Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 587 Shit Mountain Project
"This is impossible!"

Upon witnessing this scene, Jing Hongchen instantly lost his composure and exclaimed in shock.

Compared to the full-coverage armor that their Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy used to produce, which could only be used to assist in charging the Thunder Giant Sword, it is clear that the equipment Shrek Academy has taken out is a true soul-guided combat armor with combat capabilities.

Simply put, this is the true battle armor, a soul-guided combat armor that can greatly amplify the power, speed, and even other abilities of a soul master.

This mature humanoid soul tool technology is something that even their Mingde Hall doesn't have. How did Shrek Academy manage to create it?

At this moment, Jing Hongchen was extremely suspicious, even doubting whether the Body Sect had really sold Experiment Subject No. 1 to Shrek Academy.

But even if Experiment One really fell into Shrek Academy's hands, how could Shrek Academy develop such a powerful suit of armor in just a few years? It doesn't make any sense, does it?
Is this really illogical? Not necessarily. It's just that the people from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy have all gone down a dead end.

From the moment they created Experiment 1, which used hundreds of tons of rare metals as its basic structure, the Sun Moon Empire's research into humanoid soul tools could be declared a failure for the next few thousand years.

Just as Chen Ping, after roughly studying the thousands of technical difficulties in the design of the entire experimental body, first chose to downgrade step by step, starting from an unpowered exoskeleton and gradually upgrading to a powered exoskeleton, powered armor, and thousand-forged battle armor, his battle armor development strictly follows the principle of progressing step by step from easy to difficult.

The Sun Moon Empire's rare metal giant, weighing hundreds of tons, has seven operating systems: a self-testing system for all soul tools, a control panel for the entire robot's power supply system, a main control system for the Tarantula IV joint, a parallel integrated operating system, and a turbine multi-interface parallel soul power import core.
Among these complex pieces of equipment, each project has more or less problems that need to be solved. All the small problems of the major components add up to more than 420,000!

Four hundred and twenty thousand questions! Even if the brightest researchers at Mingdetang could solve ten questions every day, it would still take them more than forty thousand days, over a hundred years, to tackle them.

After these problems are solved, various new problems caused by system incompatibility may bring them 420,000 or even 1.42 million new problems. It's a complete mess!
Why are the people truly responsible for researching equipment like Experiment Subject No. 1 all level 8 or 9 Soul Masters, while other level 7 and below Soul Masters can only accept outsourced research projects and have no way of getting a full glimpse of this thing?

Even if one only wanted to fully understand all the technology of Experiment Subject No. 1, it would take an eighth or ninth-level Soul Master several years.

Then, what these level 8 and 9 Soul Masters need to do is break down the unresolved issues in this thing, hand them over to the researchers at Mingde Hall, and then run it to see if there are any conflicts or errors.

If there's a problem, disassemble the previous instruction and execute it again, continuously looping. If there's no problem, then hopefully you can break out of this loop and move on to the next problem.

Layer upon layer of recursion, nested layers, with large loops containing smaller loops.

This terrifying research method even reminded Chen Ping of the mountains of code he had seen in his previous life.

No one can figure out how this program runs, and no one can fully understand the entire mountain of excrement, analyze its architecture, and rebuild it. All they can do is, after confirming that their own position is correct, take a dump from the mountain of excrement and make sure that their dump can interact normally with the program.

The first experimental subject produced by Mingdetang gave Chen Ping this feeling—indescribable, incomprehensible, and unworkable.

Any fool who tries to get this war machine running will be tormented for eternity by the various ghostly errors caused by the intertwining of its components.

To be honest, it's likely that the researchers at Mingdetang have thought the same thing for thousands of years: such a terrifying research project could never end.

Perhaps more than one level eight or nine soul master had considered that it might be simpler to disassemble some of the mature technologies of Experiment Subject No. 1 and make them into miniaturized humanoid soul tools.

But this project is absolutely impossible to pass.

The Soul Guiding Giants, starting at several hundred tons, are made of restricted-grade rare metals. The material costs alone exceed tens of billions of gold soul coins. This project was created by the Sun Moon Empire by continuously cutting off its reserves of high-grade rare metals from the national treasury every year for thousands of years.

Anyone who tries to stop this project is a sinner to the Empire, an undisputed sinner who causes the value of this rare metal, worth hundreds of billions of gold soul coins, to be halved, or even halved again!

After all, once many rare metals are processed and made into core magic arrays and other components, the losses are usually enormous if you want to rework them back into their original materials.

Moreover, if this proposal were to be passed, it would mean that the human resources invested by the empire over thousands of years, as well as the economic costs incurred in maintaining those resources, would all be wasted.

All these reasons, coupled with the fact that none of the other three great empires on the Douluo Continent besides the Sun Moon Empire had enough top-tier Soul Master talents and sufficient rare metal reserves to carry out and maintain this project, are the fundamental reasons why the Sun Moon Empire both allowed the project to proceed in a half-dead state and actually attached great importance to it.

This is a project that cannot be considered a mistake at all. Since no other forces on the mainland are undertaking this project, even if its completion is far off, they are still far ahead, and that is enough.

This is roughly the tacit understanding between Mingdetang and the royal family over thousands of years. Unfortunately, Chen Ping doesn't buy into this. He has no interest in crawling into a mountain of excrement, nor does he have the heavy historical burden of Mingdetang.

This is the real reason why he was able to create the Thousand-Refined Battle Armor in just a few years with the help of Elder Yi. Although Subject Number One was a huge pile of shit, there was real gold inside that pile of shit, and a lot of it!

Just consider that Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen in the original novel only picked up a few technologies and spent less than ten years piecing them together to create the prototype of the Ice Extreme Battle Armor. It goes without saying how much gold is hidden in this mountain of shit.

(End of this chapter)