Arknights? Colonization Ark!

The four damaged generators must be dismantled first. Their materials will be used later. The smelting process of a large number of rare metal materials is complicated, and they may not be available here, so they must be refined again and recycled.

He couldn't do it alone, so he called a few maintenance robots that had been out of service for a long time to help charge them. These robots had no battery ports and used wireless power technology. They could only work within the range of remote power piles, so they consumed a lot of electricity and their efficiency could barely keep up.

The next step is to reset the source stone power generation system of the thermal generator. Although it is called a thermal generator, since not everything releases energy through combustion, there is room for modification.

Thinking of this, Zhang Miao felt fortunate. Fortunately, the budget was insufficient at the time and a black hole engine was not installed. Otherwise, if it fell out of control, he would have said goodbye to the planet along with it.

He moved a large amount of materials from the warehouse to the industrial area, and with the assistance of Lexington, began to manufacture a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse device.

That night, after discovering that the mass of three Originium atoms had inexplicably increased, after many experimental observations and instrument analysis, they finally discovered some of the secrets of Originium. For those Originium dusts that had reacted to the end, they were no longer valuable, and further activation would mean that the input would be greater than the output.

But they do have one function, which is to absorb energy.

After a large amount of Originium dust is emitted by the mobile city, it will begin to absorb earth radiation, solar energy, thermal energy, and even cosmic rays to recharge itself. If the density of Originium dust is too high, its energy absorption reaction will cause the temperature in the area to change dramatically, and the strong temperature difference will further lead to the birth of natural disasters, such as the most typical wind disasters or extremely low temperatures caused by temperature differences.

The absorbed energies will be gathered around by the special force field of the Originium atoms, and as their own energy readings increase, the Originium dust will attract each other, thus forming chemical bonds, causing the dust to aggregate into crystals. The activity of these crystals will not be too high at first, but if they are caught in a hurricane or fall from a high altitude, there is a high possibility that they will be activated and then explode after a collision.

Chemical bonds contain less than one-tenth the energy of the energy they bind.

If he could use extremely high-frequency directional strong electromagnetic waves to interfere with it, then in theory he could break the binding force field of the Originium on energy and release this part of the energy for power supply. In this way, he could even stop the energy absorption effect of the Originium atoms themselves.

This should be the engine principle used by those conventional devices.

But that's all. Although its energy efficiency is hundreds of times higher than conventional chemical fuels, it still can't even produce the exhaust of a fission reactor, let alone drive a mobile city as big as a mountain.

And this is one of the greatest secrets of Originium itself.

It has growth properties.

The horror of this substance far exceeded any other crystals he had seen that could grow.

Most of them are obtained by cooling and precipitating similar substances from high-temperature molten liquid in the earth's core, growing year by year, or they grow through some kind of chemical reaction.

Originium is different. Zhang Miao initially thought it could reduce entropy, something that only God could do. It almost scared him to death. If this thing is real, then all the big names in the universe would probably be like the Eagle Sauce that smells oil.

Coming to your door soon!!!

However, after many experiments, it was found that the three extra atoms were not errors, but they were not so outrageous as to cause entropy reduction.

It's fusion and fission.

It's just conventional fusion and fission reactions.

And it’s in this tiny Originium crystal.

But this is already an outrageous opening to outrageous things.

It's so outrageous.

(The original plan was indeed to write it as entropy increasing matter)

Chapter 31: Unknown

When Originium dust aggregates, it will inevitably mix in some dust in the air, including the Originium mines underground.

These encapsulated impurities will gradually move to the center through the vibration of the Originium crystal.

Then, a microscopic particle is used to bombard atoms with a higher mass than the source stone, causing them to undergo a fission reaction. The energy converted from the mass lost in the fission will also be absorbed by the source stone's own energy absorption effect, and even include a large amount of nuclear radiation.

This is why Originium was detected to be radioactive.

The same is true for fusion reactions. Light-mass atoms will be squeezed by the force field used by the Originium atoms to bind energy, forming a high-pressure area and colliding with each other, causing a fusion reaction.

This process is repeated until all of them are converted into Originium atoms.

If the time is long enough, this thing may be able to swallow a lot of things until its own mass exceeds the limit and a fusion reaction occurs in the core under the influence of gravity, turning it into a star.

As for the secrets of Originium, this is just the beginning, and there are still many secrets waiting for him to discover.

It is truly a miracle substance.

However, we still don’t know the principle of the mobile city engine, so we can only build one by following the example. This requires further in-depth research.

……

Making an electromagnetic wave transmitter is not difficult. It takes less than ten minutes, and collecting materials takes longer than that.

Although simple, this thing is extremely lethal. It only takes a short while for a living person to enter it, and the extremely high frequency microwaves will ensure that you will feel like you are in a sauna, and all the water in your body will boil and evaporate in a very short time due to the thermal effect.

When it comes out, there will probably be only humans left to do it. It is more powerful than any succubus.

As long as the frequency is well controlled and the energy bound by the Originium crystal is released slowly in the form of heat, power generation can be successfully achieved.

Of course, in theory he could also use this thing as a weapon, which would be more effective than any explosives.

It's just a bit of a waste of the environment. Maybe the battle was just halfway through when God couldn't stand it anymore.

After a few high-intensity wars, everyone can consider moving to another planet to survive.

So it's best not to use this thing on weapons.

These idiots don't know how to protect the environment.

In the Empire, let alone exhaust emissions, even on a planet with a complete ecosystem, you have to go through several rounds of reporting just to plant a tree with a hoe.

Anyone who dares to mine will have to wait for a huge compensation.

The rare value of a living planet cannot be reflected by energy coins. It is a truly priceless treasure. No matter how powerful your technology for transforming the planet's ecology is, its integrity will never be comparable to that of a naturally evolved environment.

Originium can also be considered a clean energy source, which relies on absorbing various types of radiation to charge, and has no by-products, and does not even require environmental protection. To some extent, it can catch up with dark matter energy, but its energy efficiency is a bit low. However, in terms of simplicity, it is even comparable to nuclear energy and is almost comparable to coal.

But at present, we still don’t know its limit, nor do we know where that civilization got it from, and what the Originium technique is, as it doesn’t look like psychic power.

At first he thought it was an instrument error. There was no psychic response when Tallulah set the fire for the first time. But when the second and third people around her used their Originium skills, his psychic detector was like dead, with no movement at all.

Either the psychic detector in his armor was a fake, or this group of people used another method to achieve the same reality distortion effect, thereby avoiding those weird things in the virtual world.

Turtle.

If it is true, then this requires at least a dozen academician degrees.

When he thought about how he might become rich in the future, the corners of his mouth curled up wildly.

Who would still eat canned starfish then?

Just hold the 5A-grade live starfish and start eating it!

Wouldn’t it be nice to open another fox farm?

furry ecstasy

As the generator stopped running, the temperature of the central boiler began to drop, and now the colonial ship was barely running on the little power in the batteries.

Finally, the electromagnetic wave transmitter was installed on the ignition device of the generator set, and the source stone had been sent to the combustion chamber by the conveyor belt.

When everything was ready, he pressed the transmitter switch.

As the electric current passed through the metal rod, the extremely high-frequency microwaves were directly collected by the outer reflective coating and shot straight onto the pile of source stones.

The high-frequency waves that were enough to easily evaporate the blood quickly disrupted the energy beam field. The temperature in the combustion chamber rose accordingly and soon reached 800 degrees. After several conversions, the heat was converted into electrical energy and soon began to operate at full power.

Although 800 tons is not a lot, it will be enough for a few months at this rate.

The sufficient supply of electricity made it possible to use the lighting system in the originally dark colonial ship, officially transforming the space horror film into a normal science fiction film.

Without having to worry about electricity, many things that were previously impossible to do can now be done.

The most critical of these are communications and radar systems.

This is also his greatest reliance on colonization. He can call for help at any time!

It's just that we're a little far away now, and the worst case scenario is that we're stuck in some remote corner, but as long as we can get in touch, everything is not a problem.

After ensuring that the power supply was running stably, Zhang Miao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The originally tense mood was relieved at once.

Good days are coming.

It was good luck. Although many places had varying degrees of damage, the communication system was intact. The most critical quantum communication was still maintained. However, if it was to be used for communication, information had to be transmitted from a repeater in high-dimensional space, which required huge amounts of energy. Without a stable source of electricity, it was impossible to use it at all.

But I am going to log on to the forum live now to let those guys who used to mock me for failing in academic subjects have a good look.

What is the New Age Columbus?

Well, most of them may have turned to ashes, but who knows, there should still be a few alive. The Empire's hibernation technology can keep themselves alive for so long, let alone them.

"Lexington, there is hope for us to go home!"

After crashing in this unknown star field, he couldn't contact anyone, and the only one who could really confide in him was his own artificial intelligence.

Although it has been less than ten days since he woke up, he still feels very upset when he finds out that he has lost contact with the empire for ten thousand years and doesn't even know where he is now.

"Lexington?"

Her projection has been following him, but there is no happiness on her face, and her brows are furrowed.

A sense of foreboding came over me.

"What's wrong with you? We'll be able to contact the Empire soon, shouldn't you be happy?"

She looked like she wanted to say something but was hesitant. Zhang Miao had never seen such an embarrassed expression on her face.

He quickly opened his terminal, and the moment he saw the display, his pupils shrank and even his heart skipped a beat.

The quantum channel is not connected.

Chapter 32: Change

Quantum channel no connection?

how so!

"Something must have gone wrong! Impossible, this is impossible, Lexington, is there a quantum escape that we haven't observed that caused the communication failure?"

Zhang Miao tried hard to control his emotions and calm himself down. While checking the data related to Lexington, he rushed to the communication room.

There may be damage somewhere that has not been discovered.

The Federation's quantum communication technology can transmit information at superluminal speeds regardless of distance through repeaters in high-dimensional space. This would not be possible even if he floated to the end of the universe.

And as processed, there is no reason for elementary particles in an entangled state to fail if there is no escape or observation.

He checked it inside and out on the first day he woke up. This thing was basically equivalent to the black box on the ship. It was much stronger than his defensive armor and was more important than anything on the ship.

There is nothing wrong with the hyperspace sensor.

There is no problem with the quantum decryption system.

There is no problem with the gravity restraint system.

.........

No problem, no problem...

No matter how many times Zhang Miao was re-examined, no matter how many times Lexington self-examined, the final result was always only one.

Their communications systems were intact.

That leaves only one answer.

There's a problem over there.

All communication systems must be deciphered by the central host "lichens" on their home planet before being uniformly transmitted and processed.

But that is their home planet, how could there be any problem? The central host computer performs self-checks countless times every day, and any slight problem will be properly resolved immediately.

The problem of particle escape is so serious that it could even shake their foundations.

They are like a beam of light locked in a box. If one escapes, all are gone. One escape will cause communication interruption in large areas of the empire, making it out of touch.

Moreover, Zhang Miao's communication system was brand new at the time, so he would not save money here if he could. Even if it was abandoned, it would not be his turn.

unless………

.........

correct!

"Lexington! Pull up the communication records."

After the receiver is turned off, the repeater in the higher dimensions must have stored messages that he has not yet received. If anything goes wrong, there must be an answer there!

"Roger that, Captain."