10. Dockyard anecdote (1)

Senior Dylan's magic caravan pulls into the dock on the shore of Weiyang Lake.

Ten five-masted galleons are moored side by side on the dock dock nearly a kilometer long, each five-masted galleon is surrounded by dense wooden frames, standing on these wooden frames are laid with temporary wooden planks, layer by layer surrounding the entire five-masted galleon, and the hull of each five-masted galleon is wrapped around this layer of Adamantite rune plates, making these five-masted galleons look like golden sea ships, and those Adamantite rune boards are painted with this intricate magic pattern array.

Some of the crew members are standing on the deck of the ship dozens of meters high, some are leaning against the side of the ship and looking down, some are climbing on the mast to sort out the heavy canvas, some are scrubbing the floor of the ship, and many people seem to be watching the excitement on the ship.

The shipwrights in the dockyard gathered on the dock, and they surrounded a few managers, looking more like they were protesting something.

There were some Adamantite magic rune plates piled up on the docks, but no one was working.

There were also several inscriptionists on the docks, dressed in ornate magical robes, standing in the crowd of managers, surrounded by the shipwrights.

Senior Dylan saw the mess on the dock from the magic caravan, and hurriedly urged the magic caravan to drive over, and before the magic caravan stopped in front of the crowd at the dock, Senior Dylan couldn't wait to jump off the magic caravan.

The group of boatmen on the docks saw Senior Dylan appear, and everyone gathered around the magic caravan.

"Bradford, why are you all standing here?" Senior Dylan scolded at a middle-aged man who looked like a manager, "When is it, why haven't you started work yet?"

The middle-aged manager, dressed in a yellowed white shirt and brown sheepskin waistcoat, wearing a large checkered skirt of tweed fabric, long leather shoes on his feet, a beard, and eyes with big brass bells, chased after the boatmen, holding a horsewhip in his hand, and pointed at them with a somewhat trembling finger and shouted insults: "What do you lowly civilians want to do?

The shipwrights simply ignored the manager known as Bradford, and directly surrounded Senior Dylan, I was worried that Senior Dylan would suffer in front of these strong boatmen, so I quickly jumped out of the magic caravan and stood next to Senior Dylan.

The coachman of the magic caravan also held a whip, jumped out of the seat of the magic caravan driver, and stood in front of Senior Dylan tremblingly, already a little nervous and speechless.

However, the boatmen were very restrained, the crowd surged slightly, and an old boatman who seemed to be quite calm walked up to Senior Dylan, saluted Senior Dylan, and asked, "Lord Dylan, we heard that all the magic rune plates on these five-masted sailboats are going to be removed and reinstalled, right?"

Senior Dylan looked at the boatmen in front of him with eager eyes, and asked in a deep voice, "Oh, are you all here today for this?"

The old shipwright was wearing a linen jacket and trousers, and his open placket revealed dark brown skin, which was obviously the color of the skin that could only be found in the scorching sun all year round, and he was not from the imperial capital, where only people dared to go shirtless in summer.

Although the old boatman's skin was already a little loose, his skeleton was unusually tall, and he bent his body as much as possible in front of Senior Dylan, even then he still looked tall and big, and he asked Senior Dylan: " We want to know, everyone worked hard day and night for nearly three months to install these Adamantite Rune Plates on ten five-masted galleons, and then spent more than two months on various adjustments, and the Inscription Master questioned which Adamantite Magic Rune Board was installed, and we had to take the trouble to correct it, and after correcting it, repeatedly correcting it until they were satisfied, is this not enough?"

The old boatman's face looked a little bitter.

Senior Dylan stared at the old boatman and shook his head, but the old boatman still couldn't give up convincing Senior Dylan, he asked Senior Dylan: "This is the result of our hard work that took nearly half a year, why do we say that we have to dismantle it all?"

Without waiting for Senior Dylan to answer, he continued: "If it is just that the Adamantite Rune Plates can't produce magical resonance, and the associated magic lines of the entire Demon Pattern Circle can't be perfectly connected, we can continue to debug it!

At this time, the middle-aged administrator who was called Bradford by Dylan's senior had already squeezed in from the crowd and shouted at the old boatman: "Hanklem, what are you doing here? Are you questioning Dylan's scholar's decision? Or is our dockyard giving you a penny less? The above asked you to dismantle these adamantite rune plates, and you will dismantle them directly, what is the use of you gathering here, delaying the shipbuilding construction period, I will look at everyone on the field, who can afford this responsibility." ”

Hanklem, the old boatman, also looked in a hurry, and he tilted his head back to Bradford, who was dressed in tartan fabric, and retorted, "But...... Lord Bradford, there is not much time left for us, there are less than two months left before the construction period set by His Majesty Charles, so we will dismantle the Adamantite Rune Plate in such an unclear manner, even if it is reinstalled non-stop, it will take at least three months to replace all the Adamantite Magic Rune Plates on the entire five-masted galleon, who will bear the responsibility for the missed construction period?"

Clearly, as a manager, Bradford no longer had any prestige among the shipwrights.

A boatman on the side followed Hanklem and chimed in: "Yes, at least I want to give you an explanation, if there is a very big error in the position of the adamantite rune plate installed by us boatmen, then let's reinstall it again, we have nothing to say, but if we can't find any problems in the installation position, then even if we reinstall it, it will not help at all!"

The old shipwright Hanklem Zhou Qi frowned, his old face was like a blooming chrysanthemum, and he said very reluctantly: "Now the installation level of the adamantite magic rune plates on these ships is already the best standard we can do, and we can't do more delicate work." ”

He paused, swallowed a mouthful of foam and moistened his somewhat hoarse throat, and continued: " Therefore, the magic pattern circle on the five-masted galleon cannot be started normally, I don't think this is due to the installation problem of our shipwrights, and I hope that before you dismantle these Adamantite Magic Rune Plates, it is best to give a clear reason for this matter, at least let all parties confirm where the problem is with these rune plates, so as not to delay the construction period in the end, and when the responsibility is held accountable, it will be pushed to our dock, and the dock will be pushed to us boatmen!"

The manager, Bradford, pointed his finger at the old shipwright's forehead and scolded him loudly: "Hankram, you are delaying the progress of the project now, hurry up and return to the ship for Lao Tzu, if you continue to gather people to make trouble, then I have to ask the knights of the Imperial Capital Guard Battalion to reason with you and tell you how to be a civilian." ”

Bradford stared at Hanklem with a fierce look, but he didn't make any next move, which made me think that he and the old shipwright Hanklum were acting.

Senior Dylan expressed great dissatisfaction with Bradford, the manager of the dockyard, and he scolded, "Bradford, shut up!"

The manager immediately stopped talking and looked at Senior Dylan with a look of horror.

"Fellow Inscriptionists, do you have anything to say?" Then Senior Dylan turned his gaze to a group of magicians in magic robes outside of these boatmen, narrowed his eyes slightly and said to them, "Are you also not convinced?"

Seeing that Senior Dylan led the war to their heads, one of the inscriptionists stood up unceremoniously and said to Senior Dylan: "If you are not convinced, then there is really nothing. ”

He glanced slightly at his companions with his eyes, and received encouragement from the other nine inscriptionists, and then said, "We still have great admiration for Dylan's scholar's paper on mobile magic teleportation arrays. ”

The inscriptionist was very good at saying this, and his voice changed: "We have been drawing the Adamantite Rune Board all day in the past few months, and if we can see some results during this time, then it can also give us a little more confidence in the future of the Weiyang Lake Dockyard." ”

He pointed to the Adamantite Rune Plates piled up on the dock and said with a look of pity: "But the Adamantite Rune Plates that have been made in the past few months can be piled up into a small mountain, and the success of this mobile magic teleportation array is still far away. Even if you are a calm person, your patience has been drained!"

The inscriptionist took a step forward and winked at his companion beside him.

The inscription master on the side immediately understood and took a step forward with him, and the two of them stood in front of these inscription masters.

Then the inscription master said: "If one or two of us have made some fatal mistakes that have caused the entire mobile teleportation magic pattern circle to fail to function normally, then we think this is very normal, such a large combined mobile teleportation array, each piece of pure gold rune plate needs to be carefully crafted, and it is not difficult to understand that there are some minor problems occasionally. ”

The two inscriptionists standing in front shrugged their shoulders wittily, and then two more inscriptionists stepped forward from behind.

The inscriptionist continued, "If three or four of our ten inscriptionists make fatal mistakes, then it means that there may be some minor flaws in the design drawings, but they are not too big, and it is inevitable that some of us inscriptionists will not be able to control them." ”

Hearing him say this, the other inscriptionists all nodded in agreement.

Then two more inscriptionists stepped forward.

At this time, the inscriptionist's tone became a little harsh, and his voice became a little louder, and he said: " But if there are five or six inscription masters to draw the magic pattern circle are wrong, in fact, it is necessary for us to check whether the design drawings of the magic pattern circle have this defect in some places, some young designers often lack the ability to self-examine, often blinded by subjective consciousness, young people, some mistakes are inevitable, as long as you are aware of your mistakes, you can still correct it, but this kind of thing is not absolute. ”

Senior Dylan kept looking at the inscriptionist with a gloomy face.

The inscriptionist did not stop there, but continued to signal for the two inscriptionists to stand up from behind.

Then he said: "If seven to eight of the ten inscription masters have drawn magic patterns drawn by the inscription masters installed on the ship, and the magic circle still does not work properly, then I think this matter is enough to explain the problem, Dylan! ”

His tone was like a lesson to the juniors, making Senior Dylan's breathing become heavier.

But he still didn't mean to stop, and finally the two inscriptionists also stood up, and he continued: "Now, the biggest problem is that all the ten combined magic pattern arrays produced by ten inscription masters at the same time cannot operate normally, so it can be said that your set of magic pattern arrays about magic teleportation arrays has a big problem!"

When the group of boatmen on the dock heard the inscriptionist's explanation, they also felt that it was very reasonable, and they all nodded in agreement, and at the same time everyone looked at the inscriptionist.

The inscriptionist looked a little smug as he walked towards Senior Dylan, and everywhere he passed, the boatmen avoided him.

He concluded: " Even if it is on the orders of His Majesty Charles, we inscriptionists are here to cooperate with you unconditionally, but there are always such big fatal mistakes and we can never find an effective solution, we have been with you astrologers here for almost six months, and we can't always spend it endlessly, now that the war situation in the plane is so tense, we also have our own things to do, we don't care what these five-masted galleons are going to be refitted, but can we give these inscriptionists an accurate construction periodAfter all, our time is precious. ”

Senior Dylan stared at the inscriptionist, nodded, and after steading his breathing, he said, "Your Excellency Eustace, you want an exact construction period, do you?"

Inscriptionist Eustace stood proudly opposite Senior Dylan and said, "That's right, young Dylan Scholar. ”

Senior Dylan said in a calm tone: "Then this matter is very easy to do, I can reply to you now, the cooperation between our astrologer union and your inscription masters can be temporarily over, and then I will go to explain this matter to His Majesty Charles in person with the president of our astrologer guild." ”

"I'm sorry for delaying your valuable time for nearly half a year. Senior Dylan apologized to Eustace Inscription.

Eustace and the other inscriptionists looked at each other, their faces grimacing.

Senior Dylan turned to the old shipwright Hancum and asked, "Hankram, do you think that it took so many of you three months to complete the laying and assembling of the pure gold rune boards of these ten five-masted galleons, do you think this is already your limit?

"Yes, Lord Dylan Magician!" said the old shipwright Hanklum, "Actually, you needed to add some people to come, although we have a lot of personnel, but we are scattered into ten ships, in fact, there are only a few dozen boatmen on no ship, such a big ship, once it is scattered, it can't even make a wave, you can also see how difficult it is for us boatmen to assemble these adamantite rune plates." ”

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