Chapter 2 Guns and Cell Phones
Usually when the card repairer is concentrating on repairing cards, it is the most relaxing moment for the apprentice.
Duke was going to walk around the store and think of ways to make money.
Bobby and Thomas, the two apprentices at the work station next to them, also followed the card repairer to concentrate on repairing the card, quietly hid in the corner, and began to share their candies with each other.
Duke isn't that boring.
He looked around at the Little Sam Card Shop. Over the counter was a regular employee, Bob. There are four repair stations in the repair area, one for each of the three repairmen. There is also a spare No. 4 station, which is usually used by the boss himself.
But the boss didn't come today. He went to the city's waste card station to hunt for goods.
"How to make money?"
He frowned, a little helpless.
As a time traveler, I naturally have a lot of earth knowledge in my mind, but when I actually use it, I find that it is useless. Iron-making, brick-making, and distilled liquor are basic in this world. Products such as soap, glass, and perfume are also not uncommon. As for high-tech products such as computers and mobile phones, they do not exist, but Duke cannot make them.
He looked out the warehouse window.
Beyond the low-rise bungalow area, one can see tall chimneys in the distance, emitting billowing black smoke. Unknown birds surround the black smoke, swooping down from time to time to peck at the spirituality rising in it.
If a beast wants to evolve into a spiritual beast, it must prey on a large amount of spiritual beings.
"That's the Black Snake Spiritual Gold Smelting Plant, an industry owned by the Black Snake family. It extracts spiritual metals from ordinary iron ore...it's really polluting." Duke looked at it from the perspective of an earthling. This factory was simply terrible. It is worse than the poison gas manufacturing plant, but the entire Sheshou Town is the fiefdom of the Black Snake family, and no one dares to take care of it no matter how serious the pollution is.
In other words, no one cares.
The Seven Towers Federation has no concept of environmental protection. The current mainstream thinking is to develop psychic industries, expand human power, and continuously expand into the wild jungle.
"Psychic energy...spirituality...the extraordinary world!"
Duke showed a hint of eagerness in his eyes. After passing through the initial panic of traveling through time, he now began to long for this extraordinary world to appreciate the magnificent scenery he had never seen before.
certainly.
If he wants to appreciate the extraordinary, he must open the spiritual sea. Otherwise, he can only live as an ordinary person at the bottom of society.
"There doesn't seem to be any good inventions that can make money quickly...well, gunpowder!" An idea flashed in Duke's mind, and he came up with a good idea, "The Seven Towers Federation is an alliance of arcane mages, and arcane mages represent the world. The extraordinary power system - spiritual arcana, therefore, black gunpowder was not born."
People living here believe that the earth under their feet has unparalleled spirituality.
It is this kind of spirituality that gives all things living in the wilderness a powerful and extraordinary power, and builds a set of "spiritual arcana" power system.
Collect spiritual energy and refine it into spiritual energy.
It is this kind of spiritual energy, which is more magical than electricity, that triggered a huge industrial boom.
"A powerful arcane mage can destroy the world, so the value of black gunpowder is definitely far less than that on earth, but black gunpowder is still very useful. I can try to see if I can prepare black gunpowder in the extraordinary world!" He thought in his mind
. Recall, it seems that the ratio of black powder is mononitrate, disulfide and charcoal.
After staying up until lunch, he hurriedly finished his lunch and walked quickly to another street, then turned into a wide alley. There are shops selling all kinds of materials here, ranging from spiritual materials to ordinary materials.
Ask around.
Duke frowned deeply: "Saltpeter, a material that can grow in toilets, is priced at 1 silver dragon per pound, and sulfur is 30 copper dragons per gram. It's faster than robbing money!" If you want to configure black gunpowder
, I don’t know how many times I have to repeat the experiment.
With enough materials for multiple experiments, the value of the awakening potion has long exceeded 23 silver dragons: "With this money, I would have bought the awakening potion... By the way, why don't I go to the toilet and scrape saltpeter?" The plan failed
. Duke has another plan.
One kilogram of saltpeter can be sold for 1 silver dragon. He can save money by scraping saltpeter. Although it is a bit of a pain to scrape saltpeter in the toilet, the money is obviously faster than that of an apprentice.
However, after Duke went to several restrooms with sewage flowing in succession, he quickly returned to Little Sam's repair shop with a disappointed look on his face.
Those toilets were dirty enough, but there was no hoarfrost-like saltpeter at the base of the walls as expected. There were only all kinds of yellowed urine and feces stains, which made people feel sick to their stomachs.
"Why is there no saltpeter?"
"Did someone scrape it away? It shouldn't be. There are no scratches on the wall... Is it because the toilets in Sheshou Town are made of stones instead of earth?" he remembered
. Earthen toilets in middle and rural areas will contain saltpeter.
Perhaps something in the soil reacted with the urine to form saltpeter. After replacing it with stones, the reaction could not occur, so saltpeter could not grow.
Anyway.
The idea of making money by scraping toilet saltpeter was shattered.
I stayed up until I got off work at night, but I couldn't think of a good way to make money. When I got home, I cooked white rice and steamed sausages. I was short of money and had only this little food at home.
The light of the spirit storage card inserted into the card machine interface of the spirit rice cooker has dimmed.
"If I can't get any more money, I'm afraid I won't even be able to use my spiritual power." Duke sighed, and took out a spiritual card with a somewhat damaged cover from his arms, and was lost in thought.
This is his Spirit Dragon Card.
Equivalent to a bank card on earth, the dragon coins issued by the Seven Towers Federation are inconvenient to trade, so the arcane mages developed the spirit dragon card, which only requires one swipe of the spirit dragon card to buy and sell.
"It seems that there are still 57 copper dragons left in the balance, which is bleak!" "
However, this kind of spirit card is really magical." Duke put away his negative emotions and began to shift his attention, paying attention to the spirit dragon card in his hand and the spirit rice pot with the The spirit storage card.
Both cards are spiritual cards.
This is the technical principle of the spirit card, which is to seal the spirit in the form of an energy circuit and then transfer it to a card to store it.
The spirit storage card stores a large amount of stable spiritual energy, and the spirit dragon card is directly connected to the bank. These magical spirit cards are just the simplest technology under the spiritual arcana system.
"This is the extraordinary power that I can reach. If I don't open the spiritual sea, this is probably the only extraordinary power that I can reach." "The spiritual sea must be opened as soon as possible!"
Eat
, wash dishes, no nightlife, sleep.
After tossing and turning for a long time, Duke fell into a deep sleep with great expectations for the future.
...
in a daze.
Duke felt himself drifting to a starlit place.
The stars are many and infinite, and the surroundings are dark, like the deep sea.
"Here it is, I'm back again!" Duke's thinking became clearer, and he already understood that he was in a dream. "Same as last night, I came to the spiritual sea through the dream again." Looking
towards Look in the direction with the strongest starlight.
The stars guard two dazzling light clusters like stars. When Duke leaps closer, you can see that one of the dazzling lights is shaped like a mobile phone, and the other is shaped like a pistol.
"My golden finger!"
"Wait for me!"
(End of this chapter)