Tom's Grocery opened early, as usual. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although Du Kang didn't think it was necessary for a grocery store with a bad location and a small store to open so early, he still opened early every day according to Tom Sr.'s wishes.

Yes, last wishes. The original owner of the grocery store died two years ago. Since Tom Sr. died, the only thing in the world that made Du Kang affectionate was this grocery store.

It is said to be a grocery store, but it is not miscellaneous. Old Tom wasn't really a businessman, but a craftsman. So there are only two things sold in the grocery store.

Homemade magic lamps and homemade sweets.

The former supported Tom and Doakon for seven years, and the latter was an important reason why Doakon agreed to follow Tom Sr. from the slums to the city seven years ago.

Because the candy made by Old Tom was really delicious.

Du Kang once asked Tom why he didn't get more things to sell in the store, and Tom told him a truth that he agreed with: the less you pay attention to other things, the better things will be done if you focus on them.

This principle played a great role in Du Kang's learning to make magic lamps, so it was regarded as a wise saying by Du Kang. Old Tom once laughed with Du Kang after getting drunk and said, "Lao Tzu wants to make the first thing people in Finland City do when they get up and the last thing they do before going to bed is to turn on and off Lao Tzu's lamps!"

This great dream infected Du Kang, who was only eleven years old at the time, so even if it seemed that the grocery store would not make much money at the time, Du Kang still persevered without hesitation and opened the grocery store.

After Tom Sr. died, his neighbors persuaded him to sell his grocery store and learn more lucrative ways to make a living. Du Kang didn't refute or explain, just smiled, and then continued to open his grocery store and make his lamps.

Until now, the neighbors have gotten used to Tom's grocery store without Old Tom.

Because Du Kang's work has surpassed that of Old Tom.

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Du Kang made two cups of hot tea, then dismantled the door panel of the grocery store piece by piece, and after cleaning the floor, he sat down in his chair and drank the hot tea slowly. As usual, he followed old Tom's movements and raised his hand at the lamps that filled the closet. The only difference is that old Tom used to like to drink rum.

At this moment, a middle-aged man wrapped in a fur coat walked into Tom's grocery store in the wind and snow.

"Hey, Du Kang, hurry up and help me see this thing, it's not light when I wake up in the morning. When I got up, I almost fell off a stool. ”

The middle-aged man cursed as he handed a disc-shaped transparent object to Du Kang.

This is an old acquaintance, who often comes here to buy lamps. For the people of the neighborhood, if they are not luxurious enough to be lit up with night pearls, then lamps made by such low-level magical means are a necessity. These lamps are sold in many places, but the only ones who repair them afterwards are just as enthusiastic as when they were bought and sold, and they are Tom's Grocery Store.

Du Kang took the thing, and just glanced at it, and knew what the problem was.

He returned the thing to the other party and said slowly, "The lamp is not broken, but the magic inscription on the connection of the activation device is damaged. ”

"What should I do then?" The middle-aged man looked around at the items, he knew that Du Kang would get some new lamps and lanterns to sell every day, the price was not expensive, and it was very interesting.

"You come and get it in the evening, and I'll fix it for you. Du Kang put the teacup down and smiled.

"Okay, then I'll come back in the evening. The middle-aged man walked around the store, heard the answer, nodded, and walked away in the wind and snow.

After the middle-aged man, for a long time, there was only the sound of hurried footsteps and the howling of the wind and snow outside the door.

There is little business, and that's the norm in grocery stores.

Du Kang immediately began his daily routine.

Repair lamps and make new ones.

But before that he could do that, he had to 'relax'.

Close your eyes and sit cross-legged in your chair. Then follow what Old Tom taught him and adjust his breathing.

As before, in less than half an hour, Du Kang felt full of energy, and the little sleepiness after waking up in the morning completely disappeared, and his body seemed to have endless strength.

When Old Tom was drunk, Du Kang had heard Old Tom call this relaxing method "Tide Meditation", and once patted his chest and said that this was a cultivation method that only magicians could learn.

But Du Kang thinks that old Tom is bragging, otherwise why did he practice for seven years and never become a magician?

However, this method is quite effective, so even when Du Kang sits in front of a mountain of parts, he is confident that he can turn them all into finished products.

The energy source of the magic lamp is the magic rough stone, and the core is a miniature magic array composed of seven magic inscriptions, as for the shape and additional ornamentation, they are all external beautification effects, but not the core.

Novices only need to learn how to engrave inscriptions on the magic rough stone to form a magic circle and make it shine in the end.

Today, Du Kang is thinking about how to make it look better and have a better effect. For example, the color of the light, such as the intensity of the light.

And on this basis, reduce costs as much as possible.

As for durability, Du Kang will not continue to study. Since a long time ago, Du Kang excitedly told Old Tom that he had extended the life of the lamp by a year, but after Old Tom scolded him, Du Kang no longer had any interest in researching this area.

"If I have an apprentice in the future, I must tell him about this. Can't look into this. Du Kang thought.

Then he picked up a piece of the cut magic rough stone and began to carve the magic circle on it with a carving knife.

The reason why the Magic Rough Stone is called the Rough Stone is because it is the most primitive energy provider, and it has no other functions and characteristics other than providing energy.

The function of the magic array is to use energy, and the combination of the two allows an ordinary person without magic to be as magical as a magician. It's like the magic of glowing.

The Magic Primogem and the Magic Circle complement each other, but each has its own limitations.

For example, if the lowest-level first-level original stone is inscribed, its energy can only supply the first-level magic array, and if the high-level inscription is imprinted on the first-level magic original stone, it is impossible to activate and produce effects.

Similarly, no matter how high-level the rough stone is, if it is engraved with a magic array composed of first-level inscriptions, such as a luminous magic array, the combined effect is also luminous. At most, it just makes the light a little brighter. A little bit.

Most of this knowledge was learned by Du Kang from "Fundamentals of Magical Inscriptions", but even low-level magical inscriptions are very complicated and laborious to portray. So far, Du Kang has only mastered fifteen inscriptions, and their effects are all related to luminescence.

But people are more magical beings than magic, and in the case of not being able to learn more inscriptions and magic arrays, people can still find ways to make some interesting changes in the effect and intensity of the glow.

For example, if you wrap the engraved magic gem in a green filter, the glow will turn green, and you only need to add a half-masked baffle between the activators to make the intensity of the light change with the button on the activator.

Who says magic lamps are inconspicuous gadgets?

Du Kang couldn't help but think as he looked at the magic rough stone carved in his hand, which gradually bloomed with a light that was comparable to a second-level luminous formation.

But in the blink of an eye, the smile on his face collapsed, and he frowned.

Although the first-level luminous magic array was reached by it with a small skill to reach a strength comparable to that of the second-level luminous array, there was a very serious problem that came to the fore.

That's ...... The cost has been increased by ten copper coins.

Putting the failed item aside, Du Kang immediately threw it aside and thought about it. Failure is inevitable, Old Tom once said.

But there is another sentence at the end, that is, it is stupid to fail the same thing three times, so in order not to appear stupid. Du Kang did not continue to study, but thought.

Just then, another person walked in from the grocery store, interrupting Du Kang's thoughts.

What interrupted Du Kang was the clanging of the man's body, the sound of leather armor rubbing against a weapon pinned to his waist during movement.

It was a knight, as could be seen by his muscular arms and burly build.

So Du Kang quickly raised his head. He took the initiative to ask, "Sir, what do you need?"

The man took an old Rubik's Cube from his bosom and threw it on the counter in front of Du Kang.

"I heard you're trading in here?"

Du Kang was stunned and quickly nodded. In order to learn all kinds of lamp practices, mainly to learn the different magic arrays on them, he wrote on the sign outside the store that said trade in the old for the new. However, it is limited to various styles of magic lamps.

The knight nodded, casually looked at the closet, chose a chic lamp, and then, regardless of whether Du Kangtong agreed or not, he stepped out of the shop again, and disappeared into the wind and rain.

Du Kang smiled bitterly, and the knight had taken his most proud work, worth three silver coins. Just like that, this guy replaced it with a Rubik's cube.

But the sound of the sword and armor shaking dispelled Du Kang's desire to stop the knight.

He sighed, picked up the old Rubik's Cube, and was about to throw it in the trash.

But when his hands touched the old Rubik's Cube and lifted it to the trash can, his hand hovered.

Du Kang frowned.

This appears to be an unreset Rubik's Cube.