My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Xia Zuo, who already knew the answer, pretended to listen...

...

After returning to the sea castle, Hillenburg's team first took care of the 16 combat golems that had just been through battle, and then began their busy research work according to each person's assigned task.

Xia Zuo remained the same, cooperating with Hillenburg in developing the alchemical bionic system.

Hillenburg approached the castle administrators and requested the deployment of an underwater combat team.

He, Xia Zuo, and the combat team that had been temporarily brought in to lend a hand sailed south for nearly two days in another dive room, successfully capturing a group of Azure-eyed Spinosaurus in the dark zone.

This was the first time Xia Zuo had stayed overnight in Lumington, and it was two consecutive nights. It took him quite a bit of effort to calm his fiancée at home.

After returning to the sea castle, Xia Zuo went home to rest for a day.

At noon the next day.

When Xia Zuo arrived at the marine observation room, most of the captured Blue-eyed Bone Snakes had been dissected, leaving only a few as live specimens.

Hillenburg carefully cut a thin, emerald-green membrane from the eye of the Blue-eyed Spinosaurus.

These are valuable sample materials; once used, they become one less available.

The Hillenburg team prepared a total of 8 films, and also had 3 live blue-eyed spiny snakes as backups.

Hillenburg placed the eight membranes, along with the dissected Blue-eyed Spikeleton, before a trusted venom alchemist.

"Shazo, Huberon and the others are improving the underwater sniper rifle, I need to go lend a hand."

Hillenburg patted the other person on the shoulder, "You'll be in charge of researching the principles behind the Azure-Eyed Bone Serpent's special abilities for now. Once things are settled with Huberon, I'll come and work with you on the research."

"Okay, team leader. I'll do my best," Xia Zuo said honestly, watching his team leader lift the curtain and leave the experimental area.

Okay... I guess I'll have to copy the answers from the Military Museum again...

While others transmigrate and become plagiarists, I've become a technology porter for Earth—the kind who has to concoct complex scientific and technological transformations into alchemical techniques…

Xia Zuo silently complained a few times in his mind, and then calmed down to study the Azure-Eyed Spinosaurus.

A million-word summary and a preview of the final chapter.

The backend has already reached 100 million words.

Since the fourth volume went wrong, I've been focusing on summarizing the writing style, plot arrangement, and character settings of bestselling novels on Baidu Baike.

I also reflected on why the fourth volume went wrong.

Looking back, it can be attributed to a poorly written outline, with much of the content being come up on the spot.

These hastily cobbled-together contents took up my creation time, leaving me with little extra energy to polish my writing.

Therefore, you will find that Volumes 1 through 3 are the best written, and the quality of the writing gradually declines from beginning to end. This is because I was thinking about the content of Volume 4.

After learning from this lesson, I read a lot of books, especially those that I had followed from beginning to end.

Based on my experience of writing millions of words, I'm certain that these books had at least a 10-word outline written before I even started writing them.

I started writing the outline for my new book this week, and I've found that it's definitely going to be like this:

For a book to maintain high quality and frequent updates from beginning to end, an extremely detailed outline is essential.

10 words are not enough.

At least 15.

You need to set up every single thing that will happen in the entire plot from beginning to end, and then when you start writing (filling in the gaps), you need to be able to write with a light touch and a brisk pace, so that readers are full of anticipation when following the updates.

So far, I've written a 3-word outline for the new book, and I estimate that at least 12 more words are needed to finish it.

Looking back at this book now, based on that...

Two words.

Rubbish.

To avoid readers wasting time and money reading a book destined to fail, and also to give myself enough time to write the outline and draft of a new book.

I've decided to finish my current book this month.

Thank you all for your company.

I have nothing to repay you with but words.

Chapter 77 Invisible Light

Is the Azure-Eyed Serpent's special ability to filter out invisible light from its field of vision?

For example, infrared light?

Um... wait... it shouldn't be called infrared; that's the scientific term.

Xia Zuo responded that infrared light actually has a use that has been used within the alchemy school for a long time.

It's that eerie blue light that can see through the bodies of living beings.

The alchemists call this beam of light the "Bio-Seeing Beam," and in the Tower Scholars school, the spell to cast this beam is called "Bio-Seeing Ghostly Light."

According to Xia Zuo, the bio-illumination beam is an example of the application of infrared light in the field of alchemy, corresponding to the venography device in the scientific field—if a vein cannot be found during intravenous injection, the nurse will use the infrared light of the venography device to detect subcutaneous veins.

It is obvious that the bio-transparent beam is much more powerful than the vein imaging device.

It can not only locate blood vessels, but also provide deep vision into internal organs and reveal lumps, fat, and other substances hidden behind them.

At the same time, the bio-optical beam is safer than X-rays used in the scientific and medical fields, and to date, there has been no known case of an alchemist contracting an incurable disease because of the bio-optical beam.

Thinking about it this way... the alchemists weren't completely ignorant about invisible light; in fact, they were quite knowledgeable about it.

That blue-eyed beam of light was probably not infrared light, otherwise Hillenburg would have discovered its secret long ago.

Xia Zuo put aside his disdain and studied it meticulously for most of the day.

As evening approached, he took a large gulp of hot tea and let out a long sigh of relief.

Xia Zuo found an answer he was 8% sure of.

It has to be said, a world with magic is truly amazing...

The Azure Eye Beam is an invisible light that even Xia Zuo was unaware of.

Of course, in his previous life, Xia Zuo was not a researcher in the field of optics. Apart from a few well-known invisible lights, he knew nothing about other wavelengths of light. The Azure Eye Beam was likely one of these unknown lights.

After finishing a cup of hot tea, Xia Zuo sat down at the table and began recording the details of the experiment.

Hillenburg lifted the curtain and came in.

"How's it going, Xia Zuo? I don't think it'll be too difficult for you." Hillenburg made himself a cup of salty-sweet seaweed tea.

"Team leader, this is my lab report." Xia Zuo capped his pen and handed over the notebook in his hand.

"Hmm... let me see... an invisible light... the eye's membrane is a filter... a special oil makes the invisible light visible... a good idea." Hillenburg pushed up his glasses. "Did you invent the word 'filter' yourself? Interesting."

“Uh…” Xia Zuo smiled helplessly, “Team leader, my knowledge of artifact alchemy is still at the proficient level. I don’t know how the alchemical device that emits biological vision beams works… so I made up a term myself.”

“Oh, I see.” Hillenburg put down his notebook and smiled. “I must say, you have great potential in alchemy. The word you invented is only one word different from the alchemical terminology.”

Hillenburg walked to the alchemy table, opened the side cover of the dark blue lamp, and showed Shazo the internal structure, saying:

"The core component of this thing is the light-selective crystal, which is this small, transparent octahedral crystal. It works on a similar principle to the light filter you mentioned."

Xia Zuo raised an eyebrow. "So, team leader, does that mean we need to invent a light-selective crystal that targets the Azure Eye Beam to emit the Azure Eye Beam?"

“Yes, that’s right.” Hillenburg put the pale blue light tube back. “Now that you’ve helped us pinpoint the nature of the Azure Eye Beam, leave the rest of the work to Allen and me. He and I will create the alchemical bionic device that will emit the Azure Eye Beam.”

Hillenburg used the coral megaphone to summon Allen over, and then said to Shazo:

"Go to the experimental field and lend Mars a hand. By noon tomorrow at the latest, I will have prepared the required data for the alchemical bionic device. Then you can come and develop the erogen and raw materials."

“Okay, team leader.” Xia Zuo nodded and left the area.

He found Mars' location in the team member's work plan book, then put on his diving suit and went into the diving room.

...

Experimental field number h, which has no light band edge.

Xia Zuo and Mars, panting heavily, hung upside down on the back of the metal base to rest.

They have just finished repairing several holes.

"Senior, when I was traveling through the extreme storm in the transoceanic airship, a question arose that I still haven't been able to answer."

While studying the Azure Eye Beam, Xia Zuo suddenly remembered this question:

"My mentor said that extreme storms will interfere with alchemical communication devices; things like cipher rings will be unusable..."

Even blood-related secrets were inevitably interrupted... Xia Zuo didn't say this aloud, but just muttered it to himself.

"How did that transoceanic airship make contact with the Silver Moon Federation of the Eastern Continent?"

Mars pondered for a moment, "That's what Master Tyson told me... there are two ways to overcome the interference of extreme storms."

Mars stretched out his hands, making a spherical shape, and said:

"The first method is to use high-purity resonant crystal to create a glass sphere, then put a high-level elemental servant inside and refine them into a high-level surveillance guard."

"The higher the purity of the resonant crystal, the weaker the interference of the extreme storm on it. The higher the quality of the high-level elemental servants, the better the host's control over them."

"If you want to clearly perceive the high-level surveillance guards located on the western continent, I estimate that you would need a resonance crystal with a purity of over 99.99% and a high-level elemental servant with 16 obedient elements."

Xia Zuo nodded slowly and noted down the conditions.

Beatrice once produced a glass ball with an amber-colored pupil. The owner of this glass ball must have used this method to overcome the interference of the extreme storm.

"What about the second method?"

"The second method is simpler than the first." Mars scratched his head, his large, wetsuit-clad fingers tracing across his diving mask.

"First, you need to find the scholars in the tower and buy a special communication array. Then, solidify the array onto the alchemical communication device and provide it with sufficient energy so that you can contact another communication array."

"A special...communication array?" Xia Zuo blinked.