Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 200 Oxidation Capacity
Lu Yuning glared at him, and Zhang Muyan's momentum immediately deflated.

However, Zhang Muyan's words reminded him of one thing: the terrifying mutated mantis was not dead.

I just don’t know where it went. It would be scary if it was still in this park.

Although its powerful abilities are partly due to the blessing of the donor's special abilities, its own strength is also quite terrifying.

It is considered the most powerful creature Lu Yuning has ever seen. Even Liu Yuan, whom he met before, should not be a match for that mutated mantis.

The main reason is that it is large enough, and the two sickle weapons can generate powerful kinetic energy, which even Liu Yuan’s shield should be difficult to withstand.

I can only pray that it has flown out of the park.

After successfully feeding the mutated spider, Zhang Muyan gave Wang Liang a few more instructions, and everyone dispersed.

Wang Liang excitedly chased in the direction where the mutated spider had moved.

Lu Yuning shipped all the finished down jackets to the branch, and everyone was naturally very grateful.

Although their construction capabilities have improved a lot, they are still unable to carry out such delicate work.

If Lu Yuning didn't make clothes for them, they would probably have to stay in the shelter for the entire winter. Otherwise, they would get hypothermia if they were only wearing summer clothes outside for a few minutes.

The people in the branch had already figured out Lu Yuning's temper, and after expressing their gratitude briefly, they stopped bothering him.

When Lu Yuning came here this time, he also modified the power generation equipment here.

Mainly, I made a switch and reinforced the gear system.

When the switch is turned on, you can still see the dazzling light even in the daytime.

This light fascinated everyone in the branch a few days ago. Being able to generate electricity in the apocalypse is a very spiritual thing.

I thought Lu Yuning would come and take the device back, but I didn't expect it to stay here in the end.

The people in the branch were more grateful and respectful towards Xu Qi, while their impression of Lu Yuning was more of admiration.

Especially after knowing that the outsiders and Xinghuo had suffered at his hands, and that he was so capable and thoughtful to help everyone make clothes, this performance almost created a star effect in the branch.

If there were paper and pen available, someone might actually come to ask him for an autograph.

"Big star, here we come!"

Xu Ting was very amused by this and would tease him whenever she had the chance.

"Can you please stop talking?" Lu Yuning's face was full of black lines.

"Stop talking, the big star is shy," Xu Qi added fuel to the fire.

Lu Yuning was at a loss for words and finally decided to ignore them. She continued to study the power generation device with a serious expression.
So far, it seems that this light source is quite effective and much more reliable than the pine oil lighting used in their shelter.

Lu Yuning even wanted to connect another line to the headquarters to replace the pine oil lamp.

However, this requires a large amount of copper, and this amount of electricity cannot be transported to the headquarters.

Even copper is a metal with high conductivity.

After giving up this idea, Lu Yuning ran to the waterwheel to take a look.

The waterwheel was relatively crudely made, but it was perfectly adequate for their needs. The device looked quite heavy, and getting it into the water wasn't easy. Zhang Xinyue had mentioned that they'd built a framework first, then used Han Yingying's abilities to coordinate Chen Hong's multiplication abilities with the others. The five of them, combined with some levers, finally lowered the framework into the water.

He had indeed not thought of this kind of fantastic combination ability before.

While Lu Yuning was thinking, Xu Qi ran over again.

This time she didn't make any more jokes, but said seriously, "I haven't thanked you formally yet."

Lu Yuning already knew what she was going to say, so he quickly waved his hand and said, "Stop. It's not too late to thank me after Xinghuo is completely dealt with. Besides, as I said, there is a cause and effect relationship in saving you. Although I can't explain it clearly, maybe one day you will understand it better than me."

Xu Qi was stunned for a moment, obviously not quite understanding what he meant, but could only nod and say, "Okay. Oh, by the way, there's something else you should be interested in. Someone here has awakened a superpower again."

"Oh?" Lu Yuning's eyes lit up.

As expected, this is what you care about, Xu Qi muttered silently in his heart.

She looked at the guy in front of her with a bit of depression, and rolled her eyes at him in her heart. Under Lu Yuning's puzzled gaze, she slowly said: "But this ability, I can't think of what it is useful for. It was discovered a few days ago when we were building that power generation equipment. This person is called Wu Chen. It seems that the ability he awakened can oxidize objects."

Lu Yuning had never heard of the name, but he was curious about this ability: "Oxidation?"

"Well, this is also what we found out after our experiment. The experimental subject is copper wire. Copper wire affected by his supernatural power will oxidize at an extremely fast rate."

"This ability is quite interesting, but I can't imagine what it can do with oxidation."

"Well, we haven't thought of it yet, but I just want to tell you that if you need his abilities, you can go find him directly."

After Xu Qi finished speaking, he pointed towards the crowd.

Following the direction of her finger, Lu Yuning saw a young man of the same age as him.

"Wu Chen." Lu Yuning carefully memorized his appearance.

Although I can't imagine what use this ability of his will have, maybe it will be useful in the future.

I’ll discuss this with Zhang Xinyue and the others later.

According to Xu Qi's description, the ability that Wu Chen awakened was more like an oxidation catalyst. Metals that were exposed to the air for a long time would oxidize themselves.

Under the influence of Wu Chen's special ability, the oxidation of metals intensified, which shows that it should be an accelerating ability for metal oxidation.

Thinking about it this way, I wonder if other oxidation conditions will also have this effect improvement.

For example, the oxidation of some metals can increase their hardness or toughness, which can change the properties of the material.

Or metals that are inherently conductive will become insulating after their surface is oxidized, which will be helpful for their future electrical research.

It seems that there will be time for him to try this ability, but there is no rush now. He can't think of any place where this oxidation ability can be used at the moment.

The scaffolding construction work at the branch was going quite smoothly. They were more experienced than Lu Yuning in the construction of such large buildings.

So it was almost done in just one day. With the warm clothes for the night, everyone was ready to work overtime to complete the scaffolding.

After all, they are all aware of the current situation. Sparks may come at any time, so they should save as much time as possible.

(End of this chapter)