Chapter 293: Lava Bath
As the shuttle bus slowly moved forward, Chen Jue could clearly sense that the content of innate Qi in the channel began to steadily increase.
Although the concentration is so weak that it is almost inaudible compared to the second home, it is extremely rare to find a place that can provide such a stable supply of innate qi in an environment like the Earth.
"You actually built a laboratory inside Mount Fuji!"
"Aren't you afraid that a volcano will erupt unexpectedly and take away everyone in one wave?" Chen Jue showed a playful smile on his face.
Because he found that the passage was not horizontal, but had a very narrow slope.
"Mr. Chen Jue, you really like to joke! At present, Mount Fuji is still very stable. It has not erupted for more than three hundred years... and the synthesis of that kind of medicine relies heavily on the rich geothermal energy in Mount Fuji." John smiled bitterly. At the moment, the situation was stronger than he was, so he could only tell Chen Jue some inside information truthfully.
Chen Jue used his divine sense to determine whether the white foreigner had lied to him.
“Geothermal energy?”
"Relying on thermal energy to fuse Qi and nuclear radiation? This is somewhat similar to the principle of the formation of distorted energy in Suzaku's body." Seeing that the other party was not lying, Chen Jue began to mutter in his heart.
After the shuttle bus had traveled several kilometers, an underground laboratory covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters appeared in front of Chen Jue.
I saw that this laboratory was built in a hollowed-out mountain. The surrounding walls were extremely thickly insulated. Under the glass in the corridor at the end, orange-red magma was rolling and bubbling.
The laboratory is filled with various instruments, and staff in protective clothing are walking around busily.
In addition, a yellow and black radiation symbol on a metal gate in the corner of the laboratory also caught Chen Jue's attention.
"Is there a small nuclear laboratory in there?" Chen Jue asked, raising his chin.
"Mr. Chen Jue, the nuclear laboratory must be built in a place with flat terrain and little vibration."
"Jiaobenji is an area prone to earthquakes. Even nuclear power plants are at risk. It is not a suitable location for an advanced nuclear laboratory."
" Behind is where the nuclear materials are stored. The synthesis of this reagent requires not only grinding the meteorites into extremely fine particles, but also a certain proportion of spent fuel for mixing." John explained as he walked to a finished product table, picked up a semi-finished reagent in a lead tube, and introduced to Chen Jue the principles of reagent synthesis and the related technologies involved.
The spent fuel mentioned by John is actually reacted nuclear fuel, which is one level higher than nuclear waste. It can be put into use again after purification and reprocessing. It is usually produced from the nuclear reactors of nuclear power plants.
"Spent fuel?" Chen Jue showed a playful smile, feeling that there was something fishy going on behind the leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Then he saw the scattered dark golden powder in the semi-finished potion and asked, "Are these meteorite components the one I found in Antarctica? Or were they sent back by Eugene from the moon?"
Seeing Chen Jue's question, John forced out a smile of agreement, fearing that the other party would get angry and immediately settle accounts with him, a pawn of the Hongmu Group: "Mr. Chen Jue, the large meteorite you found is indeed very heavy. But that meteorite was consumed last year, and these fragments were found when this laboratory was excavated."
"As for the minerals found by the lunar expedition team, they have all gone into the pockets of the Eagle Country Space Agency. Although our Hongmu Group participated in the sponsorship investment, we can only get a very small share."
"Come with me!"
As he spoke, John led Chen Jue to the huge floor-to-ceiling window. Through the heat-insulating plexiglass, Chen Jue saw dots of dark golden color distributed on the rock walls around the magma pool below. They should be the dust formed by the meteorite that fell near Mount Fuji that year and was buried deep underground. It was not until it was discovered by the Hongmu Group that it was seen by the light of day again.
In addition, Chen Jue also saw several experimenters wearing silver protective suits beside the magma pool. The special crucibles in their hands were placed on the magma for heating.
The spent fuel and meteorite fragments put into the crucible gradually melted into golden liquid under the heat of magma. Finally, a physical cooling effect occurred due to the oily reagents added by the experimenters. Finally, the mixed solution was poured into a lead tube for packaging.
"Using magma to burn? Such an old-fashioned method?"
"Yes! It is indeed a crude method. So far, we have only discovered this method of synthesis. Even if the magma is replaced with an open flame of the same temperature, synthesis cannot be achieved." John wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained with embarrassment.
Chen Jue touched his chin and observed the experimenters' operations very carefully with his sharp eyesight.
He found that the two substances in the crucible were like a mixture of lead and mercury, or like two Tai Chi fish with their heads and tails alternating, which finally rounded into a ball under the stimulation of magma.
In addition, Chen Jue also discovered through his divine sense that there was a strong and indissoluble thermal radiation and the geomagnetic field entangled in the burning magma.
"One is the positive radiation that stimulates the transformation of life, and the other is the negative radiation that destroys gene cells. The positive and the negative are opposite to each other, and then combined with the catalytic effect of heat and magnetism, they finally merge." After watching this operation, Chen Jue muttered to himself, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
After a while, Chen Jue felt that standing far away and observing through the glass was not thorough enough, so he suggested: "Come with me to take a look!"
"This... Mr. Chen Jue, the temperature down there is over 100 degrees Celsius, and the radiation dose exceeds what a normal human body can withstand..." John looked embarrassed and wanted to refuse, but Chen Jue suddenly put his hand on his shoulder and gently kneaded it.
"Go down! Go down immediately!"
"I'll get someone to arrange protective clothing right away!" The severe pain caused John's attitude to change 180 degrees. He quickly called on several subordinates to bring two sets of protective clothing.
Chen Jue thought the protective suit was too bulky and did not wear it. He directly pushed the neatly dressed John through the isolation passage and down to the magma pool.
When the experimenters near the magma pool saw Chen Jue dare to appear near the magma pool without any protective clothing, they all widened their eyes, as if they had seen a ghost.
"Oh my God! Is he going to die?"
"The temperature in here is almost 126 degrees Celsius ! And the radiation dose is over 10 millisieverts!"
"Why did Chairman John come down as well? Doesn't he hate this kind of dangerous place the most?" Several experimenters were chattering on the side. Obviously, they did not guess that John, who seemed to be accompanying them on the side, was actually like a grasshopper hanging on a rope, with his life and death not in his own hands and was firmly controlled by Chen Jue.
Chen Jue strolled over to several experimenters and watched closely how they synthesized the reagent raw materials.
According to John's introduction in the channel just now, this preliminary synthesized reagent has deviations in ingredient content and unstable medicinal properties, so it will have to undergo a series of purification processes before it can be used for final clinical trials.
Once the large-scale human experimental data is collected and the stability of the drug is enhanced, initial small-scale mass production will be carried out. The mass-produced drugs will be transported to the Eagle Country base of Jiaoben Chicken for promotion and use .
In order to successfully launch this project, the Pentagon of Eagle Country even gave it an extremely ridiculous code name "New Humans". The purpose was to use drugs to mass-produce "new humans" with strong physical fitness to counter the Ten Body-building Styles created by Chen Jue.
"The East relies on cultivation, the West relies on technological mutation."
"No problem!" Chen Jue complained in his heart, thinking that if this kind of reagent was handed over to ordinary people, let alone transforming into some kind of new human being, there was a 70% to 80% chance that they would die and go to see their God.
In order to gain powerful strength, these foreigners will do anything they can.
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Standing at the side and watching closely for a while, staring at the fusion reaction constantly happening in the crucible, Chen Jue seemed to be moved. He raised his hand and pointed, and a very eye-catching red-gold flame began to emerge from Chen Jue's fingertips.
John, who was standing nearby, was so shocked by the sudden energy phenomenon that his eyes widened. He mumbled, "What...what kind of energy is this?"
"Mr. Chen Jue! Is this Qigong? Or is it the mysterious oriental power?"
Chen Jue ignored the startled foreigner and controlled the martial arts energy at his fingertips to split continuously, like a silk thread, becoming thinner and thinner until it became as thick as a hair.
"Is this the limit? If it splits any further, it will become a wisp of smoke and will be impossible to control."
"Since Qi and nuclear matter can fuse, they should also be able to separate." Chen Jue's thoughts jumped in his mind. He controlled this martial arts aura to continue to dissipate, and then he jumped to the side of the scorching magma pool with one step, squatted down, and placed this extremely thin strand of martial arts aura on the magma.
The next moment, Chen Jue sensed that the martial arts energy that he had condensed very solidly was actually in a state of uncontrollable collapse.
Under the catalysis of magma, the Qi, blood, spirit and nuclear radiation substances contained in the Gang Qi began to become extremely active, and finally differentiated into four smaller energy smokes that were sucked back into Chen Jue's body.
However, before taking back the four scattered energies, Chen Jue still deliberately controlled the nuclear radiation material to be expelled.
This operation process is like a patient undergoing hemodialysis, which removes metabolic waste from the blood and returns the purified blood to the patient.
Chen Jue used the catalysis of magma to purify the polluted Gangqi energy in his body and obtained the original martial arts Gangqi.
"Finally, there is a treatment for radiation distortion!" Chen Jue was delighted and took a look at the bubbling magma in front of him. He felt that the efficiency of purification relying solely on the Qi extending from his fingertips was too slow. The little bit of purified Qi just now was nothing compared to the polluted Qi in his body.
So, under the astonished gaze of John and others, Chen Jue lifted the sleeve of his right arm, first tapped the surface of the magma with the palm of his hand, just like grabbing a lighter with bare hands when he was a child, and muttered, "The temperature is okay!" Then he plunged his entire hand into the orange-red magma.
