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Ice Emperor said excitedly in the sea of spirit: "I got in. It was so easy to get in. Snow Girl, where is the Snow Girl?"
Tian Meng quickly advised: "Bingbing, calm down first. This place is too complicated. We will definitely rescue Xue Di."
Huo Yuhao carefully used his spiritual power to observe the surrounding environment.
Mingde Hall was located 100 meters underground, and its area was far beyond his spiritual detection range. Moreover, there seemed to be devices to block spiritual detection in many places, and many black blocks of different sizes appeared in his three-dimensional vision.
There is a high possibility that the Xue Di embryos are stored in places that cannot be detected.
Moreover, it is not so easy to sneak into these places. Huo Yuhao can use simulation to deceive the monitoring and eavesdropping soul guides, but the soul power detector is not easy to use.
Bingdi also knew that being reckless would not solve the problem, so he could only grit his teeth unwillingly.
Lin Jiayi did not explain the surrounding plans to Huo Yuhao. He just led him to a secret room deep in Mingde Hall and knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
Lin Jiayi and Huo Yuhao pushed the door open and walked in.
This is a room that looks like an office. The person sitting in the center of the room is naturally the head of Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen.
"Master, I have brought the person here." Lin Jiayi said respectfully.
Jing Hongchen nodded and gestured, "Jiayi, please go out first. I want to talk to this student alone."
"Yes."
Lin Jiayi left the room, leaving only Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen.
Huo Yuhao bowed respectfully and said, “Greetings, Hall Master.”
Jing Hongchen said calmly, “Huo Yuhao, I have some affinity with you. I didn’t expect to see you in Mingde Hall today. If I hadn’t seen your name by accident, I probably wouldn’t even have known you had sneaked right under my nose.”
Huo Yuhao asked doubtfully, “Master, what do you mean by fate…?”
"One year ago, you represented Shrek Academy and defeated our Sun Moon Team. The Sun Moon Team had two reserve players, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. And my name is Jing Hongchen. I'm afraid you should understand what's going on, right?"
Huo Yuhao subconsciously guessed, "Are you their elder?"
“Yes, they are my grandchildren, the most powerful geniuses in the history of the Sun-Moon Empire. It’s a pity that they were defeated by you, Shrek.” Jing Hongchen looked at Huo Yuhao dimly, “But I don’t understand why you quit Shrek and became a member of Xingluo Royal Academy.”
Huo Yuhao answered truthfully: "I am originally from Xingluo, and Shrek Academy is not suitable for me, so I dropped out."
Jing Hongchen nodded, a trace of viciousness bursting out of his eyes: "Then how dare you come to my Sun Moon Empire? As a genius from an enemy country, aren't you afraid that this hall master will strangle you here?"
Huo Yuhao pondered for a while, looked at Jing Hongchen seriously, and said: "Master Hongchen, although I was born in Xingluo, I don't feel a sense of belonging to Xingluo."
"I want to stay at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy."
Jing Hongchen looked at him with interest: "Why?"
"Because I am full of confidence in the future of soul guides. I believe that the future world must be a world of soul guide technology, and the Sun-Moon Empire is the country with the highest level of soul guides in the world today."
This boasting did not convince Jing Hongchen. He sneered and took out the blueprint of the soul guide machine tool: "I heard that you researched and designed this yourself?"
“Yes.” Huo Yuhao nodded in acknowledgement.
Jing Hongchen asked: "Do you know what this means?"
“I know.” Huo Yuhao said seriously, “Letting soul guides create soul guides themselves is an idea I came up with a long time ago.”
"Using soul guides to replace the low-level repetitive work of soul masters can not only greatly improve efficiency, but also reduce errors. After all, the possibility of soul guides making mistakes is much lower than that of soul masters."
"Each soul guide has a different level, different strength, and different state when engraving. Therefore, each core array he engraves will be different."
"But the soul guide machine tool is different. As long as enough soul power is input and the same materials are placed, then every core array engraved will be exactly the same."
“That’s the benefit of standardization.”
"Right now, this is only a level 4 soul guide, and can only engrave the simplest magic array. If it can reach level 7, level 8, or even level 9, how many levels of core magic arrays can it engrave?"
"In addition to soul guide machines for engraving, there can also be soul guide machines with other functions. If we arrange and combine them together, how many soul guides can be produced continuously?"
Huo Yuhao's voice, which was a little light out of respect at the beginning, gradually became louder and louder, and his voice became more excited with every sentence.
Jing Hongchen did not interrupt him, but his expression changed from gloomy to bright as he carefully considered every word that Huo Yuhao said.
Huo Yuhao finished his speech and looked at Jing Hongchen with a firm gaze.
After a long while, Jing Hongchen asked in a deep voice: "Lin Jiayi said that you have many wonderful ideas about soul guides."
"tell me the story."
Chapter 193 A Conversation with Jing Hongchen
Huo Yuhao was delighted when Jing Hongchen signaled him to continue.
The Master of Mingde Hall has already shown interest in him, so that's a good start.
He paused briefly, preparing his long speech.
Soon, Huo Yuhao said respectfully: "Master Hongchen, in my opinion, soul guides are powerful tools that can change the world."
"Attack and defense, with the help of soul guides, we can show strength far beyond our own and deal with situations that soul masters cannot handle."
Jing Hongchen did not show any abnormality, but just nodded slightly and looked at him calmly.
He seemed a little dissatisfied with his words: "These are all well-known common sense. I want to hear some different opinions."
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao directly asked: "Master Hongchen, consuming soul power and releasing skills, what do you think soul guides are similar to?"
Jing Hongchen was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted after Huo Yuhao’s hint: “Soul skills? Are you talking about soul rings?”
“Yes, but I think soul bones are more appropriate.” Huo Yuhao nodded and said, “You should know that soul bones can enhance a person’s physical fitness. The strength and hardness of metal are not lower than that of real soul bones, right?”
"Then can we use metal to make artificial soul bones? If not, can we make soul guides play the role of soul bones?"
Jing Hongchen's expression had calmed down, and he praised calmly, "Using soul guides to strengthen yourself? That's a good idea. Anything else?"
"Of course there are more, for example..."
Jing Hongchen looked at Huo Yuhao with curiosity. The latter seemed very excited and revealed his ideas about soul guides one after another.
Even Jing Hongchen couldn't help but nod approvingly for many of the ideas.
For example, by making good use of mechanical structures, low-level soul guides can be used to create convenient means of transportation. The use of milk bottles can make soul guides move towards automation, and so on.
Many soul guide device concepts are the secret research directions of Mingde Hall. Even Jing Hongchen has to wonder whether Huo Yuhao has peeked at Mingde Hall’s core secrets.
The conversation was not very serious. Jing Hongchen only occasionally displayed his majesty as the master of Mingde Hall. Most of the time he listened carefully and then expressed his own opinions.
He himself is a ninth-level soul engineer, and possesses the spirit of curiosity and research that a soul engineer should have.
In fact, not only Jing Hongchen felt comfortable listening, Huo Yuhao also spoke fluently.
He had rarely had the opportunity to tell outsiders about the fusion products of the soul guides in his mind and modern technology. He only talked more with Fan Yu and Cai Tou when he was in the soul guide department.
After talking for about an hour, Jing Hongchen suddenly asked, "If I asked you to design a soul guide that you think is the most powerful, how would you design it?"
Huo Yuhao was stunned for a moment and asked, "What will it be used for?"
Jing Hongchen said calmly: "War."
After Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment, he replied, “Master Hongchen, if you are referring to destructive power, I dare not show off my knowledge in front of you. But if you are referring to might, then there is no plan more perfect than mine.”
Jing Hongchen asked: "Why?"
Huo Yuhao: "Because the soul guide I designed cannot be defended. Or to be more precise, even if we know it exists, we don't know how to defend it."
Jing Hongchen frowned and said, "If the power does not come from destructive power, then where does it come from?"
Huo Yuhao said: "Because its attack is too fast and too unexpected, and if possible, the attack range can cover the entire continent."
Jing Hongchen said contemptuously: "From your description, it seems to be a long-range soul guide. But I want to remind you that even the most extensive long-range soul guide has an attack range of only a few thousand meters, it can't be that large."
"Don't be too fanciful."
Huo Yuhao said respectfully: "This is not a fantasy. My soul guide cannot defend against it because its attack comes from the sky."
Jing Hongchen was stunned and said, "You mean to combine the flying soul guide with this soul guide? Just maintaining flight requires a lot of soul power, so how can there be extra soul power to release attacks?"
"It doesn't take too much soul power to maintain flight. We can keep it suspended above the continent."
Huo Yuhao pondered for a while and looked at Jing Hongchen seriously: "Master Hongchen, in fact, the Douluo Continent under our feet should be a sphere. If the soul guide flies around it, it does not need to consume too much power."
Jing Hongchen widened his eyes slightly, but quickly concealed the surprise in his eyes.
He asked in a deep voice: "How did you know?"
Huo Yuhao replied: "I have read two ancient books before. They use a very peculiar but rigorous method to prove this result in detail. Not only the continent under our feet, but also the moon and sun in the sky are spheres."
Jing Hongchen asked, "What are the names of these two ancient books?"
Huo Yuhao replied, "Yes... Advanced Mathematics and General Physics."
Jing Hongchen thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "In fact, the continent we are standing on should be a sphere. I have known this for a long time. It seems that we are not the first to discover this fact."
Huo Yuhao’s eyes shrank, and this time his reaction was not fake.
He was really shocked.
When Jing Hongchen asked him about the war soul guide, he didn't think much and directly brought out the space-based weapons. But right after he finished answering, he realized that the people of Douluo Continent didn't know that the world they lived in was actually a planet.
Huo Yuhao was still thinking about how to explain to Jing Hongchen, but he didn't expect that Jing Hongchen had already discovered it.
But he soon felt relieved.
Given the level of technology that the Sun-Moon Empire has, it shouldn't be surprising to discover this.
Jing Hongchen murmured, "The Sun-Moon Empire once released many high-altitude detection soul guides. Based on the data recorded by these high-altitude soul guides, it is natural to find that the continent is actually on a sphere."
"We have also proposed the concept of soul guide satellites, which are very similar to the soul guide devices that fly around the planets you just described, but it is still at the conceptual stage."
Huo Yuhao returned to silence.
In his eyes, the national strength of the Sun-Moon Empire has risen to a higher level. He never expected that the country's soul guide technology has developed to this level.
Now I am thinking about sending the soul guide into outer space.
A silent pessimism arose in his heart.
That is, the three original Douluo Continent countries are really standing still in front of the Sun Moon Empire, a country that is constantly developing and progressing.
Jing Hongchen suddenly smiled. On his fat face, his eyes narrowed into two slits and looked at Huo Yuhao with some appreciation: "Your idea is really unique. It's a pity that the technology of using a milk bottle to provide soul power for soul guides is not yet mature."
"Soul power will continue to drain away in the bottle. It's OK for a short time, but it won't work for a long time. Ordinary people can't use it for the time being. Your idea of automation is still a bit general."