Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 309 - 298: Work

Daytime.

Gu Ming officially started work. His first job today was at the Ruan Family’s Cultivation Technique design company.

Gu Ming took Lu You along to work. When they arrived, they found the company was located in the fourth building of the Capital High-Tech Zone.

It was a ten-story building. Inside, there was a Spatial Array, as well as multiple training grounds, cultivation rooms, gardens, and Array chambers.

It took Gu Ming nearly twenty minutes just to tour the inside.

From the outside, it didn’t look as large as other high-rises, but the inside had it all—it wanted for nothing.

After joining the company and being shown around by HR, Gu Ming arrived at his workstation at seven o’clock.

As the top scorer, his Cultivation Technique design style had already caught the attention of the company’s staff.

After HR finished getting them settled, a Cultivation Technique design supervisor walked over to explain their tasks for the day.

"My name is Ruan Fei. Since there are many colleagues here with the surname Ruan, you can call me Team Leader Da Fei to avoid confusion."

"Don’t be nervous. I know you two took first place in the national competition."

"That design of carving an Array into the brain is quite novel. Our company is very optimistic about this direction of design."

"Therefore, your first task from the company is to design a Cultivation Technique that develops the Brain Domain, allowing for a Memorization Array and a Transmission Array to be carved inside."

"In other words, a Pet Beast could carve what it sees into its mind, and at the same time, possess the ability to transmit these Great Dao Insights into another Pet Beast."

"You already have complete experience with how to make the Memorization Array, so I won’t presume to teach an expert."

"As for the other Array used to transmit Great Dao Insights, I’ve found some reference materials for you."

"You can take them back and slowly digest them. Work isn’t busy today. Just focus on getting through this material. I’ll check your homework tonight to see how well you’ve understood the Array."

After finishing his explanation, the Cultivation Technique supervisor left.

Gu Ming’s work now felt like he was back in the national competition examination hall.

He designed the Cultivation Technique, while Lu You assisted by collecting data or conducting research.

Sometimes, she might also suggest ideas for Cultivation paths.

The two of them were quite familiar with this routine and didn’t feel it was beyond their capabilities.

Taking the two Array Manuals from the supervisor, they immediately began to pore over them.

The paper used for these Array Manuals was of a very high quality, imbued with the power of Great Dao Insights.

As they stared at the Array Manuals, they felt an endlessly humming Array materialize before their eyes.

This Array could actually transmit the sound of endless tides and ocean waves in the form of soundwaves—it wasn’t a simple transmission.

If one were inside it, they could genuinely feel the fluctuations of the tide. Clearly, there was a hidden mystery within its transmission Domain.

Gu Ming’s Ah Kun also had an Array in its brain, making this new Array a perfect fit.

However, the Array provided by the supervisor required a minimum of Three-star Spiritual Power to operate.

To downgrade it for Ah Kun’s use, he would have to remove the high-consumption parts, keeping only the core Array Patterns to be carved into its brain. This would undoubtedly require extensive modifications.

He first spent two hours committing the Array’s details to memory, then discussed his findings with Lu You.

Lu You seemed a little shy.

She had only managed to grasp about seventy or eighty percent of the Array, and without a Water Element Pet Beast for hands-on practice, her comprehension speed was far slower than Gu Ming’s.

Still, she hesitantly offered her thoughts:

"This Array uses sound as a medium for transmission. It doesn’t necessarily have to be placed in the Sea of Consciousness."

"The Sea of Consciousness is too dangerous. Why not carve the Array into the Pet Beast’s throat instead?"

"Even if it fails, the worst that could happen is an injured throat. Maybe it’s feasible to have Ah Kun test it."

Gu Ming nodded at her words and immediately checked his system.

Sure enough, the system displayed a textual analysis of a related Cultivation Technique, and he had a sudden realization:

’In the future timeline from the system’s perspective, Lu You believed that the current Array designs overly pursued the use of the Brain Domain.’

’A Low-star Pet Beast’s mind can use many Arrays, but there’s a limit to how many can operate simultaneously.’

’After all, a Pet Beast’s Spiritual Power is finite.’

’Using multiple Arrays at once is equivalent to completely draining the Pet Beast’s mental energy.’

’Once or twice is fine.’

’But doing it repeatedly will cause the Pet Beast’s mental capacity to decline, directly affecting its intelligence and reaction time. It is not a sustainable long-term solution.’

’Instead of continuing to carve new Arrays in the brain, it’s better to carve an Array suitable for vocalization and sound transmission in the throat, and then connect it to another part of the Array in the brain.’

’This is the Mother Array of a Child-Mother Array, placed in the throat.’

’The Sub-array, meanwhile, is placed in the brain.’

’As long as one of the two Arrays can operate, the other will naturally respond in sync, achieving zero-delay operation. The low-load Sub-array can then be used at will within the Water Element Pet Beast’s Sea of Consciousness.’

’This allows the Array to both reduce its operational energy consumption and achieve a response speed on par with telepathy.’

’As a result, the Great Dao Insights memorized by the Memorization Array can also be transmitted out without any obstruction.’

Looking at this Array design, Gu Ming was amazed.

The solution provided by the system was more than twice as refined as what Lu You had just thought of.

Gu Ming immediately described the Cultivation Technique design from the system, explaining the Child-Mother Array concept.

Lu You had a look of admiration on her face, and at the same time, she looked a little happy.

From her perspective, Gu Ming had been inspired by her and had immediately thought of a more complete method for the Array’s operation.

Moreover, this operational method was developed based on her idea of using an Array in the throat for vocalization.

This made her feel greatly encouraged.

At that moment, Gu Ming glanced at the time.

He had been at work for two hours, and it was just a little past nine.

’I’m definitely going to slack off a bit while working here.’

’If I finish too quickly, they might just toss more work my way.’

’That would get in the way of me using work time to train my Pet Beast.’

Before coming to work here, he had also asked Ruan Jing for advice.

He had asked if it was possible to have his Pet Beast practice Cultivation at his workstation if the day’s work was done.

Ruan Jing’s answer had been yes. As long as the quality of his work was fine, he and his Pet Beast could both slack off.

But she had warned him not to be too blatant about it. If a supervisor caught him, they would definitely give him more work.

As long as his slacking off didn’t affect his colleagues’ mood and wasn’t seen by the leadership, Gu Ming could do as he pleased.

Even though they had already figured out seventy to eighty percent of the Array’s design concept.

However, the task the supervisor had given them for today was just to fully digest this soundwave transmission Array. That would be considered a pass.

Tomorrow’s task would naturally be to start the next phase of research.

’Since I can afford to slack off, I might as well.’

’After all, I have to work several jobs a day.’

Gu Ming worked for half the day, then tutored in the afternoon, and returned to the company at night to do data collection work as a Cultivation Technique tester.

This job was pure grunt work that most Pet Beasts could handle. If Gu Ming wasn’t afraid of tiring out his Pet Beasts, he could easily have his two pets each take on a data collection job.

With the Memorization Array in their brains, recording data was much easier for them than for ordinary Pet Beasts, and they rarely made mistakes.

At eleven o’clock at night, the team leader came to check on their progress and nodded.

"Not bad. Keep doing the records like this from now on. Your understanding of the Array is also very good. Remember to be on time for work tomorrow."

At midnight, Gu Ming returned to his villa to rest.

He had been researching the Cultivation Technique all day and had only managed to slowly sketch out a prototype later in the evening.