8. Annals of History

For the next few days, Adam was completely immersed in experiments. He became like a child who got a new toy. Sometimes, without noticing it, he giggled like an idiot and a satisfied smile played on his face. First thing. Adam divided the materials into three groups.

Dangerous, Safe, Unknown.

Dangerous were explosives, various broken devices, his new lightsaber and many other things that he could not understand.

The safe one had mostly components. Gears, metal sheets, old cases from something, books and declarations.

Adam took two things to the unknown. It was the crystals he found and the key. He didn't know exactly where they could be used, so he shelved them.

He carefully moved things from the warehouse to the surface, except for explosives, the last demonstration was enough for him. It took him almost a week to transfer all the components, there was too much of everything.

Then he built a field laboratory. He had to cut down a couple of trees, hunt animals for skins and also build all this, which took him only one day. Then he needed chemical equipment. He was fine with that.

In the warehouse he found beakers, flasks, an alembic, a mortar and pestle, a retort and much more. This allowed us to start working right now.

"And I won't even wonder if the ancient amphibians knew about chemistry and about chemical elements. I'll just take it as a position. "

The next thing he needed was acid. It was a little more difficult to get it. Adam had to run day and night through the forest, looking for huge ants. On earth, formic acid was weak in the form of the size of ants, but here everything was different.

The ants here grew up the size of a small car, and also followed a different path of evolution. So on Amphibians, formic acid was very powerful, so much so that it corroded Adam's clothes until he killed them.

He quickly took the corpse of one ant and began to run away while he was being chased by a whole hive. He even had to bathe in the river to knock off their pheromones and safely return to base. There he calmly skinned the ant and pulled out a bag of acid from under the shell.

"With this, I can start experimenting. Although I prefer nitric acid, or at least hydrochloric acid, but I will use formic acid for the first time. It will be an interesting experience. "

The first thing Adam was interested in was finding out the strength limits of this new material. He decided to start with explosion resistance. He scattered a small trail of gunpowder from the door to the barricade he had built and set it on fire with a lightsaber.

Where did Adam get the gunpowder from ? Of course I did it myself. The recipe is elementary, sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter.

Grind, mix, add water and craft the cake and warm it at a temperature of more than 100 degrees. We break it into small grains and ta-da, the Smoky powder is ready! The very first explosive in the entire history of mankind !

Adam had to fork out a lot buying ingredients, they cost him a lot. For some time he had to eat stale bread for the sake of creating a small amount of gunpowder.

The gunpowder quickly ignited and ran to the main pile.

[ BAM ! ]

The reaction did not take long to wait. Adam sat in the shelter for a couple more seconds and only then looked out.

There wasn't even a scratch on the flat door leading to the command center. The only thing left after the explosion is burnt grass, dirt lying everywhere and soot from gunpowder on the door.

"Okay, so the gunpowder didn't work. But what if we use more modern gunpowder ? I just don't think I can get potassium nitrate in this world. All right, let's continue. "

Farther away, he checked his sword. He turned it on and tried to cut through the metal, but nothing worked. The metal didn't even heat up, the sword strike was like a mosquito bite for him.

Acid was the next test. Adam carefully put it in a test tube and grabbing it with sticks began to slowly pour it on the door. Drop by drop, the acid spilled onto the ground, burning it, but not harming the door. The only change was a slight redness in the apply acid area.

" Interesting " – Adam took off the handkerchief from his face and looked closely at the redness

"The acid has its effect, but I don't think it will help. I do not know how many layers are in this door. If I keep pouring acid on her, I'm afraid I'll have to exterminate all the ants in the area. The method is working, but long. " - Adam walked away from the door and wrote down the results in a notebook

"Apparently I still have to synthesize a new substance. I don't want to use GHZ, it's too dangerous. Even in small doses, it is very dangerous. To find the right dosage will take days of experiments, as well as a lot of substance. And I don't have enough of both. I urgently need to get to work."

Adam had no idea what to do at all. He needed to blow up the door qualitatively without damaging the contents. The only thing that came to his mind was to make a new substance based on gunpowder and GHZ.But he didn't have enough gunpowder and he didn't want to waste such a precious resource.

"But I still have some sulfur and saltpeter left. I think I can think of something. " – Adam put protective glasses on his face and smiled

"I am walking on an unpaved path, like the great minds of the past. Mendileyev, Tesla, Archimedes, Darwin. I will have to wade through the wild jungle of the unknown. " – Adam stirred the substances in test tubes

"Well, I wish myself good luck. And yes, a reminder. Stop talking to yourself. It looks scary from the outside. "

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" I take all my words back ! I don 't want to go through the jungle ! Give me a cemented road ! "

Adam took hold of his hair out of desperation and shouted into the sky. There were huge bags under his eyes, but they themselves were red from lack of sleep. One could also notice that one eye was constantly twitching. A small stubble began to grow on his face until his hair reached his neck.

" I 've been working with this explosive for more than a month ! But everything ends in failure ! " – Adam was smoking another formula and threw it into the resulting pile of his other unsuccessful ideas

" I no longer have the strength or desire to do anything! I spent all the gunpowder , half GHZ, saltpeter and all I have left is a little sulfur ! " - Adam looked at the small sulfur crystal in his hand

" I'm tired, I want to sleep, eat, and I haven't washed for almost a week! I'm going to do one last experiment, after which I'm going on vacation! Even geniuses need to rest ! "

Adam tried everything. He froze, dried, burned, distilled, mixed, but nothing came out! Every time a product came out that did not fit the requirements. And once he actually got something like a slime, from those video games.

He called him Jerry. Jerry became his portable trash can. Everything inside Jerry's body disintegrated and disappeared. He absorbed everything organic and inorganic, the only thing he didn't absorb was this damn metal!

"Okay Jerry, last chance. If I fail, I'll go to the nearest town or village and spend all my copper coins. Let's get started. Adam picked him up and put him on his shoulder

Jerry was not a relatively living being. He could move, make strange sounds like purring, but he had no intelligence. Literally, Jerry couldn't think or be aware of things around him. He acted purely on emotion, reminds him of one of his old acquaintances. Oh , and how this blonde infuriated him ! It 's a good thing he 'll never see her again !

" Okay, let's start the experiment assistant Jerry! Let 's start with the cube and finish everything with distillation ! Hahahahahahaha! " - Adam laughed a crazy laugh

Adam started mixing the ingredients. During this month, he has already got the hang of what to mix and in what proportion. After all, his first attempts were to put it mildly....catastrophic. He had to rebuild the laboratory three times before he found a stable basis for the formula.

"Overtake all this in a cube and then let it brew. "

Adam watched as drop by drop of liquid accumulated in the beaker. Half an hour later, the final stage began.

"Come on, please. Don't explode ...... " – Adam carefully using a pipette gradually injected GHZ into the resulting solution

And then the question arises, how does he know what, where, when and how much to add? The answer is because he studied chemistry. He spent hours calculating and experimenting until he came to something stable and began to build on it.

When the last drop fell into the solution, Adam quickly covered his face with his hands and fell to the floor, fearing an explosion. A minute, two, three, nothing exploded. He opened his eyes and slowly got up from the floor. He saw tears begin to accumulate in his eyes.

The colorless liquid changed its color to a bright red, like a ripe tomato. Adam gently lifted the liquid at eye level and smiled triumphantly.

"I did it.....I did it! " – Adam put the beaker on the table and fell to the floor from fatigue

He raised his hands up and clenched them into a fist !

" I DID IT ! " - tears rolled down his face as he wiped them away

(I have a stable explosive that reacts upon contact. It is also much stronger than gunpowder, but weaker than GHZ. )

Adam abruptly stood up and looked at his sworn enemy, the locked door. His lips curled into a villainous grin as he grabbed the beaker and headed for the door.

"I've waited too long, it's time to stop your tyranny! " – he stood in front of her holding the liquid

"Today, Daddy will find out all your secrets. " – his eyes slowly closed as his body bent to the ground

Adam collapsed where he was standing. Adam's body landed on the soft grass, giving him a sense of calm. As soon as his body came into contact with the ground, there was a very strong snoring. The snoring was so loud that it woke up the forest dwellers. Adam didn't care about anything else, he would finish what he was working on.

Even in an unconscious state, Adam held the beaker tightly. The liquid swayed slightly from his snoring, spilling small droplets on the door. As soon as a couple of drops fell on the metal, there was a mini explosion, as if someone had blown up a firecracker.

A small smoke rose, which disappeared and showed the incredible. From one small drop, the metal began to melt and form a hole. He was crouching and darkening, turning into useless garbage. Gradually, the hole began to increase and stopped only when it was possible to put a fist through it.

Adam created a substance more powerful than gunpowder, but not as explosive as GHZ. He created a substance that destroys the structure of the material from the inside! They change it at the cellular level, destroying its molecules.

Adam didn't know about it yet. He was lying on the grass with a satisfied smile, sometimes giggling in his sleep like a baby.

And while Adam was arriving in the realm of pleasure, a figure appeared in the distance. She would be wearing a cloak that merges with the colors of the night. Her face was not visible, even so her eyes were visible. Her bright scarlet eyes with a vertical pupil looked at Adam.

On the shoulder of the figure sat a strange creature resembling a parrot, but with the eyes of a fly and without feathers, except on the wings.

After watching Adam for a while, the figure tapped his staff on the ground, then disappeared. Who was it? Friend or foe ? Is this a useful acquaintance ? How should I know?! We need to wait until Adam wakes up and then, then we will know what will happen next.