379.Chapter 377 376 Making Cement? Doesn’t that mean you have hands?

Chapter 377. 376. making cement? You can do it with your hands, can’t you?
Although Scarlet Castle’s “Master Engineer” Xiao Xue Lun wanted to see the winner of Transylvania’s first boxing tournament come out, she finally decided to leave for the arsenal in Andromeda Hills after three days of being stranded in Scarlet Castle.

On the one hand, Lord Murphy and his apprentice Loyalty have been urging her to go, although Loyalty is very interested in the continent’s steam engineering stuff and is determined to learn these things to master, but there is no way to learn itself needs time, and nowadays Loyalty does not have the ability to independently run a “fantasy engineering”-based Arsenal.

To put it simply, Loyalist is shaking things up and desperately wants his little mentor to come in and take charge.

On the other hand, the construction of the main body of the arsenal on the Andromeda Hills had already been completed, and the large-scale steam furnace power source promised by our “partners”, the Capet family, had already been shipped to the Andromeda Hills.

It is said that a dozen skilled workers sent by the Capet family have already started assembling the production line and selecting apprentices from the nearby villages and stragglers at Brother Loyalty’s request, which means that the real production of the arsenal will soon be put on schedule.

Little Sheridan was still very attached to this factory.

The weapons production lines that made up the Transylvania National No.1 Arsenal all came from the former Cicco City, which was her “patrimony”, which she thought she could never get back, but was taken back by Lord Murphy through political means.

And now she is also one of the administrators and rulers of Transylvania, in the sense that she must personally participate in the management of the arsenal, but unfortunately, when the management of the factory district of the city of Xicao Dern supervisor and his command of the team of smart and capable workers have died in the plague disaster.

However, considering that the current dead of West Ke City had all evolved into undead that could not rest in peace bound in their decaying shells, did that mean that one would still be able to see that excellent factory owner at some point in the future?
With such questions in mind, escorted by two winged cavalrymen and four mountain folk warriors, Sherron’s carriage slowly departed from the Scarlet Fortress.

However, before they could get far, an unexpected visitor appeared at the side of the carriage and requested to board the carriage to talk to Sheridan.

Although the young earl had also inherited Lord Murphy’s unique blood of sinful descent, because the blood contract had been severed by the family’s source blood, her resistance to sunlight was far less than Maxim’s and Adele’s, and she still couldn’t raise her spirits even in the dim carriage during the daytime.

It was only out of her insistence on her bloodline that she had not yet slept in the exquisite walnut coffin she had placed in the carriage.

“Ms. Dorothy?”

Sheridan looked at the leader of the Blood Rat Gang who had boarded the carriage, and she said in surprise while sipping the hot tea that had refreshed her mind at the suggestion of that strange Count Andre:
“What is your business? As you can see, I am about to leave Scarlet Castle, and the next time I come back is estimated to be at least twenty days from now.”

“That’s exactly why I’m in a hurry to pay a visit.”

Dorothy didn’t waste Sherron’s time, she directly took out a “sample” from her psychic energy bag and handed it to the young earl, who took it in his hand and looked at it.

It was a carefully crafted piece of cardboard with 64 uniform squares in eight horizontal and eight vertical columns, on which were drawn different symbols, very small enough to be seen, all of which were various animals that existed in reality or in legends, a few duplicates, but most of them were independent.

At the bottom of the cardboard, the rules of the “game” were written in the simplest of words, and how smart is little Xue Lun, she immediately reacted:
“Is this a raffle ticket?”

“Yes, it’s very similar to the raffle tickets that halflings give out when they hold festivals in their cities, but this one’s rules are a bit more complicated, it’s essentially a kind of gambling with a small amount of money, and it’s something that’s not allowed to be played on the stage.”

Dorothy leaned back in the seat of the wagon and told young Sherron what she had heard from old Haw:

“For example, this one in your hand, after it is molded I will have the warrior psychics in the Blood Rats gang camouflage it and sell it for 5 coins each, after the buyer holds it in their hand they only need to rip off the shoddy psychic camouflage to be able to see their ‘winnings’.

As long as there is a griffin in the animal pattern inside, you can redeem 5 silver coins at the point of purchase, two griffins ten silver coins, three griffins twenty silver coins, and if you can catch a combination of flying lions+griffins+sea monsters, it is the first prize.

A whole 10 gold coins!”

“This is gambling!”

Sherron said warily:

“My mother told me from a young age that I shouldn’t gamble, she grew up in a city of halflings, and saw too many of those poor bastards who lost everything in the casinos run by the Thieves’ Union leading to the end of their lives, and you’re going to be selling this stuff in Scarlet Castle?

You guys are really heartless! The people here are poor enough.”

“How is that possible?”

Dorothy rolled her eyes and said:

“The people in Scarlet Fortress use labor points, the circulation of money here is restricted, and none of them have much money in their hands, we’ll put this in the Scarlet Fortress underground black market and Batasin City as a pilot project, and sell it to the Yankee side on the way to see the effect.

Of course, this is just a ‘warm-up’ for a bigger plan, by this little thing to publicize the truth to those guys who have money with nowhere to spend it, that is, Transylvania also has a place where they can spend their money in style.

Don’t ask too many questions, just tell us if you can design a printing press for us to make these ‘scratch-offs’ in bulk, right?”

“Of course I can, it wouldn’t be hard at all.”

Sherron grunted and said:
“Not only can I design it, I can also make a mechanical logic for randomly assigning patterns to it, and I can even set the probability of the top prize appearing according to the degree of your black heart, and I only need two arithmetic treasure pearls as the arithmetic core to realize this function.

But it will be very delicate yet very heavy when it is made, so you will have to find a place to store it.”

“Very well, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear! Then the machine is in your hands.”

Dorothy said softly:

“Can it be ready in five days? Please understand that my ‘partners’ are less inclined to waste any more time, and this is the time for us to show them what we’re capable of, and I desperately need us to come up with something physical as soon as possible.”

“With such a tight schedule it will have to be done in a special way if it is modified with that typewriter I carry with me, yes, but at an extra cost!”

Xiao Xuelun said with a lion’s share of the money:
“The base price is 100 gold coins, and I can still get it done in three days, but if I have to shorten the hours it means I’ll have to stay up late and work overtime. I heard a great term from Lord Murphy called ‘labor cost’.

I’m the titular Earl of Westcott, and having to labor to make this pest of a thing for you is weighing on my conscience, so I’m offering 300 gold coins! This might make my tortured conscience feel better .”

“But you are a vampire! Working late at night isn’t even a stress to you it’s a perk”

Dorothy spat:

“I know that as Count Cicco you have to raise money everywhere to stockpile for the rebuilding of your territory, and I know that you put your craftsmanship to good use, crafting fine firearms and then selling them at ten times the price to warriors with big grins.

You’re bullying those otherworldly elves for not seeing enough!

But I’m a local, little Earl Sheridan, so such a harsh asking price isn’t necessary, is it?”

“Alright, I’ll give you a discount then.”

Little Sheren smiled like a fox that stole a chicken, she covered her mouth and said:
“250 gold coins, this can’t be any less, this is still for the sake of our somewhat friendship, if you want more machines of the same type after that, 300 for one, never bargain.”

“Deal!”

Dorothy grimly took out a money bag from her psychic bag and threw it to the “little vampire” in front of her, she didn’t stay for too long and left Sheridan’s carriage.

She had to go and report this matter to her superior, Mrs. Adele, to find out what she and Lord Murphy had to say.

Although the Blood Rats are responsible for earning operational funds for the Phantom Intelligence Bureau, the nature of what Dorothy is currently doing is very different from opening a handicap in a fight club, she must get the approval of her superiors and a letter of authorization before the implementation of this, so that even if something goes wrong at a later stage, she will still be able to find a “backstabber”.

Always find yourself a good way back!
This is Dorothy’s philosophy of survival, and the fact that she has survived until now under the pursuit of the mysterious forces and has become more and more prosperous fully proves that her survival strategy is correct.
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The update for version 3.0 was on Friday, and two days later it was the weekend, which coincided with the development team’s promise to release a batch of gaming devices each week.

There were only 50 units available today, but that was enough to keep the forums buzzing.

The number of RPers on the forums has soared to 1,500, thanks in large part to the success of the RPers, a unique group of gamers in Transylvania, who now have their own territory, making it easier for them to recruit more like-minded people from their “taverns”.

The remaining part of the rapid growth came from the influence of Daisen’s homemade promotional CG, which was taken down in the middle of the game, spreading privately in various groups. As an UP master, Sain has already filled up three new groups of 1,000 people in the past few days, and is in the process of setting up more groups.

Of course, he also knows that the water friends attracted by this way is definitely a mixture of good and bad, and need to be ruthlessly “purified”, this is the back of the responsibility of the matter, in case the water friends who enter the game from his channel to get into trouble, he has to bear the “administrative punishment”.

If this is an ordinary game, the responsibility will be carried, even if there is really a GM is only to kick himself out of the game, but the unique game mode of the “real otherworld” makes Sein under a lot of pressure.

Although he didn’t have many “assets” in the game, he really couldn’t leave this hot land that he had paid so much for.

All in all, things are moving forward steadily, except that one of the 50 players entering the game this time is special.

Moe Haha didn’t enter the game in time for the first wave of new players to log in, and she waited half an hour for her “late arrival”. This made Sister Pomegranate, who was waiting for her at the entrance of the Midnight Chamber, a little upset, as she remembered that her best friend was not a person who would be late at all.

“Sorry, I overslept.”

The game’s Moeha was just as leisurely as in reality, walking out slowly with the same four-square steps as a slinky little old man, her head spinning around and looking at everything with the same curiosity as a standard newcomer.

Perhaps the bridge of her nose without glasses makes her a little uncomfortable, always subconsciously touch the bridge of her nose when she talks, and then smiling and pomegranate sister hand in hand towards the corridor outside.

“Did you have a good trip home?”

Sister Pomegranate asked:
“I was planning to keep you over here for a few more days, but it turned out that you only stayed for two days before you had to leave, hot and bothered, did something happen at home?”

“No.”

Moeha replied casually again while surveying the gas lamp hanging at the top of the aisle, seemingly pondering how the thing worked:
“It’s because of something else, remember what I told you about ‘sealing control’ on the way to your house from the airport? It’s already being implemented ow, and I’m guessing it’s coming soon on your end. I’ve heard from some of my sources that this closure will be nationwide, duration unknown, but the overall climate is not promising.

There’s already chaos abroad, and this wave of ours is defensive self-protection.

You guys don’t go anywhere for a while.

Be good and stay at home, it’s fine to play a game and jerk off some iron, by the way, send me your current weight, circumference and body data, and I’ll help you formulate a set of training program for free, just like the ‘perfect match’ we had in the past.”

“Is it that serious?”

Sister Pomegranate was startled, and she rubbed her head:

“I’ve been addicted to the game all this time haven’t paid much attention to the real news, I just heard Lumina complaining in the group that they can’t control their side anymore, that guy is preparing to go back to his country to avoid it.”

“Oh yeah, Lumina, you said before, a foreign student, right?”

Moeha narrowed her eyes, then smirked:
“Let’s take me to meet them, I’m still curious as to what kind of strange woman could make my Pomegranate, who’s so high-minded, behave as a team member instead of competing for the team leader’s throne. I thought you’d changed your tune.”

“Behave yourself.”

Sister Pomegranate pushed Moeha, who was snuggling up to her, as she said:

“I’ll take you to register your identity first, after receiving your arithmetic treasure beads and psychic dog tags you’ll go around the city for a while, Lumina and the others will be able to bring a new batch of stragglers back from Batasin City to settle in tonight, I’ll introduce you to them then, and then you’ll be the Spiritual Lawgiver for the Pride of Silvermoon troupe!”

“Ch, I don’t want to learn any spells.”

Moeha bristled:
“I’m a physicist, understand? I worship the great gods Einstein and Poe! Even though the Ancestors can’t control this place, this sudden turnaround from a firm materialist believer to a user of mysterious cosmic energy is too big for me, and I’m afraid that the Ancestors will give me a dream at night to chastise me for being an ungrateful son.”

“But didn’t your family’s Lord Ox convert to theology in the end?”

Sister Pomegranate laughed, and rather valiantly summoned her own gargoyle and took her little friend to experience the joy of flight.

If it wasn’t going to be afternoon, and the player vampires weren’t willing to fly in this kind of environment, Sister Pomegranate designated that she would take Moe Ha and fly up to the sky, shoulder to shoulder with the Duke of the Sun.

Her friendship with Moeha wasn’t quite the same as her friendship with the rest of the Silvermoon troupe.

After all, even if they play well together, it is still a “netizen relationship”, but Moeha is a real good friend that she has known for many years.

When the guy was a poor graduate student, it was Garnet who “raised” her for a while, and when Garnet retired due to injury, it was Moeha who stayed with her and guided her during the most depressed period.

The two have been friends for many years.

In Moe Ha’s words, if it were not for the same gender and their normal orientation, Shihua would have been her perfect life partner.

“Go about your business by yourself, you’re an old player, you must have a lot of things to keep you busy.”

After receiving the Arithmetic Treasure Pearl and the Spiritual Energy Dog Tag and picking up the initial quest at the Adventurer’s Guild, Moeha said to Sister Pomegranate:

“Don’t mind me, I’ll wander around the city on my own, you know me, the things I’m interested in aren’t quite the same as the average person, I’ll observe the place in my own way first, and you tell me a rendezvous point.

I’ll come straight to you then.”

“All right!”

Sister Pomegranate was very confident in her best friend’s “survivability”, she said:

“Then at 9:30, meet at the entrance to the cloister, Lady Water’s store in the city’s trade area will be opening soon, so let’s go and clean it up for her tonight, and move the tailor’s tools and work shifts from the camp over to prepare for next month’s opening.

I’ll introduce you to them then, they’re all very nice people, you’ll get along well with them.”

“Okay, no problem.”

Moeha gave an OK gesture, and then watched as Sister Pomegranate whistled and summoned the distant wandering hunter’s war ponies, and then dashingly rolled over onto her horse and galloped away.

That valiant back made Moe Haha swallow his saliva indisputably.

“Ugh, how come I’m not a man, or you’re not a man? Exasperated!”

The physicist stomped his foot in exasperation, but quickly adjusted his mood and slithered around again with his hands behind his back.

She had also entered the game with a quest though.

However, she didn’t belong to the official establishment of Loyal Brother’s powerful department, if she had to say, she belonged to the “special personnel” and consultant, so compared to Loyal Brother’s group, she had much more freedom.

“Lumina Yang Trace is going back to her home country, so Brother Loyalty doesn’t have to worry about her safety, but the ‘Terranova’ they were tracking down last time actually took the initiative to admit to the crime and even gave out a strange reason for doing so, which is quite surprising.”

Moeha thought in her mind:
“There’s a mysterious ‘peer’ in Lumina’s little group who’s working on the Real Otherworld and seems to have created a very primitive prototype based on the principle of brainwave interference .
Is there really such a madman?

Even if she made a device like that without any theoretical basis, would she dare to let others use it? Huh? What are those people in front of us doing?”

Moeha quickly noticed that in the open space in front of her, a few young men were frowning at a bunch of strange things in front of them. Out of scholarly curiosity, she went up to have a look, then said with odd eyes:
“You guys. . trying to make cement? But how did you guys make it look like this! Those who don’t know would think that you guys are cultivating Slimes, hey, not that I’m saying, you guys are a bit too bad at this hands-on thing ow.”

(End of chapter)