Chapter 1 The Gate of Desire Section 52 Genius and Madness
Alfonso's small notebook is full of all kinds of news, rumors, anecdotes, and anecdotes about the magic city: The Gate of Desire, which can be described as all-encompassing. With it in hand, Wu Enqi easily found the mansion of Master Chitaphin in the East Fifth District, and outside the mansion, the luxury flying boats of the nobles alone filled the nearby port.
Unqi waited in line at the door of the mansion for an hour, and finally met Master Chitafin's butler. The butler raised his chin arrogantly and lukewarmly told Unqi that if he wanted to meet with Master Qidafin, he needed to make an appointment first, and the reservation fee was five thousand holy crystals, and he also had to take out a precious raw material to present to Master Qidafen to prove that he had enough financial resources and sincerity as a visitor.
Wu Enqi sneered: "I have come here from the Upper Domain, and I can be said to be well-informed, and I have never seen a civilian who eats by his craft is such a big name. ”
The butler also sneered and said: "I haven't seen another world-famous craftsman in the world, please leave here if you are not sincere, don't you see that there is still a long queue behind you?"
"The Craftsman of the World?" said Unqi with a shrug, "There are really some guys in this world who sit in a well and watch the sky, but they don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick. I have something, you give it to Chitafin, and if he can make one of the same, I will kneel before his door and give him a tether. If he can't do it, don't call himself a master of the world in the future. ”
With that, Unqi took out a mud mirror from his bosom and threw it in front of the butler, ignoring it.
Walking on the road, Farug, who was hidden in his heart, asked Unqi: "Heresy, why did you take out the mirror that the Celestial Wing Dragon gave you at will?"
"The devil knows what the thing is for, and it won't be lost." I've smashed it to pieces and thrown it away countless times, but each time if I'm not careful, it's back on my chest intact. I don't believe that Qi Dafen can make the same ancestral spirit mirror, so that the arrogant old thing can see the craftsmanship of the Heavenly Wing Dragon, and see if he will dare to claim that his craftsmanship is unparalleled in the future. ”
Faruger said, "Then why should we go, wouldn't it be better to stay and see how shocked he looked?"
"That's true," said Unch, "but if he's an illiterate, he'll probably taunt me." Why don't I be handsome and walk away, anyway, I'll be relieved. That old fellow is not short of money or reputation, and I reckon he must have no intention of making us an all-knowing lamp, so we might as well try our luck at the madman Digo. ”
On the afternoon of this day, Wu Enqi walked a lot of wrongful ways before he found the independent courtyard where the madman Di Gao lived in the Northwest Ninth District. The front door of the madman Digo's small courtyard is full of birds, and the stone steps outside the courtyard gate are also covered with thick moss. Unqi walked up the stone steps and knocked on the heavy stone door for a long time, but the courtyard was silent, and no one came to open the door.
Unch turned around in disappointment, and on the other side of the street, a girl of fourteen or fifteen was sitting among the flowers and looking at Unki. Unch stepped forward, took off his hat, and politely asked the girl, "My sister, is there Mr. Digo's dwelling across the street? ”
The girl smiled and said, "Uncle Digo is at home, and he doesn't like to be disturbed." If you have something to do, you can write a letter of worship and throw it through the crack in the door, and he will probably be able to see it in eight or nine days. ”
Wu Enqi pouted and said, "After eight or nine days, the daylilies are cold. Is there no other way to see him? For example, I let his goods go and burned his house. ”
The girl said, "This method has been used before, and Uncle Digo doesn't want to see you, and even if he is burned to death, he won't come out to see you." In addition, he is a Yuan clan and is not afraid of fire. ”
The Abyss Demon Clan is the Abyss Demon Refining, and the Abyss Demon Fire controlled by the Abyss Demon Refining is as dark as the dark night, but the temperature of the flame is as high as nearly 10,000 degrees, and they are indeed not afraid of fire at all. In addition, the Abyss Demon Refining Demon and the Six-Winged Heavenly Demon have never been on good terms, and an Abyss Refining Demon dares to live alone in the metropolis controlled by the Six-Winged Heavenly Demon, and his strength must be extraordinary. Unqi didn't have the confidence to dare to be presumptuous in front of him, not to mention that he didn't come here to fight.
Unch scratched his head, and he noticed that beside the girl lay a kaleidoscope, made of ordinary brass, but beautifully made.
Unqi said to the girl, "Can you lend me your kaleidoscope?"
The girl nodded, and Unchi took the kaleidoscope in his hand and looked at it carefully.
But when he looked closely, he was stunned, he didn't know how many faces there were on the outer wall of this kaleidoscope, and he couldn't count how many lines there were. But all these planes and lines, there is not a single regular arc, there is not a single straight outline, only a lot of irregular arcs and outlines are connected together in an incredible way, although irregular, but breathtakingly smooth. This kaleidoscope of brass and glass is clearly carved by man, but it seems to be a miracle of creation.
Unch gasped and said to the girl, "Is your kaleidoscope the work of Mr. Digo? There are such skilled craftsmen in the world who pursue perfection so much. In order to get a piece of his product, it was worth waiting for a year and a half. ”
When the girl heard Unqi's words, her face changed slightly, and she said, "If Uncle Digo listens to you, he will be very happy." What's your name, and what are you going to do?"
"The name doesn't matter, a madman doesn't care about that," said Unch. I came to visit Mr. Deco and asked him to help me make a lamp of omniscience. There are many terrible illusions in the Sanctuary, and those illusions are very likely to be all around us, but we turn a blind eye to them and mistakenly think that those illusions are real. So I need a lamp of omniscience to dispel those illusions and discover the truth in the Sanctuary. ”
The girl nodded and said, "Hmm...... I also feel that straight lines are not straight, but curved ones are more direct and closer to flawlessness...... I can lend you a pen, and you can write a description of the craft, and throw it in the crack of the door opposite. Write your address clearly, and if Uncle Digo is interested in the Lamp of Omniscience, he will write back to you as soon as possible. But Uncle Digo's asking price is very high, and he is not allowed to bargain, so you have to be mentally prepared. ”
Unqi wrote the prayer note and the instructions for making it, and threw himself into the crack in the opposite door.
On the way back, the ghost Faroug floated out and said, "Heretic, is that girl Digo?"
Unqi let out a long sigh and said, "That's right, the madman Digo is her. I never expected that the master craftsman who was as famous as the master craftsman of the world would actually be a lonely genius girl. I suddenly felt that I was too old and had wasted too much time. Because of the wasted time, there is still no skill that can reach the peak. ”
Unqi returned to the haunted dilapidated house of the North 10th District and reflected on it for a night. Early the next morning, a postman sent a reply from the madman Digo, the content of which Unqi had already guessed, and it was nothing more than agreeing to make it, but to provide some raw materials and production costs. But the madman Di Gao not only reached the peak of craftsmanship, but also the cost of asking for it, and the production cost of an all-knowing lamp was as high as 270,000 holy crystals.
Such an outrageous price directly shocked Unqi's jaw, if he and Moussa could get this huge amount of money, why did they go to the hot spring valley to harvest potatoes?
Wu Enqi took the reply letter from the madman Di Gao and thought about it, although the price was higher, but the 270,000 holy crystals asked Di Gao to make an all-knowing lamp that was enough to be passed down to the world, it was not a loss-making business, why couldn't Wu Enqi take out the money. He thought about it, and it seemed that the only way to come up with this huge amount of money was to ask for help from the Sea King.
Unqi pondered his rhetoric in his heart, paced to the gate of the abandoned church, and before he entered the door, he heard snoring loudly in the abandoned church, and several overlords outside the church were lazy, and they saw that Unqi pointed to the wooden sign at the door with malicious intentions, and the wooden sign read: "This king will not go to court today, and those who disturb need to bring their own clothes and mounds." ”
Wu Enqi held his chin and thought: "Strange, why is it a clothed mound? Yes, if you dare to go in and disturb it, you will be eaten by the old dragon directly, so if you want to be buried, you can only be a clothed mound." Looks like this old guy doesn't want to help, so I'd better find another way. ”
When the sun was slanting to the east, Unqi once again came to the mansion of the madman Di Gao in the Northwest Nine District, and this time he directly found the girl with a kaleidoscope in the flower bush opposite.
Unqi took off his hat, bowed and said, "My sister, thanks to you, I received a reply from Master Di Gao this morning, but the production cost is too high, just to make a lamp, why don't you need 270,000 holy crystals?"
The girl with the kaleidoscope glared at Unqi and said, "I told you, Uncle Digo asks for a very high price, and he is not allowed to bargain. Don't you understand people? I'm very responsible to tell you, this is just the cost price, the salary has not been calculated, it is already cheaper for you!"
Unqi asked reluctantly, "But how can it be so expensive?"
The girl with the kaleidoscope pulled her fingers and told Wu Enqi about the repeated production process, and it was not until Shi Yang fell into the east mountain that she told a small half of the overview of the process.
Hearing this, Wu Enqi's eyes were shining, and he hurriedly shook his hand and said, "I said, eldest sister, no, great Uncle Digo, I don't want it to be so cumbersome, and I don't need to be perfect, I'm in a hurry to use it, please do it, help me make a simple one, just use it once or twice." ”
The kaleidoscope girl huffed and said, "That's not good, you don't want to be perfect, I don't want to smash my signboard yet." If you want something cheap, you can go to Chitafin. By the way, this morning Chitaphin's servant sent me a letter. The letter said that an unruly colleague kicked him in the field and made it difficult for him to take something that could not have been made. He had already decided not to be known as a craftsman, and since then he has been closing his doors and studying his skills. He told me to be careful. That unruly bad boy, isn't that you?"