Chapter 705 - A Scientific Look at Magical Creations (1/2)
Chapter 705 A Scientific Look at Magical Creations
The old man nodded, agreeing with his nephew’s judgment.
The circle of rocks didn’t look quite right at first glance, and it was strange that the young man’s tracks disappeared here.
It can’t be… a special secret base, can it.
The old man’s curiosity was increasing.
Some idlers were like this. When they saw something strange, something they didn’t quite understand, they would try to figure out what was going on.
Otherwise, it would feel uncomfortable like an itch they couldn’t scratch.
The middle-aged man first installed the hidden camera, and then picked up a stone on the ground, hitting the rock wall hard. After hitting it for a while, many fragments broke off of the stone in his hands, and there wasn’t even a scratch on the rock mass.
“It’s so hard.” Finally, the middle-aged man pulled out his phone and took a picture of the rock mass. “I know a friend who studies geology, I’ll have him see what it is.”
The old man agreed and said, “It’s getting interesting. That kid must be keeping a secret.”
“I think so too.” The middle-aged man scratched his head. “And the potted plants… Uncle, you said he brought a lot of potted plants over, but I didn’t see any of them.”
“Could it be behind this stone door?” The old man pointed to the front of himself.
The middle-aged man’s eyes glowed. “That kid dug a cave out here, and then brought a lot of potted plants in-is it used to convert oxygen? Then where would the light come from? Converted from electricity? And where does electricity come from?”
Some people had a wild imagination… and it just happened to be quite reasonable.
The old man shook his head. “Not sure, maybe there’s another use for it. Now that the cameras are installed, let’s go.”
“Okay.” The middle-aged man held out his phone. “I’ll send the picture to a friend and let you know when I hear something, Uncle.”
“Sorry to trouble you.”
“That’s fine, I was rather curious anyway.”
The two left the area.
For the next few days, Roland was either getting intimate with Andonara or learning etiquette in the game.
And in reality, after buying the flat, he hired someone to decorate it and purchase furniture.
Since the place was intended to be used as a teleportation point, the decoration and furniture were only used to spruce up the place.
It was as simple as possible and only cost him about ten thousand yuan. The simple renovation didn’t take much time, but even so, it took Roland nearly twenty days.
At this point, the older man and his nephew, once again, came to the rock formation. There was an additional fellow with them.
He was a svelte, thin, middle-aged man wearing glasses.
This man was a friend of the fat middle-aged man, a geology expert.
“Geology isn’t for studying rocks. Studying rocks is just a skill we have. The pictures you showed me don’t look like anything valuable,” the middle-aged man with glasses explained seriously. “Like the mountains here in our little town, there’s nothing left to study. Old Tai, let me tell you, it’s not for you ordinary people to say whether a stone circle is weird or not because you haven’t seen many weird rocks in geology, most of them are… What the hell is this.”
At this time, the middle-aged man with glasses also finally noticed that something was wrong.
The stone circle in front of him was too strange.
He went up and touched it: “Well… it’s smooth, not like it’s been weathered, but like a synthetic rock slab.”
The old man asked next to him, “What is a synthetic rock slab, and what is it for?”
“A building material, for the most part, brought to the local brick pavers.” The man in glasses kept touching the rock mass in front of him. “I just haven’t seen such a strange synthetic slab of stone.”
The middle-aged man had retrieved his camera, and he asked, “It looks synthetic to me too. What’s the difference between a normal synthetic rock slab and this?”
“The materials are relatively fixed. Synthetic rock slabs are made with only a few varieties of materials; I can tell just by touching them.” The man with glasses said with an odd expression, “But this is completely different. I need to take some back and study it.”
“Can’t chisel it, it’s hard.” The fat middle-aged man put his camera away and said, “Why don’t you bring a perforating machine next time.”
“That works!” The man with glasses touched the rock circle, and some light rose in his eyes.
The old man laughed. “If you figure something out in your research, tell us, okay? Little Tao.”
Continuing to touch the rock body, the man with glasses gasped. He was curious but didn’t care too much about it. He just wanted to know what material it was made of to synthesize it.
The three men left the mountain.
By the next day, the man with glasses took two students with a perforating machine, dug out a piece of rock as big as a fingernail, and then drove for three hours to the geological institute in the provincial capital.
He went to an acquaintance and had the slab that was as big as a fingernail sent directly to the examination room.
Then he sat and chatted with his old friend.
“Haitao, I heard that you’re doing geological research on ancient tombs of the Ming Dynasty in a small town in the south. Did you get this stuff from an ancient tomb?” the old friend, who was already bald, asked with a smile.
“No, it’s a very strange rock mass found on the mountain,” said the svelte man with glasses. His real name was Zhao Haitao. “We took two portable perforators up there at the time, the kind made in Germany, and it was only logical that the needles should be hard enough, but the needles of both perforators were brokenone snapped and one went crooked-before they dug out this bit of rock fragment.”
Those who could work in the geological institute had a level of achievement, and the bald middle-aged froze when he heard this. “That hard? It’s not a special synthetic rock slab, right?”
Zhao Haitao shrugged. “Who knows! Let’s see the test results.”
The two then chatted for quite a while, and about two hours later, the results came in.
A certain researcher, with an odd look on his face, handed the two men data sheets, one for each of them.
After reading it, the two men were stunned.
Touching the top of his smooth head, the middle-aged man of the institute was completely baffled. “Could it be a mistake! This is all a very common clay composition. How can it be compressed into a stone slab? And what’s more outrageous is that this hardness is almost on the level of diamond; impact strength and fracture toughness are also high, and all together, this is close to the special tungsten-chromium alloy, right.” “The two German-made perforating machine needles are made of tungsten-chromium steel. If the data is combined, it is even harder than tungsten-chromium steel.” Zhao Haitao took a deep breath. “No, Old Huang, immediately dispatch a few people to go with me and get that rock back. This thing may change our understanding of materials.” “I understand. I’ll go with you.”
Two small cars, a bus, and a truck then headed directly for the small city where Roland lived.
It was supposed to be a three-hour drive, but they managed to rush there in two hours.
Then a bunch of people jumped off the bus and truck with tools and went up the mountain in great numbers. Under the leadership of Zhao Haitao, they found the rock body and dug out the two-meter-diameter, two-meter-long cylindrical rock.
It was only two meters long because Roland used this to seal the door, and the long passage at the back was all turned back into normal mud.