Chapter 188 Saltpeter Ranch and Devil Breeding Industry

With Henry Worden's perceptual attributes, one could certainly hear what they were saying.

But even though he could understand every word, he couldn't understand it at all when he connected it together... There were even many transliterated words that he had never heard before, which were similar to terms.

For a saint, he accidentally discovered that there was knowledge that he did not understand at all.

This is undoubtedly a rather novel and rare experience.

Seeing St. Henry again, the players suddenly became serious and stopped fighting each other, but gave him a respectful salute.

"About this..."

Lin Yiyi was also very confused.

She is not very clear, how to explain this to the saint.

It feels like explaining game terminology to an amiable but already grandparents teacher...

It's probably called the generation gap.

At this moment, Jiu'er was the first to speak to him:

"—Can we touch his body?"

"...touch the body? Jacob's?"

The saint was stunned for a moment: "But... does he have a corpse?"

Afterwards, Henry Worden quickly responded: "Oh... do you want trophies?

"That's no problem. I can be sure that there are no other golden-rank fallen people in their hometown. Be a little careful and vigilant when you search. Based on your strength, there shouldn't be any big problems."

He wasn't really that interested in what the players were talking about before.

Since the topic was diverted, he didn't bother to go back.

He just patiently introduced to the players: "Follow this road until you reach the door of a barber shop. Then turn into the alley on the left, turn right when you reach the end, and you will reach the backyard of the 'Saltpeter Ranch'. ."

"Speaking of..."

Si Anke asked curiously, "Why is this place called Saltpeter Ranch?"

Smelling the increasingly obvious smell of sulfur, seeing such a destructive wizard approaching him, Henry also subconsciously took a half step back and pursed his lips in fear.

This made Si Anke a little surprised.

...So his deterrent power is also effective against such an immortal saint?

As expected of the School of Destruction, there are cards!

"This has something to do with your school of destruction."

The saint slowly opened his mouth and said, "You may not know that the gunpowder required for firearms contains a certain proportion of nitrate."

"...Well, I know."

Si Anke's expression was a bit complicated.

He never imagined that one day he would be given serious chemistry content by outsiders.

It was not easy for him to hold back his own question and seize the sage's urge to start chatting about potassium nitrate—he was still a college student after all, and he hadn't forgotten the content of the college entrance examination.

But he thought about it, if he wanted to pretend to be the compulsion of this transmigrator, he would try to pretend to himself.

"And one of the main sources of nitre is saltpeter. But saltpeter has to be processed before it can be used to make leather, or to make gunpowder powder, dyes, transformation mixtures and the like."

The saint said solemnly: "But,

The Fallen - or the blood of the Fallen, which has been completely eroded by the curse and turned into a demon, if fresh enough, add it to fermented urine and mix it before throwing in explosives or spells directly By making it explode, it can directly produce saltpeter powder with a relatively high purity that can be directly used to make gunpowder. It was an accidental discovery by a wizard of destruction, and it took generations of optimization to become a usable recipe.

"In other words, if demons are controllable enough, they are actually valuable for breeding... As far as I know, there are several cities underground that use it to make nitrates, and they generally use this method.

"After all, compared to purifying from saltpeter, urine and blood are cheaper and inexhaustible... The so-called saltpeter ranch actually means breeding demons."

"……I see."

The four nodded silently.

Because there are too many grooves in this conversation, he feels that he can't spit out the grooves in his stomach.

"Then I'll leave." The young man with scars saw that everyone was silent for a moment, and he didn't find another topic. He just smiled at everyone and nodded, "Goodbye by fate, everyone."

Then, he walked in the other direction.

Si Anke and the other three kept silent, watching his back disappear.

"I feel like you're being choked by something..."

Lin Yiyi whispered.

The four silently nodded.

In fact, he was still a little wary of this saint.

Although it seems friendly these days...

But what if the position is different in the future?

In that case, what he is talking about with this big brother now will become the difficulty of the dungeon that will be improved in the future. If he accidentally enlightens him and creates something that is sick, then he will still be the one who will take the blame in the end.

Unlike his sister, Si Anke has always been vigilant and alienated towards people.

Speaking of which, he suddenly had an idea.

Although it is not sure whether the knowledge of this world and the earth is universal... For example, there is no oil and crude oil in this world at all. And whether it is the records of this world, or the exploration they went to various places after they dispersed, they have never found traces of crude oil...

There is coal and natural gas. And the level of development and awareness is not low.

Even the value of coal and gas fields is even greater than the value of mining areas - even if they already have clean alternative resources similar to "crude oil" such as black fire and green fire, the strategic reserves of coal mines are still very important.

And one of the raw materials for the conversion of Heihuo is the stored natural gas - there is a very precious gas well at the bottom of the black tower in Zedi. It's so taken seriously that players can't even get in. Green fire is much simpler... It is a safe energy source for secondary transformation with black fire, and the black fire used to transform green fire will be specially treated and mixed with stabilizers to prevent it from exploding.

Although it looks very similar, it has been tested by players who are familiar with this aspect. Black fire and green fire are not crude oil and natural gas liquid at all. Their combustion efficiency is simply not applicable to civilization at this stage.

It can be said that without the two transformation products of black fire and green fire, the civilization of this steam age should not exist at all.

The transformation into black fire and green fire is the way the wizards in this world use natural gas - I don't know what method they used, but they can use a special formula and conversion process to make natural gas with relatively stable properties and outrageous combustion efficiency. black and green fire.

The former contains higher and more intense energy, while the latter is more gentle and controllable. Because green fire is a flame that "will never explode", the temperature is also very low, and it will not easily burn children.

It's also quite cheap - this is the decision of the owner of the Hugo Tower, who decided to make the green fire recipe public. A Bronze-rank transformation wizard can stably produce enough green fire for a town; and the consumption of green fire to supply the whole city for cooking is only three to four barrels of black fire per day.

After that, Master Benjamin further optimized the formula: as long as three apprentice-level wizard apprentices are together, the transformation from black fire to green fire can be completed, and the amount of black fire spent is directly reduced to one third. . If there is no black fire, coal or charcoal can also be used for alternative conversion, and the efficiency is much higher than the direct use of coal and charcoal.

This price, including labor costs, is apportioned to each household, which is almost the same as buying firewood directly. The quality of the flame is much higher than that of firewood, and you only need to put in a coin to vent the gas. You don't need to carry firewood and burning wood for heating in winter, and store them carefully. Instead, you save a lot of money.

Benjamin has indeed fulfilled his promise to Evelyn - he will make it possible for every household to light a lamp and cook a meal.

Even the town residents of Noah's Kingdom have gradually developed the custom of drinking hot water... This is also because the burning cost is getting lower and lower.

Before that, wanting to drink boiled water was actually a luxury in this world.

Not to mention the black fire... but the "green fire" technology is even more advanced than the earth. And there is no crude oil in this world, which makes people doubt whether the knowledge on earth can be used normally here.

If they randomly propose the formula of their world, and then find that it is useless in this world, or already has it, or is too inefficient - it will be a waste of Annan's time.

But when Annan takes the throne, this will not be a big problem.

They just need to give directions and ask His Majesty Annan to send scholars to try it.

Don't ask how you came up with it. Asking is stealing. Don't ask about it and work hard.

Thinking of this, Si Anke suddenly moved in his heart.

He realized that as a sabotage wizard, it seemed that he had prepared too little dangerous goods...

"You go first, take my luggage," he told his companions, "I'll go buy some spell casting materials... I'll move lightly, and I'll be able to catch up with you soon."

"Okay, then come quickly."

Lin Yiyi responded quickly.