After Elaine went to the priesthood. Xiao Chen proposed that he wanted to go out for a walk, so Di Ning accompanied him around the royal capital.

The Elven King Capital is undoubtedly a great city to visit, and Dinen is a more suitable tour guide than Elaina. He will give Xiao Chen some explanations.

“...... This is the place where the elven army swore to regain territory from the Black Dragon Empire during the last war. Later, it slowly became a bazaar, because it was only more than 200 years after the formation of the bazaar, so it was called the new market, and the old market on the other side of the royal capital was opposite. Di Ning pointed to a market and introduced to Xiao Chen. There are quite a few elves setting up stalls in the market. Some of the crafts they made, the books they published, the clothes they made, etc., as well as the weapons they crafted, the magic items they enchanted, but that were a minority.

"For elves, something that is more than two hundred years old is still new, right?" Xiao Chen asked.

"That's why the elves need to change. Otherwise, you can't keep up with the trend of the world. Dineen pointed to his hair.

"Your red hair?"

"Dye!" said Dineen triumphantly.

It turned out to be a non-mainstream, Xiao Chen thought to himself.

The goods sold by the elves in the market are not particularly valuable, and the elves will no longer sell them in the open-air market for really good things. From the perspective of elves, most of the magic items here are flashy, just some fun things. However, Xiao Chen still asked Di Ning to exchange some magic crystal coins and bought a lot of things, such as bracelets that can sing and accompani, armor that can display pictures on the surface, and cooking gloves that can prevent hot hands, etc.

"Your taste is unique. Di Ning watched Xiao Chen stuff these things into the heart of a traveler, and couldn't help but comment.

"It's a lot of fun, I can take it to my friends. The opportunity to enter the elven kingdom is too rare. Xiao Chen smiled, but in fact he felt that he had earned it. These elves seem to be useless, if the magic circle inside can be reversely studied, the school can refer to them to make magic speakers, magic camouflage suits, and smelting protective suits. Once a small invention is properly added to the industrial system, the power that erupts is beyond the imagination of an idyllic elf.

"Well, is that so? If you like this kind of stuff, then I'll take you to an interesting place. Dineen led him through the alleys, across the boardwalk, to a nondescript treehouse, where most of the other people's treehouses were alive on tall and lush trees, and the trees below this one had withered. The dilapidated houses hung on dead branches, giving the impression that they could fall down at any moment.

Dineh pushed open the creaky door and led Xiao Chen into the room.

Xiao Chen had already smelled a mixture of metal and engine oil in the room. This room felt like a cluttered second-hand store to Xiao Chen, with a lot of old and strange things in the store. Accessories, clocks, dolls, weapons, armor, stone plates depicting magic arrays, and props whose names cannot be named. Xiao Chen even saw a lot of mechanical parts such as gears, bolts, bearings, and screws. If this is a dwarven mechanic's shop, Xiao Chen can understand it, but to say that this is an elven shop, the painting style is too strange.

Xiao Chen took two steps inside, and a one-foot-tall golem walked over and said in a voice, "Hello, guest, welcome to Maya's magic shop." "The words spoken by this golem sounded like Dineen's voice.

"This voice is me. Do you expect Maya to say something like welcome?" Dinen shrugged, "She just likes to play with these things, and I asked her to open a store of things she makes, but well, business is enough." ”

Xiao Chen looked left and right again, and found that there were really a lot of things that he could move in this store, a mechanical spider was crawling everywhere, wiping the dust while crawling, but its movements were very rough, and it kicked over a lot of bits and pieces along the way. Behind it, a mechanical octopus floating in the air kept lifting things up and putting them away. In addition, a mechanical lizard with a red glow in its eyes crawled out from behind the pile of debris, glanced at the two of them, and when he saw Dineh, his eyes turned green and retreated into the corner.

"How's that, interesting, isn't it?"

Xiao Chen nodded and said, "It's not just interesting, I saw a very genius design." ”

"Maya is a genius by nature, if it weren't for her too scattered energy, her achievements would definitely be higher than mine, she is a high-level magician, a high-level alchemist, a middle-level warrior, and a first-class craftsman. Maya, like me, and Elaine, were born in the same spring. The World Tree gave her a power that she herself called 'Structural Intuition'. So she's very good at making these little things, and she's also good at setting orders for these little things to do when and what to do. I don't know what to call it, it's not a soul anyway. ”

"Hey, is it a program?" Xiao Chen said.

"What's that?" a crisp female voice came down from upstairs. Then I saw a female elf sliding down the railing of the stairs.

The female elf is similar to Elaina, but if Elaine has always been a goddess, this one can only be described as sloppy. She was wearing short-sleeved overalls, hanging a work bib, wearing gloves on her hands, her hair and pointed ears were tied up with a piece of cloth, she looked dusty, and her face was even more oily. When she came down, she was still holding a wrench in her hand, and that image reminded Xiao Chen of the apprentice worker in the workshop of the machine repair factory.

When Ilena was around, she could always smell a refreshing scent of flowers, but as soon as she appeared, the smell of engine oil in the room became a little heavier.

However, Xiao Chen's dark vision made him see very clearly, the elf's facial features were very beautiful, and they were not inferior to Elaina, but with her current appearance, she couldn't connect her with the beauty no matter what.

Maya rushed in front of Xiao Chen and asked bluntly, "Tell me quickly, what is the program, and how does it work?"

Xiao Chen said: "In our place, a program is a collection of instructions that allow the machine to understand what we want it to do, and then it will execute those instructions. ”

"Well, that's a good summary of what I'm doing, and I used to want to call it an acquired soul, or a sequence of commands, but your statement seems more concise. Maya thought for a moment.

Xiao Chen's heart moved: "Then these 'acquired souls' you designed, can they learn by themselves, will they grow?"

"Some of the smarter ones can, but the stupid ones can't. She pointed to the mechanical lizard, "Blackie is smarter, and Spider is a fool." Blackie is now able to recognize a lot of people, and he learned it all by himself. ”