People in Mondstadt, starting to develop black technology

"But you are recruiting long-term employees. I won't stay in one place for too long. Sooner or later I will embark on a new journey." Ying shook her head. She went to see the Academy City when it first started recruiting. The pay was indeed very high, but there was not as much freedom as the Adventurer's Association.

"We are friends, so of course you can have special privileges."

Shen Qin reached into his pocket and handed her a set of smart bracelets: "Here, this is a gift for you."

Chapter 137: Klee the Warrior defeated the evil King Jean

"Wow! It's a smart bracelet!" The sharp-eyed Paimon saw this scene and flew over immediately. "This is a precious thing that only the Knights have! It will definitely sell a lot of Mora... Oh!"

Ying flattened her head.

Shen Qin smiled and threw another set of bracelets to Wendy: "Although you may not need them, you should still take them, in case I can't find you when I need them."

Wendy looked at the bracelet on her hand and fell into deep thought. This smart bracelet seemed very valuable. Should she exchange it for money for wine?

Paimeng looked at Ying's bracelet on the left, then at Wendy's bracelet on the right, and finally looked at Shen Qin eagerly, as if to say: They all have it, what about me? What about me?

"You want it too?"

"Yeah!" She nodded honestly, not being polite at all.

Shen Qin: "Aren't you Ying's pendant? You're always together anyway, so it doesn't matter whether you have a bracelet or not, right?"

"You are so rude! I'm not a pendant! Why are you calling me more and more excessive now? I'm worse than emergency food!" Paimon pointed at Shen Qin angrily, "I'm going to give you an ugly nickname too, let's call you Alchemist Freak! Humph."

"So you like being called 'emergency food'?"

"I don't like it! Do you like being called 'Alchemist Freak'?"

"I don't like it." Shen Qin stopped teasing Paimeng and took out the small bracelet he had customized for her. "Then I'll use this in exchange. Can you help me come up with a nice nickname?"

"Eh——" She widened her eyes and happily took the bracelet from his hand, "So you had prepared it for me a long time ago! Then why did you tease me? Humph... Thank you!"

She put on the bracelet and bound it, calling up the virtual screen. There were currently only five basic apps on the homepage.

Taking photos, memos, database, analysis and communication, there will be an introduction to functions and operations when you click on the APP for the first time, which is much more user-friendly than the super simple version at the beginning.

"The next product we are going to launch is a personal terminal derived from a smart bracelet. By then, I will add more useful and fun functions to the personal terminal."

"But if you want to make all the functions of the personal terminal fully realized, you must build a terminal network covering the whole of Mondstadt. This is what I want you to help me with."

Shen Qin explained to Wendy and Ying.

"So that's why you posted the commission in the Adventurer's Association and asked us to accept it! Then why didn't you come to us directly?" Paimon said puzzledly.

Shen Qin looked at her as if she were a fool: "You run around everywhere to get commissions every day. I can't think of where else to find you except the Adventurer's Guild."

"...That's right!" Paimon felt that what he said made sense.

Ying felt strange: "I can't seem to help much. I can handle combat work, but I really know nothing about these things."

"I mainly want you to be guinea pigs... No, I want to study your use of the Seven-Day God Statues, teleportation anchors, and earth vein energy. I plan to use the Seven-Day God Statues and teleportation anchors throughout Teyvat as base stations and use the earth veins to transmit data information."

Hearing the word "ground veins", Wendy frowned, and some not-so-good old memories were awakened. He had to remind Shen Qin: "Ground veins are quite evil. It's okay to use them occasionally, but absorbing too much energy from them will cause the ground veins to become unbalanced, and terrible disasters may occur."

"I understand." Shen Qin nodded. "When I use the earth veins, I always pay great attention to maintaining the balance of the earth veins. Moreover, the terminal network only uses the earth veins as channels and has almost no effect on the energy of the earth veins. You should also know that all kinds of information about Teyvat are flowing inside the earth veins. One more terminal network will not make much difference."

"I'm just a bard, not a scholar. How would I know?" Seeing that he knew what was going on, Wendy waved her hand and left. "I'll report to Academy City tomorrow morning, boss."

"Don't be late. If you are late, you will be deducted one day's salary."

"Okay, black-hearted boss!"

Shen Qin turned to look at Ying and Paimon: "Would you like to go with me to the Knights? I'm going to pick up Klee."

That's right, the purpose of his return to Mondstadt today, in addition to asking for help from the two of them, was to bring Klee, who had been released from prison, back to Academy City.

The last time she drove away, Qin was very angry. In the end, she got a meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots and ten days of confinement.

But the little girl doesn't learn her lessons. After she comes out, she will probably go crazy playing around again. It would be better to leave her in Academy City. At least there are blasting work to consume her energy.

Just...very similar to a Husky.

It will destroy the house every once in a while. After a lesson, it will be quiet for a few days, but then it will start destroying the house again. The only solution is to walk the dog every day to consume its energy.

But apart from occasionally destroying the house, it is usually very cute. Otherwise, why would so many people keep it?

"Great, great! We haven't seen little Klee for a long time since the last battle to save Tevarin!" Paimon clapped his hands in agreement.

Ying also nodded.

A group of three came to the Knights and opened the door of the confinement room after getting Jean's permission. They saw Klee and Xiaodu lying on the ground drawing. They seemed to be so focused that they didn't notice their arrival at all.

Xiaodu did raise his head, but Shen Qin made a gesture to it to keep quiet.

“Klee found a copy of ‘The Story of Duduko’ in the treasure chest of the ancient castle. The moment she got it, her whole body was filled with power—ah! This is the legendary power of Duduko!”

Ke Li drew a doodle of a little man holding a book on the paper, and her drawing skills were comparable to Shen Qin's.

"A little Dudu floated out of the Dudu story collection and said..."

She patted Xiaodu and reminded it: "Xiaodu, say something, Xiaodu!"

Xiaodu: "Klee, I can take you to... the palace where the Great Demon King is. Go and defeat her!"

Klee nodded with satisfaction and continued to doodle on the paper: "Klee Warrior sat on Xiaodu's shoulders and came to the palace of the Great Demon King. The Great Demon King was so scared when he saw her suddenly barge in that he dared not move: 'You...you are the legendary Klee Warrior?'"

"Klee the warrior held up the collection of Duduku stories and shouted, 'I will destroy you in the name of the sun!'"

"The bouncing bomb knocked out the big devil, and the warrior Klee rescued all the children who were imprisoned in the palace by the big devil!"

"This is the story of the righteous warrior Klee defeating the evil captain Jean." She finished her story with satisfaction.

Shen Qin and the others were all originally watching Keli playing with an auntie smile on their faces, but after hearing these words, their expressions froze instantly, and they looked cautiously at Qin, who had a gloomy face.

Xiaodu touched Keli's shoulder stiffly.

"Xiaodu, what are you doing?"

Following Xiaodu's gaze, Klee turned her head and saw Jean. She exclaimed, "It's Jean, the captain of the demon clan, uh..."

She quickly covered her mouth, but it was too late.

Jean lifted her ears and said, "The righteous warrior Klee defeated the evil captain Jean, right?"

Chapter 138: Get off work at the speed of light, hey!

Two minutes later, Keli was sitting in Qin's office, crying and rubbing her ears.

"Shen Qin, I'm going to trouble you with this kid named Keli. If she gets into trouble in Academy City, you just have to teach her a lesson. Don't show mercy. She can't be hurt." Qin explained to Shen Qin seriously.

Shen Qin: “Uh…”

Klee muttered softly: "Klee will break down..."

After saying goodbye to Qin, Shen Qin wanted to go see Lisa, but she was not in the library, and the reliable Knights' maid Noelle was on duty for her.

"Miss Lisa went to collect the books. Many people borrowed books but did not return them on time. She seemed very angry and often complained that Mr. Shen Qin did not fulfill his promise to her to allow people to read books through personal terminals, so that she would not have to urge people to return books." said the maid.

Shen Qin broke out in a sweat: I’m doing it, I’m doing it.

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While the scary purple witch hadn't returned yet, he took Klee and the others and ran away, taking the bus back to Academy City. However, they got off the bus at Wolf Ridge because Klee said she wanted to introduce a friend to them.

"Huh? I heard that Benlang Territory is the territory of wolves. Are there still people living here?" Paimeng asked doubtfully. Then she heard the howling of wolves in the distance. She was so scared that she hid behind Ying. "That's a wolf! So scary... Let's just go back!"

"Those are Lei Ze's family. They won't hurt us because Lei Ze and I are good friends." Klee comforted Paimon, "Little Paimon, don't be afraid."

Shen Qin understood.

Paimon tilted his head: "Raze?"

"Yeah! Razer is Klee's friend!"

Paimon put his hands on his hips and said, "You haven't explained anything clearly!"

They rode their flying skateboards to a huge rock deep in the Wolf Territory. Klee said that as long as they waited here for a while, Lei Ze would soon appear in front of them.

But after waiting for about ten minutes, Lei Ze did not show up, and not even a wolf was seen. Only the creepy howling of wolves could be heard from afar.

"It seems that Lei Ze has something to do today." Klee said a little disappointedly.

Shen Qin rubbed her head and said, "Then introduce him to us next time. It's getting dark now. It's more dangerous in Benlang Territory at night."

"Ok!"

The Wolf Territory was not far from Academy City, so they just flew there on their flying skateboards. Ying and Paimon were coming there tomorrow anyway, so they might as well go together now.

When they left the Wolf Territory, they did not notice that a fierce battle was going on a few kilometers away from them.

Gray and black wolves were fighting each other. Although the black wolves were larger in size, they were all skinny and bony. Their claws and bites were weak. The smaller but fatter and stronger gray wolves had the upper hand in the fight.

But the black wolf fought more and more fiercely, and showed no intention of retreating even though his body was covered in blood.

"Let's leave here, we're home." The white-haired boy wearing a hood rushed into the black wolf pack, wielding a greatsword with great vigor, knocking all the black wolves within the attack range several meters away.

The battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and finally the gray wolf pack won, and the black wolf pack fled into the depths of the woods with their tails between their legs.

The boy stared at the direction they left, and in a trance he seemed to see a thin figure jumping on the tree trunk, but when he looked more closely, he could see nothing.

He looked back at his family members who were licking their wounds, with sadness and anger in his eyes.

At this time, a gray wolf ran in front of him and whimpered a few times. He asked in surprise: "Keli?!"

He quickly came to the boulder and sniffed it: "It's her! And, strange, smell... Gone? Good."

Shen Qin and the others have returned to Academy City. In order to celebrate Klee's return, Albedo, Diluk and Sucrose prepared a sumptuous dinner together. Klee and Paimon, both foodies, were naturally very satisfied with the meal. Ying also touched her slightly bloated belly and slumped in the chair, not wanting to move.

But the relaxing time only lasted for one night. Early the next morning, Shen Qin, Albedo, Ying and Wendy who had rushed over gathered at the research base. Next, they had to complete the construction of the terminal network, which was a rather difficult task.

"It's called building a terminal network, but the actual principle is to add a ground vein connection module to the terminal, so that the personal terminal can connect to the nearest Seven Days God Statue or transmission anchor point, and use the ground vein network to transmit and receive data information."

"The difficulty now is that we know very little about the earth veins. We don't know how information circulates in the earth veins. We also need to find a way to convert the data information on the terminal into information that can circulate and be read in the earth veins."

Shen Qin put forward several research focuses.

Albedo stroked his chin and said, "For some reason, there is very little research data on the ley lines in Teyvat. I suspect that when the Seven-Day Statue and the Teleportation Anchor were created, the civilization at that time had mature technology to utilize the ley lines, but later problems arose with the ley lines. When the civilization was destroyed, all the data related to the ley lines were also destroyed by some force."

"Hmm, interesting inference." Wendy imitated him, stroking her chin and nodding in agreement.

Shen Qin glanced at him and said, "Wendy, do you know anything?"

"I don't know. I'm just a bard." Wendy smiled, "But I know a little bit about ley lines."

"You can think of the ley lines as a person's brain. The information stored in it is the person's memory. When we see a painting with our eyes, the painting is stored in our memory, but it cannot be retrieved. The only way to let others see the painting is for us to copy it with a brush."

"If we have a good memory and strong drawing skills," Wendy said, looking at Shen Qin, and continued, "then we can copy 99% of the original painting. If the original painting is very simple, then it is not difficult to copy it 100%."

Shen Qin: Why is it another Narcida-style metaphor? But surprisingly, it is easy to understand.

Paimon blinked, not understanding.

Albedo thought for a moment, "So that's how it is... Can I understand that the leylines can record any information, but we can't read any information directly from the leylines. Instead, we need to find a way for the leylines to actively 'repeat' the information we need."

"Smart." Wendy snapped her fingers and then reached out to Shen Qin, "I'm off work, pay!"

Shen Qin:?

However, he understood that Wendy had already told them the essence of how the earth veins record and transmit information, and she solved a problem that might have taken them a long time to study with just a few words.

So he readily handed him a piece of casually folded paper.

Wendy:?

He spread out the paper and found that it was a voucher for unlimited spending for a year given by an angel. The signer was Diluk. He quickly folded the voucher neatly and hid it carefully in his clothes.

"See you next time friends."

He couldn't wait to drink, so he turned into a wind element and disappeared in the research base. Shen Qin seemed to hear a faint sound in the air.

"Hey! Let's go drink!"

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