Spore Story

Chapter 150 is an experiment

Gaga didn't have much confidence in making pottery for the first time.

why?Just look at the shapes of the first batch of fired pottery made by Gaga himself: fish, rabbit, square frame, trident (=.=), altar...everything is in a regular shape except for one plate.

Therefore, from these things, it can be seen that Gaga's views on the first batch of products are not normal.

"This is the initial trial, and the main purpose is to prepare for the next large-scale trial, so failure is the right thing to do."

However, this is the idea that Gaga came up with after realizing the need for experimentation. As for the reason why so many strange shapes of pottery were made in the first place, I am afraid that only Gaga himself knows. (=.=)

And why did Gaga say this?For the same reason, Gaga lacked confidence and was making excuses for his behavior.

At this moment, Gaga was staying outside the pottery kiln, looked at the Gaga apes who were digging away the soil on the top of the pottery kiln to expose the capping stone slabs below, and turned their eyes back.

"Originally, using dreams to simulate is a good method, but I thought about it. After all, dreams are not as comprehensive as reality. Anyway, I also want to conduct pottery firing experiments, just for you to observe and learn. In this way, after learning the experimental method At the same time, I can also learn how to make pottery visually, which looks good. Remember not to talk later, just remember what I said and did carefully."

Under the guidance of Lingyun, several apprentice priests followed behind Gaga, and they were curiously looking at the pottery kiln gradually revealing the top.

Originally, I thought that after I made the pottery by myself, I would tell the specially selected personnel how to make it, or directly divide the quack ape team that followed me this time into a pottery team.But in the morning, Lingyun led the apprentice priest team, and out of collective curiosity, they caught up with Gaga who was hurriedly rushing to the pottery burning place, and after thinking about it, Gaga agreed to their request.

"Alright, you guys follow up to learn how to experiment and how to make pottery." Quack, who is a good teacher, turned his head and continued on his way after speaking, while the apprentices followed under the guidance of Lingyun, and the previous scene appeared. .

"Okay, okay! Get out of the way!"

Carefully sweeping away the dirt on the edge of the stone slab, Quack stretched his tentacles through the already cold gap, and then lifted the stone slab little by little.

When the first vent appeared, air rushed in immediately.

"Ah!" Quack was startled. "I seem to have a blowhole?"

He turned his head to look for the air hole he had left, but what Gaga saw was just a hole that had been covered by mud, with a small bone stuck in it, indicating that food had been piled up here.

"..."

"Sinai, you bastards!"

Looking at the Quack ape who was still curiously looking at the interior of the pottery kiln, Quack clearly remembered the other party's habit of sitting down and chatting as soon as they were free, and it seems that it is not unusual to roast some small animals after chatting. thing.

But seeing the curiosity and anticipation of the apprentice priests, Gaga decided to look at his own results first.

Looking at the opening and the interior of the cave that had been open for a long time, Gaga stretched out his feet and jumped into the pottery kiln, "I hope our lovely works of art will succeed."

"..."

"Our lovely artists! You died so badly!"

The small pottery kiln was quiet, only the fire that had been extinguished long ago, the slightly gray and black stone frame, and the crumbled...pottery on the stone frame?
Apparently, the first experiment was a total failure.

Looking at the expressionless Gaga, Lingyun looked at the fragments in Gaga's hand with uncertainty and asked, "Boss, is this pottery?"

Gaga immediately shook his head to wake up, muttered, "The so-called failure is the immediate elder of success", and then began to search all the fragments, and at the same time answered Xiao Lingyun's question, "That's not counting, these are just for experimenting with pottery making, and made It's just a test product. Come, put these on the slate above."

Suspiciously took the fragments that Quack handed up with the tentacles, Lingyun and the surrounding apprentices looked at these fragments with suspicion, at this moment, the voice of Quack came from the pit again: "Be careful, don't break it! , put it gently on that big stone slab, and give you a lecture when I come up."

A pile of debris is useless in the eyes of the surrounding apes.But whether it's for his own face, or to really find out the reason from the fragments, Gaga has to make some feasible explanations for these fragments.

Facing the look of more than a dozen apes with doubts greater than expectations, Gaga also resolutely immersed himself in the debris, looking for the hidden truth.

Fortunately, there is only one truth, and Quack, who was thinking hard, still found the murderer... Ah no, it was a guess about the murderer.

At three poles in the sun, several apes who were chatting idlely around the fire were suddenly startled by a loud rattle.

"What's wrong?" Lingyun led the apprentice team to turn their heads immediately, while the labor (temporary) team led by Lingyun just woke up and looked around.

At this time, the voice of Quack came again, "Come here, let me tell you what is called knowing the small things! Haha."

Ignoring the puzzled expressions of the dozen or so apes, Quack moved the stone slabs that had rearranged the fragments into the sight of the apes.Then he picked out a few fragments, pointed to the fracture of one of the fragments and said: "Look, this is just an ordinary fragment, but look at its fracture, are there many small holes?"

Seeing that more than a dozen apes nodded in confirmation, they looked at the fragments in Quack's hands curiously. One of the apprentices even extended his hand to the fragments on the stone slab, and only looked at Quack pitifully after being stopped by Quack. "Don't move those for now, you can take them after I finish talking."

However, several apprentices, including Lingyun, did not ask any follow-up questions. Gaga, who could not wait for the "why", could only wag her tail depressedly, and continued her speech, "From the many holes, we can draw a guess , that is the clay may not have been compacted, resulting in this air void when fired. And then we move on to…”

At this moment, Gaga took out several fragments of different sizes, showed them to the apes, and compared the fragments on the stone slab below.There are rabbit ears, short sticks, fish tails and other things in it. "From the similar thickness of these fragments of different sizes, we can draw another guess, that is, thickness, and possibly size, all have an impact on the success rate of firing pottery."

Seeing that the doubts in the eyes of the several apprentices after confirmation had faded away, replaced by doubts, thinking and admiration, Quack shook the fragments in his tentacles triumphantly, and one of them accidentally smashed it to the ground.

Click!
The fragments that were thought to be broken and could not be broken again were broken into smaller pieces again.

"..."

The apes were collectively silent and mourned for this fragment.

Looking at the fragments on the ground, Quack, who was a little embarrassed, suddenly had his eyes lit up, and then pointed to the fragments and continued to speak: "Look, what can you draw from the changes in this fragment?"

Several apprentice priests looked at me and I looked at you, and finally collectively turned their eyes to Lingyun who was at a loss.

Lingyun glared at the apprentices fiercely, and nodded in satisfaction until the apprentices trembled and looked away, but Quack's words startled her again.

"Xiao Lingyun, can you tell me?"

"Boss, that, uh... It can be found, the pieces can be broken even more."

Hey Gaha Ga Ga

Seeing the faces of the apes wanting to laugh or not, Quack's expression changed. After touching Lingyun's head, he looked at the apprentices one by one, and said seriously: "This is the difference between you and the official priests. At least the little Lingyun dares to Say it, and it's not too wrong!"

Seeing the skeptical expressions of the apprentices again, Gaga waved the shards in his hand and stared at them, "What does this indicate? Indeed, it shows that 'the shards can be even more shattered'. For things you think are impossible, if you don't go Experiments have shown, who knew it was really impossible?"

"In addition, when this fragment is broken, we can get something. That is, this fragment is very brittle, and there is dust when it is crushed, so it shows that this fragment is very dry. But why is it fragile and dry? It is possible It may be caused by baking for too long but the temperature is not enough, or it may be caused by too many cavities in the clay before, but the specific reason still needs to be obtained through experiments.”

Looking at the apes who were suppressed, Gaga shook his head and took out a book, and used the charcoal left in the cave to write down the previous points on it, then turned to several apprentices, and continued to use simple fragments to draw out one by one. Guesses that may lead to the failure of pottery firing were recorded in the notebook one by one.

The night fell slowly, and the cold air gradually eroded the earth warmed by the day's sunshine. Gaga put away the notebook in his hand, looked around at the apprentice team who were carefully observing the fragments and thoughtfully but couldn't find where they were, and The bewildered Lingyun labor (temporary) team coughed dryly to attract the attention of all the apes.

In fact, this kind of knowledge requires a lot of information... that is, experience support.

If it wasn’t for human memory to let Gaga know that air bubbles and cavities will cause objects to be fragile, Gaga would not be able to think of the tightness of clay from the voids; and if it wasn’t for knowing that baking will evaporate water, Gaga would not be able to conclude that the pieces are dry and brittle , it may be a conjecture caused by too long baking time and insufficient temperature; if you don't know...

All in all, I spent an afternoon talking about it, and all Gaga hopes is that these dozen or so apes can learn... At least realize the important theory of seeing the small and knowing the work, especially the few apprentice priests and auras, because they are the original science of this species researcher.

And it is one of the basic abilities of a scientist to raise conjectures from subtle observations and then draw conclusions through continuous experiments.

But looking at the night that had already fallen, Gaga didn't want to break the dinner time he set, after all, he taught Xiao Lingyun a lesson because of this.

Therefore, Quack could only stop his unfinished explanation, read the few pages he wrote down in the afternoon, and found that all the apes were looking at him, Quack waved his hand.

"Let's stop here today. After you go back, everyone will recall what happened this afternoon. Tomorrow, we will continue to explain how to turn various conjectures into experimental arrangements. Now, let's eat."

At this time, an apprentice hesitated for a while, and stopped Quack, "Boss, these fragments..."

Seeing the eager expression of the other party, Gaga smiled slightly, "I almost forgot, now whoever wants the fragments can take it by himself... Uh, remember to come back for dinner soon."

As soon as the permission was obtained, the apes began to fight for the fragments of teaching tools that had been made all afternoon. Seeing this situation, Quack shook his head jokingly and walked towards the cave.

"It looks like we used to be. Fighting for a useless thing, this is life... no, ape life."

PS: Ga...

(End of this chapter)