After the protagonist brought this mysterious ball from [Bridgehead], he studied it over and over again for a while, but he didn't gain much.
The mysterious ball is about the size of a grain of millet. If it is thrown beside an ant lane in the wild, the ants will not even take a glance at it. It will just be regarded as a black gravel, which shows how inconspicuous it is.
But this thing was dug out of the Destroyer's body. In addition to the big mysterious ball, there is also a small mysterious ball that will soon decay and change color. It is also in the Destroyer's body. The functions of the two are unknown.
The protagonist has never known what kind of creature can dig out such a strange thing from the body. If it is a stone, the size of this thing compared to an ant is equivalent to digging out a volleyball-sized stone from the human body, which is a bit too exaggerated.
What's even more amazing is that there is a kind of blue liquid inside the big mysterious ball. Once the hard shell of the mysterious ball breaks, this blue liquid flows out and will soon spontaneously ignite in the air, or even cause an explosion.
There are many substances that can spontaneously ignite in the air, such as white phosphorus and sodium. It is not surprising that they will explode violently in a narrow space. But the protagonist's poor knowledge of chemistry prevents him from recalling any blue liquid with this characteristic.
The protagonist couldn't figure out the composition of this faint blue liquid. When he saw the liquid, he just glanced at it in a daze. He was suddenly awakened by the warning sign in his heart and ran away quickly, only to escape the disaster.
It's just that the explosion caused heavy losses to the protagonist's guard team, and the soldier ant guard "Mulan" who accompanied him almost day and night also died in the accident.
After such an experience, the protagonist naturally does not dare to destroy the shell of the mysterious ball to study its internal structure. But such a mysterious thing is closely related to the Destroyer, the biggest enemy of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, so the protagonist still hasn't stopped to study it.
Without the ability to conduct internal research, the protagonist can only start with the appearance and measurable parts. Before moving into the cave in [Linshui City], his research report was as follows:
Research object: Mysterious ball.
Source of object: Excavated from the inside of the Destroyer's abdomen.
Original form: In the middle of the abdomen of the Destroyer, close to the carapace on the back, adjacent to the digestive tract, excretory tract and other organs, there is a black chitin line connected to the small mysterious ball in the brain, with no visible connection to the other cells of the Destroyer. .
Appearance: Black chitin shell, the same color as the Destroyer's carapace.
Dimensions: The overall shape is egg-shaped, or approximately insect egg-shaped, with a diameter of about 0.5 mm at the longest end and about 0.3 mm at the shortest end.
Density research: Experiments have shown that the big mysterious ball can sink into water, and its overall density is greater than water, that is, greater than 1 g/cubic centimeter.
Use simple tools, including pottery graduated measuring tools, and use water to select several materials with the same volume as the big mysterious ball. Then compare them on a simple balance made of wood and rope, and find that their density is greater than chitin and less than quartz. Gravel, copper lamp.
Considering that there is a blue liquid inside the big mysterious ball, the surface is a chitin carapace. If it is assumed that there are no other substances and structures inside the big mysterious ball, the density of the faint blue liquid should be greater than water.
Stability study: Previous experience has shown that the chitin shell is easily broken when hit hard, and triggers spontaneous combustion and explosion of the blue liquid inside.
According to recent research on safety protection measures, the temperature of the big mysterious ball will rise when it is close to a heat source, and there is a possibility of explosion, so the experiment was suspended.
The above are the results of the protagonist's previous research. It is very simple. Apart from certain results on the stability and density of the big mysterious ball, he still basically knows nothing about this thing.
The protagonist even maliciously thought that in the future battle against the Destroyer, these captured "useless" mysterious balls could be used as bombs.
Thinking about the Destroyer swarm being exploded into the sky with a "duang" sound from the mysterious ball bomb that was preset from the bodies of its fallen comrades, the scene was really relieving and enjoyable.
Anyway, this mysterious ball is stable in nature, but can explode when hit hard and heated. It is very similar to gunpowder. The protagonist has a lot of human methods of detonating gunpowder for reference. It is necessary to design and manufacture a simple detonator for detonating the mysterious ball. It's not difficult either.
The simplest and easiest thing is to send a small team of ants carrying small rosin torches to burn the shell of the mysterious ball on the spot and detonate it. It's just that the ants responsible for detonating the explosion are also dead, and it feels like a "kamikaze".
The protagonist is naturally unwilling to sacrifice his subordinates, but the ants themselves don't care about the price they pay for victory, and the protagonist's remaining human sympathy is forgotten. This is the simplest after all, in a sense It is also the most economical and efficient way to detonate, and even disabled and old and frail ants can do it.
I am the dividing line
When moving into the cave, the protagonist left in a hurry and did not take the only mysterious ball with him. He plans to move out today.
But as soon as he hugged the mysterious ball, the protagonist felt a warmth coming from the mysterious ball.
The protagonist was stunned for a moment, hugged the mysterious ball tighter, and then touched it with his tentacles, finally confirming that the mysterious ball was indeed heating up.
At this time, according to the protagonist's physical sensation, the indoor temperature in the storage room is about single digits, and the temperature emitted by the mysterious ball is very comfortable, making the protagonist feel warm, about thirty degrees or more. If it is lower than thirty degrees, the protagonist will feel cool when holding it, and if the temperature is too high, it will feel hot to the touch.
But before today, when the protagonist was studying the mysterious ball, it didn't get hot.
What were the different conditions then and now? Are these different conditions triggering the heating mechanism of the mysterious ball?
The protagonist analyzed it from a scientific perspective and found that the biggest difference should be the change in room temperature. The room temperature used to be around ten degrees, but now it's only a little above zero.
In order to verify that the temperature change caused the mysterious ball to heat up, the protagonist took the mysterious ball away and conducted another experiment.
When the mysterious ball was brought back to a warm underground area with a temperature of about 20 degrees, the mysterious ball stopped generating heat within about ten minutes, and its temperature gradually dropped to the same level as the surrounding room temperature.
And when the protagonist throws the mysterious ball to the outermost part of the tree hole area, which is close to zero, the mysterious ball quickly begins to heat up, but no matter how the low temperature environment changes, it maintains a constant temperature of about thirty degrees.
After repeated experiments at different temperatures in the nest, the protagonist has roughly determined that the mysterious ball starts to heat when the room temperature is lower than ten degrees, and stops when the room temperature is higher than twenty degrees, and can keep its own temperature constant.
This mysterious ball is good. It seems that it can not only be used as a bomb, but also as a warm baby. The protagonist suddenly discovers a new use for the mysterious ball.
