In a room of the palace tree which covered over 2,000 square meters, there were hundreds of vials, jars, glassware and experimental equipment, big or small. Some of the vials, jars and glassware were filled with colorful liquids, some of which were still bubbling at this moment …
Some vials, jars and glassware even contained complete organs of demon knights and specimens of demon fighters.
In some of the specialized experimental vessels, several kinds of strange ptomaine miasma of strange colors were floating in a few sealed spaces like ghosts, slowly corroding flesh and bones...
Although this place looked a bit gloomy and terrifying, if a voodoo pharmacist or a scholar engaged in microorganism research came here, his eyes would definitely light up as he would feel coming to the paradise.
This was the microorganism evolution laboratory in Castle of Black Iron. The equipment of this laboratory might be nothing different than that of other similar laboratories. However, with the special ability of Castle of Black Iron, this microorganism evolution laboratory was definitely the best laboratory among humans.
After having Heller, Zhang Tie had completely delegated the management of the evolution of living beings and species in Castle of Black Iron to Heller. He almost didn't care about it at all; instead, he just waited for the result.
It was Zhang Tie's first time to come to this microbial evolution laboratory.
Just now, Zhang Tie was still cultivating in the room of the airboat. After receiving Heller's message that he had something important to show him, Zhang Tie returned to Castle of Black Iron.
Even when the full-moons demon miasma completed its mutation, Heller didn't mention the word "important".
Therefore, Zhang Tie was very curious about what could make Heller so cautious.
"Heller, what exactly did you bring me here to show me?"
Standing in front of a pile of glassware, Zhang Tie glanced at the dozens of triangular vials on the experiment table as he wondered what Heller was going to show him.
Heller didn't speak; instead, he just took one of those triangular vials and passed it to Zhang Tie, "This is the latest mutation of essential energy aura yeast. It's very special. Castle Lord, you should take a look at it!"
"Over the years, haven't we obtained dozens of variants of essential aura yeast? What's so special about this one?"
After so many years, dozens of basic energy aura yeasts had mutated. However, those mutated basic energy aura yeasts had various defects. Mutated breeds were not perfect and usable. Therefore, they were not practical. They could only be regarded as a new breed.
"Castle Lord, will you know it after taking a look?"
Zhang Tie took over the bottle which was filled with pale yellow liquid. Watching the beer-like liquid, he shook it for a bit. The liquid inside was very clear without any turbidity.
"This thing is fermented by a mutated Essential Energy Aura Yeast?"
"Yes!"
Hearing Heller's reply, Zhang Tie opened the cork of the triangular bottle out of curiosity and moved the mouth of the bottle to his nose.
In a split second, a strong smell of alcohol emanated from the triangular bottle.
Zhang Tie had smelled alcohol before, but compared to common alcohol, the alcohol in the bottle was a bit more spicy.
"Alcohol?"
"It should be!" Heller said as he passed another triangular bottle to Zhang Tie, which contained some transparent liquid, "This is common alcohol. Castle Lord, you will know it after comparing it!"
'It should be?' After hearing Heller's words, Zhang Tie became faintly stunned. He then took another triangular bottle and sniffed it. This was the normal smell of alcohol, which was not that spicy. Additionally, it was transparent.
Zhang Tie even faintly tasted the bottle of pale yellow alcohol. Only by touching a bit of it, Zhang Tie felt that his tongue had become numb at once. The alcohol was too pungent. Additionally, given its texture, it didn't seem drinkable.
"Given its taste, this pale yellow bottle is a bit more spicy than common alcohol. Is there anything special about it?"
Watching Zhang Tie tasting it, Heller revealed a smile, "Castle Lord, have you forgotten what fuel was added to your Faerie-dragon T9?"
Zhang Tie's heart raced as he threw a glance at the two bottles of alcohol in his hand. Closely after that, he poured the two bottles of alcohol into the two burning crucibles in front of him. Closely after that, he flicked his finger, causing a spark to fly out of his finger. Closely after that, the spark split into two in the air and fell into the two burning crucibles like two fireflies.
At the same time, a 15 cm higher cyan flame sprang up in front of Zhang Tie at once...
The flame sprang up in the burning crucible in which the pale yellow alcohol was poured into; the other crucible in which the common alcohol was poured into was burning quietly and steadily. The flame was only as high as a fist.
The flame of the pale yellow alcohol was much higher than that of the common alcohol. Additionally, it burned more fiercely and brought a higher temperature.
Judging from the effect, when the light yellow alcohol burned, it was almost impossible to believe that it was alcohol.
Standing in front of the two burning crucibles, Zhang Tie's face was dyed cyan by the cyan flame, which flickered between bright and dark.
After a long while, the flames in the two burning crucibles almost died out at the same time. Zhang Tie stretched out his finger and touched the bottom of the crucibles. The bottom of the crucibles was still very clean without any dust or residue as if nothing had been burned.
The combustion of alcohol would not leave anything except water and carbon dioxide.
Zhang Tie forcefully swallowed his saliva as he asked Heller, "How high is the combustion value of this new alcohol?"
"The combustion value of this new alcohol could reach 11000 -12,000 kcal per kg!" Heller told Zhang Tie, "This new mutated essential energy aura yeast has a very single and powerful fermentation feature. The food fermented by this yeast almost doesn't contain any aura at all. Therefore, it has no edible value at all. However, when it loses aura in the fermentation, this yeast could extract the maximum energy and combustion value of the fermented food by several times. With this new yeast, we could get this alcohol with extremely high combustion value!"
After hearing Heller's words, Zhang Tie instantly rushed out of the microorganism evolution lab and came to the library of the palace tree almost at the fastest speed.
Watching Zhang Tie's back, Heller revealed a smile as if he had already known what Zhang Tie was going to do...
In the library of the palace tree, Zhang Tie collected over 1 million books that he gained in Waii Sub-continent when it was destroyed. These books covered all aspects. Many of them were even publications before the Catastrophe.
Zhang Tie remembered that he seemed to have seen something useful in a delicate publication before the Catastrophe.
After rushing into the library, Zhang Tie moved as fast as a lightning bolt. He circled around the bookshelves which were higher than 10 m. With his terrifying searching ability, he soon found his target. Under a high bookshelf, he jumped up and floated in the air. Closely after that, he took down a book from the second to the bottom of the bookshelf.
This book was a Hebrew publication from before the Cataclysm. Although it had been around for eight or nine hundred years, it was still well-preserved.
The cover of the book was an exquisite hard cover. On it was a propeller plane from before the Cataclysm, a car, and several engine models. Behind these objects was a dense sugarcane field. This was a professional magazine for engineers and professional readers at that time. The name of the magazine was "New Energy".
In the middle of this magazine was the theme of this issue "After the Oil Crisis, Baselia, a Big Country Growing Sugarcane, Launches the Alcohol Energy Program".
Below it were two subtitles "After popularizing ethanol gas stations and ethanol cars across the country, the first ethanol-fueled airplane of Baselia successfully made its maiden flight on October 5th".
Under this subtitle was a striking red word "Three Big Oil Groups Severely Criticize Baselia Government for Destroying the Regional Energy Supply Structure and Quota Plan".
Zhang Tie rapidly turned to the page introducing the ethanol-fueled airplane — —
"The first ethanol-fueled airplane successfully made its maiden flight in Salabao City, Baselia on October 5th. Before that, this airplane called Hope had completed 300 hours' test flight with ethanol-fueled. The pilot said that Hope's flight status was very good..."
Zhang Tie skimmed ten lines and soon got the key information that he wanted to know from this article.
"Hope was jointly developed by Baselia Airplane Manufacturing Company and Baselia University. It was modified from a gasoline-fueled Mustang propeller plane. With a 320-horsepower Lykaming 6-cylinder engine, it could hold 2 people..."
"Engineers declared that ethanol-driven airplane was more durable than gasoline-driven airplane. Additionally, its driving efficiency was 7% higher than that of gasoline-driven airplane..."
"After modifying 1/3 of the vehicles across the country into ethanol-fueled vehicles, it was another major measure of Baselia Government..."
"On the day when Hope made its maiden flight, Baselia Airplane Manufacturing Company had received 150 orders from farmers and sugarcane producers of this country. As for the farmers and sugarcane producers of Baselia, they had not imagined that the ethanol-fueled airplane could fly in the sky one day. What was more, the flying cost of this airplane was only 1/3 of that of the traditional gasoline-fueled airplane. Additionally, it would not cause any pollution in the flight process. It would not produce a lot of harmful gas and pollute the air like burning gasoline..."
"Coolio, the sugarcane producer, said that he would save a lot of money by using this airplane to spray pesticides. Additionally, it could be convenient for him to travel in the middle or short distance..."
"The official of Baselia Airplane Manufacturing Company said that the ethanol-driven regional airplane had already been developed..."
"If the ethanol-fueled energy plan could be carried out smoothly, as the largest ethanol-producing country in this region, Baselia would become an energy exporting country..."
After reading the contents of this magazine, Zhang Tie flew up once again and drew out another one from the bookshelf. Compared to the previous one, this one had a black cover, which looked pretty depressing. Given its publication date, Zhang Tie knew that it would be published half a year later than the previous one.
There were two titles under the cover of the magazine.
"A coup d'état took place in Baselia. The former president was shot to death in the coup d'état."
"The new parliament of Baselia has passed the bill on energy use, which will prohibit all the production and sale of ethanol-fueled airplanes. Ethanol-Fueled airplanes will be mixed with gasoline in strict proportion."
"Three petroleum groups will lend 120 billion yuan to Baselia to support the new government of Baselia to restore the domestic order."
...
After putting down the two publications before the Catastrophe, Zhang Tie was in meditation. According to the introduction in the magazine, the combustion value of gasoline, as one of the main energy, was 10450 -11250 kcal per kg. By contrast, the combustion value of ethanol-fueled was 6000-7000 kcal per kg. At that time, humans had already developed a complete method to replace gasoline with ethanol-fueled engines. All the internal combustion engines driven by gasoline could also burn ethanol-fueled engines after being slightly modified.
Before the Cataclysm, the reason why alcohol did not become a mainstream fuel was not so much because of technical reasons, but because of political reasons. The reason that ethanol-fueled engines eliminated those possibilities.
The reason that alcohol in Black Iron Age was that a series of miraculous changes caused by the Catastrophe reduced the combustion value of alcohol a lot. As a result, it couldn't meet the need of internal combustion engine anymore. Even sports cars like Faerie-Dragon T9 used external combustion steam engine instead of internal combustion engine.
The newly mutated essential-energy aura yeast could ferment ethanol-fueled alcohol with a combustion value of 11000 -12,000 kcal per kg, which was even higher than that of ethanol-fueled engines before the Catastrophe. It even surpassed that of gasoline. Didn't it mean that as long as I had this ethanol-fueled engine, I would be able to produce many gasol-fueled machines before the Catastrophe, such as propeller airplanes which could move faster than airships, automobiles with higher performance and armored vehicles which had a greater assault capability on the battlefield...
The wholly new possibilities and prospects brought by the mutation of essential-energy aura yeast shocked Zhang Tie.
This thing might bring about an energy and industrial revolution in Black Iron Age.
...
2 days later, Zhang Tie, who had recovered his composure, was sitting in meditation in the cultivation room of the airboat when the bell rang. Zhang Tie then opened his eyes.
Liu Xing's voice drifted from outside, "Hermit, we've arrived at Fire Dragon Bounty Territory!"
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