I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 102

Chapter 102

“Interesting.”

After repeatedly confirming that his message hadn’t been erased but was successfully left on the manuscript, Fang Bai couldn’t suppress the smile on his face.

At this moment, Fang Bai became even more interested in this lineage of Mage inheritance and felt an even stronger sense of belonging.

Even though the Senior in the inheritance was powerful, he was still so interesting.

Wasn’t this much more lovable and respectable than the Dark Mage lineage?

Fang Bai, who discovered this point, was very satisfied. Looking at the pen that dissipated right after he finished writing, he nodded.

“Mm, in the future, if I see something I want to comment on, I can directly comment on it here.”

Fang Bai decided to find some blank spaces to use as a message board in the future.

As long as he received recognition from the inheritance once and recorded a theory on it, he could leave a message once.

In Fang Bai’s view, this didn’t conflict with his previous seriousness and solemnity.

He was solemn before because he was worried about misleading future generations. Now that this wouldn’t mislead future generations, he could naturally be a bit more lively.

Serious and lively!

This was also a spirit of a Mage.

Inheritance, inheritance, besides inheriting knowledge, inheriting thoughts and spirit was also inheritance.

Fang Bai happily planned to play with the message board, as for whether the threshold for leaving messages was a bit high…

“Is a noob worthy of passing down his spiritual inheritance?

Noobs are not worthy of leaving messages. Mm, next time I leave a message, I’ll write this down. Maybe someone will work hard to study just to retort me?

Without certain achievements, you’re not even qualified to criticize me.”

Fang Bai chuckled and withdrew his mind from his thoughts, looking at his notebook again. The notebook was filled with experimental data, but Fang Bai still needed to analyze it bit by bit.

Just like he said before, Field Theory couldn’t instantly increase combat power.

This only gave Fang Bai a research method.

At this moment, Fang Bai still couldn’t improve the Fireball spell, but he at least had a preliminary algorithm. When encountering problems, he only needed to bring the problems into it and solve them step by step.

Although difficult, he already had a clear goal and method.

“I first need to calculate the field of each spell node. This step should be the simplest.”

Fang Bai pondered.

“Even the most complex Chinese characters only need one or two thousand commonly used characters to be used normally. Vast masterpieces are also just the use of these thousands of common characters.

The types of spell nodes shouldn’t be more than Chinese characters, right?

Now it’s just recognizing characters. I only need a large amount of spell model data to calculate the field of each spell node, and then I can analyze its meaning. It shouldn’t be difficult to achieve my goal.”

As for how to use these words to form sentences later, and how to turn sentences into short essays…

Fang Bai paused slightly, then smiled.

“As long as I understand the meaning of each word and remember some classic sentence patterns, let alone short essays,

I can even consider essays of several thousand words, and masterpieces of hundreds of thousands or even millions of words.”

Fang Bai immediately browsed through his experimental data quickly, comparing and confirming again and again, and soon came to a conclusion.

“This Fireball spell probably uses seventeen different characters.”

After using the metaphors of Chinese characters, sentences, idioms, and short essays, he felt that this was very specific and easy to understand.

Moreover, the same text could express different or even opposite meanings with different order and segmentation. Even the same text with different tones and punctuation marks could achieve this.

In Fang Bai’s view, this was very similar to the variability of spell node combinations.

Therefore, Fang Bai now liked to collectively refer to different spell nodes and elemental pathways as characters.

“Although I’m not sure about the specific meaning of these characters yet, the structure formed by the combination of these three characters should be quite common and can be recorded as a combination.”

Fang Bai looked at the Spell Trigger structure mentioned in the manuscript.

“The meaning of this three-character word should be to attract specific elemental power.”

Fang Bai smiled slightly, then took the spell model from the Fire Bull and identified them one by one, finally obtaining nineteen characters.

“Two more characters.”

Fang Bai also wrote the two new characters in his notebook.

On this page, different spell nodes were written. Some nodes had annotations indicating their function, i.e., their effect.

However, most of the nodes were still blank.

What Fang Bai needed to do next was to collect as many spell nodes as possible, and decipher and analyze their functions one by one, analyze their part of speech, which nodes they could be paired with, and which nodes they could synergize with.

Of course, this also required more spell models as sample comparisons.

In short, Fang Bai needed to collect spell models on a large scale!

Just as Fang Bai was about to continue experimenting, a young woman named Ji Ying ran over. She was a clerk under Bai Qing, looked decent, and had a pretty good strength. She was assigned by Bai Qing to guard the spell scroll shop.

“Village Chief, Village Chief.”

After knocking on the door and getting permission, Ji Ying opened the door and ran to Fang Bai’s side.

“What’s the matter?”

“That Li Tieshan, who wiped out Qing Stone Mountain Company, caught a wolf-shaped First-Order Magical Beast and said he wanted to exchange it for eighty Fireball spell scrolls and twenty Water Shield spell scrolls.

The reserved scrolls in the warehouse are not enough to pay, so Village Chief Bai asked me to come and ask you what to do.”

“Captured a Magical Beast alive?”

Fang Bai immediately smiled upon hearing this. After such a long time since he spread the word, someone finally caught a Magical Beast and sent it over!

“Where is he now? Where is the Magical Beast?”

“He’s at the shop.”

“Okay.”

Fang Bai walked directly towards the shop, Ji Ying followed closely behind, and even turned back to close the door when they left the area.

The area where Fang Bai was located was on one side of the village area, so to go to the market area, they had to pass through a part of the construction site first.

On the way, Fang Bai looked at the progress of the wall construction, and then passed through a common construction site iron wall to arrive at the market area.

As soon as he arrived at the market area, he saw a group of people gathered around an eight-wheeled truck, talking amongst themselves, while Li Tieshan was sitting on the roof of the truck at this moment.

Li Tieshan immediately got down when he saw Fang Bai. Wherever he went, the crowd naturally parted, letting him come to Fang Bai. He pointed directly at the carriage and said,

“The Magical Beast is in the carriage. According to the agreement, it’s a hundred spell scrolls of your choice, right?”

“Mm, yes.”

Fang Bai walked to the side of the carriage and looked at the giant wolf tied up with steel cables inside, nodding slightly. Li Tieshan smiled and said,

“Then can I choose a hundred Water Shield spell scrolls, and then exchange eighty of them for a hundred and twenty Fireball spell scrolls?”

Fang Bai couldn’t help but laugh when he heard this.

“You can choose a hundred Water Shield spell scrolls, and then guard the entrance of my shop. When someone comes to buy Water Shield spell scrolls, you can negotiate with them. As long as you offer a slight discount, I think you should be able to exchange for quite a few more Fireball spell scrolls.”

Seeing Li Tieshan joking, Fang Bai also said with a smile,

“Forget it, it’s a waste of time. I might as well go catch a few more Magical Beasts with this time.

As long as it’s a Magical Beast that you haven’t exchanged here before, it’s a hundred spell scrolls each, right?”

“Yes, except for Spider Demons now, and except for this type of Magical Beast you have.”

“Understood. Then give me eighty Fireball spell scrolls and twenty Water Shield spell scrolls.”

“Okay.”

Fang Bai directly untied the backpack on his body, took out a stack of Fireball spell scrolls from it, then carefully counted out eighty and handed them to Li Tieshan.

When Fang Bai opened his backpack and let Li Tieshan see the thick stack of spell scrolls inside, Li Tieshan gasped.

“Hiss!”

He heard that they used less than fifty spell scrolls to wipe out the Survival Society before, this…

“This is enough to wipe out ten Survival Societies, right?!”

Hearing these words and looking at these spell scrolls, the surrounding sounds suddenly stopped. Everyone’s breathing became heavy as they looked at this backpack.

This was even more tempting and soul-stirring than a backpack full of money before the apocalypse.

But no one dared to make a move.

Did they dare to make a move or not?

They didn’t dare!

The example of the Survival Society was still fresh in their minds. Let alone how many people there were here, even with just this many people, this backpack could be shared ten times!

Fang Bai smiled but said nothing upon hearing this.