People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

Shen Qin looked down and saw a ruins guard wandering slowly at the bottom of the valley. Just like in the game, it had a main body that was larger on the top and smaller on the bottom, and its arms were twice as long as its legs.

When Albedo was at a certain distance from it, its "eyes" suddenly lit up with a dazzling red light, and at the same time a large amount of steam came out of the steam pump on its shoulder - this meant that it had entered a high-load combat state.

At first it was facing Albedo, but after detecting his invasion, its upper body immediately rotated 180 degrees, with its hands on the ground and its back tilted upward at 45 degrees. Then missiles shot out from the launch holes on its back and tracked towards him.

"Bloom!" Albedo did not slow down, and flowers of creation made of rock elements flew out from his hands and collided head-on with the tracking missiles, detonating them in advance.

He rushed out of the smoke produced by the explosion unharmed and arrived in front of the ruins guards.

Seeing that he was already within melee range, the Ruins Guard immediately switched to melee mode, and his nearly three-meter-long arms, with powerful wind pressure, hit his body.

Albedo naturally would not compete with a lump of iron to see whose body was stronger. He dodged the blow sideways and pressed its knee joint with his hand that contained strong rock elements. With a "click", its knee lost its support and its whole body fell in that direction.

After it hit the ground heavily, Albedo stepped forward and blasted the rock element into its main trunk to destroy its internal structure. Then its limbs hung down limply, and the light in its "eyes" dimmed.

He removed the outer shell of its "eye" with his bare hands and took out a fist-sized ball. The ball felt heavy in his hand and he couldn't tell what material it was made of. There were complicated lines on the surface and traces of light were flowing on the lines.

Albedo returned to the platform with the Chaos Core. Shen Qin took it and gave him a thumbs up: "Great."

"We can study it when we return to the alchemy workshop. Now let's meet up with the investigation team and see if they need any help."

However, when they rushed towards the direction of the Knights, they heard the sound of fighting from afar. They immediately accelerated and saw many monsters frantically attacking the investigation team.

Behind the monsters, an abyss wizard held up his wand and chanted obscure abyss spells. The monsters also exuded an ominous aura.

At this time, the investigation team was surrounded by monsters from all directions. Many knights were lying on the ground with blood on their armor.

Three Abyss Mages floated above the investigation team, blocking their escape route using flying skateboards. When a knight took off into the air, they would use magic to focus fire on the opponent and force him to land.

But when no one took off, they just watched the fighting below quietly without taking any action, as if they were admiring the knights' dying struggles.

Qin released the Wind Field to push the monsters away, but she was helpless against the huge monsters like the Hilliard Thugs. She had to maintain the Wind Field, so they could only be dealt with by other knights.

"Klee, Sucrose, go help the Knights! Shen Qin, use your shield to protect the wounded!" Albedo quickly gave the battle orders, and then he rushed towards the Abyss Mage who was chanting the spell.

It is easy to tell that the monsters are all affected by the abyss and are being manipulated by the abyss mage.

"Big bad guys, look at how powerful Klee is!" Klee flew in the sky and threw bombs at the three abyss mages and the group of monsters above.

Sucrose uses the wind element to spread the flames produced by the bomb explosion to other monsters.

Shen Qin floated above the wounded and opened the overclocked shield to protect all the wounded. He said to the knights who were still able to fight: "Don't worry about ordinary monsters, they can't break this shield! You just need to deal with the elite monsters."

The support of the four of them reduced the pressure on the Knights. With the shield protecting the wounded, Jean could also stop releasing the Wind Field and turn to deal with those powerful monsters.

While releasing the shield to protect the wounded, Shen Qin took out the Chaos Furnace Core and began to study it. He needed to use it to increase the shield strength in overclocking mode to a level sufficient to defend against the full-force attacks of elite monsters. This would free up the Knights' combat power and allow them to concentrate on dealing with the Abyss Mage.

But what made him sad was that the chaos furnace core was just a sphere, and unlike the parallel energy system with positive and negative poles, it was not advisable to connect it directly to the bracelet.

"If the Chaos Furnace Core is used as the positive pole, then where should the negative pole be connected?" He closed his eyes and simulated the flow of energy in the bracelet in his mind. Ten seconds later, he opened his eyes and said, "Got it!"

He asked a few knights to come over and protect the wounded, then quickly disconnected the bracelet from the parallel energy system, connected the chaos furnace core to the positive pole of the bracelet, and then inserted the negative pole into the ground.

With a slight "hum" sound, the overclocking mode shield unfolded again, but now it was complete!

"Now the shield can completely withstand the full force attack of the elite monsters. Hurry up and deal with the Abyss Mage!" Shen Qin reminded the knights loudly.

"Got it!" Qin gave up fighting with the hilliel thugs in front of her and rushed directly towards the Abyss Mage.

One of the abyss mages glanced at Shen Qin, teleported directly to the side of the shield, waved his wand at Shen Qin, and a stream of abyss energy flew towards him, but it was surprised to find that the energy disappeared the moment it touched the shield!

It felt that something was wrong, looked back at its colleagues who were at a disadvantage, and decisively chose to escape.

Abyssal energies can be blocked by a new type of shield - this news must be passed on!

Chapter 52 I will accompany you to find your mother

One of the four Abyss Mages escaped, and the Knights were almost suppressing the remaining three. However, Shen Qin was horrified to find that the light on the pattern of the Chaos Furnace Core was getting dimmer and dimmer - anyone could tell that the energy inside it was decreasing!

At this moment, many monsters were still attacking the shield, consuming the energy of the Chaos Furnace. Although the Abyss Mage no longer had the energy to control them, they were affected by the Abyss energy and became extremely irritable. They kept trying to rush into the shield and tear them into pieces.

"Hey! The shield can't hold up anymore! Not enough energy!" he shouted to the knights.

But at this time they had already moved the battlefield to a slightly distance away, and the violent noise of the battle masked his voice, and no one noticed the situation here.

"Damn it!" Shen Qin didn't know whether to blame them or thank them for their trust in him.

He asked the wounded to gather around him. As soon as the energy of the chaos core was exhausted, he would try to connect back to the parallel energy system as soon as possible and use the five-meter diameter shield to protect the wounded as much as possible.

As the Chaos Furnace Core dimmed, he silently counted down in his mind:

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two...

The rock-attributed Creation Flowers bloomed from the ground, binding all the remaining monsters, and then the knights rushed over to kill them one by one.

Huh——Shen Qin finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the ground, and cold sweat began to appear on his forehead.

"Is there a problem here?" Albedo came to him and pulled him up from the ground.

"The Chaos Furnace Core is out of energy. Luckily you made it back in time." Shen Qin handed him the dimly lit Chaos Furnace Core.

"Sorry, this is my oversight. I didn't realize that the Chaos Core couldn't last too long under the high energy consumption of the defense bracelet."

"Is its energy so fragile?" Shen Qin frowned slightly. If its total energy is just this little, even if its instantaneous energy is high, it is not suitable for a defensive bracelet.

Albedo explained to him: "In fact, what I am interested in is another function of it - it will automatically absorb the surrounding elemental force and store it as energy! This is also the real reason why it 'never extinguishes'. The defense bracelet does not consume much energy when it is activated. It only needs a large amount of energy supply when defending against attacks. This is very consistent with the characteristics of the Chaos Core!"

Shen Qin's eyes lit up. Indeed, if the energy could be restored automatically, it would almost simultaneously solve the bracelet's energy needs of high instantaneous energy and long battery life.

He also came up with an idea, which was to combine the electrical crystal and the chaos core together, allowing the electrical crystal with a huge total energy to "charge" the chaos core!

"What are you talking about?" Qin came over to discuss the next action with them. "The crisis of the Abyss Cult has been temporarily resolved. We will continue our investigation mission. I would like to trouble you to temporarily act as our guards."

Shen Qin looked at the wounded on the ground: "What should we do with these wounded? If they don't get timely treatment..."

Albedo gave him a strange look and said, "Don't you know that Captain Jean's 'Dandelion Wind' has healing powers?"

"Yes, the injuries of the wounded have stabilized, but further treatment requires them to return to Mondstadt. However, due to the investigation mission, we have to inconvenience them temporarily." Qin felt a little ashamed.

"Captain Qin, we are fine. We are only slightly injured. Go and complete the mission. We can just lie here and rest for a while."

"Yes, Captain Qin..."

"You guys..." Qin looked at them, then nodded heavily, "I understand, we will complete the task as soon as possible!"

Sucrose and Albedo went to help the scholars with the investigation. Shen Qin and the knights who were still able to move transferred the wounded to another clean grassy area. After all, after a great battle, the battlefield was full of monsters' limbs and blood, and the environment was indeed a bit harsh.

Then he and Klee sat on a high rock and looked at the huge wind element barrier not far away.

It is like an inverted bowl, covering the entire Old Mond within, and the rapidly flowing hurricane will tear everything it touches into pieces.

Keli suddenly moved her butt and leaned into Shen Qin's arms.

Huh? Shen Qin looked down at her unexpectedly. Although the little guy had a close relationship with him, she had a carefree personality and had never taken the initiative to act like a spoiled child with him like this.

"Brother Shen Qin..."

"what happened?"

"Klee misses her mother a little bit..." the little girl said aggrievedly, "Klee hasn't seen her mother for a long time. Although the brothers and sisters in the Knights are very kind to me, I still miss my mother. I'm afraid that if I don't see her again, I will forget what she looks like."

"..." Shen Qin was silent for a long time before he touched her head and said to her gently, "Then if there is a chance in the future, I will accompany you to find your mother, okay?"

"Um……"

Albedo looked back and saw the two people on the stone. He smiled with relief: If something unexpected happens to me one day, she will have someone to rely on...

The investigation went smoothly and took only half an hour. While the scholars were sorting out the information, Jean found Albedo: "Now all the evidence points to the ruins of Old Mondstadt. Not only the East Wind Guardian, but also the mastermind and secret arrangement of the Abyss Cult are there."

Albedo looked up at the huge barrier and said, "But it is a huge obstacle."

"That's what we're asking you to do. Find a way to break through the barrier so the investigation team can continue their in-depth investigation."

"I'll try my best. In fact, I'm also very curious about what force allowed this barrier to restart after thousands of years."

"We will discuss this matter in detail after we return to Mond and gather all the captains. By the way, what do you think of Shen Qin's newly invented defensive bracelet? Do you think it is suitable equipment for the Knights?" Qin looked at Shen Qin on the stone in the distance.

Albedo nodded, "It's suitable, but the output may be a problem. If the Chaos Core is used as an energy source, it is destined to be provided to only a few people. Although there are many ruins guards in Mondstadt, investing a lot of manpower, material resources and time to collect Chaos Cores is not cost-effective compared to the effect obtained after equipping the defense bracelet. However, if Shen Qin can find a way to copy the Chaos Core, then the output will not be a problem."

Then he changed the subject and continued, "And if we think about it from another perspective, its significance to Mond may be far beyond our imagination."

"How to say?"

"If there is sufficient energy provided and the range of the shield is expanded so that it can protect the entire Mondstadt..."

Qin was surprised and asked, "Can it really be done?"

"Well, but don't forget the most difficult premise to achieve. The instantaneous energy provided by the Chaos Core is already very huge, but it is only enough for a personal defense bracelet to be used normally. What other energy sources on Teyvat can provide the energy to protect an entire city?"

Then he added: "Anyway, it can't be achieved with current alchemy."

"Is that so?" Qin was a little disappointed, then shook her head and said, "Forget it, you can discuss the matter of the protective bracelet with Shen Qin. As for the shield that can protect the entire Mondstadt... there is no need to fantasize about these unrealistic things. The scholars have already sorted out the information. Let's hurry back to Mondstadt."

Chapter 53: Defense bracelet? No, smart bracelet!

After returning to Mondstadt, Shen Qin took Albedo, Sucrose, and Klee to bid farewell to the Knights and returned to his alchemy workshop. They planned to complete the defense bracelet in one go.

With the help of the elemental power of Albedo, they decomposed all the structures of the Chaos Core and obtained its core - a yellow crystal the size of a fingernail that emitted a faint glow.

"I can't analyze its material, and I have never heard of the existence of similar substances on Teyvat. It may be a synthetic material made by Kanreya using a special process, but this process has now been lost." Albedo shook his head and said to Shen Qin regretfully.

Shen Qin also felt very sorry. If he could copy this mysterious crystal, he wouldn't have to worry about energy problems in the future.

Apart from this crystal, the rest of the physical structure of the Chaos Core could be replicated using the alchemy they had mastered.

Shen Qin and Albedo reorganized the Chaos Core's structure, added electrical crystals, and created an energy bracelet that was exactly the same shape as the defense bracelet. It had all the functions of the Chaos Core, and thanks to the built-in electrical crystals, its charging speed could be ten times that of the Chaos Core!

To put it simply, the energy charged in one day can support the normal operation of the defense bracelet for half an hour at full load (three modes are turned on at the same time and it can continuously withstand the full force attack of elite monsters), and the energy it can store is enough to charge for three full days!

What's more, the monsters' attacks are not continuous. In actual combat, the shield of the defense bracelet can last longer.

Shen Qin added a magnetic function to the energy bracelet and the defense bracelet. When worn on the hands, they will automatically adsorb together, and the energy bracelet will provide energy to the defense bracelet through contacts.

Albedo also provided some technical support to optimize the bracelet, such as making the air its negative pole. At this moment, the complete form of the defense bracelet was completed. Shen Qin tested it and found that all functions could operate normally.

"Unfortunately, the defense bracelet is limited by the material of the Chaos Furnace Core and cannot be mass-produced. How about this, I go hunt a few more Ruins Guardians, and you help us make a few more bracelets?" Albedo liked this little gadget quite a bit.

"In fact, the energy bracelet is not a standard defense bracelet, but a standard for ordinary people like us!" Shen Qin said with a smile, "For those of you who have the Eye of God, you yourselves are the most suitable energy source!"

Albedo and Sucrose's eyes lit up. Yes, Shen Qin was unable to drive elemental power, so he could only use external energy to solve the energy supply problem, but they themselves could directly drive elemental power to power the defense bracelet!

“Come on, let’s spend a few more days to redesign the energy bracelet for the person who holds the Eye of God. I just so happen to have a new idea, so let’s add it to the bracelet and see the effect.

Albedo and the others couldn't wait to start researching.

Finally, after three days, all eleven sets of new defensive bracelets were completed.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a smart bracelet now - Shen Qin originally reserved a space in the defense bracelet for energy. Now that the energy is external, he installed a micro terminal in this position.

The terminal has four functions: photo taking, memo, database and material analysis. When you hold the bracelet in front of your eyes, it will project a virtual screen above the bracelet, and you can operate the terminal or enter text with voice.

The photo and memo functions are easy to understand.

The database was what Shen Qin asked for from Albedo. It contained information on various alchemy, animals, plants, materials, environment, and man-made objects. It could be searched and browsed in the database at any time, or detailed information in the database could be opened by scanning physical objects.

Material analysis is quite powerful. After scanning, it can roughly analyze the growth status of plants and the physical condition of animals. It can also analyze what basic materials some simple synthetic materials are made of.

If an unknown material is scanned, it can also find known materials with similar structures in the database, and infer the properties and various data of the unknown material through comparison and calculation.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the terminal, Shen Qin also placed an electrical crystal in the energy bracelet.

In addition, Shen Qin also added a binding function similar to that of a bionic prosthesis to the bracelet's intelligent system. Once worn by the first person, it will be permanently bound to that person's identity, and no one else can use it.

Albedo tried out the various functions of the bracelet, with surprise in his eyes. Originally it only had a simple defensive function, but after Shen Qin's transformation, it became a multifunctional prop that can provide many conveniences for daily life and work.

Sucrose and Klee really like its photo-taking function.

"Sister Sandang, let Klee take a nice photo for you. Please take one for me later!"

As expected, beautiful girls simply cannot resist taking photos! Shen Qin looked at them with a smile and reminded them, "When two bracelets are within a range of ten meters, they can transmit data to each other, which means that the photos you take can also be transmitted to each other's bracelets!"

The girls were delighted that photos could be transferred to each other, and Albedo thought of its wonderful uses in alchemy - experimental notes and alchemical drawings could be recorded and shared through it.

"You've improved the practicality of the bracelet by several levels." Albedo was amazed at Shen Qin's innovative design. "But I can see that it has more room for development in the future. You must have a plan in mind!"

Shen Qin looked at him in surprise. As expected of the Chief Alchemist of the Knights Templar, his eyesight was indeed extraordinary.

The future of smart bracelets will be a personal terminal that can connect everyone to the same network. It is positioned as a smartphone on Earth. However, to achieve this goal, the network infrastructure of Mond is too demanding, and Shen Qin has not yet drawn such technology.

"I do have a plan in mind, but under the current conditions, its upper limit can only reach this level." Shen Qin sighed, then looked at the pile of smart bracelets on the table, "But if you have any ideas or inspirations while using it, I can find a way to add some new functions to it."