Chapter 262 - 152: Officially Put into Operation

Chapter 262: Chapter 152: Officially Put into Operation

It was a silk pouch, its mouth cinched tight with a red cord.

It resembled a fish roe Fortune Bag.

He gazed at the Bell in his hand.

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[Exotic Treasure Name]: Luck Bell.

[Exotic Treasure Level]: Green.

[Exotic Treasure Effect]: After ringing the Bell, your luck will be slightly increased for your very next action. Single-use Exotic Treasure.

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’The description on the panel is a bit different from Yun Shao’s.’

’It doesn’t increase luck for three breaths.’

’Instead, it slightly increases luck for the very next action after ringing the Bell.’

’That’s actually a little vague.’

’For example—’

’If I ring the Bell right at the... climax... will the chances of getting pregnant be greatly increased?’

’And how does it determine if getting pregnant is a good thing or a bad thing?’

’Does it just go by what I want?’

He didn’t dwell on it.

He took a deep breath.

He looked at the panel for the Yellow Fortune Bag and muttered.

"Here we go..."

"Time to witness a miracle."

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[Fortune Bag]: Upon opening, there is a 50% chance of obtaining a Yellow Level Exotic Treasure, a 30% chance of obtaining Yellow Level Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, a 10% chance of obtaining a Yellow Level Building Blueprint, a 9.5% chance of obtaining a Yellow Level Wonder, and a 0.5% chance of obtaining "Other."

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’The lower the probability, the better the prize.’

The next moment—

DING!

The Bell rang out.

The sound was crisp and quite pleasant.

He quickly yanked open the cord on the Fortune Bag and pulled out... a Building Blueprint.

"A Building Blueprint?"

Chen Fan was a little disappointed. He had hoped to hit that 0.5% "Other" category and was curious to see what it might contain. Still, it was understandable. After all, the Bell only gave a *slight* boost to his luck, not a major one.

But when he looked at the Building Blueprint’s panel...

He froze on the spot.

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[Exotic Treasure Name]: Signal Tower.

[Exotic Treasure Level]: Yellow.

[Exotic Treasure Effect]: Expands the communication range of Sound Transmission Talismans.

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"Fuck!"

"I hit the jackpot!"

Chen Fan couldn’t help but swear. Filled with excitement, he quickly headed out of the city, planning to take the Nine-Five Dragon Carriage back to the Mortal Realm to build it and check out its effect.

’The Silk Road!’

’The New Continent!’

’The High-speed Rail!’

’The Jiangbei Defense Line!’

All of the Mortal Realm’s major projects currently had one huge weakness: severely limited communication range. But now... that final piece of the puzzle had fallen into place.

The maximum effective range of a standard Sound Transmission Talisman was 100 kilometers.

To establish a communication link between Mortal City and Medicine King Valley, they would have needed at least ten relay stations. Now, they might only need five. This wasn’t just a cost reduction; it was a massive increase in coverage area.

After all, the communication range wasn’t a straight line, but an entire area.

...

Chen Fan rushed back to the Mortal Realm.

After consuming 1,000 Ghost Stones and 1 Ghost Bone, he constructed a Signal Tower and placed it on the mountaintop. It was a ten-meter-tall Cylinder built entirely of stone, with the same width from top to bottom.

It looked just like a round stone pillar.

Its surface was engraved with various patterns.

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[Building Name]: Signal Tower.

[Building Grade]: Yellow.

[Building Level]: Level 1.

[Building Effect]: Can increase the communication range of an embedded "Sound Transmission Talisman" by 10x.

ps: Upgrading to Level 2 requires 2,000 Ghost Stones and any one of the following: a Sea Embryo, a Mountain Embryo, or a Forest Embryo.

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"Ten times..."

"That means 1,000 kilometers."

Chen Fan fell silent.

The straight-line distance between Mortal City and Medicine King Valley was 700 kilometers.

That wasn’t a short distance by any means.

Now, by placing just one Signal Tower in each location, they could communicate in real-time without any need for intermediate relay stations. It was incomparably faster than before.

’I’m pretty amazing,’ he thought to himself.

’A project this massive...’

’And I finished it in just ten days.’

’And another thing—’

’This makes it possible to properly dispatch the High-speed Rail.’

His current High-speed Rail was a single-track line. Building a second track was out of the question—it would be too time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive.

It would be hard to ever make back the investment.

But with the Signal Tower, they could perfectly coordinate switches and turnouts.

’For instance... The Mortal Realm’s "High-speed Rail Division" could be responsible for receiving departure information from each station. Then, by setting up landmarks along the route for positioning and contacting the train conductors and nearby station masters, they could coordinate two-way traffic on the single track.’

’When two trains are about to meet, one can pull into a nearby siding and wait for the other to pass before returning to the main track.’

’Passenger capacity would increase dramatically.’

Of course, that was all for later. He didn’t plan on implementing dispatching anytime soon; the workload would be immense.

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"..."

Chen Fan took a deep breath and began to study how to use the Signal Tower. He definitely wouldn’t be able to upgrade it anytime soon since he didn’t have a Sea Embryo, but Level 1 was more than enough for now. The range was huge.

"Hey Hey."

He took out a Sound Transmission Talisman and tried to contact Lame Monkey in Mortal City, relaying the signal through the Signal Tower. The connection went through almost instantly.

Of course... that was nothing to be surprised about.

He could have contacted him even without the Signal Tower.

After all, Mortal City was right next to Nameless Mountain.

But he now had a rough understanding of the Signal Tower’s logic.

’If you place a Sound Transmission Talisman inside the Signal Tower, that talisman can contact people a thousand *li* away. But it’s not like I can stand guard by the tower every time I want to talk, right?’

’So—’

’I can use the Sound Transmission Talisman in my hand to contact the Signal Tower first, and the Signal Tower then relays the message to the person with another talisman a thousand *li* away.’

’It basically functions as a relay station.’

This would massively improve the coordination and deployment of all personnel in the Mortal Realm.

Best of all, the Signal Tower had no capacity limit.

In other words...

...it could relay ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or even a million messages simultaneously without any issue.