As the saying goes, "It is never too late for a gentleman to seek revenge."
Shuang may not be considered a gentleman, but he is really a "never too late in ten years" type.
In order to avenge his original killing, he endured silently for a long time. While secretly planning, he also established a good relationship with several legendary strong men under the Void Mask Church. For this reason, he even deigned to help the knights train and serve as Living textbook.
Finally, he finally got his chance.
At the end of last year, Gerrard finally fully mastered his own power. Being able to freely control this power, he can not only change the size of his body at will, but also freely control his power. He has also gained many extraordinary abilities.
In addition to being human in appearance, he is actually a powerful legendary creature, even stronger than many dragons.
Sensing the opportunity, Shuang immediately launched his plan and encouraged Gerald to find himself a powerful mount.
According to Gerald's original intention, he wanted to find a heavenly war horse or something - this big guy was an honest man after all and was not greedy. But Shuang couldn't let him just find a celestial warhorse. He persuaded him again and again, saying that "a real strong man must ride a giant dragon to swagger through the city" and "a hero must have someone worthy of him". "The mount, the heavenly war horse is not worthy of your status as the leader of the regiment under His Majesty the Mask of the Void." What "a good mount must first be able to give full play to the master's strength. With your strength, the dragon is suitable." "I don't know how much I said."
Although Gerald's strength has been greatly improved, his brain has not become smarter. On the contrary, because his strength has been greatly improved, his way of thinking has become more direct, or more straightforward. If it were placed in some fairy novels, or it would be the legendary "spotless and straight to the heart" innocent heart.
He originally wanted a powerful mount, but after being encouraged by Shuang several times, he put down his scruples and led his men to the Burial Stone Peak deep in the Graystone Mountains. He set up a huge barrier with human nodes to surround it. Stayed in the entire Burial Stone Peak, and then went to negotiate with Tara Easton.
The negotiations between the two parties were not pleasant at all, as evidenced by the former Burial Stone Peak that was directly transformed into the "Burial Stone Hills" afterwards. In the end, Tara Easton, who was beaten black and blue, followed the principle of "a good man never suffers immediate losses", lowered his head in humiliation and became Gerald's mount.
This result made Shuang very dissatisfied. He originally thought that Tara Easton, as the overlord of the Burial Stone Peak generation, should have the integrity to bend rather than bend, and he would definitely fight to the end rather than surrender. However, he did not expect that this evil dragon is still a flexible person, and he actually He bowed his head and resigned himself to being used as a horse, and the revenge he had planned for many years could not be fulfilled, which made him really confused. He didn't know how much sulking he had secretly made, and how many times the people who came to the warehouse to collect supplies were frightened.
Today, Leon came to visit riding the green dragon Galstobi. Finally, his long-suppressed anger finally broke out, so he ran out and scolded Tara Easton severely, which almost damaged the old dragon's glass heart. Being broken into pieces, especially the humiliation in front of his fellow tribesmen, he let out all the resentment he had accumulated for many years. He suddenly felt that the sky was vast, the clouds were white, the flowers were red, and even the guys who came to receive supplies All of them look gentle and elegant, and all of them are simple and kind.
So that night, there was another rumor in the playground.
"Have you noticed? Our warehouse manager seems to be in a good mood today."
"Nonsense, I'm not blind! He actually smiled at me today!"
"Yes! Usually when I go to him to get something, his eyes can scare people to death. Today he is actually smiling... It's so weird!"
"It's not just a smile! He usually looks left and right when receiving something, and is picky about every stitch and thread. He is even more in control than the housekeeper! But today, he only glanced at the receipt. , they just shipped the goods quickly and without a single word of difficulty, it’s incredible!”
"... Do you think he is in love?"
"It's possible! Looking at his silly smile, he does seem to be in love..."
"Oh my god! That cold-faced guy can also fall in love? Which girl is so powerful that she can accept this guy?"
"It's really a great mercy to save the suffering people!"
"Let us drink to that great lady!"
"Okay, cheers!"
So the words spread like this. As the saying goes, "Truth can only spread, but rumors can fly." Within a few days, the rumor that "Master Ku Guanshuang is in love" spread all over the playground. Several versions have also been derived. Among them, there is even an anti-ethical version where the other party is his sister, Miss Hail, and their sister, Miss Snowflake, plays the villain and beats the mandarin ducks. There is also an anti-ethical version where the other party is a bearded man, but Lord Frost is still a heavy taster. Female-oriented fan version…
As for how these rumors later reached Shuang's ears, and how Shuang became furious, like a mad dog trying to track down the bastard with broad ideas and gibberish, causing a lot of trouble, that was all a long time later...
After Leon's visit, Sui Xiong roughly dealt with the church's affairs and began to plan a major event.
Industrial Revolution!
He had read a lot of online novels before time travel. The time travelers in them often wanted to carry out the industrial revolution, such as burning glass to make muskets, lining up to shoot cannons to siege cities, blast furnaces smelting iron and synthesizing fertilizers... It was like magic, a A product of modern industry was invented and promoted rapidly, and the productivity level of the territory rose slowly. Within a few years, it would catch up with the world's advanced level, and even be able to beat the world with a mere meager effort.
Sui Xiong felt that as a time-traveler, he still had such great abilities - in terms of ability, he was confident that all the historical time-travelers together were not enough for him to fight alone. As we all know, most of the people who like to climb the technology tree are historians. In time-travel novels, the protagonists are basically normal people with mortal bodies - since those mortals can do it, there is no reason why they can't do it if they are so powerful.
So he decided to retreat for a while and bring out the industrial revolution first!
Hmm...what to start with
He thought for a moment and made the decision to start with iron-making in the blast furnace!
What is the basis of modern industry
Steel!
To launch the industrial revolution, of course we must first start by increasing steel production!
To increase steel production, of course we must introduce the legendary "blast furnace ironmaking" technology!
So he built a blast furnace in an inaccessible place deep in the Ash Forest, where he originally experimented with papermaking, got a lot of iron ore and coal, threw it in and started burning it.
There were naturally some hiccups in the process. For example, he didn't know the shape of a blast furnace. After thinking about it over and over, he made a long chimney with a big ball underneath the chimney - he thought that this might be what the so-called "blast furnace" looked like.
For another example, he didn't know what iron ore and coal to use. Based on the concept that "the industrial revolution is to use the simplest materials to achieve the most advanced results", he used pyrite sand ore and calorific value. Lower but common peat.
For another example, he had no idea what the structure of a blast furnace should be, so he evenly mixed pyrite ore and peat and stuffed it inside.
… Then, he discovered to his annoyance that this thing seemed to be very difficult to burn, and the fire was not strong at all. It even burned and went out.
How is this going
Sui Xiong thought hard and thought hard, and finally felt that maybe it was because the world was different and the coal in this world was not powerful enough.
I have traveled through time and want to develop blast furnace ironmaking technology, but the coal is not powerful enough. What should I do? Waiting online, urgent.
But there is no internet...
Fortunately, he was not the one-minded type like Gerald. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you can adapt to change. After thinking about it, he came up with a solution.
Isn’t it just about burning or high temperature? There are other ways!
For example... fire elemental creatures or something...
Casting a spell, he captured a powerful fire element from the fire elemental plane. It was conservatively estimated to be comparable to a high-level adventurer. He stuffed the fire element into his homemade blast furnace. Trying to use the blazing flames on this guy to melt the mixture of iron ore and peat and produce rolling molten iron.
Good idea, well, good idea.
The temperature of the flames on the fire element was not low, and it quickly dried the peat completely, and then... burned violently.
Question: When violent combustion occurs in a small space, what is this phenomenon generally called
Answer: Explosion.
With an earth-shattering loud noise, the unlucky fire element was immediately blown into a pile of ashes. Sui Xiong's homemade blast furnace turned into a mess of red-hot gravel. As for the iron ore and peat... those were splashing everywhere. Some of the iron slag that fell on Sui Xiong was their final product.
Thanks to Sui Xiong's vast magical power, which is comparable to the legendary Indestructible King Kong, he was almost hit by this violent explosion at close range, and was splashed all over by countless molten iron and slag. He only grinned and screamed in pain a few times, soaking. I went to the water to rest for a while, then ran back, rebuilt the blast furnace, put in materials, and started trying to improve it.
Not long after, there was another earth-shaking loud noise.
Then Sui Xiong once again soaked in the water with a disgraced face and sparks all over his body, took a rest, then ran out, rebuilt the blast furnace, adjusted the proportions of materials, adjusted the structure, and conducted experiments again.
Then, not long after, there was an earth-shaking loud noise.
Just like this, they exploded and exploded, and the forest soon turned into a white field—no, a black field, because the ground was filled with a mixture of iron slag and ash. There were even countless unlucky fire elements who refused to close their eyes and turned into pieces of black ashes, scattered in every corner of this land.
If Marx had seen this scene, he would have sighed: "The blast furnace came into this world, from head to toe, and every pore was dripping with blood and filthy things..."
Alas, in a historical time travel novel, the protagonist has died so many times...