I accidentally joined a group of charlatans, so I immediately called the police and handed it over t

The gold shimmered with a captivating luster under the light.

That is a symbol of wealth that humanity has pursued for thousands of years.

But in Chen Xi's eyes, these two gold bars are no different from the stones on the roadside.

"Throw it away."

Chen Xi waved his hand casually, as if shooing away a fly.

"What?!"

Su Qingge had just stood up when she heard these words and her knees buckled, almost causing her to kneel down again.

"Chen Xi, this is gold! Gold that doubles in value in a second!"

Su Qingge held the two gold bars, her hands trembling.

"If we wanted to, we could buy the entire Wall Street in one night! We could buy the whole world!"

"and then?"

Chen Xi coldly interrupted her.

He walked up to Li Guobang and looked directly at the old general who was still in shock.

"If you buy Wall Street, will they sell you ruthenium?"

"Does having money mean people will let go of your neck?"

"Money is just waste paper in the face of absolute violence and technological barriers."

Chen Xi's words were chillingly cold, instantly extinguishing the fervor in Su Qingge's mind.

"What we need is not inflation."

"What we want is our lives."

Li Guobang took a deep breath and finally found his voice.

He looked at Chen Xi with an extremely complex expression.

There was fear, there was anticipation, and there was a kind of resolute determination as if one were to entrust their entire life and fortune to it.

What do you want?

Li Guobang's voice was frighteningly low.

"I want your secrets."

Chen Xi stretched out one hand, palm up.

"The last bit of strategic reserves in the national treasury."

"I want the 500 grams of rhenium."

The laboratory fell silent.

Those 500 grams of rhenium were obtained by countless agents overseas with their blood.

It is the last spark of the nation.

It was so that, even in the most extreme circumstances, a prototype could be cobbled together, preserving a seed of industrial dignity.

"Chen Xi..."

Li Guobang's lips trembled; he wanted to refuse, it was an instinctive protective urge.

"What if... I mean, what if..."

"If this fails, we'll really have nothing left."

"We have become lambs to the slaughter."

Li Guobang stared intently at the fragment of the treasure basin that shimmered with an eerie purple light; it was an unknown object of gods and demons.

Is the fate of the nation to be decided by a single thought of gods or demons?

This is crazy.

"Old Li."

Chen Xi took a step closer, his gaze sharp as a knife, staring directly into Li Guobang's eyes.

"Even if we kept those 500 grams, we still couldn't build an airplane."

"That's a slow death."

"Give it to me, it's a chance to survive even if you're on the verge of death."

Chen Xi softened his tone and patiently guided him.

Do you believe me?

"Just like how we trusted that I could solve the lithography machine problem and that I could handle the food supply."

Trust me one more time.

Li Guobang looked into those eyes.

There was no gambler's frenzy there, only an abyss-like calm.

A full minute passed.

It felt like an eternity had passed.

Li Guobang closed his eyes, and two lines of tears slid down his cheeks.

"Take it."

He pulled a complex mechanical key from his inner pocket and slammed it heavily into Chen Xi's hand.

"Chen Xi, my head is on your belt today."

"If I lose, I won't even need those foreign devils to lift a finger; I'll kill you first, then commit suicide."

Half an hour later.

A lead-sealed special metal box was sent into the laboratory.

turn on.

Inside was a silver-gray metal block, only the size of a palm, yet incredibly heavy.

This is rhenium.

The vitamins of industry, the soul of aircraft engines.

Chen Xi held it in his hand; it felt cold and heavy.

"Let's begin."

He placed the rhenium block into the groove of the treasure basin.

Perfectly fitted.

"Not enough willpower."

Chen Xi glanced at the faint purple light emanating from the treasure basin and frowned slightly.

The gold replicas I just made almost exhausted the lingering effects of the "pay-to-win war".

Industrialized replication requires massive, continuous, and high-intensity energy input.

"Then let them stir things up."

Chen Xi took out his phone and his fingers flew across the screen.

Heavenly Court Chat Group.

[Newcomer reporting in, seeking protection]: @All members.

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As soon as the news came out.

It was as if a nuclear bomb had been thrown into the entire Heavenly Court.

The gods, who were initially frustrated by having to wait in line to watch the movie, instantly erupted into a frenzy.

[Nezha]: Holy crap! Transformers?! Are they those metal lumps that transform with a click-clack sound?!

[Lei Gong]: Pacific Rim? Mechs fighting monsters? This is right up my alley!

[Giant Spirit]: I want to see King Kong! That's my relative!

[Sun Wukong]: Hehe! That's interesting! As long as it's good, I, Old Sun, will bring you all the monkey wine from Flower Fruit Mountain!

For an instant.

Countless unseen torrents of willpower rose from every corner of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

That was the ultimate excitement of the gods.

That's their desire for novelty.

That was pure, unadulterated emotional energy.

They pierced through the dimensional barriers, frantically pouring into the phone in Chen Xi's hand, and then into the fragment of the treasure basin.

boom--!

A thunderclap suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the laboratory.

The treasure basin suddenly emitted a purple light, turning a deep purple-red, and began to vibrate and hum violently.

That was the roar of energy overload.

"Now!"

Chen Xi roared.

Li Guobang and Su Qingge stared intently at the groove, forgetting even to breathe.

Under the purple light, the silver-gray rhenium block began to wriggle like a cell.

Split.

Grow.

There is no high temperature of a furnace, and no limitation of molds.

It exists in the void, defying all the laws of physics, and an extra piece has been forcibly added.

One becomes two.

Two becomes four.

Four becomes eight.

"This...this..."

Su Qingge looked at the electronic scale next to her.

The readings were jumping wildly.

500g…1000g…2000g…4000g…

"Newton..."

Su Qingge muttered to herself, her eyes vacant.

"Newton must be turning in his grave..."

"This is magic...this is alchemy...this is..."

"This is an industrial miracle."

Chen Xi's voice coldly interrupted.

He stood in the purple light, his face appearing particularly eerie under the interplay of light and shadow.

He watched the jubilant comments on his phone screen, seeing the gods' exclamations of amazement at seeing Optimus Prime transform.

There was no smile in his eyes.

There is only one kind of cold-bloodedness among exploiters.

Laugh, shout, make a scene.

Chen Xi murmured to himself.

"Every heartbeat of yours, every cheer of yours."

"They are all fuel for our counterattack."

"Old Li, have someone open the warehouse."

Chen Xi turned around and looked at Li Guobang, who was slumped in a chair, grinning foolishly.

"tonight."

"We're going to stay up all night."

"I want to use more of this rhenium for paving roads."