Chapter 151 (1/2)
Gear city is the most similar city on earth that Donne has seen in prandal in the past two months.
Such a big city is full of the style of Steampunk, huge structures exposed to the air, gears coated with black lubricating oil, pipes spraying hot steam everywhere, and a thick smell of familiar haze in the air
If not for the architectural style of dwarfs and humans, Donne thought he had come to Europe in the 18th century.
Donne found coal and oil not found by the dwarves in gear city. It is precisely because the dwarfs developed and used these fossil fuels that gear city is full of pollution and haze.
Donne has no intention to stop the Dwarfs' development, but for him, magic crystal is a clean energy alternative to coal and oil. The total reserves of this strange thing in prandal far exceed coal and oil. In Donne's view, magic crystal is the world's greatest wealth.
”Are you interested in Blackstone and black oil?”
Croto noticed Donne's vision: ”human beings don't seem to explore the value. These two things are very cheap, but the combustion effect is very good. It can bring a lot of heat energy, and the steam engine is very convenient to use.”
”Black stone? Black oil? Oh!”
Donne shook his head. ”In fact, I know the value of these two things, but I don't like them - seriously, because they burn, the air is terrible!”
Croto smiled. ”We really like the taste.”
”I hope you won't get any strange diseases. The smell here is really bad.”
”We've been trying to find a way, but we haven't found a perfect substitute yet. At the beginning, our ancestors also used black stone and black oil as fuel, but in the records unearthed from the ruins, they later found a stable and efficient energy. Maybe the magic drive you said is a good way before we find that energy.”
”Let's work together.”
”In a word, we have been studying how to use other means to stimulate the energy in the magic crystal, but now the only achievement is --”
Before croto's voice fell, he heard a dull ”boom” in the distance. Croto shrugged: ”as you can see, the only achievement is to turn the magic crystal into a bomb. If you can't let the magic crystal, it's difficult to stably release the energy inside.”
”Some devices use the energy of magic crystal, but after we restore it, we haven't figured out why they can stably extract the energy of magic crystal. Now we are decomposing in reverse, hoping to understand this problem.”
”If this problem can be solved, new energy will not be a problem.”
Donne nodded in agreement. Compared with humans on earth, dwarfs actually have more advantages. The world has abundant resources for them to use, and no race competes with them. Moreover, they also have relics left by their ancestors that can be excavated, from which they can master technologies far beyond the current scientific and technological level, which is very helpful to their development.
Donne didn't stay in gear city for long, on the one hand, because the air here was terrible, on the other hand, cloto was so enthusiastic that he couldn't wait to marry those dwarf beauties immediately and settle down in gear city.
Donne hurriedly arranged the teleportation array and returned to forge hammer castle with teleportation.
He did not connect gear city's transmission array directly with forge hammer castle's transmission array, but planned to transit through Ellington.
He is not a selfless person. Since prandal's transmission array technology has been lost, this is his exclusive technology. Of course, we should maximize its value.
He plans to build Ellington into a transfer station. All people who pass through Ellington must pass through Ellington. In this way, with his development, a steady stream of people will gather in Ellington, and many people who see business opportunities will gather in Ellington. Over time, it will become a prosperous commercial city.
Before that, of course, Donne had to hold Ellington firmly in his hand.
Dunn spent an hour at hammerforge, made his first deal with durandon, bought a batch of finished copper ingots, and then sent them back to Ellington.
After returning to Ellington, Donne came to the big square under construction.
This big square is the central area of Ellington he planned, and it is also the transportation hub and transfer station in the future. Donne has his own plans in the areas around the square. Most of them will be his key industries in the future, leaving a small part for his future partners.
”Lord!”
Uncle Depp, who was carrying a huge stone on his shoulder, was helping those people build. When he saw Donne, he came to salute immediately. The huge stone almost hit Donne's face.
This is Elsa's meaning. Since Ellington is so busy now, the guards can't be idle. They can just combine exercise with construction.
”Don't be polite. Go and be busy.”
Donne waved his hand and began to build the transmission array.
As a transmission hub, the quality of Ellington's transmission array must be reliable. Donne originally wanted to put it in place in one step, but after taking out the star boundary square crystal, he hesitated and put it back.
Now Ellington's strength is still too weak. If someone covets the transmission array and takes it away, he will lose more than he gains.
So finally, Donne first arranged an ordinary transmission array, the quality is only a little better than forging hammer castle and gear City, and then arranged an alarm magic array. If the transmission array is in danger, you can inform him at any time.