Soul crystals are a rather special mineral.

Anthropologists have been discussing the nature and composition of this mineral since the discovery of the Soul Crystal a hundred years ago, but they have never known what it is for, except for the name "Soul Crystal" in the records obtained from the gold relics.

At present, there are only two things that humans know about soul crystals.

One is that the soul crystal is an associated mineral, and it is extremely hard, one of the hardest among natural minerals.

The other is that the soul crystal will emit a rather strange energy radiation, which has a rather lethal effect on adults and even most machines, but it is ineffective for minors under the age of twelve.

Kungo, on the other hand, learned the true function of the soul crystal from Apo.

The Soul Crystal, as its name suggests, acts on the soul.

The technology of the Golden Empire has begun to accept the soul level, and for the people of Lando, the soul is a set of operating systems, just like the simulated personality of AI, which can be encoded, translated, modified, and reassembled.

It's just that the soul is more sophisticated.

Soul crystals are the natural storage of souls, and YHL models all have a soul crystal in their bodies, and to paraphrase humans, their artificial soul is in that soul crystal.

As for the radiation problem, it is because the child's soul belongs to an open system, although it is easy to be disturbed, but its own tolerance is extremely high, but it will not be affected by the special radiation of the soul crystal.

The soul of an adult is a closed system, with strong anti-interference ability, but once the interference cannot be blocked, the problem of low tolerance will immediately appear.

As for the robots - the human robot AI is all using the golden lost technology, which is essentially a kind of simulated personality, but the human is not yet fully learned, in Apo's words, it is a broken soul system.

How can a system that is itself crippled resist the radiation of soul crystals?

In other words, it is useless for humans to hold soul crystals, because human beings have no technology that can use soul crystals, and they have to develop at least three generations of technology and embark on the path of soul technology to be able to use soul crystals.

So what did the Apocalypse men mine the Soul Crystals for?

"They've received the soul technology of Lost Tech!" Kungo patted his forehead, "Apo, do you think it's a problem for humans to contact this now?" ”

Apo said categorically: "In your human language, it is tricks to die. The essence of a demon is actually a high-level use of soul technology! What do you think? ”

The three humans of Kunwu came down at that time.

The Golden Empire's technology is so bullish, and the soul technology has been played to the point of extinction, with the soul technology that humans have not touched now, this is really a trick to death.

Kun Wu wailed: "Although I really want to say that human beings have been doing this for thousands of years, I am really afraid that one day we will really kill ourselves!" ”

He You's face was calm: "We have to investigate, if the Apocalypse is really studying this, we have to find a way to destroy it, with the current technology of the human race, it is too early to accept this!" ”

Kun Wu looked at Lao Bai, who had been restless on the side: "Lao Bai, do you know where the nearest mining area here is?" Maybe we can go there and check it out! From there, know the specific location of the Soul Crystal Mine! ”

Bai Shanglu didn't answer, just rubbed his hands there in a daze.

Kun Wu shook his head, stepped forward and patted the other party's shoulder heavily, and said loudly: "Lao Bai! Wake up! ”

Only then did Bai Shanglu come back to his senses: "Huh? You call me? ”

Kun Wu sighed: "Lao Bai, I believe your daughter will be fine." Didn't Apo say that children will not be affected by soul crystals. The people of the Apocalypse want to open a mine, and they won't do it with your daughter, which is a valuable labor force. The little girl will suffer a lot, but we will definitely find her! ”

Bai Shanglu gritted his teeth and took a deep breath: "Yes, you are right!" You're right! Cardamom will be fine! He slapped his face again, forced himself to calm down, opened his personal terminal, and projected a map of the neighborhood.

"This is the plutonium T4 mine that Lanfu said before, and it has been proven a long time ago that it is the largest plutonium T4 vein in the entire Lin Guxing, but because it is close to the water source and the treatment cost is high, no one has come to mine it. Now the water source here seems to be unpolluted, which means that the Apocalypse has spent a lot of money to control the pollution! ”

He You is worthy of being a scholar, and he calculated the cost problem from some of Bai Shanglu's descriptions: "The Apocalypse is losing costs, and the cost of controlling pollution is far greater than the benefits they get from Plutonium T4, so they must have other purposes there!" ”

Plutonium T4 is a good energy isolating substance, which is a universal separator for starships, and can be said to be an indispensable new interstellar age mineral.

But plutonium T4 ore is also a mineral with considerable reserves, which can be easily mined in the asteroid belt, so it is not an expensive thing.

With the current market value of plutonium T4, the cost of mining plutonium T4 in Lin Guxing and controlling the complete absence of pollution is quite high.

"So we can go check it out now! Let's go! Kungo took out a small device from the storage space and swept it across his face, and that face changed again.

This is also one of the great things about biological camouflage technology, which can easily change its appearance as long as it is stimulated by a special instrument. The other three did the same thing, changing their appearances.

The biggest reason for this is to ensure that the appearance on the ID card given to them by Wen Yuan will not be invalid again, otherwise they will have to change their ID card twice in three days, even if someone like Wen Yuan can help.

Half a day later, a group of four people came to the vicinity of the Plutonium T4 mine, the entire mining area was surrounded by a large number of autonomous robots, from the periphery, there was no trace of human beings, only autonomous robots. But after putting a few stealth probes inside, the human staff was quickly seen.

There are quite a few of them.

"Xueba, I don't understand, why do they use humans? Aren't autonomic robots suitable? They have to use children for the soul crystals below, but doesn't it increase the cost of using people to mine the plutonium T4 mine above? What kind of bad taste are they? Kungo looked at the mining work with a puzzled expression.

He You rolled his eyes at Kunwu: "Have you been using S1S2 for a long time and forgotten that the AI of general-purpose autonomous robots is not so high?" The AI of the general autonomous robot is only good at doing rough work and delicate work with high repetition, but it will be a little slow to respond to some jobs that often require on-the-spot judgment! ”

Kungo suddenly.