NEC Chapter 86: Everchant, Supplies, Miniaturization

After briefly reporting on the Starry Continent situation, the monthly meeting began reviewing East Xia's gains and progress.

First was the latest progress on [Everchant Essence].

Technically, there wasn't much to say about this thing. The research path had reached its end. Components, mechanisms, principles, and effects were all analyzed clearly, they just lacked raw materials.

Scarce in quantity, outstanding in effect, it counted as a national treasure in East Xia.

The issue was about who to give it to and who not to give it to, where obvious disagreements existed.

Treating chronic illnesses and extending life was something worth going crazy over for most people.

The craziest were certain people with limited abilities who relied on their elders' influence. After all, abilities and levels couldn't be inherited, but channels and wealth could. Once they lost protection, these things would disappear at any time.

They adopted the most insane probing methods, mobilizing certain institutions to try investigating the Ninth Laboratory under the pretense of utility inspections.

Then they experienced what violent institutions really meant!

Overnight, from government offices to enterprises, several families involved were uprooted completely.

The [Cihang] Project Department issued a clear warning through this violent method.

Of course, this matter couldn't go completely unexplained. After all, in the minds of interested parties, the fact that several scientific giants had recovered from serious illness was indisputable.

The Pharmaceutical Research Institute submitted a situation report. After confirmation by management departments, it was internally circulated in a small scope. The general meaning was that the Ninth Laboratory indeed had a new treatment plan, but there were many complex situations making it impossible to promote.

The drug components came from an extraction mechanism requiring strict secrecy, with lengthy time requirements, high costs, extremely low output, comparable in difficulty to artificially synthesizing antimatter.

Furthermore, the application scope was limited, only effective for a few special cases identified by the laboratory under special treatment protocols.

Dense medical terminology explanations boiled down to: we can treat about that many people per year, with no guarantee of treatment effectiveness. That's the situation, you decide what to do.

With this explanation, the matter's classification level was naturally raised, and approval authority for "treatment quotas" was transferred to the government's highest management institution, establishing quite strict standardized usage and confidentiality regulations.

Currently, these regulations had been approved.

The Academy of Scholars was a group of elite individuals selected from the People's Assembly to remain permanently stationed in Changan Prefecture, normally handling national affairs approvals.

With the People's Assembly Academy of Scholars raising their hands in approval, this matter finally concluded and could be used with peace of mind.

One pill, used properly, could be worth five heavy synthetic brigades.

After the first briefing ended, various laboratories reported on their assessment of other materials sent from the Starry Continent.

In this area, progress was relatively slow currently.

The high similarity between the two worlds was itself an extremely incredible phenomenon. In terms of basic material composition, the current overall assessment was high convergence.

This was like Blue Star's eastern and western continents, what could be found on one side mostly existed on the other.

The main differences lay in those non-human traditional activity areas, such as certain products from elven, dwarven, and troll habitats, which contained some special material components.

But specific properties still required considerable time for detailed analysis.

After all, materials science was a discipline that extremely consumed time and experimental iterations.

The Institute of Science and Technology, as the main scientific administration department, provided the final summary: "Currently we've made priority marks on three plants, one mineral, one animal category, and two insect remains, believing they have considerable value for continued follow-up research. But sample quantities are insufficient. If [Wanderer] has future material transport plans, we hope he could lean toward this direction."

Next, the East Xia State Life Sciences Research Center simply reported one point.

The current altar transmission mechanism, after multiple rounds of verification, confirmed that inorganic matter was basically unaffected, while organic matter varied according to different life forms and cellular activity, with weaker life forms having better survival rates.

"Plants, after transmission, quickly recover life activity following a brief pause resembling a dormancy period."

"Animals: micro individuals occasionally maintain brief life activity after transmission completion, while large individuals die without exception upon transmission."

The Life Sciences Research Center's chief representative projected a detailed comparison table on the big screen.

"In the most recent cross-dimensional transmission, the wanderer cooperated with us to retransmit several insect and small animal specimens that were sent in the second transmission. According to comparison with the previous attempt, these two insect species' survival times significantly lengthened, reaching nine and twelve times their first transmission survival respectively."

"Small animals also showed brief heartbeat recovery under emergency treatment after transmission."

"The expert group believes the biggest difference between then and now is [Wanderer's] personal strength growth."

"Leaders, referencing the undead mage cultivation manual copied by his mentor Morton that the wanderer sent back, we propose a bold hypothesis."

"Organic life forms experience tremendous spacetime tearing effects when transmitted through the altar, causing their inability to survive."

"The undead mage's mental power acting on the summoning altar actually provides a protective layer for the summoned transmission subjects."

"Currently, [Wanderer's] strength can only provide limited protection to tiny life forms, but as [Wanderer's] abilities further grow in the future, we cannot rule out the possibility of transmitting completely surviving small individuals, large individuals, or even..."

"People with complete consciousness and mobility!"

As the Life Sciences Research Center's chief representative finished speaking, the meeting atmosphere became heated again.

What lay on the other side? A vast, new, magical world!

How could this not make people's hearts race with longing!

Military Marshal Long Xiang slammed the table.

"If we can send people over, I'll first select a few soldier kings from the entire army, then send some grade-eight specialists who can hand-build aircraft carriers. Save this little rascal from making me worry myself sick every day!"

Everyone nodded in deep agreement.

You should know that several projects the military was frantically advancing had already driven the entire military-industrial system nearly insane.

Miniaturization of vertical missile launch systems, listen to this, does this sound human? Whose vertical launch system can be carried in a pocket?

The ultra-lightweight modification plan for "Land Shield 3000," this thing's prototype was a ship's close-in weapon system, weighing over eight tons. Even after major modifications for land use, it needed heavy transport. What did ultra-lightweight modification mean, a torrential pear blossom needle?

There was also the individual-carried life detection active phased array radar project, armored vehicle lightweight component modular assembly plans, small-scale all-purpose engineering machinery design specifications... and so on.

A group of chief engineers and chief designers in the military-industrial system had now reached the point where hearing "110 kilograms" would immediately trigger stress responses.

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