Studying Science in the Alternate World

  Chapter 2 Guns and Mobile Phones

  Usually when the card repairer concentrates on repairing cards, it is the most relaxed moment for apprentices.

  Duke is going to walk around the store and think of ways to make money.

  Bobby and Thomas, two apprentices at the next station, also followed the card repairer to focus on repairing cards, quietly hid in a corner, and began to share their candy with each other.

  Duke is not that boring.

  He looked around the small Sam Shuka shop, and Bob, the regular worker, was taking care of the counter. There are four repair stations in the repair area, one for each of the three card repairers, and a spare No. 4 station, which is usually used by the boss himself.

  But the boss didn’t come today, and went to the waste card station in the city to find goods.

   "How to make money?"

  He frowned, a little helpless.

  As a traveler, I naturally have a lot of earth knowledge in my mind, but when I really use it, I find it is useless. Iron smelting, brick burning, and distilled wine are the basics in this world, and products such as soap, glass, and perfume are not uncommon. As for high-tech computers, mobile phones, etc., there is no such thing, but Duke can't make them either.

  He looked out of the warehouse window.

  Crossing the low bungalow area, you can see towering chimneys in the distance, billowing black smoke, surrounded by unknown birds, swooping down from time to time to peck at the rising spirituality.

  If a beast wants to evolve into a spirit beast, it must prey on a lot of spirits.

   "That is the Black Snake Lingjin Smelter, an industry owned by the Black Snake family. It extracts spiritual metals from iron ore... the pollution is really high." Duke looked at it from the perspective of an earthling.

   Or rather, no one cares.

  The Seven Towers Federation has no concept of environmental protection. The current mainstream thinking is to develop the spiritual energy industry, expand human power, and continue to open up the wild jungle.

   "Psionic...spiritual...otherworldly!"

  Duke showed a eager look in his eyes, and passed through the initial panic. Now he is eager to experience the magnificent scenery that he has never seen before in this extraordinary world.

certainly.

   To appreciate the extraordinary, the premise is to open the spiritual sea, otherwise he can only live as an ordinary person at the bottom of society.

   "It seems that there are no good inventions that can bring money quickly... Well, gunpowder!" Duke had a flash of inspiration and thought of a good idea, "The Seven Towers Federation is an alliance of arcanists, and arcanists represent the world's extraordinary power system-spiritual arcana, so black powder has never been born."

  People living here believe that the land under their feet has unparalleled spirituality.

  It is this kind of spirituality that endows all things living in the wild continent with powerful and extraordinary power, and builds a set of "spiritual mystery" power system.

  Collect spirituality and refine it into psionic energy.

   It is this spiritual energy, which is more miraculous than electricity, that has triggered a mighty industrial boom.

   "A powerful arcanist can destroy the world, so the value of black powder must be far less than that on earth, but black powder is still very useful. I can try to make black powder in the extraordinary world!"

  He recalled in his mind that it seemed that the ratio of black gunpowder was one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoals.

  Staying like this until the noon break, he hurriedly finished his box lunch, then walked quickly to another street, and then turned into a wide alley. It is full of shops selling all kinds of materials, from spiritual materials to ordinary materials.

  Ask around.

  Duke frowned deeply: "Saltpeter, a material that can grow in toilets, is actually sold for 1 silver dragon per catty, and sulfur is 30 copper dragons per gram, which is faster than stealing money!"

  If you want to configure black powder, you don't know how many times you have to experiment.

  Enough materials for multiple experiments, the value of which has already surpassed 23 silver dragon's Awakening Potion: "With this money, I would have bought the Awakening Potion a long time ago... By the way, why don't I go to the toilet to scrape the saltpeter?"

   One plan failed, and Duke made another plan.

  One catty of saltpeter can be sold for 1 silver dragon. He can definitely scrape the saltpeter to save money. Although going to the toilet to scrape the saltpeter is a bit of a pain, the money is obviously faster than the apprentice.

   But after Duke ran through multiple sewage toilets in a row, he soon returned to Little Sam's repair shop with a disappointed face.

  Those toilets are dirty enough, but there is no saltpeter like hoarfrost at the bottom of the wall, only all kinds of yellowed urine and feces stains, which make people sick to the stomach.

   "Why didn't saltpeter grow?"

   "Did someone scrape it away? Probably not. There are no scratches on the wall... Is it because the toilets in Sheshou Town are built with stones instead of clods?"

  In his memory, the president of the dirt toilet in the countryside is saltpeter.

  It may be that something in the soil reacted with the urine to form saltpeter. After replacing it with stones, the reaction cannot occur, so the saltpeter will not grow.

   In short.

  The idea of ​​making money by scraping toilet saltpeter was shattered.

   I stayed up until I got off work at night, but I didn’t think of a good way to make money. When I got home, I cooked white rice and steamed sausages. I was so shy that I only had this food at home.

   On the card machine interface of the Lingfan Cooker, the light of the stored spirit card inserted has dimmed.

   "If you don't get any more money, I'm afraid you won't even be able to use your spiritual power." Duke sighed, and took out a spirit card with a slightly damaged cover from his pocket, dazed.

   This is his spirit dragon card.

  It is equivalent to a bank card on the earth. The Dragon Coin issued by the Seven Towers Federation is inconvenient to trade, so the arcane masters have developed the Spirit Dragon Card. You only need to swipe the Spirit Dragon Card to buy and sell.

   "The balance seems to be 57 copper dragons left, it's miserable!"

   "However, this kind of spirit card is really amazing." Duke put away his negative emotions and began to divert his attention, focusing on the spirit dragon card in his hand and the spirit storage card inserted in the spirit rice pot.

   Both cards are spirit cards.

  Sealing the spirituality in the form of an energy circuit, and then rubbing it on a card for storage, this is the technical principle of the Spirit Card.

  The storage card stores a large amount of stable spiritual energy, and the spiritual dragon card is directly connected to the bank. These magical spiritual cards are just the simplest technology under the spiritual arcane system.

   "This is the extraordinary power I can touch. If I don't open the spiritual sea, this is probably the only extraordinary power I can touch."

   "The spiritual sea must be opened as soon as possible!"

  Eat, wash dishes, no night life, sleep.

   After tossing and turning for a long time, Duke fell asleep in the hope of the future.

  …

vaguely.

  Duke felt himself drifting into a starry place.

  There are many stars, infinitely wide, and the surroundings are dark, like the deep sea.

   "It's here, I'm back!" Duke's thinking became clear, he already understood that he was in a dream, "Same as last night, I came to the spiritual sea again through the dream."

  Looked towards the direction where the starlight was most intense.

  The stars are guarding two star-like eye clusters. When Duke leaps closer, one can see that one of the eye-catching light is shaped like a mobile phone, and the other eye-catching light is shaped like a pistol.

   "My golden finger!"

"wait for me!"

  (end of this chapter)