pertwk Chapter 30 Streamlined Production and Synthetic Breathing
Chapter 30 Streamlined Production and Synthetic Breathing
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This is the edge of the Minecraft world, the Frontier.
One step further, and there was that insurmountable world boundary barrier, shimmering with pale blue light patterns, and behind it, a large number of incorrectly generated blocks.
"Click—hiss—click—hiss—"
Looking out, along the edge of the world's borders, stand massive doorways made of obsidian.
They are not scattered haphazardly, but arranged neatly, stretching all the way to the horizon.
These massive obsidian door frames are the fully automated, exhaustive machine group for generating abnormal portals, which Pei Qi spent a day and a half building.
After numerous tests, he determined that Nether portals only activate within special chunk coordinates near the world boundary.
Only with an extremely low probability of a decimal point error can a logical error occur, generating that purple-black "garbled gate" that can lead to another world.
As for how Pei Qi discovered it? You know, when a person has almost infinite time, just how much free time would they have?
In fact, abnormal portals don't just spawn on the borderlands; more accurately, they spawn at the boundaries of the Minecraft system.
Pei Qi first discovered this phenomenon while repairing the sand-brushing machine that had caused it to malfunction after he traveled through time.
That's right. For some reason, this world is closer to the world in Pei Qi's game. Even with a lot of items dropping, lag still occurs.
However, the effect is limited to the area where the dropped item is located. In the affected area, abnormalities such as animals or machines behaving strangely, or mining blocks not dropping, will still occur.
In Minecraft, the first thing that comes to mind when talking about traveling between worlds is naturally various portals.
In one attempt, Pei Qi opened a portal to the area where the sand-farming machine was lagging. Although he didn't know why the lag would still occur after he teleported there, it didn't stop Pei Qi from continuing his experiment.
Despite the significant delays, with placing a single block taking Pei Qi several tens of minutes, he still managed to build a complete portal frame and spent ten minutes igniting it.
Fortunately, perseverance pays off. The moment it was activated, Pei Qi noticed that the portal in the center of the Hell Gate seemed to have been generated abnormally, with strange purple and black error blocks appearing.
But then, as if there was a loading error, the purple portal returned to normal in the next instant.
After spending a lot of time trying, Pei Qi finally had to try to find other ways to generate the abnormal portal.
In the previous lag block, although each time a portal was activated, an error block would appear, the time was simply too short.
Pei Qi even tried activating it while standing on the obsidian, but the result was still that Pei Qi remained stuck in the same place.
It's as if the abnormal block doesn't follow the logic of this world. Its appearance and disappearance are not bound by the phenomenon of lag. Although it can appear 100% of the time in the lag block, it is no different from not existing if you can't enter it.
After hundreds of attempts, Pei Qi finally gave up on the idea of conducting experiments in the lag block and instead began looking for other places that might meet the requirements.
Since this block showed no other anomalies besides the lag incident, Pei Qi turned his attention to other potential world vulnerabilities, such as the border regions located at the limit of loading.
Pei Qi was satisfied with the result; a persistent abnormal portal was generated on the very first attempt.
Now, in order to seize this fleeting opportunity, Pei Qi has transformed this place into a huge factory.
Behind each obsidian door frame lies a sophisticated redstone circuit.
A high-frequency clock circuit drives two transmitters that appear somewhat "cross-eyed" due to their face-to-face placement.
The launcher on the left is equipped with a flamethrower and is responsible for ignition. The launcher on the right is equipped with a water bucket and is responsible for cutting off the water supply.
With a "click," flames shot out, and a purple portal vortex instantly ignited inside the obsidian door frame.
Immediately afterwards, 0.5 seconds later, the bucket on the right activated, and water flowed down, forcibly extinguishing the newly generated portal.
Ignition—Destruction—Ignition—Destruction.
This process cycles wildly several times per second.
The core of the entire system lies in the detector on the side that looks like an expressionless human face.
Ordinary Nether portal blocks are destroyed by water, but the "abnormal portal" that Pei Qi is looking for is generated due to an accidental error and is "indestructible".
The water flow cannot destroy it; it can only slide off its surface.
If the water flow fails to destroy the portal after a certain ignition, the launcher will become stuck because it cannot recover the water source.
At this moment, the detector will keenly detect this abnormal block update, instantly send out a redstone signal, cut off the high-frequency redstone line, and lock the entire cell in an instant, transmitting the information to Pei Qi through the long redstone line.
"It's just a pity there are only a thousand..."
Pei Qi sat on a high platform built of smooth stone steps, which he had created out of boredom, and shook his head with some dissatisfaction.
"Considering the latency of redstone signals at the edge of block loading, one thousand blocks is currently the limit for a single person to maintain. The scale is still too small, and we can only rely on time to increase the probability."
These door frames vary in size, from the smallest standard 4x5 to massive 23x23 doors large enough to allow giant creatures to pass through.
This is a preparation made in advance in case there is a future need to transport a certain large vehicle.
While the machine was still clicking away, repeatedly drawing lots, Pei Qi opened his inventory and began taking stock of the aftermath of the battle.
This is his third day back from the world of Demon Slayer.
Looking at the messy loot in his backpack, Pei Qi's obsessive-compulsive disorder was about to flare up.
"The various limitations of real-world items are really giving me a headache."
He turned his gaze to the items that occupied the precious shelf: several handwritten breathing technique manuals, several blood samples of Muzan in glass bottles, and the blue spider lily that emitted an eerie blue light.
"In Minecraft, 64 gems can fit into one slot, and you can even stack 64 Eiffel Towers together. But what you bring back from the real world..."
"Cannot be stacked. None of them can be stacked!"
Originally, he also wanted to be a "porter of nature" and bring back tons of special products from the Demon Slayer world, such as the wood and special minerals from the Infinity Castle.
For this reason, he once attempted to build a portal to the lower world in the Demon Slayer universe.
But the result was disappointing.
When he struck the obsidian door frame with the flint and steel, there was no sign of spatial distortion except for a real and intense flame rising out of thin air.
That world doesn't seem to have a "lower realm" plane, so it's impossible to transport people across realms via hellish transportation.
"Then I can only be a backpacker, not a truck driver." Pei Qi sighed helplessly.
The waiting process is often tedious.
Out of sheer boredom, Pei Qi habitually opened the JEI Item Manager next to his inventory.
This was originally a basic auxiliary module in Minecraft used to look up crafting recipes and item uses.
The row of densely packed item icons on the right usually only displays items that are already in the game.
However, when Pei Qi's gaze swept across the bottom of the list, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Behind a bunch of icons of dirt and pebbles, several new icons with completely different styles have appeared!
Those were uniquely designed samurai swords, with tsuba (handguards) shaped like flames, water waves, lightning bolts, and more...
[Nihonrin Blade (Water)], [Nihonrin Blade (Flame)], [Crimson Blade (Not Activated)]...
"This...this is?!"
Pei Qi's heart raced, and he tried clicking on one of the icons.
A crafting table popped up on the screen instantly:
[Iron Ingot] + [Crimson Ore] + [Wooden Stick] = [Nijirin Blade]
"It actually loaded?!"
Pei Qi continued scrolling down, and what shocked him even more was yet to come.
Following the list of weapons are icons of books in various colors.
【Water Breathing - First Form】
Thunder Breathing - First Form
【Hinokami Kagura】
Pei Qi opened the crafting recipe for [Hinokami Kagura]. The recipe was extremely simple, even absurd to Pei Qi:
[Book] x 1 (unordered composition)
"Can it be synthesized from just one book?"
Pei Qi thought for a moment, then typed "Breath of the Moon" into the search bar.
No results found.
"Just as I expected. The items that appeared in the JEI list weren't randomly given away, but rather based on my existing 'knowledge'."
"Because I systematically learned and recorded the complete Water, Fire, and Lightning Breathing techniques in the Demon Slayer world, and even helped Tanjiro deduce the Hinokami Kagura, this knowledge was 'modulated' by the system and turned into synthesizable items."
"As for Kokushibo's Moon Breathing, I didn't learn it, so it's not here."
This means that everything he learned in the other world will not be forgotten when he leaves; instead, it will be solidified by the MC system into a "mass-producible module ability".
With just one book, he can "synthesize" skills at any time, and might even... pass them on to others?
"Since that's the case, let's see how well this 'MC-ified' breathing technique fares..."