"No more, no more." The old man Lich laughed after hearing this, with a smile on his face, but he still tried to look like "I just did something trivial."
Waving his hand, the Lich Old Man said: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that while you were out, I was bored and fiddled with it casually, and ended up with something like this. In addition to doing some chores, digging holes, Moving things around is of little use. Sometimes you just make mistakes, so don’t take it too seriously.”
While the old man Lich was speaking, the skeleton digging a hole in the distance exerted too much force and threw the shovel away. The skeleton grabbed the air and continued to dig on the spot for several more times before reacting. He slowly turned his head and scanned, locked the position of the shovel, walked close with heavy steps, bent down to pick it up, and walked back to the edge of the pit to continue digging.
Richard looked at it and couldn't help but smile in his heart, but he did not take it lightly. He said to the old man Lich: "Perhaps the work of this skeleton is indeed rough and error-prone, but the internal structure is still precise enough. Especially the rotation The design of the mechanism and the balance of the weight, in my opinion, all require considerable mathematical knowledge - Mr. Afu, I underestimated you before, your knowledge is higher than I thought."
"Haha, it's a trivial matter." The old man Lich said nonchalantly, "By the way, I'm planning to add another arm to this skeleton and install it in the heart, so that it can do things more conveniently."
"Three arms? Not a bad idea." Richard said, then paused and added, "But if there is an extra arm, the weight must be re-weighted to prevent it from affecting the center of gravity, and the structure of the back must be changed accordingly. It depends on the situation. Adding 10 to 20 kilograms of weight to the back, um, means adding about 18 to 36 pounds of weight. The specific value and location can only be determined through special calculations."
"Of course I thought of this." Old Lich said, "The values have been calculated a long time ago. I will adjust them after I take a rest... Wow!"
Halfway through his words, the old lich suddenly stopped, his expression changed, and he became a little weird.
Richard looked to the side in confusion and saw Pandora walking over, holding a half-bald golden retriever dog that looked somewhat like Bobo Bo Vicki in her left hand, and holding a piece of paper in her right hand.
"What is this?" Richard frowned slightly, looked at Pandora and asked, "Is there a problem that you can't solve?"
"No." Pandora shook her head, looked at the old man Lich Ah Fu, walked straight to the place, threw the paper in her hand to the old man Lich, and said, "Hey, old man, I took the time to calculate the things you asked me to do before. I have calculated it for you in advance. The value is 13.65 kilograms, which is 30.0930988 pounds. Well, come to think of it, you can't be that accurate, so just remember 30 pounds.
Okay, I've finished the work for you. Then as you promised me, your dog will continue to follow me these days. By the way, before I calculated for you a lot of things for steering and trimming weight, you promised that your dog would follow me for fifteen days. Counting the five days this time, the total is twenty days. Ten days have just passed, so there are still ten days left. After ten days, I will return the dog to you. gone. "
After speaking, Pandora quickly turned around and led the golden retriever dog towards the side.
The big golden retriever dog looked at the old man Lich with a nostalgic look, as if to say: "Are you just going to leave me to someone else?"
The old man Lich's face was full of embarrassment. He did not look at the big golden retriever dog and turned his head to look at the air beside him. The atmosphere in the place was a bit weird.
After a while, when Pandora walked away, the old Lich looked up at Richard and asked seriously: "Um... I will say now that the iron pipe inside the skull was made by me myself, and that little girl It has nothing to do with it at all, do you believe it?”
"Guess." Richard looked at the old lich and said calmly.
"I..." The old lich's eyes widened and he almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Forget it, believe it or not..." The old man Lich waved his hands loosely, with a bit of dejection on his face, and lay back on the easy chair, "You'd better go plant a tree over there quickly. , I don’t care about the rest.”
"Then you can rest. But I won't be able to use your hole, so I'd better let the skeleton fill it up." Richard glanced at the old Lich and said.
"brush!"
The old Lich man who just lay down quickly sat up, looked at Richard, and said in surprise: "Well, why, my pit is not used, why? I didn't dig it well, it's too shallow? It's okay, I can make that skeleton Dig deeper.”
"No, it's not a matter of depth, but I don't trust putting the tree heart in the soil at all." Richard looked at the tree heart in his hand and said, "After all, this is an immortal species, although I won't be like the Truth Society. That way, it will be destroyed at all costs, but I will not take it lightly.
If you really plant the opponent in the soil, you will give the opponent a layer of protection and a layer of camouflage. The above-ground parts can be seen, but the underground parts are difficult. I don't want to let the other party control the entire underground of this space without knowing it - there will be endless troubles. Therefore, some restrictions must be made, and other methods must be used to resurrect and grow the other party for easy supervision. "
"What method is that?" the old lich asked.
"Soilless cultivation." Richard said softly. Without saying anything more, he held the heart of the tree and walked into a room next to it.
"hiss-"
The old Lich looked at Richard's back, took a breath, and showed a pondering expression. He tilted his head and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what "soilless cultivation" was.
"Cultivation without soil? No soil?" The old man Lich pursed his lips, "Is it an ancient way of planting elves that has been lost? No way, in my time before, elves were all legends, and nothing was left. Now, there is something left behind?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible." The old Lich shook his head, stood up with some curiosity, and followed Richard into the room.
The interior of the room had obviously been remodeled by Richard in advance. All irrelevant things had been cleared away, leaving only a stone platform.
There is a patterned glass pool on the stone platform. It is more than three meters long, more than one meter wide, and only a few centimeters deep. Several glass pillars stand in the center of the pool, and they don't know what to do.
The pool was filled with a colorless and transparent liquid. The old man Lich subconsciously felt that it was not water, but it was unclear what it was. In addition, he also saw that there were conduits at both ends of the pool for injecting liquid and discharging liquid, allowing the liquid to flow slowly. He didn't know what the purpose was.
At this time, Richard held a light gray board with both hands and gently placed it into the pool.
The board is about one meter square and looks very light. It floats directly after being placed in the pool.
There was a hollow in the center of the board, and Richard put the heart of the tree inside. Then he moved the board slightly so that it was fixed on the glass pillar in the center of the pool, and nodded lightly.
The old Lich frowned and looked at Richard and asked, "Is this the end? Is this what you call soilless... cultivation?"
"right."
"Can this work? How can it be successful without soil?"
"Would you know if you take a look?" Richard said softly, without further explanation.
"Okay." The old man Lich patiently looked at the heart of the tree on the board. His eyelids twitched and he saw many fine milky white fibrous roots sticking out from one end of the heart of the tree, swinging slowly in the air.