Chapter 1 Desperate Technology

On a clear night, countless bright stars dotted the sky like gems.

The conical metal tower rose from the ground and closed to form a platform of more than ten square meters at a height. A sharp metal needle more than ten meters long stretched out from the platform and inserted it straight into the sky, as if to peel off the brilliant gems on the black velvet cloth one by one.

There are 36 such metal towers, which are evenly distributed in the gorge super city and are the tallest building in the city. This kind of tower is called Juling Tower.

The Juling Tower is a lightning rod, but there is a complex machine and magic array in its chubby conical cavity. In thunderstorm weather, lightning from the sky hits the tower needle of Juling Tower, and a weak spiritual power will pour into the machine in the tower. The machine will extract weak spiritual power and be lured by spiritual power. The array will be activated. After consuming part of the spiritual power to operate itself, it pours the remaining spiritual power into a prepared spiritual stone. This spiritual tower is a giant machine that makes spiritual stones.

However, this machine is surprisingly inefficient, and it is difficult to form a spiritual stone under a thunderstorm. A spiritual tower can only produce up to ten low-level spiritual stones a year, but this is the only source of spiritual stones in the Black and White Hall of the Gorge City.

At the top of a Juling Tower in the south of the city stood two thin teenagers, one of whom had red scars in his eyes. He was a blind man. The two teenagers who looked the same age were Luo Han and his brother Luo Bing.

"Xiao Bing, did you see that star, Alpha Centauri."

"Brother, are you talking about the nearest triple star to the earth? I saw it."

Luo Bing did not look up, but a smile appeared on his face. Next to his ear, a thumb-sized instrument flipped up slightly, making a slight mechanical sound.

"Someone once predicted that the world only 4.2 light years away from us would have a more powerful civilization than us."

"Brother, I have heard this prediction, but after many arguments, the probability of that the existence of that situation is less than one in 100 million."

"Xiao Bing, are there hundreds of millions of stars in the sea of stars overhead?"

Luo Bing answered without hesitation: "The number of all stars in the universe is about 300 billion times more than 1 trillion, which is equivalent to the sum of all the cells on all the earth's people before the infiltration catastrophe, far exceeding hundreds of millions."

"Yes, so there must be countless civilizations in the universe, and there must be races stronger than the earth."

Luo Bing heard something meaningful from her brother's tone. It has been a month since her brother came to the edge of the gorge. This is the first time he asked him out to have a deep talk. He originally thought it was just a simple chat, but now he feels more and more that his brother has something to say to him.

"Brother, do you think monks and monsters come from other powerful civilizations and are an alien life?" Luo Bing asked carefully.

Luo Han shook his head: "The individual power of alien creatures is so powerful that some individuals can fight against our whole country alone, but their civilization is not advanced. Their ordinary residents are still in the feudal era. They are not a powerful race."

Luo Bing secretly smacks his tongue and dares to say that the two world of immortals and demons is not strong enough. I'm afraid his brother is the only one in the world.

"Xiao Bing, as an ordinary person, what do you think of the future of the earth?"

Feeling that his brother asked cautiously, Luo Bing pondered, and Luo Han did not interrupt him. The two brothers calmed down like this.

After a while, Luo Bing said, "In the future, the penetration of the two worlds of immortals and demons will certainly become more and more serious. The IQ of Warcraft is limited, and their impact is minimal. The influence of mortals in the alien world will be greater, but the human weapon system is also improving. There are still some advantages to deal with these cold weapon warriors. So the biggest threat is still from the monks. For them, the current power of human beings is not worth mentioning at all.

"Well, go on."

"It's okay for low-level monks. Although general physical thermal weapons are not effective, the effectiveness of energy weapons is gradually improving, and there are gradually some killings. However, for monks in the late foundation building and even in the Dan period and Yuanying period, these weapons are not enough."

The more Luo Bing said, the more excited he became: "Moreover, the monks have infiltrated one mountain after another, occupying many rare minerals. In addition, the transportation conditions in the field are getting worse and worse. The research of weapons has been at a standstill all year round. Even many existing conventional weapons cannot replenish ammunition and consumables, let alone top High-tech weapons, if it goes on like this, the earth will die sooner or later.

"If there are enough resources, can human beings eventually create weapons against Yuanying monks?" Luo Han was not in a hurry to throw out his point of view. He quietly asked a seemingly simple question, but he waited seriously for Luo Bing's answer.

Luo Bing almost cooled down from his excited state in an instant. He immediately turned his head to Luo Han, and the instrument on his ear made a slight mechanical sound.

Luo Han knew that the instrument on his brother's ear, the visual stimulator, was invented by Luo Bing himself. It collects images through in vitro instruments and transmits them directly into the human cerebral cortex. It can be widely used in various military and civil detection fields. It plays a remedial effect on blind people, but it is only one of its many effects. Small application.

The visual stimulator can observe the landscape at 360 degrees, so there is no need for Luo Bing to turn to Luo Han. The reason why he is so cautious only shows that his brother's problem has touched something deep in his heart.

"It is theoretically possible to make weapons against Yuanying monks, but in fact, it is almost impossible!"

Luo Bing said in a low voice, as if he was afraid that the secret would be revealed in a loud voice. You should know that although he is only a third-year student of the Central College of Xiabian City (Luo Bing has passed the big exam at the age of 16, three years now), his genius is famous in Yangxia Border City, and even the teachers and researchers of many colleges. In the field of the latest science and technology, he is better than him. His pessimistic prediction of future science and technology will indeed cause certain fluctuations in the scientific community of the gorge border city from a certain perspective.

Luo Han was very satisfied with his brother's expression when he heard the problem. It seemed that the name of genius did not make his brother arrogant and did not become a fanatical believer under scientific religion. He nodded: "Go on."

"The difference between mortals and monks on earth is like the difference between vegetative men and killers. No matter how powerful the weapons we make, those monks can kill you without human response at all, and will not give you a chance to pull the trigger at all. In a sense, it has exceeded all the weapons that we human beings can imagine.

"Just like the nuclear bomb that dealt with the beast tide, a nuclear bomb consumes countless human and material resources from production to transportation to launch, but the final effect is not comparable to the casual whip of the spiritual beast mountain Yuanying monk. If we want to attack the Yuanying monk with nuclear bomb, it is estimated that before the shell is launched, the gorge city will be turned into ruins. ."

"Even if the energy weapon is favored now, there is an insurmountable bottleneck. One is the trigger time mentioned earlier, and the other is a huge energy consumption. If you want to send out the energy of the attack of Yuanying monks, I'm afraid the energy system of the whole gorge will be invested in and charging for three days and three nights. It is possible to carry out an attack, and the storage of this huge energy is also a problem, so it is impossible for us to store a large amount of energy first and leave it to be released uniformly during the battle. The seemingly promising energy weapons are actually not suitable for fighting with monks.

"There is also antimatter. Antimatter weapons are powerful enough to collect antimatter. After creating a limited antimatter bullet (there is a magnetic field in the warhead, which suspends an extremely trace amount of antimatter in the vacuum cavity. The black dead bomb once used by Li Feng is a kind of material), we suddenly encountered the material. The material bottleneck has not collected even an antimatter molecule for more than three years, and as there are fewer and fewer human territories and metals become rarer, this road is basically broken.

At the end, Luo Bing finally showed a tired and helpless look on his face: "Well, basically, it is difficult to make any breakthroughs in the direction of weapons research we know. Even if there is a breakthrough, it is not worth mentioning in the eyes of high-level monks."

Luo Han, who had never spoken, suddenly smiled and patted his brother on the shoulder: "Don't be so depressed. Do you still have one of the most difficult but most promising scientific research directions that has not been mentioned yet?"

Luo Bing's head suddenly raised.