The serial murder case in the factory area was quickly closed, but Marianne took this opportunity to show her face fiercely, I don't know what method she used, and even said that the city hall would publicly reward the orange cat mercenary group.

The place of commendation was at the Pioneer Square at the entrance of the city hall, and a temporary platform was erected, and the city hall sent a deputy mayor to take the stage together with the branch president of the Transcendent Guild to offer a reward to recognize the outstanding performance of the orange cat mercenary group that solved the big case.

Although Jacques and others also showed their faces, it was Marianne who accepted the prize and gave a speech, and this cunning little fox came to the stage to say that the people of Hongxiang love Hongo and are willing to contribute to York City, and took the opportunity to advertise.

In the days that followed, Marianne became busy, and the leisurely afternoon tea time was often only Fabian and Natasha.

Lily takes her two apprentices to practice combat skills and refine source energy skills every day, but Jacques can't learn the source energy skills of thunder and lightning, and when Lily and Alyssa study the sixteen source energy skills inherited by thunder, Jacques and Fat Tangerine try to reverse deduce Mackay's moves together.

Jacques was very interested in McKain's move, which could teleport, but it was quite difficult to reverse the flow of source energy by simply seeing the other party perform it.

Winter is drawing to a close, and Yorktown looks like it's going to have another snowless winter, but the latest mail ship has crushed Lily's plans to call the bride of spring.

The president of the Naselli branch finally sent a letter, in which he expressed his approval of Lily's choice, and Jacques was also the child he watched grow up, but unfortunately due to the recent events in Port Moussey, he could not leave for the time being, and if Lily and Jacques wanted to get married, they would not have to wait for him.

"What's going on?" Jacques read the letter as he lay to the side, confused.

"Probably something that can't be mentioned. I wrote three letters to my father, and he didn't have time to reply until January, so I guess he's very busy. Lily was a little stunned.

Jacques comforted: "The main reason why we hold a wedding is to get the blessing of the elders, maybe when he is free, we can come to York City and we can arrange the wedding." ”

"So about going to the North......

"I haven't thought about it yet, maybe I'm going, maybe I'm not going, I haven't thought about it yet. ”

While the two are quietly discussing future arrangements, Alyssa and Emma hurry over and pull them to visit Graves' new "toy".

"Woohoo!"

Everyone rushed to the backyard, and before they could bypass the dense flower field, they heard two explosions, and then a cloud of white smoke floated from above the rowan tree.

As he navigated the plant corridor, Jacques saw Graves and Fabian each holding a metal rod facing the target fifty meters away, followed by two explosions, and two clouds of white smoke burst out of the metal rod.

The smoke cleared slightly, and Fabian said with some frustration: "Why didn't I hit again, obviously I have turned on the Eagle Eye skill, and aim according to what you said! If I change to a bow and arrow, I can shoot the flies on the target at this distance!"

Jacques had seen artillery, and was familiar with gunpowder, and when he heard the explosions and saw the white smoke from the burning gunpowder, he knew that the "toy" in their hands was a small artillery.

At this time, Jacques noticed that in addition to Marianne and Natasha, there was a young man in his twenties, wearing a silk top hat and gold-rimmed glasses, wrapped in a fur coat but still looking thin and short.

Graves stepped forward and introduced Jacques, "Jacques, this is my friend Alfred Pullman, the genius of alchemy! Alfred, this is Jacques Reynaud and Lily Naselli. ”

The thin young man greeted him with a smile on his face, and said, "Mr. Jacques, I heard that you had come to York City some time ago, and I wanted to pay a visit, but unfortunately I am not in good health, and I have been sick in the winter, and I have recently recovered a little before I can go out."

I've heard Graves say a long time ago, you are a polymath, proficient in machinery, alchemy, formations, metallurgy, and the breakthrough potion you made, you can achieve a 100% success rate, admire it, admire it!"

Jacques was a little at this time, numb claws, the breakthrough potion was the formula of Fat Orange, and it was also Fat Orange's hand to mix, he could only be regarded as an assistant, I really didn't expect Marianne to talk to Grey Fus about it, and what I didn't expect was that Grey Heads would tell others.

There was no way to blame the Marianne siblings, so Jacques smiled and shook hands, and changed the subject: "Hello, Mr. Alfred! I heard from Graves that you are also working on explosives, and that the small artillery they have is your work?"

Alfred was so anxious that his face was flushed, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no, this invention called the musket is also the result of Stuart's military, although the principle is the same as the artillery, but it is much more sophisticated, today I also heard that Graves got the musket, so I hurried to watch." ”

Graves said, "Jacques, remember that we were studying the composition of gunpowder? I wrote to Alfred about your analysis, and it took him only two weeks to figure out the composition of gunpowder and to copy it. ”

Alfred shook his hand into a fan: "I just used the precipitation method to separate the ingredients confirmed by Mr. Jacques, confirmed the proportions, and it was Mr. Jacques who really cracked the gunpowder formula." ”

"Phew!" Fabian is shooting.

Graves felt that his friend was too modest, and added, "Explosive oil is your research result, I think explosive oil is much more powerful than gunpowder!"

"The explosive oil is unstable and has a high ignition point, so I have experimented with compressing wood chips to absorb the explosive oil, and then ignited it with a small amount of gunpowder......"

"Phew!"

"I didn't hit again!No, I'm going to change my bow and arrow to adjust my feel!I'm a marksman who shoots serial killers with one arrow!" Fabian missed the target one after another, and he was already irritable!

Jacques wasn't particularly concerned about explosives, and took the musket from Graves' hand to test fire. Lily also got Fabian's musket, allowing Fabian to free up his hands to get his bow and arrows.

Graves instructed Jacques and Lily to use their muskets, and he pulled out two linen-wrapped cylindrical items and handed them to Jacques and Lily, respectively: "These are gunpowder and bullets. Packed together, there is no need to separate charges and shells like artillery. You pull this handle down, and that's right, and it reveals the charge, yes, from behind. This thing is so much better designed than artillery!"

Graves helped Jacques and Lily install the ammunition, and then said, "Push that handle back, all right, the magazine is sealed, it's okay, Miss Lily, there is a little gunpowder left outside, and it is easy to ignite it by cutting the package of gunpowder when the magazine is closed."

Now you can aim, eyes, sight ruler, muzzle crosshair and target four points and lines...... Okay, pull the trigger!"

"Bah!Bah!"

Jacques and Lily each fired their muskets, and after a puff of smoke, Jacques asked, "Fabian, help us see how many rings we've hit." I see that it should be in the middle. ”

"Can't the Sculptor see a few rings at this distance? Hehe, my eagle eye is amazing, I'll take a look!"

"Five rings, six rings!"

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