After Tang Wei came out, the door automatically closed again, which meant that the place returned to its original state.
"Let's look for it. There should be traces."
"Yes, no one has been here for a long time. There is heavy dust. There should be traces of the place you touched just now." Tang Wei nodded and agreed with Tang Wanwan's statement, and the two of them split up to look for it.
Later, Tang Wanwan found traces of being touched by hands on the monster's toes. Because there was a relatively new mark there, it had obviously been touched by someone.
"It should be here, let me press it and try." Tang Wanwan pressed it lightly with her hand, and the monster's toes indeed moved. Hearing the sound of the stone door slowly opening, Tang Wei and Tang Wanwan were very happy.
After the door was opened, a strong musty smell came from the room. Tang Wanwan couldn't stand the strong smell, so she covered her nose with her hands, and the two of them filed into the stone room.
"Ah Wan, we are at the right place, this is where we were just now." Tang Wei said happily, and told Tang Wanwan that the alchemy furnace and the sheepskin scroll he just discovered were also here.
Tang Wanwan looked around. The most important thing she wanted to see was whether there were several raw materials used to make black powder. As long as there were three or four of them, she would make explosives and directly use them to make black powder.
The underworld snake exploded.
"What kind of powder is this?" She saw a pile of unknown people piled up in the corner of the room. She twisted some with her hands, put it in front of her nose and smelled it. She only smelled a strong smell of iron filings. Then she smelled it again.
Seeing charcoal, she can make black powder with another one.
"Brother, please quickly search this house to see if there is any sulfur or saltpeter."
"Okay!" Tang Wei didn't ask any more questions this time. Seeing that Tang Wanwan looked quite nervous, he knew that this thing was very important to his sister.
However, when they searched the entire house, they found no sulfur or saltpeter.
It doesn't make sense. Since there is an alchemy furnace here, if you want to make alchemy, there must be sulfur. According to unofficial historical records, gunpowder was also invented by Taoist priests. It was originally used to refine aphrodisiacs or body-building drugs such as Dabu Pills.
, and finally they discovered that when sulfur and saltpeter charcoal and other powdered medicines were put together and exposed to an open flame, a violent explosion would occur and be extremely lethal.
After the incident was reported to the emperor, the emperor was overjoyed and ordered people to specifically extract those explosive materials and use them to make secret weapons against the enemy. The effect was quite effective. Later, someone suggested putting these gunpowders into iron.
In the barrel, the tighter the seal, the greater the power of the gunpowder and the farther the range. As time went by, firearms were classified as the most important weapons and equipment, and a magical battalion was even established to deal with firearms, which was extremely powerful.
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"Brother, let's look for that thing even if we dig three feet into the ground." Tang Wei then continued to turn those things over and over again. Tang Wanwan gently used her hands to find them.
Tap the walls and floors lightly to see if there is a dark room or something.
"Knock knock knock!"
...
"Knock, knock, knock!"
.....
"Empty empty empty!"
Hearing the last knocking sound, Tang Wanwan's eyes lit up and she hurriedly shouted: "Brother, come quickly."
"What's wrong?" Tang Wei heard the strange noise coming from his sister's mouth and hurriedly rushed to her side.
"Brother, listen to the sound here. Is it different from the sounds in other places?"
Tang Wei tried to tap it a few times with his hand, and then tapped it in other places, and quickly came to the conclusion. "There is a hidden grid here in Awan, which should be caused by being hollowed out."
Then let's open it together.
"Let me do it." Tang Wei dug here, knocked there, and finally found a gap using a damaged part of a wooden board and reached in with his hand to open the hidden compartment inside.
It was a bit like a cellar. After opening it, Tang Wanwan was immediately overjoyed. She found a lot of sulfur here. There was also half a box of the most valuable firecrackers.
However, Tang Wanwan was too happy too early. The fire guns here could only be called fire tubes or muskets at best. They were all defective products, either with cracks on them or damaged by explosions. Some of the gunpowder holes were blocked.
The fire gun here does not have a fuse to automatically burn and explode, but it needs to be manually operated. The front section is a thick fire tube. There is an ignition hole on the outer wall, and there is a manual wooden stick plug at the back. The wooden stick here has been completely
Rot. Originally, wooden sticks were used to support the ground, one hand was holding the tube body, while igniting, and then launched. This manual performance was poor and the speed was slow. Improper operation could easily cause injury to oneself.
It seems that Tang Wanwan's guess was correct. The design drawings obtained by Prince Yue were only in the preliminary research stage of firecrackers, and the gunpowder technology was not developed. There were not many things in the stone room, and maybe they didn't know that saltpeter could also be made.
Gunpowder, and its properties are very strong.
Most of the sulfur found was volatilized either due to time or chemical reaction with the air.
It was such a big pile, and finally I found about a bowl's worth of sulfur that could be used. The amount of sulfur was not much, so Tang Wanwan had to use this as gold.
If they use it well, they can escape and ascend to heaven, and there will inevitably be another fate. If it fails, they will be trapped here by the Fire and Death Snake, hoping for a miracle.
"How about Ah Wan, are these things useful?"
"It's a pity that it took too long, and only a little bit can be used. Brother, from now on, you can help me look outside, and I will make the explosives. When they are ready, we will go out and kill the Fire Snake and the other waste fire tubes.
, Brother, pack everything up and let’s take it away.”
Tang Wanwan planned to use her own clothes as a fuse, bury it directly in the gunpowder barrel, and then modify it to look like a firecracker. It could be put to use later. The other excess gunpowder was made into a thunder bomb, which was thrown out and exploded.
First, she threw counterfeit thunder bombs, and when the Fire Snake was stunned by the explosion, she then hit it with a fire blunderbuss. Then she asked her brother to keep shooting the eyes and belly of the Fire Snake with arrows.
It is estimated that even if the female fire snake is resurrected, it will not be able to resist their fierce attacks.
I don't know if it was destined by God, but luckily Tang Wanwan had already made a few thunderbolts that day, and they were pretty good. She was a little annoyed that she had changed her clothes today, otherwise there would still be one left in the pocket of the clothes she wore yesterday.
What about the thunder bullets dropped?
While Tang Wanwan was making gunpowder, Tang Wei simply sat down and studied the martial arts movements on the parchment paper. After practicing the eight movements for an hour, he was already a bit familiar.
When he slowly used his movements to move the general out, he couldn't help but say: "Wonderful! It is indeed the boxing technique created by Prince Yue. It is strong and powerful, and the footwork is exquisite. Although it is only eight simple movements,
But it moves like flowing water, without leaking a drop of water."