One hundred million nanorobots

One day, two days passed, and Jiang Yuan waited patiently.

The third day finally arrived. Jiang Yuan got up very early and jogged around the empty playground a dozen times before going to the cafeteria to get his food. He ate four chicken legs, four eggs, a bowl of chicken rice noodles, and many free side dishes.

"Young man, you have a good appetite."

"Eating so much meat so early in the morning."

The cafeteria lady serving the food couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when she saw Jiang Yuan carrying a full stainless steel tray.

In fact, this was not the first time Jiang Yuan had shown an amazing appetite. Most of the aunties had known Jiang Yuan for a long time, but every time they saw him enthusiastically selecting meat, they couldn't help but mutter a few words, saying that young people have such good appetites.

Back in the dormitory, Jiang Yuan asked the little guy to pass on his inheritance to him, but was refused.

"Master, I have been monitoring your hormone levels and genetic indicators."

"We're just a tiny bit away from fully meeting the standards now."

"Please wait a little longer. Perhaps the gene fluctuation rate will reach the target by tonight."

Genetic volatility?

Jiang Yuan didn't understand what kind of index this was; perhaps it was some kind of measure of physical fitness from the Valencian civilization.

Trusting the little guy, Jiang Yuan said nothing and continued his research.

Now he understands all the parameters and technical details of the three-dimensional honeycomb battery better than ever before, except for the most important part: a synthetic metal that can withstand ultra-high-intensity polymerization reactions.

Once the problem of synthesizing metals is solved, Jiang Yuan is confident that he can synthesize three-dimensional superpolymers in the shortest time.

I have a normal lunch and rest, and then I do my second daily workout in the evening.

Unlike morning aerobic exercise, afternoon workouts focus on gym muscle training to enhance strength, as well as the strength and resilience of bones and fascia.

The little guy once told Jiang Yuan that intensive training could help him better accept the inheritance. Jiang Yuan has always kept this in mind and will take time to go to the gym every day, no matter how busy he is.

The sun had set, and the Da'an campus of the University of Science and Technology, which already had few students, was even quieter now. There were only a few lonely streetlights in the vast campus, and under the streetlights, you never saw any couples embracing.

Jiang Yuan relaxed completely, lay on his single bed, and slowly closed his eyes.

sigh~

One hundred and forty-two nanobots were released simultaneously, entering Jiang Yuan's body and reaching the prefrontal cortex of his brain.

Because it was only a knowledge transfer of a synthetic metal, the number of robots deployed this time was about half that of when the three-dimensional honeycomb battery was received.

Jiang Yuan's mind quickly became blurry, and he felt like he had become another person, an alien living in a distant galaxy.

In the first year, in the top-secret archives of the Deep Space Exploration Agency, materials science master William placed a piece of alloy foil, only 0.3 millimeters thick, in Jiang Yuan's palm.

"Try to tear it open, or try to deform it using any method of force," Master William said.

Jiang Yuan used all his strength, but the metal foil remained miraculously motionless.

The spectral analysis results made Jiang Yuan even more confused. Titanium, vanadium, chromium... This alloy material was obviously extremely ordinary, but the effect it achieved was completely beyond Jiang Yuan's imagination.

"What is this?" Jiang Yuan asked, puzzled.

"I also want to know what it is."

Master William shook his head and said, "File number ZK997241. Our border patrol fleet encountered a mysterious starship in the distant constellation of Tafa. The firefight produced a violent explosion, leaving only this behind."

"Based on speculation, that spaceship likely came from outside the star system."

Jiang Yuan was stunned. "A spaceship from outside the star system?"

Master William said in a rather somber tone, "No matter where it comes from, from today onwards, this will be the target we must conquer no matter what."

The long research began, and Jiang Yuan saw the true appearance of this alloy for the first time under a scanning transmission electron microscope: a triple helical dislocation network and a perfect mathematical periodic extension.

Jiang Yuan felt unprecedentedly confused. Why did ordinary components like titanium, vanadium, and chromium ultimately exhibit such powerful results that violated the laws of physics?

In the third year, after a long period of research, Jiang Yuan's paper "Topological Invariance of Metastable Dislocation Superstructures" was finally published. Through topological analysis, Jiang Yuan proved that a planned titanium alloy dislocation network satisfies an extremely special boundary condition, in which the spiral period and the atomic vibration frequency can achieve harmonious resonance.

This paper is perfect in mathematics, but how to control the parameters in reality remains an unsolved problem.

In the fifth year, the multi-parameter control furnace was completed.

It looks like a device from a science fiction movie, with three nested vacuum chambers lined with electromagnetic shielding material, 128 independent temperature control modules, 64 sets of ceramic oscillators, and a sophisticated laser interferometer.

On the eve of the launch, Jiang Yuan excitedly wrote in the project log: "If the theory is correct, we will witness together the birth of the first room temperature superalloy in history."

The furnace is started, the electromagnetic field is stabilized, and ultrasonic pulses are injected at a precise frequency of 1.567MHz.

On the monitor screen, strangely shaped spots began to appear in the X-ray diffraction pattern, and an uncontrollable cheer erupted in the laboratory.

But when the experiment reached the fifty-second minute, the spot suddenly began to rotate and twist, and then disappeared without warning.

After the furnace cooled and was opened, it contained no metal as everyone had expected, but only a layer of uniform gray powder. Particle size analysis showed that all the particles were 72 nanometers in diameter and perfectly spherical.

This experiment was not without its discoveries. Jiang Yuan noticed that at the moment the material was pulverized, the neutron scattering data capture device captured a transient triple helix mesh.

In other words, the imagined synthetic metal did indeed form, but it could not be stabilized.

In the seventh year, the experiment failed repeatedly.

An assistant researcher accidentally set the wrong furnace temperature, and as a result, the powder did not melt but sintered into a translucent glassy substance.

Under a microscope, this substance shows a blurred spiral structure.

In the tenth year, Jiang Yuan came up with a crazy idea: since super-strong titanium alloys refuse to be manufactured, perhaps we can make them grow.

For many years, Jiang Yuan and countless other scientists have been pursuing the perfection of the triple helix structure. Perhaps what this super-strong alloy needs is not perfection, but controllable defects.

Opposition surged like a tidal wave. Some said Jiang Yuan had gone mad, while others said he was unworthy of being a scientist and should pursue metaphysics instead.

Under immense pressure, Jiang Yuan presented his final solution.

Instead of pursuing absolute purity, we actively introduce calculated design flaws.

In the furnace, add 0.08% nano-sized carbon particles and 0.02% oxygen.

To this end, Jiangyuan designed a TiC core with a diameter of five nanometers and an outer shell of superpolymer. When the furnace cools down, the polymer shell will break at a certain point, releasing the pre-stored carbon and oxygen atoms.

In the eleventh year, after numerous attempts, Jiangyuan added a furnace gradient annealing process to the superpolymer shell.

At this point, external skepticism towards Jiang Yuan's team had reached its peak, with many believing that he was not using scientific methods to melt and synthesize, but rather praying to the gods for help in alchemy, like a wizard.

However, the results of just the first test silenced everyone, and indeed the entire world.

The amazing triple helix structure was clearly detected for the first time in the furnace sintered sample, but unfortunately the structure is still unstable.

"The key lies in mastering the timing of gradient annealing."

Jiang Yuan made a judgment and then launched a second, third, and countless other attempts.

In the twelfth year, Jiang Yuan had been living and working in the laboratory for more than a year. His hair was disheveled, and his eyes, though suppressed, revealed an unparalleled fervor.

After finishing the last punctuation mark in his paper, he finally relaxed completely, lay down on the sofa in the lab, and fell into a deep sleep, a long-lost smile on his face.

He personally named this alloy with a rare triple helix structure "tri-titanium alloy".

……

From night to the night of the next day.

The nanobots resolutely carried out the orders, within exactly twenty-four hours.

When Jiang Yuan woke up, his whole body was completely soaked in sweat, leaving a large "V" shape on the bed sheet.

Jiang Yuan touched his face, feeling sore all over and weak in the muscles. His mind was still wandering between two completely different worlds. Sometimes the moonlight was outside the window, and the next moment it was an endless sea of ​​stars.

It didn't feel like a dream, because even the clearest dream could never be this real. The feeling of his hands touching the furnace, the ecstasy after the tri-titanium alloy was successfully manufactured—all of these lay quietly deep in Jiang Yuan's memory, never to be erased.

Sometimes, Jiang Yuan even wondered if the little guy was hiding something from him.

After all, the feeling of inheritance is too wonderful, as if Jiang Yuan traveled to another dimension within 24 hours and lived a completely different life.

Jiang Yuan used to think he had two personalities, but after this experience, he has three.

My stomach is growling with hunger.

Fortunately, Jiang Yuan was prepared. He boiled a kettle of water, used the hot water to make instant noodles, and skillfully tore open the outer packaging of the ham sausage.

After wolfing down his food, Jiang Yuan felt his body recover somewhat, and his mind was no longer as chaotic as before. However, the knowledge he had just received still needed time to integrate.

Based on previous experience, the integration process requires writing, writing down everything in memory by hand, again and again.

"Master, we did it!" The little guy was overjoyed, waving his arms excitedly, seemingly even more excited than Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan nodded. "Yes, it's not easy."

"I have a strange feeling. This time, the knowledge I absorbed, whether in terms of time span or total amount of knowledge, is greater than the first time, but my body is more tired than last time. It doesn't feel like I've been sick, but more like I've just been carried off the operating table."

"What the master said is absolutely right."

The little guy explained, "Humans aren't physically strong. If we compare the transmission of knowledge to an illness, then the physical burden of two consecutive illnesses is definitely greater than the first one."

"This is why, while absorbing and passing on knowledge, we cannot stop transforming our bodies, and we cannot stop training our bodies every day."

"Because the physical burden brought about by the transmission of knowledge will only become more and more serious, if the master wants to absorb knowledge transmission in a long period of time and many times, he must increase his physical strength and strengthen his nutrition."

Oh ~

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly, understanding dawning on him.

It turns out that knowledge transmission is like carrying a backpack; the more backpacks you carry, the heavier the load. Only by strengthening your body can you better carry the burden forward.

This could be considered a drawback of the inheritance.

Compared to learning, passing on traditions undoubtedly requires a higher level of physical fitness.

However, since we have a little one, these shouldn't be too difficult. At worst, we can wait until the first full-body cell modification is completed before doing the second one.

……

Jiang Yuan didn't leave his room during the entire holiday, spending every day hunched over his desk, writing furiously.

In addition to enhancing the transmission of knowledge in memory, Jiang Yuan also tried to combine tri-titanium alloy technology with current Earth technology, which resulted in an amazing discovery.

According to tradition, smelting tri-titanium alloy requires adding carbon and oxygen atoms encapsulated in polymer. The polymer used for encapsulation is the same high-molecular lattice polymer that I developed before for energy storage technology, which is a magical substance that can deform from 2.5 dimensions to three dimensions.

Jiang Yuan was overjoyed!

In this way, it will undoubtedly become much easier to produce tri-titanium alloys on Earth. All that is needed is to successfully develop the gradient algorithm for the smelting furnace. As for the titanium, vanadium, chromium, carbon, and oxygen required for the alloy, they are all abundant on the Earth's surface, making mass production a breeze.

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but recall a term he had learned in school: technology tree.

Once you have a solid foundation, it becomes remarkably easy to continue climbing upwards and eventually flourish.

Unexpectedly, the foundation of energy storage technology can also be used to manufacture tritiate alloys.

What Jiang Yuan didn't expect was that when he continued to calculate, he discovered that this trititanium alloy could not only be used in his upcoming three-dimensional honeycomb battery project, but also provide amazing assistance to the aerospace field.

The scene was so beautiful that Jiang Yuan could hardly imagine it.

Using titanium alloys to manufacture rockets would be a monumental feat, perhaps the most radical revolution in existing aerospace technology.

Was all of this something the little guy deliberately arranged?

When faced with this question, the little guy flatly denied it, only saying that it was a connection between technologies.

Jiang Yuan still had some doubts, but out of trust, he didn't delve any deeper.

……

The week-long holiday ended, and Xia Yundi, Su Guo, and all the lab members returned to Da'an.

Everyone seemed to be in good spirits.

After all, although Jiangyuan is located in a remote area, the salary it offers is quite high. After the successful development of the lattice battery, Jiangyuan also gave everyone six months' salary as a bonus.

Everyone was young and generally didn't have much savings, so Jiang Yuan's generous offer made everyone ecstatic.

They even summarized the advantages of Da'an Laboratory: it's far from populated areas, and there's nowhere to spend money, so working here is a good way to save money.

Xia Yundi seemed somewhat tired, and Jiang Yuan knew that he was worried about the West Suburbs Experimental Base. Despite his young age, he was already Jiang Yuan's chief steward of internal affairs.

"Come here for a moment."

Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Yuan summoned Xia Yundi and Su Guo, his two most trusted assistants, to his office and handed them a formula.

The formula is as follows.

Ti-V-Cr-CO(d)·{[TDN]+ CC(f)}→Σ(UTS, KIC, HCF)

The moment they saw the formula, Su Guo and Xia Yundi exclaimed in surprise at the same time, both of them stunned.