Chapter 70 When Routines Don't Work
The plan to make the original cement of the iron fireball kid failed, but Gao Wen did not intend to give up so easily - the experience from the earth may not work, but the idea from the earth may not be wrong. Perhaps the formula of some things is different, but this does not mean that this thing is worthless. At least, a cheap, large, strong and easy to process building material should be useful wherever it goes.
Even if it is renamed Magic xx in this world.
He sent Rebecca to continue to try new manufacturing processes, and told the other party about the general idea and his expected goals, which was not a random attempt without direction: although his own production method failed, Gao Wen knew that there was "cement" in this world.
Deep in the mountains, he and his men had seen this material. The engineers of the ancient Gondor Empire used artificial materials rather than stone to build the fortress in the deep mountains, and made the fortress more sturdy and durable than ordinary stone fortresses. A thousand years have passed and there has been no sign of collapse.
In the memory of Gowen Cecil, this material was developed as early as the "Star Age" before the "Spark Age" and was used for ten centuries. After many improvements and improvements, by the end of Gondor, it was one of the most commonly used building materials in the empire.
This is what makes Gao Wen most regretful: after the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of technologies were dying and losing their inheritance. Some were because their technology itself needed to rely on the deep blue magic well, some were because the group who mastered the relevant technology was extinct in an overall manner and no information was left behind, and some were because the raw materials (or environment) required for the technology had been covered by the contaminated area. The "an alternative version of cement" of the Gondor Empire is one of many lost technologies.
Due to the chaos of that era, Gao Wen was not sure which of the three reasons for the loss of this technology, but it is not because of the Magic Well: the production of alien versions of cement is the same as the earth's cement, and does not require too complex equipment and too high-level energy, so it is mostly due to the extinction of talents, the data is lost or the raw materials are in trouble. Anyway, this technology, which should have been the most basic and one of the cornerstones of civilization, has disappeared.
Seven hundred years later, the Ansu people built houses with stones and wood, and those nobles with conditions would use various shaping spells and alchemy potions from magicians to make their palaces and castles more refined and sturdy, but the latter obviously did not meet the requirements of Gao Wen's "generalization, cheapness, and mass production".
But although the technology is cut off, it is not impossible. After all, it was one of the most common basic technologies in the Gondor Empire back then. Even if Gauven Cecil had never done it with his own hands, he still had some fragments of related technologies left in his mind. He handed these fragments to Rebecca. As for how much technology can be restored... it depends on the ability of the Iron Head Fireball Baby.
At this time, Gao Wen couldn't help but sigh: How great would it be if Gao Wen Cecil was a keyboard powerhouse seven hundred years ago... A little more even the martial arts value is learned, the current situation will be much better. If you don't say anything else, at least remember the cement formula!
In the spirit of "who can a satellite that has become a spirit for hundreds of thousands of years be afraid of when he descends to earth", Gao Wen unscrupulously muttered the original owner of his body, and then began to list various experiments he had to conduct next.
Then in the next few days, Amber saw Gao Wen sending people tossing and transporting them to the tent, including strange ore powder, metal containers spliced together, crystal lenses of all sizes, magnets and wires commonly used by magicians and fortune tellers. These messy things were piled up on a table, a small part of which were urgently purchased from Tanzan Town, and the rest were processed by Gao Wen instructing Hetty and the craftsmen.
Looking at the table, the half-elf lady was confused: "What are you doing?"
While fiddling with the lens group in front of him, Gao Wen answered without raising his head: "Experience."
"The nobles are really difficult to understand," Amber blinked, and then his eyes lit up as if he had finally grabbed Gao Wen's little tail, "Oh! I finally discovered it! You guy really can't pretend and start to lose your ambitions! I just said, how could a normal-minded nobleman have endured so much for so long, you finally started to waste money and get rich...ah, it hurts!!"
Gao Wen twisted Amber's ear twice before letting go, looking at the guy who was not fucked curiously: "I just can't understand. Do you don't remember to beat or what, can't you make your temperament a little cute?"
"You are nonsense! I am a big thief who is tied here by you as a bodyguard. I usually either guard your large number of ghost painting talismans or help you patrol and wait for you to collect information. Occasionally, you let me learn to study ghost painting talismans with you for a long time. Do you respect my profession?"
The half-elves said something vividly, and the central idea is summarized in three words: I am idle.
"You are not as motivated as Betty," Gao Wen covered his forehead helplessly. "She comes to me to learn to recognize words every day after she finishes her work. Is it so difficult to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?"
"Oh? So that little maid is really learning to write?" Amber blinked and was excited. "No wonder some people said that they would talk nonsense when they saw her alone in the past two days, and they would write and draw on the ground with a branch whenever they had time..."
"Okay, okay, I don't care about you anyway. If you are really idle, go out and play by yourself." Gao Wen waved his hand to Amber, "Anyway, there are three things that are not allowed to be done: no stealing, no trouble in the place where you are working, no fight with people - of course, you can fight with Goose."
Amber got Gao Wen's permission and immediately rolled back into the shadow happily, while her body was fading away and muttering: "You are really weird, why do you always emphasize the goose in front of me..."
After Amber left, Gao Wen finally had the opportunity to focus on that bunch of things.
Some of them have been tested, while others are being verified.
Before sitting back on the chair, he first glanced at the big basket next to him and sighed slightly.
In the big basket, there were the indescribable polymers made by Rebecca when he burned cement. Originally, Rebecca was about to pour them out, but it was kept by Gao Wen and placed them specifically around him where he could see them at any time.
He regarded them as a warning, a sign, and a sign that reminds himself that "this world" is a sign that "this world".
Taking his eyes off those things, he glanced at a container on the table, lowered his head and wrote a new record on the paper in Chinese:
"In the 735th year of Ansuli, on the 46th of the Frost Month, the 23rd day of the camp development, gunpowder manufacturing failed. According to the classic formulas of the earth's experience and the various formulas of the magic version were ineffective. None of the finished products can produce rapid combustion and release a large amount of heat or similar effects in a short period of time. The finished products of the classic formula are non-flammable at all. The finished products of the magic version of the magic version can be quietly burned in the air, but the flame is dim and weak, so it is not as good as burning straw; the finished products of the formula of the second formula are also quietly burned, but have bright and stable flames. I originally wanted to use them for lighting, but it emits a pungent smell...
"If you continue to test, you may find available alternative versions of gunpowder formulas, but I have vaguely realized that this route is probably not the best choice. It is gradually moving away from the 'magic' of this world, and its power is not expected. It is probably more reliable than gunpowder when studying a burst rune that can be produced in industrialized mass."
In addition to this new record, there are more records on the paper, and Gao Wen's eyes are scanning them:
"In 735, the 45th of the Frost Month, the 22nd day of the camp development, it was determined that electromagnetic induction was invalid, at least the process of "magnetic electricity generation" was invalid, and no current was generated in the coil. It has been confirmed that the magnet exists in the north and south poles, and its nature is consistent with the magnets on the earth. The wind element runes provided by Hetty can also sense even the weakest electrical stimulation. Although the coil is rough, it meets the requirements. The only problem is the electromagnetic induction itself. It is impossible to verify whether the process of "electrically generated magnet" is also invalid, because Hetty's lightning artillery magic cannot provide a continuous and stable safe current, and a thunder in her palm almost struck Amber's hair...
"It seems that the plan to use generators to charge wind-based magic arrays can only be temporarily put on hold, or you can master the means of temperature difference power generation."
"...Be prepared to give up the steam engine. The experimental results are simply a big deal: the boiling process of water in this world looks the same as on the earth, but the driving force generated by steam is actually pitiful. Perhaps the expansion coefficient of water during the transformation into water vapor is far smaller than that of the earth. I suspect that the "water" here is not water at all, and it may be that the ubiquitous "water element" in this world is making trouble. This unreasonable thing changes the specific manifestation of water in the three-state transformation...
"... Although I usually drink it, wash my hands and face with it, and it can also be used to water the flowers, this does not prove anything: my body is already composed of elements of this world, and my senses are also operating according to the rules of this world. Except for the consciousness from the earth in my head, no part of me can jump out of the world's "view of the world" to observe... Is the blue sky I see really a blue sky?
"...Anyway, the route must be adjusted, and the most proud part of the human civilization on Earth has been severely damaged: I can't 'boil water' here, and I have lost the boiler, how can I get the most basic machines?"
"Ansu 735 years... Hetty has never heard of "coal", nor has the druid named Pitmann heard of it. In fact, even Gowen Cecil's memory, there is nothing like this... The good news is that charcoal can still be burned out.
"…The Tifeng Empire produced a 'burning stone', but not coal, but white 'burning stone', which seemed to be a kind of seawater sediment. It was resistant to burning than wood, but was not easy to ignite. And it was said that the combustion was very unstable and the smell produced was not good. Only the poor would use it to keep warm, so pay attention.
"...Mom, gold is actually a semiconductor, while sterling silver is non-conductive...what the hell?!
“I think I need a whole cutting-edge team to give me the entire periodic table of elements…or at least sort out the properties of all common substances.
“However, there isn’t.
Chapter completed!