Chapter 9 Steam Engines for Mortals
August 16th is still the holiday of Tieshan College, and these Taoist students will go to school again on August 21st.
Even if Li Zisheng was on holiday, he would not be idle. At about lunch time, he rode his bicycle with a big black crow in the basket in front of him. Afterwards, Li Ziren, who was also riding a small bicycle, went straight to Baiqin Building in the center of the city.
His current Pioneer News Agency has naturally expanded. Not to mention that he is more than enough to have a meeting or a football match, but it is located in a remote place and is far less convenient than the Baiqin Building of the Hou family. His brigade members live in various places in the city. Li Zisheng will not only be convenient for him, but will change the meeting location.
Last night, he had frank and friendly talks with the fallen crow, but unfortunately he did not reach an agreement.
The main reason is that this ugly spirit bird has a very limited vocabulary, and after going over and over, there are only a few words, which are still bumpy and bumpy, and it is really impossible to communicate smoothly with it.
But just a few words made Li Zisheng know. The origin of this bird is indeed extraordinary. Uncle Li Zhaozhou did not fool him.
First of all, it can speak and understand what it says.
In fact, in this regard, this big black crow is worthy of the name of the spirit bird.
Secondly, it was the spirit bird that took the initiative to come to him.
Li Zisheng asked him tentatively if he would like to return to his original owner, Uncle Zhou, but he refused.
Finally, the spirit bird actually knew that it had a magical weapon with it, and it was seen when we first met two years ago.
This scared Master Li San. Even if someone guessed that he had a magic weapon, no one had confirmed it to him in person. Uncle Li Zhaozhou should not know at all. He Jie would know this big black crow.
He simply took out the Chiyou flag and placed it in front of the spirit bird, and changed to fight for life.
The Chiyou flag and the five stars on the golden circle above lit up. They began to shine at a strange rhythm, and the spirit bird became extremely excited. While jumping on its feet, it started to croak in its mouth. After a cigarette, the magic weapon gradually went out.
Li Zisheng was also curious now. He communicated with Xingcha Yuanling for a while, wanting to know what they said.
Unfortunately, the message from Xingcha Yuanling made him laugh and cry... The spirit bird was asking, is there any food?
In fact, this big black crow has another abnormality, that is, even taking four True Yuan Dan, there is nothing to do. You should know that the True Yuan Dan has strong medicinal power, which is at least three times more than the Yuan Qi Dan. If Li Zisheng takes four True Yuan Dan in one breath, then even if he has the Central Wuxu Emperor in the spleen and stomach, he will still be unable to bear it. The rupture of the lower dantian is still light, and it is very likely that he will die directly because he can't bear the medicine.
In short, he spent four True Yuan Pills, or twelve Yuan Stones, to let him know a fact. The gift from Uncle Li Zhaozhou was indeed extraordinary.
Now he didn't dare to let the black crow leave his side. It would be a trivial matter to steal some spiritual pills. What if his secret is revealed?
Li Zisheng and his brother stopped the bicycle at the door and locked him on the stone railing at the entrance of Baiqin Building, which was specially used to park bicycles.
As the price of bicycles has dropped in the past two years, it has naturally become popular. Not to mention that even mortals who are good at doing well can buy one as a transportation tool. Moreover, relatively speaking, bicycles are more practical for mortals.
With market demand and bicycles were not locked in the past, there would definitely be stealing. Even if the shops sent a guard to guard them, there would always be times when they were negligent.
Therefore, without Li Zisheng inventing the chain, the smart blacksmith was invented and now it has become a must-have for bicycles.
The big black crow jumped to Li Zisheng's shoulder very consciously, and was quite arrogant, as if it was the master.
"Three Young Master. You are here, you... are starting to play with birds now! But this bird... is indeed special." The guy from Baiqin Tower naturally came over to greet him enthusiastically when he saw a regular guest with a noble identity.
This guy is not the first person to find it strange. Li Zisheng had been "compassed" by the guy in the hall in the morning, so he also had some immunity.
He wouldn't lose his temper, so he could only laugh dryly. He responded casually and took his brother to the second floor to the private room he had been using.
He came early today and thought his brother was the first to arrive. He didn't expect that there was already someone sitting in the private room, and it was really rare for this person to come for a meeting.
"Old Hu, why are you here?" Li Zisheng asked in surprise.
Hu Yunhong, like Li Zisheng, also entered the development stage, but his size did not rise much. The width and thickness were incomparable to two years ago. His short and pudgy figure looked particularly strong and powerful.
His skin color was as dark and bright as his father Hu Kaishan. Although his facial features were still ordinary, he looked absolutely not annoying. However, his hair and clothes were a little unkempt, not like a preparatory immortal master, but instead looked like those workers in the iron industry.
"Lao Li, I just made the prototype of the steam engine today. I knew you were having a meeting here, so I came here." Hu Yunhong raised his eyebrows and said proudly.
Li Zi raised his high and cheered: "Really, that's great!"
The steam engine that once triggered the industrial revolution in our world has no need to say much about the meaning it represents, but Li Zisheng also has other plans to develop the steam engine.
He used to think that he was too high and that he also regarded that he was too low in refining his weapons.
Li Zisheng initially believed that the technology tree in Zhongzhou is just a bit crooked, and it is concentrated on the outside of the four gates. As long as he takes action, he can naturally correct the situation.
But after he "invented" muskets, sailboats and submarines, he found that this was not the case at all, and he was wrong.
First of all, let’s talk about muskets. In addition to killing Fang Tianya, his biggest purpose was to overcome the force gap between ordinary people and cultivators. But now, he found that not only did the guns not sanction this gap, but in a sense it made the strength of both sides even more huge!
The mortals had the Lianzi Quick Gun and the Aka Siqi, which really allowed these humans who could not cultivate to gain strength beyond their physical body and increased their strength. However, this was in the face of cultivators without guns.
Now, if Tie Qianjiao Tie San Zhenren faces hundreds of "rice thieves" holding Aka Siqi, they will never be able to kill them so easily.
But when the cultivator had a special version of the gun, the situation turned back. If Miss Iron-San had a Thunder gun, she would not have to fight in close combat and could snipe those desperate mortals at a distance, even if they had guns.
This result was completely beyond Li Zisheng's expectations.
The same is true for sailing boats and submarines. In the eyes of weapon refiners like Hu Kaishan, this is indeed a good idea. As long as you match the corresponding talisman array, it will be an outstanding invention.
For example, a sailboat, when a young man thinks, he must use open flame to heat the air to float. However, for Master Hu, only one heating array and several wind-driven talisman arrays can create a convenient and easy-to-use aircraft.
The same is true for submarines. As long as the talisman array is engraved on it, not to mention that the engine or the rudder is not needed, it can drive freely under the water.
In fact, for Zhongzhou weapon refiners, this is the most natural thing. If you have a hunting rifle, who can still spend time thinking about creating bows and arrows to hunt?
The science and technology tree in Zhongzhou, Chixian, is originally rooted in the "technology" of cultivation.
However, Li Zisheng thought about this before.
So, he decided to make up for this lesson and develop science and technology that can be used by mortals. One of the items was the steam engine he asked Hu Yunhong to develop.
For Zhongzhou, there is actually no need for a cumbersome power machinery like a steam engine.
What it can do is to let the practitioner draw a talisman array and use immortal techniques.
As mentioned in the previous document, there is no steamship here but a talisman ship; the mine needs to be drained, and the cultivator can complete it by using a water diversion technique; of course, there are no vehicles like trains in Central China that are driven by steam engines, but the efficiency of those magical beasts is no worse than that of early trains.
Chapter completed!