Mo Jing?! It turns out that the small chip that Margaret stuffed into the gun chamber just now was Mo Jing?! It turns out that this sniper rifle that can only fire one shot actually uses Mo Jing as the driving energy source?!

Ashes know what Mo Jing is, of course, but like most ordinary people, he has never seen such a priceless crystal in his own eyes since he was born.

As we all know, blackstone is the cornerstone of building human mechanical civilization. Blackstone can release a large amount of heat when burning and is an indispensable energy to drive steam engines. To measure the strength of a country's national strength, the quantity and quality of blackstone ore veins in the country are often one of the crucial factors.

The same mineral that is one level higher than Black Stone is called "Black Gold", which is a hard black mineral with a metallic luster. The chemical properties of black gold are very similar to those of black stone, but the heat that black gold can release when burning is nearly a hundred times that of black stone of the same volume... The more precise the machinery, the higher the demand for fuel. As a rare and advanced energy source, black gold naturally becomes a strategic resource strictly controlled by the empire.

In the early years, black gold could only be found in the bottom layer of large-scale and high-quality black stone veins, with extremely low output. The royal family, great nobles and the army firmly controlled these black gold to prevent this resource from flowing into the private market... But with the emergence of the "concentration and refining method", the alchemists successfully used black stone to make artificial black gold, and this situation improved... However, it took a whole truck of black stone to produce black gold. In addition, the equipment and catalysts required were also expensive, and things like black gold were still not popularized in the civilian field.

As for the mo crystal, for ordinary people, it is even more rare gems that only exist in legends.

This is a kind of black gold companion ore, but compared with the output ratio between black gold and black stone, the number of ink crystals is even less. It is more appropriate to say that it is a gem than an ore.

But then again, when Mo Jing was discovered by humans, it was indeed treated as a gem - the high-quality black stone with impurities below 20% had a ignition point of about 500 degrees, while the black gold was as high as 1,000 degrees... But even if Mo Jing was thrown into a steelmaking furnace of more than 2,000 degrees, it would not react. It would not burn or melt, and the temperature that was enough to vaporize the cracked iron could not do anything to this beautiful crystal.

Although ink crystals cannot be used in industry, its output determines its value. Until now, jewelry inlaid with ink crystals is still a popular product in the upper class.

But more than a hundred years ago, a genius mechanic found the way to use Mo Jing. After countless attempts and failures, he invented a special circuit array that can resonate with Mo Jing, thus causing Mo Jing to release incredible energy. However, at the moment of the successful experiment, the genius mechanic sacrificed his life for it. The out-of-control energy raged the entire laboratory and evaporated most things, including the mechanic himself.

Fortunately, his part of the research manuscripts that were not stored in the laboratory were preserved. With these manuscripts, it took more than ten years for later generations to restore his research results.

Despite this, the output of ink crystals is destined to be unable to be used in industrialization on a large scale, and humans have not been able to master the method of synthesizing ink crystals. All the ink crystals that exist in the world are natural products, and one piece is less than one piece.

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In other words, the shot Margaret just fired was enough to completely break a small nobleman who was in the lower class...

"It doesn't matter... the energy in its body should have been almost consumed. If it doesn't repair the wound and fight back to death, we may have to pay a considerable price, but since it uses the remaining energy to repair the wound..."

Before Margaret could finish speaking, the crazy man who had just gotten up from the ground fell head-on again. This time, it twitched for only a few times and then no longer moved.

The twisted muscles on its body began to degenerate, and the hard black scales fell off the surface and turned into gray-white powdery substances... When all the signs of alienation disappeared, the only one who appeared in the Ashes' field of vision was a pale and thin boy.

This made Ash feel a little unbelievable. The monster's body was such a boy who was not much different from himself... But just a minute ago, the boy killed more than a dozen well-equipped men in black, and forced himself to carry the bombardment of the heavy sniper rifle powered by the mo crystal.

How did he become like this? Ashes was full of doubts. He kept searching the content of the books and documents he had read in his mind, but he could not find any information related to it.

"It's strange why he became that way, right?" Margaret seemed to guess the ashes' thoughts and patted him on the shoulder, "Come with me."

Margaret stood up and walked around the rear of the car with ash and several men in black... The place where the roar of the crazy man just alarmed.

A tall and thin boy was pressed to the ground by four men in black, and the other seeds were huddled in the corner, staring at this scene with fear. The suppressed boy was very thin and had no muscles at all. This was a common phenomenon in the isolation area, but a force that was completely inconsistent with his figure burst out from his body. The four strong men in black had to use all their strength to hold his limbs firmly.

"It's a self-awakener..." Lyon walked to Margaret, looked at the ashes holding the musket, and said to Margaret in a low voice.

"Are there any signs of his power losing control?"

"Not yet...but..." Lyon looked at the ashes again and did not continue.

Ashes didn't pay much attention to the conversation between Margaret and Lyon at this moment, and all his attention was attracted by the boy... He knew this person, named Marseille, and was fifteen years old this year. In addition to Ashes, he was almost the oldest among the seeds. He was an apprentice to an old mechanic in the central market. The profession of mechanics will be respected by people no matter where he is, so he and his master lived in the isolation area. After all, the Lionheart Gang still needed them to maintain the mechanical equipment excavated from the ruins.

At this moment, the people in black had put a cloak made of thick linen on Marseille's body, and fixed all parts of the cloak with a tough belt. Although Marseille was still struggling, the extent of his struggle had become very small. He was breathing heavily, his eyes were covered with bright red blood.

"Is it still impossible to contact the outside world?"

"It's useless... the telegram cannot be sent out at all, and the interference field in the isolation area has not weakened..." Lyon shook his head.

"Preserve him and monitor him closely," said Margaret.

"Miss! You should know... the awakened person who awakens by himself... Especially in the quarantine area of ​​the Dark Season, the chance of power being out of control is almost 100%. Once he becomes a crazy person, the cloak can't bind him! And we don't have a second 'Thunder'! My suggestion is to execute him immediately!" Lyon's tone seemed a little excited, and he had even ignored the ashes standing aside.

"..." Margaret hesitated for a few seconds before nodding, "Okay..."

With Margaret's permission, Lyon immediately summoned several men in black, picked up Marseille and the cloak that was wrapped around him, and left the open space.

Soon, a few gunshots came from not far away.

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"The meaning of 'seed'... refers to people who have not yet awakened that kind of power? You collect 'seeds' to make us turn into that kind of monster, right?" Looking at the trembling "seeds", Ash suddenly turned his head and asked Margaret.
Chapter completed!