"What's this?" Andrea asked while chewing the dried fish.
Prince Roland of Graycastle was playing with something new again. He spliced the copper pipes together, asked Anna to melt the joints, and then asked Soroya to wrap it with a layer of soft magic products. At first glance, it looked like the pipes installed in the bathroom, but much larger. Each pipe was as thick as a person's thigh. Without the help of the Hummingbird, it would be impossible for a person to lift it.
Moreover, the copper pipes were not limited to one or two rooms. They ran horizontally through the whole castle and the Witch House. They entered from the corner of the room, connected to a strange metal shutter along the bottom of the wall, and then went through to the next room. At the end of the room, they were connected to the vertical pipes.
This huge project attracted many witches. Both the Sleeping Island Witch Union and the Sleeping Island Witch Union were very curious about it.
"What do you think?" He smiled mysteriously. "If you guess correctly, you'll have an extra portion of ice cream bread for dinner."
Andrea's interest was instantly piqued. Ice cream bread! It was the most magical food here. Two pieces of bread that were roasted crispy on the outside and tender on the inside were covered with a layer of sweet ice cream filling. She had never heard of such a thing in the Kingdom of Dawn. The first time she tasted it, she immediately fell in love with it. Even though she was repeatedly laughed at by Ashes, she still ate it with a blush. Otherwise, it would be a torture to just look at it on the plate.
"Are you going to supply water to the room?" Ashes frowned.
Andrea curled her lips in her heart. Copper was not a cheap metal. Since the small pipe in the bathroom could be used to supply water, why did it have to be so big?
But recently, whenever she opened her mouth to refute, she would be blocked by Andrea's "Who said food is the best in its original taste". Moreover, she had said this in front of Lady Tilly. It was really inconvenient for her to deny it, so she had to pretend that she did not hear her superficial words.
"You're so short-sighted. Why do you need such a big pipe to supply water?" Someone behind her said. "His Highness would not do such a laborious thing."
Brilliant! It was exactly the same as what she had imagined. Andrea's spirit was lifted. Apart from herself, only Miss Nightingale of the Witch Union dared to speak to an Extraordinary in such a tone. She turned around and saw that the man was looking at Ashes with disdain, and his chin was raised at just the right angle.
Nobles should have this kind of expression!
Andrea secretly praised her. After coming to Border Town, the witch she felt the closest to was this mysterious woman. The skills Nightingale had shown during the rescue of the witches in the ruins were indeed extraordinary. She was also a noble like him, and even her hair color was very similar! After several sniping battles against hybrid demonic beasts on the city wall, the other party had also recognized his ability and even shared the dried fish with him, which was quite the aristocratic style.
Most importantly, she didn't like Ashes at all.
Although I don't know how Ashes offended her the first time she came to Border Town, but … isn't the enemy of my enemy my friend? Moreover, her personality was so compatible with his.
"You speak as if you already know the answer," Ashes shrugged.
"Of course I know," Nightingale raised the corner of her mouth, "When His Highness was drawing the design, I was always in the office, and I saw all the drawings he drew."
"That's not fair!" Mystery Moon muttered.
"She doesn't participate in the guessing," the Prince's words made Nightingale's proud expression stiffen, "I'll give you a hint, these pipes are only part of the system, you might as well go to other places, it will be easier to guess the answer."
"Goo!" Maggie and Lightning immediately flew out of the room, the other witches were not willing to be left behind, and one by one they followed the direction of the pipes and scattered. Andrea deliberately fell behind everyone, and after they left, she gave Nightingale a wink, calling her to the door.
"What the hell is this?" Andrea asked in a low voice, "If I get the answer right, you can have half of the bread for dinner."
"I don't know." Nightingale's answer made her slightly stunned.
"Didn't you say that you've read all the drawings?"
"Yes, it's like the 'Natural Science Theoretical Foundation', you can recognize the words on it, right? But can you understand what it means when it's all linked together? "
"Uh …" Andrea opened her mouth, but found that the other's words were completely reasonable. She had also read that book, and it was really no different from a heavenly book.
"If you can understand His Highness's intentions just by looking at the drawings, I'm afraid that in the Witch Union, only Anna has such an ability," Nightingale suggested, "If you ask her, she will definitely be able to tell you the answer."
After waiting for her to leave, Andrea hesitated again and again, but in the end, she still didn't call Anna out of the room. It wasn't because she was reserved or embarrassed, but because she was … in awe. She had never been afraid of the vicious gangsters, or the cruel and merciless Judges, but she felt a heartfelt fear towards this less than twenty year old girl.
She remembered that once when she accidentally passed by the Prince's office, she heard Anna talking to His Royal Highness. The content of the conversation, even now, gave her goosebumps. High parabola calculation, bringing in the parameters of the falling point to correct the orbit, as well as the transformation of kinetic energy in the ideal state, all of these made her suddenly freeze in place. Why is it that as a fellow witch, Anna can speak words that I can't understand at all so fluently? Since then, Andrea had a feeling of looking up to Anna, feeling that she was completely not the same kind of person as herself, but at the same level as Lady Tilly.
Since she couldn't get an answer, she could only rely on herself. Following the Prince's instructions, Andrea explored the rooms one by one. She found that in the completed rooms, the copper pipes were separated by a right-angle iron fence, as if to prevent people from touching the pipes. If it wasn't for the barbarian Ashes, even if the copper pipes were touched, it wouldn't matter, right? Thinking of what Nightingale had said, "His Royal Highness never does things that are strenuous and unrewarding," it seemed that these iron fences obviously had their own purpose.
When she came to the first floor of the Witch House, she made a new discovery. There was a bungalow between the Castle and the Witch House, and the copper pipes that led to the two buildings extended from here.
Inside the bungalow was a huge iron box, the lower half of the box was hollow, and there was a huge chimney at the top … It looked like a stove used for cooking. She also saw a pipe directly connected to the well in the yard, which looked like the water supply device of a water tower.
Wait … Is this used to boil water?
But if the pipe is used to transport hot water, there is no need to make it so big, right?
Andrea was puzzled, until the end she still couldn't figure it out.
Before dinner, His Royal Highness gathered all the witches in the hall and said with a smile, "From today on, the castle's heating system will be officially used."
"Heating system?" Ashes asked doubtfully.
"That's right. After the hot water is boiled in the boiler, the high-temperature steam will enter the room through the pipes and pass through the radiator to raise the temperature of the room. As long as the doors and windows are closed, the whole room will quickly warm up," the Prince explained, "Compared to the fire bucket, which is inconvenient to move and needs to be opened to ventilate, otherwise there will be the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. The new heating system doesn't have to worry about this at all, and you can still enjoy the warmth of spring when you sleep. After the commissioning is finished, this heating system will gradually be popularized in the residential area. "
"Then, apart from Anna, Soroya, and Hummingbird, who participated in the installation of the heating system, there is only one person who guessed the ice cream bread correctly tonight, and that is Tilly!"
During dinner, Andrea stared at Lady Tilly's smiling face as she ate the delicious food, completely forgetting her reservations as a noble.
(To be continued.) m.
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