Electromagnetic Weapons

After seven days, Bai Ge had done only three things.

Training, studying, and making tools.

There was no need to mention studying. It was an extremely long road. Even after he finished learning everything available online, there was still knowledge preserved through physical means, and that was even harder to obtain.

The results of his training went without saying. In just seven days, Bai Ge's punching strength had finally reached five hundred kilograms—the equivalent of Thousand Jin Strength.

The farther he progressed, the greater the increase became.

However, before his physical abilities reached an absurd level, Bai Ge still couldn't withstand bullets.

Although his ability to take hits was also growing at an unreasonable rate, bullets were simply too powerful. He might not die from a single shot, but he would still be injured just like an ordinary person.

America was a country where guns weren't banned, and he was unfamiliar with the place. Bai Ge decided to make the electromagnetic cannon first.

There were also scattered containment objects there. Each city had only one red dot.

Since it was so difficult to make the trip, the containment objects were one of his targets besides visiting his sister and finding a supercomputer.

Bai Ge wasn't foolish enough to blindly trust his body right now. When necessary, he should also have some lethal weapons as trump cards.

Now that he had mastered magnetism, electromagnetic rail weapons had become his most cost-effective choice.

Bai Ge made two kinds. One was intended for Shao Yuan.

It was a conventional electromagnetic rifle. It could be disassembled and assembled, and its construction was simple, consisting only of a power source, accelerator, and switch.

Accelerating the projectile through its long barrel, it could reach enough kinetic energy to penetrate the walls of an ordinary home.

Its power wasn't particularly great, but it was still far stronger than an ordinary rifle.

It used solid bullets. Combined with the electromagnetic weapon's accuracy and lack of recoil, it was perfectly suited for someone like Shao Yuan, who had never handled a gun.

However, it consumed quite a lot of energy. Firing it ten times would usually drain the battery, after which it would need at least ten hours to recharge. Thus, it wasn't suitable for sustained combat.

As for Bai Ge, he used his own specialized electromagnetic cannon.

It was also a hand cannon. Calling it a cannon was a bit of an exaggeration—it was tiny, only about the size of a palm, and looked somewhat like a hair dryer.

That was because Bai Ge didn't need a cannon-rail accelerator. He himself was the accelerator.

The hand cannon gave the metal projectile some initial velocity, after which it was accelerated within Bai Ge's magnetic field. This greatly reduced the cost, and its electrical consumption was less than one-tenth that of a true electromagnetic cannon. After all, he could freely control the magnetic field.

The longer the acceleration track, the faster the projectile would travel and the greater its power would be.

If it were accelerated for one hundred meters, its power would be equivalent to a one-ton car traveling at 160 kilometers per hour and crashing into something.

As the acceleration channel grew longer—for example, reaching two thousand meters—it could attain five times the speed of sound, enough even to sink a warship.

Therefore, the best place to use this weapon was actually out at sea, where the surroundings were relatively open. In a city, there simply wasn't enough space for Bai Ge to create a two-thousand-meter acceleration track.

Of course, he could also increase the magnetic force and accelerate it for only one hundred meters to reach five times the speed of sound, but the energy consumption would then be far too high.

In just seven days, Bai Ge had Bell finish all the work.

He took the components out of his mindscape and assembled them himself in the factory.

Two electromagnetic rifles, two electromagnetic cannons, twenty bullets, and twenty cannon shells.

He took these weapons and found Shao Yuan, who was completely absorbed in his research.

Shao Yuan's research was nowhere near as fast as Bai Ge's.

Bai Ge possessed all kinds of technology. All he had to do was bring those designs into reality.

After seven days, Shao Yuan had gained almost nothing. He had merely become more proficient at using the ring.

"We should get going. Pack these things up. We probably won't be back for quite some time," Bai Ge said.

Shao Yuan sighed. "Sigh, a virus mutation really is something you can only encounter by chance."

He quickly put away the instruments and locked the culture dishes inside the greenhouse.

Once everything was done, Bai Ge disassembled the electromagnetic rifle and handed it to him.

"What is this?"

"An electromagnetic rifle. It's a little more powerful than a bullet, and it has no recoil. You can try it," Bai Ge said.

"What? An electromagnetic weapon?" Shao Yuan was stunned. This was far too advanced for him.

"It's nothing. Our country can actually make small, low-power electromagnetic weapons for individual soldiers. It's just that the wear and tear is severe, and their sustained combat capability in actual battles is poor, so they never developed them in the direction of individual weapons," Bai Ge said.

"Why did you make this? Can we use it domestically?" Shao Yuan asked.

Bai Ge smiled. "We're a containment team. We can get by empty-handed domestically, but once we go overseas, things become a little troublesome... It's for you to defend yourself. Don't you always say that you can't help much? If you run into trouble in the future, at least you'll have the means to fight back. Most importantly, it's cost-effective. We had to make it sooner or later, so we might as well prepare it now instead of making it on short notice later."

Shao Yuan nodded and fiddled with it, but he didn't really understand it.

Bai Ge taught him by hand how to assemble it. The steps were simple. The main body had only three parts, which just needed to be snapped together.

After finishing, Shao Yuan tested it by firing at Bai Ge's small steel hut.

"Bang!"

The projectile shot out and instantly pierced the steel plate. Because the steel plate Bai Ge had bought was too thick, the projectile became lodged more than two centimeters inside.

Still, that level of power was already quite impressive.

The heavy echo reverberated through the factory, and the steel hut buzzed.

"What incredible power!"

After learning how to use it, Shao Yuan said with a smile, "It's so convenient. I can't believe you made this, seriously. If electromagnetic guns are this easy to make, who would still buy guns? Wouldn't it be better to make them yourself?"

Bai Ge curled his lip. "Ordinary people can't make something like this. The material requirements alone can't be met through handcrafting. A tech enthusiast would be doing well to make an electromagnetic weapon capable of punching through a sheet of iron. Mine can penetrate a two-centimeter-thick steel plate, a forty-centimeter-thick brick wall, and a tree trunk seventy centimeters in diameter."

Shao Yuan was amazed. After asking about a few more details, he said, "Unfortunately, it can only fire ten shots, and then it needs to recharge. If I really run into trouble serious enough to use this gun, I don't think ten bullets will solve the problem."

Bai Ge shrugged. "I bought a lead-acid battery from a hardware store. This already has the highest capacity among small batteries. All the materials can be bought on the market, so being able to make it this good is already impressive... How about this? I'll give you a spare 'battery.'"

As he spoke, Bai Ge took a strand of hair from his pocket. It had probably fallen out during training because one of his movements had been too forceful.

Then he handed the hair to Shao Yuan. "Keep this strand safe. Charge it normally. At a critical moment, if your battery runs out of power, you can use this to supply energy. Just wrap the two terminals around this strand of hair, then adjust the voltage using this. Remember, charge it whenever you have nothing else to do! Every hour you charge it will be enough for one shot!"

After listening to Bai Ge explain so much, Shao Yuan hadn't understood a word.

He stared at Bai Ge and at the thing Bai Ge had handed him, his expression indescribably strange.

"Uh... you gave me a hair?"

Bai Ge said with a completely serious expression, "Trust me, this strand of hair is one of the best batteries in the world!"

Shao Yuan accepted Bai Ge's hair with a helpless laugh. "Are you sure you're not messing with me? Suppose I'm in a shootout with someone and, at the critical moment, I take out this hair to supply power. If it's useless, I'm afraid I'll die with regrets!"

"Haha, don't worry. Remember, keep it somewhere safe when you're not using it. Wrap it in insulating material, don't ground it, and don't soak it in water. In short, just treat it like a relatively fragile battery and you'll be fine!" Bai Ge said.

Seeing how serious Bai Ge was, Shao Yuan asked suspiciously, "What's going on? Is your hair really that powerful? Could your hair be a containment object?"

Bai Ge smiled. "You should remember that after I threw the ring into the courtyard, the containment-object map showed two red dots."

"Of course. One was Han Rui, and the other was the ring. Because Han Rui's body was infected by the ring's anomalous effect, he was also counted as a supernatural object," Shao Yuan said.

Then Shao Yuan suddenly understood. "You're the same? You were infected by your own containment object too? Your body is basically similar to mine now. I have the Effect of Infertility. What about you? A battery physique?"

"You can understand it that way. In short, every cell in my body is no longer that of an ordinary human. Hair is made of my keratinized cells, so it has the same anomalous effect. I've specifically tested this gun. Using me as the battery works just as well," Bai Ge said.

Shao Yuan was delighted. "No wonder you train so crazily! Right, I remember now. The last time you came to my clinic, you mentioned something about Human Body Charging. So you had already obtained a containment object back then!"

"Then give me a few more strands of hair! One isn't enough!"

As he spoke, Shao Yuan reached out to pull Bai Ge's hair.

Bai Ge suddenly slapped his hand away and snapped, "Don't touch my hair! This is for charging you. If it doesn't contain any electricity, what use would you have for taking more?"

"If you want hair, pick it up off the ground from now on! Don't take it from my head!"

P.S. If you have a Sanjiang ticket, remember to cast it. Well, if you don't want to, then don't.