Chapter 171: The Clock Tower
"Jiayi, look at my tongue, is it blistering?" Chester had a dish of noodles and ran to Jiayi while he was resting.
"It's okay, it's not huge. Actually, you don't need to look at it, basically everyone has blisters in their mouths, and you shouldn't be taught to bake bread, you eat too much. Kaichi looked up and glanced at Qist's tongue, which had a blister the size of a mung bean on the edge of the tip of his tongue.
"How can you eat it without baking, there are still two months, how can you boil it down. Chester's face was as dead as ashes, "And I have to move bricks, I knew that like you, I would have applied for the construction of a clock tower." β
Jia Yi shook his head: "It is estimated that even if you apply, you will come here to move bricks, but there is only a difference between moving outside and moving inside." I also took advantage of the name of the pendulum clock designer, the college has long understood the principle of the pendulum clock, and the design is also very mature. β
"You invented the pendulum clock, and you can only do chores?" Marche happened to walk over, a little surprised to hear Kaichi's words.
"You think too highly of me, if I was really that good, I should be a teacher instead of a student now. Jia Yi looked at March and said, "The teachers here are of a very high level, and this bell tower uses a lot of magic arrays, many of which I don't know, but I have learned a lot in this." β
"Just pity us and move bricks here. Heyβ" Chester sighed.
They have now started school for a month, and they have been studying botany in the botanical garden for the first twenty days, although every student is not required to be proficient in the production of magic potions, but at least for some common magic herbs need to know, in addition to collection, there is also a series of knowledge such as cultivation and preservation, which must be learned. In fact, they have only learned about the collection and preservation of common magic herbs for so many days, as well as the growth environment of these herbs, how to find them, and they have not yet started a more in-depth potion making course. Although many mages have already made some ordinary potions, in order to make money.
After they learned how to pick and preserve medicinal herbs, they went to the location of the bell tower that is now planned and began to build the bell tower. At that time, Passerbai mentioned it, and also asked if anyone was willing to participate, maybe he felt that his strength was not enough, or he was not interested, in short, there were not many people who were willing to sign up, only a few people signed up.
Kaichi felt that as the inventor of the pendulum clock, it was a little unreasonable not to get involved, so he also signed up, although he didn't think he could make much of a difference.
Sure enough, when the construction of the bell tower began, Jia Yi was more in chores, and then he gave a little opinion on the style of the bell tower, and the rest of the time, he could only help hand over things, take drawings and so on, or take the time to ask the designer about the principle of the design of the magic circle. As a building in the academy with so many mages involved, of course, it can't be just a simple bell.
However, the rest of the students who did not participate in the construction of the bell tower originally thought that they had nothing to do, but they did not expect that when the construction officially began, they were all treated as cheap labor and dragged over to build the outer building, so Chester kept calling himself a brick mover, and he regretted it a little.
The bell tower in the design is 100 yards high, about 90 meters, the appearance is designed by Jiayi, originally selected the Xi'an Bell and Drum Tower as the base, Big Ben as the building, combined, the total height of more than 100 meters, so that the whole town can see. Jiayi's own design level is not enough, so he can only piece it together like this. However, this design scheme was not selected in the end, because the bottom of the bell and drum tower covers too much area, and now the selected location is not enough, and finally the bottom of the bell and drum tower is abandoned, only the upper part of the bell tower is selected, and the height is also reduced by about 10 meters.
However, Jiayi did not study the architecture, only designed the appearance, and the specific construction design was left to the professionals.
In the enchanted world, buildings are built faster than in China on Earth, and there are hundreds of mage-level students in the academy, all of which are free labor. Originally, the bell tower had been planned last semester, but it was close to the holiday, temporarily shelved, and after the start of this semester, it was already slow to wait for more than 20 days to officially start.
Chester and the others need to carve a magic circle on the transported rocks, then fill them with magic metal, reinforce all the rocks, protect them with spells, and then transport them to the designated location, and then use spells to glue them. Finally, the outermost layer is patched with obsidian, which is more resistant to spells, harder, and shinier and more beautiful. Putting obsidian flakes on the outermost layer is not for that pitiful magic resistance, with the blessing of the magic circle, the magic resistance of the clock tower will only be better than obsidian, but for the sake of being more beautiful.
If all obsidian is used, plus the magic array, the effect will of course be better, but the cost will also go up.
Now that the main part of the tower has been built almost a third, it is estimated that the entire tower will be completed in less than two months, and at most three months, the clock faces on all four sides of the top of the tower will be able to operate accurately. When the time comes, no matter where you are, as soon as you look up, you can see the time at the top of the tower, and you don't have to guess anymore.
"Jiayi, what is the function of this bell tower, what can it do besides telling the time?" Although Chester has been moving bricks for this clock tower for a short time, he knows very little about the function of the clock tower, except for a function that everyone knows.
"I haven't been able to settle it yet. Jia smiled a little helplessly, "But what is certain is that the alarm bell will be moved to the top of the tower, and it will be combined with the academy's magic circle, which will also serve as a time signal and alarm function." What can't be decided now is whether to build an elemental pool at the bottom of the tower, and at the same time build the clock tower into a mage tower, and neither of the two responsible people can convince anyone. β
The other two teachers who were in charge of the construction of the bell tower, one felt that it was too wasteful to build only one bell tower but build it so well, so it was better to make persistent efforts and build it directly into a mage tower. The other thinks that it is a waste to build a mage tower, and it is not a matter of just a tower built by a mage to be called a mage tower, the cross-section of this clock tower is too small, and the construction of a mage tower, even if you use space expansion spells, cannot expand too much, it is not practical at all, and it is a waste to really build a mage tower.
Both sides couldn't convince each other, and the stalemate was stalemate, and in the end, if both sides couldn't compromise, it was estimated that a fight would be needed to solve it, but this possibility was not very likely, and the biggest possibility was to find the principal to make a plan. If you just look for other teachers, it lacks the effect of making a final decision.
Jia Yi said: "Regardless of them, we can't decide anything anyway." You're foaming at the mouth, do you want to drink some herbal tea?"
Chester looked at the kettle raised by Jiayi with some disgust: "Didn't you say that this is drunk in the summer? β
"Where is there sugar, and I can't buy it, and the only bit of honey I can find in the back mountain has been pried away by March. If it weren't for the interface of disease prevention, I wouldn't even be able to match the ingredients for herbal tea. Drink it that has an effect on the blisters in your mouth, and add some flavor to your mouth, otherwise the bird will fade out of your mouth. β
"The bird has been eaten by me before it comes out, and it still can't be, do you still have pine nut oil?"
Jiayi said in surprise: "You still want it, your mouth is foaming on fire, and if you eat oil toast, it will be even more powerful, and what you can swallow tomorrow is considered powerful." β
Pine nut oil is pressed out after Jia Yi found pine nuts in the field and used to improve the taste of brown bread. Cut the brown bread into thin slices, brush the surface with a layer of oil, and bake it over the fire until browned on both sides, so that it was much more delicious and instantly became popular among the students. It's just a pity, it's easy to get angry when you eat like this, especially if you eat three meals a day, the mage can't resist it, Jia Yihao boiled herbal tea again, but there is no sugar, and the students have limited acceptance.
He didn't pick all the ingredients for the herbal tea, but told Husley that in order to prevent disease, he asked Husley to help with the purchase, and Husley saw that the brewed things were unpalatable, so he didn't stop it. It's just a pity that you can buy medicinal herbs, but you can't buy sugar.
Kaichi found a wild beehive in the mountains, and he didn't know where the bees collected the honey this season, so he cut half of it and let the bees keep it for the winter. It's just that it seems that Marchie and them can't bear it as girls, and Jia is soft-hearted, so he gives them all the honey.
Then at night, secretly I couldn't help but regret it.