Richie lay down on the bed in the infirmary again, but fortunately this time he didn't have to undress or lie on his stomach, his face was burned. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It took Artur only one day to come up with a new verification model, named the FPG (Fireball Propelled Grenade).

The shell inserted from the muzzle of the cannon is shaped like a large mallet, with rows of holes drilled out of it, which looks like burnt corn from a distance, and has a common name: the stick cannon......

In this test, Li Qi still insisted on going into battle by himself, of course, he strengthened the protection on his body and wore it into a tin can.

The experiment was successful, and the fireball flew three or four hundred meters with the shell, and then exploded the shell into countless fragments.

But the moment the fireball was discharged with the cannon, the "tail flame" still confused Li Qi's face. The air grille and eye slit of the full-face helmet were not covered, and Li Qi was disfigured in an instant, and if he wasn't wearing crystal sunglasses, his eyes would have been burned blind.

This time the injury is lighter than the last time, but it is very painful and scary.

As for disfigurement or something, the magic world is just wonderful. Eve can recover from a charred corpse to a beautiful girl, and this little injury can be done the next day with a layer of ointment.

"Since it doesn't blow up, it means that the idea is right. Next, the range, accuracy, and power tests were done to further refine the design. ”

"I don't have to fight, but the shooter needs to be more protected, with fireproof shoulder pads, gloves and masks. In addition, the muzzle is covered with a retractable shield......"

Litch discussed the details with Artur in bed, and Tina helped him apply the ointment, which she had made her own reservation, and there was a chance to talk about a salary increase and a blessing.

At this time, he naturally didn't have time to interact with Tina's family: "This model can be roughly finalized, what is the situation in terms of cost?"

Artur sighed: "The price of materials is more than twelve thousand gold bushels, mainly the base material of the fireball array, and the pure gold is too expensive. Other components, including barrels and shells, were almost negligible. ”

In the past, a magic weapon that could replace the turret magician to a certain extent, the material cost was only more than 10,000 gold bushels, which was enough to make Artur jump to his feet and shout ridiculous, how could it be so cheap!?

Now he also finds it ridiculous because it is too expensive......

"The magic circle can't be streamlined anymore, the problem is in the materials", Artur said helplessly: "The molten lizard skin at the base of the magic circle can be replaced by other materials, but it won't be cheaper, after all, it was bought by adventurers with blood and sweat, and the merchant doubled it when he changed hands." In the case of magic metal, although the mine is controlled by the church or the nobility, the smelting technology is monopolized by the mage federation. All of the magic metals, sourced from the magical forges of the Storm Isles, have the ultimate pricing power. ”

These damn monopolists!

Li Qi is becoming more and more displeased with the Mage Federation, an organization that monopolizes all the lifeblood of the wizarding industry.

Although it is said that the magic industry was originally created by the magicians themselves, but the current scale has developed to the present level, which is no longer just the exclusive territory of the magicians themselves, which is really unpleasant, and it has also caused serious obstacles to the great cause of the revolution.

Since childhood, because the magic guide metal is monopolized by the Mage Federation, the cost of the magic guide gun has been pressed to more than ten gold bushels, and there is no room for it to fall. More than a dozen gold bushels already seem to be very cheap, and for the bottom, it is still a lot of money.

The price of basic magic metals such as copper and mythril is bearable, and high-grade magic metals such as pure gold and magic steel are completely sky-high! The material cost of a small magic cannon is tens of thousands, and the shipping price has to be doubled, how can this be popularized on a large scale?

The price of the small magic cannon can't be beaten, and after the large magic cannon, Richie's promise to Zolde will be reduced to less than one-tenth of the original price, and the possibility of fulfilling the promise is no longer so optimistic.

In general, without breaking the monopoly of the Mage Federation on magic metal, there will be no social progress.

The foundation of the magic industry is magic metal, and all kinds of magic metals support the entire industry. This is not a basic system that can be shaken by one or two new materials, just like oil, coal and steel, where the price is kept at an extremely expensive level by the monopolies, and the demand and application below cannot be stimulated.

Li Qi asked: "Is the technical threshold for the smelting of magic metal very high?"

Artur shook his head: "I haven't touched this link before......"

Then his eyes lit up: "Master Rowanna's mentor is running the magic crucible, she should know a lot of the inside story." ”

It just so happened that Aurora came back a few days ago and had been looking for him to talk about the next step in the "Propaganda Department", and Theresia also stuffed her into this department.

..................

Rowanna's Magic Tower, Aurora stared at her aunt blankly, looked at it for a long time, and finally smiled helplessly.

"Invite Litchie to stay in the Magic Tower for two days, and stay with me?"

She sighed: "Auntie, since you and Li Qi are already very familiar with each other, and the business cooperation is also very close, I will tell the truth." ”

Rowanna interrupted her: "You are trying to say that you and him are actually just good friends, and there is no relationship between men and women. I wanted to help Li Qi before, so I pretended to have that relationship with him in front of me?"

"Uh......"

Aurora was a little surprised, she thought that her acting skills had been hidden from her aunt.

"I'll tell you the truth," said Rowanna, "if you're not an earl, or an elegant saint, or a celebrity under the Queen, you're my little niece. Then no matter what you think, I'm going to make you Richie's woman. ”

Aurora got angry: "Auntie, why are you ......?"

"Why am I so mercenary?"

Rowanna spread her hands: "I'm a legendary magician, do you still expect me to have mortal emotions?"

"But ......"

"But it's not that I don't care about feelings, but I use them as weights of extraordinary value. I've been able to get this far with Richie, Aurora, and your relationship with him, even if it's just friendship, plays a vital role. ”

Rowanna asked, "And are you sure you really only think of Richie as a friend?"

Aurora did not hesitate: "Of course we are friends!"

And added: "Very good, very good...... Friend. ”

Rowanna smiled: "It's so good that you don't need acting skills to pretend to be a lover?"

Aurora turned her face away, "Where!?"

"Aurora, the woman of the Behemiaan family, has a problem, what she thinks in her heart and what she does in her body often contradicts each other. ”

Rowanna looked at her niece's gaze with a little more emotion: "What the body does is the desire in the depths of the heart, but because I don't realize my own heart and can't understand the performance of my body, I make up lies for myself and deny my own heart." ”

"Didn't you notice it yourself? As soon as you came back, you couldn't wait for Li Qi to come over. He said that he was two days late, and that you were restless and restless for the past two days. When I was reading a book on the terrace, I didn't even know if I took the book upside down. ”

Aurora raised her beautiful willow eyebrows and refuted seriously: "I'm thinking about the task that Teresia has assigned! Don't treat me as a stupid woman who only knows love and love!"

Rowanna sneered: "But why are you dressed like this? It took hours, is it related to work?"

Aurora froze, and Rowanna continued to attack: "The last time I saw Aurora, she was still the first courtesan of the Hadron Kingdom, but now the Aurora sitting in front of me is a simple and pure saint. ”

"These few hours, you've spent all your time not letting Li Qi see the traces of makeup, and you want to fully show off your beauty. And you came up with this plain dress after trying on hundreds of clothes, right?"

Aurora's jade-white cheeks flushed, and she bowed her head and said, "That's, that's because, from now on, Li Qi is my boss!"

She looked up and said confidently: "Yes, he is my boss, I must give enough respect!"

"Respect?"

Rowanna chuckled: "Slapped the table and jumped to the book of trade winds, and asked Li Qi to hurry over, you really respect your boss." ”

"Auntie!"

Aurora was annoyed: "You are still single, and you have never been in a relationship since you were a child, so what qualifications do you have to talk to me about this kind of thing?"

"Yes, Aurora, you're very experienced," the disdain on Rowanna's face was undisguised.

Aurora's cheeks went from reddish to red, her eyes fluttered, and she still didn't admit defeat: "Everyone knows that Aurora Behemia is a veteran of the love scene!"

"Ahaha......"

Rowanna clutched her stomach and hammered the sofa, without the demeanor of a legendary magician: "This is the funniest joke I've heard this year, Aurora, do it again!"

The graceful saint's face was completely devoid of grace, and she was suppressing the anger that was about to explode.

Rowanna said again: "Two unrequited loves, never said a word to each other, once sent a love letter to the wrong person, and was so ashamed that the whole castle turned into a decadent place, you are simply a master of love." ”

"In the eyes of outsiders, you are very arrogant, but you take arrogance as etiquette. You are good friends with Theresia and Sylvie, and all the men in the kingdom who admire you don't have the courage to make a move on you, but they all think that you are doing something to someone. ”

"I'm sure you're still ......"

Aurora jumped up, shuddered, and screamed, "Whether I have experience or not, I will never think of him more than a friend!

"This is how you deceive yourself," said Rowanna, shaking her head, "how old do you think you are? You're only twenty years old this year! only one year older than Theresia, two years older than Richie, two years old. Your maturity in the face of outsiders is cultivated in the Church of Elegance. ”

Aurora found another shield, and the solid thickness reassured her a lot: "Auntie, don't tell jokes, Richie will marry Catherine, how can I be his mistress?"

Rowanna fully demonstrates the disregard and disdain for worldly morality of a legendary magician: "Wouldn't it be okay to see Richie as a lover?"

She stabbed Aurora again: "When you were fourteen years old, wasn't the unrequited 'first love' also a married man?"

Aurora's body was as stiff as a sculpture, and both eyes were out of focus: "That's—that's just young and ignorant!"

"So, did I really misunderstand?"

Rowanna's words changed suddenly: "You really don't have any feelings for Li Qi beyond your friends?"

"I ......"

Aurora was silent, and scenes of acquaintance with Richie flashed through her mind.

Then she found that Li Qi's eyes that seemed to see through all the truths of the world, and his face that said with a smile that he believed in love, and was not afraid of being an enemy of gods and demons for the great love of Ms. Crimson, seemed to have really sunk to the depths of his heart and couldn't dig it out.

Her heart fluttered at the thought of him crushing his attempts to convey kindness and love through etiquette, and persuading himself to comfort Theresia, always with a hint of pity in his tone.

I and Li Qi are indeed not just friends.

Li Qi seems to have something hidden in her body that she has been looking for, something that makes her heart full, and she feels that she is no longer afraid in the face of all suffering, and she no longer hesitates in the face of all changes, and that seems to be ...... Love?

No, no, impossible!

Aurora hurriedly denied her ridiculous thoughts, you see, she just treated him as a cute little brother before, and she didn't feel fluctuating in her heart when she treated him as she wanted?

Wait a minute...... When I went to Theresia's side before, I said goodbye to him. He joked that there was no welfare, why was he just angry and didn't dare to really send his chest over?

"I ...... I really, just friends with him, and I just want to be friends. ”

Feeling that this direction was extremely dangerous, Aurora subconsciously said this, firming up her position.

"Really......"

Rowanna let out a long sigh: "Then I'll be relieved." ”

Huh?

Aurora felt that something was wrong, so she heard Rowanna continue: "Then, you are not qualified to object to my relationship with Richie. ”

Aurora was stunned for a while, and then she was furious: "What, Auntie, what are you thinking!?

Rowanna's face sank: "Why do you come up and talk about age? In the legend, I am still so tender that I can pinch out the water!"

Aurora's forehead was bruised: "Anyway, don't you think!"

Rowanna pouted: "What does this have to do with you!?"

The two women quarreled in the living room until Taling spoke, "The guest has arrived." ”

The aunt and nephew glanced at each other, and at the same time turned their heads coldly.

Li Qi, who was teleported into the hall, greeted Rowanna first.

When she saw Aurora, she was about to speak, and Aurora, who looked more like a simple girl practicing in the temple than a countess or an elegant saint, snorted.

"Talk to my aunt, she has something very important, very important to tell you!"

After saying that, she strode with a figure eight meteor that she had never seen before, and walked away angrily.

Li Qi was confused......