Li Shangyu came to the study of the palace with apprehension.

It was a very spacious room, with smooth white walls around it, and a long wooden table, two chairs, and a row of tall bookshelves behind it.

It doesn't look like a swordsmith's house.

In his original idea, the swordsmith's home should be sorted out and placed with all kinds of very precious casting materials and various famous swords, such as the swordsmith he followed before, and the swords given to him by other swordsmiths were displayed at home, among which the most expensive sword was created by Liu Dun, the first swordsmith of the Dream Sword Country, and his master also specially asked Master Liu Dun for the inscription on the sword, for fear that others would not know who cast the sword.

In contrast, the Emiya is obviously much more low-key.

No, maybe it's because he already has a very good sword-forging technique, and he probably doesn't take all the swordsmiths in the world into account.

Emiya, too, was suave, standing up and smiling at him as he entered, and raising his hand to signal him to sit down.

Li Shangyu looked at this young man with a delicate face, the other party was not much older than himself, if he hadn't known the identity of the other party before, I am afraid he would not have thought about him in the direction of the swordsmith.

Emiya handed him a glass of water, then sat down in a chair across from him, placing his hands on his chest and holding his back straight.

This teenager was quite impressive to him, and if it weren't for the order set at the time, he would have wanted to advance him to the first one for a separate interview.

"Your name is Li Shangyu, right?" Wei Gong was the first to speak.

Li Shangyu nodded.

"Are you from the Dream Sword Country?"

"Yes."

"I'm a sword countryman, you know? When I came to the Dream Sword Country, when I saw the sea here, I was conquered by its beauty, I like it very much, I envy you to be born in such a country. ”

"Really?" Hearing Wei Gong praise his country, Li Shangyu laughed happily.

Wei Gong nodded, and could see that the other party was nervous, so he chatted about some family things first to eliminate his uneasiness.

As the conversation between the two progressed, Li Shangyu gradually relaxed.

"You did a great job last time, I appreciate it." Emiya threw out another compliment, allowing him to dispel his concerns.

Sure enough, hearing this, Li Shangyu scratched his head and laughed shyly.

"By the way, have you ever played the game of eagle catching chickens?" Emiya continued to ask.

"An eagle catches a chick? Played with it as a child. ”

"Can you describe its rules? Be as detailed and complete as possible. ”

Li Shangyu looked at Wei Gong puzzled, not understanding what he was asking for this, could it be that this was also part of the so-called interview?

Does an eagle catching a chick have anything to do with forging a sword?

"First of all, you have to choose one person to be the eagle, one person to be the hen, and the rest of the people are chickens, and then the chickens follow the hen, grab the clothes of the one in front of them, and line them up in a vertical row, and the eagle grabs the chickens at the tail of the team by bypassing the hens, and cannot use force, and can only catch the chickens at the tail of the team or the chickens that are out of the hen team at a time, well...... I want to think about what else ......."

Li Shangyu lowered his head and raised his fingers to count carefully, "All the chickens have been captured, even if the eagle wins, at this time, you need to replace the eagle again." ”

"Then the hen has no way to win?"

"Well, I'll think about it......" Li Shangyu heard Wei Gong's question, fell into deep thought, and then shook his head, "According to the rules I played when I was a child, the eagle is the attacker, and the hen can only defend, as long as it continues, it will be the victory of the eagle, if you want the hen to have the possibility of winning, maybe you can add a time limit, such as half an hour or an hour If the chick is not caught, the hen wins." ”

"So can you think of other ways to give the hen the power to win? For example, hens can fight back. ”

"Fight back?!" Li Shangyu was taken aback by Wei Gong's words.

I don't know why, an inexplicable illusion suddenly arose in his heart.

The question he asked just now is very similar to their situation, although the shrimp people living at the bottom are numerous, they have no power to fight back, just like chickens in the game, they can only let the eagles at the top take them one by one and devour them.

However, Emiya brought up the idea that the hen could also fight back, what a terrible and shocking idea......

Li Shangyu smacked his lips, only to feel a dry throat.

If Wei Gong could know what Li Shangyu was thinking in his heart, he would definitely say that he was really thinking too much, because for him, the main reason why there was such a problem was that he was seriously examining the apprentice's ability.

Let him describe the rules of eagle catching chickens because this game is very common, even in the world of fairy sword, different from the earth, people here have also invented and circulated the game of eagle catching chickens for a long time, which may be an amazing coincidence of human development, but it is also an inevitable result.

As long as the richness of the species is enough, and the organisms need to ingest and consume energy, there will inevitably be natural enemies, and the use of [food chain] by intelligent creatures to make games will also become an inevitability.

Through this simple and familiar game, Emiya mainly examines two important abilities of the apprentice.

The first is the ability to think logically, to describe the rules, and to be able to refine the rules, improve them according to the time flow, and express them clearly and clearly, which is a consideration of logical thinking ability.

The second is divergent thinking, Wei Gong asked Li Shangyu to provide different rules for reverse thinking, just to see how creative this teenager is.

Therefore, it is indeed an unexpected thing that he invisibly awakened this ignorant teenager's need and desire for [equality].

Wei Gong looked at the time and felt that it was about the same, and concluded, "Well, I answered 60 or 70 correctly, and there are some that are not perfect, but it is not easy." The rest of the details, how the eagle and the hen chicks were decided at the beginning, and what the venue was like, what the rules for the chicks to disengage from, such as the hands off the corners of the clothes, how long to disconnect, etc., if these contents can be completed,"

Li Shangyu nodded, admiring Wei Gong so much, he didn't expect that such a simple game he played when he was a child contained so many truths, as well as so many details and rules.

"Okay, then that's it for now, and I'll let you know when there's a result." Emiya smiled and stood up, motioning for him to leave.

"Huh?" Li Shangyu felt a little lost in his heart, and couldn't help but blame himself, Master Weigong didn't say whether he wanted to take him as an apprentice, it seemed that he was not very satisfied with his performance just now......

"Don't worry too much, you can go back first." Emiya patted him on the shoulder.

After sending Li Shangyu away, he sat back in his chair and shook his head, looking at the young man's anxious appearance, it seemed that he had no confidence in his performance just now.

But in his mind, Li Shangyu was already on his apprentice list.

In this poor boy at the bottom, he saw his own shadow, and his two performances made him quite satisfied.

"Next." Emiya raised his voice.

He looked down at the list arranged in his hand, and was a little concerned about the next person to come in—

Liang Mingfeng.