Section 9 Almsgiving
() The old cow held the fuel barrel, filled the red comet with oil, and returned to the tin shed to continue studying the drawings. The refueled red comet began to scurry around the repair shop again, until the iron slag called her back.
"You go in and look at the drawings with Lao Niu, and exchange information with him by the way. I don't have the money to buy flying fish in the sand sea, so you can discuss something else. ”
"I'm not going to borrow money from her, and she doesn't have much money."
"How do you know so well?" Iron Slag couldn't help frowning and asked in a deep voice.
"Do you have all the information from all over the world?" Iron Slag asked in surprise.
"Since you know everything, please provide us with some more useful ideas, such as ways to make money quickly." Ye Xinling, who had been sitting beside the iron slag, interjected and asked.
"What about the second way?" Iron Slag asked.
"I'll never borrow money from a woman, don't mention it again." Iron slag is impatient.
"I should have demolished you." Iron Slag reached for the hilt behind his back.
The red comet made a mechanical synthesis sound and retreated, and then drove into the tin shed to exchange information with the old cow.
In the tin shed, the old cow and the narcissus doctor looked at the blueprints on the computer screen, and let out exclamations from time to time. The drawings given by Alice contain a lot of scientific and technical information, and they are design concepts that they have never seen before. According to Lao Niu's preliminary estimate, if these modifications are completed, the red comet will not only greatly improve its performance as a locomotive, but also have a certain ability to repair and transform itself. The narcissus doctor on the side was also amazed by the drawings. However, he soon remembered that his clinic had not been open for two days. There are only two doctors in the entire town of Iron Mountain, and if he doesn't go back, many patients may not be able to be treated. So he got up and took his leave, and went straight back to Iron Mountain.
It didn't take long for Iron Slag to return to rest with Ye Xinling, and only Lao Niu and Alice were left in the repair shop. The old cow was fascinated by the study of the design drawings, and took a pen and paper to copy and write. Alice quietly left the tin shed and walked around the repair shop. She is like a child who has just learned to walk, and she feels new to everything. Lao Niu's repair shop is littered with all kinds of discarded parts and sundries. Every time an object appeared in Alice's image generator, she would go up and scan it. After a while, she scanned everything in the repair shop, including the old electrical appliances, metal parts, bottles and cans, and even the old cow's clothes and underwear......
Just then, a sand truck appeared in her image generator. She slid over with a nervous glimpse, blue and green light shooting out of the front of the car, and began to scan the sand bike. Tens of seconds later, the scan was over, and she compared the number jù of the sand cart with the number jù of the number jù curry. She quickly came to the conclusion that it was an H17 sand truck produced by the "Great Wall Company". Then, Alice began to do the math and analysis. In a situation where resources are scarce, she must use limited resources to get the maximum boost. A few minutes later, Alice made a "beep" sound and completed the new design.
Later, Alice returned to the tin shed and showed the old cow the latest design scheme. The solution is to attach the red comet to the body of the sand bike and connect the sand bike's on-board computer to Alice. The advantage of this is that Alice can dock to the retainer in the body to control the sand bike, and she can also open the retainer and leave the sand bike at any time. The advantage of a sand truck is that it is large and can be loaded with a lot of rough equipment. Compared with the precision type equipment, the rough and large equipment is easy to collect parts, and the requirements for the process level of the components and the new and old processes are not high. Although there is still some gap in functionality, it can at least meet Alice's basic needs.
Lao Niu saw the new plan, and immediately patted his thighs and shouted. The parts on the new solution are relatively easy to obtain, and not only can you use the old ones, but they are also very cheap. There is a shortage of everything in Iron Mountain, and the last thing that is lacking is old parts. Thinking of this, Lao Niu excitedly ran into the warehouse of the repair shop and cleared the inventory. He then compares the drawings of the new scheme and begins to document the missing parts. It wasn't until after dark that he had registered the missing parts and filled a whole notebook.
At this time, the old cow yawned. He hadn't slept for two days in a row, so he was in a trance. He found a random place and slept at the end of the day......
Meanwhile, Tie Slag and Ye Xinling enjoy a candlelit dinner at a restaurant in Tieshan Town. This is a western restaurant called "Far Mountain Traveler", which has a history of more than 50 years in Iron Mountain Town. Every corner here is carved with traces of time. At this time, the dim light shone on the half-brick and half-wood walls, and I could barely see the scratches and bullet holes on the walls. If you look closely, you can also see some confetti hanging on the wall. These scraps of paper are the marks left over from the torn off warrant.
It used to be a bounty hunter's paradise and was in full swing every night. Waiters squeezed through the crowd with wine glasses, warblers whispered and flirted on hunters, and dancers writhed their hot bodies on the high platform. However, this qiē gradually disappeared after the violent female sheriff took over Iron Mountain Town. Because the crime rate in Iron Mountain has plummeted and the number of wanted warrants is decreasing, the bounty hunters have no task to do but go somewhere else.
Without the patronage of bounty hunters, the restaurant's business plummeted. The owner of the restaurant had no choice but to lay off the waiter and the warbler and start a business in a western restaurant. In today's dining room, there is a heavy wooden dining table with candles on the table. In the flickering candlelight, the guests whispered, and the atmosphere was quiet and harmonious. However, this is only temporary. There has never been harmony in Iron Mountain, and the bullet-riddled log dining table is a testament to that.
However, there are always exceptions, as the iron slag sits right in the corner of the dining room. This means that all those who have a conflict have to consider whether they will offend this fierce god. Not long ago, the former No. 2 person in Iron Mountain Town died tragically under the knife of the fierce god, and his body was split in two, and then trampled into slag. This incident quickly spread in Iron Mountain Town, so much so that when Iron Slag stepped into the Western food just now, at least more than half of the people checked out and left.
At this time, the iron slag was leisurely shaking the wine glass in his hand, and the light brown brandy glowed golden in the candlelight. Ye Xinling sat opposite him and looked at the menu, she was going to ask for some food, and then take it back to Lao Niu to eat.
At this moment, a young man recklessly ran into the restaurant and said to the restaurant owner in the bar, "Old ...... Boss, I'm going to take a leave of absence tomorrow! ”
The restaurant owner frowned and scolded, "Boom, the guests are all dining." ”
Instead of lowering the volume, the young man shouted louder, "Good news! Tomorrow the people of Notre Dame will come to give alms, and there will be bread and hair and beautiful women to see! ”
The young man's words immediately caused a commotion, and the guests exchanged heads and talked about it for a while.
"It's a pity that I didn't take leave last time, listening to the girls at Notre Dame are more beautiful than the other." "Just two pieces of broken bread, it's not particularly delicious, and what does it have to do with you being beautiful, they are all people above."
"Husband, you won't go to see it." "I'm never going, what's so nice about those crazy women."
"I heard that in the team last time, there was a priest in light blue clothes, who looked very good, and I heard that she used to be a wanderer in Iron Mountain Town." "Go ahead, I'm definitely not going anyway. The group of nuns is okay, but the most annoying thing is that the guards who follow them are all ruffians from Base 13, bad and arrogant. ”
It took a while for the commotion in the dining room to calm down, and the guests discussed nothing more than three things: the nuns of Notre-Dame were beautiful, the guards who followed them were annoying, and finally, the local women were disgusted by the alms of Notre-Dame.
However, whether they like it or not, there is nothing they can do to change that. Silver City 13 and Iron Hill are both parishes of Notre-Dame, and every once in a while Notre-Dame will send someone down to give alms. The so-called almsgiving is a group of nuns carrying baskets and distributing bread along the street. The basket was made of rattan and contained cheese bread covered with gauge cloth. The procession usually starts at the south gate of Iron Mountain Town, runs all the way down the street, and ends at the north gate of Iron Mountain Town.
Originally, Notre Dame's almsgiving was well-intentioned and should not be offended. However, the team was usually accompanied by soldiers from the 13th Silver City Ground Military Base. Most of those soldiers were from the ground, and their identities were somewhere between the inhabitants of Silver City and the inhabitants of the ground. This embarrassing identity leads to a somewhat distorted mentality, on the one hand, they feel that they are part of the silver city, and on the other hand, the silver city does not really accept them. This caused them to be caught between the silver city and the ground. They not only yearn for a comfortable life in Yincheng, but also are anxious to get rid of the identity of people on the ground. Therefore, they grovel to the people above the silver city and hold their toes high to the people under the silver city.