Chapter Seventy-Two: Into the Plains of Pisenfort
The development team of 1,500 dwarf technicians left their homeland once and faced the pain of parting at another. Like a long dragon, the team came out of Miluz and marched slowly along the road. The team members didn't say anything all the way, they just sat quietly in their minecarts or mechs and bumped with the bumps of the vehicles.
Some of the young gnomes were newcomers who had just finished their mechanical technician education and had just obtained a Level 1 mechanical technician certificate, and they were selected by Gilji to join the team because of their talent in the clan. These young gnomes never left Miluz, the mechanical city they had lived in since birth, panicked and bewildered about the unknown future. They miss their elderly parents at home, miss their lovers who have just separated, and sit on the vehicle with fragile feelings, crying and grieving.
Looking back, Miluz, who was getting smaller and smaller like an upside-down metal cauldron, was still shining around with welding sparks, but he could no longer hear the sharp whistle of the familiar cutter, which had been blown away by the wind before it could reach the team of the bolt family.
Leaving home to supply energy to this huge city is the fate of the Bolt family, a group of dwarfs called "lower families". Miruz, like a dying old man, relied on the energy input of infusions to maintain his large and decrepit body, which represented the glorious history of the dwarf clan and made a great mark on the land of Vinod, however, it was too old. While his huge body protects the gnomes, isn't it a cage that imprisons the gnomes?
The current Miluz is the Miluz of the wrench family, and is no longer the dwarf Miluz of the past. At least it won't be the so-called "inferior family" of Miluz.
Yi Hui encouraged the Bolt family to go to the Greeneye Swamp, his original intention was actually just to find a reliable partner, and with the help of the Bolt family's exquisite mechanical technology to realize some of the ideas in his head, but also with the purpose of making a fortune by mining independently. When he learned what happened to the Bolt family and learned about the reality of Miluz, the idea of leading the Bolt family away from Miruz became stronger and stronger.
Without Yi Hui's participation, the Bolt family might still be mining crystal mines for the Garcia family, with Adam as the head of the family, with a meager income. The incorporation of Yi Hui's variable made the bolt family go to another track, they produced muskets, mechas, and dwarf cannons, and they had the ability to read and open mines.
"Master Yi Hui, how much ore can we get from going to the Greeneye Swamp this time?" Huck who was sitting in the back row of Yi Hui asked.
"Who knows? At least for now, it seems that there should be no shortage of magic energy ores, and there should be some Mithril ores as well. Yi Hui said.
"All these ores are ours?" Huck asked, although he hadn't mined or dealt with other humans yet, but he had heard a few things about cooperative mining from others, and what he knew was that the gnomes had to hand over most of the other ores to the humans who were partners, and the remaining part of the magic ore that humans didn't need much was the gnomes.
"It's all ours, and we have complete control over these ores according to the current practice of field mining on the mainland." Yi Hui said.
Along the way, Yi Hui was not very boring to have Huck in the back seat, Huck would not let go of any opportunity to ask Yi Hui questions, Yi Hui was also guided by Huck to ask questions, and slowly told Huck some common design concepts in the depths of his memory under the guidance of Huck's questions.
After all, Yi Hui's era is already the Internet era with developed transportation and information explosion, even if he has never eaten pork, he has seen pigs run. Yi Hui's insightful views on science and technology were as incomprehensible to Huck as a book from heaven, but they painted a beautiful prospect for them.
"Master Yi Hui, are you telling the truth? Can metals also be used in shipbuilding? Could metals heavier than water be used in shipbuilding? When Yi Hui told Huck about the steamship, Huck asked puzzledly, the best ship in Huck's impression was the three-masted galleys made of hundreds of years of gray beech wood in the southern bay, he had never thought that metal could be used to build ships, it was simply unheard of.
"Of course, because the buoyancy of a ship does not depend on the weight of the material, but on the amount of water discharged by the boat, and the more water it distributes, the greater the buoyancy. So, metal can also be used for shipbuilding. Yi Hui said nonchalantly to the curious Huck.
Wait, with a flash of inspiration, Yi Hui seemed to remember something. Right! Boats, ships needed to cross swamps, sturdy, defensive, light and fast, assault boats! Yi Hui suddenly thought of the images he had seen in some TV shows before, didn't the explorers in the wild rely on assault boats to travel through swamps and wetlands? It seems that the problem of traffic is solved in a small part.
Thinking of this, Yi Hui couldn't help but laugh. This laughter made Huck feel strange, and he asked, "Master Yi Hui, what are you laughing at?" Is it to laugh at my ignorance? ”
"No, no, no, Huck, you're very smart, and you've done me a great favor." Yi Hui said to Huac, "I just had a design in mind that would help us cross the large swamp that runs between the Greeneye Swamp Mine we're going to and the nearest city. It was you who reminded me, and I want to thank you. ”
Huck felt sincerely honored to be able to help Yi Hui, seeing that Yi Hui could think of new designs in such a careless process on the way to pilot the mecha, he muttered in his heart: "A master is a master, so that there can be new designs, Dad sometimes stays up for several nights for an invention without progress, it seems that I have to learn more from Master Yi Hui." ”
After walking along the road for more than ten days, halfway to the Pisenford Plains, in a hidden valley, Gilji led the old men of the Bolt Family to take out the improved mechs they had hidden here and their respective muskets.
The gnomes happily dismantled the tattered minecart into parts and loaded it into several large minecarts, and then impatiently mounted their mechs. The young gnomes who had never been to Silverspring Valley before were stunned by what they saw, they had never known that their family had hidden so many well-designed new mechs here, and these new mechs were literally heaven and earth from what they had seen in Miruz before.
Each step of these improved mechs is controlled by two gnomes, one controlling the mech's movement and steering, and the other controlling the two mechanical arms. The young gnomes immediately forgot the sadness of leaving home when they saw such an exquisite design, and they were eager to try out the new mecha, for which the obsession with mechanical technology was deeply ingrained.
"Alright, little ones, stop rubbing! Hurry up and change vehicles, let's move on! Gilgi shouted at the top of his voice, and he returned to his well-decorated Patriarch's mech, and on this spirited mech, Gilji returned to the high-spirited spirit of facing the swarming bandits in the Valley of Silverspring, and giving orders to his dwarf gunners.
More than a thousand gnomes had armed themselves with muskets, and in the wild, as long as they didn't encounter that epic ferocious monster, they had nothing to fear.
"It's a mech!" Huck was lying on the window of the Bolt and looking at the new mecha densely spread all over the valley, such a spectacular scene made the little dwarf's mood surging to the extreme, "Can I have a new mecha like this?" ”
"When you get to the mine, such mechs will have to be redesigned and improved, and then you can design any mecha you want." Yi Hui said to Huck.
"Then let's go." Huck kept urging Yi Hui to hurry up for his new mecha.
"Don't worry. It's still a long way to go, and if you're in such a hurry, I'm afraid you'll die if you can't get there. Having said that, Yi Hui activated the bolt number.
Changing to a new mecha, disassembling and packing the old minecart and mecha into a relatively fast tracked vehicle, the travel speed of the entire team increased sharply, and the mountains were full of rapid and sonorous footsteps made by the metal feet of the mecha stepping on the ground.
Coming to the plain of Pisenfort, Yi Hui saw that the team was about to bypass here along the road, and immediately said to Gilji, who was in parallel: "Why do you want to turn? We went straight through here and saved a lot of time. ”
Pointing to the plain, Gilji said, "There are many ferocious beasts here, and they are very dangerous, and we must follow the road to get around here to be able to pass safely." ”
"But we now have mechs and muskets, so let's try their combined power. Can these beasts, even if they are dangerous, compare to the most vicious bandits? No matter how powerful the beast is, can it withstand the salvo of our hundreds of muskets? I've been through here when I've come, and I don't think these beasts can do anything about us metal lumps. To bring Gilgi, we need to add a little meat along the way to enrich our food assortment. Yi Hui took out his musket and pointed to the endless plains in front of him.
"Yes, we have muskets, and mechs. Come on boys, let's go straight through here! Gilji was already a little moved, he stopped the team and gave the battle order according to Yi Hui's arrangement.
The old guys who had already experienced the battle in Silverspring Valley drew their muskets, brandished and shouted, and they drove the mechs behind the Bolt and Gilji's mechs to approach the Great Plains of Pisenfell without hesitation.