mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 991: Poverty Arrow

When Zhao Chuanxin went to work at the Lubin Prefecture government office, the newspaper had already published the news of Japan and Russia's response and condemnation.

The news first spread in Lubin Prefecture.

Lubin Prefecture was not a gathering place for intellectuals and could not organize effective protests.

However, when the news reached Lugang Town, residents of Lugang Town immediately organized a protest and threatened to severely punish Japan and Russia.

Others are protesting to demand apologies from Japan and Russia.

Only Lugang Town talks about severe punishment all the time.

It can be said that in the entire area outside the Great Wall, apart from Lubin Prefecture, only Lugang Town has this confidence.

But Zhao Zhongyi remained indifferent.

The people only care about whether they can vent their anger, but Zhao Zhongyi, as a member of the management, considers more.

If either Japan or Russia is simply provoked, they will not dare to start a war because there are also rifts between them.

Currently, Japan and Russia are both cooperating and wary of each other.

They will not sit idly by and watch each other grow stronger outside the Great Wall.

It is impossible to attack Japan and Russia at the same time, as that will only make them united in hatred of the enemy.

It will take some time for the news to spread across the country.

……

On an ocean liner, Li Shutong stood on the side of the ship, listening to the cries of seagulls, and his heart was filled with emotion.

It’s almost there, we’ll be arriving in China soon.

He felt very conflicted along the way.

He was eager to go home, but he couldn't bear to leave Liu Yuanshan alone in the United States to study.

It seems that there is no way to have the best of both worlds.

The sailor was mopping the deck, and Li Shutong gave up his position.

The foreign sailor rolled his eyes at him impatiently.

But when facing an Englishman, the sailor was much more polite.

It's discrimination again.

When Li Shutong went to Japan to study, he also suffered discrimination, but it was not as severe as when he went to the West.

This is also one of the reasons for his inner pain.

Li Shutong pursed his lips and thought: It’s only because the charcoal worker is not here, otherwise it’s hard to say whether the sailor can survive.

Forget it, let’s not bother with him. The cruise ship will arrive at Hong Kong Island soon, and the thought of this makes him feel good.

……

Jiang Jian came to Zhao Chuanxin's office with an official document and said, "Sir, the Government Goods Bureau has already made plans and budgets for building a theater. Now we just need your seal and we can start bidding."

Zhao Chuanxin took it, scanned it at a glance, stuffed the document under the table, and when he took it out again, it had already been stamped.

He pushed the file in front of Jiang Jian: "Okay."

Jiang Jian was about to leave with the documents.

Zhao Chuanxin suddenly stopped him and said, "Wait."

Jiang Jian turned around and asked: "My Lord, is there anything else?"

Zhao Chuanxin tapped the table with his fingers. "Lubin Prefecture is a bitterly cold place with a long winter. The snow will not melt for more than a month. This year's projects are huge and require a lot of manpower. Tell General Manager Yao that not a single day can be wasted. In addition, I have a plan here. The budget will not come from the government office, but from all walks of life."

As he spoke, he took out a plan from under the table.

Jiang Jian took it, took a quick look, and couldn't help but be shocked: "Sir, can we raise so much money?"

This plan was to raise funds from all walks of life to build an engineering school and library at Lubin Prefecture Middle School. The scale of the plan was so large that it would probably require tens to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

But it’s hard to give up Shancai!

Zhao Chuanxin leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, lit a cigarette and said calmly, "If Zhao doesn't even have this little bit of dignity, then all these years have been in vain. I'll leave this matter to you. Advertise it in newspapers across the country and call for action in my name."

Jiang Jian nodded when he heard this. Although he felt it was not easy, it would be better not to go against the adults' wishes.

"But it's probably going to be difficult to hire teachers. Especially for Western painting and music, which you mentioned, it's probably going to be hard to recruit people."

Zhao Chuanxin flicked the ash off his cigarette and said cheerfully, "People with foresight like me usually prepare teachers several years ago. Just wait and see."

"..."

Zhao Chuanxin is waiting for the public's voice to ferment before taking the next step.

At this time, the power of faith decreased instead of increased, because the heat of the Advisory Council had passed.

……

In the afternoon, Zhao Chuanxin was teleported to Quetshalan.

The Black Golem Craftsman has been busy in his workshop in the underground fortress.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at the messy puppet parts on the table, all of which he had robbed and killed puppet merchants in Haishi Void Realm.

Zhao Chuanxin discovered that the head of the architectural puppet had been pried open and its body was lying on the table, motionless.

"What's going on?"

Xingyue said: "I dismantled its intelligent brain, but it disagreed, so I took it by force."

Zhao Chuanxin asked: "What about the intelligent brain? Where did it go?"

The black puppet craftsman pointed to an instrument on the table that looked like a microscope, and Xingyue said, "It's in here. The principle of the intelligent brain is very strange, composed of a huge amount of filaments. But I found that it didn't listen to instructions at all. I changed my mind and upgraded the core of the intelligent brain to a 256-filament processing architecture. As a result, it was automatically unlocked due to the increase in computing power. I used the central control rune fragments to connect to the intelligent brain and found that it had auxiliary computing and calibration functions, so I built a light blade machine. The light blade machine can extract mask protective films from the organs of living stones, and its accuracy is much higher than my own control. Due to the increase in resolution, I upgraded all the puppet slaves, black puppet craftsmen, digging puppets, and black widow puppets to a 512-filament processing architecture... Now we can achieve ultra-high resolution and smaller rune fragment sizes. As long as you can get a living living stone and find the secret of its eating and transforming rainbow particles, you can create a poverty arrow."

The various devices directly controlled by Xingyue have been developed to this day, and Zhao Chuanxin can no longer understand the specific principles.

He vaguely realized that Xingyue’s knowledge acquisition was not only the logic integration technology, but also the small ball No. 13 that was disassembled at the beginning.

As long as there is time, Xingyue will read the information combination on the ball.

Zhao Chuanxin sat on the recliner and opened the "Code of the Old Gods".

[Outer-world apprentice No. 1749 told me that he works in the Sky Prison.]

[Because of the demon virus, many industries in the sea city virtual world need to be closed for inspection. 】

[But some things can’t be stopped, such as silk farms, live rock farms, and sky prisons. ]

[So, after taking the gas test in the morning, I went to work at the live rock farm as usual. ]

[However, when I arrived at the live rock farm, I found that more than half of the people were missing. ]

[Outer-world apprentice No. 38 said to me: No. 555, you will have to complete a lot of work on your own today, because we have lost a lot of people. ]

[I know, this is caused by the large-scale inspection. Those who didn't come must be infected, and may have been executed.]

[I need to sort the carcasses in the live rock farm by myself, and also help feed the animals. ]

Zhao Chuanxin was overjoyed.

[The live rock farm is divided into countless grids, and live rocks are placed in the grids, with their heads facing down, so that they will not escape when they are frightened and spit out rainbow particles. ]

[The food of living rocks is a sticky liquid with a foul odor.]

[It is said that this kind of food was developed by the 41st Void Striker. He has mastered the food rune and has a unique understanding of the food intake of various creatures.]

Virtual Realm Striker No. 41 is that stubborn ass.

Zhao Chuanxin immediately asked the Fearless Vanguard to steal some living stone food.

[I need to pick out the dead living stone bodies from the grid, and this process is strictly supervised. ]

Zhao Chuanxin frowned, opened the holy light channel and entered it.

There are countless densely packed grids in front of you, each of which is filled with live rocks. People with trypophobia may faint when seeing this.

Zhao Chuanxin didn't have that problem. He sorted out the living stone corpses and made various plans in his mind.

Xingyue said: "Don't look up, I'm watching the supervisor. Just follow my instructions and cut the live stone on the spot."

Zhao Chuanxin continued to move forward.

After walking a few meters away, Xingyue said, "Now." Zhao Chuanxin snapped his fingers and a light blade appeared.

Following Xingyue's instructions, Zhao Chuanxin peeled off the outer shell of the living stone.

Xingyue said, "Send the microscope over."

Zhao Chuanxin complied.

At this point, the supervisor yelled at him, “What are you doing?”

Xingyue said: "Buy me some time, it will be soon."

Zhao Chuanxin turned his head innocently: "I didn't do anything, just sorting."

"What it is?"

The Overseer was asking about the microscope on the grid.

Zhao Chuanxin took a step back, blocking the other person's sight: "There's nothing here, are you seeing things?"

The supervisor immediately ran over here: "I'll let you quibble..."

Zhao Chuanxin saw a container of food nearby, so he used Lord Run's greeting, and the food evaporated, and a foul smell spread.

The supervisor was halfway through his walk when he suddenly saw fog in front of him. Sticky liquid, accompanied by a foul smell, flowed into his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

This made him bend over and vomit.

"vomit……"

Xingyue said, "Okay, now let's glue the broken shells together, but I'm afraid this living stone won't survive."

Zhao Chuanxin then used the old god's crucible to brand and melt the outer shell.

Afterwards, he used Lord Run's greeting to take back the mist.

The supervisor felt as if he was hallucinating, and the mucus on his face disappeared instantly.

Only the lingering bad smell in his mouth and nose made him feel confused.

Zhao Chuanxin secretly moved to another position, then stood there innocently looking at the supervisor.

The supervisor came over angrily and checked the living stone behind Zhao Chuanxin and found nothing abnormal.

The strange instrument that had just been placed on the grid also disappeared.

The supervisor was confused.

Is it really an illusion?
He said, "I want to check you."

Zhao Chuanxin simply spread his arms and said, "Whatever."

The supervisor checked carefully and found that Zhao Chuanxin had nothing on him.

However, from then on, he strictly supervised Zhao Chuanxin.

But Zhao Chuanxin just worked honestly.

Then exited the state.

[I fed and sorted the animals, and then pushed a cart to transport the living stone bodies to another area. At this time, the supervisor finally stopped staring at me.]

[Outer Realm Apprentice No. 38 said to me with a cold face: You are responsible for counting, because the recycling plant is closed today, the living stone corpses need to be temporarily stored in the breeding farm. ]

Zhao Chuanxin thought to himself: Then you are finally in my hands.

Count five and he passes one.

In this way, the living stone corpses piled up on the table in the studio.

【Finally, work stopped at night.】

[I returned to the apartment, and a puppet postman delivered a letter to my mailbox.]

[I took the letter, opened it and read it. It was from the Elf Scout.]

[The elf scout told me that it was put back into the sky prison because of the demon virus.]

[Currently, the demon virus in the Sky Prison has been contained. Because of the closed environment, it has become a safe place. Many people want to pay to enter the Sky Prison.]

[I didn't expect things to develop in this direction. I'm at a loss for what to do. I can only wait until the demon virus spreads to the sky prison.]

Zhao Chuanxin closed the "Old God Code".

Xingyue has already started using light blade machines to cut and separate the living stone corpses, and has created a prototype of a rainbow particle jet engine.

Xingyue said: "Through observation under a microscope, I found that the living stone food has similar ingredients to the stinky liquid in your ladder foundation stone. Take out the stinky liquid and I will conduct an experiment."

Zhao Chuanxin thought to himself that it was no wonder that the live rock food in the farm could make the supervisor vomit.

Zhao Chuanxin took out the smelly liquid, and Xingyue introduced the smelly liquid into the cluster of living stone organs, and rainbow particles were indeed sprayed out.

But it disappeared in an instant.

Xingyue said: "This is because after the living rock dies, it lacks internal power. The transformed living rock's organ clusters have a much weaker transformation capacity than living living rock."

It used insect silk and soft gold to make a tiny piston.

The power for injection is there, but the conversion capability cannot be solved.

Zhao Chuanxin used the Old God's Crucible Mark to melt the black tree resin and created two semicircular cylinders. Xingyue put the reaction rune fragments, order rune fragments, central control rune fragments, must-reach needles and a high-level energy gem into the arrow shaft in order, and inlaid two miniature fish-eye true vision crystals near the arrow head. Zhao Chuanxin then melted the black tree resin and sealed the two semicircular cylinders.

For the arrow part, Xingyue asked Zhao Chuanxin to use the old god's crucible imprint to smelt Krupp's secret steel, and add soft gold in different proportions to make an alloy.

At the beginning of the last century, the country with the most advanced steelmaking technology was Britain.

The world was shocked until the Krupp family added a variety of chemical materials to wrought iron bars to cast fried steel bars, placed them in a large crucible and melted them at high temperature according to a certain proportion, and then created a railway wheel hub with no welding gaps.

The train wheels made by the Krupp family directly increased the speed of trains from 30 km/h to 60 km/h.

Because the wheel hub with welding gaps is not strong enough and can easily crack halfway when running fast, there are strict limits on load and speed.

This technology was used in casting cannons, and the casting gun barrel technology has always been at the forefront of the world.

Zhao Chuanxin couldn't find better steel than the one he stole from Essen.

After several experiments, Xingyue finally mastered a ratio that was more suitable for making arrows.

Xingyue "grows" metal with solid runes, which is equivalent to "cold casting". It will not damage the living stone organ clusters, piston devices and light blade rune fragments wrapped inside. In the middle of the arrow, it also deliberately leaves a replaceable "stinky liquid tank".

Zhao Chuanxin and Xingyue worked until dawn before they finally made an arrow of astonishing cost.

Zhao Chuanxin picked up the Chip Poverty Arrow. The feathers and the arrow shaft were made of black tree resin, and the whole body was black. The soft gold and steel alloy of the arrowhead had oxidized into red.

This arrow is so expensive that according to the current prices in the Haishi Void Realm, the various materials alone cost more than 1.5 million gold coins. If you add in the various technical additions of Xingyue and Zhao Chuanxin, it is possible that it is worth 5 million gold coins.

Zhao Chuanxin stuffed the smelly liquid tank, which was smaller than the nail of his little finger, into the arrow head, flashed to the hill outside the studio, took out the bow, bent the bow, put the arrow on it, and shot at the open area.

The feel of archery is average, but this thing can hurt people without Zhao Chuanxin's accuracy.

But the arrow of poverty drew a beautiful arc and flew out with a colorful tail of light.

Zhao Chuanxin waved his arms as if conducting a band, and the Poverty Arrow made a 90-degree turn.

The Poverty Arrow drifted in the air, changed direction and continued flying.

Zhao Chuanxin can control the Musta Needle to turn, but the inertia will not disappear. Xingyue needs to control the central control rune to reduce the propulsion force when the Poverty Arrow turns, and increase the output when flying straight.

After several times, the two sides finally cooperated well.

Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand and the Chipin Arrow flew towards a tree.

Xingyue activates the light blade.

laugh……

The arrow of poverty pierced through the tree trunk and continued to fly.

After flying straight for about three minutes, the fuel in the stinky liquid tank was exhausted, and the Poverty Arrow flew another ten meters due to inertia and fell to the ground.

Zhao Chuanxin touched the quiver in his hand and opened the fragment of the rune of order. On the way, he inevitably bumped into the grass and trees, and the Poverty Arrow flew back "dazed" and inserted into the quiver.

Xingyue said: "It's best to retrieve the arrow before the fuel runs out."

Zhao Chuanxin agreed.

He looked up at the sky. Aguille Ida and his men should have set off by now.

(End of this chapter)