Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 111: Furnace Completed, News from Hongdu

Lin Bo had long planned to use sea-fired gray steel to cast the alchemy furnace, but a complete furnace required more materials and components than just gray steel.

The players on the Zongwang platform come from the multiverse, with broad horizons and bold ideas. The alchemy furnaces they design are very different from traditional alchemy furnaces, incorporating techniques and concepts from multiple fields.

To make it easier for beginners to get started, many new alchemy furnaces are now designed with intelligent auxiliary systems and mechanical structures that can control temperature, timing, adding materials, and stirring, freeing the player's hands and achieving fully automatic alchemy - that's what they say, but in the actual operation process, many recipes still require full manual participation.

The intelligentization of alchemy furnaces or furnaces is a major trend, and even many old fundamentalist scholars will give positive comments after using them.

The type of furnace that Lin Bo chose also has some automatic functions, mainly temperature monitoring and automatic feeding. The technological content is very ordinary, but it is much better than those cooking utensils in the kitchen.

He couldn't use the Mantra Control Technique to rub some high-precision components by hand, so he went to [Picking Up Trash Makes Me Happy] to purchase them. The other party had a lot of scrap parts on hand, and there was always one that could meet his needs. If the specifications were not suitable, he could just modify them. The intelligent operating system was also provided by her.

In the past few days, Lin Bo repeatedly studied the design drawings, memorized the structure of each component, and collected all the auxiliary materials and components. When he started manufacturing, it was natural and smooth without any difficulties.

The solid and tough gray steel was tamed by the wizard's words and shaped like a lump of mud into a towering alchemy furnace with a hollow interior and filled with cabins and pipes.

After the main structure was completed, Lin Bo began to install an intelligent system to provide heat insulation protection for electronic devices.

The stove requires electricity for its automatic function, and its built-in battery lasts for a week, so once the workshop is finished, it can be plugged in directly.

After working for an hour and a half, all the parts were assembled. The battery was charged with the lighthouse generator and then installed in the furnace. It was turned on with one click, and the operating system self-checked and ran smoothly. At this point, it was declared a success.

Lin Bo nodded with satisfaction, placed the furnace properly in the alchemy room, and immediately began to set up the alchemy fire ceremony.

Whale oil is flammable, and refined whale oil is even more flammable. Once it comes into contact with air, a slight impact can cause a violent explosion.

Therefore, when arranging the Danhuo ceremony, the most important thing to consider is safety.

The magical fuel he chose was crude whale oil, which would not explode.

However, crude whale oil contains too many impurities, and has a very smoky smell after being ignited, which greatly affects the judgment of the "Smell the Scent and Know the Marrow" chapter. Therefore, it needs to be refined and purified many times in ritual incantations, and after being converted into refined whale oil, it is broken up into fine oil mist and ignited.

The advantage of this approach is that the highly dangerous refined whale oil can be used immediately after production, sealed throughout the process. Even if it explodes, the damage caused is minimal. The residual oil left after quenching is rich in biomass and can also be fed to the fungal blanket to recover nutrients.

Lin Bo once told the all-purpose fungus the real name of whale oil. It extracted the corresponding genetic information from the gene bank and produced whale oil mushrooms that looked like pomegranates.

After peeling off the shell, inside are grains of oil wrapped in a plant membrane. It emits a lustrous blue light, which means it is of high purity and can even be used as bullet propellant. A whole whale oil mushroom is a high-energy bomb.

Because of this, Lin Bo would rather go to the whale oil refill station in Laojie to purchase crude oil than use whale oil mushrooms directly.

By the time the Danhuo ceremony was set up, it was already past noon.

Lin Bo was about to leave for the East Cliff Grottoes. The initial construction there had been completed, and they could begin setting up the warehouse and training grounds.

He also planned to modify the whale oil mushroom to see if he could transfer the magical energy from the oil to the cellulose. The wood whale oil produced in this way might have stable physical properties and would not explode easily.

The entrance to the alchemy workshop was on the north side of the lighthouse, a cellar door at the base of the wall. Several ventilation ducts led to the surface, and outside the courtyard wall, several iron chimneys, wearing conical rain caps, looked like small houses emerging from the ground.

The cellar door is built with concrete and sealed with steel plates. It fits tightly and has no keyhole.

Lin Bo stood under the cellar door holding a whale breath lantern. He flew into the air and tapped the iron plate. The thick steel opened like a curtain, letting in sunlight.

When he flew out of the underground workshop, the iron plate of the cellar closed naturally, and there was no gap visible to the naked eye.

The little seagull standing on the top of the lighthouse croaked twice, signaling the night watchman that a visitor had arrived. Lin Bo then told the little seagull to return to its roost and call back the Fungus-talking seagulls.

Viscount Pearl's butler stood outside the low wall of the courtyard, waiting for an unknown amount of time. He silently admired the view of the promontory, gazing at the moss on the stones of the wall, and noticed the white bird shedding its feathers in the wind suddenly take flight, heading northeast into the depths of the land.

When the night watchman came out from behind the lighthouse, the butler quickly put away his leisurely mood, stepped back, and knelt down gently.

"Are you here to see me because of a letter from Viren Pearl?" Lin Bo asked.

The butler fished the envelope from his coat lining pocket and handed it over. The wax seal was intact, and the address on the cover was the manor in Stone Tower Town.

After taking the letter, Lin Bo called the butler to stand up again. He chanted a spell in a low voice. The butler's muddy palms, trouser legs and leather shoes were blown by a breeze, and the dust fell off silently, leaving them as clean as before.

The butler rubbed his palms together, took a deep breath, displayed the most proper waiter etiquette, straightened his back, lowered his head and waited.

Lin Bo unfolded the letter and read it. It began with "To my Most High Lord."

The letter paper is very long and the handwriting is very neat.

Velen recounted his experience during this trip. At a banquet held to celebrate surviving the shipwreck, he sprinkled mushroom flavoring into a bowl of thick soup in public. The nobles who were sharing the meal "remained silent for nearly a quarter of an hour" and "scraped the soup bowls clean with bread like paupers."

Willen Pearl was a well-known figure in Hongdu's social circles, a frequent attendee of literary salons, fashionable parties devoted to the occult, and university professors' lectures. He inherited the connections of the previous generation of viscounts and enjoyed a certain reputation among his peers.

After becoming famous at the banquet, Viscount Pearl held a series of dinners, inviting more people to taste mushroom MSG, and made up stories for newspaper reporters, greatly adapting his story of being stranded on a desert island to make it similar to "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

He claimed that the mushroom MSG was made by grinding the fruit of a strange tree in the underground tomb of the lost dynasty. There were also many corpses of the burials with ageless faces in the tomb. It was suspected that taking the powdered fruit could make people stay young forever. He himself had the strength to row across the sea because of taking the fruit powder.

This level of exaggeration and nonsense was just a minor incident at the occult gatherings that Viren Pearl attended, but since he had personal experience and produced physical evidence, anyone who heard it would inevitably be skeptical.

Reporters enthusiastically spread the legendary story of Viscount Pearl, and it spread to all levels of Hongdu society.

The excitement about the lost treasure, which had subsided slightly due to the list of hurricane victims, is now at full swing again.

Lin Bo thought of the pawnshop owner. He might have been the most successful con man in Stone Tower, but that title was about to be taken by Viren Pearl.

Also sent with the letter was a copy of the Hongdu Times. As a media outlet known for its timeliness and political nature, the Hongdu Times rarely paid attention to folk anecdotes and was often referred to by locals as the mouthpiece of parliament and the emperor.

However, the newspaper's second-page headline featured a silver-plate photo of Viren Pearl, with the title "Hurricane survivors return to Hongdu and may be summoned by His Majesty the Emperor."

The report described the previous treasure hunt and the large number of casualties and disappearances caused by the hurricane. I speculate that Viren Pearl will probably represent the shipwreck survivors and receive the emperor's condolences along with the families of the other victims.

Less than two days after this expedited letter was sent, Lin Bo estimated that it would not be long before he would see news that mushroom MSG would appear on the emperor's table.

The night watchman folded the newspapers and letters and handed them back to the steward, instructing him to take them to the old priest for his perusal.

So the butler put away the letter, turned around and walked away step by step. When he reached the edge of the cape, he lowered his head and looked at his trouser knees, but did not find a trace of mud.

That afternoon, Lin Bo completed two [Sea Spirit Altar] challenges, both yielding random affixes. By then, his True Name Mage class experience accumulated had reached (45045/61500), and his Disaster Coin balance had exceeded 15000. He watered the mushroom garden.

Soon, the cries of flocks of seagulls drifted into my ears on the wind, becoming clearer and louder.

He walked to the entrance of the cave and saw a flock of birds flying in from the sky, like clouds gathering in the distance, landing on the reefs near the sea, circling low in the sky, sending out warm greetings to the long-lost lighthouse keeper.

"(Magic words) Long time no see." Lin Bo greeted with a smile.

(End of this chapter)