Before time travel, Sui Xiong was a person who was not very interested in reality and current affairs.
This is definitely not that he is indifferent, most artists are like this. In fact, he was dragged by his friends to donate blood and donated money during natural disasters. When he saw others in need, he never hesitated to help.
But if he couldn't see it, he really wouldn't waste time investigating or researching it.
Because he is very busy.
He has to work, deal with the piles of things in the warehouse, and manage the accounts clearly; he has to help people draw illustrations to make money to support his life; he also has to work hard to find time to play games and communicate with friends in the games...
So apart from some netizens he followed on Weibo and chatting with friends in the game, he really didn't have much time to collect all kinds of unimportant information.
To take an extreme example, he even remembered his birthday only after his mother called the night before.
The days that he can never forget are probably legal holidays. For example, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, etc., as well as days when there are events in the game, such as Valentine's Day, Christmas, etc.
For a person who can even forget his own birthday, social hot spots and so on are almost non-existent to him.
Who said that in the Internet age, people can pay attention to the news? In fact, Brother Xiong can’t even remember the last time he watched the news...
In addition, when he was in college, except for the art major, he learned only so-so in everything else, so no matter how hard he thought about it at the moment, he couldn't think of anything like the treatment of Gold Coin Federation workers that he had seen or heard before he traveled through time. What has been said can be consistent.
So he thought about it and finally gave up.
"While there must be something wrong, I really can't figure it out. Let's talk about it later."
After all, in this world, if you can earn enough money to support your family by working overtime, you are considered quite happy.
What's more, as long as the workers of the joint exploration team from the Gold Coin Federation work hard and work overtime, they can actually earn a lot of money - at least compared to ordinary civilians, it is a lot.
So although they were very envious of the exploration workers in the Northwest Republic, they had no plans to change jobs.
Of course, they can't jump even if they want to. My wife and children are all at home, so running away is of no use!
In the camp, Hopps felt better after taking a walk, so he went back to continue mineral processing.
The ore vein they discovered before was not large, and the total ore dug out was not much. However, the difference between silver ore and mithril ore was very small, and non-professional mineral processing workers could not distinguish them at all, so the efficiency of mineral processing was relatively low.
Seeing them so busy, Sui Xiong couldn't help but sympathize.
(Ordinarily... the proportions of silver and mithril are actually quite different. You can start from this aspect...)
He pondered whether he should follow Archimedes' example and develop a simple tool for calculating buoyancy.
Making such a tool is quite simple. It is nothing more than putting the ore into a basin filled with water, collecting the overflowing water and weighing it, then calculating the volume of the ore based on the weight, and then weighing the ore... That's it. Calculate the specific gravity.
This is probably the content of junior high school physics, anyway, even Sui Xiong can figure it out.
But he tried to make a set of such instruments and obtained a few pieces of ore for experiments, but found that it was not easy to use.
For example, he discovered more than once that the specific gravity of mithril ore was the same as that of silver ore.
This is simply ridiculous. The biggest characteristics of mithril are "hard" and "light". In 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 feathers" - this is of course an exaggeration, but it is groundless. Not necessarily without reason, mithril is indeed very light. Sui Xiong once threw a mithril ingot from the Kingdom of God into the water, and then it actually floated on the water!
Mithril is so light, why are these Mithril ores not light
Sui Xiong was puzzled and finally had to find someone to ask.
He was looking for the orc god of forging, Morani the Iron Lion.
After hearing his inquiry, Morani laughed loudly, and then told him that he had made a big mistake.
Mithril is a very strange thing, its specific gravity changes as its purity changes. When its purity is low, its specific gravity is exactly the same as ordinary silver. As the purity slowly increases, the specific gravity gradually decreases. When the purity reaches a level equivalent to "thousand pure gold", it will be light enough to float. On the water.
"In other words... if it were purer, maybe it would be as light as a feather?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.
Morani shook his head: "I thought about it back then and did experiments. It's roughly as light as cork, which is the limit. Anyway, I don't have the ability to further purify it, and... I didn't find that it would change further. Mild situation.”
Only then did Sui Xiong fully understand. He laughed twice, looked at his invention with some pain, and sighed deeply.
Obviously, the purity of most mithril ores is definitely not at a level that can cause changes in specific gravity. In a pile of mithril ores, at most there are only a few pieces that can reach this level.
The "simple and clear method of screening mithril mines" he imagined was almost just talk on paper.
"Actually, the best way to screen mithril mines is to use magic." Morani saw his depression and said with a smile, "The biggest difference between mithril and silver is the conductivity to magic power. If you can By making a tool to accurately measure the degree of magic power transmission, it should be easier to distinguish between mithril and silver."
"Even ore?" Sui Xiong asked.
Morani thought for a while and said: "It should be possible. After all, compared with weight, the magic conductivity of mithril is less affected by purity, so when making enchanted weapons, they usually add it when casting the weapon. About 10% of mithril is mixed in... in order to improve the conductivity of magic power, so that the metal that cannot conduct weapons can conduct magic power, so as to build the magic attached to it into a whole. The purity of mithril ore, generally It should be this high."
He thought about it again and said that he could do an experiment to see.
So the two gods found some silver ores and mithril ores and tried to test their ability to conduct magic.
This experiment showed that, as Morani had estimated, mithril ore was significantly different from silver ore in terms of magic conductivity. This difference does not even require advanced magical abilities. It is estimated that only a mid-level mage can clearly detect it.
Seeing the experimental results, Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh.
Although the thing hasn't been made yet, he is already confident that he can make a tool that can easily distinguish between silver ore and mithril ore, which will greatly improve the work efficiency of Hopps and the others.