Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 329 Floating Heart
"Chairman, it was these two grandfathers who saved me and built me prosthetic limbs."

Qiansu introduced the two elderly people she brought with her.

"Grandpa Liu Fusheng, sixty-three years old, is good at mechanical design and manufacturing."

"Grandpa Chen Ruixiang, 58 years old, specializes in the field of energy and power."

"They are all registered craftsmen with more than 40 years of experience, and are well-known in the Craftsmen's Association. They are not only involved in the manufacture of various equipment, but also engaged in theoretical research work. In fact, they are engineers."

Zhou Yi looked at the two old engineers.

Liu Fusheng's hair is gray and thick, and age spots have appeared on his face, but his eyes are bright and he is full of energy.

Chen Ruixiang was severely bald, with a few strands of hair barely combed to the side and covering his forehead. He wore a pair of thick glasses that looked like the bottom of a glass bottle, which made his eyes look a little big.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Welcome, welcome. Please take a seat."

"Yuanxiao, serve the tea."

The Angel of Death began to serve tea and water to the guests.

Both old men were very calm and almost never looked away.

Qian Su took a big sip of iced black tea and showed a comfortable expression: "Thank you, Sister Yuanxiao, I didn't dare to drink water while driving all the way."

She looked at Zhou Yi and said, "Chairman, this time I went to the Dancheng Prison in Heaven and inquired about the situation there."

"The main cause of this large-scale prosthetic accident was loss of control. During an actual combat exercise, the control failure of the military prosthetic caused the light printing ammunition to detonate prematurely, resulting in serious casualties among soldiers."

"Afterwards, the Heavenly Kingdom military conducted a thorough investigation, and the Craftsmen's Guild, as the designer and manufacturer, was also the subject of a thorough investigation."

"But the matter is actually very simple. Someone in the military logistics department replaced the E-1-level prosthesis with an E-3-level prosthesis. The outer shells were also swapped. This batch of arms was sold on the black market outside the Heavenly Kingdom. The price difference between the two generations of prostheses is 3 to 5 times."

"The corruption problem involves many senior military officials, so it's difficult to take action. So this time we're punishing the Artisans' Association first. Basically, we're letting them take the blame because the artisans have to maintain the prostheses regularly, so they're also insiders, and they're considered accomplices and those who knew about it but didn't report it."

"The two grandfathers participated in the production of prosthetics, so they were also imprisoned..."

In short, the Craftsmen's Guild is the scapegoat this time.

"There is indeed a problem with the Craftsmen's Association."

The older Liu Fusheng spoke.

He spoke slowly, as if he was carefully considering every word he said.

"The Artisan Guild is also involved. Although we are not the specific organizers, we can see some traces. Every year, many refurbished and aging prostheses are sent to the Heavenly Kingdom Logistics Department. There are quite a lot of these. But according to the orders, the army requires large quantities of new prostheses."

"I don't know how they operated it, but the Craftsmen's Association knew about it. This time, Chen Ruixiang and I were imprisoned, along with several other registered craftsmen. They were all outsiders who knew something about it, not their own people, so there was no one to protect them."

Zhou Yi understood immediately.

It turns out that there is also an element of excluding dissidents.

But none of this matters to him.

"Qian Su, what good things do you think there is?"

This is more important.

"Oh, that's it."

The iron-headed girl took out an iron box from her backpack.

She opened the lid and inside was a strange machine made of metal tubes and large and small gears.

At the core is an ellipsoidal translucent container that seems to be made of rubber or resin and is filled with transparent liquid. Around it is a circle of tin-box-like energy packs.

Just from the appearance, Zhou Yi couldn't tell what this thing was.

Qiansu took out a flashlight and shone it at the innermost translucent container.

A large number of white light spots emerged inside, moving irregularly within the container.

"Chairman, these are plankton from the Dead Sea. They are too small to be seen with the naked eye. Even though they look like this, they are actually photons."

Qian Su said: "Ordinary life forms will quickly decompose when they fall into the Dead Sea. This has something to do with them. As long as they cannot resist or absorb the death light, their life structures will be torn apart by the radiation of the death light. Then plankton will swarm into these cracks and quickly decompose them into their own food."

"During this decomposition process, the plankton and the dead light will react strongly, releasing a lot of energy from the decomposition of the material."

Zhou Yi nodded: "So that's how it is."

"The two grandfathers got the idea. Since plankton can produce a lot of energy from the decomposition process, this natural phenomenon can be used."

Qian Su pointed at this strange device and said, "This is the [Plankton Heart] they built. It gathers a large number of plankton in a special mechanical container and delivers the food they need. They will continue to release powerful energy in the decomposition of matter."

"This process generates incredible amounts of energy that can be harnessed by external mechanical structures and connected directly to a variety of devices."

"It's a super-enhanced energy pack. The longer it's kept, the stronger the plankton inside will be, and the stronger and more powerful the entire heart will be. It can also be upgraded!"

Finally, she looked at the two old men and said, "Let the grandfathers explain the details. After all, I have only just come into contact with this thing."

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this.

Damn it.

This route is a bit wild.

The energy heart created by plankton can release a large amount of energy using food, and can be continuously cultivated to a very high level? If this is true... it is already an invention that can promote the energy revolution.

Zhou Yi calmed down a little and looked at the two old men again: "I think it must have a defect, right? Otherwise, a device with this function should have been popularized long ago."

"Old Chen, you go ahead and say it."

Liu Fusheng said from the side: "You are the chief designer of the floating heart, I am just an assistant, you tell the story."

"..."

Chen Ruixiang, who was wearing thick-bottomed glasses, adjusted the frames.

His lips moved for a while before he spoke: "This is... the flaws are also very obvious."

"Collecting plankton itself is difficult. They are invisible to the naked eye, and even if you feed them food, they will completely break down in a very short time, within seconds, and then scatter again."

"Our current method is to catch them in glass boxes. We put beans, meat and other food in them, and then quickly seal them and scoop them out when they decompose quickly. We also purchase some from some research institutions."

"But this method is very inefficient and only very small amounts of plankton can be obtained. There must be a large number of them to generate enough energy to be effective. The collection process is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly."

"Another thing is that if their number increases and their density is high, they will be very dangerous. If the container breaks, they will cause a small-scale dead sea phenomenon. Therefore, quantity control is crucial and a safe threshold must be found."

"Liu Gong and I spent seven years to build two [Floating Hearts]. The previous one was damaged due to improper use by others in the town hall, causing the plankton to escape. They actually exist in the air, but the density is much lower than that in the Dead Sea. In fact, there is no harm when the number is small."

"They're like the little fish that eat the dead skin off your feet, and if there aren't too many of them they're harmless, whereas the plankton on land is much more benign."

The old man spoke very quickly and seemed a little nervous.

Zhou Yi frowned when he heard this.

It took seven years to produce two hearts.

No wonder this thing has remained unknown so far. Its production efficiency is too low and it cannot be used on a large scale.

Zhou Yi asked again: "How strong is the floating heart?"

“It’s very intense.”

Chen Ruixiang said confidently: "It is small in size, but it can reach the energy supply level of the E-1 energy storage light printing "energy pool". One feeding can store energy equivalent to 40 energy packs."

"Our process is to use the energy generated by the floating heart, send it into the connected energy pack, and then transmit it to the required external equipment."

It is equivalent to a replacement for large photovoltaic batteries.

It's just too laborious to manufacture.

"The consumption of the floating heart is not high. It only needs to be fed to the plankton. According to our tests, the best food is fat and sugar. Fats are easy for them to absorb and break down quickly, and sugar has a stronger explosive power. The cost is much lower than making energy packs."

"A transmission device can be installed on the outside to connect various machines. It can be used directly as a power source, as long as a sufficient amount of grease is injected into it."

Chen Ruixiang adjusted his glasses and said, "Everything else about it is good, except that it is difficult to collect plankton. At least 20 billion plankton are needed to make a plankton heart."

Zhou Yi contacted Leonardo da Vinci.

The mechanical and electrical doctor said: "There are many types of plankton in the Dead Sea, and they live in relatively scattered spaces. It may take multiple captures to obtain a sufficient number."

"They are extremely fast, much faster than any life form visible to the naked eye, and they will quickly escape during capture."

"According to the biomedical collection method, using a plankton net, each collection can capture about 2000 dead sea plankton. However, because of the need to clean the net cages and transfer processes, if there are 20 billion, it will take 10 times."

10 million times.

Zhou Yi felt numb after listening to it.

"Is there any way to obtain them in large quantities at the same time? For example, get more collection tools?"

Da Vinci responded: "By biomedical standards, it is difficult to do. Because plankton is limited to sampling and experiments, and plankton itself is very scattered and sensitive to capture, it needs to be caught many times in different areas."

Zhou Yi finally understood why it took two craftsmen seven years to build the floating heart.

No wonder it can't be applied.

Limited to theoretical technical means.

Zhou Yi called Jiong Hecang, Bone Man Wuyi and Ni Ge.

These three have their own abilities.

Concentrated light can measure physical energy, Wuyi has the ability to control and capture sand, and Nige is an explorer who can recognize life.

As a result, when it saw the floating heart, the exploration vine on the mud tree man's back suddenly raised its neck and moved closer to the iron box.

"Chairman, this is it! The secret life that the Exploration Vine discovered in the Dead Sea is exactly this kind of thing! We don't have it over there!"

“There are a lot of them.”

Zhou Yi remembered that he did say there were invisible signs of life.

"Is there any way to capture it?"

"Yes, I can catch them with the exploration vines."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed.

Floating heart, there is hope!
(End of this chapter)