"Is my thinking a little too complicated?" Richard said to himself.
"Solid plant alkaline anesthetics do have impurities and cannot be used. Gas-type laughing gas anesthetics have a complicated production process and cannot be carried out. But for liquid ether anesthetics, why must they be produced catalytically by industrial methods? What is needed for ether? The quantity is not large, and the preparation method in the laboratory is completely sufficient.
If I remember correctly, there are only two raw materials needed to prepare ether in the laboratory, namely sulfuric acid and ethanol. There is sulfuric acid. As for ethanol - what is ethanol? Isn't ethanol the scientific name of alcohol? There is enough of this thing. Preparing ether from alcohol seems to be knowledge in high school chemistry textbooks. I seem to have really made things complicated. "
Richard muttered to himself, slowly stood up, and his eyes fell on the instruments on the table on the side. He stepped closer, quickly disassembled the instrument, and then used the large test tubes, catheters, corks, flasks, iron stands, iron rings, separatory funnels, etc. to assemble another set of instruments.
After the assembly was completed and the air tightness was simply checked, Richard started loading. Pour absolute ethanol into the flask, then slowly pour in concentrated sulfuric acid, plug the cork... Heating... Cooling...
…
After a long time, Richard got about 5 milliliters of ether. This amount is only 1% of a bottle of mineral water on modern earth, but in Richard's opinion, it is enough.
Seal the glass bottle containing ether with a wooden stopper to prevent evaporation, and wrap the outside with dark linen to prevent oxidation caused by strong light.
Richard nodded with satisfaction, took the bottle and walked out of the independent laboratory.
Walking outside to the palace hall, the sun was shining through the window and shining on the ground. When Richard looked up, he found that the sun was already setting to the west, which meant that he had been in the laboratory all day without knowing it. . But he didn't feel half hungry. Instead, he felt excited. He couldn't wait to go back to the bedroom and wanted to test the effect of the ether he had just made. Let’s see if we can really crack the so-called reshaping of life, and see if the power of science can overcome the obstacles of the magic system.
look forward to.
As Richard was thinking about it, he was about to step upstairs, when a voice sounded.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Richard raised his eyebrows and knew who it was without having to guess.
Turning his head, sure enough, he saw Edward trotting over, stopped nearby, and asked breathlessly: "Your Highness, um... have you finished your research on that?"
"Well, it's done for now." Richard replied, and then asked, "During this period, nothing happened in the palace, right?"
"No, no." Edward shook his head.
"That's good." Richard nodded, turned around and continued to go upstairs, saying, "I have important things to do now. You continue to guard the palace. Unless the palace is on fire this time, no matter what Don’t bother me with anything.”
"This...that dinner..."
"You can eat it yourself."
"Your Highness!" Edward shouted anxiously, "You haven't eaten anything since yesterday. If you do this, your body will not be able to hold on..."
"I know my body best. There is nothing wrong with not eating for a short time. I will have breakfast tomorrow, so don't worry about anything, that's it." As he spoke, Richard had already walked up to the second floor and disappeared into Edward in sight.
Edward had a complicated expression, and in the end he couldn't help but lament: "Your Highness, if you keep doing this, I really can't stand up as the captain of the personal guard..."
…
Returning to his bedroom connected to the study, Richard did not rush to try it immediately, but studied "The Chapter of Monroe" seriously. I carefully considered the above content about "astral projection" and made up my mind only after it was correct.
As the sky turned dark, Richard sat cross-legged on the velvet bed in his bedroom, took out the glass bottle containing ether, uncorked it, brought it to his nose and began to inhale deeply.
As the air entered his lungs along the trachea, Richard clearly felt the changes in his body. When he reached a certain limit, he quickly plugged the bottle and placed it on the table aside. Then the whole person remained motionless on the bed, allowing the ether to work quickly in the body.
In just ten seconds, Richard felt his brain faint, and then his body began to feel heavy.
Tens of seconds later, his body was as heavy as lead.
A minute later, he was unable to move, but his consciousness remained clear.
Recalling the records in "The Chapter of Monroe", Richard began to imagine that his consciousness was weightless and not bound by gravity, able to surface like a fish and fly into the sky like a bird.
In an instant, Richard clearly felt that his whole body began to tremble, not because of muscle trembling caused by low temperature, but as if something was trying to break free from his body.
Continue to use mental power to control and control the consciousness to float out of the body.
"Buzz!"
Richard felt his heavy body shaking even more violently. It was not like he was sitting on a soft velvet bed, but like he was sitting in a carriage running wildly on the dirt road. An unknown thing was about to jump out of his body uncontrollably. come out.
"Buzz buzz!"
Not sure if it was an illusion, but gradually, Richard felt the whole bed begin to shake, then the ground and the house, like an earthquake.
But Richard knew very well that there had been no earthquakes in the plain where Blue Lion City was located since the beginning of history, and the chance of an earthquake happening now was almost zero. The most likely possibility is that the body is experiencing some special changes due to "astral projection."
"Buzz buzz buzz buzz!"
The vibrations became stronger and stronger, and Richard clearly felt that his body was being roughly pulled by some force. Then suddenly I discovered that there were suddenly a large number of threads in my body - each thread passed through the chest and came out from the back, vibrating constantly and with high temperature, as if the body was being cut into thin slices, and the pain was excruciating. Tolerate.
Richard suddenly wondered, could these lines be planetary magnetic induction lines
Your body is facing north and south on the bed. If the current world is similar to the earth, then the magnetic north pole is in front of you and the magnetic south pole is in the back of you (the magnetic north and south poles are exactly opposite to the geographical north and south poles), then the magnetic north pole emanates from the magnetic north pole. Magnetic lines of induction will continue to pass along the ground toward the north, pass through your body, and reach the geomagnetic south pole.
That…
As soon as Richard thought of this, he heard a "crash" sound in his ears, as if something had broken, and his whole body suddenly felt light. Then, Richard felt his eyes opened and saw the scene.
Opening the eyes is not a physical opening, but the consciousness floating out of the body. The scene he sees is slightly different from that of the naked eye, but Richard can still easily find that his consciousness is moving in a certain way. A cloud of white mist floated above his body.
Well, yes, floating above itself.
This is a very weird experience. I clearly know that I am the one sitting motionless on the bed, but my consciousness does exist in another form at this time.
"It's interesting..." Richard said to himself, quickly guessing in his mind, "Is this a soul state? Or is it plasma? Or is it quantum..."
Because there was too little information, even after guessing for a long time, Richard was unable to provide a scientific explanation for the current situation. He could only use his spiritual "eyes" to continue observing his surroundings.