It is naturally not easy to become a person who has been specially selected to the third phase of the 396 cultivation project, many members of these two mechanized infantry divisions used to be people from the 38th Army, that is, that army, not to mention that the members of the action team responsible for searching for treasures are all old scouts, so they are the elite of the elite, comparable to the most sophisticated mine detectors.

That's why, with a casual kick, the soldier felt like he was stepping on something wrong, because neither stone, nor charcoal, nor dirt should feel that way.

To use an inappropriate example, it's like stepping on a piece of dog shit on a smooth wooden floor without shoes, and a person can tell that something is wrong.

Of course, it's not so easy to tell if you step on a piece of tempered glass compared to dog shit on a wooden floor, but for an elite scout, it's one of the most basic skills.

"Wait a minute, squad leader, I seem to have stepped on something wrong." The soldier immediately reported after feeling awkward, and then remained vigilant about his surroundings and did not check what was under his feet.

After a few minutes, the drone in the sky confirmed that there were no demon beasts around, and at this moment the squad leader breathed a sigh of relief and said to the soldier just now: "Look what you stepped on just now." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the young soldier crouched down, dug through the thin sand on the ground, picked up a piece of purple crystal that he had just stepped on, and looked at it carefully.

"What is this?" The soldier couldn't help but wonder, the "crystal" in his hand was about the weight of two eggs, the main body was dark purple, and the mysterious runes on it could be faintly seen.

"Wait a minute, the "Encyclopedia of Spiritual Substances" we learned before mentioned that this seems to be a natural spirit crystal, but the spirit crystals mentioned in it are all the same as broken glass ballast, and I have never mentioned such a large piece of integrity." The comrade-in-arms next to him suddenly realized.

As the third batch of members of the 396 Project, although these people have not yet built a foundation, they all have learned some knowledge of cultivation, plus the special training required to become an action group, they are naturally no strangers to the word spirit crystal, and they all know that this is an indispensable material for the path of cultivation.

"How can we pick up such a big spirit crystal?" One of the scouts wondered, he had been in the operation group for a while, and he had seen a lot of spirit crystals, but it was the first time he had seen such a big one.

In the past, the spirit crystals collected by the action group were basically as small as broken glass ballast, and they couldn't be seen clearly without a magnifying glass, and they belonged to the kind of things that the school did not allow students to pick up.

But now the spirit crystal in their hands is completely different, it looks like a complete stone, its size is slightly larger than an egg, and the complex lines on it flow with fluorescence, which looks quite mysterious.

After confirming that this was Lingjing, a Zhi-20 with people arrived in less than a few minutes, and several officers hurriedly got off the helicopter, and they didn't say anything polite to the people of the action team, and went straight to the point.

"Password!" After the military salute, several soldiers did not directly give the spirit crystal to each other, but held the spirit crystal in their hands and asked the officers to give the password.

"White deer, green bull head R loves to jump the Pure Land of Bliss."

According to his explanation, the high-level officials of various countries are generally middle-aged and elderly people in their sixties and seventies, and it is unlikely that they have heard of a modern music of Fusang, nor are they likely to know the meaning of the bull head R, so this encrypted language is naturally not easy to crack.

In fact, the history of the use of encrypted languages by the Eastern Union Army is not short, in order to prevent some people from listening, all kinds of remote dialects and local dialects have been used in secret channels, and some foreigners have mastered a variety of dialects that most of the Eastern Union people do not speak, and Han Dalong's introduction of Fusang is just a reform that keeps pace with the times.

"Okay chief, the password is correct." After hearing the unclear password, the leader of the warrior immediately handed the spirit crystal to the other party.

Looking at the piece of spirit crystal in front of him, the eyes of several experts all shone brightly, this piece of spirit crystal is definitely the largest piece that OUCC has seen so far, and there are many of them.

After carefully testing with various means such as acid and alkali solutions, differential scanning calorimeters, and thermal imaging instruments, several experts removed a vacuum box from the helicopter, carefully put the huge spirit crystal into it, and then left in a hurry.

Of course, those soldiers were naturally taken away, after all, this kind of major event involves secrecy issues, and in order to prevent some accidents from happening, these people must also be protected.

……..

A day later, the 125 Division Command, the Laboratory of High Energy Physics

"How is this possible?" Looking at the huge spiritual crystal in front of him, Academician Sun Jieying's face was very complicated, and he kept reading the report in his hand, but he still maintained a skeptical look.

"Why?" Looking at it, Zhou Xinming asked suspiciously, such a large spirit crystal in the Kunlun realm is actually very common, and Donglian has not seen it before because the strength of spiritual power in various places is still relatively low now, and it can't be conceived.

To put it in layman's terms, if the aura recovery is not over in more than ten years, then the spirit crystals on the earth are basically such complete and large people, but the fragmented spirit crystals that are often found now will basically become extinct, and it is estimated that they will only appear in a few places with extremely low spiritual power intensity.

Therefore, it stands to reason that such a large spirit crystal is not strange, but the appearance of such a large spirit crystal is called strange, that is to say, this phenomenon is only high in spiritual strength, and large spirit crystals are a common phenomenon.

But looking at Sun Jieying's micro-expression, combined with some knowledge he learned from senior officials of the Ministry of Security, Zhou Xinming analyzed that Sun Jieying was not surprised by the appearance of this spirit crystal, but by why the spirit crystal would grow so big.

"Minister Zhou, don't you know, in fact, in our department before, some people proposed to design artificial spirit crystals or large-scale spiritual energy equipment, including General Zhao Jun, who also mentioned the idea of Fu Bao missiles to me, but all of these projects have hit a wall, and most of them have been stranded at present."

"First of all, according to our research, when using cultivation methods such as magic to stimulate the spirit crystal, some unknown chemical or physical reaction will occur inside it, thereby stimulating the spiritual energy inside it to be active and converted into other forms of energy, of course, this is an irreversible reaction, at least with our technology."

"This thing seems to be irreversible like the second law of thermodynamics, so it's unrealistic to want to convert other energy into psionic energy like power generation, and if the aura revival suddenly ends, there is no way for us to continue cultivating."

"Of course, the transformation of spiritual energy is not the point, let our children and grandchildren worry about this, I will explain to you Minister Zhou now, why such a big spirit crystal surprises me."