Demon Sage

“About a few nights ago, someone in the nearby factory noticed that several machines had stopped working. It was not the spinning machine that had a problem, but the lack of energy supply, so they contacted the workshop Guards, don’t look at the waterwheel outside. In fact, the inside of the workshop is mechanized and automatic, so there are only two guards every day. They are on shifts at night. The problem lies in the No. 1 waterwheel, its exterior The transmission was damaged. Our initial judgment was that a business competitor had done it, and we immediately found someone to repair it, but on the night of the second day, it was damaged again. This time, both waterwheels had problems. So we’re going to spend the night on the third day guarding that damn bastard…”

Speaking of this, the manager unnaturally unbuttoned the top button of the shirt inside, despite the distance It’s been a few days since that night, but the memory of that scene still makes him nervous and uncomfortable.

There is no spinning machine in the waterwheel workshop. There are only various mechanical devices connected to two large waterwheels, and a large number of woven fabrics of different colors piled up in the open space. , Since there is normally no who, this workshop does not have the large windows that are common in ordinary factories, but there are several vents above the inner wall.

“What did you see that night?”

Donald followed the manager to the waterwheel workbench on the left, which was the closest waterwheel, built on the river.

“I know it’s incredible to say, but I hope you don’t get too surprised when you hear it…and don’t think I’m a mental disorder because I did see it, it was …that’s a big toad! It’s about the size of a bull, deep blue skin with lots of fist sized bumps, it has teeth in its mouth, yes I’m sure of that.. ….Sir, you have to trust me, I’m telling the truth!”

The manager said while noticing Donald’s expression, who had spoken to a few close people about this before. Son, they all didn’t believe him and thought he was mentally ill, which made him very depressed, and sometimes even began to wonder if he was really hallucinating.

So now seeing that the person he hired didn’t even bother to look surprised, it made him very embarrassed. He felt that there might be a problem with his brain, so he hired someone to solve a problem that only existed in the world. The deep blue big toad he imagined!

“Did I say I didn’t believe you?”

Donald put on his sunglasses and turned on Spirit Vision. The guy only appears near the waterwheel.

“No, I…the average person would be surprised, surprised, or something like that when they hear the big toad…”

“Sir, I am You hired to solve this monster, aren’t you? If I’m weird and scared of this monster, what am I doing here, accompany you in fear? As long as the reward is in place, let alone the big blue toad, it’s just rushing out of the river A bull with a deep blue, I will help you solve it!”

Since he has accepted the task, Donald still has this work ethic.

“Thank you for your trust, please go this way.”

There are two platforms outside the waterwheel workshop, one is a high-priced platform built outside the workshop, with a long Bar-shaped, located in the middle of the waterwheel, which is usually used for overhauling the machines in the middle ring of the waterwheel, a low platform on the river surface, built above the river surface, which is the location for overhauling the outer blades of the waterwheel.

Donald stood on the elevated platform and looked at the empty street on the opposite bank. He saw that the architectural style should be a warehouse area with few pedestrians. He also looked at the waterwheel that was still running slowly in the river below. The appearance of the waterwheel is different from what he saw outside. There are many mechanical structures hanging on it. In the center is a large rolling gear, and I don’t know what it does.

“Where is the damaged place?”

Since we want to solve the monster, we must first find the reason why it is staring at the waterwheel for damage.

“It’s hard to see here, you have to go to the low platform to see it. The monster destroyed a part of the mechanism behind the blade.”

The manager pointed to the water with his finger The edge of the car had been serviced before, so he knew what was wrong.

“Are you going down through the escalator here? You take me down and show me the damaged place.”

There is an escalator going down in the middle of the high-priced platform , connected to the lower platform.

“Uh, this…”

The manager stood on the edge of the platform and glanced at the low platform that was less than half a meter away from the river. He remembered that night The toad climbed up here, and he hasn’t gone down since.

“Don’t worry, with me here, I wish that toad came out now, it would save me a lot of time, please hurry up? Time is money, my friend!”

Donald found that the manager was still lingering beside him after he finished speaking, he thought for a while and continued,

“Tomorrow is the time to restart the work. If you can’t solve the problem today, what are you going to do tomorrow? The shutdown of the factory means that the fabric cannot be Production, the store in Tallinn district can’t get new products, customers are lost, assets are damaged, you are only the Chief-In-Charge of this part, there should be a Boss above it, what reasons are you going to explain to him when the time comes, because The factory waterwheel was gnawed by a large toad with teeth?”

噔噔噔~

The manager trotted all the way to the low platform, now this position But it took him a whole ten years, and he didn’t know how much effort he paid to get it. If he was fired because of his own fear, it would be better to let the toad swallow him in one bite.

“Wait a minute, let me see…I remember it was marked.”

There are many blades throughout the waterwheel, and the toad destroys only one of them In part, the manager squatted on the platform, right hand clutching an iron hook pulled from the side wall, which was used to fix the waterwheel later.

Donald stood on the side of the platform against the wall and used Spirit Vision to look around. There were several light blue marks on the periphery of the low platform. When he walked up, he found that it should be the flippers of a toad. His feet stretched out a bit, and it was even bigger, which proved that the manager’s description was correct. It was indeed a large toad. Then he turned his eyes to the waterwheel, and between the two blades, the same thing appeared. Some strange marks, when they turned to the manager’s position, I saw that he was very neat with the iron hook on the lock ring.

“This is it. The first damaged place has been repaired. It is similar to the situation here. The outer blades have not been damaged in any way, but the device installed in the blade has no problems.”

“This is the place. p>

The manager pointed to the empty space between the two blades, where the tail section of a mechanical device seemed to have been poked by an iron drill. A big dent in it.

Donald was standing behind him, in Spirit Vision’s field of vision, the place was heavily stained with light blue marks, especially the parts of the mechanism.

“Has anything been damaged in other places around the river bank during this time?”

The destruction of the waterwheel, and the repeated destruction, must have a purpose. .

“As far as I know, there should be no, only these two waterwheels were destroyed by that guy!”

The manager recalled for a few seconds, then shook his head and said.

“What does this mechanism do, and does it have any qualities? For example, it will light up at night and so on. It may be a coincidence that it breaks once, but it comes back to break after you repair it, There must be something on the waterwheel that annoys it.”

“This is an ordinary mechanical structure, the function… should be just a repeater, probably a whole The line node on the waterwheel.”

“You mean it has nothing special when it is taken out alone?”

“Yes, this thing is installed on the entire waterwheel.”

p>

The manager also worked in this kind of spinning mill when he was not promoted, and he still has some understanding of the waterwheel.

“The waterwheel was running when it was destroyed, right? Your No. 2 waterwheel is also broken?”

Since there is no problem in the details, then It can only restore the situation at that time.

“No, this one has been fixed, because two are broken, I want to leave one to check the problem, and the other one I called someone to fix a long time ago, in order to save some money after the problem is solved Repair time.”

“Okay, you go up and open it right away, and I’ll watch it right here.”

From waterwheel 1 to the edge of waterwheel 2 , Donald turned to the manager.

“Huh? You’re not afraid of the monster…”

“Do it!”

“Okay.”

The manager ran back to the workshop, and Donald saw the gears in the middle of the waterwheel start to operate. The waterwheel still maintained the original speed, but some mechanical devices in the middle of it had changed. Donald’s eyes were fixed on No. 2 water. The undamaged parts of the car.

Beep~Beep~

After a while, the rhythmic tones very similar to the sound of a whistle began to come out from the mechanical device in the middle of the waterwheel.

“Sir, did you find anything wrong?”

Holding a switch with a thick black wire in his hand, the manager reappeared on the elevated platform.

“Go ahead, watch from the elevated platform, help me pay attention to the water behind me, and let me know if you see anything unusual!”

Compared to the last waterwheel activity , this time there is a strange sound, Donald thinks it is very likely that this sound is brought into the river with the rotation of the waterwheel. Monster.

But this is just a guess. He needs to verify it. He quickly walks up to the elevated platform and asks the manager to look at it and watch it for himself. Such a huge creature must have traces swimming in the river.

1 minute, 2 minutes…10 minutes…half an hour…

About twenty or thirty meters in the direction of Donald On the river outside, a wide ripple suddenly appeared out of thin air. Instead of calling the manager, he let the ripple approach. When it entered the range of Spirit Vision, Donald whispered, “Turn off the waterwheel!”

The manager was a little unresponsive, but the action on his hand was timely, and he pressed the close button immediately.

The sound of the waterwheel stopped immediately, and the ripples on the water gradually disappeared.