Todd couldn't say that he knew everything about the courtship methods of men in his previous life, but he knew a little bit about it. But Huggins's routine of taking advantage of the woman's absence and throwing away the money and running away was unheard of.
But at this time, the person involved was the most depressed.
Just when he thought he had done everything in secret, humming a tune and heading home, Huggins looked at familiar faces one after another as if he had seen a ghost, slowly rising from the side of the stone, in the bushes, and behind the fence.
rise.
"you……"
The man was a little confused and didn't know what to say next.
Todd walked up to him and gave him a complicated look.
The man instantly understood that he was overthinking: "Those are my wife and daughter."
Todd opened his eyes wide.
Huggins took the first step and said: "We'll talk as we walk."
The group embarked on a journey back to the monastery.
The man slowly told Todd his story.
Huggins' family originally originated from the northern swamps of the Fallen Star Mountains. His ancestors made a living by catching rats. There is such a strange disease inherited from generation to generation in the family. When both men and women reach adulthood, their hands and feet will emit black miasma.
, can poison living creatures.
By Huggins' generation, the situation was getting worse. The hands gradually turned black and withered, the muscles lost vitality, the nerves gradually became paralyzed, and toxic gases even penetrated thick gloves and emitted into the air.
The man had a daughter soon after getting married, whom he regarded as a pearl. They were supposed to have a beautiful family, but when the daughter was one year old, she fell into a coma due to a high fever. Huggins took her daughter everywhere to seek medical treatment, but she did not get better at all.
The man had no choice but to enter the monastery of San Sidro and ask for the blessing of his heavenly father.
At that time, he met Master Miles.
The other party examined the patient and told him an unbearable truth. The real cause of his daughter's illness came from his family's curse. The only way to let the child grow up healthily was to keep Huggins as far away from her as possible.
This is a painful choice.
Huggins used an accident to create the illusion of death. He watched his coffin sink into the ground from a distance, and listened to the heart-wrenching cries of his wife and daughter. The man chose to turn around and walk into his own "purgatory."
.
It’s just like this occasionally, the money saved by frugality is secretly given to my wife and daughter...
After hearing this story, Todd looked at Huggins' profile and fell into deep thought. Most people only see the power and beauty of superpowers, but rarely pay attention to what they have lost and what they have paid.
Everyone wants to gain power, but few are ready to bear the consequences that may come.
Todd touched his eyes and asked softly: "Hudgens, if I told you that it was possible for you to live with your wife and daughter like a normal person, but you would take great risks, would you be willing?
?”
The man stopped and put his hands on Todd's shoulders. His tone was more serious than ever: "If I can hold my daughter again, I will give everything I have, even my life."
…”
"God grant you happiness, my daughter"
"Let everything be hopeful and nothing should scare you."
"Recalling those golden years"
“From babbling to growing up”
"My daughter is wearing a beautiful wedding dress"
"Oh, God-sent blessing, bringing comfort and joy"
"My daughter has grown up and will get married today."
Huggins' singing sounded in the monk's ears again, but this time, Todd never spoke again.
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"You mean Duxi Harbor?" Huggins made a cross on the map with a pencil: "Every spring, the pirates from the Northern Islands will row their animal skins, bring axes and torches to cross.
Pass through the Sea of Mist, pass through the rapids, land at Muxi Port, and plunder every village in sight."
Taking the harbor as the center, the man drew a circle with a radius of about fifteen kilometers on the map: "The attack range of the pirates after landing is probably this large. If you run this distance, you can control it in about forty-five minutes.
It can avoid the pursuit of the army and return to the ship in time."
Putting the pen on the table, Huggins glanced at the monk who was listening carefully, touched his chin, and said uncertainly: "I know a person who lives in a seaside village. Maybe I can get more information from his mouth.
"
Todd nodded: "All information is priceless to us. We will act separately. You will be responsible for contacting the insider, and I will prepare what is needed for the next step."
After returning to the laboratory, Todd put the necessary materials into his bag, had a simple meal with Karin, and rushed to the smelting site at the foot of the mountain.
He ordered the craftsmen to free up a furnace for himself, then cleared out all the people around the furnace, and put up thick curtains around it to block everyone's sight.
Todd did it himself, with only Karin as his assistant. The thing he wanted to make this time was still glass, but last time he made optical glass, this time he made craft glass.
The materials are similar, but the processes are different.
I won’t go into details about the previous steps, let’s start with the blowing stage.
First, insert a square iron pipe (made of hammered wrought iron) into a high-temperature furnace to bring out the glass raw materials. The main component is quartz sand, but photosensitive materials do not need to be added. Knead the raw materials twice in the red clay powder.
Color it first. Then stretch the colored raw material into a rod shape, and then bend it to make a handle.
Then, use an iron pipe to take out a ball of glass material and blow it to expand it. The most challenging thing to test your manual skills is the next thing, which is to use a wet wipe to shape the glass while blowing. During this period, once the glass slowly cools
, it needs to be reheated and reshaped. People with good craftsmanship can usually blow out the perfect shape by reheating it two or three times, while those who are unfamiliar with it may need to reheat it seven or eight times.
Next, the colored glass exterior is connected to the main body and smelted at high temperature.
Finally, put it in a cooling place and let it dry for a day.
The steps sound simple, but the steps in the middle that test the craftsmanship are numerous and complicated. If you don’t pay attention, all your efforts will be wasted.
Originally, it was the best choice to let craftsmen do this kind of thing, but Todd was determined to protect this technology and did not let craftsmen and apprentices participate.
As a result, the glass products he blew were lopsided and had pits. Fortunately, Karin was much better than him in this regard, and the finished products were decent.
If Todd hadn't stopped urgently, the girl who was interested in blowing glass could even have done it for a whole day.
Watching all the glass fire embryos being put into the ventilation box, Todd repeatedly emphasized to Jerry, who was in charge of guarding, that no one was allowed to approach this place.
At the same time, Huggins also returned with news about Muxi Harbor.