High School of Demon Hunting

"——Compared to the structure of the body, the construction of the control system is the most challenging."

Duzem turned around and tapped on the skull of prototype number two, which quickly spun and expanded, and in an instant, grew to about a meter in height, utterly engulfing the other parts of its body structure diagram.

The bone patterns on the skull were clearly visible, mixed with different contents of magic text and talismans, but the suddenly enlarged head made Zheng Qing feel as if a fully grown Flying Goblin was lunging at him, causing him to instinctively lean back a little, then immediately realize and abruptly stop, a slight embarrassment appearing on his face.

The other people in the room didn’t laugh at the boy’s little gesture but focused intently on the skull, including Old Yao.

"——Where does the difficulty in developing a control system lie? Complexity!"

At this point, Doctor Duzem tapped again on the skull’s forehead, and the frontal bone continued to enlarge, further obscuring the previous skull behind it. What initially appeared blank gradually revealed rows of tangled spells, like iron chains, connecting individual cells together as they expanded.

"——The ’prototype’ is different from other Alchemical Life; even if it is dead, it is an existence far surpassing ordinary high-level wizards, an unimaginable entity. Any interference commands we try to implement are twisted, encrypted, or destroyed by it. The project team cannot follow the typical laboratory procedure of ’modeling-grid division-spell solving-algorithm design-operation verification’ to construct a control system based on any core, and must rely on its ’self-generating nature,’ which sounds simple but is very complex, involving multiple disciplines... extremely complex."

Doctor Duzem frowned and shook his head, repeating those words several times, showing a remorseful expression. Randomly, he tapped once more on the bone piece, this time a cell rapidly magnified, flooding half the conference room, its thin outer shell like a layer of crystal wall, inside resembling a shimmering Star Sea.

Or rather, it was very much like the structure of a Star Sea.

The sparkling starlight floated and sank in the infinite space, each moving along its orbit, systematically operating, emanating a subtle yet harmonious wave of magic power, which intertwined to eventually be absorbed by that thin crystal wall.

"...During this process, I thought of a statement by Big Wizard Fitz Gerald——the standard to measure a top wizard is the ability to simultaneously maintain two opposing flows of magic power in a natural state while still remaining healthy——and then I realized that this system must be complex yet harmonious, just like First University."

Doctor Duzem raised his hand, made a hat-tipping gesture, and bowed politely to the window, expressing gratitude: "——And the school itself is a marvelous reference."

Zheng Qing pondered for a good while before reacting that Doctor Duzem’s "marvelous reference" was referring to the First University campus. An existence rumored to be alive but never verified.

He immediately understood what the doctor meant, what the coexistence of conflicting magic power within First University meant——such as Alpha Academy and Jiuyou Academy——they were full of contradictions yet were able to maintain a certain subtle balance.

This fact-based result would be mirrored in the construction process of First University’s campus——in other words, because there existed several contradictory magic forces within the campus, it spontaneously constructed a ’Feng Shui’ system conforming to this contradictory framework.

For instance, the location of the teaching buildings, the height of the laboratory buildings, the size of Lin Zhong Lake, the direction of Lakefront Corridor, the position of hills, the scale of woods, even the academy’s outer walls, and Alpha Fortress’s terrace, etc.

Doctor Duzem’s idea was to transform and transplant this set of ’Feng Shui system’ into the control system of prototype number two.

It must be said that this is a very bold idea.

Ding!

Doctor Duzem extended his finger for the fourth time and tapped in the boundless Star Sea.

A light point rapidly zoomed in, revealing the dazzling magic power radiance on it, swallowing the originally boundless Star Sea. Surrounding the light point were smaller, dimmer spirit seeds, with dense runes rolling over them.

Zheng Qing couldn’t see the connection between these light points, spirit seeds, and the Feng Shui of the First University campus; on the contrary, he felt this system rather resembled a stellar system or an atomic structure model.

Doctor Duzem seemed to have guessed the boy’s thoughts.

"——Mirroring is the most wonderful concept in the world."

He snapped his fingers, immediately presenting atomic structure diagrams and stellar system diagrams, quietly floating beside the light point, like three twin brothers: "The grandest concept in the universe mirrored in the smallest concept of life, is a unification based on macro and micro structures, signifying that this structure is the most perfect, most compliant with ’Heavenly Dao’ in the existing world system. This structure can express the relationship of rich associations, and the magic theory based on this structure has been widely used in tasks such as summoning magic’s extradimensional relationship analysis, spell modeling, wizard behavior analysis, real and virtual dimensional relationship exploration, understanding of Alchemical Life’s self-awareness, etc... Similarly, we want to mirror the Feng Shui system of ’First University’ in the ’prototype,’ which also must be based on this foundational structure. The existing Mubawa Treemen tree-like neural networks generally adopt distributed patterns of node division and boundary division, adhere to power-law distribution, the degree of vertices has significant imbalance, facing enormous pressure gaps when interacting with the foundational structure, which is the most direct pressure the suitable person needs to face when controlling the body..."

Zheng Qing’s face crumbled.

He dared bet he was the only wizard in the room who didn’t understand the above analysis. And he believed, even if Doctor Duzem kindly explained it piece by piece to him, he most likely still wouldn’t understand.

Doctor Duzem wisely stopped.

"...Should we continue?" He looked at Professor Yao——because according to Professor Yao, today’s briefing session was mainly to explain the principles of special configuration to Zheng Qing.

Old Yao biting his pipe, waved his hand.

"Let’s stop here," he glanced at Zheng Qing, who was relieved, and reminded: "I know your situation is special, don’t casually talk about what you’ve heard today outside... not even to Su Shijun!"

Zheng Qing tugged at the corner of his mouth.

"I’d have to understand it first to repeat it."

He was starting to have doubts about his confidence in participating in the Giant God Soldier Phase Two task.