The more Xia Duo thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He was not willing to be cheated out of a sum of money for no reason. After thinking about it, he launched a surprise attack on Jam:
"Jam Tax Collector, are you worried about the rebels outside?"
"Don't worry, you don't have to worry. We can retreat into the twin spires first. As long as the rebels dare to attack the twin spires, the twin spires will automatically bring the imperial guards here to quell the rebellion."
"Are we just going to watch them destroy the city?"
"What did they destroy? The city? It doesn't matter if they destroy it. After the war instruments in their hands are consumed, they will still be obedient slaves. How much they destroy now will be rebuilt later. They can still mine resources themselves.
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"During this period, no craftsman or soldier will die. As for the slaves, more dead points can save food!"
Jam's cold words, which he did not think were unusual, made Xia Duo deeply understand that even though this country has the potential for industrialization and even automated production, it is still a typical old slave society.
The loss of countless flesh and blood lives is just a number on a book in the eyes of Jam, a real Yimaska man.
Xia Duo's heart was churning, feeling a little uncomfortable for no reason. He noticed that Percher and the other elves didn't look very good either, but in the face of this situation, what could they do?
After a moment of silence and trying to calm down, Xia Duo asked Jamu: "Do you sell slaves here?"
"Sell, of course!"
"I want these rebels outside now."
"Rebels? No! There are craftsmen and soldiers among them, and craftsmen and soldiers are not for sale in Yimaska."
"It doesn't matter, you can exclude everything you think cannot be sold, and I will take the rest."
"Yes, but Zhanjit City was destroyed this time when it was short of people. If you buy it here, the price will be higher than elsewhere! And we are not responsible for the transportation of all slaves, you must be responsible for them yourself.
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"No problem, but I will buy more slaves in the future, and I want a preferential price!"
Although the purchase of slaves was a temporary idea, it was definitely in line with Shado's long-term plan to increase the population. The Nese people are human beings, the Langas people are human beings, and of course the Yinmaskar people are also human beings.
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Before coming here, he had never thought that a country would artificially trigger a war to consume the population because of insufficient food. This was simply unbelievable.
Since Yin Maska doesn't care, Xia Duo does, and even a few years later he will ask the descendants of the slaves he bought today to go to Yin Maska as an envoy to publicly display every detail of the life of the Bactrian leader.
By then, if Yimaska is still like today, I am afraid that his people will respond to him and evacuate most of the bottom layer in an instant.
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In the end, Xia Duo negotiated with the rebels outside at a unit price of 100 makara, so the rebels outside were no longer negative assets for Zhanjit City, but shiny gold coins.
The local commander immediately led his troops and rushed out from the twin spires. Several temptations and the actions of lurking undercover agents quickly exhausted the war materials in the hands of the rebels.
Then came the "duck catching" operation that is common around the world, from noon to dark, and before they were all caught, Xia Duo simply didn't need to consider whether to leave.
Stayed at Zhanjit tonight!
Of course, the Yimaska people were responsible for catching slaves, so Xia didn't have much to do. He stayed back in the floating city that night and began to conduct research on the materials for creation.
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In the laboratory.
Xia Duo first checked the material properties research report submitted by the Master of the Tower of Time. As expected, there was an energy-conducting metal with properties similar to mithril, but the energy-conducting effect of this metal material was not as good as standard mithril.
But recalling the unit price provided by Jam when it was handed over, isn't this a cheap substitute for mithril!
According to Jam's introduction, the main use of this material called "Norflour" is as a basic material for making other puppet materials.
In other words, almost all Yinmascam artifacts will contain this energy-conducting metal component called "ferrofluorine".
Regarding this, Chateau could only lament that it was indeed very cheap, but at the same time, he also thought that if there was a kind of ferrofluoride, there should be materials with better energy-conducting effects.
Maybe it's an optimized version of norfloxacin, or of course it could be other materials.
But no matter what, with just one "Norfloxacin", Chateau felt that his trip was worthwhile.
In addition, the word "Norflo" was spoken by Jam in the Elvish language. "Norflo" represents the sound and "iron" represents the meaning. Chateau speculated that it may be some kind of alienated iron element, or some kind of iron.
Special compounds.
There are also compounds in the magical world, but they are not expressed in the form of atomic combination, but in the form of elemental contamination. In other words, if it is indeed an iron compound, the key to its preparation is the contamination ratio of different elements in it.
After thinking for a moment, Xia Duo separated out a little sample and put it into the 0-element reactor in the laboratory. This was an experimental equipment specially designed to study artificial mithril. Unexpectedly, it was used here for the first time.
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As the reactor starts up, the elements inside begin to be evacuated rapidly, turning into a vacuum-like but non-vacuum state, because vacuum itself is also an elemental state.
Then a very thin beam of annihilation light was introduced into the cauldron by Chateau. The moment it hit the sample, the light exploded, and a large number of elements were released in the process of the sample's material structure disintegrating.
If the light of annihilation is used to attack, then these released elements will also be annihilated together. The higher the energy level, the fewer free elements will eventually be released.
But now, after Xia Duo's careful calculation, this extremely thin beam of annihilation light can disintegrate the material structure while avoiding accidental damage to the elements that have come out. And because of its extremely small size, it does not even have time to remove the samples in the reactor.
When the material structure is completely disintegrated, it is consumed.
The next step is to check the ratio of elements in the reactor.
Although it is difficult to determine the true material composition of the sample by doing so, it can at least be used to compare it with known materials to determine whether it is iron.
After all, before the light of annihilation, everyone is equal, and so are the materials.
Soon, the element detection results came back - "4:3:3.5:5?"
Seeing such "irregular" proportions, Chateau immediately concluded that the so-called "ferrofluoride" must not be some alienated elemental iron.
As for what exactly it is, further research is needed.
However, after getting this result, Xia Duo breathed a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was that "norfluroferric is some kind of elemental iron". In that case, it would mean to a large extent——
The Yimaska people have mastered the method of converting ordinary iron into energy-conducting materials.
Although it is theoretically possible to convert ordinary iron into energy-conducting materials, Xia Duo just can't accept this possibility when it comes to the Yimaska people.