Chapter 49: The First Week in the Wasteland, Hope Sprouts

After opening the small hole that blocked the smell, the smell that could not be suppressed from wafting out allowed Su Mo to determine the ingredients almost immediately.

Gunpowder!

Or more appropriately - black gunpowder!

Carefully pouring the black particles in the wooden stick onto the table, an extremely pungent smell of sulfur came.

"Does the kobold need black gunpowder to release the so-called fireball spell?"

Su Mo felt a little incredible when he suddenly got this news.

Previously in Shelter No. 2, the warlock kobold first waved his wooden stick before releasing his fireball spell.

At that time, Su Mo thought it was a spellcasting action, or the attribute of the wooden stick.

I didn't dare to think that the kobolds had to respect science to release a fireball?

"So what the kobolds are looking for is black gunpowder?"

Hearing Su Mo's mumbling, Oreo on the side nodded quickly, indicating that Su Mo understood it correctly.

The dog-headed man tied up at the table seemed to have accepted his fate after seeing Su Mo pour out the black gunpowder, and continued to chatter.

He ignored the communication between Oreo and the dog-headed man.

Su Mo opened the game panel, clicked on the resource scan, and checked the raw materials for the preparation of black gunpowder on the resource option.

[Record]: A small sulfur mine was detected in the southeast 465 meters away from the player's current distance

[Record]: Today's number 2/3

"Sure enough, what they are looking for today is this natural sulfur mine"

Su Mo's face was neither sad nor happy, and his thoughts gradually drifted away.

The modern sulfur extraction process has been innovated countless times. Even through the steps of petroleum atmospheric pressure reduction, catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, delayed coking, etc., the sulfide in the petroleum is separated to make sulfide wastewater, and the sulfur in the sulfur-containing wastewater is recycled and processed to produce finished sulfur.

In ancient times when there was no such technology, people wanted to prepare sulfur:

One is to find a way to mine natural sulfur mines like those near the shelter.

The second is to extract the sulfur from the pyrite by smelting it.

The ability of the dog-headed people to judge and find sulfur mines proves that they have touched the edge of science.

It is very likely that they already know that these things, after mixing them in a certain proportion, will make such amplified gunpowder, and after the catalysis of the spell, increase the power of the fireball.

"Woof?"

During the interval of Su Mo's thinking, Oreo on the other side also completed the communication with the dog-headed people and walked back.

Oreo pointed to the black gunpowder that Su Mo poured out again, then pointed to the distance, and finally pointed to the dog-headed people.

"You mean he is willing to take us to find the place where the dog-headed people are mining?"

Oreo nodded.

"I have sulfur mines here. If you want to make gunpowder, you also need enough potassium nitrate, and potassium nitrate is the main component of saltpeter. Maybe the dog-headed people have discovered a large-scale saltpeter mine."

"Should I go?"

Su Mo pondered in his heart. Black gunpowder is absolutely indispensable for making hot weapons and ammunition.

If the small hot weapon tool machine can be repaired in the end, the raw materials of ammunition will also be in short supply.

Looking at the still chattering dog-headed man, Su Mo walked up to him decisively and threw a dizzy punch at the dog-headed man.

"I must go. Not to mention other things, just the treasure chest that the dog-headed man exploded is also a considerable gain."

"Besides, their lair still needs to be explored, otherwise standing around will always be a time bomb."

After a little hesitation, Su Mo made a decision.

At this time, the sky outside was getting dark. After checking the situation outside the shelter, Su Mo walked over.

He checked the rope on the dog-headed man again and again, dragged him to the corner of the cave, and told Oreo to watch it at night, and then Su Mo returned to the small bed.

In the end of the world, once it gets dark, you can basically only stay in the shelter.

Pulling the light bulb in front of him and turning it off, listening to the roar of the generator, Su Mo gradually fell asleep.

[January 7, Doomsday]

[You repaired a generator, which improved the level of technological civilization (survival points +10)]

[You discovered an underground ruins (+5)]

[While exploring the underground ruins, you encountered an enemy and defeated him with force (survival points +10)]

[You made the first electric weapon, which greatly improved your combat effectiveness (survival points +5)]

[You killed five dog-headed men without any effort and gained a lot (survival points +5)]

[You had a captive for the first time (survival points +5)]

[Scanning the host's living environment, survival points are being evaluated, and 62 survival points are obtained today. ]

Final settlement: survival points +102

Remaining survival points: 175

The morning not only brought good news from the system, but also Shen Ke's news flashed in the private message chat on the game panel.

Sitting at the head of the bed, Su Mo looked at the dog-headed man who was being disciplined by Oreo in the corner, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It was the first time that a stranger stayed overnight in the shelter, and this person was a dog-headed man.

He didn't sleep well all night, fearing that this dog-headed man was a wolf who had endured hardships and burned down the shelter at night.

Su Mo opened Shen Ke's message in the chat panel and looked at it carefully.

[Shen Ke: Su Mo, my uncle has already drawn your design. This is the transaction link. Just take a picture when you wake up. If you don't understand anything about the design, you can ask me at any time]

A trading item that only two people can see was hung below the message.

After paying two disaster points, the light flashed and the design appeared in the storage space.

Leaning against the head of the bed, Su Mo opened the private message of the dead used to record the diary and began to write with his mind.

"Today is January 7th of the last calendar, the seventh day of coming to the wasteland, and it has been a week"

"If the civilized world is still continuing, it should be December 29th, and New Year's Day is two days away!"

"Oh, my sister's birthday seems to be Xiaonian this time? It seems that she can't celebrate it. I don't know if my parents will celebrate this girl's birthday in another place"

"At present, the supplies in the base are sufficient, enough for me and Oreo to eat for half a month, but yesterday's flour consumption is a bit too much. It seems that the oil-splashed noodles can only be made for two meals. These two meals are reserved for when the family comes"

"There are almost 20 liters of psionic water left. This thing is currently traded The system express fee is expensive. In order to open up a larger storage space, I will save the points first and not trade them."

"The captured dog-headed man is very honest. I plan to deal with the sulfur mine near the shelter today and try to mine it out. If I can follow him to find the saltpeter mine later, maybe I can make black gunpowder, so that safety is very guaranteed!"

"By the way, there are still" in the vegetable culture medium today.

"Wow! The garlic seeds seem to have sprouted, and so do the cabbages! I saw a little green emerging from the black soil. It's really a memorable day!"

Subconsciously raising his head, Su Mo saw a little green sprout emerging from the culture medium under the sunlight.

This green surprise seemed like a gift from heaven, and it drove away Su Mo's sleepiness after getting up early.

After getting dressed and walking quickly to the culture medium, Su Mo squatted down and looked at it carefully.

Where the garlic seeds were pressed, a small pointed green sprout had already emerged.

In the city, few people use garlic seeds to grow garlic. Everyone buries garlic cloves in the soil. Not only does it grow fast, but it also doesn't need much care.

Therefore, it was the first time that Su Mo saw something like this grow from garlic seeds.

The growth of the cabbage on the other side was even more pleasing. It had a small green stem with two leaves on it, about the size of a fingernail.

It looked like a miniature cabbage, white and tender.

"It looks like it will take less than a month to grow a crop of cabbage!"

"It shortened the time by almost half!"