Chapter 516: The Most Expensive in History
Jiang Chanji and Zixuan fell into a short silence in the bedroom, outside Aunt Wenhua was making the final preparations for dinner, putting spoons, chopsticks and other utensils on the dining table, and the fragrance of freshly baked leek egg pie wafted in through the crack in the door, making Jiang Chanji a little uncontrollable.
"yes, why do you want to be so secretive......" he echoed thoughtfully.
"Can you stop being so perfunctory? Don't think about eating yet!" Zixuan was too familiar with the details of his expression and habitual movements, and she knew that he was distracted at a glance.
β...... No, I'm just thinking...... Anyway, where is this hydraulic lift? Why didn't I see it in the lab?" he tried to draw his attention back.
"Do you still need to ask? The hydraulic lifting device, as the name suggests, if it were you, where would you put it? Of course, under the annular pipe of the collider, under the floor, of course you can't see it!" Zixuan helplessly and angrily threw him with a pillow, and was caught by him.
When he smiled and put the pillow back on the bed, she continued: "But there are still traces, the connection between the base of the pipe and the floor, if you look closely, you can see that there are subtle seams - in other words, the base is not placed on the floor, but is sunk into the floor, which means that there are other structures under the floor!"
"I had noticed this detail before, but I didn't think about it at the time, I thought it was to prevent the long-term heavy pressure from causing the floor to sink, which would affect the accuracy of the pipe docking, so an additional load-bearing structure was made underneath, but the hydraulic lifting device is definitely not only for load-bearing, and no other collider has a similar hydraulic lifting device. β
"I see...... So what do you think the hydraulic lifting device is used for, or what can it be used for? I'm afraid it's not to facilitate the maintenance of pipelines, right?"
He felt that Zi Xuan had specially called him over to talk about this matter, which proved that she had already made a rough guess, so there was no need to guess the dumb riddle, because this kind of high-tech thing, he couldn't expect to call him over to discuss it together, right?
"Look at this. Zixuan rummaged through the cabinet and pulled out a plate of mosquito coils, like this kind of low-rise house, there are still a lot of mosquitoes in summer, and mosquito coils must always be prepared.
"You think of it as a pipe for the Ring Collider. She took off one of the coils and laid them flat on the table, holding one end of each end of her hands so that the ends were butt together to form an approximate circle.
Jiang Chanji nodded, this is very vivid.
"The collider is connected by a section of metal pipes, each of which has a certain arc, placed on the same horizontal plane, and spliced together to form a ring...... However, if you start with a certain section of pipe, the left end remains the same, and the right end is lifted by 1 mm, and then the second section of the connected pipe is raised by 1 mm at the left end and 2 mm at the right end...... What would happen if the pipe was lifted in a fixed increment?" she looked at him.
"Uh...... If it continues to be lifted like this, the first and last pipes will be misaligned, right? The height of the last pipe will be higher than that of the first pipe, and it will not be connected into a ring......" He looked confused, not knowing if he was wrong.
"That's right, that's what it is. β
Zixuan pressed the two hands of the mosquito coil, one hand did not move, still pressed one end on the table, and the fingers of the other hand picked up the other end of the mosquito coil, "from a circle to a spiral." β
β...... But there's no way to collide with each other......" He stared blankly at the mosquito coil.
"There's no way to collide, a lot of high-energy particles will erupt from this end of the lift. Seeing that he still didn't understand, Zixuan said simply: "In this way, it has changed from a civilian annular particle collider to a spiral acceleration particle cannon! The role of the hydraulic lifting device is to weaponize the collider!"
Jiang Chanji was dumbfounded, his head seemed to have been hit by a ten-ton truck, and even the fragrance of the pie outside was temporarily forgotten outside the clouds.
Zixuan let go of her hand, and the raised end slapped back on the table, returning to the original appearance of the mosquito coil, but the scene just now had been deeply imprinted in Jiang Chanji's mind.
"This thing...... Weapons...... Who was it used for?" he asked, stammering, though he had already vaguely guessed the answer.
After the secret was revealed, Zixuan was a lot more relaxed.
"As I said before, many years ago, a scientist accidentally stuck his head in the pipe of the collider and was hit by high-energy particles, causing him to suffer more severe burns on the head, which were not fatal, and the man lived for a long time. She said, "The name 'Spiral Accelerator Particle Cannon' sounds bluffing, but if it is used to attack people, it is basically useless, it is better to directly take a knife and stab it, this thing has only one target, that is...... It is also an entity made up of microscopic particles. β
Angel of Light.
Jiang Chanji's guess was confirmed, and he sighed in his heart, with mixed tastes.
Since he guessed that one of the purposes of the sect master's search for the reincarnation of the Morichi Heavenly Bodhisattva was to save his life in front of the angel of light, he felt that the sect master could take into account such an extreme situation, and the head of the academy was no less intelligent and far-sighted than the sect master, so there was no reason not to leave anything behind, but he felt that there was really nothing that could threaten the angel of light, and it would be good to be able to save his life.
Now he finally understood that he still underestimated the head of the house, and she was not satisfied with more than just saving her life.
No wonder Zixuan was so serious, she even did not hesitate to deceive No. 33 and Chen Yiyi, and chose to talk to him alone when Arabella, who could hear the lie, was away...... What a shocking secret!
Zixuan is such a small child, no matter how smart she is, but IQ is not equal to EQ, she must be uneasy after discovering this shocking secret, she doesn't know whether she should pierce this secret, after thinking about it, she can only choose a trustworthy person to share this secret, and then put the responsibility on that person.
Out of her mouth and into his ears, it must not be known by a third party, let alone conveyed remotely through Fu Su.
"This spiral particle cannon...... Can you kill the Angel of Light?" he asked.
"It's hard to say. Zixuan shook her head, "Do you know why the scientist who stuck his head in the collider didn't die?"
β...... Isn't it because high-energy particles can't kill people?" he wondered.
"Of course not, that power is lethal enough, although the power is not particularly exaggerated, but it is basically the same as the kinetic energy of throwing a baseball from a tall building and smashing it on the head, and it is not just a baseball, it is a bunch of baseballs, crackling and smashing on the head, even if you are wearing a helmet, it is difficult to bear. She shook her head.
Now Jiang Chanji was even more confused, saying that she was the one who couldn't kill people, and she was the one who said that she could kill people, which made him at a loss.
"Stupid! I'm talking about theoretically being able to kill people, theoretically the pipe should be pumped into a vacuum, and if the high-energy particles hit the human body without hindrance in the vacuum, it will be fatal, but the theory is theory, in fact, when the scientist put his head into the pipe, the air also entered the pipe, so the energy of the particles was greatly weakened by the air, and most of the particles collided with the air molecules before hitting him, as if they were not directly hit by the bullet, but the bullet hit the wall first, and then was hit by the ricocheting projectile, which is not comparable with a direct hitγ β
A word woke up the person in the dream, Jiang Chanji suddenly realized, he had heard this story more than once, but he didn't expect that when the foolish ghost stuck his head into the pipe, the pipe was no longer a vacuum, which saved a dog's life.
"We are surrounded by air, and the high-energy particles that erupt from the spiral accelerator particle cannon will also be greatly weakened in the air, and most of the energy will be lost by the air before hitting the target, and this is inevitable, so two reasonable speculations can be drawn: first, if the high-energy particle cluster hits the Angel of Light, it will probably not die, and the best case scenario will only be severely damaged; second, the effective range of the particle cannon is worrying, even if the maximum power is adjusted, I estimate that it will shoot two or three kilometers at most, and two or three kilometers away may not even kill fliesγ β
Zixuan said with her fingers crossed.
Jiang Chanji struggled to digest this information.
"Chan Ji, have you finished speaking? The meal has already been prepared, and if you don't come out to eat, it will be cold!" Aunt Wenhua urged outside.
"Right now!" Zixuan shouted.
"How many minutes is it coming?" asked Aunt Wenhua again.
"Oops! I'm annoying! Right away, right away!" Zi Xuan shouted impatiently.
"Hmph! I didn't ask you to eat it! I ate it well at school every day, and I couldn't look down on the food cooked at home for a long time!" Aunt Wenhua grumbled.
Jiang Chanji now rarely felt that even the taste of leek egg pie was not fragrant, and said to the door: "Aunt Wenhua, you eat first, don't worry about me, I'm not afraid of cold." β
After sorting out his thoughts, he thought of a question, "Wait a minute, if the collider is raised like this, can it be lowered back after it is used up?"
"Yes, yes, but it's useless to just lower it back, after such a lift, I am afraid that the airtight structure of the entire pipeline will be seriously damaged, even if the collider is not completely scrapped, at least it will have to be stopped for a year and a half for overhaul. Zixuan said regretfully, "This thing is basically a one-off, this may be the most expensive shot in history......"
"Uh......" Jiang Chan said in his heart, don't say something that is so easy to cause others to misunderstand.
"At the end of the day, it was originally a collider, and there is no way to change it to a particle cannon, which will damage the internal structure, and it was not designed to be a particle cannon from ......the beginning," he said.
"No, that's how it was designed from the beginning, it wasn't changed later, if nothing happens, it's always a collider, and if something happens, it can only ...... at the most critical moment There are trade-offs. Zixuan corrected, "This is to conceal, otherwise if you are an angel of light, you heard that there is something here that can hurt you, will you still come over?
Yes, it's just that the Angel of Light is too invincible, so invincible that others can't do it if they want to die with her, whether it is the sect master or the academy master, there should be no absolutely invincible thing in this world, even if it is a friend now, you must be prepared for unexpected changes...... In contrast, the dean may prefer to remain immersed in the world of pure mathematics.
He sighed, "Anyway, the head of the academy must be worried that the Angel of Light will get out of control, so he made such preparations, at least as an insurance measure, I hope it won't be used......"
"Of course, it's best if you don't need it, but it may not work when you need it. Zixuan played with mosquito coils.
"Doesn't work? Why?"
He said in his heart that if the head of the academy was not sure, how could he go to such great lengths?
"You must know that although the high-energy particles gushing out from the last section of the pipe are blocked by the air and cannot reach the speed of light, at least it is also an unimaginable high speed, the problem is that the mouth of the pipe is fixed, and it cannot be moved left and right at will to aim, which means that you can only wait for the rabbit to wait for the angel of light to pass in front of the muzzle before firing, due to the charging problem of the supercapacitor, you can only shoot one cannon in a short time, but why does the angel of light pass in front of the muzzle? I'm afraid someone has to be responsible for leading it over!"
"It's a suicide mission! With a thousandth of a second of time, this person will either be chased and hacked to death by the Angel of Light, or half dead by the particle cannonball, and then hacked to death by the Angel of Light...... Unless this person stands still in the path of the particle cluster, desperately dying, and dies with the Angel of Light. β
Zixuan was so excited that she danced with her hands, crushed all the mosquito coils, and her voice was a little high, Jiang Chanji hurriedly signaled her to be quieter, so as not to let Aunt Wenhua outside hear it.
However, he finally understood that the most expensive cannon in history was not so easy to fight, and it was impossible to aim in advance, once it reached the critical juncture when it was necessary to fight the Angel of Light, someone had to be responsible for leading the Angel of Light to the extension of the cannon, and this person basically had no chance of surviving, but if he didn't do this, more than one person would die, thinking of the tragic situation of the battlefield at the foot of Mount Aare, and this is a densely populated area, and it is not enough to describe it with "corpses all over the field" at that time.
Even at such a great cost, the Angel of Light may not perish.
What can you say? I can only say that the Angel of Light is too dick, and the person who can come up with this kind of countermeasure is too dick, this kind of immortal bureau is not something that mortals should participate in, just applaud and shout 666 on the side.
He really hoped that Zixuan hadn't told him this secret, he knew too many secrets, and the psychological burden was also very big!
Knowing that the head of the academy had a Jedi counterattack, he was not relieved, because he felt that the Angel of Light was also quite pitiful, she was not born in this world out of her own will, nor did she become so invincible out of her own will, her invincibility has a price, the price is loneliness, loneliness unimaginable for human beings.
Whether it's for the Angel of Light or for the collider built with huge manpower and material resources, he doesn't want to get to the point of losing both, and the transcendent still has to value harmony, and it's good to eat and drink happily together.
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