pertwk Chapter 79 Pei Qi: I think it's quite reasonable to create something out of nothing, right?
Chapter 79 Pei Qi: I think it's quite reasonable to create something out of nothing, right?
Chapter 73 Pei Qi: I think it's quite reasonable to create something out of nothing, right?
"Achoo—!!"
Pei Qi suddenly sneezed loudly, rubbed his itchy nose, and the sudden chill made him involuntarily shrink his neck.
"Damn it—the nanotech armor's temperature control system is broken?"
He glanced at the various values displayed normally on the HUD interface, and a strange feeling inexplicably rose in his heart.
"I have this feeling that some powerful old man is talking about me behind my back—it's strange, I don't think I've offended anyone."
Pei Qi shook his head, dismissing this inexplicable intuition from his mind.
The most urgent task now is to solve this mess.
He turned around, pointed to the pile of metal structures behind him that had just been erected and were still sparking with electricity, and shrugged at the two bewildered audience members.
"So, Manager Pei—"
Hendricks stared at the “illegal structure” in front of him, a jumble of pipes, cables, spinning gears, and steam-belching iron boxes, his expression as complex as if he were looking at an abstract painting.
"Is this what you call—the solution?"
As a senior FBC agent, Hendrix considered himself well-informed. He had seen singing mold and rubber ducks that could be replicated indefinitely.
But he had never seen such a "ugly" and "chaotic" mechanical assembly.
Cables of varying thicknesses were tangled like spider webs on the machine's casing, with no cable channels whatsoever. The delivery pipes were transparent, through which flowed a strange red liquid.
Several enormous machines were emitting a deafening roar, shaking the floor.
This thing doesn't look like high-tech equipment; it looks more like a pile of garbage that some mad scientist stuck together with tape after getting drunk at a junkyard.
"Not that I'm being presumptuous, Manager Pei."
Hendricks pointed to the pile of broken and tattered mind-blocking alloy scrap on the ground, and then to the machine that looked like it could explode at any moment.
"I really don't see how these weird-looking things, which aren't even properly assembled, can help us with our current predicament. Are you sure this thing can turn this scrap metal into gold, or blow us all up?"
"shallow."
Pei Qi pursed his lips, walked forward, and patted the casing of a shredder that was spinning wildly, as if caressing a lover.
"This is my most prized possession! The charm of industry lies not in its appearance, but in its efficiency! This is called wiring aesthetics, do you understand? It's what people commonly refer to as 'as long as the machine is running, the wiring will be messy too.'"
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From Hendricks and Altman's perspective, it was a pile of scrap metal.
But in Pei Qi's eyes, this was a perfect and highly efficient mineral multiplication production line.
The entire production line was laid out in an extremely rough "long, straight line" that spanned the entire corridor.
At the very front is a massive, dieselpunk-style industrial shredder called "Immersive Engineering."
It was constructed from three tons of steel scaffolding and heavy-duty construction blocks. At the top were two enormous, spiked rotating rollers that spun relative to each other, driven by powerful motors, producing a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound.
Its function is simple: violent crushing. It grinds all metals, whether ores or scrap, into the finest powder.
Following closely behind is a futuristic-looking general-purpose mechanical enrichment chamber connected by a pulsed item conduit for thermal expansion.
This machine is completely different in style from the previous lump of metal. It is made entirely of gray-white steel with green stripes on its surface, resembling breathing lights.
Its core function is "injection".
Under module rules, it can inject oxygen or other chemical media into metal powder through high pressure, transforming it into "enriched powder" with extremely high purity.
This is not just purification; it's a conceptual "multiplication".
A piece of waste material goes in, and the gold content of the powder that comes out is often two or even three times that of the original.
At the end of the production line is the thermal expansion induction furnace, which is responsible for the final shaping.
This is a furnace equipped with a high-temperature plasma arc. It can melt enriched powders instantly and use a special catalyst to recombine their molecular structure, ultimately casting them into brand-new, gleaming metal ingots.
"This is my plan."
Pei Qi stood in front of the control panel, pointing at this Frankenstein's monster of a product that spanned three different technological modules, with a proud expression.
"In theory, the Mind Blocking Alloy is also a metal. Since it's a metal, it belongs to my module management."
"The law of conservation of mass? In this room, I am the law."
"However, ordinary batteries won't be enough to power this money-devouring behemoth. I've installed overclocking upgrade plugins on these machines, making their power consumption ridiculously higher than the originals."
As he spoke, Pei Qi took a deep breath, his expression becoming extremely solemn.
He carefully took out a crystalline object emitting a faint blue light from the deepest part of his backpack.
The object was only the size of a palm, and its entire body was a deep sapphire blue, with intricate gold circuit patterns engraved on its surface.
But what's most unsettling is that the air around it seems to be slightly distorted, as if it can't withstand the terrifying energy contained within.
【IC2·Lanbotton Crystal】
Energy storage capacity: 10,000,000 EU (ten million EU)
"What is this?" Hendrix instinctively took a step back. Even from several meters away, he could feel the destructive aura emanating from the small crystal. It terrified him even more than the depleted uranium bomb from before.
"this?"
Pei Qi held the crystal, his tone tinged with reverence.
"Don't let its small size fool you; it contains the energy of a full ten million EU. If you convert that to what you're familiar with, TNT..."
equivalent----"
Pei Qi grinned, revealing his pearly white teeth: "It's roughly equivalent to forcibly compressing the energy of a tactical nuclear bomb into this glass sphere. Once the outer shell breaks or the energy goes out of control, even if the Black Rock base is surrounded by a thousand meters of seawater, it will be instantly blasted into the sky, leaving not even a ripple."
"What?!"
Hendricks and Altman's faces turned green instantly.
"You—you're carrying a nuclear bomb around with you?!"
"Stay calm, stay calm. As long as you don't throw it like a brick, it's still quite stable."
Pei Qi spoke casually, but his movements were extremely gentle, as if he were cradling a still-beating heart.
He slowly inserted the Lamberton Crystal into the energy interface.
"Click".
The interface is locked.
"start up!"
Pei Qi suddenly pulled down the main switch.
"Buzz!!!"
In an instant, the Lamberton Crystal burst forth with a blinding blue light. A massive torrent of energy surged into the machine's veins, and the entire production line roared deafeningly.
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