Chapter 118 When science is attached to the magic bullet
The periodic table of elements is something that junior high school students know. It can even be said to form the underlying logic for most civilized people in the 21st century to understand the world.
Hym For this kind of thing based on cognition, the chemical pool has always been used as common sense, but I have not thought about how to prove this thing.
Does this need proof?
And how can this be proven in the game?
I don’t know if it was deliberately arranged by the developers. In order to test the limits of the physics engine, this Miranda chased him like a candy, following him wherever he went. She would squat next to him when he was offline. Even if she disappeared for a while, she would suddenly pop up and scare him.
I didn’t expect that the first time I was targeted by a stalker would be in a game, and also by an NPC.
Humbling in the chemical pool for a while, I felt like crying. I even began to regret coming. I wasted two days pretending to be such a badass.
If it weren’t for the low contribution value, he would have simply given away a head to restore the spawn points!
Humbling in the chemical pool, after thinking about it, there was only one possibility. The game's development team was probably targeting him, so they used the game mechanism to force him to test the game's physics engine.
Since there seems to be no point in hiding like this, why not just obey the dog's plan and maybe get a reward or something.
And he didn’t believe it yet.
This crappy game can use code to restore one or two physical phenomena, and can it also restore all physical and chemical principles in reality? !
If it is so awesome, how can we explain magic?
Having made a decision in his heart, he took a sip in the chemical pool and stopped, looking back at the ghost that was following closely behind him.
"Since you sincerely want to learn, I can teach you...but I don't have the tools at hand right now, so you have to give me some time."
Miranda nodded in surprise.
"No problem! You can prepare as long as you want! I can also help you!"
He now completely regards the skeleton soldier in front of him as his teacher.
After taking a sip from the chemical pool, he nodded in approval, and after saying "Follow me", he left Mist Town and walked towards Iron Fang City on the third floor of the maze.
Some experiments are not convenient to do in Mist Town. Firstly, there are no tools there, and secondly, there are too many irrelevant people there.
He was afraid that he would cause some trouble again and alert the Demon King. In the end, his contribution points and favorability points were constantly reduced, and it was really not worth it.
As for Iron Tooth City, there are no such worries.
Henceforth, that is the headquarters of the Anxunsi Group. Not only does it have a lot of ready-made garbage to pick up, but there is also a group of boys who can help him scavenge outside and process parts for him.
Spent about half a day collecting materials, stuffed the chemical pool, and walked to a corner out of the way with the bottles and cans picked up by the moles.
Miranda followed closely behind him.
Both of them are undead, so no monsters will be interested in them. Basically, experiments can be done outside the settlement.
Looking at Miranda who was following behind him, he took a sip of the chemical pool and stopped, the soul fire in his skull shining with serious light.
"First of all, you already understand that the world is made up of 118 elements, right?"
"Hmm!" Miranda nodded, "What I want to know is how you prove this."
When he said this, he added another sentence.
"Of course, I didn't ask you to prove the existence of all 118 elements at once...At least I want to know what the so-called "difference between Qi and Qi" is."
Everything must be done step by step.
Being able to prove the limitations of the six basic elements is already a breakthrough in itself. Before determining "what it is", he is more eager to find out the question "is it".
Looking at the ghost who was thirsty for knowledge, he took a sip from the chemical pool and said.
"I will prove this to you, but before that, I have to popularize a basic concept with you..." At this point, he paused for a moment, cleared his throat and continued, "Actually, these 118 elements can be further divided."
Miranda was instantly shocked.
ification is a genius,> “A lunatic who is ten steps ahead is a lunatic. He could no longer tell which type the skeleton in front of him belonged to.
What shocked him even more was that, according to the skeleton soldier, this theory was known to all the undead in the entire necropolis.
If this is the case, then how powerful must be the demon king who summons these undead souls who "not only have self-awareness, but also have knowledge far beyond ordinary people"!
What he saw in front of him was just the lowest skeleton soldier!
Thinking of the man who fished him out of Novel's mouth, Miranda only regretted that she ran too far out of fear and didn't have time to say a word to him until the end.
A little afraid of the fanatical eyes, he took a sip of the chemical pool and quickly opened his mouth to explain.
"Yes, but don't think too much... We can't observe the smaller ones, we can only guess their existence."
In fact, based on the technology of the 21st century, this statement is inaccurate.
But after being bored in the chemical pool, I can be sure that if I introduce concepts such as quarks, leptons, propagators, etc., not to mention this magic apprentice whose academic level is only at the Renaissance level will be confused, I am afraid that I, a half-time coder, will also have to get involved.
According to the world view and background of this game, this world may not even have the birth of scientific thinking.
In the face of medieval dogmatism, even the empiricism that prevailed from the 17th to the 19th centuries seemed a bit too advanced.
In short, in order to prevent this guy from becoming a mad whisperer, he suffocated in the chemical pool and avoided more profound theories, and only explained it from a simple perspective.
"In short, for the particles that make up the 118 elements, we call them 'elementary particles.'"
"Elementary particles!!" Miranda eagerly memorized every unfamiliar word, like a dried up sponge.
While the chemical pool was stuffy, he carefully chose his words and continued.
"In fact, elementary particles can continue to be divided, but that is still the realm of philosophy for the time being. In short, you only need to have this concept in your mind - our world is not just composed of the six basic magic elements, but is composed of "atoms", and atoms can continue to be divided into smaller elementary particles..."
This is not so much knowledge as it is a perspective on understanding the world. Just like NPCs in the game world understand matter through objective natural phenomena such as wind, water, fire, earth, light and darkness, people in reality understand the world from another perspective.
When he said this, he took out a piece of rusty scrap iron and a piece of charcoal from the experimental tools, and displayed them in front of Miranda.
"If you use the theory of magical elements to explain it, how do you explain these two items?"
Miranda stared at the objects in his hands for a moment and quickly answered.
“Iron, like copper, is a combination of earth and fire elements. During the spell casting process, you need to use a spell to guide the combination of elements. If you want it to rust, you have to apply the wind element. Charcoal is more troublesome. It can be analyzed as a natural spell, or it can be analyzed as a combination of earth and water elements, and finally integrated into the fire element... Of course, we generally do not use spells to generate these complex and less useful things. "
There are different ways of saying that air magic and wind magic belong to the same thing. Magicians born in Xuebang are accustomed to using the concept of "air" in the classical period to discuss academic issues, but when it comes to the concept of elements, they are still accustomed to calling it wind element.
It is worth mentioning that the six elements are not constant. The earliest five elements were wind, thunder, water, fire and earth.
With the passage of time and changes in people's cognition, wind and thunder merged into qi, and the five basic elements became the four major elements of air, water, fire and earth. Together with life and death (netherworld), they constitute the earliest six basic elements.
As for the six basic elements of "modern times": wind, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness, they were concepts born after the attribute of "light" was sanctified starting from the early second era. Life and death are often discussed separately rather than as one of the six basic elements.
“That’s the problem, you use subjective impressions to study objective issues, it’s like trying to find a sword in a boat... Of course, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with this, it’s just that our methods are completely different.”
I took a breath and continued in the chemical pool.
"We do not define matter by phenomena, but directly study the substance itself. For example, iron is the element of iron, and the rusty iron in front of you is the combination of iron element and oxygen element."
"Oxygen... is a type of wind element?" Miranda recalled what the skeleton soldier had said before and asked keenly.
"You can understand that most of the independent oxygen elements that can be contacted under natural conditions exist in the form of gases," he continued after taking a sip in the chemical pool, "and they are what I call gases with combustion-supporting functions... Although its function is far more than just combustion-supporting, it can also accelerate the oxidation of metals."
Hence, there is nothing wrong with understanding rusty iron as a combination of earth, fire, and wind elements. The inability to understand this alternative perspective may be one of the reasons why most players have difficulty using magic.
Most people cannot imagine this process at all, and will not even consider the problem from this "tricky" perspective.
But after listening to this ghost's explanation, he immediately understood what the so-called elemental magic was all about after taking a sip in the chemical pool.
This is a completely different spell system from Hades.
Its existence is to serve the cognition of the caster, and it is an existence centered on the caster himself. At the same time, this cognition is not only the cognition of the caster, but also the consensus of the vast majority of "conscious individuals" in the game world.
Iron comes from the earth, is smelted by fire, and corroded by wind... This is the consensus of NPCs in the game world, or people in this era!
This is the concept of "everyone's thoughts" guessed by Brother Yiye Zhiqiu.
However, this is not the time to discuss this.
Looking at the ghost with surprise written all over his face, he took out the chemical pool, took out the experimental equipment, and started his demonstration.
There is no need to demonstrate that oxygen and water will make iron rust. What he wants to demonstrate is to fill a container with rusty iron and powder ground from charcoal, mix and heat, and reduce the rusty iron to pure iron.
Not only that -
He also used glass flasks and tubes to collect the carbon monoxide gas generated in this process, and ignited it with flint in front of Miranda.
He was very careful during this process, for fear of exploding.
But fortunately, his experiment did not explode this time. Even though it failed several times due to lax operation, it was finally successfully ignited.
It turns out that gas can really burn! ! !
Different from the finished chemical pool, Miranda was as excited as if she had seen Saint Sith come down to earth!
Looking at Miranda who was excited and leaned forward to smell it, he took a sip of the chemical pool and was so frightened that he reached out and slapped him on the back of the head.
As a result, the former smelled loneliness, and the latter photographed loneliness.
This guy is a ghost. He can't touch it, and naturally he can't smell it either.
"What are you doing?" Miranda looked at the action of suffocating the chemical pool in surprise, and asked inexplicably.
Humbling in the chemical pool, he coughed and said.
"I want to say that this thing is poisonous... Well, I just remembered that you are a ghost, and no one can poison you."
Miranda: "Poisonous?! Why???"
Hunted the chemical pool and almost vomited blood.
"You have a hundred thousand reasons why!?"
Miranda was stunned for a moment and said subconsciously.
「十万个为什么……是什么？」
「……反正就是有毒，你就这么记着好了，至于为什么你自己研究吧，我也不知道。」一口闷了化学池其实知道答案，但实在不想继续解释了。
Because once this problem is explained, it must be involved that humans are also composed of countless small things, and the name of this thing is "cells".
Forcibly ignoring the thirsty eyes, he took a sip from the chemical pool and brought the topic back to the topic he wanted to talk about.
"In short, as you can see, "gas" and "gas" are also different. Some gases can burn, and some gases can extinguish flames. You can't explain this phenomenon with simple six elements, so it can be concluded that the wind element can be further subdivided."
While speaking, he took a suffocation in the chemical pool and covered the burning waste gas with the burning flame. The flames were in a daze for a while, and soon extinguished.
Miranda’s eyes widened.
"Is this?"
Huffed the chemical pool and said with a smile.
"Another product of the combination of oxygen and carbon, this time it is two parts of oxygen and one part of carbon. Unlike the previous "carbon monoxide", it is generally non-toxic and can neither burn nor support combustion. It can be used to extinguish fires."
In fact, this laboratory is not rigorous. It is a type of archery first and then target painting.
To be honest, he couldn't confirm whether the fire was extinguished due to lack of fuel, or whether it was really extinguished by high concentrations of carbon dioxide. But this is not the college entrance examination.
It was enough for him to let the ghost in front of him understand what was going on.
Although he felt that what he was talking about was very simple knowledge, it was like a thunderbolt in Miranda's ears, and he was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.
It felt as if a door to a new world had opened in his mind!
What is the Grand Magister of the Empire——
A lifetime of study and study is actually not as good as a skeleton in a large cemetery!
It's a pity that he didn't know what he was thinking after taking a breath in the chemical pool, otherwise he would have been babbling for a while.
Hand raised the skeleton arm and wiped the ashes from his face, he said.
"Are you satisfied now?"
Miranda nodded excitedly, but then shook her head quickly.
"Oxygen and carbon...and iron, I know, but what about the other elements? Are there any rules between them? You must know, right?!"
"Fuck!" He stared at him from the chemical pool, "Are you still addicted?"
"No, no, no, it's a shame that I give you free lessons every day, just to prove this thing to you. I haven't done any of the Demon King's tasks!"
Miranda asked immediately.
"What mission does the Demon King give you?"
Huffed the chemical pool: "Capture the adventurer! The female knight! The princess!"
"Uh, this...can I change it to another one?" Miranda said with some fear. He had already dug a huge trap and he really didn't want to harm anyone anymore.
said with regret after taking a sip from the chemical pool.
"And kill the monsters."
Miranda said immediately.
"That's no problem, I can help you."
Hunted at the chemical pool and looked at him in surprise.
"Really?!"
"Of course," Miranda smiled slightly and said confidently, "Don't look at me like this... In fact, I am also a bronze-level magic apprentice after all."
In fact, he was originally a black iron level.
It's just that after completing Novel's ritual, the God of Chaos sublimated his soul in order to reward him for pleasing himself.
Although this seems to be a bait now, for him, it is also a blessing in disguise.
I smacked my lips after taking a sip from the chemical pool, thinking that it was okay, at least I had a bronze-level thug.
Although he has more powerful robots at his disposal, those things cannot be used in the maze after all, and when they move, they look like a "crystal-swallowing behemoth."
"Okay... Then I will give you four hours of lessons every day, and you will take me to practice for eight hours, which means hunting monsters."
"Four hours?!" Miranda exclaimed, "Why is it so short?!"
said out of breath after taking a breath in the chemical pool.
"Be content! Knowledge is valuable! I haven't even confiscated your tuition fee!"
He got angry thinking about this.
It has been so long since he was qualified for the closed beta test. Although he has not made much money, he rarely engages in loss-making transactions.
However, in the case of this dead ghost, he went straight to the local area and came back with a loss!
He spent three whole days just to do a physical and chemistry experiment that junior high school students can do. He even went online to buy a second-hand chemistry textbook.
Hhi No doubt——
This must be the malicious intent of the development team!
The purpose is to allow him to cooperate with the testing of the game's physics engine.
But then again, it was not like he had gained nothing in these three days.
At least in terms of understanding of magic, especially at the theoretical level, he might even be ahead of Yiye Zhiqiu.
In addition, it’s not bad to have a bronze-level younger brother, especially this guy is a ghost mage with “physical immunity”.
Just when I took a sip of the chemical pool and thought like this, a deafening roar suddenly came from not far away.
It didn't sound like an explosion.
It seemed like something heavy hit the ground.
"What's going on?!"
After taking a sip in the chemical pool, my heart suddenly skipped a beat. I wondered if there might be something wrong with the prototype of "Gabang No. 2". I stopped using the experimental equipment all over the floor and hurriedly ran back in the direction of Tiejia City.
Miranda followed closely behind him.
As soon as the two undead arrived at the gate of Iron Fang City, they ran into a group of screaming moles and a humanoid monster that seemed to be made of clay!
The moment she saw that guy, Miranda suddenly exclaimed.
"Clay Golem?!"
Hooked the chemical pool and was shocked.
"Monsters attacking the city?!"
Seeing the skeleton boss appearing at the gate of Iron Fang City, a group of mole men immediately got behind him as if they had found a savior.
"Boss! Help!!!"
"Help, help!!!"
"What the hell?!" He looked at the mole people crawling behind him, and after suffocating the chemical pool, he panicked and said, "Don't call me for help, you are using magic guns to kill them!"
Why are these mole people so useless? !
While he was speaking, the sound of fighting came from the distance. Bond, who was wielding a big sword, had just chopped down a clay golem, and was soon targeted by another golem.
There are at least thirty clay golems gathered in the Mechanical Temple in front of the Iron Fang City Gate, and there are even huge clay giants among them!
On the Mole Man's side, there were very few who could compete with them. The only two experimental exoskeletons were launched, but they were beaten dizzy due to lack of actual combat experience.
Bond and several gecko acolytes soon fell into a bitter fight.
Faced with these golems, the engineering spiders in Shadowweaver's lair had no choice but to jump hurriedly and could only spit in the distance.
Aracto is not here.
As non-combat spiders, they have no fighting power at all.
At this time, a clay golem suddenly stared at the skeleton soldier standing at the entrance of the Mechanical Temple, and immediately rushed towards him with heavy steps.
Humbling, the chemical pool was startled, and he was about to turn around and run away, when he saw Miranda raise her right hand, and a wind blade whizzed out, hitting the clay golem.
「Bang——!」
The violent air current is raging!
However, the clay golem took the blow with its strong chest and stood unscathed in the wild airflow.
“Fuck you, can you—” He blurted out this sentence after taking a deep breath in the chemical pool, and then he saw Miranda snap her fingers.
That is the most basic form of black iron-level fire magic.
However, the moment the spell was released, an incredible scene happened!
I saw the sudden flames flashing out of the clay golem's chest, and then the chest as strong as a city wall was like a lit gunpowder keg, exploding with a deafening roar and eye-piercing fire!
The shock wave of the explosion not only destroyed the clay golem instantly, it even knocked over the three surrounding ones.
The blown dust floated more than ten meters away and soon filled half of the hall, frightening all the mole people to the point of being stunned on the spot.
It’s not just the Mole People.
One by one, the clay golems also looked towards the center of the explosion, their demented foreheads flashing with light of disbelief and fear.
Hand looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment. He took a sip of the chemical pool and felt the hot air flowing through his ribs, and said dumbfounded.
"You, what did you do?!"
Miranda was obviously confused.
He just learned and sold what he had just learned, but he did not expect that the effect would be so amazing.
"I, as you said, I combined oxygen and carbon elements in a one-to-one ratio to form that flammable gas... I guess it's called "carbon monoxide"?"
Although he couldn't understand what carbon monoxide was, he already understood the concepts of carbon and oxygen, and he could understand the one-to-one combination, as well as the flammable gas... So he used it to replace the wind element and use it in the wind blade magic.
What he didn't expect was that when he cast the ignition magic, the effect was not burning but an explosion.
After listening to his explanation, I took a sip of the chemical pool and was completely dumbfounded.
This is also okay? !
Magic and science were organically combined at this moment, and countless unimagined possibilities flashed through his mind in an instant!
Then those thoughts were like firewood, filling the soul fire that was burning in his skull.
Magic crystal cannon?
That kind of thing that works miracles with great force is simply too weak!
Anxunsi Group will have its own black technology!
And as long as he doesn’t make it public, others will never be able to copy it!
That fervent look made Miranda's heart tremble, and she couldn't help but take a step back.
However, after taking a sip, the chemical pool stepped forward to catch him and said excitedly.
"That...the magic that fills the wind blade with carbon monoxide!"
"Teach me!"
(End of this chapter)