Sword and Magic and Taxi

A lot of things happened in August of 1918. Following the failure of the Hundred Days Offensive, Germany failed again in the Second Battle of the Marne, and could only retreat substantially and retreated to the Hindenburg line, completely losing the initiative and hope of victory on the battlefield to the Allied powers; the epidemic of disease It is under control in some areas, but the overall speed of transmission continues to accelerate. Many people even experienced the second and third rounds of infection. Their resistance is getting worse and the death rate is getting higher and higher. Therefore, the Quidditch World Cup was suspended. One session; a guy named Zhao Mai spent the only gold coins in his hand, bought a shop in Hogsmeade Village, began to renovate, and started a plan to open a potion shop.

　　 Passing the ordinary wizard rank test is equivalent to "adult" in magic, and Zhao Mai has some corresponding rights. He can wear a pointed hat like a real wizard, wear a wizard robe with an official emblem, receive formal services from Gringotts, and purchase his own wizard house and land. It happened that someone wanted to sell Hogsmeade's house. Zhao Mai checked the price and bought it when he felt it was more suitable.

　　 This is a thin and narrow two-story wooden building with a thick chimney on the side and a storage loft about the same height as Zhao Mai. The original owner used it as a resting place in summer and winter, but he was always harassed by Hogwarts students, so the number of visits became less and less. The house was neglected and accumulated a lot of dust. It has basically become a shelter for all kinds of small creatures. Before the house fell, the original owner decided to sell it for a price, and then moved to the sunny beach on the Mediterranean coast.

　　 When Zhao Mai took over, the house was already shaking. Zhao Mai also deliberately pushed the wall with his hands. His immense power strengthened with psychic powers pushed the old house, causing it to keep screaming "Don't push, I can't stand it, let me die." Successfully cut the price down. After he took over the "dangerous building", he just bought some wooden boards, used plastic wood (wood shaping) to transform them into a soft and permeable state, and drilled along the cracks in the damaged wooden walls. Go in and repair the broken places. Some termites living in the structure of this house, who feed on wood and degrade the quality of the house, were driven by Zhao Mai to find new homes in other places with natural force, and would never return to harass the house.

　　 This house has thus become clean, strong and full of vitality.

　　 "Don't you need to drive away those mice and spiders?" Xiao Hua flew around from the house, looking for gaps that Zhao Mai might have missed. Naturally, he would find some small creatures that did not follow the advice.

"I don't mind if they are here, but they are likely to bite the medicinal materials we bought and the potions we made." Zhao Mai thought for a while and said to Xiaohua: "You can find a place in the house to place them. Just. Say there is a safe zone, you can move around freely, and you have to take risks after you leave there."

"I don't want to talk to them." Xiao Hua shook her head, and said: "I am the tree of comprehension, I am very clean, let alone mice and bugs, even birds can't come to me. You can also use animal conversation skills. , Go by yourself. There is a small window that opens outward in the east corner of the basement. Leave it there for the animals."

　　 Zhao Mai nodded, summoning the force of nature to strengthen the understanding of animals in order to achieve the purpose of communication. Although he is fluent in all languages, animal dialogues cannot be translated. The sounds made by animals can indeed express emotions and different meanings, but they cannot be counted as a language. Most of these sounds are based on the needs of the environment, through a kind of sound reflection passed down through the reproduction of the ethnic group, to express the response to a specific stimulus. The most important element of language is to produce abstract concepts, which come from the real thing and are higher than the real thing.

　　 The same animal will produce completely different sound signals due to the difference in living environment and ethnic group. This requires the natural force to strengthen the ability of "animal understanding and communication" to achieve a state of similar conversation. It is necessary to understand animals as well as let them understand the meaning of druids. Zhao Mai cast a spell, and saw the food reserve on the way to find mice and spiders, and he was suddenly curious about what he would say.

　　 "A Liang, what do you think now?" Zhao Mai knelt down and stabbed it.

　　 The grain reserve turned his head, revealing his belly and was about to scream, suddenly felt something wrong. It looked at Zhao Mai, sniffed it, then opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, making a "ha...ha..." breathing sound.

　　 "Come on, say something? For example, what do you want to eat the most?"

　　 The grain reserve eyeballs rolled around, got up and licked Zhao Mai's face with his tongue, and wagged his tail vigorously, but he didn't speak, even the original "Wang Wang" or "Wang Wang" was not there. Zhao Mai couldn't tease him.

　　 I don't know if he is really stupid or too smart. In short, he doesn't reveal anything in his heart to Zhao Mai. Without time to spend a whole day with it here, Zhao Mai shook his head and left. The stored food watched the owner leave, his eyelids trembled, looked around, and continued to lie down to sleep. It feels that not being stupid but acting stupid is the highest creed. For example, spell dodge training. After hard training, it is not too difficult to avoid all kinds of magic wand rays, but it is a disadvantage to end the training. The reserve knows that as long as it makes a few deliberate mistakes, it can keep Zhao Mai in training. And then maintain a higher success rate, it will always have extra meat to eat! You can’t tell anyone like this...

　　 Zhao Mai settled down the miniature residents in the house, and then used magic to let the dust into the trash can, and let the broom and mop work automatically to clean the house. He plans to allocate the rooms on the second floor so that everyone has space to live, rest and study. The first floor serves as his potion laboratory, as well as a workshop. There are very few gold coins left on him. In order to carry out more research, he needs a way to make money. Potions are currently his best direction, especially for some heavily used medicines. His production efficiency is much higher than textbooks, and the cost is lower than outside pharmacies. There should be a good market.

　　 As for sales, using a vending machine is a good choice. Re-automation, or "Magicization" ~www.NovelMTL.com~ The progress and development of the wizarding world far exceeds the outside world. Most of the clothes have the function of "folding up by themselves" or "automatically climbing on the hanger", and shoes can "mop itching on the cloth by themselves". "Automatic spells" allow items to judge simple conditions and do things, just like a programming language. The mechanical vending machine has been invented, and all Zhao Mai needs to do is use the automatic spell to make it more advanced. In an era when computers were nearly 30 years away, Zhao Mai could try simple programming.

　　 For Zhao Mai, this process will be fun.

　　 From the outside, the house has been under renovation and there was no intention to open the door for a while, but inside, everything is basically ready. Zhao Mai turned all the raw materials into a panacea for colds and packed them in bags. Looking at the medicine cabinet that was basically empty, Zhao Mai knew that he had to solve the problem of raw materials. The remaining gold coins need to be spent more carefully, and he really doesn't want to take the gems to the goblin bank for exploitation. Just kidding, let the goblins take charge of the banking industry and don't know what the wizards think. If they knew about the fate of gold coins, they might have sighed for a long time, and would rather start another war with the goblin, or take the bank back?

　　 By the way, the wizard defeated the elves, so they enslaved them into "house elves". Has there been a battle between wizards and goblins? Who wins and who loses? Zhao Mai thought for a while. The exam has just passed, and it seems that the entire history of magic has not written about it, which is somewhat intriguing.

　　The banker who has mastered the power of money rules everything in the wizard's life. Could it be that the goblin won and the wizard lost? (To be continued.)