Chapter 547: 547
Someone had leaked the secret of Annina working at Thunder Horse Military Factory . This person’s motives were definitely negative, as he was targeting Xia Lei and Thunder Horse Military Factory . But after Xia Lei’s intervention, it turned into a good thing . If this were successful, and if he could use the methods that he possessed to obtain Germany’s Eurofighter Typhoon’s engine technology, then he would have contributed even more to the country .
The official negotiations had not yet begun, but both parties were already preparing for it .
However, Xia Lei did not need to do these preparations . He would only act as an essential person to the negotiation . But before that, he had something that he needed to do himself, and that was to continue working on his Alloy X Project .
In the next few days, other than dealing with some important company affairs, Xia Lei kept himself locked in the laboratory under the villa, researching the ancient alloy . In these two days, he’d put steel bars, chopsticks, paper, plastic, and so on in the box . But no matter what material the object was made of, the result was the same . They would disappear in the box and then reappear after one minute . The objects which reappeared all looked as if they’d gone through a thousand years with extreme weathering . Some were reduced to powder, and some were heavily damaged .
As for Princess Yongmei, Xia Lei had tried to summon her at least 20 times, to no avail .
She had disappeared mysteriously just like that . He didn’t know if she’d disappeared completely or if something had happened to her . She could be waiting somewhere for a chance to come back to this world . But no matter what it was, Xia Lei could do nothing about it now .
He could not find the next treasure site, could not assemble a complete box, nor analyze the composition of the ancient alloy . Even Princess Yongmei had disappeared, and this made Xia Lei’s research come to a state of stagnation .
“Is it just gonna end like this?” Xia Lei looked at the two things on his work table — the incomplete ancient alloy box, and the bronze book, and gloom settled over him . He felt it unsatisfactory to end the project as it was, not only because it could revitalise this country’s aerospace industry, but for his own reasons as well .
The ancient alloy pieces were a mystery, but was his body not one as well?
‘Wait . . . I think I forgot another clue . ’ A button in his head suddenly clicked when he was unable to make any progress, and his eyes moved to the alloy necklace around his neck .
Ancient alloy, Ming dynasty compass, the bronze book, the AE capsule . . . These things were not from the same era but they all shared one similarity . They all had something to do with AE .
Xia Lei took out the AE capsule inside the alloy necklace, and placed it on his workbench . His workbench now held three things related to AE — the ancient alloy box, the bronze book, and the AE capsule . If the Ming dynasty compass were here as well, then all the four things related to AE would be gathered in one place .
Looking at the three things on the table, Xia Lei smiled wryly . ‘I guess I’m one of them too . The ancient alloy box, bronze book, AE capsule, Ming dynasty compass, plus me . That’s five things related to AE . ’
He didn’t mind thinking of himself as an “object” in this kind of situation .
He stood there silently for a while, then opened the last AE capsule and poured the powder out onto a sheet of paper .
The powder just looked like normal powder in the eyes if one looked at it normally . But in Xia Lei’s left eye, the powder seemed comprised of tiny crystals, each looking like moonlit gemstones which jewellers had cut and polished . Amongst the pure white were bits of blue light, very faint and difficult to see with the naked eye . What was stranger was that each “gem” had the same volume, the same hexagonal prism, and even their luster was identical .
This wasn’t Xia Lei’s first time studying this AE capsule . He had used his X-ray vision on it before but this was his first time studying it with his zoom-in vision .
Looking at the powder on the piece of paper, Xia Lei suddenly got a wild thought, ‘Could Princess Yongmei be hiding in one of these grains of powder? She’s a form of energy, so she could shrink unimaginably small . If this hypothesis is true, wouldn’t this mean that I would be eating her if I ate this powder?’
As soon as this idea settled in his head, another one popped out .
‘My research is at a standstill . If I eat this last AE capsule, what kind of changes would happen to my body? Would those unknown changes give me new clues?’ This idea gave Xia Lei an impulse to eat the capsule right away .
This impulse was very strong, and the magical, hexagonal gemstone-like powder were shining with a tempting light . Impulse and temptation took him, and Xia Lei’s head moved slowly toward the piece of paper on his workbench . Slowly, slowly, closer and closer . He stuck out his tongue . He only needed to give a light lick for the powder to go in his body . . .
Ring ring ring, ring ring ring!
His phone suddenly rang .
Xia Lei came to his senses with a start, and took two steps back . He stared blankly at the pile of powder and thought to himself, ‘What was wrong with me? It’s the last capsule . How would I study it if I ate it? It made my body evolve, but if my evolution has already reached the max that my body could bear and I still hastily eat it, I could end up not getting any benefits, but be destroyed!’
Once something reaches its maximum capacity, the effects would be reversed . This wasn’t an old philosophy, but the law of nature .
Organisms get strong, then weaken . Life starts with birth and ends with death . No one can escape this law of nature .
He had consumed the AE capsules, and obtained some incredible superpowers . His eye, his brain, and his body’s auto detoxification and super immune ability, and maybe more he did not know about — these were not abilities he was born with . They had been given to him by the capsule . The him now could still live life like a normal person, but there’s a possibility that if he took the last AE capsule and evolved to the last stage, he would turn into an unknown form . And when that happened, he would not be able to live life as he was living now .
This possibility of this occurring was fairly high . The reason was simple — he had surpassed the law of nature, so he was no longer part of the natural world .
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