Chapter 697

"All right."

Relying on the thoughtful service of the undead technician, after successfully rushing out of the encirclement, squinting at the pier where ships were coming and going in the distance, Leon took the initiative to call a stop:

"If you go further, it may attract attention. Just 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 who climbed out of the cockpit, the unlucky little golden hair endured and endured, but finally didn't say anything, but resignedly turned the joystick, dejectedly preparing to go back, however...

"Wait, don't take the power armor back."

"Ah?"

"The power armor's battery... I mean the energy storage module, this thing is useful to me, help me unload it."

"But... without the energy storage module, I can't drive the power armor, how can I go back?"

"Take a boat, isn't the pier right there?"

"..."

"What's wrong? Any other questions?"

"No... no..."

Faced with the unreasonable request made by his own Duke, the little golden hair adjutant sighed in his heart, resignedly flipped two switches, and opened the power armor's energy storage cabin.

Then, amidst the familiar creaking sound, he climbed out of the cockpit with difficulty, stood aside helplessly, and watched his own Duke pry the power armor's energy storage module fiercely.

"Well... the energy liquid left is a bit small, but thank you anyway."

"You're... you're welcome..."

After nodding dryly and responding to the Duke's polite thanks, Steven Laien touched his empty pocket, then said embarrassedly:

"That... Duke, can you... can you lend me some money?"

"Ah?"

"Before I went on the mission, I was sleeping in the barracks, and I didn't expect to be robbed by you... brought here, so I didn't bring any money. Can you lend me some money so I can charter a carriage to go home at the pier?"

"This... all right..."

Although he didn't have much money in his hand either, Leon looked at the pitiful little golden hair in front of him, and then looked at the energy storage module on the ground that cost at least ten thousand gold wheels, he still didn't have the heart to refuse his request, and reluctantly greeted Xiao Jinmao to throw out his wallet.

Well... but most of his salary was collected by Anna, leaving only a part of the necessary expenses, and he also bought a lot of supplies and hoarded them in the mirror world. He only had 4 silver wheels and 9 copper wheels left in his hand...

"How about not chartering a carriage?"

After looking at his shriveled wallet, Leon tentatively suggested:

"It happens that the pier is right there. In fact, we can take a boat directly back to the capital, and then transfer two public carriages, and we can also reach the city area."

"That... that's fine..."

"Then you take it, and you don't have to pay this money back!"

Seeing that the little golden hair didn't insist on chartering a carriage, Leon, who was short of money and couldn't refuse, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then counted out 7 copper wheels and handed them over, instructing with a smile:

"The ticket for the flat-price cabin of the passenger ship is 3 copper wheels. You take it all the way from here to the Bunker River pier and get off the boat, then transfer to the public carriage on the Old City line that runs every 60 minutes, and spend 3 copper wheels to sit to the end, and you can enter the city area of the capital. The carriage there supports post-payment, and you can charter a carriage directly home.

Or if you want to go to the Laien Manor, you can also get off one stop early, which can save 1 copper wheel. After getting off, walk to the next stop, Westminster Church, and spend 2 copper wheels to take the line carriage on Church Street, and you can also reach Sequoia Street. It just happens to only need 7 copper wheels." "..."

Faced with the Duke who not only calculated the fare clearly, but also thoughtfully gave a money-saving strategy, the little golden hair who took the copper wheels couldn't help but feel a little sour in his nose, as if he had already smelled the smell of smelly feet filled with sour air in the lower cabin.

"Thank... thank you..."

After thanking the generous Duke, the little golden hair, who was moved to tears, ran away staggeringly while holding the extremely precious 7 copper wheels. Leon carried the battery down the small road, found a quiet place, and took out the black fifteen-proof box containing Atifi 128.

Circular interface... then what is needed should also be a circular connector...

After groping for a while on the power armor's energy storage module and finding the pipe tied in the card slot, Leon took off the plug pipe on the energy storage module, followed the method taught by Atifi 128 before, unscrewed the protective bolt, and pushed it to the interface behind the fifteen-proof box to fix it.

Soon, accompanied by a light humming sound, the fifteen-proof box, which looked like black frosted glass, shook slightly. Countless tightly arranged tiny connecting rods inside, which were several times thinner than hair, began to move at high speed in a strange and irregular way.

"Thank you for waking me up, Father."

"..."

"Uh... you'd better call me Mr. Leon..."

Listening to Atifi 128's pleasant little girl voice, Leon, who was a bit embarrassed, couldn't help but touch his nose and corrected:

"I was before... um... you just take it as if I was joking, okay?"

After "hearing" Leon's words through the copper pipe, the gear set in the fifteen-proof box, which was so dense that it was almost impossible to see the number, began to reverse rapidly at a special rhythm, and then drove tens of thousands of connecting rods and card hole devices to poke on the sphere full of small holes in the center for a while, conveying the information in.

And after the core small ball twisted twice, it completed a similar operation in reverse again, driving the dense gear set to rotate forward through the connecting rods, and knocking the copper pipe through the hammer set, simulating the voice of a human little girl, and giving its own answer.

"Although I judge that you were not joking before, since you have a request, I am willing to obey, Mr. Leon."

"..."

Was that "calculating" just now? What is the principle of this thing?

Looking at Atifi 128, who accepted and understood his words in less than a second and gave a corresponding answer, Leon couldn't help but curiously asked:

"How on earth do you talk? What are these parts in the box for?"

"The reason I can talk is very simple. As a creature with a relatively simple vocal organ structure, 60-80 sounds are the limit of ordinary humans, and the scale recorded by a single gear in my gear set already far exceeds this number.

The text content is relatively complex. Your human characters can be roughly summarized into four categories: ideographic characters, syllabic characters, morphosyllabic characters, and symbolic characters, and their characteristics can be combined with each other. If you use 1, 2, 3, 4 to refer to the arrangement, there are about 15 relatively typical comprehensive text modes.

And each text mode has an average of 250,000 to 670,000 valuable vocabulary words, and common vocabulary will be roughly reduced to between 3,000 and 11,000 according to individual and regional differences, and also need to consider tone, voice line, and corresponding emotions.

So even if the process has been greatly simplified, if you want to output corresponding characters in the conversation and attach emotions to accurately express my meaning, you still need to use fifteen sets of secondary gear sets and thirty to one hundred and ten short arc levers every time..."

"All right, all right, don't explain the rest. Let's assume I didn't ask this question."

After trying hard to listen for a long time but still being confused, Leon wisely reached a reconciliation with himself, gave up on pondering the reason why she could talk, and instead asked the question he cared about most.

"Atifi, I ask you."

Taking out the large box distributed by the bureau before, stuffing Atifi 128 into it, and then condensing the Cursed Silver into a dagger, digging a hole in the box, and sticking the copper pipe used for "speaking" and "listening" on it, Leon asked:

"What is the situation in the Keroque Kingdom? What happened to the Twin Branch of the Cleanup Bureau? Do you have any contact with the Aquarius Director?"

(End of chapter)