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Chapter 1502 Chapter 136. Annan was shocked

"The prisoner, Martin, was accused by his neighbors of trying to burn his family, including his father, mother, wife, and son..."

Because the matter was of great importance, Ying Ge put aside the Silver Dragon attack case and devoted some of his attention to interrogating Martin.

Aunt Susan and Annan are as close as family, and if this scandal gets out it will shake Liberty City.

But just as Annan couldn't understand, Yingge couldn't understand either: "Mr. Martin, do you hate your family so much?"

On the other side, Aunt Susan was also crying.

"I just didn't beat him for five days, and he dared to burn the house... Little Annan, it would be great if Martin could be as worry-free as you."

Aunt Susan wanted to give Martin more maternal love because of the kidnapping incident five days ago - and now that he was married and had children, she couldn't beat him like before.

As a result, such a big mess happened.

Annan smiled shyly, "Aunt Susan, don't worry, maybe Martin was just careless. When you go back, don't rush to beat him with a broom as thick as a bowl or the wood that Uncle Huolin just chopped... I don't support domestic violence, whether it's against spouses or children, like hanging them on a clothesline, taking off your belt and dipping it in salt to beat Martin... I say again, I don't support domestic violence."

It's not Annan's fault for fanning the flames. In the past, Martin would at most fight others with a shit-stained wooden sword, dig a trap on the road that others must pass through and shit in it, mainly to pollute their minds. But this time it was really too much. If Lilith hadn't arrived quickly... Martin's son would have been choked by the smoke several times.

Aunt Susan took Annan's hand and said, "Little Annan, Martin has grown up and is becoming less and less obedient to his family. Now you are the only one who can control him. You must change his temper."

"Don't worry, Aunt Susan. Martin is my half cousin. I will criticize him well."

Annan signaled Aunt Susan to be at ease and went to the next room.

"I understand!"

As soon as he walked in, Martin exclaimed out of nowhere.

Yingge glanced at Annan who came in and asked, "What do you understand?"

Martin's eyes, which never looked at the same place, now focused correctly: "What is heavier than air is not smoke, but hot air!"

"What hot air..."

"Water is heavier than apples, so apples float on water. Apples are heavier than air, so apples sink into the air. Hot air is lighter than cool air, so hot air floats on air!"

"No one told me that Martin was doing research..."

Annan looked puzzled, and so was Yingge: "We just found out about this too..."

"Does this have anything to do with you lighting the house on fire?"

"I'm not setting the house on fire, cousin, I'm studying why air rises when it gets hot!"

"You mean the hot air balloon principle?"

"Hot air...ball?"

Martin's eyes flashed with wisdom and he suddenly rushed out.

Annan blinked and asked Yingge: "What should we do next?"

"Your cousin didn't do it on purpose, and he didn't cause any damage. Is it enough to just criticize him?"

"Okay, that's it."

Annan originally wanted to lock Martin up for a few days to teach him a lesson, but he was a little curious about what Martin had come up with...

Thinking of this, Luo Xi pushed the door and walked in. The confusion on his face was exactly the same as Annan and Yingge.

"Lord Annan, what happened?"

"Nothing, where is Martin going?"

"He shouted 'fire, fire, fire' and rushed out without looking back, as if he had made up his mind..."

"Follow me."

Having his men send Aunt Susan and Martin's frightened wife and children home, Annan and Rossi followed Lilith, who was pointing the way, and soon found Martin in an open space in the park.

Seven or eight children ran over crying, "Wa ...

"Luo Xi." Annan pursed his lips.

"Lord Annan!" Luo Xi straightened his body.

"You stay here. When the children bring Cathy over, I'll take them to buy a new ball."

"Uh... yes."

Seeing Annan chasing Martin, Luo Xi felt itchy and called his team leader.

"Lord Luoxi!" The captain puffed out his chest.

"You stay here. When the children bring Cathy over, I'll take them to buy a new ball. I'll go protect Lord Annan!"

……

Annan chased Martin all the way back to Aunt Susan's house and watched him dive into the kitchen, cut the children's precious ball with a kitchen knife, put half of it on the stove, and let go -

puff.

The ball fell straight into the stove, emitting black smoke.

Martin scratched his head, thinking that it was because of the short time, so he took the other half of the ball to the stove and held it for more than ten seconds before letting go.

puff.

Another column of black smoke rose.

Martin stayed there, muttering to himself, "Why not?"

"Two reasons, the ball is too heavy and the hot air has cooled down." Seeing this, Annan understood what Martin was doing and walked into the kitchen.

He was somewhat surprised, but more of a believer - who could have imagined that Martin would think about such things.

"What do you mean?"

Annan gave him an example: he took out a piece of papyrus and placed it on the stove. As he let go, the weightless papyrus suddenly flew up and floated out of the range of the stove before slowly falling down.

He took out another piece of parchment, and as he let go, the parchment fell directly into the stove, at most slightly slower than the ball.

"Papyrus is lighter than parchment and leather balls, so it can be lifted by the hot air."

Martin actually thought along the lines of Annan's words: "Can I use something lighter than air to float?"

"It doesn't have to be that extreme. Your idea is right, my cousin. Use the 'bowl' of the ball to enclose more hot air. But compared to the weight of the ball, that little bit of hot air is negligible."

"What you need to do is to keep the hot air flowing and reduce the weight of the material that wraps the hot air. If these two conditions are met, you can make the ball float."

By the way, are hot air balloons made of canvas or something else?

The Fastpants should be able to do the job, but the fuel to create the hot air is a big problem.

It's not impossible to make an airship with existing materials and technology, but the benefits are too low, at least not as cost-effective as railways.

But as long as the magic of the artifact is added, all problems will be solved...

How hard is it to burn a magic rune that creates an updraft?
Although its cargo capacity and speed are not as good as those of a train, it is cheap!
Fast cloth is worthless, magic runes can be reused, and magic power is everywhere. If you round it up, it's a perpetual motion machine!

Annan was reluctant to develop technology before because he had no one under him. But now that it has come to this, how about giving Michael a little more hardship?

Annan came up with a bold idea after accidentally catching a glimpse of the enthusiastic Martin.

Or... let Martin try?

The only question is, is it too much of a joke to have Martin as an alchemist? He would lower the average IQ of alchemists in Liberty City by 11.4 percent.

(End of this chapter)