Banner of the Evil God

Before crossing, Sui Xiong was a person who was not very interested in reality and current affairs.

This is definitely not because he is indifferent, most artists are like this. In fact, he was dragged by his friends to donate blood, and he also donated money during natural disasters. He never hesitates to help others in need.

But if he can't see it, he really won't waste time to investigate or study.

Because he is very busy.

He has to work, deal with a lot of things in the warehouse, and manage the accounts clearly; he has to help people draw illustrations to make money to supplement his life; he also has to try to take time to play games and communicate with friends in the game...

So apart from some netizens he follows on Weibo and chatting with friends in the game, he really doesn't have much time to collect various unimportant information.

To give an extreme example, he even remembered his birthday only when his mother called him the night before.

The days that he can't forget are probably the statutory holidays. For example, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival, as well as those days when there will be activities in the game, such as Valentine's Day and Christmas.

For a person who can even forget his birthday, social hot spots are almost non-existent to him.

Who said that people in the Internet age can pay attention to the news? In fact, Brother Xiong can't remember when he last watched the news...

In addition, when he was in college, he studied everything except art, so no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't think of how the treatment of the workers in the Gold Coin Federation could match what he had seen or heard before he crossed over.

So he thought about it and gave up in the end.

"Although there must be something wrong, I really can't think of it. Let's talk about it later."

After all, in this world, working overtime to earn enough money to support a family is already quite happy.

What's more, the workers from the Gold Coin Federation in the Joint Exploration Team can actually earn a lot of money as long as they work overtime - at least compared to ordinary civilians, it is a lot.

So although they are very envious of the exploration workers in the Northwest Republic, they have no intention of changing jobs.

Of course, they can't change jobs even if they want to. My wife and children are all in my hometown, what's the point of running away!

In the camp, after taking a walk, Hopps felt better, so he went back to continue sorting the ore.

The vein they found before was not big, and there was not much ore dug out in total, but the difference between silver ore and mithril ore was very small, and non-professional ore sorters could not distinguish them at all, so the efficiency of ore sorting was relatively low.

Sui Xiong couldn't help but feel some sympathy when he saw them busy like this.

(Ordinarily... the specific gravity of silver and mithril is actually quite different, so we can start from this aspect...)

He thought about whether he should follow Archimedes and make a simple tool to calculate buoyancy.

Such a tool is quite simple to make. It's nothing more than putting the ore into a basin full of water, collecting the overflowing water and weighing it, and then calculating the volume of the ore based on the weight, and then weighing the weight of the ore... In this way, the specific gravity can be calculated.

This is probably the content of junior high school physics, anyway, even Sui Xiong can think of it.

But he tried to make a set of such instruments and got a few pieces of ore for experiments, but found that it was not easy to use.

For example, he found more than once that the specific gravity of mithril ore was the same as that of silver ore.

This is ridiculous. The biggest characteristics of mithril are "hard" and "light". Under the same volume, the weight of mithril is less than one-tenth of silver, so the bard described it as "as hard as dragon scales and as light as feathers" - this is of course an exaggeration, but as the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire, mithril is indeed very light. Sui Xiong once threw a mithril ingot from the kingdom of God into the water, and it actually floated on the water!

Mithril is so light, why are these mithril ores not light?

Sui Xiong was puzzled and finally had to ask someone.

He was looking for the orc forging god, the steel lion Morani.

After listening to his inquiry, Morani laughed, and only told him that he had made a big mistake after laughing.

Mithril is a very strange thing. Its specific gravity changes with the purity. When its purity is low, its specific gravity is exactly the same as ordinary silver. As the purity increases, the specific gravity decreases. When the purity is as high as the level of "thousand-pure gold", it will be light enough to float on the water.

"So... if it is purer, maybe it will really be as light as a feather?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.

Morani shook his head: "I thought so and did experiments in the past. It is roughly as light as cork, which is the limit. Anyway, I don't have the ability to purify it further, and... I haven't found that it will become lighter."

Sui Xiong finally understood it completely, laughed dryly, looked at his invention with some pain, and sighed deeply.

Obviously, the purity of most mithril ores is absolutely not enough to produce a change in specific gravity. In a pile of mithril ores, at most only a few pieces may reach this level.

The "simple and clear method of screening mithril ores" he imagined was almost just talk on paper.

"In fact, the best way to screen mithril ore is to use magic." Morani saw his depression and said with a smile, "The biggest difference between mithril and silver is the different conductivity of magic. If we can make a tool to accurately measure the degree of magic conductivity, it should be easier to distinguish mithril from silver."

"Even if it is ore, it can be done?" Sui Xiong asked.

Morani thought for a while and said, "It should be possible. After all, compared with weight, the magic conductivity of mithril is less affected by purity, so when making enchanted weapons, about 10% of mithril is usually added when casting weapons... It is to improve the conductivity of magic, so that the metal that originally cannot conduct weapons has the ability to conduct magic, so as to build the magic attached to it into a whole. The purity of mithril ore should generally be this high."

He thought about it again and said that he could do an experiment.

So the two gods found some silver ore and mithril ore and tried to test their ability to conduct magic.

This experiment was just as Morani expected. The magic conductivity of mithril ore was significantly different from that of silver ore. This difference does not even require too advanced magic ability. It is estimated that any mid-level magician can clearly perceive it.

Seeing the experimental results, Sui Xiong couldn't help laughing.

Although the product has not been made yet, he is confident that he can make a tool that can easily distinguish between silver ore and mithril ore, greatly improving the work efficiency of Hopes and others.

The current total monthly votes are 16674, which is 16650 rounded down to 50. Yesterday was 15550. I will add one chapter first, and the remaining chapter will be discussed after I rest.