"This is?"
Looking at the black "oil storage tank" standing in the backyard of the villa and the intricately entangled pipelines, Jiang Chen couldn't help but ask.
"The crystallization of technology!" Lin Ling proudly said with her chest puffed out and the corners of her mouth curled up into crescent moons.
"Talk like a human being..." Jiang Chen said with black lines on his head.
"In short, it is a magnetic confinement device used to store antimatter-"
Before Lin Ling finished speaking, Jiang Chen subconsciously took a step back.
Hold the grass? Such a big amount of antimatter
"Everything in here...?"
Seeing the expression on Jiang Chen's face, Lin Ling burst into laughter, waved her hands and said.
"No, antimatter only has the middle 0.1mg, but it needs such a large magnetic confinement device to store it."
Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Lin Ling's explanation.
Using tens of milligrams of antimatter as fuel to propel a spacecraft, it can reach Mars in 6 weeks. One kilogram of antimatter exposed to air could blow up the entire Earth. One ton of antimatter would turn the Earth into the second largest planetary belt in the solar system.
It is not unreasonable for the Scientific Ethics Committee in this timeline to ban the development of antimatter. This thing is too dangerous to put on the earth, and the price for everyone to be finished together may only require an experimental failure.
However, Jiang Chen was really surprised that this 0.1 mg of antimatter needed such a large oil storage tank to store it. After all, the gift given to him by the Void Remnants was only the size of a pulsating bottle.
As if she could tell what Jiang Chen was thinking, Lin Ling coughed a little embarrassedly.
"Ahem, after all, our research on antimatter is only in its initial stages. They should have easier access to antimatter in the void than us."
"Why?" Jiang Chen asked curiously.
"There is a saying that there is no concept of space in the void itself, and the matter and antimatter existing in it cannot be connected through a specific medium... It is very troublesome to explain, as if we are in a desert without an oasis and want to find a drop of water. And they are on the beach themselves, with sand on their left hand and water on their right hand. Of course, this is just a guess, after all, people who have taken the void cannot come back again." Lin Ling explained.
"That's it...but what can this 0.1 mg of antimatter do?"
"Nothing can be done." Lin Ling shook her head and said with regret, "It is not difficult to make antimatter. In the 21st century, trace amounts of antimatter can be briefly observed through the Large Hadron Collider, but this kind of antimatter particles Its existence time is very short, and there is no way to preserve it in a universe full of positive matter. After analyzing the technology of the void, the magnetic confinement device I designed can store a small amount of antimatter, but I can't think of this thing except bombs for the time being. It is not suitable for other uses... as far as bombs are concerned, its cost is equivalent to more than a thousand times that of a bomb of the same yield."
"This oil storage... uh, what is the explosion yield of the magnetic restraint device?" Jiang Chen asked, pointing to the oil storage tank-like device.
"According to the mass-energy equation, the energy released by the annihilation of 1g of antimatter is equivalent to three nuclear bombs, and the actual killing effect may exceed 10 nuclear bombs." Lin Ling quickly gave the answer.
The lethality of 1g of antimatter is only the equivalent of 3 nuclear bombs. Considering its production cost, this 0.1mg of antimatter is really useless. But as the beginning of a science, this result is already good.
In order to reward Lin Ling for her efforts, Jiang Chen brought her three boxes of puddings from the present world made by a Belgian pastry master. Seeing Lin Ling happily running towards the kitchen with the box in her arms, Jiang Chen couldn't help but reveal a knowing smile on his lips.
As usual when he came back, Yao Yao cooked a table full of his signature dishes. Most of the fresh vegetables on the table come from Eden's farm, while the roast turkey and braised pork are sourced from the real world. Nowadays, life in the NAC area is improving day by day in the last days, and the days of eating cans in the past are gone forever.
If it weren't for the gray-yellow radiation clouds in the sky and the devastated streets outside the window, just sitting at this dining table, I wouldn't be able to feel the apocalyptic atmosphere at all.
The five people gathered around the dining table and happily enjoyed a sumptuous lunch. The topic ranged from interesting things in the base to Yizhou Island, which was undergoing major construction projects. It is said that after the mire crab crisis was resolved, the crab eggs and crab roe there flowed into Wanghai City as specialties and were well received by the restaurants in the Sixth District.
Some discerning businessmen even opened canneries to prepare these crab roe into delicious cans and sell them to further places.
As we chatted, the topic turned to modern times again.
When they heard that the Future People Group led by Jiang Chen had actually controlled three countries, the eyes of Sun Jiao, Yao Yao, Xiao Rou, and Lin Ling all shone with longing. It would be nice to go there and have a look, but it's a pity that Lin Ling has no clue about the research on teleporting living creatures across dimensions.
But everyone believes that one day will come.
After dinner, Jiang Chen went to the Marshal's Mansion and found Han Junhua who was handling military affairs.
"How is the situation in the north?"
After hearing Jiang Chen's inquiry, Han Junhua stopped the pen in his hand, opened the holographic screen, and locked the map to the location of Hanzhong in northern China. Jiang Chen looked at the big characters for "United Control Area" on the map and couldn't help but narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I remember their location is in Lanzhou?"
"In Lanzhou a year ago," Han Junhua added, after a moment of pause, he continued, "Since last year, they have been migrating southward. Under the leadership of the new commander of the Joint United District, they eliminated the zombies in the Hanzhong area Alien species, and gradually migrated the population of the Northern United Region to the Hanzhong area, and established settlements along this tributary of the Yangtze River."
"Why are they doing this?" Jiang Chen frowned.
"We sent Aurora-20 to reconnoiter the target area, but no useful intelligence was obtained. They used anti-aircraft missiles to drive away our fighters. No matter from which angle you look at them, they behaved quite unfriendly." Han Junhua said .
Jiang Chen turned his attention to the map again.
Migrating means giving up everything that has been managed for many years, whether it is farmland or city walls, and the price of this can be said to be quite high. He was curious about what forced the "country" that was the first to move toward order on this land to abandon its land and leave its homeland.
But now there are more practical problems he must face.
If the Liantong District has moved to the Hanzhong area, you can take a boat south along the Yangtze River to Wu City. Next to it is Hongcheng, the NAC's eastern outpost.
A series of actions taken by the United Unified District in Hongcheng had aroused his vigilance.
Thinking at the worst, they might have been planning on Wanghaishi for a long time. During the Sixth Street Coup, the video produced by the Crimson Chamber of Commerce was the United District's declaration of war against the survivors of Wanghai City a few years ago.
In that video, the commander of the joint command area also seemed to mention the word "treasure." The president of the Crimson Chamber of Commerce explained it as the remains of the Staff of God, but this proved not to be the case. Later, after the NAC regained the center of Wanghai City from the aliens, they found nothing that could be called a "treasure" at all.
"Have you tried asking our pilots to bypass Hanzhong and fly directly to Lanzhou? I'm very curious about what happened there to make hundreds of thousands of people migrate south collectively." Jiang Chen said in a deep voice.
"Of course, but from aerial reconnaissance, our pilots did not collect much useful information." Han Junhua replied.
"Is that so..." Jiang Chen's brows gradually furrowed.
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Sorry, slept through it. My routine has been completely reversed these days, I have to adjust TT(.)