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The tords were simultaneously echoed by Ivan With a serious tone, he continued, "Based on our previous experiment, the alien plants have to absorb at least 10000 watts of electricity to fory crystal…"

Yao Yuan interjected, "Wait a minute, by watts, do you y crystal contains 50000 Du of electrical energy, is that correct?

"Du?" All of the scientists, including Ivan, frowned at this unfa beside Yao Yuan,more clearly, "Yes, one thousand watts is equal to one du of electricity Watts is the technical term, while du is e Chinese use colloquially"

Yao Yuan sed Ivan to continue

"If we calculate the conversion rate, the energy crystal Major carried back, which is about 15 billion cubic millimeters, contains one trillion and fifty billion [1] watts of energy!" said Ivan excitedly

Not only were Yao Yuan and the rest of the Black Stars appropriately stunned, even some of the scientists had to ask Ivan to repeat what he just said "How ain?"

"One trillion and fifty billion watts!"

Ivan repeated affirmatively He then retrieved from his backpack a stack of calculated data which he proceeded to pass around the roo to the data, he said, "Of course, we have to take into account the ay that is lost in the conversion process itself The plants aren’t superconductors, so a 100 percent conversion rate is i with the physics committee, we have come to a safe assumption that for every one hundred thousand watts the plant has absorbed, it will be converted into an energy crystal with one thousand watts of stored energy

"So with that in y crystal that Major carried with him should contain around one billion and fifty y!"

The talk of numbers, and astrono He ive a minute to process all this… In the year 2026, Earth’s total consumption of electricity was around one billion watts… Ivan, are you telling h energy to power Earth’s whole population for one whole year?!"

Ivan stood by his calculation by asserting, "Major, and everyone else, I know this is hard to believe, but the ht be so the way, but the difference would not be big enough to affect the final nuest probley? The technology behind the fory crystal is way beyond our current scientific co it, y"

That dropped the roo, Bo Li started speaking

Bo Li felt subain into that serene sensation and a fa in her ears She felt compelled to repeat it

"Let him who ties the knot untie it…"

Everyone in the room, with the sole exception of one, was befuddled by the cryptic sentence It was Yao Yuan who instantly grasped the intended y couldn’t understand these crystals, but we do have the technology that can!" Yao Yuan sprang up excitedly Al, he intoned, "if the alien plant can convert energy into crystal form, perhaps we can induce it to conduct the process in reverse! This is perhaps our best shot yet!

"We still have saht? Do be careful, but you are free to use they crystal!

"Postpone the Acade projects! I want the whole of the Academy to focus on this one task! This is our last lifeline, people! Understand that you have thirty days to inal number is one trillion and fifty ht because fifty er than one trillion So the numbers here and in the rest of the text have been adjusted accordingly