High-Energy Heat

When watching the video, Du Ke's perspective was slightly different from his personal exploration of the New World. He was now paying more attention to his surroundings. At the time, his attention was entirely on the Bomb Caterpillars, and he hadn't noticed that a strange climbing plant was actually moving, deliberately avoiding him.

This was also a blue plant, climbing on a blue giant tree. It was impossible to see clearly without careful observation.

Whenever Du Ke got close, this climbing plant would quietly move its vines, hiding on the other side of the giant tree. This caused Du Ke to not notice it at all.

"Plants can move? This... could it be sentient?" Du Ke raised his eyebrows and discovered another interesting piece of information. "Mimosa pudica closes its leaves, but that's just a stimulus-reflex behavior. The same goes for Venus flytraps, but this is different. It has subjective consciousness!"

Since he didn't see this climbing plant flower, Du Ke temporarily named it "Shy Vine." He also named the blue giant tree "Blue Maple."

This was because its leaves were also split-shaped, somewhat resembling maple leaves.

In fact, there were many other plants, but they were unremarkable. Du Ke wasn't a professional scholar, so he was too lazy to give them names. He was mainly watching the video to see if he had missed anything, and he continued watching until the end of the video, at the ferocious giant bird.

He was shaking at the time, so the video angle wasn't very good, but he could still see clearly that the giant bird that had captured him was very strange.

It had the general form of an eagle, but its body was more bloated, closer to a beast that runs on the ground. Especially its abdomen, which lacked feathers, revealing strong muscles. The strangest part was its head. It had an eagle-like head, but the edges of its beak had two rows of fine teeth, top and bottom.

Moreover, on top of its head, it had a pair of goat-like horns, which gave it a special aura of ferocity mixed with a hint of evil.

"So strange, I'll just call you Horned Roc."

At the end of the video, during the part where he fell, a red halo appeared on the surface of the Horned Roc's body. The ropes within its reach corroded, and even the Nano Armor cracked.

"It's definitely Magic. Shield Crows can cast magic shields. What the Horned Roc released... should be Fire Resistance Ring, no, there's no fire, so it must be Resistance Aura." Du Ke remembered playing the game Legend, where Mages had spells like Fire Resistance Ring that could push enemies away.

A New World with magic.

Du Ke thought for a moment and decided to name this world – Fantasy World.

It was a fantasy planet with two suns. The sun on the left was smaller, which could be called Lesser Yang, and the sun on the right was larger, which could be called Greater Yang. According to traditional Chinese medicine meridians, there are hand-Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, hand-Shaoyang Triple Energizer Meridian, etc. Lesser Yang, Greater Yang, plus Greater Yang, and it's done.

The video was finished. What Du Ke needed to worry about next was how to handle the samples he brought back.

He had thought about this countless times over the past six months. The best solution, of course, was to consult professionals and leave the analysis and research to experts. But this was bound to be unrealistic because the probability of exposing the secret was too high. So, after much thought, he could only research and analyze it himself.

Therefore, he spent a lot of money to build good relationships with the researchers at the research institute.

In addition to replicating some precision instruments and equipment, it was also to facilitate his own research in the laboratory in the future, although he could only do some basic small-scale research. Things like DNA sequencing and protein localization, he had heard researchers talk about, but he was still confused after they finished.

"I can't research in the villa. It would be troublesome if the virus leaked. I need to find a deserted place in the countryside." Du Ke acted as he spoke.

That same afternoon, he rode his motorcycle around and found a house in a rural area on the outskirts. The house was abandoned, and there was no running water or electricity. But that didn't matter. Du Ke just needed a place to shelter from the wind and rain. He cleaned the house briefly and began his experiments there.

With the Mind Armor providing energy, he directly materialized a workbench and an optical microscope.

Then, he carefully took out a Long-Haired Bomb from a test tube. After disinfecting it thoroughly with ultraviolet light, he dared to expose it to Earth's atmosphere.

"If only I had a sterile laboratory."

Unfortunately, he didn't. He had to make do with the makeshift laboratory. He was already proficient in operating the microscope and quickly adjusted the focus, seeing the structure of the Long-Haired Bomb.

"Hmm, very interesting. This structure is a bit like a chain, using a special structure composed of cells to bind a certain substance inside... What is this substance? It should be an explosive substance, right? It seems like two substances are separated by cell chains. Will they explode if mixed?"

He recorded the structure of the Long-Haired Bomb he observed. Most of it was a special chain structure, separating two substances. One substance was round, and the other was square. He didn't know their composition for the time being.

As for the front end of the Long-Haired Bomb, the part that could detonate upon forceful contact, Du Ke saw another special structure: "It's like a lock, combined with the cell chain. Let me try to open this lock and see what chain reaction occurs." He began the next step.

A high-speed camera was installed on the optical microscope, recording the observation process at all times.

He materialized a fine long needle and carefully pierced the trigger structure at the tip of the Long-Haired Bomb, wanting to record the moment of explosion.

However, the entire process was just a "puchi" sound from the Long-Haired Bomb, without the expected explosion.

Looking at the lens again, the Long-Haired Bomb had already turned to powder, the cell chains disappeared, and the two substances mixed together, generating a large amount of heat, which turned the glass lens on the objective red. A piece of the stage even melted, the slide holder was also burned, and the glass pressing the Long-Haired Bomb melted into liquid.

"Strange."

Du Ke examined the pulverized Long-Haired Bomb and quickly brought up the previous recording. By playing it in slow motion, he finally discovered the clue. When he triggered the tip with the long needle, it caused a chain reaction like dominoes, opening all the cell chain structures and then releasing the two substances to mix.

After mixing, there was a flash of intense light, followed by a large amount of heat that melted the glass and iron plate. No explosion occurred during the entire process.

"Did I stimulate it incorrectly?" Du Ke wondered. He took out another Long-Haired Bomb and forcefully stabbed it onto the glass. With a "puchi" sound, this Long-Haired Bomb also did not explode. "Strange, it could explode when I threw it in the Fantasy World, but not on Earth?"

He threw out five more, all with a "puchi" sound, releasing a fleeting flash of light, and then melting the glass. There was no sign of an explosion.

"Either the Bomb Caterpillars have lost their activity due to being dead for too long, or Earth's atmosphere is lacking some substance that can trigger the explosion of the Long-Haired Bomb." Du Ke couldn't determine the reason in a short time because the "hairless" Bomb Caterpillar that was collected alive had already died from "lack of oxygen."

"However."

Du Ke keenly discovered another point worth exploring: "The heat released by this Long-Haired Bomb is immense. If it were the size of a AAA battery, the heat released could melt glaciers!" A Long-Haired Bomb thinner than a hair and less than half a fingernail in length could contain so much energy.

Imagine how much energy there would be if it were gathered to the size of a AAA battery.

"Good heavens, is this more powerful than nuclear fission?"