Chapter XXVII: New Elements

There are more than 20 small countries and some primitive tribes in the third continent, which is a little lower than the civilization level of the other two continents, there are many lakes in the continent, and ten large rivers and their tributaries cover the entire continent. This kind of hard-stem rice grain is twice as large as the existing rice grain on the earth, with four colors: white, light green, light purple and black, and the yield is average, and the highest white can reach 100 kilograms per mu.

Several basins in the north are the main cotton producing areas, and the survey found that there are seven kinds of natural colored cotton in full color, and large rubber groves and oil palm forests have been found near the equator, but they are not used by the indigenous people. What really makes me pay attention to is a forest of nearly 30,000 square kilometers in the central part of the continent, which has only one kind of tree and one herbaceous plant, and there are no animals in it, which is very strange. After sampling and analysis, this tree is more than 200 meters high, the trunk, branches, and leaves are rich in iron, titanium, manganese, copper, four metal elements and an unknown element, and this unknown element accounts for more than 70 percent, the trunk is quite hard, and compared with the shell alloy of a one-star battleship, the performance is increased by 50 percent, which is a natural alloy.

We picked a few fist-sized fruits from the branches, removed the middle pits, and after testing, we found that the content of unknown elements was 90 percent, and for research, we dug one from the outer edge of the forest and found that its root system was 500 meters deep. The herbaceous plant on the ground, whose leaves resemble a sword, has been analyzed to be rich in these five elements. The researchers extracted the elements from the two plants and obtained two tons of unknown elements, ready to study them in depth.

A day later, the researchers found that the herb could decompose any metal utensils, reduce them to monomeric molecules, and store them in the leaves, suggesting that as long as scrap metal is thrown into this kind of grass, after a period of time they are decomposed, we can simply mow the grass and then refine the metal in the grass.

In this way, a research institute settled in the third continent.

At the same time, the team that went to the neighbor star exploration team stumbled upon a strange substance in the ocean, which is an active volcanic sea area, erupting every few days, each time lasting more than an hour, spewing out some silver glittering material, after encountering the icy sea water, cooled into a sheet of material floating on the sea surface, dozens of minutes later, slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea, after detection, the volcanic seabed is full of this silver material, with an area of 200,000 square kilometers and a thickness of more than 500 meters.

After sampling and analysis, each kilogram contains 28 metals such as silver, platinum, and gold, accounting for about 30% of the total, and the remaining components are unknown. In the research institute, I curiously observed the two substances in front of me, one yellow and one silver, which I thought were gold and silver from the outside, and stacked two unknown metals on top of each other with my hands, and I couldn't see anything from left to right. Suddenly, Bei Bei alerted me to the fusion of the two metal bonds, and I immediately used a device to magnify this phenomenon on the screen.

I saw a silver molecule wrapping the yellow molecule, fusing into a silver and yellow substance, and then continuing to devour the yellow molecule, and then fused, ten minutes later, the two pieces of metal became a new metal block of yellow and silver, and the volume doubled, I took the other metal blocks in the laboratory, one by one to join the fusion, this unknown element seems to be able to swallow all metals, and the final volume of the metal block is ten times the volume of the total substance I added, after repeated arguments by researchers, It is known that the volume of these two substances doubled after fusing with other conventional metals, which is one-twentieth of the weight of the alloy of the same volume of the hull of the Imperial One-Star battleship, and the strength and other related properties are as much as five times.

After learning this, I had an idea in my heart, and researched and designed a set of mechas, which weighed one-twentieth of the original, so that the combat style was more flexible and the energy consumption was lower.

Of course, all this will only be known until the researcher goes deep into practice.

Taking advantage of the free time, I looked at the data of this planetary survey: there are two disconnected continents on the planet with a diameter of nearly 40,000 kilometers, of which there are five major empires on continent A, and the church in the middle of it is the center of continental power, above the king, land transportation is a kind of unicorn and two-horned horse, and water transportation is relatively backward, relying on some small boats or rafts, the wild beasts in the forest are their main source of meat, and occasionally killing some aging unicorn and two-horned horse, the food supply is very tight, and there are often starving corpses on the roadside. In order to have a good meal, the phenomenon of selling oneself into slavery is quite frequent.

There are many islands around the mainland, but they are all more than 100 kilometers apart, and human beings on the mainland are restricted by the level of shipbuilding, and they are simply unable to cross such a distance to reach the islands. On the islands of the subtropical, tropical region, there are many wild fruits, and some wild animals that are not found on the mainland, all of which are the high-end foods that the nobles most desire. Adventurers from the mainland drove these modest wooden boats to these islands, and if they succeeded once, they could get rich overnight.

There are many islands in the ocean, and I have chosen 10 large islands with an area of more than 500,000 square kilometers as base areas to open up fertile land to grow grain, cultivate those fruits, and raise some meat and livestock in preparation for entering the mainland.