The wind on the surface of the lake was very strong, blowing the water of the lake with waves.

The five-masted galleon in the dockyard, though held in place by wooden shelves, was still swaying gently, and there was a slight creaking sound from the hull.

The water laps against the sinking stone pillars by the pier, and at this time of spring in the early spring, the water level of Weiyang Lake is very low, and the snow and ice on the top of Majaro Mountain have begun to melt, and the clear snow water is bubbling into Weiyang Lake, breathing new life into this crater lake.

Senior Dylan glanced at the old shipwright lightly and said, "Hankleham, you are worried that once the Adamantite Rune Plates on these ships are removed, the plan of the mobile magic teleportation array will fail, and it will be difficult for you to get out of the dispute in the future, this is not wrong, this matter is a little hasty for me, I never thought that the plan of the mobile magic teleportation array would fail." ”

Hanklum, the old boatman, lowered his head slightly when he heard Senior Dylan say this, and he didn't dare to look at Senior Dylan.

Senior Dylan turned his head to look at the nearest five-masted galleon, and said in an unwavering tone, "Now I can tell you very clearly that the Adamantite Rune Plates on these ten five-masted galleons are destined to be torn down. ”

When the boatmen at the dock heard Senior Dylan say this, they were even more excited and discussed.

The dockyard keeper, Bradford, wanted to silence the opposition, but it was clear that he had little authority among the shipwrights.

On the contrary, the old shipwright Hanklem waved his hand to calm everyone down, and the opposition around him was suppressed little by little.

Senior Dylan looked at the black oppressive crowd in front of him, was silent for a while, and spoke again: "You want to keep the ten five-masted galleons in their current state, I can't promise you to keep all the ten five-masted galleons, but I allow you to choose nine of them and directly seal them according to the current situation." ”

Senior Dylan's words made the boatmen quiet down for a moment, and everyone raised their heads, and their eyes fell on the young magician in front of them.

Senior Dylan continued: "It's just that today it is necessary to dismantle the Adamantite Rune Plate on a ship anyway to ensure that the installation of the Adamantite Rune Plate can be carried out smoothly, otherwise the construction period will be delayed, I only ask you." ”

"You don't want to do it, I'll ask the other boatmen to do it. With this sentence, he accentuated his tone, and his voice was as clear and cold as icebergs and snow in early spring.

He turned his gaze to the old shipwright Hankram, and said directly: "The fifty boatmen I have hired from Ignas City in Palestina Province have arrived in the airport town, and they will take over the installation of your rune plates from tomorrow, and in the coming days, they will assemble a five-masted galleon with a movable magic teleportation array." ”

When he heard Senior Dylan's words, the old shipwright Hanklam's face became a little pale, and he raised his head in horror, as if he didn't expect Senior Dylan to have such a hand, so today's strike by the dock shipwrights not only has no meaning, but will also cause big trouble to the nearly five hundred shipwrights in the dock.

When the boatmen heard the news, everyone was shocked and looked at Senior Dylan in surprise.

"Hanklum, let me show you how fifty boatmen managed to build a movable magical teleportation array on a five-masted galleon in a month. But I don't want you to have any resistance or see you cause them some trouble, but I would rather you calm down and learn how they work on board. ”

After Senior Dylan finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Bradford on the side: "Now, Bradford, you take someone to mark the nine ships you want to keep with red paint, and as for the remaining ship, I hope to remove all the pure gold rune plates on the ship before sunrise tomorrow." ”

Bradford took a breath, put away his round belly, and said loudly to Senior Dylan, "Yes, Master Dylan Scholar." ”

......

The inscriptionists stood on one side of the docks, and Eustace frowned slightly in the crowd as Hanklem dispersed from the docks with more than five hundred boatmen, some of whom took barrels of lacquer from the dock warehouses and placed them on the wooden floor of the docks.

The milky lacquer, which was originally intended to protect the hull itself from embalming and preventing shellfish from clinging to the bottom of the ship, was taken out and filled with some reddish vermilion powder to turn into barrels of red paint, and then the hulls of nine five-masted galleons were painted with the word 'sealed' in red.

The remaining nearly 400 or so shipwrights gathered around an outermost five-masted galleon, and with pickaxes and hammers, they quickly removed the layer of adamantite rune plates from the hull.

Senior Dylan walked straight up to the ten inscription masters and said to the one of them who was the leader, "Lord Eustace, do you think that the failure of these mobile magic teleportation arrays on these ten ships is due to some problems with the magic teleportation array blueprints?"

The inscriptionist was obviously still immersed in the wave of apologies from Senior Dylan just now, and did not come to his senses, put on a haughty posture, raised his neck and said to Senior Dylan: "That's exactly what happened, I like to speak based on facts." ”

The corners of Senior Dylan's mouth twitched, and he sneered: "Hehe, Your Excellency Eustace, I usually admire those magicians who are used to speaking with facts. ”

Hearing Senior Dylan's unkind tone, Eustace Inscription realized that Senior Dylan came over this time, not to apologize again, and every sentence had a provocative flavor, so his face became a little ugly, and he said to Senior Dylan: "Just say what you want to say, Scholar Dylan." ”

Senior Dylan stared at Eustace and said, "Originally, out of kindness, I asked the shipwrights to dismantle all the Adamantite Rune Plates on the ten ships, so as not to make the remaining nine ships parked in the dock after the new ships are assembled and successfully tested, which will make the Inscription Master feel a little embarrassed." ”

Eustace's inscription master's face became even more ugly, and his gloomy face was tinged with hatred.

Senior Dylan didn't pay attention to Eustace's face at this time, and said directly: "It's just that I didn't expect a strike on the dockyard side, I think these civilian boatmen shouldn't have the courage to stand on the dock and question me, they must be instigated by someone behind their backs, and it is impossible for the dockyard matter to involve other people, so the most direct beneficiaries are your Excellency Inscriptionists." ”

The green tendons on Eustace's forehead still flare, and he gritted his teeth word by word and said, "Scholar Dylan, do you think we are instigating this group of civilian shipwrights to make trouble?"

He was like a volcano that could erupt at any moment, and the magma in his body was constantly surging.

But Senior Dylan was still adding fuel to the fire with the chatter, he said: "It's rare that I guessed wrong? Do you want to hide something? You want to get out of the dockyard of Yanghu, but you don't dare to disobey the will of His Majesty Charles, and most importantly, you don't see any hope of success on the dockyard, so you think of ruining the plan to build a mobile magic teleportation array this time, or let this plan be shelved forever." ”

Eustace angrily asked Senior Dylan loudly, "Scholar Dylan, do you still stubbornly think that the design of the combined magic pattern circle blueprint is okay?"

Senior Dylan was also at the tip of the needle, refusing to take a step back and said, "Your Excellency Eustace, if I say that the main reason why this combined magic teleportation array has not succeeded for a long time is that the fit of the magic pattern association lines between these pure gold rune plates drawn by you cannot meet the requirements, will you think that this is an excuse I made?"

Eustace's face turned purple with anger, and he asked loudly: "Scholar Dylan, do you think that our inscriptionists are not capable enough to draw your work perfectly?"

Senior Dylan smiled strangely at Eustace Inscription Master at this time, and then said quickly: "Since we both feel that this matter is the other's fault, then...... Excellency Eustace, do you dare to bet with me, if this combined magic teleportation array can't start properly due to a design problem, even if I lose. If this combined magic teleportation array can't be activated properly due to a problem with the inscription drawing process, then I win. ”

Eustace Inscription Master almost didn't think about it, and directly agreed loudly, saying: "What's not to dare to do, I just hope you don't lose too badly, and since it's a gambling contract, then we can't have no bets, we always have to bet something?"

Senior Dylan asked him quietly, "So what do you want to bet on?"

I didn't expect Eustace to be so angry, and so irritable and impulsive, that he even mentioned the bet......

Eustace said without hesitation: "I bet on your Astrologers' Guild of Fishskin Hoods, I know that your Astrologers' Guild bought a total of thirty Fishskin Hoods, if I win this bet, I will ask Scholar Dylan to return to the Astrologers' Guild and give me ten Fishskin Hoods." ”

It turned out that he wanted the fishskin hood collected by the astrologer union, but I couldn't understand it, I had been with Senior Dylan for so long, didn't he recognize me? Ten fishskin hoods may be an expensive magic item worth 18,000 magic crystals for everyone in the imperial capital, but to me it is only worth ten perfect mermaid skins!

Senior Dylan asked rhetorically, "What if you lose?"

Eustace was so angry that he shouted loudly, "How can we lose? If we lose, then we will accompany you with ten fishskin hoods equivalent to gold coins or magic crystals." ”

Senior Dylan seemed to be waiting for Eustace to say this, so he didn't hesitate for a moment to say, "Then it's decided." ”

He took out a contract scroll from his magic belt bag, and took out a quill pen from his bosom, dipped it in some ink with great skill, and then quickly wrote on the contract scroll, Dylan's imperial writing was very beautiful.

He continued as he wrote the contract scroll: " But there is a little bit I don't want to mention, but since our bet is related to the creation of a mobile magic teleportation array this time, then I have to say a few more words, in the past six months, the astrologer union has paid you a large amount of honorarium every month, and has also consumed tens of thousands of adamantite rune plates, if this bet is to determine which of us is responsible, then I would like to mention to your Excellency the inscription master, if it is a problem with the design drawings on my side, then I will directly bear the honorarium paid to you in the past six months, as well as all the expenses of the tens of thousands of adamantite rune plates consumed。 ”

After saying these words, Senior Dylan's contract scroll had been written, he quickly signed his name under the scroll, and then straightened up and handed the scroll to Eustace on the other side, smiled faintly, and said to him: "But if I win this bet in the end, it means that you are not proficient enough in the study of inscriptions, of course I will not let you return the six-month honorarium to me, but at least I hope that you will bear the cost of the tens of thousands of Adamantite Rune Plates that you lost......

He stared at Eustace, his eyes unblinking.

And Eustace took the contract scroll, and it was a little difficult to ride the tiger, glaring at Senior Dylan angrily, gritting his teeth and saying: "A word is certain, if I lose, I will compensate you for these pure gold rune plates......"

As he spoke, he paused, and then said to Senior Dylan: "But since it's a gambling contract, we can't wait for you to perfect this set of drawings indefinitely, there must always be a deadline." ”

Senior Dylan looked at me and spat out a word: "One month." ”

Eustace immediately said, "Okay, this time next month, we'll come to the dock to watch the launch ceremony of your mobile magic teleportation array!"

He turned around and wanted to leave the dock, and after walking a few steps, he came back again, by this time he seemed to have calmed down a little, his forehead was covered with a layer of cold sweat, and said to Senior Dylan with a cold face: " Also, I want our people to come and check the newly drawn Adamantite Rune Board at the dockyard whenever and wherever we want, and we want to see if the new rune board is different from what we drew before, and if there are any differences between the drawings during the production process, don't blame me for taking this contract and taking it to the Chamber of Representatives of the Magical Guild. ”

"Absolutely. Senior Dylan agreed without hesitation.

Eustace then quickly left the dockyard with nine other inscriptionists.

All the while, Eustace didn't look at me as if I were air.

When their conversation was over, I said to Senior Dylan, "Senior, did you really go to Palestina Province to hire a group of boatmen to come back?"

"Of course it's true, two months ago, probably a few days before the end of the winter vacation, I asked Noah to help bring the crew members of the Slave Trader to the imperial capital, but I didn't expect that the magic airship encountered a storm and was delayed on the way for some days, which was about to be delayed for two months, and those crew members just arrived in the airport town yesterday!" Senior Dylan said to me with a smug face.

As he spoke, Senior Dylan took me to the temporary passage of a wooden shelf lined with five-masted sailing ships, from which I could get a close look at the Adamantite magic rune plates embedded on the outside of the hull, until I walked into the five-masted galleon, I saw that the hull was a huge Adamantite rune board, almost every Adamantite rune board was ten feet long and five feet wide, and one was posted on the hull......

Thinking that the astrologer union was really financially powerful, more than 10,000 of this giant adamantite rune board alone had been prepared.

Then I thought about the bet, and if Eustace had lost, I didn't know if I would have been able to get this huge sum of money, and I shuddered to think about it. 2k reading web