Sky-cracking Rider
Chapter 896 - 896: Section 889 - Muddy Water

The secret of superconducting crystals has finally been leaked, and major financial groups have immediately offered extremely high acquisition prices for them, attracting more and more people flocking to the abnormal area within the Persian Sovereignty, even surpassing the popularity of the other two abnormal areas.

In the newly established town surrounding the giant battleship, breathing gear adaptable to the atmosphere of the Giant Turtle Star has become a hot commodity, leading to a significant price increase in specialized breathing equipment across the Blue Star.

Companies producing breathing equipment have recently been swamped by investors from all sides, with listed companies benefiting immensely from this sudden windfall. Their stock prices soared dramatically, and shareholders were ecstatic, watching their wealth skyrocket.

However, the secrets of nuclear reaction crystals and laser crystals remain firmly in Chen Fei's hands, with the communications team that is in constant contact keeping a tight lip and not sparking even greater commotion.

Undoubtedly, the leak about the superconducting crystals came from the Persian Sovereignty Survey Team, which is now under investigation to find out who was reckless enough to disclose such an important secret.

To clean up this mess and prevent it from spiraling out of control, the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee has dispatched skilled experts to handle black market transactions, trying to recover all the crystals lost to the outside. They have not only deliberately suppressed the prices of highly dangerous nuclear reaction crystals but also actively released a considerable amount of counterfeit goods.

While secretly purchasing the genuine items, they are also clandestinely selling the counterfeits, thus gradually stabilizing the situation.

As long as the Persian Sovereignty troops remain ineffective, it is inevitable that the special crystals from the abnormal area will stream into the underground trading market. Since the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee has no means to directly interfere with the sovereignty's internal affairs, they can only resort to these methods for remediation. Their numerous tactics are awe-inspiring, befitting the expertise of professionals.

The parasitic species chose three excellent locations to open abnormal areas in some mysterious way. These locations are areas where first-rate sovereignty of the Blue Star Civilization cannot easily intervene. If it were on the homeland of The First Sovereign, not even a ripple would occur. Guard forces exploiting the situation, "Prospectors" and "Adventurers" taking advantage of the chaos—it would all lead to nothing.

However, these three prime locations were bestowed out of nowhere, leaving people puzzled about the real intentions of the parasitic species.

After sending off the armed escort team from the Louis Industries that came for crystal samples, Chen Fei opened the AR visual interface again to follow up on the mission progress on Emerald Star.

Meanwhile, various mechanical beings that do not need breathing equipment to freely operate in the special environment of the Giant Turtle Star have commenced widespread collection activities in the abnormal areas within the Persian Sovereignty, racing against other uninvited guests who are plundering crazily to gather the special crystals and continuously transport them to the giant battleship.

Clearly, the giant battleship is the biggest local snake around the abnormal area and the biggest support of the black market. Whoever dares to defy it will be taught a lesson with a ton-level thermobaric bomb, a 600mm caliber demolition bomb, a particle beam focusing, or an element annihilation bomb, teaching them to reincarnate and decide whether to be a human or an animal in the next life. Only God knows.

The first batch of minerals on Emerald Star has already been produced, and even on Blue Star, it's considered premium rich ore.

Now, Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam" has completed the AI replacement operations for various units, significantly improving execution efficiency for various tasks.

While in a connected state, the efficiency of executing fixed tasks between "Adam" and the Cybertrom derivative sub-bodies is quite similar, but the efficiency of the latter's derivative sub-bodies decreases sharply once they lose connection with the main body.

Currently, mineral resources have been discovered within a 1,000-kilometer radius of the #1 base, apart from the easily extractable surface or shallow mineral zones, there are abundant high-quality coal reserves—it's practically heaven-sent for industrial civilization.

The plant resources on Emerald Star are rich, and given the accumulation over countless millennia, the presence of large amounts of coal is not surprising. Moreover, the entire planet has never experienced industrial civilization, leaving all resources untapped, with mineral veins visible everywhere.

Compared to Emerald Star, resources on the surface of Blue Star are increasingly unable to support the next industrial civilization. If a future civilization, akin to today's human civilization, were to emerge, it would either have to go underground (deep in the earth's crust) or above (into space) to acquire the resources necessary for sustaining its development.

Apart from the mineral issue, the #1 base on Emerald Star is also facing energy problems—once the reserve energy is depleted, the entire base will halt operations. Fortunately, coal has been found, and even without coal, plants can be harvested to use as fuel. Though thermal power generation isn't very efficient, it's a highly economical power source.

Despite the abundance of natural resources around, caution still cannot be abandoned—if the parasitic species again drive the monster groups to attack, not only will a large amount of reserve materials be consumed in battle, but also the crystal energy, which cannot be replenished quickly.

The atmospheric environment on Emerald Star has already completely degraded, with black and gray "dirty snow" occasionally falling from the sky—a nuclear winter has arrived, everything is withering, and the vast life planet is about to be choked to death by strikes from nuclear weapons.

The ecological environment of the planet has started to collapse in a chain-reaction manner like dominoes, not only causing the death of countless monsters and "seed nests," even the parasitic species struggle to survive under such atrocious conditions.

This is the advantage of the aggressors—it is easier to destroy than to build—forging a life planet like this intentionally takes at least tens of thousands of years, while destroying it just takes less than an hour.

On Chen Fei's AR visual assistance interface, not only is there the task interface for Emerald Star, but also interfaces for other zones like the crystal jet development interface, flesh mushroom industry management interface, Giant Turtle Star resource collection interface, independent laboratory interface, etc.—in total, there are over ten kinds. With his ability, he can only maintain a certain degree of attention, unable to perform multi-threaded parallel operations like AI.

Therefore, Chen Fei is responsible for setting the direction, and Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam" is responsible for execution—their cooperation is going smoothly.

Adam: Discovered high-performance semiconductor crystal, overall performance is 19% higher than silicon carbide and 21% higher than gallium nitride.

"Record it into the archives, compile an experimental report, but do not report it for now."

Chen Fei wasn't surprised like he initially was, clearly understanding that the superconducting crystals and nuclear reaction crystals hold greater value.

The current era belongs to integrated photonic circuits and nitrogen-based circuits. While silicon semiconductor integrated circuits haven't been completely phased out, their market share is increasingly losing ground, and in research areas, they're declining like the setting sun, with researchers naturally less sought after than those working on integrated photonic circuits and nitrogen-based circuits.

Adam: Discovered a homogeneous catalyst medium that combines organic and inorganic substances.

Another special catalyst material has been discovered, appearing as a crystal that can release some sort of radiation to induce fusion at the molecular level between different materials—the key lies in its homogeneity, making it widely applicable.

The independent laboratory in the abnormal area does not research only one sample at a time but conducts parallel experiments with five materials simultaneously—owing to its location, even if an experimental accident occurs, it doesn't matter if things blow to bits.

Currently, only Chen Fei's independent laboratory is the first to research materials, while the Persian Sovereignty Survey Team has already hit a shutdown. The Blue Star Global United Defense Committee certainly doesn't trust these loose-mouthed guys, preferring to let Chen Fei work alone than allowing these indiscreet folks to touch those crystals.

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