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As the saying goes, "A gentleman's revenge is never too late."

Shuang may not be a gentleman, but he is really the type of person who "never too late".

In order to avenge the arrow that was shot at him, he silently endured for a long time, secretly planning while building good relationships with several legendary strongmen under the Church of the Void Mask. For this reason, he even condescended to help the Knights train and serve as a living teaching material.

In the end, he finally waited for the opportunity.

At the end of last year, Gerard finally mastered his power completely. He was able to freely control this power. Not only could he change his body size at will, he could also freely control his power and gained many extraordinary abilities.

Except for his human appearance, he is essentially a powerful legendary creature, even stronger than many dragons.

Frost, who sensed the opportunity, immediately launched his plan and instigated Gerard to find a powerful mount for him.

According to Gerard's original intention, he wanted to find a celestial warhorse or something - after all, this big guy is an honest man and not greedy. But Shuang couldn't let him just find a celestial warhorse, and repeatedly persuaded him, saying things like "a true strong man should ride a dragon to parade through the streets", "a hero should have a mount that matches him, and a celestial warhorse is not worthy of you as the leader of the actual regiment under His Majesty the Void Mask", and "a good mount should first be able to fully exert the strength of the owner. With your strength, a dragon is suitable", etc., and he said so many things.

Although Gerard's strength has greatly increased, his brain has not become smarter. On the contrary, because of the greatly increased strength, his way of thinking has become more direct, or more straightforward. If it is placed in some fairy tales, it may be the legendary "spotless and direct to the heart" innocent heart.

He originally wanted a powerful mount, and after being instigated by Shuang several times, he put aside his scruples and took his subordinates to the Burial Stone Peak deep in the Graystone Mountains, set up a huge barrier with people as nodes, surrounded the entire Burial Stone Peak, and then went to negotiate with Taraiston.

The negotiation between the two sides was not pleasant at all, as evidenced by the former Burial Stone Peak, which was later turned into the "Burial Stone Hill". In the end, the beaten and bruised Talaistone followed the principle of "a good man should not suffer a loss in front of him" and bowed his head in grievance and became Gerald's mount.

This result made Shuang very dissatisfied. He thought that Talaistone, as the overlord of the Burial Stone Peak, should have the integrity of not bending but breaking, and would definitely fight to the end and die rather than surrender. However, he did not expect that this evil dragon was still a flexible person. He actually bowed his head and admitted his defeat and was ridden by others. The revenge he had planned for many years could not be completed. He was really confused. He didn't know how much he was secretly upset and how many times people who came to the warehouse to collect supplies were frightened.

Today, Leon came to visit on the green dragon Galstobi, and finally his long-suppressed anger broke out completely. So he ran out and scolded Taraiston fiercely, which almost broke the old dragon's glass heart into pieces. Especially when he lost face in front of his own people, he finally vented out the resentment he had accumulated for many years. Suddenly, he felt that the sky was high and the earth was vast, the clouds were white, the flowers were red, and even the guys who came to collect supplies looked gentle and elegant, simple and kind.

So that night, there was a rumor in the amusement park.

"Have you noticed? Our warehouse manager seems to be in a good mood today."

"Nonsense, I'm not blind! He actually smiled at me today!"

"Yeah! Usually when I go to him to get something, his eyes can scare people to death. Today he actually smiled... It's so weird!"

"Not only smiling! Usually when I get something, he has to look left and right, and even picks on every stitch and thread. He is even more strict than the housekeeper! But today, he only took a look at the receipt and sent the goods without any difficulty. It's incredible!"

"... Do you think he is in love?"

"It's possible! Looking at his silly smile, he really looks like he is in love..."

"Oh my God! That cold-faced ghost can also fall in love? Which girl is so powerful that she can accept this guy?"

"It's really compassionate and saves people from suffering!"

"Let Let's toast to that great lady!"

"Okay, cheers!"

So the word spread. As the saying goes, "truth only travels, but rumors fly." Within a few days, the rumor that "Mr. Shuang, the warehouse manager, is in love" spread all over the playground, and several versions were derived. There was even an anti-ethical version in which the other party was his sister Miss Xian, and their sister Miss Xuehua played the villain and broke up the couple, and a heavy-tasting female fan version in which the other party was a big bearded strong man and Mr. Shuang was a little bottom...

As for how these rumors later reached Shuang's ears, how Shuang was furious, and how he was like a mad dog to track down which bastard with broad ideas and much joy was talking nonsense, causing chaos, that was a long time later...

After Leon's visit, Sui Xiong roughly dealt with the church's affairs and began to plan a big event.

Industrial Revolution!

He had read a lot of online novels before he traveled through time. The travelers in the novels often wanted to carry out the industrial revolution, such as burning glass to make muskets, queuing up to shoot cannons to attack cities, and blast furnaces to smelt iron and synthesize fertilizers... Just like magic, one by one, the products of modern industry were invented and quickly promoted. The productivity level of the territory rose rapidly. It would not take a few years to catch up with the world's advanced level, and even be able to beat the whole world with a small piece of land.

Sui Xiong felt that as a traveler, he still had such great ability - in terms of ability, he was confident that those historical travelers combined would not be enough to beat him alone. As we all know, most of those who like to climb the technology tree are historical travel novels, and the protagonists are basically normal people with mortal bodies - since those mortals can do it, there is no reason why he can't do it.

So he decided to stay in seclusion for a while and make the industrial revolution first!

Hmm... what should I start with?

He made a decision after a little thought, starting with blast furnace iron smelting!

What is the foundation of modern industry?

Steel!

To launch the Industrial Revolution, of course, we must start with increasing steel production!

To increase steel production, of course, we must bring out the legendary "blast furnace ironmaking" technology!

So he built a blast furnace in a remote place deep in the Ash Forest, where he had experimented with papermaking, and got a lot of iron ore and coal, threw them in and started burning.

There were naturally some small episodes in the middle. For example, he didn't know the shape of the blast furnace. After thinking about it again and again, he made a long chimney with a big round ball under the chimney - he thought that maybe the so-called "blast furnace" looked like this.

For another example, he didn't know what iron ore and coal to use. In line with the concept of "the Industrial Revolution is to use the simplest materials to produce the most advanced results", he used pyrite sand ore that was as scattered as soil and peat with a low calorific value but very common.

For another example, he had no idea what the structure of the blast furnace should be, so he mixed pyrite sand ore and peat evenly and stuffed it in.

...Then, he found distressedly that this thing seemed to be difficult to burn, the fire was not strong at all, and it even went out while burning.

What's going on?

Sui Xiong thought hard and thought, and finally felt that maybe it was because the world was different, and the coal in this world was not strong enough.

I traveled through time and wanted to develop blast furnace ironmaking technology, but the coal was not strong enough. What should I do? Waiting online, urgent.

But there is no network...

Fortunately, he is not the type of person with a single-minded mind like Gerard. As the saying goes, when you are poor, you must change your mind. He thought about it and came up with a solution.

Isn't it just to burn, isn't it just to have high temperature, there are other ways!

For example... fire element creatures...

He cast a spell to capture a powerful fire element from the fire element plane, conservatively estimated to be comparable to a high-level adventurer, and he stuffed this fire element into a homemade blast furnace. He tried to use the raging flames on this guy to melt the mixture of iron ore and peat and burn boiling molten iron.

Good idea, yes, good idea.

The flames on the fire element were not low in temperature, and soon the peat was completely dried, and then... it burned violently.

Question: What is the phenomenon of violent combustion in a small space generally called?

Answer: Explosion.

With a thunderous sound, the unfortunate fire element was immediately blown into a pile of ash, and Sui Xiong's homemade blast furnace turned into a mess of red-hot gravel. As for the iron ore and peat... those flying around, and some iron slag falling on Sui Xiong, were their final products.

It was also thanks to Sui Xiong's great magical powers, comparable to the legendary indestructible King Kong, that he was almost at zero distance from this violent explosion, and was splashed with countless molten iron and iron slag. He just grimaced and screamed in pain a few times, soaked in the water to rest for a while, and then ran back to rebuild the blast furnace, put in materials, and began to try to improve it.

Not long after, there was another thunderous sound.

Then Sui Xiong soaked in the water again, his face covered in dust and sparks, took a break, and then ran out to rebuild the blast furnace, adjust the proportion of materials, adjust the structure, and do experiments again.

Then, not long after, there was another earth-shattering explosion.

It was like this, exploding again and again, exploding again and again, and the forest soon became a white land - no, it was black land, because the ground was full of a mixture of iron slag and ash. There were also countless unfortunate fire elements who died with their eyes open, turning into pieces of black ash, scattered in every corner of the land.

If Marx saw this scene, he would definitely sigh: "The blast furnace came to this world, from head to toe, every pore was dripping with blood and dirty things..."

Alas, if this were put in a historical time-travel novel, how many times would the protagonist die...