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Chapter 65: Heaven-defying Pistons! (Subscription requested)

On the inky black sea.

This small fishing boat, super-modified, sped rapidly forward, propelled by the cyclical motion of the lithium-electric pistons, each push creating waves more than a meter high behind the stern.

When encountering waves churned up by the rising tide, the streamlined metal hull, encased in [Iron Sheets], would slice through the waves like a dagger.

Foam splashed into the cabin, and the entire boat even showed signs of popping a wheelie like a ghost rider!

Chen Jue, sitting inside the MC [Boat] embedded in the hull, listened to the howling of the sea wind and tapped the [Wooden Pressure Plate] beside him incessantly, as if frantically clicking a mouse in a game.

“Pressing it once propels 1 block of matter, which translates to 1 cubic meter of seawater in the ocean.”

“This thrust is much faster than manually paddling an MC [Boat]!”

Chen Jue first glanced at the speed displayed on the phone's navigation.

From the moment it rushed out of the boatyard, the speedometer had been soaring from 0 all the way to '52 kilometers per hour', and it was still slowly increasing!

Converted into nautical speed units, it was equivalent to a speed of 34 knots.

Compared to the previous upper limit of 8 meters/second for manually paddling the MC [Boat], this speed was more than twice as fast.

Looking back at the stern, with the assistance of the lithium-electric pistons, the successive waves were like a high-powered marine thruster churning the water.

Even more terrifying was that Chen Jue discovered through observation that during the process of the lithium-electric piston pushing 1 block of seawater, it would not draw the seawater back in when the piston head retracted.

What kind of concept was this?

It was equivalent to the piston head not causing any kinetic energy loss during the retraction process!

“The moment it pushes out, it directly forms a vacuum zone!”

“This… is probably the power of MC's rules again, it's too damn buggy!” Chen Jue gasped, inhaling a mouthful of salty sea air.

He suddenly thought of those short video clips on Douyin, featuring big trucks hauling pigs, set to DJ remixes of rainy-night piano music.

Always six or nine vehicles, flying close to the water surface.

Chen Jue felt that if the hull of this fishing boat was wide enough, he could even install four or five lithium-electric pistons at the stern to play wave-pushing together.

Chen Jue couldn't even imagine how fast the speed would be at that time!

What shocked him even more was that the boost limit of this single lithium-electric piston had not been fully tested yet.

Because according to the settings in the MC game, the piston extension time is 0.2 seconds, and the retraction time is 0.4 seconds.

The entire action of completing a piston push takes a total of 0.6 seconds.

Obviously, the frequency of Chen Jue pressing the wooden pressure plate by hand could not reach 0.6 seconds/time.

Based on this calculation, the 34-knot speed of this single unit was the limit of Chen Jue's hand speed, not the operational limit of the lithium-electric piston!

… …

“Ah~ ORA ORA ORA!”

Chen Jue unleashed a barrage of attacks on the pressure plate. Finally, his hands were so sore that he barely managed to increase the fishing boat's speed by a few kilometers on the original basis.

He was just about to pull Tie Lao Liu to have it press the clicking pressure plate for him.

Suddenly, the piston behind the stern stopped working.

“Did it run out of power?”

Chen Jue suddenly realized something.

Looking back, as expected, the lithium-electric piston that was just convulsing frantically had a pop-up message box directly above it indicating 'Battery Exhausted'.

Opening the phone's navigation and based on the distance displayed on the map, this modified small fishing boat had sped a full 10 kilometers across the sea in just a few minutes!

“Charging 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity can travel about 2 kilometers?”

Chen Jue's eyes lit up instantly after calculating this result.

It should be known that the new energy vehicle industry is currently in full swing, with various new car manufacturers entering the electric vehicle race.

On the streets, various green-plated, novel-shaped new electric cars are emerging endlessly, and many brands are so unfamiliar that even ordinary people can't name them.

In contrast, the development of electric ships seems very deserted, and it is rare to see them in the news.

Because the current electric ships, like electric cars ten years ago, are limited by the problem of battery life and are not favored by the market.

Whether it is electric hydrofoil boats or electric cruise ships placed in park lakes for tourists to ride, after various large shipbuilding companies have tried and tested many experimental ship types, they have found that in the most ideal state, charging 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity can only support small ships to run 0.1 kilometers in the water.

And once encountering bad weather or complex water flow environments, the 0.1-kilometer range converted from 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity will continue to be discounted!

Even small boats are like this, not to mention large electric cargo ships and electric container ships.

To summarize a few reasons, it is nothing more than the excessive energy loss of electric ships during navigation, the slow charging efficiency after docking, and the insufficient cruising range, which is far less efficient than existing marine engines.

However, these future technical problems that need time to solve were all easily solved after Chen Jue accidentally synthesized this lithium-electric piston!

“This battery life and power conversion efficiency are definitely black technology!” Chen Jue couldn't help but sigh.

In his eyes, the confidentiality level of this [Lithium-Electric Piston] has risen to the same level as the 'keel piles' cut from [Iron Blocks] on the Square Technology construction site. Once buried underground, they can never be easily dug out and taken away for research.

Not even scraping off some material powder is allowed!

Otherwise, once this MC black technology, comparable to the Protoss, is exposed to the outside world, Chen Jue wouldn't know how to explain its working principle.

Even if it has to be taken out and used at the risk, sufficient camouflage must be done, and it must be handed over to the Iron Golems to drive.

… …

Blowing the sea breeze, Chen Jue paddled the oars with a clear head and quickly returned to the boatyard.

Since the power of this lithium-electric piston was exhausted, Chen Jue tried to remove it and asked Tie Yi to go to the hardware store to buy some electrician accessories back.

Following the power plug on the side of the lithium-electric piston, he made a double-headed charging connection cable and plugged it in.

The next second, he saw the pop-up box prompting 'Insufficient Power' turn into a green battery icon, and the small grids of electricity in the battery were flashing to indicate the charging state.

“It’s as convenient to use as charging a phone.”

“Plug and play?”

“As long as a lithium-electric piston is equipped on the boat, and some more batteries are placed for real-time power supply, wouldn’t it completely solve the problem of battery life?”

Chen Jue showed a bit of amazement when he saw this.

This mutated square is indeed more user-friendly than the original MC in terms of humanized design.

I just don’t know which bear child god made the modified mod.

However, the test of the lithium-electric piston has not yet ended.

Putting the piston aside to continue charging, Chen Jue used the remaining [Lithium Iron Phosphate] to synthesize 49 lithium-electric pistons through the workbench.

However, this time, Chen Jue didn't use the small fishing boat with the new hull for experiments anymore.

Instead, looking at the pile of lithium-electric pistons in his backpack, a bizarre and bold idea popped into his head!

When it was past 12 o'clock at night, the workers watching the excitement outside the large construction site had all returned to the dormitory to rest and sleep, and the entire Minghua Shipyard was pitch black inside and out.

Chen Jue called a few Iron Golems, dug a 1-block-deep open channel along the shorter side of the shipyard's corner, and widened a gap of several blocks at the same wall root on the other end.

The 49 lithium-electric pistons were filled into the open channel on the short side in a parallel manner, and then a wooden pressure plate was placed on top as a starting switch.

“Glug~” Chen Jue looked at his masterpiece in front of him and couldn't help swallowing.

Let the Iron Golems responsible for keeping watch ensure that there were no monitoring probes or human eyes nearby.

Finally, like a bear child possessed, countless voices in his heart urged him to lift one foot and step on the pressure plate.

The next second, he heard a neat “creak” sound.

This row of lithium-electric pistons buried in the open channel, under the stimulation of the pressure plate, pushed the piston heads in the horizontal direction at the same time, pushing the Minghua Shipyard, which was originally standing on the foundation, a full 1 meter away in place!

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