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Xiaobai: "Okay, it's okay. This is indeed the place for dwarfs."

Gaines protested: "This is prejudice! Not all of us dwarfs are like this. There are also some who like to write poetry, like me."

Xiaobai: "You don't know how to say 'oh oh oh'?"

Gaines: "I won't."

Just as he finished speaking, there was another explosion in the distant neighborhood, and a new dwarf flew into the sky dragging smoke.

The first flying dwarf opened his parachute and fell with the wind. When the airship of the rescue team happened to pass by, the dwarf took off his hat and saluted: "Oh, what a beautiful lady!"

Elizabeth was shocked: "Am I actually very good-looking in the dwarf's aesthetic sense?"

Gaines: "No, no, he's talking about the little one."

Xiaobai: "Me?"

Gaines: "Of course, but one thing about you is that you don't have the smell of engine oil. If you spray a little engine oil perfume, you can kill most dwarfs."

Elizabeth frowned: "Motor oil...perfume?"

Gaines: "Yes. Besides, your cheeks are too smooth. We dwarfs like them wrinkled. This can be solved by soaking. Human skin will become wrinkled after being soaked for a long time."

Xiaobai touched his face and shook his head like a rattle: "Porulu! No!"

When she shakes her head, her chubby cheeks will make a purring sound, which is quite cute.

Wang couldn't help pinching Xiaobai's cheek: "Are you fat?"

Xiaobai: "This is the fat stored in case of famine! Let go!"

Just as he was talking, the captain stuck his head out of the wheelhouse in front: "We are about to land, and ahead is the Federation of Explorers!"

Everyone hurriedly looked ahead and saw a huge globe appearing in front of them.

Wang was stunned: "It seems that the Federation of Explorers already knows that the world is spherical."

Gaines: "We have known it for a long time, and we are already measuring the latitude and longitude. Once the measurement is completed, we will reconstruct the federation building and add the latitude and longitude to the sphere."

Elizabeth asked doubtfully: "Is the world like that? Wouldn't the people living below fall down?"

Everyone turned to look at her.

Xiaobai: "Yes! Wouldn't it just fall down?"

Everyone looked at her again.

Nini: "Is it because of centrifugal force? Everyone has seen it in the circus. The performer holds a rope, and there is a bucket on the rope. The bucket is filled with water. As long as the rope is swung fast enough, the water inside will not spill down."

Flint praised: "The smart locking bracelet is really powerful. I want to wear it."

Savage: "High!"

Dwarf: "What are you shouting, you big guy pretending to be stupid! Do you really think everyone can't see it?"

Wang Ze answered Nini seriously: "You are partly right. The gravity of the planet is related to its mass. An object with such a large mass will have gravity. Gravity is the rope, do you understand?"

Nini nodded: "If the mass is large, there will be gravity, and gravity is the rope. Got it."

Elizabeth: "What do you understand? Why don't I understand?"

Wang patted her shoulder: "It's okay, it doesn't matter, you are a warlock, you don't need to understand such complicated things."

Elizabeth pouted: "I don't, I just want to understand. Nini lend me a pair of them."

Nini took off the headband and handed it to Elizabeth.

After putting on the headband, Elizabeth thought for a while: "I understand part of it. But...why do things with large masses have gravity?"

Wang: "This is complicated. I need to explain it to you starting from the basic strength..."

Ten minutes later, Elizabeth took off the headband and gave it back to Nini: "I think there is a limit to the headband alone. If you don't understand something, you just don't understand it."

Nini put on the headband and agreed: "I feel the same way."

As he spoke, the airship had docked on the spire of the Federation of Explorers building. The captain came out of the wheelhouse and greeted loudly: "If you want to get off the ship, take the gangway here to get off."

Wang looked toward the spire and found that many dwarfs in gorgeous clothes were already standing on the platform inside the spire.

So he took a step forward and said, "Let's go."

After a while, a group of people stepped on the floor of the platform.

A group of dwarfs came forward and the king had to bend down to shake hands with them.

The leader of the dwarf introduced himself: "I am Grom, the acting president of the Federation of Explorers, and this is Haman, the president of the Longitude and Latitude Determination Committee."

Wang: "Hello."

Harman, chairman of the Longitude and Latitude Determination Committee, said after shaking hands: "We heard that you came to the Thorn Islands to borrow the flagship of the Explorers Federation, the Summit?"

Wang: "Exactly. This is to deal with the crisis of world destruction. You should already know that the crisis is less than four years away, and the source of the crisis, the evil star Ragnora, has already appeared in the sky. At this moment, we should United as one..."

Harman sighed: "It's not that we are unwilling to borrow the flagship, but the flagship was severely damaged during its second round-the-world voyage to measure longitude and latitude, and is now under repair."

Wang: "When we came here, we heard that it was almost repaired."

"Indeed." Acting President Grom said, "It will be repaired soon, but there is a small problem. You should know that we are not very good at dealing with the Thorn Islands Council. They now have a monopoly on the supply of raw materials to the Thorn Islands."

Grom did not continue.

Wang frowned: "You mean, the maintenance work cannot be completed because of the council's lack of cooperation."

Harman, chairman of the Longitude and Latitude Determination Committee, nodded: "Yes, that's what happened."

Wang: "The world is going to be destroyed, will they still hold back?"

Grom: "I think they shouldn't be so stubborn. However, the council has gathered a large number of members of other races who are dissatisfied with our dwarves controlling the Thorn Islands. We dwarves are really not very good at doing business, so the dwarf chamber of commerce has It’s almost been annexed, so the supplies are..."

Wang turned to ask Gaines: "Aren't dwarves good at doing business? I thought you were good at it. In some planes, you even monopolized the banking industry. People in the plane call you soap ingredients."

Gaines: "Other planes are other planes. We plane dwarves are really not very good at doing business, at least not as good at making explosions."

Wang was speechless and asked Grom: "Then if we persuade the Council to provide raw materials, can you complete the repairs immediately?"

Grom smiled and said, "Of course."

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The king nodded: "Without further delay, let's go to the Thorn Islands Council as soon as possible."

Grom frowned again: "About this...it's not easy to handle."

Wang: "Why is it not easy to handle?"

Grom: "You...should have been reading the Thorn Islands Daily, right?"

Wang: "I do. But I mainly read the scientific discovery section. I don't read much local news."

"Then you don't know that the dispute between us and the council has reached the point of incompatibility. Many of the workshops under our name are unable to start work, so everyone has gone to your floating island."

Wang frowned: "Is there such a deep-seated reason behind this? I was wondering why there are so many dwarfs, but it turns out that the invention cannot be carried out because you two are fighting for power?"

Grom showed an awkward smile: "Yes... like this."

Suddenly, a dwarf behind Grom shouted, "Don't make yourselves sound like innocent people! You are clearly doing bad things! You used your own exploration yearbook to kick out explorers and workshop owners who were close to the Thorn Archipelago Council from the yearbook! You are a disgrace to the dwarves!"

The king turned to look at the dwarf who was shouting.

Grom angrily yelled: "You need to have evidence for saying this! The fact is that those people's inventions are not up to the level of being included in the yearbook, so they are not included in the yearbook! I am not deliberately causing harm!"

The dwarf who shouted sneered: "Speaking better than singing, yes, it is not up to standard. But you have never published the standard. Some inventions are recognized by Brynden's great craftsmen, but they cannot be included in the invention supplement of the yearbook! "

The king asked the dwarf: "Hello, who are you?"

Gnome: "I am Torey Smith, the captain of the Summit that you are looking for. The spaceship has been idle for half a year now because of this boring dispute that embarrasses the dwarf!"

Torrey Smith pushed aside the guard who was blocking him and took a step forward, grabbing Grom's collar: "You bastard! When we built the Leap to the Peak, you were still a yellow-haired boy. You are not qualified to be the president at all. At that time, no one thought you would become the president!

"I don't know what tricks you used to successfully become the president, and then you insisted on competing with the council for the right to represent the Thorn Islands!

"What's there to argue about? Originally, the Exploration Federation was mainly responsible for exploration and occasionally inventions, while the Council was mainly responsible for secular affairs. The Thorn Islands are not just an archipelago of dwarfs. With the prosperity of maritime trade, the original archipelago has become very important. There are more and more dwarfs, and letting the Council take power would be suitable for this situation!

"You're such an official fan, you've messed everything up!"

With that said, Torey Smith slapped Grom twice.

Grom shouted: "Come here! You finally took action, Torre! Go to hell with your captain, you can no longer be a captain if you take action against me!"

Wang yelled, "Wait a minute!"

Grom turned around and said, "What, are the Salvation Team going to intervene in our internal affairs? He did it in front of you!"

Wang: "I saw it. But now the crisis of annihilation is coming. We have to save the world, understand? Save the world."

Grom snorted: "I know that there are several stages of the world-ending crisis. The second stage is characterized by the emergence of cheap healing potions. We are just watching. There are no potions on the market, and the world is still too early to be destroyed. "

Torre Smith sneered: "An insect like him won't understand at all. He will only use his narrow little mind to think about everything. In his eyes, you are the person who wants to take power through the crisis of annihilation." , just like him.

"He must be thinking about what benefits he can get from the world-ending crisis. When you chose to land here in the Federation, you have already boarded his pirate ship. His people will spread the news everywhere tonight, saying that the salvation team Already on his side.”

Wang: "We can take off immediately and land to the Council of Thorns Islands."

Torre: "It's just a little better over there than here. Remember one sentence, the world is as dark as crows. But if you land here, if you have the raw materials, you can repair the flagship, and then you can borrow the flagship."

"If you go over there, just watch these bastards here blocking you and not letting you use the flagship."

Wang looked at Grom: "Is that so?"

"How is that possible?" Grom smiled, "Of course we will put the overall situation first. No matter which side you choose to support, we will help you!"

Xiaobai leaned over, smelled Grom, and loudly announced: "It smells like lying! He lies!"

Wang: "Our werewolf said so. She is very sensitive to lies."

Xiaobai: “Very sensitive!”

Grom sneered a few times: "How dare we. As long as the material problem is solved and the repairs are completed, we will definitely lend you the flagship. Not only will we lend you the flagship, we will also lend you the navigator. Although we have not yet established the longitude and latitude system, but our navigator can already..."

Wang: "I can calculate latitude and longitude."

"Eh?"

Wang: "In the Glaria scenery written by my teacher, the calculation of longitude and latitude has been completed, and he even drew a high-precision map. However, we generally will not spread these things to you. This will be helpful for you to develop your own technology." harmful.

"After all, measuring longitude and latitude will promote the development of your mathematics, especially geometry. If you are given measured maps and longitude and latitude systems in advance, you will not be able to develop your own mathematics.