As the afternoon approached evening, the sky above the palace quickly darkened, and the whole world glowed with a strange amber light, indicating that a heavy rain was about to come.
In the square in front of Richard's palace, a guard soldier was holding a strange kite made by a craftsman, looking nervously at the sky above him.
With a "boom", muffled thunder sounded among the clouds in the sky, and a gust of cool wind blew across the square.
The guard soldier turned his head and looked to the side, saw Richard nodding, swallowed his saliva with a "gudong" sound, and plucked up the courage to raise the kite.
The kite is not an ordinary kite, but a thunder kite with a small string of gold chains on it. The string of the kite is woven with fine silver wire, and at the end is connected to a strange-shaped bottle.
This is the method that Richard came up with after three consecutive failed experiments - to use a kite to catch thunder and lightning.
In fact, many people have this idea, and some people have put it into practice. In modern earth history, in June 1752, American scientist Benjamin Franklin and his son raised a kite with a copper key into the air. When the kite was struck by lightning, the current flowed along the kite string. The wire was successfully drawn down, proving that lightning was also a type of electricity. From then on, Franklin became famous.
This can be regarded as knowledge in modern earth elementary school textbooks. It is not difficult to operate at all. The only thing to consider is how to store the induced lightning. Richard's choice was the Leyden bottle, which is the bottle hanging at the end of the kite rope.
The Leyden jar was developed by Dutch scientist Massenbroek in 1745 in modern earth history.
The most original Leyden bottle is just a glass bottle or ceramic bottle. The inner and outer walls of the bottle are covered with tin foil. The tin foil in the bottle is connected to a metal rod inserted inside the bottle through a metal chain. The upper end of the rod is a diameter. A metal ball of about one centimeter. This structure uses the principle of a capacitor to store a certain amount of charge and release it when it is used.
Despite its simple structure, the current released was strong enough. In an experiment in Paris in 1748 on modern earth, the current released by the Leyden jar caused more than 200 monks holding hands to jump together.
So this method can definitely meet the requirements.
Richard thought like this and looked at the guards.
The wind in the square was slowly getting stronger, and the kites in the hands of the guards rose higher and higher, reaching the sky.
"Wow", a flash of lightning flashed, and the gloomy earth suddenly lit up, followed by thunder.
The guards were startled, but they still gritted their teeth, held their breath, and controlled the kite to continue rising.
"Whoosh", the strong wind became more and more angry, and lightning flashed frequently between the clouds.
Suddenly, there was a "boom" of thunder, and a thunderbolt fell on the kite in the sky.
With a "boom", the entire kite was ignited and turned into a ball of fire. The flames spread rapidly downward along the kite string, along with thunder and lightning.
The guards' faces suddenly turned pale, and their eyes suddenly widened. Looking at the flames, his hand loosened uncontrollably, and the Leyden bottle hanging at the end of the rope immediately fell to the ground.
Edward, who was standing nearby, saw it, cursed, and rushed out. He kicked the guard soldier hard, then jumped out and stretched out his hands to catch the Leyden bottle that was about to fall to the ground.
The next moment, Edward's eyes widened and he saw with his own eyes a blue electric light following the kite string and falling into the bottle in his hand. A weak numbness enveloped his body, and at the same time, the hairs all over his body stood up uncontrollably, causing great fear in his heart. This was a fear of the unknown that kept him unable to move for a while.
After a long time, he felt the numbness on his body dissipate and the standing hairs returned to normal. Edward took a deep breath and then started to move. He glared fiercely at the guard soldier next to him, and quickly ran towards Richard in the palace with the Leyden bottle in hand.
As a result, when he entered the palace with his front feet, a heavy downpour fell on his back feet. In an instant, the whole world turned into a vast expanse of white, and all he could hear was the sound of rain.
Edward was surprised for a moment, then felt a little thankful, then turned to look at Richard, and carefully handed over the Leyden bottle: "Your Highness, everything is done."
"Yes." Richard took the Leyden bottle and nodded lightly, without saying much, turned around and left.
Edward quickly said from behind: "Your Highness, you didn't eat lunch, so for dinner..." Before he could finish speaking, Richard's figure walked up the stairs to the second floor and disappeared from sight.
Edward looked at it, smiled helplessly, and said to himself: "Oh, is this another whole day without eating? If we don't eat again tomorrow morning, it will really be another whole day. Alas, It’s really hard for me to be the captain of the personal guard..."
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The next morning, the sky was not completely bright yet.
Edward, who was yawning, walked by the restaurant of the palace. His eyes glanced casually and suddenly widened, and he saw Richard appearing in the restaurant, eating breakfast.
this!
Edward rubbed his eyes vigorously and found that he had read it correctly. He walked into the restaurant with a bit of disbelief and greeted: "Your Highness, you... why did you get up so early today?"
"Well, I just can't sleep." Richard said lightly, cut the white bread into slices with a table knife, spread some sour jam on it and put it in his mouth.
While eating, Richard frowned, as if thinking about something.
Last night's test using natural lightning and Leyden jars naturally failed, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting in the restaurant having breakfast so early.
Last night, according to the description in "The Chapter of Monroe", Richard made his second attempt at scientific cracking of life reshaping. After entering the astral projection, it took a lot of effort to finally wake up the conscious body to the physical body, and then released the current in the Leyden bottle to the physical body, hoping to enhance the body's biological current and enter a "highly activated state", and then " Open up the source of law."
The current intensity of the Leyden jar was indeed enough. In a very short period of time, Richard clearly felt some magical changes in his body, but... it was only in a very short period of time.
Because the Leyden jar is a capacitor, the current released is one-time and will be gone after it is used up. Therefore, when the stored charge is exhausted, the "high-energy activation state" disappears instantly, the body returns to normal, and "opening up the source of the law" naturally becomes impossible.
"Sure enough, if you want to really crack this second life reshaping, opportunism will not work. You must really invest some energy." Richard said in his heart.
After eating another slice of white bread smeared with sour jam, Richard already had a decision in his mind.
It is actually not difficult to obtain a stable and strong current. Even in the current medieval world, it can be done using simple materials. The main problem is that the process is cumbersome, and I don’t want to go through too much trouble, so I test fruit batteries and the like. But since that doesn't work now, we can only use the most cumbersome, troublesome and direct method.
He reached out to pick up the quilt, drank the warm water inside, and wiped his mouth gently with a napkin. Richard raised his head and looked at Edward and ordered: "Find the craftsmen from the palace?"
"Now, here?" Edward was slightly stunned.
Richard nodded and confirmed, "Yes."
"Um, yes, Your Highness the Prince." Edward walked out quickly after hearing this.