newbobooks Chapter 490 I Want to Play Too
Chapter 490 I Want to Play Too
In the hands of an expert swordsman, the blade alone could slice through a 30-centimeter-thick homogeneous steel plate. Ordinary armored personnel carriers and mutant creatures were as fragile as paper under their blades.
As a close-range weapon, Song You has an urgent need for this.
Of course, he has been imitating Shen Bei's fighting style. He hopes that he will not change weapons next time, otherwise the remaining money he has will not be enough to keep him busy.
Song You didn't rush into choosing a sword. All the sword blanks were marked with the names of the shapers who forged them. He wanted to observe the craftsmanship of these shapers before making a choice.
To be frank, not every shape-shaping person can maintain the same level.
The same sniper rifle, when you give it to Shen Bei and when someone else uses it, will produce two completely different kinds of suppressive power.
After observing for a while, Song You became dazed.
Suddenly he found a familiar name and took another look to make sure he was not mistaken.
Chen Yihang.
This name is not well-known and almost no one has even heard of it.
But Song You vaguely remembered that Shen Bei mentioned it. This was another name of the director and leader of the institute, Chen Anzhi.
Good guy.
The corner of Song You's mouth twitched. He didn't even dare to use his real name?
Afraid of embarrassment?
Song You touched his chin and thought for a while. He must have been wrong. It was not that Chen Anzhi did not use his real name, but that he used his real name. For those with special abilities who needed weapons, could they find other shapers to forge weapons?
They must be looking for Chen Anzhi.
Then he doesn't have to do anything else. He has to work all day long and be covered in sweat, which is obviously not in line with the identity of a leader.
But Chen Anzhi probably felt itchy sometimes and wanted to try his hand at forging sword blanks, pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger, hiding behind and offering good swords to those who were gambling with swords, and enjoying himself secretly.
Song You looked around and recognized Chen Anzhi among the many people with shape-shaping abilities.
Shen Bei once described Chen Anzhi's appearance, saying that he had a black mole at the corner of his eyebrow.
Now he is still hiding in the workshop, wearing work clothes, his face is dark from smoke, and you can't tell who he is without looking carefully.
It was only when Chen Anzhi wiped his face that the mole was revealed, and that was when Song You discovered it.
Chen Anzhi was now covered in sweat and grease, wearing a fireproof apron. He was squeezed into a corner and hammering a bearing cut from a scrap car site with an old power hammer.
Song You walked over and saw that after folding and forging for a period of time, he would evenly sprinkle borax on the bearing that had turned into a steel block and put it back into the gas furnace to heat it.
The consumption of borax by the shaper is very large. During forging, it can clean impurities, assist in fitting gaps, and prevent dust from being trapped.
Because the bearings are exposed to uneven radiation in the wasteland, the distribution of the mutated metal within them is also uneven. Multiple folding and forging processes are required to evenly distribute the mutated metal throughout the entire steel block.
However, the number of high-temperature castings that the mutant metal can withstand is limited.
This was a real test of the Shaper's experience; how to fuse the various mutated metals within a single block of steel into one cohesive whole within the shortest possible number of folding and forging strokes. Mastering this was the key to the difference between one weapon and another.
All the people with the ability to shape their bodies work as ironworkers in workshops, but they are not afraid of having their skills stolen by others. This is because as a person with the ability to shape their bodies, their greatest skill lies in their eyes.
During this time, several people gambled on a sword blank, but all of them failed. However, Song You didn't even glance over. He squatted next to Chen Anzhi and watched him process the steel.
After a long time, no one succeeded in opening a good sword, and the enthusiasm of the onlookers began to fade, and the sword gambling stall became empty.
Soon.
Chen Anzhi took off his work clothes. Perhaps he had had enough fun, so he stopped forging weapons and resumed his leadership status.
At this time, the sun was setting, it was getting late, and the institute's workshop began to close.
Two people who were obviously new shape-shaping psychics lifted a shelf full of sword embryos and wanted to move it into the research institute's warehouse.
The power hammers and gas furnaces placed outside are very heavy and not worth much money, but these sword blanks are very expensive and easy to steal, so they must be locked in the warehouse.
"Wait a minute, I want to bet on swords."
Song You patted his pants, stood up and stopped the two apprentices.
Most of the shape-shaping psychics had already taken off their fireproof aprons, grabbed sawdust mixed with laundry detergent, lined up to wash their hands and go home. When they heard Song You's words, they gathered around again, wanting to see the excitement.
Chen Anzhi, who was busy dealing with today's affairs and preparing tomorrow's production plan, also raised his head and looked at Song You with some surprise.
He thought Song You was a person with supernatural powers who came to learn from him, but he didn't expect that he was a wealthy man who wanted to gamble with swords.
The two apprentices hurriedly put down the weapon rack and let Song You choose for himself.
"Sir, please choose my sword blank. A piece of water-sunk material from a subway track recently arrived, and I forged this sword blank from the best piece."
Other people with the ability to shape their bodies also tried to sell their sword embryos to Song You.
Every time they sell a sword blank, they will receive a substantial dividend. If they produce any sharp weapon, the price of the swords they forge in the future will also increase significantly.
Song You was not disturbed by them, but looked at all the sword embryos calmly.
When he selected sword blanks, the first thing he looked at was the shape of the sword. He eliminated those that had crooked spines and burrs on the edges.
He then used his fingernails to scrape off the oxide layer on the outer layer of the sword blank and carefully observed the texture of the steel on the sword body.
He tapped the blade with his index finger and listened to the vibrations. His attunement gave him hearing far superior to that of an average person, allowing him to clearly discern any discordant sounds. That was a sign of impurities on the blade.
The above experience can eliminate those sword embryos with congenital defects.
Those sword blanks can't even pass the grinding stage. They are the failed products of the shaper, used to fool laymen.
Even so, the chances of success in sword betting were not much improved, because most sword blanks failed at the quenching stage. Because even if the sword blank was forged perfectly, if the appropriate temperature could not be determined, the sword body would still crack in the quenching oil.
Everyone stopped talking and watched Song You pick up the sword blank, observing it carefully. They could tell that the man who came to gamble with swords this time was a true expert.
The institute has been completely closed, but no one present has left.
They were all very curious whether Song You could gamble away a good sword.
Song You slowly pulled out the sword blank and observed it.
Although Chen Anzhi is a big shot, even big shots can have setbacks.
So he had to carefully observe the type and content of the mutated metal in the sword.
Magnetized molybdenum is a variant metal that occurs alongside iron. It is neither common nor rare.
As long as the content exceeds 0.08℅, magnetized molybdenum can allow the sword body to maintain its strength at high temperatures and inhibit the occurrence of degradation effects within a certain range.
The most important thing is that it can prevent temper brittleness and reduce the probability of the hot sword body cracking and twisting when it suddenly comes into contact with cold oil.
This greatly improved the success rate of sword blank quenching and reduced the probability of failure in sword gambling from 95% to 75%.
Song You checked and selected all five sword blanks containing magnetized molybdenum from the pile of sword blanks.
The sword blank of the shape-shaping psychic who was promoting himself was among them. Even Chen Anzhi's sword blank contained magnetized molybdenum.
This gave Song You more confidence.