359: 198: Gui Xingfu vomits blood!
359: 198: Gui Xingfu vomits blood!
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“Suo Lun, I curse you for a lifeti,” Turing Duo scread, then stabbed desperately at her chest with the dagger in her hand, intending to slash apart the tattoo there.
“Ding!” At that mont, a concealed weapon suddenly flew in, knocking the dagger from Turing Duo’s hand.
Ye Jingyu erged from behind the door and said, “Miss Turing, are you really so desperate?
An envoy from your family has already arrived in Tianshui City Territory, ready to negotiate with us.”
Turing Duo’s martial arts skills were on a par with Ye Jingyu’s, but she had been fed a kind of dicine every day that prevented her from exercising her dragon strength and left her muscles weak and tender, rendering her unable to resist Ye Jingyu.
From a tender age, she was taught by her parents that her life was to be dedicated to the Turing Clan.
This wasn’t just about serving the Turing Clan; more importantly, it was about using her body and beauty to form marriage alliances for the clan or to attract outstanding sons-in-law.
Now, with such a huge tattoo left by Suo Lun on her body, she could forget about marrying out for the rest of her life.
And once she returned to her family and her parents saw the tattoo, her prospects within the clan would be completely ruined.
Previously, not only Zhi Ning but even her father suspected that she had a private affair with Suo Lun.
Now, having fallen into Suo Lun’s hands again, and with this tattoo, her life was ruined.
To prove her innocence and will, the only way was to destroy the tattoo, but that would also an damaging her beautiful body.
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Suo Lun and Sorcerer Yaong were inside the carriage, while Sword Sovereign Bixiao and Jing Feng rode horses outside.
The four of them sped back to Tianshui City.
At this mont, the upper half of the female magician’s body was completely exposed; she was thirty-eight years old, mature and voluptuous.
A dagger had pierced right through her chest, a sight that was shockingly appalling.
“I’m going to pull it out,” Suo Lun said.
Yaong clenched her teeth and nodded.
Suo Lun gripped the handle of the dagger and pulled it out sharply.
“Hmm…” Sorcerer Yaong groaned softly as a jet of blood sprayed out.
Suo Lun washed her wound with distilled spirits and rapidly applied a hemostatic ointnt before threading a needle and stitching up the front and back of the wound.
Lastly, he wrapped the injury with clean gauze.
By the ti Yaong put her clothes back on, her face had lost all color.
Suo Lun did not ask about her past, nor did he inquire into her grievances with the Ashi Clan, but instead asked directly, “In your research, have you ever co across a liquid tal that flows but is still tal and heavier than iron, copper, or silver?”
“Yes, quicksilver,” Yaong said.
“It can be produced directly by re-slting cinnabar crystal stone.”
Suo Lun was instantly thrilled.
What was his Shadow Project?
It was mirrors.
Early Venetian rchants made mirrors by evenly spreading rcury over glass.
Therefore, two things were of utmost importance in making mirrors: one was rcury, and the other was glass.
In Suo Lun’s world, much like Earth’s ancient past, most mirrors were made of bronze, with the more upscale ones being crystal mirrors.
Even so, crystal mirrors were not very clear and it was difficult to produce large ones.
The key issue was the price—outrageous.
A crystal mirror over one foot could cost more than ten Gold Coins.
In Heavenly Water Main City, there was only one crystal mirror over two feet wide, which was now in Ning Bing’s room.
So what about the need for large mirrors?
The solution was to piece together many small crystal mirrors, but you can imagine the resulting fragnted appearance.
The revolutionary impact of rcury-plated glass mirrors could easily be anticipated.
While rcury-plated mirrors were not the clearest and brightest, mirrors coated with silver nitrate would have higher clarity.
But Suo Lun thought it best to take it slow, first popularizing rcury-plated mirrors, and then when the market was saturated, switching entirely to clearer, brighter silver-coated mirrors.
Back on Earth, when Venetian rcury glass mirrors first erged, they caused an unprecedented sensation, so much so that when the French King got married, Venice gifted him a small mirror worth tens of thousands of francs.
Thus, Suo Lun’s Shadow Project was about making mirrors.
Of course, Suo Lun’s knowledge of how to make mirrors was very rudintary; he rely knew that coating glass with a layer of rcury or silver nitrate was involved.
As for how to make the glass itself, he knew it involved lting quartz, then annealing it to create glass, and that sand was probably the source of the quartz.
That was all he knew; he had no idea how to enhance the purity of the glass or eliminate the bubbles within it.
He needed a deserted island unknown to anyone, where he could build an underground secret laboratory and hire dozens, if not hundreds, of alchemists to conduct experints there.
Based on Suo Lun’s basic theoretical knowledge, he would first produce glass of relative purity, then make mirrors from it.
As for glassware, Suo Lun did not intend to introduce it to the present world.
While glassware had its own translucency and shock value, it was not as impactful as mirrors.
Currently, the nobility used mostly gold and silver vessels or crystal ones.
Purely in appearance, they were no worse than glassware and could even be more luxurious.
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