In this world, steam generators have appeared more than ten years ago. At that time, this thing was very sensational. Many people thought that this thing represented the future of technology, but in the end they found that they did not know where to use this thing.
Until a warden who was always troubled by prisoners escaping thought that steam generators could help him manage the prison, so he built an electric grid around the prison wall to prevent prisoners from escaping.
Afterwards, after dozens of practical tests, everyone found that steam generators can achieve extraordinary results when combined with the power grid, so grid security became the only use of steam generators.
If before entering the Cage City, the simple microphone and speaker installed next to the elevator only made Leo curious, then the current electric light made him realize that the person who invented this thing already knew much more about electricity than this.
Other people in the world, if they are lucky, this person will definitely become a pioneer in the use of electrical energy.
"Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" Martin may have been accustomed to electric lights. He did not show much surprise. After entering the room, he pushed aside all kinds of weird mechanical parts on the ground that were in the way and walked to the stairs on one side of the room.
, yelled several times upstairs, and after receiving no response, he muttered a little irritably: "Damn it! Didn't I tell him to stay here for the next few days? This guy ran out again!"
Then, he said apologetically to Leo and Jason: "You two, wait here for a while, I'll go out and look for him."
After saying that, he quickly walked out of the house and disappeared into the dark corridor.
"Leo, this thing is so bright!" Jason, who had relaxed, leaned under the light bulb with a curious look on his face. He squinted his eyes and looked up. After a while, his eyes felt a sting, so he lowered his head and rubbed it.
Eyes, said: "It's just a bit dazzling after looking at it for a long time."
"You idiot, who made you stare for so long?" Leo scolded with a smile, and then looked at the various strange machines piled up in the room.
Just to Leo's left hand side, there is a machine that looks like a piano, but the keys do not correspond to strings, but to finger-thick vacuum tubes, and some unknown substance flows inside the vacuum tubes.
The liquid looks very weird.
On the right hand side is a mechanical arm made of air pipes, steel bars and gears. The air pipe of the arm is connected to a small steam engine similar to a steam crossbow power device. However, this small steam engine is far from being so delicate and light, but is very bulky.
, even it was difficult for Leo to carry it.
In addition, there is a machine similar to a gramophone not far away, and a model similar to a glider from the old Earth era is hung on the roof. The walls are covered with various complex mechanical drawings, mechanical three-dimensional diagrams, etc.
Although he hasn't met this man named Jean Valjean yet, Leo already has a fixed impression in his mind. This man is definitely a self-taught mechanical genius.
"I don't like that guy." Just as Leo was walking around admiring the various interesting machines in the room, Jason suddenly said.
Leo stopped, turned around, and asked Jason calmly: "I don't like him either."
"Do you know who I'm talking about?" Jason was stunned and asked.
"Of course I know." Leo raised his head in the direction of the room door.
Jason smiled, stepped forward again, and asked softly: "Do you believe what he said?"
Leo looked at Jason in surprise and asked, "Don't you believe what he said?"
Jason thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "I don't think it's good. My mother told me that anything that doesn't feel good is not a good thing."
"Your mother is right. You must listen to your mother in the future." Leo smiled and nodded, and then deliberately whispered: "I don't like that guy as much as you do. As the guy said himself, politicians
It’s all a piece of shit, who would believe what shit says?”
Jason wondered: "Since you don't believe what he said, why..."
Leo expressed his thoughts directly: "I want to know what he wants to do, what does he want to get from the doctor?"
"Doctor?" Jason was even more confused.
Leo picked up a spherical mechanical object from the table, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it. While studying its structure, he said: "Don't look at it, he seems to be convincing me from beginning to end to enter into this inexplicable cooperation with him.
, in fact, his target has always been a doctor, and you and I are just adding to it."
"Is he here for the doctor?" Jason didn't know why Leo thought so, but he believed what Leo said, so he was worried about the doctor and said, "Should we inform the doctor?"
"Don't tell the doctor," Leo shook his head and said, "The doctor is so obsessed now that he has forgotten his own name and can't hide anything at all. And I don't even believe that Catherine," perhaps because he felt that what he said
He had to be a little absolute and added: "At least it's not worth believing now."
Just as Leo finished speaking, his fingers seemed to touch a certain switch on the mechanical ball in his hand. The mechanical ball split from the middle part on both sides with a snap, and then the upper half of the shell opened up like a flower.
Then he saw a delicate small house driven by gears slowly rising from the lower half of the sphere, and every person and animal in the small house would make different actions as the gears rotated.
After all the movements were completed, another snapping sound was heard, and the small house slowly sank into the hemisphere below, and the other petal-like half also closed again, returning to a mechanical sphere.
"Wow! It's such an exquisite gadget. I'm definitely willing to spend ten gold shields to buy one." While exclaiming, Jason took it from Leo's hand, held it in his hand and looked through it carefully, as if he wanted to find out what was going on inside.
's mystery.
"It is indeed an exquisite gadget, but I am more interested in the person who made it." Leo, who is used to seeing extreme machinery such as space battleships, was surprised by the sophistication of the gadget in front of him, but he did not express it.
It was so strong that it actually made me curious about the producer.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a heavy object falling to the ground upstairs where there should have been no one. Because the roof and floor were made of iron plates, the sound was very loud down below.
Leo and Jason looked at each other, each took a panier ax from their waists, and walked directly upstairs.
The situation on the second floor is the same as that on the first floor. There are all kinds of weird mechanical devices. However, unlike the first floor, most of these mechanical devices are complete and should be finished products, so the placement should be more careful.
, far from the random piles downstairs.
I saw a large workbench placed against the wall on one side of the room on the second floor. There were several disassembled small steam engines on the workbench, and a spotlight made of iron sheet with a similar mechanical arm.
The bracket is fixed on the workbench. Under the spotlight, a figure is sitting in front of the workbench, immersed in something.
Leo and Jason walked over. Although they did not deliberately increase their footsteps, the sound of their footsteps was still loud. They stepped on the iron floor and clicked. However, the person sitting in front of the workbench seemed to be deaf.
Usually you don't hear anything and continue doing your own thing.
Soon, the two of them walked up to this figure. Jason raised his hand to pat the other person's shoulder to remind him of his arrival, but Leo grabbed his hand, shook his head, and then looked down at the workbench.
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I saw that this figure was wearing a dirty work clothes, and a leather helmet similar to the flying cap of the old earth era covered the entire head. Judging from the situation just now, the sound insulation effect of this helmet was pretty good.
In addition, he also wears a pair of very fine mechanical eyes, with some fine gears around the eyes. The eye frame is a special telescopic device similar to a single-barrel telescope. Judging from what he is doing now, this pair
The eyes should be able to magnify the objects in front of you. Their function is somewhat similar to the eyes on the doctor's mask, but more precise.
At this moment, this man is using tweezers to carefully assemble the delicate machinery placed on the table. There are a large number of small gears in these machinery. Although he does not know what the machine is ultimately used for, but in terms of complexity,
It has far surpassed the mechanical ball downstairs.
At this time, the last gear on the machine had been assembled. The man took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, moved his somewhat stiff hands, then picked up the tweezers, clamped the small gear, which was not much larger than a grain of rice, and slowly approached
At the installation position, insert it into the bearing and fix it, then pick up the cover that has been prepared aside, cover it, and tighten it.
After finishing all this, the man took a long breath, shouted a word of celebration in a strange language, then stretched, took off his eyes and helmet, revealing a young face in his early twenties.
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Even after removing the things that obstructed vision and hearing, the young man still didn't notice the person standing behind him. His attention was completely attracted by what he had created, and he picked up the mechanical device with the shell already installed on the table.
Put it under the light and look at it carefully.
"Can you show me?" At this time, Leo suddenly said.
"Ah!" The young man was immediately startled and screamed, his body shaking uncontrollably. Fortunately, his hand was steady and he did not drop the mechanical device in his hand.
After calming down, he turned his head and saw Leo and Jason standing behind him. Although there was fear in their eyes, he tried to keep his face calm. He also said to them in a stable tone: "What if?"
You want money. There are thirty gold flanges in the cabinet next to the workbench. If you want Hagen powder, I don’t have it here. If you want it..."
"Damn it! Boy, we are not robbers." Jason yelled.
When the young man heard this, the fear in his eyes diminished a little, and then he asked again: "Are you here to buy something?"
"We came here with Martin." Leo said truthfully: "Your name is Jean Valjean! My name is Leo Dodd, and Martin said you have some good equipment here that we can use."
Hearing Leo's words, Jean Valjean frowned very slightly, as if he didn't have much respect for Martin. Although his eyes were well concealed, Leo could still see a trace of disdain in his eyes.
"Where are the Martins?" Jean Valjean looked behind the two of them and asked.
Leo explained: "He called you downstairs just now, but you were busy with your own business and didn't respond, so he thought you weren't there and went to look for you elsewhere."
"Damn it! I'm going to be scolded again." Jean Valjean cursed depressedly.
Leo pointed to the mechanical device in Jean Valjean's hand and asked, "Can I take a look?"
"Do you understand?" Jean Valjean handed the thing to Leo with some arrogance and said, "Be gentle, don't break it. I finished it with great difficulty."
Leo ignored the young man's tone of voice and put the mechanical device in his hand and looked at it.
I saw that this device is about the size of two palms. The gears inside have been covered by a box made of iron sheets. There are some holes in the box. Each hole corresponds to a number and symbol. There is a long opening on the side of the box.
There is a window, and inside the window are seven roller-like gears.
Although the shape of the box is a bit weird, you can still easily guess what this device does from the logo on the buttons.
Under Jean Valjean's slightly surprised gaze, Leo pressed some buttons skillfully, and then twisted the spring on the side of the box. After twisting it to the extreme, he let go and saw the seven rollers of the long window.
It rotated rapidly and finally stopped on a number, forming a group of seven digits.
"This calculator is a very good thing! It can calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within seven digits, as well as percentages. I think businessmen will be very interested in this thing." Leo returned the thing in his hand to Jean Valjean,
He also gave some advice and said: "It's just that this thing has some shortcomings, that is, it cannot calculate the precise number after the decimal point. Once the number after the decimal point appears, your calculator will have a one-digit error."
"Calculator?" Jean Valjean couldn't help but ponder for a moment after hearing Leo's words, and then said happily: "Yes, this thing is called a calculator! The name is very appropriate. Do you also know mechanics?"
Leo told the truth, "I don't understand, but I know how to use it." He pointed to the spotlight on the workbench and said, "The spotlight is pretty good."
"Spotlight, it seems you really know how to use it." As a mechanic, Jean Valjean not only likes to communicate with his colleagues, but also likes people to appreciate his work, so his attitude towards Leo has become cordial.
Quite a few, unlike at the beginning, there was a defensive arrogance in his expression and words.
"Why not promote this kind of lamp in Cage City?" Leo asked again: "In a dark environment like Cage City, this kind of lamp is most suitable."
Leo's words seemed to hit Jean Valjean's sore spot. His tone immediately cooled down, as if he was answering Leo's question, but he deliberately said behind Leo, "Someone doesn't want to promote it."
Chapter completed!