Cthulhu Gonfalon

In the great drought that saved the shackles and the entire main plane, there was a lot of salt produced by the scorpion, and there were so many that they could pile up a mountain.

Of course, these salts are all coarse salt, bitter and awkward. Perhaps the poor people don't mind its taste, but Yan Xiong himself is very disgusted with them. In his opinion, this salt is rubbish. Not only the taste is not good, but also contains a lot of minerals harmful to the human body - how does Yuxiong lack scientific knowledge, and know that sea water can not be drunk, the key reason for not drinking is not dirty, but a lot of harmful minerals inside.

Yuxiong once heard of a popular science, saying that the reason why seawater is not drinkable is that on the one hand, the amount of salt contained is excessive, and the other minerals contained in it are on the other hand. He doesn't remember what the minerals are, but the name still has the impression. What is the vomiting salt, the salt? ah... Listen to the name and know what the consequences will be.

So even though he got the mountain of salt when he got fresh water from the sea to save the disaster, he didn't find any good way to use them. Finally, he gave a topic to the chief researcher of the Void Mask Society, Palin, and asked Palin to study the method of purifying these coarse salts into edible salts.

There is also a salt-salting technique in the world, and naturally there is a method of turning a coarse salt containing a large amount of impurities into a salt containing almost no impurities. But those methods need to use magic assistance, the cost is too high, in addition to being available to the upper class, it does not have great practical value.

The special spell of "purifying coarse salt" is a middle-level, the mage who can cast this spell. The identity is at least equivalent to a knight, and it will probably be applied two or three times a day. Together, it can purify ten to fifteen pounds of salt. Only. The "purified brine" is lower, and the master can approach the middle-level master. The average middle-level master can use about ten times a day, but considering the salt water to dry out, the salt can be obtained. In fact, the efficiency of preparing the salt is not as good. "Purification of coarse salt."

In general, taking into account human resources and casting materials, a pound of fine salt purified by magic, the value is roughly equivalent to about 20 gold coins - this is the cost, pure production costs, and only the cost of drying salt can be so low . If you are cooking salt, add three to five gold coins per catty. Plus transportation... The salt in the inland area can sometimes be sold for more than one hundred gold coins per catty!

This is undoubtedly a profiteering industry, but in fact there are very few people who work with it, very, very, very few. Because in most cases, people would rather eat a pound of crude salt that does not exceed the weight of the coin.

what? You said that the taste is unpalatable? Are you said to be harmful to your health?

It’s okay to eat less!

Therefore, the market for refined salt is not large, and the profit is not rich.

The task of Yuxiong to Palin is to study a method for purifying coarse salt as low as possible. As for the research budget, the old rules, do not care about the money, try to spend.

Even so, Palin spent more than a decade to complete the study.

The way he and the researchers he led eventually found was exceptionally simple.

Simple enough, just two words are required.

"Powder" and "wash".

Yes, these two words, Palin gave the salt the two words used for the name.

The specific method is not complicated at all. First, the coarse salt is ground, as fine as possible, and as fine as flour. Then pour them into the brine, and as the salt dissolved in the brine gets more and more, the salt is gradually insoluble in water - in physical terms, it is called "saturated."

This saturated brine can no longer dissolve the salt, but it can dissolve the impurities contained in the salt, and it can be used to wash the finely ground salt powder to obtain a fine salt with a small impurity content.

After washing, the fine salt obtained has a small amount of impurities, and if necessary, it can also be used to make saturated brine for a second washing; even for the third time...

In general, the fine salt obtained after three washings is completely devoid of a little bit of odor and is very pure. Palin also added some filtering, sedimentation and other means of removing impurities in the process, and finally got the fine salt like rice flour flour, fine white, crystal clear and excellent taste.

He named it "powdered salt."

When he listened to his report and inspected their research institute, he could not help but be happy with them.

"This is a great achievement!" he said. "Pallin, if I estimate it well, if you are willing to spread this technology widely, this merit may be enough to seal the gods - of course, it is only estimated The lowest faint power."

Palin smiled and didn't have any excitement.

This is not because he looks down on weak power. How to "slightly divine power" is also a god, a great existence of immortality, a level that mortals cannot reach. It’s just what he is after, not this.

“It’s not me who made a huge contribution in the study of salt.” He said, “It’s Fira Kenki.”

Of course, he knows who Fira Kenki is. He was called a "green magician". He was originally a cook of a pig man. Later, he had an adventure and swallowed an ancient attempt to take his body and resurrect. The wizard's soul became a magician. Later, with the help of Milomon and Maduo, he delved into the creation of a green magic featuring "swallowing Warcraft and learning spells"...

He also saw Fira in the research base, because the life of the pig man was not long, Fira had already had white hair, and the fat face was gradually thin, proving that his life had reached the late stage - that year and that The battle of the ancient wizard's soul, of course, benefited him a lot, and also caused him to lose a lot of life. In addition, after he had a long-cherished wish with the old rival Ruby Seri, he used the taboo method to wear out the life expectancy, and then defeated the opponent in the world's first contest. He reported that he was underestimated and bullied in his youth. The hatred.

Now, he is almost at the end of the year, although he is not even trembled, but in fact, even if he falls tonight and wakes up tomorrow, it is not a strange thing.

For his experience, Yuxiong still knows, but Yan Xiong did not expect that this temper is impetuous and limited. It seems that only by good luck and the help of friends can he become a magician's duo, which is actually a rough invention. A key figure in salt purification technology.

Looking at the flat smile on Farina's old face, he couldn't help but think of a famous saying.

This is really... people can't be seen!