I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 116

Chapter 116

Waves of elemental power spread out like tides, containing extremely boundless elemental power. Facing this elemental power, Fang Bai felt like a mayfly, without any possibility of resisting, only able to drift with the current.

And as the elemental tide washed over, the elemental concentration in the area where Yi Hao Village was located rapidly increased: 10%, 20%, 50%…

100%!

In just a few seconds, the elemental power concentration in Yi Hao Village had doubled!

Passing over Yi Hao Village, the elemental tide continued to spread towards the distant mountains, and then the second wave of elemental tide spread out, and the elemental power concentration increased again.

Wave after wave, the elemental tide spread outward from Stone City as the center. In just a few minutes, the elemental power concentration in Yi Hao Village had tripled or quadrupled. Under the impact of this elemental tide, Fang Bai was completely stunned.

Fang Bai understood that this must be the change that Ding Shan had mentioned before, which had now spread outside the city.

When Ding Shan mentioned this change before, Fang Bai was quite curious and had thought about entering the city to check it out.

But considering that there was a Third-Order Magical Beast in the central area of the city that had undergone three cocoon transformations, and his Projection Spell could only reach a maximum distance of about 100 meters from his body, Fang Bai ultimately gave up the idea of going to check it out.

It was too dangerous, so he wouldn’t go.

Maybe there were good things?

He still wouldn’t go.

Fang Bai was very clear about what he needed. He currently needed to calm down and collect more spell models, research more spell models, thoroughly analyze the “field” of a group of spell nodes and their collision patterns, and lay a solid foundation for future research.

As for other things, whether it was high-level spells or high-level treasures, these were not what Fang Bai urgently needed at the moment.

Would going to the city center possibly yield good things that could help him understand the “field” on his own? Could it help him master spell nodes thoroughly?

Obviously not very likely. In that case, even if there were good things, they were not what Fang Bai urgently needed right now, so Fang Bai would restrain his desires.

Self-discipline!

Treasures might be useful in the future, and might allow Fang Bai to research more advanced knowledge from them, but it was unnecessary to sacrifice his own growth time during this period of great momentum to risk his life for things that he might need in the future.

As the saying goes, as long as he was strong enough, these things might just be gifts from others seeking his help in the future.

Therefore, after Fang Bai noticed that the elemental tide had stopped, he withdrew his gaze towards Stone City and prepared to continue his unwavering research on spell models.

However, at this time, Wang Kai suddenly spoke.

“Huh? Why isn’t my phone working?”

Just now, Wang Kai was crushing elemental powder with one hand and playing with his phone with the other.

There was network coverage in the area of Yi Hao Village. Although it was just a simply set up local area network, it could still arouse these people’s addiction to their phones.

As long as they were within the Yi Hao Village area, they could connect to Yi Hao Village’s local area network. In addition, Yi Hao Village’s charging fees were not high, so many survivors who often moved around in the Yi Hao Village area would choose to keep a mobile phone, not to mention Wang Kai, who was an insider.

Bai Qing actually encouraged and supported the use of mobile phones. According to him, since the establishment of the local area network, after stuffing it with a bunch of novels, movies, and setting up chat rooms, the conflicts that occurred inside and outside Yi Hao Village had been reduced by 90%. It was simply a management artifact.

When Fang Bai heard Wang Kai’s words, he casually said, “If your phone is broken, just get it repaired. Don’t I remember that there’s someone in our village who can repair mobile phones? If it really doesn’t work, it’s not expensive to buy a new one.”

After Fang Bai finished speaking, he casually picked up his laptop.

An Alienware laptop, but Fang Bai didn’t use it for gaming, but for modeling.

The networking function of this laptop had been damaged at the hardware level, so Fang Bai was more at ease. In addition to being recorded in text and pictures on the laptop, the collected spell models also formed a backup in the computer.

The main reason was that using a computer to create a three-dimensional model of the spell model would be more intuitive and specific.

However…

The laptop screen was also pitch black. Fang Bai pressed the power button, but there was no response. There was no flicker of light on the screen.

Fang Bai was slightly stunned.

It was broken too?

But when he looked at Wang Kai, who was fiddling with his phone and trying to turn it on, a bad premonition arose in Fang Bai’s heart. He immediately took out his own phone, but then found that it also couldn’t be turned on, the screen was pitch black.

Seeing this, Wang Kai stopped trying to turn on his phone and looked at Fang Bai, asking, “Are they all broken?”

Fang Bai scanned with his Mental Power and immediately found the same situation in other parts of the village. He nodded immediately.

“They’re all broken.”

“Is it because of the elemental fluctuations just now?”

Wang Kai had already allocated his Mental Power attribute points to 10, officially giving birth to Mental Power, so he could also perceive the elemental fluctuations just now, but his perception was not as much as Fang Bai’s, and not as comprehensive as Fang Bai’s.

Fang Bai didn’t speak, but used his Mental Power to perceive the internal situation of the computer and mobile phone, and then said, “The elemental concentration is too high, and the chips in electronic products are too precise. The two have interacted…”

“They all burned out?”

Fang Bai nodded.

“Pretty much.”

Wang Kai felt bad when he heard this. He had finally built a local area network and started the generator, but suddenly, everything was gone. Maybe the fights and conflicts within the village would increase again.

“Can electronic products that are turned off still be used?”

Wang Kai couldn’t help but ask, and Fang Bai shook his head again.

“It didn’t matter before, but now you can understand it as if an EMP electromagnetic bomb just exploded. Although the principles are completely different, the effect is similar. All high-precision things are going to be finished.

What’s even more outrageous than an electromagnetic bomb is that after the electromagnetic bomb is gone, it’s gone, but the elemental power at this concentration still exists.”

Fang Bai couldn’t help but think of his “field” theory. Energy, power, and matter all had radiation, that is, a field, and the radiation and field of elemental power were more obvious and active.

If understood from this aspect, it could indeed be called an electromagnetic bomb.

“Under these circumstances, let alone the ones left over from before, even if it’s a device you just made, as long as it can’t adapt to the elemental environment or can’t shield against elemental intrusion, it still won’t work.”

Fang Bai’s expression gradually became serious, and Wang Kai suddenly reacted.

Because this meant that most technological creations would lose their function and become scrap metal.

After all, in this highly automated era, there were chips inside all automated things, without exception, only the degree of responsibility was different.

And the burning of the chips directly meant the collapse of the information age, and the entire world’s applied technology system would directly collapse.

In serious cases, the theoretical system might even be distorted and collapsed due to the emergence of elemental power and the increase in elemental concentration.

Wang Kai felt that the last vestiges of civilization seemed to be disappearing.

Fang Bai suddenly walked out, and Wang Kai followed closely behind.

At the construction site, all the construction vehicles had stalled. Obviously, the electronic equipment on the construction vehicles had also gone on strike. Wang Kai saw this and said with a slightly heavy tone, “The excavators and cranes have all gone on strike too. Unless we remove all the electronic equipment from these vehicles and directly transform them into purely mechanical vehicles, our construction progress will be much slower in the future.”

Fang Bai didn’t say anything when he heard this, and continued to walk outwards, arriving at the market area. The loudest noise in the market area was coming from the internet cafe area.

And with the noise from the internet cafe area, many people also belatedly discovered that all electronic devices had failed, which immediately caused the entire market area to become noisy.

“Boom!”

A fireball exploded in the sky, and the deafening sound immediately made everyone fall silent for a moment.