The first thing that had to be dealt with was the plants that Hallumi had ripened with Druid magic. These plants had extremely strong vitality. They could find a way to take root again after the roots were removed, which left a certain someone dumbfounded.
While fighting with those abnormal plants, the dwarves led by Jermaine didn't look at the contents of the files in detail. They just kept pressing the next page and changing files. By the time they reached the last page of the last file, it was already night and dinner had just been made. During this time, the two women and Riley didn't insist on not turning back like Jermaine and stepped away from the Water Mirror first.
The two female silver-bearded dwarves saw the first dusk of their lives. The weather today was particularly good, so when the fish-scaled clouds in the sky were dyed with the sunset glow, the two female dwarves couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
By the way, Hallumi, who was very friendly, asked for their names by talking and gesticulating. The one who followed Jermaine was called Marit. The one who followed Riley out of the Iron City was called Freya. She should be the two's wives.
The reason why this uncertain statement was used was because the silver-bearded dwarves didn't have a so-called marriage. The relationship between husband and wife was confirmed from the moment the child was born. And their tribe hadn't had a healthy newborn child for hundreds of years. They hadn't heard of divorces, and there was no domestic violence. After all, the female dwarves were also amazing fighters.
As for the unhealthy children, they didn't actively kill them on the grounds of eugenics. It was because their unhealthy bodies didn't live long. Especially with the existence of a radiation source, it wouldn't be long before the diseased cancer cells took the life of the weak and young host.
So except for the older generation. None of the "young people" of the silver-bearded dwarves had a family yet.
Dinner was taken care of by the two apprentices, and Marco Lin had a good meal. After all, there were only three choices for food in the underground city of the silver-bearded dwarves. Nutritious meal one, nutritious meal two, nutritious meal three. Each set had its own supporters, and it was hard to say which meal was more popular. But as someone from the nation of gluttons, after eating nutritious meals for several days, he almost vomited.
Hallumi and Kaya's culinary skills were trained by these two picky fellows. They were so delicious that there was nothing to complain about. The few dwarves who tasted it for the first time almost chewed their own tongues.
As the dwarves exclaimed in admiration, Jermaine finally pulled his eyes away from the magic screen and joined his companions in fighting for food. Because they ate the game they hunted and the wild vegetables they picked nearby, there was no limit to the amount they could eat. Hallumi kept refilling the empty plate until the food that had been stored for the past few days was all gone.
The dwarves belched and looked at the mess of cups and plates on the ground reluctantly. At this time, Lin also had time to ask the dwarf who had been reading the selected teaching materials for the whole day. He asked, "How is it? After reading for so long, do you have any insights?"
"Well, big brother, to tell you the truth, I don't understand a single word."
… He had forgotten about it. The language used by the Silver Bearded Dwarves was different from the common language of the Lost Land. Naturally, the language used was different as well. He had thought that these dwarves could speak and hear, so he subjectively thought that they could also read and even write. It seemed that he had taken it for granted. But Lin asked curiously, "You didn't understand, and you read it for the whole day?"
"I wanted to see how much it was. It's just that big brother, you've shown me too many things, right? I flipped through the pages from day to night. "
"How is this too much? What you want to learn is a mage's secret skill. Do you think it's something that can be learned by chanting a spell? "
"Then … can you help me translate it into the dwarven language? You can already speak our language, so this shouldn't be a big problem, right? "Jermaine said shyly.
"I refuse," Lin said sternly. Lin said righteously, "If you plan to spend some time on the surface world, you should at least learn the common language that is used by more people. That way, you won't have any problems communicating with others. As for the words of this knowledge, if you want to translate it into the dwarven language, it's not like poems or pillow stories. It's fine as long as you understand the meaning, but you also need to accurately convey what I want to say. To be able to do this, you have to be a master of both languages. Unfortunately, I'm not that good. So if you want to learn these things, the best way is to learn to read the common language. Only then can you understand what I wrote in the common language. The other methods are all evil and crooked. "
In the end, Lin Li just wanted to take revenge and let others have a taste of the pain he felt in the beginning when he first read the original book. Although later on, he got used to it and it wasn't a big problem. But in the beginning, more than 80% of the words on the page were unfamiliar. He really wanted to bang his head against the wall and die.
In short, under the leadership of a certain inhumane human mage, the Silver Bearded Dwarves began to live an abyss of suffering. Then, two girls were unfortunately implicated. Because what the dwarves had to learn at the beginning were some basic lessons. Lin Li couldn't be bothered to teach those things himself, so he threw them all to the two apprentices and was responsible for enlightening the dwarves.
And in order to teach, the two girls had to prepare themselves to deal with the endless "why?" Later on, it even evolved into Kaya teaching, and even Hallumi sat down and listened. If he really didn't teach this blonde girl to concentrate, she would forget that she was supposed to be a scholar-type mage, not a Berserker.
And observing the learning progress of the four dwarves from the side, Lin Li felt a little like he had returned to normal. The breadth of the dwarves' profound knowledge was the result of countless years of accumulation. In terms of learning efficiency, they weren't much different from normal people.
At least, they were different from a certain genius like the Lich, who emptied Lin Li's stomach in a little over three days. As a result, Lin Li could only accept the request to be squeezed to satisfy the Lich's bottomless desire.
But there was a more interesting observation, and that was that although Jermaine, Riley, Freya, and Marit all had the title of Silver Bearded Dwarf Engineer, it felt like a ghost island's junior high school diploma, which anyone could get. But Jermaine's performance in learning was completely unlike what Marit said he was at the bottom of the pack.
After thinking about it seriously, it was understandable. In elementary education, bad grades didn't mean that you were dumber than others, it could just mean that you weren't enthusiastic about learning.
Since they could graduate anyway, they had the mood to muddle through before. It was only after they found their true goal that they could pull themselves together and move towards it. The difference between the Lost Land and Earth was that there were too many distractions on Earth. Entertainment, games, gambling, sex, drugs, these were all very easy to get lost in.
So driven by enthusiasm, Jermaine absorbed the knowledge from Earth faster than the other three, and combined it with the knowledge system of the Lost Land. But the things taught couldn't all be basic knowledge, so Lin also spent some time talking to the four dwarves about their knowledge system.
And perhaps because Jermaine didn't learn the Silver Bearded Dwarves' knowledge well, he didn't have the same deep-rooted ideas as the other three, and was more receptive to Lin's knowledge from Earth. In comparison, the other three were more critical and questioned the different systems of knowledge.
And when he asked the dwarves to talk about things that they could talk about, he also made it clear that they didn't have to talk about everything. After all, there were some confidential matters that Lin didn't want to touch or know.
But thinking about it this way, Lin felt that he still underestimated Jermaine's big mouth. Whenever he opened his mouth, the other three dwarves would have a terrible expression. Lin Li didn't even know if he should listen or pretend that he didn't hear it.
But to be honest, the things that were accidentally exposed were of no value to Lin. It was like everyone knew that the raw material of German lark oil was mint, but how was it made? No one knew.
In addition to the original case, China's Yunnan Baiyao was registered as a patent in the United States, and it was announced by the Americans that it was originally listed as the raw material of the secret recipe, but no one really imitated Yunnan Baiyao. In the end, the reason was that knowing the raw material was useless without knowing the production process.
That was what Barjemaine the Big Mouth had revealed. Plus, after understanding the content, Lin Li scoffed. How could he treat the information as a treasure?
Take a simple example, the materials for the production of the Peace Armor. The Silver Bearded Dwarves were limited by being trapped underground and lacked resources, so they couldn't continue to produce this maze version of the power armor. But Jermaine inadvertently revealed the types and quantities of the materials. In front of the four dwarves, Lin Li went to the forum mall in the Sijia District of the southwest peninsula to search.
It was indeed the place that developed the earliest, had the largest number of materials, and had the most complete variety. The materials mentioned by the dwarves, except for the individual names, had to be compared with the current names based on the characteristics of the materials. If the materials found were to be purchased to make a set of Peace Armor, the price would probably be half of an ordinary three-story magic tower.
Two sets of individual armor could be exchanged for a war fortress. What kind of concept was that? Even the world police state that only used money to kill people in wars didn't play like that. If it was really Tony Stark's Iron Man suit, Lin Li would accept it. Unfortunately, that thing was not, and the gap was not ordinary.
As for the production process of the Peace Armor, the Silver Bearded Dwarves used the most traditional master and apprentice system, relying on word of mouth to pass down the technology. However, the life of this race was too long and hard. Many of the treasures in the maze that could be called artifacts were either still around, or only one or two generations away, and the inheritance had not been completely cut off. The Mise energy nucleus belonged to this category.
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