Rui Wen's figure disappeared into the chaotic void once more. It was unknown when she would reappear.
Luo Nan panted heavily as he hovered in the central region of the ambush circle. He slowly spun around. The muscles of his entire body were twitching slightly, and he was sweating profusely. The life support module of the exoskeleton armor had long since lost its function. In fact, this armor was already in tatters. From time to time, the outer armor and parts would peel off, and then they would be drawn into the incorporeal vortex of warped waves. They would shatter and shatter until they were annihilated into nothingness.
Rui Wen had never truly struck during the training process. All of the damage to the exoskeleton armor did not come from ordinary physical attacks. Instead, it came from the distortion and erosion of the ambush circle and the sandstorm even further outside.
This was the rejection of the rules.
Even if Luo Nan wore a hundred layers of armor, as long as the force exertion, operation, and even the existence itself did not conform to the jointing rules of this domain space, he would inevitably suffer a powerful repulsive pressure.
This was the case for Luo Nan and the tools he had transformed with his own hands. There was no need to talk about treating outsiders like this. And this was the fundamental reason why this space was named the ambush circle.
Luo Nan's sparring with Rui Wen had unwittingly gone on for nearly half an hour. Even though the weak electromagnetic muscle structure could not hold on long ago and turned into flying ash, Rui Wen did not stop. This seemed to deviate from Luo Nan's goal in coming here. The problem was that he really could not stop in time. The glaring mistake was right before his eyes. He could not turn a blind eye to it, right?
Whether it was the ambush circle or the amalgamation of the exoskeleton armor and the electromagnetic muscle structure, they were all key props used to deal with Gong Qi. The running-in and coordination between them were exceptionally important. Luo Nan needed to make them integrate as perfectly as possible. At the very least, they would not drag him down in this extreme battle.
True perfection did not exist.
Of course, Luo Nan wanted everything to operate according to the established theoretical rules. He wanted this space to become like President Ouyang's Logic World, a basically perfect and self-consistent extraordinary domain.
But whether it was the exoskeleton armor, the electromagnetic muscle structure, or even his own skeleton, they were all constructed under the physical rules of the local space-time. There would certainly be inconsistencies and areas of incompatibility when placed in the ambush circle constructed purely from configuration theory. There would even be conflicts in the underlying structure. Every problem that appeared required Luo Nan to rack his brains to think of a solution or a temporary compromise plan.
"Hiss!"
Rui Wen appeared behind Luo Nan like a ghost. She gave Luo Nan a light pat on the shoulder. Luo Nan shuddered. The reaction of his body and soul was out of sync. He wanted to drive the exoskeleton armor to exert force, but this caused a small portion of his back armor to tear off. Then it disintegrated into nothingness.
"Phew, phew, let's stop here for now."
The consumption of physical strength was secondary. The consumption of mental strength and energy was the reason why Luo Nan called a halt.
Rui Wen stopped in the first instance. She stood quietly in front of Luo Nan.
Luo Nan took off the exoskeleton armor with great difficulty. In fact, this toy was no longer in shape after it was taken off. It could pretty much be thrown into the junkyard.
"I still have to keep this. When I get back, I'll let the flag bearer test it and make a combat analysis model. Thank you for making this trip. Also, help me apply for five sets, no, ten sets of components. Since there are problems, we have to solve them in time. Strive to have the version updated within three days.
"As for me, I still want to stay here for a while. At the very least, I need to stabilize the trap."
Rui Wen still didn't speak. She maintained her usual silence. She just looked over seriously, showing her worry for Luo Nan's state.
Luo Nan laughed as he rubbed her head: "Relax. Our hearts are linked. I'll call you at any time, and you'll be on call. There definitely won't be any problems … … Mm, the focus of today's work isn't here."
He coaxed and persuaded Rui Wen to leave. Luo Nan stayed in the ambush circle by himself. He didn't make any particularly large movements. He just circulated his soul strength to make corrections to the building block splicing rules based on the various inharmonious problems he discovered earlier. Then he took the inexhaustible and inexhaustible materials of the configuration fragments in the surroundings to replenish them one after another.
This was mental work and meticulous work. Before he knew it, more than two hours had passed.
The surrounding gray space gradually broke away from the state of warping and rippling. Especially the border region, which had been eroded by nearly a quarter, was pushed back once more. The border was basically maintained in stability. However, the internal construction mechanism had undergone a subtle change compared to three hours ago.
"There's never enough time." Luo Nan felt a bit dizzy when he exhaled once more. "It's okay. I did some sampling and analysis work in passing. Whether it's the concentration, the density, or the frequency at which specific configurations appear, there really isn't much of a difference between the two sides of the Sandstorm. If it's under the effect of the same force, then with sufficient agitation, many phenomena can be explained … … Hehe, the first verification has passed. You've got one less excuse. "
Luo Nan accepted this result with an ordinary heart. He gave a thumbs up to a certain whore god in the nothingness. Then he followed the laws of the north bank's Gear and returned to the local space-time.
When he appeared again, he was already in a narrow and gloomy space. This was the interior of the withered tree in the sandbar a kilometer away from the north bank Gear. This was the private space that belonged to his parents, and it also belonged to him. It was also another destination of Luo Nan's in Xia City.
The anchor point between the tree hole space and the cloud world was the lounge at the bottom level. Luo Nan sat on the circular chair with great precision. His back leaned against the wall of the tree. Combined with the dizziness from the jump in space-time, it was as if he had just woken up from a short nap. Everything that happened just now was just a dream of nothingness.
"Unfortunately, right now isn't the time to dream. It's time to work … … The second verification has begun."
Luo Nan stood up and held onto the inner wall of the tree hole. He walked up to the second level of the tree hole at an extremely slow speed. According to the original design, this place should be a workshop. Back then, his mother and that person should have let their imaginations run wild in this narrow space, obtaining inspiration … …
And then? Was there a deeper function?
Luo Nan wouldn't have thought this much before today. But when he was in his grandfather's laboratory, when he saw the building structure at the end of the two circular corridors, although it was already warped and deformed, it still maintained a general shape. When he heard the fragments of events from the past that Luo Yuan spoke of, his thoughts couldn't help but grow wings, extend claws, and anchored this place anew.
"The tree hole plan!"
Why a tree hole? Luo Yuan's explanation was to show off their affection. Perhaps this fellow knew a portion of the north bank Gear and even the matters of the ancient tree sandbar. He knew that this place, designed and built by his mother, contained a special emotional meaning.
But could it be that there wasn't a more realistic meaning?
Luo Nan touched the structure of the tree hole bit by bit. He was able to feel the rigid yet moist sensation of the dried-up tree soaked in water vapor. He was able to distinguish the tough texture of the biochemical filler in the middle. He was even able to grasp a bit of the regular molecular chain structure.
But outside of these surface and internal structures, there weren't any configuration fragments that Luo Nan imagined, that he hoped would be mixed with the texture of the space-time structure. It was just like the laboratory in the Wasteland. It was just like the ambush circle in the cloud world … …
The facts proved that it wasn't like that at all.
Could it be that I was wrong?
Luo Nan used nearly five minutes to dawdle from the first level to the second level. His fingerprints were rubbed flat on the withered tree bark, and the precision of his mental senses was raised to the limit. But he still didn't discover anything.
Instead, the aftereffects of using his senses to correct the configuration design in the ambush circle gradually appeared. His exhaustion and drowsiness increased, and his attention showed signs of scattering.
"Phew!"
Luo Nan spat out a mouthful of turbid air. He opened the hidden viewing window on the second level of the tree hole, allowing the night and the cool wind of the end of spring to pour in. He stood in front of the window, staring blankly at the faint silhouette of Gear's building in the dusky night. His mind went blank for a moment before his thoughts came back.
Perhaps he really was thinking too much.
Luo Nan pressed his temples and began to consider things from a different perspective. After all, the symbol of the tree hole was far too conspicuous. Luo Yuan was clearly an insider. His mother and that person might have hidden the secret of the tree hole plan here. Even if they did hide it, they might not be able to hide it from Luo Yuan's search.
After all, this was Acumen College. It was a public area that anyone could come to. It wasn't suitable to be a place to hide secrets … … But... But wasn't Gear itself the greatest and best hidden secret?
Luo Nan's emotions and reason were fighting. He slapped his forehead and forced himself to be a bit more clear-headed. He considered things from a more realistic perspective:
Didn't the space of the tree hole undergo a secret transformation around the year 87? And the person who transformed it was suspected to be a staff member of Yan Hong's laboratory at the time. He used this place as a secret hideout to do some shady business that no one knew about.
Luo Nan had discovered this the first time he arrived at the tree hole, but he didn't have any leads later on. He had a few guesses in his mind, but it was hard to verify them. He could only leave them unsettled. Now that his mind was open, he couldn't help but think:
Could it be that Luo Yuan was the one who transformed this place and hid it here?
No, no, no. Most of the intelligence indicated that Luo Yuan had been roaming the wilderness all this time after his grandfather's laboratory was shut down. He continued his research in the fields of genes, cloning, human body modification, and so on. He even established the Gene Exchange, a large black market that specialized in supplying living laboratory consumables … … He probably didn't have the time or energy to hide in Yan Hong's laboratory for a long period of time. Moreover, he clearly didn't walk the path of the Archetype Format.
Luo Nan denied his own wild imagination and let out a breath of relief. But as his thoughts spun, a certain possibility that he had been pondering over in the pit of his heart suddenly emerged from the shadows of his thoughts:
Actually, actually, there was still one more person … …
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