Chang'an: Qinglian Sword Song

Chapter 31
Thanks to the sacrifice of Bengluo, Xun Qing, who has been busy for several days, finally has time to spare.

After a little lunch, I started to clean up the dusty workshop.

Li Xiang, who came back from Qujiangfang, also helped with Li Bai.

Although Lu Gong's workshop is several times better than this one, after all, it is something left by his teacher. Now that Lu Gong is out of danger, Xun Qing can't steal it anymore. The workshop is also open.

Because there is no money to buy mechanism cores, Xun Qing's operation of various mechanism beasts is somewhat superficial compared to other mechanism masters.But for all the organs that don't need the core of the organ, he can often innovate and research some strange things.

For example, he recently developed a mechanical vacuum cleaner after the mechanical dishwasher.

The sixteen fans create huge suction to suck up all the dust, but sometimes the wind tends to reverse direction and turn into a dust blower and make a mess of the house.But at least it is much better than the astonishing frequency of breaking two bowls in one wash of the dishwasher on average.

While tidying up, he found out a lot of inconspicuous mechanisms that he had developed before.

"what is this?"

Li Bai squatted on the ground, looking at the huge mechanism that was as big as a barrel and half the height of a person.

"Uh...cough cough..." Xun Qing shoved the thing back into the box and left in embarrassment: "This is something I studied when I was a child..."

"What do you do?" Li Bai was curious.

"Cough, this..."

Xun Qing groaned for a long time, held it in for a long time, and said in a voice that Li Bai could barely hear: "I can fly."

"Can fly?!" Li Bai turned pale with shock, "So powerful?"

"When I was young, I felt envious when I saw birds flying in the sky... But flower boats were too expensive, and I couldn't afford to sit on them, so I thought about making a flying backpack that could carry me to the sky... "

"and then?"

"Then, just, it was made." Xun Qing sighed: "The wings are useless, so I used the principle of burning materials to produce a large amount of gas to compress and eject. After calculation, it can fly theoretically. "

"Theory?" Li Bai sensed something was wrong.

"...Actually, it is actually possible."

Xun Qing looked away awkwardly.

"Ah, I have an impression of this!" Li Xiang wiped the dust on the table, turned around and said, "Brother Xun Qing, you were beaten so hard by the teacher at that time!"

"Stop talking!" Xun Qing covered his face.

Although it weighs more than 100 kilograms, no one can carry it on its back. Even if it can move on its back, the temperature will be as high as hundreds of degrees when it is started, and the entire shell will be burnt red, turning into torture, and it cannot change direction at all. It can only rush straight Go to the sky and then get out of breath and smash down...

Ignoring these 'trivial' drawbacks, this thing works really well.

At least it can fly!

Well, in the end, I was beaten to death by the teacher for wasting materials, and this thing was put on the shelf and never touched again.

This is not a flying backpack, it is a suicide backpack!
Even Li Bai was shocked by Xun Qing's derailed creativity at the moment.

"What about this?"

He looked at a huge box, full of gears and reeds, and complicated dials: "What is this used for?"

"...This is an organ abacus I made out of scraps left over from my teacher's work."

After being silent for a long time, Xun Qing said, "I hated calculations when I was young, so I wanted to make a tool to help me do calculations."

"abacus?"

Li Bai looked around, but couldn't see that this thing was an abacus at all.

"how to use?"

"Ahem, you need to convert the numbers into another mechanical language first, then engrave them on the copper foil tape, punch holes, input them into the calculation chamber, and then shake the lever, then...then...then...then...finally It will output a copper tape in reverse, and then translate the language on the copper tape into numbers, which is the result of the calculation."

Xun Qing couldn't stop his long speech from the very beginning, Li Bai only felt his ears buzzing, and had no idea what he was talking about.But I didn't hear anything wrong.

"Is this going to explode too?"

"Ahem, no..." Xun Qing said: "It's calculated very correctly, and there has never been a problem. Well, it works very well! It works very well!"

Li Xiang was silent beside him.

sniggering.

He had seen Xun Qing use this thing before...

It does work, no problem.

The only problem is that the whole process of calculating the addition and subtraction of tens digits takes several hours, and in the same amount of time, even a random kid on the street can get the result!
There is no use at all!

Obviously, after spending so much time on my own, I finally made a problem-solving machine that is more troublesome than doing the problems.

Thinking of this, Xun Qing couldn't help crying.

"The dishwasher is specially used to smash bowls, the vacuum cleaner is specially used to blow dust, and this barbecue explosion backpack and this mechanical abacus, in a sense..."

Li Bai patted his shoulder in admiration: "You are really a genius, Xun Qing!"

"I see, please stop talking! Please!"

Xun Qing could no longer restrain the urge to hang himself.

After putting all the messy things into the attic, the last thing left is the huge remains of the machine man.

The last work left by Teacher Xun Qing.

Semi-finished products.

Even the huge head is as tall as a person, and there are two thick thighs, one of which has not been put together, revealing countless dusty parts, and the other thigh was changed by Xun Qing into a beam, which has been pushed from the ground to the third floor. roof.

The remaining giant hands and arms were suspended in mid-air by the boom, while the huge chest cavity was open, and the inside was full of various complicated equipment, which was jaw-dropping.

"Organ Giant Spirit No. [-]."

Xun Qing wiped his sweat and stared at the work in front of him: "That's what my teacher called it. He devoted his whole life to this organ man, but unfortunately, there was still no result in the end... In the end, he didn't It can imitate the legendary organ celestial master."

The Chang'an strange talk called "Organ Heavenly Master".

Legend has it that the god of steel with a copper head and iron arms, who swallows fire and eats gold, wanders in the middle of the night of the Ghost Festival, fights with countless evil spirits who have returned to the world, and captures them back to hell.

——Organ Tianshi·Zhong Kui!
Every child in Chang'an City has heard its legend, and some even worship it as a god.But apart from countless rumors, no one has ever been able to produce evidence to prove its existence.

In the eyes of Chang'an people, Xun Qing's teacher is also one of those countless daydreamers.

Even Xun Qing couldn't believe that his teacher had really seen such an existence.

But in the last few years of his life, Xun Qing's teacher continued to tell his students that story, the story of the steel giant that fell from the sky when he was in crisis.

When the Anlefang collapsed, what the teacher who was buried deep at the bottom saw in his most desperate moment was like a hallucination.

The God of Mechanism descended from the sky.

The god was burning with blue flames, majestic and noble, and rescued him from despair...

"It sounds really powerful." Li Bai was fascinated: "If there is such a mechanism, I can't imagine how strong it is. If I have a chance, I can fight a battle!"

"If you really want it, that's fine."

Xun Qing shook his head with a wry smile, and looked back at the incomplete machine man in front of him: "Impossible, Li Bai, there is no machine core in this world that can create such a steel machine god, even a shrunken version can't do it. My teacher After spending most of my life working hard, I can only restore such an outline..."

But if there is no organ core, the huge organ man in front of him, no matter how powerful it is, is nothing but a dead thing.

"In the past, I always felt that the teacher was too foolish, and he had to prove the existence of the Heavenly Master to others even if he had a bright future.

But now it seems that what the teacher wants to prove is not the Heavenly Master of Mechanism who saved himself, but the God of Mechanism who can one day save others. "

Xun Qing reached out and stroked the remains of the organ man in front of him: "Zhong Kui exists, and the organ celestial master exists, so no matter how terrible the suffering is, there is no need to be afraid. There will be an organ war god descending from the sky to save us. If there is such a hope If it exists, everyone will be inspired by it.”

He was silent for a moment, then looked back at Li Bai, his eyes filled with longing: "I want to restart this mechanism workshop and complete the teacher's work, not to prove how powerful the mechanism celestial master is, but to prove that everyone has suffered a lot. There will always be someone who will lend a helping hand.

My power is negligible, but the power of the mechanism is endless... As long as it can be completed, even if it encounters another big collapse, you don't have to be afraid anymore! "

Li Bai was silent for a moment, not knowing whether to agree or disagree.

"Your teacher can't finish the work that your teacher can't finish in his whole life, can you really finish it?"

"I'm afraid it's very difficult." Xun Qing shook his head: "Maybe I'll bet my whole life and get nothing.

But how do you know if you don't try?Coincidentally, I still have a lot of time... If even a guy like me can become a fangzhu, then it must be easy to get this thing done, right? "

"You're asking for trouble again."

Li Bai sighed: "You bastard, you always decide a lot of troublesome things with one row of heads. As a friend, I have nothing to say, but being bound by such a thing for a lifetime, won't it be painful?"

"Maybe?"

Xun Qing looked up at the huge wreckage of the mechanism in front of him, and smiled wryly: "I was terrified to think about wasting a lifetime on something before. But now that I think about it, I feel: If such a thing can be accomplished in a lifetime, it must be too much." It's not empty."

"You are really amazing, Xun Qing." Li Bai said with admiration.

"Stop talking about me, what about you?"

Xun Qing looked over: "Your talent is a thousand times better than mine, Li Bai, don't you have any dreams?"

"Maybe there will be in the future."

Li Bai thought for a while, then smiled: "When I was young, I wanted to be the strongest swordsman in the world, and then I wanted to write all the poems in the world, and later, I wanted to taste all the fine wines in the world... But this It’s not even a dream.”

He pressed the long sword on his knee, full of expectation, "If I really want to say anything, I hope that one day, all the injustices in the world can be cut off by my sword."

"How about you, Li Xiang?"

Xun Qing looked behind him. In the corner, the non-existent young man was quietly listening to their conversation and smiling with them.

"Ah, me? I don't care. It would be great if I can play the piano like this."

The blind boy waved his hands, embarrassed: "Of course, if I can see that the dreams of brother Xun Qing and Mr. Li Bai can be realized, then it will be fine."

"Then you have to be the best luthier in Chang'an!" Xun Qing said.

"It's hard to be the best." Li Xiang hugged the flowerpot, sniffing the fragrance of the orchids.Although he didn't think he could do it, his smile became yearning.

"Okay, that's it."

After sweeping, Xun Qing put his hips on his hips and announced with pride: "Let's celebrate, let's have beef stew tonight!"

"Eh?"

Li Bai looked up, overjoyed: "Xun Qing, are you rich?"

In an instant, Xun Qing's face twitched.

The lofty sentiments were brutally hit by reality.Touching the empty wallet for a long time, with a dejected expression: "Let's eat cabbage..."

Before dawn, Li Bai was woken up by Li Xiang.

Woke up with sleepy eyes, disheveled hair, drowsy from a hangover, opened his mouth and looked around blankly, not knowing what happened.

He accidentally drank a little too much last night, which caused him to suspect that he had committed some bad luck when he opened his eyes, and was caught by that fellow Di Renjie and taken to the Dali Temple.

"What's the matter?" He asked, "It's dawn?"

"...Didn't you say that we are going to see Fangshi enter the city together today?" Li Xiang reminded helplessly: "I called you twice, but you didn't wake up. The carriage has been waiting for a long time."

Li Bai racked his head and finally remembered.

What day is today.

The newly born Fangshi is about to move into Chang'an!
Such a rare scene may not happen once in decades. There must be a huge crowd of people to see it. If you don’t get up early to go to the station, you may not even have a seat in the front row if you are late!

All the candidates for Fangzhu will show up at that time. In order to gain momentum, Xun Qing gritted his teeth and borrowed a mechanism carriage, and changed into the uniform of the mechanism engineer that he had not been willing to wear a few times since he handed it out. Looks good, looks like a young talent.

It's just a pair of dark circles under the eyes that are too disturbing.

I was so nervous, I didn't fall asleep at all last night.

Seeing more and more pedestrians along the way, his face became paler and paler. It was his first public appearance, and he was completely over nervous!

Then he almost fell when he got off the carriage.

At the edge of Chang'an, a dark crowd has already gathered, and they are constantly looking out.Order was maintained under the scolding by the officials of Honglu Temple, and finally no one fell off the city wall and caused any damage.

After Yu Hengsi's adjustments over the past few days, a huge gap has appeared at the outermost edge of Chang'an City. Through the low wall, there is a huge sky outside.

That is the city of institutions soaring into the sky, leaving room for the new Fangshi.

Through the operation and changes among dozens of squares and cities, after changing the way they are combined with each other, they expand outwards, thus forming this huge vacancy.

From the gap, you can also see countless slowly moving mechanism hubs and huge structures.

And when the original sun jumped out of the sea of ​​clouds, everything reflected was as bright as gold.

A gust of fresh wind blew head-on, making the sea of ​​clouds rippling, constantly slapping the edge of Chang'an City, like a tide.This is the most famous spectacle in Chang'an City - the rising sun from the sea of ​​clouds.

Surprised shouts came from the crowd around the edge of the gap. Even those who grew up in Chang'an City had never seen such a scene so closely.

At this moment, Li Bai, who had just got off the car, was also amazed under the brilliant sunlight.

Relying on his status as a candidate for Master Xun Qing, he didn't need to line up at the outermost edge. Naturally, there was a high stand prepared for him, and there was even enough room for him to bring a few people to enjoy the scenery together.

The higher he went, Li Bai noticed that Xun Qing's calf began to tremble under his robe.

It's already starting to get tough.

I'm starting to get scared now, what to do next.

"Cheer up." Li Bai reminded in a low voice: "You represent all the people in Anlefang, so you can't look guilty at this time."

A word of speech is still very effective.

The specific manifestation is that he trembled more violently... At the end of the trembling, he suddenly stopped shaking, his face was as usual, his expression was calm, but he looked a little arrogant.

People who don't know think he has no eyes, but Li Bai feels that this guy has entered the state of smashing and smashing.

There are already many people on the high platform.

The candidates for Fangzhu chatted and laughed with each other. When they saw Li Bai and the others coming, they did not sneer or ridicule as Xun Qing expected, but warmly greeted them with fists clasped.

After a few words of politeness, everyone took their seats and watched the undulating sea of ​​clouds up close. Their own waiters served melon and fruit tea.

There was no hostility as expected, on the contrary, it seemed to be peaceful.

Xun Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Li Bai was keenly aware of other people's verbal strife, hidden maneuvers, and subtle hostility when talking to each other.

As for Xun Qing, no one cares about it.

It seems to be transparent.

Li Bai didn't know what to say.

From the beginning of the relationship, Xun Qing was not regarded as an opponent by them...

Thinking of this, he patted Xun Qing's shoulder sympathetically: "Work hard."

"what!"

Xun Qing gnawed on the free fruit with a dazed expression on his face.

Li Bai sighed, and began to doubt: Is it because I have too much confidence in expecting this fool to be the owner of the workshop?
The waiting time flew by, and soon Li Bai noticed a luxurious motorcade approaching slowly from a distance. After the crowd cleared, a slightly old middle-aged man came onto the stage surrounded by everyone.

The mechanical carriage with the pattern of double fishes was very familiar, which made Li Bai feel like he had seen it somewhere before.

Li's nobleman!
The guy who showed up at Lu Gong's birthday banquet.

It seems to be called... Li Boqing?

Just when he realized the identity of the visitor, he saw Mr. Bo Qing, who was surrounded by the crowd at the very front, looking up at this place, with an indifferent glance.

Seemingly looking around calmly, with a graceful demeanor.

But Li Xiang, who was holding the corner of Li Bai's clothes, couldn't help pulling his clothes.

"what happened?"

"It's a bit cold." Li Xiang asked in a low voice, "Mr. Li Bai, what happened?"

"No, nothing."

Li Bai couldn't help but glanced at the back of the person sitting in the front, and then told Li Xiang: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

(End of this chapter)