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Sunlight pierced through the fog, passed through the glass, and shone into the monitoring room, leaving a bright red stain on the floor.

Stretching, Meng Hai turned to the students beside him: "Wash your face! I'm going out to buy breakfast now, and we'll start working after we eat!"

Meng Hai went out to buy breakfast, while his students stayed in the monitoring room to continue watching the videos.

As I looked at it, my gaze returned to the battery on the table.

As Meng Hai's students, they all went on to work for excellent companies after graduation and continue to conduct research related to energy storage materials.

From their perspective, the battery in front of them was ugly, lacked any aesthetic appeal, was unsafe, and of course, had no battery management system.

He's utterly trash, a piece of trash who shouldn't even be on screen.

The problem is that this battery, which looks like trash and is not much bigger than two adult fists, can hold 8.1 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

From the perspective of this battery, these people are garbage, utter garbage.

"What do you think, senior brother?" The one who asked the question was Wang Chuang, the second disciple.

Tong Minghui didn't reply, but gently tapped the battery casing with his hand while recalling the scene he had just seen in the video.

Which step exactly allows this battery to hold so much power?

Meng Hai acted quickly; in just over 20 minutes, he appeared in the monitoring room carrying several large bags of breakfast.

After finishing breakfast, he took out the hard drive full of content, replaced it with a new one, reset the monitoring settings, and then led a few students to the laboratory.

After changing his clothes, Meng Hai placed the finished battery on the workbench in the center of the lab, looked at the students, and asked with a serious expression:
"Are you ready?"

"Ready!" several students responded enthusiastically, their eyes fixed intently on Meng Hai.

If they can replicate that battery here today, it means they have mastered the relevant technology.

Even if a confidentiality agreement was signed, this battery cannot be used directly.

However, one can utilize relevant technologies to research and develop their own batteries.

At that time, it will all be money!

Taking a deep breath, Meng Hai waved his right hand, and the group immediately got to work.

"Control the temperature! Lithium carbonate is starting to melt!"

"Prepare for pressurization, prepare to inject nitrogen!"

"Control the state of the lithium carbonate..."

"Look, the color has changed. It looks very similar in the video. I think we can start adding pressure and sulfur powder now."

"I don't think it'll work, teacher, teacher, please come and take a look."

"Let me see the user manual!"

"How come they even left behind the operation manual? Aren't they afraid of their technology leaking out at all? What kind of makeshift team is this?"

"A makeshift team? Fifth Brother, as the eldest brother, I need to remind you when you're out in the world: don't belittle your opponents every day, but learn to elevate them."

"Senior Brother is right. If the people who can make this kind of battery are just a makeshift team, then tell me, what are we compared to them?"

"We are trash!"

"We can apply pressure and add sulfur powder!"

"The pressure is increasing, be careful."

"This powder is lithium azide? Holy crap, where did they buy it from? The purity looks pretty good."

"do not know!"

"The temperature is rising, should we continue to increase the pressure?"

"What he wrote in his instruction manual seems to be about decompression!"

"I think we should increase the pressure!"

"What do you think?!"

Time flew by amidst their bickering, and they moved quickly as well.

After several hours of work, a dark, finished product finally appeared before everyone's eyes.

Meng Hai tapped it with his hand, and the dark finished product made a clear, pleasant clanging sound.

He frowned and said in a low voice:

"The sound is very similar to the sound I made when I knocked on my phone that day, but I'm not sure if it will work."

"Let's crush this thing first!"

Tong Minghui volunteered to break the dark, unfinished product into pieces, leaving a few pieces to be sliced.

The rest is all put into a ball mill to be ground, and then into an air jet mill, where high-speed, high-pressure air jets violently impact the powder ground in the ball mill, turning it into even finer powder.

The powder was packed into a special box and delivered to Meng Hai.

Picking up a small amount with tweezers and placing it on his fingertip, Meng Hai felt the fineness with his hand. He quickly took out a sample and prepared to scan it with X-ray diffraction.

After preparing the samples for X-ray diffraction scanning, he turned around and assigned a new task to his sixth apprentice—to grind ultrathin sections for transmission electron microscopy.

In the testing room, a group of people gathered around the X-ray detector, watching Meng Hai carefully place the probe containing the material powder onto the operating table, and then carefully pick up the X-ray probe and slowly scan the powder.

Soon, the relevant statistical phase analysis appeared on the computer monitor.

Upon seeing the displayed results, the group of people, who had been full of expectations, were struck dumb, and stood frozen in place.

The crystal phase analysis results clearly show two different outcomes.

In other words, there are two different substances present here.

The person most bewildered by this result was Meng Hai.

He watched the experiment from beginning to end today, holding the video in his left hand and the requirements Lin Yi had written in his right. It was a 1:1 replica of the experiment.

Holding the original materials given to him by someone else, if he were to replicate them normally, there would be some errors, but not to the point that they are completely irrelevant now.

Undeterred, he threw the sample aside and redid two more samples, scanning them twice more.

The scan results were the same.

It has absolutely no connection to the sample scanned by Lin Yi before.

Having arrived at this answer, Meng Hai dared not delay. He quickly left the testing room and returned to the laboratory.

Upon seeing Lao Liu's apprentice, he only left him with the words "hurry up and finish slicing," then bypassed Lao Liu and appeared in front of the pile of materials they had prepared.

Looking at the extremely fine powder, Meng Hai found a large beaker and, following the mixing ratio given by Lin Yi, added the powder, binder, and conductive agent little by little into the beaker.

After preparing the battery internal materials according to the mixing ratio, he picked up the same aluminum casing, connected the electrodes, and put the prepared battery materials into the box.

Add a little at a time, then press it down, until finally all the materials in the beaker are transferred into the box.

After confirming several times and clearly seeing how the electrode and the outer shell should be connected, Meng Hai then applied glue to the electrode and connected it to the outer shell.

After waiting a while until the glue dried, he couldn't wait to grab the battery and head outside.

He needs to figure out why.

After connecting the charging cable, Meng Hai prayed silently to all the gods and Buddhas in his heart. After thinking for a moment, he also prayed to Jehovah outside.

After doing all this, he first stepped back to a safe distance, and then gently pressed the power switch.

It's not his fault for being careless.

Today's replication experiment used the exact same materials as Lin Yi's.

The processes may not be exactly the same, but they are at least 99% similar.

Even so, they managed to create one or two completely different things. Lin Yi's work had already proven his success, so there was a high probability that their different creation would fail.

There is also a high possibility that it is dangerous.

After turning off the power, Meng Hai frowned as he looked at the charger and battery that were charging. He then told his students to step back a certain distance.

Then, a group of people stared longingly at the battery on the open ground.

Even if it doesn't work, just don't blow it up!

Whatever you do, please don't blow it up!

At that moment, Murphy's Law came into play again. They didn't want the battery to explode, but the battery right there in the open space suddenly exploded right in front of them.

With a loud bang, the battery on the open ground suddenly lit up, bursting out with a dazzling light. Less than 0.001 seconds later, the sound of an explosion entered their ears, making them ache.

After the explosion, debris flew around, making a crackling sound.

The sound was like hail hitting the ground, rapid and violent.

With each blast, those who narrowly escaped the explosion, standing far away, would duck their necks.

After a long while, the crackling sound finally disappeared, and Meng Hai and his group, who had been hiding in the distance, finally poked their heads out from their hiding places.

The open space in front of the laboratory building was originally paved with granite.

But at this moment, all that's left is a pit, a pit about one meter in size and about 10 centimeters deep, where the battery should have been placed.

Then look around.

The main entrance to the laboratory building is a glass door, a tempered glass door.

But now, the tempered glass door has disappeared, leaving only the aluminum alloy bracket that holds the glass door in place, still standing there, dutifully fulfilling its duty.

Besides the main gate, the glass windows on the walls on both sides of the gate were also damaged.

Suzhou was still a bit chilly during the Lunar New Year, and the wind made everyone's scalps tingle.

Looking at the broken glass windows, Meng Hai suddenly recalled the layout of the first floor.

Those are all laboratories for other specialties.

It contains experimental samples and experimental equipment.

If it gets damaged.

He must die!

He didn't care about his exhaustion from staying up all night and rushed to the laboratory building.

Watching the teacher's departing figure, Tong Minghui turned to Wang Chuang and asked, "Did you not follow the experimental procedures?"

"That's definitely not me! I followed the experimental procedures 100%!"

After answering his senior brother's question, Wang Chuang suddenly turned to look at his junior brothers behind him:
"what about you?"

"Holy crap, that can't be us!"

"Yeah, look at the power of this explosion. It flashed white light when it exploded. How powerful must that be! I'm starting to suspect that what the teacher made wasn't a battery, but a bomb."

After checking back and forth for a long time, the students finally turned their attention to the teacher who was busy on the first floor.

If you eliminate all possibilities, then even if the final answer is outrageous, it can only be the answer.

That was their teacher; what he received wasn't blueprints for batteries at all, but blueprints for bombs.

The thought of this possibility made everyone swallow hard.

Just then, the security personnel finally arrived. Seeing the mess in front of the laboratory building, the leader pointed a fork at Tong Minghui and his group:

"Don't move! Wait for the police to arrive!"

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"That's the situation. I've already explained everything to Secretary Qin. I'm here to tell you the whole story so you won't be caught off guard if Secretary Qin asks you about it."

After speaking, Meng Hai lowered his head, held the hot tea that Lin Yi handed him with both hands, and drank it sip by sip.

Lin Yi sat opposite him, also holding a cup of tea, sipping it intermittently.

He's waiting, waiting for the Meng Hai issue.

After a while, Meng Hai finished his tea, gently put down the cup, and tilted his head back:

"Senior Brother Lin, my replication experiment today was a 1:1 replica of yesterday's video, and I can confirm that there were no errors in every step."

"But why are the final results two completely different things?"

“If it were just a deviation, I could understand it, but the reality is that two completely different results emerged.”

"I would like to ask my senior brother to help me resolve my doubts!"

Lin Yi didn't respond directly. Instead, he picked up the teapot, filled Meng Hai's teacup with water, and set it down before slowly asking:
"Did Junior Brother Meng decide to go on his own, or did Secretary Qin send you?"

This question froze Meng Hai, who was holding a teacup with both hands. He wanted to make up a story, but he quickly realized that Secretary Qin would definitely come to find Lin Yi and ask about the whole story.

He had managed to fool Lin Yi by making up a story.

But if the other party finds out later, they will definitely cause trouble for me.

After drinking half a cup of tea, Meng Hai put the cup down, his head bowed, looking like he had done something wrong: "Junior brother went by himself!"

Lin Yi found Meng Hai's demeanor quite pleasing.

At the same time, he couldn't help but think more highly of Meng Hai.

What does it mean for a great man to bend and stretch? This is what it means for a great man to bend and stretch. He is over 50 years old and, for the sake of interests, he has no airs at all.

That's what it means to be able to take things on and let them go.

However, we also need to be wary of him stabbing us in the back.

Lin Yi tapped his fingers lightly on the table and asked softly:
"There's a saying that goes, 'Teach your apprentice, and you'll starve.' Do you want to guess where I got the confidence to go to your lab and do experiments and make things under your surveillance?"

One sentence was enough to wake Meng Hai up.

He raised his head in fear, his eyes fixed on Lin Yi.

After a brief moment of fear, the expression on his face changed to disbelief.

The laboratory's surveillance system is multi-angled and the footage is very clear. When their people are conducting experiments, they do so very smoothly, without making any invasive movements.

What's more, he was watching from the sidelines.

They also used these materials...

No, it's materials!

It's raw material!

They used up the materials Lin Yi brought that same day, and the materials they wrote on the list were probably completely different from the materials they actually had.

This is precisely why the final product has a completely different crystal phase.

Yes, that's definitely it, absolutely, absolutely...

Before the thought could even finish processing, Meng Hai's expression suddenly froze.

The crystal phase I saw that day was clearly that of a lithium compound.

The metal they initially used was clearly lithium carbonate that had been pressed.

What went wrong?
What exactly... went wrong?
(End of this chapter)