"Which ...... Help me move this thing. ”

"Just call me Jacques, is this?" said Jacques as he picked up a metal ball, about four or five pounds.

Graves also picked up a silk package, and the two walked together towards the artillery.

Fat Orange sniffed the air and focused his gaze on the silk cloth bag.

Jacques asked, "You have explosives, right?"

Graves was amazed, "Huh, how do you know about explosives?"

"Smelling it, I've smelled them after they exploded before, and there was some sulfur and saltpeter in it. ”

Graves was even more surprised: "You know this, I've been analyzing the proportion of its ingredients these days, and I can only determine the sulfur and saltpeter you mentioned, but there is another one." ”

"Charcoal!" Jacques replied for Fat Orange.

"You are such a great alchemist that you can deduce its ingredients from taste alone. Deflation: You're traveling across the continent, and if you're going to Yorktown, you can visit my friend Alfred, the master alchemist, who is also working on explosives, but hasn't been able to make a stable product like the Stuart military. "Graves is now impressed with Jacques.

Under the guidance of Graves, the two loaded the projectile and waist pack and lit the fuse.

"Boom!"

The cannon sounded again, but it seemed to be crooked!

The projectile grazed the broken steam cart and flew out of the yard against the wall, hitting the top floor of a three-story stone house.

Graves was embarrassed, and quickly ran to his sister's side and asked, "That, sister, is that house ours?" ”

Jacques had good eyesight, and when he looked closely, no one seemed to be injured, and the iron ball smashed into the stone wall, and after it broke through, it stopped.

Marianne said angrily, "You have to fiddle with this thing in the yard!

"Sister, I was wrong!"

"Your sister and I have already bought it, can we wait until you are damaged and then negotiate compensation with someone?"

Jacques carefully studied this cannon, the barrel of the cannon is cast from gray iron, milled and formed, and if there is a fire type transcendent to control the temperature, and a water type transcendent to control the cooling of flowing water, this kind of cannon barrel can be easily manufactured in batches.

Therefore, the technical core of the entire artillery is still the formula of explosives, and explosives are the core of promoting the high-speed movement of iron balls.

"To solve the problem of the firing accuracy of this artillery, we must start with the barrel, well, the shape of the shell should also be improved. Jacques said.

"yes, this thing shoots too poorly. If I can improve the accuracy, I can design a calculator for the amount of charge and the muzzle elevation angle, and then I can shoot wherever I want. "Graves is more ambitious.

Jacques made a point: "Bring pen and paper, I'll draw! You think, if you want to keep the projectile stable when it is discharged, the best way is to make it spin, I will draw a simple one, the specific rotation angle needs to match the caliber of the gun...... However, this process is more difficult to achieve......"

Graves also put forward his own opinion: "This can actually be solved, I introduced a Castile drilling machine that was originally used to process steam engine parts, and I wanted to make the steam engine smaller...... Let's not mention this for now...... As long as it is improved, it can be magnified a few times......"

Jacques himself was familiar with smelting technology, and with the support of Fat Orange's living library, he and Graves discussed the manufacture and improvement of artillery, and had a great conversation.

From the small square to the house, from the improvement of artillery, to trains, steam engines, ships, mining, smelting, machining, and source energy formations.

Of course, there are areas that neither of them understand, such as telegraph.

Graves seems to have rarely met a peer with whom he could talk so speculatively, so erudite, two years younger than himself, who directly regarded Jacques as a confidant.

"Jacques, what a polymath!" sighed Graves.

As a result, Lily and Jacques were left by Graves until dinner before returning to the hotel.

Reluctantly, Graves and his sister drove them all the way back to the inn, and invited them to meet again tomorrow, until Jacques agreed, and then returned home happily.

When I returned to the hotel, I found that the nameless and others were waiting in the lobby.

Since Jacques didn't say what he was going to do or when he would return when he took Lily away, it didn't get back until it was dark, which made Nameless very nervous, and finally waited until Jacques and Lily came back to breathe a sigh of relief.

On the other hand, while Nameless was anxiously waiting for Jacques, James personally came to the hotel to confirm the identity of Martin José, the second-class most wanted criminal in the Duchy of Stuart. The inn was registered as a mercenary nameless, but after James personally identified it, there was no doubt that it was indeed Martin José and his six accomplices.

So he returned to the "mysterious me" full of joy, arranged for his subordinates to keep an eye on the whereabouts of Nameless and the others, and began to plan how to get the credit for this work.

It's just that he, Jacques, and Lily missed it perfectly, and they don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.

......

For several days in a row, Jacques and Lily were invited by the West siblings to visit the Ten Temples together, or to visit the mansion as guests, or to go out hunting together.

Jacques also gave Nameless and the others a holiday, and these days were arranged by them freely.

After many days of contact, Lily and Marianne also became closer, and the two found that each other was quite similar to their own hobbies, habits, and opinions, and the two seemed to have a tendency to develop towards friends.

On this day, the four of them were invited to hunt in the jungle in the suburbs.

Hunting has always been one of the favorite sports of the nobles of the Empire, otherwise there would not be so many noble children who would rank the results of the Misty Forest Challenge as an honor.

In this four-person hunt, in order to take care of the West siblings, they only hunted some low-level alien beasts on the edge of the western jungle.

Although the West siblings are also transcendental, they are only ordinary awakened when they are cultivated, not even senior awakened people, and Alyssa in the third grade can crush them.

The sister and brother's attitude towards the cultivation of source energy is to strengthen the body, but this is also the common view of most nobles and wealthy people, they no longer need strong strength to bring themselves a sense of security, and if they have money, they can hire powerful transcendents to serve themselves.

The Guild of the Transcendent also released a statistic last year, it is said that in the past fifty years, less than half of the new grandmasters have come from aristocratic backgrounds, and one-third of the new grandmasters were born in civilian families without any transcendents in their families, and they relied on their talents to pass the test of the obelisk to get the opportunity to awaken.

Of course, there are also those who interpret this data as the rise of the middle class, a term that has only become popular in recent years.

Because nearly half of the grandmasters' parents were extraordinary, the so-called middle class, with higher incomes than ordinary commoners, who got rid of the hard life at the bottom, but they were not like the nobles who could enjoy life without doing anything.

In this hunt, Marianne held on to the command, and there were many reasons, but she was unlucky. Jacques and Lily did not take the initiative to act in the spirit of entertainment, so the four of them traveled for two days, but only hunted two deer, a monkey, and a wild boar.

This already excites the West siblings, they have never had such a good harvest.

The triumphant party returned to Medis, only to meet Garman, who had been waiting for a long time, at the pass.

The gorgeous woman with black hair and red dress was tired and tired at this time, and when she saw Lily, she flew over and cried with tears:

"Nameless brother has been captured by the city guard......s! And Chandler, all seven of them were taken away!

Lily asked, "When did it happen?" and why did you arrest them?"

"This morning, they said that the unknown brother was wanted, that he had committed a capital crime, and that he was to be escorted to Stuart for execution. ”

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