Southwest Islands, Kurara Island.

It is a small island located in the southwestern archipelago of Japan, and it is not very large.

However, due to the abundance of minerals, the quarries stationed here are among the most famous in Japan.

Of course, if that's all there is to it, Kurara Island isn't really a well-known place.

What really made Kurara Island internationally famous was that some time ago, the Galvin Company and several global giants competed for the right to mine ore here, and once brought the lawsuit to the Japanese government.

According to the information that was later decrypted, the reason why these giants are vying for the right to mine the ore on Kurara Island is because the ore here can be smelted into active high-strength metals.

This particular metal has strong memory properties and is comparable to the strength of titanium alloys.

Under certain conditions, even if these metals are broken and twisted, they can quickly return to their original state.

In other words, it's the perfect memory metal that exists almost exclusively in science fiction.

Whether it is used as an aerospace material or for deep-sea exploration, this special memory metal has a very broad market.

Not to mention, TPC also made a mechanical giant comparable to Tiga some time ago.

Since the disappearance of the mechanical island, due to the lack of key materials.

Even if Keigo Masaki left behind all of the manufacturing techniques of the mechanical giant, TPC was never able to reproduce them.

After all, the special material of the mechanical island is the key to truly breaking through the upper limit of materials science and manufacturing mechanical giants.

However, this special ore mined in Kurara Island can make up for the defects in the material to a certain extent, making it possible to reproduce the mechanical giant.

As a result, TPC's top management is very concerned about the final ownership of Kurarajima.

In fact, the lawsuits of several giants have been going on for a long time, and the Japanese government wants to take the opportunity to reclaim the mining farms on Kurara Island.

However, the Galvin Group eventually exchanged technology for resources and acquired the ownership of the Kurarajima mining farm.

Since then, Kurarajima has been managed semi-enclosed, and several advanced materials science laboratories have been established within the island.

The high-performance memory metal produced by the Kelvin Group is naturally one of the best products in its portfolio.

Compared with the initial mining farm, the mining farm after the Kelvine Group has made a huge breakthrough in terms of production and technology.

The first is in terms of production.

The Kelvain Group has succeeded in mass production of memory metals.

The laboratory established in the interior of Kurara Island has begun to consider the possibility of artificially synthesizing this memory metal.

The second is a technological breakthrough.

The Kelvin Group has basically taken the properties of memory metal to the extreme.

Nanoscale metal braiding technology will have the potential to promote the progress of the entire materials science.

Weaving clothing from memory metal and making body armor are just the beginning of this technology.

Combined with some of the technology of the mechanical giants, using this memory metal as the basic building block of mechanical life is what the Galvin Group wants to do next.

Needless to say, artificially creating mechanical life that is stronger than carbon-based creatures is already exploring God's forbidden area.

After learning from the experience of the mechanical giants, TPC has been keeping a close eye on the experiments carried out privately by the Galvin Group.

The relevant technological breakthroughs require the Kelvine Group to summarize and report as soon as possible.

So, when there was a suspected "supernatural event" on Kurara Island, the victory team immediately found Galvin and strongly asked to carry out this mission together.

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"What the hell are you doing again?"

Walking at the back of the line, Da Gu quietly glanced at Lu Xuan beside him, and then asked in a low voice.

At this moment, Lu Xuan did not appear as President Tony, but appeared as his original teenager.

On the surface, Lu Xuan is the adopted son of President Tony, and he is also a genius boy selected by Gavin Group's "Genius Youth Program".

And in TPC's intelligence network, President Tony seems to have been somewhat frightened since the incident with the Automaton.

not only began to gradually retreat into the background, but even transitioned the dominance of the Galvin Group to his adopted son little by little.

Considering that President Tony has no heirs under his name, and that there may be an ambiguous relationship between him and Saki.

A considerable number of people in TPC believe that this adopted son named "Lu Xuan" is actually his and Shaji's child.

Because he inherited the excellent genes of the cosmic man, this young man has such a high IQ and successfully took over the responsibility of the Galvin Group.

Unfortunately, all of the above speculation is just speculation.

President Tony has never answered this question head-on.

Sha Ji unabashedly smiled brightly every time he heard similar rumors.

"I really didn't do it this time......"

Knowing his credibility in Dagu, Lu Xuan glared at the other party a little helplessly.

"If something goes wrong with my experiment, the impact will definitely not be so small."

"Besides, I haven't studied any petrochemical projects from beginning to end, let alone the technology to turn humans into stone sculptures."

After a slight pause in his tone, Lu Xuan continued in a tone that seemed rather arrogant to Da Gu.

"The carbon-based and silicon-based conversion technology is too low-end to have any research value at all."

"Rather than spending precious time researching unnecessary technologies, I'm more interested in building a 'stargate' that can teleport across stars."

Couldn't help but blink his eyes, Dagu felt as if he had heard some kind of remarkable speech.

"So what's going on this time?"

In the news received by the victory team, it was emphasized that there was a supernatural phenomenon on Kurara Island that was suspected of "human petrification".

Personnel have been evacuated to safety.

The petrified human statues were also sent to specific research and medical institutions as soon as possible.

At the same time, in order to investigate the ins and outs of this incident, the victory team also specially sent four members of Zongfang, Shinshi, Dagu and Lina to the scene to investigate.

"I can probably guess what's going on......"

"However, we will have to wait and see."

Instead of answering Da Gu's question directly, Lu Xuan just looked up at Zongfang, Xincheng, and Lina, who were walking in the forefront, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

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(End of chapter)