One Piece: God Killer

Chapter 447 Fission Weapons and Satellites

On a deserted island in the New World, there is a vast Gobi Desert, rocks piercing the sky, and yellow sand reflecting the sun's rays, keeping the entire island in high temperature all year round.

The environment with almost no rainfall all year round makes the island incredibly dry, so that the entire island looks bare from a distance, with almost nothing on it.

This island has never been inhabited and is a "dead island" by New World standards. Even passing pirate groups and merchant caravans are afraid of the bad climate on the island and will not stay here.

Several years ago, this island, along with the surrounding waters and islands, were incorporated into Dawn's sphere of influence.

However, this environment also means that the island is particularly suitable for certain scientific research.

Profik arrived at the deserted island. From a distance, it looked like an uninhabited island, but when he looked closer, he discovered a different world.

Under the cover of the barren mountains, there is a "city", and it is a city with a rather technological style. It is different from the cities in the One Piece world, and it is also very different from the sci-fi style of Egghead Island in Vegapunk. It is a mechanical technology style similar to another world.

Heavy metals, steel, oil, machinery, and industry are synonymous with this city.

At the entrance of the city hangs a huge plaque with five big characters "Science and Technology Industrial City" inscribed on it.

This was written by Prophik himself when he ordered the establishment of this city.

In this city, there are two main research directions: aviation technology and atomic physics technology.

The person in charge of these studies is Dr. Yuejian.

Everyone thought that this scientific giant, who was good at mechanical technology, had gradually withdrawn from the front line of scientific research as he grew older.

But in fact, what really caused his scientific research output to gradually decrease and gradually fade out of the public eye was the task assigned to him by Profik six years ago - artificial satellites and nuclear science. Due to the sensitivity of these two studies, Dr. Yuejian could not publish his research results at will, and could not even leave the deserted island easily.

However, for a scientific research giant like Dr. Yuejian, the joy of science is the most important thing.

"This is incredible!" Dr. Yuejian danced with joy when he saw Profik. "Your theory is feasible. As long as the speed is within the range, the object can be rotated around the planet without falling to the ground."

The scientific research giant looked at Prophik with eyes full of admiration. As a world-renowned scientist, his admiration for Prophik was almost to the point of madness.

Over the years, outsiders have seen him overcome technical difficulties one after another, put forward new theories one after another, and made scientific innovations that almost subverted the world. However, Dr. Yuejian knew that most of these inventions and theories were inspired by Profek's ideas.

Those bizarre, unique and distinctive things may sound confusing at first, or even make people want to laugh out loud, but later they are proven to be reasonable one by one.

Maybe outsiders don’t know what this means, but Dr. Yuejian knows it very well.

Many people believe that what scientists need most is imagination, creative ideas, and scientific thinking. But Dr. Yuejian believes that people never lack ideas. The biggest difference between a mediocre person and a master lies in the value and significance of these ideas, which, when it comes to inventions, is the "success rate." Dr. Yuejian prefers to call it the "positive conversion rate" of scientific research.

At the same time, this is also the biggest obstacle restricting scientists’ scientific research efficiency. Imagine a scientist who comes up with a magical idea and spends ten years on it, only to find that it is impossible to produce the corresponding product, or that the theory is completely wrong and worthless. What kind of scene would that be?

Such research is certainly not completely meaningless. After all, scientific progress is achieved through constant exploration and failure.

However, the cost is also huge. Not to mention the investment in research, in just ten years, countless opportunities will be missed, and countless inventions and discoveries that could have changed the world will be missed.

Dr. Yuejian didn't know what the positive conversion rate of the great inventor Vegapunk's ideas was. But his own positive conversion rate was about 40%, and the rest were either proven to be unfeasible, inefficient, or impossible to prove.

As for Profik, the "positive conversion rate" so far is as high as 75%. In other words, three-quarters of Profik's ideas can be transformed into beneficial results, and the remaining 25% is simply unprovable.

This is absolute genius!!

"Mr. Profick!! You are a genius among geniuses. Stop being one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and join me in devoting ourselves to the great cause of science!"

"I'm sure you can surpass me... No, with your intelligence, even Vegapunk is nothing to you!!"

"You will become the greatest scientist of this era, and even in history!!"

"Okay, Dr. Yuejian, stop flattering me."

Dr. Yuejian's praise made Profik seem a little embarrassed. The reason why he was able to "point out the direction" for Dawn's scientific research work was not because he really had any "insight" or "achievements" in scientific research, but because he had insights from another world.

Perhaps that world may not be able to compare with this world in some cutting-edge technologies, but its application of technology is superb, and it has brought Profik a vision that people in this world do not have.

Today, Dr. Yuejian may think that all his achievements are due to Profik's "guidance", but in Profik's view, these are all the credit of Dr. Yuejian and other scientists.

"No, no, how can this be called 'flattery'? You are a true genius!"

"Okay, let's not talk about this topic..."

Seeing that Dr. Yue was about to talk nonstop again, Profik quickly changed the subject, "Is the technology of artificial satellites really mature?"

"Of course!" Dr. Yuejian regained his serious expression when talking about his research results. He led Profik into a laboratory and pointed to a strange-looking large iron lump next to him and said, "That's it, that's the thing! As long as we use a special launcher to launch it, it can break free from the constraints of the 'gravity' of this planet and stay in the vast space forever."

Profik nodded with satisfaction. He was not surprised that Dr. Yuejian could achieve such results.

In the past, it took humans thousands of years to go from imagining space, to attempting to fly, to actually launching artificial satellites. Even formal scientific research has taken a very long time.

But this world is different. The technology tree in the pirate world is very strange, complicated and uneven. Strictly speaking, there are no major technical obstacles whether it is launching satellites, manned space flight, or even landing on the moon.