The plan to let the iron fireball baby make primitive cement failed, but Gawain did not intend to give up so easily - applying mechanically the experience from the earth may not work, but the ideas from the earth are not necessarily wrong, maybe someone The formulas of these things are different, but this does not mean that this kind of thing has no value. At the very least, a cheap, large-volume, strong and easy-to-process building material should be used wherever it is.
Even if it has to be renamed Magic XX in this world.
He sent Rebecca to continue trying new manufacturing processes, and told her the general idea and his expected goals. This was not a random attempt without direction: although his own production method failed , but Gawain knows that this world once had "cement".
Deep in the ruins in the mountains, he and the people he led had already seen this material. The engineers of the ancient Gondor Empire used artificial materials instead of stones to build the fortress deep in the mountains. It also made the fortress stronger and more durable than ordinary stone fortresses, and it has not shown any sign of collapse after a thousand years.
In the memory of Gawain Cecil, this material was developed as early as the "Age of Steel" before the "Age of Sparks" and has been used for ten centuries. After many improvements and improvements, by the end of Gondor it was already one of the most commonly used building materials in the empire.
And this is what Gawain regrets the most: after the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of technologies have been lost from generation to generation. Some of them are because the technology itself relies on the deep blue magic well, and some are because of mastering related technologies. The entire group has been extinct without leaving any data, and some are because the raw materials (or environment) required for the technology have been covered by contaminated areas, and the "alien version of cement" in the Gondor Empire is one of the 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 probably not because of the magic well: the production of otherworldly cement is the same as earth cement. It doesn’t require too complicated equipment and too advanced energy, so it’s mostly due to the extinction of talents, loss of data, or problems with raw materials. Anyway, this technology, which should have been the most basic and one of the cornerstones of civilization, is just gone.
Seven hundred years later, the Ansu people are building houses with stone and wood, and those nobles who have the conditions will luxuriously use magicians' various shaping spells and alchemical potions to make their palaces and castles More refined and stronger, but the latter obviously does not meet Gao Wen's requirements of "generalization, cheapness, and mass production".
But although the technology is broken, it is not without solutions. After all, it was one of the most common basic technologies in the Gondor Empire. Gawain Cecil had seen it even if he had not done it himself. There are still some fragments of relevant technology left in my mind. Give these fragments to Rebecca. As for how far 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 Gawain seven hundred years ago·It would be great if Cecil was a strong keyboard player... If the force value is slightly balanced on various miscellaneous subjects, the situation will be much better now. If nothing else, at least remember the cement formula!
In the spirit of "Who can be afraid of a satellite that has been refined for hundreds of thousands of years?", Gawain brazenly talked about the original owner of his body, and then began to think about what he must do next. Make lists of various experiments.
In the next few days, Amber saw Gawain sending people to transport a lot of things to the camp, including strange ore powders and metal containers spliced together. There are large and small crystal lenses, as well as magnets and metal wires commonly used by magicians and fortune-tellers. These messy things are piled up on the table. A small half of them are urgently purchased from Tanzanian Town, and the rest are from Gawain. Instructed by Hetty and the craftsmen to process it.
Looking at the things on the table, the half-elf lady was confused: "What are you trying to do?"
Gawain shook his head while fiddling with the lens set in front of him. He replied without looking up: "Experiment."
"Nobles are so difficult to understand," Amber blinked, and then her eyes lit up as if she had finally caught Gawain's tail, "Oh oh ! I finally discovered it! You really can’t stand it anymore and start to lose your ambition! I’m just saying, how can a noble with a normal mind endure hardship for so long? You finally start to waste money and people... Oh, it hurts! !"
Gawain twisted Amber's ears twice and then let go. He looked at this guy with a lot of curiosity: "I just don't understand. Are you not remembering the beatings? What's going on, can't you be a little more cute?"
"You're talking nonsense! I am a great thief who is tied up here as a bodyguard. I usually either guard your pile of ghost paintings or help you all over the mountains and plains. I patrol and collect intelligence, and you even ask me to learn ghost painting talismans with you when I have a long spare time. Do you respect my profession?"
The half-elf lady said it plausibly, and the main idea can be summarized in three words. One word: I am free. < /p>
"Oh? So that little maid is really learning to write?" Amber blinked and said with interest, "No wonder some people said in the past two days that they would talk about her when they saw her alone, and it only takes one When I have time, I just take a branch and write and draw on the ground..."
"Okay, okay, I don't care about you anyway. If you are really free, just go out and play by yourself," Gao Wen He waved his hand to Amber and said, "Anyway, you are not allowed to do three things: you are not allowed to steal things, you are not allowed to make trouble where you are working, and you are not allowed to fight with others - of course you can fight with geese."
After receiving Gawain's permission, Amber immediately rolled back into the shadows happily, while her body faded away while muttering: "You are really weird, why do you always emphasize the goose in front of me..."
After Amber left, Gawain finally had a chance to focus on the pile of things.
He has already tested some of them, and other things are being verified.
Before sitting back on the chair, he first glanced at the large basket next to him, and then sighed slightly.
In the big basket were the indescribable polymers that Rebecca had made when firing cement. Originally, Rebecca was going to dump them, but Gawain kept them. And I put it in a place where I can see it at any time.
He regards them as a warning, a sign, a sign that reminds him 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:
"Ansu Li In 735, on the 46th day of the Frost Moon, on the 23rd day of camp development, gunpowder production failed. Classic formulas based on earth experience and various formulas with magical modifications were ineffective. None of the finished products could produce rapid combustion, release a large amount of heat in a short period of time, or With a similar effect, the finished product of the classic formula is not flammable at all. The finished product of the No. 1 formula can burn quietly in the air, but the flame is dim and weak, not as good as burning straw; the finished product of the No. 2 formula also burns quietly, but has The bright and stable flame was intended to be used for lighting, but it gave off a pungent smell...
"Continue to test, maybe we will find a usable alien version of the gunpowder formula, but I have been vaguely aware of it This route may not be the best choice. It is gradually far away from the 'magic' of this world, and its power is not expected. Researching an explosive rune that can be industrialized and 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 scanning them:
“Ansu 735, Frost Moon 45th On the 22nd day of 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 determined that magnets exist at the North and South Pole, and their properties are consistent with the earth's magnets. The wind element runes provided by Hetty can also sense even the weakest electrical stimulation. Although the coils are rough, they meet the requirements, so the problem can only be electromagnetic induction. itself. It is still not possible to verify whether the process of 'electromagnetism' also fails, because Hetty's lightning bolt magic cannot provide a continuous and stable safe current, and a thunderbolt from her palm almost struck Amber's hair...
< p> "It seems that the plan to use a generator to charge the wind array can only be put on hold for the time being, or until methods such as thermoelectric power generation are mastered.""... Prepare to give up the steam engine, The results of the experiment are simply mind-boggling: the process of boiling water in this world looks the same as on Earth, but the driving force generated by steam is pitifully small. Perhaps it is because the expansion coefficient of water in the process of transforming into water vapor is much smaller than that on Earth. , I suspect that the 'water' here is not water at all, or it may be thisThe ubiquitous 'water element' in the world is causing trouble. This unreasonable thing has changed the specific performance of water in the three-state transformation...
"...Although I usually drink it, I use it to wash my hands and face, and it can also be used to water the ground and flowers, but this proves nothing: my body is already composed of the elements of this world, and my senses are also operating according to the rules of this world, except that there is a Outside of the consciousness of the earth, there is no part of me that can step out of this world's 'world view' to observe... Is the blue sky I see really a 'blue' sky?
"... ...No matter what, the route must be adjusted, and the most proud part of human civilization on earth has been severely damaged: I can't 'boil water' here, and I have lost the boiler. How can I build the most basic machines? "
"In Ansu 735... Hetty had never heard of "coal", nor had the druid named Pitman. In fact, even Gawain Cecil's In my memory, there is nothing similar... The good news is that charcoal can still be burned.
"...The Typhon Empire produces a kind of 'burning stone', but it is not coal, but a white 'burning stone', which seems to be a type of seawater sediment and 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 is not good. Only the poor will use it to keep warm. Pay attention.
"...Oh my god, gold is actually. Semiconductor, and pure 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, not No.
"Go to sleep."