"We still don't know."
Yang Yuan shook his head as he approached the door and personally opened it.
No response.
Then he closed the door again.
Immediately, the experience increased by one point.
"Not bad."
Yang Yuan smiled and said, "Let's get someone to help, continuously opening and closing the door."
Leader Chen directly asked his assistant to do it, then curiously asked, "Does doing this have any significance?"
Significance?
Yang Yuan thought for a moment and explained, "Helping it to train."
"Train?" Leader Chen was stunned.
"Yes, you could say it's a form of training. Human superpower users need training to grow stronger, and naturally, so can these items."
Yang Yuan spoke carelessly, but in his heart, he was pondering whether this might really be the essence of his ability.
After all, the items he reassembled all needed to work and be used to gain experience.
And this process of working and being used could, to some extent, really be considered as the item training.
"Is this the essence of conceptual abilities, or... Is there really such a theory? Is it true that everything has a spirit that science can't explain?" Hearing Yang Yuan's words, Leader Chen genuinely pondered this seriously.
Chen Xianzhi, the aide, was not concerned with this question; he was mainly concerned about whether the Arbitrary Gate could actually be created.
During the time the "Door of Arbitrariness" was gaining experience, Yang Yuan took a short nap in the assembly room, leaning against the wall with his eyes closed to make up for his lack of sleep.
He didn't know how long it had been when suddenly a commotion outside woke him up.
A soldier rushed into the assembly room and whispered something in Chen Xianzhi's ear.
Chen Xianzhi's face changed slightly, and he said, "Someone else has been infected. After the True Drought Fiend got closer, the number of infected females has increased."
Time was becoming increasingly pressed, and this was already the furthest point within the Ancient Ruins from the True Drought Fiend, with no room to retreat further.
Yang Yuan glanced at the experience of the metal door, then walked over and said, "Let's take a break first."
After the assistant moved away, he directly upgraded the metal door.
Leader Chen immediately perked up, wanting to see how Yang Yuan was going to proceed, eager to study whether the creation methods of Conceptual Superpower Users could be scientifically replicated.
[(Pseudo) Arbitrary Gate Lv.1: 3710/10 (Upgradeable)]
...
[(Pseudo) Arbitrary Gate Lv.4: 3640/80 (Counterfeit and inferior, with certain spatial attributes; Upgradeable)]
It had transformed from counterfeit to counterfeit and inferior.
It seemed his idea might indeed be successful.
Yang Yuan chose to continue upgrading.
...
Leader Chen and the others stood to the side, watching intently, but they couldn't see anything happening; they just saw Yang Yuan staring at the door, which then became increasingly exquisite and extraordinary.
"Amazing, strange, it really feels as though that door is training itself?"
Leader Chen muttered, unable to understand the creation methods of Conceptual Superpower Users.
...
[(Pseudo) Arbitrary Gate Lv.7: 3080/640 (Counterfeit and inferior, capable of disturbing the surrounding space when open; Upgradeable)]
Yang Yuan felt a surge of joy. Was it already able to disturb the surrounding space?
"Keep going!"
...
[(Pseudo) Arbitrary Gate Lv.9: 1160/2560 (Non-upgradeable)]
"Just two levels short..."
Yang Yuan frowned, stepping back a bit, and said to Leader Chen's assistant, "Continue the previous process."
"Sure." The assistant asked no questions and got right back to work.
"How is it?" Leader Chen eagerly asked.
"Right now it can only disturb the surrounding space and can't open a Gate of Space." Yang Yuan shook his head.
"It can already disturb the surrounding space?"
However, Leader Chen viewed the issue completely differently: "This is so incredible!"
Leader Chen circled around the "Arbitrary Gate" like a curious child, inspecting carefully, wanting to dismantle it to study.
But unfortunately, while the "Arbitrary Gate" appeared much more exquisite than when it was first manufactured, it didn't seem to have any peculiar parts. How had it suddenly gained the ability to disturb space?
After a while, Chen Xianzhi couldn't help but ask, "Leader Chen, have you been able to figure anything out?"
"No."
Leader Chen sighed, "I can't comprehend it."
Yang Yuan continued to lean against the wall to catch up on sleep.
By afternoon, when he'd almost rested enough, a distant loud explosion suddenly echoed.
"Boom ————"
The rumbling sound spread from afar, and even within the safe zone, the ground tremored.
Yang Yuan's eyes shot open.
"What happened?"
Chen Xianzhi's expression changed, and he darted out.
Yang Yuan and Leader Chen quickly followed.
The three of them leaped onto the buildings of the safe zone, gazing into the distance.
On the horizon, in the direction they had come from, the rocky mountainous region seemed to rise up a mushroom cloud, something had exploded there.
At this point, Chen Xianzhi received a message and said gravely, "Our people tried using Mr. Yang Yuan's Firepower Flying Discs to lure away the True Drought Fiend, but it shot out a Blazing Beam remotely and blew up the Firepower Flying Discs."
"Blew up?" Leader Chen frowned.
Yang Yuan urgently asked, "From how far was it blown up? How many were blown up?"
"From 100 kilometers away."
Chen Xianzhi said gravely, "All nine of the Firepower Flying Discs that you had previously enlarged were blown up."
"All blown up? Just with that single strike?" Yang Yuan was astonished.
Furthermore, from 100 kilometers away?
"Back when the alliance detonated a nuclear bomb next to the Drought Fiend, how did they manage that?" he frowned, feeling things were getting beyond his control.
"The alliance has a wealth of talent, including many with spatial abilities; sending a nuclear bomb over through space was not difficult."
Chen Xianzhi explained, "Originally, we didn't want to frighten it off, but the Drought Fiend has been getting closer, and since we didn't dare attack rashly, our people tried moving the Firepower Flying Discs closer to lead it away from another direction. We didn't expect it to detect so soon and even had long-range attack methods."
Yang Yuan focused on his Firepower Flying Discs, realizing they were still a day and a half away from reaching level ten.
He then looked toward the remaining forty-eight four-meter diameter level-two Firepower Flying Discs near the factory and said, "I'll go enlarge the remaining ones. Meanwhile, in these two days, you should find a way to hold it off, even using up resources. Don't let it approach the safe zone. We need time."
"Okay." Chen Xianzhi nodded with resolve.
"By the way, how many Drought Fiends are approaching our direction?" Yang Yuan asked.
"One."
Chen Xianzhi said, "Originally, three Drought Fiends were excavated, but the other two have disappeared; only this one keeps chasing us. It might just want to proceed from this direction."
Just one?
"That's good." Yang Yuan nodded.
"Does Mr. Yang Yuan have any plans?" Chen Xianzhi asked.
Yang Yuan pondered for a moment, then stated word by word, "I plan to kill it!"
Chen Xianzhi shuddered, quickly turning back with an incredulous look toward Yang Yuan.