He was practiced at this. He had entered virtual reality in the real world many times already, and with another key in hand, Su Mo was not afraid. After a few operations, a faint dizziness enveloped him, pulling at his spirit. Su Mo relaxed his mind, and in the next second the scene before his eyes began to reconstruct quickly, and he entered a phantom world simulated entirely by electrical signals.

“New request. Architecture Institute Dean Ai Jianqiang requests to enter your virtual realm. Do you agree?”

“New request. Ordnance Institute Vice Dean Wen Ziling requests to enter your virtual realm. Do you agree?”

“New request. Architecture Institute Vice Dean Ning Yushu requests...”

“New request. Architecture Institute Senior Researcher Zhang Ren requests...”

“New request. Architecture Institute Senior Researcher Zhu Yibai requests...”

Su Mo had barely finished creating a virtual world of his own when request after request came in. Standing on solid, flat, empty concrete ground, he approved them one by one.

In the next second, phantom light began to flicker on the ground, and human figures quickly took shape and grew clear.

“We’re in, we’re in!”

“Which one is Researcher Su Youzong? The one who made the Deification Ranking on his first try, which great master is it?”

“Damn, Divine Su, you’re amazing! All those murlocs earlier couldn’t do anything to you. That’s a god of war, no question.”

“Don’t rush, don’t push me! Dammit, this virtual realm is this big and you all have to land in the same spot?”

“Where is Optimus Prime? I want to see Optimus Prime!”

“Optimus Prime, my foot! It’s the Skyscraping Pillar, the Skyscraping Pillar! How many times do I have to repeat it...”

The researchers who had applied to enter, apart from Wen Ziling, all belonged to the Architecture Institute, and they must have received word from Ai Jianqiang. Thirty or forty people were now crowded together, and for a while it was extremely lively.

“Stop making noise, all of you! I let you in to look at a new type of building structure, not to buy and sell vegetables here. Anyone who makes noise again can get lost and wait outside!”

Inside virtual reality, Ai Jianqiang’s back no longer stooped, his waist no longer bent, and his legs had strength again. At his roar, all the researchers hung their heads and dared only to grumble under their breath.

“Youzong, let’s begin. For the first run you don’t need to explain or teach, and don’t worry about whether we can see how the structure is put together and built.”

“We’ll test the limit data first, and then we’ll go over everything else properly!”

“Okay!” Su Mo nodded and began to operate quickly with his hands. With a virtual realm of his own, the permissions and operations available were naturally far richer than in Hou Congwen’s virtual realm. In a few movements, materials emerged in the air one after another and were stacked neatly to the side.

Once all the materials were in place, Su Mo’s will had barely stirred when the tall tower began to rise quickly. One floor, two floors... seven floors, eight floors, nine floors! In the blink of an eye, a tower thirty meters tall, nine floors from bottom to top, stood on the ground.

By rights, such skilled use of the system should not have come from a newcomer who had just joined the Academy. But the new structure left everyone with no mind to dwell on that, and they could only stare intently at it and comment.

“The central column uses a segmented design to relieve the impact force, strengthening its ability to carry load and shock through offsetting, and it also improves maintainability. What a stroke of genius!” a senior researcher sighed, utterly captivated.

“The structures on both sides don’t use the sturdiest triangles, but quadrilaterals. Wait, when the impact force comes down, the quadrilaterals actually move! Two quadrilaterals fold into several triangles to lock in place. Damn!” another senior researcher exclaimed.

“The greater the load, the less force the central column has to bear. It can send the force entirely to the four corners and into the ground. No wonder it can achieve such a high load.”

Unlike Hou Congwen, who was only a junior researcher, every one of the senior researchers came away from their first look at the Skyscraping Tower with a different understanding. But before they could even work out how it shed force and how it stayed stable, a golden list abruptly dropped from the sky and landed heavily on the ground to the sound of bells and drums ringing together.

White crane paper, golden patterned characters.

The tower structure record at position one hundred and seven, which Hou Congwen had “held” for less than six hours, was wiped away by a new name. Everyone naturally turned their eyes to the three characters “Su Youzong” at the front. But when they saw the number beside it, which now ran to four digits, gasps rose from all of them at once.

“A thousand times, so easily?”

At the foot of the tower, Ai Jianqiang took a step back as well, disbelief all over his face. His specialty was not building structure but architectural design. Yet as the head dean of the Architecture Institute, he knew better than anyone how deep and significant a thousand-times load would be for the future of humanity.

For a long time, many people in the Architecture Institute had been working toward this goal. Some dug deep into materials, hoping to develop one that could raise load capacity to the extreme. Some immersed themselves day and night in structure, wanting to design one perfect structure to reach the goal. And there were others, like him, who tried to replace structure with design and find a balance point that might not even exist.

But now, a thousand times had just been broken like this?

And furthermore, it did not seem to be the true limit yet???

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