bioinnovel Chapter 409 It's choosing a gate!
Chapter 409 It's choosing a gate!
When Zhang Yan woke up, the car had stopped.
Nie Qingcheng was not in the passenger seat.
He saw her standing at the entrance of the command center through the car window, holding a cup of hot water, waiting for him.
He got out of the car.
Nie Qingcheng handed over the water without saying a word.
Zhang Yan took the drink, drank a sip, and followed her into the command center.
The screen is already on.
The efficiency data of the six gates are arranged in a row.
Guan Xing stood in the corner, his face expressionless, but the knuckles of his fingers holding the communicator were white.
Zhang Yan scanned the numbers.
First gate: 81%.
The sixth gate: 57%.
The second gate: 43%.
The fourth gate: 41%.
The fifth gate: 38%.
The third gate: 35.8%.
When I saw it in the car, it was still 36.1%, but it dropped again after he slept for less than forty minutes.
"How long did it take from being squeezed out of the first door to starting to gnaw at the third door?" Nie Qingcheng asked.
Zhang Yan has already calculated it. The difference between the two timestamps.
"Twelve seconds."
Guan Xing's lips moved slightly.
"Last time it took it 0.4 seconds to move through the gate network," Nie Qingcheng said. "This time it took twelve seconds, is it because it failed to materialize at the first gate and needed time to retrieve the projectile and recompress it?"
"right."
"In other words, it only takes it a dozen seconds to choose a new target each time it is repelled."
It wasn't a question. Zhang Yan didn't answer.
Nie Qingcheng leaned against the table and tapped her fingers lightly on the surface twice.
"The moment it was pushed back by the first door, it chose the third door. The weakest of the six doors."
Zhang Yan sat down at the control panel and projected the system panel onto the large screen.
"It's choosing its approach," he said. "It's not attacking blindly. It's finding a breakthrough."
Guan Xing took two steps closer. "At the current speed, when will the third door drop below 20%?"
Zhang Yan pulled up the decay curve. Before the repair, it dropped by 0.2% every two hours. Now—after being angered by the repair action—it drops by more than 0.5% every two hours.
"Less than eleven days."
"It takes four days of preparation and execution to repair one gate," said the stargazer. "Should we repair the third gate first?"
"It can't be fixed," Nie Qingcheng answered for him.
She walked to the screen and tapped six numbers with her finger.
"Six gates. It only needs to break through one. It takes Zhang Yan four days to repair one. After repairing the third gate, it moves on to the fifth. After repairing the fifth gate, it moves on to the fourth. It will never catch up."
Zhang Yan stared at the large screen.
She's right. Repairing things one by one is passive and defensive. It's much more flexible than that.
There was a silence of about ten seconds.
The number on the third door jumped. 35.7%.
"We won't repair them one by one," Zhang Yan said.
Two people were looking at him at the same time.
He pulled up the network topology diagram. Six light spots, irregular hexagons, connected by light rays.
"What channel does the collaborative mode use?"
Guan Xing thought for a moment. "The underlying transmission channel between the doors."
"That thing can move between nodes using a transmission channel. I can use the same channel too."
He opened the "Door Maintenance Protocol" submodule of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart.
Third line.
Energy is distributed evenly.
Status: Available.
Condition: At least one door has an efficiency of ≥70%.
The first gate is 81% complete. The conditions are met.
"The first gate is at 81%, far exceeding the basic operating value." Zhang Yan pointed to the connecting line on the topology diagram. "The extra efficiency is distributed to the other five gates through the transmission channels."
Guan Xing immediately realized, "Allocate the surplus to the weakest link."
"That's right. The first gate descends, and the other five gates rise on their own. There are no obvious weaknesses, so it can't find any weak points to focus its attack on."
"How much will it be reduced?" Nie Qingcheng asked.
Zhang Yan was calculating. The result of the system's assisted calculation matched his mental calculation.
「第一道门从81%降到65%左右。其余五道门各提升5到8个百分点。均衡后最低不低于43%。」
He projected the simulation results onto the screen.
Equilibrium forecast:
First gate: 65%.
The sixth gate: 62%.
The second gate: 50%.
The fourth gate: 48%.
The fifth gate: 45%.
The third gate: 43%.
The lowest percentage was 43%. The highest was 65%. The difference was 22 percentage points.
Previously, the lowest was 35.7% and the highest was 81%, with a difference of more than 45.
The gap has been halved.
Nie Qingcheng stared at the numbers for a few seconds. "It can also focus its attacks?"
"Yes, but the returns will be significantly lower," Zhang Yan said. "The relationship between door strength and efficiency is not linear, but exponential. If you manage to break through 43% of the door, with the same attack intensity, the efficiency is only one-third of breaking through 36%."
"How much will eleven days become?"
"More than thirty days"
Guan Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
Nie Qingcheng didn't relax. "The price."
"The first threshold dropped from 81% to 65%. The balancing process consumes the transmission channel's capacity and cannot be repeated. A maximum of three times."
Use it now for the first time. Save the next two times.
Zhang Yan nodded.
He opened the interface to the Celestial Craftsmanship. There was no need to go underground. The Celestial Craftsmanship and the Gate Network had a low-level connection, allowing the balancing operation to be performed from the surface.
A sense of divine inspiration burned within him.
start up.
Golden light emanated from the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship. It was not a focused beam of light, but a soft halo radiating in all directions.
The halo of light seeped into the rock layers beneath our feet. Passing through 1200 meters of crust, it reached a spherical space. It then spread along the portal network transmission channels to six nodes worldwide.
On the system panel, the numbers began to jump.
The first hurdle: 81% → 74% → 67% → 65.3%.
The third threshold: 35.7% → 38.4% → 41.0% → 43.1%.
The other four doors rose simultaneously.
The light faded after forty seconds.
Final data:
First gate: 65.3%.
The sixth gate: 62.1%.
The second gate: 50.4%.
The fourth gate: 48.7%.
The fifth gate: 45.2%.
The third gate: 43.1%.
All above 43%.
I checked the results twice. "The lowest is 43.1%. Better than expected."
Thirty days is a buffer period. Enough time to do a lot of things.
but.
Zhang Yan's gaze fell on the very bottom of the system panel.
That line of text he had read countless times.
"Maximum shielding efficiency of the gate network: 72% (requires the seventh gate to be online)."
Even if all six gates are fully completed, there is no seventh gate. The maximum is 72%.
That thing outside the door—47 times the size of the ruins.
Two fingers were enough to shatter Xing Tian's shield. That was only a small portion of what it had projected.
Zhang Yan pulled out the simulation assessment.
Input parameters. Gate network shielding efficiency 72%. 47 times the energy level of the original entity.
The system took three seconds to process.
The results will pop up.
"Shielding efficiency 72%. Failed to withstand a single full-force impact of 47 times the energy of a Void-level energy source. Estimated breakthrough time: less than seven seconds."
Seven seconds.
Zhang Yan remained motionless.
Nie Qingcheng walked over, her gaze falling on the line of words.
There was silence for a few seconds.
"The seventh door," she said.
Zhang Yan turned off the panel.
"We must find it."