Chapter 40

The next morning, Yan Liqiang got up early as usual. After completing early exercise and practicing the easy tendon and marrow washing Sutra, he went to the canteen of the craftsman's equipment camp for breakfast. Then he returned to the yard, carrying the horn Python bow given to him by Zhou Yong, with a pot of arrows in his arms, and carrying the gunpowder he had prepared, the fire sickle and three packs of ground carbon powder, And the powder of sulfur and the powder of saltpeter went out of the gate of the courtyard.

"Yan Shao, why, do you want to practice bows and arrows?"

As soon as he walked out of the door, Yan Liqiang went to the ash forest together with a team of fully armed soldiers. When those soldiers saw Yan Liqiang coming out, they greeted Yan Liqiang with a smile.

"Yes, it's a waste to put the good bow sent by brother Zhou yesterday. You can't live up to brother Zhou's kindness..." Yan Li said with a strong smile, "by the way, why are you going to patrol the white wax forest today?"

"Qian Ying supervisor just told us to be vigilant these days, strengthen vigilance and transfer more in the camp!"

Yan Liqiang was a little stunned, and suddenly thought of Qian Su's intention - as soon as the story he made in Lu's house yesterday spread, it is estimated that he can't hide what he did in the craftsmanship camp, so Qian Su asked the sergeant of the craftsmanship camp to strengthen patrol, which is also indirectly protecting his own safety.

Thinking of the cold peep hidden in the dark when he returned to the camp last night, Yan Liqiang secretly bit his teeth.

In my previous life, I always felt that working hard to earn money every day was the most stressful thing. At that time, I lived in a peaceful and stable environment, never suffered any personal threat, and never experienced the feeling of precarious. Therefore, I didn't know that the peaceful and stable environment was hard won. This time, I just experienced it for a few days in this world, The crisis like a tarsal maggot suddenly made Yan Liqiang feel the great pressure of survival - it had nothing to do with making money, but his life and personal safety were threatened.

Yan Liqiang and the soldiers talked as they walked. When they came to the ash forest near the hillside of the craftsman's camp, the two sides separated.

Yan Liqiang went up to the mountain, and the sergeant was patrolling the craftsman's camp and the periphery of the white wax forest - because if someone really wanted to break in, he also came in from outside the courtyard wall of the craftsman's camp at the bottom of the hillside. It was impossible to run down from the top of the mountain, because the only way up the mountain was the craftsman's camp.

Yan Liqiang estimated that the man who spied on himself last night didn't have the courage to break into the craftsmanship camp to make trouble. You know, the craftsmanship camp is an important military place and a part of the national professional violence organ. It usually seems calm here, but as long as anything happens, it may cause an uproar. Don't say that the people invited by the Hong family are the most powerful outlaws, Few of them dare to break into these sergeant's important places casually. It's just that they don't think they have a long life.

Therefore, as long as he is in the craftsman's camp, the man can't help himself.

With a bow on his back and arrows on his shoulder, Yan Liqiang came up along his usual way. It didn't take Yan Liqiang much time to come to the place where he practiced near the top of the mountain every day.

At this time, the sun had just risen, and the mountains and forests were full of vitality. Everything had just awakened, and there was a fragrance of birds and flowers in the mountains and forests.

Put the bow and arrow on his back against a boulder. Yan Liqiang looked around carefully and found that there was no one around. He was relieved, and then turned to the two boulders under the mountain wall not far behind the open space.

Behind the boulder is leeward and hidden. There is no vegetation on the ground around it, just some earth and rock. Even if the gunpowder is successfully configured, it will not cause any fire. Moreover, the water source of the stream is not far away. If a little smoke is made, it will be blown away by the wind on the top of the mountain in an instant, and the people at the bottom of the mountain will not see it.

Yan Liqiang squatted down behind the boulder, took out the long prepared fire rope and fire sickle from his arms, and began to try.

To tell the truth, if he still lived on the earth in his previous life, after preparing these gunpowder, Yan Liqiang would not worry that these gunpowder could not be used. In this world, Yan Liqiang has no bottom in his heart, because there are too many things in this world that are difficult to explain with the knowledge in his head.

For example, the Dharma images and visions that appear during practice, the huge palm light and shadow that appears on Hong Tao when he uses the iron sand palm, the light and shadow of rhinoceros, dragons and horses that appear when he passes the horse step pass, grandma's, all martial arts and secret arts in the world have their own light and shadow effects, which can resonate with the aura and energy between heaven and earth. Moreover, those light and shadow effects are strange and different, It is more exaggerated than the light and shadow effect of the small universe in the saint's arrow. Who can explain the principle to himself with scientific principles and tell himself what chemical changes have taken place in his cultivation of martial arts and heaven and earth energy?

The tool used for lighting fire is the fire sickle. For people who are used to lighters, it is inconvenient to use the fire sickle for lighting fire, but there is no way, because in addition to the fire sickle, there is another tool used for lighting fire in this world called the fire folding. Because the production of the fire folding is time-consuming and the price is not cheap, it is less used at one time. Generally, there are only a few rich families, Such as the Hong family and the Lu family will be used daily. The fire collection methods used by the army and most ordinary families are relatively cheap and easy to carry sickles.

Yan Liqiang opened the waterproof leather cover of the fire sickle purse, took out the flint and tinder inside, then held the flint with his left hand and pressed the tinder between the flint and his fingers, held the fire sickle purse with his right hand, and slammed the sickle blade at the flint. With each blow, sparks would appear on the flint. After several clicks, the impacted Mars finally ignited the tinder and had an open fire. After taking a deep breath, Yan Liqiang put his made fire rope on the open fire lit by the tinder. The tissue paper outside the fire rope was ignited at once... In the blink of an eye, in less than two seconds, the burning tissue paper finally burned to the place mixed with the gunpowder he made. Yan Liqiang held his breath and widened his eyes... There was no hiss of gunpowder! No violent chemical reaction! It's impossible to have any explosion! Because the tissue paper is burning, the fire rope is also burning. It burns very slowly, just like lighting a incense stick, but it burns a little faster than the lit incense. The burning fire rope has smoke, but the smoke is full of a strong smell of sulfur, which is the smell of sulfur being ignited. Yan Liqiang was looking forward to the groundbreaking flash, but what he finally waited for was a stuffy fart from his quilt. After a while, the fire rope burned down, leaving some ashes. Did you burn clean carbon powder and saltpeter powder in the ashes... Yan Liqiang was stunned. Doesn't the formula of gunpowder work in this world? He took out another fire rope and tried it. He found that it was still the same. Carbon powder and sulfur powder come from the craftsman's camp. There is no problem with the raw materials. They have already tested the saltpeter when they bought it, and there is no problem either. There is no problem with raw materials and formula, but what comes out is not gunpowder. Yan Liqiang didn't give up. Then he took out the three packs of carbon powder, sulfur powder and saltpeter powder in his arms and began to make different attempts and combinations. After tossing for nearly a morning and more than four hours, Yan Liqiang finally confirmed a fact - although he didn't know why, what he was sure was that the world, It's really impossible to make gunpowder. Not only that, as Yan Liqiang knows, there are almost no natural magnetite and magnetite in the world. There is a compass in this world, but the magnetic needle on the compass in this world is made of a material called star iron, and the so-called star iron is a meteorite iron falling from the sky. It is not large in quantity and expensive. Only a small piece can be found occasionally. The price of Star iron of the same weight is almost more than 20 times that of gold. What does that mean? Without gunpowder, there will be no thermal weapons. The so-called guns and cannons will never appear, and there are not enough natural magnets and magnets, which means that the world may never be able to use to produce electricity in the future. This novel has been translated by www.novelhall.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation