: The Story of the Traveler No. 3: The Legend of Fish and Dragon (Part 1)
In the northwestern part of the western continent, there are many rolling high mountains, which are like a natural barrier, separating the two countries of Thrace and Leyton.
The territory adjacent to this mountainous area belongs to the Henry family, a famous great aristocrat in Thrace. This family has a long history and powerful strength. It can be traced back to before the founding of Thrace.
The land of the Marquis of Henry is large and fertile, and the water from the northern mountains has nourished the land, allowing it to have a good harvest all the time. In the whole of Thrace, it is considered a high-yield area and has the reputation of "the granary of the northwest".
In such a place, of course, many underground water veins are indispensable. They are large and small. The small ones are only slow water flows that penetrate into the soil, and the large ones are rolling underground channels. These underground water veins and the water veins on the ground are mutually Connected, constitute the complex water system of the northwest granary.
At this moment, in the outskirts not far from the Marquis Castle, in an underground water vein, a traveler with two strange beards on his lower jaw is lying in the running water, looking up leisurely.
The thick soil would normally block his sight, but this time it seemed to him that it didn't exist. The flowing groundwater could not make his figure move at all, just like a ship under anchor, firmly fixed in place.
"According to the information I heard on the way here, Edward Henry often passes by the road above and inspects the manors in various places... He can't wait a little bit, his brother just died a few days ago, so he put on his heir. With your posture, aren’t you afraid of the dead ghost, Lao Tzu, feeling uncomfortable?”
Liu Daoqing snorted coldly, opened the chat channel, and saw that the transmigrators were shouting in a mess, discussing the matter of chasing and killing Marquis Henry.
"Marquis Henry is indeed a talented man. He ran so decisively without hesitation at all. He was so good at fighting along the way that he had already killed nearly thirty people... Fortunately, I didn't stay there to fight, otherwise, I would only I'm afraid I can't avoid hanging up again!"
He sighed and said to himself: "What a pity! If he is willing to learn honestly and do not commit massacres, he can make friends."
"Oh, this friend can't be made, I killed his son..."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing bitterly: "Damn, that guy Jia Kaier is such a bad guy! I just collapsed a few mountains, so many people were not crushed to death, how could he be killed? Overwhelmed? What about the future legendary powerhouse, the weak force is a mess!"
After complaining, he shook his head again, not thinking about what had happened, and focusing on the situation on the ground.
The sun gradually rose, and the number of pedestrians on the road gradually increased. After a while, accompanied by the sound of hurried horses' hooves, a well-equipped cavalry galloped by on the road. They drove the pedestrians on the road to both sides, and let the carriages behind them pass by in a hurry. The momentum was very arrogant.
Liu Daoqing's eyes narrowed, carefully looking at the carriage.
On the base of the carriage, he saw the magic circle used for reinforcement, and also saw the thick metal plate. There is no doubt that this carriage looks like an ordinary means of transportation, but if it encounters an assassin, it can immediately turn into a solid mobile fortress. No one will say that, at least he himself is unable to break it all at once. The people inside were taken out and killed.
"Damn! Edward is so cautious!" He cursed bitterly, his body melted into the water, and quickly left here.
More than an hour later, in the nearby Twin Cities Tavern, there was a guest with a strange long beard. The guest was a little hunched and disheveled, and looked a little down-to-earth, but he was wearing expensive silk clothes, making it difficult for the bartender to judge what he was. What's the way.
The guest didn't talk much. After ordering the wine and food, he sat in the corner and ate silently by himself, obviously not wanting to deal with others. Fortunately, he spoke very clearly, and he was indeed rich. As soon as he shot it, it was a few gold coins, so that the worried bartender let go of his worries.
Liu Daoqing ate quietly, without any intention of talking to the nearby diners. He is actually a very shy person. Only in front of his acquaintances will he become talkative. In front of people he doesn't know, he is a gourd. He can sit there peacefully for a few people. When I was young, my mouth didn't say a word except for food and water.
Inexplicably crossing into the world of the game "New World", his heart has always been full of unease, but whenever he goes to a place where he is unfamiliar, he will always adhere to the principle that silence is golden - even with his strength, no matter how long-winded , and no one else dares to be dissatisfied.
Liu Daoqing is an otaku. For a long time in the past, he has been leading agriculture in Tara Khan, mainly researching the technology of artificial cultivation of mushrooms. Besides, he spends his "spare time" figuring out artificial Coke.
He has no other hobbies in terms of diet, but likes to drink Coke. There was no cola to drink after crossing, which made him very unhappy. To solve this problem, he has been searching for suitable materials.
On Earth, homemade cola is a very simple matter, brown sugar water with baking soda, shake well, cover tightly, and refrigerate, it is a simple sweet carbonated drink. If you want to get the unique flavor of cola, it is nothing more than adding a few seasonings. As long as you are on the all-purpose Taobao, you can easily buy anything, and you can even buy cola syrup directly. With the right amount of water, it is a basically qualified cola drink.
But not in this world, at least not in the Western Continent.
Because, there is no brown sugar in the Western Continent.
The raw material of brown sugar is sugar cane juice. The sugar cane juice is slowly boiled in a pot with a low temperature to remove the water, and finally this nutrient-rich sweet seasoning can be obtained. But the Western Continent does not produce sugar cane, nor sugar beets. If people here want to eat sweets, they can only rely on honey except for the few and slow-growing sweet trees (similar to the famous sugar maple in Canada on Earth).
There is no sweet tree in the Tara Khan collar where the travelers are mainly active, and the source of sugar here is only honey. Liu Daoqing tried to make Coke with honey. It tasted good, but the cost was too high and the output was too low, which could not meet his needs at all.
So he was looking for another way.
The first thing he looked for was tree sap. It is said that since there are sugar maples in this world, there should be other trees or vines that produce sugar. In the first winter after crossing, he took a group of people to search for a long time in the Miselele Forest, and collected a number of tree sap in various colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple. As a result, in addition to poisoning everyone, There is no other gain.
But Liu Daoqing did not give up, he was still working hard.
In the end, he chose to boil maltose.
Of course, malt can also make sugar. The key to the method is to use the enzymes produced after the germination of wheat to hydrolyze starch to obtain sugar. This technology is not difficult to say, but it is actually quite difficult in practice. The main difficulty is in temperature control. It took Liu Daoqing about a year and dozens of repeated attempts before he basically mastered the key to making maltose and was able to produce maltose stably.
The raw material of maltose is grain, and the output is quite high. With enough sugar, all that's left is for the druids to find the right herb to reconcile the Coke flavor they remember. Mr. Jeanne, the Druid from the Mislerle Forest, is very interested in this. In addition to studying medicine, he is helping Liu Daoqing to mix spices in his spare time, trying to create the kind of "Coke that he has boasted about for a long time." "Come.
With sugar, spices can't help, and the work of artificially cultivating mushrooms has finally come to an end.
With this search, I found the north of Thrace...