Chapter 98 Refined Control of the Magnetic Field

"Still haven't found the target?"

The same question echoed in the conference room across the ocean, but this time, the words were filled with suppressed anger. The strange war in Huashi didn't come to a halt with the extinguishing of the flames. Instead, as time passed, the ripples it caused grew ever wider. The plummeting stock market, the collapse of banks, and the spread of financial and military crises led to a rapid decline in their global influence. If it weren't for the deterrence maintained by the aircraft carriers cruising around the world under Level - 1 military alert, the difficulties they faced would be far greater than they were now.

"All the military and political executives, consortiums, and more than 60,000 of the most outstanding representatives of Country C were eliminated in one fell swoop. Now the whole world is watching us. Everyone in the country asks me every day who our enemy is. Millions of Country C soldiers are on standby at all times, and now you're telling me that we don't even know where the enemy is?"

Rex Lee spoke expressionlessly, his eyes calmly fixed on his new uniform reflected in the window. He had been promoted again. The chaotic war a few months ago left a temporary void in the military and political leadership of Country C. Under the state of war with nationwide Level - 1 alert, countless mid - and high - level officials completed their job transitions in a short time. He, who was originally on the verge of retirement, had started to assume the position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest combat command unit in Country C.

Three months of investigation, followed by another three months of piecing together information. Half a year had passed, and the dissatisfaction and anger within the country had reached a boiling point. If he couldn't give the country a satisfactory answer, his general's uniform could easily become a prison uniform at any moment. After all, he was the one who issued the order for that world - shocking bombing.

"Where's the investigation on that nuclear bomb and the steel pipe factory in Country X?"

"The main company of the other side, Jian'an Technology, has agreed to our supervision, but Country X has rejected the entry request of our investigation team!"

"What's the reason?"

"Their embassy forwarded a document, and the expert group is currently studying it."

{"The nuclear bomb wasn't detonated? Did you launch the attack?"

"I dismantled the nuclear bomb. As for the attacker, you can think of them as aliens."

"They're aliens, then who are you?"

"You can think of me as a time traveler."}

In the blurry video, one could still vaguely see the chaotic interior scene of the Capitol building before it was destroyed. The figure that resembled Iron Man in the video also allowed them to know the true form of their target, instead of just a subjective sketch of the Apocalyptic Knight.

"Is this information from Country X reliable?"

A staff member stood up and said, "Through trace restoration, this information is most likely genuine."

"What about the nuclear bomb?"

"It's a historical legacy from the Soviet era, transported into our country by the South夫 Resistance Organization in conjunction with desert militants."

"I want to turn that desert into a real hell!"

"Also! Find him!" Rex Lee's face was terrifyingly dark. "At all costs!"

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"Humanity's refined control of photons enables you to carry out primary material processing at the microscopic scale. In essence, the lithography technology used to etch on silicon wafers isn't much different from the manual micro - carving technology that existed in Country X hundreds of years ago. You've just changed the carving tool from a blade to a photon beam."

With the completion of the thermonuclear fusion reactor, the environment in the lunar base underwent earth - shattering changes. Song Han had previously been skeptical about the importance of the technology of refined control of the electromagnetic field mentioned by the system. However, when the finished product was finally in front of him, he understood why the first technological achievement that truly exceeded the current human technological level lit up by the system was this.

It was a spherical structure that closely resembled the fusion reactor. The low - temperature superconducting wires immersed in the liquid nitrogen pipeline formed a magnetic field matrix on the inner surface of this spherical structure, which looked like a chip structure. As huge amounts of energy continuously poured in from the fusion reactor, the graphene powder placed inside this spherical structure, which the system called the primary processing chamber, began to float in the air under the action of the magnetic field. It was as if countless pairs of big hands were constantly kneading the powder. In less than thirty minutes, the powder was kneaded into coiled thin wires.

"What is this?"

"Multi - layer graphene prism stack wires, which can also be called room - temperature superconducting wires."

Looking at the coiled thin wires inside through the observation port of the processing chamber, Song Han's eyes were filled with wonder. If the practical application of nuclear fusion had always been 50 years away from humanity, then this thin wire was a dream that humanity had been chasing for years.

With the emergence of room - temperature superconducting wires, a new and more concise reactor was soon completed. It didn't have the cumbersome internal devices or the complex systematic application of low - temperature superconductors. It was like a simple spherical combustion chamber. As helium - 3 was continuously filled into the pipeline, the plasma, which was several times hotter than that in the first reactor, continuously rotated inside the reactor cavity under the restraint of the high - energy and strong field excited by the room - temperature superconductor.

Song Han stepped forward and touched the cold outer wall of the reactor cavity. It was hard to imagine that there was a sun burning fiercely inside.

"Due to the limitations of the high - voltage current and current flow rate of low - temperature superconducting wires, the first - generation reactor could only carry out incomplete fusion at a low temperature of 120 million degrees. The energy flow rate of multi - layer graphene prism stack wires is one order of magnitude higher than that of low - temperature superconductors. The super - strong field it excites can truly restrain the 500 million - degree high temperature generated by the complete fusion of helium - 3."

In just 24 hours, Song Han witnessed a technological revolution in this base. If humanity's photon etching technology for chips is like using a photon - particle knife to perform subtractive processing through carving in the microscopic field on a silicon wafer, then under the high - strong field excited by room - temperature superconductors, the photon waves endowed with high energy are like an additive processing technology that continuously smelts materials in the processing chamber on a macroscopic scale.

There was no need for the fierce flames in human cognition to overcome the chemical bond connections between substances and melt the substances to achieve fusion. Inside the processing chamber, the force field matrix formed by the coiled room - temperature superconducting wires endowed the photon waves with extremely high energy levels as the energy flowed. It directly acted on the atomic level of the substances, counteracting the electrostatic repulsion between atoms and forcing them to fuse violently.

Just like that second - generation helium - 3 thermonuclear fusion reactor, there was no cumbersome ignition process. Instead, under the high - strong field and high pressure, the electrostatic repulsion between two helium - 3 atomic nuclei was directly counteracted, and they were violently merged into a real helium atom. At this point, it was difficult to tell whether the spore - like reactor in front of you was used for fusion reactions or material processing. With a simple mode switch, its function could be changed at any time.

The overall structure of the reactor was filled with a simple beauty. The natural characteristics of artificial intelligence allowed them to grow at a rate that humans could hardly match in repetitive production. In Song Han's perception, he just closed his eyes and took a nap. When he opened his eyes again, the huge cavity base was filled with round "mushrooms" by the system. Looking from a distance, the densely packed reactors covered the entire space, making Song Han, as a human, feel a chill down his spine.

"You see, I told you humans aren't suitable for living in the cosmic environment. Just a simple case of trypophobia makes you humans feel extremely uncomfortable with the most efficient spatial layout."

Song Han endured the nausea and shouted angrily, "Move! Immediately! I don't want to stay in this damned place for another second!"