I am farming in the real world

Chapter 227: Redstone Technology Expert?

"Huh?"

"Chen Cai?"

"Another MC villager coming to join me?"

Having had the experience of unexpectedly recruiting two MC villagers, [Merchant] and [Breeding Expert], Chen Jue felt an unusual sense of kinship with this newly spawned big-nosed villager.

With the Crouching Dragon and the Young Phoenix already in his grasp, wouldn't the emergence of a Young Kirin or a Sleeping Tiger propel his career to even greater heights?

So Chen Jue immediately switched to Steve mode and opened the other party's status bar for a glance.

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[Villager: Chen Cai (Redstone Technology Expert)]

[Health: Red Heart × 20]

[Attack Power: 5 ~ 6 (when holding fireworks rocket)]

[Recruitment Limit: 1. Randomly generated upon meeting certain conditions; 2. Profession is unique and cannot be changed; 3. Cannot be refreshed and recruited using Easter egg gameplay.]

[Skin: Not activated]

[Introduction: A friendly creature, a Redstone technology expert in the village, possessing the strongest scientific research technology in Minecraft! In addition to emeralds and trades, he can provide players with 100% loyal service.]

[Motto: Give me a stack of redstone, and I will light up the whole world!]

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"Holy crap!"

"You're into Redstone technology?" Chen Jue almost couldn't hold back after reading the other party's status introduction.

In the MC game, [Redstone] is indeed buggy enough. One material alone combines the three attributes of conductor, energy source, and information transmission.

Compared to traditional gold, silver, copper, and iron, it is ten thousand times better than even the existing composite materials of mankind.

But the problem is, this heaven-defying MC material does not exist in the real Earth.

Even if he searched through the villagers' shops, Chen Jue couldn't buy a single piece of [Redstone].

Chen Jue didn't know how to arrange for him to work for him with a professional villager with dragon-slaying skills.

"Yes, boss, I specialize in scientific research related to Redstone."

"I just communicated with Chen Nong and have mastered most of the information about this world. Currently, it seems that there is no trace of Redstone in this world. Fortunately, there is this lithium element that can be used as a substitute, and the composite material can barely take into account most of the functions of Redstone," the big-nosed Lao Cai explained patiently, holding up the [Lithium Mica].

"Material composite?"

Chen Jue's expression changed upon hearing this, as he seemed to have heard a very impressive technical term.

The so-called material composite is the optimized combination of material components with different properties using advanced material preparation technology, thereby forming a new formula of composite materials.

Earth has existed for billions of years, and the existing material elements have already been discovered by humans in the early stages of civilization.

But how to research and utilize these material elements has troubled humans for thousands of years.

It wasn't until the great explosion of modern science and technology that countless composite materials entered human daily life.

Composite materials are usually divided into two categories: 'metal' and 'non-metal', such as alloys, synthetic resins, rubber, ceramics, carbon fiber, glass fiber, etc., affecting all walks of life in human society.

Take the several lithium battery samples in this village's wooden house, which are themselves products of composite materials.

"Lao Cai, do you mean that you have thoroughly researched the lithium element?"

"Can you optimize and compound 'lithium' with existing materials?" Chen Jue's face began to become unusually exciting.

Before, when he discovered that lithium battery materials could temporarily replace Redstone powder, he had considered this plan.

Unfortunately, the activity of elemental lithium is too strong, only a little lower than that of sodium.

Once used to replace [Redstone] to lay circuits, or as an energy supply end.

It is easy to explode if it comes into contact with a little water or active gas.

Therefore, Chen Jue temporarily piled up the materials such as [Lithium Granules] refined by the MC [Furnace] in the box, waiting for a free time to restart the research.

He never expected that the turning point for this problem that had troubled him for a long time would actually be on the specially recruited villager with the [Redstone Technology Expert] profession!

This made Chen Jue a little pleasantly surprised, and he hurriedly urged him to produce some results.

Before long, this big-nosed Lao Cai, who had just arrived on Earth, pointed to several lithium battery samples in a wooden house in the village that had been dismantled by it, and said: "Boss, I just researched it, and a very small part of the electrode materials in these batteries can be combined with lithium."

As he said that, Lao Cai took a piece of black film smaller than a fingernail and handed it to Chen Jue.

With the display of MC subtitles, Chen Jue was stunned.

[Graphene Fragment: Man-made product, an allotrope of carbon, with excellent electrical and optical properties in terms of physical properties.]

"It's actually graphene!"

"Are you planning to use this thing to compound with lithium?"

"Then... isn't that a graphene lithium battery!" Chen Jue's voice raised a few notches in excitement.

Because when he referred to the situation of the battery industry related to new energy vehicles, he had seen the cutting-edge research of this graphene battery in several domestic and foreign magazines.

Like the American Nanotek Instruments company, the Spanish Graphenano company, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and several domestic 211 key university laboratories, have all developed experimental graphene batteries on a small scale.

Whether it is in charging and discharging speed or battery capacity, graphene batteries are far superior to traditional lithium batteries such as ternary lithium and lithium iron phosphate on the market.

The reason why it has not been popularized is because the price of graphene is too expensive!

The market price of high-purity graphene is about 3,000 yuan/gram, which is the result of the improvement of the preparation process and the increase in graphene production in recent years.

When the price of a cutting-edge material is too high, its commercial properties will be greatly reduced.

As a result, the current mainstream battery manufacturers will at most invest industrial-grade graphene films with very little content into the positive and negative electrodes of the battery to enhance the charging and discharging speed of the electrodes.

Once graphene and lithium materials are combined, Chen Jue can't imagine how much it would cost to build such a battery.

Anyway, just hearing the name, you know that ordinary consumers can't afford it.

However, after learning that the [Redstone Technology Expert] can prepare composite 'graphene-lithium' materials, Chen Jue couldn't hold back his excited heart.

Regardless of the cost, make one to test the performance first.

Even if it cannot be put into large-scale commercial use, it can even be left for him to modify some private equipment in the future.

So Chen Jue called Wu Bo, the head of the procurement department of Magic Cube Group, overnight: "Lao Wu, help me purchase a batch of high-purity graphene on the market as quickly as possible!"

"The price doesn't matter, as long as it can be delivered to the Magic Cube factory within 2 hours, each employee involved in this matter will be given a month's base salary as a bonus! Be quick, it's urgent!"

Wu Bo looked at the incoming call reminder and was shocked: "Okay, Chairman! I will help you find it right away."

Under the incentive of money, the employees of the purchasing department who had originally returned to their newly assigned dormitory houses to lie down and rest, were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood after learning about this side quest newly released by the boss.

After all, the group of animals who went to the Magic City Exhibition promoted in the company's small group that they had received 6 months of base salary bonus as soon as they came back, which made many colleagues who were not scheduled to be jealous.

Especially the purchasing department, it is usually not their turn to go to the exhibition.

It was rare to receive a 'side quest', so they began to mobilize their contacts to help Chen Jue, the chairman, find materials.

Graphene is not difficult to buy, you can find it everywhere on Taobao.

But Chen Jue needed it urgently, and it was definitely too late to buy it in another place.

Finally, under a wide range of searches, two kilograms of canned powder were purchased from the laboratory of Wenshi University in Chashan at a 50% premium.

When the two large cans of graphene were delivered to the Magic Cube factory, Chen Jue threw the things to Lao Cai and let him start performing.

I saw the big-nosed villager reach out and unscrew the lid of the can, sniff deeply into it, and his eyes glowed green.

Then he took out a stack of [Lithium Granules] × 64 from the [Box] and threw it into the [Workbench] to synthesize [Lithium Ingots] in a 3 × 3 layout.

Chen Jue was afraid that this thing would explode before, so he didn't dare to synthesize it at all.

But watching Lao Cai grab the [Lithium Ingot] and immerse it in a pool of 'infinite water' dug out on the side, and use a wire saw to cut it.

This scalp-numbing scene scared Chen Jue back a bit: "Holy crap! Lao Cai, aren't you afraid of detonating this elemental lithium by cutting it like this?"

Lao Cai explained while grinding the saw: "Boss, the water in this pool is 100% pure water, insoluble to any gas, and does not contain any impurities. Even if the most active metal is thrown into it, it will not react."

In addition, this [Redstone Technology Expert] also commented on the [Lithium Ingot] sheet cut into the size of a mobile phone in his hand, saying that this thing has been processed by MC [Furnace] and [Workbench].

It has broken away from the state of elemental lithium extracted by human technology.

Not only is it free of impurities, but also the arrangement structure of the internal lithium elements is very stable.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Jue, the Steve Demon God, was by his side, fearing to 'disturb' the Demon God, Lao Cai wouldn't even need to use the 'infinite water' pool, and he could just process and cut it directly.