pjbooks Chapter 328 Adjustment!
Chapter 328 Adjustment!
Nie Qingcheng spent about twenty minutes looking at the plan.
After finishing his milk, Zhang Yan put the cup back on the coffee table and waited.
"Here." She handed over her phone and pointed to a spot with her fingernail. "The Xuanwu's standby position is marked in the southeast direction of the basin, but if the Zhuque deviates at high altitude, this position will be right in the angle of its fire coverage."
Zhang Yan took it and glanced at it.
She's right.
He moved the coordinates 40 kilometers west and sent them to her again.
"No problem this time." She handed the phone back, picked up the milk glass, which was almost empty, swirled it around, and drank it all. Then she leaned back on the sofa. "Go to sleep. We're going out to sea tomorrow."
"Um."
After the bedroom light was turned off, Nie Qingcheng quickly fell asleep.
Zhang Yan didn't sleep; in the darkness, he went over tomorrow's schedule again.
He set off first in the morning to complete the coordinates in the target sea area before summoning Xuanwu.
Five mechs were deployed simultaneously. After testing response delay and coordination error, the sealing formation was run twice to confirm there were no loopholes before being recalled.
The entire process theoretically takes six to eight hours.
If all goes well, I should be back tomorrow night.
Nie Qingcheng turned over, touched his arm, and gripped it. He didn't wake up; she just held on out of habit.
Zhang Yan didn't move.
……
The next morning at 9:30, at the dock.
Qin Xiao was not there; there were only two people on duty.
Zhang Yan summoned the Devouring Shark, submerged, and headed towards the predetermined coordinates in international waters.
The target sea area is 400 kilometers southeast of Beijing, a deep water area with a depth of more than 2,000 meters and sparse shipping lanes nearby. At this time, military satellites showed that there were no ships within a radius of 80 kilometers.
He set the speedometer to 40 knots and began the final round of parameter checks in the cockpit before departure.
The Vermilion Bird's energy is fully replenished. I recharged it last night in an open area on the outskirts of the city, which took forty minutes.
The White Tiger is at full power, the Azure Dragon is at 91%, and the Black Scorpion can be summoned underwater at any time.
Xuanwu has two hours left to cool down.
Nie Qingcheng sent a message.
"Have you set off?"
"Yeah, just got in the water."
What time will you be back?
"Around 8 or 9 pm."
I won't cook tonight; you can cook when you get back.
"Okay. What would you like to eat?"
"I don't know, I'll check the refrigerator when I get back."
Zhang Yan put his phone down.
It's quiet underwater; the engine's vibration frequency is very low, like a very uniform background noise.
He arrived two hours later.
The sea was calmer than he had imagined; the surface was almost completely still, a deep blue that stretched to the bottom.
He had the sea shark hover at a depth of 30 meters underwater, and then he began to set up coordinate markers.
The five positions were projected onto the system's holographic interface and arranged in formation—Black Tortoise in the west, Vermilion Bird in the high sky, White Tiger in the northeast, Azure Dragon in the southeast, Tyrannosaurus Rex on the outer perimeter, and himself in the center.
After setting it up, I checked it over and everything was fine.
Then wait.
Xuanwu's cooldown is still forty minutes away.
He went through the contingency plan again, rearranged the response priorities of each component, and marked the theoretical error range.
The system's debugging recommendations state that "the coordination error should be less than 0.3 seconds." His goal is to reduce it to less than 0.1 seconds, because the three steps of activating the Heart of Heaven, resonating with the Four Spirits, and generating dimensional rifts during the sealing process must be completed almost simultaneously. Any glitch will cause the energy window to close.
A system notification popped up.
[The Black Tortoise can be summoned.]
He brought the sea-devouring shark to the surface and opened the top compartment.
sea breeze.
Then he stood on the top of the cabin, took a deep breath, took out the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship, and entered the summoning coordinates of Xuanwu.
Coordinate-bound teleportation has a half-second delay.
Then, two kilometers west of the sea, the water surface suddenly rose up, like a reef being pushed out from underwater. However, this "reef" was moving, very slowly, and was extremely large. Its shell was dark black and covered with a layer of luminous patterns.
Xuanwu surfaced and spread out on the water's surface. Its carapace resembled a huge platform, larger than any he had ever seen before. Perhaps its energy had stabilized after purification, and its entire size seemed to have expanded.
It sensed him, turned its head, and its four eyes slowly opened and closed once.
In a state of master recognition, awaiting orders.
Zhang Yan nodded, and then began to summon the mechs in order.
The white tiger emerged first, landing on the water 300 meters to its north. Its claws treaded the waves with remarkable stability.
Then the Azure Dragon appeared in the southeast direction, hovering twenty meters above the water. The folding modules on the dragon's body reflected the sunlight, emitting a pale blue halo.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex was the heaviest, and the moment it hit the water, it created a wave wall two to three meters high. The 87 tons crashed down, and the sound carried far.
Finally, there is Suzaku.
He looked up and sent a summoning command into the sky.
Three seconds later, a dark red shadow folded down from the sky at an extremely fast speed. The moment its wingspan was spread, the light in the entire sea area dimmed by half.
Its wingspan of over thirty meters cast a shadow overhead. Then it folded its wings and hovered at an altitude of two hundred meters. Its tail feathers swayed gently in the airflow, and its fiery blades were retracted, with only the tips still shining.
All five mechs are in position.
Zhang Yan stood on the roof of the Devouring Shark, surrounded by the boundless deep blue sea. Five mechs surrounded him, with the smallest one, White Tiger, standing next to him, its shoulder height a head taller than his.
He had imagined this scene many times in his mind, but standing here, it still felt different.
He suppressed the thought and entered the joint debugging mode.
"System, start timing, test the coordinated response of all units, benchmark command issued."
[Combined testing begins.]
He issued the first coordinated command—the Black Tortoise deployed its "Domain Suppression" ability, while the Vermilion Bird descended to 500 meters, the Azure Dragon activated its folding module for short-distance displacement, the White Tiger entered its flank suppression position, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex completed a full-speed circle around the perimeter.
Response of each organism.
Xuanwu was the slowest, taking 0.4 seconds from receiving the command to completing the action, which was 0.1 seconds slower than expected.
He noted down this data and adjusted the priority weight of Xuanwu's command reception, making it receive the command 0.1 seconds earlier than the other four units.
Second time.
Xuanwu (Black Tortoise) 0.31 seconds. That's better.
For the third time, adjust it to 0.28 seconds.
He adjusted the response delay of each of the five mechs one by one, which took nearly two hours, and finally reduced the overall coordination error to 0.09 seconds.
Then run the sealing formation.
He had simulated this formation more than thirty times in the system, but the actual deployment differed from the simulation. The most obvious difference was that the Xuanwu was too large. When the "Suppressing Domain" was deployed, the edge of the energy field would interfere with the heat flow of the Zhuque. He had to raise the height of the Zhuque by another fifty meters to avoid this interference zone.
Adjust, then run again.
The second formation coordination error was 0.07 seconds. System evaluation: The minimum reliability threshold for the sealing operation has been reached.
He ordered all aircraft to remain in place and stood on the roof for a while.
At 4:20 p.m., the wind subsided, and fine ripples appeared on the sea.
"System, comprehensive assessment, current combined combat strength of the Four Spirits, prediction of the probability of victory in dealing with the arrival of the Void's main body."
Based on the current collaborative parameters and the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart's completeness of 95.4%, the predicted sealing success rate is 67%.
[Key variables: The form of the Void's true form upon its descent is unknown; actual energy output may fluctuate.]
[Recommendation: For every 1% increase in the completeness of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart, the sealing success rate increases by approximately 4-6 percentage points.]
67%.
Zhang Yan memorized the number, his expression remaining unchanged.
On Ito's side, there are still three high-ranking familiars. If they are purified, the integrity level should increase further.
He recalled the five mechs into the system space one by one, and lastly sent the Xuanwu a "stay in place with low power consumption" command, binding it with coordinates to keep it in this sea area so as not to occupy the teleportation cooldown time.
Then he went down to the cockpit, set the return route, and sent a message to Nie Qingcheng.
"The joint testing is complete, we're back."
"How is it?"
"A little better than expected."
What time will you arrive?
Around nine o'clock.
"...Then you cook dinner, I'll wait for you."
"What's in the refrigerator?"
"I don't know, I didn't go check. You can check when you come back."
Zhang Yan put down his phone, activated the Devouring Shark engine, and headed towards Jinghai.