Chapter 517: Product (2/2)
His gaze first laid upon a pale blue stick on the table, about 90 centimeters long, with white glitters across the body. He observed that most weapons on the rack were made out of such wood.
Well, be it the name or the functionality of these materials on the table, Ye Chong had zero knowledge regarding them. So he played safe anyway, starting from the common material.
The lady was not impressed by his choice. Speckled blue fir was a pretty common wood in the market, almost every standard weapon was made out of such wood. There was hardly any advanced, premium weapon when this wood was involved, since its tolerance towards energy firing was not high, so it would work like a toy, to be frank.
Ye Chong was silently calm.
He was not aware of the capacity of this piece of wood, so he intended to first figure out the maximum energy tolerance of this wood. The method would be simple, obviously he had to carry out an experiment.
The methodology was rather simple. He would be carving a simple circuit over the surface of speckled blue, then he would trigger the flow of energy from the crystallization, and he would amplify the energy flow during the process.
Yes, little bit more, okay, more...
Boom!
The speckled blue broke into two.
Okay that would be the highest energy tolerance, which was a bit surprising to Ye Chong to be frank. It was a rather high figure, much higher than the alloys he had seen before. That explained why all the wooden firearms now!
Now that Ye Chong had gotten the figure, he had a plan.
He did not utilize any of the facilities available, since he was not familiar with them. The outcome would not be optimum if he used an unfamiliar apparatus, especially those facilities were parakinetically demanding. They required much more careful handling due to the enhanced sensitivity of humans under parakinesis.
”Where's my dagger?” asked Ye Chong towards Ban Meng at the corner.
Ban Meng hurriedly took out the dagger and threw to Ye Chong.
Once the dagger was withdrawn from the sheath, Kristen was immediately overwhelmed. No one at the place had noticed the bit of shock going on in her pupils.
It was a dagger made out of something she had never seen before. The people were shocked into silence, as they could hear their intensifying breaths.
Ye Chong lifted the dagger and gently scratched the surface of speckled blue randomly.
The films of the chipped wood fell off the place.
Ye Chong was concentrated, as his hand danced across the wood, yet like a machine it crossed the surface, with accuracy like manufacturing machine. The films of wood were all identical. It was the accuracy that captured the attention.
Within twinkling of eyes, the speckled blue had transformed into a smooth, flawless rod in Ye Chong's hand. The body was polished, the fair white spots were like the cherry blossoms on spring.
That was not it. Ye Chong intended to hollow the rod, so he could make it an actual cannon tube, which was the trickiest part of the entire crafting process, since the inner wall must not contain any flaw to ensure proper energy transition.
He cautiously crafted a circle at the cross-section of the rod.
Be it the lady or Kristen, with their enhanced senses by parakinesis, both of them could see the detail in Ye Chong's craft and certainly they were again amazed by it. It was a perfect circle, that almost felt like he drew it with a precise geometric apparatus, and it was just a simple cut promptly from his dagger.
Ye Chong then drew a similar circle at the other side.
The depth of the cut, the diameter, the shape of the circle, everything was precisely identical. It was astounding!
Ye Chong then put the dagger down and reached his hand into the pocket, looking for something.
It was a curious sight, as the people wondered what Ye Chong would be pulling out from his pocket.
Well, the reality was... there was nothing in his pocket. It was just his typical smoke and mirrors, a camouflage to what he was doing. The thing he wanted was resting inside the dimensional keystone.
So he just dug into the pocket, which eventually gave him a bottle of dark green fluid.
Everyone was confused yet fascinated at the same time, as they looked at this half bottle of fluid.
It was actually a very strong corroding agent, which was obtained on one of Ye Chong's adventure in the Consortium base on Spectre back then. Ye Chong was familiar with such agent, he created Liquid of Shang after all.
Rather than figuring out on ”how” to hollow the tube, Ye Chong had an idea on ”what” to hollow the tube.
Only if he had Liquid of Shang, with its excellent capability, a simple drop could have fulfilled the task for him. Well, he was not aware of the name of this green bottle, he knew it was a corroding agent merely because of the warning label on it. There were a rack of them back in the base, but Ye Chong could not bring everything away, so he just picked a random bottle.
Fortunately, the bottle had a dropper at the cap, which saved him a lot of trouble. The curiosity intensified so much that everyone could not help but to reach their neck like a giraffe, popping their eyes just to see what the heck was going on.
Oh, before hollowing the tube, he got to test the capability of this agent. So Ye Chong stacked 3 pieces of speckled blue he took from the table and he dripped the agent.
Ssssss...
Sizzling was heard as a column of green smoke rumbled. The board was being corroded at a perceivable rate. The board was then pierced, with an irregularly shaped hole which reached all the way through even the table itself.
A horrified gasp could be heard in the room.
Such corrosion!
Kristen, Mr. Mo and Ban Meng had a colorless face by then, even the lady was feeling uneasy at the sight.
Ye Chong was a little surprised but his expression remained unchanged.
He pondered for a moment before he finally made his move.
Using the dropper, he first sucked about 15 drops of the agent.
His left hand rested with the wooden rod standing. His right hand holding the dropper and with extreme caution, he pressed the valve of the dropper.
The atmosphere was intense. Whether it would become an invention or an accident, it all depended on this very drop now.
A thin stream of liquid flowed out of the dropper.
Before the liquid reached the cross-section of the rod, Ye Chong replaced the dropper with a speed of lightning.
The people could see nothing than a brief afterimage.
And that was the last straw to the lady's crumbling serenity. Her expression changed!
The withdrawn right hand returned to its position, clipping the rod to support the other hand this time.
The stream of liquid was traveling in slow motion in Ye Chong's eyes.
It dripped, it landed and touched the surface, the gradual sizzling was heard again.
Ye Chong began rubbing his hands.
Chnnngggg!
The rod started vibrating, as the resonance bounced all around the room.
The lady had lost the colors on her face at last.
The rapid spinning rod allowed the liquid to contact and corrode the surface uniformly. Ye Chong's eyes focused upon the rod as his rubbing hands tried to control the angle and momentum of the rod.
Such technique would complicate anyone on strength control, even the master of strength control himself.
It almost looked like an acrobatic performance in the eyes of the people.
The hollowed space of the tube grew deeper and larger, the sizzling grew louder.
And out of sudden, silence returned.
Ye Chong stopped rubbing his hands and took a careful look at his craft. The inner wall had a satisfyingly even surface. To be frank, he was not particularly confident in this exaggerating performance. But really he could not summon a whole table of professional apparatuses right from the keystone, it probably would frighten the people and cause havoc, so he succumbed to this pretty crude, primitive method instead.
He liked his tube. It looked fine.
After the most challenging step had been done, nothing else should stop Ye Chong. He already had a blueprint of the beam shooting circuit in his mind. He decided to go for the not-so-complicated design that would produce a decent projectile, with a twist of course.
He had to make a few changes, considering how this gun would use no battery but a tiny light crystallization. He would revolve the circuit about this crystallization and pick the most common trigger he observed from all the weapons here. Regarding the more effective trigger, he lacked the necessary research for it. He also needed to reverse the circuit so it would fit the left-handed lady.
Throughout the entire process, Ye Chong had only used his dagger and the corroding agent. He used nothing else.
”Done,” said Ye Chong, as he calmly presented his craft to the lady.