Chapter 968: Coffin

This young planet was covered in thick clouds, a blanket of intense greenhouse gases and smog that tightly enveloped the planet, trapping heat inside and making the surface temperature extremely hot.

Fortunately, the Limitless possessed powerful Physical Bodies, allowing them to easily survive in such an environment; even infants would not be harmed.

Many, many years ago, the Limitless's Physical Bodies were not so strong; they were just ordinary dirt-eating inhabitants.

But they abandoned their home planet, left the ground, and ventured into the stars.

This choice was like the primitive lobe-finned fish choosing to leave the ocean and move to land, unveiling a new chapter of life and civilization, and they naturally bid farewell to their primitive Physical Bodies.

Their Physical Bodies, through a three-pronged transformation of natural evolution, prosthetic modifications, and genetic engineering, became adaptable to almost all planetary environments in the Universe; as long as it was a planet, they could land directly with their Physical Bodies, without relying on any equipment.

At the same time, they could consume most known substances; the entire periodic table was within their dietary range.

This allowed them to roam freely as a ship-based civilization throughout most of the Universe, without worrying about their survival.

Leiding City landed on the leveled ground, then extended tens of thousands of 'escalators'.

The citizens of Leiding City used the escalators to reach the surface of the planet.

The already leveled ground had no lava, so they could walk freely.

Only occasionally would a ray of sunlight pierce through the methane and dust clouds, shining on Leiding City's hull, sparkling on the metallic silver-white surface.

Abo arrived on the ground, and a hovercar was ejected from Leiding City's hangar; he boarded it and quickly headed towards his destination.

As for Leileidi, she was taking care of the egg and would not participate.

In fact, Abo was also ready for a quick departure; Leiding City's light-speed engine had not been shut down, and if there were any 'unfavorable factors', he would immediately make the spaceship flee.

He would stay behind; it was better for Leileidi not to take risks.

As for the other employees…

If they weren't allowed to disembark and move freely, it might make the syndicate wary, right? Including himself, it was necessary for some people to disembark to show his trust in the syndicate.

Abo quickly arrived inside the syndicate's main ship, reaching the office of the syndicate's actual controller, the 'Shipowner'.

Upon arriving at the Shipowner's office, this man, who appeared to be around Abo's age but was actually over a thousand years older, was busy dealing with reports.

He sat in his office, casually flipping through the stack of routine reports awaiting his approval on the desk.

He nonchalantly turned the pages, glancing at the attached charts; these reports concerned the interests and future of many people in the syndicate, but he was not interested at the moment.

He merely scribbled his name on the signature line and then tossed the document into a tray labeled 'Reviewed, ready for dispatch'.

Clearly, his mind was elsewhere; as the Shipowner, his current mood was focused on other matters.

"Shipowner," Abo said as he approached.

The Shipowner immediately stood up and walked towards Abo, opening his arms to welcome him: "Welcome, my great scientist! You've finally arrived."

Then, his gaze did not linger on Abo but unreservedly looked at the prototype machine behind Abo.

His eyes fixed on it, with an irrepressible joy in his brows and eyes, he leaned forward, examining the magnificent machine from top to bottom—a super scanner capable of precisely scanning at the subatomic level and performing structural modeling.

It could even scan electron clouds, which was simply an impossible machine.

He examined it very carefully, not missing a single component.

After finishing, he didn't speak to Abo but picked up the introductory paper next to the prototype machine, systematically reading the entire paper in detail; during this process, he would occasionally pause to use the personal calculator next to him to verify the calculation results in the report, clearly, he was also performing feasibility verification.

After all of this—

"This is simply unheard of; can this thing really scan the position of protons?" he couldn't help but ask Abo.

"No, the uncertainty principle dictates that these particles are fundamentally unobservable, but... their probable range of wave functions can indeed be located," Abo explained.

Through three synchronously intersecting force fields, it was indeed possible to locate microscopic matter, perfectly determine their material properties, and completely replicate the structure of the Materials themselves.

"That's enough; is this thing usable now? I need it immediately; this is why the syndicate sent for you," the Shipowner said to Abo.

Having said that, he immediately began his actions, not waiting for Abo to say 'it's usable'.

Because there was no need; this thing had to be usable, and Abo had to agree.

The urgency of Abo's arrival was precisely for this reason.

The Shipowner quickly entered a string of code, and a figure appeared on the screen—it was the Shipowner's assistant.

"It can be ready in twenty minutes," the assistant said, as if he had already anticipated what his boss would ask, "That ruin will be stable again soon."

"Good, Abo, prepare yourself," the Shipowner said.

At this point, Abo finally had a chance to speak; he said, "Shipowner, so... what exactly do you want me to do with the prototype machine?"

"Oh, right, I should have told you earlier," the Shipowner said, speaking slightly faster than usual: "Take a look at this report, read it carefully, and then you'll know why."

Abo took the report and began to read.

However, halfway through his reading, he clearly showed a surprised expression.

The expression on his face changed, and he began to read every word of the report carefully and seriously!

"This... mysterious substance," Abo murmured to himself, not asking anyone, but talking to himself, trying to convince himself.

"Impossible... unprecedented properties, wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant, even capable of supporting and resisting neutron-degenerate matter, and an incredibly high melting point; honestly, I wouldn't dare believe it without personally testing it, this report seems fake."

The Shipowner was also pleased; he knew Abo would realize the significance of this mysterious substance. He patted Abo on the shoulder and said, "Exactly! Compared to this thing, the alloys we currently use are like paper!"

"Whether it's hardness, toughness, tensile strength, shear strength, or corrosion resistance, it surpasses all our alloys in every aspect. This thing doesn't even have metal fatigue... Is it fake? Did you read a fraudulent report?" Abo looked at the Shipowner, his face full of disbelief.

Although the Limitless communicated telepathically, and lying was very difficult, requiring self-hypnosis training, Abo was still worried about being deceived.

It should be known that different alloys possess different properties: some are wear-resistant, some are shear-resistant, some are hard, some are tough, and some are memory metals that can restore their crystal structure under specific conditions, thereby repairing damage.

By combining alloys for different components, calculating the load-bearing capacity of each part, determining which properties a certain part needs to function correctly, and then assembling all the components together, that constitutes the alloy composition of an entire machine.

A complex machine might require dozens of types of alloys, each with different properties.

If it's a huge ship like 'Leiding City', which is nine hundred miles long, it might even use millions of different alloys, capable of handling various extreme environments, and also needing to support the ship's enormous self-weight and occasional non-uniform acceleration; the tearing forces at that time are very strong, requiring sufficient tensile alloys in every part. If the tensile strength is insufficient, it cannot accelerate.

And even if the tensile strength is sufficient, one must consider the heat resistance of the metal at the engine; if the melting point is too low, the heat generated by the engine's operation will melt the engine itself, naturally restricting the energy output. Both must be satisfied simultaneously for the spaceship to fly fast enough.

Or, one could bypass the propellant engine's acceleration and directly use the gravity of cosmic strings for acceleration, but in that case, one would have to withstand powerful shear forces, which would be a huge test for the toughness of the components in various structures.

It can be said that what limits a spaceship's performance is not its structure, but its Materials.

As long as the Materials can withstand it, the structure doesn't matter.

And now, before them, was a kind of super Material, something incomprehensible, a super Material that current theories simply could not describe, a substance that surpassed neutron-degenerate matter and was also very light.

Once analyzed, the syndicate would become the leader of civilization, capable of advancing the entire civilization within a thousand years, and even becoming one of the 'Super Civilizations'.

According to Abo, a characteristic of becoming a Super Civilization is the ability to travel faster than light, to Breakthrough the barrier of the 'Observable Universe'.

Or, according to the civilization called 'Shaman', it is called 'Fourth Grade'.

"The prototype machine is ready, although there are still power limitations; I haven't solved the stability of the energy supply and heat dissipation issues, so it can only scan for thirty seconds before overloading and shutting down, but just five seconds is enough to decipher our densest matter, so thirty seconds should be enough, I think," Abo said excitedly.

"Then let's do it. Take the prototype machine; I'll take you to the place where this Material is extracted. Don't be too shocked when you get there," the Shipowner said.

"How so?" Abo asked curiously.

The Shipowner said, "This Material was found on a coffin, right at the North Pole of this planet."