Chapter 121 The Messenger (Monthly Ticket Plus)
When Gervis and Anna arrived at the hall, not long after, a messenger dressed as a butler was brought in by Thomas.
When the messenger dressed as a butler came to Gervis, he saw the huge wolf head on Gervis's desk and chair, and the sharp teeth exposed in the wolf's mouth. His pupils shrank and his body trembled slightly. Fortunately, he was now representing his master and did not dare to show anything that would damage Baron Pat's face. He tried his best to suppress the panic just now.
"Dear Baron, my master Baron Pat asked me to bring you my most sincere greetings!"
After Baron Pat's messenger came to Gervis, he bowed to him and then spoke to him in a respectful tone.
"Thank you for your greetings, Baron Pat. I wonder why Baron Pat sent you to my castle this time?"
Gervis sat in his special seat with his back straight, stroking the storm wolf head on the armrest with his right hand. Although Thomas and Anna did not notice the messenger's behavior just now, it did not escape Gervis's eyes. This made Gervis suspect that he must look like those mountain kings in the movies on Earth.
"Dear Baron, this is a letter written by my master, Baron Pat, please have a look!"
The messenger immediately took out an envelope from his pocket, bent down and held it forward.
When Anna, who was next to Gervis, saw this, she immediately stepped forward, took the envelope and handed it to Gervis.
Gervis took the envelope, peeled off the wax, took out the letter and began to read.
"Sir Gervis, I am very sorry to send someone to disturb you, but as your neighbor, I feel it is necessary to visit you to enhance the relationship between you and me. In order not to appear abrupt, I specially sent a servant to deliver a letter. I will leave tomorrow and arrive at your castle with my friendship and gifts! - Pat Bowyer"
Before picking up the letter, Gervis was still wondering whether Baron Pat wanted to invite him to a banquet or something like that, but after reading the letter, Gervis was a little confused.
People who want to build closer neighborhood ties usually invite guests to visit, but Baron Pat went the other way and just said he wanted to visit Gerves's house. How thick-skinned does he have to be to visit a stranger's house for no reason?
Fortunately, Baron Pat said he would bring gifts, otherwise Gervis would have thought that Baron Pat had encountered some difficulties and couldn't afford to eat so he wanted to come to him for a free meal.
"Did Lord Pat tell us why he was coming tomorrow?"
Gervis put down the letter, looked at the messenger and asked him.
"My Lord Baron, I am very sorry. My master did not give me any extra instructions. He only asked me to bring you his sincere greetings and this letter."
When the messenger heard Gervis's answer, he withdrew his gaze from the strange storm wolf's head and replied to Gervis respectfully.
"Well, in that case, please tell Baron Pat for me that I very much welcome his visit and look forward to his arrival tomorrow!"
Since he couldn't get anything out of the messenger, Gervis didn't think any more about it. Anyway, he would know tomorrow why Baron Pat was looking for him.
"Yes, my Lord Baron, I will convey your words to my master. I will take my leave now!"
After the messenger wrote down Gervis' words, he immediately bowed to him.
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After Pat's messenger left, Gervis came to the vestibule and walked to the stone house where gunpowder was stored. Since a fence was built here, Gervis moved his grenade manufacturing workshop from the mill to here. The fence here can prevent people from sneaking into the stone house. More importantly, this place is far away from the city wall and the castle wall. Even if an accident occurs, the explosion will not cause huge damage to the castle.
He named this place the laboratory. Although the servants didn't understand, as long as Gervis said he was going to the laboratory, Anna would wait for him obediently in the inner castle and would not follow him, because only Gervis could enter this laboratory.
Ever since the successful test explosion of the simple grenade, Gervis has been thinking about how to make a new fuse. This is because the fuse made the first time was too simple and burned very quickly, so the fuse needed to be lengthened to ensure its own safety. However, a fuse that is more than two meters long cannot be used in actual combat and is completely useless. Therefore, Gervis has been experimenting with what material is more suitable for making the fuse.
In order to slow down the burning speed of the fuse, but not too slow, Gervis first thought of reducing the content of gunpowder, but found that it was useless.
Then Gervis started with the materials. He first replaced paper with linen thread, but it was not ideal because linen thread did not absorb water. The gunpowder stuck to it would easily fall off after drying and would most likely go out after being ignited and thrown out. Yesterday, Gervis finally thought of something, which was cotton. Because the cotton production in this world was not high, cotton was even more popular with the nobles than wool. Only the nobles could afford cotton clothes, and Gervis only had two sets of cotton clothes in total.
After thinking of cotton, Gervis immediately took out one of his cotton coats and pulled out a handful of cotton from the small hole in the coat. The hole in the coat was cut by Gervis when he went to the Dark Forest that day, and the cotton used to plug his nose was also dug out from the coat.
After getting the cotton, Gervis rolled it into a thin rope, then mixed the gunpowder into the soup from boiled wheat. When the two were mixed together, the gunpowder became sticky and not easy to fall off. He then soaked the cotton rope in it. When he took it out, the entire cotton rope was full of gunpowder, and Gervis just left it to dry.
Today, Gervis dared to come here just to test whether the cotton fuse could achieve the expected effect. When Gervis picked up the black, long and thin fuse, he directly cut a small section with scissors, and then came to the open space outside the house and ignited the cotton fuse with fire starter.
hiss~
1, 2, 3...7, 8!
“Haha! Success!”
After lighting a five or six centimeter long fuse, Gervis was surprised to find that the burning speed of the cotton fuse just met his expectations, which was exactly the same as the burning speed of the fireworks in his previous life. As long as the length of the fuse was controlled well, the grenade could be used safely.
The success of the fuse means that Gervis's grenade will soon be ready for production and can be used in actual combat.
At the same time, it also means that he can go looking for trouble with the unicorn again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If he can really kill the unicorn with this grenade, then Gervis will definitely make a fortune. 1,800 kilograms of monster meat is worth more than 80 gold coins, and the unicorn's horn must be worth a lot of money. Thinking of this, Gervis' heart became hot, and he quickly took care of the stone house and prepared to go to the blacksmith shop to get the iron pipe he had ordered the day before yesterday. It was Gervis who asked Bernard to forge it in order to make grenades.
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