??Chapter 693: 692. Controllable Nuclear Fusion_1
Chapter 693: 692. Controllable Nuclear Fusion_1
No matter who it was, Lu Ban definitely had to be prepared.
The Demonic Tide of Night Country was already turbulent and dangerous, barely held back by the Spirit Torches of Burning Mages, let alone completely eradicated.
And without the Gray Tower, the Demonic Tide was simply a cataclysmic torrent that humanity had almost no way of fighting against.
But after all, Lu Ban was the Chosen by Gods of the Silent Lands, capable of wielding so major weapons.
Based on the occurrences of the Demonic Tide, Lu Ban had summarized several potentially effective ans to combat it.
First was to use the characteristics of the Demonic Tide.
Last ti, Lu Ban had a “Minor Calamity Generator,” which could create a scorching sun for a period of ti, while the Demonic Tide needed the radiance of the Blood Moon to unleash all its power. If Lu Ban could get his hands on that radio again, or make sothing like an artificial sun, he might be able to suppress the monsters on a taphysical level.
Lu Ban searched for controlled nuclear fusion on Baidu.
Unfortunately, not many countries were focusing on developing this; the fastest-progressing ones could only sustain it for a thousand seconds.
Controlled nuclear fusion itself could be accomplished with a Tokamak device, but it’s mainly the high-energy neutron flux released along the way that requires a special material shell to block; otherwise, this fusion would turn into a major weapon.
With technological advancent occurring at a rapid pace, even the synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide had been achieved. What cutting-edge technology lacked most was energy, and everyone was eagerly looking at controlled nuclear fusion. But then, the experts in the fusion group could only hem and haw, telling the materials developers to speed up, who in turn looked at the deep pit of biochemical environntal materials and felt like crying without tears.
Lu Ban decided to give them a hand.
He thought for a mont and casually took a wrench from his ho toolbox.
“It’s a wrench commonly carried by plumbers, which makes sense.”
“The quality isn’t bad, three hits could crack a skull.”
Texts like these erged, and Lu Ban believed it was a quite useful wrench.
His right hand brought forth “Testant,” and he wrote on the wrench.
“Forged from a material that can withstand nuclear fusion, sturdy and durable.”
No sooner had he lifted the pen than the wrench was renewed. Lu Ban touched its surface but couldn’t tell what material it was made of; it was sowhat different from tal, yet also seed not different at all.
Anyway, there should be no problem.
Lu Ban scheduled a courier service, and soon the courier arrived to collect the package.
“Hello, I’m from Arkham Express. You have a package to send, right?”
The courier wore a red and black uniform and was also holding a cardboard box and bubble wrap.
“Right, this one.”
Lu Ban handed the wrench and a note to the courier.
The courier glanced at the wrench and seed perplexed, but his professional duty prompted him to carefully wrap it with bubble wrap, place it in the box, seal it, and then check the shipping address.
“Uh, the High Energy Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?”
He was not highly educated but was aware that probably the institute had no use for this wrench.
But drawing on his professional competence, the courier still filled out the delivery form.
Since it was an express item, the package was delivered to the High Energy Physics Institute in Sichuan and Shu the next afternoon, which houses the second fusion device and is the one that had recently broken the thousand-second barrier.
However, the package wasn’t imdiately opened, because there were too many deliveries.
It is well known that there are many amateur scientists all over the world.
From the perpetual motion machines of old to the controlled nuclear fusion of today, amateur scientists all dream of making their mark in these groundbreaking fields, sharing their ambitions not only through letters expressing their opinions but also by sending various odds and ends.
So sent printed copies of their treatises, others directly mailed their notes; after learning about the material issues, so amateur scientists even started to send all sorts of materials.
Therefore, Lu Ban’s package was also placed there, guarded by security and sorted by interns.
Intern Xiao Wang was one of them.
He opened a package addressed to the professor and found a tal plate inside, along with a bunch of printed materials.
Glancing at the materials, Xiao Wang weighed them and thought it was just an ordinary stainless steel plate.
He flipped it over, saw faint spray paint on it that resembled a license plate number.
Little Wang put this “important material” back into the package, prepared to give it to the recyclers later.
Then he opened another package.
Inside was a thick stack of docunts discussing everything from the Primordial Lord to Sakyamuni, from the macrocosm to the individual, heavy with philosophical thought and interspersed with so discussion of the current societal status quo, just no indication of any relationship to their scientific research.
Little Wang put these things back, ready to have them recycled as well.
He picked up the third package.
As he was unpacking it, he glanced at the na of the sender.
“Lu Ban? Is that the director?”
Little Wang imdiately beca interested, but quickly reconsidered. There was no need for Lu Ban to send things like this. If he wanted to provide anything, a direct call to the professor would suffice.
It might be an impersonation, or soone with the sa na.
He checked the sender’s address, which indeed was from Jiangcheng. Harboring doubts, Little Wang opened the package, unwrapped the bubble wrap, and found a… wrench?
“What do we need a wrench for?”
Little Wang thought it certainly must be a prank.
He was about to put the wrench back when he saw a note at the bottom of the box.
[Outer shell material]
“What?”
Little Wang was completely baffled.
He examined the wrench more closely and suddenly felt sothing was off.
If it were steel, it felt too light; if it were aluminum, the hardness seed different.
Moreover, the tal shimred with an enchanting array of colors under the light, as if it harbored a rainbow of glimrs within.
Gazing at the wrench, Little Wang beca montarily lost in its allure.
He thought it over and decided it was better to believe there was sothing to it.
He got up and headed to the analytical chemistry laboratory.
“Zhao, can you help
analyze this material and see what components it consists of?”
Little Wang handed the wrench to his senior colleague in the lab.
Zhao originally thought Little Wang had brought sothing significant, but upon seeing a wrench handed to him, he instinctively wanted to scold him. Yet, the light from the wrench instantly caught his attention.
With his years of experience, materials that shone with iridescence were mostly of no simple composition.
He imdiately took the wrench for analysis and, a week later, when the comprehensive results were out, the entire laboratory was astounded.
According to the spectral analysis, over seventy percent of the elents composing the wrench were elents not yet discovered, any one of which could be enough to rit a Nobel Prize.
Even for elents known on Earth, they exhibited an unprecedented structural combination. This wrench alone could push material science forward by more than fifty years.
“Who found this?”
The professors couldn’t help but inquire.
Only then did Little Wang rember that he should ask Lu Ban.
However, when he called Silent dia, the person on the other end inford him that Lu Ban was out collecting material and wasn’t at ho.
“Out collecting material?”
Little Wang couldn’t help but suspect that Lu Ban might have gone to get the material for this wrench.
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