In early spring, drought turned to tide, with frequent rains and thunder, the official road was muddy and there was a danger of flash floods, so the number of caravans entering Harrison Port was significantly reduced.
But in recent years, with the emergence of new urban areas and several settlements outside the city walls surrounding the port, the permanent population has become much larger than before.
Even without the caravans, Port Harrison is still full of life.
This sparsely populated Nanling frontier in the past has finally gained some popularity as a regional business center.
Harrison Port, New City, a caravan from the Imperial Capital is entering from the north gate and advancing along the riverside road next to the Ewok River.
They arrived carrying a large amount of alchemical substrates and pre-processed raw materials that Harrison Port cannot currently produce independently, and will take away a variety of southern Xinjiang specialties, as well as World of Warcraft materials that are cheap compared to the Imperial Capital.
【Platinum and Iridium Workshop】
Judging from the logo, it is the name of this caravan.
The imperial capital, which is far away from the frontiers, no longer has any soil for Warcraft to survive, but it is also an economic and political center, with strong and wealthy people emerging one after another.
In such a market, the prices of magic potions and Warcraft materials have naturally increased.
Harrison Port is just the opposite. A border town surrounded by dense forests of Warcraft, it lacks all the resources and wealth that a civilized society should have. However, Warcraft materials and various fur resources are not difficult to obtain, so much so that some
cheap.
Long-distance trade between the two is extremely difficult and dangerous, but the benefits are enough to ignore all difficulties and obstacles.
The main body of the caravan, the gray dromedary beasts, slowly raised their feet. This kind of desert creature that originally lived in the great desert of Feiyan Land was not very suitable for the humid environment of southern Xinjiang, so that its fur was a little knotted and withered.
together.
But their speed is quite slow. It is said that the thick and hard hooves of the camel beast can step on carbon fire, and even distant flames and sand that can boil water cannot harm it.
A young boy whose face was covered by a hood, vaguely protected by several tall guards, followed the caravan and looked around curiously at this city that was different from what he had known in the past.
Although the city walls here are low and there is no city defense array to protect them, the armor of the city guards who come and go is also quite cheap.
But the enthusiastic hawking in the city and the sails traveling on the distant sea were all very new to him.
"Contrary to what mom said, Port Harrison is not that scary. The mud swamps in the frontier areas, the wilderness areas where bugs can eat people, and the miasmatic jungles where you will die if you are not careful are indeed too exaggerated."
He smiled cheerfully, and then when he heard an old man beside him cough, he realized that he was rude: "Ah, I'm sorry, teacher, I didn't look down on it, it's just that everyone..."
Realizing that the explanation seemed to be getting darker and darker, the young man immediately coughed lightly and his expression became tense.
The young man's words did not affect the surrounding guards, they just moved forward silently.
"The last time I came here was fifteen years ago. At that time, Port Harrison was indeed a city in the mud. Although it was not as bad as your mother said, the environment was indeed very bad, and there were rampant invasions by indigenous people."
On the contrary, the leader of the caravan came to the young man's side. He looked around and said with some emotion: "This guy Ayres has done a really good job. I thought he had given up on managing the territory long ago and focused on enjoying it. Unexpectedly, he was just dormant and waiting. Opportunity, now that I have the chance, I can unleash my amazing potential."
"Ethan, how do you feel? You've never been out of Quinall Plains before, right?"
The man and the old man beside the young man looked at each other, nodded to each other, and then looked at their nephew with a smile.
He reached out and patted the blond boy on the shoulder: "It's your first time traveling far away from home. Do you feel uncomfortable being so far away from home?"
"Not bad, uncle, thanks to the teacher who took me to the Wusha Rainforest for three months to experience." The young man unexpectedly said calmly: "Although I am also a little afraid that I will not be able to withstand the hardships of the journey, but now it seems that I haven't. Being spoiled by the environment of the imperial capital.”
"That's good."
The man nodded with satisfaction. He turned his head and looked along the riverside road towards the pier at the end: "You have a very heavy task this time... Don't forget your parents' expectations of you."
"Isengard, you are already half an adult, you cannot tarnish the honor of your family."
To this, the young man responded solemnly: "Yes, uncle."
At this moment, the sea breeze blew, and a dense group of seagulls took off from the coast and headed towards the woods further away, causing everyone to look up.
On the blue sky, a shadow quietly passed by, and rain clouds moved rapidly across the sky.
Along with it came a gentle drizzle.
The wind picked up.
Jingle bell, jingle bell.
There is a street in the new city close to the pier along the river. It is a two-story building that is not old. The wind chimes hanging in the window tinkled in the sea breeze.
"got windy."
The cool air rolled through the pages of the book. The white-haired boy raised his head and glanced out the window, then stood up and closed the window, making the ringing disappear.
The soundproof double-glazed glass made the room silent. Fourteen-year-old Ian sat in his workshop and began to work with concentration and breathlessness.
The workshop located on the second floor of White Room Grocery is very different from four years ago. In addition to the rows of alchemy raw materials and semi-finished matrices placed on the four walls, there are also many complex instruments and large storage cabinets.
On the four walls and the sides of various instruments, various manuscript papers are posted everywhere. Some are operating instructions for the instruments, and some are experimental plans that are changed from time to time.
On the workbench located in the center of the second floor, there are sheets of manuscript paper and schematic diagrams written in correct fonts at the front end, while at the back end are placed the tools commonly used for inscriptions such as arranging knives, boards, files, inscription pens, and inks.
Several half-dismantled broken clocks, a completely decomposed alchemical firecracker, and some mechanical parts and design drawings with no apparent purpose were placed aside.
An obviously handmade telescope was placed in a translucent crystal box, pressed against several shabby notes and books that were often turned over, and used as a paperweight.
On the wall directly in front of the workbench, there are two hand-drawn 'maps'. One side is a topographic map and nautical chart around Harrison Port, and the other side is a star map of the South Ridge area. Each star is marked with its brightness.
and characteristics.
It's just that this star chart is unusually sparse, and most of the stars have been crossed out, so the writing is not accurate.
On the workbench, on top of the silver metal armor, an old photolithography pen was held tightly by a slender hand.
The boy with white hair and blue eyes held his breath attentively. The output of the photolithography pen was stable, and the fine and dense electric light formed a white arc of light at the tip of the pen.
He turned his wrist attentively and slowly drew lines on the nail plate, eventually forming a smooth and complex multiple geometric pattern.
These patterns are complete and smooth, with a rhythmic and orderly beauty, and their stability is almost at the level of high-precision machine tools in previous generations.
After a while, when Ian exhaled softly and raised his wrist and pen, the complex geometric patterns on the nail plate were complete, but this was not the end.
The young man took out a bottle of glossy ink with a fleur-de-lis pattern printed on it from the table. He carefully used a test tube to draw a certain amount of light blue fluorescent ink from it, and then pointed it at the nail plate where he had originally written.
, drop the light ink.
Snap.
As the light ink drips and blends into the nail, a light blue stream of deep light emerges from these lines, and then quietly dims.
The armor that was originally inconspicuous now has a glimmer of light on the outer layer that is difficult for ordinary people to see, and the feeling has become much tougher and difficult to destroy.
From determining the material and finalizing the beginning of the inscription; to conceiving the overall structure and stabilizing the effect of the inscription; and finally to finishing the work, the light and ink are inspired.
The young man picked it up with satisfaction and looked at it.
"Not bad." He said.
Until now, the most basic ‘anti-shock armor plate for etheric weapons’ has been completed.