The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen-Chapter 268 - 179: The Function of the Protagonist’s Halo
Chapter 268: Chapter 179: The Function of the Protagonist’s Halo
Since she had already acquired the identity of a witch, the subsequent matters became much simpler.
According to Hong Chao’s own thinking, from now on, Hong Chao’s identity would merely serve as a human scholar, learning what needed to be learned and leaving when necessary.
As for the witch avatar, she would serve as a research-oriented witch who parachuted into the role, obtaining the same position as Bai Fa and Bai Gong, researching new technologies at the institute in the identity of a witch.
The relationship between the two would only be disclosed to a few close witches by Hong Chao, and Bai Yi would not interfere.
As for her first task, it was naturally to start participating in the technological integration of the territory, as she suggested today.
With the efficiency of a witch, by noon, Feyter had already completed the official handover of her identity and dived into research.
Of course, she did not forget her fellow witch classmates.
Bai Yi did not oppose the interaction between them, otherwise she wouldn’t have spent last night specifically researching the witch’s reproductive system.
As for the human body of Hong Chao, Bai Yi was not worried that he would cause any fatal mistakes.
After being incessantly tormented by Bai Yi, the witch was already reproductively isolated by a thick barrier from humans.
Though she wore a human guise, inside she was already "not human."
When Hong Chao was able to connect with the Swarm Network, this information was also within the scope of acquired intelligence.
At this point, he had already given up the idea of using his human body to find witches, and devoted himself to flirting with his witch classmates using his new witch body.
Bai Yi had no objections to this, and even delighted in observing the chaos among them, happy to rely on the Witch Master’s privileges to enjoy the spectacle online in real time.
After all, with a witch’s mindset, they would surely prioritize completing experiments before considering other matters.
She was very much looking forward to seeing how much benefit this protagonist’s halo could bring her after coming under her wing!
But even though Bai Yi already had quite a few speculations about the protagonist’s halo, she still underestimated its effects.
Just in one afternoon, Bai Yi had recalled the plants collected by the low-level Lords, and the new genes studied and extracted from them.
She had some new ideas and was preparing to continue her experiments in the evening, yet before leaving her lab, she received a joint complaint from Bai Fa and Bai Gong.
"Master, you have to admit, this protagonist’s halo is really outrageous!
We need to experiment bit by bit, but Feyter just needs to try a few times casually to find the optimal solution!
She is truly a born research saint!
No wonder she could produce those research outcomes even when she was human; with this ability, even a witch with excellent magic talents cannot compete..."
"And not to mention the outrageous luck, her learning ability alone could definitely be termed as terrifying.
In just one afternoon, she has already fully digested all our current electronic technology knowledge, and she can even give us suggestions!"
"Yes, yes, and also..."
Listening to their messages, although Bai Yi had not yet understood what achievements had been made in the laboratory this afternoon, at least she knew that Feyter had been fully accepted by them.
Taking advantage of the fact that her maid had not yet prepared dinner, Bai Yi consequently began reviewing the research findings of the day at the institute.
She didn’t realize until she checked them that even Bai Yi couldn’t help but smirk, appreciating the true worth of the "protagonist’s halo" acknowledged even by the façade.
This time in order to fully engage in technology fusion, everyone had taken out the projects they hadn’t yet completed, aiming to finish them before starting new research.
This could serve as a kind of preliminary experience, attempting solutions by providing inspiration and ideas based on their own knowledge.
And Bai Gong had also taken out a project, one of the branches of the Power of Faith weapons plan, concerning the practical crafting of weapons.
The existing basic magic alloys could no longer support the crafting of Power of Faith weapons, but crafting entirely new alloys was far from simple.
From deciding how many types of alloys to integrate, how much magic power crystal powder to use, to the crafting technique and the sequence of integrating metals...
Researching a new alloy really can only rely on day-to-day trials.
Even though certain patterns can be recognized from repeated trials, more often than not, it results in disappointment, with only hope that one experiment might fortuitously result in the best material proportion.
Even Bai Gong had lost hope, even fearing that the Power of Faith weapons project might need to be postponed.
This time, also going in with a ’let’s just try and see’ attitude, little did he know it would bring a real surprise.
Where others’ experiments require multiple trials, hoping for Lady Luck’s favor, Feyter didn’t care.
After understanding all the difficulties, she just approximated and defined a range based on guesses and general ideas.
Bai Gong also tried it out half-believing, half-doubting.
And the result, naturally, was a tremendous surprise.
The alloy fused from a few materials’ proportions far exceeded the expected characteristics.
And this was all just casually smelted!
If another series of fine adjustments are made to find the optimal ratio, the effect could undoubtedly be further enhanced!
As for the smelting technique, once the ratio is found, it would only require a little more time to determine.
Even as a semi-finished product, which has not yet reached its perfect state, it is classified as a Gold Level Alloy according to the panel assessment.
If it is fully perfected, it could even achieve a 6th-tier standard!
And this is just one of the many research endeavors; this afternoon alone, Feyter solved more than just this one problem.
Besides the manual coding for brain machines (mechanical manuals) at Wade’s side, which is truly menial labor that cannot rely on luck to resolve, almost all other issues have made breakthroughs.
It is proven that a programmer’s job is indeed a very tough one.
Wade, who couldn’t benefit from the luck enhancement, had to continue working on the Eternal Tree brain machine codes, accompanied by his little AI.
As to why it’s almost, it wasn’t that Feyter encountered a bottleneck, it’s simply because there were too many subjects and some were left waiting for luck by the time work ended.
And Bai Yi isn’t such a ruthless capitalist; since Feyter had already provided sufficient value, Bai Yi wouldn’t ask her to continue working overtime.
Even if Bai Yi had such a thought, Feyter, being a witch, would still follow Bai Yi’s desires and willingly work for her, but Bai Yi didn’t choose to.
Even she couldn’t immerse herself in experiments for long stretches; wanting to slack off at times, she empathetically wouldn’t encroach upon the witches’ rest time.
Of course, this is under the precondition that all their work had been completed.
As Bai Yi browsed the web, Hatti had already returned with dinner.
While finishing dinner, Bai Yi’s active mind unconsciously began to reflect on her own findings from the afternoon.
During the time when Feyter was distinguishing herself at the institute, Bai Yi was far from idle.
She finally remembered the collection of exotic plants she had traded from various low-level Lords from different instances.
Although most of these plants were ordinary, possessing no special abilities, and had a considerable overlap in genes,
the sheer number of these plants was too great.
Each Lord traded at least a dozen to twenty different plants, and some with certain means even introduced hundreds, coupled with the quantity of over two hundred Lords.
This number had reached nearly eight thousand.
With this massive quantity, Bai Yi still obtained quite a few interesting genes.
Such as genes capable of secreting various kinds of nectar, resins, or even rubber, and also genes that enhance plant mobility.
The former were all extracted from seemingly unremarkable plants and represented the most normal batch of genes.
These could slightly enhance the giant crops currently produced in the territory, or even introduce some new crops to increase output.
The latter came from a few rare special plants.
These plants were natural predators, not reaching the level of man-eating plants but capable enough to prey on small creatures like mice and kittens.
The genes that supported them naturally offered excellent enhancements for Tree-men, perhaps even helping to improve the Tree-men’s lower agility attributes.
Of course, in addition to these common plants, there were rare ones with special genes including superpower or magic talent.
However, these genes were of a level that low-level Lords could obtain, so naturally, they weren’t rated very high.
They merely perfected the existing stock of transcendent genes. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
The only one that caught Bai Yi’s eye was a transcendent gene she named ’Metal Convergence.’
This was a control type gene similar to Snake Mother Rand, but its strength was very low and did not suffice to form a true superpower.
This allowed the plant to absorb metals from the earth and even from rocks during its growth, which then armored its branches and leaves.
This made the entire plant gradually become metalized, gaining formidable defensive power.
But since these plants lacked intelligence and couldn’t control this inclination, they would blindly continue to metalize themselves until they permanently became a metal sculpture at some point in time.
And more importantly, this metal material was even a special kind of magic metal!
It possessed decent magic power conduction and magic affinity properties!
However, Bai Yi didn’t plan to use it merely as a production gene for magic metal.
For her, it held another very important significance.
This meant that she could finally introduce her subjects to the material of metal for the first time...
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