The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 537: The bricks are fixed! Can Yun Kun make a fortune? !
Shen Le was still struggling with how much wealth he would have to make to feed Yun Kun and allow it to roam the world, but the mutton-fat jade he wanted had already been automatically delivered to him.

There is not only mutton-fat jade, but also jadeite, Xiuyan jade, crystal, mica, and various minerals...

Shen Le stood in the room, spinning around on his heels, feeling dizzy. How many kinds of minerals are there?
what?
Did I sleepwalk through time last night? Did I leave the military port and teleport to the capital, to the mineral museum of the Geological University, in just one night?
In this room, except for the doors and windows, all four walls are built with frames, with grids 30 cm high and 30 cm wide, and each grid contains a mineral.

Oval amethyst geodes, clusters of white crystals, marble with patterns like mountains and water, colorful tourmalines, cat's eyes with slightly flowing halos wrapped in stone skins...

"Hey, look at these ores. Can you try them all?"

Behind the middle-aged researcher who was collaborating with him, a young and middle-aged researcher bent down slightly, rubbing his hands and looking at him:
"If you want anything else, just ask us and we will try our best to ship it to you! The mutton-fat jade here includes Hetian material, Qinghai material, Afghanistan material, Russian material...

Hotan materials are divided into mountain materials and water materials. We only have a few samples of water materials. As for mountain materials, we can send a message and ask them to urgently mine a few tons..."

Shen Le took a long breath. Alas, in this world, no power can compare to the power of the country.

The little demons that did business with him could only pick up some water materials at most, which were pebbles that were washed down by the river and deposited in the riverbed after thousands of years of soaking;
As for the use of industrial power and large-scale mining, it still depends on the country! Entire veins of minerals can be occupied if they want, and no one can touch them if they say they won’t allow outsiders to mine them!
"Thank you very much. I'll give it a try. Oh, by the way, cut a small piece of each of these ores for me. It doesn't have to be big, 10*10*5 cm will do, and put it on Yunkun, okay?"

He nodded slowly. Seeing his smile, the researcher also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately waved:
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and cut and carve! Take down the material we prepared!"

At his command, students and workers naturally picked up large chunks of ore, cut them into regular cubes, and then crushed the cut pieces into small particles.

Shen Le just sat in front of the experimental table, meditating and casting spells:
"Grab—Inject!"

"Grab—Inject!"

"Grab—Inject!"

He stretched out his hands and kept grabbing the light spots from the fragments, and kept injecting whole stones, trying to repair the cracks cut on the bricks and fill the missing carvings on them.

As for which fragments to inject into which whole material, Shen Le didn't care, it was all arranged by the researchers. He just regarded himself as a ruthless spell-casting machine, and by the way, he met the requirements of the researchers:
"Um...when you cast a spell, can you output the power more evenly each time? Keep it within the same range, and don't fluctuate too much?"

Shen Le turned his head to look at the screen on his left. Seven or eight detectors were pointed at the debris and stones in a circle, detecting the fluctuations of spiritual power on them, and the values kept scrolling on the screen.

Well, the stable output power means that he has strong control over spells and a good grasp of his abilities.

Others have brought the auxiliary measuring instruments to him, and he is working hard to improve himself in this area. This is a win-win situation!

Shen Le concentrated his energy and worked hard for eight hours every day. Two students served him and were responsible for delivering raw materials and collecting finished products.
Behind him, there were countless people running around, arranging what kind of ore he should work with, arranging the cutting, and arranging the inspection.

While Shen Le has not yet produced any results, Yun Kun has already provided the evaluation results of various minerals:

[Sonnet-fat jade is the best! To contain spiritual energy, solidify and store spiritual energy, etc., sonnet-fat jade is the best, better than any other mineral! It must be Hetian jade! Hetian jade! Nothing else will work! ]

"Hey, Qinghai material, Afghan material, Russian material are all OK?"

Shen Le asked in surprise. Yun Kun lifted up a deck with a click, and "spitted out" a large number of boxes containing minerals:

[No! It’s too far off! It’s so far, so far, so far off! It can’t be condensed at all!]

Ah this... Yun Kun, are you being too picky...

The Qinghai material is at least within the territory of my country. As for the Afghan material and Russian material, although their origins are no longer in my country, looking at the map drawn on the copper plate, they are still within the scope of the map!
Shen Le lowered his head and rummaged through the mineral box, found the boxes of mutton-fat jade, examined them carefully, and finally sighed.

Yun Kun was right. The piece of Hetian jade had absorbed enough spiritual energy and spiritual light was already flowing on it.

He weighed the jade in his hand twice. The wooden board beside him made a thudding sound, and suddenly a man rushed up.

Shen Le turned his head and found that the man was the expert from the Special Affairs Bureau with whom he had been communicating these days. At this time, he stretched his neck and stared straight at the jade material in his hand:

"Spiritual jade! Spiritual jade! This kind of spiritual jade is the best raw material for carving jade talismans and making spiritual tools!"

"Can you see if these can be used?"

Shen Le hooked his fingers, and the wooden board moved, pushing the pieces of Qinghai material, Afghan material, and Russian material in front of the visitor.

The visitor carefully checked each piece, then shook his head regretfully:
"No. These jades are not fine and uniform enough to store a lot of spiritual energy. They may be used to make jewelry, they are only slightly off, but to make spiritual jade..."

This tiny difference is a natural chasm. For Yun Kun, instead of spending a lot of effort to adjust its internal crystal structure, it is better to just throw it away.

Anyway, as long as it asks, Shen Le can always help him find the best mutton-fat jade. Shen Le is so awesome!

"Now you see. Yun Kun needs some of the best mutton-fat jade, the more the better, and put it on the ship as a storage device for spiritual energy--"

Shen Le simply threw the question to the Special Affairs Bureau:

"Can you get it? How much can you get?"

"this and that……"

The expert from the Special Affairs Bureau instantly turned bitter. They wanted mutton-fat jade! They wanted the best Hetian jade!
This kind of Hetian jade, which can store spiritual energy and be made into jade talismans and spiritual tools, is coveted by everyone!
The reserves of minerals are limited, but any practitioner's demand for them is unlimited!

Shen Le knew it was no use looking at him like this. He did not urge him, mainly because urging him was useless. He moved to the side of the boat, stroked the side of the boat and said softly:
"Yun Kun, let's try something else. The kind of high-purity silicon crystals used to make chip wafers, do you want to try it? You've seen it before, I've used it to carve teleportation symbols..."

Yun Kun thought for a while and agreed with a hum. Of course, the little guy also had conditions:
[Then I want a lot! Lots and lots! Fill up a whole room! That thing is no good, it can't compare to mutton-fat jade, I can only win by quantity! ]

As long as it is willing to give in, the Special Affairs Bureau will be thankful. Wafers, or crystal columns, are the products of modern industrialization. Once a factory is opened, they can produce as many as they want.

Even if it is a little more expensive, that thing can be mass-produced, and the raw material is just quartz sand. It is great to be able to use it to replace the mutton-fat jade, which has limited reserves and will eventually run out!

"No problem! We'll get the goods right away! We'll fill up a room for you!" Without waiting for Shen Le to speak, the expert from the Special Affairs Bureau who was in charge of communicating with Yun Kun and handling the modification matters, patted his chest.

After the shooting, he said softly:

"But Yun Kun, the spiritual energy you injected into it, was it transformed by spiritual wood, or by engine energy, or absorbed from heaven and earth?"

[Mainly the engine and the world! Of course, a little external spiritual energy is also needed for the initial start! ]

Yun Kun answered as a matter of course. The loud speaker was buzzing, making Shen Le feel dizzy. However, the expert from the Special Affairs Bureau did not have time to feel dizzy. He was immediately overjoyed:
"That's great! Yun Kun, if you can't use up all the spiritual jade you converted from the wafers, can you sell it to the Special Affairs Bureau? We will charge you the market price for spiritual jade of the same quality!"

Phew... That's great. Shen Le breathed a sigh of relief and was very satisfied:

The difference between buying wafers and selling spiritual jade is an extremely huge number.

Very good, very good. With this money alone, Yun Kun will not only have enough wafers, but can also buy a large amount of spiritual wood to strengthen himself. Even if he saves hard for a while, he may be able to afford a nuclear reactor.

He no longer has to worry about how much money he has to earn to support this child!
Letting Yun Kun and the Special Affairs Bureau negotiate price and cooperation, Shen Le clapped his hands and plunged into the fusion of various minerals.

I don’t know how many kinds of minerals were synthesized, and I don’t know whether all the permutations and combinations of the minerals brought by the experts were tried.

Shen Le only knew that one day a middle-aged researcher came running in, ecstatic:

"We figured it out! We figured it out! - Mr. Shen, you have synthesized a special mineral whose fire resistance is twice as good as the best fire bricks currently available!"

Double...?
Shen Le stared at the other person in a daze. Forgive him for not being an engineer, he had no idea how high a temperature the best refractory bricks could withstand.

As for how much help the doubling of refractory bricks' high-temperature resistance would bring to industry, he had even less idea.

He could only watch as the other party danced and shouted at the students to push the cart and put three trays in front of him:

"Mr. Shen! This is the ore sand that has been refined and selected. This is the mineral you synthesized last time. Can you take a look at it and see if we can repeat it?"

Shen Le expanded his mental power and carefully observed the result he had accidentally created. Well, when he synthesized this brick, he was very careful and patient, and distributed the earth spirit energy he absorbed very evenly:

The crystal structure inside the stone brick is quite delicate, and the surface is as shiny as glass, but slightly dull, giving it a frosted texture.

With a glance, the student in charge of delivering the materials also brought up the experimental records:

How much does the quality of mineral A decrease, how much does the quality of mineral B increase, and how much does the surrounding spiritual power fluctuation increase during the change...

Very good, very good. Although Shen Le didn't remember how he did it at that time, with these records, he could just copy what he did, which was much more convenient than groping around blindly!

"Okay... I'll give it a try. Let me make it clear first, I only come across this occasionally, so it may not work once, or even ten times!"

"No problem! Feel free to try! We have prepared a hundred portions of the ingredients, and if that's not enough, we have more!"

Shen Le rolled up his sleeves and started working hard. He failed the first time, failed the second time, and failed the third time, but he felt very close, very close to his goal!
As long as I can master the earth-based spiritual energy more deeply and use it more delicately...

By the way, it was not just the earth element spirit energy, the raw materials he synthesized this time also contained a small amount of gold element spirit energy. That's right, the name of the mineral that needed to be synthesized was written as bauxite... He tested it again and again. Not to mention, this kind of targeted extreme test, compared to simply repairing bricks and stones, the test of control was more than ten times stronger!
After trying for an unknown number of times, the power of earth and metal at Shen Le's fingertips suddenly lightened. A light flashed across the surface of the bricks and stones, and in an instant, a feeling told Shen Le:
nailed it!
This is what he wants!

"I think I have it!" he said, raising his voice:

"Take this finished product out and test it! Test it first! - Oh, cut it in half and keep it for me. I also have an experiment to do!"

Immediately a student rushed in, dragged the finished product out, and quickly brought in half of it.

Shen Le tapped his fingers lightly, condensing a ball of fire, which slowly sank into the bricks and stones. The bricks and stones rested quietly on the floor, not turning red, not becoming brittle, not becoming crumbly or powdery, but extremely firm.

Shen Le waited patiently for a while, then mobilized his spiritual energy and traced out circles of runes on the surface of the bricks and stones:

Very good. This piece of brick and stone, as he sensed, has good ability to conduct spiritual power.

In addition to its own fire-resistant effect, you can also engrave a fire-proof array on it - when the two are overlapped, its high temperature resistance index is not 1+1=2, but can be doubled!

"Mr. Shen, the test results are out! The refractory bricks you just synthesized are indeed the same as those made before!"

Half a day later, the middle-aged researcher came in quickly, his spirits high and his eyes full of excitement. The most fearful thing for those who work on materials is that they have no direction, and they don't know "if we can do it by going in this direction".

Now, with a ready-made direction, the next step is to invest a lot of manpower to analyze its components and explain its composition principles.

Now that you have a direction, it will be much faster to get there!
"Yeah, I understand." Shen Le nodded confidently:

"By the way, you don't need me to do the subsequent mass production, right?"

"You are kidding." The middle-aged researcher's face froze, and he quickly smiled:

"This kind of refractory bricks are used in large quantities to build steelmaking furnaces, special smelting furnaces, ethylene cracking furnaces, carbon fiber carbonization furnaces, and ceramic composite material sintering furnaces...

What a great application prospect! What a huge usage! It is impossible for you to produce it in large quantities by yourself! Don't worry, you can produce some samples, and we will do it in the future, leave it to us!"

Shen Le was relieved instantly. Although he was willing to make certain contributions to the country, he was unwilling to be tied here for a long time.

He will die if he rubs bricks every day!

Being tied here, he will definitely escape and teleport directly to the secret realm!

"Okay, just tell me how many samples you want. Oh, and give me an extra batch of raw materials so I can make some refractory bricks for Yun Kun to use as fireproof panels for the engine compartment!"

"no problem!"

Shen Le worked day and night for another three days in the laboratory of the military port. After the samples and fireproof boards were ready, he stretched his spine and stretched his waist:

Thank goodness!

With the fireproof insulation he made himself, he was finally not afraid that when Yun Kun went out to sea, the engine would accumulate too much heat and burn its body!

Well, I'll go back and look for some fireproof talismans, carve them one by one, and give it an extra layer of protection. As for now?

I can finally go back to the ancient house. If I don't go back now, I won't be able to catch up with the restoration progress of my mentors. My mentors will be very anxious...

Yun Kun returned to the sea in triumph, carrying a new gas turbine, a newly built cabin, and a cabin full of wafers.

It can absorb enough heat, convert it into spiritual power, and store it inside the wafer, and it doesn’t even need to discharge the heat!

No need to leave clear thermal traces in the sea water and expose your position!
After sending Shen Le to Citong City, he wanted to go out and have fun! He wanted to go to a very far place to have fun! He finally had the capital to travel far out to sea!

"Be careful!" Shen Le stood on the dock, full of worry, and warned earnestly:

“At any time, leave behind energy for teleportation—if you really can’t hold on any longer, teleport through the water veins and come back quickly!

You can come back to me or to the Dragon Palace! I will go back to the Dragon Palace to pick you up! I am not afraid of losing face! "

[Don't worry! No one can stop me!] Yun Kun raised the sail, tightened it, and then lowered it, back and forth, as if waving:

【I'm going! Listen to my good news! 】

Shen Le watched it sail away, stomped his feet, and walked towards the old house. In the old house, all the broken bricks had been laid out according to his requirements, and granite particles were neatly laid on top of the bricks.

This time, when Shen Le stood in front of the stone bricks and activated the power of earth, he no longer had any doubts, nor did he feel out of control:

"Extract—Inject!"

A grayish-yellow hazy light flashed gently and sank into the gaps between the bricks and stones. The brick joints grew and closed naturally, and the blurred and incomplete patterns on the bricks and stones were naturally filled in.

When Shen Le opened his eyes again, he saw a complete and solid granite floor tile in front of him. The patterns on it were intricate and beautiful, as if it had just been carved. It was immediately laid in the ancient house.

"Very good, the result is satisfactory - next time, try to repair two pieces at once!"

“Three bucks at a time!”

"Four at a time!"

The light flickered, flowing across the bricks and stones like water. Shen Le walked around the old house and completed the reinforcement of all the floor tiles in just two days.

He sat comfortably in the porch, watching the clay figurines running back and forth, placing the tiles one by one;
The orchid was hanging high on the eaves, casting shadows and calling out:

[Wrong! Wrong! This floor tile should not be placed here! These floor tiles with the characters for "Fu" and "Shou" are arranged at certain intervals. Didn't you see it? ]

[Wrong! The directions of these pieces are all wrong! Turn this piece 90 degrees left! Turn this piece right! Only in this way can the pattern be formed!]

[Wrong! These are sea ripples, move to the side! ]

Alas, fortunately, Lan Zhuang helped. Shen Le yawned, leaned against the pillar, and squinted his eyes:

He was too lazy to do the work of putting tiles together, not to mention moving the tiles one by one, putting them in the right place, and making patterns on the ground...

These things, if not dozens of tons, must weigh at least a dozen tons! What a huge workload it is to carry them around!
Lan Zhuang and the clay figurines never tire of this. They work from sunset to the moon. When the last floor tile is put down, the bricks rub against each other and make a soft "click" sound:

Click!
Click!
Click!
The entire mansion, the three courtyards in front and back, and the alleys between the left and right buildings, all the floor tiles were shaking slightly. They rubbed against each other, pushed back and forth, and slightly adjusted their positions.

Shen Le turned around suddenly and saw cold air rising from the ancient well in the second courtyard, spreading to the entire courtyard and then continuously spreading outward.

The moonlight shone through the cold fog, then penetrated the cold fog and fell on the bricks. Soon, there were complex patterns of entwined lotus, spreading out piece by piece on the floor tiles...

"What's happening here?"

Shen Le stretched out his hand to hold the wooden guardrail on the corridor and leaned out to look. After looking for a while, he could not figure out what to do, so he simply jumped out of the corridor and onto the eaves.

Looking down from above, I was even more surprised:
"This pattern... this pattern is not the kind used on floor tiles! Even its use on brick carvings is very limited..."

It is too complicated, too delicate, and too gorgeous. So gorgeous that even if it is used in brick carving, it is usually used in gatehouses and arches, not everywhere.
Shen Le is more familiar with this pattern when it is used on porcelain and fabrics.

Yes, only the delicate paintings on porcelain, the crisscrossing warp and weft on silk fabrics, and the delicate embroidery can perfectly support the beauty of this pattern...

And now, Shen Le was looking down from a high place, watching the cold fog slowly rising and falling, and watching the clusters of lotus flowers gently floating on the floor tiles.

Even among these lotuses, there were faint red marks, which gradually became thicker and thicker. I don't know if it was the cold fog that was dyed red by the moonlight, or if blood was seeping out of the floor tiles...

Shen Le always felt that these fluctuating patterns, especially the lines and folds between them, were a little familiar.

Just like, just like the hem of a red wedding dress, spreading out wantonly on the ground, reflecting the moonlight, swaying constantly with the girl's steps, moving forward non-stop——

"What is this? It can't be Shanshan's wedding dress, right?"

He lay on the eaves, looking down for a long time, then jumped down and touched the floor tiles with his hand.

I ran my fingertips along the lines of the floor tiles, but I didn't feel any traces of lotus. However, I always had a strange feeling:

All the fluctuations of power were directed towards that ancient well, that ancient well that was filled with cold fog and enveloped the entire house.

What's in there?
(End of this chapter)