"Navis!"

Lu Qi's voice was a little heavier, and he said loudly, "I'll give you a task, and I order you to develop the microphone quickly." ”

Hearing this, Nevis subconsciously stood up straight and replied, "Yes! ”

Huh?

Immediately, she was stunned for a moment.

Why did you get confused and take on a task?

"I'm waiting for your good news."

Lucky's smile.

Microphone, good thing.

After researching it, when the time comes, he will install one at home, and when he gets up every day and his mouth is dry, he doesn't need to get out of bed, just call Youerna.

It's not in vain that he wasted his tongue for so long!

"Your Highness, I heard that you are looking for me, and there are other things."

When Nevis came back to her senses, her voice returned to normal, and she didn't have much strength.

"Ah, yes." At this time, Lu Qi also remembered the real purpose of his coming here today, "I'll tell you about the newspaper again." ”

There's not much to talk about this time, it's just an idea.

After listening, Navis sighed: "I had similar thoughts before. But when I brought it up, a lot of people laughed at me, and I didn't have the funds to prepare."

At present, Demacia is basically transcribing and lithography, which is very rigid and inflexible.

In general, official announcements are transcribed by special people and then posted outside for the people to see.

Lithography, on the other hand, can basically only deal with books, because the content of books is rigid, and only needs to burn out fixed words, and then copy them with ink and paper, and then fix these papers together and paste them with the leather surface prepared in advance.

The whole process is laborious and time-consuming.

Don't look at Lu Qi, they have books to read every day, in fact, the price of folk books is extremely expensive.

There is even a profession that specializes in copying books and writing for others.

Therefore, if you want to engage in printing this thing, it will definitely cost money in the early stage.

Whether it is paper, equipment, or manpower and material resources, it is a lot of money, and the three thousand gold coins on Lu Qi's body are probably not enough to spend.

That's why he brought in Lux, Fiona, and Kahina.

Without the premise that this thing will definitely explode in the future, naturally no one dares to try it easily.

It stands to reason that Navis is the young lady of the Menke family, and it should be conditional.

In reality, however, this is not the case.

Because her mother didn't listen to the family, she married an ordinary craftsman without permission, which led to her now being in the Menke family, which is actually not very popular.

Even though she has the word "doorman" in her name, there are some people who regard her as an outsider.

Looking at the girl who bowed her head in front of her, Lu Qi said: "Now you don't have to worry about this problem, according to your ideas, don't worry about it boldly." ”

Navis raised her head, looked at Lu Qi, and said with some confidence: "But. . . Can I do it? Why don't you go find someone else? ”

In terms of talent, she doesn't seem to be the most outstanding in the Menke family.

She often makes useless inventions, leading many in her family to think that she is the stupidest one.

I obviously don't have any merits.

Lu Qi glanced her up and down, and said seriously, "Because the others don't seem to be as foolish as you." ”

Navis: "??? ”

She couldn't help but stay on the spot.

What is the reason for this?

"Then it's decided, from now on, you will work for His Highness."

Seeing that she seemed to be a little confused, Lu Qi directly made a final decision.

"Eh, wait." Navis reacted to something.

She hasn't said if she's willing to accept it.

Lu Qi stared at her and snorted coldly, "What, you want to reject His Highness?" Let me ask you, would you like to? ”

Under the gaze of the two stars, Navis suddenly felt a lot of pressure, she lowered her head nervously, her face turned a little red, but she didn't have the courage to refuse, and finally said weakly: "Yes." ”

When she said this, she was so aggrieved that she was about to cry.

"You know each other." Lu Qi didn't care, he hadn't met such a girl who was easy to bully for a long time, so he naturally didn't want to let it go, so he intensified his words, "Don't worry, His Highness won't let you work for a day, and if you're in a good mood occasionally, I can give you a salary of ten gold a month." ”

Nevis looked up dumbfounded, her expression even more confused.

Ten gold a month.

And it's still occasionally in a good mood.

She suddenly felt that her life was gloomy.

"Alright, don't bully her!"

At this time, Lux on the side couldn't stand it anymore, rushed up and punched Luqi, and then glared at him fiercely.

Then, she took Neves away and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, I can add more hardware to you in private." ”

Navis: "."

You two, where did you come from?

Ten gold and fifteen gold, is there a big difference!

In the end, it was Kahina, who acted as a white face and comforted Navis's emotions.

But in the end, Nevis didn't say whether she wanted to or not.

Anyway, it's already on the ship.

And all four of them found out that Navis is really easy to bully.

She is an honest and boundless girl, she is quite weak in her own right, and her personality is submissive.

Of course, only Luqi was the only one present who would be a cheap bully, and now there was no chance, because Navis was temporarily protected.

At the moment, everyone is changing venues.

Because the Menke family is a family of craftsmen, there is a large workshop within the family, which can be regarded as an industrial base for their internal personnel.

Typical R&D takes place here.

Led by Navis, everyone went all the way.

When he arrived at the place, Lu Qi found that there was a square here, and in the center of the square was a statue three or four meters high, like a leopard and a lion.

After a closer look, this statue seems to be made of forbidden magic stones, and it should also have a certain history.

Lucci flipped through his memories from the books he had read, and the name of the statue was probably "Anti-Magic Quartz Position Beast".

Legend has it that in ancient battlefields, this quartz statue was used to charge into battle.

This reminded Luki of the colossus outside the city, Galio.

It has the same story, and was used by ancient people against mages, often in one-sided battles, and was worshipped as a heroic colossus by countless Demacians.

But nowadays, this has become a legend.

Already, in people's impressions, the colossus outside the city seems to have never been touched.

These stories were later thought to have been codified, and although they were not forgotten, no one believed them anymore.

After all, there is no stone statue that moves.

Retracting his thoughts from the Position Beast in front of him, Luki looked around, and the steel buildings were lined up in a circle, and there was a sense of machinery in his face.

"This is it."

Nevis stood in front of an iron door twice as large as she was, leaned against it, and pushed it in hard.

Luffy reached out and added a hand.

"Thank you."

Seeing that the door was easily pushed open, Navis carefully thanked her and walked inside.

Everyone also entered, and there was a lot of space here, and at a glance, all kinds of steel fittings, basically the equipment of craftsmen were also readily available.

"Your Highness, can you tell us what you think about the newspaper?"

Navis stood there, wanting to hear what Luci had to say.

Just now I just confirmed that the concept is the same.

Now, as to how to get started, there is still a question.

Lu Qi was prepared for this, so he asked, "Do you know about typesetting and letterpress printing?" ”

"Here we go again!"

When the three girls of Lux heard this, they immediately rolled their eyes.

It was as if they had a premonition of what was going to happen next.

I simply didn't wait where I was, and decided to go outside to see the scenery.

After all, you can't listen to it, you can't understand it, and you can't join the conversation.

This time, Navis also didn't understand a little and said, "Can you expand on it?" ”

"The so-called typesetting and letterpress printing"

Lu Qi didn't talk nonsense, and began to talk again.

And Neves stood opposite, nodding her head as she listened, her expression very serious.

The three of Lux went outside, wandering around the nearby garden, waiting to return later.

"I now suspect that he secretly read a book behind my back in private!"

As she walked along the road, Lux looked angry and puzzled.

How does this guy know so much stuff? It seems like everything will be a little bit.

Obviously, the class is the same as her, and she doesn't see where she is serious, except for eating and sleeping all day.

But now it doesn't look like a scumbag at all!

Something is wrong, 12 points out of 12 is wrong!

This made her suddenly feel betrayed.

It's clear that it's okay to put it together!

What do you mean by your kid secretly trying?

Hearing this, Kahina smiled and said, "Maybe it's His Highness's outstanding talent." ”

Today's Luqi opened her eyes again.

Because of her personality, Neves was at home all the year round, so she didn't go to the academy.

However, as her friend, Kahina knew that Navis's knowledge was much higher than that of her peers.

However, such a Naviss is like an apprentice in front of Luci today.

This once again made Kahina realize how extraordinary Luci was.

She couldn't help but think of the thank you gift she had thought of last night, and she was a little distracted.

"Heh" Lux sneered, and just wanted to refute her words, but suddenly attracted attention by a flash of light, glanced sideways, and found the necklace that inadvertently appeared on Kashina's chest.

I felt a little familiar for a while, and muttered, "This necklace, how do you feel like I've seen it somewhere." ”

Hearing her words, Kahina came back to her senses, lowered her head and hurriedly stuffed the necklace back into her clothes, and forcefully changed the topic: "What did you just say?" ”

"I Say Item"

"No, last sentence."

"What did I say last time? Right! That guy Luki, secretly working hard behind my back! ”

"Really? That Your Highness is too bad! ”

Kahina immediately took the position of a good sister and showed a look of righteous indignation.

This fueled Lux's firepower.

The two of them immediately began to output to Lu Qi.

On the side, Fiona, who did not join the topic, faintly withdrew her gaze from Kashina's neck, as if she knew something.

Half an hour later.

The three girls returned.

At this time, Lu Qi said about the same, and there was no need to say anything more.

Because he found that Navis is very talented, and she has a lot of knowledge, basically many things are thorough, and she can even draw inferences.

This made Lu Qi very relieved.

I feel that this wave seems to have found an excellent employee.

By now, Navis had heard it clearly.

"That is to say, we should start with this lead typesetting, express the characters of Debang in lead and iron, and then put them together through different combinations, and take the lead characters when needed."

She said to Luki.

"Well, that's pretty much it."

Lu Qi nodded, found Nevis, who still wanted to say something, raised his hand to interrupt, and then patted her on the shoulder: "You are now a qualified worker, you must learn to study by yourself, and work hard for ten gold coins." ”

Navis: "."

As soon as she heard ten gold coins, she suddenly wanted to slack off.

Just think about it, of course.

Her heart was full of motivation at the moment, and she couldn't wait to start researching printing.

Naturally, she doesn't care about the salary or anything, what Nevis loves is the craftsman itself, and what she really cares about is what she gains in the process.

Raising his eyes and sneaking a glance at Lucky.

I have to say that His Royal Highness the Prince is really powerful.

Today has given her a lot of inspiration.

After settling her confidence for a while, Nevis raised her head and said cautiously: "Then Your Highness, I will start according to my own ideas"

Lu Qi replied with a faint expression: "Well, you are free." ”

Navis nodded, and turned and walked to the workbench.

Glancing at the girl's back, Lucci withdrew his gaze.

It's not that he doesn't care, but after a few conversations, he thinks that Navis's ideas are sometimes better than his.

So, at this time, he doesn't control Nevis.

Otherwise, this time I will not be looking for an excellent employee, but a puppet.

This time.

Fiona was wandering around the workshop when she noticed something and got closer.

Squatting down, in front of an iron statue? Or a dummy? At this time, it is like a lump of scrap metal, and it is placed here.

She took a closer look and noticed that the dummy seemed to be full of accessories.

I can't help but be curious.

She stood up and asked, "Navis, what is this?" ”

Navis looked at him, then replied, "That's something I was working on a while ago, and I called him a training dummy." ”

Seeing the curiosity in Fiona's eyes, she trotted over.

"Can you give me a hug?"

She tried to pick up the dummy alone, but found it a bit of a struggle, and looked at Fiona for help.

Fiona nodded, reaching out and easily helping her pick up.

Navis continued, "Help move to the clearing over there. ”

When she got to the clearing, she took a clockwork that she had held in her hand before she went, found the right insertion, and inserted it.

Then I turned it very hard several times.

(End of chapter)