Obligations of the elderly

"It's a fantastic energy source, high in calorific value, completely non-polluting, even refiner-in this world of users and devices, that alone can make it beat all existing energy sources. "

"I can assure you that once this kind of energy can be exploited in large quantities, the energy structure of the whole world will be changed." Looking at the furnace array in front of him, the old man's eyes were faintly suppressed: "What's more, the refining equipment is just it One of its uses, the many by-products produced during the refining process are also very magical, and there are many things it can do, and we are currently studying other ways of using it.”

As the old man said, he had already led them through huge furnaces. At the end of the furnace room, white pipes of different thicknesses extended from between the furnaces, and finally penetrated deeply into the wall. On the front wall There are pipes running through the past everywhere, there is only one place where there is no pipe, and that is a door.

After passing the verification, the door opened, walked through a short white corridor, and passed another door. After the door was opened again, the scenery in front of me was different——

It is still a huge white space, and here is a factory!All the people are wearing clothes similar to those worn by the old man. In the center of the factory is a huge metal object. The people in the room are either next to it or on top of it. After assembling something, after observing for a while, Gong Si saw that this thing vaguely looks like...a lighthouse?

"This is the refining room." The old man introduced to Gongsi and Xiliu.

The staff in the room had noticed the old man's arrival, they respected him very much, everyone stopped what they were doing and nodded to him.

"I'll show the guests around, you keep busy, don't worry about us." The old man waved at them, signaling them to ignore them, and then continued to walk towards the huge metal building with Gong Si and others.

"This is the highest point of the Puzhou Continent." The old man introduced, "It's a lighthouse called Star Lighthouse. You should have heard of it."

Miyagi nodded.

He really knew about this lighthouse, and the introducer was the gear car that he took a certain time, not Huo Nan, but another gear car that liked to chat with passengers.

According to him, the most representative building in Puzhou mainland is the lighthouse in the center of the mainland and the highest point on the mainland.This is a lighthouse with a huge star on top. When people look towards Puzhou from the sea, this shining lighthouse can be seen from any direction.

Of course, since the Puzhou mainland is a complete metal building, the lighthouse originally did not emit light. The lighting device was installed by the Puzhou people later. Buildings, however, no building can be taller than the star lighthouse. This is a regulation written in the building regulations. Even if there are floating islands in the sky, the floating islands cleverly avoid the star lighthouse.

This can be regarded as the sentimental building of Puzhou people, and it is a symbol of Puzhou for people from other continents. Basically, everyone who comes to Puzhou will take a photo of the Star Lighthouse. Two days ago, the palace also took a car to the lighthouse where the Star Lighthouse is located. The city is sketching!

No wonder it looks familiar... But, he sketched just two days ago, when the lighthouse was still there...

Gong Si looked at the lighthouse ahead in confusion.

"What is placed there is a substitute, which is the real product." The old man said: "Apu has been used for too long, and there are too many damages on his body. This lighthouse, especially, if it collapses, the whole One-third of the buildings in Lighthouse City will be damaged, and this time the Puzhou Administration entrusted us with the task of repairing the lighthouse, and we will repair the lighthouse here for a week."

As the old man said, he patted the top of the star tower in front - the top of the lighthouse placed here is bare now, and the stars on it are not there: "All the original materials will be preserved, but we will use good materials Filling it with density is a kind of repair method for metal materials. Before there is no new energy, we cannot use this repair method, because the material of the star tower itself is too strong, and ordinary fire cannot melt it at all. , the quenched filling magma cannot be integrated with the original material, so as early as 200 years ago, this tower was not allowed to be visited by people, but a metal structure was set up from the inside to stabilize it. "

"Apu...isn't it one piece? Can the lighthouse be divided?" Gong Si frowned.

As if he was waiting for him to ask this question, the old man stroked his beard and smiled complacently as soon as Gong Si said this, "Because the Star Tower is the only non-tool building that was added later on Puzhou, it is Master Gong Yi. Refined."

"Mr. Gong Yi?" Gong Si frowned even tighter.

"They are people from the same era. At that time, people had just settled down in Puzhou mainland, and there were no management rules. Master Gong Yi suddenly built this lighthouse. He didn't tell anyone. It was all done by him. Refined, and then insisted on placing it in the middle of the mainland, he did the same, people thought it was not good at first, and built things on the body of the little girl who became like this to save everyone... However The moment the lighthouse was placed there, the lighthouse changed.

Starting from the bottom of the lighthouse, it spread to the top of the lighthouse. The color and texture of the whole lighthouse changed slightly, as if Apu had turned it into a part of his own body. Later, people stopped talking about it. The lighthouse was preserved in this way, and eventually became a symbol of Puzhou mainland. "

Ah... and this reason?Gong Si imagined that scene for a while, and suddenly an indescribable feeling appeared in his heart.

Mythological characters have disappeared in history for too long, and people's thoughts at that time are really hard to guess...

Gong Si is really not a sad person, so he didn't think about it for too long, following the old man's footsteps, they left the assembly workshop and came to the refining room.

"...The tradition of a craftsman must live with the craftsman's room. In front of this is our house, and behind it is the factory. Furnaces, craftsmen, and blacksmiths are all here. It is said that the palace's craftshouse is here. The headquarters is also here." The old man introduced: "Some large, important, and difficult tasks are all handled here, and the craftsmen who can come to work here are also the top craftsmen in Puzhou."

As the old man said, he led them up the stairs on one side. There are refining rooms, each room is different in size, and the middle is separated by a wall, while the side facing the corridor is a glass wall. They can easily see the working conditions of the refining room from the outside.

Each smelting room has an identical standard smelting furnace, with various tools hanging on the walls, and——

Gong Si finally saw the legendary new energy.

Standing in front of a glass wall, Gong Si looked carefully at the craftsman inside who was using a smelting furnace to smelt a piece of raw material. Unlike ordinary red furnaces, the inside of this furnace looked black, like a black hole. Gong Si stared at the furnace without blinking, and finally determined that there was nothing in it, but that the "fire" used by the refiner to refine the weapon was the black mist-like thing. After quenching, when the solution was poured into the mould, Gong Si saw a layer of black mist on the surface of the liquid metal poured into the mould, and the mist quickly dissipated, revealing the black magma with gold inside.

What a weird feeling, never seen such a "fire"!

"...the furnaces here are all new furnaces. You can understand them as gas stoves. There are pipes under each furnace. The purified black energy in the furnace room will be transmitted to the furnaces in each room through the pipes. The switch can be used." The old man continued to introduce.

"Aren't you also a craftsman? Do you want to try... a fire other than your own?" The old man smiled and looked at Gong Si.

"Can you?" Raising his eyebrows, Gong Si did not refuse, he was indeed particularly interested in this kind of "fire".

Smiling at him, the old man led him to one of the rooms. All the rooms here looked exactly the same. As soon as they entered, the old man turned on a switch on the furnace.

"Okay, the fire is here." He said to Gong Si.

Raising his eyebrows, Gong Si picked out a piece of the most basic piece of iron from the material box filled with various materials, weighed it, and then put it into the furnace with a shelf.

He couldn't feel any fire from the furnace, and he couldn't feel the heat, but he saw that the iron block in his hand began to deform gradually. Gong Si quickly took out the iron block and looked at the iron block carefully. The situation of the block has already been burned?

"Can't this control the temperature?" Gong Si asked the two Gong family members next to him, staring at the iron block.

"The quenching speed can be controlled by the degree of purification. Different furnaces supply different energy purities, and the pipelines in this room are all the purest black energy. They can directly decompose various metals. Generally, high-level equipment The deformation will be processed here to make molds, and after refining in the furnace, they can be formed directly through the mold." The old man explained.

"Because the refining ability of black energy is very good, the purity of many utensils is higher than usual after being tempered here, and the grade will also be improved."

Listening to his explanation, Gong Si frowned slightly, and then he made a very bold move, he put his whole hand into the furnace——

Seeing his movements, the old man was stunned on the spot, Gong Si couldn't help but gasped, only Xi Liu didn't say a word, his eyes didn't blink, he watched Gong Si's every move seriously.

Closing his eyes, Gong Si's hand instantly turned into fire. The crimson fire was entangled with the "black energy" in the furnace. I am in you, and you are in me. In the black mist, the scorching flames flicker from time to time. Now, Gong Si felt inside for a long time, and when he took his hand out of the furnace again, the flaming "hand" was covered with black mist, as if being burned by the fire of Gong Si, the black mist became more and more intense. Less and less, until it disappeared from Gong Si's hand, and Gong Si's hand slowly returned to its original shape at this time.

In just a short while, the room temperature suddenly rose.

"How does it feel?" Xi Liu asked him with a smile.

Gong Si frowned: "It's a strange feeling."