Chapter 76

Xu zhe quickly followed the scientist to the experimental platform on one side. The experimental instrument was like a huge microwave oven, with a huge glass on the front. In the box, the fragment was suspended in a vacuum, rotating slowly under the irradiation of the spotlight, receiving the irradiation of rays of different colors

"You said it was alive?" Xu zhe didn't understand.

"Yes, this is a metal we have never seen before. It is between living and non living bodies. It not only has the characteristics of general metals, but also has the characteristics of basic life!"

"You mean, silicon-based life?" Xu zhe tried to understand each other's words.

The scientist then explained, "not all of them

If it is silicon-based life, it should have an independent life system, such as organs composed of cells of life on earth and perfect external body tissue.

This thing is simply an active metal. We found that although there is only one fragment left, it still has some characteristics of energy exchange. It emits heat and micro radiation into the surrounding air, and its molecular structure has strong activity!

It's not a simple armor shell, it's the skin of those mechanical locusts! "

"Oh? You mean those things like chariots are themselves a kind of steel insect?"

"Most likely, there may not be any drivers in it. They themselves are aliens!" the biologist replied thoughtfully.

"Wow!" Hao Zhi stuck out his tongue: "aliens are so big?"

"No, I don't think so..." the behaviorist standing on the side expressed his view. "From the whole process of this war, those war insects only showed strong organization and coordination, but there were no high signs of intelligent life. They should be under the remote control of the blood moon, and they are unlikely to be aliens themselves.

We can imagine if this is a lower creature on the alien's mother planet? Domesticated by aliens and used as a weapon of war?

Or another possibility is that it is only a metal on its parent star. Aliens made it into a combat vehicle, and this active metal has a certain degree of biological activity. For example, it can change its shape according to local conditions to meet the needs of battlefield operations, but it is still not a living body, which is not very different from the tanks and aircraft on our earth.

Its biggest advantage is that it is physically hard, and it can repair itself to a certain extent after damage. "

"Having said that, have you found that the alien chariot has changed its shape several times during this battle, or evolution..." the biologist snapped his fingers.

The crowd nodded: "the appearance of mechanical war insects is very similar to locusts on the earth!"

The biologist nodded and said: "ecological simulation, the ecological environment of the alien's mother planet may be very different from our earth, and the biological form may also be very different. For example, the lion who has been living on the ground may be played around by the monkeys who adapt to the environment in the jungle.

Therefore, to fight, understanding and learning from the enemy is the first step.

In order to fight against human beings, they simulated the creatures on the earth in order to adapt to the geographical environment of the earth as much as possible. It's a genius idea! "

"Then why do you have to imitate locusts?" Hao Zhi asked puzzled.

"Compared with insects, most mammals are bulky and have limited mobility. More importantly, they can't fly. They don't have obvious air advantages. Locusts have several characteristics,

First, it can fly, which is not a problem for alien technology.

Second, locusts have strong social aggression, are more suitable for large-scale operations, and are very flexible. In particular, they have excellent jumping ability. We have seen in the previous pursuit of you that the chariots on earth can't compete with them.

Third, I think aliens don't seem to know as much about them as we do. Locusts are extremely destructive in the impression of most people on earth. Psychologically, they are a deterrent to us. They may also know the allusions of locusts all over the sky. Aliens are good at playing psychological warfare! "

"But it's still metal in essence!" Xu zhe added timely when he saw everyone's bad face. "What kind of weapon depends on whose hand!"

"Yes, they are just made of special materials..." the chemical expert quickly answered, "the molecular structure of this metal is quite dense, the hardness and melting point are very high, and the elements that make up this material are not within the known periodic table of elements.

We can't find its position in the periodic table according to the existing knowledge. We can only roughly estimate that it is between titanium and vanadium and has physical properties close to these two metals, such as corrosion resistance, heat resistance, low temperature resistance, strong damping resistance, non-magnetic and non-toxic, good heat exchange performance and so on.

But why it has biological activity is too short for us to know. "

"Then don't worry about the principle behind him!" Xu zhe showed the pragmatic spirit of a commander at the moment. "I just want to know how to deal with it? Or how to use it! Detailed research should be put in the future when we have time. Don't tangle too much!"

"Well, aside from what we mentioned earlier, the greatest value of this metal in the battlefield is its hardness. Although its position on the periodic table is still a little far from the hardest metal chromium on earth, it shows much higher hardness and strength than metal chromium..."

Song Xiaojia smiled: "hardness and strength are not the same thing. It's troublesome for scientists to talk!"

Hao Zhi stabbed her to shut up, and then whispered, "hardness and strength are certainly not the same thing, just like diamonds, which are known as the hardest minerals. They can scratch glass and iron plates. They won't wear themselves, but the strength is not enough. They break when smashed with an iron hammer. This has happened in history."

"Hao Zhi is right. Metals with high hardness can hardly have perfect strength at the same time. This kind of metal..."

Xu zhe waved his hand: "don't use this kind of metal. It's too troublesome to call this kind of metal. Just give it a name. Well... I think it's very smooth. It's called 'y í ng'. Well, Lao Tzu's hometown is Huaying Mountain, Sichuan. I'll take this word as my own choice. No one has any opinion?"

"Yes, the commander is wise!" the chemist exclaimed with admiration, "Ying metal has strength and hardness that we can't understand at the same time. It can be called perfect metal. The warheads of our metal weapons, bullets and shells on earth are eggs hitting stones in front of it. No matter how big the initial speed is, it can only be separated when encountering it. Moreover, the high temperature resistance of Ying metal is abnormal, and the heat generated by general explosion is not at all Enough to melt it, which is the key factor for our weapons to lose their function at the same time... "

"That's troublesome..." Hao Zhi threw his gun to the ground and sat down on the chair behind him. "How can you beat him? Can you bite him with your teeth?"

"No, there's another way!" Xiaobing came over and gently put his hand on Hao Zhi's shoulder. "Master, have you forgotten the story of spear and shield?"

Xu zhe nodded approvingly: "it seems that only with their materials can we win them!"

"By the way!" Song Xiaojia also understood, "there are many locust chariots wounded by grenades from the inside on the beach. As long as they are brought back and bullets are made with their outer hard armor, they will be able to break through it!"

"Hehe, it's not easy to talk about?" the chemical expert smiled bitterly. "With such a large hardness and melting point, it's impossible to cut and shape with conventional tools? To melt it, you need a high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees before forging. To cut and shape, you need a high-power laser lathe.

But the cost of doing so is too high. It may cost hundreds of thousands of yuan to build such a bullet! "

Hao Zhi thought of the tons of bullets pouring out on the battlefield: "how much does it cost to fight this war? But it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's a life-saving battle, and we have to be willing to spend this money!"

The chemical expert shook his head and smiled bitterly: "no, even without considering the cost, as far as I know, there are no more than five university laboratories at home and abroad that can carry out this kind of work, and the production efficiency can't be supplied at all

Even if we take a step back, we don't consider the cost, the production speed is too slow, and the raw materials are not enough!

Even if we take all the bodies of those locusts, there are only a few raw materials, and we can't make many bullets. We can't afford a little waste! "

The little hope that finally appeared in the eyes of all the people was soon extinguished by the chemical expert covering his face with a basin of cold water. Everyone was silent. Xu zhe touched his chin and was worried. Hao Zhi shook his hands with a sigh and whirled around the hall irritably.

"Not necessarily. There is another way to avoid waste!" Xiaobing's sweet voice suddenly sounded.

"Oh?" everyone's eyes looked at her. The robot girl's thinking speed was so fast.

Xiaobing pulls out a waist knife from his waist. It's a thorn equipped by the Army: "as long as we don't make heat weapons!

Beat those high-strength metals into battle knives, and a team of soldiers with super physical strength like song Xiaojia can avoid each other's air gun attack at a very fast speed. Don't you just split them in half by means of close combat?

And Mr. Da Meng has confirmed for us that, in addition to having a super strong shell, its interior can not withstand our artillery bombardment. Even if a commando like song Xiaojia cuts a wound in the other party's body, bullets and shells can hit it! Or, as before, put a grenade in, and everything will be OK! "

Xu zhe suddenly realized that he hit his palm with a fist: "yes! Why do we bother to make bullets and shells to hit out things that can't be recycled?

We are all too stupid. We have been entangled in the strange circle of hot weapon combat. In fact, we step back, the sea and the sky are vast, powerful, powerful, Xiaobing! "

So he ordered that when those giant locusts entered Shanghai, he sent a heavy transport team to the beach battlefield secretly and brought back the wreckage of 83 locust chariots. Of course, there was no shadow of the so-called alien driver. They were really remotely controlled!

Hao Zhihua's wish to see what aliens look like failed again.

The underground experimental base began to work overtime day and night. During this period, Hao Zhi watched the war situation all over the world every day. The human resistance forces in Asia, Africa and Latin America were completely defeated and almost had no resistance

On the map, on the original blue planet, the red range representing the power of alien infantry was infected like a virus, and the more it spread, the greater it spread. In just two days, all coastal cities within 400 kilometers of the coast of all continents were occupied

In addition to yomoto, which was preserved only because of China's containment and South Korea's desperate resistance, island countries such as Cuba, Dominica, Indonesia, Africa and Malaysia have all fallen and become the enemy's maritime base.

Every day, many residents' hiding places are found. When the concrete sewer cover is lifted and the sun shines into the dark tunnel, dozens or hundreds of frightened eyes look into the sky. Both the elderly and children, men and women, instantly turn into blood droplets under the high-pressure air cannon, and then wash away along the dirty water in the sewer, As if no one had been hidden there

Later, those alien war insects seemed to find another kind of fun. They drove all the captured people to various buildings in the city, leaned against the wall and forced them to pose. They controlled very well, directly decomposed the human body and blew it into blood shadows on the wall

Like a killing of performance art, two days later, the walls of coastal cities were painted with human shapes full of blood, like a hell made of blood

People hide everywhere in the city in fear. No one knows whether they will be the next to be printed on the wall.

In inland cities, millions of urban residents rush to the mainland to avoid the pursuit of giant locusts, but strangely, they seem to enjoy the current killing very much. The destruction of life has become an important reason for their slow progress. Those guys don't seem to be in a hurry to occupy the earth in an all-round way, but carefully and seriously clean up every person on the earth who can be captured.

Although this statement is very inhumane, those who died in cities in coastal countries did win a little valuable time for living humans

Hao Zhi put his hand on his arm and was ashamed of his idea. He had lost sleep for a long time and his eyes were dry. At two o'clock in the middle of the night, he felt bored in the closed underground laboratory.

So he got up from his bed, groped for the door, walked out along the narrow and dark glass corridor, got on the elevator, and went out of the underground palace base alone.

In the open space not far from the door, there was still the big truck from Song Xiaojia's father. Under the blue gray night sky, there was only a black outline.

Wait... What's in the cockpit?

Hao Zhiping held his breath and leaned closer and closer. He found that they were two bright spots, like a pair of ghost eyes staring at themselves in the night sky