208: Chapter 208 Void Coordinate Element: Zhulong's trump card isn't his!

sentry ship arrival countdown, day eighty-three.

Pangu Laboratory B2 level, 6:00 PM.

Academician Li Zhengyang had just pushed the automatic switching logic for cross-medium strikes into the testing queue when Zhou Dehai's holographic projection popped up from the bottom right corner of the main screen.

In the projection, Zhou Dehai was standing in the Kaitian Base spare factory, with two buttons undone on the front of his anti-static suit.

"Chief Engineer Su, the full system joint debugging of Zhulong No. 2... failed."

Three people on the B2 level looked up at the same time.

"Which part?" Su Che's hand hovered over the keyboard.

"Can't say for sure."

Zhou Dehai pushed the joint debugging log through the holographic channel.

"Dual chambers started simultaneously, isolation membrane is normal, and after the anti-phase interference cancellation signal was injected, the atomic directional growth in both processing chambers stopped completely. No error reports, no overheating, it just stopped."

Su Che opened the log and scanned from beginning to end.

Isolation membrane parameters were normal, anti-interference phase accuracy met the standard, energy supply was full, and superconducting coil temperature was safe.

All visible indicators were green.

But the metal raw materials in the processing chambers remained motionless.

"Did you change the raw materials?"

"Tried three batches: niobium-tungsten, carbon nanotubes, aluminum-lithium composite, tried them all."

"Force field emission component?"

"Took it apart twice, all parts passed inspection."

Zhou Dehai flipped the log to the last page. "I copied the force field parameters of the first-generation Zhulong intact and ran it in single-chamber mode, but it still didn't work."

Su Che stared at the red label at the bottom of the log: "Atomic directional growth unresponsive."

He reviewed the technical details of the first-generation Zhulong in his mind.

Atomic-level directional energy deposition, quantum field constrained molding—these were all schemes exchanged from the system initially; he had built it himself.

The first generation could run, so why couldn't the second generation using the same core technology?

Deep in his mind, a blue-white panel popped up.

It wasn't a mission prompt.

It was a system warning he had never seen before.

[Ding! Detected that the host is attempting to upgrade the first-generation [Zhulong] atomic growth manufacturing unit.]

[Warning: During the construction process of the first-generation equipment, this system illegally injected 0.3g of Void Coordination Matter to participate in the construction of the core constraint field.]

[This material does not belong to the conventional matter of the current universe. Earth's stock is zero. The host's authority and exchange points at that time were unable to unlock the synthesis path.]

[Hint: Without the participation of Void Coordination Matter, no conventional material system can support cross-scale atomic directional growth; the equipment will inevitably fail.]

Su Che sat in his chair, not moving at all.

Void Coordination Matter.

It doesn't belong to the conventional matter of the current universe.

Earth's stock is zero.

The system had secretly slipped it in.

Back in the abandoned locomotive factory, he had "grown" the first gear and the first five-axis linkage machine tool in front of Academician Qian Zhenhua, Liu Huaqiang, and Lieutenant General Peng.

Everyone thought it was his ability.

He thought so too.

It turned out that the miracle wasn't purely built by him.

Su Che asked in his consciousness, "What exactly are you?"

The characters on the panel did not move.

"Why did you appear on me?"

Silence.

Three seconds later, the panel displayed a new line.

[System Prompt: Current Zhulong upgrade requires 0.5g of Void Coordination Matter.]

[Interstellar Material Library Price: 2,000,000 independent points.]

[Do you want to exchange?]

Two million.

Su Che checked the balance of the independent point pool in the Mirror World virtual ecosystem in his consciousness.

Global players were pouring into the Mirror World, and emotional value had accumulated over time, so there was quite a lot in the pool.

It was enough, but if he spent two million, the remainder would be thin.

He had previously considered building a few more Zhulongs to equip every production line.

Once this price came out, the idea was extinguished immediately.

The R&D of the Southern Gate would only get harder, and he didn't know how many rare materials he would need to exchange from the Interstellar Material Library.

Save it.

"Exchange."

[Ding! Consumed 2,000,000 independent points, 0.5g of Void Coordination Matter has been materialized into the drawer of the host's console.]

Su Che lowered his head and pulled open the bottom drawer of the main console.

A transparent sealed capsule the size of a thumb cap lay in the corner.

Inside the capsule, a dark silver particle smaller than a sesame seed floated in a vacuum, without luster or thermal radiation.

The passive scanning of the Quantum Radar had no reaction to it, as if it did not exist.

Su Che picked up the sealed capsule, closed the drawer, and tucked it into his inner pocket.

In the holographic projection, Zhou Dehai was still waiting.

"Engineer Zhou, you rest first. I'll come over tomorrow morning."

"Do you know the reason?"

"I have an idea, I need to test it on-site."

The projection cut off.

Su Che leaned back in his chair.

In his pocket, the sealed capsule was next to Lin Waner's small cloth bag.

One contained something that didn't belong to this universe, the other contained a note folded by his wife.

sentry ship arrival countdown, day eighty-two.

Kaitian Base spare factory.

7:00 AM.

The dual-chamber rack of Zhulong No. 2 stood in the center of the factory, and the dark gray coating of the quantum field isolation membrane did not reflect light under the overhead lights.

Su Che walked to the maintenance port of the processing chamber.

"Clear the area, I'll adjust it myself."

Zhou Dehai didn't ask why, signaled all technicians to withdraw, and closed the explosion-proof door.

The factory fell silent.

Su Che took out the sealed capsule, opened the core constraint field maintenance port, aligned the broken seal interface with the injection hole, and pressed it down.

The capsule shattered, and the dark silver particle fell along the hole into the core chamber of the constraint field generator.

There was no light, no sound, and no visible change.

Su Che closed the maintenance port, walked back to the main console, and started the joint debugging.

The dual chambers were powered on, the isolation membrane deployed, and the anti-phase interference cancellation signal was injected.

Inside the processing chamber, liquefaction flow marks began to appear on the surface of a niobium-tungsten alloy raw material rod.

The atoms moved.

The silent "growth" started again.

Su Che stood in front of the console for twenty minutes, confirming that the precision and speed of the dual-chamber parallel output met the standards.

He entered a note in the log: "Core constraint field parameters fine-tuned, fault cleared."

Then he opened the explosion-proof door.

Zhou Dehai was standing outside.

"It's done. The new one is called the New Zhulong, the original one is called the Old Zhulong. Production capacity is doubled, calculate the scheduling yourself."

"What was the reason?"

"There was a slight deviation in the constraint field. I calibrated it manually."

Zhou Dehai stared at the back of Su Che walking away for two seconds, then put on his anti-static cap again and entered the factory.

The joint debugging log on the main console: Dual-chamber parallel, full system green light, output rate twice that of the Old Zhulong.

He crossed out the question mark on the production schedule and wrote three words: New Zhulong.

Pangu Laboratory B2 level, 10:00 AM.

By the time Su Che rushed back from Kaitian Base, Academician Li Zhengyang had already set up the joint debugging environment for global multi-target synchronous strikes in the weapon adaptation area.

Three sets of scaled-down directional energy emission modules were lined up on the test bench, and the data cables for the Quantum Radar locking terminal were pulled all the way from Academician Qian Zhenhua's workstation.

"Three directions, three targets, one million, two million, and three million kilometers."

Academician Li Zhengyang unscrewed the cup lid and placed it on the farthest end of the bench. "The core difficulty is not firing simultaneously, but the flight time difference compensation of the three particle beams at different distances."

"The three-million-kilometer beam flies for ten seconds, the one-million-kilometer beam flies for more than three seconds. If fired at the same time, the hit time difference is nearly seven seconds."

Su Che sat at the main console.

"Then don't fire at the same time. Hit the far one first and the near one later. The main god ai calculates the flight time difference in real-time to make the three beams hit at the same instant."

"I've already opened the interface."

Academician Qian Zhenhua sent a message from the east workstation. "Three-channel lock signals are frequency-divided and output. Each channel is independently entangled with the corresponding navigation particle cluster, without interfering with each other."

"Run."

The simulation environment started.

The three virtual particle beams were fired in reverse order. The three-million-kilometer one went first, two point three seconds later the two-million-kilometer one followed, and after another one point four seconds, the one-million-kilometer one exited the chamber.

On the main screen, three red targets waited at their respective coordinates.

Ten seconds later, the three red dots turned green at the same time.

Time difference: zero.

Su Che entered new parameters: "Add random trajectory changes to targets, acceleration limit 15G."

The three virtual targets began to run around wildly.

After running ten rounds, all hit at the same time, with the maximum deviation not exceeding two picometers.

Academician Sun Qiwen passed by the back row, glanced at the power consumption panel, tapped the side panel of the cabinet with the bottom of his cup, and walked away without saying a word.

The actual instantaneous peak of the three-channel simultaneous strike did not exceed 160 kilowatts.

The staggered firing smoothed out the power peak.

Su Che sealed the ten rounds of test data into the encrypted vault.

Multi-target synchronization, passed.

sentry ship arrival countdown, day eighty-one.

B2 level, 3:00 PM.

All sub-modules of the ultimate version of the directional energy weapon entered the final closed-loop test.

Particle beam space transmission, cross-medium automatic switching, global multi-target synchronous strike, Deep Space Main God AI fire control linkage—the four subsystems were connected in series to run 100 comprehensive confrontation scenarios.

Ninety-three deep space environments, seven cross-medium scenarios, cutting into the planetary atmosphere from a vacuum, with the particle beam automatically switching to laser mode.

The comprehensive hit rate was 98.2%.

Academician Qian Zhenhua finalized the radar joint debugging report.

Academician Li Zhengyang finished dismantling the test cables in the weapon adaptation area, finally remembered the thermos cup he had left for a day, unscrewed the lid, smelled it, and poured it all out.

Su Che packaged the complete technical package, marked it "Pending full-machine adaptation," and pushed it into the encrypted vault.

The blade is sharpened.

It should be finished by tomorrow, and this line can be completely finalized.

He switched out to look at the production line screen of Kaitian Base for a moment.

In the dual-chamber processing room of the New Zhulong, two sets of components were "growing" simultaneously, with silver-gray metal stacking layer by layer in the force field.

The Old Zhulong in the next workshop hadn't stopped either.

With two machines running in parallel, the pressure on the mass production components of the Xuan Nü and the pre-scheduling of the White Emperor was cut in half.

Su Che turned off the screen.

In the corner of the main screen, the sentry ship arrival countdown.

Eighty-one.