After Cooper took Qi Lin to visit the new facilities in the base one by one, Qi Lin finally entered the "core pillar tower" of the 404 base again.

The inside of the core tower hasn't changed much, except that the corpses that were everywhere have been cleaned up...... Well, according to Cooper, most of them have become "nourishment" within the edible fungus cultivation plant.

The damaged parts of the core tower have also been restored, and at the entrances of some important rooms, there are mechanical soldiers standing guard with loaded guns.

The inside of the central control room has changed quite a lot, but in Cooper's words, this is what the central control room is in working condition.

The entire central control room is shrouded in a layer of dreamlike blue light, and in the open space in the middle of the control room, there is a virtual projection of the entire 404 base, each projection has an independent display bar to explain what state the facility is currently in, and in the drop-down menu on the side are dozens of operation instructions - through this central control room, Qi Lin can hold the entire 404 base in his hands.

Everything from turning off the lights in a bathroom to entering a nuclear reactor's self-destruct command was all a matter of tapping on the virtual menu, and since Cooper had given Qi Lin enough privileges, he didn't even need to enter a single password.

"Oh, by the way, Cooper, I've got that incomplete launch core together last time...... Well, but there are some interesting changes to it, and I need you to help me break it down. ”

After Qi Lin finished speaking, he took out the round "iron ball" from his backpack.

A blue light swept over the iron ball in an instant, and the virtual image of the iron ball instantly refreshed in front of Qi Lin and Cooper, and the basic physical properties such as diameter, weight, and average density were listed on the side.

"This average density ...... It's a bit out of the ordinary. Cooper nodded.

"I guess there is some kind of highly compressed energy body inside this activation core, but this energy body is very stable, and the violent impact has no effect on it, and the strong acid and alkali can't even leave any traces on the surface of the iron ball, so I almost didn't use the shaped energy bombardment with the 'annihilation' attribute to hit it."

"It doesn't have to be an energy body, according to the information stored in my data, human beings have synthesized at least twenty or more materials that can reach this density in the laboratory before the war, and half of them can exist stably under normal conditions."

"What do you mean...... This iron ball, most likely, is it 'solid'? ”

"I wouldn't dare to say without a thorough analysis, but you know what that means at the cheapest price of any of the synthetics, one gram can buy an F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, and the sphere weighs 47.9 kilograms, right?"

"Although the cost of an F-35 is less than half that of the F-22 Raptor, it is more than $100 million...... If this thing is solid...... This thing is worth almost half a trillion dollars...... According to the exchange rate of one to six, that is 30 trillion Huaxia coins......"

Thirty trillion Huaxia coins, what is that concept?

You must know that fifteen years ago, when the signs of war were not yet obvious, China's annual financial revenue was only more than 20 trillion yuan...... After the outbreak of the war, the data on fiscal revenues were never made public.

A year and a half of the government's fiscal revenue is equivalent to such a small iron ball?

Even if this was a virtual world, Qi Lin felt a little incredible.

"So, there's no one person, no power that can make this thing, if it's made of those super-dense materials — it's not that it can't be made, it's that it can't be made."

"Is it possible that a new material with such a high density will emerge that is not so expensive?"

"This possibility is infinitely close to zero, before the outbreak of the war, this material did not appear, and after the outbreak of the war, it is even more unlikely to appear, at that time all the countries, consortia, and organizations have invested all their funds in the war, even if they want to study, it is also to study things related to the war, although the super-density material has broad prospects, but can not directly promote the process of the war, it is naturally impossible to get more research funds." Cooper explained.

"Isn't this thing made by humans? Is it the handiwork of aliens? ”

"That's not it, you asked me to parse this core the last time before it was complete, and I found traces of humans inside it, and even a number engraved with Arabic numerals, so it's a man-made artifact."

“…… How do I feel more and more confused, forget it, let's just send it for analysis. After Qi Lin finished speaking, he put the activation core in a safety box, and a mechanical soldier immediately picked up the safety box and sent it to the analysis room.

An hour later.

"How so?"

After reading a very brief analysis report, Qi Lin couldn't help but sit down in his chair with some frustration.

When the activation core was not yet complete, the equipment of Base 404 could still scan and analyze it simply, but now, when the analysis equipment tried to use the ray to probe its internal structure, the activation core actually seemed to come to life, and activated active defense measures, not only did the detection ray fail to penetrate the inside of the activation core, but the reflected laser also destroyed the emitter.

"It's normal, any kind of sophisticated equipment will have anti-theft measures, let alone something of this price." Cooper wasn't much surprised by this result - of course, the so-called surprise of an intelligent AI like him is just an emotion simulated by a humanized module.

"Well, forget it—"

Just when Qi Lin was about to give up, Cooper's virtual image suddenly stepped forward, and with a wave of his arm, the real-time projection of the analysis room was displayed in front of Qi Lin: "Master, although we didn't get any useful information, I found this thing when I was dealing with the endgame of the analysis room——"

The emitter that parses the laser is indeed destroyed, but if you zoom in on the lens, you can see that a string of extremely small letters has been etched into the focusing mirror of the laser emitter.

“HongKong-Koloon…… Hong Kong...... Kowloon?! ”

"According to the literal translation, it is indeed the meaning of 'Hong Kong Kowloon'." Cooper said.

"Is this going to get me there? But the question is...... In the midst of the war, the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong ...... It's sunk into Victoria Bay! ”