Chapter 4: The Puppeteer

The two sat in the car, and the carriage drove slowly on the road.

"Let me introduce myself first, I'm Owen Christian and I am the viscount of the Black Sand Empire, you can call me Mr. Owen. Calling the surname is exempt. After all, you also have the blood of the nobility in your veins. ”

"It's my pleasure, Mr. Owen. ”

"It takes more than a day to get from here to my territory. I thought we could talk. ”

"So Mr. Owen forgive me for being rude, what do you want to talk about?"

"HmmΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Let me start by telling you why I bought you. Owen sighed, looking a little sad.

"I'm 60 years old this year, but I'm never married, just because of my profession, mechanic. ”

"Why is that? What's wrong with mechanics?" In fact, Zhou Feiyu has known for a long time that mechanics are a very unpopular profession.

Otherwise, the scientific and technological level of this world cannot be at this level, and there is an essential difference between the original transformation methods and the artificial transformation methods of Zhou Feiyu's home star.

If a civilization has primitive means of transformation, the rate at which it progresses should be outrageous.

"The world seems to be peaceful, but in fact it is not, there are undercurrents in this world, there are unknown organizations, there are competing interests between countries, and where there is fighting, there are times when we have to fight. And the mechanic's combat is generally unsightly. ”

Zhou Feiyu was not in a hurry to show his understanding of mechanics, but chose to be silent, just like what he said before, when he meets people, he can't throw all his heart away.

"I see, I have no idea about it. Zhou Feiyu nodded pretending to understand. It is true that Zhou Feiyu does not have a concept, after all, he has only come to this civilization for a few days, and he doesn't know it at all, so he just doesn't know, so it is the wisest choice to hide his "ignorance" as a 'hole card'.

"Then again, what kind of profession are you. The old man asked a key question.

Zhou Feiyu had long estimated that the buyer would have this kind of problem, and when he was in prison, he simulated this situation, and after repeated simulations, Zhou Feiyu came up with the best countermeasure, that is, to tell the truth.

"Mr. Owen, I'm not a professional, my father said that I have no future in cultivation, I can only be an ordinary person. ”

Owen's brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Can you feel Maso?"

Zhou Feiyu's heart also inked, the word mana was the first time Zhou Feiyu heard it.

"Listening to the name seems to be a substance that cannot be felt with the normal five senses, and this substance seems to be felt only by professionals. ”

Zhou Feiyu thought silently in his heart.

"And this cultivation is related to the fact that professionals do not usually feel this kind of substance at will, so it is very likely to be a unit of energy. Moreover, it has the effect of strengthening the body. Although it cannot be studied due to material restrictions, it does not mean that there will be no opportunities in the future. ”

"In addition, I can't feel Mana, maybe I don't know the way, here I still make myself more harmless, but it seems a little suspicious to be too harmless, in this case. ”

Zhou Feiyu thought of a more compromise answer.

"Yes, but it takes a long, long time and it's very vague. ”

The old man sighed

"Well, that seems to be really difficult, and one of your father or mother must have been a non-professional. ”

"Yes, Mr. Owen, my mother is not a professional. ”

"Sure enough, what I said next, don't take it to heart. Generally, aristocratic families are professionals, because they are born with a greater affinity for mana. ”

"And some families even prohibit marriage with non-professional people, and your father and mother should be hunted down by the family by a ban like this, and you are implicated by your parents. Those old things, huh. ”

Owen snorted angrily.

Zhou Feiyu lowered his head and was silent, and Owen stopped talking. Sometimes silence is the best answer. The old man thought that he had touched Zhou Feiyu's pain, but what Zhou Feiyu was thinking about at this time was Mana.

"Mana is a substance, then he must be composed of "original particles", this is the inevitable rule of all things, and if I knew this, I might have mastered another source of energy besides electricity, and it is more common than electricity in this world. ”

"If I can use the "canonical particles" to understand the structure of mana, then I should have more uses for combining mana with electricity. ”

"But I've heard the guards in the dungeon say that those 'magicians' can use magic like fire and water, and this statement is very contradictory, water is a substance, and burning is a phenomenon, which is too contradictory. ”

"A substance can cause phenomena at the same time to create matter? This is simply a 'canonical particle', but it can't, unless it's a substance that is very close to a 'canonical particle', and if that is the case, then I can try to use the 'canonical particle' by borrowing the principle of 'mana'. Zhou Feiyu's brain was constantly thinking at this time.

"By the way, then your parents must have thought of this, did they teach you anything else?"

The sudden appearance made Zhou Feiyu stunned for a moment, but Zhou Feiyu had already thought about the lie in advance, so he answered almost without hesitation.

"My parents taught me a lot about economics, management, trade, etc. Of course, there is a lot of etiquette. ”

Owen teased his eyes, which seemed to intrigue him.

"Oh, then, maybe you can come and be my head in my castle, there are not many educated people in my castle, and you may be able to do it even though you are young. ”

Owen also has his thoughts, it is certainly not easy for someone to be hunted down by a high-ranking professional, and the education that his children receive must not be simple.

And just as the two were talking, the carriage slowly stopped.

Zhou Feiyu raised his head, and was about to poke his head out, but was pulled by Owen. Because of the location, Zhou Feiyu didn't see Owen's face, but he could feel an amazing pressure, yes, it was not an illusion, it was a real "pressure".

Zhou Feiyu silently recited, "Rain sound." All calculations are stopped, and all changes in the surrounding values are recorded at full power. ”

And he took a deep breath in his hand and slowly condensed the ability to double the next situation.

"Listen, people in the car, hand over the money and spare you from death, if you resist then you know the outcome. ”

Owen couldn't help but not be nervous when he heard this, but laughed out loud, laughing like a child who loves to play with machines.

"Mr. OwenΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Zhou Feiyu said.

"It's okay, look at me. Owen touched Zhou Feiyu's head.

"What a dare, dare to stop my car. Owen motioned for Zhou Feiyu to hide in the car, and he opened the car door and walked down slowly.

Zhou Feiyu secretly transformed the rain sound into a slender shape and stretched out a little to facilitate the observation of the situation. There were about four or five people in front of the car, each with a sharp weapon in their hands. And the person who led the shouting was a tall man, with almost no flesh and skin and bones.

Owen looked up to the sky and laughed when he saw the comer, and then suddenly became extremely angry.

"You have hands and feet, but you have to rob others for nothing? And for you bandits, I have executed you here, in the name of the Viscount of the Empire. ”

After that, as soon as Owen lifted the black-robed coachman on the handcart, he instantly burst out, and punched the chest of the robber who was the leader, and there was a crisp breaking sound, which was the sound of broken bones.

"Puppeteer! It's a third-level professional puppeteer!" the other accomplices saw the figure of the attacker on their boss.

No, it's not a person at all.

"I'm sorry I was wrong! Don't kill me!" the remaining successors cried out as if they were mad at the realization of the current situation. Then he turned around and ran without looking back. But how do ordinary people compare to machines?

Several people had either their arms or legs broken, and then Owen, who was chasing him from behind, took his life with a knife in his hand. And all this happened in about 2 minutes.

"This Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Zhou Feiyu only felt a bang in his mind, and his immature face was also full of disbelief, and his movements seemed to be frozen, declaring the shock in his heart.

Zhou Feiyu was most shocked by nothing else, but the "mechanical puppet" who drove the carriage.

The emergence of robots in low-level civilizations means that although this civilization is low-level, it does not mean that it is backward, and the robots in front of you are the best proof.

"However, it's a little strange and it's not powered by electricity, which means it's probably more primitive, like a marionette. Biological signals are transmitted electronically, and the absence of electricity means that the robot has no AI or even a program, so the only possibility is that Owen is operating the mechanical puppet in a special way. And this method must have something to do with the mana mentioned earlier. ”

In fact, Zhou Feiyu guessed that it was really eight or nine and ten, this kind of puppet is indeed similar to a marionette, but the operation method is actually "idea", which transforms the manipulator's thoughts into actions and can be kept until the next time the operator changes the instructions. The energy is operated by the "mana" provided by the mechanic himself.

Looking at the corpse lying to the ground, Owen made a special gesture.

"May the Lord of all things, the Father of Truth, guide you on the way to Heaven. ”

"High-functioning antisocial personality, troublesome. It's not strange that this kind of character can kill me at any time......" Zhou Feiyu gritted his teeth, and just got out of Longtan and entered the tiger's den.

Antisocial personalities may seem easy-going, but they don't, they don't have a sense of morality, they do everything, and they're very rigorous. This time, Zhou Feiyu was afraid. But don't panic.

Owen put away the knife and returned to the carriage, while Zhou Feiyu used electricity to make his body tremble slightly according to his fabricated "life experience", Owen returned to his previous amiability after seeing it, and slowly stroked Zhou Feiyu's head with his hand. It took a long time for Zhou Feiyu to finally "calm down".

Raising his head, he said, "Thank you, Mr. Owen." ”

Owen didn't speak, a faint smile seemed to be all he had to say.

At this time, Zhou Feiyu asked Yuyin in his mind: "Is the data recorded?"

"Energy fluctuations are recorded, I can compare them, and I expect accurate results after 45 days. ”

"line, calculated with only 10% of the space, defines the remaining 90% as 100%. Until the contrast is complete. ”

"Yes. ”

After a smooth journey, at noon the next day, we finally arrived at the territory of Owen, our destination.

It is a small town, the town is very beautiful by the mountains and rivers, and the mountain behind the town is not very steep, but rather a little like a small hill, and on the hill sits a castle that looks quite imposing.

As soon as they entered the city, the residents of the city took off their hats and saluted Owen, and it seemed that Owen was very close to the people in his territory and had a good popularity.

Owen also waved to the crowd, and the carriage slowly drove towards the Chosen Villa as it passed through the town. As the saying goes, Wangshan ran a dead horse, and it seemed that the distance was not far but it took nearly an hour to finally reach the gate of the castle. Two maids opened the door

Owen and Zhou Feiyu stepped out of the car one after another, and at this time, Owen remembered that he didn't seem to have arranged a job for Zhou Feiyu.

But Zhou Feiyu was stunned at this time, and was shocked twice in one day by Zhou Feiyu, who had "absolute sanity".

"Oh my God, is that a maid? It turns out that the maid is not metaphysical but real? No, no, no, there is indeed a hypothesis for a servant like a maid, but there is no way to confirm it, after all, she has experienced interstellar migration. ”

"At that time, because of the urgency of the situation, I could only bring more important historical documents, but I kept a photo of the maid, and after centuries of speculation about the maid's work, I finally came to the conclusion that the maid may be a service industry, and the maid costume placed later could not be completely restored because it was not the original material. ”

"I'm a boy, but if I have the chance, I'd like to try out what it's like to wear a maid outfit, and I might be able to write a culture-changing essay on the mind of such a practitioner. ”

"Ahem. Owen coughed.

Only then did Zhou Feiyu stop his gaze.