Chapter 118 When Science Adds to the Magic Bullet
The periodic table is something that even junior high school students know. It can even be said to constitute the underlying logic for most civilized people in the 21st century to understand the world.
For something like this that is based on cognition, I have always used it as common sense, but I have never thought about how to prove it.
Does this need to be proven?
And how can this thing be proved in the game? I don’t know if it was deliberately arranged by the developers to test the limits of the physics engine. Miranda chased him like a sticky candy, following him wherever he went, squatting beside him when he was offline, and even if she disappeared for a while, she would suddenly pop up to scare him.
I didn't expect that the first time I was targeted by a stalker would be in a game, and it was an NPC at that.
After swallowing the chemical pool, I felt like crying but had no tears for a moment. I even began to regret wasting two days pretending to be so cool.
If his contribution points weren't that low, he would have wanted to just give away his life to get back to the resurrection point! He drank the chemical pool in one gulp. After thinking about it, there was only one possibility: the game's development team must have targeted him, so they used the game's mechanism to force him to test the game's physics engine.
Since there seems to be no point in hiding, it is better to just obey the shit planner. Maybe you can get a reward or something.
And he didn't believe it.
This crappy game can only reproduce one or two physical phenomena through code, can it also reproduce all the physical and chemical principles in reality?! If it is really that awesome, how can we explain magic?
With a decision in mind, he took a gulp of the chemical pool, stopped, and looked back at the ghost that was following closely behind him.
"Since you really want to learn, I can teach you... But I don't have any tools at hand right now, so you have to give me some time."
Miranda nodded in surprise.
"No problem! It doesn't matter how long you prepare! I can still help you!"
He now completely regarded the skeleton soldier in front of him as his teacher.
He took a gulp of the chemical pool and nodded approvingly. After saying "Follow me", he left the Misty Town and walked towards the Iron Fang City on the third level of the maze.
Some experiments are not convenient to do in Misty Town. Firstly, there are no tools there, and secondly, there are too many irrelevant people there.
He was afraid of causing trouble again and alerting the Demon King, which would result in his contribution points and favorability being deducted sharply. It was really not worth it.
As for Tieya City, there are no such concerns.
That is the headquarters of the Anxunsi Group. Not only is there a lot of ready-made garbage to pick up, but there is also a group of younger brothers who can help him pick up garbage outside and process parts for him.
It took about half a day to collect materials. He filled the chemical tank and took the bottles and cans picked up by the mole people to a corner where they would not get in the way.
Miranda followed closely behind him.
Both of them are undead, no monsters will be interested in them, and the experiments can basically be done outside the settlement.
Looking at Miranda following behind him, he stopped after taking a gulp of the chemical pool, the soul fire in his skull flickering with a serious light.
"First, you already know that the world is made up of 118 elements, right?"
"Yeah!" Miranda nodded, "What I want to know is how you prove this."
Having said this, he immediately added another sentence.
"Of course, I didn't ask you to prove the existence of all 118 elements at once... At least I want to know what the so-called 'difference between gases' is."
Everything has to be done step by step.
Being able to prove the limitations of the six basic elements is a breakthrough in itself. Before determining "what it is", he is more eager to figure out the question of "is it".
Looking at the ghost who was eager to learn, he took a gulp of the chemical pool and spoke.
"I will prove this to you, but before that, I have to popularize a basic concept to you..." He paused for a moment, cleared his throat and continued, "In fact, these 118 elements can be further divided."
Miranda was momentarily shocked.
"Can we still share?!"
As the saying goes, being half a step ahead is a genius, being ten steps ahead is a madman. Now he can't tell which one the skeleton in front of him belongs to.
What shocked him even more was that, according to the skeleton soldier, all the undead in the entire cemetery knew this theory.
If this is true, then how powerful must the demon king be who summoned these undead spirits who "not only have self-awareness but also have knowledge far beyond that of ordinary people"!
What appeared before him was just a lowest-level skeleton soldier!
Thinking of the man who saved him from Novel's mouth, Miranda now only regretted that he ran too far away because of fear, and did not have the time to say a word to him until the end.
A little afraid of that fanatical look, he drank the chemical pool in one gulp and quickly explained.
"That's right, but don't think too much about it... We can't observe smaller ones, so we can only guess at their existence."
In fact, considering the technology of the 21st century, this statement is inaccurate.
But after drinking the chemistry pool in one gulp, I am sure that if I introduce concepts such as quarks, leptons, propagators, etc., not only will this magic apprentice whose academic level is suspected to be only at the Renaissance level be confused, but I, a half-baked coder, will also be confused.
According to the world view of this game, scientific thinking has probably not yet emerged in this world.
In the face of medieval dogmatism, even the empiricism that prevailed from the 17th to the 19th century seemed a little too advanced.
In short, in order to prevent this guy from becoming a mad talker, I drank the chemical pool in one gulp and avoided more profound theories, only explaining them from a simple perspective.
"In short, the particles that make up the 118 elements are called 'elementary particles'."
"Elementary particles!!" Miranda memorized every unfamiliar word eagerly, like a dry sponge.
And after taking a sip of the chemical pool, he chose his words carefully and continued.
"In fact, elementary particles can be further divided, but that is still the realm of philosophy for now. In short, you just need to have this concept in your mind - our world is not just made up of six basic magic elements, but of atoms, and atoms can be further divided into smaller elementary particles..."
Rather than saying this is knowledge, it is better to say it is a perspective to understand the world. Just like the NPCs in the game world understand matter through objective natural phenomena such as feng shui, fire, earth, light and darkness, people in reality understand the world from another perspective.
When he said this, he took out a piece of rusty scrap iron and a piece of charcoal from the experimental tools and displayed them in front of Miranda.
"If we use the theory of magic elements to explain, how do you explain these two items?"
Miranda stared at the object in his hand for a moment and answered quickly.
"Iron, like copper, is a combination of earth and fire. When casting a spell, you need to use a spell to guide the combination of elements. If you want it to rust, you have to add wind element. Charcoal is a bit more complicated. It can be analyzed as a natural spell, or as a combination of earth and water elements, and finally integrated with fire element... Of course, we generally don't use spells to generate these complex and useless things."
Air magic and wind magic are different ways of saying the same thing. Magicians born in Xuebang are accustomed to using the concept of "air" from the classical period to discuss academic issues, but when it comes to the concept of elements, they are still accustomed to calling it wind element.
It is worth mentioning that the six elements are not fixed. The earliest five elements were wind, thunder, water, fire, and earth.
As time went by and people's cognition changed, wind and thunder merged into air, and the five basic elements became the four elements of air, water, fire, and earth. Together with life and death (the netherworld), they constituted the earliest six basic elements.
As for the six basic elements of "modern times" - wind, water, fire, earth, light, and darkness - they are concepts that emerged from the early Second Era, when the attribute of "light" was sanctified. Life and death are often discussed separately, rather than as one of the six basic elements.
"That's the problem. You use subjective impressions to study objective problems. It's like looking for a sword by carving a mark on a boat... Of course, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but our methods are completely different."
He swallowed the chemical pool and continued.
"We don't define matter by phenomenon, but directly study matter itself. For example, iron is the element iron, and the rusty iron in front of you is the combination of iron and oxygen."
"The oxygen element... is a type of wind element?" Miranda asked sharply, recalling what the skeleton soldier had said before.
"You can understand it this way. Most of the oxygen elements that can be found in nature exist in the form of gas," he continued after taking a gulp of the chemical pool. "And it is what I call a gas that supports combustion... Although its function is far more than just supporting combustion, it can also accelerate the oxidation of metals."
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with understanding rusty iron as a combination of earth, fire, and wind elements. The inability to understand this alternative perspective may be one of the reasons why most players find it difficult to use magic.
Most people can't even imagine this process, and won't even consider the problem from this "tricky" angle.
However, after listening to the ghost's explanation, I drank a gulp of the chemical pool and immediately understood what the so-called elemental magic was.
This is a spell system that is completely different from the Hades spell.
Its existence serves the caster's cognition and is centered on the caster himself. At the same time, this cognition is not just the caster's own cognition, but also the consensus of the vast majority of "conscious individuals" in the game world.
Iron comes from the soil, is smelted by fire, and rusted by wind... This is the consensus of the NPCs in the game world, or the people in this era! This is also the concept of "people's thoughts" guessed by Brother Yiyezhiqiu.
However, now is not the time to discuss this.
Looking at the ghost with surprise written all over his face, he took a gulp of the chemical pool, took out the experimental equipment, and began his demonstration.
There was no need to demonstrate that oxygen and water would cause iron to rust. What he wanted to demonstrate was to fill a container with rusty iron and charcoal ground into powder, mix and heat them, so that the rusty iron could be reduced to pure iron.
Not only that—
He also used a glass flask and a tube to collect the carbon monoxide gas produced in the process, and ignited it with a flint in front of Miranda.
He was very careful during this process, fearing that it would explode.
Fortunately, his experiment did not explode this time. Even though it failed several times due to careless operation, it was finally ignited successfully.
It turns out that gas can really burn!!! Unlike the successful swallowing of the chemical pool, Miranda was as excited as if he had seen Saint Sith descend to earth! Seeing Miranda excitedly approaching to smell the smell, swallowing the chemical pool in a gulp was so scary that he reached out and patted him on the back of the head.
As a result, the former smelled lonely, and the latter took pictures in vain.
This guy is a ghost. You can't touch him, and naturally you can't smell him.
"What are you doing?" Miranda asked in confusion, looking at the action of swallowing the chemical pool in surprise.
He swallowed a mouthful of chemical pool and coughed and said.
"I wanted to say this thing is poisonous... Well, I just remembered that you are a ghost, and no one can be poisoned to death by you."
Miranda: "Toxic?! Why???"
I almost vomited blood after taking a gulp of the chemical tank.
"You have a hundred thousand whys, right?!"
Miranda was stunned for a moment and said subconsciously.
"One Hundred Thousand Whys...What is it?"
"...Anyway, it is poisonous. Just remember it. As for why, you can research it yourself. I don't know either." After drinking the chemical pool in one gulp, he actually knew the answer, but he really didn't want to continue explaining.
Because once we explain this problem, we have to involve the fact that humans are made up of countless tiny things, and the name of this thing is "cells."
He forced himself to ignore the inquiring look in his eyes, took a gulp of chemistry and brought the conversation back to the topic he was going to talk about.
"In short, as you can see, different kinds of 'air' are different. Some air can burn, while others can put out flames. You can't explain this phenomenon with the simple six elements, so it can be concluded that the wind element can be further subdivided."
As he spoke, he filled the chemical pool with a gulp, and the exhaust gas produced after combustion covered the burning flame. The flame was dim for a while and soon went out.
Miranda's eyes widened.
"This is?"
He drank the chemical pool in one gulp and said with a smile.
"Another product of the combination of oxygen and carbon. This time it is two parts oxygen and one part carbon. Unlike the previous 'carbon monoxide', it is generally non-toxic. It can neither burn nor support combustion, so it can be used to extinguish fires."
In fact, this laboratory is not rigorous. It is like shooting the arrows first and then drawing the target.
If he was serious, he couldn't confirm whether the fire was extinguished due to lack of fuel or was really extinguished by the high concentration of carbon dioxide.
But this is not the college entrance examination.
It was enough for him to make the ghost in front of him understand what was going on.
Although he felt that what he said was all very simple knowledge, it was like a bolt from the blue to Miranda's ears, and it took him a long time to recover from the shock.
It felt as if a door to a new world had opened in his mind! What great imperial mage?
All the knowledge and research in my life is not as good as a skeleton in a cemetery! It's a pity that I don't know what he was thinking after swallowing the chemical pool, otherwise he would definitely be very proud for a while.
He raised his skeleton arm and wiped the dust off his face, then spoke in a brotherly voice.
"Are you satisfied now?"
Miranda nodded excitedly, but quickly shook her head.
"I know about oxygen, carbon... and iron, but what about the other elements? Are there any rules between them? You must know, right?!"
"Fuck!" She gulped down the chemical pool and stared at him, "Are you addicted to it?!"
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After that, without waiting for him to plead, he continued in a tone that brooked no refusal.
"No, no, it's too much of a loss for me to teach you for free every day. Just to prove this to you, I haven't completed any of the Demon King's tasks!"
Miranda asked immediately.
"What mission did the Demon King give you?"
He swallowed the chemical pool in one gulp: "Capture the adventurer! The female knight! The princess!"
"Uh, this...can it be changed?" Miranda said fearfully. He had already made such a big mess that he really didn't want to cause any more trouble to others.
He swallowed the chemical pool and said regretfully.
"And kill monsters."
Miranda said immediately.
"That's no problem, I can help you."
The chemical pool looked at him in surprise.
"real?!"
"Of course," Miranda smiled and said confidently, "Don't look at me like this... I am actually a bronze-level magic apprentice after all."
In fact, he was originally at the Black Iron level.
However, after completing Novel's ritual, the God of Chaos sublimated his soul in order to reward him for pleasing him.
Although it seems like a bait now, it can be considered a blessing in disguise for him.
He drank the chemical tank in one gulp and smacked his lips, thinking that it was not bad, at least he had an extra bronze-level fighter.
Although he has more powerful robots to use, those things cannot be used in the maze after all, and when they move, they are like a "crystal-eating beast".
"Okay... Then I'll give you four hours of lessons every day, and you'll train me for eight hours, which means hunting monsters."
"Four hours?!" Miranda exclaimed, "How can it be so short?!"
He swallowed the chemical pool in a gulp and said unhappily.
"Be content! Knowledge has a price! I haven't even collected your tuition yet!"
He gets angry just thinking about it.
Although he didn't make much money after obtaining the closed beta test qualification for such a long time, he rarely did business at a loss.
However, he made up for his losses on this dead guy!
He spent three whole days just to do a physical chemistry experiment that even a junior high school student could do, and he even went online to buy a second-hand chemistry textbook.
No doubt——
This must be malicious intent from the development team!
The purpose is to let him cooperate in testing the game's physics engine.
But then again, he did gain something in these three days.
At least in terms of understanding of magic, especially theoretical understanding, he might even be ahead of Yi Ye Zhi Qiu.
Besides, it's not bad to have a bronze-level younger brother, especially since this guy is a ghost mage with "physical immunity".
Just as he was thinking this, a deafening roar suddenly came from not far away.
It didn't sound like an explosion.
It was more like something heavy had hit the ground.
"What's going on?!"
After taking a gulp of the chemical pool, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, thinking that there might be something wrong with the prototype of "Gabang No. 2". He threw away the experimental equipment on the ground and quickly ran back towards Tieya City.
Miranda followed closely behind him.
As soon as the two undead arrived at the gate of Ironfang City, they ran into a group of screaming moles fleeing and a humanoid monster that looked like it was made of clay!
The moment she saw the guy, Miranda screamed in surprise.
"Clay Golem?!"
The chemical pool was also shocked after taking a sip.
"Monsters attacking the city?!"
Seeing the Skeleton Boss appear at the gate of Tieya City, a group of Mole People immediately ran behind him as if they had found a savior.
"Boss! Help!!!"
“Help, help, help!!!”
“What the hell?!” Looking at the mole man burrowing behind him, he swallowed the chemical tank and said in panic, “Don’t yell for help, just use your magic guns to kill them!”
Why are these mole men so useless?! As he was talking, the sound of fighting came from afar. Bond, wielding a greatsword, had just chopped down a clay golem, but was soon targeted by another golem.
There are at least thirty clay golems gathered in the Mechanical Temple in front of the Iron Fang City Gate, and some of them are even huge clay giants!
However, there were only a few Mole People who could contend with them. The only two experimental exoskeletons that were brought out were beaten to a pulp due to their lack of combat experience.
Bond and several gecko monks soon got into a tough fight.
Faced with these golems, the engineering spiders in the Shadow Weaver Nest were helpless except for being anxious and could only spit from a distance.
Arakdo is not here.
As non-combat spiders, they have no fighting ability at all.
At this moment, a clay golem suddenly set its sights on the skeleton soldier standing at the entrance of the Mechanical Temple, and immediately rushed towards him with heavy steps.
He was frightened after taking a gulp of the chemical pool and was about to turn around and run away, but he saw Miranda raised her right hand, and a wind blade whizzed out and hit the clay golem.
“Bang!”
The violent air currents were raging! However, the clay golem took the blow with its strong chest, standing in the violent air currents without any injury.
"Fuck, can you do this--" He just blurted out this sentence after taking a gulp of the chemical pool, and then he saw Miranda snap her fingers.
"Ignite!"
That is the most basic Black Iron-level fire magic.
However, at the moment when the spell was released, an incredible scene happened! The flames that suddenly sprang out flashed across the chest of the clay golem, and then the chest that was as solid as a city wall exploded like a burning gunpowder barrel, with a deafening roar and eye-piercing flames!
"boom--!"
The shock wave of the explosion not only instantly destroyed the clay golem, but also knocked down the three surrounding ones.
The dust that was blown up drifted more than ten meters away and soon filled half of the hall, scaring all the mole people so much that they froze on the spot.
It's not just the Mole Man.
One by one, the clay golems looked towards the center of the explosion, with a faint flicker of disbelief and fear on their stupid foreheads.
He looked at the scene in front of him with the same astonishment, took a gulp of the chemical pool, felt the hot air flow through his ribs, and said in amazement.
“You, what did you do?!”
Miranda was obviously confused as well.
He was just applying what he had just learned, but he didn't expect the effect to be so amazing.
"I, I did as you said and combined oxygen and carbon in a one-to-one ratio to form the combustible gas... I think it's called 'carbon monoxide'?"
Although he didn't understand what carbon monoxide was, he understood the concept of carbon and oxygen, the one-to-one combination, and flammable gas...so he used it to replace the wind element in wind blade magic.
What he didn't expect was that when he cast the ignition magic, the effect produced was not burning but explosion.
After hearing his explanation, Chemical Pool was completely dumbfounded.
Is this even possible?!
Magic and science were organically combined at this moment, and countless unimaginable possibilities flashed through his mind in an instant!
Then those ideas were like firewood, filling the blazing soul fire in his skull.
Magic crystal cannon? That kind of thing that can only work miracles with great force is simply too weak!
I think the group will have its own black technology!
And as long as he doesn't make it public, no one else can copy it!
The fanatical look made Miranda's heart tremble, and she couldn't help but take a step back.
However, after swallowing a mouthful of chemical pool, he came forward and grabbed him, saying excitedly.
"That... magic that fills the wind blade with carbon monoxide!"
"Teach me!"
(End of this chapter)