The moment he returned to reality, Chen Chen breathed a silent sigh of relief.
The mountainous blood cloud gave him an inexplicable sense of oppression, which felt like the complete form of the Consciousness Stealer he saw in his dream.
However, in comparison, the sense of oppression of the Consciousness Stealer was greater. That feeling was like standing at the bottom of a mountain, looking up at the entire mountain range, and even the soul was suppressed.
Chen Chen handed the mainframe where X-112 was located to the Black Knight beside him. With a wave of one hand, the parts that had followed him back to reality automatically flew out one by one and were neatly placed on the ground beside him.
Then, Chen Chen began to identify them one by one.
"This is... The coil of a geothermal generator?
"This is an oscillator?
"This is..."
Chen Chen looked at them one by one, distinguishing the pieces of equipment he had taken back. Among these pieces of equipment, he could only recognize a very small part. He could not recognize most of the equipment and was not even sure if it existed on Earth.
Chen Chen even saw something similar to text on some of the devices, but the text on it did not belong to any text known to humans, but a more bizarre pattern, similar to the pattern on the top of the giant needle.
Little X also came forward. She pouted and squatted down, looking at a washbasin-sized, bright orange cloud-shaped crystal, and then said in surprise, "Is this a crystal?"
Chen Chen turned his head and glanced at it, but when his Field brushed past it, he frowned slightly.
This was because his Field could feel an extremely dense prickling sensation. This prickling sensation was invisible and even human perception could not feel it, but with the range of his Field energy that could penetrate a thousand times into the microscopic world, he could faintly perceive it.
"X, this crystal material is very radioactive."
Chen Chen reminded. "Generally, natural crystals are radioactive, but it's extremely subtle, even so subtle that it's difficult to harm the human body. My Field energy can't sense it, but this stone is so radioactive that I can clearly sense that its radioactivity is probably comparable to the element radium."
X nodded. She took out a magnifying glass and a flashlight from the side and observed it, then confirmed, "This is zircon!"
"Zircon?"
"Yes, and it's a bright orange low-type zircon."
Little X exclaimed, "Most of the zircons with radioactive substances are orange-yellow. Such a bright orange color does indicate that the content of radioactive elements inside is very high. By the way, Sir Godfather."
Little X suddenly turned her head. "Where should this zircon be placed in this device?"
Chen Chen smiled. His Field energy activated instantly and all the parts quickly flew up again and quickly pieced together in mid-air. More than a thousand parts of different sizes and tens of thousands of small parts similar to screws were pieced together bit by bit under the control of Chen Chen's Field energy.
Finally, the entire piece of equipment was assembled into an hourglass-shaped machine with wide ends and a narrow center.
Moreover, the orange Hao Stone, which was the size of a washbasin, was fixed in the center of all the parts. It looked like an orange crystal eye …
"What a strange device."
Little X had received all the information from X-112 at this time, and she showed a puzzled look. "Oscillator, geothermal generator, and magnetic field confinement device... But obviously, this huge zirconium is the core of the entire device."
"Can you tell what this equipment is used for?"
Chen Chen asked, "Previously, I couldn't use psionic energy anywhere on Earth, but when I destroyed this device, the psionic energy quickly recovered and it seemed to release something."
Little X nodded when she heard these words and analyzed, "Zircon is a piezoelectric material, which is a kind of crystalline material. These materials play a huge role in the fields of electronic instruments, weighing instruments, optical instruments, semiconductors, and communication equipment.
"At the same time, because of the piezoelectric nature of the crystal material, it has a magnetic field. It's even made up that 'the magnetic field of the crystal can bring health and luck to the human body' and so on. But now that it's the core of this device and Sir Godfather, you also feel a huge amount of radiation from it, this is very interesting."
Little X suddenly smiled cheerfully. "If I'm not mistaken, this device should be a radiation diffuser!"
"Radiation diffuser?"
Chen Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this and seemed to understand something.
"Because of the diffusion of radiation, it's diluted and becomes extremely light."
Little X added, "Therefore, some of our instruments can't detect it, but after this radiation spreads, it has a special ability, which is to suppress the psionic energy on Earth.
"Based on the clues you brought, there are a total of 20 giant needles. That is to say, one such device can lock on the psionic energy within tens of millions of square kilometers, making the existence of psionic energy unable to exert it."
Hearing this, Chen Chen nodded. "Yes, I understand now. I originally thought that the disappearance of humans in the dimension of Doom was related to these 20 giant needles, but now it can be determined that the two have nothing to do with each other."
"Nothing to do with each other?"
Little X was stunned.
"Those giant needles aren't the culprit behind the destruction of human civilization."
Chen Chen nodded and replied, "It's those things that are nailed by the giant needles."
Little X immediately understood. "It's indeed like this. Obviously, humans first found a giant needle on Mars and then they opened it. It was like opening Pandora's box, thus triggering the disaster that destroyed mankind!
"This also leads to a more important problem."
Chen Chen continued, his expression becoming more solemn. "That is, in addition to the two forces of mankind and the blood cloud that destroyed mankind, there should be a third force — those who nailed the giant needles on Mars and Earth.
"I've already discovered that although the patterns on the giant needle on Mars are the same, the outer shell is obviously much older, at least tens of thousands of years old, but the giant needle nailed on Earth is brand new. That is to say, after the destruction of mankind, the third force also nailed those giant needles on Earth, nailing those existences on Mars again, or you can say, 'sealing' them..."
With that said, Chen Chen shook his head. "This is terrifying. Doesn't it mean that the humans in the dimension of Doom are always being monitored?"
After some discussion, Chen Chen suddenly became a lot more vigilant. It turned out that the world connected by the USB flash drive was likely to be more than one civilization. There was a higher civilization that was monitoring mankind.
This was terrifying.
After talking about this, half an hour had passed, but Chen Chen still did not see the Black Knights return.
"Do you need me to send someone over to check again?"
Little X also asked a little uneasily.
"No need, turn it off."
Chen Chen shook his head decisively, then walked directly to the computer and pulled out the USB flash drive.
Suddenly, the black channel on the computer screen directly turned into a vortex and quickly annihilated.
Chen Chen breathed a sigh of relief. The harvest of this exploration was still very great. Although he still had not figured out what the blood cloud on the opposite side was and how human civilization was destroyed, at least he had figured out the reason for the destruction of human civilization in this dimension. Not only that, but he also got a special device.
Chen Chen had never seen this device before.
Next, the analysis of these devices was handed over to Little X, especially the huge zirconium, which Little X seemed very interested in.
Was this the fanatical instinct of female creatures for crystal clear gems?
Chen Chen thought silently.
That was right. In his opinion, Little X was already a living being. She had her own personality, her own thoughts and memories, and she also had the logic of a human. It was not wrong to say that Little X was a person who lived in an electronic device.
After a few days of analysis, Little X did a lot of research and analysis on the zirconium and finally sent a report to Chen Chen.
However, after reading this report, Chen Chen showed a surprised expression.
Sure enough, this zirconium was artificially synthesized.
"Zirconium, also known as zircon, is a silicate mineral with the chemical formula Zrsio?."
Little X stood next to Chen Chen and explained, "Zirconium comes in a variety of colors. Some zirconium even contains radioactive elements such as uranium, and bright orange zirconium represents stronger radioactivity. According to my analysis, the interior of this huge zirconium contains an element that we humans have never synthesized before!"
"Never synthesized before?"
Chen Chen was suddenly surprised. In nature, the heaviest non-radioactive element was lead and the heaviest element with the highest presence was uranium. Those with atomic numbers higher than uranium were called transuranic elements and most of these elements were artificially synthesized.
The reason why it was difficult for humans to discover heavier elements was that as the atomic number increased, the stability of the elements would become less and less, and the half-life would become shorter and shorter. For example, the four latest elements synthesized by humans — 113, 115, 117, and 118 — had half-lives of only 20 seconds, 2.6 seconds, 0.8 seconds, and 12 milliseconds.
At present, 118 was the heaviest element that humans could discover (synthesize). Elements that exceeded 118 would open a new eighth periodic table, and at present, no eighth element had been synthesized.
Since Little X said that the element in the zirconium was an element that had never been synthesized by humans, that was to say, its atomic number was higher than 118!
"The radioactive element that was discovered is made up of 126 neutrons and 126 protons."
Little X continued. "That is to say, the arrangement of this element on the periodic table is number 126!"
Chen Chen could not help frowning when he heard this. "Number 126? In that case, its half-life should be even shorter. How can it exist stably inside the zirconium? "
Still, in the next second, Chen Chen immediately came to a realization. "It's the 'island of stability'!"
The so-called island of stability theory said that in physics, there was a mysterious "magic number" phenomenon — so far, the magic numbers discovered by humans were 2, 8, 14, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126...
When the number of nucleons of an element coincided with the above values, the stability of the nucleus was relatively high. For example, oxygen-16, which was formed by the combination of 8 neutrons and 8 protons, had very stable nuclear properties. Calcium-40, which was formed by the combination of 20 neutrons and 20 protons, had very stable nuclear properties. Some isotopes of nickel, which were formed by the combination of 28 protons, were still very stable...
Therefore, this stability effect of elements on the magic number sequence was called the island of stability theory. Therefore, element 126, which was formed by the combination of 126 neutrons and 126 protons, would also be a stable element.
"But since it's a stable element, why is it still so radioactive? Is there a mistake? "
Chen Chen found it a little difficult to understand. When he used Field energy to explore, he did sense an extremely strong tingling sensation. Only extremely violent radioactive elements could make Chen Chen's Field energy produce this feeling.
"There's no mistake."
Little X was full of confidence. "That element is indeed confirmed. It's a special element. It's a stable element, but it still has very strong radioactivity. I can't understand this phenomenon either. I'm afraid we need to wait until we can really synthesize this element to solve this mystery?"
"But now is not the time to worry about this."
Little X reminded again. "I tried to make a shell for this instrument and at the same time, replaced the geothermal power generation device inside with a supercapacitor to provide power, but I still couldn't restart this instrument."
"Oh?"
Chen Chen's heart tightened when he heard this and immediately walked into the workshop where the instrument was assembled to check.
This was the only device he brought back from the dimension of DOOM that could suppress psionic powers. If this one was broken, Chen Chen did not know if he would have the opportunity to go deep into DOOM's dimension again and bring back other equipment.
As soon as he entered this assembly workshop, Chen Chen immediately saw a huge cylindrical machine with a diameter of five meters and a height of about 20 meters. The shell made by Little X was tungsten alloy, exuding a dim blue luster.
There were three huge support legs at its waist. At the same time, this device had been processed by Little X. The bottom was also a sharp conical shape and it also carried a power system. As long as the machine was pressed down hard, the three support legs would plunge the machine into the ground and fix it.
"This shape, why does it look a bit like a bacteriophage?"
Chen Chen could not help laughing.
"It's just a coincidence."
Little X said helplessly, "My idea was to let it plunge into the soil by itself, so I put a layer of power on it, so it became like this."
Chen Chen nodded and no longer bothered about this, but ordered, "Try it again."
Little X nodded and the Black Knight on the side immediately started it, trying to get the machine to work.
However, this device clearly had a huge amount of power, but after the initial activation, the device inside stopped operating again.
Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help narrowing his eyes. He directly rose into the air, came to the top of the machine, and opened the lid.
Then he immediately saw that the lights he had seen before were all red, not a single one was green.
Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help showing a thoughtful look. He still remembered that when he broke the shell of the giant needle, these instruments were clearly not damaged, but they still decisively stopped operating. Seeing this, Chen Chen seemed to understand something and turned to Little X and said, "Try to turn the space inside into a vacuum state."
Following Chen Chen's order, the engineering robots in the workshop quickly operated. Under the design of Little X, an air pump was installed in this device again to drain the air inside and seal the shell of the machine.
Then, the machine started again.
"Hum..."
Chen Chen only felt an invisible force spreading from the machine, and suddenly, that special texture hit him again!
Chen Chen's psionic power was suppressed!
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