Before the crossing, Sui Xiong was a person who was not very interested in reality and current affairs. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's definitely not that he's indifferent, artists mostly do. In fact, he was also dragged by friends to donate blood, and he also donated money during natural disasters, and he never hesitated to help others when they were in need.

But if he can't see it, he really won't waste time investigating or researching.

Because he's busy.

He has to work, he has to deal with a lot of things in the warehouse, he has to manage the accounts clearly, he has to help people illustrate and earn money to support his life, and he has to try to find time to play games and communicate with his friends in the game......

So except for some netizens who follow him on Weibo and friends in the game chatting, he really doesn't have much time to collect all kinds of unimportant information.

To take an extreme example, even his own birthday, he only remembered it when his mother called the night before.

The day that he can't forget is probably the legal holiday. For example, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival, as well as those days when there will be activities in the game, such as Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc.

For a person who can even forget his birthday, social hotspots or something are almost non-existent to him.

Who said that people can pay attention to the news in the Internet era? In fact, Brother Xiong can't remember the last time he watched the news......

In addition, when he was in college, he learned everything other than art majors, so no matter how much he thought about it at the moment, he couldn't think of anything that could match what he had seen or heard about before he crossed over.

So he thought about it and finally gave up.

"There's definitely something wrong, but I can't really think of it. I'll talk about that later. ”

After all, in this world, it is quite happy to work overtime to earn enough money to support your family.

What's more, the workers of the joint exploration team from the Gold Coin Federation, as long as they work overtime, they actually earn a lot of money - at least compared to ordinary civilians.

So although they were very envious of the exploration workers in the Northwest Republic, they had no intention of changing jobs.

Of course, they can't jump if they want to. My wife and children are all in my hometown, and I have a hair for running away!

Inside the camp, after a walk, Hopps felt better and went back to continue the beneficiation.

The vein they discovered before was not large, and there was not much ore excavated in total, but the difference between silver ore and Mithril ore was very small, and non-professional beneficiators could not identify it at all, so the efficiency of beneficiation was relatively low.

Sui Xiong couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic when he saw them so busy.

(Supposedly...... The proportion of silver and Mithril is actually quite different, so you can start from this aspect...... ）

He pondered whether to follow Archimedes' example and come up with a simple tool for calculating buoyancy.

Such a tool is quite simple to do, it is nothing more than putting the ore into a basin filled with water, collecting the overflowing water and weighing it, and then calculating the volume of the ore according to the weight, and then weighing the ore...... This makes it possible to calculate the specific gravity.

This is probably the content of junior high school physics, anyway, even Sui Xiong can think of it.

But he tried to make a set of such instruments, and got a few pieces of ore for experiments, but found that it was not easy to use.

For example, he has discovered more than once that Mithril ore has the same specific gravity as silver ore.

This is simply ridiculous, the biggest characteristic of Mithril is that it is "hard" and "light". At the same volume, Mithril weighs less than one-tenth of silver, so the Bard described it as "as hard as dragon scales and as light as a feather" - this is of course an exaggeration, but as the so-called groundless wind may not be without cause, Mithril is indeed very light, Sui Xiong once threw a piece of Mithril ingot in the kingdom of God into the water, and then it actually floated on the water!

Mithril is so light, why aren't these Mithril ores light?

Sui Xiong was puzzled, and finally had to go to someone to ask.

He was looking for the forged god of the orcs, Morani the Iron Lion.

Listening to his inquiry, Morani laughed and told him that he had made a big mistake.

Mithril is a strange thing, and its specific gravity changes with its purity. When its purity is low, the specific gravity is exactly the same as ordinary silver, the purity slowly increases, the specific gravity slowly decreases, and when the purity is high enough to be equivalent to the level of "thousand-foot pure gold", it will be light enough to float on water.

"If so...... If it were more pure, maybe it would really be as light as a feather?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.

Morani shook his head: "I thought the same thing back then, and I did experiments. It's about as light as cork, which is the limit. Anyway, I don't have the ability to purify it any further, and ...... I didn't notice any lighter weight. ”

Sui Xiong fully understood at this time, laughed dryly, looked at his invention with some pain, and sighed deeply.

Obviously, the purity of the vast majority of Mithril ore is definitely not enough to produce a change in specific gravity. In a pile of Mithril ore, at most, only a few pieces are likely to reach this level.

His imaginary "simple and straightforward method of sifting through Mithril Ore" was almost nothing more than just a piece of paper.

"Actually, the best way to sift through Mithril Ore is to use magic. Morani saw his frustration and said with a smile, "The biggest difference between Mithril and Silver is that it conducts magic differently, and if you can make a tool that accurately measures the degree of magic conduction, you should be able to distinguish between Mithril and Silver relatively easily." ”

"Even if it's ore?" asked Sui Xiong.

Molani thought for a moment and said, "It should be possible." After all, the magic conductivity of Mithril is less affected by purity than its weight, so when crafting enchanted weapons, it is common to add about 10% of Mithril to it when casting weapons...... It is to improve the conductivity of magic power, so that the metal that cannot conduct weapons has the ability to conduct magic power, so that the magic attached to it can be constructed into a whole. The purity of Mithril ore should generally be so high. ”

He thought about it again and said he could do an experiment.

So the two gods found some silver ore and mythril ore and tried to test their ability to conduct magic.

In this experiment, as Morani estimated, Mithril ore was significantly different from silver ore in terms of magic conductivity. This difference doesn't even require too much advanced magical ability, and it is estimated that only a mid-level mage can clearly perceive it.

Seeing the results of the experiment, Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh.

Although he hadn't made anything yet, he was sure that he could make a tool that could easily distinguish silver ore from mythril ore, greatly improving Hoppus' work efficiency. (To be continued.) )