Chapter 8 Counterfeiting

Cha Cha was woken up by a strong vibration.

The reason is that the sand sculpture detects a thermal reaction not far away, and initiates a vibration to warn the owners of the star chariot rudely.

This warning will only occur if both of them are inside the Starcha. Cha Cha quickly put on a long shirt and pulled Ah Xue out of the door, and hurriedly put the smaller Xingcha into the special satchel. Then he nervously hid behind a fairly large old tree. The morning wind whined, and the two of them clenched their palms, their chests rising and falling violently.

A few minutes later, an unfamiliar figure appeared in view.

It was a middle-aged woman with a basket on her back, a sickle in her hand, and her hair stained with morning dew. On his dry cheeks, a pair of dark eyes shone with shrewdness. It is worthy of being the most prosperous city within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the probability of human beings appearing around it is much greater than in other places.

The woman stopped in front of the tree where Cha Cha was hiding. Cha Cha felt that her heart was about to jump out, and a green bug crawled over her wrist, Cha Cha remained motionless, her hands clinging to the bark. The woman leaned down, dug up a plant of grass and threw it into the basket. Looking closely, it seems to be the most expensive kind of wild vegetables that Chen Mei taught them to identify before. The woman stood up and took two steps forward, frowning in confusion.

Cha Cha's heart beat to his throat. It's over, it's going to be discovered. If the cape is discovered, will it be regarded as a female ghost?

The woman stretched out her hand and touched the moss on the bark. I touched my nose again. Coughing twice, he clenched his scythe and moved in the direction where Axue was hiding.

Ah Xue swallowed her saliva and didn't dare to move. The woman walked around the place where the star had been parked, digging up two wild plants before leaving satisfied. Neither of them seems to have been found.

After the woman left, Ah Xue and Cha Cha tidied up their clothes and decided to sleep in another place.

Cha Cha took a telescope to look around. This telescope was taken from the original astronomical telescope, which is light and delicate, easy to carry, but the image is the opposite of reality, it is upside down. They should stay in the city for a while, preferably close to the city and not easy to spot.

Alas, if only Starcha could be disguised. They can still stand in the city without knowing it.

The birds in the woods chirped crisply, and the sleepiness of the two gradually dissipated. Ah Xue asked Cha Cha to take out her mobile phone and looked for wild vegetables to eat all the way to the photos. Cha Cha also rummaged, but she was catching insects, specifically looking for the kind of insects that were small in size and had a very peculiar appearance.

The sun emerges from the clouds, and the air becomes muggy. The two found a place to live.

It is a natural cave with a small entrance, covered with weeds, and very desolate. The space inside is huge, and sunlight cannot penetrate it, giving off a hazy color. Cha Cha opened the Finger Star Pen and visually inspected the space of the cave, and the height of eleven or twelve meters was just used to put the Xingcha.

"I don't think anyone will be looking for me." Ah Xue followed behind Cha Cha worriedly. When I came out in the morning, I hit the stairs, and my knee hurt terribly. The cave was slippery, and Xue carefully held on to the wall.

"Who knows, maybe you will run into a bone spirit." Cha Cha laughed ruefully, and the sound rippled back and forth in the cave, terrifying. The red light of the finger pen hit the damp stone stalactite, and bursts of white smoke came out. This pen was transformed by Chacha, and after coming to another world, it was processed again under the guidance of sand sculptures, with an irradiation distance of 10 kilometers and a power comparable to a laser weapon. After all, walking in another world, accidents will inevitably happen.

"Why don't you say it's a spider spirit, I think this place looks like a silk cave." Ah Xue frowned and turned on the flash of her phone. Then there was an uncontrollable scream, "Cha Cha you crow's mouth!" ”

There was a skeleton in the cavern's depression, a deformed skull lying on a pile of irregular long bones, which looked even more terrifying in the white light. Ah Xue retreated again and again, feeling uneasy. Cha Cha boldly stepped forward to check. This cave was something she had found with great difficulty, and she didn't want to give up so soon. The skull is pointed, and there seems to be something else on the skull. "There are horns, it seems to be the Bull Demon King."

"How did you die?" Xue asked. It wasn't human bones, and she had other worries.

"I don't know." Cha Cha said, "Anyway, I wasn't killed by a monkey." The bones were blackened, perhaps poisoned. ”

"Shall we change places, then?"

"I'm foolish. The skull is deformed, and it is possible to fall in and die. This place is rare and close to the city. Why don't you put the star down and let the sand sculpture test the environment? ”

"It's fine." Ah Xue was also tired of walking. And this cave is indeed hidden.

Cha Cha puts Xingcha in a stable position. After the sand sculpture test, this place is quite suitable for living in addition to the relatively high humidity. Anyway, they didn't stay long.

After breakfast, Ah Xue went back to the bedroom to catch up on sleep.

Cha Cha moved the liquor she bought yesterday into the laboratory on the third floor.

In the middle of the laboratory stands a multi-purpose round table, on which the resin of the masson pine harvested a few days ago is placed, and the eggshells of birds washed and dried. There are many cubicles around the table. A set of equipment is placed in each compartment. There is a compartment with a red indicator light, and the device will be magnified the moment it is taken out.

Cha Cha took out a set of distillation devices, put the resin in, and patiently heated it.

As the minutes passed, one end of the equipment finally separated the turpentine that was temporarily useless. Cha Cha left it alone and began to find tools to fix the washed bird eggshell. These eggshells are quite fragile, and Cha Cha accidentally scrapped several of them.

The last drop of turpentine falls into the cup, Cha Cha takes out the remaining material from the device, filters and cools it to get a few pieces of pine, the size of an egg. Then the distillation device is disassembled and reassembled, and the liquor in the jar is poured into it, and the slightly turbid liquid is purified by two distillations to become pure and transparent.

Once ready, Cha Cha heats and melts the smallest piece of rosin, places it in a 10:1 ratio into the distilled spirit, and then carefully pours it into a fixed eggshell.

When the temperature of the rosin mixture cools down, Cha Cha puts an insect in, which occupies exactly half of the space of the eggshell. Once it has fully solidified, the mixture of rosin and distilled spirits is poured in.

In about half an hour, the rosin is completely cured, and Cha Cha carefully peels off the shell with a razor. Rub its surface lightly with alcohol, and an artificial amber is made.

Cha Cha appreciates her debut work with satisfaction, and it seems that she can't find a flaw. Turning the angle at will, I suddenly noticed a few bubbles around the insect.

Failure is the mother of success. Chacha physically dries the remaining bugs. Repeat the previous steps, repeat it several times, and finally make a crystal clear amber. The golden light reflected into Cha Cha's eyes, as if it was not a plaything made of resin, but a heavy golden stone. She hurriedly ran downstairs: "Ah Xue, how much do you think this can be sold?" ”

"it!" Ah Xue carefully took it from Cha Cha and whispered in exclamation to her eyes, "Cha Cha, did you make a beast?" ”

"Beasts?" Cha Cha heard a new word.

"You're made of pine resin, aren't you?"

"Yes!" Cha Cha nodded busily.

"That's right. Amber was once called the beast spirit in ancient times, and it was believed that it was the spirit of the tiger after death, and it turned into a sacred stone when it entered the ground, which had the effect of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, and calming the nerves. Ah Xue patiently explained, "For nobles or emperors, the symbolism of beasts is even more powerful. And you also added bugs. ”

"Meaning you can sell it for a lot of money?"

"I don't know if I'll be recognized." Ah Xue tilted her head and thought for a while, "Why don't you try your luck in the city tomorrow." ”

"That's all there is to it." Cha Cha smiled slyly, "I don't know which wronged boss I will meet." ”

"It's a big deal. This thing must be expensive. Xue said, "By the way, do you have any leftover crumbs, I want to use them to make hairpins." Well, I can also pretend to be beeswax. ”

The two of them were busy separately, and Cha Cha went to the kitchen to bring the coarse salt she bought yesterday to the laboratory. Start further purification. Out of the corner of his eye, he swept to the sparkling amber on the test bench, and his heart was very beautiful.

There is only one successful amber, and it seems that it cannot be directly sold on the street. I don't know if there is an auction house in this era, and she can still disguise herself as a man to be a trustee.