Chapter 41: New Charging Method, Infinite Possibilities

Luo Lao's voice echoed in the meeting room.

After a while, the boiling emotions gradually calmed, but everyone's eyes still flickered with uncontainable excitement.

Each function Qin Hao just described is a key, a key to a whole new world.

At that moment, a middle-aged person raised his hand to speak; he was the minister of the National Energy Strategy Department, He Changchun.

"Rote Commissioner, Comrade Qin Hao," He Changchun's voice was a little hoarse, but his thoughts were extraordinarily clear.

"Since the replication function has undergone such a huge change, I want to know whether the system's energy replenishment method has also changed? After all, our future energy demand will be an astronomical figure."

This question instantly pulled everyone's thoughts from fantasizing about the future back to the most fundamental reality.

Exactly, no matter how powerful the function, it still needs energy to drive it.

Before, relying solely on electricity, to fill the system with ten billion Energy Points, the national power grid even opened a special channel just for that.

In the future, we will need to replicate higher-tech targets and some technical data; energy consumption will likely become a bottomless pit.

Everyone's gaze once again focused on Qin Hao.

Qin Hao nodded; he had also noticed this problem just now.

"Minister He is right; the charging method has also been upgraded." He answered calmly.

"Besides the original electricity, six new absorbable energy sources have been added: nuclear blast energy, thermal energy, ray energy, radiation energy, magnetic field energy, and light energy."

The meeting room fell silent for a moment.

The next second, several experts from the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Academy of Science almost simultaneously sprang up from their chairs.

"Nuclear blast energy? Are you saying we can directly absorb the energy produced by a nuclear explosion? This… this how is that possible?"

One expert's face showed an expression of disbelief.

The others were no better, stunned into speechlessness.

However, this matter cannot be verified now, so we can only focus on the other methods.

"Thermal energy?" another expert spoke up.

"Industrial waste heat? Geothermal? Volcanic thermal energy? If we could convert these hard-to-use energy sources… wouldn't that be a free gain?"

"And light energy!"

He Changchun's eyes flashed with astonishing brightness: "Is it sunlight? Then couldn't we lay out several hundred square kilometers of light‑energy receiving arrays on the Gobi Desert? That energy source would be virtually inexhaustible!"

……

The entire meeting room once again fell into heated discussion.

A group of minds standing at the pinnacle of Yanhuang Guo's technological pyramid began to frenziedly revolve around these several new charging methods, devising all kinds of unimaginable yet feasible plans.

"Bring Comrade Xiao Qin to the Taiya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and dedicate a reactor just for him!"

"No! Just put him in the nuclear waste treatment center! Those high‑intensity radiation wastes used to be a hot potato; now they're a gold mine of energy!"

"I think we can do a 'Chase‑the‑Sun' project, sending the receivers into outer space where there's no atmospheric attenuation, to receive solar energy nonstop 24/7!"

Zhang Yunfeng listened to these wild fantasies and couldn't help but laugh:

"Alright, alright, this matter hasn't even begun, yet you've already decided what to call the kid. One by one, let's first hear Xiao Qin finish his words."

Only then did the crowd quiet down, but their flushed faces showed their inner turmoil still raging.

Qin Hao looked at the venerable scientists before him, and a warm current rose in his heart.

He cleared his throat and dropped a bombshell more disruptive than all the previous functions combined.

"Ladies and gentlemen, academicians… in fact, this upgrade also includes an extra piece of information: the system can preview the functions of the next level, that is, version 3.0."

"What?!"

If the earlier news was like detonating a bomb, this sentence is practically detonating a nuclear bomb in the meeting room.

Everyone was left dizzy and blank‑minded.

Preview the next level's functions?

What does that mean?

It means they not only possess the present, but can also peek into the future!

This allows them to plan years, even decades, ahead for the upcoming technological explosion!

Even Luo Lao, who had always been as steady as Mount Tai, showed a barely perceptible pause in his hand holding the teacup.

He lifted his eyes, gazing intensely at Qin Hao; deep within those eyes lay an unprecedented anticipation.

"Xiao Qin, speak up, let us hear it."

Qin Hao met everyone's gaze, feeling his own heartbeat sync with that of everyone present.

He had only just seen that line of explanation himself, and the shock was no less than anyone else's.

He read out the description on the system screen, word by word.

"System version 3.0 will unlock the 'Fantasy Matter Replication' function. It can replicate fictional items that exist in known sci‑fi movies, TV shows, anime, novels, and other artistic works…"

"The energy cost of replication will be comprehensively judged based on the item's feasibility, technological level, and disruptiveness."

His words fell.

It was as if the entire meeting room had been put on mute.

Time froze at that moment.

Academician Qian stared with his mouth agape, eyes wide.

Naval Commander Deng Yuchang shot up to his feet, his eyes storm‑tossed, unconsciously muttering:

"Space battleship… warp drive…"

A chief engineer in the aerospace field jumped up, eyes blazing, speaking incoherently: "Dyson sphere, two‑dimensional foil… this, this…"

Zhang Yunfeng's face twitched slightly from extreme shock.

He glanced at Luo Te beside him, seeing this ever‑composed old partner now staring fixedly at Qin Hao, veins bulging on his clenched fist.

Fantasy shines into reality.

Science fiction becomes possible.

This has already gone beyond the realm of 'technological explosion'; it is directly overturning the table of physics, delivering a mighty, heavy right hook to the face of scientific law.

Iron Man's arc reactor? Star Trek's teleportation technology?

The water droplet from Three-Body?

As long as there is enough energy, all of this will no longer be fantasy.

Qin Hao himself was initially frightened by this information as well.

He had thought he had already witnessed the system's wonders, but only now did he realize how impoverished his previous imagination was.

「Hah…」

After a long while, Luo Lao let out a long breath.

As he slowly loosened his clenched fist and lifted his head again, the shock in his eyes had transformed into something even more fervent.

That was an ambition called 'civilizational leap.'

He did not ask what could be copied, for such examples were endless; he went straight to the core and posed the most crucial question.

「What are the conditions for upgrading to version 3.0? 」

Everyone's breath was held once again.