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Therefore, the explosives or explosive materials that Xia Lin could make were all contained in containers the size of an aspirin pill, with a weight of no more than 50 grams.

Of course, a 43-gram explosive charge is already a decent defensive grenade. So, it's quite normal that when that box of stuff exploded, it scattered everyone in the vehicle.

"All-nitrogen anions, metallic hydrogen, and nitroglycerin—you've got quite a lot of these!"

W inspected each of the containers, comparing them to the technical manual Lao Xia had given her yesterday. The storage of metallic hydrogen was the most troublesome, but relatively speaking, its manufacture was simpler.

While all-nitrogen anions are more difficult to store and manufacture, the raw materials are relatively easy to obtain.

As for nitroglycerin, it is a conventional energy material. Since it requires the consumption of fat to synthesize glycerin, Lao Xia's opinion is that he does not plan to produce it on a large scale, at least not until the scale of breeding and animal husbandry increases.

"Don't put batteries and explosives together. You saw the consequences that day." The plasma battery casing is very sturdy and will not explode easily.

However, the explosion is also incredibly powerful; the small batteries in the Covenant combat drones can even be used as self-destruct tools.

"Besides, that can't be manufactured. This is already the maximum number of batteries I've managed to free up..."

This was moved out after the original battery pack was removed from the equipment and replaced with Originium batteries. The most powerful one was the one used in the smelting furnace.

"I know, I know. Although this thing doesn't have Originium particles, which makes it impossible for me to control it with Originium Arts, I've been playing with bombs longer than you've lived."

"Oh, how old are you?" Skadi asked curiously. The woman with the strange cockroach-like hairstyle didn't look old at all.

"Uh..." Faced with the choice between mutual destruction or being killed by Skadi, W could only remain silent, and his face instantly darkened.

The quarry was neither too far nor too close, and it was located on the mountainside, making the climb somewhat difficult. Fortunately, all three of them had vehicles and were in excellent physical condition, so they quickly arrived at the designated blasting site.

"The entire hillside was blasted into an inward-sinking platform. The entire ore vein is 1.1 kilometers deep, but it can be blasted open step by step..."

"So, you blast your way inwards along the mountain range and peel the ore off the rock face, right?" W seemed to know a lot about it. "You think I practiced my blasting skills somewhere? Actually, mining solid source rock is the same. You blast away the outer layers of soil and rock fragments layer by layer along those natural disaster-generated hills, and then sort out the inner layers of source jade ore that have been peeled off."

"Yes, you can also blast from the top down to create a spiral pit for open-pit mining, which is the same thing."

“The width of the working area is approximately…” W walked from one side to the other, “more than 200 meters, and the height is about 150 meters. However, considering the undulations of the mountain range and the problem of cliff collapse, you would actually have to cut off a corner of the entire mountain range to expose the core inside, just like biting off a corner of a croissant to expose the red bean paste inside?”

"More or less, are you sure?"

"You have to drill holes, and you have to figure out how to deal with the debris that comes out. I thought you were planning to blast it open all at once, but it turns out you're detonating it layer by layer."

After witnessing the power of that pile of stuff exploding, everyone thought this guy was planning to blast a huge crater the size of a reservoir and then mine at the bottom of it.

"No, what I mean is to blast it open all at once, and this is only one working area. There are multiple working areas distributed in multiple regions. Ideally, we should blast out a deep mountain reservoir."

"You mean detonate it in this valley halfway up the mountain? The peaks on both sides will definitely collapse. It's like you've cut off the bottom half of a pillar. Which way do you think the pillar will fall?"

"So, expert, what's your opinion...?"

“My opinion is…” W looked up at the mountain ridge above with a wild smile, “of course we should build scaffolding and deep tunnels, and tear up the entire slope!”

"Drill a hole above the mineral vein and blast away the entire section of the mountain above it. You have bombs with that kind of power, right?"

"Yes, but there is only one, or rather, only one that can be modified into an explosive of this power, and there is no guarantee that the actual power will meet the requirements."

"Then use your other explosives to supplement it. First, use a chain detonation to separate the shortest link between the two mountain peaks from the main body, and then use a large enough one to blow it all away."

"Then what about my ore? Most of it is inside the mountain ridges..."

"Directional blasting, this way," W pointed to the gentle slope behind him, "to create a gravel slope at least several kilometers to tens of kilometers wide. Then, using your half-ton of explosives per day, we'll clear away the large rocks, and that'll be an open-pit gravel mine."

"With directional blasting, due to the weight and location of the ore, it will cover the upper half of the scree slope. However, I want to make it clear beforehand that these are all my estimates, without any on-site simulations or calculations, purely based on experience and intuition..."

“That’s still better than me not knowing where to start,” Xia Lin said with a wry smile. “Let’s do it this way: blast this mountain ridge open to turn it into a valley, then directly chisel ore down the rock walls on both sides to create an open-pit mine, and sort the crushed stones on the gentle slope.”

Anyway, this job faces the northern ice desert, so it doesn't matter who gets hit by the blasted rocks.

"Then let's try out those things you brought first. But, is that large one you mentioned really up to standard?"

"That one can't be tested." Fuel extracted from the Windrunner reactor: 180 kilograms of deuterium and 60 kilograms of helium-3.

First, the temperature and pressure of the deuterium-helium reaction are gradually increased to a level sufficient to trigger a secondary deuterium-deuterium reaction, generating helium-3, which then enters a cyclic fusion reaction. The final products are a proton stream and helium-4. The helium-4 is fed into a proton stream accelerator, where it is bombarded and decays into new helium-3, which is then thrown back into the reactor until all the deuterium is exhausted.

Deuterium is very common in the universe, and it can be obtained as fuel through both stellar particle stream harvesting and hydrogen separation.

However, although this type of reactor is very durable, its output energy level is gradually failing to meet the needs of starships and is being phased out. Currently, only the cargo industry still uses it to save costs.

The biggest difference between fusion and fission is that the fuel purity of fission reactors is far lower than that required for weapons, while the fuel purity of fusion reactors is the same as, or even more terrifying than, that of weapons. However, the problem with fusion reactors is usually not that the energy level is too low, but that the energy level is too high to be controlled.

"80 billion Kelvin temperature, 10 times the power of the sun condensed into one point, that's roughly the power, to put it more precisely, due to incomplete reaction."

In reality, only 840 grams of mass was lost, releasing energy equivalent to 1843 million tons of conventional explosives.

"Well, if you were to convert that into the energy of the Originium explosives you usually use, it would be roughly... the explosive power of nearly 20 million tons of Originium bombs piled together."

"Not enough..." This was already terrifying power, but W didn't even need to do detailed calculations. Just by looking at the mountain ridge in front of him, which was nearly 1000 meters high, he knew that this power was absolutely insufficient.

"Yes, because it's impossible to carry out a sustained reaction, for example, it's impossible to start the next stage of deuterium-helium-deuterium and proton cycle helium replenishment reaction."

In reality, the energy released is very low compared to the total energy released in the reactor; the mass loss is only about 6 to 7 percent, which is only half. Moreover, most of the reactants are dispersed, so the actual yield is probably even lower than I mentioned.

"You seem to know a lot about these high-powered bombs?"

"I don't understand it, but I've repaired these kinds of reactors. In fact, I've repaired a lot of them, so I'm very sensitive to these parameters." As the son of a ship repair shop owner, he's seen quite a lot of spaceship engines.

"However, I don't think we need to completely evaporate or blow up the entire mountain ridge, do we?"

"Well, if you just want it to collapse in a specific direction, this yield is barely enough. However, I still suggest you use something more powerful."

"In reality, only 60 kilograms of deuterium-helium were used. The remaining 120 kilograms of deuterium could not participate in the reaction. I did not have an igniter of that level, so I could not react it."

Moreover, the explosion lasts only a few microseconds, which is insufficient for the deuterium-deuterium reaction to continue. Adding more deuterium is pointless, as are the other batteries and reactor fuel…

Theoretically, several more of these powerful contraptions could be extracted, but that would require a complete power outage of Old Xia's reactor.

At that time, production and smelting capacity will instantly drop to the level of the locals, and they won't be able to use any high-energy-consuming equipment.

"Lithium deuteride? I don't have lithium to use. Tritium? I don't have a fractionation tower to use. Helium-3? I don't have a spaceship to use. Pure deuterium-deuterium? I don't have a gravitational fusion igniter of that caliber. So, there's only one of these. The remaining materials, although not all used up, can only be wasted. Besides, apart from the deuterium-helium reaction, all other reactions release neutrons..."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that within 20 to 50 years, this area should ideally be designated as a restricted zone. Within 2 to 3 years, anyone who comes here will die. It's fine for bombing those Ursus Empire people in the south; after that, there will be at least two years of peace."

The area of ​​intense radiation will last for a maximum of two years, coupled with cold storms from the north and warm currents from the Iberian region—

Incidentally, it can also rain radiation on Kazdel several times, completely eliminating the possibility of Ursus invading Kazdel.

"This is the only clean one left, one that can be used in a month." The products of the deuterium-helium reaction are only proton flux and gamma rays. As long as you stay away from the explosion zone, the environmental radiation will soon decrease to a level where you can barely work.

Drilling holes, filling the explosive charge, clearing the area, detonating—W estimated the blast radius and the rock's blast resistance. "Which do you want to hear, the good news or the bad news?"

"Bad news" "Then your thing doesn't have enough explosive power. The surface is a common source rock structure, which is very loose and will fall apart when it's blown up. The lower layer is a source jade and corundum structure, and contains a lot of iron. It will probably be difficult for you to blow it up."

"And the good news?"

"The good news is that it has an Originium structure, which means there are Originium particles inside..."

"Your Originium Arts can blow up an entire mountain?"

“I have the ability. I’ll go to Victoria right now and blow that ‘beep—’ up inside the palace!” W said irritably. “What I mean is, your thing might trigger a chain reaction of Originium…”

"Hmm, Originium Reversal Effect." After Originium ore reaches energy saturation, it will continue to absorb energy in a high-energy environment. Then, after entering a low-energy environment, it will erupt in the most intense form, which manifests as "Natural Disaster: Volcano" and "Natural Disaster: Earthquake".

"What are the specific effects?"

"I don't know. I don't know the content of source jade or the distribution of source stones in this mountain, or whether your thing can trigger a chain reaction."

In short, neither of us knows what's inside, or the exact power of your things. To be honest, your bombs exceed my understanding of explosions. My skills and knowledge can only help you this far.

What is the worst possible outcome?

"The whole mountain collapsed. You can slowly organize people to clear the debris..."

"That's still acceptable..."

"You really intend to blow it up according to my plan?"

"if not?"

"Okay, you're the boss, but please settle my salary first, so I can easily run away if something goes wrong."

"Since you're saying that, you mean you never intended to run away, right?"

"Hehe—" W blinked, "Guess—"

[At Sunrise: W Different Dimension]

HP: 1640 (Elite 2 max), ATK 1140, DEF 130, Spell Resistance 0, Cost 34, Attack Range 3x4;

Characteristic: Does not perform normal attacks;

talent:

1. Targeted Detonation: Activated upon deployment, it knocks back enemies within its attack range by one space and deals 150% (200% at full potential) true damage upon impact with a high platform. It is activated once per deployment.

2. Explosive Pulse: Activated after 10 seconds, dealing 5% of attack power as true damage to all enemies within range every 2 seconds.

3. Equipment maintenance: Secondary deployment time +30%. When deploying for the second time, the skill is available at the beginning.

Skill 1:

Powerful Bomb: Skill Points 4, Auto-Refill. Places a powerful bomb on a random enemy within range. It detonates upon being attacked, dealing 50% (120%/150%) of attack power as area-of-effect damage, indiscriminately affecting both allies and enemies. The damage type is the same as the damage type of the attack received. [Magic damage is negated by the bomb, physical damage is negated by the bomb, and true damage is also considered physical damage...]

Skill 2:

Chain Explosion: Skill Points 25, Automatic Recharge, Detonates all enemies within range, dealing 150% (220%/275%) of attack power as physical damage to the target, and dealing 25% splash damage to all other units within one tile (regardless of friend or foe), which can be stacked.

Skill 3:

At Sunrise: Skill Points 10. Instantly eliminates all non-elite units within range, deals 100% (170%/200%) of the user's attack power as true damage to elite units, and reduces physical defense and magic resistance by 100% for 3.5 seconds. Can only be used once per battle.

Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Core of the Sun, Ready

Chapter 99

"Hiss—" The cryogenic container opened, and Xia Lin, wearing thick gloves, stepped onto the outer shell of the workshop reactor's spare fuel tank. He bent down, grabbed the reserve fuel rod in front of him, and lifted it up forcefully. The 27-kilogram fuel rod spun half a turn and detached from the fixed support.

The Windrunner's cargo hold auxiliary reactor has a total of 12 fuel rods, each containing 17 kg of deuterium and 8 kg of helium-3, with the remainder being the weight of the container itself.

However, since the Windranger itself consumes some fuel, these fuel rods are subject to some wear and tear.

He also had to remove the igniters from the reactors of Bull and Hercules and convert them into detonators.

Generally speaking, it is much simpler to ignite a nuclear reaction and create an incomplete explosion using igniters and sustainers in a reactor than to create a safe reaction and sustain a plasma sphere.

The twelve fuel rods were neatly placed on a trolley and pushed into the processing workshop. W and Skadi were waiting there. Skadi's job was to do some manual labor.

After all, these things weigh tens or even hundreds of kilograms, and are not something that people can just handle and play with casually.