Chapter 307 (2/2)

He had made a decision after pondering for a little while to start with blast furnace steel-making!

What was the basis of modern industry?

Steel!

To launch the industrial revolution, of course, he had to start increasing steel production!

To increase steel production, certainly, he had to work on legendary “blast furnace steel-making” technology!

Therefore, Sui Xiong had found an inaccessible place deep in the Ashes Woods, the same place where he had engaged in paper-making experiments. He had built a blast furnace, got a lot of iron ore and coal, and had thrown them in to burn.

There had naturally been some problems. For example, he hadn’t known what shape a blast furnace was. After thinking about it again and again, he made a long, big chimney with a big ball underneath it. He probably had thought that the so-called “blast furnace” would be like this.

He also hadn’t known what kind of iron ore and coal he should use. Therefore, in the concept of “using the simplest materials to produce an industrial revolution in order to create advanced results,” Sui Xiong had used yellow iron ore. It was unconsolidated like soil and very common type of peat with a low calorific value.

In another instance, Sui Xiong hadn’t known what structure should be in a blast furnace, so he mixed the yellow iron ore and the peat evenly and then stuffed them into it.

He was distressed to find that this thing was very hard to burn; the fire had not been strong at all and even had extinguished while burning.

Why was this happening?

Sui Xiong tried hard to think again and again, and finally, he thought that perhaps the coal in this world was not good enough because the worlds were different.

After time traveling, I must develop blast furnace steel-making technology. However, the coal is not good enough, what should I do? Waiting online, urgent.

But there was no network…

Fortunately, he was not the same type as Gerald, who had a one-track mind. As was said, poverty meant changes, and changes meant success. He had come up with a solution after thinking for a while.

To burn, right? Just to keep it at high temperatures. There are other ways!

For example, something like fire element creatures…

After casting spells to catch a powerful fire element creature from the fire element plane, which was comparable to advanced adventurers under a conservative estimation, he had put this fire element into the self-made blast furnace. Sui Xiong was trying to use this guy’s flames to melt the mixture of iron ore and peat into boiling, molten iron.

The idea had been a very good one.

The flame temperature of the fire element was not low, so the peat dried up quickly, and then… it burned up violently.

Question: A violent burning occurred in a small space. What was this phenomenon called generally?

Answer: Explosion.

Accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, the unfortunate fire element had immediately blown up into a pile of ash, and the blast furnace made by Sui Xiong had become a mess of red-hot stones. As for the iron ore and the peat… they had splashed around. Some iron slags that had fallen on Sui Xiong’s body had been their final products.

Luckily, Sui Xiong was a powerful god comparable to the legendary, unbreakable King Kong. After being smashed by the fierce explosion at almost point-blank range and being splashed by countless molten iron and slags, he only screamed out in pain a few times, soaked himself in water and took a break. Then he rebuilt the blast furnace, put in the materials, and began the improvements.

It hadn’t taken long before another loud noise occurred.

Sui Xiong once again soaked in some water, rested for a while and then ran out. He had rebuilt the blast furnace, adjusted the proportion of the materials, modified the structure, and then experimented again.

Then, not long after, there had been another loud noise.

Therefore, with explosion after explosion, again and again, the forest soon became a white land—no, it had been a black land, because the ground was full of the mixtures of iron slags and ashes. Countless unfortunate fire elements had died with everlasting regrets, turning into black ashes and scattering in every corner of the land.

If the predecessor Marx had seen this scene, he would sigh and say, “The blast furnace came to the world, from head to toe, with blood and dirty things dripping out of every pore…”

Well, if that had happened in the novels of traveling through history, the protagonist would have died countless times.