diskusbooks Chapter 674 A Perfect Match!
Chapter 674 A Perfect Match!
"Science and technology are indeed the primary productive force..."
Seeing Professor Shen and Noah's achievements, Cang Nian was deeply shocked.
The strength and sharpness of the metal, combined with the speed of sound a hundred times faster...
Although it is essentially still the throwing of stones that humans have been studying since ancient times, its power is terrifying!
One hundred times the speed of sound is roughly thirty kilometers per second!
One ten-thousandth of the speed of light!
At that speed, even a peanut could easily penetrate a titanium alloy steel plate!
Of course, the peanuts have to stay intact on their own.
"In addition to this attack method that we developed ourselves, we have also optimized a lot of conventional spiritual energy attack formations."
Explosive bursts of spiritual energy, laser-like pillars of spiritual energy, and sword-like sharpness—these techniques are already quite advanced.
However, its power is only so-so; it's still effective against ordinary fifth-tier evolved beings and evolved creatures.
Most of the Tier 5 creatures on the Ark couldn't be seriously injured, let alone deal with someone of your level.
The only advantage is that it can accumulate power to unleash greater force, but it still poses no threat to you.
While Cang Nian was marveling at this, Professor Shen continued his explanation, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he was not paying attention.
Hearing Professor Shen constantly comparing himself to others, Cang Nian couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"In addition, we have already miniaturized the spiritual energy sensing array."
It's only about the size of a refrigerator, so you can easily carry it around.
However, this thing should not be blindly trusted. Just because it cannot sense spiritual energy fluctuations does not mean that there are no evolved beings or evolved creatures lurking within.
In addition, there are defensive formations. When you first arrived in Tianjin, Noah's defensive formations were directly breached.
This is mainly because the defense of the formation is dispersed, while the electromagnetic cannon breaks through at a single point, so it is naturally not so easy to defend against.
Noah and I later discussed and designed a defense mechanism.
Set up a very thin defensive array on the outermost layer, within a three-kilometer radius of the ark. It doesn't need to be very strong; it only needs to be maintained at the minimum level.
On top of the outermost defensive formation, a detection formation is added.
When the outermost defensive formation is breached, the location of the breach is immediately reported back to the main control room.
Then this reporting mechanism is directly connected to the inner defense array.
Wherever the outer defensive formation is breached, the inner defensive formation will quickly concentrate spiritual energy to supply the corresponding location.
Our simulations show that this feedback mechanism can effectively stop electromagnetic projectiles traveling at fifty times the speed of sound.
However, it falls short when it comes to stopping projectiles traveling at 100 times the speed of sound.
We carefully verified the calculations several times and found that the other steps had already been optimized to the limit under the existing conditions.
The only thing holding us back is the speed of spiritual energy supply.
Faced with a cannonball traveling at 100 times the speed of sound, it would be too late to use a spirit-gathering array to mobilize spiritual energy.
Using the spiritual energy from pre-stored artificial spirit stones can speed things up considerably, but it's still a bit slower.
In the simulation, the maximum interception speed was Mach 85.
Professor Shen then talked about other achievements made during this period besides theoretical ones.
However, Professor Shen was quite frustrated that the mechanism of the defensive formation he designed could not stop the offensive weapons he designed.
He's now acting as both spear and shield. Since the spear is stronger than the shield, he wants to strengthen the shield; since the shield is stronger than the spear, he wants to strengthen the spear as well.
"Perhaps natural spirit stones can work. Natural spirit stones are much smoother to use than artificial spirit stones, and their response speed should be much faster."
Upon hearing this, Cangnian thought for a moment and then spoke.
The spiritual energy within natural spirit stones is extremely pure and gentle, and there is almost no resistance when evolved individuals and evolved creatures use them.
Artificial spirit stones are actually containers of natural spiritual energy. Cang Nian also tried to cultivate with natural spirit stones and found that it only saved a little time in gathering spiritual energy. If you include the spirit gathering array, it is practically the same as not saving any time at all.
Therefore, although it was not difficult for Noah to create artificial spirit stones, the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom basically had no evolved beings or evolved creatures using artificial spirit stones for cultivation.
This is not much different from farting after taking off your pants.
However, because Cang Nian had personally experienced both types of spirit stones, he was very clear about their differences.
"Oh? Is that so?"
However, natural spirit stones are too precious, as they can allow a fourth-order evolver to evolve to the fifth order.
Even though the number of fifth-tier powerhouses in the capital is about to break the two hundred mark, with such a good resource, they will definitely prioritize training fifth-tier evolvers.
Moreover, if used as an energy source for a defensive formation, it would consume the spiritual energy equivalent to the combined spiritual power of at least ten fifth-tier evolved beings at once!
Unfortunately, despite exploring so many spirit gold veins, Menglan didn't find a single one with spirit stones.
"Cang Nian, you're much luckier!"
Upon hearing this, Professor Shen expressed his regret.
Facing the regretful Professor Shen, Cang Nian's expression remained unchanged, but he was muttering to himself.
Professor Shen spent all his time in the research lab on the Ark and didn't go anywhere else.
Therefore, he had no idea that there was a time-evolved creature named Tiger Girl on the Ark!
Professor Shen's understanding of natural spirit stones is that they require an extremely long time to recover.
Since this thing can help fourth-tier powerhouses evolve to fifth-tier, Professor Shen naturally assumed that the Dragon Kingdom Northeast Allied Army had used up all the spirit stones they had obtained and had none left.
Fortunately, Tiger Girl can now generate fifth-tier spirit stones, although the efficiency is not very high yet.
Once it evolves to the fifth rank, its efficiency in generating spirit stones will greatly increase!
At that time, not only can we continuously cultivate fifth-tier experts, but we can also use the fifth-tier spirit stones generated to power the defensive formation!
Now that Professor Shen has developed a weapon capable of traveling at 100 times the speed of sound, the capital city should be equipped with such a weapon very soon.
Professor Shen is devoted to his research, but he still represents the position of the capital city.
Although it seems that asking Noah to share his knowledge about formations with Professor Shen has backfired, it appears that he has shot himself in the foot.
But Cang Nian has no regrets.
Noah needs powerful computing support to unleash its full potential.
Without Professor Shen's connection, it's unknown how long it would have taken for the Northeast Allied Army of China to obtain the right to use the supercomputer.
It's just an equivalent exchange.
Even though the transaction had already been completed and was now causing him some trouble, Cangnian was not upset.
Professor Shen has expanded and enhanced so many practical weapons based on his knowledge of formations; it's definitely worth it!
Moreover, Professor Shen is not very satisfied with these things, but Cang Nian is very clear that this is beneficial to himself!
A projectile launching device with a speed of 100 times the speed of sound!
Defensive formations that cannot intercept projectiles traveling at 100 times the speed of sound using artificial spirit stones!
A defensive formation that uses natural spirit stones to intercept cannonballs traveling at a speed of 100 times the speed of sound!
In addition, there's Tiger Girl, who can infinitely generate natural spirit stones!
This is a perfect match!