Chapter 778: Copying the Ser

Upon hearing Lin Mo explain that it wasn’t a fuel-saving valve, Captain Pan breathed a sigh of relief. However, he still didn’t understand what kind of force field device it was, despite having watched the variable wings fighter jet come together piece by piece.

When the fighter jet first started its engine, he felt as if he were dreaming. Once it soared into the sky for the first time, Old Pan finally realized it was real—not a dream.

Even so, he couldn’t comprehend just how much incredible high-tech it contained. Perhaps it was simply too much, more than he could count, and he couldn’t imagine how advanced a fighter jet capable of exceeding 5 Mach might actually be.

The food Captain Pan brought was quickly devoured by Lin Mo, who seemed to sweep it away like a gust of wind. After inspecting the hangar, Captain Pan finally let Lin Mo off the hook for being an incompetent deputy leader.

After heading to the canteen for a gourmet meal, Lin Mo made a round at the base’s storage department before returning to his dorm room.

The rooms in the underground base were surrounded by walls. Although there were no windows, the ventilation was excellent, and its confidentiality and safety levels were reliable.

The base boasted a specially designed artificial natural mimicry space, quite spacious, with carefully maintained plants and artificial suns providing a self-sustaining ecological environment. Even if the surface was at the center of a nuclear explosion, this vast, solid underground base could still achieve self-sufficiency and isolation from the outside world.

Returning from the storage department, Lin Mo had acquired a square silver box.

This silver box, about the size of a 19-inch display screen, featured a combination of a password lock and a fingerprint lock, ensuring that only Lin Mo could open it correctly. Moreover, even a nearby machine gun spray might not be able to damage the contents inside.

The box maintained a vacuum-sealed environment, ensuring its airtightness while being fireproof, waterproof, electric shock-resistant, and magnetic field-proof, with the outer layer of material even impervious to X-rays.

Just the box itself was quite valuable, but it paled in comparison to its contents.

With a faint beep, the LED lights at the four corners of the box flashed green, and the built-in locking mechanism activated, emitting several sounds reminiscent of escaping air.

Perhaps considering the environment when opened, several thin light strips inside the box illuminated, providing some lighting, which was very thoughtful.

Removing a thin, translucent wax paper, Lin Mo’s eyes fell upon a hexagonal metallic block glimmering with a faint golden hue, nestled in a velvet-lined compartment. The surface was covered with a honeycomb-patterned shell.

In the center, a row of letters processed with metallic brushing read: Searl-Effect Generator, with the model number SEG-KXNR0882 below.

Underneath the model label, there was a monochrome LCD screen about four inches in size, five control ports, and four buttons including a TEST button.

Perhaps considering the stress it would undergo, the hexagonal casing of the Ser engine was incredibly sturdy, even suitable for use as a stress node.

Much to his surprise, despite its small size, it was quite hefty, weighing around 50 kilograms. He initially thought the box contributed much of the weight, but it was the inside contents that really packed on the pounds. Its defense capabilities would likely rival those of the box itself.

Turning to the back, Lin Mo discovered a plaque embedded with technical parameters, indicating the manufacturer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, abbreviated as ORNL, with the serial number 0000017.

This suggested that only a few dozen of this specification were likely produced, making it almost insignificant in terms of quantity, or simply impossible to mass-produce, which explained why it required such exorbitant credits to acquire.

No wonder the Chinese Government and military had shown little interest in this trophy Lin Mo obtained. Given the current level of precision and material research in the country, even with complete blueprints and formulas, they couldn’t create such an extraordinary device, even with all their efforts.

Its technical difficulty was equivalent to an atomic bomb for an ordinary person.

At the bottom of the box was a thin application technical manual, suggesting that for the sake of technical protection, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was reluctant to provide extensive technological secrets to those who received this device, allowing it to be seen merely as a basic preliminary anti-gravity mechanism and energy system.

Lin Mo pressed the TEST button, feeling a shift in his hand as something gathered in the hexagonal object, the Ser engine. A subtle energy field began to radiate outward.

The LCD screen displayed rising output power and anti-gravity coefficients, stabilizing only when it reached a certain balance, continuously adjusting within a thousandth of a range.

As Lin Mo released the button, the SEG-KXNR0882 Ser engine seemed to float before him, slowly swirling in a random pattern with the airflow in the room as if it had lost gravity.

This was merely a testing function, demonstrating its most basic effects, energy output, and anti-gravity effects. If the TEST button weren’t pressed again, it might just continue to float indefinitely until the end of time.

Perhaps the various planets in the universe are like Ser engines that forgot to press the TEST button, endlessly drifting in the vast void of space.

“Ha ha, Coin Gold, doesn’t this thing resemble your Gold Element Dragon Kin?” Lin Mo mused, marveling at this peculiar scientific device floating in mid-air, feeling a strange sense of weightlessness.

If he hadn’t confirmed this was his first time opening it, he might truly believe that the gold giant dragon had secretly snuck inside.

“Hmm! This is truly fascinating!”

The voice of the gold giant dragon echoed in the room, showing no hint of questioning whether Lin Mo’s words might belittle the dragon kin.

A silver flash appeared, and Lin Mo felt a lightness on his left wrist.

Lin Mo knew that Coin Gold couldn’t wait to dive into the device.

The Ser engine trembled slightly in mid-air for a moment, continuing to roll in an irregular manner. Aside from the airflow, Earth’s magnetic field also had some influence on it, but a special balancing device kept it stationary, preventing it from fluttering about.

“It’s pushing fine sand! It operates under some unique rules, emitting a strange force field similar to Void Magnetism, but not based on the same principle. It’s marvelous that the humans in this world managed to invent this, and there’s magic silver, hmm, and plastic too. I can’t analyze it further, but I can substitute it with Coin Gold. The structure is quite simple, and I can give it a try.”

The voice of the gold giant dragon emerged from the Ser engine.

The material thought to be plastic was actually a special nylon, which Coin Gold found unremarkable. If it weren’t for receiving Coin Gold, it might have been helpless; this special material could generate a steady electric current like a valve.

“Pushing fine sand? What’s that?”

Lin Mo expressed that he had never heard of such a thing. He only knew that magic silver was like titanium in this world, where the definitions of metals—especially rare ones—varied greatly between the two worlds.

This was a blissful world, a world of magic silver, where one could grab a handful of soil and find magic silver within it.

“This world calls it neodymium, categorized under rare earth elements. It is indeed very rare, also exceedingly uncommon in our world, and possesses a special and wonderful effect on magnetic materials. It seems this world has utilized that.”

The gold element dragon kin are born metal experts, and they talk about various rare metals as if recounting their cherished treasures.

“Can you replicate it?” Lin Mo was more interested in that.

“No problem!”

Just as the human and dragon had anticipated, the gold giant dragon could easily replicate it.

Perhaps good deeds yield good results; if Lin Mo hadn’t undertaken the journey to deliver consolation money from Yuri to the “monkey” family, Coin Gold likely wouldn’t have gained this unexpected Coin Gold and wouldn’t be able to confidently and easily replicate this costly restricted-grade technology device.

The gold giant dragon began to emerge from the Ser engine, wonderfully transforming into another hexagonal Ser engine of the same size, almost perfectly identical.

The four-inch screen displayed numbers that jumped automatically, as if the two Ser engines were performing a synchronized dance, moving rhythmically in mid-air.

If representatives from ORNL, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who produced the Ser engine, were to witness this extraordinary scene, they would be utterly astonished.

Once part of the Manhattan Project and now under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory faced the mission of tackling America’s most pressing scientific challenges. Even with such incredible technological prowess, achieving a mere one percent yield in the laboratory made producing the Ser engine incredibly difficult, with each serial number representing luck itself.

Yet here, in an ordinary officers’ dormitory within China’s national strategic defense system, a piece was effortlessly replicated.

“Can it scale?”

Lin Mo posed an even more demanding request, one that would make the head of the laboratory that originally produced the engine wish to bash his head against a wall.

“No problem!”

Molecular-level manipulation was effortless for the gold giant dragon. The evolved Ser engine shuddered and produced a range of engines from small to large, all identical in appearance.

The largest was about the size of a dining table, while the smallest resembled a coin. Regardless of size, they could all operate the Ser effect model stably.

While Lin Mo and the gold giant dragon studied the Ser effect, a shadow crept into the hangar of the Aircrew Group, or rather, a figure draped in optical camouflage fabric silently moved through the darkness.