62: Emergency Universal Nanomechanics

"This situation,"

"is very likely the 'Emergency Universal Nanomachines' produced in the second era!"

White Shark said excitedly,

"According to some historical records,"

"this type of machine was produced by the Federation during the second era as maintenance equipment for various emergency situations!"

"Commonly seen in Warship damage control, emergency personnel rescue,"

"and even in the maintenance of star marker!"

Upon hearing this explanation, Xi Hai suddenly understood,

"If it can be used for star marker maintenance,"

"does that mean these machines possess the ability to stabilize void energy?"

White Shark nodded and said,

"Precisely."

"Furthermore, due to the large-scale development of the void during the second era,"

"the methods people used to store void energy back then were bizarre and varied,"

"which explains why this void energy can remain so stable in such a makeshift energy storage canister."

Suddenly, a few questions popped into Xi Hai's mind—

"But how could these religious fanatics have these things?"

"And they seemed to say,"

"that this canister of void energy was found?"

White Shark thought for a moment and said:

"Maybe... just lucky?"

"After all, many regions that were once developed have long since become uninhabited zones,"

"It is actually possible that they were just lucky and picked up some unusual trash,"

"As for this canister of void energy..."

"Either these nanomachines brought it along;"

"or..."

"someone is incredibly lucky."

Xi Hai nodded,

considering that he now had some idea about the current situation—

So they were nanobots,

he had thought it was something else...

Wait!

nanobots!

the multitude stars are chasing after us again!!!!

Xi Hai quickly asked:

"Do you know any more detailed information?"

"For example, can these nanomachines mimic things?"

White Shark waved his hand, indicating he couldn't help—

"The existence of nanomachines is actually still in doubt,"

"because currently, both the history and archaeology departments at United University only have written records of such things,"

"we can only infer that the former Federation created such things,"

"but we cannot provide historical evidence to prove it."

"After all, even when faced with deactivated specimens floating in the vast universe,"

"we are unable to detect them."

Not getting the answer he wanted, Xi Hai shook his head in disappointment.

But then he thought,

doesn't he have the actual physical object right in front of him?

If this thing was truly found by those "Saints,"

then perhaps,

there might still be unactivated ones on the enemy ship!

He quietly asked night lamp in his mind,

"night lamp, your research function shouldn't just be for opening boxes, right?"

"Can it identify items?"

Immediately, he received a positive reply:

"By dragging a sufficient quantity of the entity into the research slot,"

"theoretically,"

"we can reverse-engineer its technology."

"Simple identification is not a problem."

Good!

He immediately ordered the Marines still on the hostile destroyers:

"Search the enemy ship immediately!"

"Scan all suspicious containers and items!"

"Check the enemies' personal belongings!"

Half an hour later,

thanks to the efforts of a large number of drones,

the scan of the enemy ship was finally finished.

On almost every component that was broken down and non-functional,

one could find this kind of dense, nano-level active reaction—

but it was limited to just the reaction.

For these nanomachines that had entered a working state,

the Marines had no way to recover them.

However,

after confirming that there were similar reactions in these places,

Xi Hai and White Shark became even more certain of their hypothesis.

Consequently, Xi Hai immediately ordered an intensified search for unactivated entities—

"No findings on the Bridge."

"No findings in the warehouse."

"...No findings."

However, the results obtained were not very pleasant.

The Marines running everywhere did not find any relevant materials—not even anything suspicious...

"Beep, beep, beep!"

—Until a Marine connected to Xi Hai, in order to confirm if the scanner was malfunctioning,

scanned himself with the scanner.

The detector that he had just casually hung on his chest,

suddenly reacted,

emitting a series of mechanical beeps.

"???"

Xi Hai froze for a second,

the Marine had already taken off the scanner,

and opened the screen to look at it.

"Suspected high-priority substance detected."

"???"

No way?

Is it for real?

On him?

Is the instrument broken?

Xi Hai suddenly remembered,

during the search of those "Saint" fanatics,

these Marines seemed to have confiscated all their personal belongings, right?

I remember in the records,

there seemed to be a guy talking about divine grace, something called holy sand,

a guy who was going crazy because a small bag of sand was taken away?

That's it!

It matches!

holy sand!

When he was interrogating (arguing with) Salman just now,

that lunatic also mentioned holy sand!

"That bag of whatever holy sand!"

"Scan it and see!"

Inside the Marine's earpiece—

"Small amount of nano-scale dormant creations detected!"

Looking at the subtitles on the instrument screen,

Xi Hai was suddenly excited—

We got the goods!!!

Of course, at this moment, the person who was even more excited was a certain history student beside Xi Hai,

—they seemed to have really found it!!!

The nanomachines that only existed in historical records!!!