After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 680

Chapter 680: Unexpected Finds
Anyway, after summarizing their findings, Althea finally excused herself, to the relief of her husband. As they exited though, Althea started mumbling about what to do in her lab.

This made Garan frown (or pout, to be more accurate) and look at her with furrowed eyebrows. She blinked in puzzlement. “What is it?”

With a deep frown gracing his handsome face, he spoke. “You promised date night.”

She giggled, giving him a soft peck. She was just teasing him. Of course, she didn’t forget. How could she? He repeatedly reminded her this from this morning, afraid she would.

She playfully avoided him when he dived back down to claim her lips. She smiled and placed a dainty finger over his lips.

“Let’s check the other laboratories as well,” she told him. “It won’t take too long, promise.”

Garan looked at her and sighed, letting her be. Of course, this earned him another peck which wiped away the bit of bitterness.

They went to the adjacent laboratories, some studying the other mined materials, and some studying the other uses of lime.

The amount of zinc and copper was actually a lot more than anticipated. In Terran, while they could be found together with limestone, it was typically in a small amount compared to limestone itself. It was why, while fortunate, they had to do a lot of checking.

After all, any inconsistencies with Terran were a sign they were not exactly the same in composition.

However, when she used Tori to check, there were minimal differences!

Anyway, when they went to the labs, most of the tests had already been completed so Althea only asked for the summaries.

The copper was tested for its electrical conductivity and the like, while Zinc was taken under a bit of mechanical tests.

From here, they found the performances of these minerals and metals were even superior to that of Terran! If the theory was correct, then they could make twice or thrice the length of effective copper wire with the same amount of raw materials!

For Zinc, the main use would be either galvanization or battery production. If it was really a better product, then they could make even more powerful batteries and the like!

And finally, of course, they also studied other uses for limestone—which was a lot.

Speaking of, lime was also used as flux to clear impurities in steel, so their new resources would also assist them in their quest to mass produce steel.

What’s more? Limestone… was another material used for glass! Now lime and soda ash were done, all they needed was silica.

They had a riverbed, but it was freshwater and the silica content wasn’t enough. However, they could still find them… somewhere… as long as they focused on looking for them.

Besides, didn’t they have hired-aborigines specializing in finding materials?

Finding concentrated silica in a river should be easier than finding limestone mines!

With that, she sent Tronie as well as another member of the Research Lab to go look in sandbanks or riverbed sediments where the materials were most likely to appear. They would also have dedicated guards to protect them, of course.

She felt particularly excited to get those. Once they had glass, the laboratory equipment would soon be complete, increasing productivity and accuracy at a straight line.

They would also have transparent windows and highly-controlled greenhouses, which would allow them to grow even more sensitive flora.

There was also plenty of war equipment that’d need it like scopes. They were planning on creating scopes that could see many many kilometers away, especially a big one that’ll be set in the towers of Alterra.

Finally, another use of lime was in papermaking. With this, they could finally produce more and not just available to certain groups! Her book-filled library and bookshops were finally in reach!

Taking over Fargo was really one of the best decisions she had made!

Of course, the access to new materials just added to the long line of research items the Research Center had to study.

The Research Center definitely never lacked anything to do. Rather, the queue of things to study—whether it was an order from the elders or a public request—seemed to be hundreds in number already.

Fortunately, they enjoyed what they were doing—especially falling in love when they saw their inventions being used by their brethren—and their remuneration was also very generous.

The shares for popular inventions, more or less, could set them up for life.

In fact, quite a few had gotten quite rich already. Not counting Eugene, there was Winona who had gotten a bit of wealth from her rubber (Althea also had the share as the person who found it, of course). There was also Shenti, the mastermind behind the mechanical Printing Press.

However, none of them retired and just did what they loved for the territory they called home.

“Ah, Winona’s office is two doors away,” she said, holding her husband’s arm. “Let’s check on Winona before we go. We’ll just greet her and go.”

Garan nodded, though internally hoping the two women wouldn’t chatter for hours like they usually did.

Althea, used to just barging in (Winona told her she didn’t have to knock), really did so. Usually, Winona would be buried in paperworks on her desks. She was really professional, and all her childishness was reserved outside the Research Center. That was the image she was expecting to see.

What they didn’t expect to stumble upon was Winona being in an inappropriate position with Ansel.

It wasn’t like ‘they just fell into each other by accident the exact same time they opened the door’ kind of thing.

They were outright making out…

They were currently on the sofa, with Ansel over Winona, passionately lapping her lips. The curvacious Winona wrapped her arms around the redhead’s neck very tightly, as if holding on to him for oxygen.

It took them a few long seconds before they realized they had an audience and they stopped trying to eat each other’s faces. They froze, simultaneously looking towards the door.

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