Chapter 221 (1/2)
Asphalt is different from oil. Oil needs to be refined and processed before it can be used, but asphalt only needs to be heated and melted to pave the road. Even in order to save trouble, coal cinder can be saved.
Of course, because a lot of waste slag is produced in the steelmaking plant, it can be used for paving roads and kill two birds with one stone.
Therefore, in Donne's eyes, the practical value of asphalt is higher than that of oil.
Thousands of tons of asphalt have been dug out here, which is not as small as the asphalt lake, but it is enough to pave the roads in the old and new urban areas of Ellington into asphalt roads!
”It's very troublesome to store. It will cool and solidify soon after digging out, so we can only pile them here.”
Durandon seemed helpless. When he dug it out, it was still a hot fluid. As a result, it solidified as soon as it cooled down, and it was very difficult to deal with it after soiling the ground, so he urgently hoped that Donne would get rid of these things as soon as possible.
”It doesn't matter. Asphalt is of this nature.”
Donne raised his hands. The space above his head suddenly twisted, followed by a huge hole. The invisible magic entangled the asphalt into the hole, and all the asphalt in the warehouse was soon transferred.
Duranden was stunned: ”my friend, can you tell me how much storage space your space equipment has?”
”How old?”
Donne glanced at the asphalt calculated by unit in the item column and pulled the corners of his mouth: ”it's big anyway...”
”Well, well, anyway, you are a mage. Anyway, you developed the magic equipment. Anyway, you are local tyrants...”
The dejected durandon thought that as the king of the dwarf Kingdom, the space ring handed down from generation to generation in his hand was only a storage space of dozens of standard units. Even so, it was very good.
”Don't envy me. Let me tell you some good news.”
Dunn patted duranden on the shoulder, smiled and said, ”we just got a good thing that can increase the speed of personal mining many times. If you are interested, we can sell it to you after mass production.”
”Many times?”
Duranden was very suspicious: ”how could it be that even if all the ore picks were replaced with refined gold, the efficiency would not be improved so much!”
Donne lost his smile, which was as speechless as the farmer carrying water thought that the king used a gold shoulder pole. The inertia of thinking limited people's eyes. Because he had been using a mining pick to mine, durandon subconsciously thought that improving technology was to build a mining pick with better metal, but he didn't expect to completely change the way of mining.
”Of course not with a mining pick. Besides, I don't have so much refined gold for you to spend. Remind you, how do your rune dwarves mine?”
”Of course Rune dwarves use magic.”
Duranden rolled his eyes: ”the 'fossil is mud' spell is so convenient... Wait, you mean, it can let ordinary miners master this spell!?”
Duranden suddenly jumped up, gasped and stared at Donne. If Donne can really do this, the efficiency of mining can be improved many times!
That's going to be against the sky!?
”Although it's not mastered, it's almost the same.”
Donne said: ”that thing is called the magic drill. It is driven by wind magic. At the same time, a weakened version of fossil is attached to the drill as a mud spell, which can be used by a single person. After replacing the magic drill, the mining efficiency will be... Ha ha, you will be scared.”
”Sell it to me!”
Although we haven't seen the real object yet, duranden has decisively put forward the purchase intention: ”how much you want!”
Can he not be excited?
If the magic drill is as powerful as Donne said, it can change the whole mining industry!
Others don't care, but to improve mining efficiency, their dwarves must take the lead!
”Don't worry, I will inform you after mass production.”
Donne waved his hand: ”then I'll go back first. Forget about lunch. I won't disturb your two worlds.”
After saying goodbye to durandon, Donne went straight back to Ellington and happened to see Abram walking back.
”Master Abram, stay for lunch?”
Donne said hello: ”the lunch at the Lord's house should have been ready. Calculate the time. That bastard Brian should have gone to rub the meal.”
”You'd better not.”
Abram shook his head. ”I'm not used to human food.”
”The food here is different from that in other places.”
Donne smiled. ”I have a strong taste.”
The horror on Abram's face.
Donne had to explain, ”I just mean the taste of the food. Please don't think about it.”
”I'm not thinking, really.”
”If you don't taste the food here, you will definitely regret it.”
Donne said with a smile, ”the food here is very alcoholic.”
”Oh?”
”Otherwise, why has Brian come here every day recently?”
”That's true...”
”I remember that the menu at the Lord's house at noon today is spicy and salt ribs, fried eggs with pepper, spicy meat wings... Ah, I can't go on. My saliva will flow out. Master, if you don't go, I'll go first.”
”Go! Of course!”
Abram was very interested in what Donne said, so he followed Donne back to the Lord's house.
”Oh, sure enough.”
Brian curled his mouth. Abram felt the breath when he first came. He thought Donne would find a way to bring this guy to the Lord's house for dinner. Unexpectedly, he was right.