Chapter 610 Zuo Tianxuan

Dawn 710.

West District of Xingcheng, suburbs.

At dawn, Zuo Tianxuan, who was killing enemies on the battlefield in his dream, was awakened by a heavy metal knocking sound. When he opened his eyes, he saw a dim room with only a little light coming in through the gaps in the curtains from outside.

Muttering something, he turned over and covered himself with the quilt to continue sleeping.

But less than five minutes after closing his eyes, Zuo Tianxuan opened his eyes again and looked up at the clock with fluorescent hands placed on the bedside.

He found that the time was already 5:37.

Realizing that if he didn't get up, what awaited him next would be a beating from his grandfather, he got up decisively.

Feeling sore in his back, he dragged his tired body to wash and clean up, then put on a black vest and went downstairs.

Walking out of the house, the cold air suddenly hit.

The dim world was covered with goose feathers of white snow, and the cold wind was howling and sweeping, blowing the grass and trees in the distance to tilt and sway. At this time, only the cleaning robot was still working on the street, and there was no figure in sight.

Attacked by the cold wind, Zuo Tianxuan shuddered, and his muddled mind suddenly became much clearer.

He rubbed the hairs on his arms that stood up because of the cold, and shrank his body to run to a building not far away.

This building is very distinctive. There is a huge iron hammer on the roof. From a distance, it looks like the building was flattened by an iron hammer falling from the sky.

The heavy sound of metal knocking came from this building, waking him up from his sleep.

Stepping into the building, the heat wave rolled in, and the cold air that swept around was swept away. What appeared in front of Zuo Tianxuan was a huge calcining furnace.

At this time, an old man with white hair and beard and naked upper body was busy in front of the furnace. Although he was old, the old man's spirit was excellent. The muscles in his upper body bulged, and the veins on his arms were full of blue veins. He looked very powerful.

"Grandpa, I'm here."

"I don't need your help today, just watch from the side and learn well."

The old man glanced at Zuo Tianxuan, and continued to cast his eyes on the flames burning in the stove, then opened his mouth and roared:

"Old man, where have you been, come and heat it up!"

Hearing the old man's shout, the door of the room in the house was knocked open, and a fiery red vicious dog with flame patterns on its forehead ran quickly to the stove, opened its mouth and spit flames into the stove, and the temperature in the stove began to rise immediately, and the whole room was filled with heat waves.

Zuo Tianxuan's head was immediately covered with fine beads of sweat in the heat wave.

"Old man, that's enough."

"Burp!" The fiery red vicious dog stopped spitting flames, and then burped again, with two wisps of flames flowing out of its nostrils. The vicious

dog that Grandpa called his old friend was called the Flame Dog. It was a spirit beast that had broken through the third-stage bloodline shackles. Its average combat power could be ranked in the top 30 in the spirit beast illustrations, which was stronger than many high-level spirit beasts.

This Flame Dog was trained by Grandpa himself. When he was young, Grandpa won the runner-up of the Liuhuo Street Cup Championship in the West District of Star City.

As he grew older, Grandpa rarely took this Flame Dog to fight, and basically only used it for work.

Grandpa's job was quite special. He was a forger.

This was an ancestral profession. According to the family tree, as early as before the Dawn Year, his ancestor was a forger serving the front line. His

usual job was to tailor weapons and equipment for the front-line soldiers.

According to his grandfather, many weapons of the front-line heroes in the Star City History Collection were forged by their family.

The profession of forger was a very prestigious profession at the time. After all, it was not easy to design and forge spiritual weapons that could compete with domain creatures. It required extremely strong structural control capabilities. If you wanted to make a difference in this line, you needed extremely high talent.

But with the development of society, the profession

of forgers has gradually become desolate. In his current era, the custom weapon orders that Grandpa receives every month can barely cover his living expenses, and it is difficult to make any progress. Unlike the soldiers who used to need custom equipment, they had to make reservations in advance and pay a higher fee.

This is inseparable from the development of the times.

In the past, forgers were a very scarce profession in Xingcheng. After all, there was a large gap in weapons and equipment on the front line, and ordinary technological weapons could not meet the consumption and use of the front line.

This also led to the weapons used by frontline soldiers being taken back even after death, and hung in the store to continue to be sold to the next soldier, and the fees from the sale were sent to the families of the soldiers who died in the war.

But the development of the times has allowed Xingcheng to take many new paths.

Many professions are facing the embarrassing dilemma of being eliminated by the times, and forgers are one of them.

The forging of weapons in those days had to be given souls by the hands of forgers, but modern weapon production tends to be assembly-line-style.

With a fixed template, they can be mass-produced in the equipment forging factory.

However, this kind of mass production is limited to relatively low-level spiritual weapons. It is obvious that high-level spiritual weapons cannot meet the needs of tailor-made through mass production.

After all, the fit of mass-produced weapons and equipment cannot be compared with tailor-made ones.

It stands to reason that the profession of forger will be very popular in any era and should not be lonely.

But in terms of tailor-made weapons, the human race has a channel that can also obtain them in batches.

That is Destiny City.

There is a racial force in Destiny City that specializes in making profits by customizing weapons and equipment for other races.

This tribe is called the Forging Clan, and they have a very special miraculous prop called "Equipment Black Hole".

A ring can be used to summon and collect black holes.

The way to use this miraculous prop is very simple. You only need to put the materials into the black hole, and the black hole will automatically reorganize the fusion material structure and spit out equipment or weapons.

When using the equipment black hole, there is also a built-in data panel, which can be used to find weapons and equipment suitable for you by flipping through the illustrations, and then find materials according to the requirements of the illustrations. After the proportion is invested, the magic weapons on the illustrations can be spit out, and even mass production can be achieved.

This is still just the primary use of the equipment black hole.

It is not difficult to customize equipment. You can adjust the size of the equipment on the panel before investing in materials and carry out refined production.

(PS: The plot chapter of the relevant props is in Chapter 508, which was mentioned when Feng Qi went to Destiny City for the first time.)

Compared with the equipment black hole, the blacksmith is at a disadvantage in all aspects.

First of all, in terms of the speed of forging equipment, it takes at least several days for a blacksmith to forge a piece of equipment, depending on the strength of the weapon and equipment. If it is a special type of high-strength weapon, it may even take several months.

But the equipment black hole only needs to input materials according to the illustrations and wait for a few seconds to spit out a weapon and equipment tailored to the specifications.

Secondly, in terms of cost performance, the blacksmith is also completely at a disadvantage.

In the process of forging weapons and equipment, there will inevitably be material consumption. The utilization rate of materials cannot reach 100%, and the additional consumption needs to be borne by the equipment customizer himself. This is an unavoidable problem.

But the additional material consumption rate of the equipment black hole is 0.

It is not difficult to say that the blacksmith is at a disadvantage compared to the equipment black hole in terms of price and efficiency of forging equipment.

The most important thing is that the equipment made of the same materials is still at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

Spending more money and waiting longer, the equipment obtained is not as good as the equipment black hole output, which leads to the embarrassing dilemma of the blacksmith profession.

With the development of the times, the society's acceptance of Destiny City is getting higher and higher, resulting in a large number of new warriors who will choose the weapons and equipment produced by Destiny City without hesitation.

Every month, the messenger of Destiny City will take the list of weapons and equipment ordered by the front line or the academy to the Destiny City to customize the equipment in batches.

When this model is gradually accepted, the blacksmith industry gradually declines.

It is like the intangible cultural heritage before the disaster.

Although the blacksmith profession still exists, its significance is more inclined to historical inheritance. It is a symbol of the old times, and it is no longer an important profession at the forefront of the development of the times.

Simply put, the blacksmith profession has no effect on the development of the times.

It is just a product that should be eliminated by the times.

But my grandfather has been a blacksmith for a lifetime, and he doesn't want to give up like this. He has also thought of many ways to revive the blacksmith lineage.

It's just that his efforts seemed so small and powerless in front of the equipment black hole produced efficiently by the assembly line. All efforts were vulnerable in front of substantial interests.

But grandpa never thought of giving up.

After all, the equipment black hole is a miraculous prop, not a pure miracle prop. Grandpa carefully studied a series of equipment produced by the equipment black hole and found that there were obvious shortcomings and defects.

The weapons and equipment produced in batches by the equipment black hole actually have high limitations.

If there is any breakage or damage, it cannot be repaired. Often, it can only be discarded after being destroyed. Its structure has been connected as a whole.

In the past, there were also frontline soldiers who brought broken weapons to grandpa for repair, but grandpa failed after trying.

The broken weapons were taken to the forging clan who mastered the equipment black hole in the city of destiny. The forging clan also had no ability to repair the broken equipment.

Through this point, grandpa believed that the weapons and equipment produced by the equipment black hole had great limitations and lost the space for expansion, that is, the space for growth.

But the equipment produced by the forger is different.

Even if it is damaged, it can be repaired. Secondly, as the strength of the warrior holding the weapon and equipment increases, the weapon and equipment can be recast to improve the overall strength and lethality of the weapon.

In addition, Grandpa asked the messenger of destiny and learned that some special high-level spiritual ores are difficult for the equipment black hole to identify and decompose and reorganize.

After all, it is just a prop to prevent miracles. In addition to being affected by the material, the equipment produced by the equipment black hole has an obvious upper limit.

Equipment above a certain strength cannot be manufactured by the equipment black hole.

This is also the reason why Grandpa believes that the profession of blacksmith can be revitalized.

Zuo Tianxuan is very clear about Grandpa's thoughts. He believes that if the human race wants to become a powerful racial force, it must master the core technology itself. If it relies on the output of equipment black holes blindly, if this channel for obtaining equipment is cut off in the future.

For example, the forging race was exterminated, and their equipment black holes were looted by other races.

And the race that looted the equipment black holes did not have the idea of ​​doing business in the city of destiny, then the human race was equivalent to being cut off from the channel for obtaining weapons and equipment.

This is just one of the reasons.

During this period, Grandpa repeatedly found the head of the executive department of Star City, hoping to invest resources in the blacksmith industry and cultivate better blacksmiths.

In response to the inquiry from the head of the executive department of Star City, Grandpa said that the human race should not limit their thinking to the rapid and convenient output of weapons and equipment, but should look far ahead to the development of the situation in the future.

The strength requirements of future weapons and equipment will change with the increasingly harsh environment.

When the strength requirements of the human race for weapons and equipment exceed the upper limit of the equipment black hole, how to obtain better equipment will become a difficult hurdle that will block the development of the human race.

Only by continuing to ensure the development of the blacksmith profession, even if we encounter such difficulties in the future, we can try to break through by restarting the blacksmith profession.

Once the blacksmith lineage disappears completely, the foundation that has been worked hard to build will disappear.

Without a foundation, how can we build a tall building?

Grandpa's words persuaded the head of the executive department of Star City, and he submitted Grandpa's request to the Supreme Council of Star City.

The Supreme Council of Star City finally decided to support Grandpa to explore the future of the blacksmith lineage. Even if the equipment demand is still mainly produced by Destiny City at this stage, the human race must master the core technology and face the various challenges and variables that may exist in the future.

But Grandpa undoubtedly failed the expectations of the top leaders of Star City.

The forging building under his feet was specially built for him, equipped with a large number of advanced equipment, and even a free energy line was specially connected from the energy agency for Grandpa to use.

In the early days, a large number of apprentices were sent to Grandpa to learn and gain experience.

As a result, the upper limit of the equipment black hole was difficult for Grandpa to reach even

if he tried his best, and it can even be said that it was far from reaching. Manpower, resources, equipment, Star City satisfied Grandpa in all aspects, but Grandpa could not meet Star City’s expectations, and even found it difficult to break through the upper limit of his own forging technology. He was still making some ancient spiritual equipment.

Faced with Grandpa’s failure, the executive department of Star City also comforted Grandpa to continue working hard.

But as time went on, it was found that Grandpa still had no progress, and the support given to Grandpa by Star City was gradually decreasing.

Today, except for the building under my feet and the equipment that was once supported and given, all the forger apprentices who followed my grandfather have left.

They think there is no way out in this line.

Faced with the excellent performance of the forging black hole in mass production of customized equipment, my grandfather's painstaking forging seems to be very hard, but it is meaningless from the perspective of profit.

Decades of hard work have not yielded any results, and the top leaders of Star City have long lost their patience.

But the top leaders of Star City have not given up on the path of self-developed equipment. They always believe that my grandfather's idea is right. The human race must master its own core technology and cannot rely entirely on weapons and equipment produced by foreign races. They must always be prepared for the worst. Therefore, the top leaders of Star City have planned a self-developed route for psychic equipment, and my grandfather's oldest way of forging equipment is being gradually eliminated.

Grandpa's persistence is like a forger believer standing before dusk, looking forward to the sun rising again.

But what he saw was the gradually shrouded darkness.

Grandpa has walked this road all his life. He has the ambition to open up a road in his heart, but he has reached a point where he is powerless to turn the tide.

His father did not follow his grandfather and chose to continue on this ancestral path. He also quarreled with his grandfather over the inheritance of blacksmith technology. Now his father is working with the Silver Moon Clan in the Psychic Research Institute to conduct research on urban construction and rarely comes back to visit his grandfather.

As for him, he was raised by his grandfather since he was a child.

However, he was not good at studying. He wanted to go to the front line to kill the enemy, but because of various reasons such as physical fitness, he could not enter the combat academy for further studies, and his way to the front line was cut off.

When he learned that he did not even pass the lowest-level academy, he was sad.

But his grandfather was smiling, thinking that the future of the blacksmith lineage finally had successors.

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