"If you're afraid, just leave. I won't tell you that this thing provides energy equivalent to fifty times its weight in gold!"
The system's haughty voice made Fang Er stunned again.
In later generations, thorium was indeed very precious. The power generation from 100 tons of thorium was enough to supply the entire country for a year.
From an economic perspective alone, it was twenty times more valuable than gold.
He never expected that this stuff could provide fifty times the energy when used to replace gold!
He fished out a lump from the bucket and weighed it in his hand. It was about three to four pounds.
This meant that such a small amount of thorium was equivalent to over two hundred pounds of gold?
A pound is sixteen taels, which is more than three thousand taels of gold!
Damn, this is practically robbery!
"What are you thinking? The thorium content in this lava is only 53.76%!"
Fang Er grinned. He wouldn't mind even if it was only 35%, let alone 53%. How much thorium could be extracted from this entire area?
Thus, under the astonished gazes of Wang Xuance and the others from a distance, Fang Er began his joyful work.
He scooped the molten lava into buckets, and after cooling, directly stored it in his warehouse.
This action looked like a child playing with a stick, poking excrement.
"Hey, boss, what is the Duke doing? And where did he get that bucket?"
Xue Rengui asked Wang Xuance with a puzzled expression.
Wang Xuance took out a cigarette and offered it, then earnestly admonished, "Don't ask what you shouldn't, and if you don't understand, keep it to yourself."
Xue Rengui chuckled, accepted the cigarette, first lit it for Wang Xuance, and then never mentioned the bucket again.
"Damn it!"
Fang Er casually threw away the climbing stick, which was less than half a foot long, and looked at the ground in front of him speechlessly. How long would it take to pick through all of this?
After a while, he shook his head and ridiculed himself. Damn it, he was being stupid!
He took out a large bucket of mineral water, unscrewed the lid, and poured it onto the not-yet-solidified lava.
Soon, the area around him turned into a fairyland, shrouded in mist.
Xue Rengui in the distance was dumbfounded. Was the Duke performing magic?
How did he produce so many things out of thin air?
He was about to speak when he suddenly remembered Wang Xuance's reminder and quickly covered his mouth.
It seemed he had seen something he shouldn't have!
Meanwhile, Fang Er had successfully cooled the lava closest to him. He excitedly crouched down, placed his hand on the solidified volcanic rock, and communicated with the system to extract the thorium element.
"Sister System, give me a hand, suck it dry!"
"You little brat, can you not say things that are so ambiguous?"
Although the system retorted with dissatisfaction, it still loyally executed Fang Er's command.
"Ding! Converting points ~~"
"Ding! Converting points ~~"
"Ding! Converting points ~~"
It took longer to absorb such a small amount than during the time he found the silver mountain. The increase in his point balance was no longer measured by a stopwatch.
Instead, it was skyrocketing like a rocket. Fang Er squatted there, grinning from ear to ear.
"Ding! Point conversion complete! This time, a total of 27.56 million points were converted!"
Hiss~~
Fang Er couldn't help but gasp. Such a small amount of material contained so much energy, it was unbelievable.
If calculated by points, one ton of gold is one thousand kilograms, and the system has always converted based on Tang jin. One jin is sixteen taels, which is 680 grams, and one liang is 42.5 grams.
Calculated this way, one ton of gold can be exchanged for 23,529 points.
This meant that in just this short period, he had absorbed energy equivalent to over a thousand tons of gold!
A full 20+ tons of pure thorium~
So much high-purity thorium concentrated in one person's hands would likely cause a global sensation in later generations!
Awesome~
According to the volcanic eruption situation, not all the thorium would fall in the same place. This meant there should be more elsewhere!
Fang Er happily took out another climbing stick and started scavenging around Mount Fuji.
He poked here and there, searching for thorium that had fallen in other locations.
Afterward, the system issued several more prompts. After absorption, his point balance surged to over 1.9 billion.
Converted, he had stored over 80,000 tons of gold. Although still far from the target of 100 million tons, at least there was hope.
He left conspicuous marks at each location he collected from, to avoid retracing his steps.
The lava was spread over a vast area, and after searching all day, he hadn't even covered one percent of it. Seeing the sky darken, he decided to take a break with the helicopter.
Wang Xuance and Xue Rengui wisely did not ask him what he had been doing all day, and Wang Qianli didn't dare to mention a single word.
What he had seen that day convinced him that Fang Er was an immortal. Otherwise, how could an ordinary person conjure things out of thin air?
If it were one or two items, it could be dismissed as a street performance, but he had personally seen Fang Er produce at least a thousand 30-liter buckets of mineral water that day!
The next morning, Fang Er sat on a rock, looking at Mount Fuji, and decided to take a gamble.
"Xuance, tie me to the helicopter with a rope later and fly low around Mount Fuji."
"Old Xue, you and Wang Qianli wait here and be careful."
Wang Xuance nodded silently without asking any questions.
Xue Rengui was a bit worried, "My Lord, I saw you searching for something yesterday. How about I go for you? This is too dangerous!"
"Alright, I know your intentions, but you can't help with this matter!"
Fang Er boarded the helicopter without room for refusal, tied the rappelling rope around his waist, and gave Wang Xuance a look.
Xue Rengui had no choice but to retreat with Wang Qianli, watching them fly towards Mount Fuji.
After searching for a whole day, Fang Er had confirmed one thing: the system's sensing range for thorium was only thirty meters.
He suspended himself ten meters above the ground and had Wang Xuance circle the outer perimeter of Mount Fuji repeatedly.
Indeed, this greatly increased the efficiency of his search.
In just one day, he had searched two-thirds of the remaining area.
On the third day, the area within three kilometers of Mount Fuji was completely searched.
His points also broke the 10 billion mark, equivalent to storing over 400,000 tons of gold. He had achieved 0.4% of the 100 million-ton goal.
But Fang Er was still not satisfied. Sitting in the cabin, he said to Wang Xuance, "Only this little bit? Is this big guy getting weak?"
"Fly to the crater and drop the torpedo, let's see if this guy can spew out anything else~"