Murphy's return to Transncia this time was very timely.

The Blood Flag Heights is still playing there, and God knows if there will be a little clever ghost who deliberately saves up points to summon him, a mainline NPC, to live.

Although he deliberately set his support score very high in order not to be ashamed, accidents always happen, so Murphy felt that he should not delay too much time.

After the meeting with Miriam, Murphy wanted to go to Tracy, but found that the Grand Duke of the Blood Vulture was still talking to the two goatmen he had brought back, presumably talking about the dark history of the Grand Duke of the Blood Vulture "when he was young", so the cautious Murphy did not choose to disturb his girlfriend so as not to make Triss angry, but went down to the bottom of the corridor.

In the passage outside the collapsed Hall of the Holy Blood, he saw a strangely shaped engineering device in operation, and Jasmine, the steam puppet he had seen last time, was standing boredly next to it.

As Murphy approached, he saw more clearly that the crushed gold ore was being placed in a mechanical box behind the excavator-like equipment through a conveyor belt, unlike anything Murphy had ever seen before.

To be precise, the biggest difference is that it has six "spider legs", which can move on its own when necessary.

"I remember Old Flywheel only coming to my territory with the two of you and his toolbox, so did he knock this thing out with a wrench these days? Is this the power of a master of steam engineering? It's amazing. ”

Murphy put his hands behind his back, not touching the strange device, but maintaining the posture of "breeding a vampire", asked Jasmine, and the boring steam puppet didn't even bother to answer the question.

Her mechanical bionic face, which was made of steel and some special substance, made a "boring" expression, and pouted:

"The old flywheel made it when you were 'directing the work' in your arsenal, it was a gift from the loyal brother to the distinguished guest, and of course, the cunning guy secretly took the blueprint of the flywheel.

He thought it was ridiculously cunning that a secret puppet assassin like me hadn't noticed his little moves.

But in fact, he could ask for it directly, this kind of mining walker has long been popular in the mines of brass dwarves, and the drawings are not a valuable secret at all, let alone the more advanced 'Destroyer' walker models in the port of Chardor.

It seems that you Transans are really not good at engineering!

The old flywheel commented viciously that the engineering level here is at least four hundred years behind ours, and perhaps in his eyes, you are no different from the gnolls. ”

"Well, that's a disappointing and difficult assessment for a partner, but here you are, our engineering average in Transncia can probably be stretched out by a loss.

Well, the level of intelligence in the air is really improving with the naked eye. ”

Murphy shrugged his shoulders and complained:

"So, where's the flywheel? I'd like to talk to him about inviting him to be the 'Master of Engineering in Translancia'. ”

"He's in Lady Trace's lab refining the gold burner, I suggest you don't go over, although the old flywheel is shameless, he also swore back then, he won't allow you to watch the gold purification.

It's not a matter of friendship or business, and if it happens, he's going to get into trouble himself.

I don't think you'll want to face the brass dwarves of the Ironheart Hunters, those who deviate from Mother Earth's guidance are true insane, and anyone who wants to get their hands on the mysteries of burning gold is their eternal enemy. ”

Jasmine warned in a sharp, mechanical voice:

"Old Flywheel has suffered a lot over the years, he already knows the cost of getting into trouble, and I don't think he'll take your position as an engineering master, that guy takes the knowledge in his head very seriously, and after teaching the bear goblin workers, he doesn't even bother to say a few words to the fool."

"Oh, my partner is really versatile, I heard that the art of burning gold is a secret among brass dwarves, but I didn't expect the flywheel to do it too."

Murphy squinted his eyes and said:

"Where did he learn that? You can't have worked at the Dwarven Minerals Company, have you? ”

"Ahh

Jasmine replied disdainfully:

"You don't want to think about it, how can that stone-headed dwarf figure figure out the process of preparing gold by himself? They are not known for their alchemy.

It was the secret of Professor Bach Gaslamp Sr., the founder of steam engineering, the mentor of the flywheel, and I consulted Professor Gaslamp when I heard that the dwarves had found a gold mine and didn't know how to use it, and it took him three months to refine the true mystery of gold.

He was clever enough to know that it was something that could change the world, so he made a pact with Lord Hadran, the High Lord of the Brass Dwarves.

After my grandfather taught the Brass Dwarves the process of making gold, the Brass Dwarves protected the halflings and formed an eternal brotherhood, and it was only after that the Brass Dwarves and the Port of Chardo truly took off as a joint venture.

But let me tell you, burning gold is not a good thing.

Professor Bach Gaslamp Sr. had little experience in gold burning since then, and instead went on to study steam engineering, and in his later years he finally broke through the bottleneck of engineering and made a miraculous steam puppet.

That's a guy like me.

This is the proudest achievement of Professor Gaslamp's life, and in his autobiography, there is no mention of the discovery of burning gold, which obviously represents my grandfather's disgust with burning gold

Of course, we all know by now that it was because the birth of Burning Gold was related to subspace.

It itself is synonymous with the word 'danger'. ”

"Huh?"

Murphy winked and said:

"Old Flywheel used to call you two students, I thought it was some kind of quirk of his, but I didn't expect you two to be his students? So how did you end up being made a secret puppet? Is it because of disobedience?

Or is it because you always have this under-beaten tone when you speak?

Listen to me, little Jasmine, if you want to stay in Transcia for a long time, you can't be so vicious, you will be hated by my warriors. ”

"Hey, who cares what you think? I'm all dead, okay? And my story, that's a really sad story. ”

The assassin-type steam puppet Jasmine made a playful gesture to wipe her eyes, and she said in a sharp and vicious tone:

"When the old flywheel was kicked by Ms. Bach Jr., he went a little crazy, and then accidentally broke the intimacy of Bach Jr. and his brother Minks in the laboratory. Well, I don't think I'm supposed to say that.

In short, Flywheel's crazy brain has something to do with it, and he has the horns to connect little Bach's love with his engineering prowess with Lord Minks.

So he and his genius apprentice engaged in a duel in the name of engineering, but the idiot rushed to make his own 'Doomsday Device' without checking it multiple times, causing it to explode when it was activated.

He's fine, he's just hurt his eye.

But the two sisters were unlucky, and Dina and I were killed on the spot as his apprentices.

The old flywheel was banished from the port of Chardo because of this, but he still had a good conscience, and found a friend who knew us to dig us out of the cemetery and put together a scrape for us to get the 'resurrection'.

Alas, while Old Flywheel is indeed a jerk, he is actually pretty good to both of us.

I guess there must be some guilt in it, and of course it doesn't rule out that the old flywheel is a veteran pervert, just like some of the bastards in the mysterious artisan gatherings of the Port of Chardo don't like the living, but like the machines.

You innocent vampire brain would never have imagined what those disgusting guys would do to the machines, and the thought of it makes the third tube in my heart tremble. ”

"Wow, you halflings are living a really exciting life, it's completely different from any race on this continent."

Murphy heard the gossip and immediately felt that the trip was worthwhile.

And Jasmine, even if he becomes a secret couple, can't change the girls' mouthy personality, and plans to shake some fierce materials, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her body seemed to be turned off a switch, and after a sad scream, the duck sat in place, with her head down, and was "turned off".

Murphy looked up and saw the old flywheel with a small bag coming from the corner in front of him with a gloomy face, and a large mechanical controller in his hand.

"Ah, I can't ask for this mechanical secret puppet who can't control his mouth, and I knew I should have operated on Jasmine's brain and sewn her mouth up.

This guy loved to talk nonsense when he was alive. ”

The gloomy wild warlord cursed, and he strode forward to observe the operation of the mining walker, then looked up at Murphy and said:

"There's a halfling airship out there, and your city is alarmed, with the Hoffman flag on it, so, Murphy, my partner, are you planning to 'eat two fish'?"

"No, no, no, that's just the military aid I got from Lord Heather, some of the gold we desperately need, and they'll be in the city as our transport force when they're unloaded, and we've paid for it.

Don't worry, I didn't tell the Hoffmans about Translasia's burns.

Don't be suspicious, my friend. ”

Murphy waved his hand and said:

"Is the purification in the laboratory still going well?"

"So-so."

Old Flywheel pursed his lips and took something out of the bag in his hand and threw it to Murphy, who took it in his hand and found it to be a crystalline of energy the size of a little finger.

This is obviously a crude gold-burning product obtained after several rounds of processing, and it cannot be used directly, but it can be changed from an ore state to the current state, which fully shows that the old flywheel does have two brushes.

"Why don't you make it into a powder or alchemical catalyst that can be used?"

Murphy asked, and the old flywheel shook his head and said:

"That would require a special filtration and separation device, which is only available to the Dwarven Minerals Company and the Port of Chardo, and I can only make it here in the form of a semi-finished product, but it can already be sold as a commodity.

Especially for psionics, this form of burning gold can even be used as a 'spellcasting medium' to increase the power of spells.

If you need it, I can sell it to you cheaper.

30 semi-finished products will charge you 100,000 gold coins, which is the cost price depending on the cooperation between the two parties. ”

"Forget it, we in the backwoods of Transnesia can't afford this thing."

Murphy shook his head and asked:

"So, when you're done digging up the gold here, do you want to take it back to Hungry Mountain for the next step?"

"Well, I sent a message to my friends before I left, they are helping me procure all kinds of materials, and we can do a good job when the black plague is over."

The old flywheel's eyes shone with ambition, and he rubbed his hands together and said:

"It's true that there isn't much gold in Translasia, but saving a little money is enough for us to create an underground gold trading field.

I've been thinking about it for the past few days, it's a bit risky to take these things back to Port Chardo to trade, and if they are discovered, neither the Steam Lords nor the Brass Dwarves will let us go, and there happens to be a working black market in your city.

So, Lord Murphy, would you like to take the cooperation to the next level?

Add some 'contraband' or something to your black market, and you will get 10% of the proceeds from selling black market gold. ”

"If the brass dwarves knew about this, we in Transia would have suffered a military blow, not to mention that I have an enmity with the dwarves."

Murphy shook his head and said:

"I took the risk of being hated by the dwarves to get one percent, which is too picky, you can also see, Flywheel, I have established a good relationship with the Hoffman family, so if the income is less than thirty percent, I will not do it."

"Twenty percent! That's the most, you're just out of the field. ”

The old flywheel said in a gloomy tone:

"Without my skills, even if you contact the Hoffman family, you can only let them slaughter, and the price they give you is definitely not comparable to the twenty percent profit brought by this underground transaction."

Murphy didn't answer.

He just played with the half-finished metal in his hand, and after a moment, he suddenly changed the subject, and said:

"I'm sure you have a lost relic from the Church of Avalon, a sword called 'Holy Leaf'"

"Well, I don't know where you got the news, but the sword is no longer in my hand."

The old flywheel looked at Murphy suspiciously, and wondered if the news was told to Murphy by Jasmine, but the other party said it, and now the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, and Flywheel said calmly:

"I got it by accident, because of the technological blockade of Port Chardo, Marshal Loren approached me to buy the Orb of Calculations, and as a sign of goodwill, the half-dwarf gave me a lot of things as gifts.

That included the Avalon Relic Sword, which was captured by his army, but I don't like to collect things related to gods.

So less than two months after I got it, I sent it to another friend in Port Chardo to sell it on the consignment, and finally heard that it had been bought by a gang of elves.

This is actually quite normal.

After the collapse of the Avalonian Church, the Elven Court has been collecting the holy relics of the Avalon Church in the open and secret, and I have also heard of their 150 holy blades, and I estimate that most of them have already reached the hands of the Elven Court.

After all, we all believe in the same God.

The natural relics of humans will not depreciate much on the elves' side, and this is a good business that was born in the ten years of war.

How?

Are you interested in this thing?

Do you want me to help you change it? It's not that I blow it, my old darling specializes in this kind of black market business in Port Chardo, and there are so many contraband in her hands that compared to the good goods in her hands, the black market in Scarlet Keep is as cold as a garbage heap. ”

"Okay, if you don't help us get in touch with your old darling, let her do the black market business in Transasia, I'm absolutely welcome."

Murphy said to the old flywheel:

"Just use her black market to help sell this black market gold, and by the way, you will be the engineering instructor of Translasia, and you will stay here for three months with an apprentice, and then if the black market profits, I only need to achieve two things.

It would be better if your mighty old darling could rent me a few more halfling airships.

But, Flywheel, why do you still have an old baby? Don't you have little Bach as the lover of your dreams? ”

"Hey, fuck off, I'm too lazy to talk to you about this kind of thing."

Murphy's words obviously struck the old flywheel's heartbreak, and he drove him away with a vicious voice, but Murphy always felt the name "Little Bach" a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard of it.

It wasn't until he walked out of the Hall of the Holy Blood that Murphy remembered Bach's origins when he saw Heru leaving the library with a few books on psionic spells.

I asked Xia Ni for a copy of the information on the Tower of the Ring, which introduced several psionic masters of the current Tower of the Ring.

In addition to the Tower of Shaping Master "Dragon Burn" Lina, who has been framed as a traitor and is currently being sought by Shani, there are also the Purification Master "Sunwalker" Sinckley Colombo, and the Master of Change and Control "The Virtuoso" Amia Bach Jr. Gas Lamp.

Yes!

This little Bach's surname happens to be "Gas Lamp", which is the same as the surname of the mentor of the old flywheel, and all the circumstances are also very consistent, so the little junior sister who kicked the old flywheel is the psionic master of the Tower of the Ring?

This old guy still has this identity?

Murphy's eyes immediately narrowed, he had known from the diary of the cultist "Explorer" that there were people in the Tower of the Ring, and if Master Lena was not, then the other two masters would be very suspicious.

Perhaps, Bach Jr. may be

Thinking of this, Murphy's eyes rolled, and he immediately turned around and walked back to the ruins of the Holy Blood Hall.

"I'm not in the mood to talk to you right now, Murphy."

"I'm not here to talk to you about business, I have to tell you about Ms. Bach Jr., your ex-girlfriend's life is in danger!"

Murphy said something with a gloomy face, and the old flywheel was stunned, and then he clutched his stomach and laughed, and said:

"I don't know where you know her name, but I have to tell you that a vampire like you, little Bach can kill ten with one hand!"

"Of course, I have no doubt that a change-based psionic master has this kind of power, but you'd better take a look at this first!"

Murphy didn't say much to the old flywheel, took out the explorer's diary and turned to the page that recorded the inside story of the Tower of the Ring and threw it over, the old flywheel looked at it at a glance, and he didn't care about it, but after seeing that "Dragon Flame" Lena was slandered as a traitor, his expression became obviously solemn.

"Look, I don't know if you're a dogleg at dusk, I guess you probably aren't, but just to be on the safe side"

Murphy coughed and said to the old flywheel:

"If you're not friends with Twilight, then for the safety of your ex-girlfriend, book me a private meeting with little Bach, my partner Flywheel.

But if you and your ex-girlfriend are both twilight doglegs, then hurry up and find a way to shake someone to save you now, and I must stress to you that saving people under the nose of a vampire psychic master is not an easy task. ”

"What do you mean?"

Flywheel said viciously:

"You're going to take me hostage?"

"Well, smart as always."

Murphy snapped his fingers and said:

"When will little Master Bach come, when will you be free, with your ingenuity it should not be difficult to understand, it is good for you and for her, what do you say?"

(End of chapter)