I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  "At the same time, because of the piezoelectricity of the crystal material, it has a magnetic field and there's even some cock-and-bull story that the magnetic field of the crystal can bring health and luck to humans. But now that it's the core of this device and you said that you can still feel its strong radiation, this becomes very interesting."

  Little X suddenly smiled in delight. "If I've guessed correctly, this device should be a radiation diffuser!"

  "Radiation diffuser?"

  Chen Chen's eyes lit up upon hearing this and he seemed to understand something.

  "Because of this diffusion, the radiation has been diluted and becomes extremely subtle."

  Little X added. "Therefore, some of our instruments are unable to detect it but after this radiation is diffused, it has a special ability, which is to suppress any psionic energy on Earth.

  "From the clues you brought, there are a total of twenty giant needles, which means that one such device can inhibit any psionic powers within more than ten million square kilometers, making it impossible for any existence with psychic powers to wield them."

  Hearing this, Chen Chen nodded, "Yes, I understand now. I originally thought that the disappearance of the humans in the dimension of Doom was related to these twenty giant needles, but now it is certain — there's no relationship between the two."

  "No relationship?"

  Little X was immediately stunned.

  "Those giant needles aren't the culprit in the destruction of human civilization."

  Chen Chen nodded and replied, "It's those things that were pinned by the giant needles."

  Little X immediately understood. "This is indeed the case. At first, humans discovered a giant needle on Mars and then they opened it up as if opening a Pandora's Box, which triggered the disaster destroying mankind! "

  "This also raises a more important question."

  Chen Chen continued, his expression growing solemn. "That is, in addition to the two forces, humankind and the blood clouds that destroyed humankind, there should be a third party — those who nailed the giant needles on Mars and Earth.

  "I've discovered that although the pattern on the giant needle on Mars is the same, its outer shell is much older, at least dozens or hundreds of millennia in age whereas the giant needles nailed on Earth are brand new. That is to say, after the destruction of mankind, that third party also nailed those giant needles on Earth and re-nailed or 're-sealed' those existences that had been on Mars…"

  At that, Chen Chen shook his head. "This is terrifying. Doesn't it mean that the humans in the dimension of Doom have been monitored all the time?"

  After talking about it, Chen Chen suddenly felt a lot warier. It turned out that the world connected by the USB flash drive was likely to have more than one civilization and there was even a higher civilization monitoring human beings.

  This was scary.

  After talking about this, half an hour had passed but Chen Chen still did not see the Black Knights returning.

  "Do you need me to send someone over to check things out?"

  Little X also asked a little anxiously.

  "There's no need. Close the portal."

  Chen Chen shook his head decisively, then walked directly to the computer and pulled out the USB flash drive.

  The black channel on the computer screen instantly turned into a vortex and was quickly annihilated.

  Chen Chen silently breathed a sigh of relief. This time, the rewards of his exploration were significant. Although he still had not figured out what the blood cloud on the opposite side was and how human civilization was destroyed, at least he had figured out why human civilization had perished in that dimension. Not only that, but he also got a special device.

  This was a device Chen Chen had never seen.

  Following this, the analysis of these mechanisms was handed over to Little X. Little X seemed very interested in the huge zircon in particular.

  Was this the fanatical instinct of a female living being toward shiny gems?

  Chen Chen pondered silently.

  Yes, in his opinion, Little X was already a kind of living being. She had her personality, thoughts, and memories. She also had the thinking logic of a human. It would not be wrong to say that Little X was a person living in an electronic device.

  After several days of analysis, Little X did a lot of research and analysis on that zircon and finally sent a report to Chen Chen.

  However, after seeing this report, Chen Chen looked astonished.

  Sure enough, this zircon chunk was artificially synthesized.

  "Zircon, also known as zirconium silicate, is a silicate mineral with the chemical formula ZrSiO₄."

  Little X stood beside Chen Chen and explained, "Zircons have many colors and some zircons even contain radioactive elements such as uranium while bright orange zircons represent strong radioactivity. According to my analysis, the interior of this huge zircon contains an element that we humans have never synthesized before!"

  "Never synthesized before?"

  Chen Chen was abruptly taken aback. In nature, the heaviest non-radioactive element was lead and the most common heaviest element was uranium. Those with higher atomic numbers than uranium were called transuranic elements and most of these elements were artificially synthesized.

  The reason it was difficult for humans to find heavier elements was that as the atomic number increased, the stability of the element would worsen and its half-life would become shorter. For instance, the four latest elements synthesized by humans — elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 — had half-lives of only 20 seconds, 2.6 seconds, 0.8 seconds, and 12 milliseconds.

  At present, element 118 was the heaviest element that humans could discover (synthesize). Any elements whose atomic number exceeded 118 would open a brand-new eighth period of elements in the periodic table. Currently, no eighth-period element had been synthesized.

  Since Little X said that the element in zircon was an element that had never been synthesized by humans, that was to say, its atomic number was greater than 118!

  "We found that this radioactive element is composed of 126 neutrons and 126 protons."

  X continued. "Meaning that the arrangement of this element on the periodic table is element 126!"

  Chen Chen could not help frowning when he heard these words. "Element 126? So its half-life should be even shorter. How can it be stable inside the zircon?"

  Still, in the next second, Chen Chen immediately saw the light and said, "So, it's the 'island of stability'!"

  The island of stability was a theory that in physics, there was a mysterious "magic number" phenomenon — so far, the magic numbers humans had discovered were 2, 8, 14, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126…

  When the number of nucleons of an element matched the above numbers, the stability of the nucleus was relatively high. For example, oxygen-16 was formed by the combination of 8 neutrons and 8 protons, so the nature of the nucleus was very stable. The nucleus of calcium-40 formed by the combination of 20 neutrons and 20 protons was also very stable, and the nuclei of some of the isotopes of nickel, formed with 28 protons, were still very stable…

  Therefore, due to the stabilization effect of the elements in the magic number sequence, it was called the island of stability theory. Therefore, element 126, which was composed of 126 neutrons and 126 protons, would also be a stable element.

  "But since it's a stable element, why is there such a huge amount of radioactivity? Is there a mistake?"

  Chen Chen found it a little hard to understand. When he used his Feld energy to examine, he did get a very strong pricking sensation. Only extremely intense radioactive elements could induce such a feeling in Chen Chen's Field energy.

  "There's no mistake."

  Little X was confident. "That element has been determined for sure. This is a special element. It's a stable element but it still has very strong radioactivity. I can't understand this phenomenon too. I'm afraid we'll only be able to solve this mystery when we're able to synth
esize this element, right?

  "But now isn't the time to care about that."

  Little X reminded him again. "I tried to make an outer case for this instrument and at the same time replace the geothermal generator inside with a supercapacitor to provide electricity but I couldn't restart the instrument."

  "Oh?"

  Chen Chen felt his heart clench when he heard these words and immediately walked into the workshop where the equipment was assembled for a look.

  The only thing he had brought back from the dimension of Doom was this device that could suppress psionic energy. If this one was broken, Chen Chen did not know if he had the opportunity to go deep into the dimension of Doom again and bring back other equipment.

  As soon as he entered the assembly workshop, Chen Chen immediately saw a huge cylindrical machine with a diameter of five meters and a height of about 20 meters. The shell made by Little X was made of tungsten alloy and it exuded a dim blue luster.

  Its waist had three huge support legs. At the same time, this device was processed by Little X to have a sharp cone shape for its bottom. It was also outfitted with a mechanical system. If one pressed down hard, the three support legs would plunge into the ground and fix the machine in place.

  "Why does this shape look a bit like a bacteriophage?"

  Chen Chen could not help laughing.

  "It's just a coincidence."

  Little X said helplessly, "My idea was to let it plant itself into the soil, so I put a moving mechanism on it and it turned out like this."

  Chen Chen nodded and stopped nitpicking these details. Instead, he commanded, "Try starting it up again."

  Little X nodded and the Black Knight on the side immediately got into action, trying to make the machine work.

  Nonetheless, although this device had a huge amount of electricity, after the initial activation, the device inside stopped working again.

  Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help squinting. He directly rose into the air, hovered above the top of the machine, and lifted the lid.

  Immediately he saw that all the lights in it, which he had seen before, were all red and none of them were green.

  Seeing this, Chen Chen could not help wearing a pensive look. He still remembered that when he broke the outer shell of the giant needle, these mechanisms were not damaged but they stopped working at once. Seeing this, Chen Chen seemed to understand something and turned to Little X, saying, "Try to turn the space inside into a vacuum state."

  Following Chen Chen's order, the engineering robots in the workshop quickly started to operate. Under the planning of Little X, an air pump was installed in this device to drain the air inside and seal the machine's shell.

  Then, the machine started again.

  "Hum…"

  Chen Chen only felt an invisible force spreading from the machine and suddenly, that unusual sensation struck him again!

  Chen Chen's psionic powers had been suppressed!

  Chapter 574: Reality Anchor |

  The moment the machine was turned on, not only Chen Chen but even the psionicists in the Eco Science City also felt a sense of lag.

  Still, this feeling was very subtle and only psionicists could feel it. Not only that but most psionicists only thought that it came from their own body without considering other factors.

  It was only in a certain women's changing room in the Biological Experimental Center that piercing screams suddenly erupted and a group of women ran out in their underwear.

  Immediately before security arrived, Blake sneaked out with a cardboard box covering him, murmuring "superpower failure", "caught in the act", and so on.

  At this time, Chen Chen silently perceived this stagnant weight. He closed his eyes slightly and soaked it in, and then directly teleported back to the ground.

  On the surface, that feeling still existed, emanating from the 700-meter-depths of the Spire and suppressing all the psionicists in the entire Eco Science City.

  Seeing this, Chen Chen picked one direction and flew into the distance.

  One hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, three hundred kilometers…

  Chen Chen kept flying but the suppression of his psionic powers remained even after he flew into the boundary of the Rainbow Nation.

  It was not until Chen Chen flew out a full 1,500 kilometers that the feeling of being suppressed completely elapsed.

  "Unbelievable."

  Chen Chen stood at an altitude of 1,000 meters and looked back solemnly. "In other words, such an instrument can suppress an area of ​​7 million square kilometers… If it's used against Consciousness Stealers, wouldn't it be a sure win?"

  However, Chen Chen immediately frowned because he still remembered that the dimension of Doom had pinned the entire Earth. If such a machine was all that was needed to solve things, they would not have to use so many giant needles.

  Thinking of this, Chen Chen shook his head, turned around, and started to return but when he was still less than halfway through the flight, he suddenly felt that the suppression had disappeared.

  At the same time, Little X's voice came from the headset. "Sir Godfather, that instrument has run out of electricity."

  "Has the power of the supercapacitor run out?"

  Chen Chen teased. "It seems to be another big power consumer."

  Upon his return to the Spire Experimental Base, Chen Chen looked at the device in a completely new light. He asked, "Can this device be replicated?"

  "It's difficult."

  Little X made a bitter face. "Some of the parts and materials inside aren't things that can be made in our time, even though we've entered the fifth industrial revolution. Particularly its core — that zircon, the synthetic zircon, isn't a big deal but the real difficulty is element 126.

  "It can be said that the element 126 added in the zircon is the real core of this device. Only this element has the power to suppress psionic powers and the other mechanisms in the entire instrument are used to assist element 126.

  "Not only that, but element 126 also requires the Large Hadron Collider to be manufactured and the output is extremely small."

  "We also have a collider."

  Chen Chen resolutely said, "Don't worry, go ahead and give it a shot. Suspend other tasks related to the collider and devote all your energy to the synthesis of element 126."

  "Got it."

  Little X replied.

  Hearing this, Chen Chen said nothing else.

  If possible, Chen Chen also wanted to copy the method of the mysterious third party in Doom by inserting twenty giant needles into the depths of the earth to seal the Consciousness Stealer but to achieve this amount of work was temporarily beyond the scope of Blacklight Biotechnology.

  If he wanted to test it out, Chen Chen could only take this reassembled giant needle to the dimension of his avatar to see if this instrument could seal the Consciousness Stealer.

  Of course, this was still dangerous and the ability to seal his opponent's psionic power was no guarantee of a victory. As far as Chen Chen knew, the Consciousness Stealer of that dimension had grown to the size of a mountain and it was by no means that much smaller than the blood cloud he saw in Doom's dimension. Even if its psionic energy was sealed, it would be difficult for Chen Chen to kill it.

  It was even possible that the machine would be damaged.

  At this point, Chen Chen finally understood why that mysterious third party would wrap the machine in a layer of high-offset armor.

  In view of the immense function of this machine, Chen Chen also thought about whether he should revisit the dimension of Doom and take back a few more machines, but this idea was quickly dispelled.

  He had felt an indescribable pang of danger. The blood cloud was likely not much inferior to the Consciousness Stealer.

  In other words, that thing was also equivalent to a kind of Consciousness Stealer.

  However, just as Chen Chen was reflecting on this machine, another piece of good news finally came about. The time machine
from the Terminator movie had been fully deciphered and could now be used.

  …

  Chen Chen slowly opened his eyes and crawled out of the cryogenic chamber.

  Several Black Knights immediately walked in from the door and began to provide nutrition and hydration for Chen Chen in the form of various foods.

  "Sir Commander, you've been asleep for a long while this time."

  X-112's voice came. By this time, Chen Chen had once again come to the dimension of the end times.

  "Prepare to contact the Joint Resistance Army."

  Chen Chen nodded. He started feasting on the food on the table while saying instinctively, "Bring me paper and pen."

  Immediately, a Black Knight brought over paper and pen.

  Chen Chen took it and then he wrote down all the things in his memory.

  "Frictionless bearing… Nuclear photon instrument, XTN android chip 2657… Superconducting electric-powered drive…"

  Chen Chen narrowed his eyes. He spent more than half an hour and only stopped for good after writing four full pages.

  "Phew…"

  Chen Chen exhaled and looked at the Black Knight in front of him. "Are there any of these in Blacklight City?"

  One of the Black Knights immediately stepped forward. He took Chen Chen's pen and paper and seemed to be scanning it with his eyes. After a few seconds, X-112 continued. "There are 1879 types of materials and electronic equipment you need, of which about 816 types can be found in the warehouse of Blacklight City, and 1063 types that aren't in stock."

  "None at all?"

  Chen Chen could not help frowning.

  "If you need them, we can expropriate them from the private sector. There are millions of residents in Blacklight City, so we should be able to expropriate some of it."

  X-112 suggested.

  "Yes."

  Chen Chen nodded. "Publish all the missing materials and see who can find them. Tell the residents of Blacklight City that those who can find anything in the above list will be greatly rewarded! Not only that… Send someone to contact the other four forces in the Joint Resistance Army and see if they have the materials I need."