Chapter 70 When the Routine Doesn't Work...

The plan of making the head iron fireball doll to make primitive cement failed, but Gawain did not intend to give up so easily - the experience from the earth might not work, but the ideas from the earth were not necessarily wrong, maybe something was wrong. The formula is different, but that doesn't mean the thing has no value. At the very least, a cheap, bulky, sturdy and easy-to-work building material should be used wherever it goes.

Even if it were to be renamed Magic XX in this world.

He sent Rebecca to continue to try new manufacturing processes, and told the other party about his general ideas and his expected goals, and this was not a random attempt without direction: Although his own production method failed, Gawain knew that this The world used to have "cement".

In the depths of the mountain ruins, he and the people he led had already seen this material. The engineers of the ancient Gondor Empire used man-made materials instead of stone to build the fortress in the deep mountain, and made the fortress stronger than ordinary stones. The fort must be strong and durable, and there has been no sign of collapse after a thousand years.

In Gawain Cecil's memory, this material was developed as early as the "Steel Age" before the "Spark Age" and has been used for ten centuries. By the end of the Tudor period, it was one of the most common building materials used in the Empire.

And this is what makes Gawain the most regrettable: after the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of technologies have been lost and lost. Some of the information is left because the raw materials (or environment) required for this technology have been covered by the contaminated area, and the "other world version of cement" of the Gondor Empire is one of many lost technologies.

Due to the chaos of that era, Gawain is not sure which of the three reasons caused the loss of this technology, but it is not because of the magic well: the production of otherworldly cement is the same as earth cement, and it does not require too complicated equipment And too high-level energy, so most of it is the extinction of talents, loss of data or problems with raw materials. Anyway, this technology that should have been the most basic and one of the cornerstones of civilization is gone.

Seven hundred years later, the Ansu people are building houses with stone and wood, and those nobles who have the conditions will use the magician's various shaping spells and alchemy potions to make their palaces and castles more delicate and strong, but later. Obviously, it does not meet the requirements of Gao Wen's "generalization, cheapness, and mass production".

But although the technology is broken, it is not impossible. After all, it was one of the most common basic technologies in the Gondor Empire. Gawain Cecil has seen it even if he has not done it himself, and now there is still a little bit left in his mind. Fragments of related technologies. Give these fragments to Rebecca. As for the degree to which the technology can be restored... it depends on the ability of the iron-headed fireball baby.

At this time, Gawain couldn't help but want to sigh: If only Gawain Cecil 700 years ago was a keyboard powerhouse... If the force value is a little bit on the various miscellaneous things, the current situation will be Much better, if nothing else, at least remember the cement recipe!

In the spirit of "who can be afraid of a satellite that has grown up in hundreds of thousands of years", Gawain recklessly talked about the original owner of his body, and then began to make a list of the various experiments that he must carry out next.

Then in the next few days, Amber saw that Gawain sent people to toss a lot of things into the tent, including strange ore powders, metal containers spliced ​​together, and large and small crystal lenses. , as well as the magnets and wire threads commonly used by magicians and fortune-tellers. These messy things are piled up on a table. Half of them are urgently purchased from Tanzania Town, and the rest are processed by Gawain instructing Heidi and the craftsmen. from.

Looking at the things on the table, the half-elf lady was confused: "What are you doing?"

Gawain fiddled with the lens group in front of him and answered without raising his head: "Experiment.

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"Nobles are really hard to understand," Amber blinked, and then his eyes lit up as if he had finally caught Gawain's little tail, "Oh! I've finally discovered it! You really can't hold back and start playing with things. Hey! Let me just say, how could a noble with a normal mind endure suffering for such a long time, you finally started to waste people and money... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

Gawain twisted Amber's ears twice, then let go, and looked at this guy who was not pumping every day curiously: "I just don't understand, you can't make your temper a little cute if you don't remember to play or whatever. Is it?"

"You bullshit! I'm a dignified thief who is tied here by you as a bodyguard. Usually, he is either guarding your pile of ghostly painted talismans, or he patrols the mountains and plains to help you collect information. Occasionally, you let me learn to study ghostly painted talismans with you for a long time. , do you respect my profession or not!"

Miss Half-elf said plausibly, and the central idea can be summed up in three words: I am free.

"Why don't you be better than Betty?" Gao Wen covered his forehead helplessly. "She came to me to learn to read after she was busy every day. Is it so difficult for you to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?"

"Oh? So that little maid is really learning to write?" Amber blinked, excitedly, "No wonder some people say that when they see her alone in the past two days, they will talk about it, and as long as they have time, take the root The branches write and draw on the ground..."

"Okay, okay, I don't care about you anyway, if you're really busy, just go out and play by yourself," Gao Wen waved to Amber, "Anyway, three things are not allowed: you are not allowed to steal, and you are not allowed to go to court. Make trouble where you work, don't fight people—of course you can fight geese."

Amber got Gawain's permission, and immediately happily rolled back into the shadows, while his body faded away and muttered: "You are really weird, why do you always emphasize the goose in front of me..."

After Amber left, Gawain finally had the opportunity to focus on the pile of things.

Some of them have been tested, others are being verified.

Before sitting back in the chair, he first glanced at the big basket next to him, and then sighed slightly.

In that big basket were the indescribable aggregates that Rebecca made when she fired cement. Originally, Rebecca was going to dump them, but Gawain left them behind and deliberately kept them by her side at any time. where you can see.

He took them as a wake-up call, a sign, a sign that reminded himself that "this world" is "this world" all the time.

Taking his eyes away from those things, he glanced at a container on the table, lowered his head and wrote a new record in Chinese on the paper:

"In Ansu Calendar 735, on the 46th of the Frost Moon, on the 23rd day of the camp development, the gunpowder manufacturing failed. The classic formulas based on Earth's experience and various formulas modified by magic are ineffective. There is no finished product that can produce rapid combustion and be released in a short time. It produces a lot of heat or similar effects. The finished product of the classic formula is not flammable at all, and the finished product of the Magic Modification No. 1 formula can burn quietly in the air, but the flame is dim and weak, and it is better than burning straw; the finished product of the No. 2 formula is also quiet Burning, but with a bright and steady flame, it was intended to be used for lighting, but it gave off a pungent smell...

"Continue to test, maybe you will find a usable otherworld version of gunpowder formula, but I have vaguely realized that this route may not be the best choice, it is getting farther and farther away from the 'magic' of this world, and the power is not very impressive Looking forward, researching a burst rune that can be mass-produced is probably more reliable than gunpowder."

In addition to this new record, there are more records on the paper, and Gawain's eyes are swept across them:

"Ansu 735, Frost Moon 45th, the 22nd day of camp development, it was determined that the electromagnetic induction was invalid, at least the process of 'magnetically generating electricity' was invalid, and no current was generated in the coil. It has been determined that there are north and south poles of the magnet, the nature and the magnetism of the earth Consistently, the wind element rune provided by Hetty can also sense even the weakest electrical stimulation. Although the coil is rough, it still meets the requirements, so the problem can only be the electromagnetic induction itself. It is still impossible to verify 'electromagnetically generated' Is the process also invalid, because Heidi's lightning bolt magic can't provide a continuous and stable safe current, and a thunder in her palm almost slashed Amber's hair...

"It seems that the plan to use a generator to recharge the wind array can only be put on hold temporarily, or you can master the means of thermoelectric power generation."

"...Ready to give up the steam engine, the experimental results are simply daunting: the process of boiling water in this world looks the same as on Earth, but the driving force generated by the steam is actually very small, maybe the water is converting into water vapor. In the process, the expansion coefficient is much smaller than that of the earth. I suspect that the 'water' here is not water at all. It may also be the ubiquitous 'water element' in this world. The specific performance in the state transformation...

"...even though I usually drink it, wash my hands and face with it, and it can also be used to water the ground and flowers, but this proves nothing: my body is already made up of the elements of this world, and my senses are in accordance with this The rules of the world work. Except for a consciousness from the earth in my head, no part of me can jump out of the 'worldview' of this 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 human civilization on Earth has been hit hard: I can't 'boil water' here, I lost the boiler, how can I get the most basic machines up? ?"

"Ansu 735... Hetty has never heard of "coal", neither has the Druid named Pittman, in fact, even Gawain Cecil's memory has nothing like it ...the good news is that the charcoal can still be burnt out.

"...The Typhon Empire produces a 'burnable stone', but it is not coal, but a white 'burning stone', which seems to be a kind of seawater sediment, it is more resistant to burning than wood, but it is not easy to ignite, And I heard that the combustion is very unstable, and the smell produced is not good, only the poor will use it for heating, pay attention to it.

"...Mom, gold is actually a semiconductor, while pure silver is non-conductive...what the hell?!

"I think I need a whole cutting edge team to give me the entire periodic table...or at least sort out the properties of all common matter.

"However, no.

"Wash and sleep."