The air inside the Serenitea Pot munitions factory was as heavy as lead. The stench of sweat mixed with machine oil and rust pressed down oppressively on everyone's chest. The 75mm field gun from Fontaine was completely dismantled, its cold metallic parts scattered all over the ground, stained with pitch-black grease and dark red rust, looking like the carcass of a giant beast.
"Without Jade-Clustered Crystal to replace the core components, this thing is a pile of scrap metal!" Fontaine engineer Renoir slammed his hand heavily against the disassembled rifled cannon barrel, the metal emitting a hollow echo. He pointed at the micro-fractures on the breech mechanism. "Look at this! If you patch it with ordinary White Iron Ore, it won't withstand the elemental energy pressure and mechanical stress when fired! A bursting barrel is the only possible outcome!"
Limeng crouched beside the gun carriage, his fingertips tracing the barely visible, pale-golden traces left on the inner wall of the barrel—the remnants of the Pneuma-Ousia energy circuit. In his mind, he rapidly recalled the days he spent debugging graphics card GPU core power supply circuits in Shenzhen, tracing those intricate copper foils. "Mr. Renoir," he raised his head, his voice carrying the stubbornness typical of a tech enthusiast, "the circuit isn't completely destroyed. The function of the Jade-Clustered Crystal is to stably conduct and withstand deformation. Could we... use a stable external current to simulate …
Chapter 64