The weather at the end of October has already shown a hint of coldness, and people on the streets of Bangta City began to put on coats and trousers to wrap themselves up tightly.
Compared with the street, the temperature inside the house is naturally higher, but even so, it is not the time to continue wearing short shirts and skirts. Steele, Evita, and Akali have already changed into shorts. The loose home dress completely covered her beautiful figure.
Xu Yi glanced at the three of them, and felt a hint of disappointment in his heart.
However, this inexplicable emotion was suppressed by him in an instant, and his attention returned to a glass ball on the table.
It’s not that all the manufacturing techniques on Sainz’s continent are inferior. For example, the glass craftsmanship is very good. The ball made of glass in front of you is completely transparent, and there is no trace of impurities. It is evenly thick and thin, and the surface is extremely smooth. Even if you get it On earth, it can also be regarded as an excellent glass product.
"Is this a magic crystal lamp?" Xu Yi looked at the ball for a while and asked Steele: "Just this thing costs two hundred gold coins?"
Steele nodded: "Well, I had to ask grandpa for help to get this, otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy it even if I had money."
Xu Yi was immediately speechless.
To put it bluntly, this thing just functions as a light bulb. It is really incomprehensible to him that he dares to ask for as much as two hundred gold coins, and even if he wants to buy it, he can't buy it.
When Xu Yi was lighting candles at home that night, an idea flashed in his mind, and he suddenly thought, since it is troublesome to light candles all the time, why not also develop light bulbs
In fact, this idea had already occurred to him when he traveled through time, but he gradually forgot about it later.
When he thought about it now, Xu Yi couldn't hold back his excitement and immediately decided to conduct research and development.
But when he proposed this idea to the three Steeles, he received a slap in the face.
In this Sainz continent, magic lamps have actually appeared for a long time!
However, when Xu Yi asked the three of them why magic lamps had not been popularized at all since they had been around for a long time, and he had never even seen a magic lamp until now, he got an answer that surprised him even more.
Magic lamps are too expensive!
It is said that the magic circle inside the magic lamp is extremely complicated and cannot be completed by ordinary magicians.
In addition to being able to emit light, this magic circle has no power at all, so since its invention, few magicians have studied it at all.
As a result, the magic lamp has become a thing with extremely low practical value. Except for the occasional guy who has too much money and no place to use it and wants to show off, ordinary people will never think of buying a magic lamp.
Over time, the magic lamp gradually became a very rare thing, and naturally became more and more expensive and sophisticated. It was completely different from the cheap light bulbs that Xu Yi thought could be seen everywhere on the earth.
After learning the news, although Xu Yi didn't understand the lack of emphasis on magic applications by the magicians on the Sainz continent, it didn't mean that he looked down on the magic lamp. Instead, he asked Steele to find a way to buy one. I came back to study.
The last time he studied the small magic ripper, Xu Yi got the revelation that although the industrial level on Sainz Continent is far lower than that on Earth, due to the uniqueness of magic, it is in some respects better than that on Earth. Some advantages.
If he could get some inspiration from magic crystals and help him significantly reduce production costs, he wouldn't mind denying his idea of completely improving the structure of fluorescent lamps on the earth.
"Have you studied it?" Xu Yi pointed at the magic crystal lamp and asked again.
The three of them looked at each other. Steel pointed to the magic crystal lamp with some embarrassment and said: "This magic crystal lamp is a whole and cannot be taken apart at all. If you want to study the magic circle inside, you have to break the outer crystal cover... "
"Then break it into pieces. What's wrong?" Xu Yi said inexplicably.
"Ah? Break it? You bought this for two hundred gold coins!" Akali opened her mouth exaggeratedly and pointed at the magic crystal lamp with an incredible look on her face.
"I bought it for you to study. What's the use of just putting it here?" Xu Yi looked around, picked up a stone on the table, and threw it at the magic crystal lamp.
Seeing that Xu Yi was really going to smash him like this, Akali and Evita both showed unbearable expressions.
This magic crystal lamp was very exquisitely made and extremely beautiful in appearance. The two of them liked it very much at the first sight. Now Xu Yi actually wanted to smash this beautiful thing in front of them. It was simply It makes them unable to look directly.
"Wait!" Steele suddenly reached out and grabbed Xu Yi's hand.
"What? Steele, you are not willing to part with two hundred gold coins, are you? You have been with me for so long, and you should be very clear that as long as suitable research results are produced, the value created will be far more than a mere two hundred gold coins." Xu Yi frowned and looked at Steele.
"Of course I understand the truth." Steele took more of the stone from Xu Yi's hand. "Of course it is necessary to smash it open, but you can't smash it down casually like you, right? What if the entire magic crystal lamp is smashed? If you destroy the magic circle inside, what do you want us to study? Could it be that? Want to buy another one?"
Xu Yi was startled: "I forgot about this."
When Akali and Evita saw Steele stopping Xu Yi, they were originally happy because they had saved this beautiful gadget, but when they heard Steele's words behind them, they immediately looked at each other.
However, Xu Yi paid for this magic crystal lamp, and they had no say in what to do with it. They could only watch Xu Yi and Steele inspect the magic crystal for a while, and finally chose an angle. Smashed it down lightly.
"Wow-"
The glass cover outside the magic crystal lamp was smashed open and shattered on the ground, finally revealing the true appearance inside.
The moment the glass cover was smashed open, Xu Yi put his nose over and sniffed hard, but except for a puff of dust, he didn't smell any odor at all.
After sneezing hard, Xu Yi determined that the glass cover on the outside of this magic crystal lamp was only for decoration and light scattering. It was not like the glass cover of the light bulbs on the earth, because it was to preserve the inert gas inside.
Of course, this world probably does not have the technology to inject inert gas into a closed glass cover.
After Steele carefully peeled off the glass cover covering the magic crystal lamp bit by bit, the four people's eyes fell on the base of the magic crystal lamp at the same time.
As expected, an extremely complicated magic array is engraved on the base. Just from the lines of the magic array, you can tell that it is much more complicated than the low-level magic array used by Xu Yi and others when designing magic machines.
Akali looked at it for a while and said hesitantly: "Mr. President, this magic circle is so complicated, I'm afraid we can't study it with our current ability, right?"
Steele also nodded: "Well, I think there's something wrong with it. Why don't you show it to grandpa? He should be able to understand it."
Xu Yi also stared at the magic circle for a while and found that Akali and Steele were right. This magic circle was indeed too complicated and exceeded his current magic level.
Just when he was about to nod his head to agree with Steele's idea, he suddenly remembered that Evita hadn't spoken yet, so he turned to look at her: "Evita, what do you think? Do you understand?"
Evita pondered for a moment and seemed uncertain: "Although I can't understand it, I always feel like I have seen this magic circle somewhere."
"Oh? Do you have any impression? Have you ever been exposed to this magic circle before?" Xu Yi asked quickly.
"No, I shouldn't have learned such a complicated magic circle. It's just... I just think the appearance and style of this magic circle are very close to a magic circle I saw somewhere before. Maybe it has something to do with it." Ivy Tower replied.
"Then do you still remember that magic circle you saw?"
Evita thought for a while, took the pen and paper, and drew a magic circle on the paper.
The other three looked at the magic circle drawn by Evita, then looked at the magic circle on the base of the magic crystal lamp, and nodded at the same time.
"They are indeed similar. Although the magic circle on this magic crystal lamp is much more complicated, you can see that they are very close." Steele said.
Xu Yi looked at the magic circle drawn by Evita for a while, thought about it, and said to Evita: "Evita, can you set up this magic circle?"
Evita nodded slightly.
"Well, you can set up this magic circle now and let's see what the effect is."
Akali slapped her face: "This is a good idea, Evita, please arrange it quickly."
Evita nodded, took out some magic materials, and began to set up the magic circle on the floor in the living room.
This magic circle is far less complicated than the one on the base of the magic crystal lamp. It took Evita about ten minutes to set it up.
Xu Yi signaled the three of them to move away, injecting a trace of magic power into the magic array, and then saw a light cyan light flashing quickly on the magic array, and then an extremely bright white light burst out from the magic array, covering the entire living room. They all looked pale against each other.
However, this white light flashed by and then disappeared.
The four of them stared blankly at the magic circle. After waiting for a while, they didn't see any other changes and couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"Is this the end?" Akali pointed at the magic circle and glared. "Did you make a mistake? Just emit a ray of light. What's the use of it?"
Steele mused: "This is probably the magic circle of thunder magic that is an advanced version of wind magic. However, this magic circle is very strange. It can only emit the lightning of thunder magic, but it cannot feel the powerful power of any thunder magic. , it seems to be a failed magic circle. Evita, where did you know about this magic circle? "
"I read it accidentally from a book." Evita also looked a little disappointed. "I thought it would be of some use, but I didn't expect it to be so bad."
The only one who didn't show any disappointment was Xu Yi. On the contrary, he was very excited.
After hearing the conversation between the three of them, Xu Yi laughed, stood up, patted Evita on the shoulder casually and said: "No, no, no, Evita, it is precisely because it is a failed magic circle that it is very beautiful." Useful. If this magic circle does not fail and reflects the power of thunder magic, how can we use it to make fluorescent lamps? Okay, I now announce a research task to the three of you, that is Study this magic circle carefully, and the ultimate goal is to improve it to emit light stably, do you understand?"
The three Steeles looked at each other and nodded in unison.
Compared with the extremely complicated magic circle on the magic crystal lamp, the magic circle drawn by Evita is much easier to understand.
"Of course, you'd better study the magic circle in this magic crystal lamp. If there's anything you don't understand, go ask the great magician Camilla. He is now the special research consultant of our New Flying Chamber of Commerce. You can You should seize the opportunity to ask him about magic."
Needless to say, Steele, Akali and Evita both showed a hint of excitement after hearing Xu Yi's words.
Being able to consult a great magician at any time is of vital help in improving their magical strength.
After Xu Yi explained a few more words, he was ready to leave.
In the past few days, Canby stayed in the Noma tribe to wait for the dwarves of the Angora tribe. Xu Yi had to put more effort into the production work of the magic machine tool workshop. Coupled with various other tasks, Xu Yi was very busy every day. So much so that I didn't even have time to stay here for lunch.
Just as he walked out of the door, Akali suddenly chased him out of the room and called Xu Yi to stop.
"President, are you...are you going to attend the Business Federation's banquet in the next two days?"
"Well, how did you know?" Xu Yi was a little surprised.
"Steele told me." Akali pointed to the door at the back, then showed a coy expression and said hesitantly: "President, can... can I ask you something? "
This was the first time Xu Yi saw such a coquettish look on this lively girl, and he couldn't help but feel a little amused.
"What's the matter? Tell me and listen. If you can help me, I won't let you down."
Seeing Xu Yi happily agreeing, Akali's eyes immediately lit up and she quickly asked: "I heard from Steele that you don't have a female companion for this banquet?"
Xu Yi was startled and looked at Akali in confusion: "No. What? Do you want to be my female companion?"
Akali chuckled: "Mr. President, you are really wise. Yes, I want to be your female companion and go to the banquet with you. Are you willing?"
Xu Yi was a little surprised: "Why do you suddenly want to attend this banquet? This kind of banquet is very boring."
"Well... I just want to see something. How about it? Mr. President, can you promise me?" Akali showed a pleading expression.
"It's okay to take you there, but Akali, if you appear as my female companion on this occasion, aren't you worried that others will mistake you for my girlfriend?" Xu Yi joked.
Akali straightened her chest, which was not straight, and said with a smile: "As long as you agree, I will be very willing to be your girlfriend. But... forget it, if I really become your girlfriend. My friend, someone is going to be angry. President, are you willing to take me to the banquet?"
Xu Yi nodded: "Okay, since you want to go so much, then I will take you there."
"Great! President, you are such a good person!" Akali cheered, opened her arms and hugged Xu Yi vigorously, then suddenly let go and ran back into the house like a rabbit.
Seeing her figure disappear, Xu Yi couldn't help laughing and shaking his head.
These little girls really don’t know what is going on in their heads.