Chapter 263: Symbiosis! Researching Energy Crystals, The New Currency of Mechanical City!_2
Su Yu was too straightforward, not even exchanging a few pleasantries before leaving them hanging there.
This is what a big shot must be like.
A few of them exchanged a few words before Xiao Shengyin and the others came forward to calm down the millions of newly awakened Transcendents.
After all, these people knew nothing, having suddenly awakened their Extraordinary Abilities; if not well pacified, trouble was bound to happen sooner or later.
In the following day, the Mechanical City first went to Holy Hidden City, swallowing the large city whole.
Its fill rate immediately jumped to 64%!
Then it headed to Wind City, devouring it as well.
This time, it finally filled itself completely, reaching 100%!
It even stored some extra material as a backup.
After fully filling itself, the Mechanical City comfortably lay there without moving, as if it was full and needed a nap.
Meanwhile, Su Yu was engrossed in research, not issuing any commands to it.
A few days later, Xie Yitian, Tie Long, and Xiao Shengyin were getting a bit restless.
Didn't Su Yu say there would be a global development? Why hasn't there been any movement?
At this moment, inside Su Yu's laboratory.
Su Yu looked at an energy crystal within the instruments, his face showing excitement.
A few days of research, though not long, with his speed of thought, was equivalent to years or even decades for ordinary people.
Therefore, he had already preliminarily uncovered some results.
Now, the energy crystal within the equipment was constantly transitioning among energy, matter, and data states.
Through Su Yu's research, these three states of the energy crystal are quite peculiar.
The data state is specially encoded.
The energy state is frequency-adjusted.
The matter state, with various physical parameters, is meticulously designed.
The combination of these precise parameters enables it to freely transition between the three states.
Moreover, it can absorb other Spiritual Energy.
Through the three-state transformations, it ultimately integrates the absorbed Spiritual Energy into itself.
In other words, it possesses a "self-replication" capability.
Using up the crystals from these two cities doesn't mean it's gone.
Though Su Yu couldn't figure out its deep underlying principles at the moment, he could already utilize it.
"Then, let's start now."
Su Yu said to the Mechanical City.
"Yes! Master!"
The Mechanical Spirit and the Mechanical City responded in unison.
Then, a mechanical arm extended, taking the energy crystal away.
This energy crystal was soon transported deep underground in the Mechanical City.
That was where the Mechanical City stored energy.
Within the Mechanical City, Spiritual Energy absorbed by millions of symbiotic Transcendents was purified by the city and stored here.
This area didn't exist originally.
But with the millions of Transcendents, energy reserves surged in a few short days.
Therefore, it self-developed such a place.
This place is a massive underground cavity, surrounded by countless mechanical parts and energy pipelines, ceaselessly inhaling Spiritual Energy.
A large amount of Spiritual Energy was transported by pipelines to gather here, forming into a cluster.
The Spiritual Group, with a diameter of several kilometers, emitted intense Spirit Light, akin to the "Earth Core" of the Mechanical City, incredibly hot.
If an ordinary person were to come over, they would instantly be melted by the strong Spiritual Energy here.
However, such strong Spirit Light did not mean the energy was powerful and pure.
On the contrary, its instability and impurity caused the energy to leak.
Thus, this energy could only drive the daily operations of the Mechanical City, but not be used for defense or combat.
Fortunately, there was an energy crystal now.
Soon the mechanical arm sent the energy crystal into the core of that massive Spiritual Group.
Then, Su Yu, the Mechanical Spirit, and the Mechanical City simultaneously exerted their strength, driving that energy crystal to initiate three-state transformations.
Su Yu was responsible for energy, the Mechanical Spirit for data, and the Mechanical City for matter.
In an instant, that energy crystal transitioned hundreds of times between energy, data, and matter states.
With each transformation, it absorbed a large amount of adjacent Spiritual Energy, making it a part of itself.
Originally just a small piece of energy crystal, it rapidly expanded.
Two meters, three meters, ten meters…
Finally, this energy crystal expanded to a diameter of a hundred meters, floating quietly in mid-air.
And previously, the Spiritual Group with a diameter of several kilometers had been entirely absorbed by this energy crystal, becoming a part of it.
The energy contained inside this energy crystal is extremely pure, completely different from the previous Spiritual Group.
After all, the energy contained in this energy crystal is enough to materialize even nine-star Giant God Soldiers.
It not being pure would be strange.
Those ordinary Spiritual Energies, once converted into energy crystals, greatly improved in quality, making them usable for high-level combat and defense!
At the same time, these energy crystals have the characteristic of three-state transformation.
This makes them very convenient for transportation and storage.
Looking at the energy crystal floating in the air, Su Yu waved his hand, and a small piece of the energy crystal detached, falling into his hand.
This small piece of energy crystal was only coin-sized.
Yet, the energy contained within it far exceeded the Spiritual Energy of a whole Four-star Transcendent and was far superior in energy quality.
Su Yu inspected it for a while, and the small piece of energy crystal in his hand suddenly disappeared.
This was Su Yu turning it into data, storing it in his chip.
"This thing can be used as currency in the future."
Su Yu nodded, murmuring to himself.
Now the Mechanical City is vast, with a population exceeding 4 million.
And surely, the population will continue to grow.
It's already more than just a city; it can be regarded as a small country.
For such a city, currency and finance are extremely important.
All along, the hard currency in the Mechanical City was Contribution Value.
This was considered a virtual currency, exchangeable for various materials.
But virtual remains virtual and has some inconveniences.
Outside the Mechanical City, who would acknowledge the city's Contribution Value when encountering other human settlements?
But now, these energy crystals possess data, energy, and material states, forming true hard currency.
They can serve as virtual currency, physical currency, energy consumption, Spiritual Energy cultivation, and even combat usage.
Extremely practical.
Therefore, Su Yu decided to use these energy crystals as the currency for Mechanical City in the future!
"Let's call it… Energy Coin!"
Su Yu casually named this new currency.
Then he couldn't help but smile.
Because he thought of a scene.
The essence of Energy Coin is extremely pure high-level Spiritual Energy, also very effective for combat.
The simplest, using Energy Coin as ammunition to launch it out.
Such pure Spiritual Energy, exploding forth, would be terribly powerful.
In the future, when residents of the Mechanical City go out to fight, it won't be about who has high ranking stars, but who is "wealthy."
If a tycoon steps forward, even as just a one or two-star minor figure, if wealthy, by generously "throwing money," even five-stars and six-stars might not be able to withstand.
That truly would be using money to crush.
However, speaking of using money to crush, Su Yu thought of the "welcome gift" crafted by Zhang Chenfeng's creation earlier.
At that time, a Spiritual Light Column directly descended from the sky, nearly smashing Tie Long and Xie Yitian to death.
It seemed that Zhang Chenfeng's subordinates had long been living such days of using money to overcome others.
Now Su Yu finally catches up to some footsteps of his predecessors.
However, Zhang Chenfeng's creation also had the technology to remotely control energy to achieve combat and healing effects.
Such energy, even over hundreds of kilometers, could still transform into Giant God Soldiers.
If Su Yu could master this remote energy conversion technology.
Then, when residents of the Mechanical City travel, they wouldn't just use Energy Coins as ammo.
They would directly cast money, transforming energy to create powerful Mechanical Creations, obliterating enemies.
"What is this? Creating soldiers with money?"
Su Yu chuckled and murmured.