Chapter 42: Inner World Construction Plan

After getting offline from Sacred Souls, Jiang Qiao checked on the player’s community forum on the sofa in his living room.

Ocean Blue sat at a side, eating the garlic lobster that cost Jiang Qiao 106 dollars happily.

The maximum number of players allowed in the server was 3173 players, and this number could be increased by an average of around 300~500 people every day.

Two-thirds of players were still around Level 1~10, and only around 400 players that could be effectively be deployed in battle.

As for obtaining energy, Jiang Qiao could obtain 500 to 700 points of energy from the Tower Plane, and he currently had 14321 points of energy right now.

The size of the map in Sacred Souls was around 261 square kilometers, and Jiang Qiao invested in real estate (The player manor system) from the first expansions obtained from the invading plane.

Now, Jiang Qiao planned to build an inner world on Bluestar, and whenever monsters from an invading plane appeared on Bluestar, he would let them in and allow the players to ‘communicate’ with them in depth.

“Augmented…Reality? What’s that?”

Ocean Blue asked as she spat out the lobster shell in her mouth, her cherry lips glistening with grease.

“Augmented reality and 3D projection. In short, we project projections of the players into the real world.”

Jiang Qiao logged out of the forum, and immediately started searching for data about holograms and projections online.

Bluestar was eight years more technologically advanced than Earth, but there were still some technical questions that were still hard to overcome. For example, 3D projection was still hard to realize, even in this world.

AR technology had already been developed thoroughly on Bluestar, and while 2D projection was commonplace technology in both Bluestar and Earth, 3D projection still didn’t exist.

“What does that do, exactly?” Ocean Blue was still a beginner in dealing with technology, even though there was the Mechanic class in Sacred Souls.

In Sacred Souls, the limits of what Mechanics could do was basically ‘If I think I can activate a mecha, then I can’, meaning that if a player thought it could work, then it could be realized through imagination alone. The mechanism of mechanics in-game didn’t have any scientific bearing, neither following the laws of physics.

This could also be used in explaining any sci-fi classes in Sacred Souls.

“Basically, invading monsters will still appear on the streets, and the scene of players battling with monsters would be projected onto the roads and streets of the real world. In the eyes of any passerby, it would be a 3D projection or just a mere game event, and to players, it would be an Abyssal Hunt, and to those monsters, it would be their nightmare.”

“But you said…That no one succeeded in creating this technology on this plane?” Ocean Blue said as she deftly plucked off the head of a small lobster.

“No one has succeeded, but they’ve been doing research on it for many years.”

Jiang Qiao closed the search engine on his phone and opened the contact page of his phone, scrolling to a number that he was extremely familiar with.

“From your expression, you want me to ask you to ask who it is. Is this someone you’re familiar with?” Ocean Blue asked as she munched on the small lobster in her hand.

“Yes… It’s my father.”

Jiang Qiao waved around the mobile phone, showing the name of the contact to Ocean Blue.

“Qiao An? Don’t the people in this country follow the surnames of their fathers? Why is his surname Qiao, and yours Jiang?” Ocean Blue asked, perplexed at this irregularity.

“Because my father married into the Jiang family.”

Jiang Qiao had mentioned that his father worked in a government department before. Jiang Qiao’s father was just a normal student, and he and Jiang Qiao’s mother met each other in university. They somehow ended up together, and Jiang Qiao’s father married into the Jiang family happily.

Jiang Qiao’s father had already graduated for years, and was now working on 3D projection technology at a company in Hua Nation.

“What should we do next? You want to tell your father about the 3D projection technology?” Ocean Blue didn’t know whether she had related knowledge in Maker Mode.

“No need, and I can’t do it in Maker Mode either.” Jiang Qiao spoke the truth, because the natural laws of the Sacred Soul plane and Bluestar were different, and some technology even malfunctioned when taken to the Sacred Souls plane.

The so-called high tech in the game were all built on the basis of fake science and technology. In terms of the game, the fake tech in the game only had skill effects and damaging effects, but were just models that had no actual scientific reasoning.

“Then how are you going to let your father create 3D projection?”

Ocean Blue sighed and ate another small lobster, and in this time with Jiang Qiao, she realized that Maker Mode wasn’t all-powerful.

“Have you heard of epiphany?”

“You…What?”

“Epiphany, meaning a sudden inspiration.” Jiang Qiao pointed at his own head. “Most human creations were based on a moment’s inspiration, and epiphany means that the person found an unexpected realization of the solution to a problem, something like an enlightenment from the gods.”

“So are you saying that you’re going to give your father inspiration?” Ocean Blue understood what Jiang Qiao was getting at, but her words were unintelligible due to the three small lobsters she had stuffed into her mouth.

“Yes. As humans, we have infinite potential. I’m only giving my father a small push on the back.”

Jiang Qiao called his father’s number, and as the call was connecting, his pupils turned a light shade of gold.

“Jiang Qiao? I told you that I studied material science in university and not finance. I can’t help with your homework…” Before Jiang Qiao could even speak, the grumbles of his father rang out.

“I just wanted to ask you how your project is going?” Jiang Qiao was already used to his father’s personality.

“Project? Same old same old, no funding and no manpower… In other news, Eagle Nation said they created 3D projection so I went and took a look, but it was all bull! What I wanted to do was…” Qiao An seemed to have drunk alcohol, and quite a lot at that…As soon as Jiang Qiao asked about the project, he started to shout and ramble endlessly.

“Dad, I think you’re looking for something that starts with… Forty-two?” Jiang Qiao randomly said this special number which held his Maker Mode energy.

Jiang Qiao didn’t change the rules of this world, and only allowed his father to enter an inspired state. This inspired state was somewhat like when James Watt created the steam engine, or when Karl Benz created the automobile.

“What…? Huh, why didn’t I think of it! F*ck! Go study a doctorate for your mom, I have to call you back! I’m busy!”

Qiao An sounded unbelievably excited, and after he said so he hung up. Jiang Qiao could only wait and see if his father could break the technical barrier of 3D projection.