HCB Chapter 1066 Is this woman some kind of mad scientist?
Chapter 1066 Is this woman some kind of mad scientist?
Wu Hen adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting the lights of the distant detached buildings.
His tone was flat: "Wasn't she punished by being confined to clean the warehouse? Are you sure she didn't tear down a load-bearing wall in the warehouse?"
"Let's go take a look." Lin Qiye smiled and walked towards the brightly lit building.
Before the two even reached the door, they heard an exaggerated exclamation from inside.
"Holy crap! A memorial! You call this a 'mode of transportation'?"
It was Baili Pangpang's voice.
Lin Qiye and Wu Hen exchanged a glance and quickened their pace.
Pushing open the half-closed metal door, the sight before them both froze them in surprise.
This is no longer a confinement cell; it's clearly a huge private hangar.
In the very center of the hangar, Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan were standing around an extremely outrageous motorcycle, their faces clearly showing their "naivety."
That motorcycle was less of a vehicle and more of an engine with four wheels, exuding a violent, metallic aesthetic.
"Oh, everyone's here." Lin Qiye greeted them lazily.
"Seven Nights! Old Wu! Come quick!" Baili Pangpang waved excitedly.
"In memory of this woman who made the Dodge Tomahawk! Really! Exactly the same!"
A girl wearing a white lab coat and goggles, with several oil stains on her face, was squatting next to the motorcycle.
Holding a wrench in his hand, he corrected without looking up, "It's a replica, something I made on the spur of the moment."
"Internal combustion engines are too outdated, so I switched to a micro repulsion engine. The energy conversion rate is a bit low, only 98.7%, but it'll do."
"..." Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan's expressions froze instantly.
It'll have to do.
Is a 98.7% energy conversion rate considered passable?
If this gets out, physicists all over the world will have to line up to go to the rooftop.
"You came just in time."
Ji Nian stood up, removed her goggles, revealing a handsome but expressionless face.
"Help me take a look at the final debugging parameters."
As she spoke, she casually pointed to the other side of the hangar.
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed, and the next second, everyone's breath caught in their throats.
Outside the massive gates of the hangar, there was an empty space.
A massive cruise ship, so large it blotted out half the night sky, was quietly anchored there.
The cruise ship's hull wasn't made of smooth steel, but rather of countless tiny, shimmering pixelated blocks.
It's like an ultimate creation that came out of some 8-bit game.
"I... damn..." Baili Pangpang's mouth opened into an "O" shape, and he couldn't close it for a long time.
"Jinian... weren't you punished to clean the warehouse? You turned the warehouse... into a ship?"
Is this woman some kind of mad scientist?
"After cleaning, I was a bit bored, so I brought the model I had conceived to life."
The commemoration was delivered in a flat tone, as if he were saying, "I just had a meal."
"This 'Pixel' is 350 meters long and utilizes space folding technology."
The actual usable area inside is approximately the size of three football fields.
The outer shell is made of high-density energy pixels, which can reassemble their shape at any time.
Theoretically, it can withstand a full-force attack from anyone below the 'Boundless' realm. Oh, and by the way, it can fly too.
Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan were completely speechless; they seemed to have had their souls ripped out.
Staring blankly at the pixelated cruise ship, his worldview was collapsing and rebuilding at an unprecedented speed.
"The 'pixel' capability can go this far?"
An Qingyu adjusted his glasses; he was the only one among them who remained calm, his eyes gleaming with a thirst for knowledge.
“I always thought your ability was based on the mystical ‘concept creation,’ but looking at the structure of this ship, it seems to follow strict physical laws.”
How did you combine macroscopic pixel construction with microscopic quantum mechanics and achieve stable existence?
Ji Nian glanced at An Qingyu, as if she had finally found someone to talk to: "It's not quantum mechanics, it's a superdimensional application of string theory."
“I define each pixel as an independent eleven-dimensional spacetime bubble, which is constrained and linked by a supergravity matrix.”
"In this way, it manifests as a physical entity at the macroscopic level,"
"But at the microscopic level, I can modify its fundamental constants at will."
"So that's how it is! By changing the fundamental constants, the law of conservation of mass-energy was bypassed?"
An Qingyu suddenly realized, "But the computational complexity of the supergravity matrix..."
"It's alright, it's about 10 to the power of 300 per second."
"I created a simple quantum AI-assisted calculation."
Their conversation had completely exceeded the comprehension of others.
Lin Qiye was completely baffled.
Turning to Wu Hen, she said, "I recognize every single word they say, but when they're put together, I can't understand a single word."
Wu Hen replied expressionlessly, "Me too."
Baili Pangpang reached out and touched the textured hull of the cruise ship.
Her eyes were sparkling: "In memory of my elder sister! This boat... are you selling it? I'll pay for it! I'll give you all my savings!"
An Qingyu glanced at him and said in a chilling tone, "The construction cost of this ship, if converted into conventional materials and technology, could probably buy three Pacific Fleets."
"Is your little bit of savings enough to buy even a single pixel?"
The wealthy second-generation chubby man froze instantly, clutching his chest as if he had been hit by a ton of damage.
For the first time, he truly realized that having money... really isn't as good as having brains.
Lin Qiye patted Baili Pangpang, who was still questioning his existence.
He said to the memorial, "Alright, stop showing off your new toy."
"We're heading back now. We have a three-day holiday, so let's get some rest."
"Oh."
Ji Nian responded, put on her goggles again, and squatted down to continue tinkering with her repulsion engine.
It was as if that world-destroying cruise ship was just a casually discarded backdrop.
After leaving the hangar, Lin Qiye and Wu Hen walked back to their dormitory in silence.
Back in his room, Lin Qiye locked the door behind him.
"Let's go see our 'new caregiver'."
Wu Hen nodded, and the two sat down cross-legged, their consciousness instantly sinking into the depths of their minds.
The familiar white corridor, the smell of disinfectant, and the ancient gate inscribed with "Gods Mental Hospital".
Lin Qiye pushed open the door with practiced ease and stepped inside with Wu Hen.
Unlike last time, this time their target was clear—a special prison located beneath the hospital.
Last time, they captured a powerful Klein-type creature, a strange being that could easily corrupt even a Klein-level expert.
Lin Qiye suddenly had a whimsical idea: to see if this kind of creature could be accepted by a mental hospital, or even transformed into a usable "caregiver".
If successful, this would be a powerful trump card in their fight against "mystery".
The two walked through the empty hall and down the spiral staircase leading to the underground.
The air grew increasingly cold and the surrounding light dimmed.
The underground prison was deathly silent.
A sense of unease swept through Lin Qiye's heart.
He remembered clearly that the last time that creature of the Cleopatra type was imprisoned here...
The entire prison was filled with insane ramblings and a nauseating, polluted stench.
Even when confined in a cage, its very existence is a form of spiritual pollution.
But now, it's eerily quiet here.
They walked quickly to the cage where the creature was being held.
The cage was completely empty.
Not to mention that twisted, kinetic creature, even the slightest trace of pollution it left behind has vanished completely.
The entire cage was so clean it looked like it had just been thoroughly disinfected.
The cold metal railings gleamed in the dim light.
"How could this be?" Lin Qiye frowned, staring intently at the empty cage.
This doesn't make sense.
The Gods Mental Hospital is an absolute forbidden zone, and the "patients" imprisoned there...
Neither gods nor demons could possibly escape on their own.
But that thing just vanished into thin air.
"It didn't escape."
Wu Hen's voice rang out from the side. He crouched down and carefully examined the floor of the cage.
"If someone escaped or was eliminated, they would always leave traces. But here... there's nothing."
"It's as if it never came in."
Lin Qiye walked to the cage, stretched out his hand, and his consciousness's fingers passed through the bars, touching the air inside.
No.
Nothing at all.
His unease grew stronger, and an absurd yet most plausible guess surfaced in his mind.
"It didn't escape, nor was it destroyed..."
Lin Qiye stared at the empty cage and muttered to himself, "It's the Gods' Mental Hospital... that rejected its existence."
why?
Why would this hospital, which can imprison even gods, reject a creature of the Cthulhu type?
"Why... can't they get in?"
Before the words were finished, in the deepest part of the mental hospital,
Behind an ancient iron door, long forgotten and heavier than any prison door, came a dull thud!
Boom-!
The voice seemed to come from the earth's core, carrying unparalleled rage and fury, causing the entire underground prison to tremble.
Lin Qiye and Wu Hen's expressions changed drastically, and they turned around abruptly to look in the direction from which the sound came.
That voice... did not belong to any of the "patients" they knew.