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It is said that the first lathe in the world was made entirely of wood by hand. The former high-level inlay workers in China are treasures to every factory. Their eyes are rulers, and their hands are machines. There is no difference between handmade parts and machines.

At the very beginning, everyone has to start with the handmade emperor.

The biggest problem that the lathe solves is "standardization", ensuring that the things made on this lathe are exactly the same. This is a problem that cannot be solved by hand anyway. In other words, relying on the lathe to copy countless high-level embedded workers.

As a matter of course, Cecil has never used a lathe, nor has he learned it from memory. All his knowledge comes from scattered words received in the information age. In this case, his "technical exchange" with the flame goblin You have to be caught in the cycle of "slap in the face" and "anti-slap in the face".

"Why do you need to make another machine for casting molds! We are blacksmith masters and not magic experimenters!"

"What does this have to do with magic? All I want is for you to make such a machine, a stick that can rotate by itself, a fixed knife that can move vertically, put the material on the spinning stick and move forward at an even speed , and then put the carving knife at a fixed height, wouldn’t it be possible to carve a uniform spiral texture on the material?”

"How do you make the stick move forward at an even speed? What do you use to make the carving knife? How do you keep the carving knife at a high level? What kind of lathe is made of such a strong material? Also, why is it called a lathe? Huh? What does this have to do with the bed?"

"Try it with wood first. I don't require the texture to be as small as a micron. It's fine if it can be fitted with each other. I don't ask you to close it tightly. It's fine if it doesn't leak!"

"It's not enough to directly cast a whole set of copper pipes. You only have the size of a room. Why do you have to spend so much effort on such a small size!"

"Why do you have to cast a whole set for such a big thing, crazy!"

The two sides were arguing so loudly that they didn't notice Langdon strolling over, looking at them with dissatisfied eyes.

Russell, who had disappeared, came over at some point and whispered, "Did you really use magic?"

"What? Do you doubt me?" No one was paying attention, Langdon looked at Russell with a perfect interpretation of what it means to smile on the surface.

"I didn't hear you chanting the spell." Russell didn't look scared at all, and said calmly, "You can't be lying to children, are you?"

"What a child he is, he has to learn to be responsible for himself as an adult," Langdon said.

Russell was silent for a few seconds, and said in a strange tone: "Not everyone can clearly foresee what will happen in the future. I think Cecil is very good. He is different from us. He is too naive. Although he is not stupid, he is too naive. Naive, once such a person is injured, he will easily become extreme."

Langdon's smile disappeared instantly, and he said in a tone of indifference that Cecil had never known, "Don't tell me what you don't know."

Russell shrugged his shoulders and slipped away without arguing, leaving Langdon standing in the dark alone with a gloomy face watching the noisy Cecil and the flame goblins.

The idea of ​​the lathe entered the design process under Cecil's strong admiration. He hired two former Ebo carpenters and flame goblins to form a team. The only task every day was to get the lathe out as soon as possible. Only the coal from Hong Kong will come.

Toto Port said that winter is the peak season for coal demand, and there are not many stocks now, and it will take a while, so it can be delivered together with the purchased wheat seeds, so as to save two trips.

Ebo's "City of Corpses" is still waiting to be cleaned up, and it is rare for Langdon to support Cecil's thoughts on whether to invite a cleaning magician to come.

"Ask for support?" Cecil said, "Speaking of which, the salaries of the knights are paid by the temple, right? But the temple doesn't get any income from us."

This is true. All the money Cecil has earned has been used for expanded reproduction, and there is no room for it to be handed over to the Temple. Therefore, the "investment" of the Temple has actually been in a state of negative returns.

"Yes." Langdon said with a smile, "The Templar Captain of Tambuneta appreciates tea very much. He thinks that tea will be popular in Tambuneta this year. If you have any good tea-related ideas, please come early. Report it. In addition, after the investigation of the temple, it was learned that the Xiangqi family has vigorously promoted "hot bath therapy" in several major magic countries, and the income is quite good. The temple is looking forward to the birth of the god of hot bath, which is a good thing."

Cecil was stunned, and immediately flew into a rage: "Who gave the Xiangqi family the power to open a hot bath..." He got stuck, the bathhouse is really not a patent, if he can open it, so can others.

"Do they have soap in their hot baths?"

"Have."

"By..." He got stuck again, the soap was sold by him, and he was very happy when Mrs. Xiangqi bought it in large quantities, because the income did not need to be shared.

"It will be a matter of time before the soap is pirated." Langdon said in a comforting tone, "Just find a magician and use a little compositional analysis or backtracking magic to understand how to make it. It's not a high-tech thing. something?"

"……really."

Cecil was suddenly discouraged. The technology he brought was low-tech and could be easily imitated. Besides, magic technology is not low-powered, but magic is easy to be monopolized by a single person, and those who monopolize a certain technology A magician can ask for a lot of money, which makes magic technology unable to benefit the public. In addition, magic cannot even come from blood, and must be gifted. This makes a magician a "gold brick that no one can take away from birth." The lucky one", similar to the lottery jackpot.

"If you are worried about magic, there is no need." Langdon habitually put his arms around Cecil's neck, "Even if the magician analyzes your skills, what will happen?" Seeing that it has attracted Cecil's attention , he showed a gentle smile, "Nothing will happen, will the magician make paper? No? Will the magician make soap? It is possible, but, so what? He will raise the soap to one piece How does magic coin affect us? We can even sell it for a silver coin, so ordinary people will find ways to save magic coins to buy a bar of soap? How is that possible!"

These words made Cecil suddenly enlightened.

Yes, so what if I copied my technology?You sell grass as treasure?If it does not exist, I will not only sell the grass as grass, but after a while, I will also sell the grass price for your so-called treasure. What will you do then?

Besides, I can copy a lot, compared with me?No, you are comparing yourself to billions of people with a modern science education!

What Cecil thought had actually happened.

Somewhere in the basement of Gretel's Kingdom of Honor, some magic leatherworkers gathered together, staring at the small piece of leather on the table with serious faces.

"It's been confirmed, there is no magic fluctuation." A middle-aged man with braids all over his head said angrily, "This is a perfect non-magic product!"

"I haven't sold 30% of my products this winter." Another man sitting in the dark said coldly, "This thing can be bought for ordinary money, ordinary money! Look at the softness and toughness !We're fucked!"

"Where did it come from?" cried someone. "Is it Crandall? Or Tambunita?"

"Neither, gentlemen, it's not magic, it's not magic, understand? And look at the output, one thousand sheets at a time, each of which can be purchased with ordinary money, and can be achieved with simple sewing and dyeing." The quality is the same as the finished product." The man with the braided braids said in an extremely heavy voice, "We are done."

The basement was silent for a while, and everyone was silent.

"We can reduce production." Someone said, "Research on some more advanced products, this thing is still not as good as the top magic leather, it is not completely waterproof, it is not as soft as cloth, and it cannot prevent attacks and magic isolation."

"If we know how to make top-level magic skins, is it because we were too sympathetic before that we didn't do it?" Someone said sarcastically, "Don't be stupid!"

"Then what do you say? My son can only afford to go to the magic school with my little income!"

"That son of yours doesn't have much talent, don't think about it!"

"What did you say?"

"Quiet, gentlemen!" Twist Braid spoke again, and said slowly when no one spoke, "I have inquired. These products are from Toto Port, and they are raw materials from Ebo."

"Ebo? That's just a rural place that produces low-grade leather. Many of their products are raw leather, and even the meat can't be scraped clean!" Someone said angrily, "Can they make such high-grade leather?"

"This is not a high-grade skin, remember, gentlemen, this will never be a high-grade skin, there is no magic wave!" Another person shouted angrily.

"So what? It's cheap, high-quality and easy to produce. Think about it, this is just the first batch. The merchants in Toto Port said that you can get as much as you want, and you can get a big discount! What does this mean, understand? Hurry up Don't hesitate to deal with the leather products in your hands, even a half discount is enough for your cost!" Twist Braid said, seeing someone else speak, he shouted, "Don't take the glory of the past as the present, this leather has appeared , your leatherworking magic is already worthless! Your life is just reminiscing about the past in taverns, going home and beating your wives or being beaten by your wives with advanced magic titles, understand?"

This gathering of magic leather makers ended in despair. Twisted Braid heard someone discussing asking killers to kill those who made these leathers. He sighed and slowly walked out of the dark basement. The bright sunlight dispelled the darkness of the basement. Cooling can't drive away the shadow in my heart.

Ebo?

Maybe it's time to go out and see, I've been stuck in this magical land for too long, to see what's going on outside...well, luckily not married.

Twist Braid walked towards home quickly with firm steps. He had to deal with the inventory and the house in a hurry, and embarked on a journey to the unknown.At his age, this is probably the last trip in his life, but his heart is full of inexplicable expectations.

Twisted Braids didn’t know about it, and the magic leather makers regarded it as a big event like “the sky is falling”. Even if Cecil knew about it, he wouldn’t care at all. After all, it was destined to happen, and he was also preparing for a trip .

On the one hand is looking for clay or any soil suitable for firing pottery, black soil grows quite well, but firing is totally unsuitable.On the other hand, it is just right to go to the High Court Library by the way, and there will be signposts on the way to prepare for future road construction projects.

There are three main roads currently planned by Cecil: one leads to Ebo, one leads to High Court, and one leads to Toto Port. At present, none of the three roads has been started, because there are no manpower and no materials.

Dali will accompany Cecil on this journey, which is expected to take ten days, thanks entirely to Porto Toto's private griffin service. A trainer will take a griffin with him, and it will take another ten The sky is because he needs to inspect the ground from time to time and make road signs.

As for Dali?After all, this guy is a master of magic, so it's no problem for him to hurry.

Langdon strongly expressed his intention to stop, thinking that there are too many things at hand.

Cecil felt that there were indeed many things to do, but there was no way to start work immediately. Whether it was spring plowing, forging, or brick firing, there was a lack of raw materials and manpower. In the family, it is very suitable to find clay resources. Besides, it only takes ten days to go back and forth. In this world, it can be said that the speed is like flying, so there is no need to worry.

After this explanation, Langdon remained expressionless for a long time, so long that Cecil felt obvious uneasiness, and the others stared at the ground without raising their heads, and the room was filled with deathly silence.

"Okay." Finally, Langdon let go, "But I hope you take Angor with you."

"That would require renting an extra griffin..."

Langdon interrupted Cecil coldly: "I'll pay to bring Ang."

Cecil: "..."

Until the departure, Cecil didn't understand why Langdon was angry—it was angry, it must be angry—but things still had to be done, so he could only set out on the road with a stomach full of guesses.

Outside the city, the griffin trainer in Toto Port was waiting with four griffins, one of which was ridden by the trainer himself.

"Why three?" Cecil asked, "I only need two."

"Oh, the other end is mine." Dali said, "I don't need money anyway, so why use magic to travel?"

Cecil: "..."

It was really hard to resist the urge to beat up Dali.

After flying into the sky, Cecil looked down at the ground, and the vibrant picture of Moon City came into view, and he couldn't help feeling a little emotional.Of the four mud huts when he crossed over, only his was left. It stood alone between the industrial area and the residential area. The part-time office of the leader of Yuecheng was the closest to the toilet in the whole city.

The houses "spread" one by one. Unlike the disorderly development of Ebo, the houses here are arranged in a fan shape, separated by earth-yellow roads extending in all directions, and all corners are clean. As the ice and snow melt, The withered and yellow grass is exposed. When the land recovers, the grass will be cut short and will become a beautiful green lawn. The houses will be painted white and wooden doors and windows will be installed. This will be a modern small town.

After flying for a few minutes, I arrived at the water puddle where I survived at the beginning. It has completely dried up. Once the grass grows, there will be nothing left.

A short distance along the puddle is the salt well, which is still providing rough salt for the creatures of Moon City. A wooden derrick has been erected beside the well, and there is a simple mud house for people to rest.

Going forward is the mica mine. Cecil didn't think about how to use it, so he had to leave it.

Soon, the place where the potatoes were found arrived.Cecil thought that this batch of potatoes hadn't survived the winter, and there was nothing on the ground. Now he regretted planting the land before winter.

This dry river is also a mining site for red soil. In order to collect the red soil below the river, the entire bottom of the river was blown upside down by magic, and countless small stones were produced along the way. These are the materials needed for the cement road in the future.There are two mud houses near the river, surrounded by outdated hardwood fences, for the on-duty personnel to sleep and eat. In the future, the scale will be expanded, and even a small village will be created. After all, this is the only stone mining area closest to Moon City. , House construction and road repair are indispensable, and day and night production is a must.

The griffin flew very low and at a slow speed, and Cecil couldn't help being a little proud that he was able to browse all these clearly in the sky.

I survived!

Relying on himself—and of course, the big tree—survived!

Cecil deliberately asked the trainer to go up the river, and soon, he was happy to find a sandy land and a large area of ​​yellow-red brown soil. Maybe he could try to burn it to see if he could make pottery.The river soon came to an end, and a waterfall formed by a mountain range blocked the route of the Griffin's flight. The waterfall no longer exists, and traces of dry moss and water impact can be seen.

"Can you fly up?" Cecil yelled at the trainer, and the sound of the griffin flapping its wings was very loud.

The trainer looked up and said, "It's best not to, I don't know what kind of beasts are on it, if it attracts the attention of monsters, griffins don't have much fighting power, and we are targets in the sky."

Cecil glanced at Ange and Dali, and got two slight nods. Knowing that the trainer was right, he didn't insist.

This mountain range should still be a part of the Luofeng Mountain Range. Special hardwoods are distributed near the foot of the mountain, and there are ordinary trees in the colder zone further up, which are no different from those near Moon City.On the way flying along the mountains, Cecil suddenly thought of the suspected radiation landmark that Mrs. Elk took him past, so he asked Dali.

"Oh, that, I know." Of course, people who hang out with magic elk will not let gossip, Dali immediately said, "It's easy to find, even in the air, that thing is really suitable as a landmark, It never grows plants, which is weird."

According to Dali's instructions, it didn't take long for the four griffins to find the location. Looking down from the sky, the dark black asphalt ruins were still conspicuous amidst the withered yellow and fragmentary white. This time, Cecil found the place. more interesting stuff.

When I came last time, the vegetation was lush, and people were standing on the ground with limited vision. This time in the air, Cecil was stunned after only one glance: around the asphalt road sign, the land was divided into many Different rectangular blocks, with two thin lines in the middle of the rectangular block, it looks like someone wrote "me" one by one.

"Dally, do you know what this is?" Cecil called.

"Probably some kind of magic ritual." Dali seemed very interested, and said after watching for a long time, "Didn't everyone say there was a curse here?"

"No, that's not a curse, that's called radiation... Anyway, it's something that can destroy the human body." Cecil thought that the trainer of the griffin could see the places he had been through the eyes of the griffin, who knows if he can still record it Well, he swallowed the words back, "Let's go down first."

When it landed on the ground, the trainer said winkingly that the griffin was looking for food, and ran away without a trace with the griffin.There is no need to worry about this person running away. The monk can't escape the temple if he runs away. The Griffon Trading Company in Toto Port is quite reputable.

Cecil tried digging with his hands, but the frozen soil couldn't move at all, and he couldn't see anything from under the withered grass. Those "eyes" should be extremely huge, otherwise they wouldn't have returned through such a thick layer of soil. There are varying shades of change.

"Can you blow up the ground?" Cecil said, "I think there should be something under here."

"No way, if it's a magic item, I could blow up all of it by accident." Dali said so, but his eyes showed an expression of eagerness, "How about I blow up a small piece first? "

"Please don't be so boring, okay?" Angie, the only prudent person present, couldn't help but say, "Isn't our destination High Court? There's no need to waste time on these uncertain things."

"This is very important!" In fact, Cecil was dying of curiosity, "Is there a delayed detonation, we run far away, be careful, don't blow up this black one."

No matter what Cecil said, An Ge firmly disagreed, and even grabbed his wrist, as if he was afraid that he would run away.Just when the two were talking to each other, Dali suddenly shouted: "Run!"

Before Cecil could react, his wrist hurt, and he was dragged by Ang on the ground like a huge piece of luggage and started to "run".

"Ow ooh..."

Cecil, who wiped his face on the ground, hadn't finished screaming when a loud noise drowned out all the sounds. Ange pressed on top of him. When the sound and vibration disappeared, he sneaked out from under Ange. , I saw that the ground was blown up in the distance, and a dark blue thing stuck out of the ground.

Even without running over, Cecil recognized it at a glance: solar panels!

Lying - trough!

When Ange chased and killed Dali, Cecil stood beside the solar panels in a daze.

This thing is indeed a solar panel. It can be seen from the tempered glass on the surface and the plastic material on the back. Cecil can even analyze the location of the junction box and the power box. Home appliance repairs also include solar water heaters!

What shocked him was that the exposed corner was almost larger than his whole body, which meant that the solar panel was super giant, and he saw at least hundreds of "mesh" in the sky, so here comes the problem , What is such a large solar panel powering?

It's really hard not to think of the place where the radiation exceeds the standard!

Cecil had no chance to continue his research. Ange came back from beating Dali and bent over to him. Before he could react, he got on Ange's shoulder!

When a group of four people rode a griffin and left this place, a middle-aged man heard a beep sound coming from under the bed in a dilapidated house in Crandall. He dragged out a wooden box suspiciously and opened it. It was later discovered that the sound came from a strange rectangular flat box.He picked up this flat and smooth rectangular tablet, and after pressing it everywhere, a line of serious English suddenly appeared in the middle of the flat tablet: Intruder detected, do you want to end sleep?

There are two options below, one "YES" and one "NO".

The hair of the middle-aged man is already gray, and his rough and dark skin indicates long-term outdoor labor. He seems to be unable to understand this line of English characters. Either he is a low-level person who is too poor to even learn translation magic, or he has no magic at all. Talent, which is very rare.

In any case, this line of English is just a line of garbled characters in the eyes of the middle-aged man. He pressed "YES" first, and found that the garbled characters turned into another line of garbled characters. "Beep" sound, and soon, the thing turned into a piece of black again.

The middle-aged man flicked the card in his hand, and threw it back into the wooden box without any change. Before closing it, he looked at another smaller jar, smiled and shook his head: "Father, you really left something behind." Something weird."

The wooden box was pushed back to the bottom of the dark bed, the middle-aged man just wanted to fall asleep quickly so as not to delay tomorrow's work.

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I saw the message and found out that I didn’t select it in the volume... By default, the text will appear at the front... (￣﹏￣)