Chapter 59, Happy Vacation
"That's the bad thing about the status of Fools. People are very wary wherever they go." Fugate sat by the pool holding a fishing rod and said to Charmian who was holding a drawing board.
"Isn't this normal? No serious person can join the crowd of fools," said Charmian.
"That's right. If I had no other choice, I wouldn't join the Fools." Fugate also nodded and said, "But one thing I can say is that the welfare benefits of the Fools are really good. They are better than those of Havana." It’s much better now.”
"It's just that freedom is a little restricted."
Xia Mian also nodded. When it comes to treating talents, the Fools are indeed very generous. As long as you have talent, they dare to give you a high position.
Unlike the Teaching Academy, if you want to become a sage, you must first be a rainforest person with upright roots. Other aliens, desert people, or international students from other countries are not acceptable.
Secondly, you must have enough power, which means that if you want to become a sage, you need to have enough students, enough supporters, and enough political resources. In other words, you need to have strength in numbers.
There is only one Kuru among the scholars in Fugate's department.
This is because Kuru is able to survive enough and has the help of Samer. Although Samer has only officially retired due to status issues, Samer has actually trained many powerful people. Alchemist and scholar.
Among them were even three Havanas from the Sulon sect. In addition to these three, Kuru also trained four Havanas from the Sulon sect. At that time, there were only eleven Havanas in the Sulon sect. As for the eight Havana factions of Kulu (including Kulu himself), these were Kulu's political resources at that time.
It is precisely because of the support of these people that Kuru can successfully become a sage and a great sage.
That Sage Promotion Meeting was the most uncontroversial one.
"Liyue's spies haven't obtained enough information yet?" Fugate shook the fishing rod and lifted it up, revealing a small fish.
Then Fugate looked at the old fishing man next to him who looked rather decrepit.
"I'm just fishing, and I'm just listening to your conversation." The old fishing man said.
"Meet Mr. Fogate, and Madame Charmian."
"The old gentleman is quite polite," Fugate said.
"In front of Mr. Fugate, I, a junior in my fifties, dare not call me Mr." The old fishing man looked over and saw that it was Uncle Tianshu Xing.
"It seems that you have investigated clearly?"
"Hey~ I don't dare to talk about this kind of thing after investigating it thoroughly." Uncle Tian said, "I just got some information. After all, you didn't want to hide it."
Uncle Tian also lifted up the fishing rod. This fish was bigger than the small fish in Fugate.
Fugate didn't care about this and said, "I'm really just on vacation."
Uncle Tian nodded and said: "I know, but we have to keep an eye on it."
The main reason was not to prevent Fugate from causing trouble. After all, they had already confirmed that the other party was really on vacation.
What they were on guard against was some juniors looking for trouble and finding Fugate and Charmian.
Although the two of them seem to be difficult to mess with, there are so many people in Liyue, there are always a few who look like humans, especially those from big businessmen's families.
So in order not to cause unnecessary conflicts, Uncle Tian accompanied him personally.
To avoid a few unsighted people coming.
"Charmian, have you finished your painting?" Fugate asked.
"It's almost done." Charmian said.
Drawing was Charmian's hobby, just like Fuquet's hobby was listening to music.
"Let me also appreciate Madame Charmian's paintings."
"Hmm~ This is too realistic." Uncle Tian said with some surprise.
"It's not realism. I extracted the 'beauty' and put it into the painting together." Charmian pointed to the scenery in the painting.
Uncle Tian also nodded to express his understanding. In fact, although Uncle Tian understands painting, his understanding is only average.
Later, Uncle Tian joined Fugate's travel team and joked that this was a public trip.
With Uncle Tian's presence, Fugate and Sharmian's next game became even more interesting.
Although Uncle Tian is old, he is still in good health. He also introduced Fugate and Xia Mian to a lot of the beautiful scenery near Liyue Port.
He also recommended many storytellers and operas from Liyue to Fugate.
Some of them were indeed quite pleasant to listen to, so Fugate also asked people to record a few operas that could be recorded in Xuanyaoyubo.
This Xuanyao Jade Silk is a product of the Immortal Family's Mechanism Technique. It can be said to be a genuine high-end product in Liyue. Fortunately, Fugate and the others have a relationship with Gan Yu, so they can easily buy a batch.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye, and Fugate and the others were preparing to return to Fontaine with the gifts they purchased for the children of Hearth House.
"Then I look forward to your next visit to Liyue." Uncle Tian said sincerely.
The old man was indeed very tired these two days. After all, Charmian and Fugate would not accommodate him.
Fortunately, Uncle Tian also had some skills in boxing when he was young, and his body is relatively strong as he gets older, so he can barely keep up.
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"Oh? It seems that a lot of things happened during our absence."
Fugate stood in the courtyard of the Buffati Mansion, distributing gifts to the children and looking at Arlecino.
Hmm~ There are also two people behind Arlecino, Linny and Linnette.
Compared with before setting off, Linni now has more fire-attributed elemental power. He also has a fire-attributed Eye of God hanging on his waist, and his breathing method has also changed to the fire elemental breathing pioneered by Sameer. Law.
After the distribution of gifts was completed, Fugate and Charmian drove away the imps.
"It seems you finally got what you wanted, congratulations." Fugate said to Linny.
"Remember your teachings, Chief Instructor Fugate." Linny saluted slightly.
After saying hello, Arecino, Charmian and Fugate came to the laboratory again.
Some other alchemists doing routine alchemy experiments in the laboratory saluted the three of them.
"So is the 'Fire in the Bottle' running out again?" Fugate asked curiously.
"It's not." Arecino sat on the chair and rubbed his eyebrows and said, "It's more troublesome."
"You should know about the 'prophecy', right? There has been some progress in the investigation of the prophecy."
"But correspondingly, we were targeted by Ms. Funina, the spy of the water god Fukalos."
"It's not those guys from the Shadow Court, but some more elite beings. This is not a good thing. It not only affects the various activities of the 'Hearth House', but also the various tasks assigned by the Fools It has also been very seriously affected.”
"I'm also very stressed about this." This pressure mainly comes from within. The rich are clamoring to cut the funding of Hearth House.
The main reason is that the quality of the agents [debt collectors] provided by their fireplace homes to the rich has declined.
This is also inevitable. Although the harshness of the previous generation of servants is very bad for the children, from the perspective of the rich, the subordinates provided by the previous generation of servants are indeed more elite.
Although the current servant Arecino also conducted rigorous training on his subordinates, he also made up for it in terms of medicines and other aspects.
But it is obvious that when he first took over, the talents provided for others were still not as good as those provided by the previous generation of servants to the rich and roosters.
Of course, it's not entirely a bad thing. Although there aren't that kind of talents, there are enough second-level mediocre people.
But obviously the rich don't care about mediocrity, they care more about talent and efficiency
And from Fugate's point of view, after Fugate and Charmian completed the bottling of the pharmaceutical structure, the number and quality of talents cultivated have been greatly improved.
However, those who have been developed are regarded as confidants and elites by [Servants] and are rarely sent to other executives.
Other executives are also well aware of this, so they will take this opportunity to put pressure.
Although Fugate only left for a few days, without Fugate, [Doctor] Dotore actually pulled [Skicker] Scaramucci to put pressure on Arecino.
Fortunately, Arecino didn't want to offend them at all, otherwise other executives might not be able to withstand such pressure.
"But after you came back, those guys calmed down a lot."
"Do I still have such a strong deterrent? I don't even know." Fugate muttered.
"It's mainly because that guy Dotore doesn't want to deal with you." Shamian said. "Looks like he found out too," Fugate said.
"It's weird that we can't find it," said Charmian.
"? What are you talking about?" Arecino asked curiously, which could make even [Doctor] suffer. Arecino expressed that he was very curious.
"It's just a random chess game," Fugate said.
"[The Doctor] desires omniscience and omnipotence, so he cuts himself into countless slices to gain different perspectives and inspiration."
"After he has achieved his goal, [The Doctor] is no longer an individual, but a combination of all groups."
"But I have a pattern of mind training."
"After being trained in this kind of thinking, all thinking will be biased toward absolute rationality. A slice of the doctor was trained to think like this."
"This kind of thinking is extremely powerful, but it is not what the doctor desires. However, this kind of thinking also has its advantages, that is, it can assimilate other similar thinking."
"So this thought spread like a plague in [the doctor's] slices. When the doctor discovered it, he took various measures, but it was too late. The seeds have been planted, and time will allow them to take root and sprout."
"This kind of spread can never be completely solved, unless [Doctor] commits suicide, or there is only one individual left."
"The reason why he didn't dare to appear in front of me is that I can make the planted seeds quickly break out of the ground through silent guidance." The doctor who had dealt with Mondstadt and Fugate was Slice. So screwed up.
It was also from then on that the doctor made up his mind not to send slices to be dangled in front of Fugate.
This guy has a bit of evil in him. The doctor was a little careless at first, thinking that he just needed to keep a distance when talking to Fugate. He never expected that Fugate, an old man, could guide him through movement hypnosis.
"No wonder the doctor doesn't want to see you." Arecino suddenly realized.
"But don't think that [Doctor] is weak like that." Fugate reminded, "Doctor Slice without emotions is the strongest war machine, and each one needs to be dealt with carefully."
Anyway, Fugate didn't want to face such a doctor.
But for the doctor, becoming devoid of emotions, desires, and losing other perspectives of observation is much more terrifying than simply killing him.
Until there is no way to solve the problems caused by Fugate, the doctor will not appear in front of Fugate anyway.
In fact, doctors have methods to slow down or even cure such non-emotional symptoms.
Fugate had already told him that it was the 'fire and smoke in the world'.
But this ordinary request is actually very difficult for [Doctor], a super genius.
Because [Doctor] has a different outlook on things, talking to him would make normal people angry to death.
Otherwise, you have to shout for the Qianyan Army/Samurai/Knights/Thirty-Man Group to come and arrest people quickly.
Normal people, including Fugate, respect life very much, but [Doctor] does not. He regards people as parts on a machine, objects, not lives.
Not only the lives of others, but his own life as well.
Therefore, such people are destined not to integrate into normal life, so naturally they cannot enjoy the so-called "fireworks of the world".
"As expected, those guys didn't dare to push too hard as soon as you came back. If you hadn't come back today, there would have been three or four more letters on my desk tonight." Alechi waited until midnight with Charmian Nuo complained.
"Then you should go to bed quickly. You haven't had a good rest for several days."
"I'll stay with you all night." Arlecino walked to a temporary bed and fell asleep soon
As for why Fugate was not mentioned, that guy was sleeping soundly holding Shamian's carefully taken care of his tail.
Xia Mian was analyzing some Liyue medicinal materials.
The purpose is to help Gan Yu design a drinking alchemy process suitable for Liyue.
After research, it was found that Qingxin is not suitable for making a drink, because the medicinal properties of Qingxin are best when it is just picked. No matter how it is processed, the medicinal properties and nutrients of Qingxin are retained. Less than one third.
On the contrary, the situation of glass bags, another specialty medicinal material, is better. However, glass bags are not suitable for making into solid particles for drinking, but are suitable for making into pastes for drinking.
After being mixed with several other medicinal materials and adding a certain amount of slime condensate, not only does it taste much better, but the shelf life can also be up to ten years.
If the sealing and storage conditions are better, it can even be stored for decades in theory.
Not only can it be stored for a long time, except for the main material of the glass bag, which is a bit expensive, other materials are very cheap and very suitable for mass production.
The effect is to refresh the mind and strengthen the body. However, the effect of rejuvenating the body is not as good as drinking sea dew, but the effect is more lasting.
"Morning," Fugate said.
"Speaking of which, Arecino, haven't you been practicing your spiritual skills recently?"
"It feels like not only the activity of psychic energy has been reduced, but also a bit disordered."
Psychic energy can best reflect the state of a person's soul. It seems that Arecino has been really annoyed by those guys in the past few days.
"It's true that I haven't practiced much spiritual power recently." Arecino said.
"When you are on vacation next year, you can travel with us. Next time we will go to Mondstadt." Fugate said.
Arecino wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Fugate, "Just think of it as going to the local area to inspect the work, and you have to have some confidence in your men, they are not babies in their infancy."
As he spoke, he wiped his face, and then prepared to go to the steel smelting plant he set up in the Gray River area to pick up the smelted ceramic steel.
The current quality of ceramic steel is still relatively low, but it cannot be wasted casually, so Fugate did not think about making power armor directly, but planned to make some weapons.
Those with better quality will be given as rewards to the little guys at the Hearth House, while those with average quality will be sold directly in Gray River.
Anyway, people in this ghost place like Gray River don’t care much about the quality of weapons.
Moreover, the products made of ceramic steel are of better quality than the weapons in those small workshops in Huihe River.
After all, no matter how bad ceramic steel is, it is still a super material in the interstellar era.
"Good morning, Mr. Fugate," Linney said.
"Good morning, Linny, and Linnette, oh~ and Femini, what are you going to do?" Fugate said.
"Today Linnette and I are going to perform magic on the street, while Femini is preparing to participate in an event organized by the diving union." Linny said.
"Good morning..." This is the shy and a little shy little boy Femini
"Good morning." This was Lynette's expressionless face.
"Where is Mr. Fugate going?" Linney asked curiously.
"Go to the smelting plant in Gray River to see if the quality of the ceramic steel meets the requirements." Fugate said.
"Then Mr. Fugate walk slowly."
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"Speaking of why Mr. Kares is here." Fugate scratched his head and looked at the calm man in front of him.
"Is this smelting plant originally your industry? I heard from the workers in Huihe River that there is a very high-quality steel here, so I thought about purchasing some."
"Is it for that tunnel project?"
"Yes, we plan to build a tunnel on the west side of Equinox Mountain, but you also know that the current quality of Fontaine steel is not very effective when facing so much hard rock."
"I am worrying about how to open the tunnel during this period."
"Then I heard someone said that a smelter had newly produced a very strong metal, so I came to take a look." Carres said.
"You should be talking about ceramic steel, but I don't know if ceramic steel meets my requirements." Fugate muttered.
After all, Fugate did not have an STC, and the smelting furnace was made by his own hands.
The workers in the smelting plant are just ordinary workers from Huihe and some stupid soldiers.
(End of chapter)