Nerid left.
It came suddenly and left neatly, without any sloppiness. But before leaving, she repeatedly told Richard that she would keep her three-year promise and would definitely come to marry Richard in three years.
marry…
Richard laughed it off.
For him, there are many things to be busy with, and he has neither time nor interest to focus on such irrelevant things as jokes. Getting to know Nailid was just a small episode in ordinary life. Seeing her body standing up from the bathtub was just a glimpse, and she would not seriously invest in it at all.
Of course, this does not mean that he has no desires, he is a robot. In fact, he has a very normal mind and has the feelings, emotions, desires, inertia, and passions that ordinary people have.
However, he chose to use reason to dominate all this, so he would always suppress his emotions, desires, passions, etc.
Everything he did was for one purpose - to clarify the biggest doubt in his heart.
It can be said that since he came to the world, he has only had this purpose, and anything else that has nothing to do with the purpose is just trivial matters.
This is not good, this is not good.
He also knew very well that of course this was not good.
But so what
Not every book is a fairy tale book, and not every world is a fairy tale world. Some worlds are cruel and dangerous, and the most cruel and dangerous world is called reality.
The current wizarding world is a real world. There is no perfect and beautiful way of life here, and he has no means to change his destiny. If you want to get something, you have to pay something, otherwise, you can only live a mediocre life.
There is nothing wrong with living a mediocre life. Living in poverty and living contentedly is the choice of many people. Being an ordinary person may be ordinary, but it has its own benefits.
If he wants, he can live very comfortably: in the Blue Lion Kingdom, he has the ability to control the overall situation, be a wise and conservative king, usually hunt, tease the maids, and occasionally use the knowledge of modern earth to deceive the ignorant. People enjoy the feeling of being worshiped and awed. How nice!
It's just that he doesn't want to do this.
From the first day he inexplicably came to this world, he was full of doubts about the rationality, authenticity, and scientific nature of this world.
One thing he wanted to do was figure out what was going on.
Under the same circumstances, maybe many people will not be like him, because he obviously chose the most difficult, boring, and meaningless path, but he will not regret it, because he is who he is.
In order to be able to achieve his goal one day, he has sacrificed a lot and lost a lot, such as most of his humanity - so he will suppress many emotions and desires that ordinary people have.
There is a saying: lose your humanity and lose a lot; lose your animality and lose everything.
Human nature refers to beautiful things. The more he throws away, the more beautiful things he will lose. He knows this very well. And doing this is to retain the last bit of animality.
This beastly nature is naturally not the bloodthirsty, madness and wildness of a beast. It is an absolute pursuit of a certain goal, an absolutely rational means that abandons everything, is not mixed with any emotions, and is absolutely rational.
In fact, this kind of animality is what is hidden deepest in human beings, and it is the reason why human beings can become the overlord of the planet.
Humans can climb from Homo erectus to the top of the food chain step by step, not because of civilization - learning to bow and salute will not make the beasts retreat, but because of barbarism - human beings are more savage and ferocious than all other beasts combined. In order to survive, Learned traps, cooperation, using fire, making weapons, and used these things to mercilessly destroy any existence that threatened survival. Therefore, wherever the habitat of primitive people expanded, large creatures disappeared in that area until they were completely extinct.
This is how human beings develop step by step.
To sum it up in one sentence, it is: success is possible only at all costs.
Therefore, Richard will do whatever it takes to succeed.
This is his bestiality.
Of course, all actions must ultimately come to fruition.
No matter how big the goal is, it must be turned into small things to complete.
For Richard now, if he wants to achieve his ultimate goal, he must understand the history of the world and crack the wizard's power system.
To understand the history of the world, we must solve the ultimate secret of the Black Spirit King, and to decipher the wizard's power system, we must complete his current research on spell materials.
Everything must be done slowly.
No matter how ambitious the goal is, it will eventually decompose into a boring life and seemingly meaningless efforts.
Richard was working hard at this moment.
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A few days after Nerid left.
In the Garden of Eden, machining sector, research room.
The Garden of Eden has almost been rebuilt, and the molybdenum ore brought back by Nylid was also smelted by Richard to obtain a needed metal - molybdenum.
molybdenum!
Molybdenum is an element with atomic number 42 in the periodic table of elements on Earth, chemical symbol Mo, and is a transition metal. Because the surface of the ore is lead-grey, it was confused with lead ore until the 18th century. It was only identified by the chemist Scheler in 1778, and was successfully extracted by Peter Jacob Yelm in 1781.
Molybdenum is combined with other metals to form alloys that have many outstanding properties:
For example, adding molybdenum to stainless steel can greatly improve the corrosion resistance of the steel; adding molybdenum to alloy steel can increase the elastic limit; adding molybdenum to iron can greatly improve the strength of iron; adding molybdenum to nickel-based superalloys Molybdenum can achieve high melting point, low density and small thermal expansion coefficient, and is used to manufacture various high-temperature components in aviation and aerospace.
Of course, the reason why Richard chose to use molybdenum to conduct research on magic materials was mainly because of its role in electronic devices.
Metal molybdenum has many incredible effects in electronic devices such as electron tubes, transistors and rectifiers. For example, molybdenum disulfide is used to produce molybdenum-based flexible microprocessing chips on Earth. This kind of chip is only 20% the size of the same silicon-based chip and consumes extremely low power. The power consumption in standby mode is one hundred thousandth of that of a silicon transistor.
In addition, circuits based on molybdenum are extremely thin - silicon is three-dimensional, and the molybdenum monolayer is two-dimensional. Using technical means, the circuit can be processed to be thinner than a piece of paper, even reaching nanometers. below level.
Circuits based on molybdenum also have unique mechanical properties and can be used to produce special thin-layer chips with elasticity, which can be used in rollable computers or electronic devices that are close to the skin, and can even be implanted in the human body.
To sum it up, it’s this: Molybdenum can be used to make amazing circuits.
And having said that, according to Richard's thoughts and inferences long ago: the magic patterns in the current world are actually equivalent to the circuits on the earth, except that what runs in them is not current, but mana or free energy elements.
So, what will happen if molybdenum is used experimentally in 237 alloy
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In the research room, a fist-sized square metal block has been manufactured by Richard. Due to the addition of various materials including molybdenum, the color of the alloy is no longer the silvery white of the previous 237 alloy, but looks a bit black.
At this time, Richard placed the metal block on the processing table, controlled the stable robotic arm, and used the two idle space iron rings fixed at the end of the robotic arm to carve on the surface of the metal block. In the end, high-precision magic patterns were carved out to store free energy elements and fuse them with alloys.
"Shashasha..."
The research room was extremely quiet, with only the faint sound of the space iron ring scratching across the surface of the metal block.
…
Outside the research room.
Pandora was sitting on her own small wooden stool, chewing a quill and looking at the calculation problems on the papyrus scroll.
A linear equation of one variable has been calculated by her to the last step - "7X=21".
Pandora frowned, counted carefully with her fingers for a long time, took a quill, and carefully wrote the answer - "X=3". Then, move on to the next question.
After a while, Pandora suddenly felt something was wrong. She glanced at the answer a few times, crossed it out with a quill without politeness, then wrote "X=4" and nodded with satisfaction.
This is right.
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