Gawain looked at the ores pushed up by the apprentices. From the first glance, he could tell that these ores contained substances related to magic.
It is a silver-gray mineral with slight blue-purple stripes. It will show a metallic texture under specific lighting, and its blue-purple stripes will appear hazy and illusory when looked at. , this is a very distinctive characteristic of magic materials, and it is a characteristic that can only be found in magic materials with higher purity and excellent magic conductivity.
A brand new mineral that may be used in the field of magic has been discovered in the Dark Mountains. This is undoubtedly excellent news, but Gawain is more worried about Nicholas Egg being exposed to this "stimulation" "How long will it take for your cold to be cured? Is this disease serious in your... group?"
"It's okay, no need." Worry," the huge silver-white comical buzz vibrated, "it will be fine in two or three days at most - this is a minor problem, and as long as you don't come into direct contact with the source of stimulation during this period, I will get used to it after a while. Then you won't get sick."
"... Your race is really strange..." Gawain muttered in a low voice and focused on the ores again. After observing, he Ask the craftsman next to him, "Has Hetty studied these ores?"
"Ms. Hetty has taken some samples in advance. Her preliminary analysis believes that there is a large proportion of metal components in them, so she I sent part of it to the Machinery Manufacturing Institute and asked the director to help purify it," the craftsman reported seriously. "But I didn't expect that the director just touched this thing and it fell to the ground."
< p> "Okay, then I will go find her in person to understand the situation." Gawain nodded, and then looked at Nicholas Egg who was lying on the ground, "You should have a good rest these two days. Most of the machine tools are already online anyway, and some We have a group of skilled workers, and the daily production and processing of parts can be completed by relying on various factories. You can just rest and recuperate. By the way, do you have any requirements for a recuperation environment?"The big metal ball shook slightly. Body: "Just find me a place to bask in the sun. In addition, pile some metal fragments containing iron and copper around me, or the quartz sand from your world. I will replenish my body..."
This is really logical and well-established...
Gaowen sighed in his heart, then touched his chin and looked at the big ball in front of him: "But your size and weight are here... ...It’s not easy to move you to the sun. Just wait a minute, I’ll go find Hetty and give you some weight-loss surgery or something...”
“No, no, I don’t have it. Completely paralyzed, my levitation cavity can still work - I just can’t float up,” Nicholas Egg said hummingly, “Just find someone to push me, don’t worry, it’s quite easy.”
< p> Dealing with an iron star with such a strange style of painting is really a challenging thing. Gao Wen had to work hard to adapt to the opponent's strange appearance and physical characteristics so as not to lose his expression. He finally held it backHe stopped trembling at the corner of his mouth and turned to look at the craftsmen and apprentices next to him: "You...who pushed your boss to go out to bask in the sun?"Immediately there were two strong apprentices. He stood up and said: "We are willing to take care of the director!"
Then Gawain watched the two apprentices push their chubby director out of the No. 1 workshop, followed by a large group of craftsmen. Gawain and his apprentice watched the whole process with worried expressions, and then a craftsman took his apprentice to pick out the metal fragments for the director to nourish his body. Gawain also heard them discussing in a low voice as they walked: "The director wants to Do you want something sweet or salty?" "I don't know...are the iron and copper pieces sprinkled with seasoning?" "...In short, just pick some small pieces, it's easier to eat." Where is the director's mouth? ""What are you thinking about..."
Gao Wen: "..."
I always feel that these apprentices and craftsmen in the Mechanical Research Institute are Because he has been with the Iron Ball Star for a long time, he seems to have some changes in his outlook on life...
He shook his head and stopped thinking about this matter. After confirming that there would be no big problem with Nicholas Egg, After ordering the other workers to return to their jobs, he took Amber and left the machinery manufacturing plant and went to Hetty's magic laboratory outside the Lord's Mansion.
Although the Lord's Mansion has been completed, and it also contains Hetty's room and two regular magic laboratories, not all magic experiments can be carried out in the Lord's Mansion - considering that many magic experiments Due to the dangers and the uncertainty when testing new materials and new spells, Hetty specifically retained the laboratory she originally built on the territory, and after renovating and reconstructing it, it continued as the "Dangerous Spells and Substances Testing Center" use.
Unfamiliar magical materials collected from the Dark Mountains naturally have to be sent to this testing center for identification first.
Gawain and Amber came to the door of the laboratory, and when they were about to push the door open, they suddenly heard a loud bang from inside: Bang! !
The explosion sounded like a huge firecracker was lit. Although it was not to the extent of blowing a hole in the laboratory, it was enough to scare people outside. However, it was active in the surrounding open space. But almost all the people there didn't react at all, as if everyone living nearby was used to it.
Gawain was a little nervous, so he quickly pushed open the oak door of the laboratory that was engraved with protective runes. As soon as the door was opened, a burst of smoke hit his face. He had not yet seen clearly what was inside. situation, Hetty's scream was heard: "Rebecca! Just stand there and don't move!!"
With the scream, a petite figure rushed out of the smoke. When Amber came out, he was startled when he saw this figure. He ducked to the side almost reflexively and stretched out his leg to stumble. Then the figure immediately threw himself out, with a short exclamation in the middle: "Wow! !”
Gowen quickly picked up Rebecca who was about to flatten her chest with her face brake.He came, and at the same time glanced at Amber in surprise: It’s understandable that the conditioned reflex of ducking to the side when someone rushes towards him, but after getting out of the way, he could subconsciously stretch his legs to stumble... How this habit was developed is baffling. It's...
And Rebecca didn't realize what happened until she was caught in Gawain's hand. She raised her head with difficulty, her face was blackened: "Wow! It's an ancestor. Sir!"
Hetty also rushed out of the smoke: "Rebecca, give me...ah, ancestor!"
"Are you two okay? "Gawain glanced at Hetty, who was also smoked and had a gray face, and immediately noticed the staff in his hand and the arcane light on the front of the staff. "Um...it looks fine."< /p>
"Experimental accident?" Gawain put Rebecca on the ground, walked into the laboratory where the smoke was gradually dissipating, and at first sight saw a large ice slag on one of the experimental tables - —The ice slag should have been frozen by Hetty in an emergency to prevent the damage from expanding. "Did Rebecca throw a fireball at the experimental platform?"
At the same time, he was still a little strange: Although the silly roe deer had She has a hobby of throwing big fireballs, but she should not be so reckless...
As a result, Hetty shook her head: "She didn't throw big fireballs, but when she input magic power into the test sample, she directly threw it The sample exploded! I don’t understand how she did it!”
“Test sample?” Gawain raised his eyebrows immediately, “Is it the new ore discovered in the Dark Mountain? "
Hetty was a little surprised: "Ancestor, do you also know about this?"
"That's why I came - something happened at the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. "Trouble, Nicholas Egg can't catch a cold because he came into contact with this new ore, but don't worry, it's just a temporary symptom." Gawain briefly explained the reason for his visit and the situation of the Machinery Manufacturing Factory, "Then I came here to take a look. Let's see if you have any research progress."
"Dandan fell ill after being exposed to the ore?" Rebecca asked nervously while wiping the black ash on her face. , "Are these new ores poisonous?"
"Probably not. I used skills such as danger perception to sense it, and found no harmful factors in the ores. It should only be harmful to Nicholas eggs. The special life structure has an impact and is harmless to humans." Gawain shook his head and looked at Hetty, "Have you found out what harm it has?"
"No, the ore itself is non-toxic and harmless. And it also has very good magic-guiding properties. If it is refined properly, it may become a new high-quality magic material." Hetty summoned a water ball, cleaned his face and hair, and then frowned at Rui. Beka glanced at it and helplessly summoned a water ball for the other party. At the same time, she helped her niece wash her face and answered Gawain's question, "It's just that its magic-guiding properties are very strange... when the magic power is input to it at a relatively fast speed. , the magic power will escape into the air quickly, but this will not happen at slow speeds.A kind of 'loss' phenomenon. In addition, I also found that when two pieces of ore are inputted with magic power quickly at the same time, the escaped magic power will even form an environment that looks like a magic field around the ore...but the nature of this magic field is still unclear. There's no way to measure it, it's too unstable. "
If you input magic power quickly, will the input magic power escape into the air? If two ores are injected with magic at the same time, a magic field will be formed?
Gawain blinked, The strange characteristics of this new ore made him very concerned. He instinctively felt that this thing might have some special use... and it was not just used in the magic circle to act as a material for transmitting magic power.
< p>But he was more concerned about how Rebecca exploded the material: "What if it explodes when you input magic power? ”Rebecca immediately shrank her neck: “I don’t know, my aunt was testing another set of samples at the time. I just followed her instructions to inject magic into my own samples, and the results haven’t started yet.” It exploded..."
Gawain suddenly frowned: "You haven't started yet? "
Rebecca's neck narrowed a little lower: "Yes...it hasn't started yet..."
"She won't lie in front of me," Gawain said seriously He glanced at Hetty and said, "The accident should be related to some special properties of the new ore. ”
“Special attributes? Amber was a complete dabbler in this aspect, but she still pretended to understand and started to speak, "What could it be?" "
Gawain looked into Rebecca's eyes: "Recall carefully what happened to the ore when the explosion occurred, or what was placed next to the ore. "
Rebecca immediately lowered her head and recalled carefully: "Let me think about it...The ore seemed to be a little shiny at that time, and next to it...Hey, that one, it seems to have an explosive rune substrate. ..."
Gawain, Amber, and Hetty: "..."
After a moment, the three of them said in unison: "Why did you put an explosive rune base next to it?" ! ”