The plan to let the head iron fireball baby make primitive cement failed, but Gawain did not intend to give up so easily - the experience from the earth may not work mechanically, but the idea from the earth is not necessarily wrong, maybe the formula of certain things Not the same, but this does not mean that this kind of thing is worthless. At the very least, a cheap, high-volume, strong and easy-to-process building material should be useful wherever it goes.
Even if it is renamed Magic xx in this world.
He sent Rebecca to continue to try new manufacturing techniques, and told the other party the general idea and his expected goals, and this was not a random attempt without direction: Although his own production method failed, Gawain knew that this The world used to have "cement".
In the depths of the mountain ruins, he and the people he led have seen this material. The engineers of the ancient Gondor Empire used man-made materials instead of stone to build the fortress in the deep mountain, and made the fortress stronger than ordinary stones. The fortress must also be strong and durable, and it has not shown any signs of collapse after a thousand years.
In the memory of Gawain Cecil, this material was developed as early as the "Steel Age" before the "Spark Age", and has been used for ten centuries. By the end of the Tudor period, it was already one of the most commonly used building materials in the empire.
And this is what makes Gao Wen most regretful: after the collapse of the Gondor Empire, a large number of technologies were lost and inherited, some because the technology itself needed to rely on the dark blue magic well, and some because the groups that mastered the related technologies were extinct as a whole and had no Some of the information left is because the raw materials (or environment) required for this technology have been covered by polluted areas, and the "alien cement" of the Gondor Empire is one of the many lost technologies.
Due to the chaos of that era, Gao Wen is not sure which of the three points caused the loss of this technology, but it is not because of the magic well: the production of alien cement is the same as earth cement, and does not require too complicated equipment And too advanced energy, so it is mostly due to the extinction of talents, loss of data or problems with raw materials. Anyway, this technology, which should have been the most basic and one of the cornerstones of civilization, just disappeared.
Seven hundred years later, the Ansu people were building houses with stone and wood, and those qualified nobles would extravagantly use various shaping spells and alchemy potions of magicians to make their palaces and castles more refined and strong. The latter obviously do not meet Gao Wen's requirements of "generalization, low cost, and mass production".
But although the technology is broken, it is not impossible. After all, it was one of the most common basic technologies in the Gondor Empire back then. Gawain Cecil had seen it even if he hadn’t tried it himself. There is still a little bit left in his mind. Fragments of related technologies, give these fragments to Rebecca, as for how much the technology can be restored... that depends on the ability of the iron-headed fireball baby.
At this time, Gawain couldn't help but want to sigh: It would be great if Gawain Cecil was a strong keyboard player seven hundred years ago... The situation is much better now if the value of force is evenly distributed among various miscellaneous studies Well, among other things, at least memorize the cement formula!
In the spirit of "who can be afraid of a satellite that has matured for hundreds of thousands of years", Gao Wen brazenly talked about the original owner of his body, and then began to make a list of the various experiments he had to carry out next.
Then, in the next few days, Amber saw that Gao Wen sent people to toss a lot of things into the camp, including strange ore powders, metal containers spliced together, and large and small crystal lenses. , as well as the magnets and wires commonly used by magicians and fortune-tellers. These messy things piled up on the table, a small half of which were urgently purchased from Tanzan Town, and the rest were processed by Gawain instructing Hetty and the craftsmen. from.
Looking at the things on the table, the half-elf lady looked confused: "What are you doing?"
Gawain answered without raising his head while fiddling with the lens group in front of him: "Experiment."
"Nobles are so hard to understand," Amber blinked, and then her eyes lit up as if she had finally caught Gawain's little tail, "Oh! I finally found out! You really can't pretend and start playing around Lah! Let me just say, how could a nobleman with a normal mind have endured so much hardship for so long, and you finally started wasting people and money... Oh, it hurts!!"
Gao Wen twisted Amber's ears twice and let go, looking at this guy who was not pumping every day very curiously: "I don't understand, you don't remember hitting or something, you can't make your temper a little cute Is it?"
"You nonsense! I am a big thief who is tied here by you as a bodyguard. I usually guard your pile of ghost symbols or go all over the mountains and plains to help you patrol and collect information. Occasionally, you let me learn to study ghost symbols with you for a long time. , do you respect my profession or not!"
The half-elf lady spoke eloquently, and the central idea can be summed up in three words: I'm free.
"You might as well be as motivated as Betty," Gawain held his forehead helplessly, "She comes to me to learn how to read after she's busy every day. Is it so difficult for you to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?"
"Oh? So that little maid is really learning to write?" Amber blinked and excitedly said, "No wonder some people said that when they see her alone in the past two days, they will mutter, and whenever they have time, they will hold a scroll Branches write and draw on the ground..."
"All right, all right, anyway, I don't care about you, if you are really bored, go out and play by yourself," Gao Wen waved to Amber, "Anyway, three things are not allowed: you are not allowed to steal anything, and you are not allowed to go to the police station. Make trouble at work, no fights—of course you can fight geese."
Amber got Gawain's permission, and immediately rolled back into the shadows happily, while her body faded away while muttering: "You are really strange, why do you always emphasize the goose in front of me..."
After Amber left, Gao Wen finally had a chance to focus on the pile of things.
Some of them he has tested, others are in the process of verification.
Before sitting back on the chair, he first glanced at the big basket next to him, and then sighed slightly.
In the big basket were the indescribable polymers produced by Rebecca when she fired the cement before. Originally, Rebecca was going to throw them away, but Gawain kept them and kept them by her side on purpose at any time. where it can be seen.
He regards them as a kind of vigilance, a kind of sign, a kind of sign reminding himself that "this world" is "this world" all the time.
Withdrawing his gaze from those things, he glanced at a certain container on the table, lowered his head and wrote a new record in Chinese on the paper:
"In the 735th year of the Ansu calendar, on the 46th of the Frost Moon, on the 23rd day of camp development, gunpowder manufacturing failed. The classic formula based on the experience of the earth and the various formulas of the magic revision were ineffective. None of the finished products could produce rapid combustion and release in a short period of time. Produce a lot of heat or similar effects, the finished product of the classic formula is not flammable at all, the finished product of the magic modification No. 1 formula can burn quietly in the air, but the flame is dim and weak, it is better than burning straw; the finished product of the No. Burning, but with a bright and steady flame, meant to be used for lighting, but it gave off a pungent smell...
"Continue to test, and maybe we will find an alien version of the gunpowder formula, but I have vaguely realized that this route may not be the best choice. It is getting farther and farther away from the 'magic' of this world, and its power is not impressive. Looking forward, researching a burst rune that can be mass-produced in an industrialized manner is probably more reliable than gunpowder."
Besides this new record, there are more records on the paper, and Gawain's eyes are scanning them:
"Ansu 735, Frost Moon 45th, the 22nd day of camp development, it was confirmed that electromagnetic induction is invalid, at least the process of 'magnetism generates electricity' is invalid, and no current is generated in the coil. It has been confirmed that the magnetite has north and south poles, the nature and the earth's magnetite Consistently, the wind elemental rune provided by Hetty can also sense even the weakest electrical stimulation. Although the coil is rough, it meets the requirements, so the problem can only be the electromagnetic induction itself. It is still impossible to verify the 'electric magnetism' Is the process also ineffective, because Hetty's lightning bolt magic can't provide a continuous and stable safe current, and a thunder in her palm almost split Amber's hair...
"It seems that the plan to use a generator to charge the wind array can only be put on hold temporarily, or we can master the means of temperature difference power generation."
"... Prepare to give up the steam engine. The results of the experiment are simply dizzying: the process of boiling water in this world looks the same as on the earth, but the driving force generated by the steam is pitifully small. Perhaps it is the process of water turning into steam. The expansion coefficient of medium is far smaller than that of the earth. I suspect that the 'water' here is not water at all, or it may be caused by the ubiquitous 'water element' in this world. This kind of unreasonable thing has changed the three states of water. Concrete performance in transformation...
"...Although I usually drink it, wash my hands and face with it, and use it to water the ground and flowers, this proves nothing: my body is already composed of the elements of this world, and my senses are also according to the elements of this world. The rules of the world work, except for the consciousness from the earth in my head, no part of me can jump out of this world's "worldview" to observe... Is the blue sky I see really a "blue" sky
"... Anyway, the route had to be adjusted, and the most proud part of Earth's human civilization was hit hard: I can't 'boil water' here, I lost the boiler, how to get the most basic machines up? "
"Ansu 735... Hetty had never heard of "coal", nor had the druid named Pittman. In fact, even Gawain Cecil had no such thing in his memory... The good news is that charcoal can still burn out.
"... The Typhon Empire produces a kind of 'burning stone', but it is not coal, but a white 'burning stone', which seems to be a kind of seawater sediment. It is more resistant to burning than wood, but it is not easy to ignite, and It is said that the combustion is very unstable and the smell is not good. Only the poor will use it to keep warm, so pay attention.
"...Oh my god, gold is actually a semiconductor, but pure silver is non-conductive... what the hell?!
"I figured I'd need a whole cutting-edge team to give me the entire periodic table...or at least sort out the properties of all common substances.
"However, no.
"Wash up and go to sleep."