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Flint shrugged. "Probably gone. I have to hurry to open the store. There are a lot of people waiting for good wine."
Gaines plucked the strings of his lude and said, "I'll go too. Today we finally have good wine, so how can we lack the singing of the bard?"
Fulu: "I'll accompany you too."
Gaines stopped and looked at the colorful transparent jellyfish: "What?"
Franka: "I'm a bard too. Uh, temporarily."
As she spoke, she spit out the dimensional bag from her body cavity, then took out her own lute from the dimensional bag and plucked it.
Gaines opened his mouth into an O shape: "Furu... can't you make any sound?"
Wang: "She can sing telepathically."
"Just like this." Franca played the lute and sang with her psychic ability, "One summer, when the sky just got light, I looked towards the neighbor's house and saw a black girl picking baskets of grapes~"
Gaines frowned. "The rhythm is right, yes, it's right. But... it's indescribably strange. There's no breathing hole, no switching between true and false voices, and even the cavity of the voice can't be heard. This is too weird!"
Flint: "I like it very much... I didn't say anything about Kailin's horns! Come on! Kailin's belly button! What's the point of you showing off in front of so many people all day long? It will make people take you lightly!"
Xiao Bai: "I'm almost used to Kailin. Why don't he come and join us? I think Da Congming will welcome it."
Wang: "Of course I would welcome it. Even if a god joins in the form of an avatar, it can greatly increase our chances of winning."
"I remember that Kailin is an erratic god, right?" Lily asked, "Is he...really not going to cause any trouble?"
“He will cause trouble.” Flint said firmly, “But he is still a good person at heart. He’s just the kind of good person that makes people want to beat him up. This is the common opinion of me and other messengers.”
How bad must Kailin be to be dissed by her own emissary? But Wang thought again, damn, Kailin must have made fun of her own emissary often, just look at Flint.
Wang: "Today's morning meeting ends here. We will start moving towards the capital of Isonzo immediately. Because our moving speed is only seven kilometers per hour, it will be faster if there is a tailwind, so it will take us about... about seventeen days to reach the capital of Isonzo. I hope that by then the shadow thieves and our patrol ships will have found Erwin's monastery."
The Shadow Thief representative bowed and said, "We will do our best."
Theresa: "The Lancelot Church will also make the sinners step up their actions."
The sinners seemed to be Lancelot's spies, people who had some stain in their lives and so did dirty work to atone for their sins.
Wang: "That's it, meeting adjourned!"
**
Coming up from underground, Wang just happened to see a spaceship taking off.
He asked Rosalie beside him, "There are a lot more flights coming and going than before we left. We haven't been in the Underdark for long."
"In fact, the envoys from the Thorn Isles arrived the day after you set out. They also want to build an embassy and a branch of the Explorers' Association here, but it seems that they need the procedures of Brynden's Council of Great Craftsmen." Rosalie replied.
King: "I thought the Isles of Thorns and the dwarf capital of Brynden were two completely unrelated political entities."
"Indeed," Rosalie explained, "but the highly respected master craftsman of the Thorn Isles will eventually return to Brynden to serve, so his reputation in Brynden is also very important. You know, the dwarves care more about academics than politics."
Wang: “Isn’t it an explosion?”
As if in response to his words, an orange-yellow fireball rose from the dwarf area of the island, followed by the sound of an explosion.
Wang: "Surprisingly, no dwarf flew into the sky this time. I thought there would be one flying into the sky after every explosion."
Rosalie: "The flying dwarfs can be seen once every three days. It may be because there are too many priests and paladins who can perform resurrection here, so the dwarves have become unscrupulous. Even if their bodies are smashed to pieces, as long as they can be resurrected..."
Before Rosalie could finish her words, a dwarf controlled his clanking cyborg body and limped past the main elevator leading to the underground.
Rosalie: "That's it. By the way, do you want to visit the dwarves' workshop? Since you built that...what's the principle behind it?"
Wang: "Cutting the geomagnetic field lines."
"Yes, that's right. After you invented something that generates electricity using this principle, they all regarded you as a great craftsman. They asked me every day when you would come back so that they could invite you to visit their workshop."
Wang scratched his head: "Okay, let's go and take a look now."
Chapter 358 When the Great Engineer Came to His Loyal Workshop
Wang was about to start walking when Rosalie pulled him back.
Wang: "What's wrong?"
Rosalie glanced at Xiaobai who was chasing butterflies next to her: "You'd better ride her."
Wang frowned: "What's wrong?"
Rosalie: "The roads in the dwarf area are... more winding, so the dwarves mostly use ziplines to move around there."
Wang raised an eyebrow. "Use a zipline?"
"Right." Rosalie shrugged.
The king turned to Xiaobai and said, "Come on, we are going to the dwarf area and turn into a griffin."
Xiaobai said "Oh" and turned into a griffin, and then did not forget to catch the butterfly with his claws.
The king climbed onto the griffin and reached out his hand to Rosalie.
However, the girl shook her head: "No, no, no, I'm very busy during the day, I can only accompany you at night."
Wang: "And I slept soundly last night, sorry."
Elizabeth said excitedly, "Then I have nothing to do, so I'll go visit the dwarfs' area too!"
Rosalie: "Then I'll leave it to you."
The king reached out and pulled Elizabeth onto the griffin's back, then patted Little White's neck.
As soon as the griffin took off, a strange flying vehicle rose from the ground.
Elizabeth saw the flying machine and exclaimed, "That looks... a lot like the spinning tops we played with when we were kids!"
In fact, what was rotating was a rotor, but Elizabeth didn't know the name of the rotor, so she called it a gyroscope.
Wang looked at the gyrocopter with electric wires trailing on its buttocks, and his brows were twisted into a knot.
Just at this moment the wires were straightened and the gyroplane became a kite tethered to the wires.
The key point is that such a dangerous thing actually has people on board, and there are two dwarves, both of whom are happily enjoying the scenery. The dwarf with less hair on his head saw the griffin first, and waved, "Hey, druid! We have learned to fly too!"
Elizabeth: "What a wonderful invention."
Wang looked at the wires that had been twisted into a double helix like DNA and said, "There will be a better invention later. They don't even know how to use a counter-propeller to counteract the torque..."
"What?" Elizabeth asked in confusion.
Before Wang could answer, the wires' counterattack began. First, the basket began to rotate in the opposite direction, and then the confrontation between the two torque forces finally caused the rotor to fall off the central axis.
The rotor broke free from the constraints of gravity and flew into the sky.
The remaining basket fell so slowly at first that it could be ignored. At that moment, it seemed to be sucked into the sky. The two dwarfs looked at each other in bewilderment.
As they both began to shout, the descent began.
Wang patted Xiaobai's neck, and before he gave any order, Xiaobai swooped down and grabbed the hanging basket with his claws.
The two dwarves breathed a sigh of relief, and the king heard them say, "Thank God. Thank you, druid."
"Wait a minute, I remember there was a person riding on the back of the griffin just now. Don't the proud druids hate being used as mounts? I rode the wolf they transformed into, and I was beaten and almost died."
No, no, what the druid hates is being used as a mount by a dwarf.
Xiaobai suddenly loosened his claws, and the basket resumed its free fall state.
Two dwarfs: "Ahhhhhhh!"
Xiaobai swooped down again to grab them back and rose to the same height.
Then she loosened her claws once more.
"Ahhh!"
Wang: "Okay, two times is enough. They may be new here and don't know the island owner and your best friend."
Elizabeth burst out laughing: "My goodness... I suddenly realized that we look like a family of three now!"
Wang: "Have you ever seen a family of three riding their child like a donkey?"
Dwarf: "Aaaaaah!"
Wang: "If you are angry with me, don't take it out on others. I see someone waving a flag on the ground over there. It should be the laboratory these two belong to. Let's land."
Xiaobai lowered the altitude, and Wang saw many zip lines - damn, these dwarves really use zip lines as a means of transportation!
But when Wang saw the road on the ground, he understood.
This can no longer be explained by clutter.
Elizabeth also commented: "I always thought that the slums in Shallow Water City were already very messy, but this... is beyond my imagination. It wasn't so exaggerated when we left, right?"
Wang: "It should be because more and more dwarves come here to visit, resulting in this vibrant and flourishing scene."
In fact, Wang can also think of how this pattern came about. Most of the dwarves who came here wanted to pull wires and build all kinds of weird laboratories as close to the power source as possible. In the end, it became a picture full of post-abstract style.
Xiaobai first put the hanging basket on the ground, and then gently landed on the ground.
The dwarf who had just waved the flag exclaimed: "It's the island owner! Oh my God, you're back!"
Wang was shocked: "I...you didn't know I was back?"
Dwarf: "We thought you were dead."
"Yes. It is the Underdark after all."
Can you guys think of something better?
Wang decided not to bother with this: "Are you designing helicopters?"
"What's a helicopter?" asked the dwarf.
Wang then realized that he had said something foreign, so he changed to a more straightforward statement: "It is to use the rotor to blow wind downward to gain lift..."
"Oh yes, that's what we do." The dwarf interrupted the king.
Dwarfs are impatient, so it's not surprising that they do this. Many people think that dwarfs are impolite because of this habit of interrupting others.
In fact, in the eyes of the dwarfs, this is a way to increase the efficiency of communication: I already understand, so you naturally don’t need to say anything, and I will specifically tell you that I understand, so it is good for everyone - this is probably the logic.
So Wang didn't get annoyed and asked directly: "Instead of using electricity, why not try this."
He got off Xiaobai: "Uh, do you have any drawing tools?"