"Hmm?"
Chen Chen, who was standing outside the elevator, caught a whiff of sulfur in the air.
He frowned slightly and turned toward the direction of the elevator. The smell seemed to be coming from this elevator.
"Ding!"
The dial on the elevator indicated that they had arrived at this floor. As the elevator doors slid open, Chen Chen saw Shaw being held down by two Black Knights. Shaw's legs were flailing wildly as he screamed at the top of his lungs.
At the same time, the unique smell of sulfur assaulted Chen Chen's nostrils.
Chen Chen was no stranger to this phenomenon. Other than the Black Knights, this was a common occurrence for anyone who entered the subspace. Without any hesitation, Chen Chen opened his palm slightly and the black slate began to emit an invisible force!
This time, Chen Chen was experienced. He simply used the power of the black slate to scan the body of the man in front of him, inside and out. He could sense that this scan had wiped out almost all of the subspace energy in Shaw's body.
However, just as he was about to wipe out all of the subspace energy in Shaw's body, Chen Chen paused for a moment and then left a trace of the subspace energy in Shaw's body.
"Hiss..."
Chen Chen withdrew the black slate. When he looked again, he saw that Shaw had stopped screaming and had completely passed out.
"I left a trace of the subspace energy in him, I didn't completely wipe it out."
Chen Chen said solemnly, "The subspace is more dangerous than I thought. If I didn't break the inner demon on the spot, even if he left the subspace, he would be eroded to death by the residual subspace energy in his body."
"Right."
Chen Chen suddenly asked, "What's his inner demon again?"
"In the elevator earlier, I heard him questioning the other party. He called her 'Tina', that's his wife's name."
Nancy answered.
"In this case, it seems that he has always felt guilty about killing his wife."
Chen Chen understood. "I left a trace of the subspace energy in him. This energy shouldn't be enough to kill him but it can train his resistance to the subspace. At the same time, Nancy, arrange for someone to take him back to Earth. I think it's time to find a few psychiatrists to take a look at him."
"Understood, I'll take him to Earth when he wakes up."
Nancy promised.
Chen Chen nodded and patrolled around Spire 2, finding several sites that still needed to be planned. About an hour later, Shaw had woken up.
"Where … where am I?"
Shaw was a little confused. He sat up on the bed and looked around nervously at the same time.
Fortunately, there was only darkness in front of him, and he did not see his wife's evil spirit.
'You were unconscious, Mr Winfred. '
However, just as he was about to heave a sigh of relief, the door of the medical room was slowly pushed open. Suddenly, Shaw felt a dazzling golden light shining in. He quickly turned his head away, not daring to look directly at the dazzling figure. "It's you? Are you the head of Blackwatch? "
"Just call me Mr. Chen."
Chen Chen approached Shaw's bed. "How do you feel? Can you still smell the sulfur?"
"You, you actually know?"
Shaw's heart skipped a beat. He sniffed in all directions and quickly shook his head. "I can't smell anything..."
"That smell must be the remnant aura of the subspace in your body."
Chen Chen nodded. "I heard that before you passed out, you saw the figure of your dead wife several times. Don't worry, what you saw wasn't your wife, it was just the aura of the subspace. Now, I've removed most of the subspace aura, leaving only a little for you."
Shaw was a little taken aback. He opened his mouth but did not say anything.
"I know what you want to ask."
Chen Chen chuckled. "You want to know why I didn't remove all the subspace aura in your body, right? That's because I thought that you'd still have to go to the subspace in the future. In that case, leaving some of it behind might be able to train your resistance to the subspace, lest you lose your life in the future. "
"Do I still have to go to that godforsaken place?"
Shaw smiled bitterly and shook his head. "I think I understand now. The reason you asked us to follow the spaceship to the subspace was for an experiment. You wanted to see which of us can see things that ordinary people can't and guide the spaceship?"
"Although there are some discrepancies, that's about it."
Chen Chen replied. With that, two Black Knights came forward and helped Shaw off the bed again. They followed Chen Chen to the teleportation room.
Soon, Chen Chen and Shaw were standing on the Watchman teleporter.
"We'll prepare to return to Earth now."
Chen Chen looked at the floating mass that looked like a stream of water and said, "Mr. Winfred, I've decided to grant you freedom. From now on, you're no longer a Delta-level experimental subject without human rights. However, since you know a lot of the company's secrets, I'm willing to hire you as a subspace navigation consultant for the company at an annual salary of three million U.S. dollars. The treatment will be excellent and I hope you won't refuse."
"Do I have a choice?"
Shaw replied with a bitter smile.
"If you agree, I can arrange an operation for you."
Chen Chen said enticingly, "You should know that the company has developed bionic prosthetics a long time ago, including the eyes. If you agree, we can perform an operation to remove your current eyeball and replace it with a bionic electronic eye. This way, it won't affect your daily life. If you're traveling in the subspace, you can temporarily remove two eyes. This way, you can work and live without interruption."
"You can do that?"
Shaw's body suddenly trembled. He had to admit that the temptation of freedom was one of the reasons. What was equally tempting was to see the light again.
"I'm willing to join the company!"
In the end, Shaw made up his mind.
Seeing this, Chen Chen did not say anything. He only gave Shaw a gentle push, immediately pushing Shaw toward the stream of water.
"Whoosh!"
With a soft sound, Shaw's figure was immediately wrapped in the stream of water and disappeared without a trace!
After that, Chen Chen returned to Earth.
Chen Chen was in a good mood. Finding a psionicist who could be like a fish in water in the subspace dimension was a great step forward. People like this were extremely important to the research of subspace. It could even be said that the importance of Shaw at this time was even greater than an Alpha-level psionicist like John who was worth billions.
The first thing Chen Chen did upon returning to Earth was to order Little X to search for psionicists with abilities similar to Xiao Luo's. Unfortunately, most of the psionicists were recorded but there was no other psionicist with abilities similar to Xiao Luo's.
Since it was impossible to find psionicists with similar abilities due to the scarcity of abilities, Chen Chen tried to extract Shaw's DNA and find a way to create such a psionicist.
Therefore, a new project was opened in the Spire Experimental Base, a project to study Shaw's DNA.
...
The following days were quiet and uneventful. Blacklight Biotechnology and the Earth Federation led by the four major continents were still secretly competing in the commercial and colonial fields, but both sides were very restrained and did not cause any scandals.
In the military and aerospace fields, both sides also maintained a good cooperative relationship. At least on the surface, the entire human civilization was in harmony and the pace of civilization was constantly moving forward.
Three months later, Chen Chen suddenly received a surprising piece of news. Element 126, which had been researched for more than a decade, was finally synthesized by the High Energy Physics Department today.
In addition to the hundreds of scientists here, one of the main reasons for the successful synthesis of element 126 was the ultra-large particle accelerator built under the Erongo Plains in Namibia. Construction of this accelerator began in September 2035 with a total investment of 300 billion US dollars. It took a total of four years to complete.
This particle accelerator was known as the Large Hadron Collider. It was buried a hundred meters underground in the Erongo Plains and spanned a total of 110 kilometers. It could be said to be the biggest milestone in the history of human physics. It was more than four times longer than the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the LHC. Due to the use of room-temperature superconducting technology and various new technologies, the machine's power and accuracy were far superior to the LHC.
The construction cost and maintenance costs were also far lower than the LHC.
The emergence of this machine made the Earth Federation salivate. They had repeatedly asked Chen Chen to contribute the particle accelerator so that scientists from all over the world could enter it to study the Higgs boson. Unfortunately, Chen Chen did not care at all. Instead, he used the machine's name to recruit many of the world's high energy physicists.
At this time, when Chen Chen arrived at the High Energy Physics Laboratory, the entire laboratory erupted in cheers.
"Well done."
When Chen Chen entered the laboratory, everyone was silent. They first greeted Chen Chen with a nod. Then, the professor in charge of this project, a white-haired old man, came up to Chen Chen.
"Professor Otmar."
Chen Chen nodded with a smile. Chen Chen had a lot of respect for these top-notch scientists of the human race. People like them no longer cared about money or status. After all, with their knowledge, they would be treated at the top of the world no matter where they went.
In fact, they valued the conditions and environment of the experiment more. This was one of the reasons why it was difficult for the top scientists in the Mainland to retain them in the past.
Professor Otmar's full name was Otmar Bieber. He used to be one of the top professors of the University of Munich. He was also famous in the physics world. Back then, Chen Chen was able to poach him not only because of the world's most advanced particle accelerator but also because of the promise of more advanced age-reversal treatment programs and so on.
All kinds of conditions that would make the leaders of the continent happy were added together to convince these scientists to abandon their countries and become members of Blacklight Biotechnology.
"Your Excellency Chen Chen."
The professor warmly shook hands with Chen Chen and then led Chen Chen to a large metal isolation chamber. At the same time, he pointed at the glass of the isolation chamber. "Fortunately, we didn't disappoint you. We've synthesized element 126."
Chen Chen walked to the window. This kind of window was at least ZF6 heavy-lead protective glass, which was able to block out a considerable amount of ionizing radiation. Chen Chen looked at the window and saw that on the other side of the window, there was a small metal lump that looked like a piece of iron.
The metal lump had an irregular shape, like a piece of iron ingot that had been melted. Generally speaking, elements after lead were basically radioactive and this element 126 was no exception. This was why lead-containing glass was needed to block out radiation.
"We've spent so many years and paid a huge price to synthesize this magical element. Finally, we've managed to synthesize it."
Professor Ottmar sighed as he looked at the material inside the window. "Generally speaking, the later heavy elements have a shorter half-life and this is indeed the case. To synthesize element 126, we must first synthesize element 125 and to synthesize element 125, we must first synthesize element 124... The half-life of these elements is on the order of nanoseconds. It's quite a challenge."
"But you guys still succeeded."
Chen Chen nodded approvingly and then asked, "Isn't element 126 supposed to be a stable element? Does it emit radiation? "
"If you said it emitted radiation before the synthesis, I wouldn't have agreed."
Professor Ottmar answered, "According to the island of stability theory, when the number of nucleons of an element coincides with a certain magic number, the stability of the nucleus is relatively high. But did you notice that it's only 'relative' here, not absolute?"
Chen Chen nodded thoughtfully. "In other words, element 126 is a superheavy element with a relatively long half-life."
"That's about it."
Professor Ottmar agreed. "Still, we'll have to wait for further research. Speaking of which, I still have to thank you, Your Excellency Chen Chen."
Before Chen Chen could respond, Professor Ottmar continued, "Synthesizing element 126 is a major milestone in human history. After all, as early as 2006, the physics community was unable to synthesize elements above element 118. Synthesizing heavier elements requires more powerful particle accelerators and more advanced detectors, which are only available in Blackwatch."
"Don't say that, Professor Ottmar."
Chen Chen remained calm as he waved his hand. "Without you guys, even the cleverest housewife can't cook a meal without rice. Regardless of the equipment, all of this is due to the efforts of you and your team over the past decade."
Professor Ottmar's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this. Since Chen Chen had said this, it meant that Chen Chen would not take any of the credit for this achievement. All of the credit would be given to him and his team.
"Your Excellency Chen Chen..."
Professor Ottmar was a little taken aback. He bowed to Chen Chen with his messy beard and said, "Thank you for your gift. You've not only given us our reputation, but you've also made a great contribution to mankind. No matter what, your name will be recorded in the history books!"
Chen Chen nodded.
After thanking them profusely, Professor Ottmar led his team away to rest. Meanwhile, Chen Chen stood in front of the window and silently watched them leave. He could not help but smirk at the corner of his lips.
"Sir Godfather, what they're saying is that you'll go down in history just like Newton and Einstein!"
Little X giggled as her voice came from the headset.
"Go down in history?"
Chen Chen chuckled and shook his head. He murmured, "I've never thought of going down in history because... I'll be more immortal than the history books!"
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