104: Chapter 103 Soft Space Backpack

[Cause and Effect Fate Platform · Major Functional Update Announcement]

[To all survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization: Following a core System upgrade of the Cause and Effect Fate Platform, the following two brand-new features are now officially online—]

1. [Spatial Backpack (Personal Information Panel patch)]

[Function Description: A "Spatial Backpack" button has been added to the Personal Information Panel. Select it to open your personal storage space.]

[Activation Cost: 1 karma points = 1 cubic meter of space × 24 hours of usage time. Items within the space maintain the state they were in when placed inside; time is frozen, preventing decay or damage. Call upon it with your mind, use it whenever needed. If not renewed upon expiration, items will automatically pop out beside the survivor.]

[How to Activate: Enter the Personal Information Panel, select the "Spatial Backpack" button, and enter the required space size to enable it.]

2. [Karmic Enhancement Realm]

A Tier 1 functional entrance parallel to the Karmic Trading Realm. Upon selection, the user's consciousness enters an independent Karmic Void Realm enhancement space. An enhancement platform stands in the center of the space, equipped with a standardized operation interface on its surface.

[Function Description: Allows for quality enhancement and directional attribute addition for any physical item (weapons, armor, Houseboat orders, daily necessities, etc.), Ability Crystal, or skill book.]

[Rules: Place the item to be enhanced into the platform's main enhancement area, select auxiliary media (sea beast Materials, Ore, special liquids, etc.) and place them in the auxiliary area. After analysis, select the enhancement path on the standardized operation interface. The quality and type of media will directly affect the number and direction of enhancement paths; please prepare suitable auxiliary Materials in advance.]

[Costs: Rotten Wood Class → Bronze Grade: Base cost 10 ~ 100 karma points. Bronze Grade → Silver Grade: Base cost 101 ~ 100,000 karma points. Silver Grade → Gold Tier: Base cost starting from 100,001 karma points, with no upper limit.]

[Examples: Rotten Wood Class Iron Sword + Bronze Grade Poison Sac sea beast Materials → Bronze Grade Poison-Coated Longsword. Total cost approx. 15 karma points. Silver Grade Water Purifier → Gold Tier Water Purifier. Total cost approx. 101,500 karma points. Silver Grade Directional Ability Crystal → Gold Tier Directional Ability Crystal. Total cost depends on talent correlation, starting from 100,001.]

[Special Note: Enhancement results are affected by media attributes. The System will perform optimal matching based on media characteristics to ensure the enhancement direction is controllable. Text-based record items (non-skill books) can only have the carrier quality enhanced; the content remains unchanged.]

The above two features take effect immediately. May you all use your Sharp Weapon well and sharpen your weapons and horses.

The moment the golden light screen dissipated, the entire Cause and Effect Fate Platform fell into a brief, eerie silence.

It lasted for about two seconds.

Then, the Fate Platform, which had already been quiet near midnight, instantly exploded.

The online user count in the Symphony Realm, Human Intelligence Realm, and Help Realm sections of the public forum all surged to peak levels within three seconds, and the visible flow of information was so fast that it appeared as a blur.

"Updated again???"

"Brothers, am I seeing things? Spatial Backpack???"

"Fate Master, don't you sleep!!! Updating for us in the middle of the night to provide benefits!!!"

"Thank you, Fate Master! Thank you, Fate Master! Thank you, Fate Master! Say it three times because it's important!"

"Wait, let me look at the announcement content..."

The first thing noticed was the Spatial Backpack.

The reason was simple—it was listed at the beginning, and the four words "Spatial Backpack" held an attraction almost etched into the DNA of every Earth Star person who had ever read cultivation novels or played RPG games.

"Spatial Backpack... is it real?"

"Storage space? Portable space? The kind of space where you can shove things into the Void Realm and take them out whenever you want?"

"Holy crap, this was the Golden Finger I craved most when reading novels, and now the Fate Master has arranged it for me directly?"

Doubts and exclamations poured out simultaneously, but no one just talked. Everyone exited the forum almost reflexively and opened their Personal Information Panel—sure enough, a brand-new button had appeared at the very bottom of the panel.

[Spatial Backpack]

Three words, deep blue, lying there quietly.

Countless people clicked on it at the same time.

One karma points was deducted.

And then—an invisible space, perceptible only to oneself, quietly unfolded in the depths of their consciousness.

One cubic meter.

Not big, but it existed in reality.

The first batch of testers posted the results to the forum within ten seconds.

A survivor named "Fishing Guy on the Sea" posted a thirty-second video: he held a Rotten Wood Class harpoon in his left hand, a thought moved, and the harpoon vanished into thin air. With another thought, the harpoon appeared in his right hand.

The video caption had only two words: "It's real."

Comments exceeded ten thousand in an instant.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!"

"I just tried it! I put my water bottle inside! When I took it out, the water temperature hadn't changed at all!"

More videos poured out immediately.

Someone stuffed a low-grade sea beast carcass that had been hunted not long ago, with blood that hadn't yet congealed, into it. Ten minutes later, they took it out, and the blood was still warm; the blood droplets at the wound were even still dripping—time was frozen, not even a second had passed.

"Freshness preservation confirmed! This is a portable refrigerator! No, it's ten thousand times better than a refrigerator!"

Someone conducted a more precise test. He first opened a one-cubic-meter space, stuffed a two-meter-long harpoon inside, then stuffed a one-point-five-meter-wide fishing net, and also put in three water bottles.

Under normal circumstances, the footprint of these things spread out would far exceed one cubic meter. But the Spatial Backpack swallowed them all without any resistance.

Until he stuffed the fourth water bottle inside—a prompt said it was full.

"The space isn't calculated by shape! It's calculated by the actual physical volume of the object!"

"That means a two-meter-long harpoon might only have an actual volume of zero point zero something cubic meters, so it can be put in easily!"

"This space is soft! It's not a fixed square box! It conforms to the shape! It even automatically adheres!"

"Everyone, I tried it. According to the announcement, as long as you call it with your mind, you can really take and use it whenever you want. And you can take it from anywhere—pockets, palms, in front of your body, even the action of picking your ear can take things out. Have I become Sun Wukong?"

"The Fate Master is truly kind to us. For the first time in my life, I know that one cubic meter isn't actually a fixed size. This is a way to reduce our consumption burden."

"If this Fate Master were a game planner before the Transmigration, wouldn't they be fired the next day?"

This analysis post was quickly pushed to the top three in popularity.

The comment section was completely boiling.

"The pocket in my pants clearly only has a few dozen cubic centimeters of space even when stretched out, but now I can stuff a whole sea beast directly into it."

"In the future, when going out to fight monsters, loot and weapons can be stuffed directly into the backpack. When I need to fight, I just grasp my palm, and the weapon is drawn from thin air. Isn't this games coming into reality? It's super cool and super convenient, right?"

"Mom, Dad doesn't have to worry about me not being able to pull out my weapon when fighting in my pants pockets anymore..."

"The key is freshness preservation, brothers! Freshness preservation! The three sea beast carcasses stored on my boat don't need to be pickled anymore! Now I can just stuff them all in, and eat fresh whenever I want!"

"One karma points for one cubic meter per day, this price is so kind it makes me want to cry."

"I will never be afraid of losing things again. During the beast tide before, my Bronze Grade dagger was washed away by a wave, and my heart ached for a whole day. From now on, all valuables will be stuffed into the backpack!"

Someone else posted a thread that made everyone burst into laughter— "I put that ugly towel my wife knitted into it. She asked me where the towel was, and I said I lost it in the sea. Perfect."

Below were rows of "Brother, have a safe journey" and "You sure know how to play with fire."

Renaissance.

The temporary audit room of the Council.

At this moment, more than three hundred people were squeezed into the room, originally in the middle of auditing and evaluating the registration list for the Top 1000 Tournament one by one.

The moment the golden light screen appeared, everyone's movements stopped simultaneously.

More than three hundred pairs of eyes stared straight at the announcement in front of them.

After five seconds of silence.

Director Lin Su, the Director of the General Administration of Livelihood Security, was the first to react. She slammed the table and stood up, her face flushed red.

"Spatial Backpack!"

The woman in her early forties' voice even cracked.

"The Council must immediately approve the opening of a large-capacity Spatial Backpack! At least starting from one thousand cubic meters!" She spoke extremely fast, her fingers poking at the announcement text in the void. "We have over six thousand tons of sea beast Materials piled up in our supply warehouse. Our only preservation methods are pickling and air-drying, and the loss rate exceeds forty percent! The logistics department is already arranging the second batch of destruction for the thirty thousand tons of sea beast carcasses added by last night's beast tide—"

She took a deep breath, suppressing the tremor in her voice.

"With this, all those supplies can be saved! All of them!"

Director Zhou Ming, the Director of the General Administration of Planning and Construction next to her, replied. His voice was steadier than Director Lin Su's, but the excitement in his eyes couldn't be hidden.

"One thousand cubic meters, one thousand karma points a day. Thirty thousand for thirty days. With the Revival Society's existing reserve of karma points, it can fully handle it."

"Not just one thousand," Director Lin Su shook her head. "Three thousand. No, start from five thousand. Sea beast Materials are consumables, but food reserves are strategic supplies. This thing is our food storage. In this ghostly place, having food means having life."

People in the room were whispering to each other. Several people had already secretly opened their Personal Information Panel, using the teacups and paper and pens on the table to test storage and retrieval. A teacup vanished into thin air and appeared out of thin air again. The eyes of several middle-aged men were as bright as children unpacking the gift they wanted most.

But the focus of everyone's attention was not yet this Spatial Backpack. Although the Spatial Backpack was already very strong, it was obviously only an appetizer.

The second part of the Fate Platform announcement—was what made everyone unable to shift their gaze once they saw it!!!

Karmic Enhancement Realm.