The construction of the camp needs to be done slowly. Although Gao Wen has written a lot of systems and plans, and even has a draft plan for the next step of expanding the camp and perfecting it as a permanent residence, these things are not completed overnight. Achievable—Considering the knowledge level of most people in this era, the literacy rate of civilians and serfs is zero, knights can only do basic reading and writing, and warriors trained by families (non-serf soldiers) can only clearly write their own names And figure out the number within one hundred, so the advancement of many things must be done slowly.
What's more, there is no manpower here, and the current Cecil collar can't support many people.
Deeply aware of this fact, Gawain returned to his tent and sat at the desk.
This desk can be said to be one of the few finished furniture brought by the team from Tanzania Town. It may take some time until the carpenters use the wood obtained from the forest in the west to make the first batch of furniture—the wood for making furniture It can't be too improvised like a simple board room, so having a table is the biggest benefit for Gao Wen as the lord of this place.
There is a lot of papers spread out in a mess on the desk, and the papers are full of various things: construction plans, material statistics, camp sketches, and a rough future construction plan, including walls, docks, and residential areas , Production areas, cultivated land, etc. are all arranged on it, ink, dip pens, pencils and a wooden ruler are placed on one side of the desk, and an amber is lying on the other side of the desk.
Gao Wen stepped forward and grabbed Amber by the collar and slipped her away. The half-elf girl was still awake when she was picked up, but just halfway through being lifted, she screamed ahh, and then disappeared into a shadow Gawain's hands, and recondensed his body not far away.
"You scared me!!" Amber seemed to be awake, and stared at Gao Wen angrily, "I thought there was an earthquake!"
Gawain looked at this guy feeling annoyed and amused: "I told you to look at the things in the tent, is that how you guard the door?"
Amber's face was full of righteousness: "My whole body is thrown on these ghostly symbols of yours, okay?"
Gao Wen glanced down at the table, then raised his head and glanced at Amber: "You're still drooling on it?!"
"Who can control it when you're asleep," Amber murmured, then watched Gawain curiously sit down at the desk, and leaned over again, "What are you doing? I'm going to start drawing you again." Is it a ghost drawing?"
"This is not a ghost drawing, but a plan, a regulation, and a construction drawing." Gawain was very troubled by this ignorant half-elf. "These things are the basics of the camp—that's why I let you look at them."
Amber picked up a piece of paper with symbols and numbers and looked at it for a long time, then curled her lips: "What a mess, I can't understand it at all."
Gao Wen looked at the other party helplessly: "You took it upside down."
Amber looked innocent: "I've never seen any of your blueprints. It's even harder than a magic formula. How can I figure out the pros and cons!"
"So you need to learn. Knowledge is very important." Gawain sighed. He was not surprised that Amber couldn't understand these things: a little thief, who had never received an orthodox education since childhood, was completely educated by his adoptive father and concurrently. With the hands-on teaching of her master, she has learned a set of sneaking skills, coupled with an inexplicable talent for shadow affinity, she is enough to wander and take risks in this world. For her, learning culture has neither this condition nor This is necessary, so Amber's cultural level is actually only up to basic reading and writing, and the blueprints he drew not only contain a bunch of weird nouns, but also carry various data and shorthand marks. This thing is thrown to Hetty. I'm afraid the other party is also confused...
Thinking of Hetty, Gawain looked into Amber's eyes: "I asked you to learn more from Rebecca or Hetty in your spare time. It seems that you didn't take it to heart at all."
"That's so boring, and I don't like dealing with nobles," Amber rolled her eyes, "Besides, your great beauty was... your great-granddaughter was so busy, so she didn't have time to talk to me. Rebecca is more relaxed, But she always tries to throw me with a big fireball."
Gao Wen looked at the other party with a half-smile: "I don't like dealing with nobles—but I think you are quite open-minded when dealing with me."
Amber said truthfully: "I always feel that you don't look like a nobleman..."
"You are also far from the elves in my impression." Gawain said, and began to arrange and gather the papers in front of him to the side. At the same time, he took out the few crystals and spread them out on the table one by one.
Amber muttered: "I'm a half-elf, and I was picked up by humans. I don't know what a serious elf is... Eh? You don't write anything today? You want to study these stones?"
After confirming that these crystals had no magic power and Gao Wen didn't plan to sell them for money, these things were downgraded from crystals to stones in Amber's eyes.
Gawain looked at the half-elf with a bit of a headache: "I would be very grateful if you could be quiet by the side."
Amber: "Tch, it's meaningless at all, you should study your stone."
As she spoke, her body swayed and gradually disappeared as if melting into the air, but through the faint perception of breath, Gawain could be sure that this guy was still standing where he was, and was continuing to stare at him curiously.
Forget it, as long as she can stop, let her go.
Gawain focused on the crystal in front of him.
For some time now, the research on these crystals has been almost without progress.
On the road, he took out the crystal more than once to observe it carefully. When he was in Tanzania Town, he asked Hetty to use magic resonance to try to probe the inside of the crystal, but there was no progress, especially the magic resonance—Hetty admitted frankly that these crystals have nothing to do with magic The items are completely untouched, and when the magic power acts on them, there is no ripple at all, just like facing a stone.
But seven hundred years ago, Gawain Cecil treasured it in the mithril safe, and bought crystals for permanent preservation in the mithril treasury. Could it be some inconspicuous stones
Gawain can only boldly assume that these crystals definitely have something special, but their special feature is not at the level of magic.
Or that current theories of magic cannot explain them.
He put the apparently shards aside and picked up the whole piece.
Those broken crystals have exposed a part of the inner crystal structure, but it is difficult to observe accurately with the naked eye. After Hetty's magic laboratory is built and there is a crystal resonator, you can try to check it from the aspect of physical structure, and this piece Complete... It makes people not dare to worry about it.
God knows if the crystal resonator will destroy some kind of "information" inside the crystal.
He lifted the crystal and observed it through light.
On the crystal clear and beautiful ridge line, you can see the light cruising, and as the incident angle changes, each side and each line of it presents various colors and light structures.
This is a crystal with extremely precise geometry, and its processing technology should be very superb, and when using those broken crystals for testing, Gao Wen has already verified that these crystals have amazing strength—extremely hard and unlike ordinary brittleness So shatterable are crystals that they can easily scratch mithril bars without fraying the tips.
This made him wonder how the four crystal shards broke like that.
After observing the sunlight for a while, Gawain tried to cut his finger again, and smeared a little blood on the surface of the crystal before the wound healed itself.
Of course, it's useless.
It was vaguely like hearing the sound of a half-elf holding back a laugh...
Blocking the amber, Gawain held the crystal and fell into deep thought, thinking that there are more and more things in this world that I don't understand - crystals of unknown origin, memories that disappear inexplicably, suspected gaseous giant planets, but their nature The "sun" which is quite different from the normal gas giant planets, and those "surveillance satellites" that should still hang in the sky, whose purpose and origin are unknown...
Just as his thoughts diverged to the "monitoring satellite", he suddenly felt a little heat in his hand.
At first he thought it was an illusion, but then the crystal trembled slightly, and the light blue light in its core lightened up slightly.
Heat, tremors, and light, the combination of these three points cannot be an illusion.
Gao Wen looked at the crystal in astonishment, but before he picked up a pen to record the changes in the crystal, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind—
It was a sound, but it was more like information pouring directly into the spiritual world, and he "listened" to understand its content:
"The mental frequency is reset and the connection is being re-established."
Immediately afterwards, he felt that his consciousness was in a trance.
It was as if something suddenly intervened in his thoughts, and some "data flow" that did not belong to him came in, but the data flow was not an intruder, because after a short moment of astonishment, he felt something about it. There was an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
These "familiar data streams" quickly produced corresponding clear things in my mind.
Some pictures began to appear in his mind.
That is the scene of looking down on the earth from a high altitude.
In the first instant, what came to Gao Wen's mind was neither surprise nor consternation, but a shit.
"Fuck me, am I going to heaven again?!"
Cold sweat immediately flowed down from his forehead.
But soon he discovered that the situation was not as he had imagined. He was still sitting on the chair, his soul had not been separated from his body and returned to the sky as a synchronous satellite. All his perceptions were still normal, and his body was under control. Freedom, it's just that there is an extra picture in my mind.
This made him calm down a lot for a moment, and then he became excited and focused on the picture in his mind.
Only then did he notice that there was a big abnormality in the picture, it was completely different from what he was familiar with.
The picture became blurred, and it seemed to have a weird color distribution as if a layer of filter was added. It was smeared into groups like the image formed by a thermal imager, and it could only be roughly judged such as mountains, forests, and rivers. structure, and this vague and weird picture is still limited to a small area.
That was the northern side of the Dark Mountain Range, the surrounding area of the New Cecil Territory. From above, one could vaguely see the Whitewater River, the western forest, and even the shadow of a camp.
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