Chapter 294 Generosity and Dad
Chapter 294 Generosity and Dad
"Okay."
After successfully breaking out of the encirclement thanks to the attentive service of the Undead Technician, Leon squinted at the dock in the distance where ships were coming and going, and took the initiative to call for a halt:
"If we go any further, we might attract attention. Let's stop the power armor here. Thank you for your help this time."
"..."
I really don't want to help with this...but do I have a choice?
Watching the Duke flipping out of the cockpit, the unfortunate little golden retriever endured and endured, but in the end he didn't say anything. Instead, he resigned himself to his fate and turned the joystick, preparing to go back dejectedly. However...
"Wait, don't take the power armor back with you."
"what?"
"The battery of the power armor... I mean the energy storage module. This thing is useful to me. Help me remove it."
"But... without the energy storage module, I can't drive the power armor. How can I get back?"
"Take a boat. Isn't the dock over there?"
"..."
"What's wrong? Any other questions?"
"No...no..."
Faced with the unreasonable demands made by his own duke, the little golden-haired adjutant sighed in his heart, resigned himself to turning on two switches and opening the energy storage compartment of the power armor.
Then, with an extremely familiar creaking sound, he climbed out of the cab with difficulty, and stood aside with a helpless look on his face, watching his own duke prying the energy storage module of the power armor.
"Hmm... there's a little bit of energy liquid left, but thank you anyway."
"No...you're welcome..."
After nodding dryly and responding to the Duke's polite thanks, Steven Ryan touched his empty pockets and said embarrassedly:
"Um... Your Excellency the Duke, can you... can you lend me some money?"
"what?"
"Before I went on the mission, I was sleeping in the barracks. I didn't expect you to rob me... and bring me here. So I didn't have any money with me. Can you lend me some money so that I can go to the dock and hire a carriage to go home?"
"This... okay..."
Although he didn't have much money in his hand, after looking at the pitiful little golden retriever in front of him and the energy storage module on the ground that cost at least 10,000 gold wheels, Lyon still didn't feel comfortable refusing his request, and reluctantly asked Youha to throw out his wallet.
Hmm... But Anna took most of his salary, leaving only a part for necessary expenses, and also bought a lot of supplies to store in the mirror world. He only had 4 silver wheels and 9 copper wheels left...
"Why don't we just not hire a carriage?"
After looking at his empty wallet, Leon tentatively suggested:
"That's the dock. We can take a boat back to the capital, and then take two public carriages to get to the city."
"That's okay too..."
"Then take it, and you don't have to pay it back!"
Seeing that the little golden retriever did not insist on hiring a carriage, Leon, who was short of money but could not refuse, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. He then counted out seven copper wheels and handed them over, smiling and saying:
"A ticket for the passenger ship's budget cabin costs 3 copper wheels. You can ride all the way from here to Bunker River Pier, then get off the ship, and then take the Old Town Line's 60-minute public horse-drawn carriage, which costs another 3 copper wheels to ride all the way to the end, and then you can enter the city center of the capital. The carriages there accept post-payment, so you can charter a car to go home directly.
Or if you want to go to Ryan Manor, you can get off one stop earlier, which will save you 1 copper wheel. After getting off the bus, walk to the next stop, Westminster Abbey, and then take the running carriage on Church Street for 2 copper wheels, which will also get you to Redwood Street, which will cost you only 7 copper wheels. "..."
Faced with the Duke who not only calculated the travel expenses clearly but also gave some tips on how to save money, the little golden retriever who took the copper wheel couldn't help but feel a slight sour nose, as if he had already smelled the sour odor of stinky feet in the lower-class cabin.
……
"Thank you... thank you..."
After thanking the Duke for his generosity, the little golden retriever, moved to tears, staggered away clutching the extremely precious 7 copper wheels, while Leon carried the battery down the path, found a secluded place, and took out the black 128-proof box containing Atifi .
Circular interface...then it should also require a circular connector...
After groping around on the power armor's energy storage module for a while and finding the pipe tied in the slot, Leon removed the plug from the energy storage module and, following the method Atifi128 had taught him before, unscrewed the protective bolt and fixed it on the interface behind the fifteenth defense box.
Soon, accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, the black frosted glass-like fifteen-proof box shook slightly, and countless tightly arranged tiny connecting rods inside, which were several times thinner than a hair, began to move in an orderly and high-speed manner in an irregular and wonderful way.
"Thanks for waking me up, Dad."
"..."
"Um... you should just call me Mr. Leon..."
Listening to Atifi128's sweet little girl voice, Leon, who was a little embarrassed, couldn't help but touch his nose and corrected himself:
"I was... um... just treat me as a joke, okay?"
After "hearing" Leon's words through the copper tube, the gear sets in the fifteenth defense box, which were so dense that the number could hardly be seen, began to reverse rapidly at a special rhythm, and then drove tens of thousands of connecting rods and hole clamps, which poked at the sphere full of tiny holes in the center for a while, conveying the information inside.
After twisting twice, the core ball completed a similar operation in the reverse direction, driving the dense gear group to rotate forward through the connecting rod, and gave its own answer by knocking the hammer group against the copper tube, simulating the sound of a human little girl.
"Although I judged that you didn't seem to be joking before, since you have a request, I am willing to comply, Mr. Lyon."
"..."
Was that "calculating" just now? What is the principle of this thing?
Seeing Atifi 128 accept and understand his words in less than a second and give a corresponding answer, Leon couldn't help but ask curiously:
"How on earth can you talk like that? What are all these parts in the box for?"
"The reason why I can speak is very simple. As a creature with a relatively simple vocal organ structure, 60-80 notes is the limit for ordinary humans. The scale recorded by a single gear in my gear set is far beyond this number.
The content of the text is relatively complex. Your human writing can be roughly summarized into four categories: ideographic writing, syllabic writing, phono-semantic writing, and symbolic writing. And the characteristics can be combined with each other. If you use 1, 2, 3, 4 to represent the arrangement, there are about 15 relatively typical comprehensive writing patterns.
Each text pattern has an average of 250,000 to 670,000 valuable words, and the commonly used words are roughly reduced to between 3,000 and 11,000 according to individual and regional differences, and intonation, voice and corresponding emotions must also be considered.
So even though the process has been greatly streamlined, if I want to output the corresponding characters in the dialogue and attach emotions to accurately express what I mean, I still need to use fifteen sub-gear sets and thirty to one hundred and ten short-arc levers each time..."
"Alright, alright, don't explain the rest. Just pretend I never asked this question."
After trying to listen for a long time but still being confused, Leon wisely came to a reconciliation with himself, gave up trying to figure out why she was able to talk, and instead asked the question that concerned him the most.
"Atifi, let me ask you."
He took out the big box that was distributed by the bureau, stuffed Atifi 128 into it, and then condensed the cursed silver into a dagger. He dug a hole in the box, stuck the copper tubes used for "speaking" and "listening" in it, and then asked:
"What's going on in the Kingdom of Korok? What's going on with the Gemini branch of the Cleanup Bureau? Have you contacted Director Aquarius?"
(End of this chapter)