I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

Class B base.

Knowing that there were samples of metal hydrogen battery technology, Ye Changsi and Wu Yunfeng flew back, leaving behind more than a hundred new scientists.

The rest of the people who want to come to the base need some arrangements. It is impossible for so many people to come by plane together. Instead, they will be divided into two EMU trains. The security bureau and the traffic control will choose the time together to prevent any accidents.

The two deliberately chose to arrive at night. Academician She and several experts from the space agency were still at the base, so not to meet would save them trouble.

They got off the plane and went directly into the basement where the "Shanhai" supercomputer was stored. When they opened the door, they saw a dozen system engineers who had gathered here.

This is a vacated maintenance machine room, with a silver metal box about the length of a human being placed in the center, with lines full of science fiction colors etched on the surface.

"incredible."

Wu Yunfeng rushed to the inside and stroked the metal surface of the C172 A cell sample.

Just as soon as he started to use it, he felt a kind of surprise that did not belong to this era. Although it looked like aluminum alloy, it felt like an inorganic material and was not cold when touched by hand. At the same time, even though there were many oxide layers and scratches, The pattern is so smooth that you can hardly feel any friction with your hands, and it is amazingly smooth.

This kind of material with extremely contrasting look and feel is extremely rare on earth. At the same time, if you look closely at the design of the power supply head of the battery cell, it is also completely unfamiliar.

The parameter annotation is composed of traditional Chinese characters and Arabic numerals, but its format is also very different from the marking method on the earth. At first glance, it always seems to be incompatible with the environment.

Just by sitting there quietly, it accurately conveyed the fact that it was an alien creation.

Ye Changsi walked to the side of the power supply port of the battery core and squatted down. He gently pushed the battery core but it failed to move.

"Metallic hydrogen... this may be the first time that humans have come into contact with degenerate matter at such a close distance."

Wu Yunfeng: "It's really hard to imagine how humans in that timeline were able to create pressure from electron degeneracy. After reaching this point, they will definitely be working towards neutron degeneracy.

I think they may have been thinking about how to master gravity. It is really a world with extremely advanced science. "

"etc."

Lin Ju in the corner stopped flirting with Yu Man and asked doubtfully:

"Is there still metallic hydrogen on the surface of a neutron star?"

Wu Yunfeng: "The high-density and high-energy matter formed due to the Pauli exclusion principle is called degenerate matter. The electrons in the core of the neutron star are forced to combine with protons to form neutrons under the influence of huge gravity, and then these neutrons are densely packed together. Pressed together, the lighter hydrogen elements in the uppermost layer of the neutron star will also be formed into a degenerate state by this pressure.

However, the density of the neutron degenerate state is very exaggerated, up to several billion times that of metallic hydrogen. If it contains neutron degenerate matter, the weight may be close to one quadrillion tons.

According to our current theory, the atmospheric pressure in which metallic hydrogen exists must be at least 400 GPa, which is millions of times the standard atmospheric pressure.

If there are really more than 100 kilograms of metallic hydrogen inside, I can't think of any container that can withstand such high pressure. The explosion center pressure of a hydrogen bomb is only 100Gpa. "

After Wu Yunfeng finished speaking, Ye Changsi added:

"Theoretically, even if a hydrogen bomb explodes in the container of this battery core, it will not have any impact. Its technical level is no lower than that of metallic hydrogen.

By the way...where's the information? "

Lin Ju pointed to the notebook on Serev's lap in the corner, and at the same time subconsciously moved farther away from the battery core, but gave up after thinking about it:

According to Wu Yunfeng, the pressure inside this battery cell is even several times that of the explosion center of a hydrogen bomb. If there is an accident, it will be absolutely fine to level the base, not to mention other bases. This does not take into account the power of the metallic hydrogen inside.

Wu Yunfeng walked up to Serev, who was sitting on his computer, and discovered that the four NAS hard drive cabinets stacked on his right were filled with 48 32T solid-state drives.

Seeing him raise his head, Serev stood up and vacated his seat:

"You're here just in time. I can't understand this damn thing. The index of all its technical information is over 4,000 pages long. I couldn't find a single title that I can understand."

"..."

Fortunately, the technical information has been systematically organized, but the professional vocabulary in most of the content is beyond Serev's cognitive field. It really needs a physicist who is accomplished in cutting-edge physics to understand it, otherwise he would not even know the title. .

Ye Changsi and Cheng Nankai were the only people here who could barely understand the information. The three of them flipped through their notebooks for more than half an hour. They first found the method of storing metallic hydrogen in the battery core, and then they all took a breath of cold air.

Others who were still studying the surface of the C172 A battery cell quickly came over, and then saw Cheng Nankai's horrified eyes.

"There is no high-voltage container inside the battery core, at least not the high-voltage container we understand. Instead, it is a vacuum."

"What's the meaning?"

Serev didn't know how he could contain ultra-high-pressure metallic hydrogen without a container.

Wu Yunfeng organized the language and explained it in as simple terms as possible:

"C172A does not use a traditional high-pressure container. The container where the metallic hydrogen is stored is vacuumed and suspended in the container. There is a device inside that generates a strong electromagnetic force to firmly press all the metallic hydrogen together.

The power of this device comes from metallic hydrogen clusters, which use its own superconducting properties to generate repulsion and then convert it into electrical energy. It is not a traditional chemical energy battery. As the power is consumed, the pressure of the metallic hydrogen clusters gradually decreases, and part of the metallic hydrogen The hydrogen ions converted to free are absorbed by the material on the container wall and converted into hydrides.

This is a physical/chemical hybrid battery. Its system needs to run continuously before the power is exhausted, but what I see is that only 10% of the power is naturally lost every year to maintain the ultra-high voltage electromagnetic generated inside. It consumes less than 10 watts of power. "

After this lecture, other people present immediately understood that a device that can generate thousands of standard atmospheric pressures only consumes 10 watts of power. This is something that only alien technology can do.

If it were on earth, the amount of electrical energy needed would be at least nearly 10,000 times greater.

Wu Yunfeng stroked the surface of the C172 A battery cell, as if touching a rare treasure.

"That civilization has mastered the microscopic secret. This is not an electric core, but more like a miniature factory that cyclically produces metallic hydrogen. This is the real arrow to the moon."

Lin Ju finally understood why the system gave such a reward. Before, he thought it was too stingy to exchange so many cutting-edge physicists for a battery system. In fact, the technical content of this thing is far beyond imagination. Really It can only be described as black technology in appearance.

He immediately asked the question he was most concerned about:

"Then... how long will it take us to build it?"

"manufacture?"

Wu Yunfeng shook his head decisively:

"I just flipped through a catalog of more than 100 pages, and more than 60% of the technical categories in it are still in the laboratory conjecture stage here. Manufacturing... Uh, boss, do you want to see what the system says?"

Lin Ju immediately created a new task of "manufacturing C172 A battery cells" in the System Research Institute, and immediately invested 10 million after thinking about it.

[Current progress: 10.002% (+0.001%)]

"..."

No wonder it’s difficult to give samples. It’s probably not going to work step by step for 50 years. This kind of metal hydrogen battery is still too advanced in the current world, and its significance is far from being as simple as a battery.

Not to mention manufacturing equipment, the relevant theories must be verified one by one based on these data.

This is still more than a hundred new scientists, and Lin Ju can't imagine how many resources will be invested.

"How about it?"

Yu Man asked with concern, and then saw Lin Ju raise a finger:

"Prepare at least one trillion yuan. These materials and samples are equivalent to 10% of the progress. With our ability, we can advance up to 1% a year."

However, Wu Yunfeng's face was not depressed at all:

"Fortunately, just interpreting the parts of these technical data that are within our reach is enough to revolutionize existing physics and industry.

But this will take a lot of time, and our current research power is far from enough. It is impossible for so many people to concentrate here to study the data.

I felt a lot of knowledge when you invested money just now, but even with this efficiency, it will take several billions to give us an overall understanding of the technical status of C172A, and it is more difficult to interpret it by ourselves. "

Ye Changsi nodded with approval, and thought further:

"If we can also mass-produce C172A, we will have a lot of confidence in dealing with troubles on Mars. Unfortunately, it is far beyond our technical level, but even mastering some superficial technologies is amazing."

"Then we still need large scientific research centers."

Lin Ju pointed to a pile of A4 papers piled on the table:

"I obtained the requirements and equipment types of B+ and A-level scientific research centers from the system. Let's take a look.

B+ level is estimated to cost 36.7 billion yuan, A level requires 99.8 billion yuan, and other additional manpower costs are estimated to be no less than 2 to 3 billion yuan. Our current scientific research organization can only be regarded as a C+ research institute, which is far from enough. "

Wu Yunfeng, who is sensitive to numbers, immediately discovered the pattern between these two numbers. After some calculations, he realized that the funding standard of C+ Research Institute is 5 billion yuan, which is similar to the current scientific research level of the base.

Ye Changsi handed him two printed lists, which only listed the types and design standards of the required equipment. Among them was a high-energy proton accelerator with an energy level of 100 Tev.

This can wait for TEPA. Other experimental facilities add up to 39 major categories, which are subdivided into thousands of subcategories. Level B+ exceeds the level of national research institutes, which means that the system has unreasonable research capabilities, otherwise it will really cost money. At least three or four times.

Ye Changsi put down the paper, thought for a while and asked:

“How are we doing financially this year?”

Lin Ju: "The aviation business was divested this year. Counting their small loss of 19 billion, not counting their huge loss of 41 billion, the total expenditure difference by the end of this year is expected to be around 43 billion."

One of the benefits of fully computerizing the base is that artificial intelligence can provide the most accurate financial reports in real time, with almost no errors.

The parent company of Xinyuan Aerospace Power basically relies on subsidiaries, external patent licensing, and unexpected income (such as ternary technology) to survive. Its own business situation can only be said to be a mess, and it cannot afford to support its current base and R\u0026D projects. Not to mention such a huge space construction plan.

After hearing this number, Wu Yunfeng, who originally planned to propose building an A-level scientific research center, immediately stopped. Next year, there will be new large-scale Mars construction, and it will be difficult to start even a B+ level.

But Lin Ju immediately added:

"However, our external subsidiaries are doing very well. Huanghe Semiconductor plans to fully roll out ternary technology next year, which will at least capture a market worth hundreds of billions. If we spare one or two billion, it will not affect normal operations.

The C822 and C832 passenger aircraft will start mass production in Yizhou in the middle of next year, and they can make a lot of money; Star Airlines is running the C1000 business and wants to lobby the Civil Aviation Administration and foreign airlines to restart supersonic passenger aircraft;

Oriental International Space Tourism Company also has hundreds of millions... In short, according to the calculations of "Shan Hai", we will have nearly 40 billion in funds at our disposal next year.

There are still funds for research and development of the system, maybe 50 billion in total. If it is not enough, you can borrow it from a bank and turn it over. "

Ye Changsi: "We also have two good things, biological agents and robots, which can make a lot of money when transformed. We can allocate more resources to them.

If we really don’t have enough money, we will ask the central government for money, use some technology as collateral, and just add a little more when we release money. "

The two people vaguely reached a consensus while talking. The base is a technical super trust, but it has been deliberately suppressed. Otherwise, it can really sweep everything in the civilian market. As long as it intervenes in the global market, it will be sanctioned to the point where it cannot export. kind.

It can be said that if the base develops with a little more hands-off, it will be a realistic version of the umbrella company, and it is not impossible to further dominate the world.

For such a collection of monsters, funding should not be an obstacle to development.

"I also have something to say."

Xiao Gangtian moved forward and took over the topic:

"'Lihuo' has been conducting intensive observations of Plain Zero for half a month, and there is nothing unusual in the data. However, we recruited a few astrogeologists and made a few discoveries."

His words immediately attracted everyone's attention. The threat of aliens has always been the top secret of the base. It is like a Pandora's box. There may only be a homework assignment for an alien child, or it may be a black hole bomb that destroys the solar system. , no one dares to take it lightly.

"The formation of Plain Zero itself is a bit strange. According to satellite surveys, although that part of the land is small, the terrain is very flat. According to the topographic map we drew, we can't find any reasonable basis for its formation.

Of course, this does not mean that there is an unnatural formation there. After so long, there are countless coincidences that can form such a small piece of flat terrain, but... traces of wisdom cannot be ruled out, especially when we know that there is something there.

I apply to launch a detector there as soon as possible, preferably one that can fly over and conduct a closer inspection. "

Lin Ju: "This is not a problem, but the scale should not be too large to avoid any unexpected effects. The load of a single missile should not exceed 10 tons. There also needs a reason for detecting there."

Xiao Okada: "Then let them publish a few papers, saying that there are possible resources there, or that our detector was originally going to the Utopia Plain, and accidental deviation is normal."