Chapter 118 Imitating Earth's Childbirth Process

Li Jiajun's finger hovered over the screen for half a second before decisively swiping past a dull instructional video titled 'Principles of Special Steel Smelting: From Entry to the Grave.'

"Just looking at the old man with thick glasses on the cover, I know this lecture will be a total bore."

He thought to himself, and with a sharp tongue, he spoke it aloud:

"I'm here for inspiration, not to study for a PhD. If I follow the rules, the opportunity will have long passed."

Under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of Netizens, his finger continued to scroll down, finally stopping on a documentary with an explosive cover and the title 'Wrath of Nature: Record of a Super Volcano Eruption.'

"Hey, this is the one!"

Li Jiajun's eyes lit up, and he spoke nonsense to the camera with a straight face: "family, as the saying goes, the Great Way is simple, and all paths lead to the same destination. Smelting steel is just melting rocks and then molding them, right? It's the same principle as a volcanic eruption! We need to learn from this Master Craftsman, Mother Nature!"

After saying that, he clicked on the video without hesitation.

The Netizens in the livestream room instantly exploded.

“????”

"What kind of 'Great Way is simple' is that?! Streamer, are you sure you're not just watching a special effects blockbuster for fun?"

"Uncle Liu: I thought you were starting scientific research, but you're showing me a sister piece to 'Animal World'?"

"It's over, this familiar formula, this familiar scent... I have an ominous feeling that the Streamer is about to start pulling stunts again."

Li Jiajun completely ignored the screen full of question marks and watched with great interest.

On the screen, a massive crater was shaking violently, with billowing smoke blotting out the sun. The narrator said in a deep, magnetic voice:

"Deep within the Earth's crust, magma at temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius endures hundreds of millions of tons of terrifying pressure. This extreme environment causes the molecular structure of matter to undergo miraculous changes..."

Boom!

In the footage, the volcano erupted violently. Crimson magma was ejected thousands of meters into the sky by the immense pressure of the crust, then scattered and cooled into hard obsidian under the influence of gravity and centrifugal force.

Watching the magma flying across the sky, and the creations born from extreme high pressure and rotation, Li Jiajun's eyes gradually lost focus.

He stared blankly at the screen, the erupting volcano seemingly reflected in the depths of his pupils.

A mysterious sensation instantly pierced through the top of his head.

Ding!

[You have watched a super volcanic eruption and gained insight into the secrets of high-pressure smelting and spray cooling deep within the Earth's crust! Combining fluid mechanics and molecular rearrangement theory, you have attained sudden enlightenment of the complete process path for [High-Pressure Smelting Centrifugal Molding High-Efficiency Refining Technology]!]

In the next second, the protagonist felt countless inspirations and knowledge points surge from deep within his mind. Those originally obscure metallurgical terms now felt like innate instincts, clearly and deeply imprinted in his brain.

"I get it! I understand everything now!"

Li Jiajun slapped his thigh and jumped up from his chair, giving Wang Dachui a startle next to him.

"It turns out previous steel furnaces were too gentle! It was like simmering old hen soup!"

He pointed at the discarded electric arc furnace, his eyes flashing with a fanatical light as he muttered to himself: "To smelt good steel, you have to be like a volcano! Pressurize! Rotate! Let the molten steel reorganize under extreme pressure and centrifugal force! The steel beads produced this way will definitely be harder than diamonds!"

...

The Netizens in the livestream room looked at his crazed expression, and each one felt their scalp go numb.

"Here it comes! The classic regular program! Sudden enlightenment from watching a video!"

"Volcano? Pressure? Rotation? Streamer, are you trying to smelt steel or build a bomb?"

"Does it also need to vibrate? People who watch videos often know that Master Kato Taka's videos are the most authoritative on that."

"Even though I don't understand, I am greatly shocked."

Li Jiajun didn't have time to look at the bullet chat. He turned and shouted at the bewildered Wang Defa and Wang Dachui:

"Uncle Wang! Big Hammer! Don't just stand there! Get to work!"

"Strip the outer shell off this furnace for me! I'm going to install a turbocharger... wait, no, an ultra-high-pressure centrifugal device!"

"Also, go to the warehouse and bring over that high-horsepower motor left over from making centrifuges! Even if it spins the thing right off, we're putting it on!"

Wang Defa looked at the rusty but still sturdy old furnace, his mouth twitching in wordless exasperation.

But seeing Li Jiajun's unquestionable gaze, Old Wang could only bite the bullet and lead several Master Craftsmen to begin this project that felt like a complete joke to them, despite being called a 'modification.'

Over the next two hours, the hundreds of thousands of Netizens in the livestream room witnessed a miracle in industrial history—or a disaster.

Under Li Jiajun's frantic direction, that originally honest and simple old-fashioned steel furnace was transformed into a monster.

Thick reinforcing ribs were forcibly welded in rings around the furnace walls, and a massive rotating base was installed at the bottom, connected to a high-power motor that looked ready to go berserk. The whole thing looked like a giant steel spinning top ready to take flight at any moment.

"Perfect!"

Li Jiajun patted the new furnace, which was full of cyberpunk wasteland style, and nodded with satisfaction.

He turned to the camera, switching to his signature voice-over roasting mode, muttering to the air:

"Sigh, this generation of Netizens still lacks imagination. They don't understand that only this design, which mimics Mother Earth's birthing... uh, eruption, can give steel a true soul. Always worrying about the furnace exploding—your vision is too small..."

"As long as I spin fast enough, the explosion can't catch me."

Hearing these words, the Netizens only felt a chill down their spines.

"Don't say another word, Main Streamer, I've already called the police."

"This isn't a steel furnace; this is clearly a centrifuge for a nuclear reactor, right?"

"Fire it up! Fire it up!"

Li Jiajun ignored the fear in the bullet chat and gave a grand wave of his hand.

Various scrap steel materials, and even some leftovers from making the elderly joy vehicles, were dumped into the furnace all at once.

"Start!"

As he pressed the red start button.

Vroom—!!!

A tooth-gritting low-frequency roar suddenly rang out. The modified steel furnace began to rotate slowly, its speed increasing faster and faster,

The sound it produced became sharper and sharper, like a giant beast being awakened and letting out a roar.

At the mouth of the furnace, a strange wisp of eerie blue flame suddenly shot out, and the surrounding air distorted violently due to the high temperature.