Chapter 166 03-25 - 165 Nancy's Strange Behavior
Chapter 166 of "Exploring Technology in a Wizard World" begins revealing surprises: âHmm?â Upon hearing the noise, Richard slightly startled and turned to look behind him, only... Read on to find out!
âHmm?â Upon hearing the noise, Richard slightly startled and turned to look behind him, only to see Nancyâs figure.Under the illumination of the light spots that enveloped the entire giant wheel, Nancyâs body seemed to be emitting a faint glow. Her skin appeared orange-red, and her sky-blue eyes flickered with a strange brilliance. A light fragrance wafted through the air, filled with a scent like that of artificial hormones. She seemed somewhat embarrassed, a rather bold type of embarrassment.
âDo you want to borrow my sword?â Nancy looked up and repeated.
Only then did Richard notice Nancy holding two longswords in her hands, as if prepared in advance, now offering one of them to him.
Richardâs eyes flickered without refusal, reached out his hands to receive the sword, and said, âThanks.â
âYouâre welcome,â Nancy replied.
With a âwhoosh,â Richard drew the sword and without further words, directly slashed at a âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ flying past, cutting its wing with a âplop.â
The âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâsâ flight halted, losing balance and crashing onto the deck, Richard stepped forward, sword in hand, precisely pinning the birdâs body to the deck. He grabbed its wildly pecking beak, elongated the neck, took out a scalpel, and made a cut along its neck. Accompanying the birdâs violent struggle, the blood flowed out rapidly.
Richard took out a glass bottle from his chest and without wasting any, collected all the blood.
After a while, the âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâsâ blood dried, it ceased struggling, Richard sealed the glass bottle, put it away, discarded the âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâsâ carcass, and started looking for his next target.
Nancy, who was nearby, asked, âDo you not want the feathers? Lord Dempsey did say that the feathers are of the highest value. It seems like everyone else is plucking feathers, yet you only want their blood?â
Around them, the first thing everyone did after killing a âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ was indeed to start plucking the feathers, leaving not a single one. Only a very few people tried to collect the âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâsâ flesh and bones, as these were low in value and hard to preserve.
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Naturally, Richard did not reveal his intent and said, âI think the blood is more useful to me. Plucking feathers is just a waste of time.â
âIs that so,â Nancy raised her eyebrows slightly and said, âhow about we work together to hunt these âGriffin Seven-colored Birdsâ? After we kill them, you can have everything but the feathers.â
Richard looked at Nancy, feeling that she was unusually warm tonight.
Was it an illusion, orâŚ
Seeing that Richard did not respond, Nancy asked again, âWhat do you think, is it a deal?â
âAlright,â Richard replied.
âThatâs settled then,â Nancy said, swinging her sword and moving closer to Richard.
The two started cooperating to kill the âGriffin Seven-colored Birds.â Under the illumination of numerous light spots, their sword blades shimmered coldly, cutting through the air continuously as one âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ after another screeched and fell.
Richardâs swordsmanship needed no further praise, and compared to others, Nancyâs swordsmanship was extremely formidable. Additionally, with her occasional use of spells to assist, her efficiency was not much less than Richardâs.
In just a moment, the two had killed more than twenty âGriffin Seven-colored Birds,â a stark contrast to the mere two or three birds caught by others nearby.
As the hunt gradually neared its end, the population of âGriffin Seven-colored Birdsâ rapidly decreased from the killings. Once the last âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ chasing and devouring light spots was killed, all the fighting on the deck ceased, leaving only the sound of âscritch, scritch, scritchâ from feather plucking.
Richard collected the blood, from over twenty killed âGriffin Seven-colored Birds,â filling three full glass bottles. After sealing the bottles, Richard was about to leave when Nancy, who was putting âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ feathers into a sack, suddenly stood up and said, âWait.â
âHmm?â
âWhoosh,â Nancy tossed a sack towards Richard.
âThump,â Richard caught it, looking at Nancy puzzledly, âWhatâs this?â
âAfter killing so many âGriffin Seven-colored Birds,â you deserve a share. If you only want the blood, thatâs too unfair. Take some feathers as compensation,â Nancy said, âBesides, I canât carry all these feathers. Consider this sack a gift to you.â
âUhâŚâ
âFeathers arenât iron ingots, canât they be held?â
Thinking this way, Richard didnât voice his thoughts; he simply nodded and said, âAlright then, thank you. By the way, here is your sword back.â
Richard handed over the longsword he was holding.
Nancy, however, didnât take it, waving her hand she said, âKeep the sword as well. It seems you didnât bring any weapons aboard, and that can be inconvenient. Why donât you keep it?â
âIs that okay?â
âIsnât it?â
âIâm not used to accepting gifts without reason.â
âIsnât there a reason?â
âWhat reason?â
âYou forgot? A few days ago, you let me have that maid; consider it a way I owe you a favor.â
âSo, this sword is to repay the favor?â
âHow could it be? My favor wouldnât be that cheap, justâŚâ
âSo, it is still a gift without reason.â
âUhâŚâ Nancy was momentarily at a loss for words.
âThen you better take it back.â Richard offered the sword again.
Nancy looked helplessly at Richard and then accepted it.
Richard turned and walked toward the shipâs cabin.
Nancy called from behind, âGoodbye!â
Richard didnât make a sound, merely waving his hand as a form of farewell. However, as he walked down to the lower deck, he paused slightly, squinted his eyes, and muttered to himself: Deception, or deception, or maybe deception?
Stepping down to the third layer of the deck, Richard stopped pondering any further matters and began to perform tentative experiments with the âGriffin Seven-colored Birdâ blood he had obtained.
All the experimental equipment like beakers, alcohol lamps, glass tubes, etc., were stored in the Space Iron Ring, to avoid raising suspicion by being seen, he had never taken them out before. Now, he carefully took them out and set them up on the table in the cabin.
After setting everything up, Richard poured the blood into the beaker and went through a series of procedures such as filtering and purifying.
He followed the process of the âOne-eyed Frenzy Potionâ, but employed more efficient, scientific methods. Ultimately, through distillation, he obtained two distinctly different productsâtwo liquidsâone light yellow and the other deep blue.
The two liquids were placed in glass tubes, shimmering under the cabin lights.
Richard took out the Parchment describing the âOne-eyed Frenzy Potionâ and studied it, learning from it that the light yellow liquid was the core ingredientâRainbow Bird Pure Blood.
As for the deep blue liquid, it was an impurity in the core ingredients. What its exact role was, even One-eyed didnât know. He only found that in several tests, the more the deep blue liquid was mixed in, the worse the effect of the âOne-eyed Frenzy Potion.â
What the principle was, One-eyed did not understand, as after all, he purely relied on trial and error, blindly fumbling through methods, and spending a lot of time to figure out how to make the âOne-eyed Frenzy Potionâ. Achieving this much was already quite remarkable, to delve into the scientific knowledge behind it would be asking too much of him.