People living in Cecil often warn newcomers to this land: This territory was established by ancient heroes, so there are many things on the territory that seem strange and even unbelievable in this era. When facing things that challenge your three views, it's best not to make a fuss, because those things are basically harmless to humans and animals. If you really can't understand them, just treat them as ancient magic techniques and ancient relics.
The citizens of Cecil are used to seeing rumbling machines turning in the factory, and seeing a shiny silver-white metal ball floating around in the territory. And recently, they have to learn to get used to a new sight: getting used to seeing a strange woman with an upper body like a human and a lower body like a snake walking around in the streets and alleys, or strictly speaking, "arching around" ...
On the fourth week after winter, the weather was clear, windless, and cloudless. Gawain was heading to the newly completed "Rune Substrate Foundry" to inspect the production line, and the man who was following him But it was Tyr, the siren, who was almost impossible to appear outdoors under normal circumstances.
This siren seems to have finally temporarily adjusted her routine as if she was going to sleep to death. Since the last day of stars, she has entered a strange "excited state". Jane To put it simply, she couldn't sleep, couldn't lie down, and felt uncomfortable and wanted to do trouble, so she had to climb out of her beloved salt water tank and start wandering around in Cecil's territory. Gawain had no reason to put her there. He was under house arrest in the lord's mansion, but in order to prevent this guy with wonderful views from causing any trouble in the territory, he came up with a compromise, which was to let Tyr follow him around.
Now it seems that the siren lady is not dissatisfied with this: she is content as long as she can wander around.
Walking on the road leading to the factory area, Gawain couldn't help but turn back and glance curiously at Tier who was leaning forward beside him: "By the way, what on earth is going on with you? Why are you suddenly willing to go out and do some activities?"
"No way, who made the stars return to their alignment a while ago?" Tier was also obviously depressed. Her original intention was obviously to go back and find a saltwater pool. She slept until she died in one breath, but her current state was completely unable to calm down. "As magic power surges, the elements will also become active - we sirens are elemental creatures."
Gao Wenlue He raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You are... elemental creatures?"
"What? It doesn't look like it?" Tyr put his hands on his hips and patted the ground with the tip of his tail to strengthen his persuasion, "We They are elemental creatures!"
"The elemental creatures in my impression look different from yours..." Gawain explained in a dumbfounded voice, "The elemental creatures in my impression are the kind of chaotic ones. A guy whose body is unstable and must rely on spells or magic core to survive in the real world for a long time. Otherwise, he can only use elemental media as 'fuel' to appear in the world for a short time..."
Tear 1 With disdain on his face: "Those are all low-level goods. We sea monsters can do it in the real world."Elemental creatures that exist stably in the world are advanced. ”
Gawain had no time to argue with this sea monster. Anyway, these deep-sea gods of harmony dared to eat even the ancient gods as seafood. What else should they be surprised about? He was just curious about people like Tyr. How long can the state of being willing to come out and be active last: "Speaking of which, how long can you maintain this... active state? "
Tier thought for a moment and said uncertainly: "It's hard to say, about a month? "
When Gawain heard this, he couldn't help but frown and cast his gaze on the long tail trailing behind Tire: "Then if you really plan to be active for a month , it’s best to get used to walking upright, you dragging a tail around in the territory all day is too conspicuous..."
As he said this, he glanced slightly to the side. Circle, as expected, some curious and cautious sights were discovered. Those sights naturally came from the civilians and soldiers in the territory - if it were in other places, what a sea monster would cause would be hostility and panic, but here Here, due to the protection of Gawain and the "increased public immunity" caused by the frequent occurrence of strange things in the territory, people are more curious and cautious about Tyr's wonderful form. Of course, they are secretly panicked. People probably exist, but with Gawain standing here, who dares to say it?
Tear, however, didn't take Gawain's warning seriously, and she swayed in place like a seaweed. : "Anyway, me coming out like this didn't cause panic, right? And I think the people under your command are quite receptive. I dangled in front of their eyes a few more times, and they got used to it. They were all used to the big metal ball flying around in their territory. What? ”
Gawain really can’t refute this: In terms of the novelty of his image, Mr. Nicholas Egg, who is completely naked and has no personal appearance, is obviously more incredible than Tyr. At least he is a little siren. My sister is still half human, but Mr. Dan even has a face painted by Rebecca... In comparison, Tier's wandering around is really nothing.
"You have to thank Mr. Dan for laying the foundation for you. He has directly improved the ability of everyone in the entire territory to accept strange things countless times," Gawain said in a dumbfounded voice, "Well, since you are willing to do this, Then I won't interfere too much, but I still hope you can pay attention - human beings' ability to accept new things is limited, and it took them a lot of difficulty to adapt to an 'alien visitor' who walks with a snake tail or a fish tail. You go up Try not to use the octopus form and sea crab form that I mentioned last time..."
Tear curled her lips regretfully: She was originally thinking about the octopus form on land. Would it be more stable to walk, but he was killed before he could do it, which made Miss Siren very dissatisfied.
But she quickly forgot about this small displeasure. Because she finally saw the "factory that uses machines to produce items" that everyone in the territory was discussing and everyone was proud of.What does it look like.
Cecil Rune Foundry is a new factory that was "released" from the Machinery Manufacturing Institute not long ago. It is a link in Gawain's "industrial systemization" plan.
According to Gao Wen's plan, the Machinery Manufacturing Institute should not be a pure production department, but an "upstream" unit that integrates research and development, testing, and manufacturing of early prototypes. The role is to produce the first machine, not to carry out continuous and repeated mass production.
In a machinery manufacturing institute, a new industrial chain or link will go through the process from scratch. Craftsmen, apprentices and eggs will always complete the construction of the prototype machine and the trial production work based on this prototype machine. Once this chain or link matures and can become part of the industrial system, it should be independent from the machinery manufacturing plant in an appropriate manner, become an independent factory or a production line in a factory, and embark on independent development. , the road to industrialization.
This is the method that Gawain came up with to build the magic industrial system he conceived as soon as possible. Maybe it is not the best, but it is the most suitable choice for the current territory.
Only by shaping every link in the industrial chain and letting them start operating in their respective positions, and by thoroughly establishing a system of division of labor, cooperation and assembly line production, can the territory get rid of traditional industrial processes. We adopt the workshop-artisan production model and free ourselves from the inefficient and wasteful hodgepodge production.
In the Rune Foundry, Tire looked at the neatly arranged machines with amazement. He watched the hexagonal universal substrates being fed to the stamping machine one by one, and with a loud noise , the heavy steel hammer is driven by the heavy wheel to hit the surface of the substrate, printing complex rune indentations directly on the softer substrate material, and then these substrates are immersed in a mixed solution of quartz sand and thermal resin to complete the process. The rune grooves are filled with magic-guiding material, and the excess solution on the surface of the substrate will be scraped off and recycled in the next step. After the magic-guiding material in the groove solidifies, the base plate will be machine-polished to ensure that no magic-guiding material remains outside the rune grooves that will affect the spell effect - if it is a simpler rune base plate , the processing is completed at this step, and if it is more complex, then some manual processes are required, such as inlaying crystals in the reserved grooves.
This was completely different from the way land people made things that Tyr had heard about, but it reminded her of the processing factories in Antavien that had resumed operation.
While Tyr was curiously looking at the production scene of the Rune Foundry, Gawain was also carefully looking at the reaction of the siren.
The other party showed a curious expression on his face, which made Gawain feel slightly calmer - things were developing in the direction he hoped.
He doesn’t mind letting Tyr see the so-called “technical secrets” in his territory at all. In fact, if this usually lazy siren is willing, even if she wants to see the original design of the magic network He had no objection.
Because this sea monster comes from a society that is obviously much more advanced than human civilization. The place where she lives is even more developed than the elves’ Silver Empire.
He is not worried at all that Tyr will steal any technology - or in other words, if she is really interested in one of Cecil's technologies, Gawain will be even happier.
Only by arousing the curiosity and attention of this siren can he start a topic with the other party in the technical field. Although he really doesn't want to admit it, human civilization is obviously a "low-level civilization" in Tyr's eyes. Even if the siren lady herself does not mean any discrimination or contempt, the gap in technical level between the two is itself a given. The truth is that it needs no words.
In this case, Gawain needs to make some attempts to see if the "magic industry" being developed by Cecil's leader can arouse Tyr's interest. If the other party is interested, then the technology The topic can be easily expanded.
When the time was almost right, he came to Tire and asked, "How do you feel?"
"Very..." Tier opened his mouth. She originally wanted to use " "Advanced" was used as a compliment, but she soon thought that Gao Wen probably didn't need this kind of compliment, and the situation in the factory was really not at the point where it could be described as "advanced," so she changed her words and said, "It's very advanced." Interesting production method. Have you humans started mass-producing magic items in this way? I thought you were still making magic items in workshops and magic laboratories... After our last 'Wandering Sister' came back. That's what he said."
"In fact... other places on this continent are still like that," Gawain smiled bitterly and shook his head, "This should be the only one in front of you that can use it. A place where machines come to mass-produce magic arrays."