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When he was depressed, Zhou Yu suddenly grabbed him from behind, and Li Mu jumped up in fright.

The sharp roaring lingering sound still remained in her ears, and she couldn't hear whether she had cried out. When she turned her head and saw Zhou Yu, she couldn't help being surprised again.

It's just that she seems to be submerged in the water now, only noises and rattling sounds are heard, and the ear drums are dull and painful. She is so uncomfortable that she can't say a word.

Seeing her frowning and constantly turning her head to the side and patting her ears, and shaking her head vigorously from time to time, Zhou Yu's heart skipped a beat, and the hand holding her wrist couldn't help but tightened a bit. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Li Mu's other hand pointing towards him. With a wave, he pointed to his ear again, and shook his head to signal him not to worry.

Breaking away from the hand held by Zhou Yu, Li Mu covered his ears with both hands, raised his head and opened his mouth, touched the protruding bone on the side of the ear and pressed several times bit by bit.

After a long while, the rumble in the eardrums finally disappeared slowly, and a few bamboo knots around were ignited by the flying sparks, burning up, although the crackling sounds seemed to be separated from her by a layer. It was like a tulle, but the sound could be heard anyway.

"It's okay, I'll hide away, just rest for a while." Seeing Zhou Yu staring at her, Li Mu shut his mouth awkwardly, but when he thought that the gunpowder she had been thinking about had no fruit, he couldn't help feeling annoyed again. He said to Zhou Yu, "Why are you back?"

The same sentence came from Lu Meng's mouth with surprise and bewilderment, but from Li Mu, there was a trace of indescribable disappointment, not even the slightest bit of joy.

Zhou Yu couldn't help but hesitate.He has been rushing non-stop for two days, but he didn't expect Li Mu to...

However, at the next moment, Li Mu suddenly reacted: "You are back!" His dejected brows suddenly glowed, Zhou Yu was taken aback, and before he could be happy, Li Mu pulled him back, "Follow me, I will Show you something nice!"

Behind the bamboo shed that had been blown beyond recognition, there was a square well. Li Mu went to the mouth of the well, pulled up several thick ropes hanging from the wall of the well, and shook them respectively. Pedal, with enough strength, alternate hands and lift up.

Zhou Yu turned around and looked around, and found that the crying little Taoist boy had gone somewhere, Zuo Ci couldn't find where he was after such a big commotion, and there were only the two of them in the huge courtyard.

"That kid must have seen you and ran to Zuo Ci to inform him. The day you sent the landscape map, that old man started to fast..."

Zhou Yu stepped forward to take the rope in her hand and lifted it up, Li Mu also took advantage of the situation to let go of the physical work and took a step back.

"Is the landscape painting any good?"

"Huh?" Seeing that the rope was getting higher and higher, Li Mu was about to remind him to be careful, when he suddenly heard such a question, he couldn't help being stunned.Thinking of the ink and wash landscape on that page of bamboo slips, and seeing Zhou Yu's dusty body at this time, he couldn't help pursing his lips and smiling slightly, "Well, it's not bad."

The rope was fully lifted up from the well, and a copper pot was tied at the end. Zhou Yu changed hands and lifted the copper pot out. Seeing Li Mu nodding at him, he put it directly on the mouth of the well, feeling heavy, as if there was liquid in the copper pot Swaying, Li Mu took two steps forward, carefully opened the copper pot, and a pungent smell came out immediately.

Zhou Yu frowned: "This is... Shiqi?"

Stone paint?

Li Mu was surprised: "You know?"

"This thing was born between the sand and stones in the water spring. It is as black as lacquer and its shape is like fat. It can cure skin rashes, heat and poison leak out, but it will burn when it encounters fire. It can also be used as a lamp. It is very common in Danyang County. Ordinary mountain hunters can also recognize it, you want me to see this thing..."

It can burn in case of fire, and it is not that no one has thought of using it for military use.It's just that even though the stone paint is flame-resistant, it is extremely viscous. If you want to ignite it, if it sticks to the tip of the arrow, it may affect the speed of piercing through the air, and even wrap the sharp arrow. When going out, it will also go out when flying in the air.If it is used to set fire, it is much heavier than reeds, and it is really not worth the labor to transport it.

However, before he could finish his sentence, when he looked down, he found that the copper tank was filled with clear liquid, and when it was shaken gently, another layer hung on the tank wall, like oil, and he couldn't help being stunned.

The smell is indeed the smell of stone paint, but it is not as black as fat as he said.

Hearing his tone of "this thing can be seen everywhere, nothing special", then suddenly froze, Li Mu snorted, raised his eyebrows, and gave him a sideways glance. The tense slightly pale cheeks also seemed to have a layer of blush because of excitement.

"I can't attract Lei, I can't break mountains and crack rocks, but at least I can give you a fire from the sky."

Zhou Yu looked at the clear oil in the copper pot, which seemed to be water but not water, and really couldn't understand her intention.

However, Li Mu was about to untie a small wooden barrel from the well again, and scooped out a shallow layer of clear oil from the copper pot.The oil was poured into the barrel, showing a very pale yellow color. She broke off a bamboo branch with sparks that had just been blown out, put the wooden barrel on the top of the copper stove that was blown aside, and grabbed it. Zhou Yu took two steps back, then threw Mars over, and then pulled Zhou Yu back.

There was a bang, and a bright flame shot up into the sky, and the flames were so loud that the faces of the two people were illuminated.In the blink of an eye, the water-stained wooden barrel was submerged in flames.

Zhou Yu looked at the flames soaring into the sky in front of him. He was shocked at first, and then he looked at Li Mu in a daze: "This..."

"Can it be regarded as Tianhuo?" Li Mu was actually very happy. This stone lacquer was originally used by Zuo Ci as fuel for alchemy. This oil is not like ordinary charcoal. It can be used even in rainy days. Open places, so as to prevent toxic gases such as mercury and sulfur from accumulating in the body through breathing when they evaporate.Therefore, if it rains and the charcoal gets wet, the copper furnace cannot be lit, and the alchemy is terminated halfway, which is tantamount to a waste of materials, so I prepared this stone paint as a backup.

However, as soon as Li Mu heard it, he knew that the so-called stone paint was the oil of later generations.A large amount of crude oil extraction requires modern heavy equipment, but natural oil wells will be formed between some geological faults, which can be described as inexhaustible for non-industrial consumption 800 years ago.

The refining of petroleum is half organic and half inorganic. Li Mu doesn't understand the changes in the carbon structure, but the purification method of precipitation distillation and cooling is not much different from her previous plan to make wine.

Precipitate for two days, then heat it in a copper tank. The copper tank is open, and the volatilized oil vapor flows into the other through the mouth of the two copper tanks that can be buckled together. Finally, it is cooled by cold well water. The result is the simplest combustible oil.

The purity is not high, but it is enough to set a fire.

Li Mu originally thought that the gunpowder was powerful and powerful, and the oil was at best a combustion aid, but now seeing Zhou Yu's almost unbelievable expression, he suddenly felt that this unintentional gain seemed...too good up.

With a smile on his face, he was full of pride, and the frustration of gunpowder failure had long since dissipated.

"This sky fire...does Zuo Ci know?"

The fire light danced dazzlingly in Zhou Yu's eyes, as if the high-spirited fighting spirit in his heart.

Li Mu shrugged: "My original intention, that Niubi probably knew the general idea, and sent a little Taoist boy to teach me the Taoist technique of burying fire. But the stone... the stone lacquer was used up by the little Taoist boy two days ago. Instead of chopping firewood, I stole this stone lacquer to light a fire, so I discovered it." She pointed to the copper pot, and waved her hand very generously, "This is the first pot, and I gave it to you. Just take it as a celebration You have found a great victory."

"How do you know that I won Xunyang?" Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows. From his current appearance, Lu Meng's expression just now, he probably thought that he returned from the war with a disheveled face. How could Li Mu know about his victory without asking a single word? ?

His so-called military newspapers, only the two of them knew it well, had nothing to do with military affairs and wars.

"How can you not know?"

Isn't it a joke that the little-known Liu Xun can beat Zhou Yu?

But when Zhou Yu was puzzled, he drew a smile on the corners of his lips. He looked smug, and couldn't help but sneered, and immediately changed what he was going to say: "Look at you, your tail is up to the sky, why bother?" ask!"

"Tail?" This time, Zhou Yu was really puzzled, and subconsciously followed Li Mu's gaze to look behind him.

Fox tail!

Seeing Zhou Yu turning around in a daze, Li Mu suddenly imagined a white-haired fox chasing its tail in circles, and couldn't help lowering his head quickly, laughing secretly until his shoulders shook.

At this moment, Lu Meng rushed in in a hurry, and brought dozens of soldiers with a murderous look, and brought out the little Taoist boy who had just been hiding somewhere, and took Zuo Ci's bamboo house as the main group, and drew his long sword out. Sheath, as if waiting for Lu Meng's order, he could immediately rush in and take Zuo Ci out.

Zhou Yu didn't have time to ask Tail, frowned, and stopped Lu Meng, who was approaching Li Mu, "I ordered you to patrol the street, when did I let you in? You said you would go out with the army, but how could you even follow the military order?" Ignore?"

Lu Meng was so trained that he couldn't even lift his head up. He did follow Zhou Yu's order and led people to patrol the streets.But as soon as he turned the corner of the street, he saw flames bursting out of the bamboo house.Fan Xu built the walls of the bamboo house much higher than ordinary houses, and planted a large area of ​​green bamboo. The fire can be seen from the street. One can imagine how dangerous it would be if it were really in the house.

When he thought that Li Mu was among them, he didn't care about the military orders.