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Chapter 86 Uranium Rod

What Dong Qi wants now is a comprehensive energy supply system that can not only rely on nuclear energy, but also use fuel oil, spirit stones, or other raw materials for energy supply.

Furthermore, the energy it provides is not just simple electricity, but also various other types of energy.

After all, electricity is only the energy consumed in the early stages of technology. In the later stages, whether it is technology, cultivation, or fantasy, the energy consumed will no longer be electricity.

Dark matter, stellar energy, psionic energy, psychic energy, magic, spiritual energy...

For those energy sources, the amount of energy provided by electricity is simply insufficient to meet their needs.

Therefore, on his way back, Dong Qi had already decided on the type of magical artifact he wanted to obtain by using the manifestation of thought this time, which was a magical artifact related to the energy supply side.

Such things are not uncommon in both technological and cultivation civilizations, so they are relatively easy to obtain. The main issue to consider is energy conversion.

Although once fully integrated into Dong Qi's vehicle, the energy requirements of all equipment will be completely unified.

However, the upgrade speed of your main car will become slower as you progress, and the energy consumption of the equipment installed on the car before the upgrade will not change until it is fully integrated into your main car.

Just like the electromagnetic gun mounted on the roof of the vehicle, loading ammunition requires going to the roof and opening the magazine, and it can only be fired using electricity.

Once fully integrated into the vehicle, to refill ammunition, one can directly consume the synthetic metals in the Hundred Refinery material space, without having to personally go to the roof to open the ammunition compartment and add ammunition.

Not to mention that during launch, it can still be used normally, whether it consumes fuel in the vehicle or power from the vehicle's battery.

Of course, Dong Qi cannot add extra equipment to his natal vehicle indefinitely. You should know that once he reaches the Spiritual Artifact stage, Dong Qi will be able to store his natal vehicle inside his body and carry it with him.

If too many extra devices are added to the natal vehicle, and it becomes too much for Dong Qi's body to handle when it advances to the spirit weapon stage, then it will be a case of more harm than good.

Although Dong Qi's physical abilities are constantly improving with the continuous upgrading of the Treasure Forging Technique, he will be able to absorb his natal chariot into his body once his body has sufficient strength.

However, this is on the premise that no other additional equipment is added to the car.

In the process of upgrading his vehicle, Dong Qi did not choose to use the highest-level corresponding items, which shows that Dong Qi is not a person who likes to challenge his own limits.

For this reason, Dong Qi would not add extra equipment to his car indiscriminately. All added equipment would be carefully evaluated to ensure that it was highly practical or specifically compensated for the shortcomings of his car before it was finally installed.

The choice of energy supply equipment was made by Dong Qi after much deliberation. He originally thought that the energy reserves in the car were sufficient to meet the short-term needs.

Therefore, we plan to wait until the next or the time after that promotion to go a step further and choose to install better upgrade products.

However, after this experience, Dong Qi finally made up his mind to select it as the candidate for promotion this time.

Otherwise, Dong Qi was genuinely afraid that his destined car would run out of energy and become an immovable iron coffin after the accident.

Although Wu Yifei provided a channel for exchanging uranium rods, Dong Qi still needed to provide the materials for exchanging them.

In the past, Dong Qi wouldn't have had the funds to exchange even a few grams of uranium. But now, the supplies he has in reserve can be exchanged for quite a few uranium rods.

The first thing to know is that long-term storage of uranium requires highly specialized equipment, unlike ordinary items that can be placed in any corner of a warehouse.

Therefore, if you hold this material for a long time, some wear and tear will occur during the storage period.

This means that without continuous investment of resources, it will be difficult to preserve and store it safely in the long term.

Especially during this special period, uranium rods have become a hot potato. It would be wasteful to just throw them away, but no one would take them if they wanted to sell them.

Moreover, even now, this thing is still considered a restricted resource, and one needs to have the corresponding qualifications to take it over.

At this point, Dong Qi was certainly not qualified to take over the uranium rods, but if Wu Yifei was willing to make an exception, Dong Qi could still barely exchange them for uranium rods directly.

For this reason, Dong Qi took stock of the supplies he had stored in his basement in Pengcheng. If nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to exchange them for some uranium rods.

If Dong Qi hadn't refined all the gold and silver he had acquired into refined gold and mithril, he would actually have had quite a few resources available for exchange.

But precisely because those gold and silver had already been refined in the Hundred Refinement Furnace, Dong Qi was unwilling to take them out again.

After thinking for a long time, Dong Qi finally made up his mind to take out 90% of his reserves and exchange as much as he could.

Unsure of what the outcome of this trip to Kyoto would be, coupled with a vague sense of unease in Dong Qi's heart, Dong Qi decided to take all the supplies he had stored at home with him when he left.

However, because he had stored a lot of supplies in the basement, Dong Qi's car was definitely not big enough. Just in case, and to avoid attracting attention, Dong Qi decided to borrow a large van from Wu Yifei and take all the supplies stored at home with him in one go.

When Wu Yifei heard that Dong Qi's family had such a large stockpile of supplies, and that most of them were food that could be stored for a long time, he began to look at Dong Qi with new respect.

While those items may have had some value in the past, their actual value was not very high.

However, in this special period, the price of those items, while not comparable to gold, has increased by dozens or even hundreds of times compared to before.

If this can be considered an investment, Dong Qi is undoubtedly like Qin Shi Huang touching an electric wire – he's won big.

With Wu Yifei's help, Dong Qi returned to his home in Pengcheng in a van.

At this time, Pengcheng, compared to the desolation when Dong Qi left, had returned to its former bustling state.

Although Pengcheng lost its heavy industry at this time, it was still gradually recovering its former prosperity due to its geographical location.

When Dong Qi parked his house with a large box of goods, the surrounding neighbors couldn't help but come out to watch out of curiosity.

It's important to understand that even now, the number of cars that can legally drive on the roads within the entire Great Xia territory is still quite small.