Chapter 344 The electricity bill has skyrocketed!
Chen Jue observed the electrical energy absorbed by his fingertips through [Inner Vision]. The current that came out of the socket was transformed into plasma after encountering his body.
You have to know that the electric current coming out of this kind of wire is the result of the directional movement of electrons in the conductor, and their source is from different types of power plants in various places.
From thermal power generation to wind power generation, to hydropower, nuclear power, etc., the different environmental resources in each region will lead to different types of power plant construction.
An County is located in the coastal area of Jiangxi Province. There are no large hydropower stations. Household electricity mainly relies on traditional thermal power generation and nuclear power, as well as a small amount of wind power.
Among them, thermal power generation accounts for the largest proportion, reaching about 50%.
The principle of traditional thermal power generation is very simple, which is to burn thermal coal, and then use the heat from the combustion to heat water, turning the water into steam to drive the generator, which is commonly known as "boiling water to generate electricity."
Current nuclear power plants also use this power generation principle, but it has very high losses and consumes a lot of environmental resources.
After achieving "shattered vacuum", Chen Jue opened up 99% of the unusable space in his body, which is essentially able to absorb different types of energy and then convert them into "plasma".
The martial arts energy cultivated before had already been assimilated after the breakthrough and completely integrated into the "plasma".
However, he had just made a breakthrough not long ago and had not yet mastered the direct absorption of higher-level basic energies such as light energy and heat energy.
He had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and absorb the more common "electricity" in daily life to try to practice the void level.
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"The current is a little low!"
"The 220 volts is a bit low."
After putting his fingers against the socket and sucking for a few minutes, Chen Jue began to complain that it was too slow.
With the output power of household current in the socket, it is simply a drop in the bucket to fill the remaining 98% of the space in his body.
So, after rummaging around at home for a while, Chen Jue dug out several industrial power strips from the storage compartment under the stairs.
These were left over from the renovation of the old house. The wires were very long and had winches. Chen Jue plugged one end of them into the sockets in the front and back rooms on the second floor, and pulled the other end to his bed.
He directly removed the plug of the bed, exposing the wires inside . He held one in each hand and began to slowly absorb the current transmitted from it.
Looking at the electric current coming from his hands, Chen Jue remembered that when he was a child, he tried to kill himself by hitting the socket at home with a metal toy knife.
The moment of being electrocuted, a red light appeared in front of his eyes, his whole body became weak, and he collapsed to the ground, but one hand would hold the knife tightly.
If Chen Jue had not cried when he was electrocuted, and was heard by his grandfather downstairs, he would have hit the arm holding the knife with a carrying pole.
It is estimated that by now Chen Jue has become a village idiot whose brain has been paralyzed by electric shock, so there is no way he can follow these stories.
When he thought of the embarrassing childhood incident again, Chen Jue found that he did not feel any stimulation or pain when holding several electric wires in his hands.
Instead, it feels a bit tingling and numb, just like a hand massage.
If an ordinary person did this, he would have been electrocuted to the point of convulsions and his skin would have been charred.
Because the human body is a very good conductor, two parallel wires will form a short circuit when they touch through the human body.
However, Chen Jue's body structure is different from that of ordinary people. The electric current input into his body from his hands cannot form any contact at all. It is all absorbed into the cells and converted into plasma. Even if a few more wires are connected to his body, it will not be a problem.
"Even if we add a few more wires, the current is still low."
“The upper limit for household electricity consumption is too low.”
"Forget it, let's get some sleep first."
"Let's talk about it tomorrow!" Chen said determinedly, feeling a little tired.
Although the previous breakthrough seemed smooth, it actually consumed a lot of Chen Jue's energy.
Especially controlling countless fine needles of energy in the body and using mental energy to maintain the body's contours are all very delicate jobs.
If it weren't for the [Perspective] that allowed him to enter the atomic microscopic world and make his thoughts run faster than light, Chen Jue would not have been able to accomplish such subtle and multitasking energy manipulation.
So, after lying down on the bed, Chen Jue put the wires in his hands on his body and did not cover himself with a quilt, for fear that the wires would ignite the quilt.
He closed his eyes and observed the electric current being input into his body for a while. Seeing that there was nothing abnormal, Chen Jue fell into a deep sleep.
However, what Chen Jue never expected was that not long after he fell asleep, the electric meter in the meter box at the door of his house started to spin wildly as if it had been injected with chicken blood!
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When Chen Jue woke up at noon the next day, he was stunned when he saw the text message reminder sent by the power grid.
"Warm reminder: Hello, owner of No. XX, Chencun. Your household electricity consumption this month has exceeded 36,211 kWh, and the accumulated electricity bill is 19,368 yuan. To prevent power outages, please go to the local power supply business hall as soon as possible to pay the electricity bill or pay online."
"Oh my god!"
"Over 30,000 kWh of electricity was consumed in one night?"
"The upper limit power output of the household electricity meter is not that high, right?"
Chen Jue looked at the text message reminder, ran downstairs and opened his own electricity meter box at the door, only to see the numbers in the meter box jumping up rapidly.
Since it is an old-fashioned electricity meter box, the digital display on it can show a maximum of 4 digits, and the meter will reset to zero every time it skips 9999.
That is to say, during the more than 10 hours that Chen Jue slept, his family’s electricity meter had been reset to zero three times!
According to common sense, the maximum power that a household electricity meter can withstand is 13.2 kilowatts. Once the output power exceeds this value, it will automatically trip.
However, due to Chen Jue's special body structure and the way he absorbed the computer by directly clearing the electrons in the household wires, it did not cause the electric meter to overload, so he directly consumed more than 36,000 kWh of electricity in one night.
"Absorbing electricity to the point of bursting the meter?"
“This is really…”
Chen Jue was not worried about the electricity bill. After all, he still had two small goals in his bank card balance, so he wouldn't even blink an eye even if he consumed millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity every day.
It's just that the rated power of this household electricity meter is too low. After absorbing power all night, it couldn't even catch up with a fraction of the power provided by the lightning last night.
"We have to find a new way to supply power." Chen Jue pursed his lips and muttered softly.
I closed the electricity meter box again, went into the house and unplugged the wires, then went online to the State Grid app and paid the excess electricity bill directly.
After taking a look at the APP and finding out that the account can be recharged and automatically deducted, Chen Jue entered an amount of 100,000 yuan in the background and recharged it.
"If it sucks like it did last night, this $100,000 electricity bill will only last for three days."
"But these are the top-up limits. You can't open a corporate account, right?"
"How about pulling an industrial line into the house for backup?"
Chen Jue first glanced at his account balance, then looked up at the several high-voltage wires not far above his head. He felt that it was unnecessary for him to go through so much trouble.
