Science Fiction: Starting from Obtaining Sophon

The answer is definitely no!

There needs to be something touching to truly make the other person feel your sincerity.

If sincerity is not absolute, then there is absolutely no sincerity!

Moreover, it's just a sword; no matter how precious it is, it's still just a cold weapon.

What use is it to hold it in your own hands, in this base, except to treat it as a flawless decorative item, put it in a transparent glass case for everyone to see?

It would be better to use it to bribe this genius swordsman, someone who can single-handedly kill a mutant and two mutant monsters.

As a pragmatist, making the most of everything was always his principle.

"Alright, alright, I understand how you all feel. That sword is indeed a national treasure, but as an old saying in Hanxia goes, a fine sword is given to a martyr, and a beautiful woman is given to a beauty; a divine weapon needs to be in the hands of someone who can bring out its sharpness to be of its full potential."

"I've chosen a suitable master for this divine weapon."

He then gave a general overview of the situation to the three men, leaving them somewhat skeptical.

As veterans of this base, they certainly understand the true significance of its existence.

12 The purpose of this base is to study mutants and develop weapons to target them.

The reason this sword was made is actually related to this direction.

When a large organization faces a problem that seems unsolvable, it can generate a bunch of messy projects.

This is not nonsense, but the culmination of countless facts.

Just like some academic institutions, when they only look at papers when evaluating professional titles, a large number of nonsensical papers will appear. The quality of these papers is only good enough to be used as fuel, but in the end, they are used as stepping stones to positions.

For example, during World War II, the military industries of many countries created some strange and unusual weapons, such as the MIAS individual combat vehicle, the Goliath remote-controlled bomb, and a gun-shield that combined a gun and a shield, which was practically a sitting duck.

The most bizarre of all is that there is another type of nuclear weapon that can only be used once in a lifetime. This weapon, called the M-388 nuclear rocket launcher, is a weapon whose kill radius is greater than its range. Using it once will inevitably result in the loss of life.

The most critical issue is its extremely poor accuracy; soldiers need to carry this thing and get within 200 meters to launch a relatively accurate attack.

However, such a distance is far too short compared to the range of firearms. In other words, when you appear carrying this thing, the enemy only needs to use a gun to kill the soldier who throws the weapon outside of your blast radius, so it can't be fired at all!

And this military base is actually quite similar.

Their main research focus is on how to deal with mutants and how to eliminate them.

It can be further subdivided into many directions, such as researching drugs to counteract aberrations and using some advanced weapons.

However, dealing with mutants is similar to urban counter-terrorism, and urban counter-terrorism dictates that weapons of mass destruction cannot be used, otherwise you might as well just level the city.

So some people started researching all sorts of solutions.

For example, some people are researching armed mechs that can transform soldiers into steel warriors to fight against mutants; others are researching exoskeletons to increase their movement speed and combat capabilities.

However, given the current state of human technology, these directions are all highly unreliable.

Armed mechs are slow, lack firepower, and are unstable; once they fall, they become nothing but scrap metal.

As for exoskeletons, they do have some effect, but they can only save soldiers some effort during transport or marching. Moreover, Hanxia's research in this area far surpasses that of Japan, so it can only be used occasionally as a special equipment, and its effect is far from sufficient to deal with mutants.

These three elderly men, on the one hand, moved between various projects, providing some casting technology support, and on the other hand, devoted themselves to the research of cold weapon casting.

Of course, the official explanation is that it's a study on metal casting technology.

The reason for this is that they were all once famous swordsmiths, and later came here to work because of the country's call, but swordsmithing has always been their passion.

Now that we have the time and the funds, what's there to be afraid of? Let's just do it!

So the three of them embarked on a path of publicly funded travel—no, publicly funded sword forging.

Later on, they gradually became dissatisfied and began using ordinary steel to forge swords. However, these ordinary materials always had various problems and could not achieve the perfection they envisioned.

As their appetites grew, they set their sights on a strange mineral stored in the secret archives of the Japanese nation. Legend has it that an ancient royal family member discovered this mineral in the cooled lava after the eruption of Mount Fuji.

Many swordsmiths later set their sights on this ore, but no matter how they tried to forge it, they were unable to melt it down, and in the end, they had to give up.

Now that they've set their sights on it, they've directly applied and obtained the ore.

After some research, they actually found a way to smelt the sword, and it took them more than a year to finally forge it.

Although the sword does look exquisite, the problem is that, fundamentally, it is a product that wastes national funds.

Now this thing is being put to good use, used to bribe the person who broke through their research impasse—it's incredibly worthwhile!

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Inside the castle, Genda River was playing with the sharp blade in his hand.

"Congratulations, host! You finally have a suitable weapon. With this sword, you can use the breathing technique without any worries."

Genda was very pleased to hear what Tomoko said.

He had suffered enough from using bad weapons, and he could foresee that there would be no shortage of battles in the future. If he had to discard a sword every time he fought, like Tanjiro did, the consumption would be too great.

He didn't have a personal swordsmith to forge swords for him, nor did he have a lord to reimburse his expenses.

However, he still asked with some unease, "Zhizi, can this sword, according to your method, really continuously increase its hardness and toughness, approaching or even reaching the hardness of the droplet detector?"

Zhizi affirmed, "Of course. I can influence the crystal structure of the sword material through subtle spacetime energy. That is, the spacetime energy must be powerful. Otherwise, only stellar-level energy could truly reshape the internal crystal structure of this material. Without a consistent crystal structure, the strength of this material would be far from what it is."

This is actually easy to understand; the real terror lies in the mastery of the microscopic world.

For Genda River, this is equivalent to having a weapon that can grow. Once he truly possesses spacetime energy and completes the crystal structure adjustment, the power of this sword will be far more terrifying than it is now!

However, this would require more spacetime energy.

"From now on, you will be called Mingyue, and you will be my personal sword," he said, putting the sword away.

"Let's go home. We haven't taken on any missions lately, so we should try harder. Taking on more missions will allow us to acquire more spacetime energy; after all, even a small amount is still something."

But in my heart, I was thinking, "Shinichi Kudo, Shinichi Kudo, why haven't you become Conan yet? If you don't write 'Postpartum Care 2,' there won't be any toilet paper left! Ugh, if you don't become Conan, Tomoko's time-space energy won't be enough! You'd better hurry up!"

Chapter 147 Gin and Shinichi Kudo's Fated Encounter

"Ran, Kudo, look this way, I'm here!"

Sonoko saw Ran and Shinichi Kudo approaching and hurriedly called out to them.

"Yuanzi!" Xiaolan smiled when she saw Yuanzi and hurriedly ran over.

"I'm so sorry, Sonoko. It's all Shinichi's fault. He encountered a case on the way here and insisted on getting involved, which made us wait so long."

Garden, however, smiled and waved her hand, saying:

"Don't worry about it. That's how all detectives are. It's the same with Genda these days. He wasn't working this hard when he first said he wanted to be a detective, but lately he's been working like crazy, completing all sorts of cases."

Shinichi Kudo, who was following behind Ran, twitched at the corner of his mouth.

I don't know what went wrong with that guy Gendagawa, he actually started to get into a competitive situation, taking on any kind of mission, and what's even more infuriating is that so many people are looking for him, and they are all high-ranking people!

Despite being just a rookie detective, he possesses formidable combat skills and exceptional tracking abilities, giving him a unique advantage in investigating extramarital affairs and searching for pets.

Okay, he admits he is indeed excellent.

But he's not that famous yet, so there shouldn't be that many people looking for him, right?

However, the truth is quite the opposite. According to his understanding, in the past ten days or so, many social celebrities have come to him to entrust him with tasks.

Here we must thank Yuko Ikezawa. Thanks to the two songs given to her by Gendagawa, she has suddenly become a sensation and successfully established her position in the music industry.

She also introduced the celebrities she met to Genda River.

Most of the cases commissioned by celebrities are investigative in nature, and cases involving deaths are relatively rare.

Before Conan appeared, the security situation in Beika was really not that bad!

With the help of Yuko Ikezawa, Genda River quickly opened up sales channels in high society, helping many wealthy women find evidence of their husbands' infidelity, and also helping many wealthy men catch their wives in the act.

In particular, the evidence he provided was all solid, especially some of the photographic evidence. It was not the kind of evidence that was blurry and could be overturned, but rather high-definition, water-washed, and undeniably conclusive evidence that left the parties involved with no room for rebuttal.

Therefore, it received a lot of praise, and a legend has been secretly circulating among the wealthy.

Want to find evidence of your partner's infidelity? Then go find Detective Genda!

In an instant, everyone in the entire Mikado district, including all those who had affairs, trembled with fear at the mere mention of Gendagawa's name, which also caused his business to boom.

And even more importantly, after he re-entered high society, high society discovered that this newly emerged detective was none other than the former eldest son of the Genji Group.

These are our own people!

As is well known, Japan is a country with a very rigid class system, and many positions are even hereditary.

Genda River's identity became worthless after he lost everything, but it wasn't entirely useless. Just like now, when you have the ability to be needed by the upper echelons, this identity helps to quickly open up the situation and be accepted by them.

In essence, a fallen nobleman is still a nobleman, and to the old nobles, he is one of their own. But a nouveau riche is different; it takes a long time for him to be accepted.

In short, Gendagawa broke through and quickly became a star detective sought after by high society.

If this trend continues, it's only a matter of time before he surpasses Shinichi Kudo.

However, in Shinichi Kudo's view, this guy was only solving some insignificant cases, the kind of things that I could do myself.

The cases I solve are all real criminal cases, the kind that are bloody and gruesome, the kind where several people die in one episode, the kind that create a haunted house in one go, the kind that can easily lower the property prices of an entire neighborhood!

But I've tried so hard, how come I still get surpassed? I'm not convinced, the washing machine thought to itself.

"Genda is still working so hard, it's really surprising. But he's so powerful, he can even deal with monsters, these things must be very simple for him."

But after Xiaolan finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth, looking very cute.