Chapter 47: Musa's Dream Factory

  As night fell completely, Ma Long sent off Yefna who was deep in thought.

  It's okay, Evana drove herself here, so Marlon doesn't have to worry about Evana's safety on the way back.

  So Ma Long finally had time to take that newspaper to find Musa - Mayn.

  Although I had already mentally prepared myself for the "dirty, messy and poor" experimental environment from Adela's description before pushing open the door.

  When he finally got a clear look at the incredibly cluttered interior, Mussa-Mein, who had apparently not washed his face or shaved in days and whose stubble was now inches long in some places, Marlon couldn't help but show a shocked expression.

  "Musa, experiments are urgent, but you must also be clear that your body is the capital for revenge!"

  Ma Long felt that he really needed to have a good talk with Musa-Mein, he didn't want his great dream of watching holographic movies and playing holographic games in his lifetime to fade away because of Musa-Mein's exhaustion.

  "Ah, Ma Long, you've come just in time! Come and take a look at the invention I've just completed. The difficult problem you raised, I've finally found a thorough solution!"

  Musa-Mein had no time to talk about life with Malong, and as soon as he saw that the person who came in was Malong, he pulled Malong's hand and rushed to the center of the temporary laboratory in three strides - there, a part of the crystal ball that had been shattered into pieces on the ground was reassembled and spliced together into less than half a broken circle, placed on a fixed bracket platform.

  The platform around this frame is very flat, and has already been engraved with the blood-colored runes of a crude conversion magic crystal, but in the middle position there is a recessed groove, where those crystal ball fragments are placed.

  "Malong, we need to thank the person who smashed this crystal ball!"

  Musa-Mein's eyes were filled with dense, bloodshot lines from prolonged sleep deprivation, and his entire eye sockets were as black as a vampire's, but at this moment, he was spiritedly excited, like he had just taken a forbidden stimulant.

  "Ah! You mean to say......"

  Having heard this, Ma Long couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.

  "Yes! I've solved it! I discovered the secret of the shattered facet projection fragments!"

  "Certainly sized fragments will become the projection world where souls enter, while images and sounds carried on smaller fragments will be inserted into the projection world composed of the largest fragments! So, as long as you cut large fragments according to certain rules and paste in small fragments, you can achieve what Ma Long said about making the entire plane's projection fragments editable!"

  Excitedly gesticulating Mussa-Mein indeed said what Marlon wanted to hear.

  "I also found that the spherical shape is not the best, and we should cut the crystal ball into a cuboid and then cut out thin crystal slices on it that can be reinserted. In this way, the production of mother body surface projection fragments can be completed, and with the mother body surface projection fragments, any number of child body surface projection fragments can be replicated at any time!"

  There's no doubt that Moussa-Mein continued saying this, and it was also what Marlon wanted to hear.

  "Musa, what's the cost? If we cut the crystal ball into a rectangular shape as you said, how much will it be?"

  What Ma Long is more concerned about is that if the cost is too high, it will not be possible to popularize it among the general public, and it may become an expensive toy for the wealthy to show off their superiority.

  "This depends on the recording time, roughly every ten minutes of video requires a crystal block of this size......" Musa Meinai stretched out her right hand and flashed the joint of her little thumb at Malong: "If I'm not mistaken, the value of crystal fragments of this size in those engineering projects that grind and cut crystal balls shouldn't exceed fifty Lant."

  A crystal block that can store an hour of frequent images, worth no more than fifty Lanters?!

  "How many people can watch at a time? Can it still only support up to four people watching together?"

  Ma Long's speech rate had unknowingly sped up a lot as he continued to ask questions.

  "It depends on whether it's an internal projection or an external projection. If it's an internal projection, even if we make it a surface projection fragment, it can only support four people simultaneously descending into the soul, but I have confidence to continue expanding the maximum capacity to at least eight people! If we follow the theater mode you mentioned for external projection, as long as we set up enough amplification crystal stones and a large enough screen, even if tens of thousands of people watch the movie at the same time, there won't be any problem!"

  Can accommodate thousands of people watching movies at the same time?!

  What are you waiting for!

  Ma Long finally couldn't help but jump up: "Great! Great! Musa, tomorrow we'll go to the patent office and register this audio-visual crystal patent! Then, we also need to go to the municipal administration for industry and commerce, register an audio-visual company... hmm... how about Dream Factory Audio-Visual Company? If you don't like it, we can call it Disney! Or Fox? Or MGM? Paramount? Lionsgate? New Line?"

  "DreamWorks! I love the name DreamWorks!" Musa-Meyn chose DreamWorks without hesitation.

  "Great, that's DreamWorks Studios! We're going to make a real DreamWorks come true!" Ma Long also felt that the name DreamWorks seemed more fitting: "So now, let me go into your new production and experience it for myself!"

  As they spoke, Ma Long had already reached out with his right hand, impatiently grasping for the crystal ball fragments on the bracket platform.

  "Don't touch! They're just barely holding together! If you touch them, the fragments will shift and there might even be a small explosion!" Musa-Mein jumped in fright, and after hurriedly stopping Marlon's impulsive action, he said with a lingering fear: "It's okay, it's okay... Now we can enter. We just need to make contact with the support platform."

  "Sorry sorry, I got too excited."

  Ma Long, who almost became a big joke, hurriedly expressed his apology. It wasn't until then that he finally noticed that Moussa-Merrien's hands, which had blocked his, were covered in... tiny holes!

  "Musa, have there been explosions before? Soul Dull, you're hurt and didn't say anything! You said your magical hands, what if they get infected with tetanus from the injury?"

  Ma Long immediately stopped and blamed Musa for being irresponsible about his personal safety.

  "What is tetanus? Oh, I see, you're talking about suppuration or something? Don't worry, if it really gets infected with pus, just find a priest who knows how to treat minor wounds and the problem will be solved."

  Looking at Musa-Mein with a completely indifferent face, Marlon was thoroughly speechless - what else could he say? Should he mention that he had forgotten again that in this other world, there existed professions like Pastors who would go to great lengths to keep you alive?

  "Alright, you win." Malong shrugged his shoulders, but immediately he became impatient again: "Let's go, let's take a look inside the crystal fragments!"