I have to say, this New Year's Eve celebration was a tremendous success.

The previously subdued atmosphere across the entire camp became lively almost overnight, and the tense nerves of the members were significantly eased.

The most direct effect of these two points was that most of the researchers saw a substantial improvement in their quality of sleep.

The number of times people got up at night, detected by public area infrared cameras, also decreased significantly—apart from being related to kidney function, getting up at night also has some connection to personal anxiety levels.

The next day.

As the local calendar flipped a new page, the Damo Realm welcomed another daylight.

Coincidentally.

The time when the light gate first appeared was the dawn of July 19, 2022, and when the rabbits arrived in the Damo Realm, it was around 2/7 of a Damo Day.

July, August, October, and December are all big months, each having the 31st.

Therefore, January 1, 2023, the local New Year's Day, also happened to coincide with a new round of daylight in the Damo Realm.

As the new sun rose.

The entire Fire Camp, like a supercar that had been maintained, roared joyfully again.

There is an old saying at home: happiness refreshes the spirit.

Similarly, when people are in high spirits, they often encounter happy events.

Today's camp is just like that.

As Lin Li just entered the command center to handle documents, Hua Jun, who was responsible for defense talisman research, and weaponry expert Tang Pin came looking for him together:

"Old Lin, we have some good news."

Lin Li looked at the two experts who were full of joy—especially Hua Jun, whose Sun Xiaochuan's face at this moment was extremely excited, and instantly realized something:

"What, has there been a major breakthrough in some technology again?"

Hearing this, Hua Jun and Tang Pin exchanged a glance, and finally, Hua Jun said:

"That's right, our defense system has achieved a whole new significant outcome.

Old Lin, do you remember the most lethal threat listed in our summarized items?"

Lin Li nodded, almost without needing to recall, and said:

"Of course, I remember, it's the uncontrollability of Nascent Soul Realm cultivation in hostile conditions."

The Nascent Soul Realm is currently known to be the highest existing realm.

The abilities of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators have been introduced previously, and will not be repeated here.

In short.

Nascent Soul Realm cultivators are basically the prototype of ultimate single-soldier weaponry, the traditional concept of terrestrial immortals.

Although the rabbits have not yet had direct contact with Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, nor have they clearly defined hostile Nascent Soul forces.

In the risk list, there is no doubt that the Nascent Soul Realm is a must-consider, and also the most threatening group.

If on the front battlefield, rabbits are willing to pay a relatively high price, there is actually quite a bit of certainty in limiting or even eliminating Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

But this is only under ideal conditions, and there is an undeniable situation...

Once a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator sneaks into the rabbits' defenses or cities, the means used on the front battlefield will essentially be ineffective.

And the Nascent Soul Realm can unleash power like a dragon entering the sea, playing to their maximum potential, thus causing immeasurable losses.

For instance.

If ten Nascent Soul Realm cultivators attacked from afar at the same time, and the rabbits managed to limit and kill nine of them.

But as long as one infiltrates the camp, it basically means that the defense system will be completely ineffective.

Unless the entire defense infrastructure or city is abandoned, using extreme measures to perish along with the threat, it's possible to resolve this major threat.

In doing so, the rabbits would suffer unimaginable losses, and the moral outrage that would ensue could not be avoided.

In fact, the core layer's concerns go beyond this.

The core also contemplated the extreme scenario of a Nascent Soul rushing through the light gate to reach home—which for a plan prepared for extraterrestrial invasions, it is indeed standard practice.

However, the likelihood of this scenario is relatively low, so it is not a particularly pressing task that needs solving.

Therefore, the Fire Camp's main focus is still on constraining or even eliminating Nascent Soul with single-soldier weaponry, as it is not far-fetched to mention that after Hua Xiaomo's birth, there is a fourth-tier whose allegiance is unknown.

But speaking of single-soldier constraints on Nascent Soul, while it is easy to say, it is extremely challenging to achieve.

The currently known directions are only a few:

Ultra-miniature controlled nuclear fusion modules, space-based weapons, laser weapons, electromagnetic cannons, or breakthroughs in Spiritual Energy technology.

About a month ago, the core layer had decided to transport an R21 electromagnetic cannon to the Damo Realm, which should arrive in about three months.

While R21 is significantly inferior to R29, theoretically, it can threaten the Nascent Soul Realm as an ultimate weapon.

However, the coil area of R21 occupies as much as 0.64 square kilometers, and its energy consumption is another issue.

With the currently immature local electromagnetic cannon technology, the R21 can probably only fire once or twice before exhausting its power.

But regardless of its one-time nature, it is still currently the lowest cost, least polluting effective monolithic weapon.

But judging from Hua Jun and Tang Pin's expressions now...

It seems like a certain technology has had a new breakthrough?

Lin Li's bald head quickly processed the information:

The probability of controlled nuclear fusion breakthrough can be said to be zero, and space-based weapons are essentially out of the question—since satellites haven't even been launched yet.

So, there might be only three possibilities:

A breakthrough in laser weaponry, solving electromagnetic cannon energy with Spiritual Energy, or new applications in Spiritual Energy technology.

Yet, Hua Jun and Tang Pin absolutely would not tell Lin Li the actual situation, insisting that he must go to the site.

Thus, Lin Li had to obediently follow the two weapon academicians to a military base more than ten kilometers away.

After a complex procedure, he was brought to a range similar to the one previously used to test the 12.7mm Spiritual Energy armor-piercing shell.

Upon arrival, Lin Li looked at Hua Jun with a face of helplessness and said:

"Academician Hua, can you explain to me now?"

This time, Hua Jun didn't keep him in suspense, his Adam's apple moved twice as he organized his words and said to Lin Li:

"Old Lin, do you remember the barrier we discovered around the ice coffin before?"

Lin Li blinked, recalling for a moment:

"Oh, you mean the Helium-Ferro microcrystals?"

"Exactly."

Hua Jun nodded heavily, then drew a hexagon with his forefinger in the air and continued:

"Helium-Ferro microcrystals are a hexagonal ultra-small crystal.

Although it's named as one kind of substance, in reality, its crystal volume is smaller than the molecules in the air.

When it decomposes, it generates di-helium, achieving an extremely strong defensive effect.

Moreover, this substance has a feature that as long as there is energy injected, it can indefinitely cycle the process of synthesis and decomposition, unless the helium and ferro ions are consumed by other ions.

According to our calculations, even a 30mm armor-piercing shell and steel needle bullets can't breach the barrier in the slightest.

High-energy rays can't deal with it in a non-ionic state either, so it's a definite defense against Nascent Soul and even higher levels."

Lin Li hesitated for a few seconds, furrowing his brow:

"I'm aware of this information, but isn't it very difficult to prepare Helium-Ferro?

I remember it requires millions of atmospheric pressures, right? Which equates to tens of thousands times that of Venus's surface pressure?

Additionally, we can't provide the cyclic energy, so even if we synthesize Helium-Ferro microcrystals, it's just an empty shell that shatters at the slightest touch."

As Lin Li said.

After understanding the composition and properties of Helium-Ferro, synthesizing a small amount of it through laboratory means is not difficult.

After all, as long as you have enough money, you can simulate even 14 million atmospheric pressures.

But the artificial synthesis cost of Helium-Ferro is just too high, only usable for micro-research with little reference value.

Lin Li had previously inquired about it with Academic Zhang Mu from the chemistry team, receiving a reply that the synthesis cost of one cubic centimeter of Helium-Ferro crystal was over three million.

And that was for pure substance preparation without cyclic reactions.

Faced with Lin Li's question, Hua Jun didn't deny but explained:

"Indeed, under normal circumstances, we can't provide enough energy for its sustained reaction, which also incidentally proves the speculation about the vacuum zero-point energy within the ice coffin.

However, coincidentally, Old Tang's team has considered how the armor-piercing bullets achieve greater acceleration, haven't they?"

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