Chapter 4 Let’s all stay and work
The first time Frederick saw Warcraft was when he was three years old when he went on vacation with his family to the manor on the shores of Lake Brombach.
At that time, an injured rabbit ran to the lake to drink water. The smell of blood attracted a group of fist-sized yellow slimes.
When the rabbit saw that the slime was up to no good, it kicked its hind legs towards the fastest one.
There is just a kind of yellow oil on the surface and inside of this yellow slime's body, which is very slippery. If you beat it and boil it in water, the oil can be boiled out and used as lubricant.
The slime's body looked crystal clear, but it felt as elastic as rubber. With the oil on its body, the rabbit's leg slipped away.
Frederick was thinking that the rabbit was quite big and should be delicious.
Unexpectedly, the rabbit turned around, opened its mouth, and spit out a fireball the size of a glass marble, which lit the slime on fire.
Three years later, Frederick did an experiment. He boiled the broth for an hour and put it into a porcelain bottle that had just been taken out of the stove fire and sealed it with wax. The result was that after opening the lid at room temperature for three days, he found that The soup has gone bad.
The same goes for the bacteria in the pus on the wound. The pus extracted from the wound is boiled in water for an hour. After the water cools, it is poured onto the wound on the rabbit leg. This wound is better than the control wound on the other leg. Suppuration occurs more quickly.
Because of this, he was lectured by his mother on the grounds that he should not abuse animals.
At that time, Frederick understood that in the magical world, not only animals would turn into monsters, but microorganisms might also become more magical, and magic methods would have to be used to solve the problem.
It's just that there have been wars here for years, and the development of magic is biased towards the military. No one has the time to think about how to "convert the military to civilians."
Frederick thought for a long time. He had never thought about deworming drugs before. It was the first time that he had been researching how to kill people for decades with funding from the sponsor, and it was the first time he asked to save someone.
Faced with such a challenging job, he finally said: "I think I can give it a try."
Frederick smiled slightly, raised his glass and toasted him with juice instead of wine, and then said to Manuai: "Your Excellency is a necromancer, and you should be familiar with the magic of 'withering of life'."
Manuel replied seriously: "Wither of Life is the introductory magic of the Necromancer, which kills enemies by destroying their vitality."
"This magic is easy to learn but difficult to master. Ordinary apprentices can only kill flowers and plants." And bugs, if you are not careful, you will hurt yourself."
Magic such as withering life appears as a common magic for villains in various stories. It is common to raise your hands to kill people, but as he said, it is easy to learn. Difficult to cum.
He was worried that Frederick would learn this magic from him, so he took a vaccination first.
Frederick smiled slightly, took a teapot, poured out all the tea inside, and asked the servant to bring a bowl of vegetable and chicken soup and poured it into it. Finally, he asked Alfred to bring a candle and seal the mouth and lid with beeswax. around.
While he was busy, he said at the same time: "I once met a wandering scholar who had a microscope in his hand that could see magnified objects."
"At that time he He showed me the magnification of many things, including the rotten soup with tiny bugs moving around in it."
"He said that bugs like this can be found everywhere, but it just gets bigger when there are more of them. Let food spoil.”
“Unfortunately, I didn’t have much pocket money at the time and couldn’t afford to buy that microscope.”
"I would like to ask you to use the wither of life on this teapot and the broth inside to kill all the little bugs, and at the same time prevent the little bugs from outside from entering."
"If it is as the scholar said, no The broth containing the bugs will not go bad for a long time.”
Manuai had a question mark. There were various theories about food spoilage, but this was the first time I heard this.
"Really?" he asked in disbelief, and others had the same idea.
Frederick replied: "I can't say for sure, I will only know if I try."
"I have tried several times and the broth boiled every half a day will not go bad, so I have a guess that the bugs in the soup are easy to kill, but the eggs of the bugs are difficult to kill."
< br>“I think if I can use the wither of life to kill all the bugs and eggs in the soup, it will prove that part of my guess is right.”
Manuai seems to be interested in this experiment Very interested, he nodded and said: "Then let's try."
He asked Frederick to put the teapot on the table. Without chanting or using the wand, he directly stretched out his right hand and pointed it at the teapot, with five dexterous fingers. Different patterns were drawn on the ground, and purple-black light appeared on the fingertips.
The teapot looks unchanged. It is quiet, as if nothing is happening.
Manuai's face suddenly became solemn, and he closed his eyes as if he was feeling something with his heart.
"Your Excellency's guess is reasonable." He said to Frederick seriously, "I can feel that there is a very small amount of life force dissipating under the magic in the teapot. It should be like small insects and eggs. , If you don’t pay attention, you won’t find it at all.”
“Well, this needs to be studied carefully.”
A smile appeared on Frederick’s face again, and he was guilty of influential deception. , the others are not difficult either.
His little thought was quickly seen through by others. Diesel raised his glass to salute him, and then asked: "I wonder if you have any new insights on explosion magic?" "What if?" It’s a good research direction and I will stay here to conduct research.”
At this time, Afu suddenly said seriously: "Our master is going to dig a canal, so I would like to ask you to explode the soil."
The corners of Diesel's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't. say.
Frederick asked Afu curiously: "Is there anything...unhappiness between you?"
Diesel didn't wait for Afu to answer, and immediately said: "Isn't it just an explosion? Mud, no problem, no problem!”
"There are professors and students of architecture among the people accompanying them, so they can make early plans."
Frederick smiled and nodded, and then said: "I have a question to ask."
“I have an idea, which is to find a section of pipe and plug the end. There is an explosion magic there. Put a ball or something like that in the pipe. After the explosion magic is activated, the He pushed the ball quickly and let it fly out at high speed."
"I want to use this weapon to replace the bow and arrow. Do you think it can be done?"
He wanted to use magic. Replacing the gun's propellant, I think it can be done in theory, but it's not clear what the actual effect will be.
In Diesel's resentful eyes, Afu said: "Master, he is the best at this kind of thing."
Frederick was startled and asked: "Why?"
Afu Fu said calmly: "I will tell you a story."
"A long time ago, several people went to the mountains to collect herbs, and planned to rest in a cave when it got dark."
"Just when everyone was preparing to have dinner, a fool found a snake crawling out of the depths of the cave, so he cast an explosion."
Frederick blinked. At first he wanted to ask if the cave had collapsed, but then he thought of another possibility.
He asked: "How far did you fly at that time?"
Afu was silent for a moment and replied: "That's not the point. The point is that you can't find anything to eat. "
Frederick immediately understood what was going on and stopped asking. Instead, he asked Diesel: "Can my idea be realized? "
Diesel? After thinking for a while, he replied: "If it is to replace bows and arrows, then the size of the magic array cannot be too large. This requires further research."
He had a preliminary plan in mind, but only a fool would take it out now because he would rely on it to make money in the future.
Of course Frederick agreed, and then asked Matthias: "I wonder if you can cultivate crops with higher yields?"
Matthias said seriously: " Plants also need food to grow, and their food comes from the soil. "
"The bigger the crops grow, the more food they need, and the more barren the land becomes, requiring a long period of fallow to restore the land. Fertility."
"Your idea has been tried, but the land was plundered too much, and the total harvest was smaller when the fallow time was taken into account."
"I think your Excellency will also let Monofro cultivate stronger livestock, but the output of the land is limited, and there will not be enough feed to feed the livestock."
Monofro nodded in agreement.
After hearing this, Frederick pondered for a moment and said: "I understand this. I have learned some knowledge about land fertility. We can talk about it later when we are free."
The understanding of fertilizers in this era is still based on long-term accumulated experience. The use of plant ash, manure and green manure has developed to a certain extent. There is a certain understanding that beans with rhizobia can fertilize fields, but they are not aware that they are root nodules. Bacteria are at work.
Frederick decided to set up a few farms to conduct trial planting for a few years, and then promote it if the effect is good.
At this time, everyone had a new direction. Only All Might was a little disappointed. Frederick did not look for him, thinking that the financial sponsor was not interested in the golem puppet.
They are not alone. Their families are included in the teachers and students, and they are also considered academic leaders. They also support the scholars, professors and students they lead through their own business.
At this time Frederick said: "Your Excellency Omet, I wonder if you are willing to stay?"
"I want to talk in detail after you settle down. I want to ask you about Regarding the golem puppets, maybe I need to customize a few special ones."
Omet's eyes lit up and he immediately replied: "As you wish!"
(End of this chapter)