Master of Science and Technology - Chapter 47

Translator: Darling | Editor: Darling

Walk someone else’s path, so they have no path to walk. Ye Zan couldn’t care less about how the students of the other Four Sects cursed him. After all, all the treasure was going into his own pocket. He also didn’t have to worry about bringing trouble to Yu Qing. Everything was put into his dimension. He would just leave with empty hands. No one would ever think of him.

But, Ye Zan still thought that they were going too slow. Not only did he ride his “Goldie Bullet Train” everywhere, but he also ordered all his mechanical spiders to go and collect spiritual grasses. Pulling the grasses up by the roots was no difficult task for these technologically controlled spiders.

The task of gathering spiritual grass was left to the mechanical spiders. Ye Zan was in charge of hunting monsters. With Goldie following him, he even saved fighting time. Just the sight of the golden python was enough to scare the creatures into submission. They then obediently followed as he inserted disks into their brains and placed them in his dimension.

Within a day, Ye Zan’s dimension had already held ten some types of spiritual grass, with the total number amounting to over a hundred, and over a hundred heads of spiritual beasts.

If he kept up this speed, it wouldn’t be long before everything valuable in this Realm was swept up into his dimension. This here was the difference between humans and technology! Ye Zan didn’t achieve this on his own. Even just a single mechanical spider, with its software and technology, was the product of the work of countless people.

However, when Ye Zan was happily sweeping through the realm, he received a message that made him stop.

A drone had lost connection!

The drones did not stay in one place. After they had scanned and drawn a map of the area, they had been moved into observation mode; set to scan the ground beneath them. As the scenery was constantly changing, there needed to be constant observation; obviously, the drones would also have to move. But, who would have that a drone would lose connection after moving?

This shocked Ye Zan. The drones had camouflage abilities and had the cover of the sky. There shouldn’t be anything in this Realm that could harm them. Ye Zan hurriedly investigated, seeing the last message from the drone before it fell, and saw that there was no report of an attack.

Then why? Ye Zan scrunched up his brows, reordering his other fifteen drones and trying to find the location of the missing drone. From what was written on his map, there was nothing special about the area, but Ye Zan decided to check what was on the Yu Qing map.

Originally, Ye Zan had thrown the map to the side after setting up his drones. There was nothing special about it. Sure, it had markings, but did Ye Zan need the? He had his drones, there was nothing secret about this Realm anymore. What types of plants, beasts, etc. were in this Realm, he knew it all. He could even investigate underground. Why did he need this map?

But now, as Ye Zan took out the Yu Qing map and compared it with what was written on his own map, there was a problem; especially in the area, the drone had lost connection. The area was mapped on his version but seemed to not be on the Yu Qing map.

It wasn’t that there was a blank on the map. It seemed like the area just didn’t exist in the Yu Qing version. In other words, that area had always existed, it was just that, the people drawing the Yu Qing map had never discovered it, so it didn’t exist in their map. They had just drawn what they thought was the whole picture.

This wasn’t anything extraordinary. There was a skill in this world called Spiritual Formation. Within this skill, there was a special technique: Bewitchment used to target and confuse human senses. A high-level Bewitchment could blind the senses, and even work to “make people do what they think is real, when in fact, the real is false”. Lower level Bewitchment techniques could trick the senses, confusing directions, and letting people walk on the wrong paths, like the infamous “Ghost Knocking”.

It was clear that, in this area, or at least around this area, there was the presence of this Bewitchment Charm. Under the influence of this Charm, the people drawing this map had unknowingly disregarded this area. However, the charm in this area was definitely not the lower-level kind. How else would even a drone lose the ability to communicate? Should he go in to investigate?

Ye Zan was a little hesitant. After all, technology was not all-powerful. No one knew what dangers there would be after entering the area.

At this time, the disk in Goldie’s brain sent a message to Ye Zan. After arriving here, Goldie had remembered snippets of her past, one of which was her turning around to look back at this area. From this, Ye Zan could deduce that Goldie had very likely come out of this area. Of course, this was just a guess. Because, in Goldie’s memories, there was no information on what was in the area.

Ye Zan hesitated for a moment, before clenching his teeth. The so-called “finding treasure in danger”, could probably be speaking about this area. Maybe there were greater treasures, or, better, a secret to gaining control of this Closed Realm.

Thinking about being able to control the Realm, Ye Zan wanted to drool. Although he had a dimension, it was still tiny compared to this Realm. This Realm stretched for thousands of miles. Moreover, and more importantly, this Realm was also filled with spiritual energy, unexhausted even after all these years. This meant that it had a way of regaining this energy. The dimension he had was unable to produce spiritual energy. It had to be replenished every time Ye Zan opened its doors. If he could control this Realm, would he ever have to worry about having a place to grow medicine and farm beasts? 

Of course, Ye Zan didn’t recklessly barge in. He had to do some preparation. If you had preparation, that was called taking a risk. If you didn’t do preparation, that was called looking for death. The saying: “Doing all you can as a human, then listening to the heavens for your fate”; you had to “do” what you could in your powers before you could listen to the heavens for your fate.

A mechanical spider rushed in, but immediately lost connection with Ye Zan. However, Ye Zan had predicted this and preset the spider’s settings so he didn’t have to control it. As planned, after a short time, the spider came back, bringing with it a video of what was in the area.

But, based on what was in the video, Ye Zan couldn’t see anything special; just that the mist was a bit heavy. He could confirm one point: the mysterious area didn’t cripple the technology’s settings; it just blocked off all signals.

Ye Zan decided to go in by himself. He put the python Goldie into his dimension and brought out a suit of armor.

This armor was designed for scouting. There were all kinds of high-tech designs, like a plasma gun, two missile launchers, and all sorts of shields. Even if it was just a scouting design, solely based on its uses, Ye Zan could probably take on Goldie by himself wearing it.

After preparation, Ye Zan left a message for the Yu Qing students to prevent them from making assumptions when they lost connection with him. Only then did he walk into the mysterious area.