Chapter Twenty-Five: Humanoid Thermometer
Even if the sixth child's prejudice against filth cannot be completely eliminated, it does not affect their admiration for Princess Shelley at all. Because there is no doubt that Shelley is definitely a rare benevolent lord in the world.
Not to mention providing them with jobs, they are willing to put down their bodies and get along with them as equals, and they have just learned that Shelley has actually exempted the residents of Wule Town from taxes for a full decade. Once this news is released, I believe that no one will question her anymore.
You know, their town of Joy is notoriously poor, even though Duke Boka, who is a lord, doesn't bother to collect their taxes. But in fact, where are such kind nobles, even if they don't have the money to pay, they have to regularly use materials to offset taxes.
Because they are relatively close to the border forest, there are many other wild animals that inhabit the vicinity, hunting or something, and can leave a lot of good fur, which had to be handed over to the Duke of Poca.
But since Shelley came here, the Duke of Poka has completely handed over the town of Wule and the undeveloped area within a radius of hundreds of kilometers to her. This made many people worry that this landowner who had parachuted in would start collecting taxes from them.
If this were the case, they would rather pay the Duke of Poka an annual tribute. However, it turns out that compared to Princess Shelley, that Duke of Poca is simply a monster who eats people and does not spit out bones.
In fact, if you really want to say it, Shelley is also helpless. For a central institution, it must be inseparable from the support of taxation. But this Wule town really can't afford to pay a considerable amount of taxes, so instead of embarrassing the people, it is better to send this favor out, so that they can do things better for themselves.
When Wule Town really develops and the people's lives are better, do you still have to worry about the benefits of the ruling department? As for taxes, that's even less important. She only exempted the original inhabitants of Wule Town from taxes, and everyone knows that there is one thing that is more important to prosperity and development than science and technology, and that is population.
With population, technology can be monetized on a large scale, there will be education, there will be infrastructure, and there will be entertainment. Otherwise, everything is just an empty general sitting in a tent, and there are no soldiers to fight.
Therefore, Shelley also made a lot of good changes to the problem of sparse population. Either refugees from other places are taken in, or money is used to lure the population back to the country on their own.
"Mom, Her Royal Highness the princess said that she would pay me back every month, why do you still have to work, isn't it good to stay with us?"
Ah Sui couldn't help himself from crying, squatted down and hugged the two children and said: "Silly child, my mother is also working for the princess, in order for us to live a better life in the future, this is a necessary pay." Vader, when your mother is away, you two must listen to Her Royal Highness the princess well, and you must not be naughty. Also, take care of your sister. ”
"Knowing Mom, I'll take care of my sister, and you'll come to see us when you're resting."
At the gate of the mansion, Shelley personally sent them out. After all, Ah Su still has a task on his body, so he still has to work harder next, and the man has also been imprisoned by Shelley, although he hates him to the bone, but when she is working outside, he can still stare at the two children a little. And now there is no one to watch.
So Shelley proposed that the two children stay here and let her take care of them, and she could come to see her at any time when she wanted to see her, anyway, she still had work to report to Shelley from time to time.
Although Ah Sui really didn't dare to bother the princess, she really didn't have time, and out of trust in Shelley, she finally agreed.
After sending them off, Shelley, who had everything in order, was a little more relaxed. She took Vader to the courtyard, and now she was most concerned about what Vader's abilities were. In order not to make Vader nervous, she specially asked Nika to take Naya to the side, leaving herself one-on-one with him.
"Okay, now just the two of us, can you tell me what your abilities are?"
Vader nodded and said, "Actually, Dad...... That man was right, I'm not afraid of fire. ”
"......," Shelley was stunned, "that's it?" ”
Vader nodded a little embarrassedly: "Well, that's it. ”
Shelley knew that it would definitely not be so simple, after all, the experience of the previous three people was put there. Because of their previous enslavement, they can't use their abilities without the permission of humans. So all of them lead to a lack of understanding of their own abilities.
And I learned from Ah Su that Vader's awakening ability has only been less than two months. Because Ah Su had warned him seriously, he never dared to use his ability again except for the first time after showing his ability in front of his family, for fear of being known by outsiders, so he didn't know what his ability was.
So, with his consent, Shelley summoned Sonodai and Sonoji and had them light a bonfire in the courtyard.
Vader stood in front of the flame, taller than his entire body, her little face flushed. Then he slowly put his hand into the flame, and after confirming that he was okay, the whole person walked into the flame.
"Your Royal Highness! You see, I don't have anything to do. ”
Vader beckoned to Shelley in the flames, and Yuan Da Yuan on the side was about to jump out of his throat.
Shelley, on the other hand, circled around Vader in the campfire, and then immediately noticed that something was wrong, why didn't he feel hot at all when he was close to the flames? Thinking of this, a flash of light flashed through her brain.
"Vader, do you feel the heat yourself?"
"No, I feel normal, not hot at all."
Hearing his words, Shelley was even more sure of what she was thinking, and in the exclamations of Vader and the gardeners, she actually put her whole hand into the flames.
"Your Royal Highness, what are you doing!"
"I'm fine, you don't have to come."
Shelley looked calm, then withdrew his hand from the hot pot again. Sure enough, the hands that were scorched by the flames not only did not have the slightest burn, but they were not even burned red from the heat.
After carefully examining her hands, she smiled, "Sure enough, now it's certain that your abilities are not fire resistance at all." ”
As it turned out, she was not wrong, because if it was really fire-resistant, then it was impossible for Vader's clothes not to be burned, and the clothes were not fire-resistant. In addition, the moment he entered the flame from Vader, Shelley clearly felt that the temperature of the flame had disappeared.
To sum up, it is not that he is not afraid of fire, but directly changes the temperature of the flame. So neither he nor the clothes he wore on him had anything to do, so Shelley boldly put his hand in.
Shelley's explanation also reminded Vader: "It seems that this is indeed the case, before I entered the flames, I silently thought in my heart not to be too hot. ”
"If that's the case, then you should be able to change the temperature of the substance, even if you don't touch it."
So, Shelley let him out of the flames. Then, after several experiments, Shelley came up with the following results.
First, his ability is to regulate the temperature, which can not only lower the temperature of the target, but also increase the temperature.
Second, as long as he does not actively revoke the ability, then the target whose temperature has been changed will always remain the same as the temperature after the change.
Thirdly, it is impossible to prevent or change the changes of the object itself, for example, a piece of meat, even if it is given a low temperature, it will not be able to achieve the freezing effect, and it will still slowly decay, but its temperature can affect the surroundings, that is, if the subject affected by the ability comes into contact with the meat, it will be affected by it.
Second, he only changes the subject's temperature, but does not affect the subject's current traits at all. For example, even if the temperature of the flame is lowered, the flame itself will not disappear, and it will still glow, but it will not heat up.
They also experimented with a basin of water and came to the same conclusion. The temperature of the water has been reduced to a very low level, but the water is not freezing. On the contrary, if the water temperature is raised to the maximum, the water will not boil, and it will not emit hot gas.
Although there are still many unsolved mysteries about this ability, just a few of the above can be of great use in many areas that Shelley needs.