Chapter 1722: 576. Flywheel Consortium establishes its office in Transylvania! – Additional updates [18/30]
(For the brother “Huo Zhengting Hao” extra updates [18/20])
Burning Gold is a strategic resource monopolized by the Brass Dwarves, this thing with “universal properties” brings immense profits to those hot-tempered dwarves, and it is also the foundation and important source of funds for them to build unparalleled fortresses like the Brass Fortress.
But when people on the Continent talk about the huge profits of Burning Gold, they often overlook a very important link in this wealth myth, which is the Half-body Man!
In fact, it was the mechanics of the Half-body Man who initially discovered the strange characteristics of Burning Gold, and their steam engineering only ushered in a wave of “super eruptions” after using Burning Gold as an additive and catalyst.
Before that, the engineering skills of the Half-body Man remained at the level of “very cool, very mysterious, very fun but no one cared” toys, but after Burning Gold showed its power, everything from steam trains and steam airships to hunting crossbows and Burning Gold Ammunition elevated steam engineering to T0 heights from the version ditch.
It can be said that while the Brass Dwarves make money with Burning Gold, this magical mineral is the foundation of the rise of the Half-body Man’s civilization.
Given the engineering skills exhibited by Sulke Flywheel, it would be an utter fantasy to say this wild warlord does not understand the value of Burning Gold. Just after Murphy took out that sample ore, the engineering master, who was just angrily shouting “send the guest away,” immediately performed a face change.
He didn’t doubt Murphy’s confidence in taking out this thing at all.
Because ordinary people don’t even know what Burning Gold Ore is, it is the lifeblood of the Brass Dwarves, and before, the Silver Dwarfs construction master Irich had said that his compatriots had made real efforts to keep this secret, even falling into depravity was not out of the question.
It can only be said that money moving people’s hearts is evidently a truth in a different world too.
“Look at this beautiful energy crystal cluster, filling the inside of the rock with a mysterious posture, it’s as if an invisible hand is pressing real power into it.
Its crystallization process is non-replicable, even though we Half-body Men discovered the wonder of Burning Gold long ago, none of our smartest ones, despite continuously researching and investing countless time into this topic, could present a complete logical explanation and theory.
Nobody knows how it was born, it’s like the ultimate treasure bestowed by the world to civilization.”
In the messy laboratory, Sulke Flywheel was observing the ore with a device as precise as a microscope, while behind him on the chair, Murphy was smiling and waving at the mysterious magic doll Jasmine, signaling her not to hand over the strangely colored cup of coffee with a bizarre smile.
Who the hell would drink something with a rainbow sheen floating on the surface?
What kind of coffee is this?
Is it flavored with crude oil mixed with wasted battery?
Tsk tsk, I didn’t expect, you Half-body Men have quite a wild taste.
However, it was clear from the steam puppet Jasmine’s expression of displeasure over not being able to open a human’s brain, that the “uninvited guest who had a fit” has now become a guest of honor at Hunger Mountain.
“The purity of your ore is not high, maybe due to time factors? But it doesn’t matter, if there really were high-purity Burning Gold Mines in your area, the supreme king of the Brass Dwarves would have long launched a conquest expedition against you.
Do not doubt those guys’ patience with Burning Gold matters.
They have no patience at all, in anything, even in creating people…”
Sulke Flywheel turned around with a trace of regret and a flash of luck, took off the observation device in front of his eyes, rubbed his hands, and finally displayed a bit of the shrewdness and cunning expected of a Half-body Man on his gloomy face.
He said to Murphy:
“So, how large are the veins in your area?”
“At the bottom of a rift that runs across the city, about a hundred meters wide, is full of this stuff, you don’t even need complicated excavation tools, just dig with a pickaxe into the soil, and you can see these things.”
Murphy took out the map of Crimson Castle and pointed out the city fissure to Old Flywheel.
The latter took it in his hands and studied it carefully, saying:
“Hmm, it doesn’t seem like a lot, at least not worth the dwarfs making a special trip there, those guys have custom Burning Gold extractors from Charles Artisan University, if it’s a shallow vein like this, they would only need half a month to completely extract it.
From my limited understanding of mineral veins, although the value of these Burning Gold Mines is high, it hasn’t reached the equivalent exchange for the unreasonable demands you just made.
At most, I can give you the production line of my factory in exchange for these.”
“Why are you in such a hurry?”
Murphy rolled his eyes, took out a fixed Psychic Image from his arms, like a photo, and handed it to Sulke Flywheel.
The moving psychic image showed four travelers carefully swinging pickaxes to open the collapsed ground of the Holy Blood Hall at the deepest part of the Blood Vulture Corridor, they used a support structure like a mine, preventing the rubble above from falling, and just when the collapsed stones were cleared, they exposed the inner structure.
In a huge, bizarre tree-composed “cage,” star-like brilliant lights were pulsating in The Dark Lands.
The traveler Little Zhou, full of dust, even turned back to make a ‘yeah’ gesture, and Murphy’s already damaged Greeney Lion Armor was pressed to the left side of him, which was the reward for doing this job for the travelers.