Chapter 2: Guns and Phones
Usually the apprentice is at his least relaxed when he or she is concentrating on repairing the card.
Duke was ready to take a look around the store and think of ways to make money.
Bobby and Thomas, the two apprentices at the next workstation, also quietly hid in the corner as the card repairer began to concentrate on repairing the card, and began to share their candy with each other.
Duke wasn't that boring.
He looked around the small Samshoka shop, and on the other side of the counter was Bob, a regular worker, taking care of it. There are four repair stations in the repair area, one for each of the three card repairers, and a spare station four, which is usually used by the boss himself.
But the boss didn't come today, and went to the scrap card station in the city to buy goods.
"How do you make money?"
He frowned, a little helpless.
As a traverser, I naturally have a lot of knowledge about the earth in my head, but when it comes to using it, I find it useless. Ironmaking, brick-burning, and distilled spirits are fundamental in this world, and products such as soap, glass, and perfume are not uncommon, as for computers, mobile phones, and other high-tech products, there are none, but Duke can't make them.
He looked out of the warehouse window.
Beyond the low-slung bungalow area, one can see towering chimneys in the distance, billowing black smoke, surrounded by unknown birds, swooping and pecking at the spirits rising in it.
If a beast wants to evolve into a spirit animal, it must prey on a large number of spirits.
"That's the Black Snake Spirit Gold Smelter, the industry of the Black Snake family, which extracts spiritual metals from mortal iron ore...... The pollution is really big. "Duke looks at the past from the eyes of earthlings, this factory is comparable to a poison gas manufacturing plant, but the entire snake head town is the fief of the Black Snake family, and no one dares to care about it no matter how polluted it is.
Or rather, no one cares.
The Federation of the Seven Towers does not have the concept of environmental protection, and the development of psionic industry, the expansion of human power, and the continuous development of the barren jungle are the mainstream ideas at present.
"Psionic ...... Spirituality...... Otherworldly! ”
Duke gave a look of eagerness, and now he was eager to see the beauty of this otherworld, which he had never seen before.
Of course.
If he wants to appreciate the extraordinary, the premise is to open the spiritual sea, otherwise he can only live at the bottom of society as an ordinary person.
"There doesn't seem to be any good invention that can make money quickly...... Well, gunpowder! A flash of inspiration flashed in Duke's mind, and a good idea came to mind, "The Federation of the Seven Towers is the alliance of the arcane mage, and the arcane master represents the extraordinary power system of this world, the spiritual arcane, so black powder has never been born. ”
The people who live here believe that the earth beneath their feet has an unparalleled spirituality.
It is this kind of spirituality that endows all living in the barren continent with powerful extraordinary power, and builds a set of "spiritual arcane" power system.
Collect spiritual energy and refine spiritual energy.
It was this psionic energy, which was more magical than electricity, that sparked the mighty industrial boom.
"The powerful arcane mage can destroy the world, so the black powder is definitely far less valuable than the earth, but the black powder is still very useful, I can try to make black powder in the transcendent world!"
In his mind's eye, it seemed that the ratio of black powder was one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.
After a lunch break, he hurriedly finished his lunch, and walked briskly down another street, and then into a wide alley. There are all shops selling a variety of materials, from spiritual materials to ordinary materials.
Asked in a circle.
Duke frowned deeply: "Saltpeter, a material that can grow in toilets, is sold for 1 silver dragon a catty, and sulfur is 30 copper dragon a gram, which is faster than grabbing money!" ”
If you want to make black powder, I don't know how many times you have to repeat it.
The materials that are enough for many experiments are worth more than 23 silver dragons' awakening elixir: "With this money, I would have bought the awakening elixir a long time ago...... By the way, why don't I go to the toilet to scrape saltpeter? ”
If one plan fails, Duke has another plan.
A pound of saltpeter can be sold for 1 silver dragon, he can scrape saltpeter to save money, although going to the toilet to scrape saltpeter is a bit of a crime, but the money is obviously faster than the apprentice.
However, after Duke ran through the toilet with multiple sewage in a row, he soon returned to Sam's repair shop with a disappointed face.
Those toilets are dirty enough, but there is no saltpeter like hoarfrost at the root of the wall, only all kinds of yellowed urine and feces stains, which make people sick to their stomachs.
"Why isn't there saltpeter?"
"Was it scraped away, probably not, there are no scratches on the wall...... Is it because the toilets in Snake Head Town are built with stones instead of clods? ”
He remembers saltpeter growing in the earthen latrines in the countryside.
Perhaps something in the soil reacts with urine to form saltpeter, which cannot react when replaced with stones, so saltpeter does not grow.
In a word.
The idea of making money by scraping saltpeter in toilets was shattered.
I stayed up until I got off work in the evening, and I didn't come up with a good way to make money, so I came home and cooked white rice and steamed sausages, and I was shy in my pocket, and I only had this food at home.
On the card interface of the spiritual rice cooker, the light of the stored spiritual card has dimmed.
"If you can't get any more money, I'm afraid you can't even afford to use your spiritual energy." Duke sighed with emotion, took out a spirit card from his arms, the cover was already somewhat damaged, and was stunned.
This is his Spirit Dragon Card.
It is equivalent to a bank card on the earth, and the dragon coins issued by the Seven Towers Federation are inconvenient to trade, so the arcane mages have researched the spirit dragon card, and the purchase and sale only need to swipe the spirit dragon card.
"The balance seems to have 57 bronze dragons left, bleak!"
"However, this spirit card is really magical." Duke put away his negative emotions and began to divert his attention, focusing on the spirit dragon card in his hand and the spirit storage card inserted in the spirit rice pot.
Both cards belong to spirit cards.
The spirit is closed in the form of an energy circuit, and then printed on a card for storage, which is the technical principle of the spirit card.
A large amount of stable spiritual energy is stored in the spirit storage card, and the spirit dragon card is directly connected to the bank, and these magical spirit cards are just the simplest technology under the spiritual arcane system.
"This is the transcendent power I can reach, and if I don't open the spiritual sea, this is probably the only transcendent power I can reach."
"The Spirit Sea must be opened as soon as possible!"
Eating, washing dishes, no nightlife, sleeping.
Tossing and turning for a long time, Duke fell asleep in anticipation of the future.
……
Stupefied.
Duke felt himself drift to a starlit place.
The starlight is numerous, infinitely wide, and the surrounding is pitch black, like the deep sea.
"It's here, I'm back!" Duke's mind became clear, and he already understood that he was in a dream, "Just like last night, I came to the spiritual sea through the dream again. ”
Look in the direction where the starlight is most intense.
The stars guarded two star-like clusters of light, one of which was like a cell phone, and the other was like a pistol.
"My golden finger!"
"Wait for me!"