Steampunk City [Infrastructure]

"Ha ha……!"

On the platform, Luo and salmon are smoking meat.

The cheerful laughter attracted the hostess to look at it from time to time, and those who didn't know probably thought they had picked up a treasure.

There is no one who can pass the desperate situation like this. I think that in a situation like Luo Zhi and the others, I have to cry every day with a sad face full of sadness.

The bacon was smoked well into the afternoon.

The salmon is playing with the grass cage. After all, it is a child and has no immunity to such small insects.

Negative is looking at the sky with a sad face.

Luo Zhan walked over, a little confused, there was nothing in the sky, and asked hesitantly, "What are you looking at?"

Negative Xi replied casually, "See when it rains."

Luo Lan thought for a while and replied, "It won't rain."

Anyway, he is a native of this place, near the continuous volcano, there will be no rain during this time period, and it will be getting hotter and hotter.

Negative Xie's complexion is not very good, where does his tribe get water to drink if it doesn't rain.

Luo Zhan had already entered the cave, took a look at the wall that had also entered the cave, picked up a tool and knocked on the stone wall, and knocked a few times to see the wall.

Negative: "..."

Time to dig.

Just as it was still early today, Luo Zhan called Salmon, and together they moved the stones that had been cut by a mantra.

The name of the humanoid cutting machine that Luo Zhan secretly gave to the leader was not for nothing.

The manager probably didn't want to endure the noise every night, so he simply solved the problem completely. The speed of cutting made Luo Li dumbfounded.

Worked until late at night.

Before going out the next day, the manager helped out for a while.

In Luo Zhan's heart, the negative eyes have become like cannons in the world.

The pattern of one room and one hall is formed.

The new stone room was not deep, but it was hidden. Luo Zhan tidied it up and moved in directly.

When I came back at night, I found that there was an extra wooden board at the entrance of the cave that could be pushed, and it made a creaking sound when pushed.

Entering the cave, there is also such a plank at the entrance of the newly dug stone chamber, and a little white light seeps out of the stone chamber, and it was Luo Zhan who used the firefly to confuse the audience.

Negative: "..."

Luo Zhanzheng poked his head out from behind the door with a blushing face. He was playing computer games under the covers just now, his face was hot red.

He heard it when he opened the door and came in.

I said in my heart, what a good door, it creaks well.

Luo Yan glanced at the negative, closed the door and went to play with the computer under the quilt. He checked the information, but he couldn't make a sound.

A worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do well.

In fact, he doesn't need to study anything, he is standing on the shoulders of giants, and he only needs to follow the steps found out step by step.

The people outside are so short of water, he has to find a way to get out the steam pump as soon as possible, maybe he can find an opportunity for their small tribe to survive.

For the steam pump to work, three things are required.

One is the boiler, which is used to boil water to generate steam.

The second is a piston box with a runner. The working principle is probably to push the piston through steam, so that the piston generates high-frequency repeated motion to drive the connecting rod, and the connecting rod makes the runner run.

The third is the water pipeline.

Seemingly complicated things, in fact, it is not difficult to learn the principles, what is lacking is the ability to do it.

Luo Zhan studied for two days, recorded all the details one by one, and then started to do it.

As far as Luo Zhan knew, there was no tribe that used metal utensils, so he had to think of other ways to make steam engines.

He checked it with a computer, and found that the earliest water transport pipes were ceramic pipes from the Qin Dynasty. Even after thousands of years, they were still found in complete fragments underground, which shows how durable they are.

Luo Ran thought for a while, but pottery can also be used for boilers and piston boxes.

Although the thermal conductivity is not as good as that of metal, but the conditions are limited now, so we can only try this first, and then upgrade when conditions permit.

As for the production of pottery, Luo Zhan also found out very clearly that it is somewhat similar to tribal clay pots, with an extra step of high-temperature pottery.

Of course, not all soil will pottery at high temperature.

The problem now is finding clay suitable for pottery.

Clay is different from ordinary mud because it contains metal.

And around the volcano, it is the place with higher metal content.

Luo Zhan found the salmon and asked, "Where do the clay pots in the clan usually dig?"

Unexpectedly, Salmon knew that the children of the tribe would follow the adults to make clay pots since they were young. This is the most basic common sense of life in the tribe.

They live this kind of life every day. When it comes to craftsmanship, not everyone can be called a master.

I went to several places and brought back several different piles of mud.

"We want to pinch clay pots?" Salmon scratched his head, "I'm the best at this."

Before his parents died, he had to do everything by himself.

Roy nodded.

The two sat down.

Salmon is actually a good hand, the clay pot is squeezed in a good shape, and the speed is very fast, this is his previous life.

It took a day to pinch some large and small jars.

The firing temperature of pottery is around 800 to 1000 degrees. The advantage of Luo Zhe and the others is that they can find a suitable crater instead of building a special fire kiln.

But the problem is that Luo Zhan doesn't know how hot the high temperature of 800 to 1000 degrees is.

I went back and checked the information, and I have a vague idea, but I still have to try it.

Holding the mud embryo, he took a long stick and walked towards the top of the mountain.

The hot molten lava in the crater is shocking to see.

Slowly approach, stop when it is too hot, use a stick to send the mud embryos one by one to the front, put a mud embryo at a certain distance, and basically send the farthest mud embryos to the front of the lava.

In this way, different distances will produce different temperatures.

The firing time of pottery is very short, just three hours.

Luo Zhan tried day by day, and many clay embryos were cracked directly. Although some of them were not cracked, they were broken when they were scraped back with a stick, and they were not pottery at all.

It took three days for Luo Zhu to find the clay suitable for making pottery and the location suitable for firing.

Salmon stared at the new "clay pot" for a long time.

Knock it with your hands and it will make a crisp sound.

It feels hard and smooth to the touch. It is obviously a clay pot made by himself. Why does it feel like something has changed?

Pottery is much easier to use than clay pots. The essence of clay pots is actually mud. When filled with water, there will be dirt, even water seepage, and they are fragile. After a long time, they will crack. Pottery is different. There has been a qualitative change, the quality is good, and it is durable. It has been used for ten or eight years without any problems.

The salmon was having fun with the new can, and he hadn't realized what an improvement it was.

Now all that's left is to make a pottery steam pump.

The weirdest steam engine and water pump are actually not counted. Luo Zhan also saw a steam engine made of mineral water bottles in the video.

Luo Zhan got an inspiration from that video, as long as you dare to think, nothing is impossible.

Everything impossible is a reality through experimentation. In the past, who would have thought that airplanes could go up to the sky, and electric lights could shine...so pottery steam pumps can also pump water.

The pottery pipes and boilers for transporting water are easy to make.

The pottery pipe only needs to pinch the clay on a straight stick, wait for it to dry, and pull out the stick, which is the shape of the pipe. The connection between the pipes needs special treatment, and the connection between the two pipes needs to use a dinosaur Dinosaur skin, boiled in water and dried, like rubber, can play a good sealing role, and can also make the two pottery pipes flexible and bendable.

The boiler is actually a closed pot with a water inlet and a vent hole to prevent explosion caused by excessive steam.

The most difficult thing is the piston box with the runner, which has a more complicated structure inside.

But as long as the casing, piston, runner, and connecting rod are made separately and then assembled, it is not so complicated.

Of course, the most important thing is that the steps in the video are simply taught step by step. If you don’t understand, watch the video several times.

It took Luo Zhan a day to thoroughly study the pipeline, and by the way, he also taught the salmon to pinch the pipeline there.

It took two days to knead a boiler mud embryo.

As for the piston box, it took three days.

Their few pieces of meat are almost consumed even if they are frugal.

Now that the clay embryo is in place, all that remains is to fire it into pottery.

It took another two days, because the parts were disassembled and fired, and there will always be some unpredictable situations when they are successfully fired and assembled, and there are a lot of pottery tubes burned.

Now their meat is completely consumed.

However, Luo Zhan's eyes were brightened.

He really made a steam pump completely according to the information on the computer.

Whether it can be used depends on the specific use.

With water, he can irrigate the land and grow millet. Of course, it would be even better if he could switch to meat again.

Hope is at hand.

Luo Zhan couldn't wait any longer, so he took the salmon and went to experiment with his steam pump.

Luo Zong and his tribe's place is a bit special, it happens to be the last one in the volcano group, and it belongs to the most remote and remote location.

This last volcano is just next to the great river that cannot see the other side.

Let's put it this way, the front side of the volcano is the family land of Luo Zhan, and the back of the volcano is the big river, separated by a mountain, which slightly isolates the danger.

But it is also a very dangerous position, but Luo Ji and their tribe are weak, so they have no choice at all.

But now it has become an advantage, because it is close to the river.

Running against the equipment, the snake mother also became a temporary "transporter".

Knowing that Luo Ji was going to the river, Salmon almost cried, his body was trembling, and his face turned pale.

He once went with the water transport team, and he had seen the horror of the big river, which left an indelible shadow on him.

Luo Zhan said, "We don't get close, we stay far away."

Even so, salmon walk on soft feet.

As it got closer and closer, the salmon hugged Luo Zhan's lap, "I can't get any closer, the water is full of ferocious beasts, and they will be eaten."

"If you don't believe me, look."

The salmon picked up a stone and threw it with all his might.

With a "plop", the stone fell into the river.

Suddenly, the originally calm river surface, like a drop of water dripping into the boiling oil, cold eyes surfaced without warning.

Luo Zhan trembled.

It's Sharons!

Each shark dragon is as huge as a long-necked dinosaur, but they are many times more cruel and bloodthirsty than a long-necked dinosaur, let alone in the water, no one dares to easily face such a shark dragon group, even a large tribe Also had to choose to avoid.

The invisible bottom is the most dangerous, and people are instinctively afraid of the danger of the location.

Luo Zhan swallowed his saliva, turned around and ran away, he was cowardly.

He stopped when he ran to a place where the sound could not pass, and began to assemble the equipment and connect the pipes.

"What are we doing here?" Salmon asked suspiciously, he was almost frightened to death in such a dangerous place.

Luo Zhan replied, "I'll find out in a while."

Full of energy.

At this time, Lie Xi, who hadn't come back for a few days, was still leading his clansmen dryly looking at the sky, waiting for the rainy day.

So are the foreigners.

As the weather gets hotter, the problem of water shortage becomes more and more urgent.