Speaking of which, tens of thousands of people live around D21, but because of financial relations, there are very few people with development capabilities in the early days, so the essence reactor that began to be developed a few months ago has no technical content, and the fusion reactor is born by a mother, the difference is that the nuclear reaction area of the fusion reactor is only the size of a ping pong ball, and the reaction area of the essence reactor is the size of a car, mainly because the technology of safe cutting essence has not been mastered for the time being.

After the completion of preliminary testing, the first two test reactors were placed on two floating main gun defense platforms guarding the steel-hulled harbor.

The floating defense platform is composed of a main gun or a small cannon with a minimum energy support organization, and can be set up in a variety of ways according to interests or financial resources, some have shields, and some have an interceptor gun and batteries.

This defense mechanism has long been eliminated, because the highest cost in the battleship is firepower, shields, and energy, and the cost of other parts of the raw materials is very low if the intellectual property rights are not calculated, so changing the floating platform into a copycat battleship is a basic engineering operation. The reason why D21 still has something is that it has some loot from the early attack by pirates, and the ships that cannot be repaired but the weapons are retained, so they are made into floating defense platforms. Now there is a shipyard that can build some worse frigates, but the main work in the shipyard in the near future is to help D21 complete a low-cost atmospheric round-trip transportation system and build a transport ship, and the platform modification has not yet entered the work queue.

Two of the floating platforms in D21 are more special, they are equipped with shield systems and armor, and they look like medium-sized patrol ships, so they don't need to think about maneuverability and self-sustaining power, they have naturally become the carrying platforms of the essence reactor experimental reactor, and this time Pan Wen visited one of them.

"The advantage of the essence reactor is that the energy output is extremely stable, and the fluctuation rate of each index is less than 1% for 600 hours of operation of the experimental reactor, which is very suitable for conventional energy supply." The minority shareholder, who is specifically responsible for the development and utilization of the essence, became the boss this time and walked in front to introduce his achievements to everyone.

Not only Pan Wen, due to the different division of labor, there are at least three people in a bunch of shareholders who have not touched the essence reactor, and there are also six businessmen from all walks of life, including two shipyard owners, which can be regarded as a trumpet exhibition.

"How's the power?" The one who asked was a supply merchant from the MR248 system, one of the main buyers of energy ore.

"According to the estimated volume of one cubic meter of essence, the output at a rate of 20 billion (2e10) joules per second can be used for more than 4,000 years, and it is speculated that there is still room for improvement in the conversion rate according to the development progress." The minority shareholder proudly introduced.

"Wow!" "WOW" The crowd let out a cry of surprise.

The power of 2e10 joules per second not only outputs about five tons of TNT per second, but the output every 33 minutes is equivalent to a 10-kilogram finished fuel rod, and there is an energy reserve of more than 60 million fuel rods in the whole life of 4,000 years, which is converted into a weight of more than 600,000 tons! Although the energy portion of the quantum fuel rod is weightless, and 98% of a million tons are complex shells, the volume of an essence with such a huge amount of energy is only one cubic meter is astonishing enough.

What the minority shareholders did not explain was that one cubic meter of essence was not the largest, and the essence of the more than 20 giant factory-like insects they received was much larger, and they could not even use it until now.

Although the shipyard owner and several businessmen expressed their appreciation for the new reactor, it was a pity that no one offered to buy it until a bunch of people left the floating platform.

The thing is obvious, compared with the existing large-scale fusion reactors, the essence reactor has no advantage in energy output power, but since all the energy is in the essence, the payment must be paid in one lump sum according to the purchase of power generation raw materials, four thousand years! Assuming that the fusion reactor shuts down every ten years and changes the fuel, the fuel part only costs 1/400 of the essence reactor at a time! With the remaining 399 parts of fuel money, you only need an annual return on investment of 1/1000, and you can earn back four parts of fuel in ten years, even if the fuel efficiency is lower, it can't stand up to the cheap.

In contrast, everyone is in business, and naturally no one will have the desire to buy.

This kind of thing was expected to be expected, and before going out, Kareda had already explained to Pan Wen that he had asked a few businessmen to come and visit, mainly to show the technical strength of the D21, so as to take advantage of the signing of a long-term supply agreement. D21's technical strength does have moisture, and the essence is also the running money of insects, but outsiders don't know.

Then again, are essence reactors valuable? Of course! With a power of 2e10 joules per second at a conversion rate of 85% to 90%, the inhabitants of the interstellar era can supply cities with a capacity of at least four million people, do not need to pay the cost of power generation for 4,000 years, only provide equipment maintenance, collect electricity bills or waive electricity bills to improve the living standards and bring about peripheral effects, no matter what you do, it is an endless amount of money. It's just that the cycle is too long, and it is not suitable for trading, even if it is sold at one-eighth of the price of normal power generation raw materials, no one may be willing to pay for it, unless it is paid in 500 years.

Anyway, this thing is more suitable as a family heirloom.

Through this visit, after having a more intuitive feeling, Pan Wen also has a better understanding of the essence, which is a very stable energy source in the non-operating state. Stabilizing this trait may make the essence the currency of the group of bugs mentioned by Snow, and it is not known what the trading items are for the time being, but since they are rain piped guys, although they are more alternative, they are also players in their own right, and there will always be something to trade.

If it really has a currency function, is it possible to find a trading place for the worms after the outbreak of the Worm War? If you find it, what can you do to take down the essence to prevent it from becoming something else again?

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When Pan Wen opened his mind in D21 to explore the feasibility of a new way to obtain the essence, the K30 galaxy was less than three light-years away.

Fat Worm Jun, who made a big fuss in D21 a few months ago, ignored several issues about interstellar travel during his strategic retreat, such as star maps, jump synchronization rate, jump step size, etc.

Whether it's because of the dizziness of being tossed by the hooligans, or because you ignore it, the direct result is that the fat worm king took his bugs and planted them headlong into the ice area!

After dozens of jumps back and forth without returning to the normal star system, and after one of the remaining five space worm mothers was lost, Fat Worm Jun learned from the pain and began to plan carefully, so there was a scene where he went to his companions to ask for help from the star map.

A star map is not simply a matter of taking a picture at a certain point and measuring the distance of each star. Single-point shots are only in the past tense, especially some galaxies that are hundreds of light-years apart and move very fast, if there is no accurate star map to help, it will definitely need to re-measure the entire star map every time you go to a station for correction, not to mention that Fat Worm Jun is in the ice area at this time, and everything is more difficult when he can't accurately locate himself.

For the next half a month, Fat Worm Jun and the remaining subordinates stopped in the ice area, waiting for news from his partners outside, and while he also set out to develop new insects to help measure the star map.

In the ice zone, the advantage of the adult space bug mother is not that it can create top-level war bugs, but that it can be called a bug cycling ability. All the bugs that are made in its body can be completely recycled - whether they are essences, organic matter, or inorganic elements. This means that the insects that have been improved from generation to generation by the Fat Worm Jun through high-speed mutations, except for the last one to be used, the energy and material losses of the whole process can be ignored!

After measuring the star map, the fat insect king was self-reliant, wrote down the elements of the star map by manpower, went offline again, and handed over the things to the "big demon king" who said he wanted to help.

Probably because the fat worm king really has the legendary pig's foot aura, he stupidly wandered in place for half a month, and he found a wandering planet in the ice area!!

As the name suggests, wandering planets are separated from the star system and wandered, and the reasons for their formation are varied, such as being knocked out of orbit, and the gravitational asymmetry and deviation of the stars when they interact at a closer distance.

What was discovered by the Fat Worm King was a rocky wandering planet with a diameter of about 2,000 kilometers, and like other rocky planets that were not big enough but had wandered for a long time, its core had been completely cooled, and its surface temperature was the same as the background of the ice area, that is, it was infinitely close to absolute zero.

A wandering planet with the same temperature as the background environment is to be discovered, except for luck, there is no second explanation, and the Fat Worm King also noticed that something big was approaching because the proximity of this planet blocked the two high-level bright stars.

The insect swarm can not reproduce on every planet, but for the fat insect king, there is no need to be too particular, in the final analysis, it is because he has the ultimate body of the insect, the space insect mother.

The space worm mother itself does not have the ability to fight directly, but it has a huge amount of essence, the essence is energy, energy can be converted into heat through various ways, and the stone with heat is no longer a stone, but the raw material for the worm mother to make an army.

The garbage war insects that were swallowed by the space worm mother to deal with emergencies finally have a place to use, replenish their essence, and begin to bombard wandering planets.

Under the control of Natasha, the queen of flying insects, the war insects without wisdom do scalpel-like local heating on the wandering planet at a certain point, and the plasma shows superior performance on the wandering planet without an atmosphere, and can heat as much as possible without destroying the surface. In an environment with less than 0.1G gravity and no atmosphere, no matter how big the stone is, as long as the Phantom Worm commits suicide by impacting it in the direction given by the explosion, it can hit the stone far enough for the orbiting Bugs to take over.

In an environment where there is no interference from outsiders, suicide is not a loss to the bugs, no matter how much it is fried, most of it can be recycled, and stones are additional materials, maybe there is a mineral essence in it.

Through this kind of steady profit and loss-making business, in less than a week, fifty shuttle war insects have been added to the Fat Worm King's guards!

The appearance of these fifty shuttles not only means that the progress of mining wandering planets will be greatly accelerated, but also the insect swarm has a certain degree of protection, so that they will not throw small insects as cover when they see living creatures.

As soon as the shuttle war bugs, which were not at the same level as the garbage war bugs and phantoms, came onto the field, the real heating work began.

The plasma beams were piled down, and immediately there were small magma pools, and in just three days, a lava field was opened in the area where the rift of the wandering planet was deep! The power of the little insects is not good, they can only rely on the solid gas explosion to mine, and what the shuttle war bugs have to do is to give the wandering planet a sufficient shallow crustal temperature, so that the lava belt will be dozens or hundreds of kilometers up and down the world of insects, and it can ensure that the heat will not be flattened by the rest of the wandering planet for a period of time.

When the first Mine Patrol Worm at the bottom of the swarm moved a few steps on the surface of the wandering planet and was not frozen, the Fat Worm Jun made the latest declaration in the stomach of the Space Worm Mother:

"I, Hu Hansan, will go back!! Stinky rascal waiting for me!! ”