Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1130 Sixty-eight. Camp progress

  Because of the large number of Twisted Cultists and the seventh group of residents, the Onyx Lake Camp has become more lively than ever.

  The new residents are housed in empty shacks that have been constructed, and the Twisted Cultists are temporarily settled in Onyx Lake.

  The sparkling Onyx Lake is thus brought to life, although it is not fish and shrimp swimming in the lake.

  The trip to the dungeon will get about a month's buffer time, if the "door" does not change the rules.

  Scholars and professors' progress in the recovery of science and technology is slow, because Lu Li not only requires them to learn and teach, but also needs to create objects like alchemy - this is not a problem in itself, but technological creation requires extremely complex processes and preconditions. For example, the steam engine highlighted by Lu Li, mastering the principle of the steam engine is only the beginning, it does not mean that the steam engine can be manufactured - they must turn the theory into practice.

  Steam engines need steel and accessories. They first smelt steel with a standard hardness, then use lathe tools to polish the parts finely, and then assemble them.

To the dismay of the scholars, their progress has always been stuck in the smelting stage. The steel produced is either too low in hardness or too brittle. Although it is barely enough to serve as the base of the steam engine shell, it was rejected by Lu Li—they don’t need the complete blueprint. Manufactures tattered defective products.

   And if the steam engine explodes due to a flaw, it will take longer to get injured.

Lu Li, who was still in the Wiener Underground City at the time, told the scholars who had not achieved results for a long time and became impatient, and even wanted to go to the old Belfast factory area to collect steel. , branches grow branches, branches grow branches, branches bear fruit.

   Fruit does not grow from other parts of the tree.

  The bare trunk has only one branch, and a single fruit is not healthy.

  The scholars accepted the suggestion, restrained the impetuousness, slowed down the speed, and finally smelted a metal product with low hardness, but it could be called steel two days before Lu Li returned.

   Then they got stuck again with the precondition: this time the problem was with the accessories.

   They are not proficient in using simple lathes, and the polished parts are either too thick or too thin, or too large and too small. The daily output of dozens of pounds of steel at the Onyx Lake camp is not enough to support repeated trial and error and failure.

   Back at the Onyx Lake camp, Lu Li suggested that they look for craftsmen to hand-polish accessories. They did so, even though they wondered why they had replaced the lathes with less precise human hands. Soon, good news came from the "Science House": craftsmen polished suitable gears, customs clearance, and accessories.

   They built the first steam engine.

  The first steam engine built at the Onyx Lake Camp is a crude, primitive, rough, existing internal combustion engine.

  Although it is not the first one in this world, Lu Li still came to the science room to witness that the appearance of this steam engine is almost the same as that of the Wiener dungeon, but the steam power cannot even push the prototype of the 10-pound steam engine.

  When the quivering prototype steam engine may stall or malfunction at any time, scholars who are as dirty as craftsmen simply wash off the stains on their hands, grab their notebooks and record valuable information excitedly.

   "Piston leakage should continue to be fine... The copper pipe is too thick... Lack of power... There are many reasons..."

   The steam engine only lasted for a few minutes and then turned off and could not be turned on. Scholars took apart the steam engine and found that steam had leaked into the fuel chamber.

   Dilution of the fuel was the main cause of the flameout, and after they changed the fuel the steam engine ran again, only to flameout again after the same few minutes.

   There are many reasons for the loopholes, and there are problems with the hardness of steel and the precision of accessories.

The    scholars did not celebrate the temporary victory, and immediately invested in the production of the second steam engine, this time their emphasis on craftsmen was significantly increased.

  Compared to the slow-moving science, mysticism, led by alchemy, made a rapid leap forward—more than one potion on the alchemy formula was successfully configured every day, including sequence potions—but the rankings were relatively low.

   Compared with the science that requires accumulation and wisdom, the alchemy potion that can be prepared with one hand undoubtedly has an inherent advantage. Even residents who are illiterate and know nothing can refine the alchemy potion according to the steps.

   The reason is that alchemical potions are relatively simple, but also because science combined with alchemy produces an unexpected effect: standardization.

   Prior to this, alchemy usually used "about one-third of the scale", "half full of wooden bowls", "grass juice that has been set aside for a few days" and other non-standard refining skills, and success depends on luck and experience. After this knowledge was introduced into the Land of Light, Lu Li changed it into "250~350ml", "Grass juice that has been put aside for 24~72 hours", and "1 ounce of extract powder".

   At first, pharmacists often made mistakes. With the gradual increase of proficiency, the success rate increased, and even began to improve the pass rate by changing the ratio.

   The alchemy potion with the highest pass rate at present, [Qiangshi Bowen], was refined by a farmer named Hawkinson. Considering that there is more talent and potential in alchemy than in farmland, he has transferred to an alchemy student.

Another advantage of   scientific standardization is presented here: After Hawkinson refined 63% of the alchemy potions, other pharmacists who obtained the formula data also successively refined [Strong Knowledge and Bo Wen] with a pass rate of about 60%.

   But standardization only lowers the threshold of alchemy, not mastery of alchemy - because all the knowledge intuition and senses on the mysterious side will come in handy.

   This has been confirmed by Lu Li.

   The pass rate of the alchemy potions he refines is usually around 60% - it has nothing to do with the teaching of the Giant Tree Academy, and there are not a few lower grade students with a pass rate of less than 50%.

   This is thanks to the state blessed by the Doomsday Apocalypse. But on top of this, the pass rate of Lu Li's refining [Beautiful Dream Potion] will continue to increase inexplicably.

   During the period of the Giant Tree Academy and the return to the Land of Light, the pass rate of Lu Li's Dream Elixir remained at around 65%. After obtaining pure white fragments to deepen his feelings for the dreamer, the pass rate became 70%, until now it is 75%.

  The dreamer obviously has nothing to do with the refining of pharmaceuticals, the only relationship between them is that they are all related to the dream-perhaps this is the key.

   So Lu Li encouraged the pharmacists to make alchemy potions that were close to the state in different moods to increase the success rate.

  The ten apprentice exorcists lost their innocence, and they worked hard enough.

  When everything is done, dusk is approaching.

  The setting sun reflected in the distant bay, smearing old Belfast with blood, makes the Whirlpool look like a strange conch shell buried in the sand.

  The Vortex Land has spread to a point that cannot be ignored.

  If there is no accident, the camp will start to retake the Land of Light this month. In addition to bringing back the banyan tree guards in the Shadow Swamp, what can be prepared now is to help twist the figure into a god.

   But it takes territory to raise the fire.

  Lu Li didn't mean anything to him, he said to the twisted figure.

   "I'll leave Onyx Lake to you."

   (end of this chapter)