It was easier to get the gravitonium than the obelisk, as it's now unowned and mostly in the middle of nowhere, so once he knew exactly where it was, all that was left to do was dig.
The magnetic field spreads quickly, enveloping an area of several miles, and with a twist of light, Eric's figure disappears.
There were so many powerful people on Earth, and so many different kinds of black technology, and there maybe something overhead that he might not even be aware of that was watching him, so he had to be careful if he was digging for something so important.
A football-sized piece of vibranium flew out of Eric's backpack, and with a flick of Eric's finger, the vibranium thinned and grew, turning into a thin cylinder like chimney.
With a downward press of his finger, the chimney landed on the ground and began to spin at high speed, making an ear-splitting sound and cutting a circular ring several metres in diameter into the ground.
Changing his fingers into a palm, Eric tapped the ground, and the chimney went straight down like a hollow drill.
The ground shook as if it was moaning in pain, but Erik's face was solemn, unaffected by the sound, and he felt the depth of the chimney carefully.
The place was an abandoned mine in Africa, surrounded by no people, not even animals, and with the magnetic field refracting the light, Eric was sure that even if he made a big noise, no one would notice.
The shaking of the ground slowly stopped and the noise became quieter and quieter. Of course, this was not because the chimney had stopped spinning, but because it was slowly burrowing deeper into the ground, where the thick layer of earth masked the sound and vibrations.
After about ten minutes or so, Eric's face straightened as the chimney had reached its intended depth.
"Whew ..." Eric took a deep breath and turned his hands upwards as if he was holding something.
"Up!" With a loud bellow, his hands felt like they were carrying a thousand pounds, and they trembled slightly.
"Boom!" A pillar of stone rose up from the place cut by the vibranium, rising rapidly into the sky.
At the top was a thin layer of soil, and further down, a thick layer of ore, interspersed with many transparent stones that glistened in the sun's rays.
They were diamonds, one of nature's gems and one of the biggest marketing scams in human history, worth a fortune, but Erik didn't care.
Further down, there were even thicker layers of rock, sandstone, shale, limestone ...
The various rocks, cut neatly into a cylinder shape, rose straight upwards into the sky with a rumbling sound that lasted for several minutes.
At last, the chimney reappeared, carrying the pillar like Hercules.
Erik's eyes were drawn to the magical substance flowing everywhere on the pillar.
It looked like water, not water, not gold, a magical substance like mercury flowing between the pillars, as if it were a living creature, bizarre.
It was only at such a close distance that Eric sensed a faint magnetic field reaction in them.
"No wonder the connection to the earth's magnetism is not detectable, this thing's magnetic field is weaker than a piece of rotten wood!"
Eric was so excited that he waved his right hand and the chimney wrapped itself around the pillar and flew behind Eric, then with a "boom", the "pillar" that had been cut upwards fell quickly and returned to the earth in just a few seconds. There was not a trace of it, except for a shallow circle on the ground.
Erik looked around and checked the area carefully to make sure there was nothing unusual before leaving with his 'trophy'.
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It took Eric a whole month to return to New York, mainly because the rock was so big, 20 metres high, that it was extremely inconvenient to transport and would only look very suspicious.
Back in New York, Eric took the pillar straight to his underground laboratory. Apart from the supercomputers and the large ark reactor, there was less than 100 square metres of space left.
The pillar was crammed into the ground, compressing the space available underground once again.
He don't care about this, as he just wanted to inject the gravitonium into the cradle for him to fuse.
But he can't control it all, the gravitonium was like a living thing, not giving a damn about his magnetic field control, so what can he do.
A bowl to scoop it up? But it looked like a liquid, but it wasn't. It was a special state between a solid and a liquid, and the gravity field around the gravitonium was very strange, like a genie.
When the bowl was placed on it, the gravitonium would simply float at the mouth of the bowl and not fall, and when the bowl was removed, it would swim away like a goldfish.
Frowning, Eric waved his hand to create a hollow ball of vibranium and made open a slight opening in it and moved it towards the gravitonium in the pillar, but just as the ball moved, Eric was shocked to find that the gravitonium had actually passed through the gaps in the vibranium molecules, as if it was in a different dimension.
"What can j do? I can't just fuse the pillars together!" Eric put his hands behind his back and frowned as he moved slowly around the pillar, lap after lap, wearing out his shoes without coming up with a good solution.
As he was still thinking about a solution, while staring at the gravitonium, but before he knew it, he was suddenly one step away from the gravitonium.
As he decisively reached out and tapped the gravitonium.
The gravitonium instantly sprang to life and all of it swarmed towards Eric's fingertips, and before long, there was no more gravitonium on the stone pillar, and debris was scattered everywhere.
"Oh, that easy? Then why am I transporting rocks back here?" Erik was dumbfounded.
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