117: Chapter 117 Technological Overwhelming

Headquarters building, meeting room.

Lin Quan pushed open the door, stepped aside, and made a "please" gesture to the person behind him.

Zhang Jianzhong stepped inside.

Four people followed behind him.

Two wore white researcher lab coats, while the other two were in plain clothes.

Lin Quan was the last to enter the room.

His gaze swept between Chen Xu and Zhang Jianzhong, then he walked over to Chen Xu's side and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"Brother Chen, I'll excuse myself first."

Chen Xu nodded.

Without a single superfluous word, Lin Quan turned and walked out of the meeting room.

He gently pulled the heavy door shut behind him.

In the room, only Chen Xu, Yan Er, and Zhang Jianzhong's group of five remained.

Zhang Jianzhong's gaze quickly scanned the layout of the meeting room before finally locking onto Chen Xu.

"Chairman Chen, time is precious."

"We want to test the 'Lingxi' chip."

"Its anti-electromagnetic interference capability under military standards."

Chen Xu turned his gaze toward Yan Er.

Understanding the signal, Yan Er placed a silver metal briefcase he had brought onto the table and opened it.

Inside the case, a Lingxi chip the size of a fingernail was fixed to a circuit board.

The circuit board was connected to a compact oscilloscope via cables.

The two researchers behind Zhang Jianzhong immediately stepped forward.

They also opened their own equipment cases.

One was a portable high-intensity electromagnetic pulse generator.

The other was a military-grade signal spectrum analyzer.

One of the researchers looked at Yan Er.

"We need to interface with your test platform."

Yan Er nodded and took a step back, giving them space to operate.

The military personnel's movements were extremely professional and swift; within a few minutes, they had connected their equipment in parallel with the oscilloscope.

Preparations were complete.

The researcher operating the equipment turned back and looked at Zhang Jianzhong, waiting for the command.

Zhang Jianzhong nodded.

"Begin."

The researcher pressed the red button on the pulse generator.

Hum.

An extremely low buzz sounded in the room.

The lights in the meeting room flickered violently for a moment.

The screen of the spectrum analyzer brought by the military was filled with static before going completely black.

The laptop connected to the spectrum analyzer also went dark, its fan stopping.

Only the oscilloscope brought by Yan Er remained active.

A waveform line like a heartbeat was displayed on the screen, without a single tremor.

The two researchers behind Zhang Jianzhong stood frozen.

They stared at that waveform line, then looked down at their own completely malfunctioning equipment.

Refusing to believe it, one of them stepped forward to unplug and replug the power cord of his device, then tapped the casing of the spectrum analyzer.

There was no reaction.

He could not understand what was happening before his eyes.

In a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse environment, all electronic components should experience signal distortion or even be destroyed.

This tiny chip before them was openly defying that law.

Zhang Jianzhong walked up to the oscilloscope.

He pointed at that line.

"Increase the power."

His researcher's expression changed.

"Director, increasing the power further will exceed the safety threshold."

"Execute the order."

Zhang Jianzhong didn't look back; his voice left no room for doubt.

The researcher gritted his teeth and operated the device.

He turned the power adjustment knob to the maximum value in the red warning zone.

Hum—

This time, the drone was ten times more intense than before.

The lights in the meeting room went out completely for half a second before coming back on as the emergency power kicked in.

A burnt smell of fried electronic components wafted from inside the military's spectrum analyzer and laptop.

But on that small oscilloscope screen...

That waveform line remained a perfect line.

Zhang Jianzhong withdrew his hand.

He slowly turned around and looked Chen Xu directly in the eye.

"The chips—we want them," he said, simple and direct.

Immediately after, he asked his second and even more important question of this trip.

"The battery for the 'stellar' phone."

"That kind of endurance."

"Is that your limit?"

Zhang Jianzhong leaned forward, a movement that betrayed the urgency in his heart.

"Some of our projects require high-density batteries."

"But we've never found a suitable one."

Chen Xu looked at Yan Er.

Yan Er walked to a corner of the meeting room.

There was an inconspicuous black safe there.

Yan Er took out a black metal box from inside and placed it in the center of the conference table.

He opened the box.

It was a black, brick-sized object.

It had no markings, was completely black, and had a fine matte texture on its surface.

"SC-V2."

Chen Xu spoke.

"Military-grade super battery."

He gestured to Yan Er.

Yan Er operated the embedded screen on the tabletop a few times.

The wall screen lit up, and a set of data was projected.

[SC-V2 High-Energy super battery]

[Energy Density: 1200Wh/kg]

"The energy density of the civilian version is 400Wh/kg,"

Chen Xu added.

Zhang Jianzhong's gaze was pinned to that number.

1200Wh/kg.

The loiter time of the 703 Institute's heavy drones could leap from eight hours directly to twenty-four hours.

Individual soldier exoskeletons could support a soldier in completing seventy-two hours of high-intensity continuous combat.

This meant that tactics would be redefined.

Zhang Jianzhong's hands pressed hard against the conference table.

"Its safety..."

This was his greatest concern.

Chen Xu didn't answer.

He looked at the two accompanying personnel who had remained silent throughout.

"Gentlemen, did you bring weapons?"

The two were taken aback and instinctively looked at Zhang Jianzhong.

Zhang Jianzhong nodded.

One of them drew a pistol from his waist.

A Type 92.

"Use it on this."

Chen Xu pointed at the black battery on the table.

"Shoot through it."

In the meeting room, everyone's movements froze.

Use a bullet to shoot a battery with an energy density exceeding 1200Wh/kg?

That was no different from directly detonating a high-explosive bomb.

The man's gaze turned to Zhang Jianzhong, waiting for final confirmation.

Zhang Jianzhong also looked at Chen Xu.

Chen Xu's expression hadn't changed at all.

"Will you take responsibility for the consequences?" Zhang Jianzhong confirmed, emphasizing every word.

"We will," Chen Xu replied.

Zhang Jianzhong gave his subordinate a heavy nod.

Everyone retreated to the other side of the room.

The armed soldier walked to the center of the room.

He raised the gun and flipped off the safety.

Aimed.

Bang!

The bullet accurately struck the center of the black battery.

No explosion.

No flames.

Not even smoke.

The bullet left a clear hole in the battery surface and was then stopped by the steel plate behind it.

Yan Er stepped forward.

He took a probe connected to a voltmeter and inserted it into the battery through the bullet hole.

On the wall screen, a real-time changing number was displayed.

[Output Voltage: 48.1V]

"Eighty percent of the standard voltage."

Yan Er's voice came through.

"The internal structure is damaged and some circuits are disconnected, but no thermal runaway has occurred."

"It can still maintain basic power supply."

Zhang Jianzhong quickly stepped forward, coming right up to the battery.

He could see the entrance hole on the front and the exit hole where the bullet had pierced through the back.

The battery had been shot completely through.

Zhang Jianzhong reached out and touched the surface of the battery with his hand.

There was no heat at all.

He rushed over to Chen Xu in a few steps.

"These batteries!"

The expression on his face was one of complex excitement.

"Whatever your production capacity is, we want it all!"

"Name a price!"

Chen Xu looked at him, watching this nearly undignified display.

He simply shook his head gently.

"Director Zhang."

"This battery—the cost is very high."