I accidentally joined a group of charlatans, so I immediately called the police and handed it over t

The air around Base 001 was filled with chilling alarms.

"Sizzle—sizzle—"

This is not the sound of electricity.

This is the painful groan emitted when space is forcibly cut open.

The "Geng Metal Qi" that was separated from the Five-Colored Stone did not become docile after it entered the mortal world.

On the contrary, it is like an enraged golden dragon rampaging through a specially designed magnetic confinement field.

"The field strength has reached its limit! We can't control it at all!"

Su Qingge was wearing a heavy lead apron to protect against radiation, and her whole body was almost pressed against the explosion-proof glass. Her voice was filled with a broken sob.

In her line of sight.

The inner wall of that carbon nanotube, which is hailed as the pinnacle of human materials science and has a hardness twenty times that of diamond.

At this moment, it's like a fragile piece of tofu.

Each time the Geng metal energy moves, it leaves a deep, bottomless scratch on the surface.

Even more terrifying.

The area around the scratch was not curled, but rather presented an eerie, pure black that seemed to devour light.

That's a spatial rift.

It's not just cutting matter; it's cutting the rules of this dimension.

"Retreat! Everyone retreat!"

Li Guobang's face had turned ashen.

He gripped Chen Xi's arm tightly, his strength so great it felt like he was digging into her flesh.

"Chen Xi! This isn't some kind of treasure!"

"This is a damn time bomb that's going to cut the Earth in two!"

"If the magnetic confinement fails, this thing will burrow into the Earth's crust, and our entire city of Yanjing will fall into a fissure in the ground!"

Chen Xi did not move.

He was still holding that enamel mug with its peeling paint.

This time, however, he did not drink tea.

Because the surface of the water in the teacup was trembling violently, creating fine ripples.

Even water molecules felt an instinctive fear under this terrifying and chilling aura.

"Mortal containers are indeed unable to contain the rules."

Chen Xi muttered to himself in a low voice.

His face was also a little pale, but he knew very well that running away now was useless.

If this thing gets out of control, it might not even be safe once it leaves the atmosphere.

The one who tied the knot must untie it.

Since it's "poisonous gas" released by a deity, we need to ask the deity for a "gas mask".

Chen Xi flung Li Guobang's hand away.

"Old Li, stop howling."

"Stabilize that magnetic field for me. Even if it means turning off the power in the entire city of Yanjing, you must buy me three minutes."

After saying that, Chen Xi took out his phone.

His fingers flew across the keyboard; instead of sending a message in the group, he directly opened the private chat window whose profile picture was a yin-yang symbol.

[Laozi, the Supreme Lord]

The Heavenly Court's number one tech geek, a pill-refining fanatic, and Chen Xi's only lifeline this time.

[Chen Xi]: Laozi, are you there? I need your help urgently!

[Laozi]: (Auto-reply) Currently in seclusion refining elixirs, please do not disturb. If you need anything, burn paper money; if it's a serious matter, summon his spirit; otherwise, get lost.

Chen Xi's lips twitched slightly.

This old man has quite a personality.

Without wasting words, he immediately unleashed his trump card.

He called out to Su Qingge behind him, "Dr. Su, take a picture of that top-of-the-line set of top-of-the-line chemical laboratory glassware in your lab, which is still unopened, and send it to me!"

"And also, that periodic table posted on the wall, we need that too!"

Although Su Qingge was in a state of extreme terror, she still instinctively obeyed Chen Xi's order.

The photos have been sent over.

Chen Xi forwarded it directly to Laozi.

[Chen Xi]: Image.jpg (high borosilicate glass beaker, condenser, centrifuge...)

[Chen Xi]: Image.jpg (High-resolution version of Mendeleev's periodic table)

[Chen Xi]: Laozi, this is the ultimate analytical map of the "origin of matter" in the mortal world.

[Chen Xi]: Do you want to know why your pills always explode? Do you want to know the secrets of the arrangement of hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, and boron?

silence.

There was only a one-second silence.

The next moment, Chen Xi's phone started vibrating wildly.

Video call request!

Chen Xi answered the call.

An old face with a stubble and covered in cigarette ash appeared on the screen.

Laozi's originally cloudy old eyes were now fixed on the periodic table on the screen, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"Fellow Daoist...!"

"Why do these symbols...congruent with the ultimate principles of Heaven?!"

"What is that 'Uranium-235'? Why do I feel a world-destroying power even through the screen?!"

Chen Xi calmly held up her phone.

"That's called science."

"Laojun, let's make a deal."

"This set of diagrams, plus that set of completely transparent, heat-resistant glassware that allows you to clearly see the reaction process of the elixir."

"Change to that broken jar next to your alchemy furnace, the one you use to hold the waste."

Laozi was taken aback.

He glanced back at the corner.

There lay a dusty, pitted earthenware pot, as if it had been burned.

That was waste material made from the ash and residue that were cleaned out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace after years of refining divine pills.

Aside from being heat-resistant, it's useless.

"You want that one?"

Lao Tzu looked on incredulously, "That's industrial waste!"

"Stop talking nonsense, are you going to switch or not?" Chen Xi urged, while in the background, the base's alarm had turned into a sharp, long wail.

"Change it! Only a fool wouldn't change it!"

Fearing that Chen Xi might change his mind, Laozi waved his sleeve, and the broken jar vanished instantly.

at the same time.

"Ding! Laozi has sent you a red envelope—[Ember Jar of the Eight Trigrams Furnace]."

Chen Xi received it instantly.

"boom--"

A flash of light appeared on the teleportation platform.

An earthenware pot, which looked even less refined than the enamel teacup, appeared out of nowhere.

It's so ugly.

The surface was covered with charred scabs, and there were even a few gaps.

Su Qingge glanced at it, then closed her eyes in despair.

"Chen Xi, are you insane?"

"This stuff can't even hold ordinary sulfuric acid, and you're trying to use it to hold heptium gas, which is powerful enough to cut through atoms?!"

Chen Xi ignored him.

He strode to the control panel of the isolation ward.

I took a deep breath and pressed the red "Release Magnetic Constraints" button.

"No!!!" Li Guobang let out a heart-wrenching scream.

The restraints disappeared.

The metal energy that had been trapped for so long suddenly let out a joyful howl.

It transformed into a golden bolt of lightning and hurtled straight toward the broken jar.

Everyone instinctively crouched down, covering their heads, awaiting the fate of the base being cut in two.

however.

The expected explosion did not occur.

There was only a very faint "whoosh".

It's like a weary bird returning to its nest.

That boundless, violent aura of Geng metal, capable of shattering even space itself.

The moment it touched that broken jar, it became incredibly obedient.

It circled once, then obediently burrowed into the jar.

It even made a "buzzing" sound, similar to a cat purring, coming from inside.

The earthenware pot, which looked like it could break at any moment, didn't even shake.

It stood there quietly, unadorned, yet it suppressed everything.

Dead silence.

The entire fifth underground level fell into a long, deathly silence.

Su Qingge slowly raised her head, her glasses perched crookedly on her nose, her mouth agape wide enough to fit an egg.

"This...this is not scientific..."

"This is the slag from the Bagua Furnace."

Chen Xi stepped forward, picked up the not-too-hot jar, and even weighed it in his hand.

"It burned in Laozi's Samadhi Fire for tens of thousands of years."

"It is itself the ancestor of fire and the nemesis of metal."

"This is what they call 'one thing subdues another.'"

Chen Xi turned around and looked at Li Guobang, who was still lying on the ground.

In his eyes, a flame called ambition flickered.

"Old Li, get up and get to work."

"Notify the Ministry of Military Industry that the first main gun of the Nantianmen Project, codenamed Tianfa, can now be approved for project approval."

Li Guobang shakily got up, looked at the broken jar, and swallowed hard.

"How...how can this thing be used as a cannon?"

Chen Xi smiled.

He stretched out his finger and gently gestured at the mouth of the jar.

"No gunpowder or electromagnetic coils are needed."

"As long as an extremely precise mechanical device is made, when needed, this jar can be opened with a slit at the micrometer level."

"Aim at the target and release."

Chen Xi's voice was soft, yet it sent chills down the spines of everyone present.

"Whether it's an aircraft carrier battle group or a fortified underground bunker ahead."

"Faced with this aura."

"They're just a slightly larger loaf of bread, waiting to be cut open."

this day.

China's military industry, because of a broken pot, entered a mythical era that cannot be explained by modern physics.