After watching the forging process all morning, Zuo Tianxuan felt his eyes were dry and his cheeks were red when he walked out of the forging building.
The environment in the forging room really made him feel uncomfortable.
When I stepped outside, the wind was biting and biting.
Taking out his mobile phone, Zuo Tianxuan clicked on the APP "Carrying Service".
The interface jumps to the taxi service bar, where free taxi services are available.
After Zuo Tianxuan pressed the button to take a free taxi, a map of the area he was in appeared on the screen.
"Didi, the driverless vehicle is rushing to the area where you are located. The estimated arrival time of the vehicle is 2 minutes. Please wait where you are."
As the electronic announcement sounded, Zuo Tianxuan quickly ran back to the room, took a coat and put it on, then stood outside the house and began to wait for the vehicle to arrive.
After a long time, an unmanned vehicle came from a distance at high speed and stopped not far in front of him.
After scanning the code and getting on the car, the driverless car will automatically set off to the positioned destination.
Star City's driverless technology now fully covers the entire city. It is an urban transportation system jointly created by the science and technology department, the traffic management department, and the Silver Moon tribe.
This system has been in operation for more than a hundred years, and has now eliminated private cars and become an important part of Star City's operating system.
With the assistance of this unmanned carrier system, there are no traffic jams in Star City, and all road traffic lights and other facilities have long been removed.
Charging vehicles is also very convenient. Wireless charging modules are installed underground on urban roads.
Every road in the entire city is a charging station, which can replenish the energy consumption of running driverless vehicles at any time.
Star City's current model is more like a pilot project for Dawn City. This unmanned carrier system will also be moved to Dawn City in the future.
The vehicle drove at high speed for about half an hour, gradually leaving the suburbs, and the number of tall buildings around it gradually increased.
After a long time, the driverless vehicle stopped in front of a building.
There is an eye-catching medical sign on this building, which is one of the medical sites serving the public in Star City West District. There are also several armed security personnel on duty at the door.
Walking into the building, there were crowds of people inside.
Zuo Tianxuan skillfully walked through the medical hall and came to the unmanned service station in the corner. There was a row of self-service medicine-taking machines that could be operated by themselves.
After passing the identity authentication, he took the three boxes of medicine spit out by the robot and turned around to leave.
Taking medicine regularly every month has become a normal part of his life.
His illness was not serious, but it could not be eradicated.
This disease is called "hemp".
When I get sick, my eyes are bloodshot and red, my whole body is hot and itchy, and I feel like there are countless ants crawling on the surface of my skin. This state lasts for about half an hour before it subsides.
This was also one of the reasons why he was unable to enter the combat academy because his physical fitness was difficult to meet.
His grandfather had a similar condition, and so did his father. According to his grandfather, this was an ancestral problem in their family.
It is unknown which ancestor it came from.
What is certain is that the hemp disease should be caused by radiation from a special kind of spiritual mineral.
They have been blacksmiths for generations, and it is normal for them to be exposed to different types of spiritual minerals. Although these spiritual minerals have been processed and the radiation intensity is far less intense than when they were first dug out, the radiation still exists.
One of his blacksmith ancestors was apparently exposed to radiation from a special kind of spiritual mine, which left the root of the disease in his body.
And the disease is also passed on to future generations.
There is no way to eradicate this disease. His grandfather practiced "Fire Evil Jue" to give his body an affinity for the fire attribute. The hemp problem no longer has any impact on his grandfather.
But he can't.
The Yan Sha Jue technique is a relatively low-level technique among the existing techniques. This technique has not changed much for hundreds of years. No technique research institute is willing to spend energy on the improvement of this technique.
Therefore, the hidden dangers of the early exercises in Yansha Jue have never been solved.
Cultivation will cause certain damage to the body, and it must be practiced in adulthood, otherwise it will cause irreversible damage to the growing body.
He is only 17 years old now, and he still has several years to wait before he can practice the Flame Demon Art.
During this period, he could only take medication to relieve the pain and suffering caused by the genetic disease.
Fortunately, Star City included his ancestral disease in the free medical system. After all, although their family is now in decline, they had contributed a lot to the development of the front line, and they got this disease in order to build weapons for the front line soldiers.
After taking the medicine, Zuo Tianxuan did not stop and immediately took a taxi back to the forging room.
At this time, in the forging room, grandpa had already cooked the food.
There are three bowls of dishes on the table, which are not many. Two are vegetarian and one is meat. They are all ordinary ingredients produced in the farms within Star City.
After lunch, Zuo Tianxuan sat by the window of the forging room and started reading the forging-related knowledge in the database with his tablet.
Zuo Tianxuan neither resists nor rejects whether he wants to become a blacksmith in the future.
His grades and physical fitness are not up to standard, and he cannot be admitted to the ideal combat academy. If he does not become a blacksmith, there is no good place for him. He can only find a job with poor benefits. It is better to follow his grandfather and become a blacksmith.
road.
Although the prospects of this industry are getting worse and worse, there are subsidies from Star City that can be received after all.
No matter how bad it is, you won't starve to death.
He has been very familiar with blacksmithing since he was a child.
The production of modern weapons and equipment follows the path of psychic weapons, which is a product of two systems that combine technology and psychic energy. The specific manufacturing process is divided into three steps.
The first step is to compose the image with the software and set the size, shape, etc. of the weapon in advance.
The second step is to cooperate with the psychic processing equipment to input the parameters into the processing machine.
In the third step, the machine is processed and built according to the parameters of the weapon and equipment and the input spiritual materials.
This is an assembly-line weapon and equipment manufacturing plan, which is characterized by extremely high efficiency and extremely low weapon scrap rate.
At this stage, what Star City wants to do is to improve the upper limit of the creation of psychic weapons, and to raise the strength of weapons created in this mode to another level.
It is said that this technology originally came from Future City, but the relevant information was not accessible due to his authority.
Their ancestral forging technology is different from the crafting technology of psychic weapons, and they use the oldest smelting method.
If you want to become a blacksmith, the first step is to understand various types of spiritual minerals.
For example, the properties, strength, melting point, etc. of the spiritual mineral.
Only by fully mastering the various characteristics of the spirit mine can we proceed to the next step of structural combination.
Integrating different spiritual minerals into one is a skill that a blacksmith must master.
Single spiritual minerals generally have many shortcomings. Some spiritual minerals have high strength but poor toughness, while some spiritual minerals have high toughness and poor hardness.
The smelting process needs to combine the advantages of different spiritual minerals to improve their practical value.
After smelting the spiritual ore, and then inscribing the spiritual energy nodes inside the weapon, this step requires the blacksmith to have a very detailed understanding of the structure of the weapon and the structure of the spiritual energy formation. Only when this step is completed can the weapon be considered a
Completely formed.
The process of forging a weapon by a blacksmith requires a lot of hard work.
In the early days, beating was used to refine the purity of the spiritual ore, and to use beating to expel the impurities inside the spiritual ore.
But in this era, refining the spiritual ore does not need to be done by beating. After the spiritual ore is mined, the refining steps will be completed in a specific processing factory.
The beating of modern blacksmiths is actually the process of engraving.
Each beating will change the internal structure of the spiritual mine, and use specific techniques to carve the path of spiritual energy nodes in the spiritual mine. When all the nodes are connected, the final step of creating a weapon will be completed.
It is precisely because of the cumbersome forging process that the blacksmith industry is gradually being eliminated in the era of rapid development.
He could understand grandpa's desire to revive the forging industry.
But from the bottom of his heart, he believed that this industry could no longer keep up with the development of the times. The blacksmith industry was simply unable to meet the ever-increasing demand for weapons and equipment on the front lines.
When a person in charge of the execution department came to visit his grandfather at home, he heard what the executor said to his grandfather. Now that he thinks about it, he thinks it makes perfect sense.
The executor said this:
"If blacksmiths continue to become the main output industry of weapons and equipment in Star City in the future, if you want to meet the needs of frontline weapons and equipment, you will need a large number of blacksmiths. Then have you ever thought about the problem of cultivating a large number of blacksmiths?
A blacksmith requires costs, and the weapons and equipment forged every year cause additional consumption of resources, which is also a cost... With the blessing of various factors, it is inevitable that the blacksmith profession will be eliminated by the times."
From the perspective of Star City's senior management, Zuo Tianxuan didn't think there was any problem with these words.
Establishing majors, training consumption, manpower investment, which one does not consume resources?
The modern method of making psychic weapons not only saves labor costs, but also reduces the material consumption during forging. It does not need to spend resources on cultivating talents. More importantly, the output efficiency is high.
It is obvious how to choose between the two.
Although Star City's top brass believed that Grandpa's idea was right and that the human race could not live without its own core technology, they still chose to develop with psychic weapons as the core instead of Grandpa's outdated tempering and forging technology.
How to change the status quo? Zuo Tianxuan believes that there is no need to change at all.
Star City's senior officials see far ahead than they do, and they also know better which future development direction is more suitable for the human race.
Grandpa's persistence was mostly due to his unwillingness to give up the ancestral craft. In fact, he had already come to terms with the loneliness of the blacksmith lineage.
The development of the times is so ruthless.
Among racial forces, the fittest will survive, and the weak will be eliminated.
The same is true when applying this perspective to all walks of life in Star City. Only technology that adapts to the development of the times can lead to the future. If those old industries have no innovation and cannot keep up with the development of the times, they will be rapidly developed.
obsolete in the era.
It's like the frontline battle group mode that was very popular back then.
Although he was not born in that era, he knew about that period from history books.
At that time, there were many weak tribes on the front line. Star City adopted the battle group model to open up the front line, quickly cleaning up surrounding forces through small-scale and convenient team operations, and even launching wars in multiple fields at the same time to maximize the efficiency of combat output.
The military headquarters is to guard Star City and protect the rear area.
As the times have developed to this day, the human race rarely encounters weak races anymore, and they are generally hostile forces that cannot be defeated in a short period of time.
At this time, the frontline battle group model naturally withdrew from the stage of history and was changed to the current military external combat model.
If an industry cannot adapt to the development of the times, it is normal for it to be eliminated by the new era.
Blacksmiths are on the verge of being eliminated by the times.
Despite his hard work, his grandfather failed to master the innovative technologies that kept up with the development of the times. No matter how much he felt in his heart, he was helpless in the face of the oncoming tide of the times.
Zuo Tianxuan's current thinking is very simple.
Become the last blacksmith to inherit the ancestral forging technology. As for his descendants, he will respect their choices and will not force them to inherit this ancestral craft.
He believed from the bottom of his heart that even if he was sent to Dawn City to move bricks, he would still be a builder of the new era.
Their blacksmith profession is already a burden that cannot keep up with the development of the times.
It consumes more resources, but the output is far inferior to the assembly line processing factory, let alone the mass production of Destiny City.
Browsing through the knowledge related to forging and thinking about my thoughts, time passed very quickly.
A few hours later, Grandpa's shouts came from the direction of the forging furnace. Zuo Tianxuan immediately put down the tablet in his hand, stood up and came to Grandpa's side, and began to continue observing Grandpa's weapon forging process.
Three months later.
Zuo Tianxuan began to forge for the first time himself.
Following his grandfather's gesture, he took off his upper body clothes, stood in front of the hot forge, and picked up the heavy hammer.
The weight of this hammer reached more than 200 kilograms. Fortunately, all these years of blood refining were not in vain, and he only felt a little strenuous.
In front of him is a piece of spiritual metal that has been burned into golden red.
When the hammer hit hard, the red-hot metal did not deform, but only splashed some golden-red light spots.
He didn't stop, he picked up the hammer again and hit it hard. With the sound of metal clashing, Zuo Tianxuan began to beat the spiritual metal in accordance with the breathing rhythm taught by his grandfather. In this way, the spiritual metal was shaped.
As time passed, sweat slid down his forehead and dripped on the hot furnace plate, making a "sizzling" sound.
When the spiritual metal turned into a long strip, Zuo Tianxuan took a deep breath and began to operate the ancestral method of "casting the divine eye".
This technique was jointly created by the early blacksmiths and the Tiger Soul Research Institute. After it was turned on, Zuo Tianxuan's eyes turned pitch black, and countless golden light groups appeared on the golden-red spiritual metal in his eyes. Each light group had its own characteristics.
Fixed structure.
The subsequent beating is aimed at changing the structure of the spiritual metal.
With every beating, the internal structure of the spiritual metal will change.
This process is like a jigsaw puzzle. Every beat is a movement. Integrating the internal structure of the spiritual metal into a formation is the most important skill of the blacksmith.
For this forging, he used the most rudimentary solid formation.
This arrangement can greatly enhance the defense of the weapon and make it less likely to be destroyed by external forces.
As he kept beating, the sky gradually darkened.
When the spiritual structure inside the weapon was connected, Zuo Tian used iron pliers to pick up the spiritual metal that had turned into a sword shape and put it into the purple coolant on the side.
As the smoke rose, the surface of the purple liquid boiled, which lasted for several seconds before calming down.
At this time, Zuo Tianxuan was sweating profusely, his face was red, his right hand was sore from the shock, and his mouth was numb.
Taking out the red long sword from cooling, Zuo Tianxuan grasped the cold hilt, glanced from the tail to the tip of the sword, and then stretched out his left hand to flick the sword.
"Ding!"
The crisp sound of metal clashing sounded, and Zuo Tianxuan turned around to look at his grandfather standing behind him.
I saw grandpa smiling and nodding:
"Yes, the voice is quite qualified. He is indeed my grandson Zuo Duan. He is very talented in forging. Keep up the hard work!"
