Waiting in the lounge at the back of the store, an interested Charlotte looked at the paintings on the wall, while her maid focused on the sample clothes stacked in the corner.

Cathy brought two cups of fruit tea, bent down and said, "Countess, I'm very sorry, my master is taking care of some business and will be over later." ”

Charlotte waved her hand and motioned for Cathy not to care.

Watching the other party hurry to get to work on the task at hand, Charlotte took out a design sketchbook from the bookcase in the lounge and sat down on a strange-looking sofa in the room.

As soon as she sat down, the soft and elastic material of the leather sofa startled the countess, and she immediately jumped up, turned around and touched the sofa, and studied it carefully.

Soon, Charlotte became so addicted to the feeling of comfort that she couldn't help herself.

Lazily opened the design drawings and looked at them again and again, in addition to those trendy and eye-catching clothing concept drawings, what interested Charlotte the most were a few strange sketches.

One is a huge room with many square boxes displaying images, a pile of glittering round crystal pieces, and many strange machines of unknown names.

The second is under a crystal firmament, with five open floors connected by staircases, and on each floor there are countless small rooms connected together, each with a counter selling different kinds of items.

Flip the two drawings to the back, the former with the words "Between Creation" and the latter with the words "City of Commerce".

While Charlotte was still wondering what these were, Mary pushed open the door and walked in.

The Countess got up from her chair and trotted into her arms: "Mary, it's great to see you! I was worried about your safety until I heard about the accident in the Silver Ring Kingdom and received your letter!"

In the face of Charlotte's enthusiasm, Mary was a little at a loss, so she could only comfort the other party while sitting down first.

Charlotte listened to the voices of the women outside the door arguing over price and style, and said to Mary with a smile: "From the day you became your palace etiquette instructor, you always had a way to surprise me. ”

Mary looked a little tired, with faint circles around her eyes, and her speech was a little lacking: "Lady Charlotte, please forgive me for contacting you last month. ”

"You look like you haven't slept all day, it's good to be busy opening a store, but forgetting to sleep is the enemy of women!"

Mary looked at Mrs. Charlotte with a serious face with some amusement, the other party's persistence in beauty, etiquette and clothing can be described as stubborn, but who would have thought that the aristocratic woman in front of her, who looked only twenty-five or sixteen years old, was actually nearly forty years old?

"I've had some insomnia a few nights late, but it doesn't have much to do with opening the shop, and I didn't drink coffee this morning......," Mary's voice grew lower.

Charlotte sat forward a little and asked, "Coffee?"

"Ah, no, nothing. Mary took out a few of the sketches and put them in front of Charlotte: "Teacher, in addition to the blueprints I sent you last time, I have recently designed a few sets of summer clothes, adding some 'Bilantz' and 'Gothic' elements, you can take a look." ”

After a cursory glance at the drawings, Charlotte returned her gaze to Mary's face, and her voice was soft and helpless: "The stage of the Silver Ring has ended. ”

Mary's hand stiffened.

"The past has long since disappeared in the clouds. Charlotte lowered her voice: "Your husband, the former king, is the same. ”

Mary lowered her head and closed her eyes.

"God plucked a man's rib and created the woman to keep us in mind where we belong. Charlotte looked at the other party's lonely expression and sighed lightly: "Women, after all, should find a man to snuggle up to each other and support each other in this world of suffering, and walk the path of trials set by fate." ”

Mary shook her head, shaking off the thoughts that had come to her mind, "Teacher, since I came to Twilight, I have never felt like I have sunk into the mire of misery. On the contrary, I have never lived a full and happy life, and the lowly one who has subservient in front of my father and husband has died in a cage. Now I am learning and enjoying every moment, the vitality and satisfaction brought by new things, and this is the first time I really feel that I am alive. ”

Charlotte smiled.

She reached out and touched the top of Mary's head, looking and moving like a mother who has fallen when her child is a toddler and encourages her to get up.

"Say, son, what is the purpose of writing to me? ”

Mary held the stack of blueprints in her hand to her chest, her eyes sparkling: "I want to make Twilight City the art and fashion center of the whole world!"

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"What? you say it again?!"

Ulysses rubbed his forehead vigorously, looking incredulous, and asked loudly to the man in front of him.

Sitting across from him was a wealthy fat businessman full of confidence, who held up a duckbill clip in his hand and said to the patent registrar across the table: "This thing in my hand is an invention of epoch-making historical significance, and it will eventually go down in history and be immortalized for centuries......

Ulysses interrupted the other party loudly: "No, no, the previous introductions are exempt, what's the use of you saying this thing again?!"

"In those noble public places, there are often embarrassing moments where you want to expel excess gas from your body, but you are afraid of making indecent sounds......"

Ulysses' round eyes widened: "Excess gas?!"

The monk's assistant, who was sitting next to him, reminded him in a low voice: "I believe he meant farting......"

"Damn! I know it's a fart!" Ulysses, his face darker than the bottom of the pot, waved his hand, "Go on." ”

The rich merchant raised the duckbill clip above his head, and his voice was so loud that everyone in the office hall looked sideways: "And with this 'fart muffler', no matter where you are, no matter what position you are, you can let it go if you want, and there will be no trace of fart!"

The monk's assistant didn't notice Ulysses' sullen expression, and asked with interest, "So how is it used?"

"Just put this gadget in and get it in after aligning it......" The rich merchant made a downward motion with the duckbill clamp towards his buttocks, raised his eyebrows, and looked obscene: "When you want to do something, as long as you use force in the lower abdomen, the clamp can be stretched to the maximum, ensuring that the air is unimpeded, and naturally there will be no sound." ”

Ulysses, who was almost devastated, couldn't listen to it anymore, he took the seal on the patent application form of the "fart muffler", and desperately stamped a dozen red crosses like a chicken pecking rice, and shouted: "Reject!"

Seeing this, the rich businessman was so angry that his face turned red, and he protested loudly with a small clip: "Why reject my invention patent, you don't understand it at all......"

Ulysses shook the bell, and the guards appeared, picked up the rich merchant, and dragged him towards the gate.

The hall still reverberated with his "heart-wrenching" plea.

"Ignorant fellows, when you are rejected by your loved ones because of your fart, you will understand how important my invention is!!"

Ulysses rubbed his temples and said angrily: "Although the teachers and students of the Twilight West Academy must help the kingdom complete administrative affairs, I don't want to do this kind of patent examination again!"

The monk's assistant cautiously glanced at the scholar and asked tentatively, "There is another person outside who has submitted a patent application, do you think you want him to go back?"

Ulysses sighed and said helplessly, "Forget it, let him in." ”

An emaciated man sat across from Ulysses.

The latter noticed the man, who had been plagued by chronic malnutrition and was in a withered state, but his hands were impressive. Ten fingers are slender, as flexible and powerful as a pianist.

Ulysses picked up the other party's application form and looked at it, and was taken aback by the patent name - "Human Blood Circulation".

Seeing that the emaciated man took out dozens of sketches from his arms, which contained a schematic diagram of the blood circulation of the human heart, an anatomy diagram of the human blood circulation, and even a diagram of capillaries, Ulysses patted his assistant on the shoulder with a trembling hand: "Go and ask Master Terrence to come over!

The study of the human body in another world is still stuck in the period of Gutello.

The most representative of these is the human blood circulatory system.

The theory of blood circulation supported by the Church is also known as "Galenism." The gist of it is that the creation of the human body is the work of the gods, and the blood comes from the "aura" given by God, which is made by the liver and flows through the small hole in the heart.

The man who applied for the patent completely overturned the church's theory of blood circulation, divided the blood vessels of the human body into arteries and veins, described in detail the structure of the heart, and the circulation route of the blood, and even drew the structure of the capillaries clearly.

Twenty minutes later, Terrence sat in the reception room, put down the picture in his hand, and looked at the man in front of him: "What's your name?"

Wayne Dunlop. ”

"You're a doctor?"

Wayne nodded: "To be exact, I'm a veterinarian." ”

Terrence's eyes narrowed slightly, "How did you come up with these pictures?"

"I took a microbiology course at Twilight College for a while, and then I spent all my savings and bought a microscope to find the capillaries in animals. I was thinking that since animals exchange blood between arteries and veins through capillaries, humans should do the same, so I sneaked into Silver Ring City with a microscope......"

Ulysses suppressed his voice and exclaimed.

Wayne continued, "Under the control of the Northern Barbarians, there were daily deaths in Silver Ring City at that time, and I had a stable source of experimental materials. ”

Terrence frowned and said, "Desecrate the corpse of the deceased......"

"Rather than let the flesh be eaten by maggots, let them contribute one last of their strength for the great truth. Wayne said with his head down, his fingers crossed.

Terrence touched the white beard on his chin, thought for a while, closed his eyes and said, "Take him to register a patent." ”

After helping the veterinarian register his patent, Ulysses returned to the reception room and began to negotiate with Master Terrence.

"Master, I have told him and other insiders that the matter of blood circulation must be kept secret and not spread to the outside world. ”

Terrence nodded, pondered for a while, and said to Ulysses, "Do you know what the discovery of human blood circulation means?"

Looking at the other party shaking his head, Terrence said slowly: "In the eyes of the church, the human body is God's creation and the most critical line of defense in theology. And to uncover the secrets of human physiology is to attack the sharpest spear of the Church. ”