He had thought that once the weight doubled, the wooden tower would at least react somehow. But the reality was that its reaction at a hundred times was no different from fifty times.

“I’ll raise it to one hundred fifty times?”

“Why not?”

Receiving Su Mo’s assent, Hou Congwen bit his lip and swung his hand down again.

By now, from the reactions so far, he could basically be certain that this wooden tower’s load capacity could absolutely reach what Su Mo had said earlier.

And if it were switched to alloy, there was a high probability it could even surpass his own limit of four hundred twenty times.

That being so, Su Mo’s researcher status was already set in stone.

Between the two of them, in only a few minutes, they had already become equals.

“One hundred fifty times. It’s starting to react. Next I’ll increase in steps of twenty times.”

The iron plates doubled to 300 kg. This time the wooden tower at last no longer shouldered the weight as if it were nothing, and began to sway with a buzzing sound.

Staring intently ahead, Hou Congwen operated with great skill, and the weight of the iron plates began to rise slowly.

At one hundred seventy times, the wooden tower’s sound grew a little louder.

At one hundred ninety times, the long pillar in the center of the wooden tower began to sway slowly, giving off a slight noise.

At two hundred ten times, the long pillar’s sound had begun to boom, and the amplitude of its sway grew larger.

At two hundred thirty times, the whole tower began to tremble, looking as if it could barely bear the burden.

At two hundred fifty times, the instant the weight was added, the central long pillar of the wooden tower snapped layer by layer until only half remained. Yet the overall structure still held steady. Clearly it was not yet at its limit.

“Still adding more? It’s about to collapse!”

“Add!”

As the words fell, Hou Congwen reached out and pressed the weight-increase button again.

In the blink of an eye, a load of two hundred seventy times appeared out of thin air. The tower’s long pillar snapped by another half, leaving only the last two sections supporting it.

Yet it was precisely those last two sections that, even when two hundred ninety times the crushing weight arrived, only rumbled and roared without the slightest sign of collapse.

“A miracle. This is simply a miracle. With only a wooden structure, it can actually bear three hundred times the weight!”

When the pressure was raised to three hundred ten times, the wooden tower held for only about five seconds before collapsing with a roar and vanishing into the void...

But the shock on Hou Congwen’s face still showed just how unreasonable this structure was.

“So I’ve passed?” Su Mo smiled.

As the volume grew, the load capacity had risen a little in step as well. That was beyond his earlier expectations.

But passing smoothly still brought a slight joy to Su Mo’s heart.

“Passed? How could you not pass!” Hou Congwen turned around, his expression complicated.

“Do you still want to try building an alloy structure yourself? If you’re willing to pass now, I can report a three-hundred-times result. But if you build a better result yourself, the treatment will rise with it.”

“All right. Then shall I try?”

Clear about the pressure he would face, Su Mo still did not have much confidence in a mere three-hundred-times load result.

The ideal result would need to reach at least around five hundred times before the Academy of Sciences might step in and muddy these waters.

Seeing that he had decided, Hou Congwen took a step back and yielded the stage.

“Using the panel to create a building, you can first try with your mind to...”

Whoosh!

Hou Congwen, watching Su Mo click in midair, was cut off before he could even finish his first reminder.

In a single instant...

the pavilion under their feet vanished, and the surrounding environment began to collapse and change without pause.

The lake was absorbed by the earth and turned into hard sand and gravel.

The jungle was taken underground, leaving stretch after stretch of empty ground.

In their sight, streaks of metal giving off a silver glow began to appear out of thin air, leaping freely like dancers.

As if granted a second life, they raced one after another to the positions that had been set, at the call of Su Mo’s hands, building one geometrically beautiful curved structure after another.

Compared with the pieced-together wood, this time, with the switch to integrally formed metal...

from the moment the first layer appeared, an extraordinary air rose of its own accord.

“Shall we go up and look?”

“Go up?”

Seeing that Su Mo had already stepped toward the recessed groove protruding from the central long pillar, Hou Congwen could only follow blankly, completely forgetting that he was the chief examiner.

After a while, the two stood firm and were locked in place by metal clasps that appeared. Only then did Su Mo stir his mind.

The metal tower rose with a roar!

Unlike Hou Congwen’s slow, careful application of pressure earlier, after switching to alloy Su Mo’s confidence swelled abnormally.

From the very first moment, he set the tower’s floor count to a thousand layers and its height to a terrifying one thousand one hundred meters!

Under virtual reality’s automatic calculation and generation, it was like riding an elevator.

In their eyes, the buildings on the ground shrank rapidly, and the surrounding air began to thin.

And that azure sky that had hung high overhead before, those faintly visible silver stars...

at this moment, it was as if they had lost all sense of distance. Simply by reaching out a hand, one could touch them!

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