Blackstone Island is much larger than Spike Island, and its area is much larger than Camel Island. Unfortunately, there are only stones on this barren island. Even if the sea can provide food, without fresh water, humans cannot survive on this island.
Survive on the island.
Of course, there are always exceptions, and Yinge is one of them. She can replenish fresh water on this island with no water source. She can use magic to turn seawater into fresh water, and it is not a bowl of water or a jar of water, but
A considerable amount of water.
First, she asked the soldiers to dig a big pit in the sand on the beach, and then led the seawater into the pit.
After blocking the entrance, Yinge used a spell, and a pool of seawater began to churning violently.
The entire operation only took ten minutes. When the water surface calmed down, the orcs took the jugs and started filling them with water.
Reggie took some water and tasted it. The taste was really bland. He also wanted to taste the water at the bottom of the pool, but Yinge stopped him.
"Sir, only the water above is drinkable. The water below is still salty, and very salty."
It turned out that Yinge's magic was to make the salt dissolved in the water analyze and precipitate. He grabbed a handful at the bottom of the pool, and indeed he caught a handful of salt crystals.
"Is this still Beihai?" Reggie looked up at Yinge.
"I don't dare to say for sure," Yinge shook his head and said, "I have never traveled this route, but please don't worry, I know that the sea water in the North Sea is poisonous. After I used the magic, the poison in the water was also removed.
"
"Can these salts be eaten?" Reggie focused on the by-products of the spell.
"No," Yinge shook her head, "Sorry, my lord, these salts are too bitter and cannot be added to dishes."
Reggie smiled and said, "Is it just because of the pain?"
Yinge nodded.
Coarse salt extracted from sea water is indeed bitter, and it only needs to be refining to make it edible salt.
"Don't you know how to refine salt?"
"Some peons know a little, but they have never tried it," Yinge gave an answer that Reggie couldn't understand. "I spend most of my time fighting at sea. There is no shortage of salt there, and people are not willing to put it in the sea."
Time is wasted on this little salt.”
"This is not a little salt, this is dozens of pounds of coarse salt. After refining, you can get a lot of table salt." Reggie did not continue. Refining table salt is not a complicated technology, but Yinge's spell can save a long time.
The process of boiling salt is not inferior to seawater desalination.
Of course, it is impossible to achieve industrial production simply by relying on a mage's spells, but Yinge's ability goes far beyond making salt. She can decompose solutes from solutions, which provides Reggie's laboratory with a
New purification methods.
Since the introduction of Luoqi, the purification work seems not to be that difficult. But this thing is not omnipotent. It will more or less introduce some impurities during the purification process, which makes it unable to be used for the purification of antibiotics.
, if the antibiotics were mixed with sawdust, who would dare to inject it into the blood vessels?
A spell does not just bring a magical effect. With a magician like Swindell, Yinge's spell is likely to bring about a new technological revolution, just like Shansha and Swindell jointly created
With the new nitric acid production method, no one knows what kind of surprises Yinge and Swindell can create.
Reggie looked at Yinge in trance, seeing a blush on her dark green cheeks.
But at this moment, there was a quarrel behind him, it seemed that it was Camila and her student, the clairvoyant Shalsa.
"The island is really black!"
"You see it's black? Is your witchcraft out of control again?"
"I didn't use witchcraft, but I saw that the mountain was black and the stone was black."
"You've been with me for so long and you haven't made any progress at all. When I ask you to look at a patient's body, your witchcraft never works. Now that you've seen these broken stones, you're here to show off again!"
"I didn't mean to show off, I really didn't..."
"How dare you talk back!" Camila's fierceness was very frightening. "Is your butt itchy? Go get the whip yourself!"
Charsha was sobbing softly, and Reggie turned around and said, "Charsha, can your eyes see through these stones?"
"I, I, I don't know..." Shasha, who was sobbing, struggled to answer.
"She can't even see through a layer of flesh, how can she see through stone!" Camilla glared at Shalsa fiercely.
Reggie smiled and said: "Maybe her eyes are special."
"Your eyes are not as special as yours," Camila looked at Reggie, then at Yinge, and said with disdain, "Your eyes can make a girl pregnant, Shaersha, look at Yinge's
Belly, see if she is pregnant!"
Yinge's face turned even redder: "Sir, I'm going to make some fresh water."
There was enough fresh water, Yinge just wanted to find an excuse to leave.
Reggie was somewhat proud of Camilla's jealousy, but he was more concerned about another thing. This place is called Black Rock Island, and Shasha saw black again, which proved that there might be something hidden under the volcanic rocks.
He asked the soldiers to bring hammers and chisels, and he wanted to carve out a piece of rock to see what was underneath. A dozen strong orcs took turns carving, and it took them five hours to finally break through the volcanic rock more than 20 centimeters thick.
, and some soil was found under the volcanic rocks.
The soil was very thin, only five or six centimeters. A material that was almost as hard as rock appeared under the soil. The orcs worked hard to dig out some debris from the holes. These debris were black.
Seeing this black substance, Reggie smiled.
"Charsha, are those black things you saw?"
Sha Ersha touched the black debris, nodded and said, "Yes, sir."
Reggie smiled excitedly: "Do you know what this is?"
Charsha shook her head, and Camilla took the crumbs, smelled them and said, "This is just coal, there's nothing strange about it."
"It's just coal!" Reggie said in shock, "Do you know how precious these things are?"
"How precious can it be? Do you think I am ignorant?" Camilla said with a cold expression, "One pound of coal only costs three copper coins, which is several times cheaper than charcoal. There are many such things in the White Tower Country, and they are dug in some places.
There is coal on the land, and they like to burn coal. It smells bad when it is burned, so don’t bring this kind of thing to Broken Snow City."
"Of course I have to take it to Broken Snow City. This is bituminous coal with excellent heat. You know how precious this thing is. It is simply black gold."
"Yes, bituminous coal, that's the disgusting smoke!" Camilla blocked her nose.
"Bituminous coal doesn't have that much smoke, at least not as much smoke as lignite. Forget it, let's not talk about it..." Reggie didn't want to give any more technical explanations. He just wanted to take the black gold home now.
Bituminous coal is the best quality coal, and it can completely replace charcoal and become the industrial backbone of Broken Snow City.
But Reggie ignored an important issue: Blackstone Island did not belong to him.
"Sir," Yinge sounded the alarm, "there is a ship approaching from the north!"
Reggie gave his telescope to Yinge. After observing it for a few minutes, Yinge concluded that it was the fleet of the Golden Eagle Kingdom, consisting of two warships and twenty small boats.
"Do you want to fight, my lord!" The orcs were ready to fight. Reggie held the coal chips in his hand and clenched his fist tightly.