At 6:59 in the evening, Shangluo entered the room on time. Three minutes later, Phaethon, who had been working all day, came back and brought him dinner. As well as purchased toothpaste, tea bags, instant noodles, and toilet paper.
Dinner is chicken drumsticks, roast duck rice, a soup, a Coke, and two packs of French fries.
"This is the change for today's living expenses." She placed 61 Wen in front of Shangluo, which was the remaining money from today's 100 Wen living expenses.
"Huh?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "This is how much you spent on today's expenses, including shopping and dinner?"
He specially gave Phaethon some more money, but his daily expenses did not exceed 20. After all, he can walk to school, eat in the cafeteria in the morning and evening, and only spend some change on the rest. Occasionally I go shopping, and it only costs about 100 a week.
After Phaethon moved in, although the salary offered to her was very small, the standard of living expenses had been raised to 100 per day - but Phaethon seemed to have a "discount radar", and every time Discounted items are available. But this time it was even more outrageous. I brought back dinner, plus three large bags of stuff, and it only cost less than 40.
He glanced at Phaethon, then lowered his head and took a look at the invoice. It was true, he really bought it.
"But these are almost 30, how did you spend ten yuan on dinner?"
"Dinner? Dinner didn't cost anything."
"Then what is this?"
"Today is my birthday. This is a staff meal sent by Golden Arches. I packed it back."
【ah! Yes, today is August 12th, her birthday! 】
Seeing Shangluo hesitate, Phaethon shook his head: "Maybe Apollonia remembered it."
"Well, she just remembered it. I'm sorry. If I knew, I would definitely prepare it for you. The 16th birthday is very important."
"Forget it, I haven't celebrated my birthday since I was very young. At this time, companies and banks will remember my birthday."
"Then you won't eat?"
"Today is Saturday. There happened to be a staff meal delivered to me on Saturday, and I was already full. So I brought you another one to eat. Well, it's my treat. Didn't I say you are blessed on your birthday? ?Blessings will also be shared with you."
"Thank you. Then I'll accept it."
He took the Coke and took a sip. It seems that he has been sharing blessings with others, but no one has shared blessings with him for a long time.
He raised his head: "I said, you can accept the change and use it yourself. You don't have to give it back to me."
"Really!"
"Well, yes, it is indeed possible. I believe you. Even if we don't give change, I don't think our quality of life will decline - and I think this can improve your enthusiasm. After all, I am still quite busy. It’s no exaggeration to say that I have so many things to do every day that I don’t have time to take care of my own life. Hiring you to help me solve my time is quite cost-effective for both of us.”
"Thank you. But I'm sorry! You trusted me so much, but I still betrayed you! I'm sorry!"
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"Actually, there's more to today than just that."
As she spoke, she brought back a huge oil paper bag from the door. There were five or six layers of peach cakes neatly packed inside, and the weight was estimated to be ten kilograms.
"Good guy! Where did this come from???"
"I got it in a lottery. You can draw a lottery after you go shopping. I'm sorry! I originally wanted to eat alone! But you are so generous, which makes me feel ashamed. Taosu should give you half of it too!"
Before I knew it, there was a lot of stuff piled on the coffee table. More than enough to eat in a week.
"Speaking of which, you are really awesome." He looked at Tao Su, then at the other food on the table, "Have you ever done housework at home?"
"No, I have an automatic machine at home, so I don't have to do the housework myself."
"Automata? What's that?"
"Eh? Don't you have one? I thought you must have such a simple thing. It's a wind-up doll."
"Can a wind-up doll do housework?"
"Just an automatic doll equipped with the 'Vulkan Core'. Don't you have something similar? You have Tianyi Nobleman."
"No, no, no, these two are completely different."
"Exactly the same." Phaethon replied, "Because the underlying principles are the same. They capture the wandering light between heaven and earth, generate artificial souls, and then incarnate them in machines. However, the technical paths are different. The core of Vulcan Use lightning to capture, not naturally occurring beans like you do."
"Then what's the difference in usage between the two?"
"Well, the core of Vulcan is fixed, and it has been fixed since the end of manufacturing. After being activated by lightning, the artificial soul produced is bound to the machine itself. If the machine disappears, the artificial soul will also be broken. These automata It is also divided into levels. The higher-level automata are more like humans. Low-level automata can only be bound to fixed facilities and serve as generators. The automatons we use at home are quite advanced, except that they cannot speak. It can almost fully realize human functions."
"So when you saw Lord Tianyi, you weren't actually that surprised?"
"It was really surprising before I understood the principle. After I understood it, it became much easier to accept. However, our application of automata is also quite limited. The Muse Palace, which is responsible for reviewing the ethics of science and technology, has always been opposed to this behavior because of the random use of lightning. Coming to capture You Guang is a kind of 'imprisonment'. Well, so it is only a matter of time before Columbia part ways with us. They have irreconcilable conflicts with everyone in the Senate, the Oracle, and the Palace of Muses."
"this"
This is awesome, this is awesome. Just by hearing it, you know that this is a technology that can change the world and support a world-class power.
"Let me confirm again. What is the 'Vulkan Core' you just mentioned?"
"That's the Syracuse Academy of Sciences. To put it simply, that thing is a degraded version of the divine machine. The mass-produced version of the 'Vulcan Core' comes in large and small sizes. If you put it into the machine, it can be regarded as an 'automaton.'" '. Humanoid automatons can work like humans, but their performance depends on the design of the doll itself. Well-designed dolls can complete complex housework, including sweeping the floor, laundry, cooking, etc., as long as there are enough joints. Large Autonomous machines can do heavier work, and what they have in common is that they don’t require energy."
"Are they perpetual motion machines?"
Phaethon nodded: "Yes, that is a perpetual motion machine. It is the product of the intersection of human body refinement and the path of the Philosopher's Stone."
"Then they really don't need to input energy to use it?" Shangluo asked. After all, this sounds too weird.
"It really does. But that probably doesn't count the input energy? The situation is like this: when all Vulcan cores are running, they will reduce the surrounding temperature. The lower the temperature, the slower the operation of the Vulcan core. Therefore, we usually use a water condensation system to maintain the temperature of the Vulcan core, so that large automata can run while spitting out ice cubes. Small automata do not need water condensation and can be maintained at room temperature.
"So it is impossible to create an infinitely huge automaton, because that will instantly reduce the core temperature to the point where it cannot operate. Only when the size is appropriate and the output power is appropriate, the automaton can operate normally - so, although it is true There is no need to input energy, but the work of 'dissipating cooling' is actually quite tricky. Why, why are you looking at me like this?"
"It turns out that help is far away and right in front of me! Can you help me get one? The person I want to shake is decided to be you."
(End of chapter)
