"Tea, please, Dr. Russell."

Fang Zheng looked at the old rabbit - no, old doctor - who was sitting in front of him with an embarrassed expression, and handed him a cup of tea with a smile.

"Sorry, I didn't realize your place was closed..."

Looking at the girls hiding outside the door and looking over here, even Dr. Russell seemed a little embarrassed. After all, generally speaking, the working hours in a place like the Orbital Workshop are very late, and Dr. Russell came here only after reading all the articles and papers published by Fang Zheng and having a certain understanding of the research results of this young man, so some time was wasted.

I didn't expect this place to be closed...

"Nothing, then, Dr. Russell, what do you want to talk to me about?"

“I’ve read the article you published.”

At this point, Dr. Russell's expression turned serious.

"It's rare to find a guy as young as you who has his own ideas. And I can see that you have a deep understanding of Orion Technology. And this..."

As he spoke, Dr. Russell took out Fang Zheng's "Subor" game console.

"I want to ask you something."

"You want to ask me about the problem of miniaturization of the Orb Device, right? I have indeed solved it."

Fang Zheng naturally understood the other party's intention, so he gave a direct answer.

"oh?!"

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Dr. Russell's eyes lit up. He didn't even bother to drink his tea and just stared at Fang Zheng.

"You have really solved it? Then I think you understand what this means! You should know that there are two major divergences in the current guidance technology!"

"Of course I understand that."

Fang Zheng nodded. He certainly understood what Dr. Russell meant. After all, in order to disguise this identity, Fang Zheng also studied a lot of knowledge about guide technology. He also knew what Dr. Russell meant by the dispute over guide routes.

Here, we must first explain the guide system of the continent of Semlia.

There are two types of magic in the continent of Semria. One is ancient magic, which is magic that humans can release without any external catalysts, just by chanting spells. However, this type of magic is extremely rare now, and only a very small number of people such as the Seven Lights Church and ancient witches can master it.

The other is guide magic, which is currently the most popular form in the continent of Semlia, that is, releasing magic through guide devices.

What is needed is an elemental crystal called "Seven Luminaries".

There are two sources of Seven Luminaries. One is through mining, which is also the main source of Seven Luminaries in various countries, and the other is through killing monsters. To put it bluntly, the Seven Luminaries in this world are actually similar to the magic crystals in the fantasy world. They are all products of magic condensation. When magic condenses in the ore veins, it will form Seven Luminaries mines for mining. The monsters in the Semlia continent are also affected by magic, so Seven Luminaries can also be recovered by killing monsters.

However, since the monsters themselves are not as pure as the ore veins, killing the monsters basically gives you the fragments of the Seven Luminaries, the "Shining Crystals". By synthesizing and processing these Shining Crystals into "Crystal Circuits", and then embedding them into the crystal holes of the Orbiter, you can release magic.

Of course, there are some problems with the orb-guider.

First of all, because the Orb Device is a very personal thing, and everyone's physique is different, they are all customized.

This is also normal. For example, some people are good at fire attributes, while others are good at wind attributes. In order to suit the user's own abilities, the crystal holes in the guide device will often limit the attributes.

On the other hand, there is the crystal chain.

Essentially, the size of a guide device is about the same as an open wallet. In order to carve both crystal holes and crystal chains connecting the crystal holes on it, plus the mechanical devices needed to drive the guide magic, as well as the adjustments and matching required for different personal attributes, the number of crystal holes is extremely limited.

Secondly, there is the combination of guide magic.

Conductive magic is stimulated by the resonance of the crystal circuit properties in the crystal hole. After so many years of research, the residents of the continent of Semlia have done considerable research on the properties of the crystals needed for conductive magic. For example, the lowest level fire magic "Arrow of Fire" only needs one fire crystal to activate the resonance before it can be used, but if you want to use the advanced fire magic "Roar of the Volcano", you need eight fire crystals, four earth crystals and two space crystals to be activated at the same time.

This requires the user to have a very good understanding of the combination of crystal circuits, because the crystal circuits have been fixed for so many years. Each crystal circuit has several properties, and it is very clear which crystal it corresponds to.

For example, the Chaos Blade and the Ultimate Blade have three Fire Crystals, while the Fire Crystal for enhanced attack is five. In this case, if you want to use the highest level fire magic "Volcano's Roar", you must match an attack crystal circuit with a fire attribute of five and a ultimate blade with a fire attribute of three on a crystal chain, and then match them with an air attribute circuit that saves mana, and a defense crystal circuit with an earth attribute of five.

This magic can only be activated if these crystal circuits are ensured to be on the same crystal chain.

In fact, from Fang Zheng's perspective, this guide device is very much like a small computer. The magic inside is actually the instruction set stored in the computer. Only when the current requirements are met can the instructions be activated to release the magic. If the requirements are not met, it cannot be activated.

But just as computers are also subject to improvement, the improvement of orb-guided devices has always been a topic of debate in the industry.

This leads to what Dr. Russell calls the “route dispute.”

Currently, there are two main views in the scientific and technological community of the continent of Semlia regarding the improvement of the orb-guided device.

One is to continue to strengthen the improvement of crystal holes and crystal chains. After all, due to the different personal physiques of current guide devices, the combination of crystal holes and crystal chains is sometimes unsatisfactory.

Fang Zheng also had some experience with this. After all, he encountered a similar problem when he was configuring guide devices for the little girls.

Among these four little girls, Ling is the most awesome one. She has a crystal chain from beginning to end. No matter what crystal circuit it is, it can make extremely awesome conductive magic for you. Moreover, the attribute of this little girl is "time", which is a rare level among the seven attributes. It is simply adding wings to a tiger.

In comparison, Anjie was the worst off. Everyone had only six crystal holes, and because everyone's magic flow was different, Anjie's crystal chain was directly divided into four, 2, 1, 1, 1 based on the central crystal hole. This meant that unless Anjie got a crystal circuit with extremely high attributes, her crystal chain could only be used to create medium-level conductive magic.

As for the "roaring volcano", don't even think about it.

So in a sense, this can also be regarded as an intuitive manifestation of the "magical potential" of individuals in the continent of Semlia.

If Ling is a top-level mage, then Anjie is just a lower-middle-level mage.

In response to this problem, the route plan they proposed is to continue to improve the manufacturing technology of the guide device, especially the stability of the crystal chain and crystal hole, to reduce the crystal hole as much as possible, and then to improve the magical strength of the guide device by increasing the connection of the crystal chain.

To put it simply, it is to increase the crystal chain, break through the current bottleneck, and connect all the crystal holes together as much as possible. If everyone can connect all the crystal holes together to form a loop like Ling, then the power will definitely increase greatly.

The route proposed by another group is completely different. What they want to improve is not the crystal chain and crystal pore, but the crystal circuit itself!

The idea of ​​this school is also very simple. I just want to release a "Volcano's Roar", why do I need to pair it with three or four crystal circuits? Can't I just make the crystal circuit into a "Volcano's Roar"? Then when the time comes, just plug it in and it's done? Why do I need to do the four arithmetic operations?

That's right, their idea is to directly synthesize the crystal circuit of high-level magic through the Yao Chip. The advantage of doing so is that it is more convenient, and it can also ignore the limitations of the crystal chain. After all, each person has only six crystal holes. You can just plug the crystal circuit of high-level attribute magic into all six crystal holes, instead of having to calculate the attributes of your own crystal chain when matching a high-level magic as before... It's like doing a math problem.

Eventually, the industry split into the "orbiter faction" and the "crystal circuit faction", who published articles and argued with each other in magazines all day long. If the Internet in Semiria was not yet very developed, the two factions' arguments might have directly flooded the magazines.

The "orbiter school" thinks the "crystal circuit school" is nonsense. You know, although their approach does reduce the difficulty of matching magic, it also reduces the number of magics that users can master. After all, the current orbiter is not as simple as solving math problems. If a user is smart enough, he can release more than a dozen or even more than 20 magics through the combination of simple crystal chains and crystal circuits.

As we all know, the more magic you have, the stronger your ability to respond to various situations. On the other hand, according to the "Crystal Circuit School", the user can only master more than ten magics at most. What's the use of this?

The "Crystal Circuit School" accused the "Orbiter School" of doing this on purpose to maintain their class stability. As mentioned before, everyone has different physiques, different distributions of crystal chains, and different final results. Ling can easily match the final magic, but Anjie can't, which is a form of discrimination. They can let everyone use the same advanced magic without caring about the distribution of crystal chains. This is true progress and equality!

As for not having enough mana? We can fix that in the core loop.

The two sides were arguing fiercely, and more than half of the journals subscribed by Founder were about the verbal battle between the two sides.

But unfortunately, it's just a quarrel.

Because the "orbiter school" has not yet found a better technology to increase the number of crystal holes or change the number of crystal chains, and the "crystal circuit school"'s so-called turning high-level magic directly into crystal circuits remains on paper.

In a nutshell, it is the lack of technical capabilities.

But this question is very important, because basically all the guided products on the continent of Semlia are of similar structure. Once they need to be modified, it will be a comprehensive overhaul.

Dr. Russell was also very interested in Fang Zheng's "Little Overlord". He took it home and took it apart directly. However, after seeing the structure inside, Dr. Russell was also shocked!

Although the structure of "Little Overlord" is similar to other guided products, the problem lies in... other aspects!

Those are the guide crystals and crystal chains!

In Founder's "Little Overlord", the crystal circuit that should have been as big as a glass ball is only the size of a grain of sand, and the crystal chain connecting the crystal circuit is only as thin as a hair, densely etched on an entire guide plate.

Of course, when compressing the crystal circuit to this extent, the attribute value inside will naturally decrease, maybe only 0.5 or 0.1, but... this can be compensated by quantity!

As the leader of Orb Technology, Dr. Russell quickly understood the operating principle of "Little Overlord" after seeing its internal structure. If the crystal holes and crystal chains can be made so small, the rest of the problems will naturally not be a problem. In addition, "Little Overlord" is at best just a game console used for playing games, and it does not need to be equipped with several magic spells like a real Orb Device, so this kind of plate is sufficient for now.

However, Dr. Russell certainly understands that the real value behind this is more than just a game console.

"You should understand what this means, Mr. Fang Zheng."

This time, Dr. Russell directly called Fang Zheng's name, and Fang Zheng nodded.

"Of course, but I'm not uninterested in it. To be honest, I still prefer playing games."

After all, I am the god of games, not the god of technology, nor the god of war.

“It’s not a question of just doing whatever you want.”

Dr. Russell shook his head. Chase is the technological heart of Liberl. Various countries have sent people here to collect intelligence. It would be fine if Fang Zheng, the little overlord, did not come out, but as soon as you come out, you put it on the table for sale - the technicians from various countries are not fools, okay? As long as they take it apart and take a look, the problem will naturally arise.

"Of course I understand that."

Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders, then he looked at Dr. Russell with a smile.

"So I hope you can help me, Dr. Russell."

"I?"

Faced with Fang Zheng's question, Dr. Russell was stunned for a moment.

"Do you want me to introduce you to Chase Central Workshop?"

"Of course not."

Fang Zheng shook his head.

"I think you misunderstood. I can buy and sell manufacturing equipment in this area, so I hope you can be my representative... or middleman to negotiate with various countries. After all, you are quite well-known in the field of guide technology, right?"

“…Huh?”

Hearing this, Dr. Russell was completely stunned.

He originally thought that Fang Zheng intended to keep his technology secret, which was also what many guide research inventors of this era would do. However, what surprised Dr. Russell was... Fang Zheng actually said that he could sell it?

"You mean... you're willing to sell this technology that miniaturizes crystal loops, crystal chains, and crystal holes?"

"certainly."

At this moment, Fang Zheng finally revealed his true colors.

Why Microsoft? He wants to be the ASML of this world!!