I Kidnapped the Timeline Chapter 609

Daybreak 710 years.

West District of Star City, a suburb.

It was daylight, and Zuo Tianxuan, who was killing enemies on the battlefield in his dream, was awakened by a heavy metal knocking sound. When he opened his eyes, he saw a dim room with only a little light coming in from the outside through the cracks in the curtains.

Muttering something in his mouth, he turned over and covered the quilt tightly and continued to fall asleep.

But within five minutes of closing his eyes, Zuo Tianxuan opened his eyes again, and looked up at the clock with fluorescent hands that was placed beside the bed.

It was found that the time was already 5:37.

Realizing that if he didn't get up again, the next thing waiting for him would be a violent beating from his grandfather, he got up in a numbness decisively.

While feeling back pain, he dragged his tired body to wash and clean up, then put on a black vest and went downstairs.

Walking out of the house, the cold suddenly hit.

The dark world is covered with goose-feathered white snow, and the cold wind is howling, causing the grass and trees in the distance to tilt and sway. At this time, only the cleaning robot is still working on the street, and there is no figure in sight.

Being hit by the cold wind, Zuo Tian chose a shiver, and his mind, which was still muddled, suddenly cleared up a lot.

He rubbed the hairs on his arms that were bristling from the cold with his hands, shrunk and ran towards a building not far away.

This building is very distinctive. There is a huge hammer standing on the roof. From a distance, it looks like the building was smashed by a hammer that fell from the sky.

The sound of heavy metal knocking came from this building, waking him up from his sleep.

Stepping into the building, the heat wave rolled in, and the cold air that swept the whole body was swept away, and what appeared in front of Zuo Tianxuan were huge calcination furnaces.

At this moment, an old man with white beard and hair and a naked upper body was busy in front of the furnace. Although he was old, the old man was in excellent spirit, his upper body muscles were bulging, and his arms were covered with blue veins. It is very powerful.

"Grandpa, here I come."

"I don't need your help today, just watch from the sidelines and study hard."

The old man glanced at Zuo Tianxuan, then continued to look at the burning flames in the stove, and then opened his mouth and roared:

"Old man, where are you going, hurry up and warm up!"

Hearing the old man's shout, the door of the room in the house was knocked open, a fiery red vicious dog with a forehead branded with flame marks ran quickly, came to the stove, opened its mouth and spit flames into the stove, and the fire inside the stove immediately The temperature began to rise, and even the whole room was filled with heat waves.

Beads of sweat suddenly ooze from the heat wave on Zuo Tianxuan's head.

"Old man, enough is enough."

"Hic!" The fiery red dog stopped breathing flames, and then hiccupped again, with two strands of flame coming out of its nostrils.

The vicious dog called the old buddy by grandpa is called Flame Dog. It is a spirit beast that has broken through the shackles of the three-stage bloodline. Its average combat power can be ranked in the top 30 in the spirit beast illustration book, stronger than many high-level spirit beasts.

This flaming dog was cultivated by his grandfather himself. When he was young, his grandfather won the runner-up in the Xingcheng West District Liuhuo Street Cup Championship.

As he grows older, Grandpa seldom takes this flame dog to fight, and basically only uses it for work.

Grandpa's job is quite special, he is a blacksmith.

This is an ancestral profession. According to the genealogy records, his ancestors were blacksmiths serving the front lines as early as the dawn year.

My usual job is to tailor weapons and equipment for frontline soldiers.

According to his grandfather, many of the weapons of the frontline heroes in the Star City History Collection were forged by his family.

Blacksmith was a profession with a very social status at that time. After all, it was not easy to design and forge spiritual weapons that could counter the creatures in the domain. It required a strong structural control ability. high talent.

But with the development of society, the profession of blacksmith gradually became lonely.

In the era he lives in now, the monthly orders for custom weapons that Grandpa receives can barely cover his living expenses.

It is difficult to improve, unlike the warriors who need customized equipment to book in advance, and have to pay a higher fee.

This is inseparable from the development of the times.

In the former Star City, blacksmiths were a very scarce occupation. After all, there was a huge gap in frontline weapons and equipment, and ordinary technological weapons could not meet the consumption and use of frontlines.

This has also led to the fact that the weapons used by frontline soldiers will be taken back even after death, and hung in the store to be sold to the next soldier, and the money obtained from the sale will be sent to the families of the soldiers who died in battle.

However, with the development of the times, Star City has embarked on many new paths.

Many professions are facing the embarrassing situation of being eliminated by the times, blacksmith is one of them.

Back then, weapon forging had to be endowed with a soul by the hands of a blacksmith, but modern weapon production tends to be made in an assembly line.

With a fixed template, it can be mass-produced in the equipment forging factory.

But this kind of mass production is limited to relatively low-level spiritual weapons, and high-level spiritual weapons obviously cannot meet the needs of tailor-made through mass production.

After all, the fit of mass-built weapons and equipment cannot be compared with tailor-made.

It stands to reason that the profession of blacksmith will be very popular in any era, and it should not be lonely.

But in terms of tailor-made weapons, the Terran has a channel that can also be obtained in batches.

That is the city of fate.

There is a racial force in the city of fate, they specialize in making profits by customizing weapons and equipment for other races.

This family is called the Forging Clan, and they have a very special imitation miracle prop called "Equipment Black Hole".

Black holes can be summoned and charged through a ring.

The way to use this imitation miracle prop is very simple. You only need to put materials into the black hole, and the black hole will automatically reorganize the fusion material structure and spit out equipment or weapons.

When using the equipment black hole, there is also a built-in data panel. You can look through the illustrated book to find suitable weapons and equipment, and then look for materials through the illustrated book. After inputting the ratio, you can spit out the magic weapon in the illustrated book, and even mass-produce it.

This is still only the primary use of equipping black holes.

It is not difficult to customize equipment. Before inputting materials, the size of the equipment can be adjusted on the panel for refined production.

(PS: The story chapter of related props is in Chapter 508, which was mentioned by Feng Qi when he first went to Fate City.)

Compared with black hole equipment, blacksmiths are at a disadvantage in all aspects.

The first is the speed of forging equipment. Forging a piece of equipment depends on the strength of the weapon and equipment. It takes at least a few days for a blacksmith to forge a piece of equipment, and it may even take several months for a special type of high-strength weapon.

But to equip the black hole, you only need to put in the materials according to the illustrated book, and wait a few seconds before you can spit out a weapon and equipment tailored to the specifications.

Secondly, in terms of cost performance, blacksmiths are also at a complete disadvantage.

In the process of blacksmiths building weapons and equipment, there must be material consumption. The utilization rate of materials cannot reach 100%, and the additional consumption needs to be borne by the equipment customizer. This is an unavoidable problem.

However, the additional consumption rate of materials equipped with black holes is 0.

The price and the efficiency of making equipment are at a disadvantage compared to Black Hole, which is a good thing to say.

Most importantly, for equipment made of the same material, blacksmiths are still at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

Spend more money, wait for a longer time, and the equipment you get is not as good as the output of the equipment black hole, which leads to an embarrassing dilemma for the blacksmith profession.

With the development of the times, society's acceptance of Destiny City is getting higher and higher, causing a large number of new fighters to choose weapons and equipment produced by Destiny City without hesitation.

Every month, the Destiny City envoy will take the list of weapons and equipment ordered by the front line or the school, and go to the Destiny City to customize the equipment in batches.

When this model is gradually accepted, the blacksmith industry gradually declines.

It's like the intangible cultural heritage before the catastrophe.

Although blacksmiths are

It still exists, but the meaning of existence is more inclined to historical inheritance, a symbolic imprint of the old era, rather than an important profession that stands at the forefront of the development of the times.

A simple description is that the profession of blacksmiths has no effect on the development of the times.

It's just a product that should be eliminated by the times.

But grandpa had been ironsmithing all his life, and he didn't want to give up just like that. He had thought of many ways to revive the lineage of blacksmiths.

It's just that his efforts are so small and powerless in front of the equipment black hole that is efficiently produced by the assembly line, and all his efforts are vulnerable to substantial benefits.

But Grandpa never thought of giving up.

After all, the equipment black hole is an imitation miracle prop, not a pure miracle prop. Grandpa has carefully studied a series of equipment produced by the equipment black hole, and found that there are obvious shortcomings and defects.

Equipped with weapons and equipment produced in batches by black holes, there are actually relatively high limitations.

Anything broken or damaged cannot be repaired, and often can only be discarded after being damaged, and its structure has been connected into a whole.

Back then, some frontline soldiers brought broken weapons to Grandpa to repair them, but Grandpa failed after trying.

Take the damaged weapon to the Forging Clan who mastered the equipment black hole in Destiny City, and the Forging Clan has no ability to repair the damaged equipment.

Through this point, Grandpa believes that the weapons and equipment produced by the black hole have relatively large limitations and lose the room for expansion, that is, the room for growth.

But the equipment produced by blacksmiths is different.

Even if it is damaged, it can be repaired. Secondly, along with the improvement of the strength of the fighters holding the weapons and equipment, the weapons and equipment can be recast to improve the overall strength and lethality of the weapons.

In addition, Grandpa asked the Messenger of Destiny and learned that some special high-level spiritual mines, equipped with black holes, are difficult to identify and can be disassembled and reassembled.

After all, it is only an anti-miracle prop. Apart from being affected by the material, the equipment produced by the black hole has an obvious upper limit.

Equipment that reaches a certain strength and above cannot be manufactured with equipment black holes.

This is also the reason why Grandpa believes that the blacksmith profession can be revived.

Grandpa's thoughts are very clear to Zuo Tianxuan. He believes that if the human race wants to become a powerful racial force, they must master the core technology themselves. If they blindly rely on the black hole output of equipment, if this channel for obtaining equipment is cut off in the future.

For example, the forging race was exterminated, and their equipment black holes were looted by other races.

And the race that plundered the black hole equipment did not have the idea of ​​doing business in the city of destiny, then the human race would be cut off from the acquisition of weapons and equipment.

And that's just one of the reasons.

During this period, grandpa approached the person in charge of the executive department of Star City many times, hoping to invest resources in the blacksmith industry and train better blacksmiths.

Facing the inquiry from the person in charge of Star City's executive department, Grandpa said that the human race should not limit their thinking to the rapid and convenient production of weapons and equipment, and should look far ahead at the future development of the situation.

The future requirements for the strength of weapons and equipment will change with the increasingly harsh environment.

When the human race's demand for weapons and equipment exceeds the upper limit that the equipment black hole can produce, how to obtain better equipment will become a difficulty in the development of the human race.

The only way is to continue to ensure the development of the blacksmith profession. Even if you encounter such difficulties in the future, you can try to break through by restarting the blacksmith profession.

Once the lineage of blacksmiths completely disappears, the foundation that they have worked so hard to build will disappear.

How can we build a tall building without a foundation.

Grandpa's rhetoric moved the person in charge of the executive department of Star City, and he submitted his request to the Supreme Council of Star City.

The Supreme Council of Star City finally decided to support Grandpa to open up the future of blacksmiths. Even though the equipment demand is still dominated by the output of Destiny City at this stage, the human race must master the core technology and face various challenges and variables that may exist in the future.

But grandpa undoubtedly failed to live up to the expectations of the Star City executives.

The forging building under his feet was specially built for him, equipped with a lot of advanced equipment, and even specially picked up a forge from the energy agency.

A free energy line for Grandpa.

In the early days, a large number of apprentices were sent to grandpa to learn and practice.

As a result, the upper limit of the black hole equipment is difficult for Grandpa to try his best, and it can even be said that it is far from reaching.

Manpower, resources, equipment, Star City satisfied Grandpa in all aspects, but Grandpa could not meet Star City's expectations, and even had difficulty breaking through the upper limit of his own crafting technology, and was still making some ancient spiritual equipment.

In the face of grandpa's failure, the coordinator of Star City's executive department also comforted grandpa to continue to work hard.

But with the passage of time, I found that my grandfather still had no progress, and the support that Star City gave to my grandfather was gradually decreasing.

Today, except for the building under his feet and the equipment he once supported, those apprentice blacksmiths who followed his grandfather have all left.

They thought there was no way out for this line of work.

Faced with the excellent performance of forging black holes in mass production of customized equipment, grandpa's painstaking forging seems to be very hard work, but it is meaningless from the perspective of profit.

Decades of hard work have yielded no results, and Star City's top brass have long since lost patience.

However, the high-level executives of Star City did not give up on the road of self-developed equipment. They always believed that Grandpa's idea was right. The human race must master its own core technology and cannot completely rely on weapons and equipment produced by foreign races. It must always be prepared for the worst. , So Star City executives have already planned a self-developed route for spiritual equipment~www.mtlnovel.com~ And grandfather, the oldest way of forging equipment, is being phased out.

Grandpa's persistence is like a blacksmith disciple standing before dusk, looking forward to the sun's rising again.

But what I saw was the darkness that was gradually enveloping.

Grandpa has walked this road all his life, and he has the ambition to open up the road in his heart, but he has reached the point where he can't recover.

His father did not follow his grandfather and chose to continue on this ancestral path, and he had a quarrel with his grandfather over the inheritance of blacksmith technology. Now his father is conducting research on urban construction with the Silvermoon Clan in the Institute of Psychic Energy. Come back to visit grandpa.

As for him, he was brought up by his grandfather since childhood.

However, he didn't study well. He originally wanted to go to the front to kill the enemy, but because of his physical fitness and other reasons, he couldn't enter the Combat Academy for further studies, so he cut off his way to the front.

When he learned that he hadn't even been admitted to the lowest school, he frowned.

However, his grandfather smiled happily, thinking that the future of blacksmiths finally had successors.

Chapter end