Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1445 Coverage Area: What is the maximum distance?
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Chen Xiaojun nodded in understanding, then posed a more crucial question: "Alright! Suppose a specialized puppet A is within the Hundred Flowers Throne's spiritual network, can it establish direct communication with another specialized puppet B outside the network's coverage area, without going through their respective thrones?"

Tang Yuchen was taken aback by the question. His lips parted slightly but he remained silent for a long time. Clearly, the concept of "external communication" was like a pebble thrown into stagnant water, failing to stir even the slightest ripple in his ingrained understanding of technology.

"Looks like that won't work?" Chen Xiaojun frowned slightly, his fingertip unconsciously tracing a shallow line along the edge of the table. "Otherwise, the tactical value of the puppets would be limited to the mental network coverage of the Hundred Flowers Throne—according to your test data, even in the ideal situation, it's only..."

He paused slightly, then looked up at Tang Yuchen, "1000 meters?"

"Not 1000 meters!" Tang Yucheng blurted out, a blush of embarrassment and anxiety rising on his face. "My... my best performance is only 800 meters, and that's under flat terrain and stable soul power. What if it's a stormy night..."

His voice grew hoarse, and his fingers nervously clenched the hem of his clothes. "Or the barrier of the soul force field in the deep mountains and forests, or even the elementally violent areas like volcanic zones... the effective control range will be severely suppressed, and in severe cases, it may even be reduced by nearly half!"

“400 meters…” Chen Xiaojun repeated the number in a low voice, but a glint of light suddenly flashed in his eyes—it was not disappointment, but a brand new measurement scale was being rapidly reconstructed in his mind. “But thinking about it carefully, the effective range of a Soul Douluo’s Soul Skill is only 100 meters. Even for a plant-type Soul Douluo with the largest control range, the maximum locking range is difficult to exceed 200 meters.”

He leaned forward slightly, his gaze like a dagger piercing Tang Yucheng's suddenly contracted pupils: "In comparison, even if suppressed to 400 meters, the Hundred Flowers Throne is still an epoch-making weapon!"

Then his tone suddenly sharpened: "But this is ultimately a constraint of physical limits."

"The Throne of a Hundred Flowers is fine if it's just for small-scale battles, but what if it's used on the battlefield?"

"When the enemy is overwhelming, and the number of puppets needed exceeds the control limit of a single Hundred Flowers Throne; when the battlefield is vast and the puppets break through your 800-meter control boundary; or when a protracted battle exhausts the continuous combat capability of a single Throne..."

With each sentence Chen Xiaojun spoke, he would draw a line in the air with his finger, as if drawing three invisible high walls in the void. "Is the only solution to build a distributed network with multiple Hundred Flower Thrones, allowing them to relay each other and cover the entire battlefield?"

Tang Yuchen came to his senses, pondered for a few minutes, and then analyzed rigorously: "Young Master, from the perspective of the basic firmware, any Ruhua doll that is inlaid with the 'Lingxi Lens Array' inherently possesses the basic ability to receive and transmit mental signals."

"So, what you're referring to as A and B, as two independent signal transceivers, can theoretically establish a point-to-point spiritual link. They can transmit information to each other."

“But!” His tone turned serious as he pointed out the key constraint, “There is no ‘psychic field’ inscribed between these two units (equivalent to the lack of a unified network protocol and identity authentication).

This means that they can only establish a primitive, inefficient 'spiritual thread link'.

The transmission distance of this link is extremely limited, possibly only tens to hundreds of meters, far less than the range covered by the mental force field.

Second, the information transmission efficiency is extremely low.

It can only transmit the simplest formatted information, such as location, status like "under attack" or "safe", or very short preset passwords like "set".

It cannot transmit any complex tactical instructions or large amounts of data.

Third, it has poor stability and is easily interfered with.

This simple link lacks the protective mechanism of a mental field, and can be easily severed by soul force fluctuations or mental interference on the battlefield.

Unless it's a Soul Master manipulating it, protected by their spiritual power, but even then their control range is very narrow.” Hearing this, Chen Xiaojun understood the core obstacle: the key to effective communication is “coverage” and “efficiency,” and the fundamental constraint on them is the strength of the “spiritual force field”!

Tang Yuchen was a little overwhelmed by Chen Xiaojun's keen interest and leaps in thought, but he still tried his best to answer: "The...the largest range?"

His face showed the meticulousness of a technician. "Young Master, the previous verifications focused on precise control. The extreme distance... was indeed not measured systematically."

He paused, his mind clashing with both theoretical and experimental data. "But if we use a high-grade soul crystal as the core of the throne, and meticulously craft force field runes to amplify the effect..."

His voice trailed off, his fingers tracing runes in the air, "On an open plain, under the clear sun where the soul energy environment is most stable,"

He took a deep breath and gave a cautious figure, "Its radiation range... might reach three miles?"

He looked at Chen Xiaojun with some uncertainty.

When Chen Xiaojun heard Tang Yuchen mention "meticulously crafted force field runes with amplified effects," the phrase that was about to burst out of his mouth almost came to mind.

"Amplifying the force field?!"

"Yes! This is it! — This is the base station for the Soul Power World!"

A thunderous realization resounded in Chen Xiaojun's heart!

Tang Yuchen's idea of ​​"amplifying the force field effect" perfectly matches the long-awaited blueprint in his mind for a base station system that could completely change the landscape!
The radiating territory of spiritual power will expand many times over, even dozens of times, due to this amplified force field!

"Two or three miles?" Chen Xiaojun's gaze instantly sharpened like a hawk's, clearly harboring ambitions far exceeding this estimated value. "Is this the limit? What if... we use a Saint King-level Soul Crystal as the core?!"

He was not posing a question, but rather a thunderbolt challenging the impossible.

"A Saint... Saint King-level Soul Crystal?!" Tang Yucheng gasped, his expression changing slightly, stunned by this earth-shattering hypothesis. "Our family... has such a foundation?!"

Chen Xiaojun smiled and said, "Our Chen family may not have much else, but we have a lot of soul crystals and body materials from soul beasts, including those of the Saint King level."

Tang Yuchen's mind flashed back to the Chen Clan's shocking act of massacring the Sky Eagle Domain of the Xie Luo Mountains not long ago. But Saint King-level Soul Beasts are rare, let alone Soul Crystals.
Unless you kill enough people, you can't guarantee an incredible harvest.

However, knowing the taboo, he suppressed his surging thoughts, bit his tongue hard, and swallowed all his questions and horror back into his stomach.

Composing himself, he forced himself into a state of pure deduction, his voice filled with unprecedented solemnity and awe: "Young Master... this subordinate... this subordinate has truly had no opportunity to witness the power of a Saint King-level Soul Crystal, and can only... dare to deduce based on its rank..."

He concentrated intently, closed his eyes, and pondered for a moment, "The vastness of its concentrated spiritual field... the stable field it might form..."

He pursed his lips and gave a breathtaking possible value: "It could probably cover a distance of five or even ten miles... It could cover our Chenlin Village and encompass the area surrounded by the three surrounding mountain peaks!"

(End of this chapter)