The Last Mecha

Chapter 10 Breaking into the Tiger's Stove at Night ([-])

After the whole process was completed, Wu Gou suddenly woke up from the half-dream and half-awake state. He opened his piercing eyes and felt a warmth in his bones.

It still occurs from time to time during the day, and the sense of powerlessness caused by anemia has been weakened a lot, and the whole person is in good spirits, as if he had a full sleep.

He turned over and picked up the qi detector, and pinched his fingers between the resin film, only to see that the numbers on it had changed compared to last time.

0.83
This was something Wu Gou didn't expect. He didn't expect that one night's breath recuperation could substantially improve his qi. This method seemed to have a better effect on his 15-year-old self than he had imagined.

He turned his head and looked out of the window. There was no wind tonight, and the jade moon was hanging high above the starry sky, faintly passing the highest point. The sea of ​​stars in the sky was like sporadic lights in another world, and there was an illusion of heaven and earth turning upside down in a trance.

It's midnight now, time to go.

Wu Gou took out the tightly-wrapped qi metal gauntlet from under the bed, and tiptoed out of the room. He touched the quiet back living room and passed through the back door of the Shikumen house.

When passing the front hall, I could still hear the unbearable quarrel between the northern Jiangsu couple who lived in the front hall. It seemed that the husband woke up the wife when he came home in the middle of the night, and the latter began to complain that he didn’t make much money by returning home every day. Qian, as he talked, he began to envy the big family in the back living room, all of whom revolved around Xu Qiuyu who was a mother.

Most of Jiang Song’s Tiger Stoves are open overnight. This kind of business that specializes in making money for the poor pays attention to a small profit but quick turnover. The shop that originally only provided boiled water expands its business to the extreme, bathing, eating, running errands, and even staying overnight. its use.

Poor people who have no place to stay at night can also spend a night on the long table on the second floor of the Tiger Stove, as long as they pay two copper coins and leave before six o'clock in the morning, everything will be fine.

Therefore, the tiger stove at this time must be full of overnight guests lying on the table, and all the water boilers in the back room will not be turned off.They always have to leave one or two soups, after all, the other party has paid for it, and so many people fall asleep in the sweltering environment, it is inevitable that some of them will wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly feel the desire to take a night bath.

And the shopkeeper Liu, who is the boss, must have fallen asleep at this time, and it was even more difficult for the rest of the night staff to notice what happened in the back room where the water boiler was rumbling.

It took Wu Gou only 10 minutes to get to the Tiger Stove, which was a quarter of an hour's walk away, and he was just a little out of breath. The effect of nourishing Qi on him was obvious.

The night is shrouded in darkness, only the lantern of the "Clear Water Soup Pot" glows in front of the dilapidated Tiger Stove. From a distance, you can see a lot of people lying on the long table. Occasionally, a head will be raised up in a daze, muttering Then lie back down.The man on the night shift dozed off in front of the pillar on the first floor, defenseless.

Everyone thought that no fool would patronize a place like Tiger Stove where there was nothing left but cooked water.

Wu Gou walked around him cautiously and walked towards the back door of the Tiger Stove.At this time of night, the outside door was also locked, but it was locked in a contemptuous way, just a small lock was hung after a circle of hemp rope was wrapped around a few times.

He didn't even need to deal with the chain ends, he only needed to grab the end of the string secretly, and he could remove the entire bundle of hemp rope from the small extra space.

Passing through the storage room full of mops and sewage tanks, the narrow and dark inner room behind was filled with small puffs of warm steam, and one of the big ones was lit, but Wu Gou knew that these were ordinary water heating machines, and did not Not what I want.

He turned several turns in a row, and struggled to move forward in the narrow space. His thin face was flushed red by the heat, and finally he touched a locked door behind the wall.

Wu Gou squinted his eyes and observed for a while. There was an expensive mechanical brass lock on the door, which was something that ordinary houses would not bear to install.

But this did not bother Wu Gou. He took out two prepared wires from his waist and inserted them into the keyhole. After putting his ears close to them, he moved them slowly. After 3 minutes passed, there was a crisp sound of gears turning. , The copper lock opened in response.

This is what Wu Gou spent a few dollars in his previous life and learned from a veteran Taoist Jiang Huzhong.When he was 30 years old, he once had the experience of going to a foreign country as a spy. He learned how to open a lock for convenience at a critical moment, but he didn't expect that it would be of great use in his next life.

Wu Gou gently pushed the door open, and in front of him was an arc-shaped machine the size of a cow. It was an old-fashioned Milligan smelting machine. A copper wire as thick as a finger protruded from the back of his buttocks, connecting to a machine not far away. Taiwan high-power generator.

From a close look, it can be seen that this machine has at least three hands, and the copper skin on the surface is full of solidified brown stains and burnt marks.The interior is also in a miserable state. The walls in the smelting furnace are concave and convex, and the central centrifugal chamber is full of irregular-shaped bulges. The supposedly beautiful black cyan color has turned into an oxidized carbon brown.

Wu Gou thought that shopkeeper Liu must have picked up a great bargain. If this item was new and sold for four or five thousand, his third-hand item would be at most a few hundred. He even doubted whether this item would still work.

After pulling down the handle of the generator, the ear-piercing sound of current flowed along the rubber-wrapped copper wire all the way to the smelting machine. There was an unexplained sound from the arc-shaped machine, and the indicator light at the top was between red and green. It kept flashing and jumping, and finally stopped on the green.

The temperature in the room rose rapidly, and white smoke came out of the inner furnace. Wu Gou knew that he had no time to hesitate, and he didn't know how long this old guy would be able to run stably.

So he picked up the coal clip by the wall and threw the qi metal gauntlet presented by Tom Totti into it.

The operation of the old-fashioned smelting machine is very complicated in the machinery of this era. 23 buttons and wrenches have their own responsibilities, and sometimes they even need to be used in combination.This is just like when the differential computer electronic brain was just born. The clumsy operating system and dozens of simultaneous shortcut keys led to the need to read 1000 and [-]-page instructions before using it, dissuading most people.

But it wasn't too difficult for Wu Gou. He had a clear understanding of the method of smelting Qi metal. After a simple exploration, he roughly figured out the function of each button and wrench. Knowing the principle does not need to memorize it by rote.

The temperature in the furnace is still rising, and finally only stops at about 1662 degrees. The melting point of most metals is above [-] degrees. Obviously, this is not a good temperature for smelting, but the smelting of Qi metal does not rely solely on heat To solve it, in [-], British scientists invented the famous electrolytic melting method based on its characteristics.

Wu Gou carefully controlled the strength of the wrench, and then heard the subtle sound of electric explosions crackling in his ears, and the orange-yellow flames ignited left and right like stars, and then disappeared suddenly.

When the current reached a certain critical value, the dark red qi metal gauntlet immediately changed, melting everywhere like a piece of chocolate dropped into hot water.

Wu Gou pressed the button at the right moment, the centrifuge rotated rapidly, and the liquid droplets of Qi metal with the smallest density splashed, and then flowed into the condensation box along the pipe.In just a few seconds, they returned from liquid to solid again. Wu Gou opened the condensation box and took out a square piece of Qi metal that was a circle smaller than the thumb clip cover.

like gold.

Finally got the long-awaited item, Wu Gou couldn't help but relax.

But suddenly, he pursed his lips, frowned, and there was a hint of ferocity in his serious expression.

There are vague footsteps outside the door
(End of this chapter)