Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 486 The energy of the core

"Take it away? How do you take it away and blow this thing up again?" The corner of the hound's mouth twitched twice, "Are you sure that doing this will allow me to escape instead of entering that little blackie you were imprisoned just now?" In the house?"

"Of course not, but use this thing as a medium to trigger the teleportation mechanism in the tunnel." Ke Lan said.

"Transportation mechanism? Where is it?"

The second piece of memory that Ke Lan saw in the abnormal space was that Park Shangyou stood inside the tunnel and stuffed the things in his hands into the crystallization tanks on both sides of the tunnel that were used to power the lighting equipment.

Although Ke Lan couldn't see clearly what Park Shangyou was holding in his hand, the voice-over of the memory fragment clearly told him that it was a piece of "ultra-purity crystal" from inside Leviathan.

Arasaka Yui once said that the energy contained in a "ultra-purity crystal" the size of a grain of rice is equivalent to a nine-level energy crystal of 400 yuan standard units, and the one held by Park Shangyou is obviously more than that. The rice grains are much larger.

Those crystal card slots are not just for lighting!
"Layton, is there any equipment that can be used to test the level of energy crystals?" Ke Lan asked.

"Yes." Layton rummaged through his backpack, and found something that looked like a vernier caliper, "Crystal measuring ruler, although the accuracy is not as high as the equipment specially used to rate energy crystals in trading houses, it is also Not too bad, those who resell and buy crystals in the black market like to use this."

In fact, Layton's explanation is a bit redundant. Ke Lan and the others are old-timers who have been in the society for many years. They all know the famous black markets and public toilets in Ark. , not to mention this kind of props that are almost necessary for opening a store.

The status of the crystal measuring ruler in this era is as important as the cash register computer and code scanner in the store in the old era. If it is pushed forward for thousands of years, it is equivalent to the ancient abacus and steelyard.

Although experienced people can roughly judge the level and remaining amount of energy crystals with just their eyes and hands, but to make accurate measurements, they still need to use special tools.

This is like the butchers who have been selling meat for decades in ancient times, they can know the weight of a piece of meat by just weighing it with their hands, but in the actual transaction, the cut meat still has to be weighed to be bought Everyone is convinced.

The operation of the crystal measuring ruler is very simple. You only need to place the energy crystal in the middle of the measuring claw, turn the nut to clamp it tightly, and then turn on the power switch. The specific level of the energy crystal and the remaining energy balance inside will be displayed on the display screen of the ruler.

There are two types of crystal measuring rulers: AB and AB. Generally, the B-grade measuring ruler is common in the black market. This kind of ruler can only detect energy crystals of level five or below, and the minimum unit of balance measurement accuracy is one percentage point.And the measuring ruler that Layton took out is an A-level measuring ruler that can only be seen in big merchants in the black market or official trading houses. It can measure energy crystals from levels [-] to [-], and the balance calculation is even more accurate. The last two digits of the decimal point.

Of course, better things are more expensive. A second-hand A-grade measuring ruler can be sold for a whole box of brand-new B-grade measuring rulers. It's a world of difference.

The price of a brand new A-level measuring ruler is almost as high as that of several tons of desktop measuring equipment.

Among them, the most important reason is that the core component of the A-level measuring ruler uses a part of the crystal path structure excavated from the Alpha ruins, which is used to "stabilize the beam" of the output power of the energy crystal - this thing uses human technology. It can't be manufactured at all, even imitation can't be done, and more than 90.00% of the cost of the entire ruler comes from this small crystal structure chip.

"This thing is not good, it will explode." Ke Lan glanced at it and shook his head.

"This is an A-level measuring ruler, not the cheap ones that can be seen everywhere. It is impossible for a nine-level crystal to make it explode." Layton said, seeing Ke Lan saying no, he thought Ke Lan took him out This mistook the A-level measuring ruler for the B-level measuring ruler that can only measure the fifth-grade crystal.

"Do you still remember the 'ultra-purity crystal' that the miners of the Soma Consortium found in Leviathan? The energy contained in that thing is thousands of times that of the ninth-level energy crystal. It can be burned in an instant."

"What? You're talking about thousands of grade nine crystals?" Layton looked at the black "fruit core" in Ke Lan's hand in surprise, and his lips trembled. "The stability of this thing should not be high." Problem? If it explodes...I'm afraid there won't even be scum left in our group."

"Just now one of the Valkyries exploded, and it seems that the safety performance of this thing is acceptable." Ke Lan threw the "fruit core" in his hand twice, and Layton's face trembled suddenly.

"Okay... If this player is really that scary, maybe only this thing can test its energy strength." Layton raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, walked behind Valkyrie, and opened a sealed box. A metal cylinder with a diameter of [-] centimeters and a length of nearly one meter was pulled out from the cargo hold. The surface of this metal cylinder was even covered with a layer of silicone film to isolate the air.

"What is this?" The hound walked around this thing, with a strange expression on his face, "This shape, and the silicone sleeve on the outside...it's easy to think of that thing, just However, to match a 'prosthetic body' of this size, it must be a giant taller than a mecha, right?"

"Old dog, why is your head full of yellow waste?" Layton gave him a blank look, and said, "This is an energy converter dedicated to the Phoenix series of skeletons. It took the Ye's consortium six years to develop it. A single The cost price is 7 million credits."

"Good guy, then you pulled out the armor, isn't the mech scrapped?" the hound asked.

"This is a spare. Didn't you see that the sealing film hasn't been torn off yet?"

"What energy intensity can that thing withstand at most?" Ke Lan walked to the converter and asked.

"This... I don't know. The limit test data is a commercial secret of the Ye Group and will not be released to the outside world. Moreover, this kind of data has no practical significance. No one will spend a lot of money to buy one. The converter was tested—after all, even if this converter is stuffed with nine-level crystals, it can’t overload it, but then again—who would use the precious nine-level crystals in this kind of equipment? What about the individual mecha? Let me say—”

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it—is it enough to just tear off this layer of film?" The hound patted the converter standing on the ground by Layton, and pulled out a short knife from his waist.

Whenever a topic like equipment was involved, Layton's words immediately became more numerous. If the hound hadn't interrupted him in time, he might have been able to talk on and on for half an hour.

This is still on the premise that he is a one-man show. If a colleague discusses it with him, this guy can even chat about a screw for a whole day.

"Well, but be careful not to scratch the heat dissipation metal tubes on the surface. In order to achieve the best heat dissipation effect, the walls of these metal tubes are made very thin." Layton supported the converter and warned the hound.

"So fragile? Can it also be used as a weapon?" The hound pulled a knife, selected a location, and cut off the silicone film. It is unavoidable, if it is really so brittle, what practical value is there?"

"The base of this thing is magnetically levitated. If you have more money, you can even replace it with a small anti-gravity device. The converter will not touch the inner wall of the engine when it is working, so there is no problem of bumping." Layton said Then, while holding the pull ring at one end of the converter, rotate it [-] degrees counterclockwise, and carefully pull out the inner core.

The inner core of this converter is made of graphite, gold, and a special superconducting material. After electrification, the temperature of this thing will drop to minus more than 200 degrees Celsius. In that state, the resistance of the superconducting material will decrease. It becomes zero, and the electric energy converted from the crystallization can be sent to the body with almost no loss.

Unscrew the lid of the inner core, and there is a space with a diameter of one punch inside. Ke Lan visually inspected it. If it is filled with nine-level energy crystals, at least more than 100 can be stuffed—more than 100 nine-level energy crystals The converted energy is enough for a heavy cruiser to fly around the Alpha star several times. If it is a unit with "lower energy consumption" such as an individual mecha, it will continue to operate for four or five years without any problems.

But compared with "ultra-purity crystal", it is still a bit far behind.

"For safety's sake, everyone try to stand as far away as possible." Ke Lan asked the others to retreat to a distance, while he himself stood in front of the converter with the "fruit core".

Layton sprayed a large amount of solidified foam on the tail of the converter, fixed the converter on the ground, and pulled out two wires from the inside of the Valkyrie, and connected them to the electrodes of the thermostat.

Layton did not directly connect the output end of the converter to the Valkyrie, because no one knows how much energy is stored in the "fruit core". Once the output is overloaded and the engine is burned out, the mecha will directly Scrapped, the reconnaissance team will lose their strongest combat unit.

The converter has a spare, but the mecha engine does not.

Layton connected the output end to the power armor of the dead Security Bureau agent. Of course, in order to achieve the test effect, he removed the limiter of the power furnace of the armor.

"That's it, the timing of the activation will be handed over to Valentina. Ke Lan, you can just put this thing in—hey! Wait a minute!" Seeing Ke Lan's plan to throw the "fruit core" into the converter, Lei Dun immediately yelled.

"Be careful! Be careful!" Layton quickly handed Ke Lan a gel.

Ke Lan squeezed out a little gel to point on the "fruit core", and stuck the fruit core to the inner wall of the converter.

"Stay away, I can't guarantee what will happen." Layton stared at the converter with full attention, and slowly took two steps back.

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded, and retreated behind Valkyrie.

"Open the shield, get ready!" Layton shouted in a deep voice.

Valkyrie opened his energy shield at the same time as him, and stood in front of him.

"Three, two, one, power on!"

Valentina in the cockpit pressed a button.

The thermostat made a soft "buzz", and then the entire converter began to tremble violently——

"Why is this thing shaking so much? Layton, is this normal?" the hound in the distance asked nervously.

"It's not normal! It's not normal at all!" Layton's voice trembled, "Pull the power of the shield to the maximum!"

The shell of the converter began to "clang, clang", and the exterior of the armored power furnace gradually began to melt!
Immediately afterwards, a large amount of black smoke came out from the cracks in the converter casing!

"Temperature... The external temperature of the converter has exceeded [-] degrees... This thing is about to explode!"

As soon as Layton finished speaking, the converter that had reached its limit exploded, and the shattered metal pieces hit the top of the tunnel and bounced back to the ground.

A large number of blue and white electric arcs raged around the exploding converter, and the power armor placed on the ground, only half a meter away from the converter, was instantly vaporized by half!

"Maximum power!! Be sure to hold on!" Layton roared angrily.

The two energy shields of him and Valkyrie stand at the front, constantly absorbing the arcs coming in this direction-these arcs are actually just the aftermath of the overload of the converter, but it’s just the aftermath, almost These two energy shields were broken down.

"Cut off the circuit, cut it off quickly!" Layton yelled, "My shield is about to fail!"

"Cut it off!" Valentina replied, "I cut it off when the converter was smoking!"

Just when Layton's energy shield was almost invisible, the raging electric arc finally disappeared, and a large crater more than half a meter deep appeared at the place where the converter was originally placed.

As for the converter itself and the power armor, they were completely vaporized. The ultra-high temperature metal vapor slowly cooled down after touching the tunnel wall, forming a layer of colorful metal coating on the walls and ceiling.

"Huh...huh...almost...almost played off..." Layton gasped.

"The 7 million converter...is there not even a slag left?" The hound swallowed with some difficulty, "Is this thing the same thing as the ultra-purity crystal found inside Leviathan... ?”

"From a certain point of view, they are all energy carriers with huge reserves." Ke Lan stepped forward under the high temperature that had not completely subsided, and the black "fruit core" was lying quietly now. In the middle of the bottom of the pit, it looked completely unchanged.

"This thing doesn't conform to the law of conservation of energy at all!" Layton said in a low voice, "Why does a human being turned into a monster have this kind of thing in his body? If he can have so much energy, wouldn't he be a superman? gone?"

"It has nothing to do with Park Shangyou." Ke Lan bent down, "The monster was not transformed by him, it was 'summoned'."

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