There's something wrong with me

Today.

Zhang Feng, 28 years old, and Chen Tiancai, roughly the same age, were heading towards the Plateau Province.

At this moment, on the approximately twelve-meter-long floating small train.

Zhang Feng, while having the surrounding guards step back, looked at Chen Tiancai, whose face was pale.

"After Z1 is completed, we'll divert some material and human resources to begin the construction of the 'Spiritual Energy Planting Base'."

Zhang Feng pulled his arm over and checked his pulse.

"The way you're doing research, normal medicine can't cure it anymore.

Because what you're losing is your 'spirit'.

I need to plant a type of spiritual fruit and spiritual flower to help you circulate your energy, temper your spirit, and nourish your mind.

Otherwise, I'm really afraid you might die one day."

"Hmm..." Chen Tiancai was a bit dispirited. "Don't worry, Teacher Zhang. Now that Z1 is perfected, I'll have time to rest.

It was the same when I was researching the superconductivity topic last time; I just needed some rest."

"The problem is you don't rest." Zhang Feng shook his head, tossing his hand back. "To put it bluntly, you might look 28 now, but your physical functions are already infinitely close to around 35.

If you keep researching like this, your body won't hold up."

As Zhang Feng spoke, seeing that he was about to bring up reasons of serving the country and people to refute, he also pointed a finger at his chest from a distance, temporarily causing his vocal cords to vibrate and lose the ability to speak through the hyper-frequency operation of spiritual energy.

This was essentially striking his 'mute point'.

"Listen to me finish." Zhang Feng picked up his teacup. "I finally understand why you are so amazing.

Besides your 'technology talent' being far beyond ordinary people, you are truly working yourself to death.

Four and a half hours of sleep a day, the remaining nineteen and a half hours spent researching, and even while eating and bathing, you wear headphones to listen to scientific papers and research reports.

Let alone you, even if it were someone like me, whom you refer to as an 'immortal', I couldn't work non-stop like you."

"..." Chen Tiancai couldn't speak, he could only keep rolling his eyes, showing an urgency as if he had something important to say.

Zhang Feng saw that he seemed to have something important, and with another wave of his hand, he sent out a burst of spiritual energy, restoring his vocal cords.

Then Chen Tiancai very seriously said to Zhang Feng: "You can work non-stop.

Because your physique has already surpassed that of normal humans, based on my understanding of you and your past statements.

I speculate that you only need three hours of sleep a day to ensure a full day's energy."

"Alright, there's nothing to talk about with you." Zhang Feng sipped his tea without speaking, but he was also thinking that once Z1 was rolled out, he would apply to start the construction of the spiritual fruit and spiritual flower planting base.

However, originally, Zhang Feng hadn't wanted to start the construction of the spiritual fruit and spiritual flower base.

Because they are also related to genetics and medicine, they would definitely delay the optimization of spiritual stones.

Currently, the spiritual stones are already in the process of optimization.

Although Chen Tiancai said that the calculations and optimization should wait until the mechanical platform is built.

But as Zhang Feng mentioned that spiritual stones could nourish lifespan a while ago, except for Chen Tiancai, everyone else couldn't sit still.

However, the current spiritual stones are all in the hands of super institutions and the government.

And the output is not high, only about two hundred stones a day.

He took ten for himself and didn't bother with the rest.

It's just that now, Chen Tiancai's physical condition was troubling Zhang Feng.

If he didn't manage him, he would be at full processing power, making a small technological leap every few months, but his lifespan would also take a small step back.

If he did manage him, unless he knocked him out, he truly wouldn't stop.

Zhang Feng had never encountered someone who worked non-stop like this before; he was truly like a 'human research instrument'.

... ...

Noon.

He participated in the first large-scale Z1 construction project.

Zhang Feng didn't say anything else; he mostly observed.

He saw that they were not using the 'large pit stepped' method seen in reality, but rather building upwards like constructing small buildings, using superconductors as the overall large framework, and then splicing upwards at intervals.

Zhang Feng didn't know which method was better, so he decided to observe first.

But it was also his first time participating in an engineering project.

Zhang Feng, wearing a white hard hat, found everything quite novel.

Currently, only he and Chen Tiancai could wear white hard hats here.

The next level of responsibility and other leaders wore gray hard hats.

After that were red hats, blue hats, and so on.

And such projects, a few days later, also began to unfold in various places.

Zhang Feng and Chen Tiancai started traveling constantly.

Then Zhang Feng discovered something.

It wasn't just the plateau region that chose the building-like method of stacking upwards.

Even within some cities where land is extremely valuable, they were still stacking like this.

Furthermore, the foundations of these superconductors were very large, and the areas around the inside of the framework were very empty, not looking like they were meant to be filled with Z1.

... ...

After a month of traveling around the country.

On the train.

Zhang Feng thought for a moment, unable to understand, and asked Chen Tiancai: "Why are you constructing it in this manner?

I think for places like cities, burying it underground to save land area might be better?"

"Teacher Zhang doesn't know?" Chen Tiancai was first puzzled, then gave an answer Zhang Feng hadn't expected.

"After the mechanical platform is erected, these batteries will all be transported to high altitude.

The current construction is casual to make it convenient for retrieval in the future."

As he spoke, he pointed to another city they were about to go to, where the superconductor foundation was also very wide and large.

"These superconductors are not only the temporary framework for Z1, but also the base framework for the mechanical platform.

Teacher Zhang doesn't know?"

"I really didn't look." Zhang Feng had been studying various kinds of knowledge for over a year now, so he truly hadn't looked at Chen Tiancai's mechanical platform plan.

Originally, Zhang Feng had thought Chen Tiancai would use other materials.

But thinking about it carefully, superconductor material was already the most stable composite material on Earth at present.

Its resistance property from -150 to 5000 degrees is sufficient to cope with the ultra-low temperatures of the stratosphere.

Subsequently, Zhang Feng looked at the notebook in his hand and briefly flipped through the plan.

Currently, the target for the mechanical platform is an altitude of fifteen thousand meters, which has already reached the stratosphere.

The stratosphere is approximately twelve thousand to fifty thousand meters from the ground.

Even though most of the ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by the ozone layer and the atmosphere, it is still very abundant.

Although the ozone layer is also within the stratosphere, its altitude is around twenty thousand to fifty thousand meters.

Taking a quick glance.

Zhang Feng didn't think such 'high buildings' would cause any significant changes in the Earth's rotation speed.

Because this world also has theories similar to space elevators.

Zhang Feng had once consulted Chen Tiancai, asking a question like 'If an elevator extends so far out from Earth, will it change the rotation?'

For example, while the Earth is spinning, suddenly a ten-thousand-ton object is sent to the top of the elevator.

Logically speaking, if the middle of the elevator doesn't break, then the sudden addition of ten thousand tons of mass at the top of the elevator will inevitably cause the Earth to rotate along with it; this is unavoidable inertia.

But Chen Tiancai, through data analysis, concluded that this amount of weight is basically negligible compared to the Earth.

To put it pictorially, it's like whether a grain of dust can knock over a ten-million-ton aircraft carrier.

And at that time, Chen Tiancai even listed a large number of detailed formula results, all handwritten.

When Zhang Feng checked them using a quantum computer's AI at the time, they were all correct.

Especially at that time.

Zhang Feng also gained a rough understanding of Chen Tiancai's calculation ability.

If using cognitive ability to calculate, with the enhancement of his six spiritual thoughts, it should be around 1.3.

Then Chen Tiancai should be around 7.

But he was very dependent on his memory bank.

In his cognitive system, as long as it was in his memory and he had thoroughly understood it, he could solve it instantly.

So cognition was more for him to understand things earlier and to operate efficiently by analogy.

Their systems were different.

It's like Guest on the Seat and Great Immortal of Ling Mountain; their cognitive ability might not be high, but their comprehension of spirituality and martial arts is absolutely maxed out, and their root bone and spiritual root are not low either.

And they can also change the world.

One can only say, 'everyone has their own specialization'.

In fact, truthfully speaking, the evil method of that evil cultivator, if he had endured for a few more decades, could also change the world.

Rats could also change it, crows could also change it.

But he had obtained all of their final learnings.

So Zhang Feng also understood; his advantage wasn't some kind of comprehension, but infinite life adventures.

No one could compare to this talent.

Of course, the premise was that he was willing to learn.

If he didn't learn, he might have failed in the undercover world.

Then he would have to wait 100 days in reality for the death cooldown before the undercover world adventure restarted.

Zhang Feng didn't know what he could practice during these 100 days.

But Zhang Feng knew that in the earliest master's world, he practiced for a full 30 years to ensure the smooth progress of the undercover world.

... ...

Sixty-four years later.

Z1 was rolled out.

The entire globe also achieved complete geomagnetization.

Although there were many problems with material shortages in between, as well as some international disputes, and some other messy things.

But today.

Zhang Feng also understood what it meant for the logic of civilization to be altered.

At this moment.

In a room on the top floor of a tall building.

Zhang Feng, with a head full of white hair, sat on a sofa, watching a sci-fi movie about a future world while also looking at the city view outside the window.

The two were identical.

The sky was full of flying small cars, and there were some 'floating' buildings.

The current streets and shops were not just a row on the ground, but had second and third floors.

They were all in the air.

There were also logos of some large shopping malls and brands, floating around the shops and malls.

To be honest.

Zhang Feng felt this was no longer a future sci-fi world, but rather like the 'Age of Magic'.

But in fact, once superconductivity and Z1 were spread out, it was achieved.

And it was achieved globally thirty years ago.

Watching.

Zhang Feng looked at his physique.

Currently, it was [312].

Eight spiritual thoughts.

Furthermore, Zhang Feng also tried to spread martial arts in this world, but the effect was not good.

Because gene martial arts were deeply ingrained, and physique could also be raised to around 150-200.

The official side even had super soldiers with physiques at 230.

Comparatively speaking, his few sets of cultivation methods were a bit overshadowed here.

Firstly, the effect was slow, and secondly, before learning, one had to first learn Daoist and Buddhist contemplation, as well as cultivating the mind.

One was quick success through taking medicine, the other was slowly learning a large amount.

Furthermore, a 20-year-old taking medicine could reach 200.

Those who took it slowly, at most reached 70-80.

What more needed to be said?

It could only be said that they didn't have his experience or knowledge foundation, so they couldn't improve that quickly.

Otherwise, those who took it slowly actually had more staying power.

But there were also some people who chose to believe in him, this 'non-human', and learned his martial arts.

Even if they knew they couldn't be like him, they still learned.

People are all different, who knows what they were thinking.

Zhang Feng still didn't understand why they would learn his set when gene martial arts were clearly better.

However, it was also with the help of these people that he gained an unexpected bonus of forty meridians.

After that, he had also mostly memorized the knowledge about this world.

Among them, everything about the complete Z1, superconductors, the 20% optimization of spirit stones, and the creation of assembly lines had all been memorized.

Following that, engineering, electrical engineering, and genetics.

He could now say he had reached the level of 'half-step master'.

Consider it having memorized all the theoretical knowledge.

From now on, it was about slowly digesting it, waiting to completely become a master, and then trying to step into the 'expert level'.

This world was basically about studying, studying, studying.

It was all scientific theoretical knowledge.

It could also be considered 'filling a professional gap' for things he hadn't learned before.

He had been too focused on medical martial arts, and his overall strength was a bit too skewed.

But now it was much better.

At least when he saw something, he wouldn't be completely clueless.

Thinking to himself.

Zhang Feng calculated the time; he would return in another two hours.

Then he would take a final look around.

Snap—

Zhang Feng got up from the sofa and instantly arrived in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.

The next second the window opened, and instead of the expected strong high-altitude wind, there was a gentle warm breeze.

Below the floor-to-ceiling window, a large piece of magnetic alloy slowly extended, and on it was a streamlined flying car.

Its body was entirely sky-blue, emitting a soft glow in the morning sunlight.

On the side of the car, there were also the four characters 'Spirit Stone Technology' written in a bold, flowing script.

At the same time.

As the surrounding flying cars passed by, their owners all showed envious and amazed looks.

"Wow! Global limited edition! I remember there's only one in the entire world, in the hands of a legendary old man..."

"Spirit Stone Technology? Is it Spirit Stone Technology?! He's Zhang Feng!"

"Bro! Quickly switch to autopilot, look over there, that old man is Zhang Feng! He and Academician Chen were jointly hailed as the Dual Hearts of Civilization! I've seen his news!"

"Is it Professor Zhang? He hasn't appeared in public for a long time. I didn't expect him to live in this building; this building looks so ordinary."

"Probably after we've seen him, he won't live here anymore."

Along with the appearance of the car.

It caused a small sensation in this area of the sky.

And on the sides of some cars, covers were opened, revealing cameras.

Zhang Feng ignored them and got into the car.

"Go to the nearest mechanical platform."

After instructing the car's intelligent system, Zhang Feng picked up the computer next to him.

Whoosh—

After Zhang Feng gave the command, the car did not move forwards, backwards, left, or right like other cars, or slightly adjust its height up and down.

Instead, fins and Z1 focus chips extended from below its two side doors, and then it flew straight upwards.

Zhang Feng completely ignored the vertical ascent, still looking at the computer in his hand.

Most of the news inside was about the plan to immigrate to the moon.

Some people even started selling 'conceptual moon houses'.

But currently, the plan for moon immigration had still not been realized.

Among them, issues regarding radiation protection, living environment, psychological problems, and food supply, etc., had not been effectively resolved.

Chen Tiancai didn't have time to solve them.

...

Ten minutes later, after the intelligent system exchanged flight path requests with the official system.

Plus Zhang Feng's signature.

At this moment.

Twenty thousand meters high in the sky.

Whooshing sound ~

Cold strong winds howled.

Zhang Feng, wearing a protective suit, got out of the car and stepped onto this 'steel structure'.

Looking out, this was a steel jungle several kilometers in area, entirely built with superconductors and incorporating some special aerospace materials.

And above these materials, Z1 batteries were densely packed.

The bottom supports of this steel jungle were rooted in the entire city far below.

And on this steel structure, there were also container-like square boxes, which were the computing boxes that Chen Tiancai had envisioned.

Its computing power was three times that of the small building in reality, and it performed full-function calculations.

Its network was distributed on superconductors, achieving uninterrupted signal operation.

And its cost was only one-tenth of the small building's.

However, because Zhang Feng was proficient in electrical engineering and materials science, he could disassemble some of them to provide computing power for his small building.

Because this box, while good, was not specialized.

In reality, only specialization was currently needed.

He could achieve almost complete control.

"Academician Zhang..."

While Zhang Feng was observing these things, several special aerospace flying cars arrived from a distance.

Behind them, there were also several fighter jets circling in the sky, their purpose being to protect his safety.

"Mm." Zhang Feng nodded slightly towards them, then ignored them and looked downwards.

As far as his eyes could see, under the coverage of the mechanical platform, the local buildings had already climbed to a thousand meters.

And they could enjoy the operating power of the computing boxes.

Consider it a form of compensation.

After all, their city was occupied.

They definitely needed to be found a place to live.

Below the steel platform was a good 'beehive'.

Including their quantum devices at home, which also shared computing power with the computing boxes.

Or rather, a steel platform was a city's 'integrated computing machine'.

This was Chen Tiancai's idea, and he even wanted to connect the entire globe.

To turn the entire planet into a super computing machine with infinite energy.

Zhang Feng, drawing on this, also had an idea.

Facilities regarding steel structures could actually also be built in reality.

His idea was very good.

However, regarding the boxes, Zhang Feng wanted to change them to 'single-function' small buildings.

This way, others couldn't steal his network, but he could use theirs.

Of course, there would also be corresponding compensation at that time.

As for this, he would leave it to Old Liu and the others to figure out.

After seeing these.

Zhang Feng, escorted by a group of people and several fighter jets, arrived in front of another box.

Through his authority, Zhang Feng handed over his laptop, using a superconductor as a connecting line, and quickly received the latest spirit stone solution data.

Unfortunately, there was still no breakthrough.

20% optimization was the current limit.

Zhang Feng was expressionless, put away his laptop, then looked at the cars, people, and planes following around him, and spoke through the communicator inside his protective suit,

"You can all go back."

"Professor Zhang..." The guards, however, did not retreat, but instead said with concern: "You are so old, if you need any data, just let us retrieve it.

You must take care of your health. You are the only remaining fruit of the scientific community for humanity; everyone is very worried about you."

"Mm... Go back."

...

An hour later.

Inside a private cemetery marked as top secret globally.

Zhang Feng looked at Chen Tiancai's grave,

"Actually, if you were still here, I think the mechanical platform could have risen another ten thousand meters or so, and there would be a more optimized structural plan.

You told me that twenty thousand meters was not the limit of human wisdom.

Space above ten thousand li was just the beginning.

Including the moon immigration plan everyone is fantasizing about, if you were here, perhaps it would also be possible in the next few years.

But now only I am left; I have become the only remaining fruit.

Fifteen years ago, as soon as you left.

The whole world was waiting for me to come up with new research plans; everyone was waiting for me.

I could only quietly retire, continue tinkering with my martial arts, teach students, and look at meridians."

Zhang Feng shook his head at this point, "Forget it, I won't talk anymore, time is up."

Zhang Feng offered a flower at his grave,

"Old friend, I'm leaving."