Lord of the Desert

Chapter 60 Non-Newtonian Fluids

The effect of Bai Ludan was as stated in Zhuang Liren's letter, without any discount.

In the one month after September 23, Hong Fan did not go out of the gate, and practiced hard every day.

By October [-]th, he had successively penetrated the Triple Burner Meridian of Hand Shaoyang and the Small Intestine Meridian of Hand Taiyang, and achieved the cultivation base of the Six Paths.

In Hong Lie's team, this ranks third only after Hong Lie (eleventh) and Shen Hong (seventh).

But the problem is not without.

The same as using other martial arts resources in the past, this time the Dragon Soul Tree evenly distributed the benefits, and simultaneously improved Yanliu Kung Fu and Sand World.

Therefore, in just one month's work, the four Bailu Pills have been exhausted.

This was within Hong Fan's expectations.

At the banquet after "coming out of prison", he deliberately avoided Bai Ludan's specific indicators not to keep a low profile, but because of the poor expectations that would result from double consumption.

Early the next morning, the morning light and birdsong came through the window on time.

Hong Fan, who rarely slept for four hours, opened the courtyard door and looked at the completely new courtyard.

The walls of the house are still crude, but the ground has been re-leveled and compacted, and a row of newly-made strength training tools are placed along the base of the wall—not to mention the large and small counterweights, the bare steel barbell weighs a hundred catties.

With a breakthrough in martial arts, necessary adaptation training is indispensable.

After simply warming up until he was sweating slightly, Hong Fan put [-]% of the weight on the pole.

Then there was a low shout and explosion, and Yan Liujin rushed through the meridians of the whole body, startling away the bird that was welcoming on the locust tree.

The [-]-kilogram barbell was lifted from the rack with almost no shaking.

Hong Fan took two steps back to stabilize his feet, tried to bend his hips backwards, squatted down until his hips were lower than his knees, and pulled up again.

A very standard full squat.

"If you put on knee straps and waist protectors, it won't be a problem to lift a few dozen kilograms."

Putting back the barbell, he looked at the deep soil marks under the iron frame and couldn't help showing joy.

"In a month, the absolute strength has been increased by nearly [-]%, and it must be krypton gold in terms of speed!"

Hong Fan said to himself.

When he first joined Zhuyiqi, he heard from Hong Lie that his family had invested ten thousand taels of silver in this iron cavalry a year. At that time, he imagined what kind of progress he would get if the money was spent on one person.

It's just that I didn't expect that the daydream at the beginning had become a reality after only a few months.

After the hard training, Hong Fan had breakfast with Aunt Liu, and then went back to the house for a nap.

After the case of Fang Zhiwu, the clan exempted him from his mission in Zhuyiqi during the year for protection reasons.

And in this full month, Hong Fan not only practiced martial arts, but also completed the thesis writing of "Lagrangian interpolation formula".

At present, this "masterpiece" is still pressed by him at the bottom of the bookshelf, and he has no plans to use the presenter as a monitoring tool.

The return gift in exchange for Taylor's formula made Hong Fan feel awe-inspiring while being excited.

The so-called Muxiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and "geniuses" must progress step by step and step by step.

If an overly young frontier boy produces top-level academic achievements on a monthly basis, he will be like a midnight fire, which will not only attract attention, but also cause danger.

Whenever Qi Zuojian and even Dahua's opposing forces take action, the first thing they do is to come to the door and demand their lives.

After lunch, Aunt Liu, who was ordered by Hong Fan, went out alone to deliver some cloth and bacon to the house of the police officer Tian Liu.

Hong Fan bolted the courtyard door, and after confirming that there was no one around, he took out a large sheet of white paper from the room, and sat alone at the stone table to deduce.

Because Hongwu's investigation into the real culprit of Fang Zhiwu's case has been fruitless, the clan directly prohibited him from going out of the city to practice.

But Hong Fan didn't stop thinking.

On the contrary, as Sha Shijie's real energy gradually became abundant, some ideas with painting styles that were completely different from Dahua's gradually emerged in his mind.

Plain paper is laid out on the stone table, and pictures are written with charcoal pens on it.

On the top, there is a line of "pre-mixed sandy water cutting" written in small characters, and in the middle is a sketch of the mechanical structure.

The sketch is followed by a bunch of complex formulas, and the approximate impact pressure is calculated based on the surface particle density, velocity, and average mass of the gravel.

At the bottom of the paper is a table of test results—each row is the output of different equivalents of true energy, and each column records data such as jet diameter, duration, damage effect, and effective killing distance.

"In the last test, the peak pressure of my Sand Flow Knife reached [-] MPa, which is close to success."

Hong Fan said to himself, gathering a ball of fine sand in his palm.

With his fingers in his hands, he fine-tuned his true essence according to his memory and data, and suddenly stimulated his power.

The buzzer sounded instantly.

A thin and condensed beam of sand shot out from the middle of the sword finger, and after keeping the condensed half-palm distance, it exploded into the air.

Judging from the momentum, the peak pressure of this sand flow knife has definitely reached [-] MPa, which is enough to cut rock and iron armor.

"In the past, I calculated and adjusted my moves in every possible way, but I always missed a move. I didn't expect that once the sixth way is broken, things will be done easily."

A smile appeared on Hong Fan's face.

"In the end, it is a miracle!"

As he spoke, he came to the corner of the courtyard and lifted the black cloth that was covering him, revealing the stone slab full of uneven holes underneath.

Hong Fan adjusted his breath, pumped his true energy, and "tested the knife" again.

The high-speed sand flow is surging and jetting, and it is easy to punch through the five-centimeter-thick stones.

"The lethality is enough, but the attack distance is too short and the preparation time is too long."

"My Twelve Orthodox Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians have not been connected, so the flow of true energy must be sluggish. It should be possible to reach the peak of the Hunran Realm overnight."

As Hong Fan said, he put the palm of "Sword Out" in front of his eyes, but he didn't see any scars.

"In my previous life, I cut with water, and the pomegranate sand particles inside played more than [-]% of the effect, but the nozzle was severely worn."

"I have the sand world remote control, but I don't have this problem."

Putting the black cloth back on the stone target, he took a short rest, then took out the second sheet of white paper from the room and concentrated on pondering it.

This paper records two research projects - the first is "Armorization of Non-Newtonian Fluids (V2.7)" and the second is "Gliding Sand Wings (V4.4)".

The so-called Newtonian fluid refers to the fluid in which the shear stress at any point has a linear function relationship with the shear deformation rate.

Such as water, alcohol, low velocity gas and so on.

To change to a simple and crude explanation that is easier for ordinary people to understand, the viscosity of Newtonian fluids is only determined by temperature and pressure, while the viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids is also related to force.

The non-Newtonian fluid studied by Hong Fan here refers specifically to “quick sand”—a special phase composed of sand, water, and air.

Compared with water that "flows faster the more vigorously it is stirred", quicksand has special properties such as "shear thickening" and "shear thinning".

When the force is applied below the critical point, the liquid properties of the quicksand will increase—for example, if a person trapped in it struggles indiscriminately, the looser his feet will be, the deeper he will sink.

But once the external force exceeds the critical value, the quicksand will suddenly increase in viscosity, solidify instantly, and lock the object—its hardness after solidification is still very high.

The killing method Hong Fanzheng was looking for was to use quicksand to attach himself to form a set of heavy armor.

In this way, under normal conditions, the sand armor is soft and close to the body, without affecting the movements at all.

Once the enemy's weapons and limbs are hacked outside the armor or pulled out inside the armor, the sand armor will instantly solidify, which is equivalent to having dual effects of defense and locking, and it can be called a killer for opponents who don't know it.

In addition, since the above-mentioned changes are entirely the physical characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids, neither Hong Fan's on-the-spot reaction nor additional consumption of real yuan is required.

All he had to do was to maintain the quicksand phase of the sand and the shape of the armor.

This is only the effect of strength.

If the sand world in the future reaches the air environment or even higher, Hong Fan may be able to take the initiative to use the "shear thinning" property of quicksand to make battlefield-level changes-such as liquefying large areas of ground, turning solid land into "water areas", and all at once Liberate army formations and even engulf buildings.

While contemplating, time flies by.

When Hong Fan came back to his senses, the sky on the courtyard wall was dim, and the sun was no longer visible.

PS: Readers who have read my previous book on the second half of today’s chapter should feel familiar.

The reasoning may be a bit long-winded.

But without mentioning these, the research and development of killing methods will not have that flavor.

(End of this chapter)