Chapter 2088: Machinery
The King's Campus of Royal Holy Crown University, in the northern suburbs of Tivian.
The afternoon sun shines on the King's Campus. As the weather had been cloudy and cold for many days before, this sunshine seems particularly precious. Students are lying everywhere on the green lawn of the campus taking the opportunity to bask in the sun. The whole campus is immersed in a peaceful atmosphere.
On a cobblestone path on the King's Campus, Dorothy, who had just come out of the library, was walking quickly forward. Students basking in the sun on the lawns on both sides were often attracted by this delicate and beautiful white-haired little girl. However, Dorothy did not have time to pay attention to the gazes of outsiders. She walked forward with a serious face, thinking constantly in her heart.
"The design drawings of the internal combustion engine I drew... can not only attract the attention of the gods, but also have the ability to detect poisons... This is simply too outrageous. An internal combustion engine can actually have the ability to detect poisons..."
Dorothy was thinking in her heart that the series of events that had just happened had overturned her understanding of the world. In her eyes, things that were considered scientific actually contained poison. In Dorothy's original understanding, poison detection only existed in mysterious knowledge.
'This incident shows that... the boundary between the mundane and the secret, the mysterious and the scientific may not be what we originally thought. The difference between the two may be much more blurred...
'The difference between mystery and science is a continuation of my experience in my previous life, but it may be completely different in this world. This world distinguishes between the secret and the mundane... just by whether the knowledge is malicious. Imagine if some secret knowledge was not malicious and could be widely spread, what would society be like now?
'Let's make an assumption. If a series of 'cups' of knowledge did not include poison identification, then there would be no restrictions or thresholds for learning spiritual training methods such as physical training...blood feeding methods. Wouldn't there be a society where everyone trains their bodies and cultivates the 'cup', which would be completely different from the society we have now?
In this society led by the Cup, everyone has a strong physique and can carry things by themselves without the help of machines. There are no trains, and people can run to a distance of dozens of kilometers. There is no government, and the whole society follows the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak. People form small groups to hunt and devour each other. Everyone succumbs to primitive desires, and civilization has regressed significantly.
'At this time, the superhuman physique and abilities of the Cup are no longer extraordinary and mysterious, because everyone can have them and therefore become mundane and common sense. At this time, if there is knowledge of making firearms and the ability to identify poisons, then the common firearms in this society may become products of mysticism, and may even become some extraordinary items...
'Think about it again... What if some other spiritual knowledge doesn't know the poison? If the secret knowledge of 'silence' doesn't know the poison... Will there be a spiritual society? Everyone is spiritual, and living is just a stage of life. After death, people will even remain in the world as ghosts. Or even more extreme, everyone is a ghost, and the whole world is a world of dead souls...'
Dorothy was thinking about all kinds of things in her mind. According to her ideas, what determines the difference between the secret and mundane aspects of this world is whether the knowledge carries knowledge. In other words, it is knowledge that shapes the appearance of mundane society, and the scope of knowledge determines which knowledge can be widely disseminated and applied. These widely applied knowledge create the appearance of society and even the entire civilization, while those knowledge that carry knowledge and cannot be widely used become secret.
It now seems that the world is stuck in the first industrial revolution. The reason is probably not that no one started the second industrial revolution, but that the key knowledge of the second industrial revolution is not identifiable.
'In this world, more than 50 years have passed since the launch of the First Industrial Revolution. Various technologies have been accumulated to a very mature level, and oil has also been discovered. Both in terms of technology accumulation and resources, the conditions for launching the Second Industrial Revolution have been met. However, there are not a few key people who have stepped forward to invent those key technologies. At first, I thought I had picked up a big bargain, but now it seems not that simple.
"There is no shortage of excellent craftsmen in this world. For those extraordinary people, inventing an internal combustion engine should not be a difficult task...but the problem is that no one has invented it yet."
Dorothy thought about this, she had seen Beverly's clockwork technology, with her technical ability, wouldn't it be easy to build an internal combustion engine? There are so many extraordinary people in this world, but the invention of the internal combustion engine has not appeared yet, this is a problem.
While thinking, Dorothy gradually walked to the east gate of the campus and walked straight out.
After going out of the east gate, Dorothy crossed the road and walked for a short while before returning to Greenshade Town. However, this time she did not go home directly, but went straight to No. 37.
Dorothy walked quickly in the brightly decorated, comfortable and pleasant Green Town. Not long after, she arrived at Beverly's door. Standing in front of the old house, Dorothy rang the doorbell skillfully. After waiting for a while, she heard footsteps behind the door. After the door was opened, Beverly appeared in front of Dorothy, wearing an apron, eyeglasses, and a bunch of tools in her left hand like a Swiss Army knife.
"Hey, the distinguished guest is here, please come in~"
Seeing Dorothy's figure, Beverly moved her goggles upwards and immediately called Dorothy in. After entering Beverly's house, Dorothy sat down on the sofa in the living room as if she was familiar with the place. After closing the door, Beverly came to a coffee table in the living room. At this time, there were a pile of test tubes, beakers and glass bottles on the coffee table. Dorothy looked at them and asked curiously.
"You...are you doing a chemistry experiment?"
"No, no, no, I'm just practicing making coffee. Since I don't have any proper tools, I just make do with these things." Beverly said calmly, and then she picked up some coffee beans from the box on the coffee table with her normal hands and put them in a round iron box. Dorothy spoke in surprise when she heard her words.
"A clockwork man can drink coffee?"
"I don't drink it. I'm just making it for fun. I've been having some problems with my research lately and I'm not in the mood, so I just picked something to play with... Last time you came and complained that I only had motor oil and nothing to drink for you, so I'm going to try making some coffee. Anyway, when other humans come over in the future, I'll give them something to drink."
Beverly said so, and then put the coffee beans in her hand into an iron container. Like a Swiss Army knife, a grinder-like thing popped out of her left hand. After turning it, she put it into the container and started grinding the coffee beans.
"A clockwork man learning how to make coffee... you really have the time to do it..."
Dorothy said this while looking at Beverly who was grinding coffee beans. After a while, Beverly ground the coffee beans and poured them into a cup. Then her multifunctional left hand, like a Swiss Army knife, transformed into a nozzle, which sprayed out a small flame and began to heat a beaker beside her. After quickly boiling the water in it, she produced a pair of pliers and grabbed it, and poured the boiling water into the cup of coffee bean powder.
After a lot of trouble, Beverly finally brought a cup of hot coffee she had made to Dorothy, and then spoke frankly.
"Come on, try it, and then tell me how it tastes."
Listening to Beverly's words, Dorothy glanced at the hot coffee in front of her. Although the coffee in front of her seemed to be fine, she couldn't help swallowing when she thought about the experiment that Beverly had done before.
"This clockwork man has no sense of taste and wants to make coffee... Is that okay...?"
Dorothy thought so with a little worry, but when she thought that the other party suddenly had the idea of researching how to make coffee because she didn't get any treats when she came here, it wouldn't be right for her to refuse.
After hesitating for a while, Dorothy finally picked up the cup of coffee in front of her, blew it to cool it down a little, and took two sips. After seeing Dorothy drink it, Beverly raised her eyebrows and asked.
"How is it? How does it taste?"
"Hmm...it tastes okay, but there's just a little less sugar." Dorothy nodded and commented as she savored the coffee brewed by Beverly. The coffee tasted okay, at least it didn't smell like motor oil as she had imagined.
"Not enough sugar? Hmm... It seems that the standard parameters obtained from the coffee shop are also a little inaccurate. Now I will modify it and increase the amount of sugar next time..."
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