Exploring Technology in a Wizard World
Chapter 359 - Chapter 359 Chapter 358 The Third Expedition Impossible Forced

Chapter 359: Chapter 358: The Third Expedition? Impossible! Forced Demolition! Chapter 359: Chapter 358: The Third Expedition? Impossible! Forced Demolition! To avoid dragging out the process, carrying all the petri dishes in the Space Iron Ring was one option. However, the Space Iron Ring only had a volume of one cubic meter, and its interior environment was not suitable for the growth of colonies nor was it easy to alter. If they were really placed inside, over time, a large portion of the cultured colonies would die.

If there were a portable, ultra-large-capacity space item that could be modified, it would be the best solution. In this way, it could even be directly transformed into a portable laboratory. Should any danger arise during experimentation, such as explosions or virus leaks, it could be isolated at any time.

But that was just wishful thinking.

As far as Richard knew, space items were extremely rare; aside from members of mysterious organizations like Suo Men and Mu Konni, no wizard in the White Stone Tower had ever been seen with one.

From this perspective, the terror of the mysterious organization behind Suo Men and Mu Konni was quite evident.

It was really hard to imagine what purpose such a being, hiding in the shadows and doing various things, could have.

Blinking, Richard gathered his thoughts.

He was very clear that an ultra-large-capacity space item was impractical for now, so it was best to take things one step at a time. Most importantly, he needed to resolve the matter of the graveyard exploration as soon as possible.

Thinking this, Richard finished working with all the petri dishes, glanced at Pandora, who was still enthralled by two boxes of glass shards, shook his head, and walked to the corner. He followed a hidden entrance in the corner into the magic laboratory buried deep underground.

The Magic Laboratory had been modified again; a huge pool had been added to the floor. At the moment, the pool was filled with water, and a large amount of salt was piled inside.

He was using this method to make saturated brine, that is, a saturated solution of sodium chloride.

And the reason for making a saturated solution of sodium chloride was…

“Drip, drip, drip…”

Richard stepped to the edge of the pool, where a strange apparatus was placed with part of it extending into the pool and another part fixed to the edge. Next to the apparatus were several heavy boxes containing lead-acid batteries, which Pandora had cranked by hand to fully charge during the day. They were full of energy.

Richard took the lead-acid batteries and installed them one by one onto the apparatus, operated it for a while, and then connected the power.

“Crackling!”

Electric current ran through the pool, beginning the electrolysis of the saturated sodium chloride solution:

2NaCl + 2H2O = (when electricity is passed through) = 2NaOH + H2| + Cl2|

“Blub blub blub!”

Bubbles quickly started rising from two different positions in the pool. Richard knew that chlorine gas was coming from one position and hydrogen from the other.

With a wave of his hand, Richard took out a heavy cylindrical iron can from the Space Iron Ring, used the “Water Droplet Condensation” spell to compress the chlorine gas into liquid chlorine, and filled it into the iron can.

This was the reason Richard was making the saturated sodium chloride solution–to produce enough chlorine gas and then liquefy it into liquid chlorine.

Liquid chlorine is a liquid, which in a sense could also be called a kind of “water”–yes, liquid chlorine water. So, when he told Alex that he would “use an iron can to carry water,” he wasn’t wrong.

The electrolysis continued unabated, and chlorine gas kept bubbling up. Under Richard’s magical control, the amount of liquid chlorine in the iron can kept increasing, though it was far from full.

Richard understood well that the actual reason for electrolyzing saturated saltwater was not really to fill up the iron can but to test how efficient this method was for producing chlorine gas.

After all, there were various methods of producing chlorine gas, such as electrolyzing molten salt (NaCl) and magnesium chloride (MgCl). Or using strong oxidizing agents like potassium permanganate (KMnO4), manganese dioxide (MnO2), potassium chlorate (KClO3), and potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) to react with hydrochloric acid, oxidizing it into chlorine gas.

Of course, the simplest was still electrolyzing saturated saltwater.

After all, having salt, water, and electricity was enough. It wasn’t just feasible in the Medieval times, but even in the prehistoric era, as long as the issue of electricity was solved, one could proceed near any body of water.

However, this method had some problems.

For example, chlorine is soluble in water, with one volume of water dissolving two volumes of chlorine gas. Additionally, chlorine would react with another product generated during the electrolysis process–sodium hydroxide (NaOH), producing sodium chlorate (NaClO3). In modern Earth, the diaphragm method is often used to separate chlorine from sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to prevent this situation.

In short, every reaction has its advantages and disadvantages, and he was now thinking of finding the most suitable way to produce a large amount of chlorine gas.

The reason why he needed to produce a large amount of chlorine gas was because…

…

In a blink, many days had passed.

After deliberately consuming certain special foods and potions, the orange-red color on Richard’s skin, stained by the bacitracin, faded quite a bit. Although there was still a noticeable difference from his normal skin color, it was now at an acceptable level.

The reason he said this was because Pandora finally stopped staring at his arm and tilting her head for a long while, then showing the expression that she wanted to take a bite.

During this time, he experimented with various methods for producing chlorine gas and modified the magic laboratory multiple times, until he finally found the most economical way to produce a large amount of chlorine gas for a certain plan he had in mind.

…

Late at night, Richard appeared in the graveyard outside White Stone City and walked up to the tomb of Alex’s ancestors.

This was already his third visit for exploration.

The first time, armed with key information from Princess Rose of Black Holy Mountain Kingdom, he had rushed here to explore and had been forcefully repelled by the massive insect army because he wasn’t sufficiently prepared.

The second time, after a long preparation, he explored once more, successfully defeating the insect swarm and killing both the Two-tailed Golden Scorpion and the Three-tailed Crystal Giant Scorpion. But what he hadn’t expected at all was that these were just decoys; the real killer move hidden by the tomb designer was the microscopic world of mushroom spores.

It was almost an attack across dimensions, and even though he had some considerations, he still wasn’t guarded against it–he truly fell for it. Without bacitracin, he might have been done for.

Now, having recovered with some difficulty, he began preparing for his third expedition.

But for this third venture, he didn’t want it to be the same as the previous two.

From the previous two times, he had almost figured out some of the conditions of the tomb and harbored extreme vigilance towards the deeper, unknown things inside the tomb.

According to the inherent patterns of the tomb designer, things further in would definitely be more lethal and more unpredictable. There could likely be a second or third kind of cunning trick similar to the mushroom spores.

Even without that, just the sight of the Mushroom Forest and the new insect army in green, red, and purple colors wasn’t very easy to deal with.

So, he really didn’t want to explore and then suffer a setback like before.

In this graveyard, stumbling once was due to a lack of preparation, stumbling twice was being careless, but if he stumbled a third time, it would mean he was brainless.

Since the tomb designer had set up many cunning tricks, then he wouldn’t mind using some unconventional methods to clear out this tomb.

If you are unkind, then I am unjust.

If you infection with pathogens, then I’ll just conduct a powerful disinfection.

If you design various difficulties, then I’ll simply… demolish them forcibly.

Explorations are exploratory because they are risky; if all the risks are eliminated, then what’s left to explore? One could just bulldoze straight through.

Thinking this way, Richard narrowed his eyes. The next moment, he bent down and activated “Earth Stone Control,” making the ground crack open to a downward channel. Then, he took out a heavy, ice-cold, sealed iron can from the Space Iron Ring, aimed at the downward channel, and with a “bang,” opened the lid of the can.

The liquid chlorine, which was in a high-pressure, low-temperature state, rapidly vaporized upon contact with the outside air, turning into a yellow-green, acrid-smelling chlorine gas that jetted out and surged down through the channel.

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