In the lord's mansion of Cecil City, a silver-white metal ball with a diameter of 1.3 meters and a pleasant funny smile on its surface hit the gate of the lord's mansion with moderate force, and behind the metal ball, there was still a floating With a metal box less than one meter long.
After two impacts, the door opened from the inside, and Betty in a maid dress appeared at the door. The little maid blinked and looked at the iron ball star outside the door, with a trace of surprise on her face: "Mr. Egg? You coming?"
Although this iron ball star seldom leaves his "mechanical throne", Betty is often driven around the city by Rebecca in various areas. The most frequent visits are several factories and research facilities, so she is naturally familiar with it. I saw "Mr. Egg" in front of me.
"Is the lord here?" There was a pleasant buzzing sound from inside the silver-white metal ball, "Or Miss Rebecca is also fine, I have something good to show them!"
Betty blinked and reacted for a second: "The lord and the lady are not here. They have gone to the Institute of Magic Technology, but they should be back soon."
Nicholas floated his chubby body up and down: "That's fine, I'll go in and wait."
The weird "Mr. Egg" is a master of mechanical technology in the territory, and a "person" that the lord values very much. Betty still knows this, so she directly took Mr. Egg to the second place of the mansion according to Gao Wen's previous instructions. In the study upstairs.
As the mechanical director of the territory, Nicholas Dan actually rarely leaves the Mechanical Research Institute, let alone the industrial area in the east of the city, but this does not mean that he does not understand what happened in the territory. Afterwards, he saw the map of the southern border hanging on the wall of the study room for the first time, and noticed that Cecil's logo had been pasted on the upper half of the map at the position marked as Rock Fortress.
"At least I can sleep soundly this way," said a low buzzing sound from inside the metal ball, "So many shells are finally not in vain."
The little maid, Betty, stood in the corner of the study, but she didn't know much about the lord's war, and she wasn't interested in it. What's going on in my head.
Nicholas waited in the study for a while, feeling a little bored, so he couldn't help talking to Betty: "Speaking of it, little girl, are you literate?"
Betty suddenly woke up from her mind-wandering state. She was startled, and then nodded a little uncertainly: "I know...although I don't recognize everything."
After saying this, the little maid seemed to have finally gotten into the mood, and belatedly realized that she hadn't entertained the guests yet, so she quickly picked up her big teapot from the side and walked towards Nicholas' Egg. , while the latter continued on his own: "Oh, just know the characters, you just need to know, then you usually read... Hey wait, what are you doing with the teapot?"
Nicholas "looked" at Betty with a funny face (he really didn't have any other expressions to use), and then saw the stupid little maid speak seriously: "Mr. Dan, would you like some black tea?"
Nicholas was stunned for a moment: "...you didn't realize that I have no mouth?!"
Betty seemed to have just carefully looked at the structure of the iron ball star in front of him, and went around twice as if looking for an opening to pour tea into. After finding that he really couldn't find it, he let out a long voice: " Eh... really not!"
"Nonsense, it's not like you don't know that my face is painted on," Nicholas shook his body and continued the topic just now, "Then if you can read, can you read newspapers?"
"Newspaper... I can understand it, and I usually read it," Betty nodded, with a happy look on her face, "The lord also gave me a set of stationery, including scissors and glue. He also taught me to cut out the content I like in the newspaper. Come down and make a book!"
After saying this, Betty walked around the Nicholas egg again: "... Mr. Egg, you really can't drink tea."
Nicholas couldn't understand why this little maid was so obsessed with drinking tea for the guests, but he was really worried that this stupid girl would insist on drilling a hole in himself to pour tea in, so he patiently explained: "I and You are different, I usually don’t need to eat or drink...or in other words, my way of eating is different from yours... "
Betty finally stopped wandering around, and looked at the metal ball in front of her with wide eyes curiously: "How does Mr. Egg usually eat?"
Nicholas said casually: "Oh, usually it is absorbed by the body surface..."
As soon as he said this, he realized that the little maid next to him might have misunderstood it, because the girl was looking up and down at his chubby body while shaking the big teapot in her hand, her face was full of enthusiasm, he saw Zhang quickly said: "Hey, put away the thoughts in your head. The body surface absorption I said does not include asking you to water me!"
A disappointed expression suddenly appeared on Betty's face: "... oh."
A question mark popped out of Nicholas' egg: "By the way, why are you so obsessed with serving tea to the guests?"
Betty showed her trademark sluggish expression again, and after reacting for two seconds, she suddenly said: "Sister Ginny said, she said that the most important thing for a maid in charge of receiving guests is to pour new tea for guests in time..."
"Ginny..." Nicholas recalled for a moment, and found that he had never heard of this name before, "Have you recruited a new maid at the Lord's Mansion?"
Betty shook her head loudly: "No, Sister Ginny was a maid in the previous castle. She was in charge of entertaining guests and she was the best among us."
After she finished speaking, she paused, as if she was recalling something, and then said: "Sometimes she would sneak the guests' leftover snacks into the kitchen and give them to us..."
"The castle before..." Nicholas muttered in a low voice, and he understood what was going on.
He noticed that Betty's mood was sinking, and realized that he had said something stupid earlier to bring up this stupid topic.
However, he didn't know how to comfort a human being, an upright creature with overly complex thinking and emotions, which has too many incomprehensible characteristics, which are far less simple and easy to understand than metal and machinery. He can only learn how he used to listen to human beings Consoling what he often said, he said dryly: "Don't be sad, everything will be fine."
"I'm not sad, I'm better now." Betty shook her head, as if she had regained her energy. "Mrs. Vincent said that life is the happiest thing."
Nicholas egg floated quietly beside Betty, once again realizing that humans really are a very complicated and very interesting creature.
And soon, the most complicated and interesting human being he'd ever known arrived.
Gawain pushed open the door of the study, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw Betty holding a teapot and a big metal ball standing beside Betty, he showed a smile: "Nicholas, I heard you brought a 'good thing' to give I read?"
Immediately behind Gawain, Rebecca poked her head out again, and Rebecca squeezed into the study: "I'm coming, I'm coming, Mr. Egg, what did you get out of it?! The engine for the car or the bearings for the boat?" ?”
In the entire "Cecile R&D and production system", the most closely related to Nicholas Egg's machinery manufacturing institute is the Magic Technology Research Institute managed by Rebecca. Some blueprints that have completed theoretical verification are entrusted to the Mechanical Research Institute for implementation, and such orders usually exceed the processing capabilities of ordinary "mechanical bachelors", and are usually handled by Nicholas Egg himself. Under normal circumstances, Nicholas Egg will always Holding a few orders from Rebecca.
So when I heard that Nicholas had brought "good things" to the Lord's Mansion, it wasn't Gawain who was most excited, but Rebecca.
On the other side, after greeting Nicholas Dan, Gao Wen looked at Betty who was holding a teapot, and he couldn't help showing a smile when he saw the teapot in the other's hand: "You didn't force our master craftsman to drink it?" Tea?"
"Mr. Egg has no mouth," Betty shook her head, "he can't drink."
"... You," Gawain shook his head helplessly and rubbed the little girl's hair, "Go back and rest."
Betty left the room, and President Nicholas came to Rebecca, and put the metal box that had been floating near him firmly on the ground: "Those two things are almost finished, but what I brought today is another Finished product from one order,"
The lock on the metal box opened automatically, and the lid popped up, and a metal roller device about 80 centimeters long, with rune interfaces visible at both ends, and a silver-white surface with subtle lines faintly floated out of it.
A proud voice sounded from Nicholas' egg: "It's not easy to realize its function. Although the principle and structure diagram are very clear, it is not easy to master the appropriate ratio of Mithril alloy. Even I have tested it for a long time before I can make it Can work stably. Miss Rebecca, accept your order."
"This..." Rebecca looked at the metal roller in surprise, "You finally succeeded!?"
After seeing the shape of the metal roller, Gao Wen vaguely guessed what it was, but he still turned to Rebecca for confirmation: "This is"
"This is the most important structure in the new printing machine you mentioned earlier!" Rebecca smiled brightly. In order to design this thing, the Institute of Magic Technology spent a lot of effort, "I call it the The 'Arcane Transfer Cylinder', with this, the fast plate making, easy editing, continuous printing, reusable printing press you asked for was created."
"Arcane transfer cylinder?" Gawain did not expect that Rebecca would follow his habit and create a new term for students. He repeated the word and became curious about the metal cylinder in front of him, "Can you demonstrate it now?" What? How does it work?"
"It also needs an input unit to work, but if you just want to see what it looks like after it starts up, you can just inject magic into this part..." Rebecca said while putting her hand on the metal cylinder At one end, "Carefully inject some magic power into it, and give the test symbols to... Hey ancestors, what are you doing..."
Gao Wen didn't wait for the girl to "inject magic power" and pulled her handcuff aside: "Let me do it and you don't blow up the house again."
After finishing speaking, he stopped responding to Rebecca's pouting and sulking appearance, but under the guidance of Nicholas Dan, he put his hand on one end of the metal device.
Some weak magic power was carefully poured into the metal cylinder.
Just a moment later, rows and rows of neatly arranged lines and symbols emitting faint blue light appeared on the surface of the silver-white metal cylinder.