Early the next morning, Yan Liqiang got up early as usual, after completing the morning exercise and practicing the Yijin Washing Sutra, he went to the canteen of the craftsman camp to eat breakfast, and then returned to the courtyard, carrying the horned python bow given to him by Zhou Yong, straddled a pot of arrows, and carried the gunpowder he had prepared a long time ago, the fire sickle that ignited the fire, and three packs of ground toner, sulfur powder and saltpeter powder, and went out of the courtyard.

"Yan Shao, what's the matter, do you want to practice bows and arrows?"

As soon as he walked out of the door, Yan Liqiang was accompanied by a group of heavily armed soldiers who were also walking towards the ash forest, and when those soldiers saw Yan Liqiang come out, they all greeted Yan Liqiang with a smile.

"Yes, the good bow that Brother Zhou gave me yesterday, if you want to put it away, it will be a waste, and you can't live up to Brother Zhou's kindness......" Yan Liqiang said with a smile, "By the way, why are the big brothers going to patrol the ash forest today?"

"Camp Supervisor Qian just ordered, let everyone be vigilant these days, strengthen vigilance, and walk around the camp more!"

Yan Liqiang was slightly stunned, and suddenly thought of Qian Su's intention - as soon as the news of what he got out of the Lu family yesterday spread, it was estimated that his affairs in the artisan camp would not be hidden, so Qian Su asked the sergeants of the artisan battalion to strengthen patrols, which was also indirectly protecting his own safety.

Thinking of the cold peep hidden in the darkness when he returned to the camp last night, Yan Liqiang secretly gritted his teeth.

In my previous life, I always felt that working hard to earn money every day was the most stressful thing, at that time, I lived in a peaceful and stable environment, and I had never suffered any personal threats, and I had never experienced the taste of precariousness, so I didn't know that kind of peaceful and stable environment was really hard-won, and this time, I had just experienced it in this world for a few days, and the crisis like a maggot on the tarsal bones suddenly made Yan Liqiang feel the huge pressure of survival- It's not about earning money, it's about putting your own life and personal safety at risk.

Yan Liqiang and the group of soldiers chatted as they walked, and when they came to the ash forest near the hillside of the craftsman camp, the two sides separated.

Yan Liqiang was heading up the mountain, while the sergeants were patrolling the perimeter of the artisan camp and the ash forest—because if anyone really wanted to break in, they would also come in from outside the courtyard wall of the artisan camp at the bottom of the hillside, and it was impossible to run down from the top of the mountain, because the only way up the mountain was the artisan camp.

Yan Liqiang estimated that the person who peeked at him in the dark last night did not have the courage to break into the artisan camp to make trouble, you must know that the artisan camp is a military powerhouse, a part of the state's professional violence organs, and it usually seems to be calm here, but as long as something happens casually, it may cause an uproar, not to mention that the people invited by the Hong family are those outlaws who are powerful, and few dare to break into these sergeant places casually, that is simply because they have a long life.

Therefore, as long as he is in the craftsman camp, that person can't do anything about himself.

With a bow on his back and arrows on his shoulder, along the path he usually walked, Yan Liqiang didn't take much time to come to the place where he cultivated near the top of the mountain every day.

At this time, the sun has just risen, the mountains and forests are full of life, everything has just woken up, and the mountains and forests are full of birds and flowers.

Putting the bow and arrow on his back against a boulder, Yan Liqiang looked around carefully, and found that there was no one around, so he was relieved, and then turned to the two boulders under the mountain wall not far behind this clearing.

The back of this boulder is both leeward and hidden, there is no grass and trees on the ground around, just some earth and stones, even if the gunpowder is successfully arranged, it will not cause any fire, and the water source of the creek is not far away, and if a little smoke is made, it will be blown away by the wind on the top of the mountain in an instant, and the people below the mountain will not see it.

Yan Liqiang squatted down behind the boulder, took out the fire rope and the fire sickle that he had prepared long ago from his arms, and began to try.

To be honest, if he was still living on the earth in his previous life, after preparing these gunpowders, Yan Liqiang would not worry that these gunpowders would not be able to be used at all, but in this world, Yan Liqiang has no bottom in his heart, because there are too many things in this world that are difficult to explain with the knowledge in his head.

For example, those magic phases and visions that appear when practicing, the huge palm light and shadow that appeared on Hong Tao's body when he used the iron sand palm, the light and shadow of the rhino dragon horse that appeared when he passed the horse step level, grandma's, all the martial arts and secret methods in this world have their own light and shadow effects, which can resonate with the aura and energy between heaven and earth, and those light and shadow effects are also strange, each is different, compared to "Saint Seiya" The light and shadow effects of the explosion of the small universe inside are even more exaggerated, who can explain the principle of this to themselves with scientific truth, and tell themselves what chemical changes have occurred in their cultivation of martial arts and the energy of heaven and earth?

The tool used for ignition is the fire sickle, for people who are used to lighters, it is too inconvenient to use the fire sickle to light, but there is no way, because in addition to the fire sickle in this world, there is also a tool for ignition called the fire fold, and the fire fold is because the production is more time-consuming, the price is not cheap, use a little less, generally only a few rich people, such as the Hong family and the Lu family will use it daily, and the fire method used by the army and most ordinary people is relatively cheap and easy to carry.

Yan Liqiang opened the waterproof leather cover of the fire sickle purse, took out the flint and velvet inside, then held the flint with his left hand and pressed the flint between the flint and his fingers, held the purse of the fire sickle with his right hand, and aimed the sickle at the flint and slammed it.

After taking a deep breath, Yan Liqiang put the fire rope he had made on the open flame lit by the velvet.

The tissue paper on the outside of the firerope was ignited at once......

In the blink of an eye, and in less than two seconds, the burning paper finally burned to the place where the gunpowder he had made was mixed.

Yan Liqiang held his breath and his eyes widened......

There is no snort of gunpowder ignition!

No violent chemistry!

It's even more unlikely that there will be any explosion!

Because the tissue paper is burning, so the fire rope is also burning, burning very slowly, like lighting a stick of incense, only slightly faster than the incense that was lit.

There was smoke from the burning rope, but the smoke was filled with a strong smell of sulfur, which was the smell of sulfur being ignited.

Yan Liqiang was looking forward to the groundbreaking flash, but in the end, what he was waiting for was a stuffy fart released from the nest.

After a while, the arquebus burned out, leaving behind a trail of ashes, and among the ashes were unburned toner and saltpeter powder......

Yan Liqiang was stunned, could it be that the formula of gunpowder does not work in this world?

He took out another arquebus and tried it, and found that it was still the case.

The toner and sulfur powder come from the craftsman camp, and there is no problem with the raw materials, and the saltpeter has been inspected when I bought it, and there is no problem.

There is no problem with the raw materials, there is no problem with the formula, but what is prepared is not gunpowder.

Yan Liqiang did not give up, and then took out the three packets of toner, sulfur powder, and saltpeter powder that had not been mixed together in his arms, and began to try and combine them differently, after tossing for nearly a morning and more than four hours, Yan Liqiang finally confirmed a fact - although he didn't know why this happened, what he could be sure of was that this world was indeed unable to prepare gunpowder.

Not only that, but as far as Yan Liqiang knows, there are almost no natural magnets and magnetites in this world.

There is a compass in this world, but the magnetic needle on the compass in this world is made of a material called star iron, and the so-called star iron is a kind of meteorite iron that fell from the sky, the number is not much, the price is expensive, only occasionally a small piece can be found, the price of the same weight of star iron, almost more than 20 times the price of gold.

What does this mean?

Without gunpowder there would be no thermal weapons, so-called firearms and cannons would never have appeared, and without enough natural magnets and magnets, that means that the world may never be able to use it to produce electricity in the future.

What dominates this world will always be cold weapons, as well as force......