Future library

In the Star Warlock Tower, Star Warlock An Feng looked at the letter on the table quietly. He had jute paper and a quill in his hand. Every time he read a paragraph and remembered something, he would record it, sometimes even spending a lot of time. Long time calculation.

This kind of learning method is very common among one-star warlocks and below. When they reach higher levels, their abilities have improved and their research depth has increased, allowing them to spend more time thinking. When calculations are required during the work process, they often work together as a team to complete the final verification work.

Calculation has always been the most boring thing for mathematicians. In history, there have been too many genius mathematicians who spent their talents on endless calculations and eventually became quietly disillusioned.

Mathematicians worked hard to study calculations, invent logarithms, and invent computers, all in order to free themselves from heavy mental work.

Just as programmers refer to themselves as human typewriters, pre-computer age mathematicians spent most of their lives as human computers.

With An Feng's status, he could hire several star warlocks to help him calculate, or simply recruit a lot of star warlock apprentices to work together, thus saving his own time for thinking about the problem.

But because of the identity of the owner of the letter, he never thought of doing this.

After a long time, Warlock An Fengxing just finished reading the long letter. Then he stood up staggeringly, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and slowly put the paper and pen in order.

With slow movements, three or four minutes later, he wiped the fine beads of sweat on his head and gently pulled the bell on the table.

A thin boy appeared in front of An Fengxing Warlock, standing with his hands tied and a serious expression.

"I saw the communication star array light up just now. Is there anyone outside?" An Feng asked casually, but if an ordinary star warlock knew, he would actually put the precious communication star array in his room, just to save one or two people. His screams may make his whole body swell with anger.

"Warlock Liu Kuangxing is here, but he said not to disturb you." The thin butler behaved very appropriately in every movement and was a standard aristocratic butler.

"This old guy." In his study, An Feng commented casually with a smile. In the entire Great Xia, there are only a few high-level star warlocks. Over the years, those who are not friends should be friends.

The butler closed the door gently and walked out.

Warlock An Fengxing first placed the original text of the letter in the drawer, then took out the jute paper he wrote on, then stood up and walked out. His study is about 1,000 square meters, several times the size of an ordinary family home, but after filling it with books, there is only one to two hundred square meters of free space left for use.

If you want to say what is the easiest thing to see in the Star Warlock Tower. There is no doubt that it is books.

The place where Warlock Liu Kuangxing waits is still the study. Judging from the layout, it is warmer than Warlock An Fengxing himself likes. Compared with the private study room, the books in the public study room are much simpler and more interesting - of course compared to the Star Warlocks.

Hearing the sound of the door hinge turning, Warlock Liu Kuangxing raised his head slightly, but did not put down the book immediately. Instead, he looked at Warlock An Fengxing up and down and said with a smile: "I rarely see you showing up recently. What are you studying?"

"After so many years, there is never any leisure time, and the research progress has not changed much." Warlock An Fengxing sighed and said, "What about you?"

"I've been thinking about something recently."

"oh?"

"I guess you are also thinking about this matter." Warlock Liu Kuangxing laughed.

Warlock An Fengxing sat down dissatisfied and said, "Are you really in a leisurely mood?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and sucked up the teacup and kettle on the table, half-suspended in the air, and then with a flick of his finger, a fire bead the size of a grain of rice was immersed in the pot, and the water immediately began to "gurgling" Blistered.

"Fire tea, good stuff." Warlock Liu Kuangxing praised, picked up the cup with his hand and said with a smile: "I won't play riddles with you anymore. Yesterday afternoon, Cheng Jinzhou demolished the warehouse in Luzhou and removed about 70,000 yuan." Two taels of silver, not even the paper saved by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the bamboo saved by the Ministry of Works. The imperial court has already come to check on me."

"The boy's star array is so strong? Ordinarily it shouldn't be possible." Warlock An Fengxing's thinking was obviously different from Liu Kuang's.

Liu Kuang said with a wry smile: "The space star array is not uncommon in the Star Warlock Association, but the price is too high to use. I think every time he moves a warehouse, the cost may be that much."

An Feng saw the funny look on his face and laughed loudly and said: "I received a report some time ago that he had dealings with several trading houses. If he didn't make money, he wouldn't move around."

"If that's the case, maybe some ancient star formation has been discovered and can be transmitted farther. Although Xia Jing's Star Warlock branch is not so formal, according to the regulations, if such a star formation is discovered, it must be reported. If there were more star formations in Daxia, why would we be controlled by the Star Warlock Association in the far west?" After Liu Kuang said this, he became angry.

"We are controlled by the Star Warlock Association and have nothing to do with the Ancient Star Formation. After so many years, think about it, how many people in Daxia can be qualified to advance to level five and then go to the association." An Feng said seriously. stand up.

The two of them lost topic for a while.

After a while, An Feng took out the jute paper he was carrying, placed it gently on the table and said, "Look at this letter."

In Daxia, in theory, the only people who could use jute paper were the Menxia Province, Zhengshitang and the royal family. Although the Star Warlocks do not follow the rules, they do take care of the details.

Therefore, when Liu Kuang saw the jute paper, the first thing he thought of was the star warlock from other places. He glanced at Warlock An Fengxing suspiciously, and then slowly unfolded the jute paper.

Most of the irrelevant parts of the paper are blacked out, and the rest is about discussing geometry. This method is very common among early scientists. Newton, Fermat and others like to use letters to describe mathematical problems to their friends. They are often serious papers.

Since it was mainly about traditional geometry, Warlock Liu Kuangxing basically glanced at it, and he also deliberately did not take a closer look. He knew that An Feng was definitely not showing off his academic achievements when he read the letter.

In fact, Warlock Liu Kuangxing soon knew why Warlock Liu Kuangxing asked him to read the letter.

In the five or six pages of content, the name "Cheng Jinzhou" appeared more than a dozen times, far more than the other rankings. And the content also has a strong flavor of recognition.

"This is..." Liu Kuang hesitated. Looking at the content of the letter, he found that this star warlock was at least a three-star level.

"This is a letter from Warlock Guo Jingxing." An Feng tapped the jute paper lightly.

"The apprentice of Warlock Gaomu Enxing? Where is Warlock Gaomu Enxing?"

An Feng smiled bitterly and said: "How do I know Warlock Gao Mu Enxing? However, when Warlock Guo Jingxing arrived at the Star Warlock Association, he also studied it from the perspective of probability. I introduced him to Cheng Jinzhou, and the two of them helped each other through several letters."

"Help each other?" Liu Kuang said with a strange expression: "A four-star warlock and a two-star warlock help each other?"

An Feng drank the tea in his hand in one breath, flicked a fire bead into the kettle, turned his hand slightly, and directly drew the scalding water from the kettle into the cup.

After doing this series of things, he helplessly twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "If you want to hear the truth, Warlock Guo Jingxing's original words are very helpful to him."

Liu Kuang's eyes opened even wider.

Probably anticipating Warlock Liu Kuangxing's attitude, An Feng held the tea cup in his arms, slowly leaned back on the chair, casually looked at the water patterns in the cup, and said, "Guo Jing got it before he went to the far west. That ancient star formation has a lot to do with optics. He must have been studying it for several years at that time. We were all third-level star warlocks at that time, I think you still remember."

"Remember, how could I not remember." Liu Kuang exclaimed: "We all attacked him at that time, and even went to Nanping Lake to measure the angle of the sun for him in the middle of the lake."

"Yes. When I wrote to him, I told him about Cheng Jinzhou's research on optics. It was originally an anecdote, but I didn't expect him to take it seriously. If it weren't for the fact that the communication between the two sides was too slow and the distance was too long, I think Cheng Jinzhou I’ve long run out of time to get things in the warehouse.”

Although An Feng didn't say it directly, he expressed everything he wanted to express.

Liu Kuang was stunned when he heard this and said, "So, you want to protect Cheng Jinzhou?"

"Let's go together." Seeing Liu Kuang's agreement, An Feng said openly: "Even if the two of us don't take action, Warlock Jiang Huangxing will probably cover him, and depending on the situation, he made such a noise himself. , there should be no scruples, just treat it as a favor to everyone."

From a political point of view, Liu Kuang was much more mature than An Fengxing Warlock, but after thinking about it, he had to nod and admit: "There are several warehouses, and the total is less than one million taels of silver. I don't think the court will do anything about it." Sample."

He said it lightly, but seriously speaking, an ordinary star warlock is not worth the price of 1 million taels.

The two fourth-level star warlocks and others actually did not consider the possibility that Cheng Jinzhou would return the supplies.

What they were thinking of was more of a crazy act by a crazy astromancer who lacked funds for a crazy experiment.

In the early days, Cheng Jinzhou might have wanted to take advantage of his father's reputation to do some secret deeds. Perhaps now he thinks that what he was doing was secret deeds, but in the eyes of the upper class, what he did was as if it were done in broad daylight. , it is as obvious as raping a common woman under the bright sky.

However, just as officials who take bribes may not necessarily be punished by the emperor, star warlocks who do bad things may not necessarily be punished immediately.

Sometimes the punishment comes so late that it is not felt.

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