When Luo Chen arrived at Luo Tianhe's office, he saw that Chu Heng, the elder of the outer sect, and Ouyang Zhu, the new member, were also there.
Ouyang Zhuhe had changed a lot more than a month ago. His originally deep-set eye sockets had bulged, his thin cheeks had become fuller, and his whole person was much rounder and more energetic. He was sitting on the right side of Luo Tianhe's desk.
Next time, I am very energetic!
"I've met the young owner of the village!"
Seeing Luo Chen's arrival, Chu Heng and Ouyang Zhu hurriedly stood up and bowed to Luo Chen.
Luo Chen nodded towards the two of them, then looked at Ouyang Zhu with a smile:
"Master Ouyang, how is your recovery going? Are you still used to being at Ziwu Villa?"
"Thank you very much, Young Villa Master, for your concern. My subordinate has recovered as before and is living very well in the Villa!"
Ouyang Zhu bowed respectfully towards Luo Chen again.
"That's good!"
Seeing this, Luo Chen nodded and then looked at Luo Tianhe.
Luo Tianhe stood up at this moment, smiled and waved to Luo Chen:
"Chen'er, you came just in time. Master Ouyang has just come out of seclusion. We are about to discuss the construction of battleships!"
Saying that, Luo Tianhe looked at Ouyang Zhu again:
"Master Ouyang, let's begin!"
"yes!"
Ouyang Zhu nodded, cleared his throat and started to speak, but was interrupted by Luo Chen reaching out:
"Master Ouyang, I have also given you the drawings of the second-level battleship. We don't understand the construction of the battleship, so I will leave all this to you. Just tell us what you need and any difficulties, and we will solve them!"
"yes!"
Ouyang Zhu also simply swallowed the opening explanation he had prepared and said straightforwardly:
"There are two main requirements for building a warship, one is people, and the other is materials!"
"The people include weapon refiners and array masters. If you want to build a second-level battleship, with the blueprints, senior weapon refiners and array masters can barely build it! If you just want to shorten the construction time, you need more of these two types of talents!"
"As for the weapon refiner, I still have two disciples outside. They have all participated in the construction of warships. I can recruit them when the time comes. Together with the existing weapon refiners in the villa, it will be enough! It's just this formation mage.
.....”
With a long tail note, Ouyang Zhu looked at Luo Chen.
Luo Chen laughed loudly at this time:
"Haha! I didn't expect Master Ouyang to have two disciples. It's great. Even if you recruit them, our villa will never treat them badly! As for the formation master, don't worry, Mr. Puppet's formation attainments have reached the peak of the fourth level.
, then I will call him back from the outer sea, and I will also invite two of the formation masters from Kasyapa College in the Thunder Territory, plus Mu Yulou, I think it should be enough!"
"Yes! With these array masters, it's barely enough!"
Ouyang Zhu nodded.
After solving the human problem, Ouyang Zhu continued to speak without stopping:
"The second is construction materials. This is the top priority in building a battleship! It includes materials for the battleship hull and the magnetic cannon!"
"As for the ship hull! Most of the materials used to build ship hulls in the mainland are puppet wood and ironwood trees. Because they are large in size, hard in texture, and widely distributed, they are very suitable for the requirements of building warships! But building warships requires very high requirements for these two materials.
, the materials for the first-level battleship require at least a thousand-year-old puppet wood or ironwood tree, and the materials for the second-level battleship need to reach 1,500 years!"
"Although puppet trees and ironwood trees are widely distributed in the mainland, there are very few trees that are more than eight hundred years old, let alone more than a thousand years old. Basically only those big forces will spend time cultivating them! Even if there are occasionally wild ones on the market
If they appear, they will be bought immediately, which is very difficult to buy! If we don’t have the materials to build the hull, then it will be impossible to build a warship!"
After saying that, Ouyang Zhu stopped again and looked at Luo Chen hesitantly.
Luo Chen smiled and looked at Luo Tianhe, then waved his hand to Ouyang Zhu lightly:
"Materials for building the hull are not a problem. We have enough materials. Now let's talk about the materials for building the magnetic cannon!"
"yes!"
Ouyang Zhu nodded hesitantly. He didn't know how materials that were difficult to buy outside became so easy here in Luo Chen. However, Luo Chen said it was no problem, so he didn't say more and continued:
"The railgun has to withstand huge energy, so the requirements for building it are higher and more types of materials are needed! However, other materials are okay and can basically be purchased on the market. There is only one core material that is almost available on the market.
No, it’s all controlled by those top forces, and this material is Star Sand!”
"Star Sand?"
Luo Chen was stunned, while Luo Tianhe and Chu Heng also frowned.
There are so many kinds of materials in the mainland, and even they have never heard of those strange materials, and this star sand is one of them!
Although Luo Chen often used battleships in the past, he didn't know much about the construction materials of the magnetic gun.
The three of them looked at each other and looked at Ouyang Zhu inquiringly.
Ouyang Zhu understood the idea and immediately explained:
"Star sand is a special ore with ultra-high toughness, ultra-high strength, and ultra-high temperature resistance. It is currently the best material known in mainland China for building magnetic cannons! Because of its scarcity, it is used by almost all forces.
It is used to build the magnetic cannon and rarely used for other purposes, so the commonly used "Spirit Mine Record" rarely records it!"
"And these in the hands of my subordinates are the Star Sand!"
Having said that, Ouyang Zhu stretched out his right hand, and on his palm, there was a small handful of ore that looked like fine sand.
The fine sand is silvery, like stars, reflecting phosphorescence under the light.
"Is this the Star Sand?"
Seeing this, Luo Tianhe, Luo Chen and Chu Heng all approached Ouyang Zhu and looked at the fine sand in his hand curiously. Luo Chen and his son even took a little bit from Ouyang Zhu's hand and looked at it carefully.
The fine sand is cold to the touch, and you can even feel a chill coming out of it. Its texture is also very heavy, and just a little bit of it feels very weighty.
Looking at the star-like fine sand in his hand, Luo Chen frowned. This was the first time he had seen this thing.
Putting the star sand back into Ouyang Zhu's hand, Luo Chen suddenly smiled:
"Master Ouyang, since you have the Star Sand, do you have the channels to purchase it?"
"I can't do anything!"
Ouyang Zhu shook his head: "I only have this little bit of star sand in my hand, which was left behind when I built the Yuanci Cannon for the previous sect! Star sand is a strategic material, and basically all forces that own star sand mines have
It is for your own use and rarely leaks out. If other forces want it, they will have to spend a lot of money to buy it from those forces, and they may not be able to buy it!"
"In addition, star sand is divided into levels. The kind in the hands of my subordinates is low-level star sand, which is used to build first-level magnetic cannons! If the villa wants to build a second-level warship, it will need high-level star sand, which is even more difficult to obtain.
Unless you have a strong relationship with the forces that own the Star Sand Mine!"
"The most difficult thing is that we now want to build warships in batches, which requires a large amount of star sand! Almost no force will sell so much star sand to us!"
After saying that, Ouyang Zhu pursed his thirsty lips.
After hearing this, Luo Tianhe frowned and Luo Chen even smiled bitterly.
Luo Chen finally understood why Shangguan Fei'er was so gloating about his misfortune when he gave him the drawings. It turned out that this was the biggest trouble!
He didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that with the large number of thousand-year-old ironwood trees in the Demonic Abyss, there would be no problems in building battleships, but he didn't expect that this was one of the minor troubles.
And now Luo Chen feels irritated if he wants to get the Star Sand!
There is no doubt that Star Sand is difficult to obtain. You can see that even warships are difficult to buy outside.
Don’t even think about buying from other top powers because you are not familiar with them.
Ziwu Villa now has a good relationship with the behemoth Kasyapa College, but now they don't even want to sell him a battleship, let alone Star Sand!
what can we do about it......
Looking for Mr. Yan to run a relationship?
In exchange for the thousand-year-old ironwood tree in the Demonic Abyss?
Luo Chen's eyes flickered, and he kept thinking about how to get the star sand.
While Luo Chen was thinking like this and Luo Tianhe was frowning, Chu Heng on the side was bending over and looking at the star sand in Ouyang Zhu's hand seriously, with memories in his eyes.
After a while, Chu Heng's eyes slowly lit up, and a smile appeared on his lean and capable face.