Studying Science in the Alternate World

Rumble!

On Lingya Mountain, there are engineering puppets everywhere, digging foundations, moving stones, pumping water and pulling sand, and marking for surveying and mapping. Very busy.

The roar of mechanical rotation continued.

Most of the small puppets use puppet cores to output driving force, consuming psionic energy without causing any pollution. However, there are also some large puppets that cannot be driven by the spiritual energy of the puppet core alone, and must burn spiritual slag for energy.

Most of the spiritual slag is used in factories, and the black smoke generated by burning can block out the sky and the sun.

At this time, on Lingya Mountain, the black smoke emitted by the large puppets was also constantly spewing out, spreading towards the sky, and soon merged with the black smoke from the direction of Cuihai City, forming a layer of dark clouds in the sky.

"Gah!"

"Gah!"

Unknown birds came in and out of the dark clouds, pecking at the spiritual particles carried in the black smoke.

Surrounded by a large group of people, Duke patrolled around the construction site of Lingtooth Mountain. After descending the mountain, he met Karius Flamingo's nephew, Carter Flamingo.

A 2-ring arcane mage.

"Lord Duke." Carter bowed and saluted.

"Your Excellency Carter, are you here to supervise the construction yourself?"

"I came here to find you, my lord," Carter said.

"Find me?"

"My uncle just got the news that the United Tower has passed an internal decision to cut down the 3-ringed tree king-Wannian Pine Tower. I think, if Duke Sage's Mage Tower has this 3-ringed tree king, it will serve as the head of the Mage Tower. backbone, then this mage tower will be more perfect."

"Have you decided to cut down the Wannian pine cone? I understand." Duke nodded in understanding.

After Carter conveyed the news, he left and said, "Then I wish Lord Duke the best of luck in building the best mage tower."

The mage's tower is not an ordinary building.

To be more precise, it should be a quasi-arcane weapon, and the main body must be built with a large amount of spiritual gold and spiritual materials to withstand various crises.

Otherwise, the higher the mage tower is built, the more dangerous it will be.

Moreover, Duke also needs to transform the chick's grandma, the trilobite ancient spirit pheasant feather, into the tower spirit of the mage tower. The quality of the materials used requires higher pursuit.

If there is a tree king with three rings to build the backbone of the mage tower, it will obviously greatly improve the safety and spirituality of the mage tower.

"It's just a pity that the ten-thousand-year pine tower has escaped the invasion of ancient evils, but it has to end its life in the hands of humans."

Boarding the airship and rushing back to Shenjiao City, Duke sighed in his heart.

The United Tower has decided to cut down the Wannian Pine Tower, and he has no way to stop it. After all, he is only a member of the Five Towers Conference, not the United Tower.

Back to the Suktara Master Tower, the teacher just came back.

Duke immediately asked: "Teacher, did you decide to cut down the Wannian pine cone?"

"I knew you would ask about this." Suktara had expected it, and said gently, "Once Cuihai City is built, the transfer of the spiritual spring will be very serious, and it will be difficult to support two three-ringed trees at the same time. King's demand, so cutting one off is the best choice."

"Is that so?" Duke thought thoughtfully, "So the reason why the two tree kings in Shenjiao City cut down one of them was also because of such concerns?"

Suktara said, "Yes."

Although the arcane masters of the Seven Towers Federation do not pursue the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Every time a spiritual spring is occupied, the surrounding flowers, plants and trees are cut down and shoveled, and industrial black smoke and waste water are discharged to the surroundings at will.

But planting spiritual plants can sort out spiritual energy, everyone knows this.

Therefore, to be able to avoid damaging the spiritual plants, arcanists naturally would not destroy them at will, especially the rare 3-ring spiritual plants like the tree king.

It's a pity that the growth of the tree king is too dependent on the spiritual spring.

This conflicts with the needs of human beings. There is no doubt that the ultimate sacrifice must be the tree king, and it cannot be human beings.

"Teacher, if I want to bid for this Wannian pine cone, what are the conditions?"

"The 3rd Ring Tree King is my trophy from Heijiaohe land. Only local arcanists can bid for it, but there are quite a few people staring at it." Suktala changed the subject and said with a smile, "But you are a learned man. Sage, you want to build the Sage Mage Tower again, if you lobby, everyone will give you face."

"I'm afraid that Baron Black Jade will lose face."

"Then work it out and put the Wannian Pine Tower on the table of the Five Towers Conference. At that time, everyone will definitely support you instead of Baron Black Jade."

"This... I'll contact you right away." Duke quickly understood.

He is an arcane mage trained by Heijiaohe's own family. How can he be compared to an outsider like Bernoulli when he fights at home.

First visit the Keystone Mage Tower.

Kiston narrowed his eyes and said, "You kid, why do you want to draw all the benefits into your own bowl? The twin springs are yours, and you want to grab the 3rd ring tree king?"

"I just have a need. Boss, you are the guide of Heijiaohe Land, so you have to support us juniors."

"I can support, but as the United Tower is in power, my bowl of water must be leveled."

"Forehead……"

Duke was thinking of words.

Keyston suddenly came to a turning point: "However, if you promise me one thing, I will just give up this old face, so what if I prefer to help you."

"Please tell me."

"I want you to give birth to a child for the Raging Wave family." When Kiston squinted his eyes and spoke, he looked like an old fox instead of a lion king.

Duke was taken aback, and responded, "But I don't know how to have children."

"Ahem!" Kiston rolled his eyes, "Who asked you to have a child? With so many daughters in my Nutao family, it is not easy to have a child!"

"But why do you have to have my child?"

"Because you are good enough." Kiston didn't need to beat around the bush, "And don't say you don't want to have a baby with Ji Liya, the daughter of the Nutao family, a flower from Shenjiao City. The nobles are married."

"How could it be? Kiria and I really love each other." Duke suddenly thought of the bloody romance drama on Earth.

Immediately said righteously: "My lord, don't worry, as long as Kiriya is willing, I don't care how many children I have."

Why not give birth to a child in the care of the Nutao family, and inherit the foundation of the Nutao family by the way.

Keyston nodded in satisfaction: "That's right."

Duke then asked: "However, the Nutao family is very prosperous and is the largest family in Heijiaohe. Why do you need a child of mine?"

"You don't understand." Kiston shook his head and sighed, "Although the population is large, the talent has been lost from generation to generation. After finally cultivating Kylia, she is still a girl. Nowadays, the spirituality of Heijiaohe, You monopolize 80%, so the old man has no choice but to be cheeky and ask you for a child."

Every family has its cupboard.

The Nutao family seems to be firmly seated as the overlord of Shenjiao City, but in fact, there are not many arcane masters cultivated among the younger generations.

No wonder Keyston had such an idea.

However, Duke thought in his heart that Keyston's calculation would come to nothing sooner or later. When it comes to physical talent, Duke is not high.

Ninety-nine percent of his talent falls on the golden finger.

In any case, with the help of Keyston, the Wannian Pine Tower is basically stable. However, Duke will still visit the remaining members of the Five Towers Conference one by one, and give them a favor to let them give up the fight and give up their love to him.

Xu heard the wind, and when the Wannian pine cone was put on the round table of the Five Towers Conference to discuss how to deal with it, Baron Black Jade Bernoulli did not attend the meeting at all.

finally.

This king tree with three rings, which took thousands of years to grow, was successfully acquired by Duke. Of course, the price was not small.

It is fully converted to a price of 1.5 million golden dragons.

Duke needs to repay Shenjiao City's public finances in installments within ten years until the material cost is fully paid off.

"The arrears have skyrocketed again, and the pressure is huge!" Duke personally came to the lakeside of the spiritual spring in Cuihai City, watching the tree king of the third ring - the Wannian Pine Tower being uprooted, "One and a half million Jinlong, a number that I didn't dare to think of before, now I owe it casually."

This towering tree with a height of 350 meters, when it fell to the ground, the whole ground was shaken.

Silently muttered two sins.

He personally directed the workers to remove all the branches of the Wannian pine cone, and then divided it into thirty-five sections according to the spiritual distribution of the entire tree trunk.

Then they were transported to Lingya Mountain piece by piece in a black beetle car.

Teacher Suktara, along with Terrence and other 1st-ring arcane mages who are studying alchemy, have already waited here in advance.

"teacher."

"Let's work, try to refine the Wannian pine cone into a qualified backbone material as soon as possible, so that the construction team can construct as soon as possible." Suktala rolled up his sleeves with a smile, and went to the field to refine the Wannian pine cone. It has been done for more than a hundred years.

She even taught several 1st-ring arcane mages while working-in fact, these people were all her former students.

Back then, he left the Mage Tower with Sorel.

When Duke was promoted to erudite sage, except for Sorel, who was embarrassed to come back because of his shame, the other students all came back.

Suktara didn't care about them, and after discussing with Duke, he readily accepted these students.

Duke did not immediately participate in the extraction of spiritual materials, but found Carter Flamingo, and proposed his own new idea: "Now that there is a ten thousand year pine cone, the material of this tree king is enough to extract the backbone of two mage towers. use."

"Yes, definitely enough," Carter replied.

"So, I want to change the blueprint."

"Do as you please."

"I want to integrate the mage's tower with the future castle, so that the backbone is connected to each other, that is, from the mage's tower on the top of the mountain to the castle at the foot of the mountain, for an integrated design." Duke put forward his own idea. grandmother.

If the mage tower uses a set of backbone alone, then after the tower spirit is transformed, Granny Pheasant Feather can only move in the mage tower.

But after the integrated design of the backbone with the castle, Grandma Pheasant Feather can move around the entire Lingya Mountain.

In this way, the entire castle and mage tower can be brought under the supervision of Grandma Zhiyu, which is enough to extinguish most crises in the bud.

"In this case, we need to build a second spring in violation of regulations." Carter hesitated.

"Don't worry, I will buy this spring sooner or later, just put it here temporarily." Duke laughed.

Carter nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange someone to design it and come up with a new plan as soon as possible."

...

Time flies.

In a flash, the hottest summer has passed.

The construction of Cuihai City is still in full swing. Even with the influx of a large number of people from other places, many construction sites are still short of people.

Recruitment notices were posted all over Shenjiao City and surrounding market towns, and spread all the way to other cities. Even the streets of Runwu City had recruitment notices for Cuihai City. The favorable treatment and the ability to settle in a big city have attracted many people.

After packing up his luggage, he took a black beetle car or a black centipede car to a new city hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

Sheshou Town, which is close to Cuihai City, has become a transfer center for people and goods.

The Black Snake family made a lot of money relying on tax collection and transportation, and the entire Black Snake Manor was beaming with joy.

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace."

Muland Black Snake squinted his eyes, grabbed a handful of golden dragons from the vault, and watched the golden dragon leaking down his fingers. Under his smiling expression, there was a look of concern: "The Black Snake family has been dug out recently. A lot of great knights have left."

"Yes, Second Uncle." Muhans Black Snake replied with a serious face.

"Before my father passed away, I once said that if wealth and strength do not match, disasters will inevitably occur. Muhans..."

"Second Uncle, tell me."

"The Black Jade Clan has shown goodwill recently, and even expressed the intention of forming an alliance with each other. In your opinion, should they be used as backup?" Murand asked in a deep voice.

Mu Hansi pondered: "If you want to talk about the Black Jade Family, it will definitely become one of the big families in Cuihai City in the future, and the branch of the Kaishu Family will also become one of the big families. In addition to several other branches from other cities Family, this is a big force."

"go on."

"If we turn to the Black Jade Family, it may be one of the ways to solve the difficult situation, but...the Black Snake Family may not be valued by them."

"And then?" Muland grabbed another handful of golden dragons. He liked to hear the crisp sound of the golden dragons colliding with each other when they landed.

"So I think that the future of Cuihai City must be a process of collision between foreign forces and local forces. If the Black Snake Family cannot remain neutral, then it is necessary to join one of them. For now, our only advantage is Duke."

"Yeah, foreign forces look down on our Black Snake family, and local forces also have rifts with us, but Duke is the only backer we can really rely on." Murand said with emotion, "Unknowingly, Duke has grown into a family. It's a big mountain."

"It's only been a few years, it really seems like yesterday." Mu Hansi echoed.

"Since Duke is enough to be our backer, then be firm and deeply bind the Black Snake Family with Duke!" Muland made the final decision, "Muhans, you count out half of this year's income, Send it to Duke."

Mu Hansi was speechless: "Half the proceeds?"

"More than that, half of the proceeds from each year in the future will be sponsored to Duke for the development of Duke." Murand grasped the remaining golden dragon in his hand, "The family has a 2-ring arcanist What's the use of leaving so much money if you can't even cultivate it!"

Mu Hansi hesitated: "If you do this, will Modis and the others have any objections?"

"If you have any opinions, ask them to come to me, and you just do it."

"yes!"

Muhans took the order and left.

Murand let go of the golden dragon in his hand, threw it into the vault, and walked out with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle: "Duke has the prospect of being an arcane teacher, although no one can guarantee whether his future will really work out." Grow up to that point, but it's worth stud!"

The most important thing is that Snake Town is Duke's hometown, and this affection is always there. As long as Duke does not fall, the Black Snake Family will not fall.

the next day.

People sit at home, and the golden dragon comes up from the sky.

In the Suktara Mage Tower, Duke, who was doing experiments, soon got a happy notification from his little assistant, Mu Lali: "Sir, my father is here."

"Okay, I'm going to see Uncle Muhans."

After the meeting, Muhans directly handed over a list: "Mr. Duke, this is half of the total income of Snake Town in the first half of this year. After our Black Snake family unanimously decided to deliver this income to you, Sponsor you to explore spiritual mysteries."

"Sponsor me?"

"Yes, every year from now on, the Black Snake family will give out half of the proceeds to help you explore spiritual mysteries."

"Well……"

Duke glanced at the list, and the amount on the list was 180,000 gold dragons.

This is half of the half-year income of the Black Snake Family, which means that the Black Snake Family can earn about 720,000 Golden Dragons a year.

It has to be said that the Cuihai Valley development war and the urban construction plan of Cuihai City allowed the Black Snake family to enjoy the dividends of Bo Tianfei.

It was easy for Duke to think that the money was not so much a sponsorship fee as a protection fee.

A small nobleman at the bottom earns 720,000 gold dragons a year, which obviously makes many people go crazy with envy.

after all.

Some 1st ring arcane masters can't earn 10,000 gold dragons a year.

The Black Snake family has only one 2nd-ring arcane mage and four 1st-ring arcane mages, but they can earn 720,000 gold dragons a year, so it's hard not to be hated by others.

Thinking about this point, Duke gave a symbolic refusal, and then asked someone to collect the sponsorship fee: "I will accept the sponsorship fee, and I will take some time later to go to Snake Town and talk to the sponsorship fee." High Priest Murand will talk about investment."

Investment is not the goal, but to promote the relationship between the Black Snake family and himself is the goal.

The Black Snake family was so willing to pay such a high protection fee, Duke naturally tried his best to protect the Black Snake family.

Now he is already a member of the local high-level circle in Heijiaohe, and has enough influence to protect the Black Snake family.

"Then I won't bother you with the experiment, Mr. Duke, you can go and do your work, as long as Mu Lali stays with me." Muhans stood up and said goodbye.

He became more and more unwilling to stay in front of Duke for a long time.

Firstly, his daughter, Mu Lali, is just the other party's mistress, and his father-in-law's name is not right; secondly, although the other party is a junior, he has a frighteningly high achievement and a frighteningly high status, which really brings him too much pressure.

Duke also understood this, so he didn't keep him, but told Mu Lali to stay with Mu Hansi and have dinner together at noon.

returned to the laboratory.

His current experiment is indeed tense.

Because the fusion technology of the slide card and the illusion card has reached the final finishing stage, more efforts can announce the birth of a new technology.

"The film and television technology has been announced for a long time, but in the end, everything is up to us." Duke sighed, leaning over the test bench.

Film and television technology has been learned to the tower and promoted to the entire Seven Towers Federation.

Although it is favored by countless arcanists, who believe that it is an invention capable of changing society, the feedback is far less than that of strong light technology.

the reason is simple.

The strong light technology is not difficult. After the promotion, the full replacement of the old lamps can be realized immediately, so as to gather the spirituality of thousands of people to give back.

However, film and television technology, limited by the capacity of slide cards, has been unable to sink into the society for a long time, and the public simply cannot afford this new technology. As for the high-level arcanist, while researching, while waiting for the technology to mature, there was no movement for the time being.

Silently, naturally there is no spiritual feedback.

At present, some related technologies have indeed been invented, but the development of film and television technology is minimal.

On the contrary, the place that gives the most feedback is still the three-acre land of Heijiaohe, relying on the Phantom Musical that DreamWorks Film and Television Company is promoting-it's a pity that the screening cost is too high, and it is far from making money .

"It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone. You can't promote film and television technology, so I will do it myself!" As the progress of the experiment accelerated, Duke's confidence became more and more high.

Busy until noon.

He had just left the laboratory and was about to have lunch with Muhans Black Snake when another assistant, Mu Lashan, reported: "Sir, Lord James from Lingchi Farm has come and is accompanying Muhans Uncle speak."

"Is James here too? Just in time, let's chat at the dinner table."

When Duke entered the dining room of the castle, James immediately took the initiative to open a chair for Duke and wait for Duke to sit down.

"James, you don't have to be busy, sit down."

"Hey, yes, my lord."

After drinking a glass of wine, Duke asked, "James, have you brought people to choose the new site of Lingchi Farm?"

"I'm going to report this to you." James is now Duke's vassal, and everything is dominated by Duke, "The new site has chosen the area between Lingya Mountain and No. 3 Variation Forest according to your instructions. About 50,000 mu of land will be bought."

Lingya Mountain is located in the suburbs of Cuihai City, so the land is worthless, especially the undeveloped wasteland.

"What is the quality of the land?"

"Among all the land around Cuihai City, it's not the most fertile piece of land, but it's better because the terrain is relatively flat. After a few years of reclamation, it should be able to become a mature field."

"Not being fertile also has the advantages of not being fertile enough. Maybe it has an advantage in the cultivation of Chuuxuezhu." Duke laughed.

The reason why he wanted this land was that it was next to the No. 3 mutant forest.

The underground of Mutant Forest No. 3 is the place where the ancient evils shed their shells. Although the shells have been crushed and destroyed, the evil energy that escaped may not be completely dissipated for hundreds of years.

The current No. 3 mutant forest has become a collection place for new specimens. Many arcanists in the field of spiritual planting have sent mercenaries to search for new species of plants. Duke is more specific, and only looks for a kind of evil plant called Chuuxuezhu.

After all, he didn't have that much energy to study the field of Lingzhi.

Now it belongs to the first two shots with dates or no dates.

"I haven't been to Lingchi Farm for several days. How is Ji Yulu's growth?" Duke asked again.

James replied: "Ji Yulu hasn't changed much, but in the surrounding Yulu, there are already a few 1-ring Lingzhi Yulu, which seem to be evolving, and may evolve into 2-ring Lingzhi Yulu in the near future. I guess By then, Ji Yulu should have changed a bit."

"Well, pay close attention."

Duke has completely handed over these specific recording tasks to his subordinates, and he only needs to summarize the data.

At that time, it will be handed over to Xiaoyi to sort out, calculate, and then draw a conclusion.

It didn't take long for lunch, and Muhans rushed back to Sheshou Town in a hurry, and James also went back to Lingchi Farm to handle chores.

Duke naturally continued to devote himself to the experiment. In the past few days, he didn't plan to go out, so he stayed in the laboratory to complete the finishing touches.

Now his vassals are gradually increasing, especially after receiving the Suktara Mage Tower, there are more capable subordinates. The construction supervision of the Duke Sage's Mage Tower, the financial audit of the Light Giant Spirit Tool Company, and the inspection of the Phantom Base were all assigned.

This is the meaning of the title.

In the Seven Towers Federation, the arcanist only needs to focus on the spiritual arcane, and everyone else will live around the arcanist.

that's all.

A week passed by.

In the Suktara Mage Tower, in Duke's own laboratory, the spiritual apprentices were busy, and in the laboratory, a brand new piece of equipment was on the experimental table, which was carried by Duke on his shoulders.

This piece of equipment is very similar to cameras on Earth.

"It's so beautiful, isn't it." Duke carried the equipment and looked in the mirror. "The brand-new camera made by Austrian hands is more artistic than the real camera."

"This is due to your advanced aesthetics, master." Xiaoyi echoed Duke's boast.

Duke said modestly in his heart: "Not only that, it also includes Xiaoyi's design of craft casting, it is you and me who work together to create this brand new camera... Next, let us try it Effect!"

Pointing the camera at the window, Duke began to take pictures of the natural scenery around Shenjiao City.

Ask for tickets~