639: Chapter 638 New Alloy, Flame Gold!

"Due to the lack of critical information, I cannot yet make a precise assessment of the upper limits of their existing specific materials."

"But one thing is certain."

The doctor slowly raised a finger.

"All the conventional weapons currently possessed by our Holy Land, including electromagnetic cannons and high-energy lasers, cannot cause any effective damage when facing their core armored units."

After hearing this, Nakamura Inao stood frozen on the spot.

In the entire cavern laboratory, only the humming of the operating instruments remained.

He remained silent for a long time before he could barely digest this information.

Impossible to cause effective damage?

This conclusion was practically a death sentence for all of the Holy Land's current military development plans!

If we can't even break their defenses, then what is there to talk about regarding combat? What is there to talk about regarding eliminating the devils of the East?

"So..."

The doctor seemed completely indifferent to Nakamura Inao's shock, and he continued calmly: "We cannot continue to think using conventional confrontation strategies."

"I have been deducing without sleep or rest recently, and what I have been thinking about is another path."

"A path to use the limited resources we can currently obtain to forge exclusive armor that will allow our Saints to survive on future battlefields and effectively execute missions."

Bypass the generational gap in material strength?

Forging exclusive armor?

Nakamura Inao's brain began to race, and he immediately grasped the key point in the doctor's words.

Indeed.

If head-on confrontation is not feasible, then we can only take the elite route, using the strange and varied superpowers of the Saints to attack the enemy's weakest links.

But the problem is, how should the armor be designed to ensure the survival of the Saints on a battlefield of that intensity?

"Doctor, do you mean..." Nakamura Inao asked, "that we have a way to manufacture materials that can rival Huaxia's armor?"

"Rival?"

The doctor shook his head, his tone carrying a trace of matter-of-fact denial.

"No, Bishop, it is to surpass."

As he spoke, he turned and walked back to his workbench, picking up a fist-sized metal block that emitted a dark red glow from a pile of cluttered parts.

He handed the metal block to Nakamura Inao.

"This is the raw Rare Gold ore that our people excavated three weeks ago from a deep rock vein 1,200 meters underground, under the precise guidance of the Lord."

Nakamura Inao carefully took the metal.

It felt unusually heavy in his hand, and it even had a slightly warm touch.

He certainly knew about Rare Gold; it was that strategic-level resource Huaxia discovered on the moon. It was precisely by relying on this material that Huaxia's technology achieved an explosive leap.

He did not expect that this precious mineral would also be buried beneath the feet of their Holy Land.

The doctor seemed to see through his thoughts and explained: "With the precise scanning and positioning assistance of Sophon, we discovered that there is a Rare Gold vein of considerable scale in the deep geological structure directly beneath the main base of the Holy Land. Although the total reserves are far less than the one Huaxia discovered on the moon, it is already completely sufficient for the current initial needs of our Holy Land."

Nakamura Inao nodded, a glimmer of hope igniting in his heart.

But the doctor's next words poured a bucket of cold water on him.

"Pure Rare Gold alloy has limited strength. Even if we could perfectly replicate Huaxia's smelting technology, we would at most only be able to reach a level on par with them, which cannot meet the requirements for countering their latest generation of armor on future battlefields."

"Then..." Nakamura Inao just wanted to ask, but was interrupted by the doctor.

"However, the Lord has imparted a fundamental metallurgical technology of the Trisolaran Civilization."

A flash of fanatical light, for the first time, flickered in the doctor's eyes.

"By utilizing a rare molten metal that can only exist in specific high-temperature and high-pressure environments deep within the Earth's core—'Earth Core Molten Gold'—and smelting it with the Rare Gold we mined in a special ratio, we can create a brand-new superalloy that completely transcends the scope of Earth's technological understanding. I have named it, Flame Gold!"