Gwen did not know how long he had been in this isolated space.
Based on his past experience, he was sure that the virtual space created by the Eternal Sleeper had a different flow of time compared to the outside world. This should be related to the "perception bias" of the human brain. He felt that he might have been here for a few days, but in fact, the flow of time on the surface was probably only a few minutes. After all, Amber had not woken him up yet.
That half-elf should not have watched him fall asleep, right?
Gwen stood up and stretched. Although he did not feel tired in this virtual world, stretching was still a subconscious action. Then he looked up and looked at the independent space he had created with satisfaction.
This piece of land was still open and empty. Gawain did not add any meaningless decorations or buildings to it, because every meaningless decoration meant an additional waste of storage space and data processing power. Between the clear blue sky and the boundless open water, one could only see huge white metal platforms. Most of the platforms were empty, but on a few of the platforms, one could see alchemy platforms and all kinds of strange facilities. Those were the things that Gawain had created to verify the "degree of simulation" of this space.
From the outside, the changes in this space were just the platforms, but the real, most important changes were in the places that were invisible to the naked eye. Gwen had put a lot of effort into the confidentiality of this space. In order to make it completely "disappear" in the mental network of the Eternal Sleeper, he not only added a lot of camouflage and encryption to the space itself, he even tried to create layers of protection in the mental network of the Eternal Sleeper and hid all traces in the vast, chaotic information nodes at the bottom of the network.
He believed that with the current network security awareness of the Eternal Sleeper, it was impossible for them to find out that he had stolen their network resources to create this space.
In addition to confidentiality, he also set a lot of preset "templates" here. Those templates were hidden in the underlying data of this space. When necessary, he could use them at any time to quickly build a suitable experimental environment.
After doing all this, Gwen appeared on one of the metal platforms in the next moment.
He thought for a moment, raised his right hand, and began to simulate an object.
The next second, a mobile phone appeared in his hand.
He pressed the power button, and as expected, the "mobile phone" did not respond.
Things that could not be analyzed, or could not exist in this world due to the contradiction of the rules could not be simulated.
He waved his hand, and the empty looking mobile phone turned into scattered fragments and disappeared in the air. A hexagonal rune board condensed in the next second. The rune board was embedded with a fully charged magic crystal.
Gwen pressed the rune trigger, and in an instant, a scorching light beam cut through the air and hit the ground not far ahead.
The basic template was used smoothly, and the simulation effect was perfect.
He then dispersed the rune board and came to the edge of the metal platform. A huge device had been set up there. It had four parallel metal rails fixed on a huge base. Two of the metal rails were arranged on the left and right, and the other two were arranged up and down, forming two "groups". A series of glittering rune structures could be seen on the rails, and a large number of angular repulsive units could be seen on the inside of the rails. On the vertical group of rails, there were also repulsive units, but those repulsive units were arranged in parallel on the rails. They did not participate in the acceleration of the projectile, but they ensured that the projectile could "float" in the device during the acceleration process, so as to avoid hitting the repulsive units on the left and right sides.
After all, the repulsive acceleration rail was different from any similar acceleration device on Earth. Not only was its inner side not smooth, but it was full of inclined and protruding repulsive points. Due to the special nature of the repulsive trick, these repulsive points could not be blocked by anything, so the accelerated projectile had to be fixed in the track to avoid impact.
The suspended projectile could also avoid friction with the launcher to the greatest extent, which would further improve the range and energy efficiency of the "cannon". This was the best solution that Gwen could think of based on the current technology.
Gwen opened the protective cover at the beginning of the acceleration rail and placed a "cannonball" with a groove in the middle of the rail. After making sure that the two grooves were in good contact with the "suspended rail", he closed the cover and activated the rune trigger of the entire device.
With a strange hum, the cannonball separated from the launcher under the effect of the "suspended rail" and moved forward under the effect of the first-stage repulsive mechanism. It entered the acceleration zone of the two rails and accelerated rapidly. In just a flash, all the acceleration whistles were compressed into a harsh explosion. Gwen saw a metal object flying out from the front of the acceleration rail, and a shrill sound was heard as it cut through the air. A few seconds later, an explosion lit up on the metal platform in the distance, and a loud noise came later.
Just as he expected, the cannonball successfully accelerated, but the "aerodynamic runes" on the cannonball did not work. The cannonball's flying distance was far from what he expected, and …
Gwen glanced at the four acceleration rails that had been cut off. He could see that the four acceleration rails were skewed to different degrees. This was because the repulsive points not only had an effect on the cannonball itself, but also on the other acceleration rails. With a large number of repulsive points interacting at such a close distance, the resulting force was huge. Without effective reinforcement, it was inevitable that the rails would be dislocated.
Apart from that, the unreasonable arrangement of the repulsive points was also an important reason. If the positions of the repulsive points could be adjusted, the pressure on the rails could be dispersed.
Looking at the experiment results, Gwen's joy gradually cooled down. He began to analyze the use of the simulation test site.
There was no doubt that this was the real use of the "virtual space" created by the Eternal Sleeper. It was a huge waste for the cultists to use such a useful thing as an illusion and an escape from reality. This thing … should be used for scientific research!
But this virtual world was not omnipotent.
Gwen could simulate his "repulsive railgun" here, but there was no way to make the runes on the cannonball work.
This meant that this space could only be used as a test site. He could bring in some almost perfect concept items for testing. With the highly realistic nature of this space and time, he could collect a lot of effective data in the process.
This would undoubtedly save a lot of research and development costs. Many costly and time-consuming tests could be transferred to the virtual space for testing, and many dangerous things could be tested here first. After most of the parameters were adjusted, they could be taken out for practical production. Of course, Gwen estimated that there was a limit to the "realism" of this virtual space. The tests carried out here would inevitably be inconsistent with the real world, and the more complicated and involved the more esoteric magical items, the greater the deviation in the simulation here. After all, the Eternal Sleeper was just a mortal. Even if they used a "divine-like" dream spell to create this place, they could not restore all the laws of the real world.
But even if the simulation efficiency was only 90%, this virtual space was enough to produce unimaginable value.
In addition to the simulation efficiency, Gwen was more concerned about how to use the "computing" function of the mental network.
Everything in this virtual world was the result of the accumulation of computing power. Countless Eternal Sleepers used the human brain network to form a huge computing device and "calculated" the Eternal Dream. However, this part of the "computing power" could not be directly used to deal with purely numerical problems. This was probably the biggest difference between this version of the "computer" and the electronic computer on Earth.
Anyway, at least so far, Gwen still had not found the "mathematical computing interface" of this mental network. And it was because of this interface that he could not directly use the computing power of the mental network to complete the optimization and reconstruction of the rune group on the artillery shell. This part of the work could only be done by Jenny and her Rune Research Institute.
But Gwen was not too upset about this. He was even mentally prepared that he would never find the interface. After all, the Eternal Sleeper's creation was not the supercomputer on Earth. "Dream Spell" was, after all, just a kind of spell. There were too many wonderful and special things in the world of magic. He had lived in this world for so long, and he had to accept this fact.
Magic had its convenience, but also its shortcomings. In this world, the Eternal Sleepers used dream spells to achieve full-immersive virtual reality that could not be achieved on Earth, but there was no way to achieve the mathematical efficiency of the most primitive electronic computer. But Gwen believed in one thing, and that was the advancement and possibility of technology. It did not matter if he could not find the "interface" now. He believed that sooner or later, this problem would be solved.
After confirming that all the encryption settings were fine, Gwen exited the "secret laboratory" he created.
There was no change in the "City of Dreams".
The Eternal Sleeper cultists were still coming and going in the city. The magnificent city was still magnificent. The node crystal floating in the square radiated a soft light. A dozen high-ranking cultists were nearby, placing their hands on the surface of the crystal and forming a group to surf the net.
No one realized that there was a problem with their mental network. No one realized that the computing power of the network had been occupied by someone else. No one realized that a new "mount" had appeared out of thin air in the corner of their virtual world …
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