Cave Refuge

CL-20 is currently the world's most powerful non-nuclear explosives, hailed as the "Mount Everest of explosives." Its scientific name is Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, abbreviated as HNIW. CL-20 not only has high energy, density and stability, but also boasts low sensitivity, low toxicity, and low cost, making it an ideal military explosive. Its detonation velocity can reach 9,600 meters per second, its power is dozens of times that of TNT, powerful enough to enhance the firepower of existing artillery by a hundredfold.

Looking at the somewhat drunken Thomas Jefferson, Dong Tianyu didn't know whether at this moment Thomas was truly drunk and bragging, or using the guise of drunkenness to offload something that was difficult to sell.

So Dong Tianyu tentatively opened his mouth to ask: "How much CL-20 do you have, and if you're selling, how much are you planning to sell it for?"

Upon hearing Dong Tianyu's inquiry, Thomas Jefferson, who seemed unsteady and was slightly swaying, stiffened for a moment, then quickly returned to normal.

However, it was precisely this momentary pause from Thomas Jefferson that let Dong Tianyu know that the other party was probably faking being drunk. This meant that the CL-20 explosives he mentioned were either fake or difficult to sell directly, which is why he was deliberately using drunkenness as a pretext to market them to Dong Tianyu.

But since the other party dared to sell, Dong Tianyu naturally dared to buy.

After Dong Tianyu asked about the price, Thomas Jefferson started rambling like a drunkard: "It's only because you want to buy; I wouldn't sell it to outsiders. Just based on the smoothness of our trade just now, I won't rip you off. The price from our trade earlier multiplied by five, one bottle of wine for two kilograms of CL-20, and I can give you at most a hundred kilograms."

Dong Tianyu didn't really care about Thomas Jefferson's offer, after all, because in the Cave, it was already possible to continuously produce various agricultural products, which meant that it already had a stable winemaking resource. Therefore, the original stored wine could be sold directly.

As for the so-called "older wine is more aromatic", it's because if you want to improve quality through aging wine, it needs to be stored in a professional wine cellar. Those professional wine cellars have high requirements for temperature, humidity, and air circulation inside the cellar.

To put it more bluntly, those cellars that can store wine for a long time, the air contains some special elements. Don't assume that the wine stored in the cellar is bottled, but those special elements in the cellar can slowly permeate into the wine through the pottery jars.

That is why many wines buried underground, despite being properly sealed, become muddy once dug up. It's because although the wine jars can prevent the wine from leaking out, they can't stop some special elements in the soil from seeping in.

Those who use glass or plastic bottles to bury wine in the soil, hoping to improve the quality of the wine, are actually a joke.

To truly improve the quality of wine through long-term storage, wine should be sealed in jars and then placed in a cellar, not buried in the soil. Only by storing the wine in a cellar that meets the conditions and letting time do its work can wine paste be formed inside the jars.

Under normal circumstances, only wine jars that are over a hundred years old have the chance to form wine paste, which is said to be the essence of wine. It usually looks like a milky white solid alcohol, and when you want to taste it, just scoop out a spoonful, stir it into clean water, then the clear water in the cup will transform into fine wine.

However, both wine paste and solid alcohol are very similar in color and shape. Before the Natural Disaster, the colorful solid alcohols sold outside actually had added colorants. Normally, solid alcohol is also milky white in color.

Perhaps the only difference between wine paste and solid alcohol is the consistency. Wine paste is sticky like glue, while solid alcohol is hard like wood.

Dong Tianyu would actually like to store wine in the Cave, but as he doesn't know how to build a wine cellar, he could only directly store the produced wine into the Storage space.

Because the Cave could continue to brew wine endlessly, Dong Tianyu didn't care about these hundred and eighty bottles' quantity. So, when Thomas Jefferson asked for fifty bottles (liters) of wine, Dong Tianyu didn't mind too much, directly taking out five ten-liter barrels of wine and placing them on the ground.

Perhaps realizing that Dong Tianyu had seen through his disguise, Thomas Jefferson no longer pretended, immediately opening and checking the five barrels of wine brought by Dong Tianyu. After confirming they were correct, Thomas Jefferson took out a hundred completely sealed cylindrical metals, then seriously admonished Dong Tianyu:

"These metal rods contain CL-20. Do not open them at all costs; the exposed explosives are highly explosive in the air. If you want to use this stuff, directly use the C4 that I have just traded with you to wrap it, then rely on the C4 explosion to detonate the CL-20 within the metal rods.

Lastly, a reminder, if possible, try to avoid using the explosives I just sold to you by throwing, because I'm afraid the distance you can get away from after its detonation will not be out of the lethal range."

Regarding Thomas Jefferson's kind reminder, Dong Tianyu humbly accepted it, even though he remembered that in the past, even when using missiles, he relied on the Art of Controlling Objects to throw them.