When Murphy travels into this world and sees the broken Steam 800 refrigerator in Tracey's courtyard, he knows that there is some "unique technology" in this world that is difficult to reason.

Later, he saw the steam-powered repeating crossbow in the village of Morland, and he thought that using steam power for war was probably the most ruthless work a steam mechanic could do, but it turned out that what he used to persuade young players to be humble about the new world could actually be applied to himself.

"Psionic energy... Operation... Orbs? ”

Murphy looked at Miriam with a fan-shaped expression that was a mixture of curiosity and puzzlement.

He could understand these six words when they were taken apart, but he didn't understand what they meant when combined.

Maxim next to him was also confused.

Miriam only tells him that it's serious, but that loyal vampire worshippers only know much about "steam engineering" in the five words themselves.

He, like his master, belongs to the true master in this respect.

"Well, I'll explain it from the beginning."

Miriam looked at the blank expressions of the master and servant in front of her, and knew that they didn't understand her worries at all.

She took another orb from the box under her ass and placed it in her hand, lifted it up and placed it at a special angle above her eyes, and said to Murphy:

"Look at the orb from this angle, and tell me what you see?"

Murphy followed Miriam's instructions and lifted the array of gems in his hand.

The vampire's eyesight at night is quite good, and when the gem in his hand turns to a certain angle, he immediately sees some unique structures reflected inside the translucent gem.

Much like an ultra-complex system of tiny gears and mechanical structures, densely packed together in an unconventional and industrial way, there are three such systems in a transparent gem larger than a fingernail, connected to each other to form a larger whole by a system of levers.

"It can't be!"

Murphy immediately retorted:

"If it weren't for my dazzle... No, this must have dazzled me! No matter how high the industrial standard of the halfling is, it is impossible to make ultra-miniature components with such precision!

There are at least tens of thousands of parts put together.

Is this some kind of illusion? ”

"To be precise, it's a triad of 44,327 parts, a simple psionic differential machine, iterated to a new version of the third generation.

It is said that the calculation speed is super fast! ”

Miriam shrugged her shoulders and uttered a phrase that was quite complex in Translansian and made Maxim's mind spin a little.

But Murphy understood.

He continued to look at Miriam with questioning eyes, who explained:

"Don't look at me like that, I don't know exactly how it works, I'm just an administrative student, and these terms are what I think from Professor Bach Gaslamp Sr., just to get credit for the electives in A Brief History of Machinery, and I didn't expect it to come in handy in this situation.

In short, the micro difference machine in the arithmetic orb is certainly not real!

The prototype of this thing occupies an entire exhibition hall in the underground museum of the Chardon Artisan University, but the halfling mechanics took inspiration from the 'psionic erosion' phenomenon that is everywhere in this world.

They and their dwarven brothers manipulated psionic energy using a special process, and with the help of the Ring Tower psionics, they used psionic formulas to mobilize the psionic factors that were widely available in nature to form a peculiar technique, and finally mimicked the workings of the difference machine at the microscopic level.

Since then, the jewel of microarithmetic has been born, and the steam engineering of halflings has successfully entered an era. ”

Miriam shook the orb in her hand and said:

"It's all kinds of automata in the port of Chardo, and the one we have in our hands is purely computational, it doesn't come with an attachment to manipulate it, and it only needs to be infused with psionic energy, and it can help the user do a lot of things."

"For example?"

Maxim asked stupidly.

His brain, who had been too confused by metaphysics since childhood, really couldn't understand what Miriam had just said, but his question was just right.

The red-haired lady rolled her eyes and patiently explained:

"For example, translating a poem written in Elven language in a minute, or planning in a few seconds how you will spend your salary next month and how much money you have already spent this year.

If necessary, it can even help you make a breakdown of your income and expenses, just activate the psionic projector and you can even see its calculations with your eyes.

When I was enrolled at the Craftsman University, I was also given a fist-sized second-generation arithmetic orb as part of my student welfare.

There is now a 'storage reform' going on across many campuses of Chardon University, and the professors intend to replace ancient paper documents with psionic orbs and accompanying databases.

That's really convenient!

All it takes is the size of a castle to store all the information in an old-fashioned library the size of the next Cadman City, and if you need that book, just tell you the Orb of Calculations and it will help you retrieve and copy it.

If you're lazy enough, you can even ask it to read it out for you.

Of course, the external psionic microphone requires extra money, and only those noble sons who are not bad for money will use this service, and I have heard that they will use the Arithmetic Orb to read some very nasty things to entertain them on certain occasions..."

"That's not the point!"

Murphy probably understood what this arithmetic orb was, although it was not necessarily identical, but it could basically be regarded as the "computer and operating system" of the world, but at present, it should only have sprouted and been put into use in the territory of the Charles halflings, and has not yet spread to other parts of the continent.

So he asked:

"The point is, why did the Plantagenet Kingdom go to such lengths to smuggle the Orb back from the Chardon halflings? Also marked as a military item? ”

"Because it can indeed be used to fight wars, Murphy."

Miriam sighed and said:

"It was when I was a student when I first started school, and I heard about it from my halfling old lady counselor, supposedly because the Tower of the Ring was on the side of the Plantagenet Kingdom during the Ten Years' War.

In the early days of the war, the psionics proposed to put the Orb into the military, and they were involved in the development of the Orb, second only to the Halfling Mechanics in their knowledge of the object.

They reformed the internal logic and simulation algorithms of the Arithmetic Orb, and spent three months to set up a communication and command system covering the entire Greenee Legion, using each Computing Orb and its user as a communication node and even calculating the firing position of the artillery, so as to achieve a rapid improvement in command efficiency.

Two years before the Ten-Year War, it took the Old Church rebels and their companions sixteen months to capture the two border provinces of the Plantagenet Kingdom, and after the Orb was put into the war, it took only three months for the redressed Legion of Glenni and the Old Praetorian Guard to drive the rebels out of the country.

I can't imagine how they could use these things to fight wars, but immediately after that incident, the Steam Lords ordered a ban on the outflow of Computing Orbs.

Apparently it was the Plantagenet Kingdom that put their heart and soul into the war effort that angered the mechanics, and it is said that they completely cut off their future research and development with the Tower of the Ring.

The 3,000 Orb Array we have now grabbed was ordered by the Pioneer Legion, perhaps because the legendary General Loren also wanted to complete the improvement of his legion after the reform of the Greenee Legion.

But if I had to guess, there's a good chance that these orbs didn't come from the Charles..."

The red-haired lady looked at the array of orbs in her hand twice, and said to Murphy:

"There's no serial number on it, and the style is a little different from the originals I've seen, which may have been made by someone else.

But to be honest, I can't think of any other force on the continent that can make such a delicate thing, except for halfling craftsmen? ”

Murphy nodded.

Miriam had already told her all the information she knew, and as she said, this shipment meant a lot to the Plantagenet Kingdom and was indeed a hot potato.

There's a good chance that General Loren won't give up.

However, Murphy was still a little puzzled, he pinched the array of computing orbs in his hand, and used the item identification, and a second later, an information label popped up in front of his eyes:

Name:The third generation of psionic orb cracked version

Efficacy: By completing the psionic resonance with the upper nodes, a regional psionic encrypted communication network can be formed, a standard authority tree can be preset, simple information transmission between parallel nodes and upper and lower nodes can be realized, a variety of communication modes and relative orientation calculations, custom coordinate marking and sharing, simple psionic projection, multilingual simple translation, etc.

Prompt!

The Arithmetic Jewel dongle has been completely cracked, so it allows for user-defined editing of additional features.

However, this operation requires some understanding of the field of micromechanics in steam engineering, psionic erosion, binary information storage theory, third-generation psionic differential mechanism construction, and cybernetics.

Prompt!

Please find the parent node to activate and initialize the same batch of Compute Orbs.

Maker: Sulfur Flywheel

Item Description:

[Since I left the port of Chardo, the Steam Engineers' delving into the wonderful machinery has come to a standstill, especially when I see the so-called Third Generation Orb of Operations, and I can already be sure of the depravity of my fellow fools, after all, it is no harder to crack the sevenfold encryption they are proud of than to trick the last piece of meat from the trolls in their pots.

The truth is, not only did I crack it, but I upgraded it!

They want to monopolize this wonderful technology, but I prefer to give it to everyone who needs it or doesn't need it, and earn myself some pocket money by the way.

Well, thank you for being born in a world where smart people make rules and eat fools out of the way! -Ssulfur Flywheel】

Murphy's eyes narrowed.

He immediately thought of the best use scenario for this psionic orb, and began to thank fate for the gift in his heart.

"Find!"

He looked up at Miriam and Maxim and said:

"Look for it in the cargo! If that General Loren is going to use this thing to establish his own legion command system, then there should be a superior node to give him the Commander's Orb for his own use. Find it! ”

"yes, how did I forget this!"

Miriam jumped up immediately.

Murphy is right, there is a strict permission tree design between the psionic orbs, and there is no way to activate the entire system without activating the higher-level nodes.

She commanded Maxim to step forward and lift the overturned carriage, but the thing was too heavy, and the Blood Servant was wounded, and Murphy shook his head and stepped forward to clasp the edge of the carriage with both hands.

Relying on the power of 10.5 granted by the upgraded Rare Character Template, the power is exerted in the enhancement of the night, and the entire carriage can be easily lifted to one side.

The two assistants immediately climbed in, pushed out the crushed soldier first, and then took out all the large and small boxes inside.

In the deepest part of the carriage, Miriam found a delicate brass case.

She carefully took the thing out and placed it in front of Murphy's eyes, there was a metal disc on the lock of the thing, but there were only two buttons on it, 0 and 1.

"It's a binary dongle, I've seen this safe in books! Fairly traditional purely mechanical, but very useful, with inert materials inside so it is not affected by psionic spells, and usually has an acid bottle or Seiko Gold Bomb inside, which can destroy everything within ten meters. ”

The red-haired girl rubbed her head and said:

"It's a problem now, and entering it casually without a password might ruin what's inside."

Murphy didn't speak, just reached out and put his hand on the brass box.

Item identification initiated! Info tab pops up:

Name: Self-destruct safe type 400 of Sulfur Flywheel

Utility: Storage of valuables.

Item Description:

[Spho Flywheel is a talented halfling mechanic with a well-known but deviant background. He has a lot of bad habits! For example, all lockboxes will use a uniform password, which is one of the countless little secrets of the mad genius who now inhabits the Dark Mountains.

The background of the black merchant Ssulfur Flywheel is still unknown, but there are rumors through the grapevine that his favorite girl's birthday is April 14th...]

"Bang Bang Bang"

Murphy, a former professional software tester, raised his hand without hesitation and typed in 110011110 string of binary characters, and Miriam next to him looked horrified.

She felt that Murphy must be pressing indiscriminately, so she quickly took a few steps back and hugged her head to defend herself, so as not to hurt herself when the safe exploded.

But then a miracle happened!

When Murphy's finger lifted, the small brass box snapped open, revealing the round orb of arithmetic.

Larger and more elaborate than other psionic orbs, the size of a baby's fist, and the silver-gray base plate on the exterior for decoration and protection has a factory number left by the halfling mechanics.

Is this a genuine product?

However, how is it so different from the appearance of a normal Arithmetic Orb?

With such doubts, Murphy reached out and took out the core computing orb in the box, which was the upper node, but the moment he touched this thing, the translucent character card in front of Murphy's eyes suddenly blurred, like a snowflake-like shadow after the TV picture was disturbed.

It took a second for it to return to normal.

Then, as Murphy stared in amazement, a prompt popped up in front of him:

The special technology item [4th Generation Psionic Orb Trial Type: Codecode 003] has been detected, and the psionic technology level of this item is enough to complete the simplified reproduction of some functions of the Test Administrator System!

Alpha specifies the features that need to be simplified from the list of features that have been unlocked so far.

Prompt!

Due to the backward craftsmanship of this item, the complexity of the principle is still in the early stages of the tech tree, resulting in a small data memory, so please do not specify a complication fork.

"I had a lot of luck today!"

Murphy whistled, a smile of double happiness on his face.

He still didn't understand how this thing worked, and he didn't quite understand the strange level of steam engineering in the world, but it didn't matter!

Because, the player interface that he has always had in mind... Isn't that there?

Oh, thank you for the gift of nature!