out of cage

Chapter 21 Chapter 1.21 Accidental Contact

Zhuqijiao ruins, about a hundred kilometers to the east, there is a human settlement, which is also the closest human settlement to the cluster.

The name of this place of residence is Ji'an City, which has nothing to do with the city name related to people before the Great Destruction.However, after the people of a village successfully rescued themselves during the Great Destruction, they found a place with river traffic and hills to support them, and built such a city.

Now the entire city is surrounded by a three-meter-high city wall, and there are high platforms everywhere on the city wall.The artillery technology is barely breech-loading, with a steel rifled barrel with very thick walls and brown powder as the propellant.The surrounding area can be controlled by means of the base wheel on the turret.Generally speaking, this is probably the Krupp steel cannon technology in the mid-nineteenth century.

Civilization has regressed to the present, the social system has begun to passivate, and many technologies have become unsustainable.

Such as chemical industry!Technically speaking, potassium nitrate is prepared and then mixed with hydrochloric acid to nitrify glycerol, or collodion.

Every step is actionable!However, many intermediates are extremely unstable!

In the 21st century, formal chemical factories need academic qualifications and discipline to recruit people, and at the same time they need good management.Those technicians in small workshops with low levels of education can also be cautious and reluctant to prepare some chemicals at the risk of being imprisoned and driven by interests.

Now, in a situation where some people monopolize resources and most people lose their ascending channels, it is still necessary to maintain the production of dangerous chemicals with many key steps, and major accidents will happen sooner or later!Therefore, it is not that people forget knowledge, but that society determines production relations, production relations restrict productivity, and high explosives cannot be produced, so artillery pressure does not need to be high, and military industry gradually sacrifices performance for stability.

In small and medium-sized city-states such as Ji'an City, the overall reliable military technology has been reduced to the twentieth century, and a few craftsman-level technologies, such as the production of refined gears, wires, and optical glass, have barely reached the workshop level of the mid-twentieth century.

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Now, in the heart of this artillery fortified city.

The city center is in the same building as the Great Wall.

The windows on the four walls of the building are very small, and three sets of skylights are opened at the top to transmit light. Both skylights and wall windows can pull down steel plates to make the room completely airtight.

In the building, there are electric fans, incandescent lamps and other equipment.The light from the skylight just illuminated several potted plants, two of which were potted kumquats, and the small oranges above were still green.

On the wooden chair, lay an old man in a white coat, like a researcher in the 21st century.In this era, it is very unusual to be able to keep clothes from hundreds of years ago, because human beings have lost cotton materials, and most people are already using flax fibers to make clothes.

This is Zeng Longmu, the owner of Ji'an City. He looked at the report provided by the person in charge of the bacterial culture room. The report showed that there was an abnormality in the bacteria in the petri dish.The owner of the city opened a book and turned to a page that recorded the cause of the phenomenon: a major shift in the genetic community in the surrounding area.

He turned around and came to another glass window cabinet, and took out a box of signs, which recorded the name of his beastmaster.He first picked up one of his children's signs, then another sign, and then hung the two signs on the kumquat pot next to him, and smiled kindly.

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It has been nearly 40 days since Wei Keng crossed here. Well, the construction of this territory is getting more and more prosperous.

In the residence, one by one, local blast furnaces have been built, with a height of five meters. All the bricks were dug out from the ruins of the city. The blasting work of such a large-scale blast furnace is by no means manpower. It's Wei Keng who thinks his hands are sour.

Therefore, Wei Keng specially blocked the small river, and used the lever principle and the runner to make the blast furnace blower move back and forth to continuously push the hot air in.

As the hot air blown into the hot coals turned into flames, the furnace temperature reached a level that could melt steel, and the metal objects dug out of the ruins finally melted at this temperature.

This kind of indigenous steelmaking technology wasted a lot of resources in the 60s and produced a lot of useless steel scrap.Therefore, after the 80s, when some literary intellectuals mentioned this era, it was contemptuous to mention this method of steelmaking.

But in fact, this steelmaking method can produce relatively usable steel. Back in the 30s, in the local anti-aggression war, weapons were obtained by relying on this method.

The premise that it can be used is that those who used this method to make steel in the 30s were science and engineering students who had returned from studying abroad. Although it was an indigenous method, all standards were met.

In the 60s, the big iron and steel smelters were farmers without industrial production awareness. For the tasks assigned by the above, they could not understand the meaning of each indicator. They relied on enthusiasm and fought for quantity, hoping to get praise and approval, so the height of the small blast furnace was not enough, and the inner wall was not strong enough. , Even the furnace temperature has not reached, so what is refined is scrap steel, and there is no technical summary.

Generally speaking, it is not the problem of methods, but the lack of qualified personnel in industrial production. ——Wei Keng: So a bunch of Wen Qing scolded ass, you have the quality of steelmaking?
Wei Keng wants to make steel now, which is useful to him, and all related processes have entered the summary state.

The copper and iron dug up from the city are sorted, the steel goes to the No. 1 large furnace, and the copper goes to the small furnace.

After the steel is refined, it flows directly into the casting area of ​​the bullet casings from several discharge ports for casting!The other discharge port flows into the forging area. After forging and forming, drill holes with a drill bit, and then squeeze it. Finally, it becomes a [-] cm long iron can with the thickness of a mineral water bottle, and then the bracket is welded below.Oh, and the angler forgets it.There is a visual ballistic annotation system provided by the system.This is ~ grenade launcher!Simple steel pipe, cast iron charge iron block.Simple and convenient to use!
After confirming that these explosion-resistant iron frame steel pipes were released in batches, Wei Keng immediately announced: "I don't want to use that sling."

As for the copper smelted in the small furnace, it is forged and forged into copper skin while hot, and then cut into specific specifications.

After heating, squeeze it into a copper pen cover and copper pen tip. The copper pen tip needs to be filled with lead liquid.

These clinking things were sent into the borer by the measuring team to try to push them, and then they were taken out and tried to be processed with a file.

These copper pens are filled with black granules, inserted into the "tips", and then squeezed against the front with a large stapler-like shelf to keep the nibs from falling out.

In fact, the most complicated technology is the thing at the bottom of the copper steel sleeve.The tutorials provided by the system are complex.

Fortunately, there are hot springs and sulfur in this place, and sulfuric acid can be prepared from sulfur, and sulfuric acid can be prepared by using salt to prepare hydrochloric acid, and hydrochloric acid and pyrolusite can be heated to generate yellow-green gas, and this yellow-green gas is oxidized by hydrogenation. Potassium makes a bleaching powder.

Then, it's time to do the cannonball.Just find the realgar (one hundred words omitted)

That thing in the thermometer is nitrifying?It's too dangerous. To prepare that thing requires formal industrial technology.All operation steps need to be below [-] degrees, and you may reach that condition with a little hand rubbing.

Rows of "Made in Border Areas" rolled off the production line from Wei Keng's adobe workshop.

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After a day of industrial production, the water cooled by the equipment is passed through the dried bamboo pipes and poured onto each Wei Keng who has been soaked in the pond.After finishing the bath and drying the water, I smeared the mashed Tian Qiye in the jar on my body.

These days, the Wei Kengs have been harassed by a gang of female mosquitoes who ask for their blood to give birth to children.There is an urgent shortage of straw curtains on each adobe house.

The only fly in the ointment now is that Wei Keng, who has been rushing to heavy industrial production, is very inefficient in weaving straw blankets.

Wei Keng: "Wouldn't it be beautiful if a group of girls came and knitted straw shoes and blankets for me."

Oh, this, Wei Keng didn't say it on the supervisor's side. Although his emotional intelligence was a little low, he still felt that because he was unwilling to cooperate with certain things, he and this girl seemed to have some disagreements with this plane.When there is a disagreement, the goal should be not to quarrel. As for telling some jokes, there will be no goodwill but only disgust.

Wei Keng judged the relationship between himself and the supervisor in this way: In the words of the 21st century, the two parties' personalities are not suitable?Inappropriate consumption concepts and inappropriate living habits.In short, I am too stupid to be worthy of a flight attendant.

However, in the dimensional space bubble, the supervisor Bai Linglu was constantly looking through Wei Keng's action records these days.Of course, for some unsightly scenes, such as standing in a row of golden water columns and opening an arched corridor in the morning, she directly turned on the intelligent coding system.

The girl's impression of Wei Keng has been greatly improved, and now there is a positive evaluation: "Very decisive hands-on ability, considering the best possible margin, and now very reliable."

For now, on the nitrification project she was reading, Wei Keng's plan was only to complete the initial production of three kilograms per day.However, when implementing the plan, we set a high standard as much as possible, directly blocking the river, then catching a large number of fish, adding the internal organs to the pile of nitrate, ensuring a daily output of [-] kilograms of pure nitrate.

Although this is only a part of a small plan, Wei Keng has set a goal, and it will be absolutely completed, making Bai Linglu feel that the general plan of this plane is executable.

So the question is, how to get Wei Keng to agree to stay here?

Bai Linglu: "He doesn't talk to me now, what should I do?" She didn't send this trouble to the gravity well.

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Wei Keng wanted to stay in the ruined area for [-] days and then leave, but there will inevitably be some accidental collisions.

Forty days after arriving on this plane

A boat passed upstream and stopped outside Wei Keng's residence. This sneaky appearance was like a sneaky spy.

To this end, Wei Keng of course asked them to get off the boat and have a drink.

The bullet hit the river and warned them to stop.

The merchant who disembarked stammered and claimed to be from Ji'an City, and saw that there were new human settlements ready to do business here.

To do business, Wei Keng certainly wanted it. Tea, cotton cloth, and tung oil were all he wanted.

Originally, he wanted to travel to the time and space merchants, and he still had a lot of small yellow croakers in his hands.Of course, I have to buy it. I buy it to make tea to treat constipation, put up mosquito nets, and brush tarps.

Wei Keng invited these panicked and suspected businessmen to the camp to discuss business, but after these guys entered the camp, they kept shaking. Originally, Wei Keng, the Cantonese dialect, couldn't hear it clearly, so he had to rely on the translation system. Communication is more troublesome.

It is not difficult to understand the reason why this group of businessmen trembled. A human settlement suddenly appeared in the place where the ruins were originally, and when they came in, they found that this group of humans still looked exactly the same.

In the world of Pandora, there are all kinds of strange gene communities.Some genetic communities do not lack humanoid individuals.They are called fusion people.Although there are some individuals whose appearance is very similar to that of human beings, there are very strange actions in life for normal people.For example, one year is a man, and ten years after pupation is a beast.These gene groups are only using the thinking ability of the human brain. As for human morality, social habits have never existed.

Wei Keng is now, like this weird genetic community, and because he looks exactly like a human being, it has stimulated the "uncanny valley" effect.

Of course, for this reason, Wei Keng resolutely argued: "If there are a thousand identical beauties, you will definitely not have the uncanny valley effect. The little yellow croaker in my hand is more attractive than the beauties, please show your capitalist greed, ten times the The kind that sells the noose for profit."

The system prompts again: these guys may not be businessmen, at least not pure businessmen.

When they were negotiating business, they did not bargain with Wei Keng about the parameters of the tea cloth.What Wei Keng said was what it was, obviously perfunctory.

That night, when Wei Keng deliberately left a hole, they escaped.As a result, he fell into the dry toilet and almost choked to death, which shows where Wei Keng left the hole.

"Ah, auntie, daddy..." In the tunnel, the unfortunate words that broke down and thought that he was swallowed by something, cried for father and mother, and the stench of tumbling continued to rise.

Wei Keng squatted on the edge of the dry toilet, threw the rope down, pinched his nose and said, "Everyone, since you are here to do business, why do you act in our area without saying hello many times? This is probably not the way to be a guest."

Wei Keng's shouting made the people in the cesspit feel a little more at ease, and they should also realize that they were not in the stomach of some evil beast. No, there are still leaves that Wei Keng lost in the dry toilet.

Wei Keng's question went unanswered for a few minutes, just when Master Wei Keng wanted to unfasten his crotch and flush them with hot water,
Finally, a tough voice shouted: "We are not guests, you are the uninvited guests." Then a lump of shit was thrown out, almost missing Wei Keng who was shouting.

Wei Keng was dumbfounded and stopped fighting. After pulling them up, a simple basin of water was poured on them, and a map on a wooden board was unfolded a few meters away from them.

Wei Keng issued a warning to these businessmen: "Have you seen this map, with this river as the boundary, your city's armed forces will not be allowed to cross within six months. Don't say it is unpredictable." Then he lost one Small simple plank map.

In the team that climbed out of the filthy tunnel, a few soft guys accepted the map provided by Wei Keng with snot and tears, and then this group of people rushed into the jungle without looking back, as if a ghost was behind them for a moment. dare not stop.

Wei Keng looked at the direction in which they disappeared, lowered their heads and thought carefully, as if they felt that the current situation was very unsafe.Then a team was sent to follow from a distance to determine their return route.Of course, it is necessary to determine the relevant information of Ji'an City.

A week later, part of the reconnaissance team returned, and another part was sent to rotate reconnaissance.

In Wei Keng's eyes: This is a somewhat remote city, with a concrete city wall, but the concrete outer wall is pure black, and some damp places are covered with moss.

The investigation team touched the nearby hilltops and observed the situation of this dilapidated human settlement.
Based on the number of animal-powered carriages parked in the open area, combined with the road conditions on the map, an inference was made about the forces dispatched after full mobilization: it should be possible to mobilize a team of about a thousand people to carry heavy weapons such as artillery to the area where it is occupied strike.

Of course, this offensive power is the upper limit of the ideal situation.

Even the Mongolian system during the Genghis Khan period could not devote its strength to one direction when the reasons for the war were extremely abundant.

Judging from the lushness of the bushes on the outskirts of the city, the soldiers in the city have not had military training such as large-scale marches for a long time.

Under the current circumstances, the highest center of the city, even if it has the highest authority, in the case of long-term defense, if you want to take the initiative to initiate foreign wars, the power that can be mobilized should be less than one-tenth of the mobilized power of the entire city.

But even if he is so optimistic, Wei Keng is still uneasy. ——In war, there will be death, and I am very afraid.

(End of this chapter)