On the outskirts of Elroy City, a horse-drawn carriage drove by slowly, and the delicate decoration of the carriage aroused the interest of the children around him, and he immediately followed with joy when he saw that the carriage was printed with the badge belonging to the Cromwell Chamber of Commerce.

The carriage stopped in front of a large warehouse, and William got out of the carriage and carefully moved a metal box.

"Brother William, do you want me to help?"

"William, what is this?"

"William, let me see what this is, a metal box? It's weird..."

The children who followed the carriage gathered around and quizzed curiously, most of their clothes were tattered, and obvious patches could be seen on their clothes, but the patches were not fabric, but mostly burlap cut from bags of grain flour and the like. Most of the residents in the suburbs are poor class, and they can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, so the clothes worn by children are naturally not much better.

The huge warehouse in front of it is the Cromwell Chamber of Commerce's magic workshop, which is used to study all kinds of things related to magic. Almost every large chamber of commerce will set up a magic workshop to research new goods and improve technology, and if necessary, to crack the product making technology invented by other chambers of commerce, most of the members of the magic workshop are workshop apprentices who have difficulty even casting spells, they learn the knowledge of the workshop from the mentor, and the goal is not to become a spellcaster but to be in charge of a magic workshop.

William shook his head with both hands holding the metal box: "This thing is not a toy, it is a very important commodity." ”

"I'll leave it to you." William instructed the groom sitting on the roof of the carriage, and the groom jumped out of the roof seat, skillfully took out the candy from his pocket and distributed it to the children, who ate it to their contentment.

The rich sweetness alone is an incomparably precious luxury for them.

It's still necessary to have a good relationship with the surrounding residents here, when the Magic Workshop first moved here, it would be time to lose things, maybe the children just thought it was fun to steal it, but in fact, the trouble caused to the Magic Workshop caused Cromwell Chambers of Commerce to lose a lot.

William had no choice but to declare that if something similar happened again, he would hand it over to the security team to deal with it seriously, and on the other hand, he helped the surrounding residents by the way, buying children with candy.

After going back and forth, the magic workshop finally stopped losing things.

William entered the magic workshop through the iron door, the interior of the magic workshop is very spacious, about the size of three or four basketball courts, there are all kinds of strange devices and instruments in it, sometimes you can hear the neighing sound of steam gushing out, the steel brackets are connected to each other, and the continuous operation is driven by steam power, and the dull rumble is constantly coming from the inside of the equipment, and the magic workshop is more like an automated factory than an automated factory.

There are dozens of apprentices in the magic workshop, or carving magic arrays, or making parts, or operating equipment, some of them are still local children, they follow the workshop apprentices to learn technology, looking forward to one day becoming qualified craftsmen, the salary of the magic workshop technicians is not low, and they can buy a house in the city to live a good life after working for a few years.

"Mr. William." When a foreman saw William coming, he hurried over and took off his dirty hat and put it on his chest to salute.

"Is Mr. Lawrence here?"

"The tutor is in the research room, do you need me to take you there?"

"Thanks, no need."

William continued to walk to the depths of the workshop, where there was a research room dedicated to the master of the workshop, and knocked on the door to hear a dull response: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's me, William."

The door opened, William didn't go in and smelled the strong smell of tobacco and alcohol, the room was a small house, the space was quite spacious, but the owner of the house obviously didn't like to tidy up, a large table was placed in the center to occupy most of the place, on which were placed all kinds of parts and tools, the walls of the room were also hung with some wrenches and pliers, if there was anything different, it was a table full of all kinds of empty wine bottles.

William knew that this was a hobby of the workshop instructor Lawrence, who loved to drink and preferred to collect empty wine bottles.

The fat old man sitting in his chair shook his head and said, "Mr. Lawrence, are you lazy again?" ”

Lawrence was very old, with half-white sideburns, but because he drank all year round, ate well, and raised a fat body, coupled with his short limbs, his whole person looked round and comical, and if his body was reduced to proportions, it would be no different from a dwarf.

"What do you mean by being lazy? I'm drinking, can I be lazy when I drink? Lawrence blew his beard and glared dissatisfied.

"It's working time, and you're lazy."

"Damn, this is my magic workshop, I can decide when to rest and when to work, even your father wouldn't dare say that to me."

William glanced at him and responded indifferently: "Of course, this is your workshop, this is your territory, you are the omnipotent master, aren't you?" ”

The bland tone implies spicy sarcasm, and it can't catch the fault.

Lawrence was a little depressed, looked at the metal box in William's hand and said in a muffled voice: "You and Diana have learned the same bad things as your mother, what are you doing here, it has something to do with the things in your hands?" ”

"This was given to me by Mr. Harvey."

"Oh~ Harvey Adrian, the Harvey Adrian who wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo" and studied the phantom technique?" Lawrence's eyes were playfully curious.

William nodded, and placed the metal box in his hand on the table.

"That guy is a traditional, no, the technique of making photographic crystals is not too difficult..." Lawrence muttered to William's side, leaned down and looked at the metal box from all angles, scratching his head: "What's the use of this iron lump?" ”

"Mr. Harvey calls this a photo processor." William pulled out a palm-sized metal box from his pocket and took a picture of Lawrence.

"Click~!"

The sudden flash startled Lawrence, who saw William remove the photographic crystal from the metal box in his hand, and then lift the lid of the large metal box and put it in.

“······”

"And then?"

"Mr. Harvey said that you need to wait twenty minutes until you hear a chime, and this is the finished product, which is the photo." William pulled out a photograph from his pocket and handed it to Lawrence, showing Harvey and William at Cromwell Manor.

Lawrence felt the novelty of repeatedly checking the photo, the sense of material is hard, the imaging clarity is not bad, touched his chin and nodded: "The effect is good, the clarity is about to catch up with the picture captured by the photographic crystal, the question is how to make it, you are here to confirm this answer, the complexity of the production process determines whether this thing can be made into a commodity." ”

William took out a wooden box from his pocket and opened it, placing an information crystal inside: "Father is also very interested in this device, this is the information crystal that Mr. Harvey handed over to me, which contains detailed production records and principle explanations. ”

"It can't be written in astral script, I can't read it." Lawrence patted his head and looked at this information crystal suspiciously, the magic workshop is relatively worldly, and it is rare to use information crystals, which are only used by spellcasters.

William said, consciously or unconsciously, "Mr. Harvey has taken this into account, and he says that as long as you are a qualified workshop instructor, you will definitely be able to see it. ”

"Damn, I always feel like you're talking in a set way, just say whatever you want, and I'm sure I can understand if you don't say it." Lawrence cursed, took the information crystal and put it on a display disc to study it.

William smiled and sat down to the side to wait for the results.