Assembly was a task Fang Er hadn't personally handled in a long time.
With a file tucked into his belt, he picked up one part after another, fitting them together as Li Tai had instructed.
Any slight deviation, and he'd pull out the file and file it down.
A high-power vacuum cleaner sat nearby, sucking away filings and debris before they could even fall.
"Screeeech..."
"Screeeech..."
"Screeeech..."
The grating sound of the file against metal echoed through the research lab.
Since he'd started, others had begun to arrive one after another.
Fortunately, the research lab was spacious, with a front chamber and rear bay, nearly four hundred square meters, with no internal walls except for pillars.
Fang Er continued his work, while the onlookers held their breath, none daring to disturb him.
Li Tai assisted him, passing him the next part as soon as Fang Er finished assembling one.
He also pointed out the installation location and data requirements.
This pile of junk was so painstakingly assembled that it wasn't finished until three in the morning.
Fang Er spat out the butt of his cigarette, stood up, and stretched.
Damn it, he'd been hoping to go back to sleep in a warm bed, but now it looked like that was out of the question!
He grabbed something to eat to fill his stomach and then returned to his work.
While he was busy, none of the over three hundred people involved in the project had left either.
Motorola had installed cameras around the workbench, and the footage was recorded, magnified, and projected onto a screen outside the research lab.
The project personnel gathered in front of the screen, watching his every move, ready to point out any mistakes immediately.
Time ticked by, and the parts, under Fang Er's hands, gradually came together, revealing their form.
The object's appearance was quite strange.
It resembled a sundial, but much larger, with several modifications.
A disc with a diameter of four meters, about eighty centimeters thick.
A cylinder fifteen centimeters in diameter and five meters long was inserted diagonally into it.
At the top of the cylinder was a sphere with a diameter of fifty centimeters.
"Click!"
As he fastened the last cover plate, all assembly work was completed.
The sky outside had already brightened, with the orange sun casting its rays through the windows.
Fang Er unconsciously shielded his eyes and turned his head to look at Li Tai.
"What's next?"
"Hehehehe, to borrow Old Yuan's words, next is the moment of witnessing a miracle!"
Li Tai excitedly waved his hand at the others.
"All personnel, transport the equipment to the testing ground!"
"Notify them: clear a fifty-kilometer radius!"
Fang Er: ??????
"What the hell did you say?"
Clear fifty kilometers!
How big an explosion would this thing cause?
That radius was comparable to a small nuclear bomb!
Li Tai, oblivious, scratched his head and chuckled.
"It was always thirty kilometers before. Since you assembled it yourself, Your Highness, I'm worried about any potential accidents."
Fang Er: ..........
For ease of transfer, the workbench had wheels. After unlocking them, it was directly pushed outside.
Eight gold dredging ships slowly drifted over, lifting the "sundial" from different directions and flying it out of the research institute.
Fang Er was very curious, what exactly was this thing used for!
So, he asked for a gold dredging ship and followed along.
The testing ground was located in a dense forest northwest of Eight-Claw Lake.
Even before reaching the destination, they could see trees in the distance all tilted and fallen, as if ravaged by a typhoon.
At the center, the ground was also pockmarked with craters, the largest exceeding two hundred meters in diameter and tens of meters deep!
Anyone would believe this was a nuclear bomb testing site!
That thing?
He hadn't found anything suspicious during assembly...
Could it really have such power?
As he stood there with a face full of questions, the "sundial" was placed in an open area.
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
"You lost, go install it!"
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
"You lost, go with him!"
"........."
Hovering in mid-air, listening to the voices from below, he looked down.
It turned out that Li Tai's Gaussian disciples had also arrived at some point.
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Damn it, it was comparable to Chongzhen's method of selecting Grand Secretaries!
"Chancellor, your altitude isn't safe enough. For this distance, it needs to be at least three thousand meters up!"
Li Tai's voice came through the walkie-talkie at his waist.
Fang Er felt like a country bumpkin entering the city for the first time...
He could now understand what Li Shimin felt when he saw firearms!
It was utterly bewildering!
He controlled the gold dredging ship, ascending in place until it stopped above three thousand meters.
Using a telescope, he watched the people below fussing with the "sundial," and then a series of voices came through the walkie-talkie.
"Angle calibration complete!"
"Light collector normal!"
"Condenser normal!"
"Power generation system normal!"
"Energy storage bay on standby!"
"Magnetic field pre-start frequency is within limits!"
"............"
"System startup complete!"
"Predator Photon Generator Project Zero One, Thirty-Third Experiment, ready!"
"All personnel withdraw!"
"Ten seconds to countdown!"
Hearing this, Fang Er was struck as if by lightning!
Holy hell!
Photon generator?
What Li Tai had said before, about the relationship between magnetic fields and light particles, meant this?
This was truly...
Fang Er took a deep breath and raised his hover altitude again.
Particles...
In the 21st century, how many scientific research superpowers had spent astronomical sums to build experimental bases to capture these things!
Yet the results were minimal.
How dare he!
Looking at the surrounding environment, Fang Er's mind was overwhelmed by ten thousand mythical beasts roaring through it at this moment!
Not only that, but their sheep-like faces wore eerie smiles!
Damn it...
Is it too late to stop now?
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
"Activate!"
As the countdown ended, Li Tai's final command came through the walkie-talkie.
"Buzz.........."
Fang Er felt the air around him suddenly jolt.
Not only that, but he also felt an unusual sensation on his body.
His scalp tingled, and the hairs on his body stood on end, as if entering an electric field.
He picked up the telescope and looked towards the testing ground.
He saw that the gray sphere at the top of the sundial had disappeared! KANDH
No, in the image fed back by his brainwaves, the sphere was still there!
But his eyes couldn't see it!
All the light around the sphere had vanished!
It was like pitch-black night, where one couldn't see their hand in front of their face!
"Report, Predator Photon Generator activated successfully!"
"Report energy storage capacity!"
"Yes, repeat the command, report energy storage capacity!"
"Remaining capacity 97%........"
"63%........"
"34%........"
"11%........"
"Shut down!"
"Yes, repeat the command....."
Repeating the command was to prevent mishearing and making operational errors, a very normal procedure.
But Li Tai suddenly interrupted the operator irritably.
"Repeat your ass, shut it down quickly, it's going to explode!"