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Chapter 577 576. The Flywheel Consortium’s office in Transia has been established! -Additional update【1830】

(Additional update for "Huo Zheng is very good" brother [18/20])

Burning gold is a strategic resource monopolized by the Brass Dwarves. This "universal attribute" has brought huge profits to those violent dwarves. This is also the confidence that they can build a peerless fortress like the Brass Fortress. and important source of funding.

But when people on the mainland talk about the huge profits of burning gold, they often ignore a very important part of this wealth myth, and that is the halfling!

In fact, it was the halfling mechanics who first discovered the strange properties of burning gold. Their steam engineering also ushered in a "super explosion" after using burning gold as an additive and catalyst.

Before that, the engineering skills of the halflings were still at the level of toys that were "cool, mysterious, fun, but no one cares about". But after Ranjin showed his power, everything from steam trains and steam airships to small ones The emergence of hunting crossbows and gold-burning ammunition has lifted steam engineering from the version sewer to the height of T0.

It can be said that the brass dwarves use burning gold to make money, but this magical mineral is the foundation for the rise of halfling civilization.

Judging from the engineering skills displayed by Su Ke Feilun, it is absolutely impossible to say that this wild warlord does not understand the value of burning gold. Just after Murphy took out the ore as a sample, he just said The engineering master with an angry look on his face and shouted "Send off guests" immediately performed a series of face changes.

He didn't doubt Murphy's confidence in taking out this thing.

Because ordinary people don't even know what burning gold ore is, that thing is the lifeblood of the brass dwarves. The silver dwarf architect Ilyich said before that his compatriots have made great efforts to keep this secret. , even willing to fall for it.

All we can say is that the truth that money moves people's hearts is obviously true in other worlds as well.

"Look at this beautiful cluster of energy crystals, filling the rock with a mysterious gesture, like an invisible hand pressing real power into it.

Its own crystallization process cannot be replicated. Even though we halflings discovered the wonder of burning gold a long time ago, the smartest among us have continued to research and devoted countless hours to this subject, but still no one has Can come up with a logical and complete statement and theory.

No one knows how it was born. It is like a supreme treasure given to civilization by the world. "

In the messy laboratory, Su Ke Feilun observed the ore with a very sophisticated microscope-like device. On the chair behind him, Murphy was smiling and waving his hands to the mysterious demon doll Jasmine, indicating that she did not need to bring it with her. With a weird smile, he handed over the cup of weirdly colored coffee.

Who the hell would drink something like this with a layer of colorful oil on the surface?

What kind of coffee is this?

Does it smell like crude oil mixed with used batteries?

Gee, I didn’t realize it, you halflings have quite wild tastes.

But it was obvious from the expression of Steam Puppet Jasmine's displeasure because she couldn't open people's heads that the "crazy uninvited guest" just now had now become a guest of Hungry Mountain.

"The purity of your ore is not high, maybe because of the time factor? But it doesn't matter. If you were really rich in high-purity burning gold ore, the High King of the Brass Dwarves would have launched a conquest expedition against you.

Don't doubt those guys' patience when it comes to burning money.

They have no patience at all, not for anything, not even the creation of human beings.”

Sulk Feilun turned around with a hint of regret and a hint of joy, took off the observation device in front of his eyes, rubbed his hands, and his gloomy face finally showed a trace of the shrewdness that a halfling should have. and philistines.

He told Murphy:

"Tell me, how big is the mineral vein you have there?"

"The bottom of a rift valley that crosses the city and is about a hundred meters wide is full of these things. You don't even need complicated excavation tools. You can see these things just by digging through the soil with a mining pick."

Murphy took out a map of Scarlet Castle and pointed out the cracks in the city to Old Flywheel.

The latter took it in his hand, studied it carefully, and said:

"Well, it doesn't seem like much. At least it's not worth a special trip for the dwarves. Those guys have a special gold-burning mining device made by Shardau Artisan University. If it's such a shallow vein, they only need half a It can be dug cleanly in a month.

Based on my superficial understanding of the ore veins, although the value of these gold-burning ores is very high, it has not yet reached the equivalent exchange that you just proposed.

At most, these can replace the production lines in my factory for you. "

"What are you in a hurry?"

Murphy rolled his eyes, took out a fixed psychic image from his arms, just like a photo, and handed it to Su Ke Feilun.

The moving psychic photo showed four Lorewalkers wielding pickaxes to carefully open the collapse of the Holy Blood Hall in the deepest part of the Blood Vulture Corridor. They used a support structure similar to a mine to prevent the rubble above from smashing. It fell down, and after the collapsed rubble was cleared away, the internal structure was revealed.

In the "cage" composed of a huge and strange giant tree, in the dark place, bright lights like stars danced.

The dusty Lorewalker Xiao Zhou turned around and made a "yeah" gesture. On his left hand was Murphy's damaged Greene Lion armor, which was made for the Lorewalkers. of remuneration.

The image stayed at this moment. In the collapsed hall behind Xiao Zhou, there were burning gold ores directly exposed to the air everywhere. Those strange crystal clusters even grew to a length of tens of centimeters.

This scene shocked the old flywheel.

He thought he had seen it wrong, and rubbed his eyes vigorously. After confirming that what appeared in the image was indeed high-quality gold-burning raw ore, the halfling engineer immediately blew a loud whistle.

As we all know, psychic images cannot be faked, so this thing must be real!

"Now, these are the two burned-out ore veins we have in hand. The underground one cannot be measured and mined because there is a huge amount of gravel above it that cannot be cleared in a short time.

But our powerful geologists conducted a preliminary exploration of it. They dug holes down to a depth of nearly ten meters and still found burning gold ore. "

Murphy spread his hands and said:

"Based on the area of ​​that hall, the volume of this vein is probably not that big, but as you can see, the purity of the ore here is frighteningly high, so let's set a price."

"This business is so big that Old Flywheel's legs are a little weak. I have to go and see it in person."

Luk Feilun held the image in his arms.

He is a very decisive halfling. A person who can achieve great things in a ghost place like Hungry Mountain will definitely not be a guy who is looking forward and backward.

As soon as I said I was going to go check it out, I immediately started packing my things.

While packing his luggage, Old Flywheel threw a mechanical key to Murphy and said:

"Everything in this mountain belongs to you. You have to find a way to move the things here to Transia. I think this is difficult, but I believe you will always find a way.

My bugbear workers have been protesting the treatment I give them. They are a bunch of damn bastards. They organize strikes twice a month to demand that I give them a salary increase. What a shitty increase. The era of war and chaos is coming. , so much money is useless, why not work for me quickly and pray that I can protect them in crisis.

But now that the factories have been sold, there is no point in keeping them, so just treat them as half-sold and half-given.

As long as you can convince them to serve you, I'm fine with that.

The thugs composed of trolls and bugbears now number about a hundred people, and they are all big eaters. You can take them away if you want. Oh, by the way, the arithmetic orb you want! I will help you complete the transformation according to your requirements, and I will also help you with those three and a half generations of core orbs.

My request is that all the burning gold in your territory belongs to me! In addition, Hungry Mountain cannot be given to you. There are natural geothermal resources here, and I have to save them to build a sufficiently advanced laboratory for me. "

"Hey, hey! Do you think I'm a fool?"

Murphy immediately stood up unhappily and said:

"Do you think you can monopolize the gold-burning resources we finally discovered by paying such a small amount of rags? Are you too evil? Maybe I should go to the Brass Fortress to discuss the offer with the contemporary head of the Hoffman family.

You see, the dwarves can give you anything you can give, and they are willing to give it.

I think they must be much more generous than you. "

"You're just talking like a lion!"

Having already packed a mechanical box and still calling Jasmine to come over to help pack more things, Su Ke Fei Lun turned around and unceremoniously exposed Murphy's trick.

他 说:

"You can't find anyone to estimate it. You don't know how much your burning gold can be sold for. So just go to the dwarves. They are stingy and greedy and they will definitely lower the price to the point where you lose all your pants.

You have to understand that it is a monopoly business!

monopoly! Do you understand?

The pricing power rests with others. Believe me, Murphy, the price I gave is already very conscientious. And don’t keep talking about the Hoffman family. You don’t even know the details of that family and you dare to come to me?

I'm really not afraid of being beaten to death. "

"But you haven't told me yet, what are you going to do after you get these ores?"

Murphy winked and said:

"Are you going to challenge the brass dwarves' hegemony of burning gold?"

"You can't do it with your little ore!"

Old Flywheel shook his head and said:

"The dwarves' mineral deposits are a terrifying astronomical figure. Although I despise their monopoly on fuel, which prevents this magical substance from being circulated on a large scale, and naturally cannot promote steam engineering to improve the civilization of the entire continent, but I also know that unless someone can Overnight, a gold-burning mine was discovered with reserves far exceeding those of the Brass Dwarf mines. Otherwise, challenging for hegemony would only be nonsense.

After I get your ores, I will mine them all, and then return to Hungry Mountain to set up a cutting-edge laboratory. I know that there are many deviant people in Port Shardeau, and just like me, they cannot tolerate the high pressure of the Steam Council. Live under management.

They want to study some weird stuff.

And burning gold!

That is the blood of engineering. Without it, there can be no improvement. With the materials, I can form my own engineering faction, and one day, my damn junior brother Minx Steam Valve will be killed by me. Trample it hard under your feet!

By that time, my cutest junior sister, Little Bach, will know that she was blind. Well, you didn’t hear this last sentence!

Damn it, you can't tell this. "

Seeing Su Ke Feilun pull out an extremely large-sized coil gun in anger, Murphy immediately waved his hand and said:

"Don't worry, how can I, the governor of Transia, pay no attention to the grudges and bad love stories of a group of halflings without any limits, but I still advise you to be strong.

Plus, you've already formed your own engineering faction, why not take it a step further? What about forming a consortium to operate technology products?

It’s called the Flywheel Consortium!

I can use this batch of burning money to invest in shares, and I can share half of the final profits you get. "

"You're dreaming! A fifth at most."

Old Flywheel almost jumped up from where he was and cursed greed, but Murphy nodded without any psychological burden and said:

"One-fifth is one-fifth. I am very satisfied with this distribution ratio. Also, don't worry. I have something else to tell you about the birth of Burning Gold."

Murphy narrowed his eyes and said:

"You have been studying Burning Gold for so long, don't you have any doubts about this strange universal mineral? My personal psychic master told me that she suspected that the birth of Burning Gold was related to the release of subspace power."

"Hey, we already knew this."

Luk Feilun scoffed at this, saying:

"When my mentor, Old Bach, developed the first-generation computing orb, he had already confirmed that Burning Gold Mine was related to the subspace. He believed that the birth of Burning Gold was consistent with the phenomenon of 'spiritual corrosion' that currently exists throughout the world. The product formed after subspace penetrates into the material world.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to understand why the computing power system of the Calculation Orb would be completely transformed in an instant after adding the gold-burning medium.

This does not conform to the laws of physics at all!

The only reasonable explanation is that the energy released when burning gold is used is a kind of "ideal energy", which is similar to the way spiritual energy is composed.

You see, psionic masters can use some ridiculous magic formulas to manipulate psionic energy to transform free non-attributed psionic energy into fire or ice. Do you think this change in state and energy is reasonable?

unreasonable!

Right.

But that's the nature of psionics.

It does not rely on solid scientific basic principles to take effect, but instead relies more on the user's mind and skills. This is also the characteristic of subspace energy. They will change into various things that harm others according to the thoughts of those who have fallen.

They can do whatever you want them to do.

So in the eyes of idiots, Burning Gold is the 'universal' one. Of course, the specific process of taking effect is much more complicated. Even idealistic psychic energy has its own set of effective methods, which are the existence of psychic spells and mana models. significance.

But this method of use is essentially a ‘ritual’, do you know what I mean?

They are not controlling power, but praying for power. It is no different from weird magic, only engineering is different! The world will deceive you, women will deceive you, but math and physics will not!

If you can’t do math, you just can’t!

Once you learn how to make a high-energy coil gun, no matter what environment you are in, as long as you have the materials, you can complete the manufacturing!

This is the meaning of engineering.

It is a kind of universal knowledge that can be learned, copied, discussed and improved. Only knowledge that can be spread on a large scale is the real power!

Well, look at me, I'm talking a lot today, but why discuss these truths with a fucking vampire idiot?

Anyway, your existence itself is based on the weird night spiritual energy. You also belong to the category of 'unscientific', and you cannot deny yourself. "

Old Flywheel snorted, stretched out his hand and pointed the coil gun at Murphy. Amidst the dangerous sound of energy gathering, he shouted:

"Stop your weird spell that is interfering with my mind! Otherwise I will use this big gun to send you to the sky! Vampire, this is a ray gun made to imitate sunlight. One shot can wipe you out.

I call it 'the stupid and arrogant killer of vampire lords'! "

"Okay, okay, you are indeed a sharp and irritable little man."

Murphy raised his hands and said:

“But that’s what I’m going to talk to you about next, Flywheel, I don’t know how much you know about the legacy of the Creator, but I am certain that there was a super civilization before the beginning of this era.

The current Songhai Empire is the shadow of that super civilization, and I am certain that that civilization left a considerable legacy somewhere in the Dark Mountains, considering that it was most likely released by a super huge subspace force. Destroyed, considering that the entire Black Mountains were a place of death shaped by the Warp Catastrophe.

Therefore, I think that somewhere under the dark mountains, there is a super-burning gold mine that has not yet been discovered!

It's very similar to the process of the birth of the burning gold veins under the Scarlet Keep. I mean, if you really plan to form a consortium to challenge the damn behavior of the Brass Dwarves monopolizing burning gold, maybe we can really start to cooperate.

Look!

This is the big business I want to discuss with you. The problem now is that I don’t have the equipment to track the burning gold mine, so..."

"Sounds like there's nothing wrong with the logic."

Luk Feilun thought about it carefully and said:

"But the black disaster is coming. The civilized camp will not have so much energy to explore the dark mountains in the next few years. In fact, their explorations have failed in the past hundreds of years."

"Because no one is paying attention, this is our only chance. Once the dwarves take the lead, the knowledge monopoly you despise will continue."

Murphy said:

"I need some strong enough partners to find that gold-burning mine. Okay, let me be more honest. I don't care about the gold-burning mine. I just want to find the last legacy of the golden age in the dark mountains.

Do you want to cooperate?

Flywheel, you will get rich, Transia will rise, and we will all get what each other wants. "

The laboratory fell silent.

After dozens of seconds of thinking, the wild warlord moved his slender fingers and said:

"Give me some time, I can contact some 'old friends' and get the prospector you need. I can also find some people from the Explorers Association to help. Those crazy people will be willing to pursue the ruins of the Creator. Become our tool man.”

"Well, 'we' is a good word, I like it."

Murphy laughed and stretched out his hand and said to Su Ke Feilun:

"Then, I salute you, the rich man of the Feilun Consortium."

"You shouldn't be a vampire, Murphy. Really, my dear handsome Murphy, are you considering becoming a magician? Your eloquence will definitely make you famous in this profession. Do you want to change your profession? I have There are connections, I can sell it to you cheaper."

(End of this chapter)