Chapter 1: Karn
Southeast area of Moorish Town. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
By this time the moon had crept up into the sky, casting a soft glow, but not enough to illuminate the narrow alleys of the area, and it seemed that the moonlight did not want to visit this poor gathering place.
"Squeak!"
Old Kant appeared in one of the alleys, pushed open the door of a room on the side of the road, and entered.
The room was not big, more than a dozen square meters, two beds took up most of it, and there was a table in the middle, and a boy who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old sat in front of the table, concentrating on what he was doing, and he didn't even notice that old Kant had entered the room.
The little boy has shoulder-length black hair, a more delicate face, a somewhat pale face, and a relatively thin body, if you don't look closely, you will probably think of him as a girl.
Old Kant didn't bother him, took out the wound medicine from the box under the bed, and quietly smeared the abrasions on his calf.
The table in front of the little boy was full of all kinds of utensils, including glass cups and test tubes, wooden shelves, rubber tubes, and so on. There's an amplifier in the middle, through which you can see a deft hand dancing underneath.
The boy holds a hemispherical object in his left hand and a carving knife in his right hand. Unlike ordinary carving knives, it has a hollow center with a blue cylindrical strip sandwiched inside. The blue glue juice is evenly attached to the carved texture as the tip of the knife swings.
The room was quiet, save for the rustling of knives sliding quickly across the wooden material......
The boy's expression was quite focused, his left hand did not move, his right wrist vibrated slightly, and through his fingers, he drove the carving knife to move quickly on the inside of the hemispherical object, and even phantoms could be seen on both sides of the tip of the knife. With such a high speed in such a small object, it is hard to imagine how the boy could have ensured accuracy.
Through the amplifier, you can see that fine blue lines continue to extend from under the tip of the knife, gradually forming a complex and mysterious pattern. If you look closely, you will find that there seems to be some kind of meaning in this pattern, and staring at it for a long time will give people the illusion that the body is slowly heating up......
After wiping the wound medicine, old Kant put down his trousers, he didn't want the little boy to see his injury later, and only to increase his worry. Nothing happened, he remembered the armguard he had picked up from the Bloomer Pit, took it out of his pocket, and studied it carefully.
At this moment, the little boy gently picked up the carving knife and left the hemispherical object. The last "zhi" pattern is achieved overnight, and it is accurately docked with the starting pattern.
Immediately after that, a bright light was generated from the butt and quickly swam along the lines, like a sensitive little snake, and soon the blue light spread all over the pattern. At this moment, the boy slowly closed his eyes, and almost at the same time, a slightly blinding blue light flashed, and quickly disappeared, and the whole room seemed to become even darker.
The boy opened his eyes and picked up another identical-looking hemisphere from the table, put it together with the hemisphere in his hand, and pressed it hard.
"Click!"
The two hemispheres actually form a complete sphere, and if you don't look carefully, you can't see that there is a slit in the middle.
The boy placed the balls in a small box on the table, which contained nine other balls of the same kind.
"Little Karn, it looks like you're done with your work for the day?" asked old Kant softly, seeing the boy's movements.
"Ah, Daddy Kant, you're back!" Karn came to his senses and jumped to the bedside, looking happy, "Eh, what is this?"
Karn noticed that old Kant was holding a very good-looking arm guard in his hand, and he knew that his father Kant's vision was very accurate, and everything he was interested in studying had its value, not to mention that the workmanship of this arm guard was not ordinary at first glance.
"Aha, it's probably just a decorative armguard, but I still have some questions, let the tester help!" Old Kant explained to Karn as he tested the armguard with the magic pattern tester on the table.
The main function of the magic pattern tester is to analyze the magic pattern in the magic pattern products, and speculate the function of the magic pattern products, which is mainly composed of the test core, the module analysis core and the simulation function core, which is a relatively advanced instrument.
Old Kant used this is the lowest level of magic pattern tester on the market, of course, this is not what he purchased, even the cheapest magic pattern tester costs tens of thousands of rupees, he has no purchasing power, this is after he picked it up from the garbage dump, and Kahn repaired it; said to be repaired, in fact, it is to repair the appearance of this instrument and some damaged very common energy conduction links, when the tester was discarded, the internal components were not seriously damaged; even so, this tester has lost the analysis function of the unknown magic pattern module, and the detection speed has been greatly reduced。
"Daddy Kant, do you think there might be a magic pattern hidden in this armguard? You suspect it's a magic pattern?" Karn asked, thinking for a moment, looking up.
"The analysis is very correct. Sometimes, I think my little Karn is already an adult, of course, when I don't look at your size. Old Kant touched Karn's head and said.
"Beep!" Soon the prompt for the Magic Pattern Tester to complete its task sounded.
"Eh, there's no signal feedback at all, it looks like the old man just picked up an ornament!" Old Kant was full of disappointment, if it was a magic pattern product, maybe it could be sold for a lot of money, but he thought about it again, and was happy, "Come on, little Karn, I suddenly found that it has a great use!"
"Ahh
"Of course it's for you, look at your broken arm, I bet this glove is the one God arranged for me to pick up and give you. Old Kant pointed to Karn's left arm wrapped in strips of cloth.
Karn was usually more focused at work, and even if his hands were on the table for too long, the skin was worn out, and he often couldn't feel it, so his arm supporting the table was full of new and old wounds. If he wants to spend money to buy an arm guard, it is absolutely reluctant, he needs to save money to buy something very important.
"But this kind of ornament should be able to sell for a good price, right?" Karn hesitated, it wasn't that he didn't want to improve the problem of his lower arm, but the rag strip could also be prevented, so why use such an obviously high-end thing in case he could sell it.
"Little Karn, you may not know what the nobles are thinking, do you suppose they will use something that has been used by others, and if it is given to the black-hearted buyers, I bet, the price is cheaper than the cheapest magic pattern product, come, put it on and see if it fits!" explained Old Kant.
With that, he took Karn's arm and removed all the strips of cloth that had wrapped around it. The white arms were full of scars, some of the old ones were already very faint, and some of the new ones were still covered with knots. Old Kant put the arm guard on Karn's hand, and although it was slightly larger, it was much better than the strip of cloth that had been wrapped around his hand before.
It may have been that the words of old Kant had worked, but Karn did not shirk it any longer, and tried the feel. Light as nothing, soft and comfortable, he shook his hand in satisfaction.
"Uh!" Suddenly, there was a pain in the middle of his left hand, as if he had been pricked by a needle.
Old Kant saw Karn's frowning expression, and he also smiled, and asked suspiciously, "Hmm? What's wrong?"
"Ahh Karn was a little anxious, he felt a stinging pain, he thought that something had fallen into his hand, and wanted to take off the arm guard to check it first, but he pulled the glove hard, but the arm guard was still a little loose, as if it was stuck to his hand, very strange. What if you can't take it off, do you wear this arm guard to eat, sleep and go to the toilet?
But as he spoke, the entire arm guard quickly shrank, and what had been loose and loose was now clinging to Karn's arm.
"Little Karn, don't worry~"
Old Kant quickly pulled out a pair of scissors from the box under the bed, trying to cut the arm guard, but it clung to Karn's skin, and could not find a gap, and it was thinning at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Suddenly, a soft glow shone from Karn's left hand. The blindness of the light forced them to close their eyes, and when they regained their sight again, the arm guard was completely gone.
Old Kant examined Karn's hand a little nervously, "Karn, how do you feel?" you don't have to worry, if you feel anything, just say it, and we'll find a way to solve it slowly." ”
"I didn't seem to feel anything special, but when I just put on the arm guard, it felt like I had been pricked by a needle. Karn took two deep breaths, touched his fingers, and thought back.
"What's going on?Where did this strange power come from?Is there still a hidden high-level magic pattern inside?Obviously you can't check out a single magic pattern, can you avoid the magic pattern structure of the tester?" After careful inspection, old Kant found nothing unusual in Karn's arm, not even a single punctured hole. He frowned tightly, trying to dig into the knowledge in his head, trying to find an explanation for the situation, he didn't want Karn to have an unknown hidden danger in his hands, of course, the direction he was looking for was that he had been in contact with the magic pattern for most of his life.
When the magic pattern tester detects unknown magic pattern products, its test core will send a test wave to penetrate the magic pattern products, and feedback to deconstruct and analyze the magic pattern after encountering it. Of course, some magic pattern products will be engraved with the structure of the shielding part of the test wave in order to keep it secret, so that it cannot be penetrated, and then the magic pattern tester will feedback the information that the test wave is blocked, which can be judged as encountering the shielding structure, and when there is no feedback of any information, it means that there is no magic pattern on the detected object.
If there is a magic pattern that does not react at all to the test wave, this is beyond the cognition of old Kant.
"Daddy Kant, look at this, what is this?"