"This is..." Xia Lin looked at Ivan and Yelena who came with a stretcher and a seriously injured person in confusion, "Did he fall into the molten steel furnace?"

"No, it was beaten by the Ursus, with a...very strange weapon." Ivan hesitated for a moment, but still didn't hide the matter, "Father originally covered our retreat, those trash Not Papa's match at all, but they unearthed a very odd weapon that even Papa's shield couldn't stop."

"Forget it, we're not discussing this matter now, take him to the medical room." Xia Lin sighed, "I'm just a veterinarian, why do you have to come to me."

"This..." Ivan actually didn't know that he was a veterinarian, but after thinking about it, a veterinarian should be a veterinarian, it's better than nothing.

After frantically stuffing the Patriot into the medical cabin, Xia Lin began to let the automatic surgery arm remove the melted armor for him, and a long injection needle pierced through the gap in the armor, injecting precious high-concentration nanomedicine Agents, these little guys will kill all infectious microorganisms and inhibit the biological inflammatory response.

"This injury is too serious, I can only do my best." Xia Lin took some somatic cells of the patriot and threw them into the autologous culture tank. After injecting bovine placentasu and various hormones, these somatic cells would rapidly divide, Then it forms a living piece of meat as if it were tissue cultured meat.

In fact, this is the livestock equipment used to grow meat, not even medical equipment at all, but food equipment, but now he just makes the nanomachines have raw materials available, and the DNA of the local people has obvious artificial adjustments and disorders However, it is difficult for nanomachines to use human beings to synthesize new tissues like in the Star Alliance.

"Okay, tell me now, what did you guys do!?" Patriot's injuries, the results of the scan made Xia Lin a little uneasy, severe burns, it looks like "plasma cutter" burns out, "what kind of weapon"

"We took pictures." Terra has a camera, although it is the oldest film camera, this thing does not require Originium skills, otherwise, the resume photos of those operators in Rhodes Island cannot be explained.

The photo was blurry, because the photo was taken in a panic, and only a part of the heavily armored Ursus soldier holding the weapon was captured, but the weapon itself was very clear.

"This is... an industrial ion cutting machine? Is he really a human?" Xia Lin couldn't help complaining. The planetary cracking site of the Star Alliance is used to finely chop the super-large minerals that have been initially cut and separated. The plasma cutting distance of advanced equipment can reach more than one kilometer in a vacuum, and the distance in the atmosphere is almost 300-400 meters.

The usual usage is to hang on the traveling frame of the knife, dozens to hundreds of units, quickly split the cracked planetary rocky crust into small pieces of minerals, and after dismantling and connecting to the industrial power source, the miners It can also be hand-held for cutting and manual operation.

In the manual mode, some ores that are not considered "ores" are mainly processed, so it is impossible to establish a standardized cutting and dismantling process. As for the ores that are not considered "ores", we need to mention the current planetary cracking process. The main targets are mostly those ancient battlefields that are completely covered by unexploded bombs from both sides, or where the entire planet has been bombed into a death star.

There is also the cracking of the administrative planets in the territory of the former Gaia Empire. The Star Alliance does not have the mood and population to colonize these places. Who knows if there are any lizard nests hidden in the underground of those dead planets.

Therefore, when performing cracking, it is easy to encounter high-value "minerals" that cannot establish a standard production line, including buildings, factory ruins, crashed warships, and some shelters. A brood of lizard pups emerges.

As an interstellar civilization of the same magnitude, its accumulated wealth is extremely rich even after the war, so workers are usually willing to cut it manually, so that more property can be kept as a small treasury and additional income for the entire engineering team .

Well, now that you have a general understanding of what this "industrial tool" cuts, you can understand Xia Lin's confusion. In theory, the armor on your body can be regarded as the Gaia's "Ithil Crystalline Alloy" If you do, you should instantly turn into a mass of high-heat organic ions, instead of sending it for rescue while still breathing.

"How did he survive?"

"Father is not an ordinary person..."

"No, I didn't mean that, I mean, if this...weapon, it's real, theoretically your dad would be able to put himself in an armored shell bigger than a house, he wouldn't be able to It should be turned into green smoke together with his bunker, that thing, within 3~4 seconds..."

Xia Lin thought for a while, pointed to the workshop not far away, and said, "Cut that thing into two pieces, and how many pieces can be cut into pieces depends on the mood of the user."

"No, what are you talking about?" Ivan stared, "That thing doesn't have that kind of power at all, it took almost half a minute to burn Dad's shield." Immediately, the scene became quiet, okay After half a day, Xia Lin thought of another thing.

"What did they charge it with?"

"Origin Stone, a huge Origin Stone backpack." Ivan didn't hide it, because the "farmer" in front of him seemed to be very familiar with the ancestor weapon dug out by Ursus.

"..." Xia Lin began to calculate silently. Assuming that the power generation efficiency of Ursus's backpack is the same as that of his own motor, the power is less than 3 megawatts. For the need to connect superconducting cables, For a cutting machine with a power consumption of 75~90 megawatts...it can only be called the ignition of the machine to test whether there is a fault before cutting.

"You should be thankful that they used the wrong energy source. This is not a weapon, but a tool, just like an ax or a saw. If they are connected to a large energy source... none of you will be able to escape alive come out."

And if this kind of thing is found, it looks very new, as if it has just been unpacked, could it be that the cargo box of the windrunner fell off?Wait, Windrunner's Cargo Box!Cold sweat broke out on Xia Lin's head.

"Have you ever seen such a thing?" Xia Lin hurriedly projected a picture, which is a news promotion picture of the Star Alliance, as if a huge ship-like complex device is lying on a support frame, and the second picture is The disassembly diagram of that device, Xia Lin was referring to a device painted in bright red and orange on the disassembly diagram.

"Looks like I've seen it"

"Have you seen it before! This thing is not dangerous, you'd better recall it carefully!" Xia Lin's anxious eyes almost popped out.

It was a large-scale space engineering device sent by Windrunner to the planetary cracking site. It was called the "Gravity Oscillating Ore Crusher Knife". After it was fully assembled, it was a giant tower with a height of more than 2 kilometers, usually arranged along the equator.

Since this size exceeds the cabin specifications of any cargo ship of the Covenant, it usually only carries the core components inside, and the rest are manufactured on-site using the surface minerals of the dismantled planet.

Install a certain number according to the volume of the planet, and its design specification is to cut through the rocky crust with a thickness of 40 to 50 kilometers-to put it bluntly, it is to cut the crust of a planet along the equator like an onion, and then peel it off. Exposing the scorching mantle and core at the gravitational pumping station.

Of course, Terra definitely does not have the industrial strength to install this behemoth, and the installation and debugging of core components is not something that Terra technicians can understand and operate, Xia Lin is not worried.

But have you ever thought about a question, such a huge destructive power means consuming enough energy to overcome the binding force of planetary materials, so what kind of reactors and fuels in the universe can provide this power?

The answer is: antimatter piles and antimatter fuel.

In order to avoid the embarrassing scene of machines waiting for oil or machines such as oil, fuel and core components are usually shipped together. If there are core components in the warehouse left by Windrunner, then there must be 4 antimatter fuel tanks.

Well, it's not a big deal, it's just that each jar is stuffed with about 80 kilograms of antihydrogen atomic groups, and under the action of a gravitational restraint, they are compressed into a dense solid antihydrogen sphere.

However, there is a technical problem, that is, the restraint of the fuel tank requires energy consumption, whether it is because the Terrans destroyed the battery, or the battery was damaged when it fell, or it simply took too long and the battery was burned dry.

Once the inner restraint field disappears...

"Four 80-kilogram antimatter fuel tanks... It's hard to say whether it can blow up the continent of Terra, but it's not a problem to blow up the entire Ursus!"

Although the energy density of antimatter is high, its power is not as exaggerated as in the sci-fi. For example, if one kilogram blows up the earth, the annihilation equivalent per kilogram of antimatter is only about 4000 million tons. Compared with the largest " The Khrushchev bomb" is even lower. (5000 million tons equivalent)

80 kilograms is equivalent to 32 big Ivans, and the addition of 4 cans is equivalent to Ursus being washed by hundreds of [-] million-equivalent nuclear bombs, and the explosive power of antimatter in the atmosphere is actually quite large. Not too high.

Antimatter is different from the plasma sphere of nuclear explosion. It itself is a kind of solid material particle, which can be cooled to close to absolute zero to reduce the kinetic energy of the particle. It will only release energy when it comes into contact with normal matter and undergoes annihilation.

Therefore, when the antimatter particles in the outer layer contact with the atmosphere and annihilate, the explosion will form a near-vacuum environment, and the annihilation of antimatter that cannot touch more normal matter will quickly decrease and stop, and will be blown to In space, the number of particles actually annihilated is not as many as it seems.

But it is still more than enough to blow up Ursus, "If you really saw it, then we'd better go there right away! Forget it, tell me what happened first!"

Xia Lin originally planned to rush there immediately, but he was afraid that if he got there, he would stimulate the locals to start destroying the fallen warehouses-once the fuel tank was destroyed, it would not be a problem of the mushroom cloud, but the problem of the earth on the surface of Terra. There will be a problem of an antimatter fountain, and the explosion scene is different from the nuclear explosion mushroom cloud, which is spectacular and terrifying.

This is also the reason why the Star Alliance's powerful torpedo warheads all use antimatter. Although the size of this thing has increased dramatically from a missile to a guided torpedo due to the huge restraint device, its destruction radius is larger than fusion, and it is nearly Fry farther.

Because as I have just said, the essence of antimatter is a kind of matter particle. As long as it does not touch more matter in the vacuum of the universe, it will not annihilate and waste energy.

Compared with a scorching mass of unconstrained fusion plasma filled with huge particle kinetic energy, the explosion of a directional antimatter warhead in space can be said to be extremely quiet and difficult to detect.

The antihydrogen solid that is cooled to minus 269 degrees by a magnetic trap for safety and restraint is almost non-existent on thermal radar. It is like a piece of thin hydrogen solid particles that are commonly seen in space and slightly heated by the light of stars. .

Then when your spaceship hits the "black smoke" from the torpedo, the scene is different, and the whole ship will literally "turn into light".

And if it exploded in the atmosphere, then Xia Lin felt that he would soon see Ursus become the "Land of Light", and anything that came into contact with the diffused anti-hydrogen gas on the earth, air, or mountains would be instantly destroyed. Turning into light, positive and negative particles combine to release energy in the form of critical photons that is huge enough to blow up all the soil on the surface.

This power is obviously not what your own farms and workshops can bear. No colonial buildings have considered how to survive the 320kg antimatter explosion. Well, it may be slightly better than being hit by the anti-colonial 500kg antimatter warhead A little bit, but it doesn't make any difference, the end is to become light together in an instant.

In a sense, just like the explosion of a nuclear power plant is more terrifying than the explosion of a nuclear bomb, it is normal that the explosion of industrial energy equipment is more terrifying than being directly hit by a Star Wars weapon.

"Aren't you exaggerating? It's just a relic. How could it blow up the entire Ursas?" Not to mention Ivan, even Yelena was a little skeptical, because what Xia Lin said was too exaggerated, beyond their imagination limit.

Of course, people who haven't seen half of the planet turned into "light" can't imagine the power of this kind of thing, especially after the Covenant has mastered the jump engine, which is the gravitational operation, it is so easy to create antimatter.

The critical photon released by the star is divided into a positron and a negative electron, and the gravitational horizon is used to separate the pair of entangled positive and negative particles, and the unconstrained positron is obtained.

In the same way, after the negative protons are separated, push the positrons in and it becomes an antineutron cluster. If you don’t push them in, let it form a stable antihydrogen atom and then refrigerate and compress it into a solid, which is a good way of transportation and storage.

The only problem is like the early use of nuclear energy by humans. The energy consumption of this set of equipment is several times greater than the energy released by the antimatter it produces, so that such antimatter production stations are all built very close to the stars. The production efficiency is Calculated by "atomic group".

Fortunately, they are all unmanned equipment. As long as the spread is large enough to surround the stars into a Dyson cloud, the final output is still quite impressive.

Under Xia Lin's persistent request, Ivan had to start telling how they discovered the excavation site built by the Ursas near the wilderness, and what they dug up. With the descriptions of other team members, basically The above restores the situation at that time.

However, it is hard to say whether there is this set of anti-matter equipment or not. In that kind of frantic battle, it is difficult for both sides to notice whether there is something in the picture that Xia Lin took out among the things that are too large and almost the same as the background.

Chapter 31 Patriots in action

Back to a week ago, the patriot and his snowfield guerrillas, who moved southward with anxiety about the abnormal behavior of the empire, entered the southern part of the snowfield, which is the junction of the Ursus border area and the development area. With the existence of natural disasters, the territory of this world can hardly be regarded as a fixed territory.

There is no distinction between developed areas and underdeveloped areas on the earth. In this world, a country’s territory can be roughly divided into four types: core area, development area, border area, and uninhabited area. Different from the earth, they Most of the time, the route of the city is changing with the movement.

The border area is the boundary of civilization, and the development area is the branch of civilization. Further south, mobile cities and land fleets of the Ursus regular army will appear. The farthest power projection and security patrol forces of the Ursus army can only reach development zone.

The so-called development zone is the dangerous area full of origin stones after the natural disaster. It can also be regarded as an industrial zone. Mobile cities mainly focusing on heavy industries such as mining and metallurgy patrol the land to collect resources and manufacture materials. Ensure that the core urban agglomerations dominated by commerce, scientific research, and manufacturing in the core area can have sufficient raw materials and commodities.

And in one of the main battlefields 15 years later, Cherbonog is such an industrial city located in a development zone. Otherwise, it would be a dream to capture and control a mobile city by relying on the crooked melons of the integration movement. , if it is in the core area, even if there is an inner ghost, it will not work.

Unless Black Snake is really tired of life, he will do this in the core area in front of a group of royal family and diehards including Fort St. Jun, and the emperor and other nobles can't tolerate him playing with fire to this point.

Even if there is still some distance from the real development zone, the area where Ursus land-ships and mobile cities pass by, the Patriot and his troops have to go out at night and day as much as possible, let alone get supplies, Be extremely careful even when eating and sleeping.

This is not a border area far away from the Emperor Tiangao, nor is it a no-man's land where there is nothing but Originium worms and Originium mutant creatures. The economy here is more developed, and the lives of ordinary people are better. The hatred and rejection of the opponents are far greater than those on the snowy field.

Although the villages there are also hostile to the infected, due to the excessive expropriation and various atrocities of the Ursus army and picket team, they are not friends with the Ursus officials, and at least they can deal with each other.

But it’s different here. The patriots saw the cruel behavior of the locals towards the infected several times along the way. Some of them tricked the desperate infected into it, anesthetized them with drugs, and then the ruling picket team hung them all from the trees.

Some colluded with the managers of nearby mines and industrial stations to sell these infected people for a good price, and these two are still a little bit humane, the most terrifying thing is to trick them into the cellar Inside, starve to death, watching the infected people kill each other and eat human beings for fun.

Not to mention the atrocities committed by those idle Ursus youths who transferred the hatred and anger caused by unemployment, poverty, and oppression of the empire to the infected, which made the demons dumbfounded.

The patriot became more and more silent, the oppression and brutality of the empire, he could lead the shield guards to rise up to resist, protect the village, attack the mine, and liberate the infected, but what about the tyranny from the people of Ursus?

When facing non-infected people, most of these people are as enthusiastic and forthright as ordinary Ursas, and they can lend a helping hand if there is any difficulty, but when facing infected people, these people should be called The "good guy" will instantly change his face and become even more evil and cruel than the devil.

The patriots who can't do anything can only silently lead the team around these villages to search and confirm, and move forward. A dying consolation.

Originally, it was Frost Star who made this choice instead of the Patriots. She is more determined and ruthless in this regard. The snow monster squad will not attack civilians, but they will never let go of those who persecute the infected, no matter what they usually do. what kind of person.

It's just that the patriots who came to the south earlier did not have the white rabbit, and the white rabbit was still leading the group of rookie hunters in the farm to train and hunt, having fun.

Finally, after several months of searching and marching, the Patriots finally knew what the Imperials were doing. A few months ago, a natural disaster hit the marginal development zone of the Empire, and an industrial station was devastated. However, , Rescuers later found some "relics of the ancestors" nearby.

And it looks different from any of the previous relics. After the report, it seems that the empire is not a little strange about this. For some reason, some upper-level personnel of the empire clearly know that Terra’s starry sky is not full of stars. And it's not surprising that those "stars" will fall one day.

A certain lady who was going to be a maid also came to the north ahead of time because of the news, but she didn't seem to touch the ruins protected by Ursus' elite troops, but went further north.

She has some.......unusual sources of information that the ruins fell from the north to the south, so she decided to venture deep into the northern wilderness no-man's land.

The Ursus deployed heavy troops around the excavation site, which made the Patriots pay a considerable price when they led troops around their patrol routes and passed through layers of defenses, if it weren't for him. One member, they may even be wiped out in this kind of suicidal action.

However, it is almost the same now, "there are soldiers around the mine, regular troops, not those pickets and ordinary security personnel." There is a bloodstain on Ivan's face, which is that the empire's crossbowmen regularly shoot irregularly at the surrounding vegetation caused by arrows.

"Number?"

"As far as Varian and I saw, there are more than a hundred of them, not counting the buildings, two industrial stations, and one excavation station. We don't have any weapons on hand that can threaten them." The industrial station is A mobile industrial platform, generally used for mining, and occasionally doing other things, and the excavation station is transformed from a mining station.

Collecting refined source stones and excavating the ruins of the ancestors all use this kind of thing, especially the excavation station, which has various isolation cabins and laboratories, which can provide enough space for scholars and workers to subdivide those who are harmless or Useless or dangerous "artifacts".

"Location"

"The vast majority of people are around the excavation site, some of them are in the temporary camp, and their vigilance is very high. In addition, I saw people from the Royal Research Institute, and... the flag of a certain grand duke"

"equipment?"

"The elite Ursus Legion configuration, as we used to, heavy soldiers are equipped with 'black armor' and 'big shield', while other marksmen also have heavy armor-piercing crossbows, I also saw them have a dangerous explosion Warehouse"

Originium explosives are more dangerous than gunpowder. Gunpowder is most likely to explode. Originium explosives are not so easy to explode, but they are the same as nuclear radiation. Long-term exposure may induce ore disease.

"Is it etching explosives..." Etching is a way to manufacture Originium utensils. Staffs and ammunition are derived from this way, but compared to bombs, the etched ammunition loaded into guns is smaller. The requirements are higher, and due to the reduced volume, the pure source stone has to be used to make up the energy gap, which makes it surprisingly expensive.

"Is there a gun? That kind?" the patriot asked after thinking for a while.

Xia Lin's supposedly "real blunderbuss" weapon left a deep impression on him, to the point that even if he had seen the pope's blunderbuss guards, he wondered if the other party was deliberately using a low-power weapon used for ceremonial guards, and put The real powerful guns are hidden.

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