Steel torrents pioneering a different world

Chapter 80 An Explosion Beyond Normal Limits (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
Another world, the Chemical Experiment Research Department.

Professor Wen Min, who was assigned to research military materials, was wearing goggles and carefully cutting a piece of TNT material brought from the modern world.

Suddenly someone opened the door, and she glanced at it and saw that it was Deng Dakang.

After Professor Wenmin finished her work, she straightened up and greeted him with a smile: "Old Deng, what a rare guest! What brings you here?"

Deng Dakang's gaze fell on the material in front of her: "I heard them say during dinner that the headquarters used the minerals here to synthesize something new. I got curious and came to take a look."

Wen Min stopped what she was doing, picked up the tweezers, and cut off a small piece of the 1-gram sample, looking quite pleased with herself.

"Here it is. It's the TNT that Hou Shuheng's team developed, synthesized using local materials. We're just about to test its performance."

"Oh~ it's already in the experimental stage?" Deng Dakang's interest grew even stronger.

Lately, he's been obsessed with "local extraordinary materials."

Since I had no clue what to do, I wandered around to clear my mind and see if I could get any inspiration.

"Hmm, let's see if it's a dud or if it can give us a surprise."

Wen Min placed the small sample into the explosion-proof tester, connected the detonation device, and all the monitoring instruments were put into standby mode.

She waved to Deng Dakang, signaling him to step back behind the safety line.

With everything ready, Wen Min pressed the detonation button.

The expected loud noise did not occur; instead, there was only a crisp, short "snap" sound.

The next second, on the screen of the instrument monitoring the explosion energy, a data curve instantly broke through the preset peak value, drawing out a single-hump line!
Wen Min's relaxed smile froze instantly.

"What's wrong?" Deng Dakang came over.

"...The power is a bit off." Wen Min stared intently at the screen, her expression shifting from astonishment to confusion. "That one gram of sample just now released... a lot of joules... ridiculously high!"

She walked quickly back to the lab bench and carefully cut off another gram of sample with a plastic knife. She even checked the weight three times with an electronic balance to ensure that it was accurate to the millimeter.

Another test.

Another inconspicuous, crisp sound.

The data curve on the screen, even more wildly than before, broke through her estimated peak once again!
Wen Min was completely speechless. She examined the data carefully several times, muttering to herself, "It doesn't make sense... The chemical formula is correct, the synthesis steps are correct, so where did this energy come from? Could it be that Hou Shuheng secretly added other additives behind my back?"

Deng Dakang didn't speak, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

“Sister Wen,” Deng Dakang thought for a moment before speaking, his voice trembling slightly, “is it possible that… the problem isn’t with the additives, but with the raw materials themselves?”

Wen Min was taken aback: "Raw materials? Aren't they all basic elements?"

“No.” Deng Dakang slowly shook his head, his gaze fixed intently on the black matrix material, and said, word by word, “Perhaps, the carbon in this world, because of its long-term contact with magical particles, is not the same thing as the carbon on our Earth from the very beginning?”

Wen Min shook her head: "When we examine many things in the other world at a microscopic level, we find that their atomic arrangements are almost identical, making it impossible for them to have any new changes!"

"Could it be that changes have occurred in these materials at the Planck scale that we cannot observe?"
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Another world, a high-tech materials research lab.

The urgent warning beeping continued!
"Peak speed of 25GHz! And it's still going up!"

"Damn, that's awesome!"

A young researcher stared at the wildly fluctuating curves on the screen, his voice trembling.

"The interference these materials generate in the modern world is at most around 6GHz, but here it spikes several times over. This thing's shape is just too outrageous!"

Li Xiang stared intently at the data terminal, his young face showing no panic, but rather an almost fanatical excitement.

"That's it! There's no mistake!"

On the lab table in front of him lay several pieces of material, refined and cut using the world's most advanced modern techniques. One piece was a deep, dark black—super obsidian.

The other piece, shimmering with a dark gold hue, was a material called refined gold.

They appear ordinary, yet in this strange world, they reveal a captivating side.

"Bring out all the samples that Zhang Zhongxiao's team synthesized on Earth, and test them in groups!"

Li Xiang's voice could be clearly heard in the noisy laboratory: "Use super obsidian to handcraft a simple shield! Also test its energy dissipation rate with adamantite!"

"Yes!"

Once the order was given, the entire laboratory immediately began operating efficiently.

Wearing specialized protective gear, researchers carefully operated the robotic arms to reprocess these precious materials.

Cutting, melting, shaping...

As simple but functional scientific devices were rapidly produced, a massive amount of new data emerged.

"Report! We've found the cause of the collective malfunction of the magical detectors we sent out!"

A researcher in charge of data comparison suddenly stood up and pointed to two waveforms on the screen that were almost completely overlapping.

"The culprit is the super obsidian in the ore! Its natural electromagnetic field frequency is exactly the same as the unknown magical anomaly warning detected by our detectors!"

This discovery was like a bomb, exploding in the crowd.

"So that's it!"

"No wonder! No wonder the casualties among the undead were so high, and they were lying in ambush in the mountains every day, just like clocking in for work!"

One researcher slapped his thigh, suddenly realizing the truth.

"They're not guarding the ore, they're recharging themselves!"

"Charge? Even the undead need to charge?"

"Why can't it be charged? Magic is also science, and energy must follow the law of conservation. According to the magic absorption properties of these materials, the undead need to maintain a low 'magic consumption' state when not in operation. Since super obsidian can absorb magic, it can probably also release magic. My speculation is likely to be correct!"

This vivid analogy drew laughter from everyone, instantly easing the tense atmosphere.

If this researcher's analysis is correct, then the truth will truly come to light.

Due to their unique composition, those mineral belts, under the catalysis of the special environment of the other world, accumulated over time and became natural magical energy storage fields.

The undead, whose magical energy sustains life, may be instinctively drawn to them for some reason, or perhaps they are forced to hover near the ore zone to reduce their own magical consumption.

The electromagnetic fluctuations decreased after the undead were killed, but did not completely disappear, because the ore itself was the source.

The explosion at the mountain site amplified electromagnetic interference by seven levels, causing the detection instruments to mistakenly identify it as a magical field, which ultimately led to the misunderstanding.

Whether this applies to all ores, and whether any ores contain materials that shield against detection, requires further analysis.

In addition to this, scientists have also discovered various complex impurities, such as iron oxide, in those ores.

These things can form natural shielding coatings and energy-absorbing layers, and have a chance to perfectly fool the earliest and somewhat crude detectors made by humans.

"Haha, it seems the firmware for the frontline magic detectors can be upgraded!"

"Not only can they be upgraded, but I also think these things will generate many new research directions for our new equipment."

(End of this chapter)