Chapter 00270: Unplugging the Power Plug
# Unplugging the Power Plug
Chapter 270
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 270 Unplugging the Power Plug
What the hell was this about a laser pistol appearing?
If he hadn't seen the group of people on screen wearing armor and robes, Li Chengxi would have thought for a moment that he had stumbled into a sci-fi script.
Wasn't this supposed to be fantasy?
But then Li Chengxi had another thought.
Was it possible, just a possibility.
That the three scripts in the AAI game were actually interconnected?
Li Chengxi, who had previously only seen it as a game, felt that the different scripts should be independent.
But Audel had once said that the world they were in was called a multiverse world, a world composed of countless planes.
If that was hard to understand, you could think of a plane as a planet in the universe.
And since it was on a cosmic scale, different civilizations on different planets would surely have vastly different styles.
And they had magic, allowing them to travel between stars even before they could build spaceships.
This characteristic led to many planes having a certain convergence, such as a wide variety of races, and similarities in language, writing, and culture.
In that case, the still-unlocked sci-fi script was very likely another planet, at most a planet with a very high level of social development.
Thinking of this, Li Chengxi became a little worried.
The protagonist of the sci-fi script wouldn't be an octopus-headed mind flayer, would he...
"Is your follower in great danger?"
Aidas saw Li Chengxi's expression shift from a frown to a relaxed look, then to a look of utter shock, and casually asked.
"Not really dangerous, at least not for now."
"Then do you want to practice using your divine power? There's nothing else to do anyway."
That was true.
It seemed Audel's side didn't need Li Chengxi's intervention for the time being.
He just needed to check on her from time to time.
So Li Chengxi swiveled his computer chair around.
"Where do we begin?"
"Let's start with the simplest, telepathy."
"Is telepathy simple?"
"For a god, it's almost like an instinct."
Only then did Li Chengxi realize that Aidas hadn't moved her mouth at all while saying those words.
"Um... can you explain in more detail? I'm finding it a bit hard to understand."
"Well, it's basically just a very strong visualization of who you want to talk to, and the content you want to say."
Aidas pointed to her throat.
"My divine power was insufficient yesterday, so I habitually tried to use telepathy, but it didn't work. Your divine power is very abundant, you'll learn it quickly."
Speaking of which, when Aidas had just woken up yesterday and Qian Sen was questioning her, she had made some guttural sounds for a while.
She was probably trying to use telepathy then, but failed.
At that time, her speech wasn't as fluent as it was now; it was very slow, as if she had to carefully consider each word.
This was because she didn't usually speak with her mouth, so she wasn't used to it.
"A strong visualization? Alright, I'll give it a try."
Li Chengxi stared at Aidas, concentrating hard on the words he wanted to say, but his face turned red from the effort and he still couldn't succeed.
"Try using a hand gesture to strengthen the impression. You might not be used to it the first time, but once you're proficient, you won't need gestures to assist you."
This was the same operation as when he was searching for Audel's whereabouts earlier.
To find Audel, Li Chengxi had used a searching motion to strengthen the impression.
And to use telepathy, the gesture to strengthen the impression was...
So Li Chengxi made a "six" hand gesture and placed it by his ear.
Can you hear me?
No problem, very clear.
I knew you could do it.
Li Chengxi lowered his hand, surprised that it was actually that simple.
Continuing to use telepathy was a bit of a burden for Aidas in her current state of insufficient divine power, so she switched to speaking aloud.
"Gods can use telepathy to converse over great distances, but if you want to use telepathy to issue a divine oracle to a follower, it is extremely difficult and consumes more divine power. You need to be mindful of this."
Li Chengxi wasn't worried about that, as he had always used a microphone to issue his divine oracles.
Looking at his hand, Li Chengxi raised his head and asked.
"It seems magic can accomplish the same thing, right?"
"Similar, but not exactly the same."
Aidas said.
"Magic is too low in intensity, and its transmission range is too short. However, it can achieve similar functions. Whether it's magic, psionics, divine power, or any other force, they all have many things in common, and many things can even be compatible with each other. It's just a matter of nature and intensity."
If that was the case, could the internal energy from Yang Yiyi's side also be connected?
For example, using internal energy cultivated through an internal energy cultivation method to cast magic, or vice versa.
Using divine power to circulate internal energy?
———
Although he had been with Aidas for less than a day, Li Chengxi felt as if a door to a new world had been opened.
However, Audel's side did not know how excited their revered main god was.
They left the room where they had found the laser gun and continued to explore forward.
Judging from the position of the hole they had crawled in through, they were actually heading towards the front of the Nautiloid.
They had come this way because Audel knew that the front half of the Nautiloid was the important area, while the back half was mostly warehouses for storing fuel or supplies, and high-value items would not be kept there.
At this moment, a chitinous upward and downward slope appeared before them, one path leading up and the other down.
Without much hesitation, Audel suggested everyone go down.
Because going up would most likely lead to the bridge, and any remaining mind flayers on the ship were very likely to be there.
Following the downward path, they found a room at the end where a large chitinous door had been crushed and deformed, flattened against the ground.
This room contained a shiny black metal sphere about one and a half meters in diameter, with some small transparent hexagonal windows on it.
Sharp metal spikes extended from the nearby walls and ceiling, reaching towards the sphere but stopping just short of it.
It was more like they were guarding this metal sphere, which floated silently in mid-air.
Along the walls were low consoles covered with knobs and gauges.
Some looked as if they were made from some kind of gemstone, while others were more like enamel, the material of teeth.
"This should be the engine room. It seems we've come to the wrong place."
To be precise, it wasn't a complete mistake.
That black metal sphere was actually the power core of the entire Nautiloid, a magic-driven engine.
It could support the Nautiloid in interstellar flight, and even in making space jumps.
However, this thing was driven by psionics.
Someone who didn't understand psionics wouldn't be able to figure out its principles at all.
Audel moved closer, standing on her tiptoes to peer through the transparent hexagonal windows of the metal sphere.
She could see a layer of burnt crystal residue inside.
"Is the thing inside a treasure?"
"It's a psionic crystal, and a super high-density one at that. It imploded and burned out when the Nautiloid crashed."
To put it bluntly, this thing was a type of high-density battery.
However, psionic crystals weren't only man-made; natural deposits also existed in nature, but most of the time, no one could utilize their energy, so they could only be used as decorative items.
Audel made a hand seal, and the black metal sphere immediately let out a muffled 'thud', as if it had been pulled out of a slot.
It floated in front of Audel, allowing her to open her magic bag and put it inside.
And as the metal sphere was removed, the faint humming sound from the surroundings disappeared at the same time, and the lights inside the Nautiloid rapidly dimmed.
Audel's action was equivalent to unplugging the Nautiloid's power plug.