Chapter 32 The melting pot of all things
Outside the altar of the ancestors, the furnace of all things is the core source of all weapons and equipment in the entire settlement.
It is strange that no matter how old or how severe the memory declines, the construction methods of the three facilities, namely the Creation Hall, the Ancestral Altar and the Furnace of All Things, will never be forgotten as a settlement.
Even if he died accidentally and did not leave his heritage, the newly elected elders in the settlement would have obtained their construction methods when they held their first ancestor sacrifice.
It is precisely because the furnace of all things is so important that the arrow was surprised by the invitation of Huangquan to help build it. However, now the settlement is at the critical moment of life and death. It can be said that fate depends on Huangquan's thoughts, so the arrow is not easy to object.
Moreover, the secret value of the furnace of all things itself is very limited. Without the power of the Stone of Life, it is just an ordinary furnace.
The furnace of all things has been selected to build, and a cabin with a large hole on the top. The Great Elder has ordered people to move several boxes into here, then open them one by one, take out the parts from it, and start building them in person.
The name of the furnace of all things is really extraordinary, but judging from the structure, it is just an ordinary and primitive furnace. Before the old mankind entered the era of industrialization, the furnace used by the old man was not much behind the one in front of him.
The furnace structure is ordinary, but the construction materials surprised Huangquan.
The inner wall of the furnace was made of black wooden strips. When Huang Quan first got it in his hand, he carefully determined for a while and finally confirmed that it was a wooden strip, which was only charred on the outside and still made of wood inside.
In Huangquan's impression, there seems to be no wood that can withstand the temperature of the furnace flame. But the facts are right in front of him, and he can't help but believe it.
The wooden strips were neatly placed on the melting inner wall by the Great Elder, and fixed them with a light white glue. Then the upper cover was built and the blower was installed, and the basic work was completed.
Then he entered the most important part, and the Great Elder began to pray again. In a moment, many roots stretched out from the opening specially settling under the furnace and plunged into the earth.
After the furnace was built, the Great Elder didn't have time to rest, and then took out the charcoal that had been prepared from another box and put it in the furnace. This time it was real charcoal, but it was still different from ordinary charcoal.
In Huangquan's memory, it seems that coal is a better fuel, and coal exposed to the ground can be found in the rainforest. I don't know why charcoal is used.
After loading the charcoal, the Great Elder cut a iron rod used by the man-cannibal into several pieces, put it in a furnace, and began to raise the fire and smel.
In a moment, the flames spewed out from the fire hole. The Great Elder opened the furnace door, and the molten iron slowly flowed out and injected into the prepared mold. When the iron in the mold cooled down, it would be an iron ingot.
The problem is that the iron rod used by man-cannibal ghosts is not real iron, but iron alloys mixed with unknown substances.
According to Huangquan Limited's common sense of smelting, ferroalloys are often much more difficult to melt than pure iron. However, it is really magical to have molten iron produced after just a few minutes of burning the furnace of all things.
Looking at the red flames spewing out of the fire hole, Huang Quan felt a move in his heart and reached out to try. He put his finger in the fire for a while before he felt a slight stinging pain, so he took it back.
This action immediately made the elder next to him stunned.
Huang Quan frowned and was puzzled. As he expected, the dark red flame was very low and should be far from reaching the melting point of the ferroalloy. However, this furnace of all things financialized the iron coal into iron.
He has also seen the structure of the furnace. It is not complicated at all. The flames coming out of the fire hole should not be much lower than the temperature in the furnace. There is no possibility of high temperature in the furnace and low fire holes in the furnace.
After everyone waited quietly for a while, the iron rods turned into pieces of iron ingots and were put away and used as materials for forging equipment and weapons in the future.
If the first use of the furnace of All Things only puzzled Huang Quan, then the second time shocked him.
This time, what the Great Elder brought was the wreckage of the spaceship!
The spacecraft that crashed here is far more than ordinary ferroalloys. Some materials specially used to build interstellar spacecraft are extremely melting points to withstand the high temperatures when entering and leaving the planet's atmosphere.
The Great Elder actually brought this thing, and regardless of the rust on it, it was added directly to the furnace without any treatment.
Even if you know little about smelting, as long as you have studied basic natural science, you will know that the rust on metal is completely two kinds of substances. If you want to obtain pure alloy ingots, you must first remove rust and clean.
However, the Great Elder put the alloy fragments into the furnace and simply knocked them a few times to flatten it. It seemed that for the Great Elder, the shape of the raw materials was much more important than the composition during the smelting process.
Under Huang Quan's gaze, a new alloy melt was released and turned into a dark silver alloy ingot. The whole process only took a little longer than the melted iron alloy, and the temperature of the furnace did not increase significantly.
The whole process made Huang Quan a little crazy and completely inconsistent with common sense.
He finally broke the silence and directly asked the Great Elder about the principle.
However, the Great Elder could not give him a clear explanation. For the Great Elder, this is how the furnace of all things was used in the inheritance knowledge he received, and he never thought of trying other methods.
Huang Quan thought about it and the difference between this thing in front of him and an ordinary furnace seemed to be the roots that penetrated into the earth, and the great elders were talking about it throughout the process.
Huang Quan asked a question and finally learned how to use the furnace of all things obtained by the Great Elder when he was worshiping his ancestors.
In addition to the above operation process, there are more than a dozen sets of prayer words that are used in different aspects. Some can accelerate the smelting of metals, some can make the metal harder, and some can greatly increase the toughness of metals.
According to the Great Elder himself, he was the top smartest among the great elders of all generations. He remembered seven complete sets of prayers at that time. Even now he is old, he has only forgotten two of them.
With the remaining five sets of prayers in his hand, the Great Elder was very confident that he could survive the settlement.
Regarding the use of the furnace of all things and the way of inheriting knowledge of settlements, Huang Quan felt that he had heard a myth.
In this world, people have completely embarked on another path, and their development of the power of Holy Ray went far before the empire, but civilization has retreated back to an era that is close to the primitive.
If you continue to live this way, Huang Quan feels that it will not take hundreds of years to become completely extinct in this rain forest.
The lost people can use the power of the Stone of Life. In Huangquan's view, it is more because this power is softer, far less powerful than Shenghui, and more friendly and cooperative. The Stone of Life seems to have a certain spirituality, and sometimes it seems to guide the lost people to use their own power.
However, in the empire, ordinary people will not be able to afford to get sick as soon as they approach the Holy Light Stone and die in pain in no time. They are not truly strong people who choose from thousands, and they cannot bear their power at all.
Even Huangquan, an existence standing at the top of the empire's power, needs various means to protect itself in order to barely resist the initial test and obtain the true power of Shenghui.
Compared with the Holy Light Stone, the Stone of Life is a domesticated existence and has changed from a wild beast to a domestic one.
After smelting two furnaces in a row, the great elder's spirit was obviously declining and became depressed. He asked someone to put away the materials and go back to rest.
No matter what inheritance method is used, the furnace of all things is of great significance to the settlement. With the furnace, the wreckage of the spacecraft can be used, and the settlement will have valuable metal resources.
Chapter completed!