Chapter 10

"Hum~"

Accompanied by a bright, soft blue light, a brand new ark reactor was successfully created.

"Good job, you finally managed to build it yourself," Tony Stark, standing behind Zhou Chao with his arms crossed, said with a look of disdain.

"Phew, I agree," Zhou Chao, seemingly oblivious to the sarcasm in Tony's words, sighed as he lifted the protective goggles from his face.

Then he stood up from the chair, turned around, and smiled at Tony, "Did you wait long?"

"To be honest, your hands-on skills are worse than those of an average middle school graduate. Are you sure you're a university graduate with official certification?" Tony continued to mock, not immediately picking up the conversation.

"Alright, forget I said anything," Zhou Chao said, pursing his lips.

He then ignored Tony, who had entered his snarky mode, and walked straight to a model that looked like a community plan. This model was none other than the future city concept model left by Howard Stark, Tony Stark's father!

"JARVIS, help me turn it into a digital model," Zhou Chao instructed, standing still.

The next moment, blue laser beams appeared above the model, slowly scanning over it like a transparent veil, turning the entire model into a sea-like blue.

"1974 Stark Expo model scan complete," JARVIS reported.

Zhou Chao nodded slightly at the response, extended his hands as if holding a physical object, and lifted the three-dimensional virtual digital image into the air, turning to place it in the air beside him.

"JARVIS, stand it up," Zhou Chao ordered.

The image tilted northward and stood upright in front of Zhou Chao like a hanging picture.

"See anything?" Zhou Chao turned to Tony, who had been watching with his arms crossed and had not spoken.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Tony asked, frowning after carefully examining the model he had seen countless times.

Zhou Chao smiled slightly and pointed to the center of the exhibition hall in the model.

"Make the globe appear," Zhou Chao instructed.

Then, a digital model of the Earth, about the same size as the central exhibition hall, emerged from the model, slowly rotating like the real Earth.

Seeing this, Tony's expression changed, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

Zhou Chao ignored him and continued, recalling a scene from Iron Man 2, "Remove all the walkways, landscapes, shrubs, trees, parking lots, exits, and entrances. Use the pavilions as the structure to form protons and neutrons."

Following Zhou Chao's orders, the various buildings in the model transformed into streams of light, flying into the enlarged globe, turning into small yellow dots.

Soon, a golf ball-like structure, magnified several dozen times, appeared before Zhou Chao and Tony, who had quietly walked over.

At this moment, Zhou Chao tactfully stepped aside, giving the best position to Tony. Tony did not hesitate and suddenly raised his hands, causing the giant golf ball to expand, transforming into a massive sphere composed of enlarged atomic nuclei, enveloping both Zhou Chao and Tony.

Looking at the scene, Tony moved his jaw, a peculiar expression appearing on his face.

"Are you going to give me a lesson even after being dead for 20 years?" Tony murmured to himself.

After speaking, he clapped his hands, and the expanded sphere immediately shrank into his palms, becoming a glowing object the size of a ping-pong ball.

"You discovered a new element, but unfortunately, it cannot be synthesized," JARVIS said.

"Hmm. Looks like we need a major overhaul," Tony said.

Tony was a typical action-oriented person and very wealthy, so he did not consider the various troubles that might arise from this action. He immediately had JARVIS start ordering the experimental equipment and materials he might need, then dragged Zhou Chao, who had only been a 'scientist' for a couple of days, to work hard, performing major surgery on the expensive villa.

However, it must be said that Tony's hands-on skills were truly impressive. With the help of Zhou Chao, a free laborer, the entire workshop was transformed in less than three days, with a small prism accelerator added. This was partly due to the time spent on the transportation of the equipment; otherwise, it would have taken no more than two days to complete the transformation.

Then, Tony set up the equipment and prepared to start the new ark reactor. Surprisingly, but logically, he did not ask Zhou Chao to leave the workshop but let him stay to watch the manufacturing process.

"Activate the prism accelerator," Tony shouted, wearing a strong light protection goggles and holding a large wrench next to the prism accelerator, which looked like a gas pipeline.

The accelerator immediately lit up with blue light, and a blue laser beam quickly appeared in the accelerator's pipeline, rapidly increasing in energy intensity.

"Approaching maximum energy," JARVIS reported.

Hearing the reminder, Tony changed his posture, like a plumber, and forcefully turned the wrench. The next moment, as the handle of the wrench turned, the triangular prism connected to it slowly rotated, becoming a mirror that refracted the laser energy, which had been accelerated to its maximum strength.

The laser energy, like an extremely fine and long blade, immediately illuminated the wall of the workshop, then, as the prism rotated, slowly cut across the thick concrete wall, leaving a black crack with some smoldering embers.

It then cut through steel, swept over an alloy cabinet, and sliced through a five-centimeter-thick high-strength alloy, finally directly illuminating a triangular alloy held by three fine magnetic supports inside the alloy...

The triangular alloy then turned blue, glowed, and emitted a bright blue-white light, more dazzling than a regular ark reactor, like a small sun, illuminating the somewhat dim workshop.

"Turn off the accelerator!" Tony shouted at this moment.

Zhou Chao, standing beside him, who had been waiting for this command, did not hesitate and immediately pressed the emergency button, cutting off the laser's emission. Without the strong particle energy impact, the triangular alloy immediately stopped the decay reaction, and the light gradually dimmed until it matched the brightness of the ark reactor.

At the same time, Tony, who had dropped the wrench, crouched down and walked through the accelerator to the triangular alloy, which had become the base of the new element, and admired it with satisfaction.

"Simple enough."

Zhou Chao, hearing this, could not help but twitch his lips. Although his major was not quantum physics, after reading so many novels and watching various sci-fi TV shows, Zhou Chao, who occasionally liked to dig deep into things, knew a bit about certain physical theories. He knew how difficult it was to use an accelerator for material impact experiments, let alone controlling the ionization reactions between atoms, protons, and neutrons to create specific new elements and keep them stable. In reality, no new elements had been successfully created and retained!

Therefore, it was completely unscientific for Tony Stark to achieve all this in his home with a makeshift experimental environment! It was purely the result of the protagonist's aura and the power of the Marvel universe! If Zhou Chao were to use this technology to create a new reactor, he could not guarantee its safety, regardless of whether it would succeed. Thus, Zhou Chao could only watch, and in terms of practical effects, the palladium element reactor he already mastered was more effective.

After a while, Tony, who had admired the new element enough, took a pair of tweezers from the table beside him, removed the new element from the magnetic support, and placed it in the reaction chamber that had been prepared.

"Congratulations, you have created a new element," JARVIS congratulated.

Then, the light brightened, and the entire reaction chamber began to operate.

"The reactor has accepted the updated core, and I will start the tests."

"Tony, since we have time, how about making another one?" Zhou Chao suggested, looking at the new reactor with envy.

Although this new technology might not be usable in the main world, it did not prevent Zhou Chao from using it in the Iron Man world to create a new reactor and bring it back to the main world as a finished product.

"One thing at a time. Our deal is over, and I have no reason to help you build another reactor," Tony said, turning to look at Zhou Chao while wiping his sweat with a towel.

"What if I offer you a chance to witness a wondrous world in exchange?" Zhou Chao raised an eyebrow.

With the new element information provided, Zhou Chao had successfully obtained JARVIS's replication program and the ark reactor manufacturing technology, completing his main objectives in this world. Therefore, Zhou Chao, who had no lingering attachment to this world, was ready to end this hasty trip and return to his own world to digest the gains.

"Oh?" Tony hummed with interest.

"Aren't you curious about the purpose of the materials I asked you to buy? If you agree to create another new element reactor, I will tell you why, and I guarantee the truth will shock you!" Zhou Chao said with a mysterious smile.