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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 Wen Min 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 made 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...something's not right." 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...outrageously high!"

She strode 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 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 said after a moment's thought, his voice trembling slightly, "is it possible... 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, due to 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 that other world at a microscopic level, we find that their atomic arrangements are almost identical; there's no way there could be 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 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.

"These materials would only cause interference around 6 GHz in the modern world, but here it's increased 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 experimental table in front of him lay several pieces of material that had been refined and cut using the world's most advanced modern technology.

A piece of dark, deep black stone—this is 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 the other side of Earth, and test them in groups!"

Li Xiang's voice could be clearly heard in the noisy laboratory: "Handcraft a rudimentary shield using super obsidian! 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! The cause of the collective malfunction of our previously dispatched magical detectors has been found!"

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 perfectly consistent with the unknown magical anomaly warning detected by our detectors!"

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

"So that's how it is!"

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

One researcher slapped his thigh, suddenly realizing the truth.

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

"Charging? Even the undead need to charge?"

"Why can't it be charged? Magic is also science, and energy must obey the law of conservation. Based on the magic-absorbing properties of these materials, the undead need to maintain a low 'magic consumption' state when not in use. Since super obsidian can absorb magic, it can probably also release magic. My speculation is likely 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, looks like the firmware for the frontline magic detectors can be upgraded!"

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

(End of this chapter)