Chapter 183 183. Time
"Madam, you are pregnant."
Luo Wei hinted that this was a good opportunity, but Su Ya did not respond.
Yun Qi interrupted: "We all knew it a long time ago."
"Let me tell you again." Lovi held his face, picked up the document on the table and began to look through it.
The two maids kept a distance.
Until daybreak, when Fiona and Aka took over shifts, nothing inappropriate happened.
Lovey suspected that the maids had been warned by evil forces, so he asked them about their opinions.
Everyone kept their mouth shut and he didn't get any news.
Time flies.
Suddenly, the weather turned warmer.
On the thermometer, the temperature rose directly by seven degrees.
The wind direction changed, and the cold north wind turned into a warm south wind.
In the days that followed, the dead white earth gradually showed signs of revival. The first thing that started to grow was bamboo, and then the ice on Moon Lake began to thin day by day. The dawn time began to come earlier every day.
Before we knew it, it was mid-February.
The coldest winter is finally over and early spring is here.
In the private restaurant of Fulin Castle, Lovi was looking at the magic clock on the wall, a little distracted.
The porridge on the table had already gone cold, but he was still letting his thoughts wander.
I have been thinking about time recently. The time concept of this world is slightly different from that of Earth.
There are only 360 days in a year. If you lose five or six days, I won’t know where I will end up.
Well, that's not a big problem.
There are thirteen full moons in a year. According to mathematics, there are twelve line segments between the thirteen full moons, so the two worlds are also divided into twelve months.
Since the cycle of the waxing and waning of the moon takes thirty days and nights, a month is divided into thirty days.
The same method of dividing the months is used.
The magic clock has twelve scales on the dial. There are no small scales, and the metal pointer moves between the scales in a jumpy manner.
According to the way people in this world call it, five o'clock is called five o'clock. Five five is called five quarters. Five ten is called five quarters. Five fifty-five is called five quarters.
There is no concept of seconds.
People usually use blinking and breathing to describe a short period of time, which lacks accuracy.
Lowe wanted to divide time more finely, and the best way was to make a mechanical clock.
The core principle is to use the spring to generate power when it is gradually released.
Including gears, springs, screws, nails, and other small items, he made samples of each and handed them over to the blacksmith shop for imitation.
We have to admit that humans have an extraordinary talent for imitation.
The clever craftsmen could figure out how to make the finished products on their own without even his guidance.
Lovey wrote down the design of the clockwork clock and the idea of the watch on a piece of paper and gave it to Ursula.
After reading it, she politely declined, saying that she was not good at mechanics.
Therefore, this design came into the hands of Gimli, the dwarf master in the blacksmith workshop, and was studied by his dwarf team.
Lowe himself is also trying to do something new.
Seeing that the guards were very tired from carrying water up and down every day, he suggested that they use a pulley basket to transport the water.
Of course, this is still very troublesome.
As a person who is accustomed to using tap water at any time, Lowe had long had the idea of laying natural water pipelines.
Although we cannot make an electric water pump for the time being, it is not difficult to make a hand-cranked water pump. It mainly uses the principle of atmospheric pressure and piston movement to create a vacuum.
The water can be pumped up to a height of about nine meters and sent to the transfer tank on the third floor. The second time it is pumped to the sixth floor. With the help of pipes, the water in the water tank is sent to the rooms where it is needed.
In this way, Fulinbao will have more convenient access to water in the future.
Lowe actually wanted to build a natural water system for Donggang City.
In the early stages, it is not necessary to popularize it to every household. Just like a well, if there is a faucet in every block, people's lives will be much more convenient.
The problem is that they will freeze in winter and can only be used in summer. Is it necessary to popularize such pipes? As March approaches, the temperature has stabilized and returned to above zero degrees.
The trees and flowers are full of green. When you open the window of the auditorium, you can see the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers by the lake.
The fields are full of farmers busy with spring ploughing.
This year's preparations were more thorough than last year's. The piled-up fertilizer was not wasted and was more abundant.
The Executive Office approved the establishment of thirty-seven new villages, which surrounded Donggang City like stars.
Bruno would not have dared to disperse his people like this before, because a village without defenses would be easily attacked by wild beasts, and the villagers would become food.
The villages and towns outside the city either have a large population or are like the Ice Wolf Village and Dam Village, where there are strong people in charge.
The emergence of pistols has solved the problem of insufficient force to a certain extent.
Farmers in the outer fields no longer have to spend three or four hours commuting every day. They can directly establish villages and settle down together with people in neighboring lands.
Although doing so carries certain risks, it greatly strengthens human control over territory.
Lovey walked with his hands behind his back between the fields, looking at the people building houses with red bricks and cement.
He knew that the widespread use of guns would inevitably bring hidden dangers.
But compared with the huge benefits in the short term, the negative effects in the long run are insignificant.
Only by controlling more land can humans prosper and grow rapidly. These villages are like nails, gradually compressing the living space of animals. Eventually, humans will become the masters of this land.
The situation is similar to that in the United States, but perhaps a little more difficult. This is because the creatures in this world are stronger! Pistols are OK against humans, but they may not be enough against wild boars, giant bears, or even larger earth dragons.
The invention of the rifle was inevitable! Using longer bullets and longer barrels can bring greater kinetic energy and lethality, thereby killing large beasts.
Inventing the machine gun was just a concept! In just a moment, more steel storms were unleashed.
No matter how strong the body of carbon-based life is, it cannot withstand the tearing of thermal weapons.
The giant monsters in the movies that can ignore guns simply don't exist in reality. Flesh and blood have a limit to their defensive power, which is far lower than that of steel.
Even the Tyrannosaurus Rex or the real dragon can't stop the bullet!
Over the course of the entire winter, the workshop worked with spellcasters to produce five hundred pistols, which were distributed to some guards.
Every day, Lodel led his soldiers out hunting. Pistols were found to be quite effective against small prey. Most people had good shooting accuracy within 15 meters, but accuracy beyond that depended on talent. Many guards had no accuracy at all when facing small moving targets more than 30 meters away. The effective killing range was about 50 meters, and the power dropped sharply beyond that.
Compared to bows and arrows, pistols are more about flexibility. You can dodge and counterattack at the same time. The lower limit is guaranteed, but the upper limit is not as good as bows and arrows.
Zoe can easily shoot a wild boar from two hundred meters away, which is something that current pistols cannot do.
However, the shooting range of ordinary archers is about 80 to 120 meters. The pistol has a small disadvantage in range, but has an absolute advantage in speed, and its power far exceeds that of bows and arrows.
This puts the average shooter in a very awkward position.
While Zoe was secretly rejoicing, the elimination of the times came even faster.
(End of this chapter)
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