MM Racing I deleted part 1 of Chapter 59 so you would know this is reality...
I deleted part 1 of Chapter 59 so you would know this is reality...
I deleted part of Chapter 59 so you would know this is reality...
The first 5000 meters were manageable, but this "Frankenstein's monster" system could barely hold on.
But once the depth exceeded 8000 meters and the high-temperature geothermal layer was reached, the nightmare began.
The rocks here are no longer fixed; they exhibit a semi-molten, plastic state.
Pei Qi had just cut through an exceptionally hard basalt layer when the drill bit in his hand suddenly emitted a sharp, empty spinning sound.
"Click."
It wasn't the sound of rocks breaking, but rather the sound of some kind of brittle shell being pierced.
Pei Qi's heart tightened. Before he could see clearly, the thermoelectric generator hanging on the wall suddenly emitted an overloaded red light.
"Voltage overload?! No, it's a hole!"
This drilling not only broke through the rock strata, but also accidentally exposed a weak point in a high-pressure magma chamber.
At this depth, the magma not only reaches temperatures of up to 1200 degrees Celsius, but also carries terrifying kinetic energy at hundreds of atmospheres of pressure.
"boom-!!!"
There was no image of a viscous liquid slowly flowing out. In that instant, the magma that had accumulated underground for tens of thousands of years found its outlet under terrifying pressure, and erupted out like a high-pressure fire knife!
The intense red light instantly illuminated the dark shaft, and the high-voltage cables connecting IC2 and the immersion project melted instantly under the high temperature, flailing wildly in the air like burning snakes.
"Holy crap! It's leaked! My generator!"
Faced with a crisis that could instantly vaporize an ordinary person, leaving not even ashes, Pei Qi did not panic and run away like an ordinary person.
As a veteran Minecraft player, he unleashed muscle memory ingrained in his DNA in a desperate situation.
What would you do if you saw lava flowing towards you?
Of course, it should be "the bucket landing on the ground"!
In that blocky world, water is the nemesis of all things and the terminator of lava.
Simply pour a bucket of water at the source of the lava, and no matter how turbulent the lava is, it will obediently turn into hard obsidian or cobblestone in an instant, thus resolving the crisis instantly.
This is no longer a tactic; it's a belief, an instinct of the "Water Bucket Cult."
So, almost subconsciously, Pei Qi switched to the bucket icon in his quick access bar.
That iron drum contained a full cubic meter, or one ton, of pure water.
He aimed at the gushing lava column, swung his arm, and splashed it fiercely!
"Turn into obsidian! Seal it!!"
however.
A fraction of a second after the water was splashed, in that instant when red and blue intertwined, Pei Qi's stiff brain suddenly connected with a nerve called "common sense".
He suddenly realized an extremely serious, potentially fatal, problem.
"Wait a minute—I have a Minecraft system here, but the physics engine is from Earth Online next door!!"
But it was too late. What's done is done.
The cubic meter of cold water did not undergo a magical block replacement reaction when it came into contact with magma that was 1200 degrees Celsius in temperature and under high pressure.
Instead, a violent physical phase transition occurred.
Water boils and vaporizes in an instant.
Pei Qi could almost see his middle school physics teacher's stern face, pointing at the "Operating Procedures" on the blackboard and roaring, "Who taught you to pour water into a pressure cooker?!"
As we all know, water expands in volume about 1700 times when it turns into water vapor.
In this underground high-pressure shaft environment, which is enclosed by reinforced stone on all sides, the volume expansion within it cannot diffuse outwards and can only form shock waves.
In geology, this has a more common but deadly name: steam explosion.
"boom!!!!!"
A deafening roar, a hundred times more terrifying than a TNT explosion, erupted in the narrow shaft.
That ton of water instantly transformed into a high-temperature, high-pressure steam cloud with destructive power.
It was like a thermobaric bomb detonated inside a cannon barrel, carrying fragments of magma that hadn't yet solidified.
The debris, along with the immersion engineering coils that had been blasted away, sprayed wildly in both directions, both upwards and downwards.
"Holy shit!!"
Pei Qi only had time to utter a single curse about the "national essence" before he was slammed against the well wall by the massive shockwave, like a fly being swatted.
[Warning! Warning! Shield energy has dropped to 30%!]
[Warning! Extremely high external temperatures! EU reserves plummet!]
Fortunately, he was wearing the full IC2 nanotech combat suit at the time. This high-tech armor, powered by electricity, activated the force field shield at the critical moment.
Blue arcs of electricity flickered wildly on the surface of the black armor, managing to withstand the combined physical and magical damage for him.
Even so, he was so shocked that he was completely disoriented, his internal organs were churning, his health bar dropped by three hearts in an instant, and he almost fainted on the spot.
When the steam dissipated, Pei Qi, covered in soot, slid down the wall and looked at the mess in front of him, feeling like crying.
There is no obsidian.
All that remained were magma spots scattered across the ground, and charred marks left by the shockwave on the well walls.
The "cross-module energy conversion system" that he had painstakingly built has been completely scrapped.
The immersive engineering connectors were blown off, the IC2 power storage box was tilted, and the once tidy industrial site now looked like a party hosted by Creepers.
"I was careless—I forgot that old man Newton isn't quite dead yet."
While cursing the damned realistic physics engine, Pei Qi quickly took out a few reinforced stone blocks and used the most primitive and simple physical plugging method to barely seal the gap.
Slumped on the steel scaffolding, Pei Qi stared at the empty iron bucket in his hand, sinking into deep self-doubt.
"I knew it! I knew it! The real world is the biggest garbage game ever!"
"Not only did they not give us automatic synthesis, they even removed the fluid properties! Who's the game designer? Come out and challenge me to a duel!"
Although his inventory and crafting follow Minecraft rules, the fluids he pours out (water, lava) are taken over by the physical laws of the real world the moment they leave his inventory.
The most typical example is the "infinite water" property.
In Minecraft, if you pour a bucket of water into lava or a pit, that bucket of water will become a source, flowing endlessly downhill, or forming an infinite water source in a 22 pit.
In reality, the bucket of water that Pei Qi had just poured out turned into steam and disappeared into the air after triggering that earth-shattering steam explosion.
There was no continuous generation of new water to extinguish the lava.
This is an ironclad rule that he had experimentally proven as early as the first world.
Aside from the Overworld, fluids elsewhere do not possess the property of "infinite proliferation".
He felt a pang of regret at the time.
After all, as a player with the Minecraft system, who hasn't thought about pouring a bucket of lava on the summit of Mount Everest, or pouring an infinite bucket of water into the crater of Mount Fuji, to see if they can extinguish this active volcano and, incidentally, flood the Japanese islands?
"But now it seems—this is actually a protective mechanism. If that stingy server administrator hadn't banned the infinite water feature, I might already be the culprit who destroyed the world."
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If that bucket of water really did have the characteristic of an "infinite source," then things would get really interesting.
Just imagine:
In the high-temperature and high-pressure environment 10,000 meters underground, what if a water source that never dries up and gushes out tons of cold water every second appeared?
Outcome A: Water comes into contact with magma → continuous instantaneous vaporization → generating a continuous stream of high-pressure steam → the well can not discharge such a huge amount of gas → the gas pressure continues to rise → ultimately triggering a geological explosion comparable to a nuclear explosion.
The entire underground structure of Tokyo would be instantly destroyed, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9 or higher would occur on the surface, and it might even directly blast through the earth's crust, triggering a supervolcanic eruption and causing Tokyo to sink.
Ending B: If the steam miraculously escapes, then an endless supply of cold water will flow into the mantle.
Water cools the magma, causing it to solidify and shrink in volume.
Over time, this will form a huge, ever-expanding underground cavity.
The earth's crust loses its support, and the stress structure collapses.
Ultimately, the Japanese islands will break apart like a cookie that has been snapped in half, and then slide into the Mariana Trench.
"hiss"
Thinking of this, Pei Qi gasped.
"Thank goodness. Although the laws of thermodynamics are usually quite annoying, like a rigid headmaster, they saved Japan's life in a critical moment."
Pei Qi dusted himself off and stood up again.
"It's best to avoid using the 'bucket god' cult underground. Next time you encounter lava, stick to using blocks to fill it. After all—"
He glanced at the wreckage of the machines scattered on the ground and shook his head helplessly.
"Rebuilding this damn energy conversion system will take me another half a day. Next time, I'm definitely locking the authors of IC2 and Immersion Engineering in a room, and they're not allowed to come out for meals until they agree on an energy unit!"