Chapter 338 How Many Steps Are Needed to Build a Spaceship?

"Wow~, this thing is really hard. I'm afraid there's no way to cut it without some tricks!"

In the "forbidden zone" where the Eternal Furnace is located, Carl threw away the tools in his hand and sat down on the cloud that was as hard as iron.

Beside him, Nia had already set up her experimental equipment and was studying the composition of "cloud iron".

"This thing looks like some kind of aerogel, but how did this strange difference in softness and hardness appear?"

After a simple test of cloud iron, Nia looked at the changes in the solution in the test tube and gave her own judgment.

Carl on the side knocked on a larger piece of cloud iron, and a "dong dong" sound was heard.

"Don't worry about those profound parts first, let's study whether there is any suitable way to mine this thing first.

If its properties are stable, I feel that this thing may be used to make something."

Taking a relatively soft cloud handed over by Hope, Carl pressed it twice slightly, and then leaned on the cloud, feeling very comfortable.

Farther away, Ying, Iris and others were lying on a large soft cloud, as if they were treating it as a big bed.

Hearing Carl's suggestion, Nia took out several solutions and poured them into the test tube containing cloud iron.

After a while, she frowned and said in an incredible tone: "You can shape it by smelting metal, but pay attention to the ratio of its combination with the air element. The air element seems to be like carbon and iron to it."

Hearing this, Carl's face also showed an incredible expression.

Although nature is very magical, this is too magical!

However, thinking that this seems to be the area where the Eternal Furnace is located, Carl is relieved again.

Maybe this thing is shaped by the energy radiated by the Eternal Furnace. After all, according to the theory of the School of Change, when the boundary between energy and matter is broken, the chaotic matter born in it can derive any kind of property.

"Hmm~, according to what you said, could it be that those soft clouds have a special content of air elements?"

Pulling out the cloud that was leaning on his back, Carl tore off a piece, and then called the iron ant running around on the cloud.

The iron ant quickly replaced the rune cartridge with a flame arrow, and then heated the cloud that Carl tore off.

After a while, some water vapor emanated from it, and the originally very soft cloud became hard as iron again.

"Ha! It turns out that it is related to the water element, so these clouds are actually rust?"

Using psychic power to control the hardened cloud iron back to his hand, Carl picked up the fragment and looked at it towards a brighter position.

This cloud iron is not light-transmissive, even if it is just a small piece, it will not let light through.

Throwing the fragment up and down in his palm several times, Carl weighed this strange substance and had some ideas in his mind.

'I feel that this thing can be used to make spaceships! The hardness and toughness are good, and the quality is very light. ’

Thinking of this, Carl simply stood up and moved the cloud iron he had excavated not long ago to the machine tool for processing.

The iron ants seemed to be inspired, so they replaced their rune cartridges and tried to use water control to help with mining.

However, although removing the water element only requires simple heating, injecting the water element into the cloud iron has become a somewhat difficult operation.

The three iron ants worked for a long time, but only made the surface of part of the cloud iron slightly softer.

With this time, they can dig more with iron pickaxes!

"Okay! Take these electric drills, be careful, don't hurt yourself."

Seeing that the iron ants seemed a little frustrated, Carl had to give them his spare electric drills, and he concentrated on processing the cloud iron.

Carl had already had a prototype of the structure of the spacecraft before he set off for Dalcat, and now he just reproduced the ideas in his mind.

But this is also thanks to the memory talent brought by the self-dream world, otherwise Carl really couldn't remember so many structures.

The knocking sound of "ding-dong-dong" continued for several hours, and gradually, some basic structures were built by Carl.

When Nia came back to her senses from the alchemy experiment, she found that the clouds around her were much less than before. When she looked up again, she saw the spaceship parts made by Carl.

"How big a spaceship are you going to make? This size... I'm afraid it's several times larger than that bronze and wooden warship? The cloud iron we have now is not enough to make it!"

Seeing that Carl seemed to be continuing to make it, Nia hurried forward to stop him.

"It's okay! I'm going to build the spaceship in sections. I made a rough estimate. If only a small part of the spaceship is made, these cloud irons will be enough.

As long as it can fit the truck in, it will be much easier later."

As he said, Carl took out the blueprint from the dimensional bag and showed it to Nia.

Although Nia's talent in mechanical design is far less than her talent in the way of magic, she still roughly understood Carl's blueprint.

"You actually plan to use the mecha as the driving part of this spaceship temporarily?"

Looking at the spaceship composed of multiple mechanical fusions on the blueprint, Nia frowned, with a look of disbelief on her face.

There are many mechanical dolls produced in Carl's toy factory, many of which are designed to be able to merge into a larger robot.

Nia had always thought that this was Carl's trick to get those kids to collect all the mechanical dolls!

I didn't expect that he was going to realize this idea today!

Although Nia's talent for mechanical design was not high, she instinctively felt that this approach was unreliable.

Looking down at Nia, Carl said with a serious face: "Don't worry, it's okay! I will definitely complete this design!"

Nia had ten thousand ideas to complain about this design in her heart, but looking at Carl's eyes, Nia retreated shamefully.

Because she found that there was a light flashing in Carl's eyes.

"This is just once, and it will never happen again! Try not to try to replicate this design that is not safe in the future!"

Turning around with a ruddy face, Nia put away her experimental equipment, and then followed everyone back to the truck.

As the structure of the spacecraft made by Carl gradually improved, there were fewer and fewer clouds for them to settle.

However, Carl still thoughtfully let everyone take many soft clouds back to the truck. After all, this thing is much more comfortable than the original seat.

With the help of the iron ants, soon, a white device similar to a propeller was combined with the truck.

Carl and the others returned to the truck and headed forward again.

This time, however, they observed the surroundings with a purpose, trying to find more cloud iron and use it as a material for the construction of the spacecraft.

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“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

On a huge cloud mountain made of cloud iron, Tina was holding an iron pick and digging cloud iron.

After being introduced by an acquaintance, she joined the mining group and became one of them.

“As long as there are twelve more cubic meters, I can try to build an airplane! Woo~, why is it so troublesome to mine this cloud iron! Can’t we use explosives or something like that!”

With tears in her eyes, Tina chiseled the hard cloud again and again.

This was the third day since she joined the mining group, but after deducting the part she needed to hand in, she had only collected two cubic meters of cloud iron in total.

Hearing her complaints, a miner next to her laughed and said:

"You are really impatient, but I advise you to put away that dangerous idea just now. The hardness of natural cloud iron is already very high, but if it explodes, the fire element will change it similar to quenching, and it will be even more difficult to mine it at that time."

Hearing this, Tina took two steps back and sat on the cloud.

"Ah~, no wonder everyone on the floating island would rather spend money to buy it than come to mine it themselves. I still need 12 cubic meters of cloud iron to mine. How long do I have to wait~"

With a sad face, Tina leaned aside, feeling that the whole person seemed to become sad.

"So why are you so impatient? If you want to go out for adventure, you have waited for so long, is it just a few days away? You have to be calm, otherwise if you encounter something in the future, you may mess yourself up."

Like a wise man who sees through life, the miner uncle next to him waved the iron pickaxe seriously and collected the broken pieces of cloud iron bit by bit.

Putting away the expression on her face, Tina quickly got into the state and worked hard.

A few hours later, the mining group was ready to go back to the island to rest, and Tina followed them to the floating island on the teleportation array.

After handing over part of the cloud iron as the use fee of the array, Tina took the remaining cloud iron back to her home.

Instead of falling asleep as usual, she took out the drawings she designed from her backpack and walked into the basement with the cloud iron.

"Although there are still many missing materials, I can complete the construction in sections! Let's build the glider of the plane today!"

Motioning the ratio between the drawings and reality, Tina raised the furnace and prepared to smelt the cloud iron.

As a descendant of the wizard, everything on this floating island is more inclined to magic.

The reason why a strange machine master like Tina appeared was because someone broke the ancestral magic equipment. In order to facilitate repairs in the future, the village chief returned to the main plane and spent money to buy teaching materials to train her.

However, Tina's textbooks were already hundreds of years old, so although she had the idea of ​​using strange devices to go out for adventure, she was still limited by her own knowledge and only designed a glider.

According to the drawings, Tina poured the liquid cloud iron that was melted into a fire cloud into the mold prepared in advance.

When the temperature dropped slightly, she used her hands wearing dragon leather gloves to disassemble the clay embryo.

The cloud iron that was turning from fiery red to white emerged from it. Taking advantage of this time, Tina lifted it onto the anvil and swung a small hammer to hit it.

The sound of ding-dong-dong rang out, but because the house was well soundproofed, the neighbors around did not come to accuse her of disturbing the public.