Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

In the next few days, Yanzi flew out again to pick up some small jobs in order to complete her head task as soon as possible.

Lu Yuan did not go. On the one hand, he wanted to find as much information as possible about the changes in Los Santos, so he went to the library to report every day; on the other hand, he also began to try to use the materials of this technological world to improve his Cold weapon.

Unfortunately, with the help of the system, he searched almost the entire library of Los Santos, but did not find the word Los Angeles at all. Even New York, Mehami and other words that were replaced by the sin city of Liberty City, also could not find it.

This made him faintly guessed that what he was looking for might only be available outside of these transformed cities.

But fortunately, in the process of searching for information, he found more information about his other purpose, so I started to try that improvement.

In the past, he had a question in the main world. Since the modern metallurgical industry is highly developed, could it be possible to easily create the ancient so-called magic weapon that cuts iron and mud with modern manufacturing technology.

After a period of research and experimentation, he discovered that this seemingly answerable question could not directly give the seemingly inevitable conclusion.

Yes, most people intuitively believe that modern industry just chooses not to do it. If you choose to do it, you will definitely get a sword that cuts iron like mud.

There is nothing wrong with this idea, but it overestimates the initiative of "choosing not to do it" and underestimates the passivity of this choice.

Yes, modern industry can definitely make swords far beyond ancient times, but why is there almost no one to do it?

It should be understood that the market for making handicrafts and cold weapons has gradually grown into a rather large branch of the Wenwan market, and even the market for handicrafts and firearms is quite broad. There are always people in the world who like firearms and swords made of gold-plated or even pure gold. This demonstrates one's wealth.

However, so many "face-saving" wealthy people, why do they rarely hear that they find someone to build a magic sword that cuts iron like mud for themselves?

The answer is simple. Being able to do it does not mean it can be done "easy".

First of all, in terms of material, each commodity steel in the modern industrial system has a specific purpose. The steel used to make wagons and the steel used to make ships may not have much difference in strength and toughness, but they are definitely far from corrosion.

Similarly, the steel used to make kitchen knives cannot be the same as that used to make fan blades.

As a result, modern steel plants will only manufacture steel products that are in bulk demand and integrate them into daily business activities.

In other words, the steel used by modern craftsmen is based on cost performance, and the steel selected from the needs of other commodities is also suitable for making swords.

These materials are suitable for swords and are also products of modern industry. They may also be the most cost-effective choice, but they are not the "most suitable" steel for cold weapons that modern industry "can" make.

If Lu Yuan only knows ancient craftsmanship, then this choice is already very good, enough to raise his cold weapon to a higher level. But unfortunately, his forging technology was learned from a magical world.

The structure of martensite and austenite, which can only be observed under the microscope of the modern metallurgical industry, has been mastered to a certain extent by the magic world through some means.

As a result, Lu Yuan's works are not inferior to swords made of low-cost, high-carbon steel in modern industry, and even because of the relationship between materials and craftsmanship, his works have a higher affinity for magic.

This result was obtained by comparing it with his own after purchasing a finished high-carbon steel sword.

Since the direct use of general steel does not increase the weapon much, he simply focused on high-speed steel and prepared to use this steel through techniques such as inserting steel and clamping steel.

High-speed steel, a tool steel with high hardness, high wear resistance and high heat resistance, is also called high-speed tool steel or front steel.

Its process performance is good, strength and toughness are well matched, so it is mainly used to manufacture complex thin edge and impact-resistant metal cutting tools, and it can also manufacture high-temperature bearings and cold extrusion dies.

After finding this material from the vast literature in the fields of modern metallurgy and machinery manufacturing, Lu Yuan decided that it must be used to look at it.

However, he used an improved version, powder metallurgy high speed steel. Compared with smelted high-speed steel, it is more stable, has a more guaranteed texture, and has better wear resistance, toughness and machinability.

He doesn't plan to delve into the steelmaking process for the time being. After all, he doesn't have the ability to mass-produce the underlying materials, let alone this demand.

Moreover, although this kind of steel costs several hundred dollars per kilogram, it is already a fairly easy material for him now.

Of course, there are many better steels, but he is just to build cold weapons, so he can't hack into the American National Laboratory and kidnap a high-tech metallurgical factory to make dozens of kilograms of high-end materials for him.

For modern swords, generally Rockwell hardness of HRC reaches 50 even if it passes the test, if it reaches 55-60, you can brag about your short blown hair and cut iron like mud on the market. There are only a handful of high-end markets that can reach HRC60.

But Lu Yuan uses this powder metallurgy high-speed steel to build a long sword with embedded steel technology, and its blade hardness can reach HRC70, which is the upper limit of HRC measurement.

However, when using it, Lu Yuan also discovered several problems with the long sword made of this modern material. The first, and most likely to affect performance, is that this sword has a low affinity for magic.

No way out, it was similar to his experience when he was learning magic. Steel has not been baptized by magical energy, so when using magic with it, it will not only get half the result with half the effort, it may even consume all the magic elements, and no magic can be produced.

This makes this long sword almost impossible to be enchanted. But correspondingly, it hits magic shields and the like, which is good as a magic sword. Although there is no special Demon Sword with high efficiency.

The second problem is that he used the technology of inserting steel, using powdered high-speed steel as the blade and other steel as the sword body. Will not work.

This is also easy to understand. I have never heard of a lathe cutter head that is broken, and it can be repaired and used again. They are all replaced directly.

The hardness and toughness of steel cannot reach the highest at the same time, and the toughness with high hardness will be low. The ductility for wear resistance is not enough. If the blade is hard, it is hard, and it is easy to break if it is rigid.

Although cold weapons themselves are actually consumables, most cold weapons will break if they can't be cut by more than a dozen people, just like modern firearms will be scrapped if they fire thousands of shots.

So it’s not too big a problem to fix it if it’s broken, but it’s a pity that it can’t be preserved forever.

Successfully forged a few long swords, even made two ring swords for personal use, Lu Yuan also made two long swords for Yanzi according to her "Gilvel" standard, planning to find opportunities to give her as a gift.

With the success of the high-speed steel long sword, Lu Yuan opened the door to a new world in modern technology to improve the production of cold weapons.

In the previous battle, he sneaked into the assassination with bows and arrows, used smoke bombs to shock flash bombs for close assaults, and short assault rifles and submachine guns, which achieved good results. Also used to paralyze poison arrows, frost spider poison arrows.

Now, it happens to refer to the concept of high-speed steel swords for further integration. For example, smoke arrows, flashing arrows, poisonous fog arrows, paralyzing poisonous fog arrows, and corresponding grenade and so on.

For this reason, he has returned to the life of half-day library searching for materials and half-day working space for verification.

In the meantime, I will definitely meet again with the previous college girl Helena. For this reason, Yanzi did not spare the time during the day and came to guard against it.

However, Lu Yuan slowly revealed the details of himself and Yanzi's so-called company.

"You opened a detective company?" When hearing Lu Yuan's explanation, Helena found it incredible, even slightly ridiculous.

This is because, in her cognition, the profession of a detective requires a wealth of knowledge and social experience, which is obviously not a young person can do.

Of course, there are a lot of teenagers who like Sherlock Holmes, but the detective agency of these people is generally just a gathering place for weirdos in the eyes of mainstream students. They are a mixture of nerds and geeks, but no one really thinks they are detectives.

"Yes, but we do not only provide detective services, security and other services are also within our business scope." Lu Yuan said casually.

"But now we won't take the security task for a short time!" Yanzi interrupted at this moment. She has been tortured by previous security tasks once, and has been doing tasks that fit her personality for quite a while recently. Naturally, she has no interest in being a boring security guard.

"Then you can make money?" Based on her common sense of life, Helena still had doubts about their young detectives, so she asked.

"It's okay, it's barely maintained." Lu Yuan's humble cells told him to say so, but Yanzi is not used to this, and hastened to add a sentence, "Monthly income can be tens of thousands, we strive to make it more than 100,000, although It’s a bit less, but fortunately enough!"

"One hundred thousand monthly income?!" Helena's previous suspicions dissipated most of the shock after hearing the benefits, and she turned to an envious impulse, "What kind of case did you solve that could make so much money?"

"No, the big head is still hard money. Bounty hunters have heard of it. Our main income comes from similar jobs. We can get 10,000 yuan if we find a fugitive. We have our own news channel, which is a bit more efficient than others!" Lu Yuan said as he touched Yanzi's arm.