「Core Area, No. 3 Research Institute.」
A massive, silver-white machine, ten meters tall, stood in the center of the laboratory.
This was the High-Energy Particle Melting Furnace, a pinnacle of industrial machinery of which only three existed in all of East Sea City.
It didn't use traditional electric arcs or flames for heating. Instead, it utilized a stream of high-energy particles, accelerated within the furnace, to directly impact a material's atomic nuclei on a microscopic level, generating instantaneous high temperatures and a powerful reshaping force.
The cost of running it for a single second was enough to feed a family of three in the Outer City for ten years.
Han Feng stood before the control console, watching the constantly fluctuating readouts. He was grinning from ear to ear.
'Back in school, I had to scrounge time on my senior's crappy little furnace, and even then, I had to meticulously calculate the cost of electricity and material loss.'
But now?
