Chapter 655 News about Pure Gold
Haiyuan calendar year 1511
This year Vic was caught in a certain worry, that is, time. Although the illusion could speed up Rebecca and the others' practice, it would also affect their bodies and lifespans.
Because time is fair, there are gains and losses. You use the difference in the speed of time flow between reality and illusion to gain powerful strength in a short period of time, but correspondingly, your body will lose that time!
The direct manifestation is a shortened lifespan and traces of time left on the body. Vic didn't realize this problem at first. When the body of Mantis, the oldest person, began to show obvious changes, Vic realized that using illusions to practice also has a price.
For this reason, Vic suspended everyone's practice in the illusion, and after thinking for three days, he came up with a solution, which was to cut off the output of electrical signal commands inside their bodies in reality while Rebecca and the others were practicing in the illusion.
When the brain is affected by the flow of time in the illusion, the real body will be affected by the instinct of the brain and continuously output various electrical signal instructions, allowing the body to undergo a series of changes according to the flow of time in the illusion, in order to achieve a balance between time and the life span of the organism.
However, as long as you cut off certain instructions that the brain instinctively outputs while experiencing the illusion, the division and metabolism of cells in the organism, and other activities that cause aging and shorten lifespan of the organism will not occur. This can achieve the purpose of cheating and practicing quickly, without causing the real body to lose vitality.
However, even though they had come up with a solution, it could not be implemented immediately. Not only did Vic have to create an illusion to arrange Rebecca and the others' training, he also had to distract himself and use the power of the Thunder Fruit to help their real bodies cut off the output of those commands.
And before doing all this, he also needs to find out which instructions are causing the body to slowly age. If he can figure this out, theoretically, Vic can achieve immortality and even help those around him live longer.
Of course, this is only theoretical. The human body is very complex. If you want to achieve true immortality, you can only start from two aspects. One is to make the cells always energetic and not age and die. The second is that the cells can divide forever without limit.
Either of these two can achieve immortality, which Vic certainly can't do now. The ability of the Thunder Fruit is very powerful. It can extend the life of cells by cutting off certain instructions, but it can't make cells immortal!
But those who have broken through the realm of God can live for more than two thousand years. Certain changes must have taken place in their bodies. Vic feels that as long as he has felt that kind of change, he will definitely be able to find the change that causes the lifespan of organisms to be extended and achieve true immortality!
It took Vick a week of human trials to fully discover the instructions that control various biological and chemical reactions within cells.
Just finding these instructions is not enough to realize the previous idea. Just constructing the various scenes and rules in the illusion consumed a lot of Vic's energy. Although Vic has a good brain, it cannot be compared with the matrix host in The Matrix.
That is a virtual world that can accommodate countless human body batteries. There is no such thing as complete here and blurred there. This is not like the game where you only need to ensure that the color scene where the character is located is complete. In the matrix, everyone is his own protagonist, and that requires infinite computing power to ensure.
However, in Vic's case, it is not necessary to do it like in the Matrix. Vic only needs to target Rebecca and the others. This is similar to the operating mechanism of the game, which is a way to save computing power.
Fortunately, Vic had soul fruit that could improve his mental strength, which in turn improved his brain's computing power. Even so, Vic had to eat soul fruit for three consecutive months before he could specifically intercept the instructions that caused cell aging in Rebecca and the others while constructing the illusion.
This solved the problem that using illusion to accelerate practice would affect the lifespan of the body. After solving this problem, the illusion practice every two months started again.
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There was more good news this year. After three or four years of searching, the people assigned by the class finally found the trace of the giant lantern fish, which had surfaced in a sea area in the New World.
The giant lantern fish was attracted by the gold. This method was taught by Vic. Ben reported it to Vic as soon as he received the news. This lantern fish is not easy to find. It is a creature that lives in the sea. If it leaves that sea area, no one knows where it will go!
So Vic took Rebecca and Tiger and flew to that sea area as soon as he received the news. Tiger was used just in case. If they wanted to get pure gold, they had to enter the stomach of the lantern fish.
But after entering the stomach of the lantern fish, this big fish will definitely sink to the bottom of the sea, and then it will be a little dangerous. Even with Vic's current strength, he cannot completely get rid of the influence of sea water, and it will be a lot of fun if he drowns.
Rebecca was asked to follow because she was to be the driver. Vic's speed was naturally no problem, but Tiger's speed was not, so Rebecca had to use the power of the Float-Float Fruit to control a small boat to travel quickly in the air.
When Vic and the other two arrived at that sea area, they naturally could not see the lantern fish. It was lucky for this lantern fish to float to the surface of the sea once a year, so they could only find a way to make the fish float to the surface again.
Since this lantern fish likes pure gold, it is better to use pure gold for fishing.
With the metallurgical ability of Vic's Thunder Fruit, there is no problem in refining pure gold. It can reach 100% purity and achieve pure gold in the true literal sense.
However, the pure gold refined by Vic had no effect on slowing down growth and prolonging life. At that time, Vic knew that the pure gold in Olga's hand was definitely not literal, otherwise, wouldn't the user of the Gold-Gold Fruit be able to live forever?
How could the Celestial Dragons let him go? They had already locked him up to serve the Celestial Dragons. Moreover, the pure gold was researched by Olga's parents. Since it was researched instead of purified, it was very telling. This was the reason why pure gold was so rare. Vic could only rely on this giant lantern fish to find pure gold.
Vic used thunder metallurgy to purify three large golden balls. Tiger entered the sea holding the golden balls. Vic and Rebecca flew in the air with two special fishing rods. The end of the fishing line was not a fish hook but a golden ball hanging on it, pulling it in the sea.
The three men acted separately, which shocked the intelligence personnel who were waiting in this sea area. They never thought that they were working for that adult. It was such an honor. This was a huge backer. Moreover, the figure flying freely in the air was enough to show the adult's powerful strength.
Although pure gold is very bright, it is not as bright as the sun and the moon, so the three of them traveled on the sea for several days before they finally sensed the giant lantern fish with Vic's observation Haki.
The lantern fish was chasing Tiger, trying to eat Tiger and the golden ball in his arms in one bite, but Vic was quick and swung the fishing rod to block the golden ball at the end of the fishing line between Tiger and the lantern fish.
The lantern fish has limited intelligence and was quickly attracted to Vic's golden ball. However, Vic would not let the golden ball be eaten like this. He quickly reeled in the line and led the lantern fish to the surface of the sea.