Chapter 840 Black Blood
<"readability-styled"style=":inline;"xmlns="">After returning to the castle, Roland was still a little bit embarrassed. As the saying goes, weep with joy, but from the hero's cries, he didn't feel all joy, as if he had suppressed too much grievance, pain and criticism in the past, and finally got a vent.
In other words, the strength she showed was not ignoring the pain, but suppressing all the negative emotions in her heart. But this is also a normal reaction of a person. Before encountering drastic changes, the hero is just a girl who has just grown up. She has not been destroyed by these tortures and still has hope. It is extremely rare to be able to do this.
The results of the treatment were very successful, and her restored feet were basically the same as those of ordinary people. Although it is difficult to bend your toes because you haven’t walked for too long, since you can feel this part of your limbs, it means that the nerves have been connected to the spine. The ability to move freely.
This treatment also allowed Roland to further confirm Broken Sword's ability, which is to increase the "critical point" of the witch.
Every witch's ability has its limit. For example, hummingbirds - there are limits to the volume, duration, and weight loss of weight-reducing objects. Even if one condition is exceeded, the magic power required will increase rapidly, just like a beating index. , and results that exceed too much are simply not achievable. For example, she can't make a mountain as light as a feather, and she can't keep the weight loss effect forever. The reason may be that the magic power required to do so may be an astronomical figure.
The same is true for Nana. The rebirth of her severed limbs may have far exceeded the critical point of her ability. Therefore, although she can restore her blown fingers, she cannot restore her limbs, even with the help of leaves.
Broken Sword is equivalent to expanding the limit range, making things that were impossible to do before become barely achievable; and the original method of casting that consumes a lot of mana has become an ability that can be used multiple times.
He took out a stack of reports from the drawer and spread them out on the desk—that was Wendy's test record on Broken Sword's fusion with other witches.
It can be seen that the abilities of most witches have been significantly strengthened. The exponential growth is amazing, but if it is reversed, the benefits are also huge. For example, the duration of Dawn No. 1 enchanted by the mystery moon has been extended from five days to half a month. Before Neverwinter City had large-scale power generation capacity, this improvement was extremely precious. After all, more and more factories are being built, and electricity consumption for lighting has gradually become the bottleneck of production.
There is also the solid state of the candle, which can last longer under the increase of the broken sword, which is of great benefit to the service life and processing level of the machine tool. Without her ability, and with so many novices being crammed into the factory, it would not be surprising to scrap a dozen boring tools or two or three machines a day.
In addition, witches such as Soraya, Agatha, Lucia, Bai Zhi, etc. who are active in the production line are all beneficiaries of Broken Sword. The industrial level of Neverwinter City is climbing too fast, and many supporting systems and manpower are not in place. It is entirely due to the witch that it did not collapse. Otherwise, according to such a rough and crude production method, a shutdown every two days and an explosion every three days would not be counted. what news. Now with Broken Sword, this part is more stable.
Roland wrote his deduction at the end of the report. It is foreseeable that Broken Sword will become one of the busiest witches in Neverwinter.
In the afternoon, personal guard Sean walked into his office.
"Your Majesty, the Minister of Chemical Industry, Mr. Kaimo, wants you to go to the Qantao laboratory. He said that what you explained has already been figured out."
"Oh?" Roland's eyes lit up, "You arrange the itinerary, I'll leave right away."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Accompanied by a team of guards, Roland came to Laboratory No. 4.
With the establishment of the acid factory and the nitrification factory, the humble one-story house, which was originally a small workshop with experiments and production, has become the real research site of Neverwinter. These buildings located beside the Chishui River are not only separated by walls, but also equipped with guards and logistics. Even the houses have been redecorated. The outer walls are painted beige, which looks much more solemn.
Kaymer Strull did not greet him at the gate of the courtyard, only Deputy Minister Chames stood alone in front of the gate, with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face. Roland had known the temper of the chief alchemist for a long time, waved his hand, and stepped straight into the room.
I saw Kaimo standing in front of the long table intently, staring at the liquid in the condenser dripping into the glass little by little—the liquid was as clear as amber, and when he got close, he could still smell a familiar and nostalgic smell. breath. Around it, there are several other cups, and the liquid in them seems to be different from shallow to deep.
Roland couldn't help but took a deep breath.
It had been a long time since he had smelled the fragrance of gasoline.
Of course, it is not appropriate to call this crude product gasoline. It is far from the automobile fuel used on a large scale in later generations, but it has the same taste. It is not possible to use it as a stable energy source in a while.
"Your Majesty," the chief alchemist noticed him at this time, and saluted his chest, "You are right, the black water in the extreme south is indeed composed of many kinds of liquids, I followed the method in "Intermediate Chemistry" After doing a few experiments, I found that they can be separated one by one by distillation. But..." He pointed to the glass on the table, "If further separation is performed, their components seem to be almost the same."
"It's almost the same," Roland said disapprovingly. These things are all hydrocarbons. If Lucia decomposes them, they will all look the same in the end. "Are there any other discoveries?"
"They can all burn, and the liquid distilled from the upper layer will be more violent. For example, this—" He raised the amber glass and shook it, "It's like an explosion when it is ignited! Your Majesty, you Are you going to use it to make more powerful explosives?"
Looking at the enthusiastic old alchemist, Roland couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. When he saw something that could burn, he thought of explosives. He already possessed the necessary qualities to become a true chemist.
In fact, these black waters are the samples retrieved from Endless Cape.
From the very beginning, he suspected that those never-ending fires were caused by erupting oil wells. The so-called oil is actually a huge family. As the blood of modern industry and the strategic material that determines the direction of the world war, he Nature has known about it. In fact, the difference between the oil collected from the Eastern Continent and the oil collected from the Western Continent is far greater than the skin color, and it is no problem to say that they are completely different liquids. Their colors range from golden yellow, dark green to pitch black, maroon, and even transparent, which can be called gorgeous. Some can flow like water, some are extremely viscous; some can't be ignited directly, but some can burn easily...
In terms of composition, as long as the hydrocarbons are composed of hydrogen and carbon, they can be packed into the box of petroleum after being mixed together.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for black water to be classified as oil.
In other words, it doesn't matter even if it is different from any kind of oil in the previous life, as long as the flammable oil can be separated. After all, even in the world before crossing over, people haven't fully figured out the source of oil, and ascertained all its types. When he was a child, he heard that 50 years would be exhausted, but later he discovered that the reserves of new oil fields discovered every year are growing at a rate far faster than that used, and the sum of all reserves has far exceeded the biotransformation The weight of the hypothesis.