Volume 37 Chapter 1 Mutation Again

In a room of the palace tree covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters, there are various large and small bottles, jars, glassware, and experimental equipment. There are almost hundreds of sets. Placed, in some bottles, jars and glassware, there are liquids of various colors, some liquids are still bubbling at this moment...

And some bottles, jars, and glassware even soaked complete body organs of demon knights and specimens of demon warriors.

In some professional experimental vessels, several kinds of strange corpse miasmas with strange colors are floating like ghosts in several sealed spaces, slowly corroding pieces of flesh and bones...

This place looks a bit eerie, but if a voodoo pill pharmacist or a scholar engaged in microbiological research comes here, his eyes will shine, and he will feel like he has come to heaven.

Here is the microbial evolution laboratory of Black Iron Castle. The equipment in this laboratory may not be much different from other similar laboratories, but because of the special ability of the Black Iron Fortress, this microbial evolution laboratory is definitely the best laboratory in the entire human race .

After having Heller, Zhang Tie has completely left the management of the evolution of various creatures and species in the Black Iron Castle to Heller, and he almost never asks questions, only waiting for the results.

Zhang Tie has almost never been to this microbial evolution laboratory, and this is Zhang Tie's first visit.

Just now, Zhang Tie was still practicing in Feizhou's room. After hearing the message from Heller, saying that he had something important to show him, Zhang Tie returned to the Black Iron Fort.

Even when the Moon Demon Miasma completed its mutation, Heller never said the word "important".

Therefore, Zhang Tie was very curious about what made Heller cautious.

"Heller, what did you bring me here to show me?"

Standing in front of a pile of glassware, Zhang Tie glanced at the dozens of triangular flasks on the experimental table, wondering what Heller was going to show him.

Heller didn't speak, but just picked up one of those triangular bottles and handed it to Zhang Tie, "This is the latest mutant variety made by Yuanneng Lingqi Yeast. have a look!"

"Over the years, haven't we obtained dozens of variants of Yuanneng Lingqi yeast? What's so special about this?"

These years have passed, and Zhang Tieqi’s Yuanneng Lingqi yeast has more than dozens of mutations, but those mutated Yuanneng Lingqi yeasts have various defects, either the mutated species or Perfect and usable, so in terms of practical value, it does not have much effect, it can only be regarded as a new breed.

"Master Castle Master, you will know after looking at it?"

Zhang Tie took the bottle filled with light yellow liquid, looked at the beer-like liquid inside, and shook it a bit. The liquid in the bottle was very clear with almost no turbidity.

"Is this thing fermented with mutated Yuanneng Lingqi yeast?"

"yes!"

Hearing Heller's answer, Zhang Tie opened the glass cork of the triangular flask curiously, and brought the mouth of the bottle to his nose.

In an instant, an extremely strong smell of alcohol emanated from the triangular flask.

It's not that Zhang Tie has never smelled alcohol, but compared to ordinary alcohol, the alcohol in the bottle smells a little more spicy.

"Alcohol?"

"It should be!" Heller said,

Passed over another triangular flask, and there was some transparent liquid in that triangular flask, "This is ordinary alcohol, Lord Castle Master, you will know after comparing it!"

should be? Zhang Tie was slightly taken aback by Haile's words. He took another triangle bottle and smelled it. This was the normal smell of alcohol, not so spicy, and the color was also transparent.

Zhang Tie even tasted a little bit of the strange pale yellow alcohol with his mouth. After just a little bit, Zhang Tie felt his tongue go numb. , seems to be undrinkable.

"From the taste point of view, the light yellow bottle is a little more spicy than this bottle of ordinary alcohol. Is there anything special about it?"

Seeing Zhang Tie taste it, Haile laughed, "Master, have you forgotten what kind of fuel your Sedra T9 is fueling?"

Zhang Tie's heart was shocked. He looked at the two bottles of alcohol in his hand, and directly poured the two bottles of alcohol into the two burning crucibles in front of him. With a flick of his finger, a little spark flew out from between his fingers. The spark in the sky split into two, like two fireflies, falling into two burning crucibles.

A group of blue flames more than half a foot high suddenly sprang up in front of Zhang Tie...

The one that burst into flames was the flaming crucible filled with pale yellow alcohol, while the other crucible filled with ordinary alcohol was burning quietly and steadily, and the flame did not burst out, only about the height of a fist. .

The flame of light yellow alcohol is much higher than that of ordinary alcohol, and it burns more intensely, bringing a higher temperature.

From the effect point of view, when the light yellow alcohol burns, it is almost impossible to believe that it is alcohol.

Standing in front of the two burning crucibles, Zhang Tie's face was dyed blue by the blue flames, flickering on and off.

After a long time, the flames in the two burning crucibles went out almost at the same time. Zhang Tie stretched out his finger and touched the bottom of the burning crucible. The bottom of the burning crucible was still very clean, without any dust or burning residue, as if it had never been burned. Like anything.

The burning of alcohol leaves nothing but water and carbon dioxide.

Zhang Tie swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked Haile, "How high is the combustion value of this new alcohol?"

"The combustion value of this new alcohol can reach 11,000-12,000 kcal per kilogram!" Heller said a number, "The newly mutated element energy aura yeast we have obtained has a very simple and It has strong and super fermenting characteristics, and the things fermented by this yeast almost no longer contain any aura, that is, it has no edible value at all, but when it loses aura during fermentation, this yeast It can squeeze out the maximum energy and combustion value of the fermentation product, and double it, and use this new yeast to participate in the fermentation, and we can get this kind of alcohol with a very high combustion value!"

Hearing Haile's words, Zhang Tie rushed out of the microbial evolution laboratory without looking back, and arrived at the palace tree's library almost as fast as he could.

Looking at Zhang Tie's back, Haile just smiled, as if he already understood what Zhang Tie was going to do...

In the library of the palace tree, Zhang Tie collected millions of books obtained when the Hawaiian subcontinent was destroyed.

Zhang Tie remembered that he seemed to have seen something useful in a beautiful publication before the cataclysm.

Zhang Tie, who rushed to the library, was as tall as lightning, and turned twice among the bookshelves in the library, which were more than ten meters high. With his terrifying search ability, he quickly found the target, in a tall bookshelf Next, he jumped up, floated in the air, and quickly took a book from the penultimate shelf on the top of the library's bookshelf.

This book is a publication in Siberian, a publication before the Great Cataclysm. Although it has gone through eight or nine hundred years, it is still relatively well preserved.

The cover of the book is a beautiful hard cover, on which there is a propeller plane before the cataclysm, as well as a car and several engine models. Behind these things is a dense sugarcane field. A professional magazine for engineers and professional readers, the name of the magazine is "New Energy".

In the middle of this magazine, there is the theme of this issue "After the oil crisis, Baselia, a big sugarcane plantation country, launches an alcohol energy plan"

There are two subheadings below: "Following the nationwide promotion of ethanol gas stations and ethanol cars, Baselia's first ethanol-fueled aircraft successfully made its first flight on October 5"

Under this subtitle, there is a striking red font "The Three Major Petroleum Groups Severely Accused the Baselia Government's Actions of Destroying the Regional Energy Supply Structure and Quota Plan"

Zhang Tie quickly turned the magazine to the page introducing alcohol planes——

"The first alcohol-powered aircraft successfully made its debut in Salaburg, Baselia, on October 5. Prior to this, the aircraft named Hope had completed 300 hours of test flights using alcohol as fuel. The pilot said that the flight condition of Hope is very good..."

Zhang Tie glanced at ten lines, and quickly obtained the key information he wanted to know from this article.

"The Hope was jointly developed by the Baselia Aircraft Manufacturing Company and the University of Baselia. It was refitted from a gasoline-fueled Mustang propeller plane, using a 320-horsepower Lycoming six-cylinder engine. Can take two people..."

"Ethanol-powered airplanes are more durable and seven percent more efficient than gasoline-powered airplanes, engineers claim..."

"After converting one-third of the country's cars to ethanol gasoline dual-purpose vehicles, this is another major move by the Baselia government..."

"On the day of the successful test flight of Hope, Baselia Aircraft Manufacturing Company received an order for 150 aircraft. The order came from farmers and sugar cane producers in the country. , none of them thought that one day the alcohol they processed from the things they grew in the ground could actually make the plane fly into the sky, which made the farmers and sugarcane producers feel excited, and more importantly, the people using this plane The flight cost is only one-third of that of traditional gasoline aircraft, and there is no pollution during the flight, and it will not produce a large amount of harmful gases like burning gasoline, polluting the air..."

"The sugar cane producer Coolio said that using this kind of aircraft to spray pesticides will save him a lot of money every year, and it will facilitate his short- and medium-distance travel..."

"The officials of the Baselia Aircraft Manufacturing Company stated that a regional aircraft powered by alcohol is already in the development process..."

"If the alcohol energy plan is successfully implemented, Baselia, the largest alcohol producer in the region, will become a major energy exporter..."

After reading the contents of this magazine, Zhang Tie flew up again, and pulled out another "New Energy" magazine from the bookshelf. Compared with the previous one, the cover of this new energy magazine was black, which looked like a new energy magazine. It was extremely depressing. Judging from the publication date of the magazine, it was published half a year after the previous magazine.

Under the cover of the magazine, there are two titles.

"Coup d'état in Baselia, ex-president shot to death in the coup"

"The new Baselia Council passes the energy use bill, which will ban all production and sales of alcohol aircraft, and the use of alcohol fuel in cars will be mixed with gasoline in strict proportions"

"The three major oil groups loan 120 billion to Baselia to support the new government of Baselia to restore domestic order"

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Putting down the two publications before the cataclysm, Zhang Tie fell into deep thought. In the period of human history before the catastrophe, when oil was about to run out, according to the introduction in the magazine, the combustion value of gasoline, one of the most important energy sources, The combustion value of alcohol is 10450-11250 kcal per kilogram, while the combustion value of alcohol before the catastrophe is 6000-7000 kcal per kilogram. Gasoline-powered internal combustion engines can also burn alcohol with only minor modifications.

Before the Cataclysm, the reason alcohol did not become a mainstream fuel was more political than technical. The oil interests strangled those possibilities.

The reason why the alcohol in the black iron era withdrew from the ranks of mainstream energy is because of a series of magical changes caused by the catastrophe, which made the combustion value of the original alcohol much lower and no longer suitable for the needs of internal combustion engines. It is a sports car like the Xenodragon T9, and the engine it uses is also an external combustion steam engine instead of an internal combustion engine.

The newly mutated Yuanneng Lingqi yeast can ferment alcohol with a combustion value of 11,000-12,000 kcal per kilogram. This value is higher than the alcohol combustion value before the cataclysm, even surpassing gasoline. Doesn’t that mean that So, as long as there is this kind of alcohol, I can create many gasoline-fueled machines and equipment before the catastrophe, and make them move, such as propeller planes that are faster than flying boats, such as higher-performance Cars, such as armored vehicles with stronger assault capabilities on the battlefield...

Zhang Tie himself was stunned by the new possibilities and prospects brought about by the mutation brought about by the Yuanneng Lingqi yeast this time.

This thing will likely bring about an energy and industrial revolution in the Iron Age.

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Two days later, Zhang Tie, who had calmed down, was meditating in Feizhou's training room, when the sound transmission bell in the training room rang, and Zhang Tie opened his eyes.

Liu Xing's voice came from outside, "Really, I got the candle dragon!" , to vote for the recommended monthly ticket for the work. Your support is my biggest motivation!)