Chapter 29: Jean Valjean

　　 In this world, steam generators have appeared more than ten years ago. At that time, this thing was very sensational. Many people thought that this thing represented the future of technology, but in the end they found out that they did not know where to use this thing.
　　Until a warden who always had a headache for the escape of prisoners felt that the steam generator could help him manage the prison, so he surrounded a grid of electricity around the prison wall to prevent the prisoners from escape.
　　 After the test, after dozens of examples, everyone found that the steam generator with the grid can play an extraordinary effect, so grid security has become the only use of the steam generator.
If, before entering Cage City, the simple microphone and horn installed next to the elevator only made Leo curious, then the electric light now made him realize that the people who invented this thing knew more about electricity than this Other people in the world, if you are lucky, this person will definitely become a pioneer in the use of electrical energy.
"Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" Martin may have become accustomed to electric lights. He did not show much surprise. After entering the house, he pulled away all kinds of weird mechanical parts on the ground and walked to the stairs on the side of the room. And shouted a few times upstairs, and after getting no response, some irritated whispered, "Damn! Didn't you tell him to stay here these days? This guy ran out again!" said In response, he apologized to Leo and Jason: "The two will wait here for a while, and I will go out and find him."
　　 finished, he quickly walked out of the house, and his figure disappeared into the dark aisle.
"Leo, this thing is so bright!" Jason relaxed and leaned under the light bulb with a curious look, squinted, and looked up. After a while, his eyes felt a tingle before lowering his head and rubbing. Eyes, said: "It is a bit dazzling after watching for a long time."
　　 "You fool, who made you stare at you for so long." Leo scowled, and then looked at the various strange machines stacked in the room.
On the left hand side of Leo, there is a machine that looks like a piano, but the keys do not correspond to the strings, but the vacuum tubes with the thickness of the fingers, and there is some unknown flow in the vacuum tube. Liquid, it looks very weird.
On the right hand side is a mechanical arm made up of trachea, steel bars and gears. The trachea of ​​the arm is connected to a small steam engine similar to a steam crossbow power device. However, this small steam engine is far less delicate and lightweight, but it is very cumbersome. Even if Leo was carrying it, it was a bit difficult.
　　 There is also a phonograph-like machine not far away. The roof is also hung with a model similar to the old-earth era glider. The walls are covered with various complicated mechanical drawings, mechanical stereograms, and so on.
　　Although I haven't seen this person called Jean Valjean, Leo already has a fixed impression in his mind. This person is definitely a self-taught mechanical genius.
　　 "I don't like that guy." As Leo walked around to appreciate the various interesting machinery in the house, Jason suddenly said.
　　 Leo stood still, turned around and asked Jason calmly, "I don't like him either."
　　 "Do you know who I am talking about?" Jason froze and asked.
　　 "Of course I know." Leo tilted his head toward the door of the room.
　　Jason smiled, and then came forward and asked in a low voice: "Do you believe what he said?"
　　 Leo looked at Jason quite unexpectedly and asked, "Don't you believe what he said?"
　　Jason thought about it seriously and shook his head: "I don't think it's very good. My mother told me that something that doesn't feel very good is nothing good."
"Your mother is very correct. You have to listen to your mother in the future." Leo nodded with a smile, and then whispered deliberately: "I don't like that guy as much as you do, just like the guy himself said, politician It's all shit, who would believe what says?"
　　Jason wondered: "If you don't believe what he said, why..."
　　Leo confided directly: "I want to know what the he wants to do, what do he want from the doctor?"
　　 "Doctor?" Jason was more puzzled.
Leo picked up a spherical mechanical object from the table and placed it in front of his eyes. While studying its structure, he said: "Don’t look at him as if persuading me from beginning to end, for this inexplicable cooperation with him. In fact, his goal is always a doctor, and you and I are just adding."
　　 "Did he come to the doctor?" Jason was not sure why Leo thought so, but believed Leo said, so he was worried for the doctor and said, "Shall we inform the doctor?"
"Don't tell the doctor," Leo shook his head, and said: "The doctor is now so fascinated that he can't even forget what he's called. I can't hide anything at all, and I don't even believe that Catherine," perhaps thought Somewhat absolute, and added a sentence: "At least not trustworthy now."
　　 Just when Leo's voice fell, his finger seemed to touch a switch of the mechanical ball in his hand. The mechanical ball snapped apart from the middle part, and then the upper half of the shell opened like a flower.
　　 Then he saw a gear-driven exquisite house slowly rise from the lower half of the sphere, and everyone and every animal in the house will make different actions as the gear rotates.
　　Until all the movements were completed, I heard a click again, and the hut slowly sank into the lower hemisphere, and the other half like the petals closed again, and then restored into a mechanical sphere.
"Wow! It's a beautiful gadget. I'm definitely willing to spend ten gold shields to buy one." While exclaiming, Jason took it from Leo's hand and carefully looked at it in his hand, as if he wanted to find out what was going on inside. Mystery.
"It's a beautiful gadget, but I'm more interested in the people who made it." Leo, who is accustomed to the ultimate machinery such as space warships, was surprised by the ingenuity of the gadget in front of him, but he did not show it. It was too strong, but it turned out to be a curiosity to this producer.
　　 At this moment, there should have been a sound of heavy objects falling on the floor upstairs where no one was supposed to be. Because it is an iron plate roof and floor, the sound is very loud when it is transmitted below.
　　 Leo and Jason glanced at each other, each took a Panil tomahawk from their waists and walked directly upstairs.
The situation on the second floor is the same as the first floor, where weird mechanical devices are placed. However, unlike the first floor, most of these mechanical devices are complete and should be finished products, so the location should also be more specific. It is far from comparable to the random piles downstairs.
I saw a large workbench placed on one side of the room on the second floor of the room. There were also several small steam engines disassembled on the workbench, and a metal-made spotlight used a similar mechanical arm The bracket is fixed on the workbench. Under the spotlight, a figure is sitting in front of the workbench and burying his head to do something.
　　 Leo and Jason walked over. Although they didn't deliberately increase their footsteps, the sound of footsteps was still very loud, and they stepped on the iron floor. However, the person sitting at the workbench seemed to be deaf and could not hear anything, and continued to do his own thing.
Soon, the two approached the figure. Jason raised his hand to pat the other person’s shoulder to remind him of his arrival, but Leo grabbed his hand, shook his head, and then looked down at the workbench. .
　　I saw that this figure was wearing a dirty work clothes, and a leather helmet similar to the old earth age flying cap covered the entire head. From the situation just now, this helmet has good sound insulation.
　　 In addition, he also brought a pair of very fine mechanical eyes, there are some fine gears around the eyes, and the eye frame is a special device that resembles a single barrel telescope and is telescopically adjustable. Judging from what he is doing now, this pair of eyes should be able to magnify the object in front of it. Its function is somewhat similar to that of the doctor's mask, but it is more precise.
At this moment, this person is using tweezers, carefully equipped with delicate machinery placed on the table, these machines have a large number of small gears, although I do not know what this machine is ultimately used for, but in terms of complexity, It has far exceeded the mechanical ball downstairs.
At this time, the mechanical gear has been assembled to the last one. This person took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, moved a little stiff hand, and then picked up the tweezers, clamped the small gear that was not much bigger than the rice grain, and slowly approached Install the location, put it into the bearing, fix it, then pick up the cover that has been prepared aside, close it, and tighten it.
After all this was done, the man spit out a long voice, shouted a celebratory word in a weird language, then stretched out, took off his eyes and helmet, and revealed a young face in his early twenties .
Even if he removed something that hindered vision and hearing, the young man still did not notice the person standing behind him. His attention was all attracted by what he created, and he picked up the mechanical device with the shell installed on the table. Under the light, carefully watch the play.
　　 "Can you show me?" Leo said suddenly.
　　 "Ah!" The young man was startled immediately and gave a scream, his body shivering, but fortunately his hand was stable, and he did not drop the mechanical device in his hand.
Following his steady mind, he turned his head and saw Leo and Jason standing on the back side of the body. Although there was fear in their eyes, they tried to keep calm on their faces. They also used a stable tone and said to the two: "If You want money. There are thirty gold flanges in the cabinet next to the workbench. If you want Hagen powder, I don’t have it here. If you want..."
　　 "Damn! Boy, we are not robbers." Jason scolded.
　　The young people heard that the fear in their eyes was slightly reduced, and then they asked, "Are you here to buy things?"
　　 "We came with Martin." Leo said truthfully: "You are called Jean Valjean! My name is Leo Dodd, Martin said you have some good equipment for us to use."
　　 Hearing Leo’s words, Jean Valjean’s brows were very slightly wrinkled, and he didn’t seem to pay much respect to Martin. Although his eyes were well covered, Leo could still see a disdainful look in his eyes.
　　 "What about Martin?" Jean Valjean looked behind them and asked.
　　Leo explained: "He called you downstairs just now, but you are busy with your own affairs and there is no response, so he thought you were not there and went to find you elsewhere."
　　 "Damn! It's going to be scolded again." Jean Valjean scolded dejectedly.
　　 Leo pointed to the mechanical device in Jean Valjean's hand and asked, "Can you see it?"
　　 "Do you understand?" Jean Valjean proudly handed something to Leo and said, "Tap lightly, don't break it, I just finished it."
　　 Leo ignored the young man's tone problem and took this mechanical device in his hand.
I saw that this device is about two slaps in size. The gears inside have been covered by a box made of a layer of iron. There are some holes in the box. Each hole corresponds to a number and symbol. A long frame is opened on the side of the box In the window, there are seven roller-shaped gears.
　　Although the style of the box is a little weird, you can still easily guess what the device is doing from the logo of the button above.
Under Jean Valjean’s slightly surprised look, Leo skillfully pressed some buttons~EbookFREE.me~ and then twisted the spring on the side of the box. After twisting to the extreme, let go of the hand and saw the long strip The seven rollers of the window turned rapidly, and finally stopped on a number in sequence, forming a set of seven digits.
"This calculator is a very good thing! Ability to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within seven digits, as well as percentages, I think businessmen should be very interested in this stuff." Leo returned to Jean Valjean, He also gave suggestions, "It's just that this thing has some disadvantages, that is, it is impossible to calculate the exact number after the decimal point. Once the number after the decimal point appears, your calculator will have a single-digit error."
　　 "Calculator?" Jean Valjean couldn't help thinking after hearing Leo's words, and then said happily: "Yes, this thing is called a calculator! The name is very appropriate. Do you also understand mechanics?"
　　Leo said frankly, "I don't understand, but I know how to use it." Then, he pointed to the spotlight on the workbench and said, "The spotlight is doing well."
"Spotlight, it seems that you really know how to use it." As a mechanic, Jean Valjean not only likes to communicate with fellow friends, but also likes the appreciation of someone's work, so his attitude towards Leo has become kind. Quite a lot, unlike the expressions in the beginning with a kind of pretentious arrogance.
　　 "Why not promote this kind of lamp in Cage City?" Leo asked again: "In the dark environment of Cage City, it is most appropriate to use this kind of lamp."
　　 Leo’s words seemed to poke Valjean’s pain, and his tone immediately froze, as if answering Leo’s question, but deliberately directed behind Leo, saying,
This is someone who doesn’t want to promote.

　　 Leo turned his head, looked at Martin who came up from the stairs, and asked, "Why?"