Sky-cracking Rider

Before waiting for Yilan's reply, Chen Fei was not idle either, attempting to analyze Osythius's Dragon Crystal using non-physical destruction methods, such as density, refraction index, electrical properties, spectral response, oscillation frequency, and various internal and external scanning detections.

There were indeed some gains.

The semitransparent texture of the Dragon Crystal is actually a naturally dense magic array formed by natural growth patterns. The precision reaches a microscopic level below the nanoscale. The formation process is not accomplished overnight; it requires years of accumulation and is related to the growth of Metallic Dragons. If there is insufficient food intake, the speed of the magic array's formation slows down or can even halt.

When the extremely complex magic array fills the Dragon Crystal's interior to the extreme, all the arrays tightly squeeze together with no excess space left. At that moment, the entire Dragon Crystal purifies to a pure, crystal-clear, and translucent state, much like a clear, transparent crystal.

Because the texture is naturally grown, the formation mechanism is incredibly complex. Once a giant dragon dies, the Heart Core or Dragon Crystal finds it challenging to continue purifying. To artificially catalyze and further construct it posthumously is nearly impossible and beyond human capability.

"It's been 25 hours, could it be that Yilan has failed?"

Miyoshi Xuesen confirmed the time once more and then looked at Chen Fei.

A day and a night had passed, and there was still no message, leading to a bad premonition. Chen Fei's phone hadn't rung at all.

According to his professional habits, failing meant not obtaining it, escaping, being captured, getting beaten, or imprisonment, anyway, nothing good. Those working in the dark never considered protecting minors, always involuntarily speculating in the most malicious direction.

Those working in the dark never considered protecting minors.

In the monk's view, that underage young dragon must have handled things sloppily, always relying on brute force to rush into snatching openly. The outcome, well, is foreseeable — not to mention... dragons, even people probably wouldn't have a good time.

Maybe right now, it's being hung somewhere, shedding golden tears while wailing!

"Wait for the news!"

Chen Fei still maintained patience.

Although the Metallic Dragon clan is savage and erratic in temperament, they always keep their word and do what they say, never breaking their promises.

If they say they'll kill you, they'll do it, chasing you to the ends of the earth to finish you off.

So Chen Fei was full of confidence in Yilan.

The monk's words obviously didn't sound too optimistic.

Heseman Brown lifted his eyes from his phone screen, frowning, finding the noise annoying.

"Off you go!"

The monk instantly vanished from the bridge, and his marathon fitness training began again.

With a blink and a wink, he found himself in the wilderness, glancing around at a few scattered tequila plants, each taller than a person, alongside some dry tumbleweeds swaying with the wind, ready to embark on their rolling journey.

"Damn Brown..."

Anyway, the S-Class superpower user couldn't hear right now, and Miyoshi Xuesen angrily jumped in place, roaring furiously, venting his powerless rage.

In the end, he pulled out his phone, identified the direction, and trudged slowly.

In the west horizon, an orange-red sun was slowly descending, and nightfall was approaching.

"Awooo..."

The howl of a wolf came from afar.

There were still 20 kilometers to the Giant Battleship, and although the terrain was flat without many ravines or hills, the journey was not easy.

As the sunset's afterglow disappeared over the horizon, the temperature in the wilderness was quickly dropping.

The sudden cold wind made the monk shiver involuntarily, pulling at his monk robe.

The temperature at night might drop below zero, possibly even snowing unexpectedly, making this night difficult to endure.

As the monk walked, he looked around with the bright moonlight, hoping to find a place to shelter from the wind, then light a campfire to keep warm, ideally waiting until dawn when the temperature rose to continue his journey.

With a self-destructive streak, the monk persisted without stopping, believing in gradual progress that would cover a thousand miles.

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Miyoshi Xuesen unexpectedly fell under a Space-related superpower skill, transferred away.

Almost immediately, Chen Fei received an email package from the underage Metallic Dragon, Yilan, with attachments specially compressed and encrypted, only decodable by the Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam."

If not encrypted, the sensitive information in the attachments could easily be intercepted along the way,

The network environments of Blue Star and Emerald Star, whether wired or wireless, seem open and relaxed, but in reality, they are strictly monitored. Malicious and sensitive information would be automatically intercepted by AI.

"Received it!"

Chen Fei rubbed his slightly throbbing temples.

The artificial intelligence AI "Adam" had freely consumed his brain's computing resources, depleting a considerable amount of blood sugar, leaving him somewhat dizzy and light-headed.

Just decoding consumed so much; it's estimated that the encryption compression process took quite some time. After all, Yilan doesn't have much computing power available and can only proceed a little at a time.

The phone rang, and upon glancing at the display screen, it was indeed Yilan.

"Chen Fei, did you receive the email? My 'Adam' here packed it for a full 12 hours."

The voice of the female Metallic Dragon Yilan came through, fearing that there might be errors in interstellar communication.

Gratefully, Chen Fei said, "Thank you for your hard work, Yilan. I've received it here, and it has been successfully decoded."

Both sides have "Adam." "Adam" sends, "Adam" receives. It would be impossible for any third party to decode successfully; the algorithm keys are known only to "Adam" itself.

This was all thanks to the fact that Chen Fei had previously gifted Yilan a copy of "Adam," which proved invaluable in this instance.

"Sky Dragon City is very strict about safeguarding this information. Although authorized by the Dragon King, the Council of Elders still refused me access. I had to entrust a friend to extract a copy of this data."

Yilan didn't boast to Chen Fei, merely briefly noting how hard it was to obtain this technical information.

"Please convey my thanks to your friend. I will strictly keep this information confidential and will not leak it."

Yilan had taken great risks to get hold of this technical information, and naturally, Chen Fei should express gratitude—a significant debt at that.

Judging from Sky Dragon City's reaction, if this Dragon Heart Core supercomputer plan fell into other hands, it's an obvious inference that the Metallic Dragon race would quickly become extinct due to greed.

"I believe in you!"

Yilan also didn't act pretentious, fulfilling the entrusted task without a hitch.

"I'll first interpret the information and get back to you later."

Having received the technical materials meant that the subsequent busywork was imminent. The AR visual assistance interface in front of Chen Fei timely displayed a materials list just decoded by "Adam", listing the materials and equipment needed to make the Dragon Crystal into a supercomputer unit.

This list was compiled after comparing with the inventory data stored by the "Spatial Branding," excluding what was already there and adding what needed additional sourcing, totaling at least a thousand items.

Mr. Louis Landon would have to spend a lot again.

Even though Chen Fei now has a modest fortune, if he wanted to bear this cost himself, he might not even collect one-tenth of the items on the list, so he still needed to lean on someone wealthy.

This list was sent immediately to Louis Industrial Company. There was no choice but to keep milking this particular cow because there wasn't another cow for Chen Fei to exploit.

In terms of channels, contacts, equipment—as well as manpower, resources, and technological background—Louis Industrial Company is a leading entity in Blue Star's industrial sphere, the best choice not only for Chen Fei but also the sole one.

Even though there's a connection with Henghai Tactical Weapons Group and Northern Weapons Industry Group, each of them lacked in various aspects compared to Louis Industries.

The most apparent advantage of having a sole supplier is the quick response time. Within 48 hours, a medium-sized transport airship delivered all the materials on the list, even providing extra in terms of both quantity and quality.

In fact, just by looking at this list, the major player should be able to surmise what Chen Fei intends to do.

Serving as a critical node for massive data exchange between Cangqiong Star and Blue Star, though outsiders are not conscious of the related manufacturing secret technique, the relevant materials used cannot be hidden from everyone, and some equipment can only be provided by Blue Star.

Thus, by comparison, it is easy to make a guess closest to the answer.

Of course, Chen Fei never intended to hide from Louis Landon; even the illicit mission to Emerald Star wasn't a secret to him. Both parties tacitly agreed to keep it undisclosed. Moreover, the major player was far more reliable than the monk, maintaining silence and never mentioning profit-sharing demands or even implying such.

Perhaps merely the connection with Chen Fei could yield countless profits; the two parties aren't on the same level, viewing interests from entirely different perspectives.

The impoverished only dream of getting something for nothing, whereas capital knows that free is always the most expensive.

The Dragon Crystal itself possesses a unique crystal oscillation state. By introducing crystal energy and laser at specific points, it immediately triggers a very high-frequency self-excited oscillation. Such reaction touchpoints can reach over a thousand on the Dragon Crystal's surface, so crystal energy lines and optical fibers must be inserted into precise positions to truly transform this Dragon Crystal into a supercomputer unit.

In addition, it must be matched with the corresponding data bus, cache, and main storage to fully unleash this Dragon Crystal's computing power.

The entire manufacturing process requires the integration of alchemy with industrial technology to achieve various seemingly incredible procedures and crafts.

Chen Fei was not single-handedly manufacturing the supercomputer unit; he delegated part of the work to automated equipment and mechanical beings loaded with precision operating programs, as well as to passengers of the Ark plan on the giant battleship, making almost half of the giant airship's interior bustling, permeated by the faint scent of soldering.

Like building blocks, qualifying modules were assembled bit by bit into a columnar supercomputer unit as tall as a person, tentatively named "Planetary Level Compute Node."

Osythius' Dragon Crystal had a higher quality than the current Dragon Heart Core used in the supercomputer unit for data exchange between two civilized planets, so the performance of the computation Chen Fei was creating would be more powerful.

After all, one remains in a heart core state, and the other has already undergone crystallization; the latter's magic array density is higher and can handle a greater data throughput.

Shortly after starting to test computational power, the artificial intelligence AI "Adam" promptly implanted its copy into the supercomputer unit, and relying solely on the computing resources had already surpassed Chen Fei's brain.