Chapter 309 Potassium, Calcium, Sodium, Magnesium and Aluminum, the Patient Will Follow You
When Grete was so poor that he couldn't even afford a shadowless lamp - no, even 1/36 of a shadowless lamp, he once studied how to rub an inextinguishable flame by hand at a low cost.
The research conclusion is that the reason why this thing is expensive is the enchantment. The reason why the enchantment is expensive is mainly because of the material - it requires ruby powder!
This is too expensive! Ruby is something that the kingdom’s local production can only bring tears to. If you want to use it in large quantities, you have to either smuggle it from the kingdoms under the rule of the Glorious Holy See, or smuggle it from the orc wilderness further away, or transport it from the Southern Black Continent and the New World... The Southern Black Continent is basically all in Under the rule of the Glorious Holy See!
Grete couldn't figure it out even to the point of death, why must rubies be used? Isn't that thing just aluminum oxide? If mixed with a little chromium, it will be red, if mixed with a little iron or titanium, it will be blue, if mixed with other elements, it will be other colors... Then why not just use alumina? Or, just use aluminum…
But when he thought about how easy it was to smelt aluminum, and that there was a time in history when it was more expensive than gold, he felt relieved again. After all, rubies that are fragmented, have a lot of impurities, and are not in good quality can be ground into powder. If you don’t make metal aluminum or anything like that, the cost is so expensive!
Gretel was interested in tinkering with electrolytic aluminum, but he lacked the conditions and couldn't develop electrolytic skills. After he clicked on the skill tree, he dived into bacterial culture again. Electrolytic aluminum? It seems that a group of senior brothers and sisters in Aurora are playing various electrolysis games. Let them play. It would be nice to have something to play with.
Okay, now that someone is forcing him, Grete remembers this. The first step when I remembered this was to rub the electrolytic aluminum with my own hands - what were I thinking, of course I checked the literature!
Gretel held the badge and went straight to the control room at the top of the tower:
"MOSS, please help me look up papers related to electrolysis."
"Good master. Search papers, keywords, electrolysis. MOSS will search for you immediately, please wait."
Ta Ling answered without hesitation. One of the benefits of having a high-level mage tower is that you can directly check documents through the tower spirit. It is said that the White Tower and several mage towers on the peak can be checked immediately after new papers are uploaded;
The high-level mage towers around Nevis City can be checked as long as they have been uploaded for more than half a month;
I'm sorry for the high-level mage towers in other places. Depending on the frequency of maintenance by the council, it will usually be half a year to a year behind;
Ordinary mage towers in other places, like the one Gretel used to stay in, the mage tower in Heartland City... It is better to subscribe to the magazine yourself. As for the papers that have not been published, they are generally invisible...
MOSS is very efficient in querying papers. The crystal ball flashed a few times, and a light screen was projected. There were ten items on a page, including the title of the paper, keywords, and abstract. Grete flipped through a few pages and discovered that since he figured out the electrolysis technology last year, countless magicians have been working on it, and they have published more than 100 papers!
"That's great! I don't need to perform electrolysis myself anymore!" Gretel was excited. It is indeed right to spread the technology! How many technology trees can one person promote? With so many magicians working together, this is the right way to promote the progress of the Parliament!
As for the fact that there are too many papers and it’s difficult to search, that’s too easy to solve...
"MOSS, search keywords, electrolysis, new substances."
"MOSS, search keywords, electrolysis, metal."
After checking it out, Grete was overjoyed. In the plasticity department and the transformation department, a magician in each department claimed that he had made a "strange white metal". Grete spent one contribution point per paper to print out the two papers, and found that they even measured the density, hardness, melting point and other indicators of the metal, and the gap between the indicators was quite large...
Are they two metals? Gretel went to the trading center and bought both metals, and then asked Mr. Norwood to try enchanting. Not long after, Mr. Norwood ran over holding a silver rod with a shocked face:
"Boss, where did you find this? It's so useful!"
"Does it work?"
"It works!"
These two silvery-white metals - one lighter, the other slightly heavier - were used to enchant the Eternal Flame, and both produced quite good results. The heavier one, Grete guessed, was aluminum. It cast spells more smoothly than ruby powder, consumed less magic power, and lasted longer (Grete guessed that was because ruby powder of poor quality contained a lot of impurities after all).
The result of enchanting with magnesium is that the silver rod emits an extremely dazzling white light!
"Okay! Mr. Norwood, please write a paper. Let's give the paper and the two metals to Archmage Tolga!"
Archmage Tolga is like a treasure. It can even be said that the entire alchemy workshop is like a treasure. The raw materials for making these two metals, the former is cryolite and bauxite, and the latter is bitter earth and dolomite, are produced in large quantities in the kingdom. No more messing with ruby powder!
That thing is thin, crumbly, and hard. It's painful to grind it. Why don't you grind it? The enchantment is not easy to use!
Finally, I no longer have to deal with all kinds of low-grade ruby mines!
Archmage Tolga, Mr. Norwood, and the two magicians who electrolyzed strange metals plunged into research to increase production. Set up a hydroelectric generator, wind the coil to increase the voltage, increase the current, make a larger mercury arc rectifier, a larger electrolyzer...
What?
Want Gretel to attend someone's funeral?
What do you want to take back?
Let him die! Oh, it's a funeral, right? That damn person has died long ago...
The School of Change turned collectively and directly rejected Baron Hopman's request. Grete himself happily led the students to start the practical work of treating infectious diseases.
The hospital was finally completed, and the group of apprentices led by Grete were finally able to independently conduct bacterial culture microscopy for many infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. The question now is, where to find patients?
Staying in a treatment center?
Go to various temples and ask if there are any patients with infectious diseases. Please remember to turn around.
Or are you like the priests of the Order of the God of Nature, or like Dr. Bell in the previous life, walking the streets and alleys looking for patients?
Wait for the plague to break out in the city and then go around arresting people?
It's not impossible, but when a large number of ready-made cases are needed to teach students, this method of waiting for patients to drop from the sky is obviously inconvenient. Grete decided to take a multi-pronged approach and asked the temple, the religious order, and the city hall to all come together. Then, he took two young priests from the God of Nature Order and went to the treatment center in the port area.
I haven’t seen you for a while, but the treatment center is still the same. Businessmen, clerks, and apprentices came and went. Occasionally, poor people in shabby clothes with sad faces hesitated back and forth at the entrance of the treatment center, wanting to enter but stopping. Around dinner time, there will be injured dockworkers limping with blood on their arms or legs, coming in to see if they can get some treatment, or mothers rushing in with their children in their arms...
All in all, the stationed priests were basically able to handle it skillfully, and Gretel did not find any signs of infectious diseases, requiring him to activate an emergency plan.
Two peaceful and leisurely days passed. At noon on the third day, Gretel was quietly reading a book in the treatment center. Suddenly, there was a rush at the door, and a group of crew members rushed in:
"Lord Priest!—Lord Priest, help!"
Gretel stood up suddenly. In just a moment, the ground in the treatment center was already covered with blood:
There were at least twenty or thirty crew members sent in. The head was bruised and bleeding, the arm was suspected to be broken, the leg was suspected to be broken, the person was moaning loudly, the person was unconscious... The worst wounded person was carried by two people, and two people supported him one after the other. Body, don't let him shake:
A long iron bar penetrated from his back to his chest, running through his entire body!
It wasn't too far from the port to here, but the injured had already bled an unknown amount, and almost all of his clothes were stained red. The material of the clothes is good, but the skin on the face and hands is rough. He is obviously a sailor - maybe a high-ranking sailor. Next to him was an old man, panting, his woolen coat covered with blood. As soon as he entered the door, he slapped his money bag on the table:
"Master Priest, please save him first! He is my son!"
Grete and Pastor Matthew jumped up together. Pastor Matthew shouted:
"Everyone, come out! Aaron, you go to the God of War Temple and call someone! Franz, you go to the Spring Water Temple! Call the high-level priest! It must be high-level! We can't handle this kind of injury!"
Grete had already pounced on the wounded, quickly looking at them and sorting them quickly. For those with broken arms, sit down, and for those with broken legs, do the same while sitting down. For those who are bleeding, throw in a tourniquet, gauze, etc., and point them to the position of the binding, or instruct them to hold it firmly. While looking over his shoulder, he turned back and shouted to the two apprentices he had brought with him:
"Tear off the wounded's clothes! Tear them off! If it doesn't work, cut them off! Clean the skin, clean the area around the wound with alcohol, and wait for us to take over!"
He took a quick look around and sorted out all the patients whose lives were not in danger and could be postponed. Returning to the center of the hall, the upper body clothes of the wounded man with a penetrating wound had all been cut off, revealing his bare back. An iron bar on the right rear side was particularly scary.
Pastor Matthew bowed his head and prayed to the wounded, and white lights fell one after another, but he did not dare to touch the iron bars. The leader of the old man had a frown on his face and was pacing beside him:
"Master Priest, how are you? Can you be saved?... Can you be saved?"
"It's hard to say..." Pastor Matthew finished a prayer, looked up and sighed. "I can only help him hold on as long as possible until a high-level healer comes over to see if the thing can be pulled out. Alas, this injury is too dangerous, I am not sure at all..."
"How long will it take for them to get here?"
"If everything goes well, it will take at least an hour... Sigh, I don't know if I can hold on... Bring me the healing potion! Get more!"
Grete stood silently beside him. He called an apprentice to hold an [Endless Ink Pen], squatted opposite the injured person, and used [Detection Magic] to check repeatedly. After a while, he raised his head and said:
"Otherwise...can I help?"
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Great Little Theater:
Master Tolga: How many days can it take to write a thesis on genetic diseases?
Gretel (thinking): At least a few batches of peas need to be planted, it will probably take three years...
Tolga (surprised): Three years is too long!
Grete: No, I remembered, I have a plant regeneration spell! One week, I’ll give you the paper in one week!
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