Chapter 697: Gaming Together
Chapter 697: Gaming Together
The situation was dire, with no way out in sight.
Lindsay spoke up, "What do you think their motive is for severing the Life Bond at the world connection point?"
Alice quickly offered a hypothesis, "Perhaps it's to block communication between here and the outside world?"
"As far as I know, the Dust Path World doesn't have any teleportation arrays, effectively cutting off contact with the Mooncry Mountains," Lindsay replied.
Lindsay shook his head, denying the possibility, "Unfortunately, I traveled to the Mooncry Mountains through a teleportation array. A massacre occurred there, and everyone was killed by an unknown Skill."
Lindsay and Alice looked at each other, both aware of the challenges posed by the Deviators' actions.
The question now was how to cross the hundreds of meters to reach the floating island ahead, and even further, to traverse the entire world.
Alice furrowed her brows in deep thought.
Lindsay patted the Righteous One girl's shoulder and gave her a confident smile, "Don't worry, I have a plan."
Lindsay switched modules and took out some soil blocks from his Traveling Bag, beginning to construct a path along the edge of the floating island.
"..." Alice, standing behind Lindsay, spoke up, "Give me a Module Seed, I'll help too."
Lindsay, accustomed to adventuring alone, suddenly realized he wasn't by himself anymore. He tossed a Survival Construction module to Alice, and together, they embarked on a construction process that would make anyone with a fear of heights despair.
Alice infused a soil block with her Skill, causing it to glow.
Lindsay placed another soil block in front, steadily building the bridge.
As a Sixth-Stage Awakener, Alice had more abundant Essence, so she took charge of empowering the soil blocks while Lindsay, more proficient in bridge-building, led the construction.
Their collaboration seemed ordinary.
However, this simple action unexpectedly triggered a change in Lindsay's Gaming Skill.
[Task Completed]
[New Module Unlocked]
[Essence Filled Successfully]
[Online Gaming Module Activated - Level: 1]
[Online Gaming Ability: Add a Friend]
[Add a Friend: Players can send invitations to other units to form a friendship. Once accepted, both parties can communicate via mail or private voice calls using Essence.
Note: Pro! Newbie needs a guide!]
"..." Alice immediately understood what was happening.
By giving Alice the Module Seed, Lindsay had also made her a Gamer in terms of Assessment. Their collaboration in building the bridge naturally fulfilled the criteria for two players working together, unlocking the basic requirement.
The Online Gaming module responded, granting Lindsay access to his first Skill.
Alice, being highly sensitive, turned to Lindsay almost simultaneously, "Lindsay, did your Essence change again?"
"..." Lindsay smiled, both delighted and embarrassed, "Anyway, I've activated a new Skill."
Alice understood, "Do you need my help to test it?"
Lindsay explained, "This time, you don't need to plant seeds. Just accept my invitation."
"Accept? Invitation?" Alice hadn't yet grasped the true meaning of these words.
But the next moment, she felt a novel Essence Skill emerge.
Lindsay's Skill made contact with her consciousness.
Just as Lindsay had said, Alice saw two options in her mind: [Reject] and [Accept Invitation].
Alice chose the latter.
Naturally, a new entry appeared behind the Survival Construction module she was using.
[Friend: Lindsay (Online)]
[Remove Friend]
[Send Message]
"Call Voice." The powerful Righteous One girl was perplexed, so she stared at Lindsay with her calm, gray eyes.
"What do you mean by sending messages and calling voice?"
Lindsay quickly responded, "Practice makes perfect. You'll understand if you try it."
"..."
On the 'bridge' extending forward.
Lindsay and Alice worked together, taking turns.
The Awakener's excellent balance ability prevented them from falling from the sky, and the 'bridge' beneath their feet seemed quite sturdy.
However, Alice couldn't help but frown due to her understanding of the strength of structural integrity.
This time, she didn't speak but instead sent a message to Lindsay in her friend list:
[Lindsay, is this bridge really not going to break with this setup?]
Lindsay replied with a message:
[Look at the skill description.]
[Its load-bearing capacity hasn't actually changed; it's just that the physical rules have been broken.]
Alice was clearly confused by this term:
[Physical rules? Shouldn't it be the law?]
After a long time, Lindsay felt the novelty of chatting by sending messages, reminiscent of his past life surfing the web.
He said half-jokingly, half-seriously, "This is my habit of expression. Perhaps I should give you a basic education?"
Alice wrinkled her nose:
[I received an education in the world of the City of Law.]
Lindsay quickly corrected her, "I'm not talking about Awakener knowledge but the education of natural science."
Alice could only consider it from the perspective of an Awakener:
[Natural science, is it similar to Life Scholars or Craftsmen?]
Lindsay shook his head:
[Similar, but different.]
[Science is not just a thing; it's a tool and a method.]
"..."
Alice's message paused for a moment.
Lindsay's unique explanation piqued the girl's curiosity.
After the bridge they were building extended forward by more than ten meters, she sent another message:
[I'm curious; can you tell me?]
[...]
This topic was much more complicated to explain.
Lindsay thought seriously, then he closed the message window and initiated a voice call with Alice instead.
Ring, ring, ring—
"What sound is that!"
An unprecedented ringtone echoed in the Righteous One girl's mind.
She widened her eyes for a moment, almost exclaiming in reality.
But she quickly realized that this was Lindsay's so-called 'voice call.'
"Heh—overreacting."
Alice chuckled at her own reaction.
She accepted the voice call and immediately understood the essence of this skill.
Although Lindsay in front of her didn't speak, his voice resonated directly in her mind through this art.
"The accumulation of knowledge is usually aimed at creating power and improving efficiency. 'Science' is about the methods used in the process of accumulating knowledge."
"From theory to reality."
"Ensuring the clarity, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and integrity of information are the most important and enduring values of the scientific spirit."
"Human memory is limited, and we might forget a piece of knowledge. But the methods of accumulating knowledge - hypothesizing, collecting data, comparing with reality, and experimenting for replication... These methods of verification and exploration are more important than the knowledge itself."
"Knowledge is naturally the jewel of the crown that emerged after the birth of civilization."
"But the tool of science itself is the way to obtain the crown."
"It is the true and eternal treasure."
(End of Chapter)
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