Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 24 Smart Drugs and Mysterious Thursdays

The sea-blue trading channel opened, and a small cart with wheels rolled out. Netizens brought him a large plastic basket of scrapped machines.

Lin Bo went forward and rummaged through the items, which included induction cookers, radios, quartz clocks, robotic arms... a miscellaneous hodgepodge of scrap metal. It was indeed what he had requested, with a rich variety of items.

[Lighthouse Guest]: I received the item. Thank you for your hard work.
[Picking up trash makes me happy]: Why is it so hard? Your request is too simple. These wastes are everywhere. I can just pick them up when I go out.
[Picking up garbage]: Since we want to practice the surface touch endoscopy method, it is best to use the same machine with different internal structure damage, so that the practice will be most efficient.

[Garbage Pickup]: I practiced like this and reached level 2 in about half a month. What do you think? I can help you prepare
Lin Bo was a little surprised. What kind of world did this netizen live in? There was junk everywhere. It was too comfortable for a mechanic, just like a druid living in the forest.

It is estimated that [Garbage Picker] already had a solid foundation in mechanics before becoming a player on the Internet, and practicing the table touch and endoscopy method must have achieved twice the result with half the effort.

[Lighthouse Guest]: The more types of waste there are, the more suitable it is for me.

[Picking up trash]: (suspicious) You sound so arrogant, could it be that you have already reached level 2?

The mage didn't say anything, but replied with a smiling emoji, ignored the series of question marks sent by enthusiastic netizens, and chose to log off.

With the help of [Trash Picking Up], upgrading the Surface Touch Endoscopy Technique is not difficult. Lin Bo estimates that he can reach Level 3 in four days at most. The progress of the Pharmacist Tongue Identification Technique is roughly the same.

What he lacks most now is still theoretical knowledge. To become an excellent mechanic, knowledge in science and engineering is essential.

It is already difficult to review mathematics after so many years, and I have to start from scratch to study mechanics, thermodynamics, materials science, electromagnetism, etc. This is too painful for an adult who has been away from school for many years.

These professional books alone fill a thick box. It would take Lin Bo several months to read through them all, and more than a year to memorize them completely.

Not to mention that in addition to mechanical manufacturing, he also had medical and agricultural books to read. It was really a mountain of books and a sea of ​​knowledge that was suffocating him.

So Lin Bo decided to use a little external help to at least save the time needed to memorize the theoretical knowledge. The subsequent knowledge digestion could be gradually integrated into practical operations.

Countless lazy people in the multiverse have already developed various means to assist learning.

For example, DND spellcasters often rely on "Scholar's Touch", a first-level spell of divination that allows the user to instantly read a book from beginning to end by touching it. Whether the user can remember it or not is another matter.

There is also the famous memory bread, a black technology product from a future world. It can transfer the contents of book pages to bread slices, and you can remember the contents after eating it, but it is only limited to before the bread is excreted.

Magic products on the Duolian Duoyi platform generally have a premium. The scroll of Scholar's Touch sells for 88 Disaster Coins. Unless you are a magic network spellcaster who can learn the spell through the scroll, it is not cost-effective.

Correspondingly, there are more price-favorable options for technology products on the Duolian Duoyi platform.

Things like data infusion from the world of "The Matrix" or learning chips from the world of "Cyberpunk" can allow users to quickly master new knowledge, but the prerequisite for using such products is human body modification.

The product with the lowest threshold among similar products is undoubtedly "smart drugs".

For example, the NZT-48 from "Limitless" and the CPH4 from "Lucy" can both allow the user's intelligence to evolve to an inhuman level.

However, this kind of miraculous medicine with super efficacy does not have universal applicability and is basically only effective in the original world.

For players on the Internet in other worlds, once taken, at best the upper limit of intelligence will be locked, and at worst severe toxic side effects will occur, which will cause death or even severe damage.

Lin Bo chose a time-sensitive neuron-activating tincture, which works by stimulating the functional areas of the brain, allowing short-term memory to be directly converted into long-term memory, and can store the received information in the hippocampus for several years to a lifetime.

This drug has been tested and widely praised. It is suitable for most humanoid races, has no obvious toxic side effects, and has low drug resistance. Long-term use can also improve memory.

A single dose of Neuron Activation Tincture costs 11 Disaster Coins, and there's a discount for buying a set of .

Lin Bo read materials on mechanics, medicine, agronomy and Frost Sky Fighting every night. His course schedule was very full and he needed to take tincture again every forty-five minutes.

A set of medicine can be finished in less than three days, and the consumption is really not small.

Fortunately, the money earned from running maps almost offsets this part of the expenses. While maintaining a balance between income and expenditure, I can also save a few disaster coins every day. If the equipment that explodes is sold at a high price, the surplus will be even greater.

He estimated that he could memorize all the knowledge and information he had within a week, by which time his mage class should have reached level 4. For the next few days, the weather was overcast and rainy, with fog on the sea in the mornings, forcing Lin Bo to extend the hours the lights were on until the temperature rose and the fog dissipated, no longer interfering with navigation.

Today is Thursday, a gathering day. Early in the morning, the elderly believers in the town went out with umbrellas, walked along the foggy streets, and gathered in the church for worship.

The elders present were of various backgrounds, but all of them were men. Among them were officials and teachers from Shita Town, small business owners, night patrol guards, elderly fishermen, and workers.

The Five Gods are both a religious belief and a symbol of different classes and occupations.

Each faith forms its own social circle, and people usually stay faithful to a faith for life, though there are exceptions. Many young people worship the warrior gods among the Five Gods, but when they grow old and weak, they turn to the faith of the elders.

In addition, officials, especially those who were not of noble birth, were not allowed to believe in the Holy Father, so they could only turn to the old man, and the same was true for merchants.

It is a tradition for teachers to believe in elders, and most civilians who apply for teaching positions choose to convert.

As an old industrial country, the Kening Empire has implemented eight years of compulsory education since the last century with the aim of training qualified production line workers.

With several reform movements, the selection of civil servants changed from appointment by aristocrats to selection by examinations, and school education became the most important path for advancement for common people.

Shita Town has only one primary school, with three male teachers responsible for educating hundreds of children. Every Thursday morning, Shita Town Primary School is closed because the teachers go to church.

In the church, regardless of their status differences, the elderly believers can now talk relatively peacefully.

The officials all served the nobles and were perhaps usually serious and rigid, but they did not appear overbearing in front of the church members.

The teachers talked about history with the old and stubborn sailors, and smiled and echoed the old guys' boasting.

The businessman discussed the public security issue with the night patrol security guard. There have been no theft cases in recent times.

Interestingly, the patron saint of thieves is also an old man. Maybe these thieves are mixed in the crowd at the gathering to listen to others how to guard against them.

Everyone shares their experiences and interesting stories, and religious gatherings are also an important way to exchange information. Every circle has so-called insider information that is not easily circulated. If you want to know, you can only join the circle.

The priest surveyed the congregation from the pulpit. There was still some time before the service began. Several church members were absent. Some were away, like the owner of the Old Street pawnshop, who had gone to Hongdu. Others were ill, like the oldest teacher, who had been bedridden for several days.

Besides, he didn't see the lighthouse keeper either.

Normally, new church members should not be late for their first church gathering, as this would leave a bad impression on fellow church members as they are disrespectful to God.

The priest looked at the thick fog outside the window and thought that this was his duty and some regrets were inevitable.

"Can't the night watchman come?" a believer asked. The new church members are the topic of everyone's interest.

"Look at this thick fog! Without a lighthouse to guide the way, all the ships on the sea would be lost," the old sailor said loudly. "It's only right that he didn't come."

"He is undoubtedly a qualified night watchman. He rarely goes out and never gets into trouble. After Old Tim left, I think there is no one more suitable than him." The tavern owner expressed his opinion.

Upon hearing this, the mayor said to the people around him, "When he attends the next assembly, we will talk face to face. If we are convinced of his integrity, I will write a letter of recommendation and submit it to His Excellency Viscount Pearl for approval. Then, we can issue the official inauguration documents. From now on, this stranger will be a legal resident of our Stone Tower Town."

The old priest nodded in appreciation of the mayor's reasonableness, then lamented, "Looks like we'll have to wait until next time. The fog is so thick today."

The wizard leaned his upper body out of the window, and saw only a vast expanse of white. The sky and the earth were nowhere to be seen. Except for the cylindrical walls of the lighthouse above and below, everything in the world seemed to have completely disappeared.

“It’s such a thick fog.”

He also wanted to attend church service on Thursday.

(End of this chapter)