The six-sided crystal is square, and the bamboo shoot shape is just the general shape of the crystal. It is formed by stacking many complete or incomplete small squares together.
There is nothing special about the structure, a large number of calcite minerals are similar to this.
After experiments, the students confirmed that it has certain properties of magic crystal, but compared with magic crystal, its structure is too fragile.
"Maybe it was like this before the magic crystal was formed?"
"The crystal structure may be different."
"How long will it take to turn it into a magic crystal?"
Fountain of Youth has not studied the crystal structure. This is the knowledge provided by Wang Qi: Six-sided crystals are one of the most fragile structures in the world. Regardless of whether the constituent material is metal or non-metal, its hardness is mostly below Mohs hardness 4, and is brittle. It is very large and difficult to apply in daily life.
The magic crystals on the market are generally of the orthorhombic crystal system, and the calculated hardness is around 6, which is slightly worse than quartz crystal.
The change of crystal structure by magic belongs to a category of alchemy. Although the names are different, the principle is still to change the crystal structure so that the macroscopic characteristics of the material become different, giving the illusion that "the substance has been changed."
So it's not surprising that students would associate it with magic crystals.
Wang Qi was on the other side studying several smaller crystal grains that Li Xiang had obtained.
One of them has a more complete structure, and you can see how it is combined with the stone. It and the stone particles are embedded in a tooth-like structure, and it seems to really grow out of the stone.
Compared with igneous rocks, magic crystals have a higher content of silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, and magnesium oxide. If they really grow from stone, after hundreds of millions of years, it is likely that the stone will desilicate and turn into honeycomb-structured limestone. Department... maybe the limestone will be dissolved and washed away by the rain before that time comes.
Of course, Wang Qi does not need to worry about future geological changes. He is just considering whether it is possible for stones to produce similar changes through human intervention. If so, how fast can it be accelerated? Is it possible to mass produce it?
Although there are artificial gemstones at home, gemstones are not all good. The biggest problem is that the hardness of this thing is 9, and the processing difficulty is too high. The pre-cutting work and the subsequent magic circuit production are not easy, and many tasks are difficult to complete. Mechanization.
The hardness of magic crystal is low and the technical difficulty is more reasonable. If it can be made cheaper than artificial gemstones, the demand will not be small.
For example, Phoenix Kingdom's aircraft all use emergency landing modules after iterations. In addition to providing a certain amount of additional lift, it is also responsible for correcting the attitude of the aircraft. The complexity is higher than the normal lift module, but most aircraft will not use it throughout their life cycle. Last time, this was changed to magic crystal production, which can effectively reduce production hours, and the effect is completely the same. If it is really used, just change to a new module.
The "integrated shaping of magic circuits" that the institute is working on may have some similarities with the natural formation process of magic crystals. The crystal grains here are more mature than those in the penal colony. You can collect some and study them. Can you provide some ideas?
It was late at night, and we were in the wild again. The so-called research meant visual inspection and using our brains. It didn't take much time. Wang Qi and the students observed the crystal grains for a while, and the surrounding area became lively.
Unlike the periphery, there are a large number of ghosts in the core area that can be directly witnessed by the naked eye at night, and they can basically affect the physical layer.
Ghosts devouring each other is also a behavior worth observing.
Most of the ghosts that can be directly viewed appear in the form of fog, and the proportion of ghosts that deliberately shape themselves into human appearances is very small, probably less than 5%. No matter what the ghosts shape themselves into, they become a mist as they devour each other.
What's interesting is that later, after finishing devouring, the ghost may split again, and the split will be irregular.
They observed a humanoid ghost swallowing the mist ghost and then splitting into three mist ghosts.
I don’t know whether it counts as giving birth to a child, but from Wang Qi’s perspective, there is an even more magical situation. The ghost’s magic power has not been reduced. The process has absorbed a large amount of natural magic power, forming three individuals and three ghosts. The previous two levels were essentially unchanged.
On the contrary, the energy level of ghosts that have not cracked after being swallowed is basically one plus one less than two. The completion of the swallowing on the spiritual level will cause part of the magic power in their bodies to escape. To be more precise, after most ghosts merge, the magic power will The power is not even 1.5 times.
But even if it can only absorb 30% to 40% of the energy of the victim, the overall evolution speed of local ghosts is too fast.
1.3 raised to the 20th power can exceed 190.
Calculated based on the magic unit Minte still in use in the main world, a ghost with a magic power of only one Minte can reach the magic power of seven rings as long as it can devour 20 objects of a similar level to itself!
In fact, there will definitely not be that much "food" of the same level after reaching the Fourth Ring Road. The difficulty of reaching the Fourth Ring Road must be much lower than the place where the ghost of the Fourth Ring Road was first witnessed more than 100 kilometers away.
It's a pity that Wang Qi and others don't have the ability to identify individual ghosts. There are no ghost researchers here, so there is no way to conduct follow-up investigations. We don't know how long their devouring intervals are. Otherwise, we can calculate how long it will take for the new ghosts to be raised to the fourth level or above. .
As for the safety of Wang Qi and others, there is no need to worry too much. Ghosts are somewhat aggressive towards humans, but they do not gain any benefit from attacking humans. They will only consume their own energy and increase the risk of being swallowed by other ghosts.
It should be due to this factor that in the high-density environment of the core area, the probability of ghosts trying to get into the camp is very low.
But there are too many, and all kinds of mental howls and ghosts trying to affect the physical layer will cause noise, which is very troublesome.
Especially the mental howl, [mental protection] can prevent it from causing mental harm to people, but this thing will still produce sound directly at the brain level, and even the wind can't cover it up.
This kind of howl can also be divided into ghosts, which can be evaluated without mental damage. Some of the cries are okay, some can even be called melodious, and some can be called ghost cries and wolf howls... They are ghosts in the first place, so that's okay.
Fortunately, I didn't bring the groom and the guarantor. If I didn't have enough mental strength and willpower, I would have gone crazy in two days.
Although the probability of entering the camp is not high, with the blessing of a large base number, the absolute number is still much higher than the outside. Wang Qi and others must also be on guard. There are two classes of the Eight King Kongs. The first class and the students guard the first half of the night. Wang Qi and Li Xiang plus two students guard the second half of the night.
The ghosts are most noisy between ten and two o'clock, and they are most aggressive after three o'clock in the morning. It may be that it is close to dawn and it is difficult to eat each other, so there are more idle ghosts.
The response method here made Li want to continue to use [Lighting Technique] to disperse all those who dared to rush into this area. He would kill about twenty of them in one night.
Fortunately, these native ghosts are basically illiterate and are not very good at using real magic. Otherwise, if they really use magic to throw each other, let alone sleep, the tent will not be able to hold up now.
Wang Qi was very disappointed with this situation. The local ghost did not know whether it was "created from scratch" or "devouring behavior", and did not show much intelligence. Wang Qi's occasional use of spiritual words was a chicken-and-duck talk. Only a few can make clear and meaningful feedback, let alone reach a cooperation agreement.
I originally thought that I could find a few ghost assistants. If there were two or three ghost assistants with four rings or above, the reconnaissance work during the return home stage would be much safer and a lot of battles could be avoided. The plan is tough.
After it dawned again, a few housekeepers were left behind, and everyone headed to the original location of the magic well, which was the frozen lakeside in the middle of a crater-like terrain.
On the road of more than ten kilometers, more than one abnormal terrain protrusion was discovered.
The students are very energetic, and most of them will fiddle with it to confirm whether it is a rock puppet.
A total of four places were checked, but only one new rock puppet was found. This one was more violent. It used indiscriminate attacks as soon as it came up, throwing rocks the size of human heads in all directions.
The nearly ten kilogram stone flew at a speed slightly slower than that of an arrow. It was quite powerful, but not very accurate. Even if the Eight Diamonds punched one in a relatively straight direction, the stone man could not hear it at all.
Under the snow in the other three places with abnormal terrain, there are featureless stones, which may have fallen from above.
Wang Qi also realized one thing. There shouldn't be so many stones above the pit. They most likely migrated from the periphery. As for whether they were attracted by the magic well or were brought here by the natural rock puppets in the pit. , it is difficult to draw conclusions under the existing conditions.
When the group arrived at the frozen lake, Li Xiang reminded in a low voice: "They are here again."
They refer to the divine warriors.
