The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In fact, Martin had already arrived at the stairs when Leo and Jean Valjean were talking, but he didn't go upstairs immediately, but stood at the stairs and listened to their conversation quietly for a while.

However, Martin didn't know that Leo had already noticed his whereabouts. Although he didn't know why Martin did this, he knew how to deal with it.

Therefore, when Jean Valjean expressed negative emotions such as dissatisfaction and disdain towards Martin, he deliberately shifted the topic to those machines, and did not let Jean Valjean fully express his emotions.

However, what he didn't expect was that the relationship between Jean Valjean and Martin would be so bad. After meeting, the first sentence was full of gunpowder.

Martin doesn't like Jean Valjean's attitude towards him, and he doesn't like being questioned by his subordinates in front of outsiders, but he also knows very well that if Jean Valjean is missing from the Cage City, I am afraid that the machines that maintain the normal operation of the Cage City will be destroyed. More than half of them are malfunctioning, which will definitely make the cage city extremely chaotic. So no matter how bad Jean Valjean's attitude towards himself was, he could only endure it, at least until his plan succeeded.

"You can ask how much such a lamp costs." Martin stabilized his emotions, looked at Jean Valjean coldly, and said.

"Is this thing expensive?" Leo was stunned for a moment. Lamps with the same function in the Earth Federation are very cheap, even a beggar on the poor star can afford it, and the same is true in the old earth era, so this makes his The mind always thinks that all lamps are cheap.

Hearing Ao's question, Jean Valjean showed a bit of embarrassment on his face, curled his lips, and said, "It's only twenty."

Leo still judged the currency unit behind the number based on the idea that lamps are cheap, and said, "Twenty biya? It's a bit expensive for ordinary people."

"If it's only twenty bia, even if I can't fill the entire Cage City with these lamps, at least several important places in the Cage City, such as Kaina's clinic, will at least be replaced with brighter lamps." Martin said coldly. With a snort, he said angrily, "The cost of this lamp is twenty gold Sa."

Hearing this number, Leo couldn't help but gasp.

After a few days of study, he has a certain understanding of the currency exchange rate at this time and the value of the currency itself, and he is also very clear about several of the most famous currencies. Although Jinsa is not as popular as the gold flange and gold shield in terms of circulation, this currency is recognized as the most valuable gold coin, and each gold coin can be exchanged for twenty-five gold shields.

According to this exchange rate calculation, the cost of a lamp is equivalent to five hundred gold shields and thousands of gold flanges. For such an expensive price, let alone places like Cage City, even the royal palace of the French royal family probably couldn't hold such expensive items.

Hearing such a sky-high price, Jason couldn't help but stare at this small lamp in shock.

"Why is it so expensive?" Leo asked curiously.

"The other parts of this lamp are not very expensive, mainly in two places." Jean Valjean explained: "One place is the filament of the light bulb. This kind of filament needs a rare ore from the Mozambique continent. precious metals, this kind of metal is very rare, and the maximum annual output is less than 500 grams. Another place is that the steam generator needs to be equipped with a current stabilizer, and that kind of stabilizer also needs to use one kind of precious metal, two kinds of plus It’s going to be expensive.”

Leo didn't know what material this light bulb could be used for, and what device it needed, because light particle lamps that didn't consume energy had already been used in his Earth Federation era, but he still felt that this lamp should have other, more powerful lights. Inexpensive replacement material. It's just that he didn't speak rashly because he didn't know how to do it, he could only be a quiet observer.

Martin seemed unwilling to stay here any longer, and urged impatiently: "Jean Valjean, where are your weapons? Take them out now and let Mr. Dodd choose."

"Those weapons of mine?" Jean Valjean showed a surprised expression, as if he had heard something incredible, and asked in confirmation: "Those weapons?"

"The weapons." Martin knew exactly what Jean Valjean was talking about,

Jean Valjean questioned: "Didn't you say that those weapons are unqualified?"

"I paid you to study weapons in order to equip the trade union guards. What you need are weapons that can be mass-produced but cost less." Martin almost gritted his teeth and said to Jean Valjean, "You spent me thirteen Wan Jinfang made those things, do you think I should consider those weapons qualified?"

At the last question, Martin almost yelled out, as if he wanted to vent to Jean Valjean the aggrievedness he had suffered in front of the factory owner these days.

The relationship between Martin and Jean Valjean is the most suitable one to describe it as suffering. Obviously, the trade union's reserve funds were insufficient, so he squeezed out 130,000 gold flanges to find Jean Valjean, the best mechanical technician in the cage city, to develop weapons, hoping to develop a weapon that was suitable for the cage city and could be equipped in large quantities. If so, he will have more confidence when negotiating with those factory owners.

But after the 130,000 gold flannels were spent, Jean Valjean took out his work and almost didn't let him kill Jean Valjean on the spot. In the end, he endured the anger rationally and put Jean Valjean under house arrest. When did he repay the debt of 130,000 gold flanges, and when he could be free.

"Is there something wrong with those weapons?" Leo asked Martin.

"There is no problem with the weapon itself, and it is the best weapon I have ever seen. Even the great technicians of Murphy Arsenal can't make such a good weapon." Martin took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and explained to Leo He said: "It's just that those weapons are not only very expensive to manufacture, but also can't be used by ordinary people. No matter how you explain it, you can't explain it clearly. You will understand when you see the real thing." Then he yelled at Jean Valjean: What are you doing standing here, take it down quickly."

"There are too many things, let's go up and have a look!" Jean Valjean walked to one side of the wall while talking, and moved the lamp shelf on the wall vigorously, and then heard a burst of mechanical friction, gears The sound of collision came from the iron plate above the head.

"Ga~" A piercing noise sounded in the room, and then a piece of the ceiling was slowly falling down, and with the operation of the mechanical gears, the whole piece of iron plate was gradually deformed and turned into an upward staircase.

After the stairs fell, Jean Valjean took down the hanging lamp on the wall, led the way, and went up, and Leo and the others followed.

At the end of the stairs, it was not a room, but an elevator shaft. Jean Valjean stood by the shaft and signaled everyone to wait. After a while, he heard creaking sounds from above the shaft, and then he looked at the elevator shaft. A lift wobbled down from overhead and stopped in front of Jean Valjean.

"When did you build a new elevator in the building?" Martin asked with a slightly annoyed tone, "Don't you know that any building in the building needs to be approved by the building committee?"

"I'm not in the building, so I don't need to be reviewed by the committee." Jean Valjean said, pointing to the deep well below the elevator.

I saw that looking down the deep well, if you have good eyesight, you can vaguely see the street scene at the bottom.

It turns out that this should be the upper space of a road between buildings, but the upper part of the street has been covered by a connecting passage made of steel frames and iron plates. In addition, some people simply built houses on the connecting brackets, so it can be seen There is no shadow of the street. But as Jean Valjean said, this is not the space in the building, and building things here does not need to be approved by the building committee.

Seeing that Martin was speechless, Jean Valjean also showed a smile, opened the elevator door, signaled everyone to come up, and then moved the control lever next to him. I saw the elevator rising slowly. After rising four or five meters, the four corners of the elevator were stuck by the gear guide rails composed of four steel frames.

After about a minute, the elevator climbed about twenty floors. After Jean Valjean moved the control lever, he heard it slowly, and stopped just in front of a dark passage.

Jean Valjean picked up the hanging lamp and walked into the passage. After passing through three doors, he handed the lamp in his hand to Leo. He took out two keys and inserted them into two locks of different shapes on the door at the same time. At the same time, they twisted the key in different twisting ways, and after hearing a mechanical sound, the door slowly opened, and a hot, turbid air came out from behind the door, and the clothes and hair of the four people were all blown up.

"Your building here is tight enough." Martin said with something in his words.

Jean Valjean was not worried at all about Martin's reckoning, and said frivolously, "I can't help it. I have too many valuables. I have to find a place to put them."

As the turbid air in the house dissipated completely, and the temperature inside and outside the house returned to the same level, Jean Valjean signaled everyone to wait, and then he walked into the room with the hanging lamp. Although the room was pitch black and nothing could be seen, hearing the echoes in the room was enough to make people feel that the room might not be small.

When people outside the house were guessing the size of the room, the various lamps hanging on the top of the room and inlaid around the room seemed to be under the effect of some kind of magic, and they were ignited almost at the same time, completely driving out the darkness in the room .

As everyone guessed just now, this room is very large. Measured by Catherine's clinic, it is roughly equivalent to the area of ​​six clinics neatly arranged.

Although the room is large, there are not many things in the room, at least much less than the things in the mechanical workshop below, and in these things, except for a huge clock, which Leo can understand its function, all other machines are Unknown effect.

Among them, the huge machine that occupied half of the room made Leo most curious. This machine looked like a row of spinning machines connected together. It's just that these machines don't have yarn, and besides a large number of gears inside the machine, there are some square steel bars of different lengths.

By inferring the trajectory of the gear movement, Leo can estimate how the machine will look like when it moves. The steel bars should move in a certain order, and then communicate with the gears to drive other steel bars to make irregular movements. As for the effect and use of such a movement, it is beyond Leo's ability to figure it out.

Perhaps because he noticed Leo's gaze, Jean Valjean smiled at Leo as if he had seen a confidant, "I knew you would notice her immediately after you came in. She is a great beauty, isn't she?"

Hearing that Jean Valjean used anthropomorphic or female to refer to a machine occupying half a huge room, Leo didn't know how to answer the other party's question for a while. I can only follow the other person's words, change the subject, point to the machine, and say, "Can you tell me what this is?"

Jean Valjean touched the machine excitedly, and said: "She is called an array machine, and it is my invention for many years."

Even Jason couldn't help shivering with this kind of behavior, and turned his head away from this side, while Martin had a headache and didn't know what to say.

"What is the function of the array machine?" Leo asked again.

"She is an enlarged calculator." Jean Valjean explained: "Didn't you say that the calculator I made has flaws? She will not have any flaws, and she can also calculate various data to predict the future. what happen?"

"Isn't that the same as the goddess of fate in mythology?" Jason was also attracted, and after hearing Jean Valjean's introduction, he couldn't help interjecting: "The shape of this thing is also like a spinning machine, and it is said that the fate of Beirut people The goddess will use the loom to weave the future destiny of the world, maybe the loom in the hands of the goddess is this thing."

Jason's words instantly made Jean Valjean regard him as a confidant, even surpassing Leo, because he also viewed this machine in the same way, so he called her by a female title.

It's just that this confidant feeling didn't last for thirty seconds, and it was broken up by Jason's next sentence. Jason said, "Can this thing work?"

Jean Valjean gave Jason an angry look, and then said with a little confidence: "This machine still has some minor problems, and it needs further adjustments before it can be used."

"Okay! No one will appreciate this machine except you." Martin hit Jean Valjean with every opportunity, and then returned the topic that had strayed to the right direction, saying: "Take out the weapon! Ours Time is short, don't waste time on these unnecessary things."

Hearing Martin's words, Jean Valjean did not refute, but just let out a cold snort, and walked to a corner of the room, pushed a box out with a large wharf cart, put it in front of the three of them, and then completely removed the box. Open it and spread it on the ground, so that the three of them can clearly see every weapon contained in the box.

When he saw these weapons clearly, Leo couldn't help but exclaimed, and then said to Martin, who had an ugly face, "No wonder you think these weapons are unqualified. These weapons are indeed not something ordinary people can use."