11: Chapter 11 Your circuit diagram... is it drawn wrong?

2:59 PM.

Su Bai stood at the entrance of the Third Training Room, holding the semi-finished card he had just completed.

The card face glowed with an ominous dark pink under the corridor's fluorescent lights, and one could vaguely see countless extremely fine silvery-white lines flowing across the surface—that was the Causality Network formed after the Spider King Silk was integrated into the Spatial Circuit.

He yawned.

Dark circles hung under his eyes, accumulated from three days of staying up late.

"I shouldn't be late, right?"

Su Bai muttered to himself and pushed open the door.

The lights in the Third Training Room were brighter than in the corridor.

Blinding white light poured down from the magic lamp array on the ceiling, illuminating the entire space like an operating room.

In the center of the training room stood an alloy test bench, and the surrounding walls were embedded with magic fluctuation monitors—devices used to evaluate the energy output when a card is activated, with precision high enough to detect the magic disturbance caused by a mosquito flapping its wings.

However, Su Bai's attention was not on the equipment.

His attention was on three people.

Zhao Dahai stood on the far left of the training room, his chubby face plastered with the words "I want to go home."

The moment he saw Su Bai push the door open and enter, he immediately started frantically signaling with his eyes—the kind of look that said, "Brother, run! This is a trap! It'll be too late if you don't run now!"

In fact, Zhao Dahai had originally come to watch the commotion; after all, the things Su Bai had said earlier were simply too outrageous, and he felt it necessary to correct his good brother.

But after seeing that woman, Zhao Dahai knew that things were different.

If Su Bai didn't perform well this time...

It would really be bad!

A Fourth-rank Card Creator was no joke, especially since she was famous for being protective of those under her wing.

If she found out that Lin Xiao had been scammed out of 50,000 by Su Bai...

The consequences would be unimaginable!

Unfortunately, Su Bai didn't understand.

Lin Xiao stood in the middle of the training room, looking utterly dispirited.

She was wearing a light blue dress today, and for once, her hair wasn't tied up but was draped over her shoulders.

However, her current mental state clearly didn't match her carefully groomed appearance; she looked rather frazzled.

But upon seeing Su Bai arrive, she immediately put on a look of watching a show, as if the fatigue from just a moment ago had instantly recovered.

And the third person—

Su Bai's gaze fell to the far side of the training room.

It was a woman who looked to be in her early twenties.

She was about 1.68 meters tall with a well-proportioned figure.

Her long, dark brown hair was tied into a neat high ponytail at the back of her head.

Her features were five or six parts similar to Lin Xiao's, but the lines were sharper, and the corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, giving one the feeling that she was constantly scrutinizing you.

She was wearing a deep purple high-rank Card Creator robe—the left chest of the robe was embroidered with four silver star patterns, representing her identity certification as a Fourth-rank Card Creator.

There was a gold trim around her right cuff, which was a mark that only Card Creators specializing in spatial-type cards were qualified to wear.

Lin Weiwei.

A Fourth-rank intermediate Card Creator.

Lin Xiao's cousin.

At this moment, this cousin was sizing up Su Bai with a very peculiar gaze.

That gaze contained three parts curiosity, three parts disdain, three parts amusement, and one part well-concealed superiority that a professional feels when facing a layman.

Lin Xiao braced herself and spoke.

"Su Bai, this is my cousin, Lin Weiwei. A Fourth-rank intermediate Card Creator, specializing in the spatial type."

Then she turned to Lin Weiwei.

"Cousin, this is Su Bai. The one... from the group chat."

Lin Weiwei smiled.

It wasn't that kind of polite, courteous smile. It was a kind of—how to put it—the smile a cat has when it sees a hamster walking on its two hind legs.

"So you are the genius junior who invented the '720-degree Space Distortion to Stuff a Strongman'."

Her tone was extremely polite.

Polite to a dangerous degree.

"I have truly heard so much about you. I wonder if you could open my eyes today?"

Zhao Dahai covered his face.

Lin Xiao wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Su Bai nodded.

"Of course. However, that was just basic theory; the actual operation requires very high standards for the reversal of neural signals."

The air froze for a second.

Zhao Dahai's hand covering his face gripped tighter—no, he started grabbing his own hair with both hands, letting out an extremely faint moan.

The corner of Lin Xiao's eye twitched frantically.

When it came to it...

This guy was actually still acting cool!

Lin Weiwei's expression also changed subtly.

She clearly hadn't expected this First-rank academic failure to climb up the pole as soon as it was offered.

And he climbed it so...

solemnly.

"Is that so?"

Lin Weiwei's smile didn't disappear, but her eyes narrowed slightly, "Then take out your finished product and let me see. I heard you spent 50,000 of Xiao Xiao's money to buy materials..."

She paused, her tone becoming even more polite.

"—I presume the result must be very outstanding?"

"It's alright, though I think the completeness is quite high."

Su Bai reached into his pocket.

And then pulled out a card.

A dark pink card face, silvery-white lines, and in the very center was a smiling Kyubey.

Lin Weiwei took the card nonchalantly.

She had originally intended to just go through the motions—glance at it casually, pick out a few basic errors, then earnestly tell Lin Xiao "don't lend money to amateur scientists in the future," and then ask this grandstanding junior to leave the training room.

The whole process would take about three minutes.

Then she took the first look.

Her fingers stopped.

Not right.

This workmanship... it didn't seem right.

Lin Weiwei raised the card to her eyes.

Under her enhanced vision and Mental Power, every single line on the card face was clearly visible.

She saw the outline of that Kyubey—no, she saw countless microscopic structures that made up that Kyubey.

Those were countless tiny Kyubeys.

The size of each microscopic Kyubey was at the micron level.

The outline of each microscopic Kyubey was composed of hundreds upon hundreds of Space Folding runes.

These runes were nested, intertwined, and connected to each other, forming an extremely complex network.

And in the very center of this network—

Was a spatial matrix she had never seen before.

Hum!

Under the prying of her Mental Power, the entire card burst forth with a near-perfect luster; that was the fluctuation of the spatial lines shining.

The information carried by this card had completely exceeded the scope of her expectations; in just a split second, her Mental Power was bounced back!

"This—"

Lin Weiwei's eyes gradually widened.

This, how is this possible?

Her own Fourth-rank Mental Power, she couldn't actually parse a... First-rank card?

What was going on?

Furthermore, she wasn't even sure what she had seen.

Besides that, the workmanship was too fine, fine to an outrageous degree.

A First-rank Card Creator apprentice—no, even a Card Creator below the Third-rank couldn't possibly possess this level of brush control.

But this still wasn't what puzzled her the most.

Lin Weiwei carefully examined the circuit.

Her specialty was spatial-type cards.

She had written three papers on Spatial Circuit optimization.

She had once stayed awake for thirty-six consecutive hours studying Master Li Qingyue's fourth set of spatial topology diagrams.

So she was certain—

This was absolutely not a conventional spatial formation.

Nor was it any set of Master Li Qingyue's diagrams.

It wasn't even the Space Folding framework of any mainstream school.

This was a circuit she had never seen before.

Brand new.

Unfamiliar.

Something that was different from all the spatial theories she had learned, starting from the underlying logic!

However... was this card a correct existence?

Although its structure was extremely complex, with enough information to bounce back her Mental Power, that was just information, not the card's true ability.

Moreover, with her own knowledge, she couldn't even tell what this circuit actually was, so...

"Junior."

Lin Weiwei raised her head, the polite, killing-with-kindness tone in her voice gone, replaced by a cautious confusion, "Your circuit... is drawn wrong, right?"