Above The Sky (Yin Tianshen Yin) Chapter 141: Four years later (1/3)
Terra calendar 773, April 9th.
Drought to tide in early spring, frequent rain and thunder, the official road is muddy and there is a danger of flash floods, the number of caravans entering Harrison Port is obviously much less.
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 grown considerably.
Even without the caravan, Harrison Port is still full of vitality.
This previously sparsely populated South Ridge frontier has finally gained some popularity as a commercial center in the region.
Harrison Port, New City, a caravan from the imperial capital is entering from the north gate, advancing along the riverside avenue beside the Ewok River.
They arrived with a large amount of alchemy substrates and pre-processed raw materials that Harrison Port is currently unable to produce independently, and they will take away a variety of southern Xinjiang specialties, as well as cheap Warcraft materials compared to the imperial capital .
【Platinum Iridium Workshop】
From the logo, it is the name of this caravan.
The surrounding area of the imperial capital, which is far away from the frontier, no longer has any soil for the survival of monsters, but it is also the economic and political center, where the strong and the rich emerge in endlessly.
In such a market, the prices of potions and Warcraft materials will naturally rise.
On the other hand, Port Harrison is just the opposite. Frontier towns surrounded by dense forests of monsters lack all the resources and wealth that a civilized society should have. However, it is not difficult to obtain monster materials and various fur resources. As even somewhat cheap.
The long-distance trade between the two is extremely difficult and dangerous, but the benefits are also enough to ignore all difficulties and dangers.
The main body of the caravan, those gray dromedary beasts slowly raised their feet. This kind of desert creature that originally lived in the great desert of Feiyan Land is not suitable for the humid environment in southern Xinjiang, so that its fur is a little bit rough. Withered together.
But their speed is quite fast. It is said that the thick and hard hooves of camel beasts can step on carbon fire, and even the far-flame burning sand that is enough to boil water cannot hurt it.
A young boy whose face was covered by a hood, under the vague protection of several tall guards, followed the caravan, curiously looking around at this city that was different from what he had previously known.
Although the city walls here are low and there is no city defense array to protect them, the armor of the city guards coming and going is quite cheap.
But the enthusiastic hawking in the city and the sails of the distant sea are all very new to him.
"Contrary to what my mother said, Port Harrison isn't that scary. The muddy swamp in the frontier, the wild land where bugs eat people, the miasma jungle where you will die if you are not careful, it is really too scary. Exaggerated."
He smiled cheerfully, and after hearing an old man next to him cough, he realized his impoliteness: "Ah, I'm sorry teacher, I didn't look down on you, but everyone..."
Seeing that the more he explained, the darker he got, the boy immediately coughed lightly, his face tensed.
The boy's words did not affect the surrounding guards, they just moved forward in silence.
"The last time I came here was fifteen years ago. At that time, Harrison Port was indeed a city in a pile of mud. Although it was not as bad as your mother said, the environment was indeed very bad, and there were also aboriginal invasions."
On the contrary, the leader of the caravan came to the young man. He looked around and said with some emotion: "This guy Ayers is doing really well. I thought he would give up managing the territory long ago and just enjoy it. Just hibernating and waiting for the opportunity, and now when the opportunity arises, it will explode with amazing potential."
"Ethan, how do you feel? You haven't been out of Quinol Plains before, have you?"
The man and the old man beside the boy looked at each other, nodded at each other, and then looked at his nephew with a smile.
He stretched out his hand and patted the blond boy on the shoulder: "It's the first time to travel far away from home, do you feel uncomfortable?"
"It's not bad, uncle, thanks to the teacher who took me to the misty rainforest for three months." The boy said unexpectedly calmly: "Although I am also a little afraid that I will not be able to bear the hardships of the journey, but now it seems that, I have not been spoiled by the environment of the imperial capital."
"That's good."
The man nodded in satisfaction. He turned his head and looked at the pier at the end along the avenue along the river: "This time you have a heavy task...don't forget what your parents expect of you."
"Isengarde, you are already a half-adult, you cannot tarnish the glory of the family."
To this, the boy responded solemnly: "Yes, uncle."
At this moment, the sea breeze blew, and a group of seagulls took off from the coast and headed for the woods farther away, causing everyone to look up.
On the blue sky, a shadow passed quietly, and rain clouds moved swiftly in the sky.
Accompanies it with a gentle drizzle.
The wind picked up.
Jingle, jingle.
In a street near the pier along the river in the new urban area, there is a half-new two-story building, and the wind chimes hanging from the windows are jingling by the sea breeze.
"It's windy."
The pages of the book were scrolled by the cool air, the white-haired boy looked up at the window, then got up and closed the window, making the ringing disappear.
The sound-proof double-glazed glass made the room silent. The fourteen-year-old Ian sat in his workshop and began to work intently and breathlessly.
The workshop on the second floor of the white room is quite different from four years ago. Apart from the rows of alchemy raw materials and semi-finished substrates on the four walls, there are also many complicated instruments and large storage cabinet.
All kinds of manuscripts were pasted on the four walls and the sides of various instruments, some of which were instrument operation rules, and some were experimental plans that would be 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 filled with correct fonts on the front end, and common inscription tools such as engraving knives, files, inscription pens, and ink are placed on the back end.
Several half-removed broken clocks, a completely disassembled alchemy gun, and some mechanical parts and design drawings of no apparent use were placed aside.
An obviously handmade telescope is placed in a translucent crystal box, pressed on several old notebooks and books that are often flipped through, and used as a paperweight.
On the wall directly in front of the workbench, there are two hand-painted 'maps', one side is a topographic map and nautical chart around Harrison Port, and the other side is a star map of the Nanling area, each star is marked Clarify brightness and character.
It's just that this star map is extremely sparse, and most of the stars have been crossed out.
On the workbench, on the silver metal armor, an old lithography pen is held tightly by a slender hand.
The young man with white hair and green eyes held his breath intently, the output of the lithography pen was stable, and the subtle and dense electric light formed a white light arc on the tip of the pen.
Concentrating on turning his wrist, he slowly drew lines on the nail plate, finally forming a smooth and complex multiple geometric pattern.
These patterns are complete and smooth, with a sense of rhythm and order, and the degree of stability is almost at the level of high-precision machine tools in the previous life.
After a while, when Ian exhaled softly and raised his wrist to lift his pen, the complex geometric patterns on the nails were complete, but this was not the end yet.
The young man took out a bottle of glossy ink with a lily flower pattern on the bottle from the table. He carefully drew a certain amount of light blue fluorescent ink from it with a test tube, and then pointed it at the nail plate, where he first started writing. Where the inscription is inscribed, drop light ink.
Patter.
As the light ink dripped and melted into the nail, a faint light blue stream of light emerged from these lines, and then dimmed quietly.
The original inconspicuous nail plate now has a glimmer of light that is difficult for ordinary people to see clearly, and it feels much tougher and harder 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;
The boy picked it up with satisfaction and looked at it carefully.
"Good," he said.
Until now, it has been considered as the completion of the most basic 'Ether Armor Shockproof Armor'.