Alien Relic Hunter

However, as soon as the drone flew over the giant crater, it began to shake uncontrollably. The two pairs of balanced rotors rotated and stopped, and wisps of black smoke visible to the naked eye began to emit from inside the machine core.

"What's going on? Is there any interference?" Ke Lan asked immediately.

"I don't know. It doesn't seem like interference. The signal received by the remote control is still full..." Before Layton could finish speaking, a series of sparks "crackled" from the drone, and then it fell headlong. Towards the bottom of the pit.

"Was it shot down by something?!" The hound nervously picked up the weapon and pointed it in the direction of the giant pit.

"No, it wasn't shot down." Layton shook his head. "The last feedback message I received before the drone went out of control was that the motor core was burned. The cause of the burning was... overload."

"Overload?!" The Hound was stunned for a moment, "How many energy crystals did you put into the converter?"

"No... this drone is not driven by crystals at all, nor is it equipped with a converter. It uses lithium batteries." Layton said, "Even if it is fully powered, it cannot be overloaded... It must be somewhere. What’s the problem!”

"Could it really be interference from the outside?" Hound asked again.

"I checked it just now when Ke Lan asked about this. If there is really interference from the outside world, the control system will definitely report an error, but now I only get the message that the motor is overloaded." Leighton said a little irritably. He scratched his head and said, "Overload means that the input current is too large in a short period of time, which directly burns the movement. But the problem is that the engine movement I chose is made according to the standards of the crystallized engine, let alone a piece of it. It has a lithium battery, even the output power of twenty lithium batteries cannot burn it."

"This current may come from the outside." Ke Lan analyzed, "'Wireless charging technology', you should be familiar with this term, Layton... This technology has been very mature in the old era, but because of the charging process, The energy loss is too large, so it has not been promoted on a large scale. However, after this technical problem has been solved, there are still quite a lot of devices using wireless charging technology. Last month, the New Power Vehicle Company launched a self- A hovercar with a floating charging base?”

"You mean there are external devices that are 'remotely charging' the drone? No, no, no... that's impossible." Leighton suddenly shook his head like a rattle, "The main unlimited charging technologies currently in practical application are There are two types. One is the electromagnetic induction type, but the charging efficiency of this method is not high. It can only meet the needs of small products such as digital 3C that do not consume much power. As for the technology you mentioned for wireless charging of air-cushion vehicles, use The thing is that the electromagnetic resonance is far away from... Well, this resonance is not the same thing as the resonance caused by the explosion of bugs, but the 'resonance' caused by the explosion evolved from this concept..."

He continued: "Whether it is inductive or resonant, wireless charging has a transmission distance limit. Just like those bugs, as long as the distance is far enough, even if they explode at the same time, they will not cause resonance - and the drone is overloaded At that time, it was at least more than a hundred meters away from the crystal pillars below, how could it be affected by resonance?"

"But the base for charging the hovercar on the Ark is not that big." Aya suddenly stood up and pointed at the crystal pillars in the giant pit and said, "Just take out any one of these pillars and it will be enough to hold up the whole thing." Ark's daily consumption for a year may be more - with such a large power and a transmission distance of one hundred meters, it should be possible, right?"

"That's what I said, but don't forget, we were standing on the edge of this huge pit before, and the nearest crystal pillar to us was less than a hundred meters away - if this thing can cause electromagnetic resonance, All the equipment we have now has been wiped out a long time ago." Layton retorted, "Unless these crystal pillars can choose their own targets... But since it destroyed my drone, there is no reason to let us go. Intruders who have entered 'its attack range'."

Aya couldn't help but fell silent. This was indeed something she had not considered just now.

"The scope is limited to just above the giant pit." A voice suddenly broke in, and everyone followed the sound, only to see Asano Akira squatting on the ground at some point, with his hands tightly attached to the ground.

"I can feel...right above the giant pit, there is an unknown force field...my thoughts cannot invade it."

"A force field?" Ke Lan subconsciously looked up, but the dome above the giant pit was no different from the surroundings.

"Is it a defensive force field? Something like an energy shield? No, it's not right either." As soon as Layton said it, he immediately denied his guess, "If it was a defensive force field, the drone would have crashed into it long ago. , it exploded directly...Wait a minute! I know! This should be a resonant force field!"

"Resonant force field? What the hell? Never heard of it-" The hound glanced at Layton, who was a little excited at the moment.

"I coined this term myself, but this concept has been proposed before, but it was forgotten because it was impossible to implement." Layton said quickly, spittle flying wildly, "Resonant force field, It uses the 'resonance effect' of energy crystals to amplify a large number of crystals to each other, thereby producing greater output power - you see, these neatly arranged crystal pillars are a wonderful amplification array!"

"But, you just said it couldn't be resonant. According to what you said now, were you just giving up on your feelings?" Hound frowned and complained, "Besides, if it really triggered such a large-scale Resonance, we are so close, it’s impossible that it won’t have any impact at all, right?”

The hound looked up and took a look at the energy margin of the power armor. Not only did it not increase, it actually dropped by two percentage points from the last time he checked.

"This is why this concept can only exist in theory and cannot be implemented!" Layton said, "In order for this large-scale resonant force field to take effect, there must be a way to constrain the energy, otherwise there will be It won’t be a force field, but a super big explosion... just like those lava canthaphias. But this technology is far more difficult than building a perfect amplification array!"

"Just because humans can't create it, doesn't mean that this third civilization can't create it..." Ke Lan murmured, "It seems that they have mastered the technology you mentioned, and have successfully restrained this 'resonance force field' Within the scope of the giant pit.”