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Chapter 125 A New Beginning

Leaving the Gay Knights is not just a word of mouth or an official document. There is a complete ceremony for resignation.

First of all, this ceremony must be presided over by a Templar leader. If there is no presiding officer of this level, it will be regarded as leaving the regiment privately. Not only will he immediately lose the protection and domain of the knight order, but he will also be wanted by the whole regiment.

"Is there anyone who left the group privately?" Cecil asked curiously.

"There are some, but it was in the past, but now there are fewer. The main reason is that we don't stop the behavior of leaving the group." Langdon said, "The strange thing is that this way, the number of people leaving the group is much less."

Cecil thought for a while and said, "Is the treatment good?"

"Or you can also say that the outside environment has become worse."

Langdon straightened Cecil's head. He had to have a full-length hairstyle for the ceremony of leaving the regiment. This was a big change for many members of the regiment. Most knights had long hair or shoulder-length hair. Seale like that, but to him it was just a normal haircut.

"Is it that bad?" Cecil doubted, "Our side is not particularly good in natural resources. Other places are better. I haven't been to the tropics yet, but I think our side can barely survive. Yes, though only alive."

"Indeed." Langdon's subordinates kept moving. "I have a basis for saying this. The Gay Knights have a long history. They have calculated climate changes for more than a hundred years. The climate has indeed become colder in the past ten years."

"Ice Age." Cecil sighed in a low voice, "It's not easy for the Knights, and they still do this kind of statistics."

"I don't know when it was created, but it is indeed a regulation." Langdon laughed. "We don't just regulate the sex positions of knights."

After laughing, Cecil felt itchy in his heart: "Then what, do we have to use the prescribed posture then?"

Langdon turned in front of Cecil, lifted his chin and said, "Use whatever you want, my lord."

The fireworks in Cecil's heart were about to explode into the sky.

The day when the Knights Templar came was a bright autumn day, the blue sky was very close, and the white clouds were soft. Cecil and a group of leading knights stood outside the gate of Moon City, watching the luxurious magic carriage that had come before go from the temporary magical Appearing inside the door, this made Cecil unconsciously slander a few words.

Templar Commander Burton Nelly, the person who sent Langdon, Russell, Oakes, Moyer, and O'Casey here, is famous for his unique vision in the Knights. Head of the Temple.

With such a name, Cecil thought that he would see a super handsome guy, but he didn't expect that a tall beauty came out after the carriage door opened.

The raised red eyeshadow, gorgeous red lips, and fairy-like long skirt complemented "her"'s pale complexion and platinum hair. "She" held the skirt and opened her arms with a glamorous smile.

Burton's face-to-face salute was very irregular. It was not only sticky but also very affectionate. There were many redundant movements. It took almost half an hour for a few people to salute.When it was Cecil's turn, "she"'s smile became a bit meaningful, and after finally saluting, "she" held Cecil's arm with both hands, tilting her head to look at it.

"What?" Cecil asked inexplicably, "Is there something on my face?"

"I'm just waiting for you to ask why it's a woman." The deep and magnetic voice came out of the mouth of "Beauty", with a hint of narrowness, "It seems that you are as sensitive as your ex."

Cecil's goosebumps came up, and this bastard's pointing out the truth of his time travel in such a straightforward way frightened him more than the "lady in disguise" or something.

"Uh, I've seen a man who looks more like a woman than you, even with the same voice." But it was on the computer, Cecil added silently in his heart.

Burton raised an eyebrow: "It's very interesting, if you have a chance, let me see it."

Now that Burton has arrived, the ceremony can be held immediately, there is no need to procrastinate, there are still many things to do in Moon City.Cecil took a bath, or to put it more politely, burned an incense bath, the incense being those spices, and he didn't even want to see what the source of the fragrance was.Putting on the official uniform of the Gay Knights, and wearing the official weapons of the big sword and dagger, these must be returned at the ceremony, how could he have them, and temporarily borrowed two from other knights.

"Could it be too hasty?" Cecil played with the dagger, which helped a lot when he first arrived, "That's the end?"

Langdon, who put on the uniform for Cecil, said seriously, "Do you remember what I told you?"

"Ritual?" Cecil asked.

"No, after the ceremony, when you become an ordinary person."

"I'm just an ordinary person now." Cecil said puzzledly, "I don't know magic."

Langdon sighed, looked straight into Cecil's eyes and said, "It's not magic, it's the domain, it's the laws of the will. The Gay Knights have been protecting you and every member. After leaving the group, you will have A period of weakness, very weakness, it's not fatal but you have to be aware of the danger."

This was not the first time he had said this today. After deciding to leave the group, Langdon repeated his orders, as if he was afraid that Cecil would not listen.

Cecil felt a little underestimated. After all, he had experienced many things and understood that the rules of this world were different from what he thought: "I understand, I will lose the protection of the domain of the Gay Knights and the laws of the will, and become a Normal people. I'm ready, don't worry."

Contempt is fatal. Human beings always think that they have shown importance, only to realize afterwards that the standard of importance can only be learned through failure after failure.

Only a small number of people watched the ceremony of leaving the group, and the Gay Knights obviously did not want to show the loss of a member. In a room with nothing, Burton stood in the center, changed into the exclusive uniform of the Gay Knights, and held a bag upside down. A great sword with a handle standing on the ground.

Cecil had to take off his uniform first, return the issued weapons, and then half-kneeled on the ground and bowed his head to salute.

"Have you decided to leave the Gay Knights out of your own will?" Burton's voice sounded in the room.

"Yes." Cecil replied.

"Are you voluntarily giving up all the domains of the Gay Knights?"

"Yes."

"Do you voluntarily renounce all the will rules of the Gay Knights?"

"Yes."

"According to the regulations of the Gay Knights, with the authority of the Templar Commander, I announce that you, Cecil Anton Abtomir Renner... officially quit the Gay Knights and are no longer our brothers, Comrades, lovers and comrades in arms.”

Cecil wanted to raise his head, but his consciousness only lasted until the word "friend" and his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.

I'm dying.

This was Cecil's first thought after regaining consciousness. The premonition of death gripped him tightly, he couldn't breathe, his lungs seemed to be bound by a heavy iron coat, he couldn't breathe at all, he couldn't breathe Inhaling the air, every muscle smelled of emptiness. Lying down, he clearly felt the severe soreness in his muscles caused by maintaining a posture for a long time, but he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes.

Am I dead?

Am I really dead?

These thoughts came one after another, until Langdon's voice broke the deathly silence.

"I'm here."

Cecil raised his fingers vigorously, holding the warmth in his palm, until he whispered a spell to send him back to sleep again.

After waking up again, Cecil felt that he was finally a living person, and the feeling of "being hollowed out" was still lingering. After getting up, he sat on the edge of the bed for a long time before he had the strength to stand up, like an old man in his twilight years.

"How do you feel?" Langdon's voice sounded, and usually this would attract Cecil's attention the most, but at this moment, he just stared at his feet and didn't raise his head and said nothing.

Why is it so cold here?

In the October weather, Cecil didn't get up on the kang either. Although it was a bit chilly, it was tolerable. He only wore ordinary thick linen clothes, and he didn't feel much when he went to bed at night.

At this moment, Cecil was shivering, the cold was as harsh as winter.

"Is it just me feeling cold now, or will I feel cold all the time?" Cecil almost couldn't recognize his own voice, weak and weak, as small as talking in his mouth.

Warm hands rested on Cecil's knees, and Langdon's figure appeared in his vision: "It will be fine, it will be fine after a while, probably only two or three days."

Cecil asked unrelentingly: "After that, will I still be the same as before?"

Langdon was silent for a moment and then said: "The Gay Knights have hundreds of will rules, not only those about personal feelings, but also many rules that are of great benefit. The rules strengthen your body, prevent you from cold and heat, and strengthen your muscles. It enables you to run faster, jump higher, have stronger strength, make your memory better, and make you sharper. These can be obtained as long as you are a knight. The period of weakness after leaving the group will continue In a few days, you will recover later, but you will never be able to return to the state of knighthood, and it is impossible to personally fight against the law of wills accumulated over the years."

Weakness and disease can really change a person strongly. In just two days, Cecil deeply understood this sentence. He covered his face, unwilling to let Langdon see the broken expression. This was the only thing he got after leaving the group. thing.

"I'm sorry," Cecil said.

Langdon froze for a moment: "Why do you say that?"

"I'm doubting you, suspecting that you just want to control me, even suspecting that you want me to fail, let me go, you hate me, lie to me..." Cecil didn't even have the strength to shed tears, and the fatigue and pain caught him off guard. Poured him, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you left me alone."

Langdon said nothing, but gave Cecil a warm hug.

Out of the door, Langdon met Oakes. Due to Cecil's fall, other people had to take care of all the big and small affairs of Moon City. Burton, who presided over the ceremony, also stayed temporarily, observing everything in Moon City with great interest. .

"How is he?" Oakes asked solemnly.

"It's not that good. You know there will be problems after you leave the group." Langdon said a little irritably.

"Did you tell him there's something spiritual in the will rules?" Oakes asked.

"No." Langdon said quickly, "This is an established fact, and it doesn't make sense to say it."

"You didn't warn him, did you?" Oakes followed in Langdon's footsteps, rambling, "Tell him how big this is and how serious the consequences will be, he has never taken things to heart. , always overly optimistic, thinking that there will be nothing... oh!"

When passing by an empty house, Langdon suddenly turned around and grabbed Oakes by the collar and lifted him up to the wall with one hand, as easily as lifting a piece of paper.There was no smile on his face, and he said coldly: "I don't need you to tell me what to do and what not to do, Cecil is the most suitable and only candidate, his resignation is a necessary step !"

"You're always like this." Oakes didn't resist, but just looked directly at his former teacher, "Always do what you think is right, and you will make mistakes, Landon Chris, just like you don't think about me and Russell. "

"Do you think your relationship is beautiful?" Langdon said unceremoniously, "You have changed two bodies, this is the third one, every time Russell has to get used to the new face, the new body, the originality of these bodies A lover can only watch as a former lover treats him as a stranger. Every time you die Russell has to leave you and run away. He can only watch you die no matter how cruel it is. Do you think he is happy? Hmm ? You never saw Russell's state during your rebirth, and he will never let you see!"

Oakes's wriggling lips could not utter a word.

Langdon threw the former student to the ground, looked down at him and said, "Do you think love can conquer everything? Don't be naive!"

"You also had the naivety of wanting to protect Cecil, didn't you?" Oakes lowered his voice and roared, "You hope that he will always be as brave as when he first came here, you tried!"

"It's not that I've tried it, but I've been doing it all the time." Langdon resumed his usual tone, "Saplings under a big tree will never grow up, I hope he can grow to the same height as me, even if it makes him I'm so sad! What about you? Forever making your love in Russell's pain?! Over the years, has your magic improved? Has your domain advanced? What have you done to avoid failure and death over and over again?! Your love is not a blessing but a curse, don't make me regret accepting you as a student!"

When Oakes heard these words, there were struggles and anger on his face, until he gradually calmed down. When Langdon left, he suddenly said: "Langdon, you are angry."

This sentence is not an interrogative sentence, but an affirmative sentence.

Langdon ignored it and left.

Yeah, why am I mad?

Cecil's resignation was planned a long time ago, and it is inevitable and unchangeable to come to this point.

what am i mad about...

Cecil was finally able to move freely on the fifth day, still feeling cold and weak but feeling much better, ignoring the muscles that suddenly became limp, the memory that became blurred, the vision that became less subtle, the I feel exhausted after more than ten hours, as if everything is normal.

Yes, this is who I used to be.

Cecil used to be an ordinary, decent human being, with no special talent or extraordinary body, just an ordinary person.

After transmigrating, he not only entered the privileged class, but also elevated his body to a level far beyond that of human beings, but he has not realized this, just like he did not realize that October on the grassland is actually very cold, without a quilt, there is no A good bed will wake you up in the middle of the night if you don’t burn the kang.

Cecil, who had returned to the ranks of ordinary people, was a little afraid to face Langdon, not only because of his complaints a few days ago, but also because he was unwilling to determine how far the gap between them had widened.

Somewhat dispirited, Cecil wandered around the city and found that many knights were packing their luggage. Looking at the scene, he suddenly realized that not only ordinary knights, but everyone else except Langdon would be leaving.He walked towards Langdon's house, which is usually the place to discuss things. After opening the door, he saw that other people were there. Before he could speak, Burton said, "Your Majesty, we are discussing the affairs of the regiment. Can you avoid it?"

Cecil felt as if he had been slapped head-on with a brick. After being dazed for a while, he subconsciously searched for Langdon. He only saw a plain face, but without any explanation or answer, he left silently, not daring to look back. Have a look.

"He's pretty cute when he has an expression." Russell said with a smile, "Just like a wolf cub abandoned by wolves."

"Don't laugh at him," Langdon said.

"Why, do you feel distressed?"

"He is my king, if I don't feel sorry for who?"

"laugh."

"Okay, you guys." Burton said with no surprise, "It's almost decided. Is there anything else you want to say?"

After a few seconds of silence, Oakes said, "I want to apply to go to the lava front."

Burton immediately looked at Russell.

Russell seemed a little surprised, but he quickly adjusted and said, "It's fine if you want to go, then we..."

"I'll go by myself." Oakes looked away from his lover's face, but he quickly turned back, looked straight at Russell and said, "I'll go to the lava front alone."

Russell seemed a little confused: "You...why?"

"I won't die, that place suits me." Oakes squeezed out a smile, which was extremely ugly, "I just want to improve myself, and I don't want to be a burden like I am now. I even need your help for my work. I want to help you, Want to be unique, want to be someone who can support you instead of needing support."

Russell was stunned for a while, then suddenly turned to Langdon and said fiercely, "Did you say something?"

"No——" Oakes seemed a little irritated, "No...yes, yes, he said something, but he was right, the teacher was right." There was sadness on his face, "I don't want to let you Sad, I want to get myself back."

"What are you talking about?!" Russell almost yelled, "You are fine now!"

"No, I'm not good." Oakes took a deep breath, and his tone was firm despite the sadness in his brows and eyes, "There is a saying in my race, 'To comprehend death, to find oneself', do you still remember my original appearance? ?I have the opportunity to condense a real body with a ghost body, and at that moment I become truly immortal. At that moment, your death will become my death, and we will become one eternal body."

"I disagree." Russell burst out coldly, "There is no room for discussion on this matter."

young man...

Burton, who had been silent all this time, looked at Langdon, and was surprised to find that his right-hand man also had a wandering expression, as if he hadn't noticed the students' quarrel at all.

What the hell are these guys doing here?

Of course, the Gay Knights did a lot of things in Moon City, such as the foundry.

When a fire goblin found Cecil and said that the lathe was successfully developed, he didn't realize what a lathe was.This thing was a task he assigned a year ago. The flame goblins have been doing nothing, so he has no expectations.

This should be news that made people jump for joy, but Cecil just silently followed the flame goblin to the foundry.At first glance, he saw the water pipes that were not on the same level at all.

The water pipe is composed of a long copper pipe and a right-angled joint. The joint is embedded with spiral patterns, and the head of the water pipe is engraved with spiral patterns. Although there is no rubber, the two can still get a good seal when they rotate.Unfortunately, the number of threads of the spiral pattern is probably not determined. After some right-angle joints are tightened at one end, the other end is tilted up, and the straight water pipes connected have to be tilted upwards. piece of water pipe.

"You are here, Lord Knight!" The news of Cecil's resignation has not yet been announced, and the flame goblin still uses the previous address, "Look, we finally made the spiral pattern you mentioned, oh, yes, we still have The screw you mentioned is indeed more convenient than glue and mortise and tenon structure, and it is easy to connect wood products together!"

The texture of the screw is clear, and the lines on both sides of the yin and yang can be snapped together-of course there will be some gaps, but it is already remarkable at the current technical level.

"Where's the lathe?" Cecil asked in surprise.

The flame goblin showed the lathe in the carpenter workshop: it is made of wood except for the carving head, and there is no power at all. There is only one handle, which is connected to the carving stick in a horizontal axis. As long as it is shaken, it will drive The carving knife stick rotates accordingly.The carving stick is made of metal, the top is round as a whole, and engraved with spiral patterns. If you look closely, you will find that these spiral patterns are very sharp. As long as you apply enough force, they can be rotated and dug into the copper right-angle joints to form a concave spiral. Silk pattern.

The copper water pipes with spiral wires are directly molded and formed in one piece.

"How did you get the original spiral wire?" Cecil asked curiously.

"Hand carved." The flame goblin replied, "Of course, we used a little magic. The knife head you see needs to be solidified with magic, otherwise it will become blunt soon. I admit that this new metal is very hard and novel, but you Look, we have to process so many water pipes a day, but we don't have time to carve a new pair of cutter heads every day."

Cecil was really shocked, Nima actually carved it by hand, and carved a pair of screw threads so that they can fit together, what a skill it is!

"Who carved it? And who made this metal?"

A few minutes later, Cecil saw two women come in, one with a hulking back and one with a large burn scar on his face.One is the foundry's daughter who inherited his father's behest, and the other is the daughter of the fallen king of Luomasu. How did these two irrelevant people get together?

"I once thought about committing suicide. Master Owen said that my face could not return to its original state. This is already the best situation." Princess Helen's voice was a little hoarse, probably due to the injury at that time, "These goblins saved me, they Saying I'm the most beautiful woman in the world, I know it's ridiculous but...it keeps me from going crazy. I hang around here all day thinking nowhere and stumble upon them struggling with work. I know you told them to study A new metal, a synthetic metal, but the temperature of the coal is not enough, and if the temperature is enough, it cannot be cast, because the iron will turn into something like water, like... magma."

Helen flinched, as if recalling the pain of being scorched by magma back then.

"I...I think...Your Highness is great! She is very proficient in fire magic and magic! She has also studied a lot about fire!" The daughter of the foundry master was still very timid, and she was desperate when she spoke. The appearance is quite cute, "She said that sending, blowing wind can make the fire more, more prosperous, and adding, refueling can be used as a combustion accelerant, and also, can use magic to help."

"Tung oil?" Cecil immediately responded.

"Yes!" Helen's eyes lit up, "We experimented with many things, oil, salt, soil, wind, blood, urine, many, many, and we also made a pot, like this, made of clay, this Clay can also be used to make copper pipe casting molds. We found that although coal and oil can obtain high temperature, they also produce more impurities, and forging in a pot can alleviate this phenomenon.”

Cecil took a closer look, isn't this the crucible?

In ancient China, there were indeed several steelmaking methods, such as block steelmaking and hundred steelmaking. Because the temperature was not enough, iron was repeatedly forged to remove carbon to obtain steel. There were various problems, such as wasted time and energy, and poor production. Pure wait.The subsequent frying of steel is to turn the iron into semi-liquid, and then add iron powder to remove carbon to obtain steel, which saves time and effort and produces good quality.Others include the Sugang method and the double-liquid quenching method, etc., all of which require long-term observation and multiple trials to be successful.

These are all recorded by Cecil's memories and told the flame goblins, asking them to experiment.

Now, what the flame goblins have come up with is the crucible steelmaking method of the British Hontzman. Put the iron ore in the crucible, heat it outside until it melts, and then reduce the temperature to 700-900 degrees and add iron scraps and clay. The mixture is annealed to decarburize to obtain carbon steel.

All of the above are in the case of wood as fuel, while coal as fuel has a lot of impurities, and it is difficult to stabilize the properties of metals.

"Did you get the graphite?" Cecil's heart was pounding.

Helen took out a black, oil-stained stone: "This one?"

"Yes!" Cecil took it as if he had found a treasure, "Where did you find it?"

"My dear motherland is one day's walk to the east." Helen said sarcastically, "these things are everywhere there, and no one cares at all. I like to draw pictures, record the scenery I have seen, and bring this thing back to my country. , accidentally discovered that it is resistant to fire, so I included this in the test materials."

"Without Helen's help, it would be impossible for me to experiment with new materials!" When it came to her profession, the foundry's daughter spoke a lot more fluently, "I have been experimenting, but neither have enough temperature nor suitable heat-resistant tools. After Helen came, these two problems were solved in one fell swoop!"

"Only you can carefully observe the changes in iron." Helen immediately said, "The goblins only know fire and fire, and you can tell the difference from the iron ore lines. In such a hot place, you can actually stare at these things for so long , we could not have succeeded without you."

On the steel ingot, there is a pattern of oil diffusion formed by carbon element penetration and crystallization after long-time casting and cooling.

"Polish this piece of steel." Cecil said impatiently.

Soon, the silver-white metal ingot was sent over. It was cooled by hard ice with infinite hope. This is Damascus steel made without a blast furnace, no combustion aid, and no chemical experience!

Whenever there is despair, there is always hope, and this hope does not come from God but from the struggle of human beings themselves.

Cecil felt that at this time, the emergence of Damascus steel and the successful development of lathes seemed to be some kind of omen.

"It's broken, Lord Knight is crying!" a flame goblin cried out.

"Did we do something wrong?"

"I just said that these things are not hot enough, only molten iron is the most noble!"

"Perhaps the knight-lord prefers molten iron?"

"But what's the use of molten iron? Taking a bath?"

"Shut up, you Smurfs!" Cecil yelled shamefully and angrily, "Can't you let me be touched normally for a while?!"

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Thinking about it, I don’t want to truncate this chapter, I’m so upset that the plot is truncated...

In addition, regarding steelmaking, I checked the information and said that charcoal, coal and coke were used in ancient times, but it was also said that the high temperature of steel needs to be 1200 degrees... I feel that charcoal can't reach this temperature. Does anyone know about this? Ask for advice~