Alex finally left, crying and looking very bad.
Richard knew clearly that the reason why the other party was in a bad mood was not because he was reluctant to leave, but because he was reluctant to make money from him in the future.
Shaking his head, Richard took the materials and walked into the world inside the box.
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The world inside the box.
After some exchanges with Pandora, Richard had a more detailed understanding of Pandora's abilities and was ready to try to use them in practice.
Holding an iron ingot and handing it to Pandora for Pandora to grab, Richard directed Pandora to use her abilities to shape it.
"Hit the energy to turn this iron ingot into something like this." Richard opened a papyrus scroll, showed Pandora a three-dimensional pattern on it, and asked, "Can it be done?"
Pandora grabbed the iron ingot, her big eyes flashed, and she looked at the scroll for a long time. She nodded first, then shook her head: "No... I don't know."
"Let's try it first."
"Uh." Pandora raised her hand, grasped the iron ingot, and used her ability.
The iron ingot turned red, softened, melted into juice at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then deformed, trying to approximate the appearance on the papyrus scroll.
A little, a little, a little...
Richard looked at Pandora seriously, his mind racing, thinking about the principle of Pandora's ability. It seems to be related to the energy-shaping fire-type spell, but it is more likely to be a natural ability similar to the dragon family, just like the instinct of some demonized creatures.
Considering that Gregory was a fire-breathing dragon during his lifetime, he could spray high-temperature flames and directly burn most of the palace of the Blue Lion Kingdom. The ability Pandora is showing now is not very powerful, but... it is really very useful.
This ability makes Pandora a 3D printer... a printer that promotes many researches.
You know, due to the current backwardness of the world's overall industrial technology level, many things are difficult to produce.
For example, things like reactors and high-pressure vessels are difficult to build. Even if it is made reluctantly by craftsmen, the scrap rate is extremely high. Previously, asking craftsmen to make high-pressure tanks capable of storing chlorine and oxygen was already considered the limit. No matter how difficult it was, the craftsmen would not be able to reach the standard even if they were forced to death.
With Pandora, everything is much simpler. As long as Pandora is trained and the required raw materials are prepared, Pandora can quickly "print" things by herself.
From this perspective, Pandora's role is far greater than the young dragon she represents.
With Richard thinking about this, Pandora used her abilities to produce what Richard asked for.
Let the made thing cool down quickly, Pandora took it and looked at Richard, and asked aloud: "Richard, can you do it?"
Richard took it and looked at it. Without much verbosity, he pointed out a few flaws and asked Pandora to improve them. Soon he got an almost perfect... iron pipe.
Well, iron pipes.
Considering that it is not pure iron and has a certain carbon content, it can actually be called steel pipe - seamless steel pipe.
Rome was not built in a day. Richard was not prepared to challenge Pandora to a very high level of difficulty from the beginning, so he decided to start with seamless steel pipes.
In other words, although the technological level of seamless steel pipes is not very high and is not a high-precision product, it is not very low either and cannot be manufactured casually.
If nothing else, the New China on Earth was not created until 1953, four years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In addition, seamless steel pipe plays a great role.
Perhaps the seamless steel pipe looks like just a pipe, with nothing outstanding about it, but it plays an irreplaceable role in machine manufacturing, transportation, geological exploration and many other aspects, and is known as the "blood vessel" of industry. If seamless steel pipes cannot be manufactured, the development of many industrial fields such as petroleum, chemicals, steel, machinery, military industry, aerospace, etc. will be impossible.
Many things in the world are actually like this - what restricts development is often not a handful of the highest-level technologies, but the most basic part, a material, and a screw.
Developing high-precision technology is the goal, but before developing high-precision technology, developing basic technology is the key.
Richard is ready to continue to develop Pandora's "shaping" ability, step by step, to light up the current missing industrial technology in the world, and then he will be able to complete all the research he wants at will.
Of course, what he wants now is to build a few more useful large-scale experimental instruments.
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In the blink of an eye, a few days later.
One by one, huge steel equipment appears in various functional areas of the world inside the box.
Distillation tower, fractionation tower, high-pressure reactor, liquid yeast culture tank, furnace...
Richard looked at these things, nodded with satisfaction, and said to himself: "Although the overall appearance is still very crude, and the functions are not very perfect, at least a framework has been built, and finally a A relatively qualified portable laboratory. From now on, this place will be called... Garden of Eden, um, Garden of Eden."
"Besides..." Richard glanced at the "Garden of Eden" and spoke slowly, "It's almost time to really leave White Rock City."
"It's just, where to go after leaving White Rock City? This is a question..."
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Ground laboratory, main laboratory.
It was already evening, and the candles were lit, emitting an orange light, making the whole room look a bit mysterious.
Richard sat at the slightly empty experimental table and opened a letter by the light.
The letter was sent from a very far away place in the north of the east coast. It passed through many people and was sent with great difficulty. The person who wrote the letter left many days ago... Heidi - the granddaughter of the great scholar Surades and a cat slave girl. .
To be honest, in Richard's opinion, although the other party did say that he would write to him when he left, he really didn't think that the other party's letter could be delivered. After all, the distance was too far. This is not modern Earth—distance is a huge barrier to communication, even for wizards, let alone an ordinary girl.
However, the letter was delivered.
Is it luck, or some random coincidence
Narrowing his eyes, Richard opened the letter.
His eyes fell on the letter paper, and after reading only one line, his eyebrows raised: "Hello, dear Mr. Richard, this is the 21st letter I have written to you."
"Crack."
Richard tapped his fingers on the table and continued reading.
"I remember you said that because I came too far away, it was difficult for you to receive the letters I wrote to you, so I wrote many letters. I don't know which letter you will receive. So every letter I write is as if it is the only letter you have ever received.
If you receive multiple letters at one time and the contents are somewhat contradictory, it may be because my understanding was inaccurate at first, but I figured it out later. In short... please don't be surprised. Please refer to the later letters.
Well, I’ve talked too much nonsense, so let’s get back to the point.
I don’t know if you still remember that before you sent me away, you said that you would also leave White Rock City, but you didn’t know where to go. I said, you can come to this place called Wood Island. But you thought at first that you didn’t know much about Mu Island and couldn’t be sure. For this reason, I came here and tried to understand a lot of things. Now I tell you this, hoping it will be of some help to your decision.
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