Chapter 37 Portable Emergency Medical Unit

"Target, engine room!"

At Academician Wang's command, Lin Yuan immediately selected the emergency passage leading to the engine room on the console.

"Click..." A faint mechanical sound rang out.

On the mirror-smooth, softly glowing white walls of the Gene Temple, an inconspicuous hidden door slid inward silently, revealing a narrow metal passage that could only fit one person.

"Well done! Lin Yuan, get in there quickly!" Li Na's excited voice came from the Command Center.

Lin Yuan dared not delay and immediately maneuvered scavenger no. 2, diving headfirst into the pitch-black passage.

After he entered, the hidden door behind him closed silently once more.

The entire Gene Temple returned to its eternal, dreamlike tranquility.

Only outside the door, that white Purifier remained on guard, dutifully and motionless.

It did not know that its "prey" had already slipped away.

...

"Damn, this place is too narrow."

Lin Yuan maneuvered the drone, carefully advancing through the narrow maintenance passage.

The walls of the passage were covered in various complex energy conduits and data interfaces that were dizzying to look at.

Some conduits still emitted a faint glow, proving that certain systems of the ship were still maintaining minimal operation.

"Based on your current position, we are re-routing you," the voice of the Intelligence Analysis Department came from the Command Center. "You are currently in the ship's 'central service passage,' which acts as the 'blood vessels' and 'nerves' of the entire ship. Follow this path, and in about five minutes, you will arrive at the engine room located at the rear of the ship."

"Understood."

Lin Yuan replied while curiously examining the surrounding conduits.

He tried scanning one of the glowing energy conduits with the drone.

【Scanning...】

【Target: 'Tree of Life'-class medical ship - Standard High-Conductivity Energy Conduit】

【Energy Reaction: Weak (Maintaining basic life support systems)】

【Analysis: The conduit material is 'room-temperature superconducting ceramic,' with an energy transmission loss rate of less than one in ten million.】

"A loss rate of one in ten million?!"

When Lin Yuan reported this data to the Command Center, the experts from the physics team collectively fell silent.

"Room-temperature superconductivity... They have actually popularized room-temperature superconducting technology to this extent?" a physicist muttered to himself, feeling his worldview shattered.

On Earth, room-temperature superconducting materials only existed in laboratory theories and conjectures. To achieve superconductivity, they needed to use liquid nitrogen or even liquid helium to cool materials to extreme sub-zero temperatures.

Yet this Eternal Flower civilization could easily achieve zero-loss energy transmission at room temperature using a special kind of "ceramic"!

If this technology could be brought back...

It would mean that the global power system would be completely overturned!

Electricity generated by power plants could be transmitted to any corner of the world with almost zero loss!

The power consumption of all electronic devices would be significantly reduced, and the problem of overheating would cease to exist!

This... this is simply another energy revolution!

"Academician Wang, can I dismantle a section of this pipe and take it with me?" Lin Yuan looked at those glowing conduits, feeling as if he were seeing gold bars; his eyes were practically turning green.

"Don't! Absolutely not!" Academician Wang was startled and quickly stopped him. "If you dismantle it now, heaven knows what kind of chain reaction it might trigger! This ship's AI is still online! If it determines you are damaging the hull and sends all the Purifiers to swarm you, you'll be finished!"

"Go to the engine room first! That's the key! Once we understand its energy core, there will be plenty of opportunities to come back and take these things later!"

"Alright." Lin Yuan had to reluctantly abandon this tempting idea.

He continued to advance along the passage.

Five minutes later, at the end of the passage, a heavy, circular alloy bulkhead appeared.

On the bulkhead, the words "Engine Restricted Area, Authorized Entry Only" were marked in the Eternal Flower language.

"Lin Yuan, use the clearance you just used in the Gene Temple and see if you can open it."

Lin Yuan nodded and placed the drone's robotic arm against the authentication panel next to the bulkhead.

"Beep—" A crisp confirmation sound rang out.

The heavy alloy bulkhead slowly slid open to both sides.

An energy fluctuation, purer and more majestic than the life energy in the Gene Temple, rushed out from behind the door!

Lin Yuan maneuvered the drone and flew through the bulkhead.

The scene before him once again left him and everyone in the Command Center stunned.

This was the engine room.

But there were no huge, roaring reactors filled with the smell of metal and engine oil as they had imagined.

The entire engine room resembled a huge, empty cathedral.

And in the very center of the "cathedral," a huge, diamond-like, brilliant, and constantly rotating polyhedral crystal floated silently.

This crystal was the "heart" of the ship.

Its volume was as large as a small house.

It emitted no sound, nor did it radiate any light or heat.

But Lin Yuan could "feel" that waves of invisible, vast energy were being continuously extracted from the void in all directions by this crystal, then converted into the purest electrical energy and transmitted through the "room-temperature superconducting ceramic" conduits under the floor to every corner of the ship.

"This... what is the principle behind this?" In the Command Center, an academician in charge of energy projects watched this scene and said distractedly, "It... it seems to be drawing energy directly from space itself!"

"No!" Academician Wang stared fixedly at the screen. His eyes pierced through the huge crystal and saw the deep universe behind it.

He suddenly remembered something.

"Lin Yuan! Do you remember the characteristics of the 'Safe Zone' where this ship is located, which we analyzed earlier?"

"I remember," Lin Yuan replied. "A gravitational anomaly that repels all matter."

"Right! Repulsion!" Academician Wang's breathing became rapid. "Look at that crystal! Its energy is not generated out of thin air from the void! Its energy comes from that 'repulsive field' outside!"

"This ship... and this 'Safe Zone' have formed a kind of... symbiotic relationship!"

"That 'repulsive field' protects this ship from being devoured by the Void Devourer. And this ship's engine, in turn, extracts the energy of the field to use as its own power source!"

Academician Wang's deduction was earth-shattering!

Everyone was stunned into silence by this genius concept.

Using a cosmic disaster itself to provide energy and protection?

What a masterful design!

"Quick! Lin Yuan, scan it! I want all its data!" Academician Wang roared excitedly.

Lin Yuan immediately scanned the huge crystal heart.

【Scanning...】

【Target: "Heart of Kalandia" - Symbiotic Spatial Anomaly Energy Core】

【Energy Output: Stable (Currently at minimum maintenance power)】

【Special Attribute: This energy core is deeply bound to the current 'entropy-reduction field.' Once it leaves the range of the field, it will immediately lose all functionality and trigger an irreversible structural collapse.】

【Warning: Cannot be removed.】

"Cannot be removed..."

Seeing these last four words, the people in the Command Center, who had just been excited by this great discovery, felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over them.

As expected, such god-tier treasure was not something they could touch right now.

"What a pity... such a pity..." Academician Wang shook his head repeatedly, his face full of regret.

However, Lin Yuan's gaze was not on the huge crystal heart.

His attention was drawn to an inconspicuous little object plugged into a base next to the crystal heart.

It was a suitcase-sized box made entirely of white metal.

On the box, the "double-snake staff" symbol was also printed.

An energy conduit extended from the box and connected to the base of the crystal heart, seemingly charging it.

This thing looked like a...

"First aid kit?"

Lin Yuan muttered to himself.

He maneuvered the drone, flew over, and scanned the box.

【Scanning...】

【Target: "cradle of life" Portable Emergency Medical Unit】

【Energy Reserve: 100%】

【Function: Built-in high-precision gene scanner, nano-scalpel, cell regeneration catalyst, and universal stem cell cultivation module. It can perform deep, cell-level emergency repair and treatment on most carbon-based organisms.】

【Weight: 98.7 kg.】

When Lin Yuan read this scan result to the Command Center.

Everyone went crazy!

This wasn't a damn first aid kit!

This was simply a portable, miniature version of the "Gene Temple"!

With this, never mind cancer or AIDS; even if someone cut off an arm or a leg, it could probably "grow" it back for you on the spot!

And its weight, 98.7 kg!

It was exactly within the 100 kg payload limit of scavenger no. 2!

This was simply... simply tailor-made for him!

"Lin Yuan! Grab it!" Academician Wang's voice was completely distorted by extreme excitement. "Use all your strength! Bring it back for me!"