In the auction venue, no one spoke for three seconds. The scene was a bit deserted, and the host couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Turning his head to look at this, then turning his head to look at that, his lips couldn't help but tighten.
But the host also expected this situation.
In fact, this happens once or twice in every auction - after all, the auctioneer is not a fool or easy to coax. If you want to sell a useless thing at a high price, in addition to good eloquence, you also need a little luck - now luck It is used up.
"call-"
Taking a deep breath, the host was about to announce that the auction had been rejected. Who knew, at this moment, a sign was raised.
Richard said: "I want one thousand gold coins!"
"Huh?" The host was stunned.
Richard repeated: "I want one thousand gold coins."
"Uh." The host then reacted and looked at Richard with an expression that was both grateful and strange.
There was no change in Richard's face hidden under the cloak.
The reason why he did this was not because of good intentions, nor because he wanted to find something missing, nor because he suddenly changed his temper - he was interested in corpse oil painting, just because of... the frame.
Well, the picture frame.
If he read it correctly, the frame should be a relatively rare metal. Although it is a bit expensive to buy it with a thousand gold coins, it is likely to be used in some of his recent experiments. It is not too much of a loss to buy it, and it can save a lot of trouble.
The host on the stage didn't know this, and just thought it was Richard who was kindly saving the situation. He smiled, confirmed that no one was competing with Richard, a "kind fool", and happily announced the ownership of the painting: "Then this one The painting will be obtained by auctioneer No. 21."
Afterwards, the host swallowed his saliva, moistened his throat, and said: "Okay, we have the next auction item..."
The auction goes on like this...
During the subsequent auction, Richard occasionally took action. In addition to taking down a few small magic spell props, all he got at the auction were "junk" that were worthless in the eyes of others, which made the people around him unhappy at all. How much malice comes out.
When the host saw Richard being so supportive, his smile almost burst into tears. His attitude towards Richard was extremely friendly, and he sincerely expressed the hope that Richard could participate in the next junk sale... er, auction.
Richard was noncommittal about the host's invitation. After the auction, he simply handed over the money and left with a box of auction items.
Without being followed or robbed along the way, Richard successfully returned to the place he rented in Florence.
…
In the afternoon, in a remote corner of the southeast corner of Florentia, a slightly shabby courtyard stood. Richard came back and walked in the door.
This is the place that Richard rented shortly after he came to Florence. The surrounding environment is similar to the courtyard in White Rock City - remote, quiet, undisturbed, without the risk of being spied on, and access is not too troublesome. .
In addition, the courtyard here is one inch larger than the courtyard in Baishi City - it is a three-entry courtyard.
Due to the perfection of the Garden of Eden, most experiments do not need to be conducted outside. Although the courtyard area is larger, many of the rooms have not been modified and are simply used as temporary storage warehouses for materials.
Only a small number of rooms have been processed and some experimental equipment has been placed. They are mainly used to conduct some experiments that are not easy to conduct in the Garden of Eden - such as experiments that must be conducted under natural light and natural environmental conditions.
"Squeak!"
After closing the door smoothly, Richard walked quickly through the yard and arrived at the last house he entered.
This was an ordinary-looking study room with nothing weird about it, but Richard walked to the bookshelf and pulled a switch on the bookshelf. A downward passageway entrance immediately slid open in the corner of the room.
Walking down the entrance of the passage, more than ten meters underground, you entered an empty hall covering an area of more than 100 square meters.
The walls of the hall are inlaid with several fluorescent stones, which emit a dim luster and barely illuminate everything.
You can see a half-meter-high stone platform in the center of the hall, with a suitcase placed on it.
Richard walked over and did not pick up the suitcase. Instead, he bent down and opened a hidden compartment under the stone platform. He pulled out a suitcase that was exactly the same as the one on the platform and opened it.
White light was faintly revealed from the suitcase, and Richard walked into the white light carrying the wooden box.
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Garden of Eden.
Richard appeared here carrying a wooden box.
After several months, the Garden of Eden has changed a lot.
The first change is that the power system has been upgraded, the upper limit of energy supply has been increased, and the lines have been optimized to reduce the probability of power failure.
The second change is that around the main laboratory in the center, many functional sectors around it have been improved, and the new additions include experimental animal breeding sectors, mechanical processing sectors, etc.
Richard focused on improving the machining sector. He invested a lot of energy and built a lot of equipment. He almost completely used up the parts that Pandora had worked hard to process for so long.
After appearing in the Garden of Eden, Richard looked around the Garden and found that there were no problems. He was sure that Pandora had not caused any trouble and felt relieved.
First, he walked to the lighting console of the main laboratory, adjusted the light intensity in the Garden of Eden to the four-hour sunrise state, which was consistent with the outside world, and then walked to the machining sector.
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Machining Sector, Research Laboratory.
This is a white room covering an area of more than fifty square meters, with many sophisticated-looking instruments inside. In the corner, there is a wooden table, and next to the wall are several bookshelves with numerous books and scrolls on them.
Richard walked in, walked to the wooden table, put the wooden box aside casually, then took down a few scrolls from the bookshelf, opened them and browsed, trying to find the train of thought he had left off last time.
There was a piece of knowledge he got from the treasures on the island. He was thinking about it on the way to Moore, and he studied it seriously after settling in Florentia.
The more we study, the more complex and difficult we find, which of course also shows that it is of extremely high value.
This knowledge is another application of magic patterns.
The so-called other application is not to put it on magic props to produce some magical magic effects, nor to put it on white jade pieces and other items to make explosives, but to put it on larger-scale instruments, through many magic patterns to interact with each other. connections and superpositions to play a systematic role.
To put it simply, if the general magic pattern effect is an attacking cannonball, then the effect of this application is a multi-stage launch vehicle that can travel in space, but it is still a multi-stage spell launch vehicle.
This method is no longer simply about carving lines and exerting specific spell effects through the collision of mana or free energy elements. This method, compared with the ordinary method, applies magic patterns more fundamentally, more deeply, and more profoundly.
If the previous magic pattern was simply regarded as a circuit diagram, then the current magic pattern is equivalent to a highly integrated chip - a spell chip.
A circuit can be used to control a light switch and only a light switch.
A chip is different and can do a variety of things depending on how it is made.
This is the core of the magic pattern, and this is the right direction of research!