Chapter 32: Alchemy Beyond the Times

One of the reasons why Hadu chose to explore the south was that the 900 people who "disappeared" from the "Mo-Ruq-Fa" were said to have gone south, but "Mu-Tua-Yin" The second reason is that the two river basins are now dead and fleeing due to the great changes in the environment, and it is not known whether there is land on the other side of the Blue Sea (i.e., the Mediterranean), and it is still a desert on the other side of the Red Sea (i.e., the Red Sea) - there is no need to continue exploring - At this time, it is indeed necessary to explore southward to see if we can find new discoveries that improve the technological level of the tribe, and the third is to change the environment - the wet sand makes Hado uncomfortable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info. !

As for why he did not return the same way, but explored along the coast, the purpose was to find out the customs of the inhabitants of the sea, and if possible, to plunder the techniques of catching and cooking sea fish, it was not that the original road was washed away by the great water, and even Hadu himself could not jump over the wide embankment.

He didn't act alone this time: the tribe couldn't worry about his safety, so he had to send half of his chief's personal guards, and in the end, he made some good remarks to reduce the number of his entourage to 24. Although his heart is warm, in fact, he is safer when he acts alone, and many infiltration operations are better carried out, and he still needs to take care of them with people. However, there are also advantages to multi-person action: the environment is changing too quickly, and many times Hadu will be unable to deal with it, and at this time, it can be regarded as multiple helpers with the help of others, and in addition, environmental factors make it difficult for Hadu to break into the other party's interior - just like he spends many days without access to "Hin-Gue'el" This approach in times of peace is no longer suitable for times of strife.

On the way to explore along the coast, Hado has been thinking about the limits of his ability to "plunder wealth", and now he has figured out that some "plunderable" things, including the nature, state, mechanism, regulation, thought, consciousness, experience, etc., of living and non-living things, can be plundered. At this time, Hado was playing with a piece of black ore in his hand, which exhibited some interesting properties: iron objects would be "sucked" when they came close to it. This is actually a piece of magnetite ore, which can be used on sentry posts and gates in important locations to effectively prevent others from carrying gold and iron into these locations. Hado, on the other hand, wanted to try to plunder the magnetism of the ore, but he was a little wavering in his heart: if he would attract gold and iron every moment after plundering the magnetism, it would be troublesome, and it would cause him a lot of trouble when it was not necessary, such as when throwing iron flying blades.

But on the other hand, the "wealth" he plundered was also under his control, just like the killing consciousness of the soldiers he plundered at the beginning, and when he did not use these consciousnesses, these soldiers had no way to kill. Then it should be the same in the case of magnetism: if he does not use magnetism, he will not exhibit magnetism.

In order to enhance the comparison of the experiment, he first took out an iron flying blade and approached the magnet in his hand, and only heard a "choking" sound, and the flying blade was firmly sucked on the magnet. Then he pressed his hands hard. Hard.. Use, alas, it's really dead, he hurriedly called the three guards around him to come over, unload the gold and iron products on his body, and then asked them to grab the magnet with six hands, and then Hadu used both hands hard again, and it took a long time to pull the flying blade down. However, seeing the attraction ability of this magnet, Hadu was still very much looking forward to it, so he didn't care about it anymore, and launched a plunder in front of the guards (the guards couldn't see it if they didn't have the ability to activate it), and then he faintly felt that his body had the ability to attract gold and iron products.

When Hadu brought the blade closer to the magnet again, the magnet had no magnetism at all. That's when Hado's mind was playing—he was going to try the magnetism he had just plundered. I saw him grip the flying blade between his two fingers, and then flicked his wrist hard, and the flying blade spun and flew into the distance, and Hadu then stretched out his right hand to the flying blade that flew out, thinking about activating magnetism in his mind. Activate the magnetic force. Activate the magnetic force. As a result, I really saw that the flying blade turned around and flew back faster than when it was thrown out. Something was wrong, though, and the blade was flying straight towards Hado's head.

Hadu was startled and hurriedly withdrew the magnetic force, and then saw that the flying blade continued to fly due to inertia, but the speed obviously slowed down and began to fall down. Hadu lunged forward, grabbing the handle of the blade accurately and not letting it get planted in the sand by the sea—he really hated wet sand. Then he threw the blade out again, this time he applied a magnetic force to the blade intermittently, and saw the blade flutter eerily in the air for a while, and finally landed firmly in Hado's hands.

After that, Hadu did a lot of exercises: such as using the magnetic force from his waist to make the flying blade fly back and insert it into the holster "automatically", such as using the magnetic force from all parts of his body to control the flying blade around the body, and changing the distance of the magnetic force so that the flying blade is close to the inside of his arm, and when needed, he can flip his arm to quickly attack. After a period of practice, he found that he was not only able to attract gold and iron artifacts to him, but also to keep them away from him. !

However, just like his "wealth plundering" ability, this ability to control the magnetic force can only reach 10 steps, but it is definitely enough for him to use and protect himself. What he had to practice now was mainly to control the gold and iron objects to levitate around him, and to enable the weapons in flight to stop and move sharply. And the limit of the gold and iron products he can control now is not clear - he asked the guards accompanying him to throw away all the flying blades, counting the flying blades he carried and the spare flying blades, 50 three-headed flying blades and 20 double-headed flying blades flying up and down in the air, as long as he can see and feel clearly, within 10 steps of gold and iron weapons can be easily controlled.

Hadu also experimented with other materials, and found that he could only control gold and iron artifacts now, and he could not control wood, stone, and bones, but if these materials were inlaid with gold and iron, then they could also be mobilized (such as spears with iron gauntlets, but they were very difficult to use and difficult to control). They have no control over water, fire, and wind, and even if they are placed in them, they don't seem to have any effect on them.

Further experiments have shown that the magnetic force control has no effect on the shape of the object, and the appearance and structure of the object cannot be changed by magnetic force, but for powdered gold and iron, under the control of magnetic force, they can be molded into a complete object, which will return to a powdery form after the magnetic force is removed. Whether or not magnetism can control the molten iron is to know if it is necessary to dig a kiln to bake charcoal and smelt the ore, which is extremely easy for Hado, not to mention the lush trees growing on the many cliffs along the coast.

After walking through a steep and steep mountain front, greeted by a forest of royal green, Hadu couldn't help but sigh: the desert is still pouring torrential rain, but here is calm, across the mountain why the difference is so big. However, it is difficult to carry out large-scale excavation and construction work in the forest, the root system of the trees here is too developed, and it takes a lot of effort to dig up these roots, and there may be many fierce beasts here (there must be more than the steppe forest), which is not friendly to the newly migrated team, and Khadu has no intention of moving the tribe here.

On this day, when they passed a high cliff, Hado saw a black stone emerging from the cliff wall, probably an ore, and when he walked over and saw that it was magnetite, he did not try to die and directly stick the flying blade on it, but took out the ore with no magnetic force and threw it over, and found that it was immediately sucked on the cliff wall. With magnetite, experiments with magnetically controlled molten iron were launched, and the next step was to find a place to dig kilns and cut down trees. Hadu ran to a cliff on the coast to cut down trees, and suddenly, one of the guards told him to look across the sea. When he looked closely, he saw that there was land, and when he looked again, he could see that the shore was stretched outwards with a sharp corner, and then separated from the cliffs on the opposite bank, with a narrow strait in the middle.

Hadu thought about it for a moment, instead of searching for the ethereal 900 people, it was better to go to the other side of the blue ocean to see how the civilizations that appeared there and the grasslands and deserts were different. Before heading there, Hado was ready to complete all the experiments he wanted to do with magnetic control. The first is to control the iron axe to cut down trees "automatically" - the efficiency is indeed very high, this double-edged iron axe flies around in the air, constantly cutting the trunk of the tree, and then cutting deeper and deeper, and finally cutting down the tree - at one time eight or nine trees fell to Hadu, who was still immersed in playfulness, and pressed him to the ground, and the guards rushed over in fright, only to find that these trees could not harm Hadu at all, and he was still happy on the ground when he was pressed and laughed. It looks like Hadu is in his 50s, and his mind is still stuck in his 14-year-old boyhood. As soon as he exerted his strength, he broke away from the fallen trees, his skin was hard enough without any scratches, and more of his bare skin was blocked by armor and crotch coverings. Seeing Hadu's lively appearance, the guards were also relieved, and they were also happy to follow this leader - kind, good enough for their own people, and didn't need to worry too much about the people around them.

The digging of the kiln and the charcoal making went well, and the mining was the movement of the magnetite from the cliff under the control of Hado - but the movement was not easy, and the whole cliff, and the land where Hadu and his guards were standing, shook violently, and even the surface of the cliff was formed into a curved ripple because of the shock. Hado quickly stopped control, but the ripple did not stop immediately, but continued to fluctuate for a while before completely stopped, and the magnetite did not move off the cliff for half a minute with Hadu's control. Hado's analysis of this situation may be due to three reasons: first, the magnetite volume is too large, exceeding the limit of magnetic control, second, the overall position of magnetite does not fully exist within 10 steps, so magnetic control cannot act on the whole magnetite, and third, the magnetite body is blocked by other items and cannot be moved out completely. But no matter which kind of analysis, it is contrary to the experimental conclusions he made before: 1. If the magnetite exceeds the control limit, then the most likely thing to happen is that the magnetite does not move at all, but now it produces an extremely shocking wave pattern, then this hypothesis can be rejected first; 2. The gold and iron artifacts that do not completely exist within the 10-step range can also be controlled, but their movement speed and control flexibility will be greatly discounted; 3. The blocked gold and iron artifacts will be "split" by the blocked objects when the magnetic force increases"In half, and the cliff in front of me did not appear in such a state. When the cliff wall produced oscillating ripples before, Hadu found that this kind of ripple was very regular, and the circle of concave diffusion to the outer layer may be related to the characteristics of the magnetic force itself. However, it is impossible for him to understand the principle now, so this phenomenon can only be pressed first, and then he will find a way to solve it when he has the ability to study it in the future.

Since it was impossible to move the entire magnetite mine out of the magnetite by magnetic control, the only way to do it was to use the traditional way of chiseling - fortunately, the magnetite that was stripped off in this way was still under the control of Hadu, and one by one "obediently" flew to the built smelting furnace. In a double-deck smelter, the inner layer is filled with magnetite ore and charcoal, and the outer layer is filled with charcoal mixed with dry firewood, and when the outer combustion is ignited, the high temperature gradually melts the inner layer of ore and charcoal together (most people think this when they can't see the inside of the blast furnace directly). And in the process of ironmaking, it is necessary to constantly throw stalactites scavenged from nearby karst caves (the composition is limestone, that is, calcium carbonate, calcium oxide and carbon dioxide are produced during pyrolysis, the former is used to remove the siliceous in the molten iron, and the latter is used to produce carbon monoxide to increase the reducing property), so that the molten iron can be made purer and better to use (this simple era, simple craftsmen). When the charcoal in the inner layer was almost burned and the charcoal burning in the outer layer was continued, Hadu exerted a magnetic force on the furnace, and heard a "boom", and the kiln with huge pressure exploded violently, and a red and yellow ribbon flew out of the kiln - Hadu knew that this was hot molten iron, and he must not let it get on himself, otherwise it was possible to burn off a layer of skin and burn a piece of meat.

The ribbon began to turn a little black soon after flying in the air, and according to Hadu's experience, the molten iron began to cool, and if no measures were taken at this time, the molten iron would gradually solidify after a while. Now that he knew that magnetism could control the molten iron, he immediately began the next step - to control the molten iron and shape it into a complete weapon. Hado tried to control the molten iron into the still-hot furnace to raise the temperature, then flew out again and hung in the air, taking control of the shape of a long sword. The first to come out was the tip of the sword, then the sharp double edge, then the hilt was retracted backwards, and a dent in the hilt was formed in the hand, and finally a ring was formed at the end, which was suitable for Hadu to hook his fingers to attack the sword. However, there was one thing that Hadu had misestimated: in order to prevent the heat wave from the fiery sword embryo, he hovered the long sword at a position of almost 10 steps, and his mind was too focused on the shaping of the sword body, so that when the final shaping was completed, he found that the total length of the long sword was actually higher than that of a human, and there was no way to carry it.

In addition, the shape of the sword body is also the first: whether it is a desert, a grassland, or a river basin, there is no such mountain sword in front of you: the sword body is extremely wide, more than 9 times the width of the hilt (except for magnetism, no one must be able to swing it), the length of the sword body accounts for 19/20 of the total length of the sword body (you can't see the hand when holding the sword), the thickness of the sword body is about 1 palm width, and the spare part of the sword can be carved with other patterns (like a shield) except for the double-edged part.

Seeing such a "long sword", the guards around Hadu were speechless: How can this be used? ?

In desperation, Hadu was only able to melt this epoch-making weapon, and then used molten iron to reshape himself and his guards with 25 mountain swords of the same shape, but with a "normal" volume, which can usually be carried behind his back, and when he needs to respond to the enemy, he will hold it out from behind (it's very domineering to think about). However, the people of this era have not yet discovered the mystery of the blade, of course, this is not the key - who said that the mountain sword is used to cut people, this is obviously used to fan people (it can also be used as a fan when there is nothing to do). !

In addition to crafting new weapons, Hadu melted down a few of his copper weapons, and then discovered that magnetism could also work on copper water, but for some reason it didn't work on cooled copper - no matter how hard Hadu tried to exert himself, the copper just stayed on the ground and "refused" to move (copper is not a conducting magnet, nor is it a standing magnet). In this regard, Hadu could only shake his head, only thinking about reshaping the weapon. However, he sensed some differences in the "copper water": there was another substance in the copper water, which was mixed with copper. And he also thought that among the plundering techniques, it is said that the current copper smelting, and the smelted is brass, which must be different from copper. He tried to isolate the other, and when he cooled down, he saw an alluring red copper and elemental zinc with a light blue glow.

Hado never thought that he could actually separate the two kinds of gold and iron from brass, but when he did, he became very interested: what kind of thing would come from the combination of copper and iron? ?