I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 153

Chapter 153

Hum!

The moment the elemental power resonated with the molten tin, Fang Bai and Wang Kai simultaneously sensed a faint hum. Just as Fang Bai felt joy, he noticed Wang Kai’s expression change.

“What’s wrong?” Fang Bai immediately asked.

“The elemental power supply is running out.”

A strained expression gradually appeared on Wang Kai’s face. Moments later, Fang Bai noticed that Wang Kai’s connection with the molten tin had been severed.

The instant the connection broke, the molten tin that had already integrated with elemental power solidified, while the part that hadn’t yet fully integrated stopped changing.

“How are you? Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. I was actively supplying the elemental power. If the supply runs out, it just cuts off; it won’t hurt me.”

Wang Kai shook his head slightly and then said, “It’s just that this metal requires too much elemental power to fuse. I can’t supply it at all.

It’s too vague to quantify, but if changing my muscles into elemental material requires only one unit of elemental power, then transforming this tin into elemental material consumes five or six, maybe even seven units.

I simply can’t keep up. However, a portion should have been successfully converted.”

Fang Bai looked at the molten tin in the crucible.

At this moment, the pot of molten tin had been divided into two distinct frequencies. One was more subtle, its frequency warmer and slower.

Of course, one didn’t need to sense the frequency to clearly notice the changes in a part of the molten tin.

The molten tin in the palm-sized crucible was originally silver-white, but a small portion had become brighter, its hue changing. Placed alongside the unchanged tin, the difference was immediately apparent.

“It’s a pity it’s all mixed together.”

Wang Kai said with some regret, but before he could finish speaking, he saw droplets of bright silver molten tin detach from the crucible. He sensed it slightly and looked at Fang Bai.

“Hmm?”

“Mental Power?”

“Yes, a little trick.”

Wang Kai’s interest was piqued, his eyes gleaming. Fang Bai smiled, not stingy with his knowledge, and casually explained, “It’s just Mental Power resonance. You just need to sense the frequency of the molten tin with your Mental Power and then adjust your Mental Power’s frequency accordingly.

The same principle applies to other things.”

As Fang Bai spoke, he scooped out the molten tin that had transformed into elemental metal.

Fang Bai discovered that even though it was still in the crucible and the flames below continued to burn, this portion of the molten tin was beginning to solidify, while the rest remained unchanged.

Fang Bai suspected that the melting point of the tin had changed after it became elemental metal. The current temperature was no longer sufficient to melt it, so it was rapidly turning solid.

Seeing this, Fang Bai immediately sped up the filtering process. Soon, a ping-pong ball-sized blob of silver-white molten tin appeared before Fang Bai and Wang Kai.

By now, the surface of the originally liquid tin had mostly solidified and was still rapidly cooling down.

Wang Kai looked at the tin metal with curiosity in his eyes and reached out to pick it up.

“Hiss!”

Wang Kai quickly retracted his hand and sucked in a breath of cold air. The tip of his finger turned red at a visible speed.

Wang Kai hurriedly rinsed it with cold water and then squeezed a bit of toothpaste onto it, spreading it evenly.

Fang Bai looked at him with a strange expression, saying nothing. Wang Kai endured the pain for a while and finally blurted out, “I…I felt like this thing was strangely familiar, like my own body.

And then I ignored the temperature!”

Fang Bai still had that odd look on his face and said strangely, “You don’t think this is a game with friendly fire immunity or self-immunity, do you?”

Wang Kai was speechless.

“I thought…I thought…I should have known…”

Fang Bai stared for a long time, making Wang Kai’s scalp tingle before he finally looked away. Then he looked at the tin ball, slightly curious.

“But speaking of which, the muscles in your body are elemental material, and this is also elemental material transformed by your elemental power.

Essentially, there’s not much difference.”

“Yeah, that’s why I felt it was so familiar just now.”

Wang Kai cautiously squeezed a trace of elemental power into it and sensed it slightly.

“Sure enough, this elemental metal can also store my elemental power.”

“Does it have any other uses?” Fang Bai asked.

“I don’t know.”

Wang Kai rolled his eyes and said frankly, “I don’t even know what the use of my muscles transformed into elemental material is, let alone this.”

“Alright.”

Fang Bai smacked his lips and tried to channel other types of elemental power into the tin ball. He found that other elements were blocked, but Earth elemental power flowed through it extremely quickly.

Fang Bai sensed it and found that ordinary Earth elemental power couldn’t be stored within it.

It seemed that due to the excessively high conductivity, the Earth elemental power flowed in and out without any difference, making it impossible to retain.

He just didn’t understand why it could store Wang Kai’s Earth elemental power so well.

“Is it because of the Mental Power mixed in?”

Fang Bai’s heart stirred.

“Wang Kai, can you extract the Earth elemental power you infused back out?”

Wang Kai tried for a moment and then shook his head.

“No.”

Fang Bai pondered as the tin ball cooled and hardened. After soaking it in a bucket of water for a while, Fang Bai picked up the tin ball.

The ping-pong ball-sized tin ball was as light as ever, but after slashing it with a knife, Fang Bai discovered that its hardness had undergone a complete transformation.

As hard as steel!

This thought popped into Fang Bai’s mind. It still had the weight of tin, but it possessed the hardness of steel. It was simply incredible.

He tried heating it, but the temperature that could easily melt tin before now had no effect on the elemental metal tin.

It wasn’t until it was placed inside the blast furnace that the elemental metal tin, or elemental tin for short, showed slight signs of melting.

“The melting point is probably not as high as steel, but it’s a world of difference compared to ordinary tin.”

“And this is just tin…”

Fang Bai took a deep breath.

“Wang Kai, quickly recover your elemental power. Let’s try to see if steel can be transformed into elemental material later.”

A hint of anticipation flickered in Fang Bai’s eyes, and he returned the tin ball to Wang Kai after conducting a series of tests.

Elemental material created in this way had a strong personal imprint. Although there seemed to be no drawbacks or other effects for now, Fang Bai was still reluctant to use it.

Let alone using it to build a Mage Tower or other magical structures. He still needed to find a way to create imprint-free elemental material, but…

“Magical structures are so large. It’s simply impossible to build a Mage Tower entirely out of pure elemental material.”

Fang Bai recalled the pure elemental material Mage Tower in the manuscript and shook his head slightly, lost in thought.

Even without elemental material, the Mage Tower still had to be built!