54: Chapter 54: Steel Spike Pierces Through Blazing Fire, Pure Solid Core Determines the Fate of the World

Clang! Clang!

Da Biao dragged two heavy black metal blocks from under the car and tossed them onto the marble floor.

The surface of the metal blocks was covered in grease and mud, with several layers of black electrical tape wrapped around them.

This thing looked extremely crude.

Wang Teng stared at the two objects on the ground, stunned for two seconds, before suddenly bursting into laughter.

"Lu Chen, is this the kind of thing you brought to crash Morgan's event?"

Wang Teng pointed at the battery module on the ground.

"It doesn't even have a proper fire-retardant casing. You just connected a few broken wires and dared to drive it on the road. This isn't a battery; these are two homemade bombs!"

Wang Teng grabbed the microphone and faced the dozens of media outlets in the audience.

"Everyone, take a good look. This is the Solid-state battery they've been hyping to the heavens. High-energy batteries have extreme density. A 'three-no' product like this will spontaneously combust after just a minor bump, before it even runs ten kilometers. Him driving this piece-of-junk car on the road is absolutely attempted murder!"

David had been badly frightened by the car earlier, but now he immediately found an angle to counterattack.

He retreated several steps, waving his hands in the air.

"Security! Quickly throw this thing out!"

David warned loudly in English.

"Gentlemen, disperse immediately! This inferior chemical mixture is extremely unstable. It could experience thermal runaway and catch fire at any moment. These barbarians don't understand what modern industrial safety standards are at all."

Hearing David's warning, the suited car company executives and socialites in the front row retreated in fear, terrified that the iron blocks on the ground would suddenly explode.

Lu Chen stood in front of the car, having no intention of explaining.

If something can be solved with action, there's no need to waste breath.

"Da Biao." Lu Chen called out.

"I'm here."

Da Biao stepped forward. He grabbed the thick cables on the battery module with both hands, his arm muscles instantly bulging.

Snap.

He brutally tore the copper-core cables connected to the motor.

A strong current instantly sparked.

Da Biao pulled a high-wattage test light bulb with two clips from his pocket and clamped the clips directly onto the battery's positive and negative terminals.

A strong white light instantly shone, stinging the eyes of several people in the front row and forcing them to close their eyes.

"It's still providing power."

Lu Chen lowered his head and pulled a half-meter-long solid industrial steel rod from a black metal toolbox.

The tip of the steel rod was polished to be extremely sharp and was covered in raw ore powder.

"Mr. Wang says it will spontaneously combust and catch fire?"

Lu Chen weighed the steel rod in his hand, "Today, I'll demonstrate some basic safety knowledge for you all right here."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Chen raised his right hand high, aiming the steel rod at the very center of the battery module.

"Holy sh*t! What is he doing!"

"Piercing a high-energy battery pack! Get down!"

Several knowledgeable technical directors from car manufacturers threw themselves onto the ground.

The moment a lithium battery is pierced by a steel spike, the positive and negative terminals short-circuit, causing a violent explosion. This is absolute common knowledge in the industry.

Wang Teng was also startled, crouching behind the podium with his head in his hands.

Pfft.

A teeth-gritting sound of metal piercing echoed.

Under Lu Chen's monstrous strength, the half-meter-long steel rod pierced directly through the thick battery casing, driving deep into the marble floor below.

The entire venue fell into deathly silence.

Thousands of people were lying on the ground or covering their heads, waiting for death.

One second, two seconds, five seconds passed.

There was no explosion, no fire, not even the white smoke typically produced by a short circuit.

The high-wattage light bulb clipped to the positive and negative terminals was still steadily emitting a blinding white light.

Even the brightness of the light didn't fluctuate in the slightest.

Several technical directors mustered the courage to lift their heads, staring fixedly at the pierced battery.

"No fire? How is it possible that it didn't catch fire!"

A technical director with black-rimmed glasses stood up directly, not even bothering to brush the dust off his knees.

Wang Teng slowly poked his head out from behind the podium, his face flushed red.

"Cheating! It's absolutely cheating!"

Wang Teng picked up the microphone and screamed frantically.

"There must be a layer of anti-piercing protection, tens of centimeters thick, inside the casing! Your strike didn't hit the core reaction pack at all! Who are you trying to fool with this magic trick!"

Wang Teng turned to look at the media reporters.

"Film it! Film his scam and expose it!"

Lu Chen let go, letting the steel rod remain stuck in the battery.

He turned and walked toward the trunk of the car, reaching out to pull out a greasy plastic bucket, and unscrewed the red plastic cap.

A strong smell of 92-octane gasoline instantly permeated the entire venue.

"You say it didn't pierce through?"

Lu Chen carried the gasoline bucket to the side of the battery and flipped his wrist.

Whoosh, half a bucket of gasoline was poured directly onto the pierced battery module, also soaking the surrounding floor.

"You're crazy!" David shrieked.

Lu Chen pulled a windproof lighter from his pocket, pressed the switch, and a blue flame appeared.

He casually tossed the lighter onto the gasoline-soaked battery.

Boom!

A raging fire more than three meters high instantly shot into the sky.

The rolling heat forced everyone around to retreat more than ten meters, and David turned and ran toward the backstage.

The fire burned furiously.

"Burn! Burn to death, you lunatic!"

Wang Teng hid ten meters away, cursing viciously.

As long as the battery exploded from the heat, these people would be completely finished.

The fire burned for more than two full minutes.

The layer of inferior black electrical tape on the ground was burned to ash.

The thin plastic outer casing was also completely melted by the high temperature, dripping onto the floor.

As the casing melted, the tightly arranged dark purple Solid-state core crystals inside were completely exposed to everyone.

The flames gradually grew smaller and finally extinguished.

The black smoke dissipated.

Lu Chen strode over and kicked the dark purple metal block on the ground, which was still radiating residual heat.

The test light bulb connected to it…

…was still on.

The light pierced through the remaining white smoke.

"Impossible…"

The technical director with black-rimmed glasses rushed out of the crowd, ignoring the high temperature on the ground, staring fixedly at the exposed purple crystals.

"Two minutes of direct gasoline burning, the internal temperature must be at least seven or eight hundred degrees. The electrolyte should have vaporized and exploded long ago!"

The technical director's lips were trembling, "Why is it not short-circuiting? Why is there still voltage output!"

"It is a pure Solid-state structure."

Lu Chen glanced at the technical director, "There is no liquid to leak, so naturally, there is nothing that can vaporize or burn."

The media reporters in the audience all went crazy, pressing their shutters so fast it felt like the buttons were about to spark.

As the automotive industry has developed to this day, safety has always been a sword hanging over our heads.

Regardless of how expensive a luxury electric car is, news about them catching fire and burning people instantly after a bump to the chassis is everywhere.

Today, they witnessed with their own eyes a battery being pierced by a steel rod and burned by gasoline.

And yet, it was still working normally.

"No… this is absolutely impossible."

Wang Teng's eyes were bloodshot. He climbed up from the ground and pointed at the steel rod in Lu Chen's hand.

"A scam! It's all a smoke and mirrors trick! Everyone, don't believe him. If Morgan's technology can't do it, how could a rinky-dink workshop possibly do it!"

"You talk too much." Lu Chen turned his head.