In fact, Martin had already arrived at the staircase when Leo and Valjean were talking, but he did not go upstairs immediately, but stood at the top of the staircase and listened quietly to their conversation for a while.

However, Martin didn't know that his whereabouts had already been noticed by Leo. While he didn't know why Martin was doing this, he knew exactly what he was going to do.

Therefore, when Valjean expressed negative emotions such as dissatisfaction and disdain for Martin, he deliberately shifted the topic to those machines, without allowing Valjean's emotions to be fully revealed.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the relationship between Valjean and Martin would be so bad, and after meeting, the first sentence was full of gunpowder.

Martin doesn't like Valjean's attitude towards him, and he doesn't like to be questioned by his subordinates in front of outsiders, but he also knows very well that if Valjean is missing in Cage City, I'm afraid that more than half of the machines that keep Cage City running normally will fail, which will definitely make Cage City extremely chaotic. So no matter how bad Valjean's attitude towards him was, he could only endure it, at least until his plan succeeded.

"You can ask how much such a lamp costs. Martin stabilized his emotions, looked at Valjean coldly, and said.

"Is this thing expensive?" Leo was stunned for a moment, the lamps that were also useful in the Earth Federation were very cheap, even beggars of poor stars could afford them, and the same was true in the old Earth era, so this made his mind always feel that all lamps were cheap.

Listening to Ao's inquiry, Valjean showed a little embarrassment on his face, pursed his lips, and said, "It's only twenty." ”

Leo still judged the monetary unit behind the number according to the cheap thinking of the lamp, and said, "Twenty is a bit expensive for the average person." ”

"If it's only twenty bia, I won't be able to fill the whole cage city, but a few important places in the cage city, such as Kena's clinic, will at least be replaced with this brighter lamp. Martin snorted coldly and said angrily: "The cost of this kind of lamp is twenty gold." ”

Hearing this number, Leo couldn't help but gasp.

After a few days of study, he had an understanding of the currency exchange rate at this time, as well as the value of the currency itself, and he was also well aware of several of the most famous currencies. Although Kinsa is not as good as the gold flange and gold dongle in circulation, this currency is recognized as the most valuable gold coin, and each gold coin can be exchanged for twenty-five gold guilders.

If you follow this exchange rate algorithm, then the cost of a lamp is equivalent to 500 gold and thousands of gold flanges. With such an expensive price, let alone a place like Cage City, even the royal palace of the French royal family may not be able to hold such expensive items.

Hearing such a sky-high price, Jason couldn't help but look at this small lamp in amazement.

"Why is it so expensive?" asked Leo, curious.

"This lamp is not very expensive in other places, mainly in two places. Valjean explains: "One place is the filament of the light bulb, which requires a precious metal extracted from a rare ore from the Moissanite continent, which is very rare, producing less than 500 grams a year at most. Another place is that the steam generator needs to be equipped with a current stabilizer, which also needs to use a precious metal, and the two combined, the price is expensive. ”

Leo didn't know what material could be used for the bulb or what device it needed, as he had already started using energy-free light particle lamps during his time in the Earth Federation, but he still felt that there should be other cheaper replacement materials for the lamp. It's just that he didn't know how to speak, so he could only be a quiet observer.

Martin seemed unwilling to stay here any longer, and urged impatiently, "Valjean, where are your weapons? ”

"Those weapons of mine?" Valjean asked with a look of surprise, as if he had heard something incredible, "Are those weapons?"

"It's the weapons. Martin knew exactly what Valjean was talking about,

Valjean questioned: "Didn't you say those weapons were not up to standard?"

"I paid you to research weapons to equip the Guild Guard, and you need weapons that can be mass-produced, but at a low cost. Martin almost gritted his teeth and said to Valjean, "You spent my 130,000 gold flanges to make those things, do you think I should think those weapons are qualified?"

The last question, Martin almost shouted, as if he wanted to vent the grievances he had suffered in front of the factory owner these days to Valjean.

To describe it as a bitter phrase, the relationship between Martin and Valjean is the most appropriate. Obviously, the reserve funds of the trade union are insufficient, so he squeezed out 130,000 gold flanges to find Valjean, the best mechanical technician in Cage City, to develop weapons, hoping to develop a weapon suitable for Cage City and capable of a large number of equipment, so that he will have some confidence when negotiating with those factory owners.

But after the 130,000 gold flanges were spent, Valjean took out his work, and almost didn't let him slaughter Valjean on the spot, and finally he endured this breath sensibly, and put Valjean under house arrest in his own mechanical workshop, when to repay the debt of the 130,000 gold flanges, and when to be free.

"Is there a problem with those weapons?" Leo asked Martin.

"There's nothing wrong with the weapon itself, it's the best weapon I've ever seen, not even the great mechanics of the Murphy Arsenal can make such a good weapon. Martin took a deep breath, suppressed the fire in his heart, and explained to Leo, "It's just that those weapons are not only very expensive, but also unusable by ordinary people. No matter how you explain it, you can't explain it, but when you see the real thing, you will understand. As he spoke, he shouted at Valjean: "What are you still doing standing here, take your things down." ”

"There's too much stuff, let's go up and take a look!" Valjean said as he walked to one side of the wall and moved the lamp shelf on the wall with all his might, and then heard the sound of mechanical friction and gear clashing coming from the iron plate overhead.

"Ga~" A shrill noise sounded in the room, and then a piece of ceiling was seen slowly falling, and with the movement of the mechanical gears, a whole iron plate gradually deformed and turned into an upward staircase.

After the stairs fell, Valjean removed the lamp from the wall, led the way in the money, and walked up, followed by Leo and them.

At the end of the stairs, there was not a room, but a lift shaft, and Valjean stood by the well and motioned for everyone to wait, and after a while, he heard a creaking sound from above the well, and then saw a lift staggering down from the top of his head and stopped in front of Valjean.

"When are you going to build a new elevator in the building?" Martin asked in an annoyed tone, "Don't you know that any building in the building needs to be approved by the building committee?"

"I'm not in the building, so I don't have to be reviewed by the committee. Valjean spoke, gesturing to the deep well below the elevator.

I saw that if you look down the deep well, if you have good eyesight, you can vaguely see the street scene at the bottom.

Originally, this was supposed to be the space above the road between buildings, but the top of the street has been covered by a connecting passage made of steel frames and iron plates, and some people have simply built houses on the connecting brackets, so there is no shadow of the street. But as Valjean said, this is not an interior space, and there is no need to be approved by the building committee to build something here.

Seeing that Martin was speechless, Valjean also showed a smile, opened the elevator door, motioned for everyone to come up, and then moved the control lever next to him. I saw that the elevator rose slowly, and after raising four or five meters, the four corners of the elevator were stuck by the gear guide rails composed of four steel frames, and it changed from relying on ropes to climbing to relying on gears to move.

After a minute or so, the elevator climbed about twenty floors, and after Valjean moved the control lever, he listened slowly, and stopped in front of a dark passage.

Valjean lifted the hanging lamp and walked into the passage, after passing through the three doors, handed the lamp in his hand to Leo, and took out two keys and inserted them into two locks of different shapes on the door at the same time, and twisted the keys with both hands at the same time according to different twisting methods, and after hearing a mechanical sound, the door slowly opened, and a sultry turbidity spewed out from behind the door, and saw that the clothes and hair of the four people were blowing.

"You've built it well enough. Martin said with something in his words.

Valjean was not worried about Martin's settlement of accounts at all, and said a little frivolously: "No way, I have too many valuables, I always have to find a few places to put them." ”

As the turbidity in the house dissipated completely, and the temperature inside and outside the house returned to the same temperature, Valjean motioned for everyone to wait, and then he walked into the room with the hanging lamp. Although the room was pitch black and nothing could be seen, listening to the echo in the room was enough to make people feel that this room was probably not small.

Just as the people outside the room were guessing the size of the room, the various lamps hanging on the top of the room and embedded around the room were ignited almost simultaneously, as if by some kind of magic, and the darkness in the room was completely dispelled.

As everyone had guessed, the room was large, about the size of six clinics in a neat row by the measurements of Catherine's clinic.

Although the room was large, there were not many things in the room, at least much less than the things in the mechanical workshop below, and all the machinery in these things was unknown except for a large clock, the function of which Leo could understand.

Leo was most intrigued by the huge machine that took up half of the room, which looked like rows of spinning machines connected together. It's just that these machines don't have yarn, and in addition to a large number of gears, there are some square steel bars of different lengths inside the machines.

By speculating on the trajectory of the gear, Leo was able to estimate how the machine would move, and the rebar should show a certain regular motion, so as to communicate with the gear and drive the other rebar to move irregularly. As for what effect such a sport will bring and what it will use, it is not for Leo to figure out.

Perhaps sensing Leo's gaze, Valjean looked at Leo as if he had seen a confidant, and said with a smile: "I knew that after you came in, you would immediately notice her, she is a great beauty, right?"

Hearing Valjean personify or refer to a machine that occupies half a huge room, Leo didn't know how to answer the other party's question for a while. I could only follow the other party's words, divert the topic, point to the machine, and say, "Can you tell me what this is?"

Valjean stroked the machine excitedly and said, "Her name is the array machine, and it has been my invention for many years. ”

Even Jason shuddered and turned his head away from looking at this side, while Martin looked like he had a headache and didn't know what to say.

"What does the Array do?" asked Leo again.

"She's the bigger of the calculator. Valjean explained: "Didn't you say that the calculator I made was flawed? she wouldn't have any flaws, and she would be able to predict what would happen in the future by calculating all kinds of data?"

"Isn't that the same as the mythical goddess of fate," Jason was also attracted to him, and after hearing Valjean's introduction, he couldn't help but interject: "This thing is also shaped like a textile machine, and legend has it that the goddess of fate of the people of Beirut will use a textile machine to weave the future fate of the world, maybe the textile machine in the goddess's hand is this thing." ”

Jason's words instantly made Valjean regard him as a confidant, even more than Leo, because he also saw the machine in this way, so he called her a woman.

It's just that this kind of confidant relationship didn't last for thirty seconds, and it was broken up by Jason's next words, only to see Jason say, "Can this thing work?"

Valjean glanced at Jason angrily, and then said with some confidence: "There are still some minor problems with this machine, which need further adjustments before it can be used." ”

"All right! This machine is going to be appreciated by no one but you. Martin smacked Valjean a blow, then put the topic back in the right direction, "Get your weapons out! ”

Hearing Martin's words, Valjean did not refute, but just snorted coldly, walked to a corner of the room, pushed out a box with a large cart used for transporting goods from the dock, and delivered it to the three people, and then opened the box completely and spread it on the ground, so that the three of them could see every weapon contained in the box.

When he saw these weapons clearly, Leo couldn't help but let out an exclamation and said to Martin, who had a somewhat ugly face: "No wonder you think that these weapons are not qualified, these weapons are indeed not something that ordinary people can use." ”