Chapter 523: Material Extraction
When he spit out the word "become", Yang Chen was also relieved.
The power armor central system even issued a warning: "Drop! Detect that the occupants have excessive adrenal hormones, excessive sweat secretion, and excessive heart rate, and the central intelligent reminder is to keep in good condition in the dangerous environment of the moon." Do you want to be tranquilized?"
"Nope. ”
Yang Chen has his own enlightenment formula to adjust his mentality, of course, he doesn't need any tranquilizers. He silently thought about it, took a few deep breaths, and quickly calmed down.
It's not that he's making a fuss, it's really too risky to do the previous action.
After all, in terms of his cultivation and spiritual power, he didn't have the ability to trigger a particle matrix as large as 20,000 square meters. Although this particle matrix is actually just a simple stack of particle equations, it is still quite difficult to trigger a quantitative change when it reaches an astonishing area of 20,000 square meters, no matter how simple the particle equation is.
What he did before, it was just a trick.
With the help of ten spiritual energy beads that reserve spiritual energy, through the way of transfer, four or two thousand catties, with small fights and big ones, through his current cultivation, he successfully triggered the entire rune array and completed this particle matrix.
However, this tricky approach is also very risky.
If one is not good, the spiritual energy will get out of control, and it will explode.
Especially at the last moment, timing is key.
Because the broken particle equation structure certainly helps control the stability of psionic energy, it is also an obstacle to the introduction of psionic energy into the core. It can only be imported at the moment when the structure of the mutilated particle equation is dissipated. Too sooner or too late will cause the stability of the psionic group to be destabilized and explode.
The explosion was not pleasant.
After all, each of these ten spiritual energy beads could contain all of Yang Chen's previous spiritual power that had reached the peak of the seventh order. Ten together, that's ten seventh-order cultivators for Yang Chen's full strength!
Yang Chen, a seventh-order cultivator, struck with all his might, even if he only burst out of spiritual energy, only looking at the power of the spiritual energy explosion itself, and not looking at the power of so many spiritual powers to perform spiritual arts, the power could still reach the level of a ton of TNT!
Ten is equivalent to ten tons of TNT!
Once out of control, it is impossible to directly blow Yang Chen, who is wearing power armor a hundred meters away, to smithereens, but it is still no problem to break the power armor, plus a huge impact force. At that time, even if the Xingchen can come to save him, I am afraid that he will die before the Xingchen arrives at Yang Chen.
Not to mention the last moment, even before, as long as Yang Chen's spiritual power fluctuated slightly, he would have to give up all his previous efforts, causing his spiritual energy to explode!
Fortunately, under Yang Chen's care, everything was successfully completed.
Next, Yang Chen only needed to sit back and wait for this particle moment to be completely triggered.
However, before that, Yang Chen first continued to retreat for twenty meters, and then turned on the electromagnetic shielding field of the power armor.
Even if it has the derivative function of electromagnetic shielding field, this original electromagnetic shielding field function, of course, Yang Chen will not forget it. Even if he used all traditional technology to build power armor, Yang Chen would not forget to defend against the interference of the psionic field. With the electromagnetic shielding field, everything is OK. What he said to the madman before was actually to scare him, and the power armor was certainly not that fragile.
However, because of the limitations of power armor technology, the anti-interference ability of this electromagnetic shielding field is not too strong, so he does not dare to get too close. After all, the particle matrix formed by such a huge rune array, even if Yang Chen had already minimized its spiritual energy fluctuations when engraving, the spiritual energy fluctuations were still not weak.
In the "buzzing" sound, the electromagnetic shielding field was turned on, and then Yang Chen saw a bright light flash in front of him, and he opened his eyes like blind for a while!
That's the light from this particle matrix when it's fully operational!
When Yang Chen regained his eyesight in the strong light, and with the assistance of his spiritual power, he saw that on the ground one hundred and twenty meters away, with the particle matrix as the core, it was constantly fluctuating and trembling, as if there was some fierce beast struggling inside.
After about ten minutes, the particle matrix suddenly flashed with light, and black shadows were thrown outward in an endless stream. However, the distance was not far, it was only thrown ten meters away.
These black shadows, large and small, more and less, were all wrapped in a cloud of spiritual light, thrown in different directions at different angles and strengths.
In the end, a large area was piled up in front of Yang Chen, almost blocking his view.
Then, the light emitted by the particle matrix completely dissipated, and even the aura that enveloped the black shadow disappeared, and the obvious psionic fluctuations that had been before also fell silent.
Yang Chen knew that this meant that this particle matrix had completed its mission and disappeared.
After all, the ground that is its carrier has also changed beyond recognition, and this particle matrix certainly cannot continue to exist.
He turned off the electromagnetic shielding field and strode forward to the mass of objects that had been thrown out.
These objects could be seen clearly in the light of the sun overhead, but they were square or cylindrical pieces, some shimmering with crystalline light, some with a metallic sheen, and some dark.
The swarthy thing was the only cylindrical thing, and it added up to four. Each one is only three centimeters long and three centimeters in diameter, and it looks like a flashlight. If you look closely, you can see that the "flashlight" looks smooth on the surface. Under the observation of Yang Chen's spiritual power, it can be found that this is simply a high-strength jar with an iron-titanium alloy shell, which is filled with compactly pressed graphite powder, showing a honeycomb-like structure at the nanoscale.
In the nanohoneycomb structure of these graphite powders, a large amount of gas is adsorbed.
However, two of them have additional logos added to them. This means that what is inside is different from what is not marked.
Yang Chen picked up a marked "flashlight" and turned it on, extracted a little gas from the honeycomb structure of silica powder and sent it to the analyzer, and got the result that made him nod with satisfaction:
"Sample analysis completed, substance composition: helium tri, purity: 98.13%......"
At the same time, he picked up the "flashlight" without a logo and opened it, and drew the gourd in the same way, and the result was: "...... Material composition: deuterium, purity 96.52%......"
"Good. Listening to the analysis results, Yang Chen put away the two "flashlights", and the remaining two directly opened the armor covers on both sides of his waist and inserted the two "flashlights" into the fuel refill slot.
Soon, the reactor control chip, which detected the addition of fuel, sent a signal to the central intelligent system, which immediately reacted:
"Drop, the reactor was detected with fuel addition, current energy reserves: 98.12%. ”
That's right, this brick is Yang Chen's specially designed helium-3 and deuterium storage fuel block. The fuel block is formed by compression of nanoscale honeycomb graphite powder, which is used to store helium triand deuterium fuel by adsorbing helium triand deuterium through nanoscale honeycomb cavities.
This is only a temporary solution. After all, in order to do this, Yang Chen had to add the function of changing the form of the product after the extraction of matter to the particle matrix, which greatly increased the complexity of the particle matrix of matter extraction, otherwise without these additional functions, the risk of Yang Chen launching the particle matrix before would not be so great.
In the real helium-3 mining scheme designed by Yang Chen, the final extracted helium-3 will be compressed and stored in high-pressure gas tanks, and then sent to a cold nuclear fusion fuel plant for special processing. As for deuterium, there is no need to be so troublesome, it can be directly converted into metal deuterium under high pressure. As an isotope of hydrogen, hydrogen energy forms metallic hydrogen, and deuterium forms metallic deuterium.
Then, Yang Chen went to the other objects that were thrown out, these objects were all substances that were extracted at the same time in the previous material extraction particle matrix, including iron, titanium, aluminum and other metals, as well as silica, carbon, etc.
In fact, lunar soil contains a variety of elements, extracting one ton of helium-three, you can get 6,300 tons of hydrogen, 70 tons of nitrogen and 1,600 tons of carbon, in addition to a lot of oxygen, but hydrogen Yang Chen also used to extract the isotope deuterium of hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen simply did not care.
The extracted metals are all made into boxy metal blocks, and the same is true for carbon and silica, but there are also substances containing various rare earth elements, uranium elements and other substances, because there are too many and too miscellaneous, Yang Chen did not extract them, and temporarily threw them aside as scrap.
In any case, this time the extraction of materials was very successful as an experiment.
"The efficiency of material extraction is very good, but it is a pity that this large particle matrix consumes too much and is too demanding, and it seems that it is better to use a smaller particle matrix to refine various raw materials in the future. Anyway, the efficiency of uninterrupted extraction by means of assembly line is not necessarily worse than extracting a large amount at once. ”
In addition to this, as a by-product, a large hole was also broken in the ground, and at least the secret base could be established later, which could save some digging effort. Once these metal raw materials are refined, they can also be used as building materials for the base, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
"The biggest problem is the water. Although oxygen and hydrogen can be extracted from lunar soil and lunar rock to make water, there is still relatively little water that can be produced in this way. ”
Yang Chen secretly pondered, and the heavenly calculation in his mind frantically searched for relevant information, and soon found a solution:
"According to previous scientific observations, there are a large number of icy water materials in the polar regions of the moon, and the initial base can directly produce water from the extracted oxygen and hydrogen, and the water extracted from the polar regions can be used in the middle stage. Only one asteroid like this is needed to meet the lunar water needs for at least a hundred years. ”