Book 855 The Lost Beetle
The need for funds for such a thing as organizing an army is very large, and this kind of thing is naturally known to the birds. However, he didn't know that using the power of the gods to organize an army would cost so much.
Sparrow wants to create more spider warriors, the all-metal one.
"Isn't it okay to make it out of stone? Wasn't our first jellyfish also very powerful. ”
The birds made armies in a less expensive way, and if it was stone, they should be able to cope with it with their existing savings and contacting some merchants who bought logs.
For this mention yì sparrow is very resolute in denial. "Stone when. No, you've seen the difference between jellyfish and spiders, haven't you?"
When making spiders, the dove questioned the difference in combat effectiveness between the all-metal spider and the stone-armed jellyfish, and the necessity of the high cost of all-metal. She felt that even if she used a stone as an arm, she shouldn't be able to make her warriors' combat effectiveness worse.
In order to test this question, the sparrow created a 'jellyfish' that was larger than the average spider, but it was destroyed by a spider with overwhelming combat power.
"In that case...... "Bird Bird proposed his second article, "Eight metal ball arms are a bit too much, maybe three fewer ......"
As inventors, cost control is one of their jobs, and in many cases even the most important.
"Eight is too much, cast iron balls are too expensive, I'm afraid it will be difficult for blacksmiths to produce, but it's okay to reduce the use." ”
The conversation about the construction of the new army takes place one day after the head of the Chamber of Commerce goes crazy, and the talk of the head of the Chamber of Commerce going crazy after his wife and children are kidnapped by the white ape spreads throughout the Temple City overnight.
The Quds Chamber of Commerce fears that the president who angers the patron saint will drag the chamber of commerce to its death. Therefore, after his family was looted, a meeting was held to remove him from the position of president.
The three of them had reached an agreement on the issue of arms sales last night, and the sale would definitely continue, but the scale of the sale remained to be discussed.
The opinion of the bird is more conservative, he advocates selling less, and it does not matter if the quality of the army declines a little, and it can be compensated for by quantity. Sparrows as direct beneficiaries and owners of the army. Not at all want a decrease in the quality of their own army. Moreover, large warriors like spiders take up too much space, and it is not convenient to have too many of them, so it is better to adopt a few elite policies.
As for her sister, the pigeon, she was busy building her twelfth flying machine, and did not participate in this vulgar breakfast talk of money.
Although she has lost interest in this machine, the practical value of the aircraft is there, such as the ability to airdrop armored warriors to achieve three-dimensional combat and tactical strikes, so she continues to control the aircraft. In addition to this, my sister is also in charge of the design of large fighters.
Like all armies. The metal army of the Wandering Bird needs a general, the one who is strong enough. After many experiments, the amount of the body of a creature is directly related to the volume and the mass of the material, and the mass refers to the mass in physics.
Since large metal balls are not particularly easy to obtain, and the design style of whip-shaped hands and feet composed of metal balls is difficult to achieve, my sister wants to use steel to assemble a similar effect, and she is still a 'spider foot' type of warrior, and her body parts can be arbitrary. That thing wasn't the point, and no matter what it was designed for, it wouldn't show up in combat.
The preliminary design scheme has been completed. However, because he did not understand the strength of the joints, the dove did not dare to overweight the 'General', fearing that it would crush him.
While the birds and sparrows were studying how to save materials and money, my sister, who was holding a sketchpad and charcoal, showed off her design.
"Sister, don't draw while you're having breakfast. And don't take the bread with your dirty hands, it's all charcoal black!"
The design is very simple and straightforward. It costs a lot of money to make people know at a glance. My sister marked the size of the general on the side, and when the arms were fully extended, it was 2.5 meters, and the bottom of the body was two meters away from the ground in the normal standing state, which looked like a two-meter-tall spider.
"Spider again?!" the birds were a little disappointed, as were the sparrows. "Sister Dove, can't you be an adult?"
Dove Pigeon drank the cold breakfast milk, and shook his finger at his younger brother and ideal future brother and sister, "Humans are not creatures suitable for fighting, and there is no point in imitating humans. Those four-legged animals are better at fighting with **, but humans with two legs are good at using weapons, and if you two can find a bow and arrow suitable for the general, I can try to design a personal type. ”
For doves, the human form is actually easier to make. Steal a bronze statue from the city, break the joints of the hands, feet, and waist, as well as the movable parts, and add metal balls as joints to create large humanoid warriors that can move. After that, strengthen the strength of the feet and ankles, increase the force area, and basically be able to achieve a certain range of stable movements. Finally, a new 'hand' is made, a hand with rich joints that can flexibly access weapons, and a 'general' is assembled.
This thing is much easier than building four complex spider legs, and the amount of work is relatively small, so it is more difficult to steal. However, this thing will definitely not be able to defeat the spider-type general, although the dove pigeon, as a craftsman, is reluctant to draw conclusions without any practice, but she is very sure that she is right.
The armored warriors are planing the planks, grinding the metal, and making the parts needed for the aircraft. In the pigeon's opinion, this kind of complex work is fine in the human form, and as for the matter of fighting, the spider with the foot structure as the main body structure is even more proficient.
The design of the general was finalized under the strong intervention of the sister, and the size of the general formulated by the dove ended the debate between the birds and the sparrows. With such a huge general, it is impossible to make zuò with small money.
"Looks like we'll have to sell some more fighters......" The bird looked helpless as he stuffed the fried meat and bread for breakfast into his mouth, took a sip of juice and stood up, "I'll contact the razor and the timber merchant, and I'll be back when I go." ”
The sparrow blushed and grabbed the juice cup and muttered quietly as the bird left. "He took the wrong glass, he drank my juice......"
Regarding the relationship between his brother and Miss Sparrow, the dove, as an older sister, still understands a little bit in these days. In her opinion, the sparrow seems to be very ignorant when it comes to men, but it is also full of curiosity, as if she has never been in contact with a man in her life. Although I don't know the identity of the sparrow and her previous life. But the pigeon can be sure that she is a simple girl, but she is a little tendonous, or too reasonable, and it is not easy to convince her.
Judging from the character of the sparrow, the dove is almost certain that as long as she has a good impression of her brother, it is basically a level that nine cows can't pull back, even if her brother does something sorry for her, she will probably be forgiven. Even if there is an emotional barrier, the sparrow should try his best to break through the obstacle and finally achieve the goal.
'Lucky or unlucky?' the pigeon always thought that his brother might not be so lucky.
The bird rode his family's lean horse towards the Poison Mercenary Legion's outskirts estate. At the gate of the manor, I met a razor who was about to enter the city.
"Oh oh oh brother, you're just in time, I want to go to you!!"
When Razor saw the birds, he looked like a child's excitement, which made the birds a little embarrassed. It's not a brand new toolset, so it's not worth being so happy.
Razor spoke straight to the point, "Dude, those spider warriors of yours. Can you sell me some more?"
"Huh?!"
The bird didn't expect Razor to take the initiative to tell him about it, and he remembered saying it after the deal was over. I don't plan to buy it anymore because it's too expensive. It is precisely because of this that he is reluctant to help Sparrow continue to sell 'arms'. Now it seems that Razor has been fascinated by the spider warrior, and it didn't take many days for Razor to come and place orders again.
The social experience said that there are many birds with a smile and said that they can continue to sell and can also be discounted. Then follow the example of a merchant with a smile on his face and ask how much he wants to buy.
"I'll tell you the price I can offer first. The razor took out a piece of paper folded into a palm-sized piece of paper from his body, shook it open and handed it to the bird. After seeing it, the bird nodded, "So, how many of my warriors do you want to exchange for these materials?"
"Ten of them. Razor grinned a little embarrassedly as he grabbed his hair.
These materials are enough to build another fifty spider warriors. It's going to be a little richer, in short, a little bit more material than in the previous transaction. As a result, the razor opened five times as much cargo as before.
After thinking for a while, the bird nodded, "It's no problem to exchange these materials for ten, but I want to sell you twenty! I hope you can prepare the same amount of materials, and deliver them in the next few days, and I will hand over the remaining ten to you!"
Sparrow has said that her army needs to highlight a big letter. It is natural for a woman to like big things, and the birds want to satisfy her as much as possible.
After listening to the request, Razor laughed out loud and happily agreed. The laughter made the bird feel a little uncomfortable, but he was glad that he was able to sell his goods.
In the morning, the first transaction was completed. By the way, the birds also visited the blacksmiths' union in the city, and wanted to place some orders with them, the content of which was simply cast iron balls.
In his opinion, an order of his own magnitude should be treated by the blacksmiths as if they were gods of wealth, and they would be offered, only to be asked for a sky-high deposit, which was twice the usual amount of deposit.
"Well, it doesn't matter, I can't get that deposit anyway if it's more or less......"
Back at his villa on the outskirts of his house, forty armored warriors had become fully armored workers, busy assembling the iron balls. The sparrows wander back and forth in excitement on one side, and when they form one, they immediately give life to it. Since the number of arms has been reduced by three, the assembly speed is much faster.
Just as the fowl who had been busy all morning was about to go to lunch, a visitor came to the house, a stranger he had never seen before, but he opened his mouth and offered to buy a spider warrior......
Alfalfa heard something about the inventor's brother and sister from his subordinates, just yesterday.
As a slum person, the ability to inquire about information is unmatched. Most of the reasons why a poor person is a poor person is because of the word laziness. As long as you have a healthy body and are willing to work, you can still live in a prosperous place like the Holy City, and most of the people who live in the slums are not willing to let their lives be stumped by work.
As a lazy person. In order to pass the time, gossip is always collected from various places and then disseminated. As long as you have a certain network among this group of people, you can know a lot of secrets in the city.
With the help of his subordinates, Alfalfa integrated the information from several people about the inventor's sister and brother, and finally pieced together the two sisters' recent schedules.
They did not consciously hide their actions, but were very open. Alfalfa knew that they had ordered a lot of iron balls. It's the kind of monster that attacked him, and at the same time, he also found out that the poison mercenary army was involved along this line.
This morning, the person sent by Alfalfa to the blacksmith's union sent a report that the younger brother of the inventor's siblings was very distressed because of an order. After learning more, Alfalfa determined that this younger brother seemed to have something he wanted, vulgar things that could be solved with money, but he didn't have money himself.
"If you have money, I have it!"
The most convenient thing about buying something from a blacksmith is. Blacksmiths were able to trade gold directly to them in addition to silver coins, and they preferred inexpensive gold to silver coins, which was a rarity among other trades.
Realizing the importance of the matter, Alfalfa immediately went to the blacksmiths' union with the gold nuggets she had accumulated in the last two days to help pay for the birds' orders in full, and then went to the suburbs with the receipts to look for the siblings.
"Mr. Bird, Miss Dove. I happened to hear that they were selling something very interesting......"
Alfalfa rode a fast horse and led a few of his subordinates to appear in front of the two siblings. He had a receipt from the blacksmiths' union in his hand. Give it to my brother.
"I've paid the full amount, just with the receipt. You will be able to pick up the goods. ”
The bird and the dove put their faces together and looked at what was written on the receipt. The content is very simple, it's just an iron ball, but the amount of the latter is exactly the scale that the sisters and brothers need.
"I see, how many of our fighters do you want?" the siblings estimated. These iron balls can make about one hundred and fifty spider warriors, and if the amount that the other party needs is around twenty-five, they can all accept it.
Alfalfa held up a finger, "Ten, I need ten!"
Zhou Shu was already preparing to leave the city. There's really nothing to deal with here. The reason why he stayed for so long was because of the phone call made Zhou Shu nervously think that there would be some big trouble here.
For the sake of face, he did not call to ask about the specific situation of the Gray Witch.
In this continent, Zhou Shu felt that he was no different from ordinary gods, strong enough and safe enough, with the help of metal beetles to protect his ...... Woman......
"Eh, where is that silver beetle on you?!"
Zhou Shu suddenly found that it seemed that he hadn't seen Ou Na come out to play with beetles for a long time, and when Tracey was stuck, she often played with it and watched.
"Oh, tell me to give it away. Ou Na, who was eating the first meal after lunch, smiled lightly: "When I first came here, I went to the Lying Girls' Home, and the little girls there were so pitiful, I wanted to give them something valuable......
When Zhou Shu heard this, he directly grabbed the beautiful box containing the metal beetle from the space props, opened it and took one at random, and asked this one to find its companion.
"...... in the suburbs" beetle flies around, gesturing in the air with its body, but it unexpectedly has a very good ability to express. According to the bug's description, Zhou Shu quickly found the location of the lost beetle.
Ou Na looked at Zhou Shu and saw that there were a lot of beautiful beetles, and pounced on them and grabbed several of them, Zhou Shu's big head blocked the flying appearance of the beetle, and Ou Na didn't see the metal beetle incarnated into a real flying insect.
"Give these to me, I've been regretting it since I gave that beetle to the imp, I didn't expect you to have this too. ”
Zhou Shu didn't mind giving her a few, but he was very concerned that this thing would be left outside.
"The ...... of the Girls' Home" Zhou Shu has already begun to feel that the situation is not good, and those partners who are candidates for God are all from the girls' home in the city. "Is it such a coincidence?"
There was a little girl named Sparrow, who has not been heard from until now and has not been found. None of the known girls seem to live in the suburbs. In other words, the girl in the girls' home who has beetles in the suburbs is likely to be a sparrow.
Zhou Shu ordered Ou Na to follow the insect in her hand. He rolled out the window and walked out to the outskirts.
Ou Na was startled when she saw the beetle in her hand fly away. She wasn't too afraid of insects, and she wasn't frightened by the strange situation around Zhou Shu, but she couldn't cope with this startled fright without any warning.
"What the hell is this!" Slightly recovered from a frightened state, Eouna yelled at Zhou Shu, and Zhou Shu reacted at this time, his stupid swordsman is now in a defenseless state. So he ordered the two beetles to guard her, and then jumped out of the window himself, and ran quickly to the outskirts.
She has been harassing Xilu in her house for three days, and she has slept in Xilu's room for the past few days, which is a request made by Xilu herself. In fact, it was Xilu's father who forced her to do this.
In the eyes of Xilu's father, it is a great honor for his daughter to be able to make friends with the people around the Patronus, and this friendship needs to be stronger, and in his opinion, the two girls sleeping together is a symbol of deep friendship.
The tiger girl was entertained for a few days, but she liked this comfortable life very much. Living in this home is very quiet. No one was disturbed and it was possible to bask on the balcony every day until the sun went down.
The heron has been playing all sorts of things with the night these days, although most of the time it's just playing card games.
Because of the good food and drink and the comfortable bed, Xi Ye likes this home more than the tiger girl, and the feeling of having playmates also reminds her of the life of the girls' home.
For a few days, she took Yulu, who had never played card games at all, to play all the card games she could buy in the city, and the two of them liked the most card matching. Reverse the beautifully patterned cards to the back and arrange them on the stall. Each person then takes turns turning over the two cards, if the characters on the card pattern are exactly a man and a woman. You can then take the cards to your side, and when the game is over, you can see which of the two sides wins more cards.
The father of the two girls bought a whole box of these cards with thousands of fancy patterns, and the scale of the game between the two was so large that they could spread the cards all over the living room. Since she was a child who accompanied God, the etiquette teacher and tutor of the Yulu allowed her to play casually, and helped move the sofa in the living room.
Xilu has never had so much freedom in her life. Moved, I hope to stay forever at night and be my sister. The two are the same age, and their birthdays are only one month apart, and they are coming soon. The two of them will be on the balcony, basking in the sun with the tiger girl.
Squinting at night. Looking at the houses on the street in the distance, he pointed to a frown and asked, "Where is it......?" Is there a person?"
The tiger girl had already seen it, "It's Zhou Shuyou, as if she was in a hurry." ”
Sorry for the night, she was not interested in it, but the tiger girl suddenly thought of something.
"I don't want to be at the hotel, if you keep living here, no one else will find us. ”
Xiye nodded, "It seems that this is the case, we should go back, maybe the shopkeeper has accumulated so many messages to us that he can't remember them." ”
The two women glanced at each other, stood up, and looked ready to leave. Xilu was shocked when she heard this, "Are you leaving?!" she stretched out her hands and took Xiye's hand and held it firmly in her palm, "Can't you stay with me for a few more days, so wait for my birthday!"
I was a little embarrassed at night and looked at the tiger girl. The tiger girl shrugged, "It doesn't matter. ”
"Her birthday is next week, and there are seven full days to go. "Sigh for the night.
"Seven days, it's a little long......"
The heron was crying and mourning, shaking her arms that cherished the night, and her mouth kept begging, tears and snot were about to come out. Xiye is not very good at dealing with such a pitiful face, so she reluctantly agreed. Yulu breathed a sigh of relief when she got permission, and happily opened her arms to hold Xiye in her arms, rubbing her cheek with her own cheek.
The tiger girl looked at the two girls too close and was a little worried. (To be continued......)