God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 378: Many Hands Make Light Work

"True, the transportation issue can’t be rushed. We still need to wait for the transportation system to be more or less complete before taking a further look."

Viscount Roster was noncommittal. "Being able to satisfy home use, production site use, or use by big merchants in urban areas is already huge progress. The waste can be reduced by a lot."

Staple grains naturally didn’t need much worry about spoilage, but meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and other side dishes—all of them spoiled easily, especially meat and fish.

The waste was extremely serious.

Being able to establish cold storage at key points would already reduce a lot of losses.

People could even store some wild vegetables and such to eat in other seasons.

Once this kind of Magic Conductor became widespread in the future, the food saved would probably be an astronomical figure.

They could completely popularize this kind of Magic Conductor along with the Magic Power Network, just like in Roster territory.

Several huge self-charging magic arrays constantly gathered large amounts of magic power. The magic power then entered every household through the Magic Power Network, and these households could naturally use Magic Conductors.

Then they could collect a very, very small fee from each household. Gathered together, it would be a large sum that could satisfy the maintenance of the self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Network, ultimately forming a virtuous cycle.

"Yes, basically the first two plans have already entered a virtuous cycle. We just need to wait for time—success is almost certain. It’s just this third point I don’t quite understand."

Wild Mage fully affirmed Viscount Roster’s ideas.

But affirmation was affirmation—he still couldn’t quite understand.

What did processed food mean?

Processing could extend food’s freshness time—how would you do that?

What Wild Mage could think of was ham and pickled vegetables.

But weren’t people already doing that now?

This didn’t need Magic Conductors either!

Magic Conductors and edible food preservation were like two different parallel lines. For a moment, Wild Mage couldn’t figure out how to make this work.

"I just got inspiration from ham, pickled vegetables, and sauerkraut. Since using salt to pickle or ferment can extend food’s freshness time, can we make more foods undergo this kind of change?"

Viscount Roster’s words almost instantly silenced both of them.

So it was just getting inspiration like this!

If that was the case, they really were like chickens with their heads cut off with no idea which way to go.

"How about we post in the Church of Technology R&D personnel group chat to see if everyone has any good ideas?"

After staying silent for a while, Wild Mage finally suggested, "Even if someone else gets inspired by our words, develops it themselves, and does something with it themselves, we don’t care."

"After all, our core goal is still to let more people have food to eat."

After a brief silence, Viscount Roster agreed to this proposal.

Roster territory didn’t lack for one new industry. Even if the inspiration was his and someone else found a solution and could spread it, it would benefit the Church of Technology.

He could completely accept it.

If the technology was really good, he could also purchase it or purchase the usage rights and promote its use in the Southern Territory. The benefits went without saying.

Anyway, they didn’t have a single bit of inspiration, so better to pool their wisdom.

Thinking of this, the two immediately posted the message in the Church of Technology R&D personnel group chat.

The moment everyone saw it, they all found it preposterous.

What did this have to do with Magic Conductors?

Some even felt it had nothing to do with technology at all.

But after a bout of commotion, someone suddenly said, "I don’t know if you’ve observed this, but milk spoils very easily when left out. But if you boil it, it can be preserved for much longer."

"I think high temperature should have some possibility of making food last longer."

"Besides that, under special conditions, or when mixed with already-made yogurt, milk will turn completely into yogurt in two days. Yogurt’s storage time also becomes longer. Of course, I don’t know if yogurt counts as a different kind of spoilage, but you can definitely drink it."

"And then through processing, we can turn milk into cream, butter, cheese, milk powder, and so on. All these things can be stored for longer."

"Maybe everyone can get some inspiration from these areas."

This suddenly serious answer made many people in the group chat feel a bit awkward, and naturally nobody continued to spam.

Thinking about it carefully, what this fellow practitioner said really had no problems.

Although the examples all involved milk, there were many directions—high temperature, fermentation, drying, processing into other things.

So could other things also be processed through these directions?

"I don’t know if you’ve practiced some special magic that can isolate air from a space?"

Suddenly, someone else replied: "This is actually a strange phenomenon I discovered a long time ago. If you can create a space where outside air can’t enter, the things inside basically won’t rot. At least it can definitely be preserved for several months. Several months isn’t the upper limit—it’s just that my experiment went smoothly that time and the things I put inside got used."

Air could also affect food spoilage speed? 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Now that was fresh!

Nobody had mentioned this before, mainly because not many people had this kind of ability.

But now that it was brought up, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Because it was something new, quite a few people chose to discuss its feasibility.

Just as people were heatedly discussing whether this plan could succeed using Magic Conductors, Wild Mage suddenly got inspired.

"We obtained a material from a type of insect. Everyone should know about it—it’s that material for Magic Conductor vehicle tires."

"Since tires can store air inside, can we isolate air on the outside?"

"We could use this material to make a bag, then use a Magic Conductor to temporarily suck out the air inside, and then seal it directly."

"If air really is one of the main reasons affecting food spoilage, this method would definitely verify whether it’s feasible."

Wild Mage was the spiritual mentor of all the Magic Conductor experts. The vast majority of Magic Conductors in this world relied on the existence of self-charging magic arrays.

You could say many people considered Wild Mage the number one person of the new era, their spiritual pillar.

When he spoke up, he instantly attracted a lot of attention.

If someone else proposed this kind of plan that might require a big production and would be very laborious to test, most people would definitely scoff.

But since these were Wild Mage’s words, quite a few people’s first thought was actually—should I test it myself?!