inspire-indiana Chapter 136 Volcanic Ash And Sulfur
Chapter 136 Volcanic Ash And Sulfur
The appearance of the volcano ant is similar to what Anna described before, half a meter long, with huge double jaws and a red shell.
They carried a kind of uneven black stone in groups.
That is the magma rock after the magma has solidified, and it is also one of the food for the volcanic ants.
After all, this is an active volcano, and there are harmful substances such as volcanic ash in the continuously floating black smoke.
Under the erosion of these substances, there is not much vegetation around, and naturally there are very few animals. If it is not for the minerals such as magma rock in the diet of the volcano ants, the huge ant colony may have been starved to death long ago.
Even so, if they could hunt prey, these volcanic ants would definitely choose meat without hesitation.
After all, stones are not as delicious as meat!
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"This active volcano has not erupted for a long time. There is not much volcanic ash around the foot of the mountain. It seems that we still have to go to the top of the mountain."
In addition to volcanic ash, Li Fan also wanted to bring back some sulfur this trip.
Naturally for the manufacture of gunpowder.
To be honest, he is not very interested in making gunpowder, mainly because he finds that the Magic Continent is a world of high martial arts.
Gunpowder could have had a huge effect on common people.
But in the world of high martial arts, it's not enough.
The power of a kilogram of black powder explosion is estimated to be about the same as a full blow of a level 2 fighter using fighting skills.
For the current Li Fan, such power inevitably makes him a little disgusted.
As for the development to the level of science and technology in the 21st century on Earth, even if he has countless knowledge to support it, he doesn't know how many years it will take.
During this period, he probably has already advanced to level 5 or above, or even stronger, turning into a human nuclear bomb.
Thinking of this, he really didn't have much interest in making gunpowder.
However, now he already has charcoal and saltpeter, and even knows that the best ratio of gunpowder is 10 sulfur, 15 charcoal, and 75 saltpeter.
That is to say, as long as he gets the brimstone back and processes it a bit, he can get a nice bunch of black powder.
Since it was easy, he did it.
Besides, sulfuric acid can be produced from sulfur, nitric acid can be obtained by dry distillation of saltpeter, and glycerin can be separated from readily available lard.
Sulfur, nitric acid, glycerin.
The right handling of these things can create a high explosive - nitroglycerin.
If nitroglycerin is really produced, the power can at least be compared to the full blow of an upper level 3 fighter using fighting skills.
This kind of power can already be used in many places.
With this mentality in mind, Li Fan intends to get back the volcanic ash and sulfur together. For this reason, these volcanic ants in front of him are his obstacles.
And the obstacles will naturally be removed mercilessly.
Li Fan did not disturb these volcano ants, but took out the spiritual venom squeezed from Xiaoqing.
Then it was handed over to Dina, who is best at archery, and Dina dipped the arrow in the venom.
The next moment, a sharp arrow flew out and shot at the monster wandering on the volcano.
If these monsters are below level 2, they will fall down almost instantly.
And a few level 3 monsters, after only supporting for a while, couldn't help but tilted their bodies and fell down.
Although they were still conscious, they couldn't move at all, they could only watch Li Fan and the others drag themselves away.
Dozens of monsters were thrown not far from the volcano ant.
The volcano ant looked at the food falling from the sky in front of it without any hesitation, and pounced on it almost immediately.
When worker ants among ants find food, they often taste the food first.
These volcanic ants were no exception. After some effort with their powerful jaws, they finally took a few mouthfuls of fresh meat from the monster.
They seemed to be satisfied after tasting, and immediately some volcanic ants went back to shout for help.
While the remaining volcanic ants tasted the food, they tried every means to bring the food back.
However, not long after, these volcanic ants were also poisoned by the psychotoxin in the body of the monster, and soon lay on the ground unable to move.
Ants don't waste food.
These immobile ants are also used as food by other ants, and they are either eaten on the spot or dragged back to the nest to be used as food by other ants.
As a result, the mental toxin spread like a plague to the entire volcanic ant colony.
This is actually the principle of ant medicine. A small pack of ant medicine can finally make the ants in the entire ant nest lie on their feet.
Now, Li Fan just replaced the ant medicine with a psychotoxin.
Li Fan was not worried that the psychotoxin was diluted too much. Before, he just let the unicorn wolf cubs smell the smell of the psychotoxin, and he numbed 30 wolf cubs.
This time, he injected the venom of half a glass test tube into the bodies of the dozen or so magical beasts.
As long as the volcanic ants are not smart enough to give up these monsters, the entire volcanic ant colony will not be spared in the end.
The facts are similar to what Li Fan predicted.
After 2 hours, he could no longer see any active volcanic ants, and it is estimated that the scene in the ant nest is similar.
However, Li Fan still missed something. He found that with just 8 of them, it was impossible to kill all these volcanic ants.
An hour later, a group of people were almost exhausted, and in the end only about 1,000 volcanic ants were dealt with.
For tens of thousands of volcanic ants, this number is not painful at all.
The main reason is that the shell of the volcano ant is too hard, like an alloy.
Even if they had high-quality weapons and wanted to kill these volcanic ants, they had to kill them slowly one by one.
In the end, a lot of effort was spent, but the results achieved were pitiful.
Seeing this, Li Fan had no choice but to give up the idea of killing all the volcanic ants.
He planned to get the volcanic ash and sulfur as soon as possible, and leave before the volcanic ants resumed their operations.
But before leaving, he used the space ring to collect some corpses of volcanic ants. The shells of these volcanic ants are too hard, so they might be able to make good equipment.
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On the top of the volcano, thick black smoke is constantly coming out of the crater, which is not only mixed with particles such as volcanic ash, but also has a strong smell of sulfur.
Li Fan and others easily found the yellow-brown sulfur and volcanic ash all over the ground.
It is not difficult to collect these sulfur and volcanic ash.
With the space ring, everything can become very simple.
Let Iron Head and Gu Li use his and Dozina's space rings to collect volcanic ash and sulfur respectively.
Li Fan walked to the edge of the crater and took a look.
What catches the eye is naturally the tumbling yellow-red magma, and at the same time, a scorching breath keeps rising, almost curling the hair on Li Fan's forehead.
Li Fan backed away hurriedly, when a black crystal on the edge of the crater caught his attention.
There are still many such black crystals around.
"Could it be a special ore?"
Li Fan frowned and looked at the black crystal that was only the size of a fist. He took a deep breath, then leaned out in one breath, grabbed the black crystal in his hand in a very short time, and then quickly backed away.
"what is this?"
Li Fan shook the black crystal in his hand towards everyone.
Everyone frowned, obviously they didn't know each other.
Seeing this, Li Fan put the black crystal into the interspatial ring, intending to take it back and show it to Aoki Baiqi and the others.
As the saying goes, an old family is like a treasure.
These old people have nothing else, at least they have seen a lot of things.