The main body of the Vinader Institute is a semi-underground building in the shape of a concave U. This is where the crazy undead inventors in the institute are located. In addition to the main building, there are also a series of experimental sites and a tall stone statue.
The stone statue is seven or eight meters tall, with its hands on its hips. It has all kinds of strange equipment installed on its body, with gears and pipes exposed, and looks like a bald skeleton undead in the style of steampunk.
Li Ziyu approached curiously and saw an inscription on the base of the statue written in the language of the dead, emitting soul fluctuations. The inscription introduced that the owner of the statue was none other than Vinad, who founded the research institute. The inscription highly praised Vinad, describing him as a great pioneer and the first undead wise man who wanted to combine psychic power and mechanical technology.
Li Ziyu's mouth twitched as he watched. He didn't expect that there was such a narcissistic guy among the undead. Not only did he name the institute after himself, he also erected a statue of himself in the institute and even engraved an inscription. The system just copied it.
Absolutely amazing.
Li Ziyu didn't know whether Venard's ideas were ahead of his time or whether he was a great pioneer, but he knew that after the construction of the Venard Research Institute, many new technologies were indeed unlocked, which meant that weapons combining psychic power and mechanical technology became possible.
The Skeleton Undead are the largest branch of the Undead, and they have the largest population. Although the Skeleton Undead are lazy most of the time and like to hide and sleep, it does not mean that they don't care about anything. Therefore, there are various factions and branches among the Skeleton Undead. Among the technology, there are three main factions: psychic, mechanical and biochemical.
Each of the three factions has its most loyal supporters, and they dislike each other and often belittle each other.
The psychic department feels that they are the most important. Psychic energy is not only a powerful force, not only a type of energy, but also the foundation of the undead. Developing psychic energy is the future of the undead, while machinery is a heresy, an auxiliary product, and something that is not worthy of being on the table.
The mechanical undead felt that the psychic undead were all antiques, their skulls probably broken by bugs, and they didn't know how to make progress. They didn't deny that psychic powers were good, but machines were not bad either. Could bones be harder than metal?
As for the biochemical department... they have no right to speak. We are skeleton undead, who wants to study flesh and blood? If mechanical technology is not worthy of being mentioned, then the biochemical department is pure heresy. Only skeleton undead whose soul fire is broken would study it. After all, the skeleton undead themselves can't use this stuff. It is studied for other branches and it does not benefit themselves.
There are many undead like Venard. They neither support the psychic system nor the mechanical system. They feel that all powers should be integrated. Why must they choose one? Wouldn't it be more powerful if they were added together? Isn't it enough to just become stronger?
These lunatics ignore tradition and think they are the most advanced undead sages.
Li Ziyu didn't know the history of the Undead, but the Vinad Institute was indeed one of the earliest institutes of the Undead that wanted to integrate psychic technology and mechanical technology. Many integrated technologies were born from this institute.
In the research institute, the most basic technology is called "Spirit Jar", which is a technology that must be lit up. Li Ziyu did not hesitate and directly consumed resources to light it up, and a new item appeared.
【Spirit Jar】
【Category: Storage】
[R&D Requirements: Venard Research Institute, Psychic Energy*2000 units, Copper Ingot*3000 units]
Introduction: The first technological product developed by the Venard Research Institute, based on the concept of "replacing other energy sources with psychic energy," utilizes magical metal and undead runes to create a container capable of storing soul energy. Each jar can hold 100 units of soul energy. PS: Simply put, it's a basic psychic energy battery, and it's disposable.
[Manufacturing requirements: Soul Energy * 1000 units, Psychic Bone * 4 pieces, Magic Copper Metal * 20 units, Mechanical Connection Interface * 2 pieces, Psychic Crystal * 4 pieces.]
Li Ziyu did not choose to make the spirit jar. He felt that the cost-effectiveness of this thing was too low. It required 1,000 units of soul energy to make, but the soul energy stored in it was only 100 units, which was equivalent to consuming 900 units of soul energy in vain, which was a huge loss.
This very important core basic technology will definitely evolve step by step in the future. After being upgraded for several generations, it will be more cost-effective and will have a greater impact.
I took a look at the picture of the spirit jar. It looked like a metal capsule with four transparent crystal pieces. Blue energy could be seen flashing inside. There were two interfaces at the upper and lower ends of the metal capsule. It looked simple and crude.
The spirit jar is the first and most crucial step for a group of crazy undead sages such as Venard to explore the combination of psychic energy and machinery. From the perspective of Li Ziyu, a time traveler, they have grasped the key point - the basis of everything is energy.
The mechanical technology of the undead tends towards steampunk technology, full of retro feel. Whether it is soul energy, magic energy, or other energy, they do not use it directly, but use conversion methods to convert other energy into strange steam energy.
What Vinard did was to give up the transformation and use soul energy directly!
That's one small step for the undead, one giant leap for undead technology.
Not converting means reducing losses and saving costs.
Although the first technology unlocked does not need to be manufactured, Li Ziyu is very satisfied with it. It means that it is a good start and he is very interested in the next technology.
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