Chapter 769 - 9 Brainstorm (1/2)

Returning to his lab, Roland put the crystal item on the table and said, “Pause all the other studies. Let’s focus on this thing for now.” Looking at the green crystal stick, Su Minluo picked it up and said, “Where’s there to investigate? Isn’t it made of green agate or emeralds? Its purity seems very high… Huh?”

After she touched it with her hands, she found that this wasn’t right. “Is it jade?” she asked in confusion.

Her feeling was different from Roland’s.

When Roland grabbed it, he sensed nothing but energy; the feeling was so strong that he couldn’t sense anything else. However, Su Minluo couldn’t sense the energy in it. She simply felt that the item was warm and smooth, like a piece of warm jade from legend.

Also, it was quite heavy, and it was also translucent and looked quite refreshing.

“It’s not jade, but an energy stick,” replied Roland.

Huh???

All the researchers in the lab were greatly shocked.

“It’s indeed an energy stick,” explained Roland. “I can absorb it. If I fully absorb it, my strength will reach a very high level!”

“How high exactly?” Su Minluo’s eyes were glowing again.

“I may be able to blow up this entire base if I attack with my full strength.” Roland smiled.

“This little thing contains so much energy?” All the researchers were shocked.

They knew how big and well-defended the base was more than anybody else did.

That was an underground base that could resist a nuclear explosion equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT right on the surface.

Director Huang could blow this place up after absorbing the stick?

“It sounds rather unbelievable!” Su Minluo crossed her arms and leaned on the back of her chain, thinking. Then she said, “I find it hard to believe, but if your feeling is right, it’s indeed worth studying.”

The other researchers agreed with her.

Although it looked like a simple crystal stick, Director Huang wasn’t an ordinary person and if he said that it was an energy stick, it had to be one.

It remained unknown what kind of energy was contained within.

The researchers were quite excited to have a new project to work on.

After trying some simple impact experiments in safe places, they confirmed that the stick was hard and the energy in it was inert and wouldn’t explode.

Therefore, they applied for the best cutter in the base, hoping to cut off some powder or a tiny piece from the stick for research.

As it turned out, neither laser cutters nor physical ones could extract the tiniest bit of powder from the crystal stick.

“This is unbelievable.” Everybody was shocked. “What is this exactly?”

Then, they made use of large scanners.

However… all of the scanners showed nothing but pixels. Then, observing with the naked eye, they found that it was still a green crystal stick.

The weird phenomenon raised discussions all over the base.

After that, the crystal stick was passed to a dozen labs in the next month, but no progress was made.

Eventually, it was returned to Roland. It was jokingly called a black-box energy stick that violated all common sense.

Nobody had seen such a thing before. A lot of the research teams applied to keep it for their own studies. Even if they couldn’t find out anything yet, they might make discoveries after the technologies advanced.

However, their bosses replied that it was Comrade Huang Wenwei’s personal item that he could keep to himself. One day after work, Roland gazed at the energy stick on the table in his dormitory and extended his hand, communicating with the energy with his mental power. Unlike magic power, the energy in it was very pure and seemingly could be transformed into any energy that Roland knew, such as magic power, light, or electricity-whatever he wanted.

The energy was of a very high level.

Logically, it would be great to absorb such high-level energy, but the problem was that Roland couldn’t directly absorb it.

He had to transform it first.

Closing his eyes and observing with his mind, Roland saw that the energy stick was no longer a green stick but a tiny green globe with detailed terrains on it!

Well… Roland tried to absorb some of the energy. He sensed that he had gotten ten times more magic power than he could from one Magic Power Transformation session.

It was truly pure. After absorbing it for a while, Roland sensed that his energy was full. He estimated that something terrible would happen if he continued.

His body might even explode and he’d die.

It was mainly because his body in reality was too pathetic compared to that in the game.

Then, he opened his eyes, only to find that the energy stick was absolutely the same.

He picked up the energy stick and found that it weighed as much as before.

He frowned and weighed it in the lab, only to find that its weight really was absolutely the same.

Su Minluo and the other researchers were in the lab. Because the study on the energy stick had been put on hold, they resumed their old projects.

Seeing Roland in front of the weighing machine, Su Minluo walked over and asked, “Did you find anything, Director Huang?” “I just absorbed a lot of energy.” Roland pointed at the crystal stick. “But it weighs the same as before.”

“Is it possible that you didn’t really absorb much?”

Roland nodded. “It’s possible that the loss of weight is too insignificant for the machine to detect. However, there may be another reason for that. Could it be refilling its energy on its own?”