Son of the Stars

Chapter 57
If time is a river, then life can never be a smooth and calm stream.The so-called life is like a journey against nature, against the river, or even against time and against life - it is by no means an easy task.

Being alive is originally something that needs to be done with all your strength to persevere.

For people who have been under the shadow of the Great Crash for 40 years, trying their best to live, and then being suddenly killed by the Great Crash... this is also part of life.

But these days, in the town of Rotsville, about 12 kilometers southeast of the North American Institute, this part of life seems to be popping up a little too often.

Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran made a total of four phone calls, and then heard the news of three major meltdowns.According to the residents of the town on the other end of the phone, the incidence of major collapses has been surprisingly high in recent days-the town of Rotsville does not have a permanent containment facility, and the coalition government has only set up a temporary containment station here.

The Temporary Shelter is capable of housing four patients at a time and provides them with basic stationary and suicide-proof care facilities.But there is only one nurse on duty at the station.

At present, there are at least a dozen people in the town who have confirmed a major collapse, and the four-bed containment facility is completely full.The state committee is working hard to transfer the sick residents of the town to Luzern, but not everyone has the opportunity to be treated for the sudden increase in patients.

The coalition government has received the corresponding report and dispatched an emergency response team to Rotsville—director Li Xiaohui should have also appeared in the town to organize and direct the treatment.It's just that because of Watanabe's request, she can only stay in the research center and wait.

In fact, the work of the entire research group is basically at a standstill.In order to ensure the safety of several people, Watanabe deliberately asked them all to "take a rest" in the central laboratory.And a large number of security robots have been arranged around the laboratory to ensure the safety of several people.

Watanabe himself is also stationed near the central laboratory—it is more important to ensure the safety of the research team than to dig out the cultists who may be hiding in the research center.Under the premise that it is impossible to determine whether the people around him are friends or enemies, Watanabe is more willing to believe in the loyalty of AI robots.

And AI robots are not omnipotent - the lines on Estella's face can make modern security facilities including AI robots treat him as a mass of air.Watanabe naturally wanted to take this threat into consideration for security.

While AI can't recognize that line, the human eye can always see it.If you don't know if other people are reliable, then add your own eyes to the protection circle.

Everyone else was killing time boredly, only Giuseppe and Mu Zhiran were busy - the magnetic accelerator in the central laboratory was capable of constructing a super magnetic field with strong enough magnetic flux and high enough change precision.However, in order to realize Mu Zhiran's idea of ​​changing the rotation direction of the external electrons of the lithium element in the human body through precise magnetic field control, more accurate and efficient calculations are required.

How much flux should the magnetic field exert on the human body, and what angle should the magnetic field be set at.How many correction variables should be added to achieve precise control over the electron's spin direction?

"This is an engineering method for the external electrons of lithium atoms, so we must make good use of the basic properties of lithium atoms." Tang Qinglong advised his students next to him, "Lithium is an atomic nucleus with a magnetic moment, and it will precess at a specific frequency in a magnetic field. We use radio frequency pulses to magnetize lithium atoms in the human body at the lithium precession frequency, and we can obtain a large number of antiparallel high-energy particles and a very small number of low-energy atoms that are parallel to the net magnetization vector."

"By changing the direction of rotation of the radio frequency pulse, the direction of the magnetic moment of the atom can be changed." Giuseppe slapped his thigh, "It is controlled by nuclear magnetic resonance!"

"It's just that the imaging source generally used in nuclear magnetic resonance is hydrogen or carbon. There should be no precedent for purely using lithium atoms." Yang Weimin interjected, "Although there is no problem in theory, it shouldn't be easy to transform this theory into actual engineering products, right?"

"It's difficult to say, but easy to say." Giuseppe quickly found out the appropriate calculation formula, and said while adjusting the formula, "Under the magnetic flux of 1T, the electromagnetic wave frequency of 18.19 MHz is enough to cause the magnetization of lithium-7, and the lithium-6 is 21.18 MHz. The key point is how to change the direction of the radio frequency pulse of the electromagnetic wave."

The "rest" that was supposed to kill time with nothing to do turned into specific topics and research projects in a few words.

Lu Chen was stunned watching from the side, what kind of monsters are you people?Do you have to roll a roll during the rest time used for evacuation?
What is this, the old American roll to death?
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"Schultz Concentric has entered the North American Institute and put down our leaflets on the flanks." On a cliff 2.5 kilometers south of the North American Institute, a group of people in camouflage uniforms were praying for the last time before the operation.They are a group of strong southerners who used to make a living from animal husbandry, fishing and hunting or forestry.

The life goals of these people used to be "marry a wife (cousin is not bad), have children, serve as a marine, and die in the battle to defend their hometown." This is their tradition and cultural influence.

But after experiencing one big crash attack after another, these people's life goals completely collapsed.Relatives committed suicide one by one, and the belief in traditional culture that "suicide cannot go to heaven" also made them suffer.

Ultimately, they chose to join the Sect of the Lord Revelation.The priests assured them that after their death, after all humanity had died in the Great Crash at the call of the Lord...they would circle at the knee of the God and be reunited with their families who had been called to heaven in advance.

Now, they will move more than 400 kilometers north to the North American Institute, precisely because of this ultimate goal.

The bishop conveyed God's will to them, and the North American Research Institute has a group of extremely powerful machines.In the hands of ordinary mortals, these machines cannot exert their due effects, but as long as some small changes are made according to the will of the gods... it can greatly speed up the arrival of the ultimate goal.

"As the bishop expected, the mortals entrenched in the research institute have already discovered the leaflets and responded." The leading priest smiled and said to the more than 30 big men beside him, "Now, the mortals who can't believe others have dismissed everyone, and there are only him and those soulless robots in the research institute—our actions will not be hindered too much."

The priest wearing a combat vest presided over this kind of "prayer" similar to the pre-war briefing in the middle, and the other big men put gray plastic masks on their faces.

Those gray masks were painted with some strange dark stripes, which looked slightly similar to those on Estella's face, but the details were not quite the same.

"In order to prevent a possible self-destruct command from being triggered, try not to shoot in the base. You can focus on control first - if the situation does not allow control, you should also avoid killing people within the monitoring range of the robot." The priest said, "Our first target is the magnetic accelerator in the central laboratory. The second target is the power distribution facility. These two targets must be taken down - at any cost, we must control them!"

(End of this chapter)