Lin Mo opened his mouth and asked with difficulty:
"It's that hard?"
Liu Chengen nodded irritably.
"What did you think?"
There was a trace of helplessness in his voice.
"The largest hydroelectric dam only needs five days to generate a billion kilowatt-hours."
"But-"
"Most of it goes to waste!"
Lin Mo froze. "Goes to waste?"
Liu Chengen nodded, his voice grave.
"Peak electricity demand is enormous, forcing us to keep expanding our generating capacity without limit."
"But during off-peak hours, we can't use that much electricity, which is why energy storage technology came into being."
He sighed.
"But it's a drop in the bucket."
Qian Zhenhua also added:
"Energy storage technology has always been our weak point-no, humanity's weak point."
"Generating electricity isn't hard. The hard part is storing it, and we've put enormous effort into that."
"There are even outlandish approaches, like using surplus electricity during off-peak hours to pump water from a pond up to a mountaintop for storage, then letting it flow back down to generate electricity during peak hours."
"And the Demon Clan's Energy Blocks... solve that problem perfectly, while being completely clean and pollution-free!"
Liu Chengen nodded emphatically.
"Exactly!"
He raised the small transparent box in his hand so everyone could clearly see the crystal inside.
"Now do you understand how useful Demon Clan corpses are?"
Lin Mo stared at the crystal, a flicker of shock crossing his eyes.
Liu Chengen wasn't finished. He took a deep breath and continued:
"Not to mention..."
"All the rare metals we can extract from them!"
After hearing this, the guards around them began murmuring among themselves.
"Holy shit, the Demon Clan is worth that much?"
"Aren't they basically walking ore deposits?"
"If only we'd known, we could've captured a few more alive!"
"No, we should've gone easier on