Bacteriophage Robot

Yang Ning rented the place specifically for the river in the training grounds.

One reason was for the convenience of cleaning the tanks.

The second reason...

By the river, his water-controlling abilities would be more effective, and a few kilometers away, children were always throwing things into the river.

After a day of strenuous training, Yang Ning was too lazy to go back. He would lie by the river, listening to the tranquil flow of the water, and drift off to sleep.

Seeing how carefree he was, Xun Hu, who had to go back to school, along with Ning Rong and Su Bai, joined him.

As long as the grass was flattened, it made a ready-made bed. It wasn't cold at night during this season, and there were no mosquitoes in Seacloud City.

"Where the heart is at peace, there is home!" Yang Ning sighed.

"Are you homesick?" Ning Rong asked.

"No!" Yang Ning shook his head. He didn't have much affection for his parents in this life. Since his birth, they had treated him as a burden. He had endured countless cold words. If he hadn't invented the Curved Shaft Plow and gained some importance, he would have been sold off long ago!

The local county magistrate also realized his parents were unreliable and took him in when he was two years old. He never went back after that.

This home was not that home!!

Ning Rong's heart clenched. She was actually homesick and had thought Yang Ning would feel the same longing.

For some reason, her initial feeling towards Yang Ning was curiosity mixed with admiration. After getting to know him better, she discovered he not only had astonishing poetic talent but was also gifted in cultivation.

But the more she learned, the more she realized he was actually a weirdo obsessed with Artifact Forging.

Today, after finally regaining a bit of good feeling, it vanished instantly.

Never mind, time to sleep.

Su Bai slept even earlier. The cultivation technique he practiced was extremely draining. It was very strenuous for just four people to push a 50-ton tank with their feet.

Fortunately, they were cultivators with great strength.

As for Yang Ning...

His consciousness had long since arrived at the riverbed, three kilometers away.

A stream of water imbued with consciousness quietly wrapped around the parts the children had thrown into the riverbed. It gathered them together, and then the stream, like a pair of skillful hands, assembled the parts.

Finally, over thirty parts were assembled into a rod.

But the rod could instantly disassemble, transforming into a mechanical creation with six legs, a head, and a neck, resembling an octopus.

In fact, Yang Ning had referenced the bacteriophage of E. coli for its appearance, so he ultimately named it the Bacteriophage Robot.

The bacteriophage's head was a hollow quartz crystal that generated ultrasound when powered.

The neck ring was a vortex generator, like a fan driving a magnet with copper wire wound around it. When water flowed through, it could generate current and was also used to emit electromagnetic waves.

The neck was a superheterodyne receiver, essentially a dirt antenna.

The six legs had various functions, including a water jet cutter, pliers, a wrench, and a screwdriver.

Two legs were used for the pliers.

The existence of these various functional devices made this robot a super-robot integrating prospecting (electromagnetic waves), mining (water jet), metallurgy (ultrasound sonoluminescence), processing (water jet), and assembly (pliers, wrench, screwdriver)!

Of course, judging by its appearance alone, no one would think this robot was so amazing. It looked more like a children's toy.

The current generated by the generator wasn't enough to make the quartz crystal produce sufficient ultrasound to heat ore. The electromagnetic waves generated by the current could be used for prospecting, but the rudimentary antenna couldn't analyze the reflected electromagnetic waves at all.

As for the pliers and water jet, they were even more laughable. The so-called water jet was essentially a water gun, and its water-spraying speed was worse than the 50-cent water guns sold at street stalls. As for the pliers, due to the weakness of the two legs, they couldn't even lift large chunks of ore.

But this was not a world of science, but a world of cultivation.

When this robot was infused with Nightmare Energy, everything changed.

Now, the water jet could easily cut through any Mortal Mineral, and the pliers could pick it up.

The antenna couldn't analyze electromagnetic wave signals, but it could record them, and it was Deep Blue that actually analyzed the signals.

The ultrasound generated by the quartz crystal in the head was sufficient to create 2000℃ high temperatures through cavitation, a temperature hot enough to melt any metal!

Research has always been easier to add to than to subtract from. Yang Ning designed it by integrating existing conditions and Jiang Yunhao's processing capabilities, creating a minimalist robot.

Not only was it minimalist, but its secrecy was also strong. Because the whole thing looked like an iron rod stuck into a stone, even if someone fished it up, they would think it was just trash and casually toss it back into the river.

Moreover, Yang Ning wasn't afraid of others copying it. The computing power of the Spiritual Realm, Deep Blue's control, and Nightmare Energy's universal energy were all unique to Yang Ning and irreplaceable.

If someone wanted to replicate it, let alone the high-precision chips needed for the robot, they couldn't even manufacture batteries, which had lower technical requirements.

Of course, while building the robot, Yang Ning also discovered something: not every creation required Yang Ning to activate it first for Nightmare Energy to work.

For the same item, like a Bullet sniper rifle, once one was used, Nightmare Energy would remember it. Then, injecting Nightmare Energy into an unused Bullet sniper rifle would also achieve the same effect.

Yang Ning had already tested the effectiveness of the Bacteriophage Robot in the Spiritual Realm. So, after this Bacteriophage Robot, assembled in the water, took shape, Yang Ning injected it with Nightmare Energy. It was as if a lifeless object suddenly gained a soul, standing upright in the water.

A Nightmare Energy robot was 40 centimeters tall. The amount of materials was far less than that of a Bullet sniper rifle, but because it needed to generate electricity and heat, possibly due to high energy consumption, it required 3 points of mental power.

Yang Ning directly injected 240 points.

However, having more mental power wouldn't make the robot extraordinary; it would only extend its usage period.

With a thought, the Bacteriophage Robot, like a newly born fish, first tried swimming, then tried walking on the riverbed.

The iron lump naturally couldn't swim, but the spiritual power on it was equivalent to Yang Ning being there personally, so he could naturally control the water flow to forcefully float himself up.

However, doing so consumed a lot of energy, so after trying it out, Yang Ning gave up on having the robot swim. Instead, he had it walk along the riverbed, as its six legs weren't slow.

As the robot began to move along the riverbed, its ultrasonic and electromagnetic wave detectors also started working. Meanwhile, Yang Ning had opened up a new space in the Spiritual Realm and began constructing the riverbed's situation based on the signals fed back by the bacteriophage robot.

Swimming fish, seaweed, river sand, minerals, and... shipwrecks!

"So many shipwrecks!" Yang Ning had only scanned for about ten minutes, but he had already discovered five!

They were piled on top of each other, and they weren't empty ships either; they were loaded with minerals!

"One ship should have been carrying silk, all rotten. One ship had porcelain, perfectly preserved. One ship had Hua Mu? Also completely rotten. Another ship was entirely filled with white paper; this paper is unusual, it's waterproof? And another ship, huh?"

Yang Ning was startled. The ship at the very bottom was carrying grain, which wasn't particularly special, but in one of its cabins, it was filled to the brim with silver!

Electromagnetic waves reflect when they hit metal, and different metals reflect different waves. Based on this principle, one could detect ores and metals, and Yang Ning could naturally recognize silver.

He had the bacteriophage robot move over, and after climbing up and down for a while, Deep Blue finished counting.

A total of 24 million taels!

"Damn it!" Yang Ning was shocked. How could there be so much?

And most importantly, no one had salvaged it?

There were sea monsters in the sea, but there weren't any decent demon beasts in the river, especially not in the rivers of Seacloud City. Wouldn't it be cleaned out eight hundred times a day?

Even if the ship had sunk very deep, it wouldn't stop cultivators in the Body Refinement Realm with high cultivation!

Yang Ning immediately searched for relevant information and soon learned the reason.

The rivers of Seacloud City, big and small, all had owners, and anything that fell into them automatically belonged to the river's owner!

Fishing in the river was fine; fishermen couldn't even catch many fish.

But salvaging ships from the river was not allowed, even if the ship was yours and very valuable, it was still not allowed!

Unless you bought it back at market price after salvaging it.

What was the point of salvaging then!

Unless it was a necessity, like a memento from a deceased parent or a gift from a lover, then it might be permissible.

"Huh?" Yang Ning suddenly thought of something.

"You want to salvage items from the riverbed?" Deep Blue said. "I don't think it's a good idea. Those families should know what's at the bottom of the river. They might not be salvaging it to preserve some foundation for their families. Perhaps if the amount of items decreases, they'll notice!"

"No!" Yang Ning said. "I thought of it based on the principle of electromagnetic wave prospecting. The mass and volume of electrons are much smaller than atoms. So, based on the shape of the electromagnetic wave reflected when it hits metal, can't we determine the appearance of the atoms?"

"Huh?" Deep Blue was stunned, then immediately began to try it out.

Before long, the entire Spiritual Realm was filled with cheerful laughter!

The observation scale of the Spiritual Realm had officially reached the atomic level!