Dual Worlds: I Have a Doomsday World

If it was really that careless, wouldn’t that mean the classification system for Potions was just as sloppy?

It must be fake!

Xu Qinghe said, "Yeah, Sister Liu is right. This is definitely a rumor!"

’It must be a rumor!’

Otherwise, wouldn’t that mean the Cyber World was just one big clown show?

That all industry standards were established based on such ridiculously laughable decisions.

Meanwhile, Lin Qi blinked.

For some reason, Lin Qi had a feeling the story sounded entirely plausible.

After all, Lin Qi had met quite a few so-called "big shots" in high places.

Permanent directors of the Big Business Alliance, Jin Yuanxi and Aishwarya.

Baili Xueyuan of the Assassin Alliance.

The head of the Intercontinental Communication Network Company, an Intercontinental Giant Corporation, who had contacted him after the Alliance City incident.

None of these people had struck Lin Qi as being particularly reliable...

Shaking his head, Lin Qi stopped letting his mind wander and refocused his attention on the prototype machines in the exhibition hall.

’Looking at the design philosophies of these prototypes has given me a more holistic understanding of the history of Prosthetic Engineering.’

’The step-by-step improvements in Prosthetic Body performance are driven by a synthesis of overall changes in theory, materials, and design style.’

’If I were to personally design an A-Class Prosthetic Body right now, I could think of at least ten more approaches than before.’

When it came to absorbing knowledge, Lin Qi was never one to slack off. He carefully examined every Prosthetic Body.

Seeing that Xu Qinghe had stopped asking questions, Liu Li, their guide, breathed a sigh of relief and continued leading the group through the exhibition hall.

Before they knew it, the group had arrived in front of a prototype machine that had no label.

Lin Qi froze for a moment when he saw this machine.

’This thing looks a little familiar!’

He subconsciously glanced at Liu Xuan and saw the blue light in her left eye suddenly flare with incredible brightness.

This prototype machine was the very origin of how Lin Qi and Liu Xuan met.

This thing was the main culprit behind the incident back then.

Back then, not long after Lin Qi had left the archives at Liu’s Academy, he was caught in a bizarre spiritual storm.

This spiritual storm allowed Lin Qi to glimpse the existence of the [Door] within his Sea of Consciousness for the first time.

But at that time, the [Door] was still indistinct, revealing only a vague outline.

Back then, Lin Qi had only just become a Tier One Wizard.

Through his Spiritual Vision, Lin Qi observed that amidst the raging spiritual storm, inside a laboratory building full of equipment, a young girl standing next to this very machine had fallen unconscious.

An extremely powerful storm of Spiritual Power surrounded her.

The storm originated from that experimental apparatus, and within the machine were Extraordinary Items.

Lin Qi recognized at a glance that this unlucky soul was a member of the Liu Clan.

’Saving a young lady from the Liu Clan could perhaps save me ten years of struggle.’

’At the very least, it would get me a ticket into the company.’

As a transmigrator with "no golden finger," Lin Qi worked up his courage and charged right in, entering the building, heading deep into the center of the Spiritual Power storm, and shutting down the machine.

And it was that very encounter that led to Lin Qi meeting Liu Xuan.

What happened next was more or less as Lin Qi had predicted. Although he never received a huge reward from the Liu Clan conglomerate, it did indeed secure him a ticket into the company.

His journey through Liu’s Academy was incredibly smooth. He was given the green light in all his subjects, and as for electives, he could study whatever he pleased.

After graduating, he joined the Weapon Research Institute without any trouble, becoming one of those corporate drones in Red Fruit City’s Edge Zone—the kind everyone both cursed and envied.

In the end, it only took him one short year to become an L-level Prosthetic Engineering Researcher.

As he finished reminiscing, Lin Qi’s gaze toward the prototype machine softened.

’This was the origin of everything!’

Without this machine, perhaps Lin Qi wouldn’t have been able to gain so much knowledge at Liu’s Academy.

Perhaps Lin Qi would have walked a different path.

Perhaps Lin Qi would have become one of Guang Ling’s most hardworking Mercenaries, the one with no connections.

Lin Qi subconsciously looked toward Liu Xuan, only to find that she was also looking at him.

Lin Qi walked over to Liu Xuan’s side and said in a low voice, "If I get the chance, could I study the blueprints for this machine? I promised your father a few things, and this is very important to me."

Liu Xuan subconsciously bit her lower lip, a flicker of hesitation in her right eye. She said, "The machine is currently missing its most critical components. If you want to study it, those parts are the core. You’ll need my father’s permission."

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Lin Qi said, "I’ll ask for his permission at an appropriate time. But before that, I want to study the blueprints for the mechanical parts first."

Lin Qi’s words were rather cryptic.

The mechanical parts...

Lin Qi could tell what the machine was missing.

The Extraordinary Items that had caused the machine to trigger the spiritual storm had all been removed. The machine was now just an empty shell.

Liu Xuan nodded and said, "I’ll send you the blueprints later."

Just as Lin Qi was about to speak again, Liu Xuan suddenly added, "If you don’t understand them, you can ask me. I can explain them to you."

Lin Qi’s eyes widened slightly.

’Don’t understand them?’

’Is Liu Xuan looking down on me?’

’I’m a bona fide A-Class...’

Just as he was thinking this, something else occurred to Lin Qi. He immediately activated his Spiritual Vision to observe the machine’s internal structure.

After just one glance, Lin Qi’s head began to spin.

HISS!

’What the hell is this thing?’

’This level of complexity is insane!’

Looking at the machine’s modifications, Lin Qi could make out twelve or thirteen distinct modules.

Any single one of those modules, judging by its complexity alone, was at least S-Class!

Combined, these modules formed something utterly incomprehensible to Lin Qi.

’Is this thing even still within the S-Class category?’

’It couldn’t be an X-Class item, could it?’

Lin Qi felt dazed.

Lin Qi swallowed and turned to Liu Xuan, asking, "Did you design this yourself back then?"

This was Liu’s Prototype Machine Exhibition Hall. And what was a prototype?

Naturally, it was a first-generation machine designed and developed by the Liu Clan.

Lin Qi recalled Liu Xingyuan’s evaluation of Liu Xuan.

A genius!

How old was Liu Xuan back then?

Even if she was a year older than Lin Qi, she would have only been seventeen at the time, right?

A seventeen-year-old S-Class researcher in Prosthetic Engineering?

And she’d also managed to whip up a machine that, in Lin Qi’s eyes, was comparable to X-Class?

Could she be summed up by the mere word "genius"?

To Lin Qi’s question, Liu Xuan simply nodded.

Besides herself, who else in the Liu Clan could have developed such a machine?

The fundamental nature of this machine was too insane.

If it failed, so be it. But if it had succeeded, the Liu Clan would have either ascended to the throne of an Intercontinental Giant Corporation or been targeted by countless rival companies and utterly destroyed.

As it turned out, Liu Xuan’s experiment back then had failed.

Lin Qi couldn’t care less whether the experiment had succeeded or failed. All he saw was Liu Xuan’s nod.

HISS!

Lin Qi sucked in a sharp breath.

Lin Qi involuntarily thought back to his own experience at the Weapon Research Institute.

"The youngest L-level Prosthetic Engineering Researcher."

That was Lin Qi’s title at the Weapon Research Institute. He had been called a genius for it back then and had received resources from the company for priority development as a result.

At that time, Liu Xuan, like Lin Qi, had also been active in the Weapon Research Institute as an L-level Researcher.

Back then, Lin Qi had actually thought quite highly of Liu Xuan.

He believed that although Liu Xuan had enjoyed better resources than him, becoming an L-level Researcher at her age must have taken considerable effort.

Thinking back on it now, he realized Liu Xuan had just been playing house with him...

All she had wanted was to run into him every day...

Lin Qi’s ego took a slight hit.

But after a moment of silence, Lin Qi still said to Liu Xuan, "If I don’t understand, I’ll ask you."

Regardless, what Lin Qi was thinking about now was solving Liu Xuan’s "illness"—an "illness" that stemmed from this machine, from the experiment all those years ago.

Lin Qi had to understand it!

Just as Lin Qi and Liu Xuan were talking, Xu Qinghe, who was up ahead with Liu Li, suddenly turned her head and asked, "Sister Liu, what are you two whispering about? Is this machine really impressive? I noticed it doesn’t even have a label!"