It was lunch in the Research Garden, and hundreds of scholars in academic robes gathered in the cafeteria, sometimes whispering, sometimes arguing, sometimes laughing, no different than usual. Lysimachus couldn't help but frown at this, even Eradose's expression was serious, but the scholars were no different from their usual peers, apparently not thinking that they were engaged in a very important study.

"Only a relaxed atmosphere can be given wisdom by the muse." Aladosé knew what Lysimachos was thinking, and he explained it this way. The muse is the goddess of art.,But whoever has a bachelor makes a discovery or achieves something,,Will be humble to say that it's given by the muse.,So the school garden is usually called the school garden of the muse.。

"Zeus's weapons! If this is true, it will change the world. Lisimachos was helpless. Although the Alexandria Academy was established by the royal court, the royal court did not interfere in specific affairs. Sometimes, it was interfered with by the school - Alexander once sent more than 1,000 people to help Aristotle collect research materials on animals and plants, and the school often asked the royal court to collect research materials everywhere.

"It's because it's going to change the world that it's supposed to be loose." Aladose laughed. "The powder of the Chuni is not complicated, it is a mixture, we have learned about two of them, only the last one remains."

"Only the last one?" Lisimachus was stunned and slightly excited.

"Yes. Only the last one remains. Eradose smiled. But the situation is not rosy. Even if we crack the secret of the powder, there is still the secret of the 'witch weapon'. ”

The witchcraft was the 'official name' of the iron cylinder that the envoys of the Qin nuns had learned, and it was a literal translation of the term, making it particularly strange to read.

"Yes, an iron cylinder about five cubits long, and no one knows how it was made." After saying this, Aladose kept silent, because the destination had arrived, and Lysimachus saw the witchcraft in Alados's mouth.

It was a large, straight, slender iron cylinder with a slender tip, which sat on a small, sturdy four-wheeled cart with the front end of the opening raised. Lysimachos touched it lightly with his hand, and in addition to the coldness of the gloomy room, he felt a silky roundness and delicacy. Touching the end of the hand, a script that resembles the native Egyptian script but is completely different from the native Egyptian script is engraved on its surface.

"What's written here?" Lisimachos asked unconsciously. The iron cylinder is round, without any burrs and ups and downs on the outside, without these words, he would almost think that this iron cylinder is born,

"Your Excellency, it is written: In the second year of King Chuni's robbery of his wife, in the fourth month of this year, Shoucheng, the capital of Chuni, a craftsman named Li, a Sui and a craftsman named Cui made it. It was a witchcraft weighing about three-quarters of a minna, and was numbered 387. "The black-robed recorder in the academy was the recorder, and after the translation of the envoy of Qin Ni, the recorder probably knew what was written on it.

"The second year of King Chuni's snatching of his wife...... "Although the year of Chu is strange, it retains more information." Why did King Chuni snatch his wife? What year is it? What does three-quarters of that mean? Serial number 387, this means that this is the 387th weapon made by the Chuni? ”

Like Ptolemy III, Lysimachus asked a barrage of questions. His hand finally touched the barrel again, "It's obviously rusty, why don't you get rid of it?" ”

"Your Excellency," the recorder could not answer the last question, and Aladorse said, "We are worried that this action will affect or alter its divine power, so ...... Don't dare to do anything. ”

Hundreds of scholars were working on the powder that could deflagrate, and thousands were searching for similar crystals in Alexandria and beyond, and it was not difficult to imitate them as long as they could determine what the crystals were, but there were very few researchers of witchcraft.

"I think it can be done, and this rust is damaging it." There were several purple-robed scholars standing next to the witchcraft, the older one disagreeing with Aladosei. As he spoke, he saw Aladosei looking at him, and said, "I asked the envoy, and he said that the witchcraft of the Chuni was as shiny as their armor, and I found this when I checked the wheel," the purple-robed scholar held up a withered aquatic weed, "which indicates that it once fell into the sea, and it was salvaged at least half a year later." ”

"That's why it has rust?" Lysimachus said when he saw the withered seaweed.

"I've also heard that the Chuni merchant ships used to use it, and it can make a loud thunderous noise, just like I heard it on the first day." The Bachelor continued to speak. "But the Carthaginians said in Sygura a few months ago that the Chuni merchant ships had left our ......"

Rational thinking is scary, and a scientist may well be a detective as well. When the purple-robed scholar was about to tell his reasoning, Aladose coughed and said, "Archimedes! The Chuni merchant ship is not the object of our study, we are only studying this weapon. ”

Archimedes had blonde hair and a white beard, and the noblest scholarly purple robe was worn on him to show his wisdom. At the age of fifty-eight, he had seen many evils, and it was precisely because he was accustomed to them that he did not directly say that the weapon was robbed.

"Bachelors, this is Zeus's weapon!" Once again, Lysimachus stroked the rusty barrel. "The Chuni are using it to rob us of our spices, and we need to know how the Chuni make it and how they use it."

"If iron can be as soft as mud, we can make it." Archimedes replied, and his words caused several of the scholars who had arrived here before him to nod their heads. Shape and craftsmanship come second, and the most important thing is the tool.

"So, how do you make iron as soft as clay?" Lisimachos asked, but unfortunately no one could answer his question. Before the advent of carbon-doped knives and carburizing knives, artillery could only be molded. After the appearance of carburizing tools, it can be expanded (not drilling and boring). Even at this time, the Greek world was at its peak of scholarship, and Alexandria brought together the best scholars from all over the world, and it was impossible to solve this problem without the accumulation of time.

The silence of the scholars frightened Lysimachus, who had always thought that the outside of the Greek world was full of barbarians. It is a great mockery that the weapons made by the barbarians cannot be made in the civilized world now.

The weapon was not just a visit, soon the soldiers dragged the weapon to the yard, erected their shields and began to fire. The sound of the cannon and the flames made Lysimachus's hands and feet twitch, and he cried out, like the Spartan general Archidamus who had seen the ballista: "Oh my God! What else is the meaning of human bravery. ”