Chapter 57: Reproducing Metal
Returning to the Xia tribe with the giant bears, Ran Fei asked Shantao and others to build it themselves or ask the dog-headed craftsmen to help build the house.
The city wall has blocked the tributaries of the Heihe River, and if you want to go ashore from the tributaries, you have to pass through the walls of the Xia tribe, not so much that the current Xia tribe is a tribe, it is better to say that it is a small city.
Shan Tao and the others were also secretly amazed, touching the city wall, they didn't understand what this thing (cement) could be so perfect to stick two boulders together.
The tribe's farms are also on track and can be self-sufficient, and there are still many wild animals in the rainforest, Ran Fei is not ready to catch them all, and retains a part of the rainforest, and the city wall also isolates this rainforest.
After Ran Fei returned, Broken Ear took a group of mining rat-headed orcs to the newly built chieftain hall.
"Chief, this is that translucent, strange metal. Broken Ear handed a diamond-shaped ore to Ran Fei.
The texture of translucent raw ore is very hard, and the kobold craftsman tried to make this translucent raw ore long ago, but found that it took great effort to knock off a corner, and within five minutes, this corner of raw ore was actually re-fused with that piece of translucent raw ore, and there was no gap.
This made Ran Fei feel a little surprised, this is different from the liquid metal in the Earth movie, but it also has the function of restoration, and the texture is very hard, and the shape is similar to diamond.
However, Ran Fei has not yet thought of how to deal with this metal, and the kotou craftsmen have also tried several ways.
For example, if you break them down and quickly merge them into other metals or iron ore, you can find that this thing does not seem to be able to blend with other things, even if it is almost formed, it can be forcibly stripped and then fused in the raw ore.
Or they can all be broken down, packed in different containers, and given a solid shape at high temperatures, but after a while, the translucent metals will fuse together as if they were alive.
Ran Fei had a headache, the texture of this translucent raw ore was not so hard when it was mined, and it changed as soon as it touched the ground.
Rubbing the translucent ore, he suddenly felt that the translucent ore looked very strange, with sharp corners on both sides, and a grip in the middle, and it was funny that there was a screw-like thing between his two sharp corners, which looked like the iron pickaxe of the rat-headed orcs.
Ran Fei stood up suddenly, and asked Broken Ear in surprise: "Broken Ear, are all the translucent raw ore mined like this?"
Severed Ear thought back for a moment: "Most of them are like this, and we are also very strange, no matter how big or small, they all look like this, or they look like the palm of a person's hand." ”
In this way, it is linked to Ran Fei's conjecture that if this translucent raw ore is not mined, it should have no fixed shape, and after leaving the mining area, the first thing it touches will become the thing it touches.
In order to verify his conjecture, Ran Fei took the severed ear and the brute and the two people into the underground passage together.
"It's a well-built place, Broken Ear. "Ran Fei walked in the underground passage, something like a staircase.
Broken Ear touched his head, and said embarrassedly: "This is thanks to the dog-headed craftsmen in the tribe, those craftsmen are really powerful, they can basically do anything, and this staircase drawing is what they drew for us." ”
Ran Fei nodded with satisfaction, the orcs of the tribe treat each other as family, this is also because the tribe has experienced several wars, and the so-called sharing of hardships is probably the case.
The entire underground staircase resembles a large turntable, supported by metal iron rods at the bottom of the staircase, and there is a passage with only one slope next to it, and from time to time there are rat-headed orcs pushing carts, which are filled with ironstone.
The entire underground cave has been very different before, and electricity is also connected below, Ran Fei has now purchased a lot of power generation equipment, and the orcs are gradually familiar with electricity, and some of these kobold craftsmen seem to be interested in electricity, and are studying how to copy and manufacture a power generation equipment.
"You are all taking turns off, you always work like this, can your body stand it?" Ran Fei frowned and asked the broken ear beside him.
Broken Ear hurriedly nodded and said: "Don't worry, the chief, we are all on rotation, the last three days are off, and we will also send working meals on the day of rest, and we can also go back to the tribe to spend the night." ”
Ran Fei nodded, because of the poor environment, the best treatment that can be imagined at present is almost like this, no matter how good it is, it will delay normal production, and now the iron ore required by the dog-headed craftsmen in the tribe is not a small amount.
After a stone house, Ran Fei knocked on the outer wall of the house, well, it was well built.
After a while, Broken Ear took Ran Fei to the mine where the translucent raw ore was mined, and the mine was supported by an iron rod bent like a round ball to prevent it from collapsing suddenly, but this can only hinder it for a while, it is really going to collapse, and the deepest rat-headed orcs can't escape, but as long as it is mined to the depths, the shelter is basically built in accordance with Ran Fei's requirements.
"Chief, this is the raw ore that hasn't been mined yet. Severed Ear pointed to a raw mine buried in the mountain wall with only a small horn exposed.
Although the specific use of this raw ore cannot be determined, when Ran Fei was not in the tribe, he temporarily let Ran Fei mine a small amount.
Ran Fei waved his hand: "Let's stop for a while." "The sound was not loud, but the whole cavern was very hollow, and the sound kept echoing.
More than a dozen rat-headed miners stopped and looked at Ran Fei with a grin: "Chief, why are you here?"
Ran Fei smiled and said: "Look at you, you are the heroes of the tribe, without you, our warriors would not be able to wear excellent light armor, and without you, the defense on our city walls will be greatly reduced......
More than a dozen rat-headed miners were holding back their faces flushed, and they didn't know how to speak for a while, but they just knelt on one knee, saluted Ran Feifei, and waved their hands beside them with broken ears, and more than a dozen rat-headed miners retreated, with a trace of excitement on their faces.
Ran Fei came to a raw mine that was about to fall off the wall, took out his improved ghost head knife, and slashed the connection of the wall.
The few people who had broken their ears didn't understand why Ran Fei did this suddenly, but they didn't say a word and watched Ran Fei's movements.
In less than five minutes, the translucent ore began to change shape, and the translucent ore was only the size of a fist, but it turned into the shape of a ghost-headed knife, which looked quite small and delicate, like a well-textured toy.
Ran Fei stepped forward to pick it up, and several people with broken ears also stepped forward, their faces full of surprise: "Chief, this?"
Ran Fei told a few people his conjecture with a smile, and a few people nodded in admiration: "We have been mining for a few days, and we didn't pay much attention to it, and we just loaded it and took it away, but I didn't expect it to become shaped by itself later." ”
Man Yi curiously took the pocket ghost head knife and gently rubbed it on his hand, and a shallow wound instantly appeared on his hand.
"Hey, Fei, this knife is really as sharp as a ghost-headed knife. He exclaimed in shock.
Ran Fei patted Ran Fei's shoulder funny: "Silly, I already told you just now, this thing is a direct copy of the prototype that came into contact, and even because of the hard texture, the copied thing is even better." ”
Man Yi nodded with deep understanding, Man Er also gently knocked on a piece of translucent raw ore that was about to break away from the wall, and when it was about to fall off, he slapped it violently with the strong shooting crossbow in his hand, and the translucent raw ore broke away from the wall, and five minutes later, the strong shooting crossbow the size of his head became a strong shooting crossbow without crossbow arrows.
Man Er picked it up in surprise and rubbed the copied strong shot crossbow, although it was not as big as the normal strong shot crossbow, Man Er shot half of his crossbow arrow, mounted it on top of the copied strong shot crossbow, and fired it violently, and it was able to be used normally.
If the crossbow bolt is replaced with a translucent crossbow arrow of the same texture, it must be more lethal, and it is too much to copy the strong shot crossbow.
Ran Fei pondered for a while, and then called a rat-headed orc with Broken Ear to bring a few replicas of iron pickaxes in the tribe.
A very large piece of translucent ore was mined with a translucent iron pickaxe, which fell just above the cart below.
Ran Fei saw that he had already touched the cart and dragged the translucent ore out, and five minutes later, the translucent ore did not turn into an iron pickaxe but into a translucent cart.
"Sure enough, if you touch something that you copy from it, it won't deform. Ran Fei smiled.
Just now he was thinking, what is copied and what is not mined is the same material, can it also change? Now that the experiment has been carried out, it will not change.
This means that as long as you are careful not to touch the ore, you can mine the translucent ore with a replica pickaxe cart.
Broken Ear also understood, nodded in surprise, but hesitated for a while: "But a cart is loaded with many pieces of different sizes, and some of them are too small, even if they become something like a ghost head knife, it's useless." ”
"That's true, this will be a lot of trouble for you, find a few relatively large raw ore, copy it into a cart, and then arrange the raw ore of about the same size in a cart, if necessary, you can also ask the ko-headed craftsmen to make a cart with a baffle on it for you as a template. Ran Fei said.
Broken Ear nodded to indicate that he understood, and then the dog-headed craftsmen who mined the raw ore would decide what to copy it into.
Moreover, the yield of this translucent raw ore is not high, if it is not for the different sizes, Ran Fei also wants to copy all of them into weapons and armor.