Chapter 96

Ten minutes later, Lin Ye came to a place with an environment even worse than the Baiguyuan.

Everywhere you looked there were exposed metal mines and dumped slag, and even the air was filled with a pungent smell.

There was a huge active volcano a few kilometers away from him. Thick smoke billowed from the top of the volcano, and hot magma sprayed out from it from time to time.

"Huh, the environmental pollution here is too serious. PM2.5 is about to turn into PM25. Taking one breath can put a brick into your lungs."

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of Ghost Servant No. 2 came from behind him.

“Sir Sect Master, what is PM2.5?”

"Why are you here?" Lin Ye asked with surprise as he saw Ghost Servant No. 2 running up to him.

"The Bone Spirit Sect is so boring. Those skeletons are useless and they don't even bother to talk to me."

"Of course, my main subordinate, I am also worried about your safety, Lord Sect Master. After all, this Burning Flame Valley is extremely dangerous, and fire from the sky will fall from time to time."

As soon as Ghost Servant No. 2 finished speaking, a meteorite with a long flaming tail hit their location in the sky.

Upon seeing this, Ghost Servant No. 2 immediately prepared to shoot down the meteorite.

"Sir, be careful..."

But before he could take action, Lin Ye shot the menacing meteorite in the air.

The next second, the meteorite, which was as big as a house, disintegrated in mid-air, and the tiny debris scattered all over the ground like rain.

Seeing this scene, Ghost Servant No. 2, who had just extended a hand, retracted it with an embarrassed look.

"I'm telling you, Lord Sect Master, be careful where you step. There is a pile of spirit beast excrement there."

However, Lin Ye ignored him and picked up a meteorite fragment from the ground. When he examined it carefully, a look of surprise suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"Is this gold? Or pure?"

"No wonder the Burning Flame Valley has an inexhaustible supply of various metal minerals. It turns out they all come from outside."

As soon as he finished speaking, several huge figures appeared in front of him. Each of these figures was more than a foot tall. They were all exuding a metallic color. When they moved, they would make the sound of gears grinding. Occasionally, you could see the sound of gears grinding. White smoke erupted from behind.

Lin Ye took a closer look and realized that these big guys turned out to be metal puppets that looked like robots.

Unlike the puppets of the Bone Spirit Sect that were made of flesh and blood and driven by talismans, these metal puppets relied on the mechanical structure of the body. Lin Ye could vaguely see the gears and connecting rods under their iron skin.

But what shocked him the most was not these, but the bursts of white steam coming out of them.

"I'll wipe it! This is steam-driven!"

"No. 2, has this kind of thing existed in Fenyan Valley before?"

Hearing Lin Ye's call, Ghost Servant No. 2 also hurriedly took a look at the huge metal puppets.

"Yes, when you asked me to come over to them to customize farm tools just now, those farm tools were made of these metal lumps."

"I thought it was quite novel when I saw it. I asked the disciples of Fenyan Valley and they said it was created by Venerable Lihuo."

While the master and servant were talking, the steam-powered metal robots began to dig into the nearby mine with the buckets installed on their hands.

When the storage space behind them was full, they walked to the side with heavy steps.

Lin Ye, who was following them, soon saw something else that surprised him.

A train consisting of dozens of carriages.

After all the carriages of the train were filled with ore, the steam train headed straight along the ground track toward the active volcano that Lin Ye had seen earlier.

"Good guy, Fenyan Valley has launched an industrial revolution. What is going on?"

In order to find out why the Burning Flame Valley had undergone such a big change, Lin Ye hurriedly flew towards the volcano ahead.

When he was less than one kilometer away from the volcano, a red light was projected from inside the volcano, and finally transformed into a tall old man with red hair and red beard, exuding a burning aura.

The tall old man is none other than Venerable Lihuo, the Lord of Burning Flame Valley.

After seeing Lin Ye, Lord Lihuo immediately bowed and saluted.

"My subordinates pay their respects to the sect master!"

"Get up, I'm here to see you this time because I have something to tell you, but before that I have a few things I'm curious about."

"Sect Master, please tell me. Whatever my subordinates know, I will tell you everything."

"What's going on with those metal puppets over there?" Lin Ye asked the question he was most concerned about as soon as he opened his mouth. "How did you come up with the idea of ​​using steam to power them, and how did you come up with the idea of ​​using those mechanical parts to drive them."

When Venerable Lihuo heard his question, he first glanced at the metal puppet over there, then smiled calmly and said:

"All this is thanks to you, Sect Master."

"I?"

As he spoke, Venerable Li Huo took out his mobile phone. Seeing this, Lin Ye hurriedly stepped forward and took a look.

As soon as I saw it, I suddenly understood.

This book is a historical novel that tells the story of the protagonist who travels through ancient times and builds a modern empire step by step from a refugee in a mountain valley.

There are a large number of sections where the protagonist leads the field to delve into science and technology, including the development of steam engines and various machinery.

Of course, it was not written in detail, but only a general research and development idea.

He never thought that Venerable Lihuo could figure out the steam engine and a number of mechanical structures from these few words.

"Could it be that Venerable Lihuo is a mechanical genius?"

At this time, Venerable Lihuo spoke again, full of complacency.

"It just so happens that you are here, Master, I will show you my latest research results. With these research results, the production capacity of our Burning Flame Valley is enough to increase several times."

In order to find out what Venerable Lihuo has come up with, Lin Ye immediately followed him to the active volcano.

After passing through a tunnel, a huge underground city built inside the active volcano appeared in front of him.

The underground city was full of busy Burning Flame Valley disciples.

Because of the special nature of the practice, they need to constantly absorb firepower and store it in their bodies. Because of this, they also took on the responsibility of forging weapons and magic tools of the Demon Sect.

However, in the past hundred years, the Demon Sect has not had much conflict with the righteous path, so the loss of weapons and magic tools is naturally small.

In addition, all members of the Demon Sect now use mobile phones, and the Burning Flame Valley has also set up its own Douyin store and started selling magic tools on it. Its revenue capacity is second only to the God of Wealth Temple and the Cha Nu Sect, and its life is much better than that of the Bone Spirit Sect next door.

After walking a few steps, Lin Ye was attracted by the scene in front of him.

In a workshop, a steam forging machine driven purely by steam was constantly hammering the metal material below.

"This is..."

"This is a steam forging machine. The heat generated by the spirit stone formation produces steam, and then the gear drive and belt drive transmit the power to the connecting rod mechanism above to make the forging hammer reciprocate up and down. Each hammering can generate thousands of tons of force."

"This reduces the spiritual power consumption by at least 80% compared to the use of spirit stone drive alone, and it is estimated that tens of millions of spirit stones can be saved every year."

At this point, the face of the Venerable Lihuo was full of pride and pride.