Chapter 10: Don't Want to Work Overtime (5)
Liu Sheng huffily tore off the sticker and pasted it onto the wooden cover of the analyzer.
No matter how she looked at it, it didn't seem to look any better!
She truly felt that the analyzer she made had become cheap-looking; if it had a mouth, she would have torn it to shreds by now.
When she modified it, she merely carved a few more Formation modules into the analysis module, creating a nested chain, which increased the computing power exponentially; she also slightly improved the input and output modules, allowing more synapses to contact the weird objects, forming more observable information flows.
Why did it turn out like this?
Liu Sheng began to realize many things were not quite right. First, she still only half-understood the values and information currently displayed and needed more research, but if she didn't even know, how could she have made it?
Furthermore, she increasingly felt that the world she entered was not just a dream, but a space, or even a world.
It could be understood as a “dungeon” in an electronic game from Yi Yu's world.
Does that mean this analyzer has the ability to Transmigration through time and space?
It could use a tiny connection from a weird object to bring her consciousness into the past of that weird object, allowing her to truly understand its origin.
Or perhaps it could create space, building a replica world based on the residual information on the weird object.
But no matter which one, it surpassed Liu Sheng's ability and should not have been something she, a novice from the Tiangong Department, could create.
And!
She looked annoyed at the small dinner knife stuck to the surface of the analyzer. Although the reward was trash, this meant a physical object appeared out of thin air, so this analyzer might be able to transmit items to this world, or replicate items from that world, or even create items.
Liu Sheng had heard of Formations that could transmit items, and even people, but these were all about transmitting substances within the same world; cross-world transmission was truly unheard of.
Could it be due to some Formation circuits she inadvertently engraved in a flash of inspiration while forcibly nesting these Formations together?
Forget it, with her current level and knowledge, she couldn't figure it out.
Perhaps she needed to go to Chang'an.
Perhaps in the National Academy's collection of books, which countless Xuezis yearned for, she would find the answer.
This was the most she had ever yearned to enter the National Academy in her life.
Perhaps she had longed for it just as much when she first entered Hanshan Academy, but the repeated failures to achieve enlightenment gradually made her forget that yearning.
She temporarily put these thoughts aside and pulled out a pork bun from the oil paper bag on her desk to eat.
Liu Sheng was hungry again.
Each high dimension analysis seemed to consume not only spirit pearls but also her energy.
So she was prepared this time, having bought a large bag of pork buns from a breakfast stall.
Taking a gentle bite, the cooled dough had become slightly firm, the warmth of the pork filling had long dissipated, and the grease had congealed somewhat. Despite this, the spiciness of ginger, the freshness of green onions, and the deliciousness of pork intertwined, making it a precious delicacy for Liu Sheng, who was faint with hunger.
She devoured ten large buns in one go before her brain somewhat recovered its ability to think.
She had thought the last high dimension analysis was a sure thing.
As far as she knew, the generation of weird objects could mainly be divided into two reasons: natural and unnatural.
Simply put, naturally occurring weird objects are formed by the infiltration of Guai Qi. For instance, in places not watched by the Supreme God, if the Guai Qi concentration becomes too high, it can easily condense or infect existing things in that area, such as plants and animals, thus forming weird objects.
Currently, the most concentrated area of Guai Qi is the northern border, north of the Great Wall. It is said that weird objects run rampant there, and once a person steps foot, they will immediately fall into madness and become new weird objects, forever remaining in that land shrouded in Cold Night.
Unnatural weird objects, on the other hand, originate more from the human heart. Guai Qi can amplify intense negative emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, and resentment. These dark emotions, when extremely distorted and alienated, have a certain chance of giving birth to weird objects.
Such weird objects often carry very strong negative energy and have a particularly significant impact on people. Once they appear, their danger Rank can reach “dangerous” or higher.
During the high dimension analysis of 34576, she constantly felt Yi Yu's very strong world-weary emotions, slowly sinking into them, unable to extricate herself, and could only be completely eroded by the black tentacles, which were the materialization of negative emotions, even gradually forgetting her true self.
This weird object must be related to Yi Yu.
Liu Sheng became even more convinced when the black tentacles guided her to see the article on the phone.
It was Yi Yu's diary, which she casually typed into her phone's notepad. Each entry was not long; perhaps she would write a sentence today and a few more days later when she remembered.
However, the last time she wrote was several months ago, and the last entry was about breaking up with her boyfriend of five years.
After that, there were no more updates, as if the girl no longer wanted to record these sad moments.
But, every word and sentence showed that this girl was already full of resentment towards this world and no longer wanted to live in it.
Slowly, this suppressed resentment materialized into those black tentacles.
The expectations and pressure from her family, the cold and hypocritical friends, the unsuccessful relationship, and the Manager's constant pressure, kept her endlessly busy, with no day to stop. Ultimately, her overwhelming hatred became completely Guai Qi-fied and was carried on her small phone, transforming into the weird object 34576.
She knew those black tentacles wanted to assimilate her, which was why they brought up memories she had already forgotten.
But Yi Yu lived such a stifled and tiring life.
So Liu Sheng chose to conform to the darkness.
As a result, according to the analyzer, her solution was wrong.
What exactly constitutes a true high dimension analysis? Liu Sheng was somewhat frustrated.
Only one chance left.
But she felt that her brain was completely drained. She had a feeling that if she forced herself to enter high dimension analysis again immediately, she would fall into an eternal sleep.
Liu Sheng speculated that if it weren't for her own high resilience of ninety-five, she would have probably become permanently idiotic the first time she initiated high dimension analysis.
However, she couldn't keep this weird object here for so long. Generally, weird objects submitted by the Exploration Division only had seven days for analysis. If they couldn't be analyzed within that time, they had to be handed over to the next level Weaving Institute for analysis.
Once analyzed, they had to be registered and stored in the Imperial Storage and could not be retrieved at will. Therefore, she couldn't just analyze the weird object 34576 directly as usual just to avoid giving it to the superior Weaving Institute first.
For Liu Sheng, there were still five days left.
...
"You want to take leave?" Zhao Sizheng looked at the note Liu Sheng handed him, asking in confusion.
Zhao Sizheng managed the Imperial Storage, and Liu Sheng was his model worker. When had she ever taken leave? She even spent her rest days at the Weaving Institute.
Liu Sheng explained, "I want to go home for a bit. I haven't been home in a long time."
Filial piety towards parents is human nature.
Zhao Sizheng nodded and wrote an approval.
"You must come back quickly. You have a lot on your plate. I'll inform Yuan Zheng about it."
Although Liu Sheng was his direct subordinate, Zhang Yuanzheng was currently making more use of her, so he still needed to inform the Yuan Zheng.
Liu Sheng returned to her rented courtyard to pack her things, preparing to go to the airship station to buy a ticket back to Little Green Garden.
Little Green Garden and Li County were not far apart, and with the incredible speed of the airship, the journey took less than an hour. This was also why Liu Sheng chose to apply to the Li County Weaving Institute in the first place.
Good pay, light work, close to home—the ideal for many people.
It's just that the 'light work' part seemed to have gone somewhat awry.
She thought that since she was not in the right state for another high dimension analysis, she might as well do something that would relax and make her happy.
She was truly feeling suffocated in that world.
She wanted to go home, see her parents, and eat pig trotters!