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Chapter 85 Overcoming Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 79 Overcoming Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ten minutes after traversing the unknown world.
"Oxygen concentration normal, gravitational coefficient 1G, radiation level — zero?"
The azure sky is like a huge, meticulously polished sapphire, with a few wispy white clouds hanging lazily on the horizon, moving slowly with the breeze.
Beneath my feet stretched an endless expanse of lush green grassland, where wild grasses swayed in the wind like green waves, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of earth and grass.
This place is so beautiful.
It's as beautiful as a painting, or like that classic Windows XP wallpaper on your computer desktop.
However, Pei Qi, who was suspended ten meters above the ground, had a calm expression, but his mind was racing.
"What's going on this time? Why is it so calm?"
Pei Qi cautiously looked around, his [IC2·Quantum Armor] operating at full power.
An invisible quantum shield tightly enveloped him, and the tactical goggles on his helmet were frantically scanning for all heat sources and energy fluctuations in the surroundings.
But the feedback only contained two words: normal.
That's perfectly normal.
It was so normal that Pei Qi felt extremely uncomfortable.
This cannot be blamed on Pei Qi being overly sensitive; one could even say he suffers from "post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)."
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Looking back on his previous experiences, he either landed in Japan during the Taisho era, a time filled with cannibals, or he was directly smeared in the face by parasites or dug through into the Divine Seal Hell, a place teeming with corpse variants.
Every time I travel through time, it's basically a hellish start.
He was surrounded by people who wanted to eat him or things that wanted to turn him into a monster.
And now?
A gentle breeze caresses the face, birds sing and flowers bloom.
This serene and peaceful scene made Pei Qi instinctively feel that a hundred crawlers might jump out of the grass at any moment, or that some indescribable ancient god was watching him from behind the clouds.
"I'm probably overthinking it—after all, even the unluckiest person can't always draw the worst lot, right?"
Pei Qi took a deep breath, trying to calm his heart, which was racing due to excessive tension.
"Yes, that must be it! We must believe in science! Down with all feudal superstitions and demons! Maybe this really is just an ordinary low-magic world, or some kind of peaceful starting sequence?"
After circling in the air for a full ten minutes, confirming that there wasn't a single red-named monster within a five-kilometer radius, Pei Qi finally decided to land.
With a slight thought, he deactivated the Gravity Engine on the quantum chest armor.
Accompanied by an extremely faint hum of electricity, the silver-white figure slowly descended.
The specially designed shock-absorbing soles of the boots barely made a sound when stepping on the soft grass.
Since nothing unusual is happening in this world for the time being, let's treat it as a vacation.
As Pei Qi thought this, he habitually opened his system interface.
Or more accurately, the floating window called JEI (Item Manager).
Ever since he used some "special" methods in the Minecraft world to develop all the technology he currently possessed to the point of reaching a bottleneck, Pei Qi had the idea of exploring other worlds.
That's what makes him special.
Unlike the common "Ding! System reward issued" trope in online novels, Pei Qi's cheat ability is more sophisticated.
He did not unlock the complete module directly.
Or, to be more precise, Pei Qi never "unlocked" the so-called module.
The densely packed synthesis tables and machines that appeared on the right side of the JEI list were actually "gifts" that the system "incidentally" materialized after he analyzed the relevant technological knowledge and physical laws in his previous modern world.
Take the simplest example:
In the real world, to separate isotopes and refine nuclear materials, you would need a massive centrifuge factory covering several kilometers.
It needs to contain thousands of high-speed centrifuges, a complex cooling system, and hundreds of engineers working day and night to maintain it.
But after Pei Qi explained the centrifugal principle, a small cube called 【IC2·Thermal Centrifuge】 appeared in JEI.
With just a tiny bit of electricity, this machine, which occupies less than one cubic meter of space, can defy the laws of physics and instantly separate mineral powder into different isotopes.
Its efficiency is ten thousand times that of a real factory, but its volume is only one hundred millionth of that of a real factory.
Take nuclear reactors, for example.
Real-world nuclear power plants are complex behemoths; a single misstep can lead to a Chernobyl-like situation.
In Mekanism, as long as Pei Qi understands the basic equations of fission and fusion, he can create a fission reactor by hand.
As long as that crucial control rod isn't pulled out, it can reliably output enough electricity to power half the Earth, and it can also instantly convert irradiated nuclear waste into safe particles.
Is this scientific? No, it's not.
Pei Qi sat on the grass, casually plucked a foxtail grass and put it in his mouth, his eyes somewhat vacant.
But this is very Minecraft.
As for your question about why an ordinary block machine can do things that tens of thousands of tons of equipment in reality cannot do?
Don't ask.
The answer is "characteristics".
This is like a water reservoir in the concept of thermal expansion. As long as there is water on both sides, it can generate an endless source of water out of thin air, completely ignoring the law of conservation of mass.
Or take the thermoelectric generator in the Immersive Engineering project. As long as you release lava and water at the same time, it can generate electricity using the temperature difference until the universe is destroyed. This is a typical example of generating electricity from the void.
And then there's the even more outrageous [Industrial Pioneer] laser drill, which can mine ore just by pointing it at the void. Who can you complain to about that?
"Go ahead and talk about my creation from nothing, the reversed meter, and all the characteristics of void creatures. We're all just trying our best to live." Pei Qi laughed self-deprecatingly.
However, this "cognitive unlocking" mechanism also has a major drawback, namely—there is no notification.
This is driving people with OCD crazy.
"So, when can you add a smart search system to my JEI and backpack?!"
Pei Qi stared at the densely packed list of items, spanning hundreds of pages, and let out a desperate wail.
Every time he learns new knowledge or comes into contact with new materials in the real world, a few new formulas will secretly appear in JEI's body.
The system won't give him a notification with a "ding" or pop up a window.
This means that Pei Qi has to spend a lot of time every day, like a laborer searching for a needle in a haystack, flipping through the JEI interface page by page, looking for the new machines that might appear and are hidden among tens of thousands of icons.
"I have to manually label and categorize all these new items! That's such a hassle!"
Pei Qi's thoughts swirled wildly in the void, like he was playing Fruit Ninja.