“All right then. Let’s begin today’s answering session. I’ll give you thirty minutes. You may use any method to persuade me.”

“Of course, it isn’t only that little gadget in your case. I’ll also grant you some of the permissions to control this place. You can take the structures in your mind and truly manifest them on this land.”

Hou Congwen stood up and tapped repeatedly at the empty air.

The next second, the open ground around them began to rise without limit, and the cottage that had been close at hand was now a kilometer away.

Within a kilometer of the pavilion, there were no longer any buildings or clutter to get in the way. It had become an experimental field entirely.

At the same time, before Su Mo’s eyes...

a phantom panel resembling a game interface began to appear, with two buttons engraved on it.

[Create], [Modify]

The functions were very simple and easy to understand.

After a couple of taps to get familiar with how to use it, Su Mo pulled all his attention back.

“I’ve set three tiers of rewards. As long as the building structure you provide can bear a load of three hundred times or more, you pass.”

“Of course, you needn’t worry too much about that range. If the structure you give is outstanding enough to move me, I’ll lower the standard as appropriate.”

Seeing that Su Mo had finally begun to open the suitcase, Hou Congwen kept his mouth calm, but his eyes could no longer help darting about, wishing he could see at once what was inside.

At last the case opened.

Beneath several large white sheets, he saw a small tower made entirely of wooden structure.

“This...” His brows furrowed.

At first glance, Hou Congwen could not see what was unique about this wooden tower at all.

It looked like a child’s “doodle,” only a little more refined.

Those famous architectural structures, those structures with great potential... none of them could be seen on this wooden tower!

Not a single one!

“My apologies. Conditions were limited, and so was time. I only used wood to build the finished product.”

“This wooden tower can bear roughly one hundred fifty times its weight. Its ultimate load is around two hundred times.”

“I think that after switching to alloy, this result should be able to break through the three-hundred-times minimum.”

He set the suitcase down by his feet, then spread the design drawings out on the table one by one.

Before Su Mo could say more, Hou Congwen, sitting across from him, picked up the wooden piece with an utterly incredulous look.

“This thing... can bear two hundred times?”

“Impossible, right?”

While his mouth was speaking, Hou Congwen’s hands were not slow either.

He only waved again in the empty air, and with a rumble, a wooden tower enlarged ten times in proportion settled onto the ground beside the pavilion.

“You used adhesive bonding. Do you need me to switch it to mortise-and-tenon for you?”

Staring at the long pillar in the center of the enlarged tower, Hou Congwen finally saw a bit of the trick this time, and said with a grave face.

“It shouldn’t be needed for now. It may only be necessary after enlarging it ten times.”

Standing up as well, Su Mo came to the edge of the pavilion and looked toward the enlarged wooden tower.

The tower now stood a full six meters high, and the details were already clearly visible.

In the light breeze the central long pillar looked still, but in truth it was swaying slightly every second, reducing the load on the tower and passing it into the ground.

And those fine wood chips had finally come into use as well, beginning to provide powerful support.

“Good. Then I’ll start testing first.”

“For the first round, let’s begin measuring from fifty times.”

His hunter’s heart stirred with delight. Before Su Mo could say more, Hou Congwen, already burning with curiosity, made the first move.

Enlarged ten times, the tower’s weight had also multiplied, reaching about two hundred kilograms.

Fifty times meant it had to bear ten tons.

Hou Congwen casually beckoned in the air, and thick iron plates marked 100 kg began to appear, heading toward places the tower could hold.

About five seconds later, ten tons of iron plates were in place, reaching fifty times the load.

“Damn, fifty times and it’s this stable? What kind of monster is this?”

Looking at the wooden tower that did not move a hair in the breeze, as if it had not felt the weight at all, Hou Congwen rarely let out a curse.

Generally speaking, questions posted on the first or third monument towers might be unsolvable.

But what was posted on the second monument tower definitely had a solution.

Take the current load problem as an example. The reason the Academy of Sciences had set three hundred times as the lower limit for researchers

was mainly that more than seventy percent of the researchers in the Architecture Institute had the ability to build a structure that could bear three hundred times its load.

Only going higher than that counted as difficult.

And the rigid-flexible structure Hou Congwen had researched himself, though its maximum was around four hundred twenty times, at fifty times still could not reach the state of the wooden tower before him, which looked as if it were bearing no force at all.

“Next, I’m going straight to a hundred times!”

He had originally planned to add ten times at a time. By now, Hou Congwen no longer intended to take it slow.

With a wave of his hand, the evenly placed iron plates suddenly grew heavier, doubling from 100 kg to 200 kg.

Now a single iron plate alone equaled the wooden tower’s entire weight.

“Strange. Truly strange!”

When the weight increase was done, Hou Congwen cried out in surprise and walked out of the pavilion.

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