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Chapter 315 Ah Zhen, stop (add more)
The nights in Tokyo are never sleepless, even in the middle of the night Wazi's shop has no intention of closing.

Shi Qian and Ling Zhen didn't come back until it was getting dark, and Ling Zhen was still carrying a huge burden.

"Why did it take so long?"

Sun Lei asked suspiciously, it has been almost two hours since we left.

"Brother, those officers and soldiers have searched Brother Ling Zhen's residence for a long time, and this wasted time."

Shi Qian explained.

"My little brother didn't expect such a big disaster this time."

With a wry smile on Ling Zhen's face, he thought it would be fine to be locked up with a military baton for a few days, but now it seems that this time the disaster was a bit big, I'm afraid he won't be able to forgive himself so easily.

"Brother, I have brought all these things, let's try it now?"

Ling Zhen was not overly worried, and soon his mind was on the formula of gunpowder.

"Here? Do you still think there was not enough movement last night? It's almost dawn, are you going to provoke the search and arrest of the whole city?"

Sun Lei was a little speechless. Ling Zhen is really a research madman, and he may have reached the stage of obsession.

"Forehead……"

Ling Zhen scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, only then realized that Tokyo city was not a place to experiment with gunpowder.

"Wait until dawn, go find a secluded place outside the city and talk about it."

Sun Lei looked at the pale Dongfang and said.

At this time, Wazi was almost closed, and Sun Lei and the others found an breakfast shop to sit for a while, and then followed the crowd out of the city to the outside of Tokyo.

What Ling Zhen committed was only inside Jiazhanku. The guards at the gate didn't know anything and didn't question him too much.

"Brother, it's not bad here."

Ling Zhen led the crowd to a remote forest outside the city. There is wasteland for more than a dozen miles, so they are not afraid of making any big disturbances.

"Should I do it alone or compete together?"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and said.

"Then let's compare!"

Ling Zhen said confidently, and opened the bag he was carrying on top of a boulder, and he and Sun Lei stood across the stone.

"Ah Zhen, stop, you can't win!"

Sun Lei looked at the scene and suddenly laughed. Isn't this the scene of fighting with Azu?

"The victory is not yet decided!"

Ling Zhen looked at Sun Lei and said, he thought for half a night and perfected his formula countless times in his mind, he did not believe that his gunpowder was not as powerful as Sun Lei.

"Come on then!"

Sun Lei smiled, he has also studied elementary chemistry, is it not as good as an ancient man thousands of years ago?
Ling Zhen swiftly opened a bunch of bottles and jars, which were filled with various powders, and some scents wafted in. Ling Zhen even prepared two small round furnaces similar to alchemy furnaces.

"What are these? Cooking? Why is there still oil?"

Sun Lei looked at the bottles and cans for a while in doubt.

"Brother, don't you understand these things? This is clear oil, this is tung oil, this is thick oil..."

Seeing that Sun Lei didn't understand anything, Ling Zhen immediately became elated. It seemed that he would win this competition.

"What formula is this? Dynamite? Nitroglycerin?"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen in astonishment. There was no oil in the black powder formula, and he didn't know what these oils were.Only yellow gunpowder uses nitroglycerin, but that thing is not easy to configure, and it is extremely unstable, which is obviously not the case.

"Brother, you don't even know the formula of gunpowder, do you?"

Ling Zhen looked at Sun Lei with some disappointment.

"Maybe the formula is different."

Sun Lei smiled.

"Brother, "Wu Jing Zongyao" records "Gunpowder Law": 14 taels of Jinzhou sulfur, seven taels of nest yellow (sulphur), two and a half catties of flame nitrate, one tael of Maru, one tael of dry lacquer, and one tael of arsenic yellow , 14 liang of fixed powder, [-] liang of Zhuru, [-] liang of yellow dan, half liang of yellow wax, [-] part of clear oil, [-]/[-] liang of tung oil, [-] liang of turpentine, and [-] part of thick oil."

Seeing that Sun Lei didn't understand anything, Ling Zhen pointed to the materials and introduced them one by one.

"I see, let's start the comparison!"

Sun Lei recognized that sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal were enough, and Sun Lei didn't even look at the others.

The best formula for black powder is 10% sulfur, 15% charcoal, and 75% saltpeter.The folk so-called "one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal" formula is seriously wrong.The proportion of saltpeter is obviously too little and the proportion of charcoal is too much.The biggest feature of this kind of folk black powder is that it can be stored for a long time, so firecrackers can still explode after two or three years of storage, but if there is too much stabilizer such as charcoal, the power will be greatly reduced.

And the formula in "Wu Jing Zong Yao" mentioned by Ling Zhen also added a lot of messy things, even more than a dozen taels of turpentine, what power can this have?Burned entirely by turpentine and sulfur?Thank goodness for not being misfired.

"Brother, do you really know?"

Ling Zhen didn't believe it, but Sun Lei looked calm and composed. If the winning ticket is sure, he doesn't understand how can a person who can't even read all the materials be so sure?
"I know I know!"

Sun Lei took an alchemy furnace, looked at it and said with a smile, it was the first time he used this thing for chemical experiments, and it was quite novel, but this small alchemy furnace was similar to the crucible.

"Really know?"

Ling Zhen was full of disbelief.

"How about I let you burn the incense?"

Sun Lei nodded and smiled, he knew that Ling Zhen didn't believe him, but these were not important, and it was up to him to decide when something was done.

"No, let's get started!"

How could Ling Zhen bear such words, and immediately said seriously.

The two of them each held a small alchemy stove and began to add medicinal powder into it. Ling Zhen was eager to win, and at this moment he was fully concentrating. He added every ounce of medicinal powder very carefully, for fear that the amount would be too small.

Sun Lei was different. He frowned and looked at the small jars containing sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal. The quality of these materials was mixed, worse than he thought.

"The purity is not enough, and I don't know how much power it can exert!"

Sun Lei shook his head helplessly and said, the purity of sulfur and nest yellow is average, the purity of flame nitrate is even worse, Zhuru is not even burned into charcoal.

"Let's make do with it."

Sun Lei could only shake his head when he saw the materials. After all, Ling Zhen could make explosive gunpowder with these materials and a formula with serious errors, so he should be able to make it too.

Two people, one person and one small alchemy furnace, started to ignite and refine. Sun Lei first simply purified the materials, and then mixed the three materials in the correct proportion. Because there was no time to grind slowly, Sun Lei directly added a small amount of water to help the powder mix thoroughly and then Pound them together, and finally let the gunpowder dry in the pill furnace with a slight fire.

On the other side, Ling Zhen was indeed sweating and dignified, constantly pounding and grinding materials, and adding them to the small alchemy furnace.

When Sun Lei's gunpowder was ready, Ling Zhen was still adding his own powder to the pill furnace.

"Brother is ready?"

Ling Zhen suddenly raised his head and looked at Sun Lei who was smiling across his face. At this time, Sun Lei was holding a paper bag and looking at him with a smile. Obviously, the gunpowder had already been prepared.

"Of course, take your time, don't rush!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"how is this possible?"

Ling Zhen couldn't believe it. He looked at the huge pile of cans in front of Sun Lei. Most of the materials hadn't been touched. What kind of gunpowder were they made of?

(End of this chapter)