Chapter 14 Fee for feed long-eared rats
"The explosion was so strange...... According to common sense, it was impossible for the substance to explode at that time......"
Wayne Mossa had a cold copper coin in his hand, and his face was a little cloudy.
He hadn't wondered if the two magic materials that the witch had sold him in the past two days would be the mastermind behind his crossing.
But when I thought about it, I thought it was unlikely.
The golden dot allows people to easily travel through two worlds and even the universe, and even the ability to spend a few dozen scales of meagre magic is less than the cost of casting a slightly larger apprentice-level spell.
With this terrifying energy efficiency ratio, Wayne even felt that even the legendary ninth-order peak wizard who specialized in space-time magic could not do it.
Besides, even if that witch had the ability to make golden dots, why did she give this artifact to herself when she met Wayne for the first time.
Could it be that she looks better and wants to play with herself?
(There should be a 'ho' here...... Phew')
"The witch calls herself Miss Tower, and the edge of this coin is engraved with 'Tower Sequence IV-732', Tower, well, it feels like the name of an organization.
But what does the fourth sequence mean, the hierarchy within this organization?
There is also the address that the witch said, the Harpy Tavern, No. 76, Maple Leaf Lane, Pearl District, Clytton, the capital of Ceylon, ......"
After a while, Wayne wrapped the copper coin in strips of cloth and stuffed it back into the hidden drawer under the XXXL stone platform with a complicated face.
Got up and walked into a row of rooms open in the side of the basement.
In addition to the washroom, utility room, material storage room, potions planting room, and Wayne's ...... In vivo experimental observation room.
When the door is opened, the rectangular narrow room is flanked by iron multi-layered cages, leaving only a thin aisle in the middle.
Wayne's sturdy figure on Pandora's side could only be walked in with his body sideways.
"Long-eared rats are growing well, and it seems that the forage I have specially cultivated is quite suitable for their appetite; Two of them died, and it seems that the last experiment with the 'Honeysuckle Neutralizing Heart Grass Juice' potion must have failed;
The spirit of the migratory birds in North Yierlin does not seem to be very lively, and it should still be a little unadaptable; Hey, the two-tailed pit viper has already laid eggs, well, we have to make a spare cage as soon as possible to isolate the male snake that has finished estrus......"
From time to time, Wayne lifted the black cloth covering the cage and startled the cries of animals.
In this room, there are more than a dozen cages, and they are all 'guinea pigs' that Wayne is doing live experiments.
From mammals to oviparouss, those who run on the ground, swim in the water, and fly in the sky, there are all kinds of categories.
Wayne came here this time to find two test subjects to test the safety of the [come, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh] potion.
"Hmm...... Which one to choose this time? Wayne groaned for a moment, and finally fixed his eyes on the fat rats in the cage containing the long-eared rats.
"Let's choose these two, so fat, I must eat a lot, it's too much feed."
"Squeak Squeak......"
Wayne pinched the skin of the two fat rats between the back of their necks with his fingers, feeling their squeaky and lively energy, and nodded in satisfaction.
This creature called the long-eared rat is distributed in most areas of the western continent of Pandora, and is about the size of a mouse on the earth, with a brown, white, black and gray coat and two long ears that stand up.
It has no offensive power, but it is extremely fecund, omnivorous, and is one of the main scourges of rice in the fields on this side of the southern continent.
Every year, the government of Ceylon allocates a special fund of up to 150,000 gold pounds to hire a professional rodent control company to eliminate these small creatures in large quantities under the city's sewers and field pits before they affect the grain harvest.
But I don't know if the rodent extermination company considers the mercy of its subordinates for long-term profits, or if the vitality of this long-eared rat is too tenacious.
The Ceylon government destroys them year by year, but they are like weeds that burn in the field, or they emerge in piles every year.
It is precisely because of this fecundity of long-eared rats that Wayne will hand over life-threatening experiments to them in order to control their numbers.
According to the Wizard Enlightenment of the Bruce Family, there is a very small chance that this long-eared rat will evolve into a transcendent magical creature called the Coppertooth Mouse, whose eyes and teeth are an alternative material called the Beast Boiling Elixir.
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Wayne took a slightly smaller iron cage from the cages on either side, put the two fat rats in it, added food to the rest of the cages, and paced out.
"It would be nice if Pandora had a syringe on the earth, and the drug experiment was directly injected intravenously, which is much more convenient than the current stupid method."
Take out a little [come, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh] potion with a test tube, carefully control the strength to pinch open the mouth of the long-eared mouse, and it took a lot of effort to forcibly feed it in.
Wayne wiped the sweat from his forehead, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then lowered his head and studied for a while to be fed [Come on, find me, I'll let you oh oh oh], the long-eared mouse that still looks alive.
"Looks like it's a ...... of life"
Setting aside the cage containing the long-eared mouse, Wayne turned his head to open a heavy notebook, jotting down a wealth of inspiration from the books on geophysics and chemistry.
Well, it's kanji.
A small book on the other side of the earth, the inspiration for the record is in the lingua franca of Pandora.
Well, I have to say that it is indeed a lot more convenient to know one more language and do some unsightly things.
"Brush Brush ......"
Write down a formula for the reaction between concentrated sulfuric acid and sucrose on a piece of paper, and note in detail below your inspiration for this chemical reaction in the apprenticeship spell [Weak Heart Burning Fire].
Wayne paused slightly, and put the feather tube without ink on the side to refill it in a quick-drying ink bottle that he had specially prepared for non-fading.
Just as he was about to continue writing, a string of bells hanging in the upper left corner of the basement suddenly rang.
"Huh? Someone knocking on the door? β
Wayne frowned slightly.
This string of bells was designed by the Bruce family a long time ago, and there are mechanisms inside that are connected to the gate, and when someone knocks on the door or violently destroys the door, the bell will ring as a reminder.
Walking upstairs quickly, crossing the covered bridge, Wayne walked to the door, opened the door and opened the small window, and his expression was stunned: "Arnold butler?" β
Arnold's butler was his uncle's housekeeper, head chef and gardener, and Paul's uncle.
What are you doing...... He is very diligent and serious in his work, but his attitude towards money is in the same vein as his nephew.
"Good day, Master Wayne."
At the door, Arnold, who had gray hair and looked seven or eight points similar to his housekeeper, and was wearing a neat double-breasted tweed coat, bent down slightly: "Today's family dinner, you haven't come, Baron Stanley asked me to see if something happened, and I will pick you up by the way." β
"Family dinner?"
Wayne was stunned for a moment, and then a flash of realization flashed across his face.
After staying on Earth for two days and having a time difference, I came back and patronized the knowledge of the excited Earth, and almost forgot about my uncle's family dinner today.
"Arnold butler, I'm sorry." Wayne's head wandered, and he quickly found a reason, and said with some embarrassment: "I was so obsessed with practicing swordsmanship in the backyard that I forgot the time, and I even bothered you to run away." β
"Master Wayne, you're so polite." Arnold smiled with the professional standard of etiquette class on his face, and pointed to a four-wheeled carriage parked behind him: "Look, is it ...... now?"
"Well, I guess my uncle is already in a hurry, so let's go now." Wayne looked at his clothes, which were quite neat, and went straight to the carriage.
A family banquet is not an aristocratic cocktail party, and there is no need to wear a special dress.
Besides, his uncle, Baron Stanley, was born as a commoner and was knighted by military merit, and he never cared about these cumbersome things.
The carriage creaked against the cinders.
Wayne looked through the car window and looked out at the streets where chimneys were towering along the road, and there was a weaving of people, and all kinds of carriages and strange pack carts were running side by side, and he scratched his head slightly.
Since becoming a wizard, Wayne's life in the past two years has basically become a deep and simple otaku.
In addition to the need for time to study magic, to exercise the body.
I am also afraid that a black face will meet the clergy of some temple or church on a certain street.
Although, a clergyman who can detect the magical aura in his body without using the Detection Divine Technique must have at least the strength of a bishop of the sixth order or above.
It's not so easy to come across a big guy of this level.
But for the sake of safety and safety, Wayne can still try not to go out if he can.
So, it often only comes out once a month or two.
When I look at it now, I really feel that the city in front of me is a little strange.
"Florent is getting more and more prosperous now, by the way, Arnold butler, there are gas lamps installed in the streets over there, right?" Wayne pointed to a group of people in uniforms with the words 'Florence Civic' printed on the street not far away.
"Yes, Master Wayne, you don't know yet, do you!"
Arnold controlled the reins of the horses and did not look back: "On the side of the carriage there is today's newspaper, an urgent issue of the Florent Gazette that just came out at noon, saying that the town hall is preparing to install kerosene street lamps and public benches on all twelve main roads in the city of Florent in response to the policy of the Ceylon Chamber of Deputies to pass the steam railway from Florent to the Pearl City. β
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[For the first time, I felt how simple it is to do business in the southern continent.
There is no need to spend painful expenses to find the priests of the major temples to open cumbersome teleportation arrays, and there is no need to hire expensive transcendent mercenaries to take care of the cumbersome gold and silver wagons along the way.
Don't worry, you'll be dragged down by these things on the road, and you'll encounter dirty, inexhaustible kobold robbers like weeds.
But...... This fluttering, numerals, with the face of the legendary diplomat on it, represents gold and silver on paper...... In the hand, it always feels like it is not as reassuring as a gold coin with a heavy feel. γ
βExcerpt from "No. 89 on the Child Rich List in the Southern Continent: The Memoirs of Heidenay Sauron"