The stars, but they become the gray wind

"Woo...you mean...a single gray wind is actually a collection of multiple elementary particles, rather than the square machine at the microscopic level that we know?" Aze touched the back of his head and looked at Renlong who was leaning against the server cabinet in front of him with a questioning look on his face.

"Hmm... and the components of a single Gray Wind unit are undoubtedly a collection of elementary particles close to the Planck scale. Clearly, the technological level reached by Gray Wind itself has already reached the realm of high-dimensional microphysics below the Planck scale. It's even hard to say whether an entity like Gray Wind, which has penetrated into higher-dimensional physics, can still be called a nanorobot."

"If we really want to delve into it, using the term 'Pico' or even 'Mono' to describe Gray Wind is actually not accurate enough." (Note 1)

"Because it is made up of elementary particles of Planck-level size, calling it a nanorobot is just more of a habit." Renlong explained to the Sakota girl with light wings in front of him.

"And even more outrageous is the energy that drives its self-replication, which is vacuum zero-point energy."

"The way Gray Wind obtains vacuum zero-point energy isn't through the familiar Casimir effect. The source of zero-point energy within the individual nanounits that make up the Gray Wind aggregate is through the generation of extremely strong distortions that cause space to paradoxically fold inward, leading to annihilation..."

"Stop, stop, stop... I don't understand this as well as you and Carlisle do, so can you please speak human language?"

"Can you at least explain the principle of this thing in plain language that I can understand?" Aze listened to Renlong opposite her talking about a field that she didn't understand. She raised her hand to interrupt Renlong who was about to start a long speech, and hoped that she would give a more concise explanation in a way that a layman like her could understand.

"Well... okay then..." Looking at Aze in front of him with an expression as if he was listening to a foreign language, Renlong took out a square piece of letter paper and a ballpoint pen from his shirt pocket. Renlong first used the ballpoint pen to paint two black dots on the upper and lower ends of the letter paper, and then folded the upper and lower halves of the letter paper with the two black dots on it in half.

"Okay, let's assume that the two black dots on this piece of letter paper represent two different positions in three-dimensional space. I will now fold the upper and lower halves of this piece of letter paper in half and let these two points at different positions in three-dimensional space overlap. This means that by bending space, two different positions are overlapped. If the bent space can eventually be folded in half, then the principle of Huifeng obtaining zero-point energy is equivalent to forcibly pressing the two pieces of paper formed by the folding into one. In this process, space itself will produce existential contradictions and then annihilate each other." As he said this, Renlong tore the neatly folded paper in his hand into pieces.

"You mean..." Aze touched his chin and thought.

"That's right. This isn't zero-point energy obtained through the Casimir effect at all. Instead, it's the literal fracturing and crushing of space itself, causing the space itself and the vibrating particles within it to directly annihilate, releasing their own zero-point energy. This is the source of energy for a single Gray Wind nanounit."

"Compared to this, the method of using two metal plates to create the Casimir effect to generate zero-point energy seems as ridiculous as a child's toy. This method of generating energy by directly annihilating space itself exceeds the efficiency of any mass-energy conversion device we know of."

"Our previous use of nanomachines was too simplistic and crude, even superficial."

"So...what are you going to do?" Aze asked Renlong who was eager to try.

"I'd like to do a little experiment... or more accurately, it's an idea I had before I left."

"Before, I was worried that manipulating the microstructure of matter below the atomic nucleus would be too complicated, so I had never done it."

"Now, all the prerequisites are in place. Although I can't say it's 100% certain, I have more than 90% confidence that this experiment will succeed."

"Uh... after all this talk, why don't you first explain to me in detail what experiment you plan to do?"

"Well... have you heard of the [quark confinement effect] and [color nuclear material]?" Renlong asked Aze, raising his index finger.

Just as Renlong was preparing for her little experiment, on the other side of the Earth, in the lower engine room of the luxury cruise ship Lundinium, Anjie pushed open the door of the engine room boiler room and saw the anti-gravity material bomb fixed on a special base in front of the boiler.

A large amount of steam was continuously pumped into the activated anti-gravity bomb along the pipe connected to the boiler, and under the high temperature and high pressure generated by the steam, the anti-gravity bomb also released bright green light.

"That's it." The high temperature in the boiler room caused a drop of sweat to flow down Angie's cheek. She walked forward with a nervous frown, checking the bomb that was already in the countdown before explosion.

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Elsewhere, in the luxurious dining room on the upper deck of the Londinium, Beat walked over to Charlotte, who had just finished talking with several foreign dignitaries, and said with a relaxed tone, "Great! The ceremony is almost over."

"Yeah." Charlotte, who had successfully completed a series of important political meetings, also seemed very relaxed.

"Sister!" Mary, who was behind Charlotte, also trotted to Charlotte very easily.

"Mary..." Charlotte looked at her younger sister tenderly.

"Um...thank you for staying with me today...I would be a little scared if I came alone." Mary thanked Charlotte with a blushing face.

"You're welcome, Mary. When I was your age, I would have been scared too."

"Huh? Sister is scared too?" Mary asked in surprise. She couldn't imagine that her mature sister, who was always well-mannered and seemed to be able to handle anything with ease, would show a scared expression.

"Yeah... Actually, I get scared sometimes too." Charlotte wanted to continue, but she suddenly felt Beatrice pulling at the corner of her clothes. Charlotte turned her head and saw Beatrice pointing out the window of the restaurant with a nervous look on his face.

"Um...Princess...outside..."

Following the direction of Beat's finger, Charlotte looked out the window. Two figures Charlotte was very familiar with were squatting by the window. Anjie outside the window raised a C-ball with a flash function and conveyed a simple signal to Charlotte inside the room.

When Charlotte saw the string of flashing lights outside the window, she immediately realized that something was wrong. She squatted down and said gently to Mary, "I'm sorry, Mary, I have to leave for a while for something." Then Charlotte turned her head and winked at Beat beside her.

.........

A moment later, in the women's bathroom next to the cruise ship restaurant.

"What? There's a bomb...on this ship?" Beata shouted in shock after hearing what Ange said. Then she realized that her voice was a little too loud. Fortunately, there was no one else inside or outside the bathroom at this time.

"Are you saying that someone has planted a bomb on this ship?" Beat lowered his voice and confirmed with Ange in front of him.

"Right next to the boiler, the countdown device has already started." Anjie calmly narrated to her lover and Beat.

"The bomb is set to explode 20 minutes after leaving the coast, so I need to use the C-ball to get you two to a safe area on land first."

"No, Ange, I want to stay." Charlotte said to Ange in a pleading tone.

"Don't be willful. We are running out of time. The bomb is directly connected to the boiler and there is no way to shut it off. Even if you turn off the countdown device on the bomb, it may not prevent the explosion." Anjie said seriously to her lover in front of her.

"Then let's evacuate and defuse the bomb at the same time?" Charlotte lowered her head and thought for a few seconds, then seemed to have made up her mind and asked Anjie.

"This is not a joke, Charlotte, what are your plans?" Anjie looked at the determined expression on the face of her lover in front of her.

"I'll go talk to the captain and have the passengers seek refuge as soon as possible. If the 300 or so dignitaries from other countries on board die here, it will have unforeseen consequences for the relationship between the Republic and the Kingdom."

"But what should we say? We can't just say there's a bomb on the ship," Beat asked worriedly.

"Well, I'll have to ask Miss Chise for help." Charlotte said and turned her gaze to Chise who was beside Ange.

"Huh?" Chise, who was stared at by Charlotte, showed a puzzled expression.

.........

In the restaurant, Mary, who was holding a cup of steaming black tea and waiting for Charlotte, saw Charlotte and Beatrice walking towards her.

"Mary, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. This boat is so big that I felt dizzy."

"Wow, so this kind of thing also happened to onee-sama?" Mary happily talked to Charlotte.

.........

In the cargo hold under the cabin, Qianshi threw away the empty oil drum in his hand, looked at the cargo in front of him that was emitting thick smoke and burning blazingly, covered his mouth and nose that had just been choked by the smoke, and sighed: "Isn't this a bit too much?"

.........

In the cabin, the guests in the restaurant began to become nervous as they watched the thick smoke pouring into the restaurant.

"Where did this smoke come from?"

"Is it on fire?"

"It's on fire? Then we must be in danger, right?"

"Everyone, please don't worry!" The captain in uniform stood on the stairs of the restaurant and comforted the panicked guests in the restaurant.

"Please don't worry, we are investigating the cause. Please remain calm!" the captain announced to the guests calmly.

On the side, the female secretary of the Duke of Normandy, who was in charge of the protection of the two princesses, whispered to one of his subordinates, "To be on the safe side, send Princess Mary and Princess Charlotte off the ship first, and prepare immediately..."

Just as the female secretary was secretly giving instructions to her subordinates, Beata's voice suddenly interrupted their communication and the captain who was comforting the passengers.

"What are you talking about? The royal family and dignitaries from various countries are all on this ship. What if something goes wrong?"

"This..." The captain was interrupted by Beata's sudden question, and seemed to not know how to answer the maid beside the princess in front of him.

"Your Highness!" The voice of the Duke of Normandy's secretary rang out from the crowd. She squeezed through the crowd and walked up to Charlotte. She said to Charlotte, "I will prepare the evacuation boats. Please go to the shelter with Princess Mary first."

"No, let Mary and the passengers take shelter first. I will leave after ensuring that everyone is safe." Looking at the diligent secretary, Charlotte announced with an unquestionable expression.

"But..." The secretary wanted to persuade Charlotte to take Mary away first, but a violent vibration from the floor interrupted her.

With this violent shaking, the passengers who had just been calmed down by the captain became panicked again.

"what sound?"

"Did the ship hit something?"

"Don't be ridiculous. What if this ship really sinks?"

"too frightening!"

In the restaurant, the passengers gathered together and seemed very anxious, discussing the current situation.

.........

In the boiler room of the lower engine room, Anjie tightly grasped the overheated C-ball in her hand and continued to advance despite the wind pressure and gravity anomaly caused by the critical state of the anti-gravity bomb. As the anti-gravity bomb continued to approach critical state, the surrounding gravity anomaly became more and more serious. Some unsecured objects in the boiler room began to be blown away by the wind pressure and gravity anomaly caused by the anti-gravity bomb.

"Angie!" Chise, who was standing at the open hatch of the boiler room, was unable to enter the engine room because of the abnormal wind pressure and gravity abnormalities caused by the anti-gravity bomb. Looking at Anjie in the distance who was struggling to approach the anti-gravity bomb step by step, he shouted to her worriedly.

A broken metal railing that was damaged by the gravity anomaly flew towards Qianshi who was standing at the door. Qianshi saw the metal railing flying towards him at high speed and subconsciously bent down to avoid the broken metal railing.

In the boiler room, relying on the anti-gravity field created by the severely overheated C ball, Angel finally reached the anti-gravity bomb with difficulty. She grabbed the handle of the core device on the anti-gravity bomb sphere and used all her strength to try to pull out the core of the detonator of the entire bomb. As long as the core detonator was lost, the anti-gravity bomb would not explode normally.

But things did not go as planned. As the boiler injected another stream of high-pressure steam into the anti-gravity bomb, the anti-gravity bomb generated even stronger wind pressure and gravity anomalies. Angel was almost blown away by the sudden wind pressure. She tried her best to grab the handle on the core device with her right hand, which prevented her from being blown away temporarily. Her left hand, which was loosened from the handle, reached to her waist, pulled out the grappling gun hidden in her waist, aimed at the other handle on the core, pulled the trigger of the grappling gun, and the flying grappling claw was accurately stuck on the other handle. The next second, Angel was blown directly to the door of the boiler room by an even stronger wind pressure, but fortunately, Angel was still holding the grappling gun in her hand, the other end of which was stuck on the handle of the detonator core.

Qianshi, who was guarding the door, accurately caught Anjie who was blown away, and fell outside the boiler room door with her.

"Angie! Are you okay?"

"No, the bomb pressure still won't go down."

"Is there no other way?" Qianshi asked as he felt the abnormal air flow caused by the activation of the anti-gravity bomb.

Anjie stood up from the ground again, and at this moment she caught a glimpse of a roll of fire hydrant hose hanging on the wall.

"There's a solution, Chise." Anjie trotted to the wall and removed the water pipe wrapped around the winch fixed on the wall.

"Angie, what are you going to do?" Chise watched as Anjie pulled the ever-lengthening water pipe from the fire hydrant on the wall with one hand and picked up the grappling gun on the ground with the other.

"Pull out the water pipes, wrap them around the bomb, and pull it down! Quick!"

After hearing Ange's order, Chise quickly followed Ange's instructions and began to act.

Chapter 62: The Smoky World of Steam: Remarks on the Release

How should I put it? Actually, it was just a sudden whim that I decided to write a book, but as I was writing, I found that there were still many things that needed to be planned. So in this process, I searched for information and asked friends in the group, wrote an outline and made plans, and finally came up with a very long-term plan and outline. First of all, please don't be impatient, readers, the second volume will officially start the story of going to heaven. The first volume is just an introduction. The plot of the first volume will focus on the period from 1902 to 1908, which is not too long. As for why the plot of the first volume ends in 1908, you can guess. As a hint, there was a very important event in history in 1908. This event was the opportunity for the protagonists to go to heaven and the foreshadowing of the plot of the second volume.

I am also gradually improving some of the problems with this book that readers have mentioned in the comments and posts. I hope that readers can continue to give me suggestions. Thank you. If there are any shortcomings, I will try my best to improve them.

I also hope that you can continue to support the long-term updates of this book. In short, I am asking for blades, monthly tickets, and recommendations. Thank you.

Chapter 63: The principle of color nuclear force materials?

Angel had a water pipe wrapped around her waist and held the grappling gun tightly with both hands. She followed the steel wire rope that was still connected to the bomb body, and moved forward with difficulty in the gravity anomaly and terrible wind pressure caused by the anti-gravity material bomb. As the steel wire rope of the grappling gun in Angel's hand was retracted into the grappling gun little by little, Angel was also approaching the bomb body that was on the verge of exploding step by step.

The unusual movement in the boiler room also attracted the attention of the workers working in the engine room at the bottom of the ship. Fearing accidents such as boiler explosions, several workers in the engine room notified the captain and the first mate. The captain and the first mate, who were still worried about the fire in the cargo hold and the passengers on the ship who were in danger and were still in the process of evacuating, rushed to the engine room outside the boiler room after hearing the report from the engine room workers.

"We'll go check the situation, you guys continue to stay at your posts." The captain and the first mate came to the engine room and gave orders to the restless workers who were gathered outside the boiler room where the unusual movement occurred.

When the two walked up the stairs to the boiler room door, they saw a strong light coming from behind the wide-open watertight door of the boiler room, which made it impossible for them to open their eyes. A huge amount of air was continuously drawn into the boiler room from the door, causing a strong airflow. The gravity anomaly caused by the anti-gravity bomb also destroyed some steam pipes in the boiler room, and the leaked high-pressure steam continued to overflow from the boiler room door.

"What on earth is going on?" The captain and the first mate looked at the boiler room door in shock, which was emitting green light and leaking high-pressure steam.

"Could it be that the pipe is cracked? But how could a cracked pipe emit such a strong green light?" The first mate beside the captain was a little confused by what was happening in the air above the boiler.

"No matter what, we have to shut down the boiler first in this situation." The captain looked at the still unclear situation and planned to let the workers find a way to shut down the boiler first.

Chise was hiding behind a thick steam pipe next to the boiler room door, carrying a roll of removed fire hydrant hose. As Anjie continued to get closer to the bomb body in the boiler room, the hose on Chise's shoulder was getting shorter and shorter.

At this moment, accompanied by another gust of strong wind pressure generated by the bomb, a figure suddenly flew out from the door of the boiler room that was constantly overflowing with high-pressure steam, and fell directly onto the stairs not far in front of the captain and the first mate.

Anjie stood up again, clutching her forehead, which had been stung by the impact of the hard metal floor. She spotted the captain and first mate, who were looking towards the unusual movement in the boiler room. However, Anjie clearly couldn't care less about them. She shouted to Chise, who was hiding behind a thick pipe outside the boiler room, "Wrap the water pipe directly around the gears in the engine room, and then pull the bomb down! Quick!"

"What! A...bomb! How could there be a bomb?" The captain, who was still looking into the boiler room, was obviously frightened when he heard the word "bomb" shouted by Anjie.

Qian Shi, who was standing by, didn't care about the stunned captain and first mate. He carried the fire hose connected to the bomb and quickly bypassed the two of them and ran to the steam turbine gears that were rotating at high speed in the engine room not far away. In the astonished eyes of a group of workers who were there, he threw the fire hose in his hand directly into the steam turbine gears that were rotating at high speed.

The high-speed rotating gear shaft quickly wrapped around the fire hose and tightened it within just a few seconds. As the powerful force of the high-speed rotating gear shaft of the steam turbine pulled, the fire hose, the other end of which was fixed on the bomb, slowly pulled the bomb away from the base connected to the steam pipes.

"Get out of the way! The bomb is coming!" Angel shouted at the captain and first mate who were still in a daze outside the boiler room.

"???"

児酒Ling儛彡吓奇三“!!!”

The captain and the first mate, who were brought to their senses by Angel's scolding, finally remembered to dodge the incoming bombs. They quickly bent down and ran to both sides. Less than two seconds after they made the evasive action, the huge spherical body of the anti-gravity bomb smashed open the narrow door frame of the boiler room under the pull of the fire hose, and flew rapidly into the rotating gears of the engine room not far away. With a loud "bang", the body of the anti-gravity bomb hit the shaft of the steam turbine gear and broke into countless metal fragments due to the impact. The core, which lost the high-pressure steam supply, stopped working immediately and was crushed into a pile of scrap parts under the squeezing of the high-speed rotating gears of the steam turbine.

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Several hours later, Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the last guest board the lifeboat. Not far away, after exchanging a few words with the crew in charge of the evacuation, the Indian secretary approached and reported to Charlotte, "Everyone has been evacuated. Princess, please leave the cruise ship as soon as possible."

"Okay." Charlotte responded to the secretary after looking at the empty deck, and pulled Beata onto the lifeboat.

"The three stolen bombs have been successfully recovered." In the conference room of the Republic Intelligence Organization's control room, L's assistant 7 reported to everyone in the conference room.

"What kind of success is this?" In the conference room, the major pointed angrily at the three bomb detonators on the table and questioned. Only two of the three core devices on the table were intact, and the third one was placed in a box: in a state of scrap parts that was almost like a pile of scrap metal.

"It's all in pieces now. How can this be considered a success?" The major pointed excitedly at the third core device that had been dismantled into a pile of scrap parts and complained loudly to everyone present.

"Okay, okay... at least the Republic's technology hasn't been stolen, right?" Dolly Shope on the side comforted the emotional major.

"Notice to all teams: Thank you for your hard work and a job well done." L, the leader of the control room who had endured the greatest pressure in the entire operation, finally breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the three cores that had been recovered on the table and the major who was being comforted by Dolly Shope. He lit a cigar, brought it to his lips and took a slow puff.