OBS Chapter 2141: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
Chapter 2141: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
Chapter 2141: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
It feels good to wear a vest, but it's embarrassing to take it off.
But right now, Kai couldn't care less.
The Ancient One must be protected first to allow him to complete the spell.
The Lion King is here!
The golden armor is exceptionally gorgeous. The helmet is in the shape of a lion's head, but it is different from modern aesthetics. This lion is more primitive and not so realistic, but it looks domineering and majestic. At the same time, the lower body is a standard Chinese skirt armor, and above the helmet is a floating crown. Behind the lion king is a pair of wings of light feathers, which are exceptionally dazzling.
This form is cool and stylish, but the only thing that makes Kai a little unhappy is that it is too shiny... Do you understand? These ancient gods like golden and shiny colors. They wish they could paint everything they see in front of them golden, and it must be shiny!
This is the traditional color of the Egyptian gods. They like gold... In fact, there is no god who doesn't like gold. This is true for the Egyptian pantheon, the Olympian pantheon, Asgard, the primitive pantheons, and even the later man-made religions.
For example, Christianity and Buddhism all like gold, especially Buddhism, whose favorite thing to do is to cast golden bodies!
Among all the metals on earth, gold is undoubtedly the most popular among humans. In fact, humans have a long history of loving gold. According to current archaeological data, all known ancient civilizations on earth regard gold as a precious thing. Why do all ancient civilizations unanimously recognize gold? There are two main reasons. One is that gold has unique chemical and physical properties, and the other is that humans can find very little gold on earth. The chemical properties of gold are very stable. In the natural environment on earth, gold almost exists in a single state, which enables any ancient civilization to obtain gold directly in nature. Because gold has strong corrosion resistance and oxidation resistance, people will soon notice that this metal is worth having because it will not rust, deteriorate, or be eaten by insects. From a physical property point of view, gold will present a very beautiful and easily recognizable golden color in its natural state. People can easily associate the metallic luster of gold with the sun. Based on the worship of the sun, ancient civilizations on earth usually regard gold as a sacred object, and consciously collect and store it.
On the other hand, gold is relatively soft and has excellent ductility and forgeability. In addition, the melting point of gold is relatively low (about 1064.43°C). Even ancient civilizations can melt it. When melted, the chemical properties of gold remain very stable. When it cools down and solidifies, it is still shiny gold.
These characteristics allowed ancient civilizations to process gold in various ways and widely use it for sacrifices, decorations, currency, and other purposes. On this basis, coupled with the scarcity of gold, it is natural that "all ancient civilizations unanimously recognized gold." Compared to the huge earth, human capabilities are actually very limited. Even modern humans can only mine some relatively concentrated gold on the surface of the earth. So, from a holistic perspective, how much gold is there on the earth? In fact, this can be estimated. According to the mainstream view of the scientific community, the solar system was formed by the gravitational collapse of a primordial nebula. During this process, the sun was first formed in the center of the nebula, and the residual matter of this nebula formed various celestial bodies in the solar system, including the earth. In other words, the gold on the earth actually came from this primordial nebula.
If we want to trace the source, there are two sources of gold. One is the supernova explosion that occurs when a massive star runs out of its internal "nuclear fuel", and the other is the collision of neutron stars. Compared with the earth, the mass of celestial bodies that can produce gold is very large, so that every supernova explosion or neutron star collision will produce gold that is much more massive than the earth. They will be scattered in the vast universe and continue to spread over time. Some of them entered the original nebula that formed the solar system. At the same time as the formation of the earth, a large number of small celestial bodies were also formed in the solar system. A large part of them are still "wandering around" in the solar system. As the earth revolves around the sun, some small celestial bodies of the same age as the earth are captured by the earth from time to time. The debris that fell to the surface of the earth is what we call meteorites.
Theoretically, the gold content of these meteorites should be consistent with that of the original Earth. After all, they were all formed in the same nebula, so we only need to collect a large number of meteorite samples and measure them to infer the gold content of the original Earth. In fact, scientists did this. Through the analysis of a large number of samples, scientists gave the result that the gold content of the original Earth was about 0.32 parts per million. It is known that the mass of the Earth is about 60 trillion tons. A simple calculation shows that there are about 1920 trillion tons of gold on Earth.
It has to be said that this is an astonishing number, but the problem is that we have not found so much gold on the earth. Why is this? The reason is that most of this gold is in the core of the earth. If we keep hitting a nail with a hammer, it won’t take long for the temperature of the nail to rise significantly. From a physics point of view, this is actually a process of converting kinetic energy into thermal energy. In the same way, the formation of the earth is a process of collision and accretion of a large amount of matter. In this process, a large amount of kinetic energy will be converted into thermal energy, which will cause the temperature of the primitive earth to rise sharply. When the temperature reaches a certain level, the entire primitive earth will be in a high-temperature molten state.
In this case, the material that constitutes the original earth will experience a phenomenon called "gravitational differentiation", which is specifically manifested as heavier materials "sinking" and lighter materials "floating". Obviously, gold is of course a "heavier material", so a large amount of gold "sinks" to the core of the earth. According to scientists' estimates, there is very little gold in the earth's crust, accounting for only about 0.0044% of the earth's gold reserves. There is not much gold in the mantle either, accounting for only about 0.185% of the earth's gold reserves, and the rest of the gold is all in the core of the earth. It is worth mentioning that there is still a certain amount of gold in the earth's oceans. Measurement data show that each cubic kilometer of seawater contains 10 to 30 grams of gold, but this is negligible compared to the earth's huge gold reserves. Although there is so much gold on the earth, most of this gold is either hidden deep in the earth or too scattered, so humans can actually get very little gold. This is the case with ancient civilizations on the earth, and modern humans are not much better. Statistics show that before the 19th century, humans had mined only 1 tons of gold at most, and as of the end of 2021, humans had mined only over 20 tons of gold. It is foreseeable that gold will continue to be widely recognized by humans for a long time in the future.
Gold, this metal has always played an important role in human history. Whether it is the emperors and generals in ancient times or the modern businessmen and wealthy people, they all have an irresistible temptation to gold. Gold is not only a currency, but also a symbol, representing wealth, power, beauty and holiness. First of all, we have to talk about the color of gold. The color of gold is golden yellow, which is not common in nature and gives people a sense of rarity and preciousness. However, this color has another meaning, that is, the color of grain. In agricultural civilization, grain is the basis of human survival and the driving force of social development. A good harvest of grain means living and working in peace and contentment, and a lack of grain means famine and unrest. Therefore, humans have deep feelings and awe for grain. There is a saying that the fundamental reason why humans like gold is because it has the same color as grain. This saying believes that before the Age of Discovery, not all humans liked gold. Only those people in regions where wheat, rice, corn, etc. are staple foods (Europe/West Asia/North Africa/Asia/Central and South America) like gold, while those in regions where gathering or hunting are the main lifestyles (South Africa/Oceania/North America) do not like gold. This theory holds that before the colonists arrived in these regions, there was no record of them robbing or trading gold with the local indigenous people, but that the local indigenous people were not interested in gold and even regarded it as useless.
This theory further speculates that humans may have learned smelting and metallurgy techniques in the process of collecting gold, and discovered bronze, a harder and shiny metal. Humans may have used bronze to make agricultural tools, hoping to use it to increase the fertility of the land and the output of food (bronze tools will turn green after a period of use, which may be mistaken for injecting gold into the land). Thus, humans entered the Bronze Age and started the process of civilization.
Of course, this statement has not been widely recognized and confirmed, it is just an interesting and imaginative hypothesis. But it at least illustrates a fact: there is a certain connection between gold and food, and food is vital to human beings.
I don’t know what’s going on, but the gods are more obsessed with gold than humans.
It has brought great harm to the worlds ruled by the Pantheon. Don't think that the universe is so big and gold is endless. In fact, gold is also a rare substance in the universe!
It is no exaggeration to say that the gold bracelet at the bottom of your grandmother's box is actually older than the earth and the sun: these gold atoms were formed when the universe was born, and not even a stone was formed on the earth. Therefore, to unlock the reason why gold is precious, we have to start with the element production line of the universe. Because this assembly line sets the highest level of entry threshold for gold. Stars are element nuclear fusion factories, forging different elements through layers of fusion reactions. Common ordinary elements (such as carbon, oxygen, and iron) can be made inside stars. But when the production line runs to iron, it will get stuck: because continuing to make heavier elements requires consuming energy rather than releasing energy. The birth of gold (containing 79 protons) requires breaking through this physical barrier, which results in only two cosmic events that can start the production of gold elements: one is a supernova explosion: this is a violent explosion that only occurs when a massive star dies. When a star explodes in a supernova, it releases the total energy of the sun's lifetime in one thousandth of a second.
Another is the collision of neutron stars: the collision of two super-dense stars that are the size of a city but weigh dozens of times more than the sun can produce an environment that is 10 billion times hotter than the core of the sun. In this rare extreme cosmic event, ordinary atomic nuclei are repeatedly hit by a torrent of neutrons, absorbing neutrons rapidly like a snowball, and eventually forming heavy elements such as gold. This process, called "fast neutron capture", lasts less than 1 second, but it is the only way to make precious metals in the universe. There are many inherent limitations to the production of gold in this process. For example, to make 1 gram of gold, 10^23 tons of stellar matter must be crushed, which is equivalent to the mass of the entire solar system. And production opportunities are rare. On average, a neutron star collision that effectively produces gold occurs only once every 10 years in the Milky Way. Then there is the huge transportation loss. 99% of the gold ejected by supernova explosions is lost in space, and only a trace amount can reach newborn planets. For example, the earth. Now you understand that gold is not rare on earth, but in the entire universe. From being forged in the moment of star death, to surviving through interstellar space, to breaking through the blockade deep inside the earth, the cosmic production process of gold took 138 billion years to complete. This is the ultimate endorsement of its value.
In short, the Protoss exploited their subjects to get gold. And gold is actually of little use to them, it can't be eaten, and it can't be converted into energy. They don't even have an industry, so they have no place to spend the gold. Its purpose is just to look good, but they just like it!
I love it so much, their Pantheon headquarters is all glittering gold!
As the Lion King state appeared, Scar King immediately diverted his attention. It couldn't be too cool. More importantly, Kai's outfit was a pure creation of the gods, and it was a perfect special attack against Gol! The level of attracting hatred was amazing!
Not surprisingly, Scar King began to attack Kai fiercely.
Kai also took the risk and directly drew out the Twilight Greatsword.
It’s Surtur’s greatsword. This thing has no other abilities except that it’s infinitely sharp!
Even space can be cut open!
Back in Asgard, Surtur took back his Eternal Flame, but Kai snatched the Twilight Greatsword from him.
Surtur will never be complete in his life!