Shaitan Wars 2: Wrath of the Shaitans Read Online Free Page B

circled the reactor, noting with disgust at the slime smeared liberally across the entire square block. There was speculation that the slime on the bock was meant for lubrication. The other theory was that it may be used for some sensory purpose, like sensing the temperature of the reactor. The soldiers thought that the aliens had simply shat on the block. It must remind them of their toilets.
    Notwithstanding the soldiers’ jokes, Ramesh wondered about the other two theories. There was no moving part in the reactor. It didn’t even hum. It just lay there like a block of metal. It had taken them quite some time to figure out that the damn thing was actually running and generating electricity. So if there are no moving parts, then what is the need for lubrication?
    It could have sensory purpose. Violet had confirmed that the slime was organic. But the temperature was being constantly measured by the IR scanner kept on an equipment tray in the corner. It had not varied by even 0.1°C in the last 3 weeks they have been measuring it. If you needed to monitor the temperature of something, then surely it must fluctuate at least by that amount over 3 weeks. Otherwise what is the point of monitoring it?
    There was nothing other than temperature that could be monitored by the slime. The square block was either hermetically sealed or a solid block of metal. The slime was smeared on the surface. The slime had no access to anything inside. Jorge had gone over every inch of that cursed block, Ramesh knew.
    Jorge had eventually ignored the slime. Whatever its purpose, the slime was common to many equipment in this habitat, let someone else figure it out. He had concentrated on the metal shell. He had measured it with the most sensitive ammeter and voltmeter. It had shown no electrical fluctuations, so no electrical or any electromagnetic signal was coming out of that metal shell.
    The only thing that was coming out of the reactor was through those massively thick cables, providing perfectly stable DC current. One thing was certain, they were not using any primitive technique like heating water to drive a turbine.
    That would have generated AC current. AC current can be converted into DC, but not this perfectly stable straight line. In any case, moving parts would have generated hum. They had used sensitive instruments and could confirm that nothing was moving inside.
    Ramesh gave up and sat on the floor staring blankly at the reactor. He had not really expected to find anything that Jorge could not. His mind drifted towards his own struggles with the alien computer. He was growing convinced that the core of the Shaitan computer was a quantum computer.
    It was definitely not a silicon based computer, a technology the humans used and understood well. There were telltale EM emissions from a silicon based computer, which Ramesh would have identified immediately. However ruling out silicon, automatically did not mean that it was a quantum computer.
    There may be other ways to make computers in the universe, which the humans did not know about. However there were some points of similarity with human quantum computers. Since their original invention in the 1990s and the early 2000s, human quantum computers had to be chilled and kept in extreme cold.
    The earliest human quantum computers were chilled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero – minus 273°C. In recent years, with advancement in materials, humans had been able to run quantum computers temperatures that could be cooled with liquid nitrogen. Some of the latest developments in this field, which Ramesh himself was leading promised even higher temperatures, around minus 30°C.
    The contraption that they suspected as the alien computer was also cooled, but only to -2°C. Still it was cooled and maintained at that steady temperature. That meant that there was specific cooling device inside that contraption meant to keep it at a lower than ambient temperature.
    Shaitan engineers