mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 951 Equipment Upgrade
Rebecca Levy hurriedly went to buy New Year's goods with Tang Qunying.

The journey was long, and neither Jiang Jian, Tang Qunying, nor the new civil servants who joined Lubin Prefecture returned to their hometown.

"Xi Tao, New Year's Eve is a grand occasion. Is it okay to prepare an appetizer, soup, side dish, main dish, vegetable and fruit dessert, one main dish and six side dishes?"

Tang Qunying shook her head, "The Spring Festival evolved from the ancient New Year's prayers and sacrifices. Food, clothing, accessories, pastings, greetings and exchanges are all called New Year's goods. In the peaceful years, we also rely on the weather for food. You, me, Nina, and the prefect, it is enough to cook six dishes and make dumplings, and the rest of the money can be used for other things. Don't be extravagant, and don't follow the Western way, otherwise you will end up making things worse and offend your sweetheart."

Rebecca Levi immediately became nervous: “Xitao, it’s still you who makes the decision, I’ll pay the money.”

Tang Qunying rolled her eyes.

Two women, wrapped in thick cotton jackets, wandered on the bustling streets of Lubin Prefecture, while carriages and coachmen were waiting outside to load goods.

This year's Lubin Prefecture is really lively.

Since the Qing army entered the pass and established its capital in Beijing, Manchus and Han people have lived together, and the economic and cultural exchanges and influences of each other have been close.

The customs of the Han people were absorbed by the Manchus, and the Spring Festival became a common custom of the Han and Manchus.

Tang Qunying took Rebecca Levi to buy rice cakes and fire spoons first, saying that they would be used when offering sacrifices to the ancestral tablets.

And buy some rosin candles.

Beef, mutton, chicken, fish, deer and pork, among which deer and pork are both game.

Yogurt wine, simmered pot, tea cakes, sugar balls, tobacco...

Rebecca Levy was attracted by the peach wood carvings of Shentu, Yulei, Qin Shubao, Yuchi Jingde, Fulu, Panzi and other door gods, and she couldn't leave for a while.

Later, I saw all kinds of Spring Festival couplets and wanted to buy them all.

Tang Qunying hurriedly stopped him: "What you are looking at are Manchu Spring Festival couplets. The custom of Spring Festival couplets was passed down to the Manchus by the Han people. The Han people used red paper to write, while the Manchus used white paper. Influenced by the Han people, the Manchus also began to believe that white is unlucky, so they decorated the white paper Spring Festival couplets with blue and red borders. As for us, we naturally have to buy all red ones."

Rebecca Levy suddenly realized.

She still had a lot to learn.

As for the wooden horses, sanxian, flutes, huqin, ghost face masks, single ropes, stilts, unicycles, etc. in the market, they are the things needed by the local Mongolian people for the Spring Festival celebrations.

The Han people call it the Spring Festival, while the Manchu people call it New Year's Day.

It is different from the New Year's Day on January 1st of the Western calendar in later generations.

The two girls went around and around, lingering in the market for a whole day, picking and choosing, comparing prices, and finally they managed to gather all the New Year's goods they needed.

When I got home to unload the goods, I went into the house and saw that Zhao Chuanxin had not come back yet.

Rebecca Levy was a little panicked: "The Spring Festival is coming, and he still hasn't come back. Why do you think so?"

"If you can relax, he might come back." Tang Qunying said helplessly.

"Xi Tao is right." Rebecca Levi nodded in agreement, and then continued to mutter worriedly: "Why hasn't he come back yet?"

Tang Qunying: "..."

I'm afraid he's possessed by a demon.

……

Zhao Chuanxin was in the white house in Quetshalan at this time.

Around two o'clock in the morning in Quetshalan, the area around the white house was unusually quiet.

Zhao Chuanxin and Xingyue now need a quiet environment where they will not be disturbed.

Light a lamp in the yard and a lamp in the house.

It seemed that there was only one house in the whole town with lights on.

Villa Galvez got up at night and saw a dim, flickering light like a ghost fire in the distance in the white house. He couldn't help but shiver.

These days, he could see the lights on in the house every night, the door was locked during the day, and the windows were tightly blocked by curtains.

Afraid it's haunted?
He pulled up his trousers guiltily, glanced at the starry night sky, finally dispelling the coldness in his heart, and hurriedly turned back to the house.

In the white house, Xingyue manipulated the black puppet craftsman to grind the true vision crystal lens for several days.

In the past few days, Zhao Chuanxin has not updated the "Code of Old Gods".

Apart from eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, he spends every day accompanying Xingyue in building their "new eyes".

Each piece of True Vision crystal is first cut into a roughly circular shape, and then the surface is ground with an elf knife to ensure that the spherical curvature radius of the lens meets the requirements.

The surface of the lens is then ground and polished with a shaped diamond grinder, and then finely polished with silk fabrics of various mesh sizes to make it highly smooth and translucent.

This will create a basic lens.

The new eyes that Xingyue wants to build are equivalent to optical lenses and require multiple sets of lenses.

These lenses need to fit tightly into the lens barrel, and since there is no suitable plastic with a low coefficient of thermal expansion, the lens barrel has to be made of fine steel.

The inner and outer diameters of the lens must meet the assembly requirements, and the lens barrel is integrally formed and wrapped.

The edges of the lenses need to be inked to reduce reflections and stray light from the inner surface of the lens.

These processes are complex and delicate.

Xingyue's True Vision Crystal Eyes could not achieve the microscopic effect, and the ground lenses did not meet the parameter requirements, so they could only make do with it at first.

After putting on the new eye, use the new eye for more detailed polishing.

True Vision Crystal has an imaging effect that can be far or near. After high-precision grinding, the microscopic effect is excellent, surpassing all contemporary microscopes.

This cycle repeats until Xingyue is satisfied.

With a high-precision adjustable-focus microscope as eyes, Xingyue first transformed and upgraded the central control rune fragments in the body of the puppet servant.

The central control rune fragment is the puppet's computing and control core and is the final unit for information processing and command execution.

Xingyue upgraded the puppet slaves with the central control rune fragments, replacing the original low-grade micro-processing silk with finer high-grade processing silk, and grinding the gem inlays smaller. Not only did he integrate the computing path and the control path into the same baseboard, but the instruction system was also initially improved.

Xingyue calls it the superscalar filament flow structure.

The central control rune fragment is of the same size, but it can already control the parallel movement trajectories of all the silk threads in the puppet slave.

With this transformation and upgrade, the puppet slaves' movement accuracy is comparable to that of black puppet craftsmen.

At this time, Xingyue controlled the puppet slaves to dismantle the black puppet craftsman, and used the microscope to create new central control rune fragments and install them into the body of the black puppet craftsman.

After the black puppet craftsman has completed the upgrade, control the black puppet craftsman to grind the True Vision Crystal Lenses with higher precision.

The process is extremely tedious and requires a lot of patience.

After the Black Puppet Craftsman installs a more advanced True Vision Crystal Lens Set, use the Puppet Servant and the Black Puppet Craftsman to upgrade each other.

The cycle repeats itself until there is no more room for upgrading.

星月将中控符文碎片由8条虫丝处理架构，升级到16根、32根、64根、128根，256根，最后512根为止。

At this time, the black puppet craftsman can process action tasks in high parallelism with multiple cores.

Then Xingyue began to transform the soft golden armor for Zhao Chuanxin.

First upgrade the central control rune fragments, then update the silk power system.

In the past, the "metal" of the Star and Moon species was very sloppy, but the soft gold armor shell components he remade had the soft gold "seed" of moderate thickness, every inch of the joints was precise, and the sealing material had a very high degree of fit.

In the deep sea, under the high pressure of the sea water, even a trace of water vapor entering will be considered unqualified.

After evolving his eyes, Xingyue could "see" the subtle differences between black, white and soft gold.

Black soft gold has higher protection effect and higher density, but is less flexible.

Therefore, black is used as the base material.

The protective effect of white soft gold is slightly worse, but it is highly flexible and can easily stretch and deform and then rebound after being subjected to force. Therefore, the stars and moons are connected with black soft gold strips on the shoulder blades, inner and outer sides of the arms, elbows, wrists, hips, inner and outer sides of the thighs, etc.

If the armor is hit by a bullet, the white soft gold acts as a shock absorber, reducing weight, increasing the protective effect, and achieving the purpose of shock absorption and damage prevention.

From the appearance, the new soft gold armor is mainly black, with some regular white lines.

I have to say it, I really have to say it, the modified soft golden armor looks so cool.

Xingyue told Zhao Chuanxin: "Now, your armor has surpassed the old emperor's Chaos Armor in performance, so this armor is qualified to be called - Chaos Armor."

Before Zhao Chuanxin could test the performance of the Chaos Armor, he continued to transform the Eight-edged Light Sword with Xingyue.

Zhao Chuanxin and Xingyue tried several metal forging methods and alloys in succession, but none of them were enough to crush the puppet soldiers' light sword base materials.

The performance of Zhao Chuanxin's Chaos Armor has been improved, but the strength increase is limited.

He needs to overcome force with ingenuity.

The best way is to truly “cut iron like mud”.

Not only is the strength of the light blade enhanced, but the base material is also stronger than the light knife. The combination of the two can easily fight against the old emperor's pure light blade.

Finally, unable to choose the best material, Xingyue suggested: "Maybe we should try to add the Light Blade Rune to your Elf Carving Knife."

"Uh..." Zhao Chuanxin was not very willing.

The elf carving knife can not only be used in war, but also as a little helper in life. Zhao Chuanxin really doesn't want to take risks with it.

Xingyue advised: "Even if it fails, it won't damage the Elf Carving Knife."

"What if you break it?" Zhao Chuanxin asked hesitantly.

Xingyue said calmly: "Then just pretend I never said that."

"..."

When did Xingyue start to become bad?

Lao Zhao is the kind of person who will not believe you the more you swear. On the contrary, he will try it anyway.

It is a model of not moving forward when being led, and moving backward when being beaten.

Xingyue made a long hilt to accommodate the entire contracted elf carving knife.

Hidden inside it are silk threads and Light Blade rune fragments, as well as simple central control rune fragments and energy gems.

In the first test, the extended elf carving knife cut through all the silk threads - a failure.

Xingyue calculated silently and rejected countless plans.

Seeing that Xingyue was at his wit's end, Zhao Chuanxin suddenly said, "Nikola Tesla believed that Edison's DC model was inefficient. Due to voltage limitations, DC power can only be transmitted a little over 3 kilometers from the generator to the user, and a large number of power stations are needed to provide electricity. So he proposed using AC power, which switches direction 60 times per second, so that it can cover longer distances with minimal power loss. When I saw that the old emperor could now launch light blades over long distances, I suddenly thought of AC power. Why don't you try this idea?"

Xingyue immediately tried to use the central control rune fragment to change the light blade rune fragment to activate the direction.

laugh……

A blade of light shot out, creating a hole in the rocky ground.

Zhao Chuanxin was shocked and retreated.

If this cut his foot, everyone would probably call him - Zhao the Cripple.

Xingyue began to upgrade the central control rune fragments, changing the simple 16-thread silk processing architecture to 32.

Switches the Light Blade Rune Fragment's oscillation frequency from 30 times per second to 60 times per second.

The light blade emitted from the handle was a little shorter, and it shot a hole in the window glass of the white house. The light blade hit a mesquite tree thirty meters away and disappeared.

Xingyue said: "It's really short and long."

Zhao Chuanxin asked: "Can it be thicker and longer?"

Xingyue: "That's impossible, absolutely impossible."

Xingyue changed the 60 vibrations to 20 times, and a long blade of light shot out, slowly and quickly disappearing three meters away.

Xingyue said: "Although it is long, it disappears very quickly."

Zhao Chuanxin shook his head and sighed: "It won't last long."

The star and moon will oscillate from 20 times to 10 times.

A blade of light shot out from the handle without any carrier, and actually extended about one and a half meters in front of the handle without dispersing.

Zhao Chuanxin's breathing quickened.

Xingyue said: "When the oscillation frequency is high, the range increases, the power is small, and the energy consumption is large. When the oscillation frequency is low, the range is short, the power is large, and the energy consumption is low. You are right, Nikola Tesla is indeed a genius."

Xingyue upgraded the Light Blade Rune fragments, reducing their size and increasing their performance, and then madly installed 24 Light Blade Rune fragments in the limited space on the hilt.

He manipulated the central control rune fragment to activate the hilt.

no response.

Zhao Chuanxin frowned: "Failed?"

Xingyue said: "No, it consumes more gems."

He installed six gems in the hilt at the same time.

laugh……

24 light blades popped out at the same time, condensing into a lightsaber made of pure light blades without any base material.

The black puppet craftsman handed the lightsaber to Zhao Chuanxin, who swung the hilt of the sword, cutting the window diagonally as if it were nothing, but the glass did not fall apart.

After collecting the light blade, the black puppet craftsman took over the hilt, and Xingyue rearranged the light blade rune fragments.

The sword spine and the sword edge are densely covered with shining blades, and the rest of the parts are even hollow.

It handed the hilt to Zhao Chuanxin: "Try it again now?"

This time the window was cut more smoothly and the cut lines were more delicate.

Zhao Chuanxin recalled the details of the battle with the puppet soldiers and frowned, "It is indeed amazing to have no base material. But have you ever thought about this: when the puppet soldier's light blade comes at me, I use my lightsaber to block it. If the opponent's light blade cuts my light blade, then I will be defenseless against the light blade?"

"Absolutely impossible." Xingyue said confidently: "Although the Old Emperor controls the Light Blade Rune, he has not brought out the potential of the rune. The world thinking of the Old God Code is different from that of Earth. They have gone astray. Just look at the upgraded eyes of the Old Emperor and the puppet soldiers. They have evolved in the direction of vision, not focusing. The True Vision Crystal Craftsman that the Old Emperor has recruited should have ground the lens, but he does not understand the lens combination. He is not using a lens, but a magnifying glass at most."

Zhao Chuanxin remembered the old emperor firing light blades, whose range, power and length were all the same.

It was obvious that the old emperor only accidentally mastered a certain light blade oscillation frequency and did not even understand the principle.

And he and Xingyue, based on Nikola Tesla's ideas, fully mastered the secret of the light blade.

Seeing that Zhao Chuanxin was really worried, Xingyue installed 32 light blade rune fragments and eight energy gems on the hilt.

The cost of a lightsaber was staggering, and it almost used up all of Zhao Chuanxin's family fortune.

Xingyue put the elf carving knife into the back end of the hilt.

The lightsaber can be ejected from the front, and after the lightsaber is put away, the elf carving knife can be ejected from the back, making it a dual purpose weapon.

Zhao Chuanxin said very loyally: "This time I'll let you name this new sword."

Xingyue was not polite either: "Let me name the sword - Chunguang."

Chun Guang Sword, what a sexy name.

Xingyue adapted the principle of directional oscillation based on the light blade and made a light blade gun for Zhao Chuanxin using soft gold. The magazine was not filled with bullets but a low-level blue crystal.

Xingyue said: "This gun can fire light blades, which are similar in power to the old emperor's light blades. The range is up to 20 meters, and it is indestructible. It is not affected by wind direction, and the accuracy is % within meters. However, water vapor, dust, and particles in the air will affect the power. A low-level azure crystal can fire light blades."

Zhao Chuanxin looked out the window and saw a stone fifty meters away.

Xingyue provided the sight and night vision functions on the glasses, and Zhao Chuanxin raised his hand and fired a shot.

laugh……

After the glasses shared the field of view of the black puppet craftsman's telescope and focused, Zhao Chuanxin clearly saw that there was a hole in the depression of the fist-sized stone.

It really hits wherever you point.

A low-level blue crystal worth 2 gold coins can emit 20 light blades.

The cost of this "bullet" is too high.

Xingyue said: "Take a rest. When the day breaks, you must master the Wind God's Mark and practice wind gliding. Chaos Armor, Spring Sword, Light Blade Spear, and Wind Gliding, you have four more trump cards."

When Zhao Chuanxin heard the word "trump card", he thought of the Chaos Predator.

His eyes sparkled: "Maybe there will be one more."

He told Xingyue about a method of warfare that was not new - fire attack.

They studied until dawn.

This season in Mexico is the dry season.

The sky was clear every day, the earth was dry, and the vegetation was drooping.

The total rainfall in January and February is estimated to be no more than 5 mm.

The landlord's sheep were skinny, and the shepherd boy Aguille Ida was scolded for two days and beaten for three days.

He prayed to God countless times, but God was reluctant to send down even a drop of morning dew.

Noticing that the garden lights at John Constantine's house were still on, he rolled his eyes and went to knock on the door.

The door creaked open, and Aguilera Ida's dirty, thin face broke into a smile: "Sir, the garden light in your house is still on. I just came to tell you, otherwise the lamp oil would be wasted."

He found that John Constantine was in high spirits and did not look like he had just gotten out of bed.

Zhao Chuanxin nodded expressionlessly: "It's okay, my family has the conditions."

"..." Aguilera Ida laughed awkwardly, "Sir, you are really rich. Unlike me, I can only chew some mesquite dregs to fill my stomach in the morning."

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and threw a piece of bread over: "Actually, I am as pitiful as you. At this time, I can only eat fish and meat, and I can't even eat some fresh fruits and vegetables. If you can't eat rice, why don't you eat meat paste?"

Aguire Ida opened his mouth wide: "..."

It is true that those who eat meat are vulgar. They actually asked why not eat porridge?

But his cleverness eventually earned him a large piece of bread, although the bread was very hard.

For the poor, food like black bread is not considered to be incompatible with the local climate.

Ajure Ida happily said goodbye to Zhao Chuanxin and continued on his way, driving the sheep.

He heard the barking of dogs and the clatter of horses' hooves.

The sheep were frightened and ran around. Aguilera Ida stuffed a loaf of bread in his mouth and stammered and cursed: "Damn it, who scared my sheep?"

Then I saw a group of people, some on horseback, some on foot, and there were dogs in the group.

The man on horseback in the lead was carrying a Winchester lever-action rifle. Although it was old, it was a good weapon imported from the United States.

Aguilera Ida didn't dare to curse anymore and obediently drove the sheep out of the way.

"Kid, this is Quetshalan, right?" the leading man asked condescendingly.

"Yes, where are you from?" Seeing that these people were all men, Aguire Ida felt that they were not friendly.

"My name is Feliciano Carranza, and we are from San Buenaventura." The man said gently, "We are just passing through and want to find a place to rest."

Aguire Ida breathed a sigh of relief and pointed in the direction of the white house. "There is no hotel in the town, but I saw Mr. John Constantine was repairing the house and installing containers. Maybe he wants to open a store. You can try your luck and rest there."

Feliciano Carranza nodded and was about to tighten the reins to let the horse go forward, but suddenly he turned to Aguilera Ida and said, "My child, I see that you are a good and sensible child. Do you want to make a name for yourself? Or are you satisfied with your current situation?"

(End of this chapter)