The next day, after a sincere exchange of technical terms, Aunt Susan finally acknowledged the young aristocrat's judgment. With the resentment of the palace above her head, she went to the upper house and exchanged the appropriate components with a verbal battle of words.
Since then, Xu Le, the war hero of the Federation, began his long career as an illegal assembly worker in the slums of the Empire's capital. He used the brain of a mechanic who designed the mech to design the wiring of the simple player, and used the fingers of a mechanic who repaired the mech to install the crude imitation components. Accompanied by dim lights and dark moonlight, he worked day and night without rest.
"This is a six-jumper cable. The sensitivity value of the power induction break switch must be adjusted. According to the voltage stability of this block, if we follow the original design, I am afraid that we will have to restart 30 times to watch a movie."
"This yellow silicon particle box is the decoder stabilizing valve. The most critical part of the entire player is the decoding device. There are professionals responsible for the software. We don't have to worry about it, but we can expand the transmission rate of the storage channel as much as possible."
"Decoding rate? If it can be hard decoded, of course, the effect will be much better than soft decoding. But the problem is that even if we want to invade the computing frequency of the main chip, we still need a special hardware device. Cost? I am not very clear about this. It will probably account for 7% of the cost. "
Xu Le explained to the mother and son beside him while quickly flipping his ten ordinary fingers. He easily and quickly assembled the player in front of him and then put it in a basket on the side.
Aunt Susan's eyes widened. She suddenly realized that she had misjudged the poor young aristocrat. His skill level was comparable to a skilled technical worker. Thinking of the hard decoding that this guy just mentioned, she scratched her head and asked in a rough voice, "I don't understand these technical terms, but if you can make the high-definition picture smoother, 7% of the cost should not be a big problem."
"Brother, your work is so beautiful. I can't learn it."
Aunt Susan's son, Paul, was on vacation today. He rushed back home from the Second University. Like his mother, this young man was also extremely kind and full of sympathy. He had never opposed his mother's move to take in this exiled aristocrat.
Today, Paul wanted to learn how to assemble machines from this young aristocrat so that his mother's life could be easier. However, he didn't expect that the young aristocrat's ten nimble fingers would greatly hurt his self-confidence.
Xu Le smiled, revealing his neat white teeth, and said, "I have some talent in this area."
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Although it was only the simplest assembly process, with the help of the talented exiled noble, the pirated video player produced by Aunt Susan's courtyard was more stable, smoother, and clearer than the players of other competitors. More importantly, the decoding rate was incredible.
With excellent performance, the player assembled by Aunt Susan gradually made a name for itself in the market 'industry'. There were more and more repeat customers. Even the butlers of some noble houses in the city center came to buy it for their young masters. It was said that those young aristocrats were completely obsessed with the perfect restoration effect of this set of players on 3D * * *. They couldn't stop themselves, and their hands were sore and their backs were aching …
The business was getting better and better, and the money she earned was getting more and more. Aunt Susan simply took out a large sum of money to bribe the market management office and the fierce ruffians. She rented a small shop in the market and hired a middle-aged woman salesperson. From then on, she officially bid farewell to the restless life of a mobile vendor.
Nearly two months had passed, and the empire had entered the winter rain season. The food in the dilapidated and clean small courtyard was getting more and more abundant. Aunt Susan's hearty laughter was getting more and more frequent. Paul returned home more and more often. However, Xu Le had been staying quietly in the attic and had not stepped out of the small courtyard.
It was windy and rainy outside, and the empire's people certainly did not relax their search for him. He began to ask Aunt Susan and Paul about the movement outside from time to time, but he did not try to go out of the door.
The cold icy rain gently knocked on the window. The small courtyard, which had paid enough heating fees this year, was as warm as spring. After dinner, the three people began to play cards in the attic to pass the time. This had become a routine program in the small courtyard.
They were playing Imperial South Road Flower Cards. From time to time, Aunt Susan's laughter and Paul's mourning voice sounded in the quiet attic. Xu Le smiled and played cards with the mother and son, but he knew very well that the mother and son were worried that they would get sick if they were confined in the attic for too long.
Paul lost this game. The young college student rubbed his brown hair angrily and began to shuffle the cards. At this moment, Aunt Susan suddenly said, "You don't have to worry about implicating us. The people in this neighborhood we live in have always only cared about their own family affairs and are not interested in other people's affairs."
Xu Le was silent. He didn't expect Aunt Susan to guess his worries.
"I went to the Joint Defense Office and quietly looked at the wanted document. There is no three-dimensional image of you in the noble list. Maybe those officials have long forgotten about you, an inconspicuous little guy." Aunt Susan looked into his eyes seriously, "You can't hide in the attic all your life. These days, you often look out of the courtyard. I know you want to leave, but Aunt wants to say that if you want to leave, it's best to leave when you are sure you can leave."
Paul also stopped shuffling the cards, looked at Xu Le and frowned, "Brother, there are many speculations about the truth of this rebellion in the school. Mom and I have asked you many times, but you refused to say. Naturally, there are reasons that are inconvenient to say, but mom is right. You'd better not take risks."
Aunt Susan was silent for a moment, and then said again with a smile, "Remember to at least tell us when you leave."
"Sure," Xu Le replied very seriously.
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The city in the winter rain was like silk, like the dilapidated buildings in the slums shrouded in smoke. These were all the scenes that Xu Le watched quietly by the window. Although this small courtyard was so warm, he didn't belong here after all, and had to leave eventually.
He didn't know what the situation of his hometown Federation was now. Had the troops attacked? Had the guys in Group 7 already gone to the battlefield with guns? What kind of situation were those dear friends in?
On the third day after that night's conversation, he carefully dyed his black hair into light brown with the hair dye bought by Aunt Susan, carefully trimmed his eyebrows, put on the color-changing contact lenses bought by Paul, and walked out of the small courtyard for the first time.
Gradually, the friends in the market who were familiar with Aunt Susan, and the few neighbors in the streets, knew that a poor relative had come to Susan's house to seek refuge.
The people living in the capital city of Tianjing had a natural sense of pride. Even if they lived in the slums, it was still a slum where they could see the towering palace walls from afar. In the eyes of the country people, the slums where they could feel the aura of Her Majesty up close was still a great place. Such scenes of seeking refuge were played out countless times every day. Who would care about the strict household registration inspection system of the Empire?
In this quiet life, the continuous winter of icy rain passed, and the charming spring came and went. The life of the people in the slums repeated over and over again, as if nothing had changed.
Xu Le's life was the same. He assembled pirated video players in the attic, accompanied Aunt Susan at night to talk about her emotional past, and occasionally gave Paul pointers on the difficult problems in the university's mechanical department. His life was as steady as a river that didn't flow, a lake that hadn't yet filled.
In fact, he wanted to leave, but he couldn't.
Under the cold gaze of those hidden in the winter rain and spring breeze, he couldn't leave through the normal route. The Empire's ordinary shipping system couldn't get close at all, so he could only try to get close to the Empire's underground society and use the smuggling channels of those dark forces to leave the planet. However, before his plan could start, he was stunned to find that this route had been completely cut off long ago.
Through the idle chatter of the neighbors and the discussions that Paul brought back from campus, he knew the whole story.
A few months ago, the Empire's Military Department suddenly sent a cold final notice to the underground world of Tianjing through the relevant channels, ordering those dark forces to immediately stop all smuggling operations immediately.
Such a situation rarely happened in history because the people in power knew very well that these underground worlds were an existence that the entire Empire couldn't completely erase from the roots. These underground world smugglers often represented the secret interests of those great aristocrats and even members of the royal family. What's more, it was extremely difficult for them to immediately stop all smuggling transactions.
Sure enough, with the support of those royal family members and great aristocrats, the underground world of Tianjing did not immediately stop the Military Department's request.
What followed was a bloody massacre that made the entire Empire's underground world tremble.
All the smuggling spaceships that dared to leave the surface of the planet were coldly destroyed by the military fleet before they could break through the atmosphere. The warships that fired thousands of cannons didn't seem to care about what goods those spaceships were carrying or which family they belonged to.
The biggest smugglers were secretly arrested by the Imperial Anti-Smuggling Department on the same day, and no one saw them again. As for their smuggling base, under the powerful firepower of the Empire's military, it was turned into a pile of broken building blocks made of countless corpses.
The most shocking part of the rumor was that the royal family members and aristocrats behind the smugglers were unceremoniously invited back to the dark courtroom by the Imperial Intelligence Agency officials. No aristocrat dared to resist because it was said that … His Highness personally led the team.
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Most people in the Empire's society didn't understand why the royal family would think of a bloodbath in the underground world and spend so much effort to crack down on smugglers. Some people linked this incident to the aristocratic rebellion not long ago, but one person knew very well that all this was just to cut off the possibility of him escaping.
Huai Caoshi, you're really ruthless.
Xu Le walked through the muddy market, haggling with the vendors who were covered in mud as he collected the fish in a basket with a smile on his face. Suddenly, he raised his head and narrowed his eyes as he looked at the majestic Imperial Palace in the distance, feeling helpless and disappointed in his heart.
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