Chapter 95 Harold: It's Plastic
The kitchen finally returned to peace, and the liquid level in the coffee collector was as calm as a mirror.
Haroldt held the coffee collector in front of him, then raised it above his head and looked it over.
There is no elemental force left, no special devices or powders were put in, so how did they do it? The strength of the Witch Society members is really hard to figure out.
...Is this coffee still drinkable?
Harold shook the coffee collector unconsciously, then gave up exploring the mystery of the witch. He poured the coffee into the sink, carefully cleaned the coffee collector, and then ground another pot of coffee.
The evening jay with a long beak stood on his shoulder throughout the process, occasionally using its beak to comb its blue and yellow feathers, as obedient as a fake bird.
Two minutes later, Harold walked out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee. Elhaisen happened to walk out of the room at this moment. The moment his eyes met Harold's, he frowned, and dissatisfaction was revealed on his face in a way that Harold could detect at a glance.
Harold subconsciously covered the dusky bird on his shoulder with the hand that was not holding the coffee, but the moment he raised his arm, he realized that he was trying to cover up his crime, so he put his hand down and greeted Elhaisen with a stiff smile.
"I can explain," said Harold.
Why does it feel like I've secretly raised a kitten and was caught by its owner? Harold thought helplessly.
El Haisen: "Leaving aside the process, I just want to know the result. Where are you going to keep it, our living room?"
It happened so suddenly that I really hadn't thought about it.
Harold subconsciously put one hand on his chin, thinking, and soon he gave his answer:
“I will bring it to Huachengguo, but when I come back to live here, I will occasionally consider whether to bring it with me depending on my needs.
If I bring it back, I will inform you in advance and keep it in a cage. So you don't have to worry about it flying onto your books and defecating."
Elhaisen looked up, quite satisfied with the answer, except for the last sentence.
"What are you guys talking about? I can't draw because of all the noise." Kavi pushed open the door of the studio and walked out.
"People who make noise at home every day have no right to say that," said Elhaison.
Kavi felt guilty for a moment, but then he remembered the three rules they had agreed on, and he became confident again: "How can you say that? I strictly abide by our roommate rules and only polish my work at the specified time every day!"
His eyes swept over the two of them, and he immediately spotted the large, brightly colored bird on Harold's shoulder. He was startled and asked, "Hey, what is this?"
Elhaisen: "That's what I wanted to ask. Today Harold brought back a bird, and tomorrow you brought back a sand fox. Are you going to turn the research site given to us by the Ministry of Education into a private zoo?"
Kavi coughed lightly and looked away slightly, rarely refutating.
Elhaisen was hinting at the fact that he brought home a corso fox he picked up at the construction site a month ago. The corso fox was injured, and he couldn't bear to leave it in the wild, so he hid it in the ordained minister's large coat and brought it home. However, he was caught by Elhaisen as soon as he entered the door.
In the end, after much persuasion and taking on the cleaning and cooking duties for a week, Elhaisen agreed to keep the sand fox until his injuries healed.
"This was given as a gift when I bought something. I didn't originally plan to keep a pet." Harold used his imagination again and started making up a story.
"On the way back from the Ordinance Hall, I found a novel little gadget at a stall. I didn't bargain, and the stall owner was very satisfied. He said he would pick a Dusk Bird bag for me and send it to my home. Look, he really delivered it."
Harold raised his shoulders, and the Duskbird moved its feet and nodded.
But I can't tell anyone about Ms. Alice, otherwise one day it might be revealed that those extremely offensive personalities were created by me.
Harold imagined the scene of the truth...
It must be kept secret!
"..."
Elhaisen crossed his arms across his chest with an expression that said, "Make it up, whatever you want."
"What did you buy? Was it blueprints?" Kavi asked excitedly without any doubt.
The drawings that Harold found at the street stall last time brought him a great surprise, and it can even be said that they benefited the people of the entire Xumi.
"This time it's not a blueprint. Look here, senior. I can show you its functions right away."
Harold walked to the low table in the living room, sat on the bench and placed the device that Alice had given him on the table. Kavi and Elhaisen sat opposite him and looked at the unknown device together.
The thing was only half a finger long, cylindrical, opaque, light blue, and had a softer luster under natural light. It did not seem to be made of common materials on the continent of Teyvat, such as iron, crystal, and bone.
There is an obvious gap in the middle, and on both sides of the gap there is a circle of nearly two-centimeter black stripes with a circle of strange white runes drawn on it.
The moment he saw this thing, Kavi's curiosity was immediately aroused. Even after reading all the books about mechanics in the Palace of Wisdom, he still couldn't guess what this thing was used for. The circle of strange runes also had no similarities to any of the characters he knew.
Harold picked up the "small cylinder" and rotated it eight times, and the small cylinder broke into two parts along the gap in the middle.
"The stall owner told me that this is a communication device." Haroldt placed the two parts in the palms of Kavi and Elhaisen respectively, allowing them to study them.
Elhaisen immediately turned his attention to the black stripe print. He had never seen such runes before, and curiosity rose in his heart. After finding that he could not decipher these runes with the knowledge he had, he memorized them first.
As soon as Kavi got half of the cylinder, he turned it over and over, stroking its surface, smelling it, shaking it slightly, and listening to the movement inside it, trying to determine what it was.
He found that there was also a very tiny gap at the top of the cylinder, but the two parts were tightly fitted and could not be pried open without tools. There was a button at the other end.
"Can I press this?" Kavi asked.
Harold: "Sure, please give it a try, Senior."
Kavi pressed the button curiously, and the tight gap on the cylinder suddenly opened by itself. A circle of blue light shot out from it and unfolded into a light screen one meter in front of his eyes.
Elhaisen's pupils shrank slightly, and the same change occurred in the device in his hand. Thinking of what Haroldt said, "This is a communication device," he placed the device on the table and aimed the projected light screen at himself.
Then his face appeared on the screen in front of Kavi.
The sudden appearance of Elhaisen's face, which was magnified several times, scared Kavi so much that he let out a scream.
"Both sound and image can be transmitted to the party holding the other half of the device." Elhaisen stated his conclusion calmly.
On the light screen in front of Kavi, Elhaisen's lips opened and closed, uttering the same words.
Kavi stared at all this in amazement, and it took him a long time to come to his senses. He imitated Elhaisen's actions, placed the device on the table, pointed the light screen at his face, and then kept adjusting the angle.
"Elhaisen, am I aiming correctly? What do I look like from your side?" Kavi asked excitedly.
Elhaisen saw Kavi's face moving closer and farther away, up and down.
"A little uglier than usual," Elhisen said.
Harold sat down next to El Haisen and leaned over to look at the screen, "Senior Kawi, it's pretty much the same as you see us."
The two of them crowded together in front of Kawi. Kawi was originally very annoyed by what Elhaisen said, but when he saw how they looked now, his anger subsided. He said to the two people sitting on the same bench with him through the screen:
"This is amazing, Harold, how do you always find good things at street stalls?! Which street do you usually go to? I want to go there too next time!"
Haroldt was well prepared for this question and said in a very natural tone: "I don't have a fixed place, senior. I have been in Huachengguo for a long time. Every time I return to Xumi City, I feel fresh, so I like to walk around."
"Then I'll pay more attention to it next time." Kavi was not disappointed, but asked curiously, "How does this device transmit the sound and image from one side to the other?
What is the longest transmission distance? What is inside such a small device to perform such complex calculations? "
Harold: "The transmission distance... If the stall owner didn't lie to me, smooth communication can be guaranteed throughout the entire Xumi territory, and the other stall owners don't know either."
"Ah? We can communicate normally throughout the entire Xumi territory?!" Kavi exclaimed, and then he asked in a low voice a little embarrassedly, "...Harold, can I study it further? I didn't see anything just now.
How did it do that? I've thought about making a device with similar functions before, but because of other projects, I haven't started researching yet. If I can crack the mystery of this mechanism, I might be able to make a similar device based on its principle."
"Of course, please take a look at it as you like," said Haroldt.
Alice only gave him one of these communication tools, and she also had a matching calling device. In other words, Ms. Alice had actually taken care of him and tacitly allowed him to use this device to contact other people besides her.
But one is still too few, and he hopes to have a few more sets of such equipment.
But this is definitely not just pure technology, it must have utilized the power of the mysterious side. After all, even for Ms. Alice, it is unlikely that she could set up several signal towers in Sumeru without anyone noticing, so it would be difficult for Senior Kavi to figure out anything.
Well...it would be great if I could meet Dr. Slice again next time, I could sell it to Ms. Alice. When Ms. Alice is in a good mood, I might be able to turn the topic to the troubles encountered in research and silently ask for some useful equipment.
The key is to encounter Dr. Slice.
Harold suddenly felt that the doctor's slice, whom he had been avoiding before, suddenly became handsome.
With permission, Kavi turned off the device and continued to study it over and over again.
Three minutes passed and he was still at a loss. If Haroldt hadn't said it was a communication device, he wouldn't even be able to guess what it was used for. He might have mistaken it for some mechanical part.
"If I don't take it apart, I don't think I can find out anything." Kavi said unwillingly, "I have never seen this kind of material..."
Because it's made of plastic, Harold thought to himself.