Chapter 181: Three Years
Crisis Year 46.
Blue Star Hub seemed to be expanding forever. After the previous internal meeting ended, since Jin Qiaoying officially took office as Chief of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Great Xia’s industry transfer to space gradually began to accelerate.
In A’dai’s overall plan, all heavy industry projects will be transferred to Jupiter-Mars Hub.
Blue Star Hub mainly undertakes the R&D base, as well as a small part of the manufacturing tasks for light industry products.
In just three years, Xinghai Laboratory’s overall scale doubled.
Inside the hibernation pod on Conqueror, thousands of family members of outstanding contributors from various industries, who passed A’dai’s review and had qualifications, had entered deep hibernation state.
They will have the honor of obtaining up to 100 years of hibernation time.
Beyond Fan Ren’s expectations, most scientists with outstanding contributions did not choose to enter hibernation state themselves.
After anti-aging treatment, these scientists seemed to have a second spring, and after producing research results, they did not choose to rest on their laurels, but continued to invest in the next research project, continuing to contribute to human development.
Deep space, inside Conqueror.
Fan Ren and a group of scientists were excitedly listening to various monitoring data reported by A’dai.
Due to the extremely terrifying destructive power of liquid metallic hydrogen, the explosion test of the bomb made from it was ultimately conducted in deep space.
Even though Fan Ren discovered this effect of liquid metallic hydrogen three years ago, their team delayed the first bomb to today, three years later, for safety, as well as research on explosive power and theory.
“Armor damage degree 0.1%, hull shift speed due to shockwave reaches 200 meters per second, activating armor repairer.”
A’dai’s voice continued to sound. This spaceship not only had strong armor, but also self-repair capability.
“Boss, at close range, it can already damage spaceship armor. The power is too great. Overall explosive yield equivalent to 200 million tons of TNT bomb energy, but greater in destructiveness.”
This explosion was set at 50 kilometers from Conqueror, yet it still only caused a pitiful 0.1% armor damage to Conqueror.
But upon hearing this data, Fan Ren’s face showed excitement.
After three years, humanity finally had a weapon that could damage strong interaction material.
Small damage doesn’t matter; they still had 46 years to strive.
This test was just an interlude. After returning to the hub laboratory, Fan Ren plunged headlong into the materials laboratory, his exclusive office.
Basic Science: Level 1 (482/1000)
Electronics: Level 1 (735/1000)
Mechanics: Level 1 (611/1000)
Materials Science: Level 1 (698/1000)
Space Science: Level 1 (272/1000)
Consciousness returned to the mind, Fan Ren’s eyes sparkling.
In these three years, he did nothing else, burying himself in books, immersed in all recorded materials science knowledge books of humanity.
Shortcuts wouldn’t work anymore; now he could only use the hard way to increase materials science experience points.
For three full years, other parts of Xinghai Laboratory reported frequent results, but only his team remained silent, with no presentable research results.
Fan Ren made no statement about this, day after day for three years, as if back to the early days of Xinghai’s startup, eating and living in the office, occasionally using newly learned knowledge to conduct all sorts of fanciful tests on tri-titanium alloy.
Only the person responsible for taking care of him changed from Zeng Yingying to Dan Wu.
As his knowledge reserve in materials science gradually deepened, he admired even more the great heights of previous humanity’s materials science.
Phase-locked atomic arrangement technology was simply like science fiction; current humanity didn’t even know its principles.
Great Xia Space Force fleet still used Young Dragon built mainly with tri-titanium alloy. Under his influence, fleet expansion work was temporarily paused until new materials capable of withstanding higher stress were developed.
Because the current Young Dragon’s top speed could only reach 1000 kilometers per second, and that was due to its small size and relatively simple structure.
Once switched to large warships, the structure would be more complex, with lower stress tolerance.
Therefore, without other high-strength materials, new spaceship R&D could not effectively improve Space Force’s combat power.
In the office, Fan Ren stretched lazily; experience points had reached 699.
He suppressed his inner excitement and shouted into the air: “A’dai, no test results yet?”
“Testing in progress.”
A’dai’s reply was concise. Fan Ren’s heart calmed a bit. He closed the book, lit a cigarette, then leaned back in the chair for a brief relaxation.
Inside an explosion laboratory in Conqueror interior, several scientists tensely focused their gazes on the space behind a door.
Inside there, a super mini hydrogen bomb and a standard cube of tri-titanium alloy were placed.
Now some areas of Conqueror had been repaired by A’dai, such as this explosion test room, which could already be put into use.
Previous humanity’s research height in materials science was not limited to Conqueror’s external armor; inside the spaceship, this test room had even more exaggerated super materials.
The materials here could withstand explosive power far exceeding the ship’s external armor.
However, evidently, even with previous humanity’s highly advanced technology, preparing this material was extremely difficult.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be used only in certain key spaceship parts and this laboratory.
At this moment, the nuclear bomb was placed tightly against the tri-titanium alloy cube.
“Detonate.”
With A’dai’s notification, the entire test space instantly erupted in intense white light.
If not for that door separating it, and the special material glass that could filter high-intensity light, the scientists outside would have been blinded.
Several minutes later, the white light dissipated, and everyone saw the laboratory scene again.
No change; the external material wrapping the nuclear bomb had long been vaporized and disappeared in the explosion.
At this time, that tri-titanium alloy cube was still quietly fixed firmly on the test stand.
“External features have changed; awaiting further test results.”
A’dai spoke first, then the door opened. An ugly-looking metal robot flashed by from the side, stepping nimbly inside.
The door closed again.
Under A’dai’s control, the robot picked up this severely deformed tri-titanium alloy and took it through the internal passage to the detection room.
Space Hub, inside the materials laboratory office where Fan Ren was.
The burned cigarette butt was pressed into the ashtray by him.
“Boss, test results are out. Under the ultra-high pressure and ultra-high temperature environment caused by the nuclear bomb, tri-titanium alloy’s atomic arrangement has changed.”
A’dai’s voice sounded in the office. Hearing this, Fan Ren showed a relieved smile.
Materials Science: Level 1 (710/1000)
