The Star Train's Journey Through the Heavens

Chapter 197 Paramecia-type Cellphone Fruit, Schrödinger's Cheat

Several days later, Himeko had figured out the principle behind the Paramecia-type Ruri no Mi (Glass Fruit), which was more complex than that of Zoan-type Devil Fruits.

As the saying goes, once you understand one thing, you understand everything. If you understand the principles behind the creation of the Paramecia-type Glass Fruit, you will naturally be able to create other types of Paramecia-type Devil Fruits as well.

"Ah Xing, didn't you want a Cellphone Fruit? I made one for you." Himeko walked out of her makeshift laboratory holding a strangely shaped Devil Fruit.

"Himeko-nee, you are my god!" Hoshi exclaimed as she accepted the Devil Fruit.

"Do you want any special abilities? The special abilities you gain from Devil Fruits won't increase your strength, and the damage you can cause will probably be about the same as the damage your original abilities can cause."

"Devil Fruits can actually be considered a kind of soul equipment, but they can't be freely replaced until you reach a certain level of strength. I don't recommend blindly choosing abilities with strong destructive power; it's better to choose some support abilities or abilities that can make up for your own weaknesses," Himeko said to the others.

“I don’t need it,” Dan Heng said, shaking his head.

Meng Huaifeng couldn't think of anything he needed that could be done through EtherEdit.

While others were pondering what they needed, Xing had already devoured the phone fruit in one bite.

A mobile phone kept appearing and disappearing in Xing's hands. This time, it wasn't collected through the ticket space, but created through his abilities.

Moreover, it's not just that only one can be manufactured; if Xing is willing, countless units can be manufactured.

However, they can only manufacture mobile phones; they can't manufacture anything else.

Xing then opened her phone and, without using her hands, the screen changed according to her thoughts.

"Hahaha, eliminating the need for manual operation and touchscreen response, who else but me is the number one gaming god? Silver Wolf, are you ready to face the consequences?" Xing laughed loudly.

Meng Huaifeng picked his nose. He had already said it wasn't a matter of technique or operation, yet he still wanted to punish Teacher Silver Wolf. He was just waiting to be taught a lesson.

"However, it will be several months before I return to Huanyu. Right now, let's establish my position as the number one gaming god in the train crew. Huaifeng, you broke my 100-game winning streak back then. I've remembered that grudge. It's time to get revenge. Come on, let's fight!" Xing challenged Meng Huaifeng with high spirits.

"Are you sure?" Meng Huaifeng asked.

“Of course!” Xing said decisively.

"it is good!"

The war of destiny begins!

“1v1, father-son match!” Xing said.

"Sigh, I didn't want to do this, but you, Ah Xing, have been so aggressive. Since that's the case, don't blame me for being ruthless." Meng Huaifeng sighed, seemingly helpless.

With a narrowed eye, it seemed that Silver Wolf wouldn't need to intervene; he would just have to give Xing a real beating himself.

The most important thing in playing games is not skill or technique, but undetectable cheats and bugs!

Neither of them needed to operate the controls; they simply held their phones, and the heroes on the screen were already engaged in fierce battles. Anyone who didn't know better would think they were watching a live stream.

Xing's eyes were filled with the desire and excitement for victory, while Meng Huaifeng's eyes were filled with data and code.

In the first round, Meng Huaifeng won with a sliver of health remaining.

"Damn it, I was so close!" Xing said in frustration.

Meng Huaifeng's lips curled slightly, his face bearing a calm and unhurried smile.

You think it's just a little bit off, but in reality it's a huge difference.

"I'm not satisfied, let's play another round!"

“One more round is not out of the question, but, Ah Xing, you have to accept the consequences of your bet,” Meng Huaifeng said.

"Make a note of this first, then we'll play another round."

"Call first, then we'll play another round."

"How could I, a pioneer, go back on my word?" Xing was furious and embarrassed.

"Yes," Meng Huaifeng replied without giving any face.

"Fine, don't call me then. Challenge over." Meng Huaifeng played hard to get.

"Wait!...Dad...Dad," Xing whispered. "I'll remember this grudge. When I win, I'll make you pay double!"
"did not hear it."

"You! Don't go too far!" Xing gritted her teeth and brandished her fist at Meng Huaifeng.

"Alright, alright, my good daughter, then Daddy will do as you say, let's play one more round." Meng Huaifeng knew when to stop.

In the second round, Meng Huaifeng had a sliver of health left, while Xing had just over one-tenth of his health remaining.

One more hit and Meng Huaifeng's character will die, while my health can withstand at least two more attacks.

With victory in sight, Xing got a little carried away.

Block!

The last trace of blood in Meng Huaifeng's blood.

Critical hit! Critical hit!
Xing's relatively healthy health bar vanished instantly, and his second attack was only 0.0001 seconds away from landing on Meng Huaifeng!
"Ah!" Xing burst out with a squeal like a groundhog.

"Just a little bit more! I'm not convinced, let's go again!" Xing stared at Meng Huaifeng with wide, golden eyes.

"Ahem, a bet's a bet." Meng Huaifeng coughed lightly.

Xing hesitated for a moment, then Meng Huaifeng immediately said, "Forget it, let's not compete."

"No!" Xing said hurriedly.

I've already lost one game and even called him "Dad." If I don't play now, won't I lose everything?
Before consuming the Cellphone Fruit, he was utterly powerless against Huai Feng, but now they are evenly matched, and he even has a slight advantage, only lacking a bit of luck...

"Dad," Xing called out, much more confidently than the first time.

"My dear daughter, then Daddy will play two more rounds with you," Meng Huaifeng said with a smile.

The third game...

"dad."

Fourth game...

"father!"

Game 5…

"boom!"

"Are you cheating?" Xing slammed his fist on the table, shattering it, and asked.

“I’ll sue you for defamation! Don’t slander me! If you’re bad, practice more. If you can’t handle losing, don’t play,” Meng Huaifeng said.

"You dare say you didn't cheat?"

"I, Meng, never cheat! I can beat you entirely because of my skills honed through countless trials!"

"You're cheating!"

"Produce the evidence."

"Your talent only has a 3% critical hit rate, how can you expect to get a triple critical hit?" The talent scout moved a few steps closer.

"That's because I was lucky."

Why is it that every time we clash, my second strike is always a little slower than yours?

"Positioning, of course, is exquisite positioning."

"Why do my attacks always hit the minimum damage at crucial moments, while yours hit the maximum damage?" "Why don't you mention that when you hit the maximum damage but I hit the minimum damage at crucial moments?"

"..."

Xing and Meng Huaifeng's heads were touching, and Meng Huaifeng did not back down.

"Sister Himeko! Huaifeng bullied me!" Xing suddenly complained to Himeko with a pouty face.

"!" Meng Huaifeng was shocked. He actually told the parents. Ah Xing, you have no martial ethics.

The ship was only so big, so Himeko naturally knew what the two of them were doing.

He said helplessly, "Ah Xing, although Huai Feng's ether editing is very powerful, we can't say he cheated just because of that."

"Sister Ji is wise!" Meng Huaifeng exclaimed.

“But…” Xing pouted, looking unwilling.

"How about this, you guys play another round, and Yan and I will supervise it ourselves," Himeko said.

"Alright! Come on, let's see how you cheat this time!" Xing regained his fighting spirit.

"First of all, I, Meng, did not cheat. Secondly, I accept my loss," Meng Huaifeng said.

"Dad! Is that enough?"

A new game begins, with Himeko and Hiko each using their own methods to access the game and monitor the data.

One critical hit, then another critical hit, and then another critical hit!

This time, Xing suffered an even more crushing defeat, with Meng Huaifeng managing to defeat Fan Xing with only a third of his health remaining.

"Look, look! Three percent critical hit rate, every hit is a critical hit, is this reasonable? Is this real? Sister Himeko, Sister Yan, you must stand up for me!" Xing cried.

What a disaster! We lost terribly!
This is a harsh reality check!

“It makes sense, how can it not make sense? Every strike I land hits the weak points of your game character, while all your attacks hit the parts of my character that are equipped. The huge difference in damage is perfectly reasonable, isn’t it?” Meng Huaifeng said.

"Is there such a setting in the game?!" Xing glared at Meng Huaifeng.

“Although it’s not officially set up, it’s real, believe me,” Meng Huaifeng said sincerely.

A hint of confusion flashed in Xing's eyes. Is this really true?
Himeko and Hiko frowned slightly. They hadn't detected any abnormal data. The 3% critical hit rate had just been triggered repeatedly, and everything seemed normal, as if it were pure luck.

However, Meng Huaifeng had a lot of good luck...

The two of them couldn't detect whether Meng Huaifeng was cheating. Either Meng Huaifeng's skills were beyond their comprehension, or he really wasn't cheating and was just lucky.

Schrödinger's cheating is like this: before you detect that he's cheating, he may or may not be cheating.

The probability of using cheats or not is 50%.

"Ah Xing, I didn't detect Huai Feng cheating," Himeko said.

“I don’t have any either,” Yan said.

Meng Huaifeng raised an eyebrow at Xing: "I've already told you I didn't cheat, why don't you believe me?"

"Hmph, I don't care, you're opening it!" Xing said stubbornly.

"Sigh, this is the trouble of hackers. They have incredibly high skills, but they are slandered as cheating by ordinary people who can't do these things," Meng Huaifeng sighed with deep emotion.

Just because I'm a hacker, you deny my skills? That's superficial, so superficial. If you're bad, just practice more.

"Dad!" Xing suddenly called out, grabbing Meng Huaifeng's leg and looking at him expectantly, "I want to learn how to cheat!"

"I, Meng, did not use any cheats!" Meng Huaifeng emphasized again.

"Oh, teach me programming!" Xing said.

"This young man is teachable." Meng Huaifeng nodded in satisfaction.

Meng Huaifeng studied the ability of the Star's mobile phone fruit and found that it was fundamentally different from his own mobile phone martial soul.

The mobile phone's martial spirit originated from Meng Huaifeng's soul, combined with energy and bloodline, forming a complete entity with him.

The changes in the mobile phone's martial spirit will bring about comprehensive changes in Meng Huaifeng's body and soul.

Xing's Cellphone Fruit ability is an external gift; although it has been integrated into her soul, it remains distinct.

Developing Devil Fruit abilities will increase one's strength, but it will not change the essence of one's soul.

so……

“You can become a top-notch cyber hacker, but Ether Editor will probably only learn the basics and won’t become a real hacker,” Meng Huaifeng said to Xing.

"Huh?" Xing was immediately disappointed.

It's very disheartening to put in the same amount of effort but ultimately fall short of others.

Moreover, Xing prefers the simple and direct approach of hand-to-hand combat.

"By the way, you can now utilize most of the effects of Soul Song," Meng Huaifeng reminded him.

"That's great!" Xing's face lit up with joy, then she froze, "Wait, what about all that hard work and time I spent learning the background music before?"

Xing suddenly felt as if she had become a clown.

"You're good at enduring hardship," Meng Huaifeng said, suppressing a laugh.

"I don't want this Phone Fruit anymore! That way, all the hard work I put into learning the BGM won't have been for nothing!" In a moment of impulsiveness, Xing rejected the Phone Fruit's power and took out a fruit to pop into it.

Meanwhile, the others had also made their decisions.

Even though March 7th was quite strong, Yan didn't want him. The stronger you are, the clearer you are about your own situation. With Devil Fruit abilities, which are foreign abilities, you can clearly sense the foreign object in your soul.

Although you can get used to it over time, it's just a piece of equipment, and it's fine to play with it occasionally. They don't like having it running all the time.

In any case, their abilities are sufficient to handle most situations, and the ones they can't handle are generally not something that can be solved by having an extra special ability.

Zhu Zhuqing reserved a fruit that could enhance the power of her attack.

Red Bean has reserved a fruit that increases speed.

Both Dawn and Su Xiaoli reserved a fruit to protect themselves.

Strength, speed, and defense are the most fundamental aspects of power.

No matter how fancy the superpowers are, they essentially enhance these three aspects in a roundabout way.

Meng Huaifeng suddenly remembered Kozuki Toki's Time-Time Fruit ability and couldn't help but ask, "Sister Himeko, is it possible to create a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that deals with time?"

Himeko pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "It is possible, but the effect may be greatly weakened after connecting to the universe. Going back to the past and stopping time will be basically impossible. At most, we can speed up or slow down the flow of time for ourselves and the enemy."

"Why?" March 7th asked.

"Having traveled to worlds beyond our own, I have clearly sensed that the difficulty of manipulating time and space varies in different worlds."

“In the universe, I have never studied the power of time, but in some worlds, I seem to be able to easily touch the rules of time.”

"However, because I had never been exposed to it before, although I could touch the rules of time, I could not control them at will. And once this world was connected to the universe, I could no longer touch them."

“I once discussed this with geniuses like Black Tower and Slugum. According to our speculation, the time and space of the universe are anchored by a group of star gods. Time cannot be reversed, and thousands of parallel universes are unified.”

"So even an Envoy would find it difficult to control time and space. By time and space, I mean time reversal and parallel universes, not the celestial vessel's cave-heaven technology. Even a Star God, if multiple Star Gods were to obstruct it simultaneously, would likely be unable to influence it," Ji Zi said.

(End of this chapter)