Chapter 195 The Mechanical Palace is so beautiful, let’s take a look at the town in the distance
Ten days from now?
Pushing Shilov out of the steeple, Horn was still thinking.
According to Shilov, this substance called ether is invisible and intangible and only exists in the star realm.
One of the reasons for building on Qiu Mu Island is that it meets all the conditions and is secretive enough. How many other places can do this?
Regarding the application of star-cast gears, Horn is quite confident. Not to mention the complicated gameplay of combining orichalcum springs and star-cast gears, the holy ones can withstand a lot of animal power and water power just by hand. efficiency.
Speaking of this, Horn remembered the clicking sound he heard before. After finding Shilov, the irritated sound disappeared inexplicably.
"Shilov, do you have anything on you or in the palace that can make a clicking sound?"
"No." Shilov pulled her tail forward. , combed the tail hair with a small comb, "Where did the clicking sound come from?"
"Haven't you heard it?"
Lowering her head, Shilov continued to comb her hair: "No."
That's really weird. Could it be that she was really hearing something?
Ignore this, Horn pushed Shilov past the little angels whirling around: "Is your grandma a member of the Scaling Priory?"
"Scaling Hermitage?" Shilov seemed to be quite unfamiliar with this term.
Picking up the branch, Horn drew the logo of the Priory of Scales on the soil of the flower garden, and asked: "This is the Priory of Scales, when your adoptive mother falsely called herself the Moon Goddess. , isn’t this the banner you are using?”
"I don't know. I have seen the words Si Ling Priory in some notes, but I never knew its logo, let alone my relationship with them."
"Then you What about the symbol of the Blood God? The symbol of pooping on a book. "What do you mean pooping on a book? Those are my two favorite things, books and cream, okay?" He vigorously slapped Horn's thigh with his tail to express his dissatisfaction.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting, it's all Paslik said. If you want to scold Paslik, go ahead and scold Paslik." Horn took half a step back, and the damn girl was full of energy. It still hurts. "How did your mother leave? Have you ever told you why?"
Crossing her hands on her thighs, Shilov sat obediently: "No, ten years She suddenly disappeared before, leaving no message for me, only Ah Fu.”
"What's your grandma's name? Do you know?
Shilov still shook his head: "I don't know, I call her grandma, and the craftsmen in the town call her lord. "
"Okay, let's take a look at the small town in the distance to see if there are any other clues. "
Speaking of this topic, Horn thought of the subsequent resettlement work for Shilov.
"There is another important thing. Next, we are going to station on this island. You Any ideas? ”
"I think I can sign a contract with you and give you some star-cast gears for your use. I don't have any objection if you go and clean up the undead."
The wolf girl looked at the people in the yard. Compared to the few people in the narrow space before, to the three hundred people in this courtyard, she was still a little uncomfortable having not seen a stranger in ten years.
Anyway, Horn saw her tucking her tail into the crack of her butt.
“You must also have requests, right?”
“Correct, I admit that you have become the actual lord of this Qiumu Island, but this Mechanical Palace is my personal property. If you want to live here, you can’t kick me out.”
"Of course not."
"Then you clear out the undead. I hope you can afford my food, clothing, housing and transportation. Don't worry, I will work for you in exchange for payment."
Wolf There was a cunning flavor in the woman's emotionless words: "I know you are very interested in my mechanical skills and alchemy knowledge."
"Of course, you can enjoy the same treatment as Jeanne , I mean materially.”
“Finally, if you are a lord, I hope you can live in the most noble place on the island, and so will your entourage, especially if there are scholars like me. Okay.”
"No, we can live in the town opposite..." Horn glanced down, and the wolf ears wilted like withered flowers in his field of vision, "But since you take this as a condition, then I will live there." It’s not impossible to come in.”
“That’s great.” Shilov looked up at Horn’s chin, “Then we can have a tea party, dinner, debate, or poetry meeting, like that. Like in Guel's drama..."
As if thinking of something, Shilov calmed his gaze again and stopped talking.
Although there was no change in her face, Horn still felt keenly that she was shy.
“Of course we can do these things in our free time, but you have to know that we are active during the day and sleep at night, so you have to change your original schedule.”
"After my grandma left, I changed to a daytime schedule, but it was only for the convenience of stargazing and gear recharging that I switched to a nighttime schedule."
Pushing Shilov's wheelchair, Horn aimlessly Walk forward. For some reason, he suddenly remembered the Blue Blood Orphanage in the Wild Spider Forest not far away. Was that orphanage forty or fifty miles away from here?
This distance is actually quite close. Judging from various signs, both of them are doing extremely secretive things. It is impossible not to investigate the surroundings clearly.
Do the two know each other?
Horn was suddenly startled.
He thought of the wild spiders in the Wild Spider Forest. How did the Blue Blood Monastery know that it could control the wild spiders with the bone whistle?
Besides, how can the people in the Blue Blood Monastery drive the bone whistle to drive away the giant spiders?
He then thought of the demon hunters who came to Qiumu Island to urbanize after Shilov's adoptive mother was suspected of defecting.
How did they cross the Spider Forest? How did you pass the lycanthropy? How do you protect the undead on the island by forming a circle around the edge of the island?
In the small Daze Township, the water is quite deep.
“Why did my big cock head fall off?”
Hearing Shilov’s words, Horn stopped. He raised his head and realized that he had arrived without knowing when. Next to the gate of the Mechanical Palace.
It is almost evening, but the fog has dissipated a lot, and the whole world seems to have been put on a yellow filter.
A stream of smoke rises from the mountains, and the water ripples, reflecting the flowing gray clouds and the yellowing film-like sky.
The fishing songs of the lycanthropic people came from a distance, echoing in the ears. Around Horn and Shilov, soldiers in black ran in and out, fighting in the side halls on both sides of the garden palace. Floor covering.
If nothing else happens, they will spend the night in this palace tonight.
I probed the corner of the wall with my hand. The unusually moist soil told Horn that there was likely to be another cold rain in the evening.
"Silov, you..."
He looked down at Xilov, but Xilov sat blankly, leaning on the chair, as a wolf, she The tip of the overly long tail swayed quickly and unconsciously in the hand.
She was sitting in a wheelchair, confusion or fear in her eyes. As long as Horn pushed forward a few more steps, she would come to the world outside the palace walls for the first time.
“Want to take a look outside? Or go to the town next door, a place you have seen countless times on the terrace?”
The wolf girl tightened her grip on the wheel of the wheelchair. , she looked deeply at the new world in front of her, and the tip of her tail tensed nervously. After waiting for a long time, she let out a sigh:
"No, I'm not ready yet. But one day, just like I have been practicing talking to people other than dolls and grandma for ten years, give me three years and I will be able to push myself to see the outside world."
Horn didn't say much. This mechanical palace was both the wolf girl's home and her prison.
For more than twenty years since she was a child, she has never been out of this place, and has never spoken a word to anyone other than Ah Fu, the doll, and her vampire adoptive mother.
Thinking of this, Horn suddenly understood the value of the wolf girl's words when she saw him for the first time.
One sentence on stage equals ten years of hard work off stage.
Holding the wolf girl's wheelchair, Horn leaned against the door, also looking at the gray clouds in the distance.
In this way, not only was the engine of his industrial engine found (doubtful), but it also opened up a living space for subsequent refugees.
I thought it would be completed in three days, but I didn't expect to complete the occupation of the island in two days. The remaining undead can be cleared out while sending people to the island, and the camp can be established first.
The food problem has a solution, that is, making peat, pumping brine, fishing, refining salt, and making salted fish can solve the food problem.
Making peat can be operated by the Saints. It happens that the technical content is not high and they can accumulate alchemy experience.
The problem of pumping brine from salt wells can be solved by using star-cast gears. Wasn't the first generation of steam engines born for the purpose of pumping water from mines?
Fishing can be left to the beast-turned-people, as they are very familiar with it, and the same goes for making salt and making salted fish.
The problem of food and housing has been solved. Coincidentally, there is a small town on the other side of the river from this mechanical palace. It can still be lived in after repairs and does not require too much effort to rebuild.
Then the next tasks are only weapon production and military training.
“Today is November 23rd.”
(End of this chapter)