Chapter 232: Hidden Dangers

The lightning strike stone is a high-level material with lightning attributes, and it is also the core of Seymour's magic technology.

Kakudo's artificially created and opened up to the Lightning Strike Stone, even Ash's magician was still very surprised, it was the opening of the existing conditions in a special environment, and it was a technology that could only be produced under the special environment of this wasteland.

The priceless lightning strike stone in other regions is rare and precious, after all, the natural lightning strike stone needs a long-term violent lightning strike to generate, and the lightning strikes on the suitable demonized metal ore, the natural generation probability is too low,

The high-energy aggregates, natural magic conduits, engine materials with their own magic pools, outrageous practical properties in industry and magic technology, and extremely rare yields make natural lightning stones sky-high in other regions.

However, in this wasteland where the thunder season is continuous, it is only here that it is a relatively common industrial raw material, and even has a more mature man-made technology.

Although it is an inferior product, it can also produce enough to solve all problems, especially at the moment when Kauseoka's "Ash Technology" is not coming from the right way and the technology tree is incomplete.

The magic engine of the magic armor is not strong enough, let's add more artificial lightning strike stones, this lightning strike stone has its own energy pool, and its output has skyrocketed.

The buoyancy of the battleship is not enough? Add more artificial lightning strike stones, the conversion of electricity and magnetism is the most basic physical knowledge, if the output of the maglev engine is not enough, just build a few more.

Brothers, do ......you have a handy weapon? Ahem, tie a wooden stick handle to the lightning strike stone, activate it with mental power if necessary, and then use Seymour's talent to guide it, isn't it a simple and easy to use lightning strike gun?

Lightning stone stoves have long been popularized, and there are also lightning stone water heaters, lightning stone floor heating, Seymour people's lightning control talent, so that they safely and comfortably entered the era of electrical appliances in advance.

"This tech tree is a little crooked......."

The technique is not as good as using "rare materials", although this material is not rare here, and it seems to be nothing to the locals, after all, they are used to the existence of lightning strike stones, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is a bit abnormal.

"Although the magic technique of the Seymour people is very creative, it is too influenced by outsiders, and there is a tendency to be too utilitarian and anxious, not that this is not good, but it is easy to fall on his heels if his feet are unstable, at least in my opinion, there are two hidden dangers that are almost terminal. ”

At the beginning, Rorschach once made such a judgment.

"First of all, our earth is overly dependent on lightning strike stones........ there used to be completely dependent on local specialty resources, those oil princes, God-given rich people are indeed very comfortable, but the oil is depleted, or the local oil fields attract foreign wolves, how can we live without oil....... at least as far as I know, the areas of this natural treasure are generally not very peaceful. ”

This is not an unfounded fear, but a prophecy that has been turned into reality.

Now that so many Ichites have come here to open up wasteland, to build cities to win over the locals, the big churches have sent elite backbones to smash in, and the small churches are fighting for their feet, are they really here to do charity?

Rorschach dared to say that except for those bigwigs who were staring at the no-man's land, more than ninety percent of them came for the rich mine of this wasteland, and they built cities, pulled up transportation networks, and expelled demonic beasts, not for mining.

Now the entire wasteland is a rich mineral, and the bigwigs look down on inferior artificial lightning strike stones, and chase high-grade natural lightning strike stones with all their might, but what if the minerals are exhausted after one or two hundred years....... no, if the mining is successfully rolled out in an all-round way, the situation will change dramatically after fifty years.

Natural lightning strikes need to be bred by lightning, and it determines that most of them are shallow ores and surface mines, especially in the high mountains, large-scale mining areas may occur, but relatively speaking, as long as it is not the thunder season, the difficulty of mineral mining is actually not great.

If you pick it up quickly, you will take it away, and you will dry up quickly.

What will happen? Rorschach didn't dare to think about it, but he would never underestimate the lower limit of the greedy.

No, there was no need for the Ashis to do this, they only needed to engage in a proper "trade in goods" to exchange simple goods, luxury goods, and consumer goods for "heavy and heavy stones that were not as useful as artificial lightning stones".

The technology to seize the artificial lightning strike stone? That is inevitable, and there is no need to snatch it, you can buy it and study it together, and finally you can still use it to trade.

Forcing locals to go to no-man's land to mine?

Too much dependence on one industry, especially one that relies on natural resources, is obviously a huge hidden danger to the domestic industrial system.

In fact, many people have seen this hidden danger, but just like those former resource countries that fell from heaven to hell after the oil was exhausted, and those former rich countries that were turned into ruins by powerful invaders, they have not already seen the problem.

"Even if you see it, what can you do? Can you still make those rich businessmen and officials not sell oil? Can you still reduce the welfare of the people who can be rich even if they lie down? Can you still force one citizen after another to give up a rich and comfortable life and work hard?"

Theoretically, this is possible, but it is really very difficult to do it without being overthrown by the angry people, and not being threatened by the life of the military, but this is still a non-information age without telephones and telegraphs, and if the territory is too large, it is very difficult to maintain the rule by relying on prestige more than the system, and it is very difficult to play dictatorship and autocracy to force reform.

This hidden danger is like a time bomb, just to see when it explodes.

But the second hidden danger is the root cause of a warship being able to fight more than a dozen.

“......... The industry also relies too much on artificial lightning strikes, which is too dependent and can easily become a targeted weakness. It's like giving an EMP to the information troops, and all of them will be turned into waste. Such a single technology industry is even used in the military industry, which simply forces us to develop targeted weapons. ”

Even in front of the Holy Mountain faction, Rorschach did not hide his defense against the local Seymour people (Horn City).

And it is with the help of the Holy Mountain Sect that Rorschach....... weapon development program is very, very successful, in fact, he is a Seymour child, and he also knows that the power of artificial lightning strike stones is not worth mentioning in front of natural lightning strike stones, and its principle is like two magnetic sources thrown together, and the weak will even be demagnetized instantly.

And now, in front of the battleship whose structure is seventy percent of natural lightning strike stones, there are a dozen inferior products whose core components are artificial lightning strike stones, so a battle that is completely incomprehensible to the citizens has taken place.

"........ the battleship fell from the sky?! It automatically disintegrated before it could be fought, how did this quality go to the sky?"