Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 806: Source
If the initial energy provided cannot reach the threshold for initiating re-fusion, then it is completely useless - the destination can be reached in a hundred steps, but if you stop at the ninety-ninth step, then you are no different from someone standing behind the starting line and not starting.
"Ninety-nine equals zero."
But after the twelve large chimneys trembled, accompanied by a low roar, the alien spaceship actually flew up tremblingly. After hovering over the wreckage of the asteroid for a few seconds, the tail suddenly ejected a tail flame several kilometers long. The whole ship suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the dark space in the distance at a speed that was difficult to catch up with the naked eye.
" This is impossible!"
"Unless... unless the people on this engineering ship have obtained technology that does not belong to Earth civilization!"
"Could it be that they have discovered the remains of an alien civilization before this ?"
The memory of this engineering ship was constantly improving, but the fragments about the remains of this alien civilization never appeared... It was as if this engineering ship had been drifting in the universe after escaping the solar system, and only stopped for the first time when it encountered this asteroid.
This doesn't make sense.
If this engineering ship had discovered the remains of an alien civilization before and successfully obtained the technology of heavy nuclear fusion from them, they would not have fallen to this point.
Could it be that a part of the memory was deleted?
Ke Lan is more inclined to this possibility. After all, this is not the first time such a thing has happened. Compared with other methods, deleting memory is the simplest and most effective - if there is something you don't want later comers like Ke Lan to know, just delete it directly.
With the energy provided by heavy nuclear fusion, the alien spacecraft sailed in the dark and lightless universe for who knows how many years, stopping only a few times along the way. Its purpose was always to collect "stones" as heavy fusion fuel from the celestial bodies it passed by.
Until the spacecraft was captured by the gravitational field of a gas giant planet with a diameter six times that of Jupiter.
Ke Lan always felt that this scene was somewhat familiar... just like when the Ark was captured by the natural wormhole hidden in the darkness in the year 499 of the New Era.
The only difference is that the alien spacecraft actively approached the gas giant planet.
Although Ke Lan could not see any human , he could feel their thoughts and consciousness. This feeling of empathy was as if he was experiencing the memory himself - after all, this memory originally belonged to the people on this spaceship.
The spacecraft initially approached the gas giant in order to use the "gravitational slingshot" effect to further accelerate the spacecraft, but the people on board misjudged the mass and gravity of the gas giant. By the time they discovered that the situation had changed, it was too late - the alien spacecraft plunged into the interior of the gas giant like a moth to a flame.
Just when Ke Lan thought that this alien spaceship was about to be crushed by the gravity of the gas giant, a circle of faint light curtain suddenly enveloped the spaceship... As the spaceship got closer and closer to the core of the gas giant, ripples appeared on the light curtain - as for the spaceship itself, it was not damaged at all under the pressure of this terrifying gravity.
"Energy shield? No, not the common energy shield... It's another special shield that can resist the gravity of gas giant planets."
Energy shields cannot block gravity, and even anti-gravity devices are powerless against the terrifying gravity of a gas giant... but this shield can allow alien spacecraft to remain safe and sound inside a gas giant - this kind of device has never been found even in the ruins of the Alpha civilization.
Could it be that... the remains of the alien civilization they discovered on this engineering ship have a technological level that is higher than that of the Alpha civilization?
Unfortunately, although this shield can prevent the spacecraft from being crushed, it cannot allow the spacecraft to escape the gravitational field of the gas giant. The alien spacecraft went straight through the atmosphere of the gas giant and fell into the "ocean".
The "ocean" here does not refer to the large water bodies composed of "hydrogen oxide" like those on the Earth and Alpha Centauri, but the "liquid gas" formed by the gases that make up the planet being forcibly compressed under the action of gravity.
Like Jupiter in the solar system, under the atmosphere is a "liquid hydrogen ocean" formed by gaseous hydrogen that covers the entire planet. Under this ocean is hydrogen compressed into a metallic state. Compared with the metallic hydrogen part, Jupiter's atmosphere and ocean are actually just two very thin layers.
Although both Jupiter and this planet are classified as gas giants, in fact most of these planets are in a solid state - "gas compressed into a solid state."
The special shield of the alien spacecraft can not only block the terrifying gravity of the gas giant planet, but can even drain the sea water in the "ocean" of the gas giant planet to form a hollow area.
After traveling through the "ocean" for several hours, the alien spaceship finally reached the "bottom of the sea".
Ke Lan was not sure what elements made up this gas giant planet, but it was obviously not hydrogen - the seabed had a lead-gray metallic texture, and the boundary was not only not blurred, but extremely clear, as if there was an invisible boundary: the matter above the boundary was compressed into liquid, and the matter below the boundary was compressed into solid.
The alien spacecraft was hovering about ten meters above the seabed, maintaining a delicate balance with the surrounding environment.
The hatch at the bottom of the spacecraft slowly opened, and a mechanical arm with a drilling rig fixed on the top stretched out from it and stuck to the plane of the seabed.
The drilling progress was slow, but it was not without results... From these "crew members' memories", Ke Lan could learn that the metal fragments dug up by the drilling rig immediately turned into liquid substances like "seawater" after leaving the seabed, but they showed properties that were completely different from ordinary liquid substances.
Before long, a mixture of excitement and joy exploded in Ke Lan's mind - the people on the spaceship were surprised to find that the element that made up this planet was actually a completely new element that did not exist on the periodic table!
Although it is impossible to conduct a detailed analysis of this element with existing instruments, when they "experimentally fused" this new element with some known metals, they obtained a super alloy with extremely superior properties.
Because the person who led the new element research experiment was called "Dr. Nino", the people on the ship decided to name the super alloy after him.
"Nino Alloy".
