The access control was opened, and the space dock's own drone swarm immediately rushed to greet it.
Although he had only been the director of the space dock for one day, Sumi was very happy with everything displayed inside. Indeed, the sense of the future brought by high technology that transcends cognition can indeed make people physically and mentally happy. Especially for Sumi, who was born in a simulated reality fragment.
"My dear master, are you going to use second gear for salvage today?" Su Mi used supervisor authority to open the firewall that protected the core device.
"Yes, I reached a deal with the middleman. We need to use the second gear to salvage a gray-red crystal pillar." Wu Chen had actually asked the housekeeper Ai Yi to publish the information on the base's intranet. As a result, everyone's attention was focused on the holographic image files that hit new highs last night. Everyone, including Su Mi, ignored this little mission announcement. Of course, this isn't a big deal.
"So that's it." Su Mi then belatedly used brain waves to control the implanted nanoneurons to click on the announcement on the intranet.
Just as he was talking, the space dock drone group suddenly turned back.
I saw a unique base drone flying cautiously into the space dock.
It's like an alien suddenly appearing among a swarm of bees. The base drone continued to circle and landed next to the housekeeper Ai. Carefully opening the piggy bank in her abdomen, 10 shelter coins fell steadily into the palm of the housekeeper's hand.
It seems that the worries along the way are also dropped together. After handing over 10 asylum coins, the base drone took off lightly and returned directly under the "eager" attention of the space dock drone group. Proud like a little princess.
"Here." The housekeeper Ai smiled and handed the 10 asylum coins in her palm to Sumi.
"Ah, who are you to be the master's housekeeper?" This behavior, which seemed ordinary to Wu Chen, had a different meaning to Su Mi.
As he spoke, Sumi picked up the asylum coins one by one from Ai's palm. He held it in his hand and weighed it gently, then turned and walked towards the console.
Activate the user interface. The fluid-like console appears in the rising stream of light. The simple yet high-tech layout looks more and more like an arcade control panel. The coin slot below is also within an arm's length. No need to bend down, you can reach out and drop the asylum coin. The design is very considerate.
As Sumi put the asylum coins in her palm into the coin slot one by one. The dim second-block halo then lights up.
"Start, Master."
"let's start."
Turning the handle to the 10-coin activated position, Sumi took a deep breath and pressed the start button.
As seen for the first time, the "space dock" has a square cone-shaped funnel structure very similar to the maintenance plate. Two square conical funnel mouths, one with an upward opening and one with a downward opening, face each other far away. When the "space dock" is activated, the upper and lower square cone-shaped funnel mouths will automatically dock to form a "square cone-shaped spindle". Starting from the upper and lower "cone tips", the entire "square cone-shaped spindle" then spirals around, opening a "liminal door" that randomly connects to the outer realm of the Broken City. When the nearby "Broken Drift Bottle" is sucked into the internal hyperspace of the "Square Cone Spindle", the "Threshold Door" is immediately closed, and the "Square Cone Spindle" separates up and down and returns to its original state.
There are two random aspects in the entire overtime salvage process.
The "threshold door" opened immediately and the "broken drifting bottle" was randomly inhaled.
In other words, the entire process from salvage to harvest is uncontrollable. Whether a gray-red crystal pillar can be salvaged 10 times is unknown. Because of this, 0912 Park Jin-hee will use the pass ticket purchased for 99 coins to trade. These novice players have no idea about the secrets of Broken City, and only advanced players will know the value behind it. The prerequisite for becoming an advanced player is that novice players must survive long enough. In fact, there is little similar information about the Lowland Spiral Belt. Wu Chen couldn't help but wonder if there would be a private network for high-end VIPs.
The soles of his feet shook slightly, and the two square cone funnels closed up and down.
The square rings that make up the cone then rotate together. As the rotational speed increases, a beautiful spiral around the "square cone spindle" begins to appear.
At the moment when the perfect spiral appeared, the "square cone-shaped spindle" suddenly atomized and entered super time and space; in the blink of an eye, it atomized and disappeared, returning to the time and space where the Broken City is located.
After going back and forth, the "broken drifting bottle" has been successfully captured in the "square conical spindle".
The square cone funnel opens and closes up and down. A gray-red crystal column with a very regular structure, like a beautiful quartz crystal, appeared.
"Master, have we succeeded?" Su Mi also didn't expect that he would salvage the crystals that met the requirements in one go.
"It still depends on whether it can meet the needs of the guests." The housekeeper Ai Yi remained cautious.
"You can get a gray-red crystal pillar for 10 coins. If you don't come back empty-handed, it's a successful salvage." Wu Chen was as optimistic as ever.
Control the space dock drone to scan around this "gray-red crystal pillar" to confirm that it is harmless. Sumi thought of another problem: "Master, if you don't unfold it, how will you know whether it meets the requirements?"
"We are looking for a crystal merchant." Ai Yi, the housekeeper, replied softly: "The crystal merchant in the city has a special ability to deal with the 'broken drifting bottles'."
"Maybe, I can too." Wu Chen gave the surprise in his usual calm tone.
"Master, too?" Su Mi was also startled: "Could it be that Master also has the special ability of a crystal merchant that is unknown to everyone?"
"No." Housekeeper Ai has already "calculated": "It's the master's time and space puzzle."
"Yes, I can try to preview this gray-red crystal pillar using a 'space-time patch' method." Wu Chen gave the answer.
"Using the 'space-time tile' method to preview..." Su Mi, who has been excellent since childhood and can't be good at it, said: "Is it like watching the holographic image of the owner? When the cursor moves on the progress bar, even if nothing happens Can you preview content in different time periods without having to do anything?”
"That's roughly it." Wu Chen nodded lightly.
What Sumi is talking about is actually a new function of online playback. Without moving the playhead/browser bar, you can preview the video on the timeline by moving the mouse. Go past the opening credits or commercial breaks and click on the highlights you want to watch.
The "playhead" is simply a "slider" that marks the current position in the browser or timeline. You can move the playhead by dragging it or clicking in other areas of the browser or timeline. As users browse the video, they can use the playhead to swipe, move within the movie or clip, and play from different points.
The "browse bar" simply means that you can preview clips in the timeline or browser without affecting the playhead position. Users can use the navigation bar to browse or freely move clips or items to play at pointer speed.
The playhead differs from the navigation bar in that it is a "slider" that appears when you move the pointer over a clip in the browser or timeline.
For ordinary users, as long as they do not drag the "slider", hover the mouse on the progress bar, and move back and forth to preview the playback content.
"'Patch preview' and actual decomposition into 'space-time patches' are two completely different situations." The housekeeper immediately grasped the key point: "In this way, the master's mental energy consumption will be much smaller."
"Yes, that's what I think too." Wu Chen smiled.
"Then let's do it?" Su Mi really wanted to see Wu Chen's new ability with her own eyes.
"Well, okay." Wu Chen was ready to give it a try.
As a precaution, a circular firewall was quickly erected around the core of the space dock.
