Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 3: First experience with super powers
Around 6 o'clock on a summer morning, Wang Jiankun woke up from his bed and a ray of sunlight was already shining through the window to the end of the bed.

Recalling what happened last night, he quickly closed his eyes and began to concentrate. Chieko appeared. Wang Jiankun was sure that he was not dreaming and that he could enter this space at any time.

After saying hello to Chieko, Wang Jiankun quickly exited the consciousness space and went to get some water to wash up.

Because my mother is already waking me up to eat, I have to get up early in the summer and finish my work before the sun is so hot, avoiding the noon period.

At this time, grandpa and father also came back from working in the fields all morning and had breakfast.

Wang Jiankun greeted his family and started to eat. In the morning, he had rice porridge, pickled peppers and pickled beans as side dishes, and three rice dumplings, which were left over from the Dragon Boat Festival some time ago. The two of them shared one.

Mother and grandmother didn’t eat it, so they left it for father and grandfather.

Because today the production team only used a part of the people to work to clean the canal. There was a heavy rain some time ago, and there were a lot of weeds and tree roots left in the canal. If they are not cleaned up, there will not be enough water for the rice fields in a while.

Since it wasn't heavy physical work, I didn't make dry rice for breakfast.

The younger sister was still as greedy as ever and felt that the share given to her by her brother Wang Jiankun was too little, so her father and grandfather each gave her one third.

After breakfast, Grandpa asked Wang Jiankun: "Kun, do you want to go cut thatch today? Cutting one bundle counts as one centimeter. You should be able to cut 5 centimeters in one morning."

Wang Jiankun knew that his grandfather was preparing to let him earn some pocket money, so he replied, "Go ahead. I know where there is a lot of thatch grass. I'm sure I can cut five bundles."

Grandpa also told him to be careful and to remember to beat the grass with a stick before cutting it, as there are a lot of snakes in this season.

After Wang Jiankun agreed, he went to his grandmother to get a sickle. Scythes are still very expensive now, so they are kept in a special place.

Wang Jiankun had to ask the adults before using a sickle, and his sister would not let him touch it. One reason was that he was afraid that the sister would hurt herself, and the other was that he was afraid that the sickle would be lost. There were only two sickles in the family.

If the team does not borrow a sickle when going on a mission, one centimeter will be deducted. This shows how low the current productivity is.

After Wang Jiankun got the sickle, he looked at the blade and found it was not very sharp because his grandfather was reluctant to sharpen it hard.

So Wang Jiankun took a whetstone to the stream and prepared to sharpen it a little so that he could cut the thatch faster.

I came to the stream, put down the whetstone and was about to sharpen it when I remembered that there were sophistry and solar system fragments from other dimensions in my consciousness space, so I wondered if I could bring the items from this world in as well.

So Wang Jiankun took the sickle, closed his eyes and concentrated his mind, imagining the appearance of a sickle in his mind. Suddenly, an object in the shape of a sickle appeared in front of him, but it did not look like a sickle.

If you look closely, you will see that this object is made up of small balls. There are several types of these balls, with roughly four types at the front end. One type of ball is the most numerous and occupies the main structure.

The second type is almost 2% of the first type of spheres, and the other two types are extremely small, but the gaps around these two types of spheres seem to be particularly large.

There are three main types of cylindrical balls in the posterior section, with a ratio of about 3:6:10. There are also more than a dozen other small balls, but they are very small.

Wang Jiankun had a vague feeling that these small balls were the constituent elements of the sickle in his hand, atoms one by one, because the proportion of carbon in ordinary carbon steel is about 2%, and wood is mainly lignin, and the ratio of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen is also 6:10:5.

He opened his eyes and looked at the sickle in his hand, but there was no change.

When Wang Jiankun saw this, he couldn't help but wonder, did I actually put the sickle into the space?
I thought about it and realized there was no solution at the moment, and it was not convenient to ask someone to help me, so I decided to put this issue aside for now.

Just as he was about to start grinding, he stopped after thinking for a while, because he thought that since atoms can be observed in space, can I control these atoms?

Just do it when you think of it, so you close your eyes again and enter the consciousness space to imagine the appearance of the sickle.

The shape of the sickle appeared again. I looked carefully and used my consciousness to turn the object, but there seemed to be no unusual movement in my hand.

Since the purpose is to sharpen the knife, it is to make the blade sharper.

Focus your awareness on the sickle blade and begin moving the balls.

First, the blade at the sickle head is used to adjust the iron and carbon elements in proportion. The carbon element accounts for about 2.1% at the blade edge and gradually decreases to about 0.5% at the root of the blade. The other two elements should be impurities sulfur and phosphorus. They are concentrated together and moved to the surface of the blade and then scraped off.

The shape of the blade has also been adjusted to a triangular shape, and the surface has been adjusted to be very smooth.

After the move was completed, Wang Jiankun opened his eyes and found that the head of the sickle in his hand had indeed changed. He raised it in front of his eyes and saw that there was a small black spot on the mirror-smooth blade. It must be the phosphorus and sulfur impurities that had been moved out.

He pulled out a hair, placed it on the edge of the blade, and blew hard, and the hair broke into two pieces. Wang Jiankun was surprised and said, "Is this how you break hair by blowing it away? This ability is really amazing."

So he closed his eyes and began to adjust the middle part of the sickle's blade again, starting from the part near the sickle head towards the handle. The more he moved it, the harder it became. He felt like he was running out of energy, so he only had one-fourth of the blade near the handle left to adjust.

Wang Jiankun roughly calculated the volume of the adjusted parts, which added up to about 1 cubic centimeter.

It seems that the current ability to mobilize elements is about 1 cubic centimeter. I wonder if I can try it again later.

Just do it this way for now and scrape off the two impurities on the surface.

So I picked up the sickle and gently scraped the whetstone twice, and the small black spot disappeared because the contact area had been adjusted to the minimum during the adjustment.

I looked at the sun and saw that it had risen quite high. It was almost 8 o'clock. I had to hurry and cut the thatch. It would be best if I could finish cutting 10 bundles before 5:, otherwise it would get hotter as time went on.

Wang Jiankun took the whetstone home and also took a stick. He could use it to scare away snakes when cutting the thatch, and could also use it to pick up the thatch.

On the way from the village entrance to the area with a lot of thatch in the back mountain, Wang Jiankun tried the sickle. It was really sharp, and it could cut small trees as thick as an arm and bamboos that were usually difficult to cut with one stroke.

When I met people from the production team on the road, they all said that the sickle was very sharp and asked me how I sharpened it because it looked shiny from a distance.

Wang Jiankun laughed and said that he learned it from his grandfather, which was to work hard and not be afraid of wearing out the iron.

When passersby heard what he said, they also thought it made sense.

This also reminded Wang Jiankun that in the future, when using his ability to modify items, he should try to make them as close to the existing level as possible, otherwise it would be difficult to explain, and something might be exposed over time.

When they arrived at the destination, Wang Jiankun hit the thatch with a stick to scare away any snakes that might be hiding inside.

Then he took the sickle and started cutting at a very fast speed.

Wherever the blade passed, all the thatch was cut off and fell down, and more energy was spent on gathering than on cutting.

In less than an hour, five bundles of thatch were harvested and tied.

Wang Jiankun had to hurry and deliver the straw to the cowshed of the production team and give it to the breeder while it was still not too hot. Otherwise, if it was exposed to the sun for too long, it would wilt and lose centimeters and would not be able to grow.

After delivering the thatch, Wang Jiankun did not return the sickle to his grandmother. He wanted to try again the ability to control the moving elements that he discovered in the morning.

So he took his sickle and stick and went to the large bluestone beside the spring.

He closed his eyes and concentrated his mind, then found Chieko first and told her about the ability he had acquired, asking her to help analyze how to best use this ability so as to improve productivity without being exposed.

Chieko's analysis result is: this ability has three major applications, but the prerequisite is to understand the scope of the ability and how long it lasts.

The first is to improve or manufacture tools and power machinery.

The second is material research and development, manufacturing various types of materials.

The third is to extract rare elements and accumulate resources to lay the foundation for the first two. So Wang Jiankun began to test the scope of this ability.

Let’s try the large bluestone under us first.

Wang Jiankun closed his eyes, put one hand on the big bluestone, concentrated his mind, and a partial outline of the big bluestone appeared in his mind. The length and width were about 1 meter, and the height was the outline of the big bluestone in contact with the ground below, less than one meter.

Wang Jiankun thought that since the length and width were both 1 meter, the height should also be 1 meter. So he concentrated his attention and imagined the earth in contact with the ground. Sure enough, the outline of the pattern in the space formed an object with a length, width and height of 1 meter. Upon closer inspection, it was composed of small balls.

Then Wang Jiankun thought about whether the effective range could be expanded. After some attempts, he found that the effective range was one meter in length, width and height, and it could only be reduced, not expanded.

Then I tried to move some of the elements, but found that it didn't work after just moving them a little bit.

It seems that the current ability range is a 1 cubic meter cube, and the ability to move elements is a maximum of 1 cubic centimeter. Moreover, after use, the control ability can be slowly restored over time, but I don’t know how long it will take to fully recover.

This can be observed and recorded slowly during subsequent use.

Chieko also analyzed the reason for the emergence of this ability, which is that the encapsulation force field of the fragments caused changes in Wang Jiankun's world of consciousness, which in turn could affect the real world.

It is like observing the 12-dimensional earth world from the 4-dimensional world.

Then this kind of observation must be all-round and without blind spots.

As for the fact that he can only control so few elements at present, it must be related to Wang Jiankun’s current lack of understanding of the microscopic world and his mental strength.

Perhaps with continued use, mental power will be exercised and the range of control and observation will increase.

If Wang Jiankun has sufficient understanding of structures smaller than atoms, he may be able to decompose the microscopic particles that control the inside of atoms, such as protons, neutrons, electrons, and even more subtle structures.

This requires Wang Jiankun to continue learning and improve his cognition.

Wang Jiankun approved of Zhizi's analysis and continued the test, projecting the entire large bluestone into the consciousness space.

Because the projection can be saved and spliced, the control element can only be the part that is in contact.

Just like making a map, Wang Jiankun projected the mountains, rocks and plants near the spring into his consciousness space.

Using the statistical analysis ability of Zhizi, Wang Jiankun compared the periodic table of chemical elements and learned the projections of more than 30 elements in space.

Such as oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, hydrogen, copper, phosphorus, sulfur, carbon, nitrogen, etc.

Wang Jiankun has a plan, which is to collect the elements in the periodic table one by one. What he collects using this ability must be pure elements.

After collecting all the materials, you can then research them. Although you only have junior high school knowledge, you can do it step by step.

The sun is almost at the middle of the sky, which means it is almost noon and it is time to go back for lunch.

Wang Jiankun doesn't have a watch now, and can only tell the time by looking at the sun. The reality is that the entire production team only has a few clocks, and the only watch the team leader has is a very old one, which he often has to adjust.

On the way back, Wang Jiankun wondered if he could use his ability to make a watch, and found that it was feasible.

The sample can be used as a reference by looking at the one my grandfather had. As long as we borrow it, project it into space and preserve it, we can study the structure inside and the materials needed for manufacturing.

You can collect elements from the surrounding environment, and then arrange and combine the elements as required according to the template, and a watch is successfully made.

But the source is still difficult to explain. It is better to wait until I go to the county town to attend high school before making one. I can make a few more and sell them to make a lot of money. Watches are still quite expensive now. I heard that the supply and marketing cooperative in the commune sells them, but you need a watch ticket, and they are 120 yuan each.

When Wang Jiankun thought of this, he wished he could go to the county town right away, but there were still more than 50 days before school started, and distant water could not quench immediate thirst.

When I got home, as usual, grandma and mom were cooking while my sister was playing in the kitchen.

Wang Jiankun returned the sickle to his grandmother and mentioned that he had sharpened the sickle using scientific methods so it would be very sharp.

Grandma smiled and said, "Is there a scientific way to sharpen a sickle? Isn't it just grinding it hard with a whetstone?"

Wang Jiankun said: "I heard about it from others, and I tried it myself, and it is quite sharp."

Grandma looked at the blade and found it was indeed shiny. She used it to chop two pieces of firewood and was a little bit unbelievable. The firewood that usually took her a lot of effort to chop through could now be cut with just one stroke.

Grandma picked it up again and looked at it, and found that there was a small section near the handle that was not as bright.

Wang Jiankun said at the right time: "Grandma, this scientific method of sharpening a knife takes a lot of effort and time. I ran out of energy after sharpening it, so there is still a little bit left to sharpen."

After hearing this, grandma said it was okay and that the sickle could be kept at home for future use and that you can sharpen it when it’s not sharp enough and there was no need to reveal it to anyone for now.

Wang Jiankun was relieved after hearing this, because he was afraid that others would know and he couldn't explain it. On the way back, he wanted to use his ability to make the blade less sharp, just like his grandfather usually sharpened it, but it seemed that the ability had not yet passed the cooling time, so he could only mobilize a little bit of elements, so he didn't change it back.

The sickle incident was over, Wang Jiankun put his worries aside and had a quarrel with his sister.

My sister couldn't help teasing me, and she became so anxious that she was about to cry. I quickly said that I would take him to buy her something delicious, and then she stopped crying and laughed.

At this time, grandpa and father also returned home. The lunch was not as sumptuous as last night. There were stir-fried sweet potato stalks, stir-fried pumpkin, stir-fried beans, loofah soup, and sour peppers, all of which were vegetarian dishes.

But the whole family was very happy eating it, because it was much better than the previous two years. These vegetables were all grown in their own private plots and did not need to be handed over to the collective for redistribution.

The collective now mainly grows rice in rice fields and forests. I heard that the neighboring Anhui Province has distributed all the fields and forests to individuals. Food production has increased significantly, and many people have made a lot of money by doing side jobs.

However, Jiangnan Province has not started yet. It has only opened up private plots, and each family has been allocated about half an acre of mountain and hilly land.

At the dinner table, my grandfather and father talked about the production team planning to build a brick kiln. Team members could buy bricks and tiles with their cents to build houses. Other production teams could also come to buy them, using either grain or money.

Now is the slack season for farmers, so we will try to complete the construction within a month and produce the first batch of bricks and tiles before the rice is harvested.

After hearing this, Wang Jiankun wanted to contribute to the construction of the brick kiln. Perhaps with Zhizi's help, the efficiency could be greatly improved.

So Wang Jiankun asked, "Grandpa, do you know how to build a brick kiln?"

Grandpa said, "I don't know now. I plan to go to Fengshan Commune this afternoon to see how other people's brick kilns are built. I will come back and build one based on that. It doesn't have to be too big. It's mainly to meet the brick needs of my own production team to build houses. I will sell it to other production teams when I have a surplus."

Wang Jiankun heard this and said, "Grandpa, I want to go with you to see, maybe I can draw a good design, or even make it better than others."

The grandfather knew that his grandson was smart since he was young, so he agreed to his request to go with him to take a look. However, he warned him that he could go with him but had to be obedient when he got to the place, as he was afraid that he would offend others at such a young age. Especially, he warned him not to let anyone hear what he had just said about changing his ways to be better than others.

Wang Jiankun promised: "Grandpa, when we get there, I promise not to say a word and just be there with my eyes and ears."

Grandpa said, "That's good. Eat quickly, take a break and then set off."

So the family stopped talking and focused on eating.

After eating, Wang Jiankun hurried back to his room to rest.

(End of this chapter)