People in the Ark, Dimensional Blacksmith

Silber smiled and said: "She has talent, and she has the patience to bear this talent, she is a gold nugget that has been polished away in the river bed.

"Even if I'm not the kind of person who is good at being a teacher, it's impossible for me to abandon such precious jade after seeing it. If a person like her goes astray because of such an experience when she was young, it's terrible." That would be such a pity."

"So what about your character?" Lie Hanqing was quite serious at this time, and kept asking Hilber: "If you have a bad heart, even if you have such a talent, it will be difficult for you to enter the elegant hall. On the evil way."

Facing Lie Hanqing's questioning, Silber was a little leisurely: "Kelsey asked this similar question before, but after some discussions at that time, the result orientation was not very compatible with the original question. But the answer can be generalized.

"The question discussed at the time was about whether human nature is inherently evil or human nature is inherently good. Kelsey's point of view is that human nature is inherently good but prone to evil. This is in line with her character, and it is also what she has seen and heard while walking in Terra. law."

Lie Hanqing seemed to have vaguely guessed Silber's answer, and asked tentatively, "You and Mr. Kelsey hold opposite views? Human nature is evil but easy to be kind?"

"It's roughly similar, but a little bit worse." Silber shook his head with a smile, and expressed his opinion: "In my opinion, human nature is evil but good.

"We are all born beasts, only morality and rationality allow us to live as human beings, but as long as the things involved are moral and enough to penetrate rationality, then when people act, they must focus on destruction, For example, when we were young, when we expressed our curiosity about the world, what we did would be called horror if it were placed on adults."

Speaking of this, Silber laughed aloud: "It is also because of this kind of thing that I quite agree with the saying that the so-called human beings are actually a group of terrifying upright apes."

Of course Lie Hanqing couldn't understand this joke. Even if the other party read thousands of books, it was impossible to find the allusion to Silber's joke.

Because the people of Terra may not understand, why would someone call themselves an ape?

"It's far away... Just like everyone knows: Human beings will only show such outstanding talent when they invent weapons that destroy their own kind. As a craftsman, most of my works are weapons. I agree very much.

"When we don't need to consider morality and rationality, and even the law will not give constraints, our lower limit is often terribly low."

Silber turned his head and looked at the chariot parked outside the house. This ferocious steel giant can be said to be a strong proof of his words:

"But it is also because of this that I feel that human nature is evil but good. We will destroy some things without hesitation, and we will die for some things. Justice, virtue, fetters... have too much There are so many things that we can't put down once we pick them up, and we are willing to give everything for them. These are the shackles on us and the ideals we pursue.

"So I have never worried about xinxing - W is still young, and it is the time when the Three Views are forming. If someone guides her, she will be able to give her a correct view of good and evil."

The craftsman's voice gradually deepened. He seemed to be speaking to Lie Hanqing, but also to himself: "And if she fails to form a correct view of good and evil, her own morality and rationality are no longer binding. , the ability to master can ignore the words of the law.

"Then I shall be her last chains."

If there is a defective product in the hands of a craftsman, they will not hesitate to remake it if it cannot be repaired.

Lie Hanqing looked at this craftsman for a long time. She understood Silber's character and knew that he was a man who followed his word, so she could hear the seriousness and solemnity in those words:

"I'm very fortunate that you, who possess such strength, also have such a heart."

She raised her head and cast her gaze outside the door, across the sky and through the clouds:

"The word teacher has a very heavy meaning in Yan Country. Parents give birth to a child and educate a child, and the teacher is the first guide for these children. They almost determine the future direction of the child. It can be said that They are the children's second parents, and their every move will deeply affect those children.

"Therefore, there is also an old saying in Yan Kingdom that has been handed down to this day—a teacher for one day, and a father for life. It can be interpreted in many ways, but almost each has its own truth.

"That's why in Yan Country, we are more likely to say that we are masters rather than teachers."

The doctor withdrew his gaze and brought his thoughts back from the distant Yan Kingdom to the present. Lie Hanqing looked at Hilber and said softly:

"And I think, you should be a qualified master."

Silber smiled: "Then I will accept your good words."

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Chapter 62 Intersection of past and present

A little bit of time passed, and after the planning of the overall workshop was completed, Hilber also handed over a design drawing of the camouflage blacksmith shop to Jeanna.

At this

In one point, even if it was a blacksmith shop used to deceive people, Silber didn't say that he would cut corners for it. Even in terms of function, this blacksmith shop can still complete some equipment forging.

In other words, Silber decided to turn this blacksmith shop into the level of a junior workshop, the kind that could independently forge a shield ax no matter how bad it was.

It's not that he himself feels that things are less busy recently, but that Silber doesn't want to deceive himself that a real empty shell can deceive those seasoned spies.

This is no longer a lie, it’s just looking at people as fools, and judging from past historical results, generally those who do this are the purest fools.

Similarly, not only the framework of the blacksmith shop, but also the boss inside is also very important. Even if he is not as skilled as Silber, he must at least be the kind of person who understands forging skills, otherwise he will be talked about Bluffing out of the bottom line is also not very good.

Of course, it was up to Jeanna to figure out the candidate for this. As France, who had been hunted down by Duke Blood Rose and his forces all the year round, she still had a hole card in this regard.

While France was still busy building a fake blacksmith shop, the real Silber had already come to the subway in the buffer city to explore the route.

Thanks to Silber's care in the initial site selection, the base of the radio station he chose was an abandoned subway platform, which saved him a lot of effort.

It's just that before starting the reconstruction work, he still needs to carefully survey the entire line to see if there are any weird things in this abandoned subway after so many years.

Due to the spatial structure inside the subway, it is obviously unrealistic to drive a chariot to explore. In order to ensure his own safety, Silber also took out the semi-finished exoskeleton in his inventory to supplement his combat power. .

This active exoskeleton can be said to only have the most basic skeleton part, and it has no other functions except to enhance the user's strength, and the various wires in the exoskeleton are not packaged, and are directly exposed outside. It looked a little unreliable in the past.

This exoskeleton does not follow the design concept of Victoria steam armor, and it is far from power armor. It can be said to be Silber's first attempt in the direction of exoskeleton, and judging from the results, at least in the world of Terra In the context of the background, this set of [Light EXO] from Atlas is not very practical.

But for Silber, something is better than nothing.

At the same time, he also discovered a small problem. Although the various weapons he has developed now can improve people's combat effectiveness to a higher level, when it is actually implemented to increase the combat effectiveness of individuals, it is somewhat stretched.

Weapons such as shields, axes, and guns still depend on the individual quality of the user. Chariots are the heavy armor force for team combat.

Other equipment developed either have their own unique uses, or are props to assist the above two types of equipment.

Currently, Silber really can't come up with a complete piece of buff equipment that is really implemented in individual combat power.

So much so that when I get off the subway now, I have to take out a semi-finished product from the inventory and use it first, which really makes Silber a little embarrassed.

Also, he really isn't very good at fighting.

Or to be more precise, he wasn't very good at fighting.

From the beginning of the journey, he used the Sten submachine gun to solve the crisis. After entering the Victoria Military Academy, although he learned the Victorian military martial arts, he was definitely not as good as those veterans. After leaving Victoria, he was not proficient in this aspect. study.

This actually made Silber start to think about whether he wanted to carry out further iterative upgrades in self-defense.

However, the subway in Burgundy is not as mysterious as in Dongguo novels or picture book stories. There are primitive warriors from ancient times, or some perverts who like to play with human souls and pretend to be real people.

In Burgundy’s subway, there is only extremely depressing silence and darkness. After 20 years of disconnection, the emergency lights here have long been extinguished, and the fluorescent paint has lost its activity.

The sound of footsteps echoed on the surrounding subway walls, bouncing back and forth and flying further away, but the sound that came back in the end had already changed its appearance, as if it was a weird drumbeat that was so dull that people subconsciously wanted to stop .

Silber used a bright flashlight to look around the scene, and in front of him, a four-legged mechanical dog the size of a display screen was constantly moving forward, using various instruments to collect accurate parameters of the subway line .

The subway in the buffer city remains dry, and the ventilation system is still barely functioning. Although the smell is a bit turbid, it's not enough to stop Silber's progress.

In terms of overall design, the subway here is indeed like the information that Silber collected in advance, full of the ancient atmosphere of the previous era, and it belongs to the shape that can be found out of this era even if it is new.

Human aesthetics are always changing, even if it is only ten years apart, there is a big enough gap.

But to Silber's satisfaction, although the track here has been in disrepair for a long time, the degree of damage is not very high.

Some routes can be put into use directly even after the foundation has been strengthened, which can shorten his construction period a little.

But when he walked forward along the route he had planned, and when he reached a place close to the middle, the mechanical dog sent back a message that he found a hole, and guided Silber to the target location.

When Silber came to the marked location, he found that it was a rest station with its door open. This was supposed to be a rest area for subway track inspectors during inspections. Naturally, it was abandoned after the subway was out of service. here.

After confirming that there were no signs of life activity inside, Silber stepped forward to check the opening of the rest station door, and confirmed that it was not opened recently, but that it had not been closed a long time ago.

Afterwards, he walked a few steps inside and took a look at the interior with a flashlight, only to find that there were still a large number of instruments parked inside. It seemed that the staff stationed here had not thought that they would come back again before leaving for the last time. Not here.

And these instruments also confirmed Silber's conjecture, because the most advanced instruments inside were two rounds older than his age.

This is the first time after he came to the world of Terra, he saw the old-fashioned hand-cranked signal platform that uses paper tapes to record signals, and the band receiving device that uses tapes to record ripples outside the museum.

These gadgets are all high-threshold equipment in the true sense, which are quite cumbersome to use, and it is also very difficult to read information.

Even in the database downloaded by Ark, there is no reading technology in this area for a while, and the information can only be recorded after the reverse analysis.

However, Silber didn't care about this matter. After all, the news 30 or 1050 years ago has nothing to do with him. There must be no one who can predict that he will come here in 20 and write the information here more than [-] years in advance. Wait for yourself to read.

But when Silber was planning to transform this place into a transit station for rail transportation, he accidentally saw that the thimble of the band receiving device was not parked in the standby area.

So he subconsciously looked towards the exit of the tape, but he saw the coordinates of the time point used for recording, which was not fixed at 20 years ago.

It was twelve days ago.

At that time, it was the moment when Iberia fell into silence.

Silber's figure suddenly stopped, and a bold idea jumped into his mind.

——If it is said that the pulse waves produced by the Great Tranquility are not pure interference noises, but bands with recorded information, will these bands be recorded by this ancient device that does not rely on electronic crystals? ?

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Chapter 63 Metro Operation

With such curiosity, Silber returned to the radio station after completing all the survey work of the subway route, and prepared for Ark to interpret the information.

At this time, because the main building was still being renovated, the workshop was directly launched on the street outside. The mobility capability originally included in the design allowed the workshop to fully operate even under such circumstances.

It's just that the work this time is not easy at all, because things like tapes are very fragile after a long time, and it is even incredible that the entire receiver can still work after 20 years of neglect.

After preliminary dismantling of this receiver, Silber judged that the reason why this receiver can still work should be that there is still a little bit of energy remaining in the buffer zone in the Originium energy exchange device inside it. After the pulse wave arrived in Burgundy, the energy in these buffer zones was injected into the main device due to the impact, completing the last part of the record.

After the recording was completed this time, the magnetic head was completely stuck due to mechanical aging, and Silber also confirmed this point during the dismantling process.

After taking out all the tapes, the old receiver has completed its final mission, and Silber also decided to make use of it and throw it to W to fiddle with it himself.

As the saying goes, a trash guy has to be raised from an early age.

It is certainly a technical job to take out the tapes completely, but it is even more difficult to read the contents of the tapes. Although these tapes were made with consideration for long-term storage, after so many years, in the kind of air-exposed It is difficult to say that its state is undamaged.

Some parts of the tapes were already shattered when Silber touched them lightly with his hands, and a considerable part of the tapes had turned yellow and become brittle, losing the function of storing information.

The only good news is that the last tape that retains information is still in a barely readable state.

It's just that it takes a certain amount of time for Ark to read out this kind of storage that relies on the electrical signal stored in the magnetic powder to record the sound.

But these days, there are not many jobs that need to use the ark. Fortunately, Silber let it complete these reading tasks in the workshop, and he continued to work on the renovation of the radio station. At the same time, he also asked Lie Hanqing Bring a little collection of literary fiction to read as W recuperates.

In Silber's plan, enriching the spirit and savage body are both things that must be done.

Although Silber still believes that "The Sword and the Dove" written by the great Ursus writer Stein is still too early for W.

but he also

I can understand the reason why Lie Hanqing chose this book—the Ursus people are indeed very similar to the Sarkaz people in terms of war. It is very difficult to stop in this wave.

Although W may not be able to understand this book now, she will only regard the stories in it as records that happened in reality or a fictional biography, but when she is older, she will go back and read this book again, There should be a different perception from when I was a child.