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Seeing this, Lin Xu's curiosity was even greater, "Uncle praised Masili so much, I don't know why?" he thought to himself, and continued to read. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

"Masiri is well equipped and well-equipped, and the lighting equipment we both hold on our heads illuminates a large area around it, and I have traveled to many parts of the world, and I have seen the terrain and formations of the terrain for various reasons, and this cave, I can be sure that it was formed by the cooling of the magma that erupted from the surface after a volcanic eruption.

The two of us bowed down from the entrance of the cave to the depths of nearly 100 meters, and the width of the cave in front of us suddenly became about three meters wide, enough for me and Masiri to walk side by side, and the height was also impressively seven or eight meters high, even if Masiri and I jumped in it without worrying about bumping into our heads, the whole cave seemed long and narrow, and as far as the eye could see, I always saw endless lava.

'I like rock climbing, and I often come to climb the cliff alone when I have free time, and this cave was discovered by a very chance when I was practicing climbing here, because every time I go to the cliff to climb, I don't meet anyone else here, so I guess no one else in the area knows about the existence of this cave except me. It has been more than a year since I discovered the cave, and although I have explored the cave four or five times, I have never finished the cave, and the longest one, I walked for nearly two hours, and I did not reach the end, so to this day I do not know how deep the cave is. Masiri walked beside me, he said enthusiastically.

Masili's words made my head 'buzz' suddenly, 'Oh my God, he hasn't been there for two hours, he doesn't want me to go all the way today, how long will it take to go back and forth?!'

It may be just an ordinary cave, and even if we get to the end, we won't find anything, but I think the most important thing about exploring is to enjoy the joy that the process brings you, not what you have to get from the result, not to mention that you can share the joy of exploring with your friends, I think it will bring me double the joy compared to exploring in a cave alone, sir, am I right?' I didn't have time to excuse Masiri because of the time that I could only stay with him in the cave for no more than an hour, he said enthusiastically.

The enthusiastic young man in front of me looked at me sincerely, and it was naturally inconvenient for me to say anything more, but I really felt aggrieved in my heart, and the grievance was so that tears were rolling in the frame of my eyes, and Masiri must have misunderstood the tears in my eyes, and I saw a look of emotion on his face, and he said emotionally, 'Mr. Edson, I ...... I'm so glad to be here for you and to give me the opportunity to meet such a friend. ’

I understood that Masili was speaking from the heart, but I almost cried because he had misunderstood what I meant.

The gloomy and dull scenery of the cave soon made me dizzy, and I moved my legs limply after Masiri.

The terrain in the cave is sloping, and it stretches downward, and there are many bends in the cave, and you will encounter one almost every forty or fifty meters forward, but in such a long cave, there is no other fork in the cave, and I can't help but be secretly glad in my heart that I will not get lost when I come back later.

I kept keeping an eye on the time, and when we had been in the cave for two hours, I couldn't help but open my mouth to ask Masiri if we were as fast as he had been walking alone in the cave for two hours, and when I saw him shake his head, my legs went limp, and I almost sat on the ground.

After that, every ten minutes we walked, I would swear to Masiri that if we didn't reach the end of the cave after the next ten minutes, we would turn around and go back, and if Masiri insisted on going in circles, I wouldn't go any further with him.

Masili was wise, and he did not directly disagree with what I said, but when I would not go any further, he would say: ' Edson, my good friend, walk with me for another ten minutes, maybe it won't take that long for us to reach the end of the cave, for this reason, I will be grateful for the rest of my life because of your company, let me persist in walking this cave, I am sure, you will never want to give up now, let me regret not to persevere in the last ten minutes of the journey, to reach the end of the cave, for this in my heart for the rest of my life. ’

His words almost surprised me so much that my eyes fell to the ground, and I couldn't see that such a simple and simple Italian boy had a very powerful mouth, and I couldn't afford to let Masiri grit his teeth and worry about it for the rest of my life, so I could only be coaxed down by him again and again.

But by the fifth ten minutes, I finally couldn't bear to stop, and it was not a way to go on like this, 'I won't go forward any longer, and I won't be able to walk anymore, no matter how he is hated by Marsili for the rest of his life, as long as he is not tired, he will scold me every day in Italy from morning to night, anyway, I can't hear it in the United States, and I won't lose a single hair because of it.' I made up my mind, 'Masiri, I'm not leaving, I'm going back.' I waved at the back of Masiri, who had reached the front about twenty meters away, and shouted loudly.

'Edson, come on, we're at the end of the cave. Masiri said this, but I could see that the light from his lighting was still moving forward.

Don't try to lie to me. I shouted.

It's true, Edson. ’

Seeing that Masiri had really stopped in front of me, I said to myself, 'If this boy dares to take another step forward, I will not be fooled and will go back immediately.' ’

Masiri didn't go any further, for we had really reached the end of the cave.

As I imagined, our expedition ended in nothing. Hearing this, Masiri said this, and his emotions were clearly a little lost.

'Do you really fantasize about finding a treasure in this cave?' I snickered at Masiri's innocence, 'and after you have fulfilled your wish, we can go back.' I said happily behind Masiri.

'Yes, Edson. Masili turned his head behind me, and I was about to turn around with it, when I suddenly felt an indescribable strangeness in front of my eyes under the light.

Massilie had just stood in front of me, so I didn't notice anything unusual, and when he turned around, I saw something strange in my eyes.

It was a large part of the lava wrapped in the lava, and the exposed part was like a red date and the color of coal, and from my years of experience, it should have been originally mixed with hot magma, and when the magma cooled, it eventually became what I see now, like this. Coal was the first time I had encountered it on my expedition, and I couldn't help but be curious, because I knew that no matter how much it looked like a lump of coal, it would never be coal, because if it were, it would have burned to ashes in the hot magma, not like it is now, so I decided to take it back and see what kind of substance it was in the bottom of the lava.

'Wait a minute, Masiri,' I said, stopping Masiri, who had just walked a few steps.

Marsili looked back at me quizzically.

I'd like to take some photos here as a souvenir. I said casually.

Masiri nodded, he was in charge of lighting my photography, and I carefully photographed every corner of the cave so as not to miss something.

After the filming, I picked up the mace I had with me and, with the help of Masiri, carefully knocked the 'coal' lava from the cave wall.

'Is this thing of any use, Mr. Edson?' asked Marsily curiously, as I picked up the rock and put it in my backpack as if it were a treasure.

'A monumental stone, I will take home and put it on the shelf, so that when I see it, I will remember that I have been to Sicily, and that I have explored danger with this friend of yours. I spoke openly and sarcastically, how could it be that I had brought the stone home in memory of how I had been stupid enough to spend hours in this damn cave like Masiri, but Masiri believed me, and he laughed merrily, and now I feel guilty for lying and coaxing Masiri. ”

Uncle's account couldn't help but make Lin Xu think of the picture that looked like a piece of coal in the lava, "Uncle is right, it shouldn't be a piece of coal, I don't know what it will be;

"When I got back to my room in the hotel, I closed the door, took out the rock and took a careful photograph, and then, with my tool, I carefully smashed the rock wrapped around the 'coal', and I saw that the 'coal' in the lava was the size of an ostrich egg, and it was only a very small part of it that was exposed outside the rock, and from the mottled and jagged surface of the 'coal', it looked very much like the fragments of something that had been blown away in an explosion.

In order to be able to determine the identity of the 'coal' wrapped in the lava, I tried to look up all kinds of relevant information on the Internet, although I was busy almost all night, but in the end I had no eyebrows to confirm the identity of the 'coal', and finally I decided to take it back to my laboratory for analysis, I booked the return ticket before coming to Sicily The boarding time was the next evening, no, it should be said that this evening, before going to bed, I looked at the clock, and it was five o'clock in the morning.

"With such a stone, there won't be a misunderstanding when boarding at the airport, right?" I was thinking uneasily about this question in the taxi to the airport, but it turned out that the stone did not show anything abnormal, and after boarding, I sat down in my seat with my satchel clutched to my chest.

'What the hell are you?' With a feeling of incomprehension and joy, while the guests next to me were concentrating on reading the magazine, I couldn't help but quietly put my hand into my satchel to touch the 'coal', unexpectedly, as soon as my fingertips touched the object, a strong current rushed through my fingertips to my heart, and while I felt my heart spasm, I hurriedly broke my hand out of the satchel.

The passengers around me probably noticed my abnormality and asked me with concern, 'Sir, are you feeling unwell, do you need me to call someone for you?'

I guess I must have looked ugly because it took me a few seconds to recover as if I was in cardiac arrest.

'Thanks, I'm just a little airsick and I'll be fine in a moment. I said politely to the passenger, somewhat weakly.

'This thing is electrified!' I was amazed, because I had taken it in my hand at the hotel last night, and nothing unusual had happened at the time, but now, I almost didn't let it stun.

Suspicious, after getting off the plane, I didn't even bother to go home, so I took it and went straight to my laboratory in the car.

After several days of testing it in the laboratory with various equipment, I had a preliminary understanding of the properties of this substance.

The thing does emit an electric current, but my instrument can only detect the current it emits when the metal probe touches a point in the surface of the thing, and my instrument does not sense the current anywhere on the surface of the thing.

I didn't get an electric shock when I touched it that night at the hotel, and I must have never touched the depression where it could release electricity, but on the plane, I wasn't so lucky.

In addition to being able to release electric current, I also tested that the substance actually has the property of absorbing and storing energy, and can absorb and store the energy contained in any ray, magnetic field induction, temperature, pressure, etc., and after the comprehensive analysis of the test data of the 'coal', I can confirm that this substance is composed of an element outside the spectrum of known elements, and at that moment, I came to a conclusion that almost made my heart jump out of my chest.

I knew that by its nature, it would have a very wide range of applications, and although I found it in the caves of Mount Etri, I was at a loss as to what form it was distributed.

If it weren't for Professor Xue's visit, I might not have been able to record the full text of this substance by now, and make a comprehensive exposition of this substance.

Speaking of why I met Professor Xue, I have to mention the complex relationship between the three relatives and six relatives of the Chinese.

Professor Xue Runan, the son-in-law of my wife Lin Feng's uncle's sister, because this seems to me profound and difficult to understand has nothing to do with Lin Feng, at the beginning, the woman named Bai Ying finally became Professor Xue's wife, for her and Professor Xue to study and live in the United States, asked my wife for help, Professor Xue Runan and I met because of this matter, and the Chinese tradition of paying attention to friendship is destined to become good friends after the first meeting.

Just after I had completed my initial test on the unknown substance, Professor Xue came to my home as a guest.

In recent years, Professor Xue Runan has published a lot of papers that have caused a lot of turmoil in the world, because in those papers he put forward a lot of far-reaching theories, so he is now in an absolute authoritative position in the field of world energy applications.

The professor has the elegance and modesty that is characteristic of the Oriental, and every time he comes to me, the deepest impression on me is that as soon as we meet, he opens his mouth and says that he is happy to meet me again, a volcanic geologist.

Although I learned from my wife that modesty is a customary expression in Chinese, as ordinary as saying 'hello' when I usually greet people, Professor Xue always makes me blush every time I call me a volcano geologist. Compared with Professor Xue's fame, the little achievements I have made in the past are at best a light in the night, and how can I compare with his achievements like moonlight swaying the earth.

Only this time, when Professor Xue called me as usual, I accepted it calmly without blushing and heartbeat, because of the new element, as the discoverer of the new element, maybe my achievements are about to shine like the sun, in this case, I still need to be polite with the moon? Writing this, I apologize deeply for the superficial thoughts that arose in my heart when I met Professor Xue.

After dinner, I invited Professor Xue to my study to taste the coffee I had ground and brewed by myself, and I smoked my beloved cigar.

I chatted with Professor Xue in the study, Lin Feng was doing housework outside the study, marrying Lin Feng as a wife is really the greatest blessing in my life, although she has no interest in my work, but I can usually focus on research without fettering, always inseparable from her silent support behind her, even if I encounter problems in my work, I am discouraged, she still believes in her heart that her husband is the best, will be able to make an extraordinary career.

The conversation between Professor Xue and I in the study was always conducted in the absence of Lin Feng.

After a lot of hustle and bustle, Professor Xue and I unconsciously talked about the work we have been doing recently.

'I'm now trying to create a device that can absorb, store, and provide energy without the need for artificial supplementation. Professor Xue's words surprised me and couldn't help but admire, every day I can see in the media that the world's crude oil will not be used up for many years, and so far there is no technology in the world that can produce energy that meets human needs and is convenient enough to replace oil, if Professor Xue's invention can really succeed, it is tantamount to a good thing for the benefit of mankind.

'Theoretically, I have built the device I want, but after testing, I found that there is a fatal flaw in the device, in order for the device to function properly, the device I designed must be made of a substance that can withstand high temperatures and transfer energy, I have analyzed almost all the elements that are known now, and their derivatives, but I have never found a substance that applies to the inside of my device, so I now think, maybe there is no such thing in the world today that I need, my design is just a fantasy。 Professor Xue's expression darkened.

The professor's words reminded me that the unidentified substance in my hand seemed to have the properties of the substance he said he was looking for.

I asked Professor Xue with doubts to know that the device he was developing should actually be regarded as a kind of battery, the working principle of the battery is through several coils in the battery, the coils sense the energy transmitted everywhere in the universe in various ways, through non-stop rotation to convert them into electrical energy that is convenient for human applications, because the energy transfer between the universe is endless, so if you ignore the loss of matter in Professor Xue's battery design, the battery he envisioned is almost endless work.

Professor Xue's idea is undoubtedly close to the perpetual motion machine of human dreams, and his idea shocked me to the point that I was burned by a burnt cigar before I came back to my senses.

'Although I found a way to make the battery sense various energies in the universe and convert it, but after the test, I found that the material used in the battery is always damaged by the high heat generated by the high-speed operation of the coil, for this reason, I specially tried to design a heat dissipation device for the battery with silicon compound, but the effect was not great, the heat dissipation device installed in the battery only extended its normal working time by no more than ten percent, and I had no choice but to reduce the speed of the coil, so that the battery would no longer fail, but the energy it could provide was really pitiful,' Professor Xue said this, with a look of frustration on his face and a self-deprecating smile, Either way, I'm going to keep this failed battery design alive in the hope that it will be of little help to the world in the future when we finally can't find an alternative to oil." ’

Since the battery works properly after you reduce the speed of the coil, it doesn't mean that your research has been successful, why do you still say this, are you afraid that I will ask you for a battery to install in my car when the time comes, but I really intend to open up to you, after your battery is put into production, you have to leave me the first piece of product so that I can install it in my car." Although I was a little joking at the time, I sincerely admired Professor Xue for inventing such a battery.

'Dr. Edson, I don't think you understood what I said,' it must have been what I said that made Professor Xue's face turn ugly, and he suddenly became polite to me, so polite that I felt a little uncomfortable, "With our relationship, if the battery is put into production, you don't need to open your mouth, let alone one, even a hundred batteries, I will not hesitate to give them to you, but can you imagine what the battery I designed will be like for your car?" Let me put it simply, for a battery with a reduced coil speed to provide a car with the energy it needs to run normally, the battery must be so heavy that any car trying to power it will not be able to move half a minute even if it is running at full power with a matching battery. ’

I finally understood the fatal flaw of Professor Xue's battery, and I knew that what I just said must have made Professor Xue feel uncomfortable, so I didn't continue to talk to him about the battery.

Actually, I'm in a lot of confusion right now, I've got a piece of unidentified matter that I have confirmed to be outside the elemental spectrum, but I don't have a clue about its distribution. 'I'm just trying to divert the topic, who would think that as soon as I opened my mouth, I just mentioned the unknown substance, the unknown substance in my hand, my baby, my sun, except for my own research in the laboratory, I didn't talk about it to anyone, including Lin Feng.

Maybe it was because of my selfish nature and distrust of others, I didn't want others to know that I had a secret substance in my hands, and I was worried that the news would leak too soon, which would lead to unexpected situations, and eventually let the research results that should have belonged to me be shared by others, so as soon as the words came out, I immediately regretted it, and I saw that Professor Xue's facial features were clearly shocked by my words and moved his position.

'Yes...... Can you tell me about the properties of the substance?'

It has the ability to absorb all kinds of energy, release electric current, and ......'Seeing my words, Professor Xue's face was radiant, and his eyes were full of hope, and I secretly cursed in my heart that I was dazed by the smoke produced by the cigar that filled the room in the study, so I talked to Professor Xue about my unknown substance against my will, and I cried and continued to Professor Xue, "Heat-resistant, stress-resistant......

Needless to say, what would have been the result of Professor Xue hearing my words at that time.

Although it was late at night, at Professor Xue's insistent request, I could only take him with me and drive to my laboratory together.

In the laboratory, I had just made a few simple demonstrations of the properties of the unidentified substance, and Professor Dexue's eyes lit up, and from his expression, I felt that he had determined in his heart that my unknown substance was what he had been dreaming of, and I deliberately did not make eye contact with him full of anticipation and eagerness, because I knew what was going on in his mind.

As expected, Professor Xue did ask me to lend him the unknown substance and take it back to test to see if it could be used in his battery.

Although Professor Xue's tone was extremely tactful, his request made me look cold and uncertain at the time.

Professor Xue must have sensed my thoughts from my expression, his excited mood gradually calmed down, he probably realized that this request was a bit excessive for me, but he couldn't resist the temptation of unknown substances in his heart after all, and finally, Professor Xue said to me with a sincere face that he would guarantee in writing that he would not talk about unknown substances to anyone unless he had my permission, and that he would return the unknown substances to Zhao after his test.

At that time, I could not understand the meaning of the phrase 'return to Zhao', but afterwards, after questioning and explaining to me by Professor Xue, I understood the meaning of the word.

In fact, with my understanding of the professor as a person, since he can make such a promise, I still have nothing to worry about, but I am afraid that there will be unexpected situations, our world is not happening all the time unpredictable things, who can guarantee that after I hand over the unknown substance to Professor Xue, I will not encounter unexpected situations that cannot be controlled by manpower, if so, I will not end up with a bamboo basket to draw water.

But Professor Xue's expression at that time was so persistent that I couldn't refuse, and after a moment of silence, I agreed to his request, but at the same time, I put forward a condition for him, that is, I would not be able to hand over the unknown substance to him after a week.

Seeing that I was finally willing to nod and lend him the unknown substance, Professor Xue was busy agreeing to my condition, and he was afraid that I would change my mind, so he wrote down his promise on a piece of paper and handed it to me.

I decided to agree to Professor Xue, not because I suddenly discovered it with my conscience, but because, when I repeatedly reviewed the video taken back from the cave where the unknown substance was found in the past few days, I saw more than once that at the end of the cave in the picture, there seemed to be a corner of the same unknown substance in my hand among the lava on the cave wall.

Seven days should be enough time for me to go back and forth to the cave one more time to verify that the footage is really another piece of unidentified material, and maybe I will have time to do a larger excavation in the cave.

If my second trip to Etri is fruitless, no matter how disgraceful Professor Xue may be, I would rather break my promise than lend him this unidentified substance that I have now. I made up my mind in my heart.

When Professor Xue saw my excitement at that time, he must have mistakenly thought that I was distressed to lend him an unknown substance, but how could he have thought that I was actually thinking about another trip to Sicily, and was excited that I might make a greater discovery.