Chapter 345 New Weapons

In the East, Mr. Lu Xun gave up medicine to pursue literature, and in the West, Augustus gave up medicine to pursue military affairs.

Jian Yu couldn't help but admire his ambition.

Augustus sat up, tremblingly grasped Jian Yu's shoulders, tears welling up in his eyes:

"Attack hospitals, kidnap patients, torture therapists... I have always been prepared to assume the worst of You-Know-Who and his Death Eaters, but I never expected or believed they would be so brutal."

He woke up as if from a dream, returned from his ideal to reality, and cried:

"My dream was originally very perfect. After graduating from Hogwarts, I cured the suffering of patients. Now, during the war, I come to be a researcher and promote the healer's research on complementary medicine."

He sniffed his nose and quickly wiped his hand across his face so that his tears would not wet Jian Yu's research schedule:

"But can medicine cure the old-fashioned and stubborn people in the wizarding world who believe in pure-bloodism and wizard supremacy?"

A wave of depression gathered in his heart, causing him to tightly grasp Jian Yu's hands again, crying bitterly:

"If everyone had opened their eyes to the Muggles earlier and extracted the nitroglycerin, even if they stole from a Muggle hospital every day, they could have accumulated a ton of nitroglycerin, and then used magic to catalyze the Death Eaters' magic defenses, and thrown it into the deep mountains and forests where they were hiding, wouldn't they have been cured long ago?"

Jian Yu opened his mouth but swallowed back the words "You probably can't get a ton."

In his grief and indignation, Augustus resolutely issued his final cry:

"St. Mungo's wouldn't have to suffer this disaster, the Aurors wouldn't have to die, and Hippocrates wouldn't have to live in uncertainty!"

The passion of emotion, the breadth of structure, and the unique perspective in his words amazed Jian Yu.

"...The best defense is offense. Throw bombs to kill all the Death Eaters and no one will get hurt. I think you have figured out this truth..."

While she was amazed, she was already thinking quickly in her mind:

The anti-curse vestments and hats have been produced, and the next stage of work is to research and produce simple munitions to sell to the Ministry of Magic.

It is better to open up than to block. Instead of blindly preventing the occurrence of production safety accidents, it is better to create a better explosion environment for researchers.

Since Augustus had such great ambitions and was so interested in chemistry——

With the powerful armor spell's anti-curse cloak to protect him, he would not be carried away by the explosion to see Merlin...

She could easily give him the important part of this task - the improved magic explosives.

"That's a very ambitious goal, Augustus. If you can do that, you'll be the father of the wizarding version of dynamite. You deserve an Order of Merlin, First Class, and I'm sure the Pye family tree will have a page dedicated to you."

Jian Yu first gave him endless encouragement with words, and then stuffed the full production research plan into his hands, motioning him to look at the "weapons and equipment" column on it.

Considering that the wizarding world has no foundation in hot weapons, most of these are simple and easy-to-manufacture equipment.

"A modified version of Muggle weapons." She introduced, "The improvement of explosives is the key. It must be tempered with magic power to break the Death Eaters' magic defense."

"Merlin..." Augustus murmured, "Indeed, this is what I want to do..."

He then looked down, only to find that the parchment was filled with words that he could hardly understand, but this did not prevent him from feeling the sophistication and advancedness of the words. It was a style of weapon that he could not imagine.

"Magic mines? Magic grenades... magic wand silencers...?"

"Magic pistol? Magic combined cannon...?"

"An unmanned invisible reconnaissance broom...?"

Augustus felt so shocked that he stopped breathing!

These strange words appeared before him like a magnificent dream, bringing him to a whole new world.

Combining the essence of wizard magic and Muggle technology into one, that is a bright future for wizards!

He thought that his acceptance of Muggle ideas was out of tune with the world... This often made him, an idealist, feel frustrated and painful...

He even sometimes felt that he shouldn't show his interest in Muggle medicine, and that he was wrong...

But since he came to Jian Yu's laboratory, he met a group of like-minded people——

He then realized that it was not him who was wrong, but those old-fashioned people who were complacent.

Here, he saw the future!

He saw that Jian Yu had already gone faster and farther than any wizard who was closed in his own world! She is his role model, his goal!

At this moment, he already admired her to the extreme!

Seeing that Augustus didn't look up or say anything for a long time, Jian Yu couldn't help feeling a little uncertain.

"Well, what can we do?" She sighed. "I know they are all very backward, like equipment for cavemen, and Muggles won't even look at them... But who told wizards to focus on magic instead of technology? There is no industrial foundation, and a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice... I would like to make tanks, armored vehicles, and airplanes, but I don't have the foundation... I'd better make do with what I have."

Anyway, it's just to deal with Death Eaters, so these basic weapons...she thought they should be enough, right?

But what she never expected was that Augustus suddenly raised his head and opened his mouth wide, objecting in surprise:

"What did you say? They are backward? No, it is my thinking that is too backward. I did not meet you early and follow your footsteps. That is why I wasted so much time that the wizards could not enter the next era! I repent that I have held the wizards back!"

He suddenly stood up, as if he had regained all his vitality and energy, and began to chant loudly:

"The chemical substances extracted by Muggles are not that dangerous in themselves. Many of the things they call dangerous goods are difficult to break through the Shielding Charm even if they explode. But if they are transformed by wizards' magic, the situation will be completely different: its properties will change greatly. For example, nitroglycerin that has been concentrated and catalyzed by magic is much more powerful."

He paced back and forth, seemingly considering a hundred ways to alter the magical properties of nitroglycerin:

"We need to ensure the stability of their storage in the bomb, and also ensure that they can react violently after a certain period of time when magic power is input, in order to make a qualified bomb... Maybe I should take Fred and George's semi-finished grenade for observation. That thing only casts a useless small-scale blasting spell, and it must be explosive... We can also try to combine multiple spells with it..."

"But what if the Death Eaters transform it? Or what if they throw it back? So we have to add anti-transfiguration spells to counter the repulsion spell, and its power cannot be so strong that our anti-curse vestments cannot deal with it... Merlin, although the idea is very simple, there are too many things to consider when it comes to making it..."

Augustus, forgetting everything around him and immersed in his research, hurried to the laboratory.

After a while, a familiar explosion sounded from inside.