"This is?"
Jiang Chen looked at the black "oil tank" standing in the backyard of the mansion, as well as the intricately intertwined pipelines, and couldn't help but ask.
"The crystallization of technology!" Lin Lin raised her small chest, her mouth curved into a crescent, and said proudly.
"Speak like a human …" Jiang Chen was speechless.
"In short, it's a magnetic confinement device used to store antimatter —"
Before Lin Lin finished, Jiang Chen subconsciously took a step back.
Fu * k? Such a large amount of antimatter?
"It's … all of it?"
Looking at the expression on Jiang Chen's face, Lin Lin giggled and waved her hand.
"No, antimatter is only 0.1 mg in the middle, but it has to be stored in such a large magnetic confinement device."
Hearing Lin Lin's explanation, Jiang Chen was relieved.
Tens of milligrams of antimatter could be used as fuel to propel a spacecraft to Mars in six weeks. One kilogram of antimatter exposed to the air could blow up the entire Earth. One ton of antimatter could make the Earth the second largest asteroid belt in the solar system.
It was not unreasonable for the Scientific Ethics Committee in this timeline to prohibit the research and development of antimatter. This thing was too dangerous on Earth, and the price of everyone dying might only be an experimental failure.
However, the fact that 0.1 mg of antimatter needed such a large storage tank to be stored really amazed Jiang Chen. After all, the gift given to him by the Remnants of the Void was only the size of a bottle.
As if she saw what Jiang Chen was thinking, Lin Lin coughed in embarrassment.
"Ahem, after all, our research on antimatter is only in the initial stage. They should be more exposed to antimatter in the Void than we are."
"Why?" Jiang Chen asked curiously.
"There is a saying that the Void itself does not have the concept of space, and the antimatter that exists in it cannot pass through a specific medium … It's very troublesome to explain. It's like we are in a desert without an oasis and want to find a drop of water. And they are on the beach, their left hand is sand, and their right hand is water. Of course, this is just a guess. After all, people who have taken the Void can't come back, "Lin Lin explained.
"I see … but what can this 0.1 mg of antimatter do?"
"I can't do anything." Lin Lin shook her head and said with regret, "The production of antimatter is not difficult. In the 21st century, the Large Hadron Collider can temporarily observe small amounts of antimatter, but this antimatter particle exists for a very short time, and there is no way to preserve it in the universe full of positive matter. After analyzing the Void's technology, I designed this magnetic confinement device that can store antimatter in small amounts, but I can't think of a use for this thing other than bombs … It's not suitable for bombs either. Its cost is more than a thousand times that of a bomb of the same amount. "
"This oil storage … Uh, what's the explosive yield of the magnetic confinement device?" Jiang Chen pointed at the device.
"According to the mass-energy equation, the energy released by 1g of antimatter annihilation is equivalent to three nuclear bombs, and the actual destructive effect may exceed 10 nuclear bombs." Lin Lin quickly gave the answer.
The lethality of 1 gram of antimatter was only the equivalent of 3 nuclear bombs. Considering the production cost, 0.1 mg of antimatter was really useless. However, as a scientific beginning, this result was already quite good.
In order to reward Lin Lin's efforts, Jiang Chen brought her three boxes of pudding from a Belgian pastry master from the modern world. Watching Lin Lin happily run to the kitchen with the box in her arms, a smile appeared on Jiang Chen's face.
As usual, Yao Yao made a table full of her signature dishes. Most of the fresh vegetables on the table came from the farms in the Garden of Eden, while the roast turkey and braised pork came from the modern world. Now that the life in the NAC area was improving day by day, the days of eating canned food were 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 table, it would be impossible to feel the atmosphere of the apocalypse.
The five people sat around the table and enjoyed a sumptuous lunch. The topics ranged from interesting things in the base to the ongoing construction of Yizhou Island. It was said that after the Mud Crab crisis was resolved, the crab eggs and crab roe there flowed into Wanghai as a specialty and were very well received by the restaurants on the Sixth Street.
Some insightful businessmen even opened canneries, made these crab roe into delicious canned food, and sold it to further places.
As they chatted, the topic shifted to the modern world.
When they heard that the Future Group led by Jiang Chen had actually controlled three countries, Sun Jiao, Yao Yao, Xiaorou, and Lin Lin's eyes all flashed with longing. It would be great if they could go there and take a look. Unfortunately, Lin Lin had no clue on the research of inter-dimensional teleportation.
However, everyone believed that such a day would come.
After dinner, Jiang Chen went to the General Mansion and found Han Junhua, who was dealing with military affairs.
"What's the situation in the north?"
After hearing Jiang Chen's inquiry, Han Junhua stopped writing, opened the holographic screen, and locked the map to Hanzhong in the northern region of Huaxia. Jiang Chen looked at the words Northern Alliance Area on the map, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"I remember their location is in Lanzhou?"
"A year ago in Lanzhou," Han Junhua added. Han Junhua added, paused for a moment, and then said, "Since last year, they have been migrating south. Under the leadership of the new commander of the Northern Alliance Area, they cleared the zombies and mutants in the Hanzhong area, and gradually migrated the population of the Northern Alliance Area to the Hanzhong area, and set up settlements along this tributary of the Yangtze River. "
"Why did they do this?" Jiang Chen frowned.
"We sent Aurora-20s to investigate the target area, but we didn't get any useful information. They used anti-aircraft missiles to drive our fighters away. No matter from which angle you look at it, they are quite unfriendly. "Han Junhua said.
Jiang Chen once again looked at the map.
Migration meant giving up everything that had been built over the years, whether it was arable land or city walls. The price of this was quite high. He was curious about what forced the "country" that first moved towards order on this land to abandon its land and leave its homeland.
However, there were more realistic problems he must face now.
If the Northern Alliance Area had migrated to the Hanzhong area, they could take a boat south along the Yangtze River to Wu City, and then Hongcheng – NAC's outpost in the east.
The series of actions of the Northern Alliance Area in Hongcheng had aroused his vigilance.
Thinking about the worst, maybe they had been planning to attack Wanghai for a long time. During the coup in the Sixth Street, the video produced by the Crimson Chamber of Commerce was the declaration of war against the survivors of Wanghai a few years ago.
In that video, the commander of the Northern Alliance Area seemed to mention the word "treasure". The president of the Crimson Chamber of Commerce interpreted it as the wreckage of God's Cane, but it turned out that this was not the case. Later, after NAC recovered the city center of Wanghai from the mutants, they did not find anything that could be called "treasure".
"Have you tried to let our pilots bypass Hanzhong and fly directly to Lanzhou? I'm very curious about what happened there that made hundreds of thousands of people migrate south, "Jiang Chen said.
"Of course, but from aerial reconnaissance, our pilots did not collect much useful information," Han Junhua replied.
"I see …" Jiang Chen's brows gradually furrowed.
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