Chapter 198: The Munch-Munch Fruit Synthesizes a Superconducting Material
Inside the sealed, highest-level scientific materials room, cold white, dust-free lights spread evenly across the workbenches, cutting off all outside noise.
Behind the tempered-glass isolation wall was a laboratory that operated twenty-four hours a day.
Layers of precision instruments flickered with faint light.
Gabriel had a strong build. Having also been injected with the serum, he no longer had the beer belly and loose skin a middle-aged man should have. Instead, he looked younger, and his figure had improved greatly.
It could only be said that after the serum injection, his wife was very happy.
Gabriel was even happier. With a fanatical expression, he introduced this result that was about to bring a massive turning point and reform to the current stage of human technological civilization.
He raised his hand and pointed at a neat crystal on the workbench. Its entire body was deep ink-black, with a fine matte crystalline sheen.
The crystal had a dense and transparent texture. It was a completely synthetic new type of composite structured material.
"This is the latest superconducting material, BOSS. With it, we can abandon the metallic superconducting systems we currently use."
"Traditional niobium-titanium and niobium-tin superconducting alloys are, in essence, conductive through metallic crystal lattices. They have inherent flaws."
"Not only do they require ultra-low-temperature cooling below minus two hundred degrees Celsius, but their material energy-storage capacity and magnetic stability are bound by fundamental limits that cannot be broken through. They can never truly be miniaturized, civilianized, or weaponized."
"With this, however, we can break the conventional logic of material conductivity on the microscopic level and reconstruct the molecular lattice arrangement. At a standard room temperature of twenty-two degrees Celsius and under standard atmospheric pressure, it achieves near-zero resistance, zero electrical energy loss, and a complete Meissner antimagnetic effect. All core parameters remain stable throughout, with no decay and no failure threshold."
"We will completely enter the age of future technology."
Listening to Gabriel, even Matthew froze.
He looked at Gabriel in surprise, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Matthew knew the scientists in this universe were all freaks.
The whole point of combining the super-soldier gene serum's human enhancement with the Munch-Munch Fruit was to hope that these scientists could bring him some different surprises.
And they had not disappointed him. It had not even been that long, yet these scientists had already delivered a huge surprise.
Room-temperature superconducting material.
It seemed like a simple name, but what it represented was extraordinary.
To put it plainly, energy would no longer be scarce, weapons would fully become science-fiction-level, transportation would become airborne, and the space age would begin.
Human technology would directly leap over a century-long bottleneck, leaving the era of chemical energy behind and fully entering an electromagnetic energy civilization.
Before room-temperature superconducting materials, human civilization was still essentially trapped in the age of chemical energy.
Motors, weapons, spaceflight, and energy all relied on inefficient chemical energy and ordinary conductors. Resistance and heat loss were natural shackles.
No matter how chips, artificial intelligence, or conventional weapons were iterated, they were only patching things up within a low-power framework. They could never truly step into an electromagnetic civilization, much less an interstellar civilization.
Superconductivity was the single hard threshold that had to be crossed before civilization could advance to the next level.
Without it, the gap between Earth and the three great empires beyond the planet — the Kree Empire, the Skrull Empire, the Shi'ar Empire, each with billions of years of civilizational depth behind them — remained almost incomprehensible in scale. That kind of gap wasn't a difference in degree. It was the difference between being crushed and not being crushed.
Without Ancient One, without Asgard, without guardians like them standing watch, any one of those civilizations could dispatch a vanguard force and no military or weapon on Earth would be able to stop them.
Even nuclear bombs, the strongest destructive weapons at the current stage, were not worth mentioning before those civilizations.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that without breaking through room-temperature superconductivity, human technology would remain science fiction in name only.
Some scientists had already realized this. But materials science depended entirely on fate.
Its synthesis formula was still only a concept. No one knew what that concept was, and they were not even inside the door yet. They were still wandering outside, without so much as a crack opened.
All the technological weapons in the real world were merely neutered versions of the future technology humanity imagined.
But now, Gabriel and this group of scientists had broken through it.
Good grief. They really had become the guides of human civilization.
Matthew remained calm on the surface, but inside, he was delighted.
A single controllable nuclear fusion technology alone would be enough to completely free humanity from the shackles of energy.
If this news were leaked, the entire world order would explode. Countless countries would go utterly mad over it.
To master superconductivity was to master the future.
And that future was now in Matthew's hands.
Matthew looked at Gabriel. "Gabriel, have you mastered the synthesis formula?"
Gabriel nodded without hesitation. "I need some time, but I can fully record the synthesis formula."
This was the terrifying part of something like the Munch-Munch Fruit.
Because it did not follow any rules at all.
It was the rule.
The Munch-Munch Fruit could eat any matter. Inside the user's body, it could analyze, dismantle, reorganize, and synthesize.
Anything eaten would have its material structure, composition, arrangement, and chemical reaction logic analyzed.
It could replicate, modify, splice, and mass-produce the objects it consumed.
In the world of One Piece, Wapol, the king of Drum Kingdom, had synthesized discarded steel into a new alloy that had never existed before. That alloy was later named Wapometal.
With this ability, Wapol turned garbage into toys and discovered Wapometal, eventually using it to build a commercial empire and gain recognition from the World Nobles.
That showed just how monstrous the Munch-Munch Fruit's ability was.
This was why Matthew had chosen to light up the Munch-Munch Fruit first. If used well, this thing could truly bring returns far beyond expectations.
"Very good, Gabriel. You will become a contributor to human civilization. You and the scientists who fought alongside you for this will become heroes, recorded on the monument of human civilization and remembered forever."
Matthew's voice was rarely this passionate.
Those simple but blazing words stirred Gabriel so deeply that he could hardly control himself.
His face flushed red as he looked at Matthew with fervor and worship.
"It's you, BOSS. You're the true pioneer of human civilization."
And he meant it. Gabriel understood very clearly that the one who had made all of this possible was Matthew — Matthew who had produced the Munch-Munch Fruit and made it available in the first place. If anyone deserved to be called the greatest contributor, it was him.
"No one can erase your glory, Gabriel. I and everyone else will remember you. But do not grow arrogant, because this is only the beginning. Our future is the vast universe. It is the sea of stars."
"Yes, Leader."
Gabriel was so stirred that he dropped to one knee and struck his right fist against his chest, wishing he could dig out his own heart and offer it.
If Matthew had possessed some kind of faith panel to track such things, the numbers appearing before him right now would have been absurd.
Gabriel Faith Value +10086
Gabriel Faith Value +10086
Gabriel Faith Value +10086
The notifications would have kept scrolling.
After pouring out a wave of motivational speech, Matthew left the laboratory and let Gabriel return to his work.
The emergence of the superconducting material meant that his side would, in the near term, achieve a complete technological leap — an explosion of capability unlike anything that had come before.
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