The kicked-over stone rolled into the middle of the fire pit, causing the remaining ashes to fly.
Seeing Lu Lu's strange behavior, several people gathered around him.
Sukhbalu looked confused and couldn't understand what Lu Lu was doing.
Are you taking it out on the stove because of what happened just now?
Therefore, he was startled for a moment and then quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, this is the first time I've seen the situation just now in most of my life. I've only seen three or five wolves in the past, but there were more than twenty at one time like this."
, I just heard before that we were panicked just now and didn’t do things well.”
Lu Lu looked up at Sukhbalu and shook his head slightly: "I don't blame you. In the situation just now, even if the flashlight shines well, it only kills three or two more wolves, so don't think too much about it.
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"What is this for?" Zhang Shaofeng asked strangely.
"I want to try and see if I can get something brighter to illuminate!"
Lu Lu said, reaching out and starting to rummage among the stones in the stone stove.
"What does something brighter have to do with this?" Liang Kangbo couldn't help but ask.
Lu Lu shook his head slightly: "I'm not too sure, let's give it a try! You all go back and guard against those wolves, in case of a sudden attack... Brother Sukhbalu stays here to help."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Shaofeng and others returned to the fireside with their guns in hand, looking at the green light spots in the darkness in the distance, which were wandering wolves.
These wolves are very scattered, scattered in a semicircle around the yurt.
"Are they planning to surround us?" Chen Xiuqing glanced around: "Or are they trying to bypass us?"
"It looks like they want to surround us!" Zhao Yongke took a deep breath.
When he said this, he looked back at Lu Lu, who was still rummaging around with a flashlight.
Lu Lu quickly picked out a few stones and asked Sukhbalu to shine a flashlight on them. He held the stones in one hand and collided with each other. The stones, which were burnt black, were smashed into pieces.
This is limestone, which is used to build stone stoves for cooking. When burned in a fierce stove fire, it is easy to get quicklime. This is what Lu Lu is looking for.
He specially selected a piece and placed it in the snow. As soon as it encountered snow, the lime immediately reacted, the temperature rose rapidly, and the snow was so hot that water vapor evaporated.
Not to mention the principle, many people have seen this situation.
When building houses these days, there was no cement, so many people just bought quicklime, added water to it and let it turn into white flour, then mixed it into the sand and stirred to increase the viscosity.
Quicklime is also often used to make lime water and treat some food materials.
In later generations, the most familiar thing to everyone is the self-heating pot, which can generate heat to cook food, relying on the quicklime inside.
But few people know that when limestone and charcoal are mixed and burned together, as long as the temperature is reached, something similar to quicklime will be produced - calcium carbide, also known as calcium carbide.
That is, the coal stone lamps used for lighting at home or in mines use this as their fuel.
The reason why Lu Lu was unsure was because this was a simple stone stove that was simply built for cooking meat outside. If it was burned with wood, the temperature would not be high enough and it would be difficult to produce calcium carbide. If it was burned with coal, it would be very likely.
, because the required calcination temperature can be reached.
And he was lucky because he saw coking coal and coal here in Sukhbaru.
So while rummaging through, Lu Lu asked by the way: "Brother Sukhbalu, have you ever used coking coal in this earthen stove?"
"The two sons at home are ignorant and always think that coal is convenient. They always secretly use coking coal to cook things in order to save trouble. After the things are burned, no one needs to watch them." Sukhbalu sighed: "It's okay.
, I know people who burn coal around the coal mines, and every winter, you can always go and pull some."
Hearing this, Lu Lu felt a lot more confident. He quickly picked out a few gray and black stones and took out the stainless steel wine bottle in his pocket.
This kind of stainless steel wine bottle is carried on the backs of Lu Lu and others. They bought it to put wine in it and take it up the mountain. They put a roasting knife in it. When it is particularly cold, they can open it and take a sip, then close the lid and drink it.
It can be put in your pocket - a pocket flask, something from Lao Maozi.
He poured out the last sip of wine inside, then placed the selected stones on a stone, smashed it with the back of his hunting knife several times, picked up a few pieces and put them in the wine bottle.
Then, he took out a flavonoid cartridge case from his pocket, held the tip of the hunting knife against the butt of the cartridge case and swirled it, and soon a small hole was drilled out. Then he grabbed some snow from the snow and stuffed it in.
The bullet casing plugs the mouth of the wine bottle and seals it tightly.
Then, he took out a match, rubbed it on the match skin and ignited it. When he brought it to the small hole in the bullet case, the gas that came out was immediately ignited, forming a blazing white flame.
This magical scene made Zhang Shaofeng and others look over.
Sukhbalu was also dumbfounded. He didn't understand at all why Lu Lu could make a fire with just a few pieces of "quicklime" and some snow, and it was so bright.
This scene is so amazing!
Calcium carbide is an extremely unstable thing. The gas produced when it reacts with water is acetylene. What is produced from this is a gas lamp.
The reason why Lu Lu used this thing was because he watched videos.
At the beginning, he had been deceived, saying that adding quicklime to water could ignite the gas coming out, which aroused his interest. As a result, he spent two yuan to buy a pound of quicklime, which he put in a glass bottle to try.
In half a day, it can start a fire of wool, and the explosion is quite powerful.
It wasn't until later that I found out that it was actually calcium carbide.
It is made by mixing limestone and coking coal in a certain proportion and calcining it at a high temperature of 2,000 degrees in an electric furnace. The reason why it is named calcium carbide has nothing to do with electricity. It is purely because it is calcined in an electric furnace.
This stone stove is almost always used by Sukhbaru's family for cooking, and it looks like it has been used for a long time.
It was wrapped with calcium carbide that had not reacted, which made Lu Lu a little lucky.
But now, high-brightness coal stone lamps have been made, but the flames they spray out are only small flames, which is not enough.
Lu Lu immediately took apart the head of his flashlight and took out the reflector inside. The cartridge nozzle passed through the hole in the middle of the reflector, and a bright white light immediately shot straight into the sky.
With this brightness, one can hold up to several flashlights.
This stunned everyone present.
But no one here had ever used coal lanterns. They only used kerosene lanterns for lighting at home, and no one had ever been in a mine.
Moreover, in Lu Lu's impression, coal lamps were more common around the 1990s. At that time, there were many private coal diggers. Although there were miner's lamps, many people still liked to use coal lamps.
Because, in addition to being bright enough, the burning flame can also detect whether the oxygen content of the air in the mine is sufficient. Whenever you see something wrong with the flames, just run outside quickly.
The coal lamp in Lu Lu's hand did not last long before the flame dimmed.
But Lu Lu is now full of confidence.
The brightness just now can illuminate far away, and the range is much larger.
On the other hand, the howling wolves on the pasture were already very close, and several of them had already appeared in the light of the fire, and they could be seen.
Each one was running around, wandering around, lowering its head from time to time, sniffing around, or baring its teeth in this direction. It kept getting closer, and it looked like it might rush over at any time.
Yuanbao and the others had already stood in front of them, baring their teeth and barking at the wandering wolves.
Lu Lu saw that the wolves were constantly sniffing the blood on the snow. After almost sniffing, they would bar their teeth at a few people, and they felt like they wanted revenge.
I'm afraid things won't go well tonight.
Because the wolves are constantly narrowing the area of encirclement, looking fierce.
"Quickly, give me two of your wine bottles!" Lu Lu urged.
You have to prepare quickly, otherwise you will rush up all at once, and the area you have to greet is not small. If you are not careful, it will be too easy to cause problems.
No matter who is present, it is definitely not a good thing to be caught.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Shaofeng and Lei Meng immediately turned around and threw their wine bottles towards Lu Lu.
Lu Lu followed the same method, installed calcium carbide and drilled holes in the bottom of the shell.
After preparing the three coal stone lamps, he said to Sukhbalu: "Go back to the house quickly and get some water."
Snow melts too slowly and produces too little water to react.
Sukhbalu was stunned for a moment, and after he came to his senses, he quickly ran towards the house.
Lu Lu walked to the fire, asked for Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing's flashlights, and quickly took off the reflector.
The wolves were getting closer and closer. Suddenly, a bit far behind, a majestic big wolf slowly walked out. As it walked, it raised its head and let out a terrifying wolf howl.
With this howl, the wolves gathered closer and closer.
This is the Wolf King!
Lu Lu took a deep look at it.
The distance between the nearest wolves and the fire was no more than ten meters. Some of them were baring their teeth and starting to press their legs. There were various signs that their attack was imminent.
The barking sounds of Yuanbao and the others are getting louder and louder. They also have leg-pressing movements and are eager to get up. The only difference is that they are just giving orders.
Seeing the critical situation, Lu Lu couldn't help but look back at Sukhbalu.
After walking a few steps, I actually didn't see him come back for two or three minutes. I almost watched him emerge from the yurt with a flashlight, but he ran to the middle yurt and muttered something to the woman inside.
"You are fast!" Lu Lu urged with some annoyance.
Sukhbalu didn't dare to stay anymore, and quickly ran towards Lu Lu with a kettle in his hand. At the same moment, the wolf king suddenly let out a low cry, and immediately two wolves came towards the two sides one after another.
He ran wildly out of the darkness.
Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo, who were guarding both sides, opened their guns and shot each one, knocking the two attacking wolves to the ground.
It seemed that they were afraid of the sound of gunfire. As soon as the gunfire was heard, the wolves immediately retreated a little and did not continue to attack. However, they just listened to the two wolves that were hit but not killed. They were led by Yuan Bao.
The black-mouthed black tiger and the green wolf leopard led by the white dragon rushed out to bite each other, screaming for a while.
The pack of wolves, listening to the two wolves howling in distress, howled again, and the ferocious sounds continued.
Sukhbalu ran up to him, but before he could speak, Lu Lu snatched away the water kettle he was carrying: "You three will just follow the method I just used, light it in the fire, and each of you will light it.
One direction illuminates this whole area for me. Never point the fire at anyone..."
The temperature was so high that the flames would burn people.
Thanks to book friends Shili Peach Blossom and Du Que for the reward!