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"The heat is collected, and then you can connect it to an energy weapon, input it into a power source, or connect it to a heating device, which may be useful on polar planets," Qin Mo said.
Kaul watched the whole process, tilted his head and stared at the heat dissipation device on the Beggar's Edition Dreadnought for a long time, and then asked: "How is this achieved? How is it possible?"
Kaul designed a fearless called the Redeemer. This fearless is similar to the beggar's version of the fearless designed and discarded by Qin Mo. It is just more refined. The same flaw is that it is easy to overheat and burn the driver inside during long-term battles. .
Although the person who is installed in the Fearless is not a healthy person, he will still be burned to death.
It is not that Kaul has never thought about designing similar heat dissipation devices, but the key problem is how to collect and conduct heat, and similar devices that can solve the heat dissipation problem are also difficult to miniaturize.
Doubtful, Caul approached the Dauntless, carefully analyzing and inspecting the heat dissipation device, and then it discovered that the focus of this thing was not miniaturization, but the use of an unknown metal.
This metal is very sensitive to heat, can absorb and store heat, and can even block the conduction of heat.
"This is made of an alloy transformed from fine gold." Qin Mo turned around and walked to the corner of the test site and took out a small square box-shaped STC with the word "heat dissipation" written on it. "As long as you have this STC, you can dissipate a large amount of heat." The installation is printed on a variety of objects."
"What materials are you using?" Call asked.
"Heat-absorbing metal is one of the industries in the world of Tyrone Galaxy Hive City. Considering that you are probably the only customer in the entire empire, I can give you the privilege of simplifying the purchase process without formalities." Qin Mo said.
Kaul became even more curious. He wanted to know how the so-called heat-absorbing metal was made, but after thinking about it again and again, he felt that it was impossible to ask the result. He could only hope that Qin Mo would be different in pricing raw materials. Large opening.
"One hundred thousand throne coins per ton, but it cannot be settled with throne coins. You can buy it with population or other common trade items." Qin Mo opened his palms and told Kaul the price.
In fact, this is already a big deal, because the raw material of the so-called heat dissipation metal is stone or any other atomic structure material.
The only cost of this thing is time, because only Qin Mo can use the power of the Star God to process heat-dissipating metal. This thing is not like the alloy used in shipbuilding, which can be made by getting equipment and finding workers. However, with Qin Mo's current ability, it would not be a problem to create a heat-dissipating metal sphere with a diameter of one hundred kilometers.
The reason for doing business with Kaul is that this cooling technology is not an investment, which is different from giving Vic STC, but a gift, so don't get any benefits.
Kaul did not bargain and nodded in agreement: "Okay."
"Then it's settled." Qin Mo placed the STC on one of Kaul's appendages, then waved his hand, and the Beggar's version of Fearless immediately turned from an abandoned war machine into a pile of debris.
Kaul suddenly thought that with the technical level of Tyrone Galaxy, it would be no problem to perfect a Dreadnought, and the Dreadnought he saw might be a demonstration tool.
"This technology is of great value. I will fulfill my promise and clear up my relationship with Vic so that he can have a good future in the order." Kaul put the STC into his stomach, turned around and squeezed out of the room.
Call still had many doubts in his mind as he walked down the corridor.
The STC of the heat dissipation device should have been manufactured by Qin Mo. How did he make the STC template?
Maybe there is an STC that can turn existing technology into an STC? That's not even certain.
But Kaul doesn't intend to delve into it, because the heat dissipation technology available today can already solve many difficulties.
As Kaul was walking and thinking, a coded message consisting of 0s and 1s appeared in his electronic eye field of vision. Kaul could read the content without having to translate the message.
"Horst has arrived in the hive" was sent by Vic.
After seeing the message, Kaul thought about it and made up his mind that if Horst signed the extermination order or decided to wipe out the Tyrone galaxy, he must take Qin Mo away as soon as possible.
At least Qin Mo can have a place on the Explorer King.
Chapter 139 I bet it misfires
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Compared with the meeting with Kaul, Qin Mo's meeting with Inquisitor Horst was much more formal.
Just like having a meeting.
Qin Mo, the leader of Tyrone, Adam, the marshal of Tyrone fleet, and Gray, who represented the army and the imperial guards, attended the meeting together.
This meeting will not determine the fate of the entire Talon galaxy, but it will decide whether a total of 17.2 billion people in the three worlds will go to war with their own kind.
In the conference room of Xincato's command building, Horst and Qin Mo sat opposite each other.
"I know that the Tyron system fought a brutal war a year ago, and the loyalists were heretics. I know that most people in this system do not want a war."
Horst's voice was calm. He lowered his head and looked at the documents on the desktop while giving a very plain explanation.
"But you still went too far."
"Of course, you can express objections to the investigation of the Inquisition, but you cannot intercept the Inquisitors at the edge of the galaxy, or even send an entire fleet to attack the ship they are on."
Horst glanced at Adam as he spoke.
Adam was extremely tough during the confrontation. He issued a well-known order: If the target ship crosses the border, we will destroy the ship before the fortress.
"From the beginning of the investigation to now, everything you have done has added fuel to the fire."
Having said this, Horst snapped his fingers at the attendant beside him.
The attendant immediately took out a box from his waist and opened the box respectfully.
Qin Mo saw that the box contained a revolver and six engraved bullets. That pistol was a very delicate and beautiful but ancient revolver with a slightly sci-fi appearance. It was probably a collector's item.
"This was once the weapon of a tyrant. I killed him and kept this weapon as a collection." Horst said, taking out the revolver from the box, then pulling out the magazine and filling it with bullets.
Horst explained his reasoning as he loaded the bullet.
"What you're doing is like loading this gun."
"For example, intercepting the ships of the Inquisition, or taking in the people of the Weeper Chapter. The Weeper should have been on an expedition. Every excessive thing is adding a bullet to this gun."
Horst stopped when five bullets were loaded, then slid the magazine and swung the gun body. The revolver's magazine returned to the firing position, and the entire gun was ready to fire.
"If I pull the trigger at this time, the bullet may or may not be fired. It all depends on the probability, and when five bullets are loaded, the probability of the bullet not being fired is very low." Horst said He raised his gun and pointed it at Qin Mo.
Gray and Adam looked at Horst but did not stop him because they knew that if the two sides fought, Qin Mo would not need anyone's protection.
Qin Mo stared at the muzzle of the gun and understood what Horst meant.
It's like ancient roulette on Terra.
What Horst said was that every time he did something to resist the Inquisition, he was filling the revolver magazine with bullets, and his survival rate was getting lower and lower until he was certain to die.
"This pistol is for you." Horst's grip on the gun was slightly loose, and the revolver slid in his hand with the muzzle pointing downward.
"Thank you." Qin Mo took the pistol and pulled out the magazine, then stood up and picked up the last bullet and stuffed it into the magazine.
At this point the magazine is completely filled.
Horst looked at Qin Mo in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do.
Qin Mo shook the pistol to return the magazine, and then put the muzzle of the gun against his head: "I understand what you said, but I choose to bet that it jams."
"No...this weapon will not jam." Horst explained.
"Then I'll stop it from misfiring." Qin Mo pulled the trigger.
Horst's followers quickly stood up and tried to stop him, but Horst remained motionless, but slightly nervous.
The revolver's trigger did not fire a bullet after it was pulled, and it seemed that it really misfired.
Qin Mo pulled the button a few more times, but no bullets were fired every time.
Horst felt that Qin Mo used some kind of force to prevent the ammunition from being fired, and then realized that Qin Mo meant that he could silence the Inquisition.
This was a bit crazy, but Horst also believed that if Qin Mo was wrong, he would not come to the hive world in person to announce the judgment of the Tribunal.
"You are lucky. The Inquisition finds you innocent." Horst took out a piece of parchment and handed it over. "You are now the new governor appointed by the empire. You are the ruler of three worlds in the Tyrone galaxy with a population of tens of billions. , the well-deserved Lord of Tailong.”
Qin Mo took the parchment and put it down.
Horst went on to talk about things like what the Imperial Governor's obligations were to the Empire, including responding to war calls, sending out men to form Astra Militarum regiments, and tithes.
The focus is on tithes.
Horst participated in a meeting before coming. The senior officials of the Inquisition and the High Lords Council discussed tax collection. The final result of the discussion was that the tithe must be paid, but how to pay it can be discussed. Now there are new crises emerging throughout the empire. If trouble occurs in the Tyrone galaxy, it will be difficult to suppress it.
"The Tyrone Galaxy will only pay one kind of tithe, and that is the dimensional engine." Qin Mo said.
"You mean the new navigation technology that is not based on subspace?" Horst asked.
"That's right." Qin Mo nodded.
After thinking about it for a while, Horst thought it was very feasible.
This stable new navigation technology was important in gradually weaning the Imperium away from its dependence on the Warp.
At first Horst was worried that Qin Mo was unwilling to promote the dimension engine, but now this doubt has been dispelled.
But Horst still has a question: "Why did you offer to use the Dimension Engine as a tithe?"
"Because the subspace is a cesspit. Human beings can no longer dive and swim in the cesspit and then bring all their shit into the material universe." Qin Mo replied.
Hearing this, Horst felt that Qin Mo was indeed on the side of the entire human race. Whether he was on the side of the empire was yet to be considered.
However, the Dimension Engine cannot be promoted just by promoting it.
"The vast majority of people don't really trust your technology. There are many people in the Inquisition who think your technology is heretical poison. The promotion process may be very slow, but as long as your dimension engine is really easy to use and is not adulterated, If it is a private product, it will eventually replace the subspace engine," Horst said.
After talking about the tithe, Qin Mo said nothing more. He had already said everything he wanted to say.
But Horst still has something to say: "I am investigating a strange plague and need your help. The reason is that there are only two places where this plague is raging, one is the hazy star field where Cadian is located, and the other is your Tyrone." and surrounding galaxies, it’s weird.”
Qin Mo frowned when he heard this sentence, and a bad guess popped up in his mind.
"This is the result of my colleagues and I's investigation into the plague..." Horst took out a stack of documents written by himself from his entourage and handed them to Qin Mo.
Qin Mo immediately took a closer look and found that the place where the plague was raging had two characteristics.
One is that there are plague zombies.
The other was the emergence of new sects in places where the plague was raging. These sects claimed that the Empire had betrayed the Emperor's will and that the plague was the Emperor's punishment.
Before the plague began to rage, space hulks appeared more and more frequently, and there were raids by alien and heretical ships.
"The Plague of Unbelief." Qin Mo put down the document and stared at Horst very seriously, "An expedition against the Gate of Cadian is about to begin."
Chapter 140 The Precursor of the Black Crusade
"What is the plague of unbelief?" Horst didn't understand why a plague had such a name. What does the spread of a plague have to do with whether there is faith?
"Those who do not believe in the emperor will be turned into zombies. This will be the case in the future, but it is not the case yet." Qin Mo explained vaguely.
Horst nodded, and then he was puzzled by Qin Mo's other words: "An expedition against the Gate of Cadian?"
Qin Mo then told Horst the information about the Thirteenth Black Expedition.
Rather than whether Horst would doubt why he could predict the future, Qin Mo was more worried that the Cadian Gate could not be defended.
Another thing I'm worried about is that even if I tell him about the Thirteenth Black Crusade, Horst won't believe it, or he may believe it but others in the empire don't, or even the empire may believe it but Due to too low administrative efficiency, no effective response can be made.