Chapter 101: Are You Guys Really This Brave?

The researcher's words successfully piqued Ye Cang's curiosity.

Something preserved at a temperature near absolute zero?

What could that be?

Before Ye Cang could even go to take a look at that object.

The researcher spoke again: "This thing was dismantled when we were taking apart the Taotie Main Battleship; there was only one such item on the entire Main Capital Ship."

"After we dismantled it, we did a little research on it, but for some reason, its properties suddenly became unstable."

"With no other choice, we could only temporarily seal it away using temperatures near absolute zero."

"However, I don't know what happened these past few days, but even the low temperature can no longer contain it. It has become increasingly unstable, and not knowing what to do, we had no choice but to notify you."

Ye Cang nodded after hearing this account from the researcher.

He then couldn't wait to look through the glass at the object inside the small room.

He saw that in the small room behind the glass, there was a small pedestal, and on the pedestal sat an inconspicuous black sphere.

(It was never stated what the Ferocious Tide looks like, so I just made it up.)

At this moment, there was a crack about the thickness of a hair on that black sphere.

Through that fissure, Ye Cang clearly sensed the presence of antimatter within the sphere.

In an instant, Ye Cang's expression completely lost its composure.

Damn it, that is the Taotie's Ferocious Tide!

It is that very Anti-matter Bomb rumored to be able to knock Earth out of its original orbit with just ten of them.

Looking at the Ferocious Tide, Ye Cang swallowed hard.

Why would the Ferocious Tide appear here, and why was this Ferocious Tide cut open with a fissure!

Are researchers these days really this brave!

They actually dared to cut a fissure into the Ferocious Tide!

Do they not know how much energy is released by matter-antimatter annihilation?

If this Ferocious Tide were to explode, I fear that everyone in the entire Beizhixing, except for myself and those Second Generation Super Soldiers, would be finished.

Thinking of this, a fine layer of cold sweat had already appeared on Ye Cang's forehead.

He turned his head, wanting to say something to the researcher, but after thinking about it, he ultimately said nothing.

After all, the researchers didn't know what the Ferocious Tide was, nor did they know it was an Anti-matter Bomb; this couldn't be blamed on them. If anyone was to blame, it was his own carelessness for not thoroughly inspecting the Taotie Main Battleship at the time.

But then again, he truly hadn't expected that there would be a Ferocious Tide inside the Taotie Main Battleship.

What kind of serious alien vanguard force invading Earth brings Anti-matter Bombs with them!

Seriously!!

Meanwhile, the researcher on the side watched Ye Cang's expression go from losing composure to becoming calm again, and couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled.

What exactly was that black sphere that it could make Chief Engineer Ye's expression become so rich?

Surely, it must be a good thing!

The truly curious researcher couldn't help but ask Ye Cang.

"Chief Engineer Ye, what is that black sphere? I saw that after you saw the black sphere, you just..."

Ye Cang made a shushing gesture, interrupting the researcher's words.

Immediately, he swiftly employed his Quantum Control.

The next second, under the researcher's gaze, the Ferocious Tide on the pedestal vanished.

Only then did Ye Cang breathe a sigh of relief.

The researcher, however, was full of astonishment.

"Hey, no, Chief Engineer Ye, did you see that sphere? It vanished into thin air!"

"This, what is going on!"

Ye Cang said without looking back: "It's nothing, you don't need to worry about it. By the way, you still don't know what that black sphere is, right?"

"Uh, yeah." The researcher nodded vigorously. "I really don't know. After we cut this sphere open, we felt something was wrong and immediately sealed it away in low temperature."

Hearing this, Ye Cang turned around and patted the researcher on the shoulder.

"I have to say, you guys are really lucky; it didn't explode after you cut the Ferocious Tide!" Ye Cang said.

"That black sphere is called the Ferocious Tide; it is an Anti-matter Bomb and belongs to the Taotie's strategic-level weapons."

"It has two methods of use: one is to launch it at sub-light speed, and the other is to excite it into a beam."

"This thing is a huge crisis; ten of them could blast Earth out of its original orbit."

(The two methods of using the Ferocious Tide are still made up.)

When he said this, Ye Cang sighed lightly.

When he said the researchers were lucky, he definitely wasn't just saying it casually.

You must know, although the outer shell of the Ferocious Tide is normal metal, the interior contains an extremely powerful Magnetic Confinement device.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Magnetic Confinement device that the antimatter did not undergo an annihilation reaction with the matter.

And that cut the researchers made, which sliced open the metal shell and incidentally damaged the Magnetic Confinement device—normally, an annihilation reaction would occur immediately.

But it didn't.

Instead, it even gave the researchers enough time to cryogenically freeze the Ferocious Tide, causing the molecular motion of the antimatter to nearly stop.

If this isn't good luck, what is!

As for why this Ferocious Tide had become increasingly unstable over the last few days, that was because although the low temperature caused the antimatter molecules to nearly stop moving.

It was, after all, only "nearly"; in reality, they were still moving, and the matter-antimatter annihilation reaction had already occurred; the low temperature only delayed the speed at which the annihilation reaction took place.

Fortunately, I didn't get too entangled with Di Leina today and arrived at the Underground Base in time.

Otherwise, it might not be long before the entire Beizhixing is gone.

He must learn his lesson from this!

If that really happened, the enemy wouldn't have done anything to him, but he would have ended up having his own teammates blow up his own home.

He would surely be the perfect negative example, nailed to the pillar of shame by future generations for all eternity!

Just then, the researcher who heard that the sphere they had cut open was an Anti-matter Bomb began to sigh incessantly.

"Oh my, that was actually an Anti-matter Bomb!" the researcher said with a look of regret.

"If I had known it was like this, I wouldn't have cut it!"

"We should have studied it properly to see if we could replicate a few; if we could replicate them, we would definitely give those alien bastards a surprise!"

As the researcher spoke, they let out a long sigh.

The look of regret on their face grew even heavier.

Ye Cang didn't even glance at the researcher and said indifferently, "Replicate an Anti-matter Bomb?"

"The idea is good, but it's not realistic at all, not to mention whether we have the capability to build one."

"Just look at the cost of this Anti-matter Bomb; extracting one gram of Antimatter requires 6.5 quadrillion USD, and the Antimatter in one Fierce Tide is about 7 to 10 grams."

"That means it requires 65 quadrillion USD, plus the construction of the Magnetic Confinement device and other expenses, bringing the final cost of one Anti-matter Bomb to over 10 quadrillion USD."

"I'm afraid that after a few Anti-matter Bombs, the whole world would go bankrupt!"

"And this Anti-matter Bomb is about the same to the Taotie as our nuclear bombs are to us."