Chapter 181: The Concept of Fusion
"Well, regarding the development of Ice Style, those are my thoughts," the pink-haired girl said, spreading her hands to Sasuke. "What do you think? Did you get any inspiration after hearing that?"
"Umm..." A perplexed expression, characteristic of the yellow-haired little fox, appeared on Sasuke's face.
He recognized every word Haruno Sakura said. But as for what they meant when put together, he was just completely baffled.
What physical properties of ice?
What cold brittleness?
Those two were still okay. Although the nouns were a bit unfamiliar, they were actually common sense and still understandable.
But the things that came later, like "superconductor" and "superfluid," were things he had never even heard of.
And that vacuum zero-point energy! So ridiculously huge, does that kind of energy really exist?
To be honest, for numbers over a hundred million, he still had some concept. After two "hundred millions," he had already begun to feel dizzy. Three "hundred millions," and Sasuke's head gradually became muddled. More than a dozen "hundred millions"? More than a hundred zeros?
—I'm sorry, what is that? Just counting the zeros is enough to make one break down, okay!
So then, how much bigger are these numbers than one hundred million? One hundred million plus one hundred zeros, so it should be one hundred times bigger, right?
Hn, that must be it! Sasuke nodded, half-understanding.
"I probably get it! But your way of thinking really doesn't have any reference value for my ninjutsu development!" Sasuke shook his head, shaking himself out of his confusion. "So Sakura, does it have to be this complicated for you to develop a ninjutsu?"
A normal ninjutsu development should be like him and Kakashi, finding a more hidden training ground or open space, constantly experimenting and researching how to improve the ninjutsu and how to apply the chakra, right?
Who starts by holding a pen and a piece of paper, writing and drawing, filling it with calculations and formulas that look like an incomprehensible text from heaven? As a ninja, is this appropriate! In any case, Sasuke couldn't learn this method.
"Is this very complicated?" Haruno Sakura herself was also quite baffled. This is just extending common sense with chakra...
She shook her head and skipped this section. Many things that were common sense to her were as difficult to understand as a heavenly text to the ninja.
For example, the principle of cold brittleness. Ninja don't need to understand it at all. They just need to know that many things become very brittle when they encounter cold. But Sakura had the habit of thoroughly researching things, and many of her powerful ninjutsu were born because of this habit.
This was the difference between a craftsman and a scientist.
Of course, Sakura herself could be considered a scientist whose craftsman ability far surpassed that of others.
"That vacuum zero-point energy, I don't have any good ideas on how to develop it in the short term, but considering the energy source for the Yin Seal," she said with a mysterious smile, "I have a better and more realistic plan here."
"Didn't you say before that you wanted to use the energy from a power plant?"
"That's right, but that's just a transitional method..." Sakura nodded and said. "It would be a bit too troublesome if I had to find a power plant to recharge every time I used up my chakra. The ultimate goal of the Yin Seal should be to seal a long-term energy source inside my body, one that can continuously supply me with energy."
Sasuke pouted, expressing his doubts. "A long-term energy source? Is there such a convenient and easy-to-use thing?"
"Of course there is..."
Isn't that what nuclear energy is?
With just a small amount of raw material, it can release a huge amount of energy.
In that world of her previous life, there were two ways to apply nuclear energy. One was to use a nuclear reactor to continuously generate electricity. The other was to use nuclear materials to create a nuclear bomb and release the nuclear energy in an instant.
Correspondingly, she could also adopt the same methods to deal with a protracted battle or a high-intensity battle that required an instant burst of power.
To seal a nuclear reactor with the Yin Seal, absorb it into Sakura's body, and then continuously draw its energy to supply Haruno Sakura. This was the first idea.
The energy output of a reactor can be freely grasped, as long as the intensity of the nuclear reaction is well controlled. This concept would be attempted after the completion of Phase Three of the Yin Seal. Phase Three of the Yin Seal could extract a huge amount of electrical energy from a power plant, so with a slight modification, extracting a huge amount of nuclear energy would not be a problem.
The second idea was to directly create a ninjutsu-type nuclear bomb.
The basic principle was very clear. A nuclear bomb was nothing more than another type of reactor that released most of its nuclear energy in an instant. The engineering problems could be solved through sealing formulas and ninjutsu. It had to be admitted that this thing called chakra made it much simpler and more convenient to develop science and weapons than in that world of her previous life.
The power of a nuclear bomb need not be elaborated upon. This kind of weapon, which was at the very least city-destroying, any modern person who had read a book was very clear about its destructive killing power.
Let's make a comparison with Naruto's wind-style meatball: Naruto's Wind Style: Rasengan, which he claimed he could only use a few times even with all his chakra, at the center of its explosion, it only destroyed living beings down to the cellular level. But at the center of a nuclear explosion, the temperature could reach tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of degrees. The giant fireball produced in an instant could vaporize and annihilate all matter it touched.
The power difference between these two was the difference between heaven and earth. In front of a nuclear bomb, a chakra meatball of that little power was not even worth looking at.
And the Wind Style: Rasenshuriken was already one of the most powerful techniques in the ninja world. Even in the final battle, this Rasengan with nature transformation added was a high-level ninjutsu that could be used for a clash. However, compared to a nuclear weapon, it was still the difference between clouds and mud.
In short, regardless of whether Sasuke understood it or not, Sakura just rambled on and poured everything about nuclear reactions into him.
"Stop!"
Sasuke was dizzy. Just now, she had explained a bunch of low-temperature things, which was already enough to make him dizzy. Now, she was going on a long tirade about the incomprehensible topic of nuclear energy. He felt as if he had been hit by a powerful genjutsu. The heavens and the earth were about to be turned upside down.
"You've said so much. These are all just your own ideas for developing ninjutsu, right? They sound very powerful, but let's stop for now. I don't understand! Didn't you say you had a favor to ask me," he said, rubbing his temples, his head aching terribly. "What exactly is it?"
"Oh right, let me make it clear first. Don't you dare drag me into helping you develop this ninjutsu. I'm already getting a headache just listening to it!"
Sakura immediately gave him a sharp glare with her beautiful eyes.
"Don't worry! I'm not asking for your help in developing ninjutsu," she said with a pout. "Help me check your Uchiha's archives. Look and see if there is a kind of magical stone or mineral, one that makes people weak and sick from long-term exposure."
The kind of ore Haruno Sakura was talking about was uranium ore.
The radioactivity of uranium ore is mainly manifested in its accompanying radionuclides. With long-term exposure, humans are very susceptible to damage from radioactive decay, leading to physical damage, and even cancer.
Not only is the main raw material of an atomic bomb or a fission reactor the purified uranium-235, but even the nuclear fusion reactor or hydrogen bomb that Sakura hoped to realize also required the fission of uranium to ignite.
In short, uranium ore was the source of all these concepts.
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