Chapter 406: Speculation
Godzilla’s body weighed an astonishing 100,000 tons. Such immense weight would be nearly impossible to support, even if its bones were made of superalloys. To manage this, it employed electromagnetic fields to support and restrain its body, preventing it from being crushed under its own weight.
Even with this assistance, Godzilla’s movement was extremely challenging. Thus, it utilized another unique ability, one that took Luo Wen over a year to fully decipher.
This ability allowed Godzilla to swim rapidly in water and even move on land. When Luo Wen first encountered it, his limited understanding led him to believe it was merely a pseudo-anti-gravity technology based on magnetic fields, similar to the beetles on the Genesis Planet.
However, as Luo Wen’s knowledge expanded and his horizons broadened, he realized it was something entirely different. Unlike the pseudo-anti-gravity technology, which worked by creating interactions between biological magnetic fields and planetary magnetic fields to cancel out portions of gravity, Godzilla’s ability represented true anti-gravity—or, more accurately, gravity manipulation.
At the time, this technology was far too advanced for Luo Wen and the Swarm. Without the foundational scientific theories to support it, they were unable to fully develop or apply it.
Luo Wen, however, understood that using such a sophisticated technology merely to offset one’s own weight was a colossal waste.
Even though the Swarm’s intelligent entities at that time were far fewer than they are now, Luo Wen assigned a significant portion of them to study the technology. Despite their efforts, progress was slow and sporadic.
The breakthrough came with the discovery of the Riken “Treasure Starship.” The ship’s primary engine was a warp drive—though it was a defective model, a false path designed to mislead emerging civilizations, it provided the Swarm with invaluable insights.
Before, the Swarm had the result but no way to calculate how it had been achieved—like knowing the answer to a complex equation but having no idea how it was solved. The data from the ship provided a formula. Even though the data provided by Cleo revealed that the result was incorrect, the formula itself was over 70% accurate.