science wizard

Chapter 3 Discontinued Studies
"boom!"

The explosion sound came from inside the magic-modified rifle "Ambition".

The internal firing pin assembly successfully hit the primer of the black bullet.Under the action of the impact, a primer made of nitric acid and mercury—traces of mercury fulminate—exploded.

The flame produced by the explosion enters the shell casing along the flame transfer hole.

The cartridge case is filled with 2 milliliters of cellulose nitrate, which is made by immersing cotton linter fibers and wood pulp in a mixture of concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid.Under the action of flame, cellulose nitrate will explode on a larger scale, generating a large amount of high-temperature and high-pressure gas in a very short time.

The gas expands rapidly and the casing and bullet separate.The shell casing is pushed out of the chamber, and the bullet is rushed forward and enters the barrel.

The helically raised rifling inside the barrel works to spin the bullet as it travels down the barrel.

The special paint inside the barrel was stimulated by the high temperature, and it also began to glow, releasing an orange-yellow light onto the pitch-black warhead.

The bullet faded from its original color and turned scarlet.

Because when the trigger is pulled, the muzzle of the gun moves up a little, and finally, the scarlet bullet spins and flies out of the muzzle, like a beam of blood, drawing an almost imperceptible oblique upward arc, flying towards the target at extreme speed.

Three hundredths of a second later, the bullet reached Mayfair.

Mayfair is raising the flame again, protecting her body tightly.

The next moment, the bullet hit the flames.

"Whoa!"

Last time, the invisible flame could block bullets like a solid wall, but this time it suddenly turned into fragile "glass".Accompanied by a crisp sound, the flame collapsed instantly, and a fist-sized hole appeared.

The bullet pierced through the flame defense along the hole, and hit Mayfair's right...shoulder.

"puff!"

A mass of blood mist burst out, the bullet pierced Fei'er's shoulder, passed out from behind, and disappeared into the deliberately thickened bluestone wall.

Fei'er's eyes widened with surprise on her face, she stared blankly at Li He for a few seconds, her body swayed and fell to the ground like a rag doll.

Blood gushed out frantically from the wound, dyeing half of his body red within a few seconds.

"Fei'er!" Wei'er was startled, exclaimed, and stayed where she was.She obviously did not expect such a result.

Li He was much calmer, because he knew that Fei'er was only injured on the flesh, and there would be no major problems.

After the shooting test of ordinary bullets just now, he had expected the result this time, and the actual situation was only slightly different from the expectation.

The penetrating power is a bit higher, but the actual damage is not maximized... Li He thought about it... You can consider modifying the warhead, reducing the strength of the warhead, and making it an expanded ammunition effect similar to Dum bullets.But this has a disadvantage, that is, it may affect the ballistic stability of the bullet.

Maybe you can try to add a cavity to the tip of the bullet to make it a rolling ammunition... Li He continued to think... After the bullet enters the human body, the tip part of the bullet will be deformed due to its low strength, which will cause the center of gravity of the bullet to shift, causing instability, Tumbling, thereby increasing the resistance of the bullet when it advances in the human body, and fully releasing the kinetic energy.

In this way, there will be no bullets penetrating the human body and only causing penetrating injuries. If they hit the torso, they will cause large fist wounds on the front and washbasin-sized wounds on the back.Even if it hits a shoulder or limb, it can cause serious injury.

However, material processing is a bit difficult, and it would be too time-consuming to make it by hand alone. You can think of a way to coax Mayfair to make it with the help of the other party's fire spell ability...just like before.

Thinking of this, Li He looked at Fei'er.

At this moment, Fei'er's eyes widened, she lay motionless on the ground, her whole face twisted together, she opened her mouth to shout, but because of the pain, she couldn't make a sound at all.

Wei Er stood not far away, completely dumbfounded.

Li He couldn't help shaking his head, walked to Fei'er and squatted down, stretched out his hand to press the wound, controlled the speed of blood outflow, and quickly checked the specific wound caused by the bullet.

Torn deltoid muscle, punctured teres minor ligament, partially broken vein, damaged acromioclavicular joint... intact trapezius muscle, intact artery, intact glenohumeral joint...

He just wanted to simply test the effect of the bullet and teach the messy Mayfair a little lesson, and he had no intention of physically destroying the other party.Under his deliberate control, the bullet missed the torso and other vital organs, but hit the shoulder, and the trauma caused was not very serious.

Perhaps under the medical conditions of the Middle Ages, there is a high probability of bleeding and death, but this is not an ordinary Middle Ages, but a Middle Ages with magic.

After checking the injury, Li He waved to Wei'er: "Come here, Wei'er, help Fei'er."

Wei'er, who was stunned, just woke up like a dream, running quickly like a frightened rabbit, and pressed down on Fei'er's wound with both hands in a panic.

Li He stretched out his hand to stop, commanding: "Don't rush, save your strength, and do it in order. Repair the blood vessels first, yes, this is here, don't be afraid. Then send the blood back...then repair the bones...then the joints...then recover Muscle and skin..."

Wei'er was stunned for a moment, but obediently followed Li He's instructions to release her healing power one by one.

Soft white light was released from between the hands, and Mayfair's body recovered little by little.

After a while, Mayfair recovered as before.

After a "swipe", Fei'er sat up from the ground, moved her arms a few times, grinned and looked at Li He for a few seconds, and said aloud with some fear, "It really hurts!"

"I've said it before, it hurts beyond your imagination." Li He shrugged slightly, and took the opportunity to teach seriously, "So next time you come to my place to make trouble, think it through before you talk."

"I..." Fei'er pouted, and said in a straight-forward manner, "I won't be frightened by you...but why does it hurt so much...the first time you hit me with this iron rod It's clearly fine."

"Because I used ordinary bullets for the first time, and special bullets for the second time."

"What's so special? Why doesn't my spell work anymore? You didn't spray the previous... what kind of powder this time."

Li He laughed lightly after hearing this: "Of course it's not dry powder, it's a drop of your blood."

"My blood?" Mayfair was surprised.

"Fei'er's blood?" Wei'er couldn't figure it out for a moment.

"Remember when you made trouble before, I punished you and took your blood for research." Li He explained, "I refined the blood and extracted the substances that are different from normal blood, and temporarily named it 'Wizard' Melt a drop of 'wizard's blood' into the warhead, make it active in a specific way, and the energy released can easily break the flame protection you made and hurt your body."

In fact, the real principle is much more complicated, involving dozens of biochemical reactions and metal production processes.Li He knew that Wei'er and Fei'er would not understand, so he simply said it.

Even so, the two of them were at a loss.

After a while, Fei'er finally said half-understanding: "So, I was beaten like this by a drop of my blood? I am alone, and I can't beat a drop of my blood?"

"That's because you haven't fully controlled your power. When you grow up and become powerful, it will be different."

"So, if I become your age, or even Sanjie's age, won't it hurt so much to be beaten by a drop of blood?"

"Yeah." Li He nodded, "At that time, at least two drops of blood were needed."

Mayfair: "..."

At this time, Li He glanced at the metal drawer beside him that he had opened earlier.

There are several neat rows of bullets inside, and the color of the bullets and warheads is darker than the next row.

The innermost row is extremely black, and the bullets in that row are each fused with five drops of wizard's blood.

After listening to Li He's words, Fei'er was obviously a little bit shocked, looked at Li He, and said with a sad face: "According to what you said, even if you are not a wizard, it would be difficult for me to beat you?"

"So, you'd better behave yourself, so as not to suffer yourself." Li He said, "By the way, in view of your disobedience and attempt to cause trouble today, although you failed, I still punish you to do some work. In two days, use your fire magic power , process some parts for me."

"Ah!" Fei'er screamed.

Wei'er covered her mouth and laughed secretly.

……

In a blink of an eye, night came.

The entire Blackstone Castle fell silent, the lights in the rooms were turned off one by one, and the owners of the rooms fell asleep one after another.

However, in the stone house in the open space of the castle, in the room named "Lab Zero" by Li He, the lights were brightly lit, and Li He inside was busy.

If the day time is used to experiment and explore something, the night time is used to think, analyze and organize.

Li Hyuk was sitting in front of a wooden table covered with papyrus paper. He was holding a quill pen dipped in ink and writing quickly.

"Swish..."

"Through tests No. 103, 104, and 105, it can be confirmed that the bullets of 'Wizard's Blood' can work stably, but its principle needs to be further explored. Whether it neutralizes the effect of the spell and causes the spell to fail, or destroys the stability of the spell Causes the spell to fail, further testing is required...

In addition, the purification process of 'Wizard's Blood' needs to be continuously optimized, and find a way to increase the yield... In the later stage of the acid hydrolysis reaction, the semi-finished product of 'Wizard's Blood' showed high sensitivity to the pH value, which was higher than 1.4 or Subsequent reactions cannot be carried out below 1.6. Can the reactants be adjusted to improve...

also……"

"Swish..."

After writing for a long time, Li He put down the quill, browsed through it, finalized the next research direction, and put the papyrus full of words aside.

In short, his current research has two major directions.

One is to explore what is the principle of the magic mastered by Wei'er, Mayfair, etc., what kind of rules it follows, what are its advantages and disadvantages, and what is its fundamental nature?
The other is how to absorb spells into the field of science, how to analyze and use them scientifically.

In other words, he wanted to figure out what the so-called magic power of a wizard was, and how he, as an ordinary person, could control this power.

Of course, besides that, he also has many other things he wants to explore.

For example, the owner of Blackstone Castle—the Countess of Blood—Elizabeth Gray adopted seven children, six of whom were witches. Why was he the only one who was an ordinary person without any magical power?Is there any particular reason?

For example, the Countess of Blood almost never shows up or communicates with the outside world except for the daily family dinner, and forbids them to leave at will. The entire Blackstone Castle is semi-closed, why?To guard against something, or to hide something?
For another example, "he", who had always been weak, sick, withdrawn and indifferent, suddenly fell into a coma half a year ago, and then woke up. He was speechless for a long time at first, and then his behavior became weird——and he started all kinds of weird research.The six sisters were all surprised by this, but the Countess never expressed any opinion.Did you not care?Or it doesn't matter?
There are too many doubts that need to be answered, but there are too few clues, so I can only find the answers patiently.

You have to be patient... Li Hyuk said in his heart... Time is too precious, we can't find the answer for now, so we can only do other things first.

他伸手从桌子旁边拿出一叠厚厚的莎草纸来，上面写满数字：粮食193磅、粮食238磅、粮食234磅……糖12磅……铁47磅……税金67个铜币……税金1银币零32铜币……税金……

This is the account of Blackstone Castle's collection of materials and taxes from the surrounding territories. The eldest sister Fiona was originally in charge, and the other party was the Countess' assistant and the chief steward of the entire castle.

But then he found a way to come over and take charge of statistics and sorting, which saved Fiona's energy, and correspondingly he could apply for some "unimportant" materials for research.

For Fiona, calculating these accounts is quite cumbersome, but for him, using a simple formula, it can be sorted out.

"Swish..."

The tip of the quill pen was drawn across the papyrus, and all the data was sorted out in a short while.

Letting out a breath, Li He secretly calculated in his heart: "Tomorrow, I will find a way to apply for some iron blocks, and there are not many chemical reagents, so I need to add some, which requires salt blocks, sulfur, and lime... I hope Fei Ona can relax..."

……

Blink of an eye the next day.

Li Hyuk found the eldest sister Fiona with a list of application materials.

Fiona was really cheerful this time, beyond imagination.

But instead of agreeing, it was rejecting.

"I can't give you what you want?"

"for……"

"Also, get ready. The stone house you built will be dismantled, and the contents of the stone house will also be disposed of. From tonight onwards, you must sleep in a room in the castle and cannot appear anywhere else."

"..." Li He was silent, and after a long time, he said, "Fiona, I need a reason."

"There is no reason, because..." Fiona replied after a pause, "This is what the Earl wants."

Li He narrowed his eyes in an instant: "Lord Earl?"

……

(End of this chapter)