If Shen Bing's earlier request for the rights to mine Jupiter's metallic hydrogen resources had struck the leaders as inconsequential, his second request left them utterly bewildered.
"Little Shen, is there something special about these weapons?" The Chief did not believe Shen Bing simply wanted to provide weapons for the soldiers fighting in another world.
Shen Bing had no intention of hiding anything. "According to the information we obtained from the Corgi Empire, although the Azure Empire is also developing mechanical technology, they place greater emphasis on their own evolution. Their main achievement in that field lies in the use of a certain kind of dark energy. They can use it to enhance their individual strength, attack, defend, and so on. You could say that if the battlefield is saturated with this dark energy, their strength will increase considerably. Through years of investigation, the Corgi Empire discovered that metallic hydrogen can voraciously absorb this dark energy. If we use metallic hydrogen extensively on the battlefield, the density of that energy will drop sharply. That would be immensely significant for us."
"I suspect that's not all there is to it." The Chief smiled.
"I wasn't finished yet," Shen Bing said. "I'm quite curious about this dark energy myself. Since the Azure Empire was able to use it to develop a cultivation civilization, could we learn from their example? That's why I want to use this metallic hydrogen to collect the dark energy for further research."
The Chief and the others understood. This kid wanted those elite soldiers to work for Phantom Immortal Technology! For free, at that.
All right, it was not entirely free. After all, Phantom Immortal Technology had taken on the task of building the Secret Base.
But that was not how the accounting worked, was it? Wasn't he