Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 910 Singularity
As the other party said, Ogden did indeed hold back a trump card.

Even after being trapped at a depth of 7 for so long, and facing numerous perilous situations, Ogden has never considered using it.

Because of his virtue of self-control, the Depth 7 prison was like a cage. A gold watch worth hundreds of thousands outside would only get him a slightly more comfortable room and a few decent prison meals inside. Ogden would never hand over such a precious luxury for a momentary whim.

If Ogden doesn't wait for outsiders to break the deadlock, it's a slow death at Depth 7. But if they wait for outsiders to come out—and obviously, there will be many of them—then it will be a slow death.

In such a chaotic situation, a gold watch might have a huge effect, even exceeding its own value!

However, he never expected that he would witness a psychic breaking through to the third stage of the True Spirit realm!

"Okay, okay, okay."

Ogden slowly raised his hands, indicating that he had no intention of resisting, but he just couldn't stop talking.

"I have to add something: you've really misunderstood. Think about our past collaborations—weren't they all mutually beneficial and pleasant? Sigh! If you ask me, you're just overthinking things and having too much of an internal monologue!"

"Don't underestimate me! I am the 'King of Wizards,' the undisputed number one in Terra, Ogden Christopher. How could I possibly be the kind of person you think I am? I—"

"Sir, sir," the Archimedes machine suddenly emerged, cautiously interrupting, "why don't we just admit it? I've analyzed it, and continuing to be stubborn will only result in a negative return for you."

Ogden cursed.

The next second, his hand suddenly plunged into his own heart!

With a gasp and a click of his tongue, the boy's forehead broke out in a fine layer of cold sweat, but as he slowly and laboriously pulled his hand out, a cube appeared in his palm.

Within five seconds of acquiring this singularity technology, he devised an airtight sealing system to ensure that no one else could possibly take it or steal it. It is an obvious fact that taking it out is just as difficult as inserting it.

This caused Ogden to feel a sharp pain.

He acted as if nothing had happened, staring intently at the cube in his palm, his eyes filled with heartache. He stared like that for a long time until Song Shi simply grabbed it.

The moment he took it, Song Shi was slightly startled.

This cube may not look big, but it feels surprisingly heavy in your hand—no, that description is too light. To be precise, it's as heavy as a colossal statue cast in pure bronze, towering and unapproachable.

Song Shi nearly lost his grip and let it fall!

However, Song Shi immediately realized that under the rule of "everything is heavy" in the Abyss, it precisely meant that Ogden had not lied this time and had handed over the real thing.

Just to be on the safe side, Song Shi asked, "You don't have the technology to fake weights, do you?"

Ogden turned his head away unhappily: "It's still in the early concept stage."

Ok.

"This is... several singularity technologies?" Song Shi examined the cube. It was a standard cube, silver-white, with no visible gaps on its surface.

"Just one? How many more do you want?!" Upon hearing this, Ogden flew into a rage, gritting his teeth: "Damn it, I struggled through Depth 7, enduring countless hardships to finally obtain a singularity technology, and you, not only do you get it for free, you're also getting greedy!"

Song Shi remained noncommittal, having developed a strong immunity to Ogden's incessant chatter. He took out the key Ogden had given him and slowly inserted it into the cube—

Strands of light emerged from the surface of the cube, spreading rapidly. Then, with a soft "crack," the cube cracked, revealing its true form.

Song Shi's eyes widened slightly. VE recognized him before he did and couldn't help but let out a small cry.

"Space jump!"

What was presented to the three of them at this moment was a super technology created by the former giant enterprise [Fugu Kaituo], which realized a "teleportation portal" like in magic.

—Singularity Technology: Spatial Leap!
If it were a single giant corporation, it wouldn't matter, but for a political entity like Yenan or the Vanpusta Empire, which possesses multiple Fifth Ring [True Spirits] and has a deep foundation, in a sense, this singularity technology would be more important to them than a single Fifth Ring.

"Yes, I've heard people say that technology is divided into practical effects and theory."

Song Shi broke the silence first, saying slowly, "Different theories can achieve roughly the same effect. For example, broadly speaking, both the Chaklo Vaughn and the vacuum zero-point energy engine are perpetual motion machines."

“To ignite a wad of newspaper, you can use a flint and steel or a flamethrower.” Song Shi stared at the shattered cube, then glanced at VE: “There’s something I’ve wanted to ask for a while now: what’s the principle behind Fugu’s [Spatial Leap]? What makes it so special?”

VE thought for a while and organized her thoughts.

"Song Shi, uh, if you wanted to travel a long distance, what would you do?"

“Just fly there.” Song Shi shrugged. “Although I can destroy spatial structures, I can’t achieve precise point-to-point positioning.”

“This is the first type, the wormhole,” VE said. “There are two points on a piece of paper, and they are far apart, right? But if you fold the paper in half, the two points overlap, and you can ignore the distance between them. If we open a wormhole in two locations, we can jump from here to there in the next second.”

"The second type is the warp drive."

VE has a unique advantage as an instructor: she can create vivid and lifelike models in real time.

As she spoke, a flat surface appeared before her, upon which a ship sailed. Immediately, the waves at the bow compressed while the waves at the stern expanded, causing the ship to fly an unknown distance in an instant.

“For the unit that is about to jump, compress spacetime in front of it and expand spacetime behind it to create a warp bubble. The warp bubble envelops the unit, and as long as the warp bubble is pushed forward, the unit will naturally achieve the jump.”

“The third type is higher-dimensional jumping,” VE said. “Let’s assume we are currently in three-dimensional space. If we temporarily leave and jump into a higher dimension, the distance in three-dimensional space will be greatly compressed. In this way, we can reach our destination in just a short while, and then jump back into three-dimensional space.”

"The fourth type is... at least I personally don't think this counts as a spatial jump."

VE frowned: "It depends on how you think about it, Song Shi. If you think that recording all of a person's particle information, decomposing it, and then reassembling it one-to-one at the destination can be considered a kind of spatial jump, then..."

Song Shi said with great interest: "First, we need to see how far this 'one-to-one' ratio can go."

VE curled his lip: "The Knowledge Council's singularity technology, 'atomic reconstruction,' only goes up to the atomic level. They say they have a vision to move to the next level, 'quarks,' but I think it will still be just a vision when they're buried."

Song Shi laughed and said, "If I had to say, there are countless psionic techniques like 'full elementalization' and 'dispersed recombination'. He changes all the time, but no one has ever questioned whether he is still the same psionicist."

“However, psionic energy is psionic energy, and technology is technology.” Song Shi spread his hands: “So whether what you’re saying counts as a one-to-one spatial jump is hard to say.”

"And then what? What's the principle behind this spatial leap pioneered by Fugu?"

VE Way.

"Wormhole".

(End of this chapter)