It was lunch at the research park, and hundreds of bachelors in some academic robes gathered in the restaurant. They sometimes whispered, sometimes argued, and sometimes laughed, no different from usual. Lisimacos couldn't help frowning when he saw this. Even Eradosse looked serious, but these bachelors were no different from usual. Obviously, they did not think they were engaged in a crucial research.

"Only a relaxed atmosphere can be given wisdom by the muse." Eradosé knew Lisimacos's thoughts, and he explained so. The muse was the goddess of art. Anyone who had a bachelor's discovery or achieved something would humbly say that it was given by the muse, so the academy was usually called the muse's academy.

"Zeus' weapon! If this is true, it will change the world." Lisimaccos was helpless. Although the Alexander University Park was established by Wang Ting, Wang Ting did not interfere in specific affairs. Sometimes he was interfered by the school. Alexander once sent more than a thousand people to help Aristotle collect animal and plant research materials, and the school often asked Wang Ting to collect research materials everywhere.

"It is precisely because this will change the world that should be loose." Eradosé smiled. "The Choni powder is not complicated, it is a mixture, and we have learned about two of them, only the last one left."

"Only the last one left?" Lisimacos was slightly excited in shock.

"Yes. Only the last one is left." Eradosse kept smiling. "But the situation was not optimistic. Even if we cracked the secret of powder, there was still the secret of the 'witch tool'."

The witchcraft is the "official name" of the iron tube learned from the envoy of Qinni. Eradoser translated this noun literally, so it reads particularly strange.

"Yes, no one knows how it was made by an iron tube about five cubits long." Eradosse shut up after saying that, because the destination had arrived, and Lisimacos saw the witchcraft in Eradosse's mouth.

This is a straight iron tube with a huge tail end and a slender front end. It is placed on a short and sturdy four-wheeled cart, with the front end of the opening rising up. Lisimacos touched it with his hand. In addition to the coldness in the dark house, he also felt a silky roundness and delicateness. When he touched the tail end, a text that looked like the native Egyptian text but was completely different from the native Egyptian text was engraved on its surface.

"What is it written here?" Lisimacos asked unconsciously. The iron tube was round and there were no burrs or undulations outside. Without these words, he would almost think that the iron tube was born.

"Your Excellency, it is written on it: The second year when King Chuni robbed his wife. In the fourth month of this year, the capital of Chuni, Shoucheng, a craftsman named Li, Sui, and Cui made it. This is a witchcraft weighing about three quarters of the weight, with the serial number of 387." The recorder in the academy was wearing a black robe. After the translation of the envoy of Chuni, the recorder probably knew what was written on it.

"The second year when King Chu Ni snatched his wife..." Although the Chu Dynasty was strange, it retained more information. "Why did King Chu Ni snatch his wife? What was the year again? What does the Three-quarters Ming mean? Serial number 387, which means this is the 387th weapon made by the Chu Ni people?"

Like Ptolemy III, Lisimacos asked a series of questions. His hand finally touched the cannon barrel, "It is obviously rusted, why not remove the rust?"

"Your Excellency," the last question recorder could not answer, Eradoser said: "We are worried that this action will affect or change its divine power, so... dare not do anything."

Hundreds of bachelors are studying the kind of powder that can explode. Thousands of people are looking for similar crystals in Alexandria and places outside Alexandria. It is not difficult to imitate them as long as they can determine what the crystal is, but there are very few researchers in witchcraft.

"I think it can be done, these rusts are damaging it." Next to the witch stood a few purple-robed scholars, the old one who did not agree with Eradosé's point of view. He saw Eradosé looking at him as he spoke, and turned to him, "I asked the envoy, and he said that the Chuni witches were as bright as their armor, and I found this when I checked the wheels," the witchesé held up a withered water plant, "which shows that it had fallen into the sea and was salvaged at least half a year later."

"That's why it has rust?" Lisimacos said when he saw the withered seaweed.

"I also heard that the Chuni merchant ships used it, and it could make loud thunders, just like I heard the first day." The bachelor continued. "But the Carthaginians said in Sygula a few months ago that the Chuni merchant ships left our sea..."

Rational thinking is terrible, and a scientist is likely to be a detective. When the Bachelor of Purple Robe was about to say his own inference, Eradoser coughed and said, "Archimid! The Chuni merchant ship is not the object we want to study, all we want to study is this weapon."

Archimedes had blonde hair and white beard, and his noblest academic purple robe was even more wise. At the age of fifty-eight, he had seen many sins. It was because he thought it was common for sin that he did not directly say that the weapon was robbed.

"Bachelors, this is Zeus' weapon!" Lisimacos stroked the rust barrel again. "The Chuni are using it to snatch our spices, and we need to know how the Chuni made it and how they use it."

"If iron can be as soft as mud, we can make it." Archimedes replied, and his words made several bachelors who arrived here to study nodded repeatedly. Shape and craftsmanship fell second, and most importantly tools.

"So, how can we make the iron as soft as mud?" Lisimacos asked, but unfortunately no one could answer his question. Before the appearance of carbonized tools and carburized tools, the cannon could only be molded. After the appearance of carburized tools, the bore can be expanded (not drilled and bored). Even though the Greek world was at its peak at this time, Alexandria gathered the best scholars in the world, and this problem could not be solved without time.

The silence of the scholars frightened Lisimackos. He always thought that the places outside the Greek world were barbarians. Now the weapons and civilized world created by barbarians cannot be created, which is a great mockery.
Chapter completed!