Chapter 386 Teahouse Conversation
The teahouse is not big, but it is clean.
Jiang Wen was a little curious about how the agency man drank tea, but when he saw shopkeeper Hua Ming making tea, he understood the tea drinking in this agency world.
Shopkeeper Hua Ming invited the two of them to sit in the teahouse, and then brought a ceramic teapot with hot water. Put it on a small stove to heat it up, and put a tea set on it.
This is similar to how ordinary people drink tea, except that the tea in this cup has changed.
There are no longer tea leaves in the teacup, but a few extremely strange-looking stones. Roll the heated boiling water into the tea cup, and you will see the stones boiling immediately.
When the stone stopped boiling, Jiang Wen saw that the originally light and colorless boiling water had turned golden and smelled of a faint fragrance.
"What are the stones in this cup?" Jiang Wen asked the shopkeeper Hua Ming curiously.
Shopkeeper Hua Ming paused for a moment, then looked at him curiously and said with a smile, "Don't the guests know about this tea stone?"
"Tea stone?" Jiang Wen didn't understand.
"It is rumored that tea was a way of life in ancient times. At that time, robots had not yet been born. The ancient ancestors enjoyed tasting and drinking tea, and they paid attention to the proper way to get it. This is how the term tea came into being. But later The heaven and earth changed suddenly, and the ancient ancestors disappeared without a trace. Our Lady of the Machine created the world, and today's world of Tianji came into being. And this way of drinking tea was passed down from the ancient ancestors." As the shopkeeper Hua Ming said, he poured out a cup of tea. The tea was placed in front of Jiang Wen.
She revealed her bronze fingers, which looked like the mechanical arms Jiang Wen had seen before. It's just a little more humane and flexible than the mechanical arm, and as convenient as a finger.
"I read various secret books, and although there are records about tea, I don't know much about what tea is and what tea leaves are. And this tea stone comes from this. It is similar to the legendary tea leaves, and it is also Being able to cultivate the soul and remove the dirt from the body can be regarded as corresponding to the description of tea by ancient ancestors."
After the shopkeeper Hua Ming introduced the tea, he sat aside and watched the two drinking tea with a smile. Jiang Wen looked at the strange thing in the tea cup, and felt that it should be similar to the "wine" of the agency man, but he thought that he was here to trouble the shopkeeper, and he couldn't live up to the shopkeeper's intentions.
Still frowning, he picked up the tea and tasted it carefully.
The result was actually good. Jiang Wen originally thought that the tea would be very unpleasant to drink. Unexpectedly, it has a refreshing fragrance and sweetness. This surprised him, probably because he didn't expect that people could drink something like this in Modu.
"how?"
"Delicious!" Jasmine exclaimed.
Jiang Wen nodded, as a sign of praise for the shopkeeper's craftsmanship.
"So you two came to my teahouse so early, what's the matter?" Shopkeeper Hua Ming looked at the two of them and asked with a smile. If it weren't for the fact that her neck was a bronze branch pipe, and if it weren't for the thin torso under the clothes, Jiang Wen would have no doubt that the shopkeeper was a human being.
It's just that there is a gap between agency people and living people. It's still easy to see the difference between the two.
"I want to find someone. He may be in Modu, or he may not be there. I wonder if the shopkeeper can do anything?" Jiang Wen asked.
"If there is a portrait of him, I can certainly find it." The shopkeeper smiled.
Jiang Wen was surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that the shopkeeper of this teahouse could be so capable.
"really?"
"Seriously." Shopkeeper Hua Ming nodded, and Jiang Wen was also polite. He took out a spiritual stone and placed it on the table, then handed Xue Changming's portrait to shopkeeper Hua Ming.
"Wow! The best spiritual crystal!!" Jasmine looked at the spiritual stone on the table and exclaimed in surprise. "I have never seen such a large piece of spiritual crystal since I was a child! It must be the best quality spiritual crystal, and it is enough to cost thousands of ordinary spiritual crystals. If you give this spiritual crystal to me, wouldn't I be able to Improve your body."
Jasmine looked at the spirit stones on the table eagerly, and it was obvious that she was very eager for them. Jiang Wen didn't know the function of spiritual crystals at first, but on the way here, Jasmine taught him what spiritual crystals meant to the agency people.
The activities of robots or robots require the support of spiritual energy, although spiritual energy can be obtained from the bed through sleeping. But the speed is too slow after all, so spiritual crystals are often used. One or two spiritual crystals can maintain the robot's activity for more than ten days. If it encounters high-intensity operation, it can only be used for one or two days. Therefore, being able to have a large spiritual crystal as a reserve is no less valuable to a robot than having an extra life.
The spiritual stone that Jiang Wen took out was the best that Jasmine had ever seen, even the calm shopkeeper Hua Ming was no exception.
She was not reserved either. After receiving the spirit stone, she took out a compass that Jiang Wen had seen. That's something that's also on the mechanism puppet. If you click on it, you can project an illusion.
Shopkeeper Hua Ming printed Xue Changming's photo into the compass, clicked it and the illusion disappeared. She looked at Jiang Wen again and said, "In less than three days, I will have news. You can use the Huntian instrument to illuminate me, and I will tell you when I find the person."
"Huntian instrument?" Jiang Wen looked at the compass and made a confused voice.
"Does the guest not have a Huntian instrument?" Shopkeeper Hua Ming looked at Jasmine unexpectedly. Her eyes were expressive, as if she was asking where did you find such a strange person.
Jasmine shrugged, but she didn't know. Then he talked to Jiang Wen about the Huntian Instrument.
The Huntian Instrument is said to have existed when the Goddess of the Machine created the robot. It is an instrument that can communicate, communicate, and print illusions. Just install a spiritual crystal in it and it can be used for tens or even hundreds of days. No matter how far away they are, as long as the Huntian instruments have been printed with each other, they can be connected at any time.
Listening to Jasmine's explanation, Jiang Wen wondered why this thing looked so similar to a mobile phone? In addition to not being able to access the Internet, it has all the functions of taking pictures, making phone calls, etc. It's really surprising.
"How many surprises are waiting for me in this machine world?" Jiang Wen only felt that the machine world was particularly novel. Many things had shadows of the real world, but they were completely different from the real world.
"The Holy Mother of Machines, the ancestor of all machines. I am becoming more and more curious about what kind of people they are, and they can actually create such magical machines."
Jiang Wen was very interested. He wanted to see the Madonna of the Machine that Jasmine mentioned.
After learning that Jiang Wen did not have a Huntian instrument, Jasmine used her own instrument as a contact method.
After finishing these things, he asked shopkeeper Hua Ming a few more questions.
"Is there really a Virgin Mary in this world?"
"He exists in the world." Shopkeeper Hua Ming said calmly. "It is said that at the top of the city, on the ninety-ninth floor, there is the holy body of the Virgin Mary in the human world. However, it is strictly protected by the Sons of God and ordinary people cannot enter."
"It seems that the shopkeeper must have seen it before." Jiang Wen said with a smile.
"I have seen the holy body of Our Lady of the Institution." Shopkeeper Hua Ming recalled somewhat. "That is a flawless body, a combination of all the beauty in the world. All the robots who have seen the Madonna of the Machine are crazy about the Madonna."
Speaking of this, shopkeeper Hua Ming felt lingering fear.
"I was once crazy, but I only woke up later. Do you know? To this day, my heart is still calling me all the time to see the Holy Mother and become one with the Holy Mother."
"This idea is so crazy, I can only stay away from there." The shopkeeper fell into memories, and it was obvious that that past event made her feel painful.
Jiang Wen didn't ask any more questions about what happened next. He already knew almost everything about this world of agencies.
(End of this chapter)
