Before his transmigration, Sui Xiong was a person who was not interested in reality and current affairs.
This was definitely not because he was indifferent. Most artists were like this. In fact, he had been dragged by his friends to donate blood and had also donated money during natural disasters. When he saw others in trouble, he was never stingy to help them.
But if he could not see it, he really would not waste time investigating or studying it.
Because he was busy.
He had to work, deal with a lot of things in the warehouse, and manage the accounts clearly. He had to help people with illustrations and earn money to support his living expenses. He also had to work hard to find time to play games and communicate with his friends in the game.
So, apart from some of the netizens he followed on Weibo and chatted with his friends in the game, he really did not have much time to collect all kinds of unimportant information.
To give an extreme example, even his own birthday, he only remembered it when his mother called the night before.
The only day that he could not forget was probably the legal holidays. For example, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and those days in the game where there were activities, such as Valentine's Day and Christmas.
For a person who could even forget his own birthday, the social hot topics almost did not exist for him.
Who said that people were very concerned about the news in the Internet age? In fact, Brother Xiong could not remember when was the last time he saw the news.
In addition, when he was in college, except for the art major, he did not learn anything else. So, no matter how hard he thought, he could not think of anything that matched the treatment of the workers in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins with what he had seen or heard before his transmigration.
So, after thinking about it, he finally gave up.
"Although there must be something wrong, I really can't think of it. Let's talk about it later. "
After all, in this world, being able to earn enough money to support one's family by working overtime was already considered quite fortunate.
Moreover, the workers from the Commonwealth of Gold Coins in the joint exploration team, as long as they worked overtime, actually earned a lot of money — at least compared to ordinary civilians, it was quite a lot.
So, although they were very envious of the exploration workers in the Republic of Northwest, they had no intention of jumping ship.
Of course, they could not jump ship even if they wanted to. Their wives and children were all in their hometown. What was the use of running away?
In the campsite, Hoppes felt a little better after taking a stroll. Therefore, he went back to continue his ore selection.
The vein they had discovered before was not big, and the total amount of ore they had dug out was not much. However, the difference between silver ore and mithril ore was very small, and non-professional ore dressing workers could not distinguish them at all, so the efficiency of ore dressing was relatively low.
Seeing how busy they were, Sui Xiong couldn't help but sympathize with them.
(Logically speaking … the proportion of silver and mithril is actually quite different. I can start from this aspect …)
He wondered if he should imitate Archimedes and create a simple tool to calculate buoyancy.
That kind of tool was quite simple to make. It was nothing more than putting the ore into a basin filled with water, collecting the overflowing water and weighing it. Then, according to the weight, the volume of the ore was calculated, and the weight of the ore was weighed … This way, the specific gravity could be calculated.
This was probably the content of junior high school physics. Anyway, even Sui Xiong could figure it out.
However, when he tried to make a set of such equipment and experimented with a few pieces of ore, he found that it was not easy to use.
For example, he had discovered more than once that the density of mithril ore was the same as that of silver ore.
This was ridiculous. The biggest characteristics of mithril were that it was "hard" and "light." In the same volume, the weight of mithril was not even one-tenth of that of silver, so the bards described it as "as hard as a dragon's scale, as light as a feather." This was, of course, an exaggeration, but there was a reason for it. Mithril was indeed very light. Sui Xiong once threw a mithril ingot from the Holy Kingdom into the water, and then it floated on the water!
If mithril was so light, why were these mithril ores not light?
Sui Xiong was puzzled, and finally had to find someone to ask.
He found the God of Forging of the Half-Orcs, Steel Lion Morani.
After hearing his inquiry, Morani laughed, and after laughing, he told him that he had made a big mistake.
Mithril was very strange. Its specific gravity changed with the change of purity. When its purity was low, its specific gravity was exactly the same as ordinary silver. As the purity slowly increased, its specific gravity slowly decreased. When the purity was equivalent to the level of "thousand-legged pure gold," it would be light enough to float on water.
"In that case … if it was even purer, maybe it would really be as light as a feather?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.
Morani shook his head. "I thought so in the past, and I also did experiments. Generally, it was as light as cork, and that was the limit. Anyway, I didn't have the ability to further purify it, and … I didn't find that it would become any lighter. "
Sui Xiong completely understood. He laughed dryly, looked at his invention with some pain, and sighed deeply.
Obviously, the purity of most mithril ores was absolutely not high enough to change the specific gravity. In a pile of mithril ores, at most, there were only a few that could reach this level.
The "simple and clear method of screening mithril ores" he imagined was almost just an armchair strategist.
"In fact, to screen mithril ores, the best way is to use magic." Morani saw his depression and said with a smile, "The biggest difference between mithril and silver is that they conduct magic differently. If we can make a tool to accurately measure the degree of magic conductivity, it should be easier to distinguish mithril from silver."
"Even if it's an ore?" Sui Xiong asked.
Morani thought for a while and said, "It should be possible. After all, compared to its weight, Mithril's magic conductivity was less affected by its purity. That was why when enchanted weapons were made, about 10% of Mithril would be added during the casting process. This was to increase the magic conductivity of the weapon, allowing the metal that couldn't conduct the weapon to have the ability to conduct magic. Thus, the magic that was attached to the weapon would be integrated into a whole. The purity of mithril ores should generally be this high. "
He thought again and said that they could do an experiment.
Therefore, the two gods found some silver ores and mithril ores and tried to test their ability to conduct magic.
This experiment was just as Morani had predicted. In terms of magic conductivity, mithril ores were significantly different from silver ores. This difference did not even require a very profound magic ability. It was estimated that any middle-level mage would be able to clearly sense it.
Seeing the results of the experiment, Sui Xiong couldn't help but laugh.
Although he had not made the thing yet, he was already confident that he could make a tool that could easily distinguish between silver ores and mithril ores, greatly increasing the work efficiency of Hoppes and the others.
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