream of network entry fees, terminal sales profits, information channel service fees... capital will no longer be an issue. More importantly, when the entire continent grows accustomed to communicating through our Soul Network, accepting the concepts of the Spirit Pagoda and purchasing Spirit Soul services will be a matter of course!"
"The vision is good," Gu Yuena calmly pointed out the key issue. "But as you said, we have nothing right now. Blueprints? Technology? How will you make the Sun Moon Empire believe and invest? Whom will you find to invest?"
"Blueprints and technology?" Lin Yu gave a confident smile. He extended his right hand, and with a flick of his fingers, soul power condensed and quickly traced through the air.
One after another, core formation lines composed of pure filaments of light—so complex and profound they were dazzling—appeared out of thin air. They layered upon each other, constantly combining and changing, emitting exquisite energy fluctuations.
"They are all here. As for a finished product..."
His gaze scanned the surroundings, locking onto a discarded, low-grade metallic ore not far away that contained a faint ripple of soul power. With a phantom grab of his palm, the ore flew into his hand.
Golden soul power, acting like the most precise carving knife, instantly decomposed, smelted, and reshaped it!
Amidst the flickering light, impurities were stripped away, and the structure was reorganized. In just a few breaths, a palm-sized, streamlined, flat rectangular object shimmering with a faint blue soul-power halo and embedded with several micro-core formation crystals appeared in his palm.
It was rough and simple—even the casing was only rudimentarily polished—but the radiance of the core formations emitted a heart-palpitating sense of precision and efficiency!
"This is the most basic Soul-Phone prototype."
Lin Yu handed this metallic-colored "brick" to Gu Yuena. "The core communication formations are already branded within. As long as there are Soul Network nodes we established nearby, short-range instant messaging can be achieved. Of course, this is just a prototype. A true mass-produced model needs a more beautiful appearance, more stable materials, a stronger soul power reserve, and a more complex interactive interface. But those are merely engineering problems. The core 'Soul Network' technology and the terminal's basic infrastructure are already complete."
Gu Yuena took the "Soul-Phone," which still carried the warmth of Lin Yu's palm. As her cold fingertips touched the precise formations, she could clearly sense the soul tool technological concepts contained within—concepts that far exceeded her understanding.
She had to admit that this man possessed a god-like hand when it came to creation and subversion.
"As for the investor..."
Lin Yu withdrew his hand and stood with his arms behind his back, looking once more toward the Illustrious Virtue Hall. The corner of his mouth curled into a smile of one who has planned everything. "We don't need to take the initiative to find them. Let them come to us."
"Let them come to us?" Gu Yuena's voice remained flat, but there was a hint of inquiry in her tone. "How do you plan to make them find out?"
Lin Yu's smile deepened. He took back the prototype from Gu Yuena and tapped lightly on several key nodes with his fingertip.
Buzz—!
An invisible, extremely faint yet exceptionally pure soul power pulse—like a pebble dropped into a calm lake—instantly spread out, precisely covering a large area, including the core region of the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"A signal."
Lin Yu put away the prototype as if he had performed a trivial task. "A noise they cannot decode and cannot ignore, yet can clearly perceive as powerful and distinct."
Just as Lin Yu expected, that faint but unique soul power pulse was like a super-high-temperature metal projectile dropped into calm, deep water, instantly setting off an unknown, massive wave in the depths of the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Illustrious Virtue Hall, Core Soul Tool Monitoring Hub.
On the massive soul-power holographic projection screen, the soft band of light representing Radiant City's background soul-power environment was suddenly pierced by an extremely sharp peak of an unimaginably high frequency!
The duration of this peak was extremely short—less than a hundredth of a second—but the energy density released in that instant and the way the soul power waveform was woven caused the monitoring formations to emit an unprecedented, ear-piercing alarm!
"Warning! Warning! Detected unknown high-energy-density soul power pulse! Frequency characteristics unknown! Modulation method unknown! Source point positioning: Radiant City West District edge, coordinate locking in progress..."
The shrill alarm shattered the tranquility of the research area. Several elderly researchers wearing the high-level uniforms of the Illustrious Virtue Hall—some with white hair, others wearing heavy soul-tool glasses—practically scrambled to the monitoring console. Their eyes were fixed on the pulse record, which had already disappeared, leaving only afterimages and detailed data.
"This... this is impossible!" A balding old researcher's voice was trembling. His fingers shook as he enlarged the waveform diagram of the pulse on the holographic projection. "Look at this energy compression rate! Look at the instantaneous information-carrying density! This... this has already exceeded the limit of a Ninth-Level Soul Communication Core! Could it be... could it be the legendary..."
"Tenth-Level?!" another serious-looking elder cried out in shock, before immediately shaking his head. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Tenth-level is only theoretical! There has never been a physical object! And this modulation... this isn't any known communication protocol at all! Heavens, it's like... like stuffing the contents of an entire book into a needle's eye!"
"Locate it! Quick! Precise source point positioning!" the balding elder practically roared.
"The energy dissipation is too fast, the source point is blurred... locked near the edge of the Radiant City West District, error radius... three kilometers!" the young researcher in charge of positioning said urgently.
"Three kilometers! That's enough!" A fanatical light exploded in the balding elder's eyes. "Immediately notify Hall Master Hongchen! Highest level! No... I'll go myself! This... this might be a subversive discovery! It's enough to advance the continent's soul communication technology by a hundred years!"
At the same time, deep within the Illustrious Virtue Hall, in a massive laboratory filled with various precise soul-tool blueprints and semi-finished products.
A slightly plump middle-aged man wearing a magnificent Soul Engineer robe, gold-rimmed glasses, and possessing shrewd, sharp eyes—Jing Hongchen—was focused on debugging a complex soul-cannon model before him. He was the controller of the Illustrious Virtue Hall, a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer with a pivotal status in the Sun Moon Empire.
Suddenly, an inconspicuous silver bracelet on his wrist vibrated violently, projecting a small light screen showing the pulse's waveform diagram and analysis report, along with a line of bright red warning text.