625.Chapter 623 622 Hardware Enhancement of Player’s New UI Interface Design

Chapter 623 622.Hardware Reinforcement in Player’s New UI Interface Design

The generosity of the Blood Fear Clan made Murphy feel a hint of trouble, especially after he told this matter to Tris, the Blood Vulture Archduke all felt the seriousness of the situation.

“So, did Pablo himself tell you that they really had a second purpose for coming to Transylvania? And it’s related to some kind of disaster?”

In Tris’s lab, Tris, who was busy mixing certain contraptions that Murphy couldn’t understand, asked:

“And, they got the prophecy from the stargazer envoys of the ancient kingdom of Calum?”

“Well, that’s what he said, and I’ve heard it with the Desire Energy, and it’s not a lie, Pablo and Claire do have panic in their hearts, the kind of hidden fear that can’t be faked, and they’re definitely in big trouble.”

Murphy leaned aside, admiring his awesome girlfriend’s line of alchemical operations.

He said softly:

“To get a bunch of greedy pirates to voluntarily give up their money, I simply shudder to think how troublesome this is, but we do need their help, and I suspect that these guys got more than just a copy of the prophecy from the mysterious warlocks of the East.

There’s a solution too.”

“That’s natural, if there’s any power in this world that has the most mastery of prophecy spells, then besides the Shadow Elves’ Fate Weaving Maidens, it’s the Chintan of the ancient kingdom of Calum.”

Tris said as she poured a tube of solution into the heated crystal vial:
“Back then, I traveled the continent was supposed to go to the ancient kingdom of Calum, but I had just crossed the Dark Mountain Range to reach the Miles of Dragon’s Ridge in the western border of my family when a stargazer already waited for me there and persuaded me to return, and that mysterious fellow told me that my destiny was not in the east.

And now that I think about it, that guy did seem to be hinting to me to prepare myself for the prospect of being back-stabbed by Salokdar.

But I was too young and reckless at the time, and my eyes didn’t even listen.

Alas, those guys really have a knack for it, and if they had revealed certain truths to the Blood Fear Clan, then with the pirates’ superstitious style, Pablo and Claire might have actually staked everything on us.

But I’m not really concerned about the fate of the Blood Fear Clan right now.

Since Venerable Lord Paying promised them that they could return to the mainland, the Blood Alliance Clan won’t turn a blind eye to the problems of the Blood Fear.

They still have helpers.

What I’m worried about now is your strategy, you know, once you put the Halfling’s airships into the war, it means that the Halfling side will regard Transylvania as an unwelcome guest.

Is that really worth it?”

Tris looked at Murphy and asked:
“Didn’t you say that the industrial power held by the Halflings is a very important part in your plans regarding Transylvania? It seems a bit reckless to just close the door to mutual friendship, turning a relationship that can be maintained for a long time into a one-shot deal is not like your style.”

“How do you expect me to explain this to you? Tris.”

Murphy rubbed his brow as he said:
“We were certain that this Black Plague would turn the continent upside down, that perhaps everything we knew before would be altered by this war.

I’ve been thinking for the past few days about how the worst of the Black Plague will play out, and in my imagination I think the odds are that the isolationism that the Halflings have maintained for centuries will be completely over as a result of this war.

The Halflings will be left to fend for themselves by then, and the Steam Lords won’t have as much time or energy to deal with the diplomatic deterioration with Transylvania.

And on the flip side, referring to their current mode of cooperation with the Goldfinch Kingdom, I’m guessing that the halflings won’t be able to assist in the development of our territories with the great ideal of ‘promoting technology’ either.

I can sell Transylvania’s business interests to the Wolf Woman in exchange for the supplies we need, but that won’t work for the halflings.

Once those guys’ factories open up, with their horrible production capacity and big greedy appetites, Transylvania will be reduced to a cheap place to get production materials and dump goods in a very short time, and Port Chardonnay’s greed isn’t the same concept as that of the old, decrepit mud-footed giant Nordtorf.

And because of the Black Plague, it’s highly likely that the halflings won’t even be wasting their time with us in the grand scheme of things.

More and more signals are pointing to a chaotic time coming, and there may be no way for us to learn bit by bit, and grow a little bit more resurgent.

Taking this opportunity to get the machinery we need from the halflings is a necessary strategy, but if we can only glean it once, let’s just go big!
As for future technological and industrial development .
We have the learning of the foreigners, and I do not feel that that valuable knowledge will be inferior to the steam engineering of the halflings.”

“Well, you’ve convinced me.”

Tris nodded as she dropped a few gray crystals in her hand into a beaker, but after a few seconds, Murphy suddenly got a nasty chill of approaching danger and stepped back almost simultaneously with Tris spreading his blood wings to protect both of them.

“Bang.”

A loud bang exploded in the lab, involving Tris’s lab to become a mess, and there was a pungent smell rising from the gray smoke, the familiar smell of nitrous oxide made Murphy squint his eyes at Tris who had a helpless look on her face.

He said:

“I was going to ask just now, what exactly are you experimenting with?”

“TNT.”

Tris spat as she waved her hand and mobilized her Transcendent Law-Time, making the messy lab fly back to the way it was a few seconds ago:
“I was going to take care of the safer and more powerful Black Sorkin, which I didn’t think would be too hard, but it turns out that this Periodic Table of Elements isn’t that easy to navigate, and it also proves that the Otherworlders have a talent for crafting explosives that is far beyond anything I could have imagined.

This was the ninth failure.

I feel like I’m not far from success though.”

“Uh, come on! I’m very penalized girlfriend.”

Murphy spat as he fished out his pocket watch to check the time and said:

“I’ve got to go discuss the new interface design for the Operational Treasure Pearl with Old Flywheel, do you want to have dinner tonight?”

“No, I’m busy these days, I have to rush to get Black Soggin done before the internal test starts.”

Tris rolled up her sleeves and once again took out some very penalizing ingredients, she said to a regretful Murphy while she was busy:

“But when I’m done with this, we could probably go and relive the duo . There’s a projector over there right? You’d better pick out a few literary movies I like to watch in advance.”

“Well, and prepare a delightful candlelight dinner for you in advance, I’ll cook it myself.”

Murphy turned back as he walked to the lab door:
“Would you like to order ahead? My Lord Queen.”

“Go go go, don’t be poor, I’m busy here, be careful I’ll blow up the whole Blood Wyvern Cloister to the sky if I match a wrong formula, you should know that gold burning powder can also be used to accelerate the explosive reaction of TNT oh.”

“Then don’t shake your hands, the Midnight Tower has only just built a foundation, if you blow it up, Professor Chen will definitely come after you with a shovel. Don’t be so tired, Tris, take care of your rest.”
—
As Murphy returned to his office, the old Flywheel was already here waiting for him.

Although this cynical old man maintained his grim stance of looking the other way at everything, when it came to his area of expertise, Old Flywheel was indeed very dedicated.

For the sake of those raw gold-burning ores that were being dug out continuously, Old Flywheel obviously intended to perfectly fulfill the deal between him and Murphy.

That was about the program upgrade of the Operational Treasure Pearl.

“My old baby has already received my letter, she intends to follow Captain Paula’s blimp to Transylvania once in a week, and will bring along the third-generation semi-precious pearl I promised you at that time as well.

But there won’t be too many of them.”

Old Flywheel was holding a special device specially designed for debugging the spiritual energy factor of the arithmetic jewel, just like a mechanical tuning fork, and he adjusted the arithmetic jewel in his hand to the “editable state” while saying:

“Recently, Chardonnay University’s research on the fourth-generation Operational Treasure Pearls has nearly been completed, and the number of semi-finished products that they have lost has been greatly reduced, and even after utilizing my old treasure’s connections, I was only able to obtain about thirty of them.

That thing isn’t the same as these mass-produced goods, and I have to manually reset each one. Regarding its program adjustments I’ll mimic the wacky programs in that core treasure pearl of yours, today let’s just talk about the adjustments of these normal type treasure pearls.

Let me tell you first, this thing’s arithmetic power determines that it can’t possibly have complex functions, and the group editing of the psychic energy factor you accomplished on them with that weird treasure pearl of yours caused all their arithmetic power to be squeezed, so my adjustments can only be fine-tuned around the edges.”

Speaking of this, the old flywheel looked suspiciously at the core jewel hanging on Murphy’s chest, his scarred eyes blinking, and said:

“I’m now really skeptical about who actually helped you adjust the operation mode of the core treasure pearl, I’ve been studying that mutated psychic energy factor arrangement for the past few days, and I can be sure that it wasn’t done by Minx.

Because the arrangement and combination of those Spiritual Energy Factors have never appeared before.

Even my mentor who invented the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl most likely did not advance the checking to this extent, to put it mildly, that thing is so high tech that it makes me feel shocked.”

“Don’t try it, how could an engineering idiot like me possibly handle such a complicated thing?”

Murphy said, waving his hand:

“I’m not going to lie to you, this thing was taken into a place of creation you know what I mean?”

“Oh! So that’s how it is! The Core Treasure Pearl has some sort of resonance with the Creator Technology? That would explain it!”

The old flywheel brightened up and stroked his ridiculous but quite imposing eight-lettered beard again, saying:

“In fact, when my mentor invented the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl back then, the inspiration to simulate the Differential Machine with the Psychic Energy Factor came precisely from the exploration of a certain relic of the Creator, and he once told us that the Halfling’s technology was just ‘pseudo-science’ built on the lousy foundations of this chaotic era.

The real knowledge, he said, was hidden in the blueprints of the Creator!
But sadly, the Halfling race has been altered by psychic energy as has the entire world, and we have missed the opportunity to truly delve into that great technology.

And since the continent’s creation lands are basically monopolized by various organizations, and the halflings are pacifists, we really couldn’t find a complete creation land to explore on a technological level, so…”

“Bang.”

A ghostly blue energy battery was dropped on the table by Murphy, who said to Old Flywheel:

“I can provide you with something like this if you help me with the program upgrade and complete the dirigible modification project, and then help me train a group of engineering apprentices. Energy polymers straight from the Golden Age, or even some simple building technology.

Flywheel, we can work together more deeply, for example, I’ll take you into that place of creation that has been fully mastered by me, I don’t need you to dedicate your loyalty, we’ll just maintain this relationship of equality and mutual assistance.

I don’t know why you want to stray, but if you don’t have bad intentions, Transylvania would actually welcome you to settle here permanently.”

The old flywheel was noncommittal in the face of this solicitation, a man of his caliber could casually find a place to go that was a hundred times better than Transylvania, Murphy’s solicitation was unattractive, but what he came up with was interesting.

Flywheel took that energy cell in his hands and studied it carefully, after a few minutes he shook his head and said:

“No, it’s completely impossible to parse the workings of this thing with my level of engineering, I’ll probably need to see and learn it up close As for your solicitation, Governor Murphy, I’m a halfling with a secret!
I don’t intend to tie myself to some ruler until I’ve completed the secret quest I’ve insisted on all my life, and if I were going to do that, the Steam Lords would hire me at great expense.

You know, I’m a true pragmatist compared to my idealistic, pedantic mentor.

Okay, down to business.

Regarding the transformation of the precious pearl, how do you plan to come about?”

“There’s only one request!”

Murphy raised a finger and said:
“The UI interface of the second-generation Warrior-specific Arithmetic Treasure Pearl can be used without changing the internal functions, but it should be as ‘cool’ as possible.”

“Huh?”

Old Flywheel had probably never heard this kind of request in his life, and he frowned:
“Explain to me what ‘cool’ means?”

“This!”

Murphy pulled out a piece of paper with a drawing of the kind of player interface he wanted, a standard RPG-style display of characters, with equipment fields on the side and a digital reminder showing the capacity of the psychic energy packs.

On the right side of the interface was a quest bar, capable of recording quests, while below it was a mini-map display.

The thing also has pagination.

With the communication mode activated, a dedicated chat field needs to be listed, as for voice communication it’s best to create a real-time projection of the character’s bust on the pokeball.

Previously, Murphy did not consider too much when making the player interface, after all, at that time is the cause of the beginning, have to use it is already good, but now there are conditions for improvement, Murphy, the “development team” is not good to continue to allow players to use the 1.0 version of the UI interface, always have to do a little bit of integration of the transformation of the bar.

In order to reflect the development team is really in the heart to do things, rather than in the dry rice.

Murphy explained to Flywheel in detail:
“I need the character interface of the Treasure Pearl to show exactly how my warriors are injured, and where they are injured, and to be so tightly tied to their form of existence that it can reflect their equipment in real time.

Even ammo levels.

If possible, make the achievement alerts real-time as well.

Lastly, I’m going to add a listening module to the arithmetic jewel, and by that I mean the kind where I can hear them talking even if they turn the jewel off.”

“Your request is too tedious, and to realize so many real-time functions, I’ll have to add a storage and connection database to the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl.”

Flywheel shook his head:
“This would be difficult to do with a single treasure bead of arithmetic, unless I transformed it into a form of two treasure beads connected in parallel, one for realizing the functions you want in the form of integration, and the other for data storage and in-depth arithmetic.

This thing doesn’t have as much arithmetic power as you’d like, so in this mode they’ll need to perform a data release every seven days.

As for recording and manifesting the real-time status of the Warrior it’s not that difficult, you just need to add a psychic scanning and display plugin to the treasure bead.

I’ll ask the old baby to bring in this special plug-in.

Speaking of which, is there a need for this part of the plugin?
I’ve seen the plug-ins you Transians use, they’re so inferior, they have very few functions and they’re sold at such a high price, your merchants are so black-hearted!
My old baby is going to run the black market here with the Blood Rats Gang, the plugin business can be given to the Blood Rats Gang to run as well, the Far Calculating Treasure Bead plugins over at Chardo Harbor have 100+ functions now, and most of them are cheap.”

“Then get the whole thing on! The more the merrier, my warriors like that they have a choice.”

Murphy nodded as he said:
“The last thing is the real-time translation function of the treasure pearl, this thing is fine for translating languages, but for translating words there will be a lot of mistakes and omissions.”

“Nonsense! Multiple text translation is something that requires database support, and the small computing power of the arithmetic treasure pearl can realize language interoperability is already remarkable.”

Flywheel was too lazy to say too much to this engineering idiot Murphy as he waved his hand and said:
“If you insist on adding the perfect translation function, I’ll have to make the treasure bead in the style of three beads in parallel, in this way, all the various functions you need can be practically installed, but its size and cost will also become unacceptable.”

“No problem, let’s do it!”

Murphy clapped his hands and said:
“Anyway, with you as a cracking master here, I won’t worry about the number of arithmetic beads in the future, and by the way, the new arithmetic beads are designed to be worn in a style that allows them to strap them to their arms!

This will also make it much easier to utilize the various plug-ins in combat.

Hmm, a fantasy version of the Claptrap Kid, I like it!”

“Hey Murph, there’s always going to be a day when you run out of Burning Gold, I think you should consider saving a bit when purchasing services from me.”

“Well, can’t you just find another one when you run out? I’m sure there are plenty of Burning Gold mines in the Dark Mountains! That’s all wealth that can be taken at our whim.”

(End of chapter)