I’m Still Too Weak For the Starter SSS Talent

Human ancestors first came into contact with the metal iron thousands of years ago.

But as for how to extract high-purity iron from iron ore, far from the current extraction methods that flourish, there is only a stupid method.

That is the boiling water extraction method.

As we all know, the density of iron is relatively high among metals.

A substance with a high density will also have a larger mass. To put it simply, it is heavier.

And water has buoyancy. In ancient times, when there was no such thing as density, the principle of water buoyancy was already known to use the principle of water buoyancy to screen some substances.

Substances that are denser than water will sink.

Those with a density lower than water will float upwards.

Using this principle, at the beginning, human ancestors used floating water to extract iron particles.

Throw the ground iron minerals into the water together, skim off the ones that float up with a colander, and the ones that sink to the bottom will naturally become iron metal after drying, which is used for forging.

But soon, people discovered that this method was not as easy to use as imagined.

Forged iron still has a lot of impurities, and its lifespan is not long, and it is a little easier to use than stone tools.

Forging iron tools is a troublesome task, but if the resulting ones are only a little better than stone tools, why bother?

So the human ancestors pondered.

What's going on here?

After thinking about it for a while, he finally saw through the essence and found the reason.

Because there are always some minerals, it may be denser than water, but less dense than iron.

What if we sink to the bottom together?

Wouldn't that be rough iron mixed with various impurities?

So the human ancestors changed their method again.

Still use the buoyancy of water, but this time use boiling water.

When water is heated to boiling point, it will keep tumbling, which is common sense.

The strength of the tumbling can drive some lighter fine particles to roll together.

Taking advantage of this, we can further exclude those substances that are denser than water and lighter than iron.

There is also the first relatively complete method of refining iron particles in history, the boiling water extraction method.

Even compared to the current shaft furnace refining, magnetic refining and other high-tech methods of refining iron and metal, the ancient and cumbersome method of boiling water refining has long been eliminated.

However, the birth of this method has made a huge contribution to the advancement of human civilization.

Tang Zheng is now planning to use this method to extract iron with higher purity, and then send it to the synthesis station.

Watching the boiling water keep tumbling, Tang Zheng poured all the iron ore particles ground into the tumbling boiling water.

Visible to the naked eye, the originally clear water instantly turned earthy gray, with many impurities rolling over it.

Due to the lack of technology at this stage, there is no way to make a colander. Tang Zheng waited for the boiling water to roll for a while, then wet his hands with cold water, and quickly raised the bonfire with the sides of the bucket.

Then slowly pour out the sewage in the bucket, and some impurities floating on it will also be discharged.

The color of the water is very cloudy, a bit like it was scooped out of a stinky ditch.

At the end of the pour, there was still some water and iron particles in the bucket, so Tang Zheng stopped in time.

He went back to the wooden house again and took out the linen that was exchanged yesterday.

Tear off a small piece and lay it flat on the board.

Copying the side of the pocket, he poured all the remaining water and sediment in the bucket onto the cloth.

Water penetrated through the pores of the cloth, and some iron crystals with gray-black dull luster were left and accumulated on the cloth.

Tang Zheng stretched out his fingers to push out a handful of iron particles, and rubbed them on his fingertips.

Good iron does not fade unless rusted.

The fingertips are still rosy.

It seems that in this primitive world, the minerals that have been silent for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years are all the best raw materials, never mined or polluted, and have a high purity.

I took a photo of the result and posted it on the forum, ending this ironmaking post.

Instantly shut up a group of questioning voices, and at the same time harvested a large wave of 666

The forum level exploded again like a rocket, soaring to level 17.

【Ding! Congratulations on completing 'Metallurgy'! 】

[Because you are the world's first metallurgical player, you will get a random item reward: forest ruins coordinates (excellent level)*1! 】

[Bronze Age progress: (3/8)! 】

Looking at the first reward that followed, Tang Zheng's expression was startled, and he was overjoyed.

It seems that the version update predicted by the prophet is true!

I actually got a coordinate reward of a forest ruin at random! It's just that the version hasn't been updated yet, and the relics haven't been installed yet.

If he remembered correctly, the prophet once said that there are a lot of rich treasures in the ruins.

As long as the treasure is obtained, the difficulty of survival is almost qualitatively changed!

Although Tang Zheng no longer lacks the most basic resources for survival, there are still many obstacles in his development.

He has been developing civilization crazily in the past few days, and his attribute value has stagnated.

I'm afraid it has long been surpassed by some people with attribute talents.

No matter how fast civilization develops, it cannot defeat others, and in the end it can only make wedding dresses for others.

[Do you want to open the ruins coordinates now? After it is turned on, coordinate points can be highlighted on the map! 】

no.

The ruins of this meeting haven't been installed yet, and it's just a bunch of ordinary trees growing in the past.

Counting with fingers, the first period of survival limit is estimated to be approaching. At this time, players who have no food and water resources may have been 'eliminated'.

The version update should be within the next two days.

Tang Zheng wanted to make the stone puppet before the version update, in case of emergency.

Throw all the iron particles purified today into the synthesis table.

Choose to fuse into blocks of iron.

Fusion of refined iron particles is deformation.

However, iron element is a good-grade resource, and the synthesis time is relatively slow.

Even with the improvement of Tang Zheng's synthesis efficiency, it now takes about 48 minutes to synthesize a good-grade material.

Until the night was dark, all the iron particles refined today were synthesized into iron blocks, a total of six blocks.

【Ding! Congratulations on synthesizing 'good grade' resources, synthesis efficiency -1min! 】

【Ding! Congratulations on synthesizing 'good grade' resources, synthesis efficiency -1min! 】

...

The 48-minute high-quality resource synthesis time was shortened by nearly six minutes in an instant.

Now it only takes 42 minutes and 37 seconds to synthesize good-grade resources once.

Compared with the original one resource per hour, it is much faster.

Then, it came to the stone man synthesis link that Tang Zheng was thinking about.

Throw 50 stone, 20 clay, and 5 iron into the crafting table.

The 5*5 synthesis table grid was filled almost instantly, forming a square furnace shape.

Fortunately, the synthesis table was just upgraded yesterday, otherwise the 4*4 space might not be enough at all.

As soon as Tang Zheng finished speaking, the system popped up a reminder.

[It has been detected that you are synthesizing an excellent-level item, which may take up a long time on the synthesis table. Do you confirm the synthesis? 】

With a cautious attitude, Tang Zheng checked it carefully again.

There is nothing to synthesize at the moment.

He pressed the confirmation button on the light curtain.

[The melting furnace (excellent grade) is under construction...]

[Initial production cycle: 24h]

[Synthetic cold shrinkage: -17min23s]

[Actual production time: 23h42min37s]

Huh... Until this step, Tang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body seemed to be limp and weak.

In order to build such a thing, he has spent almost two days working hard, leaving everything aside.

However, there is an old saying in Huaxia that sharpening a knife is not the same as chopping firewood.

After the furnace comes out, you only need to throw the metal ore into it, and wait for it to automatically produce the corresponding metal blocks.

Her limbs were so sore that she could no longer lift herself up, Tang Zheng fell asleep on the wooden bed covered with weeds and dead leaves.

I thought I could have a good night's sleep.

But in the early hours of the night.

A thunderous reminder sounded, many times sharper than usual, enough to wake up all sleeping players.

Unless he has been 'eliminated'

【Ding! ! ! 】

[The first movement of A World of Boundless Despair: Transfer, Survival and Hope has ended.

Updating version 1.2 of The World of Boundless Despair is being launched!

Welcome to the second movement: Cataclysm, Fear and Rebirth! 】

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Thanks to the boss of Dark Moon Killer for the reward of 1500 book coins! ! !

Thank you for the 500 book coin reward from the boss of Paper Dot Song!

Thanks to 'Little Fisherman blablabla' for the reward of 100 book coins!

thanks thanks!

kowtow!

bang bang bang!

There will be 1-2 more later.

I tried my best to write both updates. The main reason is that after eating a bowl of noodles in the afternoon, my teeth hurt for no reason, and my head was buzzing because of the pain... Everyone, I am very sorry for the long wait...