I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  The fuel rods in the reactor would be able to operate at full power for 12 months. After 12 months, the efficiency of the fuel rods would decrease and the targeted power would not be achieved. At that time, it would be called "spent fuel".

  In other words, after the fuel rods had become spent fuel, the nuclear power plant would then replace the fuel rods. The supply and replacement of these fuel rods would also be carried out by China National Nuclear Corporation, so Chen Chen did not have to worry about this.

  Doing this would also prevent tongues from wagging on an international scale. After all, if nuclear fuel was controlled by a private company, it would easily arouse global suspicion.

  This was because theoretically, highly-enriched uranium could be extracted from these low-enriched uranium rods to perform research on nuclear weapons.

  After sending off the construction team of the nuclear power plant, Chen Chen returned to the nuclear power plant again. When the vehicle was about to pass through the gates, Chen Chen suddenly asked Cheng Cao to stop the car.

  Following that, Chen Chen opened the door and stared quietly at the nuclear power plant nearby.

  "I've finally done it…"

  Chen Chen sighed to himself. From getting the USB flash drive to charging it for the first time and finally up until the completion of the Blacklight Biotechnology Nuclear Power Plant in Namibia — all of these, in Chen Chen's mind, seemed to have happened in a flash, yet it also felt as long as ten years…

  However, in truth, all this had only passed by in two and a half years. If Chen Chen was still in school now, it would only be the end of the second half of junior year, when the internship period of the senior year was about to begin.

  As he gazed at the nuclear power plant standing like a small city on the seashore, Chen Chen narrowed his eyes.

  Now, he had endless money, compared to the past him who had nothing at the time. Even if he put aside the fact that every ten years, there would be eleven families who would send him money, he was still making money every day from the Eco Science City.

  As more time passed, an increasing number of institutions would master the technology of the "Age-reversal treatment". Nonetheless, as the pioneer in this field, Chen Chen had accumulated an abundant amount of capital.

  Even now, with the Eco Science City in addition to the Tara subsidiary, his weekly turnover was growing at the rate of hundreds of millions…

  Although Blacklight Biotechnology had never been listed, Wall Street had valued it to be more than 100 billion USD.

  Therefore, if money was his only goal, Chen Chen was standing on top of the world. Compared with those consortium families, the only thing he lacked was the foundation and the level of accumulation.

  Still, of course, Chen Chen was not yet satisfied.

  He still remembered that when he first obtained the USB drive, he had listed three options for himself: money, power, and strength.

  After asking himself many questions, he had selected the last option without reservations.

  This was because money and power were merely an extension of strength. In other words, money and power were both abstract, illusory products.

  Only strength was real and solid.

  As he thought of this, Chen Chen's originally bewildered eyes gradually regained calmness. He once again looked toward the busy employees in the nuclear power plant and a thoughtful smile raised the corners of his mouth.

  Now. it was time for him to pursue a new strength…

  With this in mind, Chen Chen got into the car again. As the Wrangler's engine roared to life, the security guard at the nuclear power plant opened the gate at once and let the Wrangler drive in.

  The Jeep Wrangler moved directly to the booster substation in the nuclear power plant where the electricity would ultimately pass through.

  The booster substation was connected to the external high-voltage transmission tower. The electricity from the nuclear power station was boosted here, then sent to the high-voltage transmission tower.

  Even so, back when the nuclear power plant was designed, Chen Chen had asked the designer to build the substation as a huge building, like a warehouse.

  Now, Chen Chen came directly to the substation and immediately saw that the employees of the substation were standing outside the door with a stupefied expression, watching a group of cloned fighters enter and exit.

  These cloned fighters, under Little X's control, were renovating and transforming the substation into an environment that would better suit Chen Chen's needs.

  "Boss, Boss Chen?"

  The employees were the China National Nuclear Corporation employees whom Chen Chen had rented. The leader of the team had memorized Chen Chen's license plate number long ago and immediately came forward. "Boss Chen, why are you here?"

  "Substations are the central hub of nuclear power plants, after all. Of course, I had to take a look."

  Chen Chen got out of the car, took out a few personnel assignment letters he had prepared, and handed them to everyone. "You're all high-end talents in the nuclear industry. The work of managing a substation is really a waste of your skills. I have arranged new jobs for you. Just leave this place to this group of people."

  "Okay, sure…"

  The leader dared not ask too many questions and could only agree before he quickly led his team away.

  After sending these people away, Chen Chen walked into the booster substation in high spirits.

  After the Black Knights renovated the place, the substation had undergone tremendous changes by now. It was like a small factory with numerous facilities. At the core of the substation, there was a huge metal room.

  The metal room was a square space with side-lengths of 10 meters. The entire structure was made of an alloy, which had high protective abilities and corrosion resistance. There were even lead plates in the interlayer of the walls.

  These protections were for the sake of preventing any mishaps.

  Outside the room, a bulky circuit was fixed onto the wall. As long as the power was turned on, the electricity from the entire nuclear power plant would flow through this spot. After boosting, it would be channeled into the high-voltage transmission tower and sent to thousands of households.

  Therefore, this place was also the most effective area for intercepting electricity.

  Chapter 186: Superconductive Charging Device |

  After a series of authentication steps, Chen Chen finally entered the tightly secured main control room in the center of the substation.

  However, unlike the extremely complicated situation outside, there were only a few seats in the main control room and a radiation isolation glove box.

  This glove box was rather similar to a biological safety cabinet. Both were apparatuses by which one could manipulate and operate items within an isolated compartment by putting their hands into the gloves.

  For example, if Chen Chen put the computer and the USB drive into the isolation glove box, he would only need to put his hands into the gloves of the box to then take out items from the movies directly within the chamber. He would not have to go to the trouble of putting on an entire nuclear protective suit, like when he did to extract crystalline.

  This would be used to deal with radioactive items.

  In addition, the entire main control room was protected by armor up to half a meter thick. Even if someone outside wanted to break in, it would be extremely difficult. If they succeeded, Chen Chen could trap the source of danger within the secret chamber to prevent it from breaking out…

  This was a form of double preparation.

  The core equipment of the main control room was a superconductive charging device that was the height of two individuals and shaped like a freezer.

  The core of this device was a piece of yttrium barium copper oxide superconductor. This was a high-temperature superconductor that maintained a temperature of 77K by using liquid nitrogen, thereby realizing the physical effect of zero resistance.

  Of cour
se, a "high-temperature superconductor" did not refer to a high temperature of several hundred degrees or thousands of degrees but rather, a superconductor with a temperature greater than 77K (-196 degrees Celsius). As long as it could reach the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen, it could be called a high-temperature superconductor.

  This device was here as part of Chen Chen's preparations for charging the USB drive.

  In the beginning, Chen Chen had used copper ingots as a connector for charging. However, as the charging equipment evolved, the current had been getting higher and higher, and ordinary metals could no longer hold up.

  For example, copper and silver — these two metals were the most conductive substances in physics. Nonetheless, the melting point of copper was only 1083.4 degrees Celsius while the melting point of silver was even lower, only 961.78 degrees Celsius.

  When Chen Chen inserted the USB drive for charging, these metal pieces were likely to melt due to the high current.

  Once the metal melted and the USB drive was disconnected, the immense current would have nowhere to go in an instant. This would have been catastrophic for the nuclear power plant.

  Therefore, Chen Chen came up with the idea of using a superconducting device as a connector.

  Using a superconducting device as the USB drive's interface would not only eliminate the risk of melting the connector due to the excessive current but also reduce some of the original wear and tear. This was like killing two birds with one stone.

  In the substation, Chen Chen waited for a while. When Little X sent an update saying that the substation had been completely renovated, Chen Chen walked into the main control room alone and locked the door.

  Following that, Chen Chen took out the USB drive and inserted it into the port of the superconducting device.

  After he did all this, Chen Chen looked at the large power switch at the controls and held it gently.

  "Success or failure, it's all up to this moment…"

  Chen Chen murmured in a low voice. While speaking, he decisively pulled up the power switch.

  "Buzz!"

  There was the buzzing of the electric current. The main control room of the substation formally took over the electric current from the nuclear power station. In an instant, the massive electric current was directly transmitted to the superconducting device and quickly surged into the USB drive!

  At this moment, the entire superconducting device was fully operational and it emitted a deep loud hum.

  Even so, this situation was different from the way things were at the Eiffel Power Plant. Due to the superconducting device, the input current did not go through any wastage, to say nothing of the corona phenomenon.

  The only difference was that the USB drive seemed to have changed color slightly.

  Chen Chen raised his eyebrows.

  With the influx of the huge electric current, the USB drive glimmered faintly with a scarlet hue.

  The scarlet glow seemed to pulse as if it was breathing or it was an unidentified substance that was squirming ceaselessly.

  Chen Chen was familiar with this sight.

  Back when Chen Chen was drawing power at the Eiffel Power Plant in the Rainbow Nation, this special phenomenon had occurred to the USB flash drive. Even so, once the power supply was stopped, this phenomenon would disappear.

  No matter how Chen Chen examined it later, he could not detect any changes including physical and conceptual changes.

  In the end, Chen Chen could only attribute it to the magnitude of the current. This phenomenon would occur when the USB drive had received a certain amount of current.

  If he interpreted this phenomenon as something like an LED indicator, it would make sense.

  Chen Chen could not help thinking that it was just like when a person was charging a mobile phone. There would be a "charging" indicator on the phone's screen. Now, this scarlet light meant that the USB drive was "charging".

  The red light had not appeared during previous instances of charging because the previous current was too small for the USB flash drive. It was like a mere trickle. Therefore, the USB drive could not be bothered to provide any response.

  Of course, all this was just Chen Chen's conjecture.

  If Chen Chen was right, then the question was — if the USB drive was fully charged, what would happen?

  Chen Chen could not help but look pensive when he thought of this.

  This strange, magical USB drive had shattered everything that humans understood up to this point. Chen Chen had flipped through countless books but could not decipher the USB drive.

  If Chen Chen was forced to come up with his own theory, he would say that the USB drive was a key that could unlock a parallel universe.

  The so-called parallel universe was just a theory, which originated from quantum mechanics.

  According to Everett's theory of the multiverse, the entire universe was multitudinous and parallel universes were similar but non-identical universes that split out of a certain universe while existing in parallel with the original universe.

  In these universes, there might be planets that were the same as the planet inhabited by humans or planets with the same history or even people who were exactly the same as humans.

  At the same time, in these different universes, the development of events might have different results. There were endless things that could have gone differently, so there were endless parallel universes as well…

  The advantage of this theory of the multiverse was that, whether it was the "double-slit experiment" or an experiment such as "Schrodinger's cat", things could be explained. This was because the Schrodinger equation would always hold true and the wave function would never collapse.

  The problem with this was: the assumption was too bizarre and the tradeoff was that all these parallel worlds would be equally real. Therefore, some people commented that: in the history of science, the multiverse theory was undoubtedly the most daring and ambitious theory that had been proposed currently.

  This was not only in quantum mechanics but also at the forefront of today's scientific community. The unified theory, M-theory, which claimed to be able to completely unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, also predicted the existence of parallel universes.

  Of course, it was almost impossible to prove all this with the current level of technology.

  Today, modern science was still using "black hole" photos to confirm Einstein's vision. In other words, no matter how great a physicist was, it would take a hundred years to verify their conjecture.

  After all, whether it was superstring theory or M-theory, these frontiers where physicists congregated could only be verified in the subatomic field.

  Therefore, although M-theory had achieved many results and although Witten was considered to be on par with Newton in terms of capability, there was no way for his theory to be verified during his lifetime. It could only be regarded by the world as the quintessence of idealistic science, doubted and questioned by countless people.

  Many people often said that physics had not made any progress for many years, but was this the case?

  No, cutting-edge physics had been advancing all this while from special relativity to general relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, superstring theory, and up until the current M-theory...

  Cutting-edge physics was constantly being renewed but no one knew whether these new theories would be the next theory of relativity that would change the course of the world a hundred years later or a useless piece of waste paper...

  Chapter 187: The USB Drive Transforms |

  Twenty days had passed in the blink of an eye.

  Since the completion of the nuclear power plant, purchase orders from Namibia had poured down like rain. The City Hall officials of several coastal cities were practically breaking down the doors of Blacklight Biotechnology.

  However, Chen Chen did not accept any orders because the nuclear power plant was temporarily in trial operation.

  Within
the nuclear power plant, two nuclear reactors with a power of one million kilowatts were running all day long, constantly sending electricity into the substation, but this electricity was not delivered to the high-voltage transmission tower.

  No one knew where all this electricity was going…

  In the main control room of the substation, Chen Chen was not standing next to the USB flash drive because he had noticed that the red light on the USB was flashing more and more rapidly.

  This had started thirteen days ago.

  The past seven days, the USB drive had only displayed a slow flickering while it was charging as if it was breathing or its heart was beating.

  However, after Chen Chen had charged the USB drive for seven days, all of this changed.

  Currently, the red light of the USB drive had grown brighter, turning from a dark red to a brilliant scarlet, to the point that it was even a little blinding.

  Not only that but this red light was still flashing incessantly. Its frequency was several times faster than before and as more time passed, its speed kept increasing.

  In this manner, twenty days had passed in a flash.

  According to the power output of the entire power plant, Chen Chen could obtain 48 million kWh of electricity every day. Even if there was some wastage, there would still be 45 million kWh. With a period of twenty days, plus the electricity accumulated on the Blacklight Cruise, the power in Chen Chen's USB drive was extremely close to one billion kWh.

  Moreover, in addition to the abnormalities of the USB flash drive that were constantly appearing, Chen Chen had a hunch that, when the power in the USB drive reached one billion, some unexpected change would occur.

  Therefore, on the last night of the twenty days, Chen Chen had dispatched all the Black Knights to the substation and equipped them with weapons for defense.

  Meanwhile, Chen Chen left the nuclear power plant and came to the Spire.

  At this distance, even if the USB drive full of one billion kWh of electricity were to explode on the spot, it would not reach this far.

  Perhaps this sort of precaution was a little ridiculous but Chen Chen had no other means of dealing with this.