Chapter 12: The Blade of Fire

Mo Ran hesitated. "It's not the difficulty of the simulated battle, but the feeling of the simulated battle." Now he is getting a little confused about reality and simulation. He'll remember the feeling he felt in the simulation. "I feel like those people are real, so it's just a little bothering me."

"Why do you feel this way?" Captain Zod asked with a smile, but there was a playfulness in his expression.

"I can't say it, it's just a feeling!" For Captain Zod's inquiry, Mo Ran thought about it for a while, and he didn't have much reason, it was like an intuition. "Although it is said to be the most realistic training and combat simulation, this feeling has become more and more obvious recently." Speaking of this, Mo Ran himself sneered, after all, he just had a feeling that simulated battles could never replace real life, no matter how good the details were.

"Maybe you're not wrong?" Seeing Mo Ran sneering, Zod understood his thoughts, after all, he was also a little confused about the simulation battle and reality. "After all, what is real in terms of the behavior of living beings?" Zod asked rhetorically.

"Reality is an expression of time, space, and quality. In a word, it's the immediate spatial distribution of mass. Mo Ran still knows this, after all, after what happened on Earth before, there are philosophers who analyze and record the definition of reality in textbooks. With a certain definition, many people can more accurately analyze what is reality and what is simulation.

But even so, this simulated battle of the Protoss still confused Mo Ran.

Hearing Mo Ran's reply, Captain Zod was also slightly stunned. The definition of reality is actually the embodiment of time, space and quality. However, Mo Ran didn't understand Captain Zod's words at this time, and at this time he also remembered this definition in the textbook, which was very helpful to him. "Thank you." Mo Ran said, and at this time, the robot in the bar also sent the fire leaves that had been packed. However, compared to the beginning, there is more than half a cup missing.

Mo Ran clicked on the panel in front of him, and then the menu of the bar appeared, and after only turning two pages, he saw the introduction of Huo Ye. In the three-dimensional projection, Moran saw that the fire leaf was collected very close to the edge of a very massive star, because the spin speed is very fast to counteract the star's huge gravitational pull. And in this harsh environment that Mo Ran could not imagine, plants covered with the leaves of that fiery red grass were scattered all over the planet. It is also because of artificial cultivation that this kind of fire leaf can be obtained.

After all, on a planet without any water source, the earth's crust cannot move, and the situation is very similar to that of neutron stars. The planet is unable to release the energy inside, and will eventually explode violently at a point in time, changing the entire planet's topography in a short period of time. If the fire leaves were not planted artificially, there would be no way to survive on such a planet.

These are all basic cosmological knowledge, of course, Mo Ran doesn't have to think about it to know how difficult it would be to plant on that kind of planet, but when he saw the price, he was still surprised, because the price marked on it was not their common price, but how many star sands.

He is no longer the stunned young man who just entered Redya and doesn't know anything, the price of this commodity is immeasurable, and Xingsha also has a unified standard, for example, one Xingsha is equivalent to the value of half a Littoral Warship. It is precisely because of the huge value of Xingsha that the cargo ships they escorted were coveted by so many forces.

But just a small cup of fire is worth three or four littoral warships. When he saw the price, Mo Ran felt that his heart was dripping blood. The main thing is that only two-fifths of the fire leaves in a cup are still in the cup, and if he knew that the price was so expensive, he would definitely be brave enough to try it. It's completely different from the cheap drink I just drank!

Seeing Mo Ran's painful expression, Captain Zode couldn't help laughing, he liked to see the surprised expression of the kid in front of him, although it seemed that the price of this fire leaf was very high, but for Captain Zod, who had mastered the channel, it was not an unacceptable price. Even among the Protoss, fire leaves are a very expensive drink.

On the way back from the bar, Mo Ran was not in a good mood, mainly because of the small half cup of fire. However, after seeing the sad Rogge, he was still in a better mood, of course, he wouldn't say anything about his ugly things in the bar, otherwise Rogge would definitely let everyone around him know about it.

And Rogge's appearance let him know that it was probably Wanliu who asked him to do something.

"Mo Ran, it's just in time for you to come back, I have a very nice thing for you here." When Rogge saw Mo Ran come back, it was like seeing a savior, and he immediately trotted over with a smile on his face. Mo Ran stuffed the bottles of wine he bought later into his hands.

"Don't do it, you better enjoy this kind of thing alone!" Mo Ran said solemnly. After hesitating for a moment, Mo Ran turned around to find Wanliu, he knew that until now, Wanliu and the elders had done a lot for them, but the reward was very little. This small half cup of fire leaves, Mo Ran thought about it and left it with the elders.

Rogge naturally saw the fire leaf in Mo Ran's hand at a glance, and frowned slightly. He hadn't seen the fire leaf Mo Ran was holding in his hand, but he didn't know why Mo Ran came back with a small half cup of this red drink. But the thought of the new weapon Wanliu was about to test made him really have a headache now.

Now is a rare rest time, most people have returned to their posts to continue their work, but Mo Ran and Rogge's positions are replaced by people who have been hired by Wanliu, so naturally they don't have to worry about it.

But when Mo Ran brought the fire leaf to Wanliu, what he got was not a thanks, but a new round of simulation tests for Wanliu. From the previous information, she learned about the existence of the Voyage-class battleship, and then she searched for some simple information, adding the Voyage-class model and fleet composition to their own simulations. However, data is data after all, and there are still many details that need to be improved, and Mo Ran is undoubtedly the best alchemy stone for testing.

During Mo Ran's test, Wanliu picked up the fire leaf he brought back, and then searched the Internet. When she learned that the small half cup in her hand was the fire leaf, Wanliu was taken aback, but the first thing that came to her mind was not how the fire leaf tasted, but what channel she thought of to exchange these fire leaves for more money, and then replace them with some better equipment.

Although the equipment she has at hand is still relatively perfect, because it is modified or directly used with some old equipment, it has the problems of slow response and complex data that cannot be processed.

"But where did he get something so expensive?" Wanliu couldn't help but wonder, "If it's a cup, the price must be very high, but now that it's only this small half cup, how can we maximize the benefits?" Wanliu was a little distressed. As she watched the fiery liquid burning in the cup, and then condensing into liquid dripping under the silver lid, she felt truly amazing.

No matter where Mo Ran got this thing, now Wanliu is only thinking about how to change it to better equipment.

After putting the fire leaf aside, she searched for some knowledge about the fire leaf again, wanting to split it up and resell it. But just when Wanliu was looking for information. The translucent figure crept up to the cup like flowing water, then wrapped it around it and softly unscrewed the cap.

Mo Ran experimented with the power of the Voyage class's record, but because it was just written code, it had a lot of shortcomings, such as flexibility. Compared to the code integrity of the space-class formation, the Yuanhang-class lacks flexibility. So in the same state, Mo Ran could easily defeat the other party. But what Mo Ran didn't expect was that the next moment he entered another same simulated battle, and when he had the relevant data, Mo Ran found that his opponent was becoming more and more difficult to deal with, because the other party would directly defeat him with his previous methods.

It was relatively easy at first, but as time and the number of rounds increased, Mo Ran's decline became bigger and bigger. When the last combatable battleship in his hand was surrounded by a swarm of drones, Mo Ran knew that he had failed. Even if he had already severely damaged the local fleet, at the time of simulation, his fleet had basically lost its combat strength by losing 35 percent. The enemy, on the other hand, will fight to the last battleship.

With such a gap, Moran's defeat is only a matter of time and loss.

Picking it off and throwing it aside, Mo Ran rubbed his face vigorously. Move your stiff face for a while.

On the other hand, Wanliu was revising some of the data of the Yuanhang-class battleship, but as a medium-sized battleship, she couldn't get a lot of data from the Yuanzhou-class, so the simulation model built in the end was just a huge battleship with a shell.

Gently rubbed her forehead, if she had good equipment at this time, she would not be so worried. Mo Ran looked at Wanliu, a little hesitant, the hardest thing during this time is Wanliu, although the elders will occasionally come to help, but what they can do is limited, most of the time Wanliu herself faces all the problems.

See the empty bottle not far away. "Maybe I should bring her something nice next time." Such thoughts swirled in Mo Ran's mind. Looking at the time not far away, he had already spent six or seven hours in the simulation battle, and sat up softly, he was going to take a little rest now, and then go eat some nutritional paste, he now had to make some preparations for the simulation battle later. After all, the battles may become more and more difficult, and there will be more and more to learn.