Gawain looked at the ores that the apprentices had brought up, and from the first glance, he could tell that the ores contained substances related to magic.

It is a silver-gray mineral with a slight blue-purple streak, which will show a metallic texture under specific lighting, and its blue-purple streaks appear hazy and illusory when gazed, which is an extremely distinctive feature of magic materials, and it is a characteristic of that only magical materials with high purity and excellent magic conductivity.

The discovery of a new mineral in the Dark Mountains that could be used in the magical realm is undoubtedly excellent news, but Gawain is more concerned about whether Nicholas Egg will have a long-term problem after being affected by this "stimulus": "How long will it take for your cold to heal?" This disease is in you...... Is it serious in the group? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry," the big silvery white comical buzz vibrates, "two or three days at the most—it's all a minor problem." And as long as I don't have direct contact with the stimulus during this time, I will get used to it after a while and I won't get sick. ”

“…… You're a strange race......" Gawain muttered under his breath, returning his attention to the ores, and after some observations, he asked the craftsman next to him, "Has Hetty studied these ores?" ”

"Ms. Hetty has already taken some of the samples in advance, and her preliminary analysis is that there is a large proportion of metal in them, so she sent some of them to the machine building institute, hoping that the director will help purify them," the craftsman reported seriously, "but I didn't expect the director to touch this thing and it fell to the ground." ”

"Okay, then I'll go to her personally to understand the situation," Gawain nodded, and then looked at Nicholas Egg who was lying on the ground, "You can rest well in the past two days, anyway, most of the machine tools have been online, and there are also a group of skilled workers, and the daily production and processing of parts can be completed by relying on factories everywhere, so you can recuperate with peace of mind." In other words, do you have any requirements for the recuperation environment? ”

The big metal ball shook his body slightly: "Just find me a place where I can bask in the sun, and pile up some metal fragments containing iron and copper around me, or the quartz sand in your world, I will make up for my body......"

It's really logical......

Gao Wen sighed in his heart, and then touched his chin and looked at the big ball in front of him: "But your weight is here...... It's not easy to transfer you to the sun. Wait a minute, I'll go to Hetty and give you a weight-loss surgery or something......"

"No, no, I'm not completely paralyzed, my suspension cavity can still work—I just can't float," Nicholas said hummingly, "just find someone to push me, don't worry, it's easy." ”

Dealing with an iron ball star with such a strange painting style is really a very challenging thing, Gao Wen has to work hard to adapt to the other party's peculiar appearance and physiological characteristics so as not to collapse his expression, he finally held back the tremor of the corners of his mouth, and turned his head to look at the craftsmen and apprentices next to him: "You guys...... Who pushed your director out in the sun? ”

Immediately, two able-bodied apprentices stepped forward: "We are willing to take care of the director!" ”

Then Gawain watched the two apprentices push their round bones out of Workshop No. 1, behind a large group of craftsmen and apprentices all watched the whole process with worried expressions, and then a craftsman took his apprentice to pick out the metal pieces for the director's body to nourish, Gawain also heard them discuss in a low voice as they walked: "The director wants to eat sweet and salty?" "I don't know...... In other words, iron and copper are still used to sprinkle seasonings? ”“…… All in all, sprinkle some salt. "Pick a little bit, it's easy to eat." "Where's the director's mouth?" "What the are you ......?"

Gawain: "......"

I always feel that these apprentices and craftsmen of the Mechanical Research Institute have been staying with the Iron Ball Star for a long time, and they seem to have changed a little in terms of three views......

He shook his head, no longer thinking about it, and after making sure that Nicholas Egg would not be a big problem, and ordering the other workers to return to their jobs, he left the machine shop with Amber and went to Hetty's magic lab outside the Lord's Mansion.

Although the Lord's Mansion has been completed, and it also contains Hetty's room and two regular magic labs, not all magic experiments can be conducted in the Lord's Mansion - considering the danger of many magic experiments and the uncertainty when testing new materials and spells, Hetty has specially kept the laboratory she originally established on the territory, and continued to use it as a "Dangerous Spells and Matter Testing Center" after renovating and remodeling.

Strange magical materials like those collected from the Dark Mountains naturally had to be sent to this testing center for identification first.

Gawain and Amber came to the door of the laboratory, and were about to push the door in, when they suddenly heard a loud noise from inside: Bang!!

The sound of the explosion seemed to ignite a large cannon shot, and although it didn't blow up a hole in the laboratory, it sounded scary enough to sound from the outside, but the people moving around the open space barely reacted, as if all the people who lived in the neighborhood were accustomed to it.

Gawain was a little nervous, and quickly pushed open the oak door of the laboratory engraved with protective runes, and as soon as the door was pushed open, there was a puff of smoke, and before he could see the situation inside, he heard Hetty's scream: "Rebecca! Don't move!! ”

With a scream, a relatively petite figure rushed out of the smoke, Amber was startled when she saw this figure, and almost reflexively flashed to the side and stretched out her leg and tripped at the same time, so the figure instantly threw herself out, mixed with a short exclamation: "Wow!! ”

Gao Wen copied it, and scooped up Rebecca, who was about to use her face brake to flatten her chest, and at the same time glanced at Amber in surprise: the reflex of seeing someone rush over and flash to the side is understandable, but after dodging, he can subconsciously stretch his legs and trip...... It's hard to understand how this habit is cultivated......

And Rebecca didn't realize what was going on until she was caught in Gawain's hands, and she struggled to raise her head, her face blackened: "Wow! It's an ancestor! ”

Hetty also rushed out of the smoke at this time: "Rebecca, you give it to me...... Ah, ancestors! ”

"Are you two alright?" Gawain glanced at Hetty, who was also smoked with a gray face, and immediately noticed the staff that the other party was carrying in his hand and the arcane brilliance on the front of the staff, "Huh...... Looks fine. ”

"Experimental accidents?" Gawain put Rebecca on the ground and walked into the lab where the smoke was gradually dissipating, and at first glance he saw a large piece of ice slag on one of the test benches - the ice slag must have been urgently frozen by Hetty to prevent the damage from spreading, "Rebecca threw a big fireball at the test bench?" ”

At the same time, he was a little strange in his heart: although the stupid roe deer has a penchant for throwing big fireballs, she shouldn't be so reckless......

As a result, Hetty shook her head: "She didn't throw a big fireball, but she directly detonated the test sample when she injected magic into it!" I don't understand how she did it! ”

"Test samples?" Gawain immediately raised an eyebrow, "Is it the kind of new ore found in the Dark Mountains?" ”

Hetty was a little surprised: "Ancestor, you also know about this?" ”

"That's what I'm here for—there's just a bit of a mess at the Machine-Builder's side, and Nicholas Egg can't catch a cold because of this new ore, but don't worry, it's just a temporary symptom," Gawain briefly said about his purpose and the situation at the Machine-Builder's Office, "and I'll come here to see if you have any research progress." ”

"Dan Dan got sick after coming into contact with the ore? Still can't float? Rebecca asked nervously while wiping the black ash from her face, "Could it be that these new ores are poisonous in them?" ”

"Probably not, I sensed it with a skill like danger perception, and I didn't find any harmful factors in the ore, it should only have an effect on the special life structure of the Nicholas egg, and it should be harmless to humans," Gawain shook his head and looked at Hetty, "Did you check out any harm to it?" ”

"No, the ore itself is non-toxic and harmless, and it also has very good demon-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 and glanced at Rebecca, and reluctantly summoned a water balloon for the other party, while helping his niece wash her face while answering Gawain's question, "It's just that its demon-guiding nature is very strange...... When the mana is injected into it at a fast speed, the mana will quickly escape into the air, while at a slow speed there is no such 'drain', and I have also found that when two ores are quickly injected into the mana at the same time, the escaping mana will even form an environment around the ore that looks like a mana field...... It's just that the nature of this magic field can't be determined yet, and it's too unstable. ”

If you enter mana quickly, it will release the mana into the air? When two ores are infused at the same time, a magic field will be formed?

Gawain blinked, he was concerned about the strange characteristics of this new ore, and he instinctively thought that this thing might have some special use...... It's not just used in magic circles, acting as a material for conducting magic.

But he cares more about how Rebecca blew up the material: "Anyway, what if you put in mana and it explodes?" ”

Rebecca immediately shrunk her neck: "I don't know, my aunt was testing another set of samples at the time, and I just injected magic into my own samples as she instructed, and it blew up before it started......"

Gao Wen suddenly frowned: "You haven't started yet?" ”

Rebecca's neck shrunk a little lower: "Yes...... I haven't started yet......"

"She's not going to lie in front of me," Gawain gave Hetty a serious look, "The accident must have something to do with some special property of the new ore." ”

"Special attributes?" Amber was a complete half-asser in this regard, but still pretended to understand well and began to speak, "What could it be?" ”

Gawain looked into Rebecca's eyes: "You carefully recall and recall, what happened to the ore when the explosion happened, or what was placed next to the ore. ”

Rebecca immediately lowered her head and recalled carefully: "Let me think about it...... At that time, the ore seemed to shine a little, and the words of the side ...... Eh, that, it looks like there's a detonation rune substrate......"

Gawain, Amber, Herty: "......"

After a moment, the three of them said in unison: "Why do you put a detonation rune substrate next to it?!" ”