Chapter 73 Ark Reactor_1

Cao Ge's 300-million-dollar mansion, underground laboratory.

After money was no longer a concern, Cao Ge added many new things to his lab.

They were all manufacturing equipment, mechanical arms, metalworking lathes, and the like.

At this moment, Cao Ge was sitting at a control desk, toying with a glowing circular device, with Murphy's assistance.

After setting up a plan that was routinely executed by the company, he stopped overseeing it directly, instead allowing the company's management to interface with a group of top scholars.

In any case, he had already laid out the requirements for the game, and the rest was left to them to carry out.

Cao Ge returned to his lab to start making a life-saving device.

Although ETO hadn't yet taken any assassination actions against him, one could never know when they might strike.

He couldn't just sit around waiting to die. After all, he was someone who had traversed several worlds and had been enhanced by the system several times, so creating something to save his life was quite simple.

The device Cao Ge intended to make was called the Arc Reactor, yes, the same reactor as Iron Man Tony's.

Considering his current situation, Cao Ge felt it necessary to create some defensive measures for himself.

The technology of nuclear reactors wasn't difficult; the challenge was how to make a nuclear reactor palm-sized while still being practical.

Current world nuclear reactors are tens of meters, even dozens of meters in size.

Of course, that's not to say there are no smaller ones, but even the smallest ones differ significantly from the palm-size Cao Ge mentioned.

Moreover, those small nuclear reactors in the current world are not very practical.

Cao Ge needed a reactor that was both portable and able to output energy stably.

Based on the mech he envisioned, the nuclear reactor would need to release energy of 3 billion joules per second.

Adding it all up, the challenge became somewhat more difficult.

Fortunately, amongst the technology he brought from Deep Space Amnesia World was this very technology.

Small cold nuclear reactors.

However, having the technology was one thing; turning theory into reality was quite another.

Cao Ge had been working on prototypes based on the technical blueprints for over a month, using quite a bit of material without a single success.

Either the reaction was unstable, or the energy release did not meet his requirements.

The reactor he held now was already the fourth cold nuclear reactor he had made.

"I hope everything goes smoothly," Cao Ge murmured, looking at the cylindrical reactor in his hands.

Cao Ge welded the last wiring of the reactor, then flipped the switch.

The center of the reactor began to slowly glow blue, then started to output energy steadily.

The reactor was connected by wires to a testing device.

"One second, two seconds, three seconds..."

Seeing that the reactor continued to react steadily, Cao Ge put it aside, then typed a few keys on the keyboard to bring up an interface.

"2.9 billion joules per second."

The computer precisely measured the energy released by the reactor.

A look of joy appeared on Cao Ge's face because this level of energy was completely sufficient for his use.

Looking at the reactor that was continuing to react, Cao Ge felt an indescribable sense of achievement.

Although he wasn't the designer of this reactor, he had built it with his own hands.

At this point, he might not yet be a scientist in the field of nuclear fusion, but he could certainly be called a nuclear reactor engineer.

He had thoroughly grasped the production process and design principles of this small reactor.

Cao Ge got up from his chair and began to walk back and forth in the lab, his hands tightly clasped.

All he needed to do next was to test the stability of the reactor before starting the construction of the mech.

Cao Ge secured the reactor then left the laboratory.

For stability testing, it was simply a matter of time; he planned to test it for a week before making further decisions.

It was already afternoon, and Cao Ge was going to grab some food.

......

Centaurus.

On a planet within the Trisolaris Star System.

"Science Officer, our observation subject, Cao Ge, has created a small nuclear reactor a quarter-hour ago. After my observation, his progress in scientific research is far faster than the overall progress of the target civilization," reported an observer who had come to a sturdy building with his findings, addressing a Trisolaran behind the desk.

The Science Officer took the observer's report, looked it over, and slowly furrowed his brow.

"While progress in applied sciences with basic sciences locked will not hinder our advent, his research speed is remarkably fast."

"His research seems to have appeared out of nowhere; he completed it without any preliminary attempts, going from nothing to everything. It's a technology burst, even if only in the applied sciences..."

"Based on our preliminary observations, we suspect he has mastered some research method. If we could acquire this method, my science could experience an explosive development," said the observer.

"Hmm," the Science Officer nodded thoughtfully.

"Your judgment is correct. His research progress is indeed very rapid, far ahead of the target civilization as a whole."

"He's a great scientist," the scientist commented, glancing at the records about Cao Ge on the observation report.

"Increase our focus on him, and ideally establish a specialized research team to analyze his research process and figure out his methodology."

"Yes, Science Officer, I will arrange that immediately upon my return."

"Hmm," the Science Officer nodded again.

"Also, if you find his technological leaps defy basic scientific laws, ignoring the development of theories in the microscopic domain, report to me immediately," the Science Officer added after a moment of thought.

"I understand, Science Officer. If his technological advancements can disregard the theoretical constraints of the microscopic domain, the threat he poses to us would significantly increase," replied the observer.

"Hmm."

"You may go."

Cao Ge would never know that his two instances of technological leaps had aroused an unparalleled curiosity in the scientists among the Trisolarans.

They suspected that Cao Ge must have mastered some research methods unknown to them.

Although Trisolaran technology far surpassed Earth's, they could never imagine that the system facilitated Cao Ge's technological leaps.

The system was by nature an enigmatic entity.

If the Savior System were to be described, it could also be considered a part of technology, since the enhancement feature could be seen as knowledge infusion, a method of knowledge transfer he believed to exist in higher civilizations.

And traversing worlds could be considered doors to parallel universes.

Cao Ge personally felt this was also possible.

These things, let alone the Trisolaran civilization, were hard to say about the abilities of the Eradicators civilization that appeared last.

After all, that's a divine-level civilization capable of returning the universe to zero dimensions and then elevating it to eleven dimensions.