I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  Blacklight Biotechnology's presence had brought countless opportunities and development to Namibia albeit its increasing political influence. This caused the parliamentarians of Namibia to harbor a mixed feeling toward the corporation.

  Regardless, it was difficult for the parliament to curb Blacklight Biotechnology's influence at its current size. Even if they were to forcefully drive the corporation out of the country, Blacklight Biotechnology would probably just restructure and survive elsewhere. However, without Blacklight Biotechnology, how would Namibia fare then?

  In one of the ceramic chemical factories in the industrial area, three engineers who were enlisted into God's Forbidden Zone were supervising ten Black Knights in their work.

  These belonged to the third batch of normal version Black Knights and they had now gone through half a year of training. It was also the final batch of normal version Black Knights. Chen Chen would soon halt the production of the normal version of Black Knights and subsequently replace it with the T-version.

  From their training speed to their structural strengths, the T-version of Black Knights vastly outperformed its normal version.

  Whereas the current batch, consisting of five hundred normal Black Knights, was not sent into the rapid reaction force. Instead, they were distributed over the factories in the industrial area.

  Then, these factories began to turn automated, such that an entire factory would function efficiently just with the involvement of a few dozens of employees.

  Currently, Chen Chen was observing the workflow in one of the ceramic chemical factories. Under Professor Charles' command, the enormous pipeline was put into motion. After three hours had passed, a flat, cylindrical, dark object was seen emerging from one of the machines.

  Looking from afar, it looked like a piece of briquette.

  "Did it work?"

  Three engineers gathered together. Professor Charles went ahead and retrieved the "briquette", which was the size of a palm. He gently placed it on his hands as if they were the world's most valuable treasures.

  "Mr. Chen, can we initiate the experiment now?" asked Professor Charles.

  "Sure, you do you. Don't worry about me." Chen Chen waved as a gesture. He was visibly as excited as the rest.

  "Okay."

  Professor Charles breathed a sigh of relief. He then had his assistant retrieve a platform. Judging from its color, the platform seemed to be made of pure steel. The bottom of the platform was connected to an electricity source, turning the platform into an electromagnet.

  Professor Charles then very carefully placed the "briquette" in mid-air above the platform.

  A strange occurrence was then observed…

  Chen Chen noticed that the "briquette" did not fall onto the steel plate. Instead, it gently oscillated in its own axis as the object continued floating upward until it reached an equilibrium point, where the object came to a complete halt.

  Just like that, the "briquette" was completely suspended a few centimeters above the steel plate!

  Although they had foreseen it may happen, the engineers were still nervous when they saw the "briquette" floating in the air…

  "It's really working…"

  Chen Chen could be seen at joy as well while he seemingly muttered a few words under his breath.

  The "briquette" was a normal-temperature superconductor, a highly advanced scientific tool that Chen Chen had previously retrieved from the Elysium dimension.

  "Mr. Chen, we… We did it…"

  Professor Charles could be seen trembling in excitement. He said excitedly, "The techniques you provided have worked. The yttrium barium copper oxide that was yielded after going through a chemical deposition and sintering is indeed a normal-temperature superconductor!"

  Chen Chen nodded and walked toward the "briquette" that was still suspending mid-air. "Please describe the object's properties."

  "Sure!"

  Professor Charles took a deep breath and suppressed the overflowing joy he was feeling within.

  "According to the technique you provided, we obtained the yttrium barium copper oxide through a chemical deposition and proceeded to vitrify it via frittage. In this process, we exercised the utmost precaution as the object was still a crystal material. Only through carefully controlling the temperature and intensity of the flame can we precisely adjust the object's boundary and maximize its conductivity…"

  After Professor Charles finished his explanation, Chen Chen asked enthusiastically, "What about its practical usages? Isn't yttrium barium copper oxide a brittle material? Can we really use it as a construction material?"

  "Absolutely."

  Charles answered determinedly, "After manipulating its properties, a metal composite oxide like this has a sufficient amount of strength and malleability. Even if it didn't reach the industrial requirement, its diamagnetivity is capable of solving most of the problems…"

  Then, Charles gently touched the suspending superconductor and exclaimed, "Look at this, it's the perfect illustration of the Meissner effect. The next Industrial Revolution is here!"

  Chen Chen did not respond but he knew that Charles was right. A superconductor material that could only be stored under low temperature could never rival a superconductor material that could be stored under normal temperature.

  In the history of human civilization, a hundred years had passed since the discovery of the first superconductor material. Countless superconductors had been used in the modern scientific field and other industries.

  Within the scientific research field, the Large Hadron Collider that was built in Europe contained up to 9300 superconductor magnets.

  Within the clinical research field, superconductors were also present in magnetic resonance imaging machines.

  Within the engineering industry, the diamagnetic frictionless gyroscope and bearing played an important role as well…

  Other than that, superconductor materials had also played an important role in military equipment, telecommunication satellites, airplanes, and more.

  A normal-temperature superconductor was not just a new superconductor material. All superconductor materials that were previously discovered could only be stored under extremely low temperatures. Such an environment could only be maintained through the use of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, which were more expensive than the material's value itself.

  As a result, low-temperature superconductor materials were typically used in only a few industries that were developed enough to facilitate that technology. It was almost impractical in everyday uses.

  However, the discovery of a normal-temperature superconductor would render low-temperature facilities worthless, saving the user the cost of maintaining these facilities as well as the capital required for constructing such facilities.

  That was only one of the many reasons. A normal-temperature superconductor would also make the replication of quantum entanglement much simpler, paving the way toward the invention of a quantum calculator.

  What more, it would also pave the way for new technologies that could manipulate nuclear fusion…

  The discovery of such material was enough to trigger the Fourth Industrial Revolution in human civilization.

  Chapter 240: Huge Technical Advancements |

  To Chen Chen, the discovery of the normal-temperature superconductor would solve many technical challenges that he faced.

  For instance, the electromagnetic levitation that was effortlessly produced by the normal-temperature superconductor would allow the frictionless bearing of the T-800 to perpetually be in pristine condition, indicating a huge upgrade for Chen Chen's robot.

  Take another instance, the construction of an electromagnetic weapon, a weapon that utilized zero-resistance magnetic field generated by a superconductor. Previously, superconductors could only be stored under low temperatures. Its strict environmental requirement had rendered the material extremely inflexible and it was unsuitable to be used to construct a small, convenient electromagnetic weapon
.

  However, the discovery of a normal-temperature superconductor meant that a light electromagnetic weapon was now possible, perhaps even reaching the size of one's palm. Meanwhile, the special property of the superconductor would remove any concern of the gun's coil burning out due to high electrical resistance.

  In the Elysium movie, it was precisely the discovery of a normal-temperature superconductor that led to the invention of various electromagnetic weapons such as the Kusal Klaus submachine gun, Kusal Crow Air Scavenger, Ascari Kaman railgun, and Ascari electromagnetic gun.

  With this normal-temperature superconductor, Chen Chen now had the ambition to research a nuclear fusion reactor and a Large Hadron Collider. It was quite possible that the world's first nuclear fusion reactor would be created in Chen Chen's hands…

  The ceramic chemical factory that produced the superconductor was merely one of Chen Chen's many factories that operated with black technology. Opposite this factory was a fuel cell factory.

  The factory had combined the techniques that were derived from the Elysium dimension and the technologies from the Avengers to produce a highly-efficient hydrogen fuel cell.

  Other electronics factories and machinery factories had their research objectives too. Some were tasked with researching high displacement metals while others were tasked with researching inertial dampers. From the outside, these factories seemed just like any other ordinary building. However, these factories were all monitored closely by Little X while drones and closed-circuit cameras were placed throughout the industrial area. Fully-armored Black Knights were also stationed secretly in each corner to protect the facilities at all times.

  However, there were only limited Black Knights to go around. Hence, Chen Chen had long-established another factory to research a drone that was featured in the Elysium dimension.

  It was a surveillance drone that was called a "UAV" and it took after the shape of a flying disc. It was equipped with noise cancellation technology and only needed a low amount of energies to power itself. The drone was featured only in the opening scene of the movie and its name could only be found in the movie's settings record.

  The production of a movie typically began with developing a comprehensive worldview of the movie's settings. For example, in the Avengers series, official features such as frictionless bearing, inertial dampers, and a battery that could last for more than 120 years could be found on its Wikipedia page.

  To be able to mass-produce this surveillance drone, Chen Chen had gone on to retrieve two such drones from the Elysium as reference models. Unfortunately, due to certain technical limitations, it would still be some time before Chen Chen could produce an exact replica.

  Factories that were tasked with classified research were usually built toward the back of the industrial area. Chen Chen had also discreetly built a line of defense, in which all secret factories were stationed behind it. On the other side of the line was the open area that included electronics assembly factories that housed more than one hundred thousand workers.

  The electronic assembly factories were built for two purposes. The first was to allow the other secret factories to hide in plain sight, the second was to provide employment opportunities to the local residents so that Blacklight Biotechnology's influence could continue to grow in Namibia.

  Ever since the Blacklight virus attacked Namibia, the country's population was down to less than two million people. The employment of more than one hundred thousand workers was equivalent to employing ten percent of the country's population.

  This became an important bargaining chip in every negotiation with the Namibian government. Should the Namibian government attempt to forcefully drive the corporation out of the country, they had to consider the consequences heavily.

  An attack against Blacklight Biotechnology would not only bring severe economic impact but also render ten percent of the country's population immediately jobless.

  After departing from the ceramic chemical factory that produced the yttrium barium copper oxide composite, Chen Chen sat in his car.

  Cheng Cao, who had also just joined Chen Chen in his car, asked, "Boss, would you like to take a look at the fuel cell factory?"

  "There's no need for that. Let's head back to the Spire Experimental Base."

  Chen Chen gestured to Cheng Cao. He had already received a message from Little X which informed him about the latest update from the fuel cell factory in his daily Eco Science City report. As of now, the professors who were in charge of the fuel cell factory were already heading to the Spire Experimental Base where they would submit a detailed report to Chen Chen.

  Soon, Chen Chen had arrived back at the Spire Experimental Base where he was greeted by Professor Joseph.

  Half a year ago while Chen Chen was expanding his company into the heavy industry, he had invited a large group of engineering professors to interview, whom he ended up hiring a few after lengthy considerations.

  These professors had also been implanted with God chips and were granted access into God's Forbidden Zone. Through this, they were given exposure to the most sophisticated technologies as well as had their lifespan potentially extended.

  It was a win-win situation.

  "Mr. Chen, we bring good news. We've followed the model you provided and have successfully created a new version of a fuel cell."

  Then, he placed several cylindrical objects that were glowing in silver-white light on the table. The cylindrical objects varied in thickness.

  Chen Chen received those objects and asked, "What are the properties of these hydrogen cells?"

  "Hydrogen cells that are 1.5 cm in diameter and 10 cm in lengths could release an electrical potential that reaches up to 200V whereas those with a 3 cm diameter and 20 cm length could reach up to 400V. The electrical potential of these fuel cells could be prorated via their sizes and their thermal efficiencies are at 80%, meeting your requirement."

  Professor Joseph answered.

  "Not bad at all!"

  Chen Chen was overjoyed. These hydrogen cells were a form of power generation device that produced electrical energy through electrochemical reactions between its fuel and oxidant. Theoretically, such fuel cells could achieve a thermal efficiency rate that was close to 100%.

  The technique and model Chen Chen provided was a hydrogen fuel cell from the T-800. The battery had a thermal efficiency of 95%. Although Joseph had yet to produce a fuel cell that could reach that level of efficiency, it was to be expected. Part of the reason was due to a lack of material.

  One of the most important structures of a fuel cell was its electrolyte diaphragm. Its main function was to separate the oxidant and the reducing agent of the fuel cell as well as to conduct the cell's ions. The thinner the electrolyte diaphragm, the better. As Chen Chen could not reach the technical level of that in the Avengers, it was not surprising that his fuel cell could not reach that level of efficiency.

  Besides that, to fit the fuel cell into his weapon, Chen Chen had to eliminate the hydrogen collector to reduce the fuel cell's volume. This hydrogen collector was an important element in the Avenger.

  However, to Chen Chen, the fuel cell could always be changed manually. Hence, the collector did not play too big of a role for his purpose. At most, the elimination of the fuel cell would only reduce its endurance power.

  Now that Chen Chen possessed a normal-temperature superconductor and a hydrogen fuel cell that could support an enormous amount of electrical voltage, there was only one essential material left - a high displacement metal.

  Once these three materials were ready, Chen Chen could then use the superconductor material as his coil, the hydrogen fuel cells as an electrical source, and the high displacement metal as a rifle, to mass-produce the destructive electromagnetic weapons that were featured in the Elysium.

  Chapter 241: New Combat Suit Model |

  As time passed by, it was soon the end of 2023.

  This year, the Earth Federation had gone through multiple disasters.
The onslaught of the Blacklight virus began back in May while the first vaccine was developed by Blacklight Biotechnology in July. This was then followed by a series of clinical trials and then mass production and the pandemic was finally under control in October.

  It was also at the beginning of October when Blacklight Biotechnology announced three special anticancer medicines. These medicines were subsequently introduced to the drug inspection committees of multiple continents and thus began another round of tedious clinical trials.

  Unlike the African Continent, other continents had stricter requirements toward their medications during the clinical trial. There were at least three periods of phases in those trials, which meant that Blacklight Biotechnology needed to wait at least three years before their medicines could be sold on the counter.

  Regardless, these were still miracle drugs that were capable of curing cancer. They had managed to reduce the expected waiting period to three years after receiving support from multiple financial groups. If it were any other common medications, the waiting period would typically require at least ten years.

  This was also the year where Blacklight Biotechnology revealed its true potential.

  It began with the construction of the world-renowned Eco Science City, followed by its acquisition of the largest security company in Africa, Tara Private Security Company. Following that, the corporation played an important role during the Blacklight virus pandemic, being the first entity to discover the virus as well as the first to research an effective vaccine.

  Toward the year-end, Blacklight Biotechnology had continued its victory streak by announcing three special anticancer medicines at once.

  This year, Blacklight Biotechnology had brought many surprises to the world.

  After much international coverage, Blacklight Biotechnology's reputation had reached its highest point. Before the dust of the pandemic could even settle in Africa, thousands of tycoons arrived at Eco Science City in their private jets with the intention of undergoing age-reversal therapies in their institution.