"About a few days ago in the evening, someone in the factory next to me found that a few machines stopped working, not that there was a problem with the spinning machine, but that the energy supply was insufficient, so they contacted the guards in the workshop, don't look at the outside is a waterwheel, in fact, the inside of the workshop is a mechanized automatic operation, so there are only two caretakers every day, they are on the night holiday, the problem is on the No. 1 waterwheel, its external transmission has been damaged, our initial judgment is that there is a business rival to do the damage, immediately find someone to repair, but on the next night, it was damaged again, this time both waterwheels have problemsSo we prepared to stay on guard of that nasty bastard on the night of the third day......"

Speaking of this, the manager unbuttoned the top of the shirt somewhat unnaturally, and although it had been a few days since that night, the recollection of that scene still made him nervous and uncomfortable.

There were no spinning machines in the watermill workshop, only various mechanical devices connected to two large waterwheels, and a large number of spun fabrics of different colors piled up in the open space, and since there were no people on weekdays, there were no large windows in this workshop, but a few vents above the inner walls.

"What did you see that night?"

Donald followed the manager to the watermill bench on the left, where the closest waterwheel was located, built on the river.

"I know it's incredible to say, but I hope you don't get too surprised to hear it...... And don't think I'm a psychopath, because I did, and that's ...... It was a big toad! It was about the size of a bull, its dark blue skin had many fist-sized bumps, and it had teeth in its mouth, yes, I was sure of that...... You have to believe me, sir, what I say is true!"

The manager watched Donald's expression as he spoke, he had told a few people close to him about it, and they all didn't believe him and thought he was mentally ill, which frustrated him, and sometimes he even began to wonder if he was really hallucinating.

Therefore, now seeing that the person he hired didn't even bother to do with a surprised expression, he was very embarrassed, and he felt that he might really have a problem with his brain before he hired someone to solve a big dark blue toad that only existed in his imagination!

"Did I say I didn't believe you?"

Donald said as he put on his sunglasses, turned on his vision, and first swept around the workshop, but there was no special trace, it seemed that the guy only appeared near the waterwheel.

"No, I...... Ordinary people will not feel strange when they hear the big toad......"

"Sir, I'm the one you hired to deal with this monster, isn't I? If I'm strange and frightened of this monster, what am I staying here for, and I'm going to be scared with you? As long as the reward is in place, not to mention a dark blue toad, or a dark blue bull rushing out of the river, I'll help you get rid of it!"

Now that he's been tasked with the job, Donald still has this work ethic.

"Thank you for your trust, please go this way. ”

There are two platforms outside the watermill workshop, one is a high-priced platform built on the outside of the workshop, which is in the shape of a long strip and is located in the middle of the waterwheel, which is the location of the machine usually used to overhaul the middle circle of the waterwheel, and a low-level platform on the river surface, built above the river surface, which is the location used to overhaul the external blades of the waterwheel.

Donald stood on the elevated platform and looked at the empty street on the other side, seeing that the architectural style should be a warehouse area, with very few pedestrians, and then looked at the waterwheel that was still slowly moving in the river below, this waterwheel looked different from what he had just seen outside, there were many mechanical structures hanging on it, and in the center was a large rolling gear, and he didn't know what the purpose was.

"Where's the destruction?"

Since you want to solve that monster, you naturally have to find out why it is staring at the destruction of the waterwheel.

"It's hard to see here, you have to go to the low platform to see it, and the monster is destroying part of the mechanism behind the blades. ”

The manager pointed to the edge of the wheel, which had been overhauled before, so he knew what was wrong.

"Is it down the escalator over here? You take me down and show me the ruined place. ”

In the middle of the high-priced platform there is a downward escalator, which connects to the lower platform.

"Uh, this ......"

The manager stood on the edge of the platform and looked at the low platform less than half a meter from the river, and he remembered that the toad had climbed up that night, and he had not gone down since.

"Don't worry, I'm here, I still wish that toad came out now, it can save me a lot of time, can you hurry up, okay? Time is money, my friend!"

After Donald finished speaking, he found that the manager was still rubbing beside him, thought for a while and continued,

"Tomorrow is the time to reopen, you can't solve the problem today, what are you going to do tomorrow? The factory shutdown means that the fabric cannot be produced, the stores in Tallinn can't get new goods, the customers are lost, the assets are damaged, you are only the person in charge of this part, there should be a boss above, what reason do you plan to use to explain to him then, because the factory's water truck was gnawed by a big toad with teeth?"

Wow~

The manager trotted all the way to the low platform, and now this position has taken him a whole decade, I don't know how much effort it took to get it, if he is fired because of a little fear of his own psychology, it is better to let the toad swallow him in one bite.

"Wait a minute, let me see...... I remember it was marked. ”

The manager crouched on the platform, holding in his right hand an iron hook that had been dragged from a nearby wall, to fix the waterwheel later.

Donald stood on the side of the platform against the wall and looked around with his vision, there were several light blue marks on the periphery of the low platform, and when he walked up and found that it should be the flippers of a toad, he stretched out his feet and compared, and it was even bigger, which proved that the manager's description was not a problem, it was indeed a big toad, and then turned his eyes to the waterwheel, and between the two blades, there were also some strange marks, and when they turned to the manager's position, they saw that he was very neat with an iron hook to tie the lock ring.

"This is it, the first damage has been repaired, it's in the same condition as here, the outer blades have not been damaged in any way, but the device installed inside the blades has nothing but problems. ”

The manager pointed to the empty space between the two blades, the tail of a mechanical device that looked as if it had been poked by an iron drill. A large chunk of depression down.

Donald stood behind him, and in his vision, the place was stained with a large number of pale blue marks, especially the parts of the mechanism.

"Has anything been damaged in other parts of the river bank around this time?"

The destruction of waterwheels, and repeated sabotage, there is definitely a purpose in it.

"As far as I know, there shouldn't be, only these two waterwheels were destroyed by that guy!"

The manager remembered for a few seconds, then shook his head and said.

"What does this mechanism do, does it have any qualities? like it glows at night or something, a break may be a coincidence, but it comes back after you repair it, something on this waterwheel must be annoying it. ”

"It's just an ordinary mechanical structure, and it works...... It should only be the function of a repeater, probably an overall line node. ”

"You're saying there's nothing special about it on its own?"

"Yes, there's a lot of this stuff all over the waterwheel. ”

The manager had also worked in this kind of spinning mill when he was not promoted earlier, and he still knew a little about waterwheels.

"The waterwheel was running when it was destroyed, right? Is your No. 2 waterwheel also broken?"

Since there is no problem in the details, the situation can only be restored.

"No, this one has been fixed, because there are two broken, I want to leave one good to check the problem, and the other one I asked someone to fix it earlier, so that I can save some repair time after the problem is solved. ”

"Well, you go up and open it at once, and I'll be here watching. ”

Walking from the No. 1 waterwheel to the side of the No. 2 waterwheel, Donald turned to the manager and said.

"Huh, you're not afraid of that monster....."

"Do it!"

"Okay. ”

The manager ran back to the building, and after a while Donald saw that the gears in the middle of the waterwheel were in motion, and the waterwheel still maintained its original speed, but some of the mechanical devices in the middle of it had changed, and Donald stared at the undamaged parts of the No. 2 waterwheel.

Doodoo~Doodoo~

After a while, a rhythmic tone that closely resembled the sound of a whistle began to come out of the mechanism in the middle of the waterwheel.

"Sir, did you find anything wrong?"

With a switch attached to a thick black wire in his hand, the manager reappears on the elevated platform.

"Go on, you watch from the elevated platform, help me keep an eye on the water behind me, and tell me if you see anything unusual!"

Compared to the previous watermill event, this time there was a strange sound, and Donald thought it was most likely the monster that was attracted by the sound that accompanied the rotation of the waterwheel into the river.

But this is just speculation, he needs to verify, quickly walk up to the elevated platform, let the manager look at the side, look at the side himself, such a huge creature, swimming in the river will definitely have traces.

1 minute, 2 minutes...... 10 minutes ...... Half-hour......

On the surface of the river about twenty or thirty meters away in the direction that Donald was looking at, a wide ripple suddenly appeared out of thin air, and he did not call the manager, but let this ripple get closer, and when it entered the range of spiritual vision, Donald whispered: "Turn off the water wheel!"

The manager didn't react a little, but the movement of his hand was timely, and he immediately pressed the close button.

The sound of the waterwheel immediately stopped, and the ripples on the water faded away.