Chapter 65 Vivian’s talent
Being lost in negotiations with Count Sean, naturally a long time passed. When Xu Yi returned home, the moon was already in the middle of the sky and it was close to midnight.
When he opened the door to his house, Vivian wasn’t waiting at the door like usual. The house was completely dark and silent, not containing a single sound.
“She probably couldn’t wait and went to sleep.” Xu Yi secretly thought.
He took off his shoes and entered the room, but he was surprised to find that there was someone lying on the table in the living room.
Using the moonlight to see, who else would it be if not Vivian?
Looking at the table, the dishes on it hadn’t been touched at all. She must have made the meal a long time ago and had been waiting for Xu Yi to come back to eat, but she must have fallen asleep while waiting.
Looking at Vivian’s little sleeping face, there was an apologetic feeling that passed through Xu Yi’s heart.
Because Viscount Leslie had suddenly contacted him to go to the City Lord Manor for dinner, he didn’t have time to contact Vivian and made this little girl wait for him the entire time.
“I was talking with Leslie and Count Sean about freeing the production forces that I forgot about a little girl like Vivian in a small room like this, I really did go a bit overboard.” Xu Yi sighed as he shook his head. He leaned over to pick up Vivian.
Compare to how thin she was when Xu Yi bought her, although Vivian was still a bit slender, she had gotten a bit heavier, which made it a bit hard for Xu Yi to carry her.
This is because one, Vivian was currently in her growth spurt and two, the conditions in Xu Yi’s place was much better than being a slave under Viscount Leslie. This caused her body to quickly become stronger.
Other than putting on some weight, there were other parts of Vivian’s body that had begun to develop. When Xu Yi picked her up, he could feel the richness of certain parts of her body, causing him to become somewhat distracted.
It was a good thing Xu Yi wasn’t an impulsive young fellow in his teens. Even if he knew that Vivian wouldn’t dare reject him if he raised this request to her, he suppressed his desires and carried Vivian to her room to let her sleep.
Returning back to the living room, Xu Yi lit a candle.
As soon the candle was lit, Xu Yi suddenly seemed to have realized something and he hit his own head.
“Idiot, I always thought that there was a magic machine I should invent, but I had thrown away a premade thing in front of me. Hei, if I were to invent this thing, Heinz would definitely be very satisfied.”
Since he began studying magic machines, there were all kinds of ideas that came into Xu Yi’s head. Some could only be stored in Xu Yi’s head for now since the Sines Continent had a weak industrial system and some could be realized, so Xu Yi recorded them down to find a suitable time to release them.
Now that he had thought of this idea, Xu Yi followed his habit and took out the notebook he carried with him to write it down.
As soon as he sat down at the table, Xu Yi was surprised to find that there were several blueprints where Vivian had just been lying. There were also several pieces of paper scattered on the ground to the side.
Xu Yi took several pieces of paper to look over and he found that there were designs for all kinds of magic machines on them!
Xu Yi’s face sunk. These designs were the ones made occasionally when he was home, he never thought that Vivian’s memory was this outstanding. She had only watched from a side a few times and she could completely draw them.
These designs seemed quite normal, but they were actually the trade secrets of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. If these were to fall in the hands of the Leo Chamber of Commerce who also cared about the magic machines, it would create losses to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that were greater than losing the sales of several hundred magic machines.
Xu Yi thought about it and quickly ruled out the terrifying thought that Vivian was actually a business spy.
Since she was bought by Xu Yi, Vivian had almost never left his house and the only person she contacted outside was Still.
Still definitely wasn’t any kind of business spy, so even if Vivian wanted to do it, there weren’t enough conditions met to do it.
Moreover, Vivian’s status was only Xu Yi’s slave. According to the laws of the Lampuri Kingdom, no matter how Xu Yi treated her, there were no problems even if he killed her.
With Vivian’s personality, she didn’t have this courage.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi relaxed and seriously looked over the diagrams in his hand.
It had to be said, although Vivian couldn’t even read, she was quite skilled in drawing. These diagrams were no different from the ones Xu Yi drew at all.
Other than these diagrams, Vivian actually drew many complete drawings of magic machines.
Looking at it, it seemed like she had drawn the finished magic machine based on the designs.
Although the magic machines produced by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce were a bit different from these, they weren’t that much different in the end.
Even…...Xu Yi had to admit that if it was based purely on physical appearance, the magic machines Vivian drew was actually a bit more beautiful…...
“Could it be that this little girl has a natural talent as a designer?” Xu Yi looked at the diagrams and his expression became very strange.
As a talented mechanical engineer from earth, Xu Yi had seen many talented people. He knew more clearly than anyone else that there were geniuses that could make people speechless.
But he had never connected a pitiful little slave like Vivian with the identity of a genius, not to mention combining her and rough machines.
But in front of Xu Yi, even though the Sines Continent didn’t have things like magic machines before, it was unknown how this little girl developed this talent…...
For things that he couldn’t understand, Xu Yi could only put things that were very unlikely to the side with his scientific mind. He shook his head and honestly wrote down the idea he just had before tidying up the table. He was too lazy to wash up, so he directly dragged his exhausted body to go to sleep.
When he woke up the next day, Xu Yi woke up to the sounds of Vivian making breakfast.
The first thought Xu Yi had was that he should change houses. Otherwise if Vivian were to wake him up every day when she made breakfast, he wouldn’t be able to sleep in on days he wanted to sleep in.
His second thought were the diagrams he had seen last night.
After being in a daze for a bit, Xu Yi got up and quickly washed his face, waking himself up.
After he finished washing up, Vivian had put the breakfast she had prepared for him on the table.
After living with Xu Yi for two months, Vivian had already formed a tacit understanding with Xu Yi.
Xu Yi picked up a piece of bread and looked Vivian who was waiting for him to eat first. After thinking for a bit, he said, “Vivian, did you not eat dinner yesterday?”
Vivian gave a slight nod, “Un, master didn’t come back and I was waiting for the entire time. Only I fell asleep afterwards, I didn’t even know when you came back. I even troubled master to carry me back to my room.”
“Remember, if I’m ever not back by dinner time, you don’t need to wait for me. I am very busy with work right now and there are many times I’ll be eating outside. If you keep waiting for me each time, you’ll be hungry many times, do you understand?” Xu Yi told her.
“But…...But master, you haven’t even eaten, how could I eat by myself?” Vivian’s eyes popped out, looking at Xu Yi in confusion.
“This is an order, you just have to follow it.”
“Oh.” Vivian obediently replied.
“Other than that……” Xu Yi took the diagrams he organized yesterday and waved it in front of Vivian, “Were these drawn by you?”
A look of shame appeared on Vivian’s face and she looked down, “Sorry, master. Without your permission, I shouldn’t have used your pen and paper……”
“That is not important. Come, lift your head and respond to my question.” Xu Yi carefully looked over Vivian’s expression. He only saw some embarrassment on her face and didn’t see any other expressions, so his heart relaxed.
He definitely didn’t believe that a little girl without any background would have such good acting skills, there should be no problem with Vivian.
“Vivian, the reason why you drew these pictures, is it because you are bored at home, so you drew these to kill time?”
Xu Yi took out one of the pictures and there was his image drawn on it.
There was another one that was a portrait of Still and several landscape drawings. After Xu Yi found these, his suspicions about Vivian was even more relieved.
“I must say that your talent isn’t bad. Look, you drew me like this, this is simply like a photo.” Xu Yi pointed at his portrait as he praised it.
“Photo?” Vivian looked at Xu Yi in a daze, “What is that?”
“Eh…...It’s a picture printed on a piece of paper, you’ve never seen it before.” Xu Yi waved his hand, “Don’t worry about that. Vivian, answer my question, do you feel bored staying here all day?”
“No, no, I’m not bored. I’m very happy being here, really!” Vivian quickly waved her hand, doing all she could to deny it.
“Tell the truth!” Xu Yi said in a deep voice.
Vivian was scared. After a while, she hesitantly replied, “Yes…...I’m a bit bored…...There are too few things that need to be done here, I…..I’m a bit not used to it.”
“That is more like it. Since you’re bored, you should have told me earlier. Vivian, you have lived with me for two months now, could it be you don’t know what kind of person I am?”
“Master, you are a good person. I…..I am only a slave, you don’t need to care about me.” Vivian lowered her head, speaking in a timid voice.
“Even if you are a slave, you are still my slave. Let’s do this, Vivian, since you feel like there are too few things to do and you are bored, I can give you some things to do so you aren’t bored anymore.”
Vivian looked up in a daze. She saw Xu Yi reveal an evil smile like he was abducting a little girl and he asked in a soft voice, “Vivian, do you want to go to school?”
Chapter 66 The first class
The students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy were a bit surprised. The class schedule for each day’s classes were already set, but there had been an extra class added for a strange reason.
The name of the class was very strange, it was called theoretical basics of magic machines.
This class was a rare public class, open to all the students in the school. This meant that any student of the Baron Rickto Magic Academy could take it.
These students in their adolescents were naturally filled with curiosity. So even if the class didn’t have forced participation, when the class started, over half the students filled the lecture room being used.
The leaders of the school didn’t think that this many students would be participating when they organized this class. Even though they used the biggest lecture hall they had in the school, with over half the students taking the class, not only was every seat in the lecture hall filled, there wasn’t even empty space to stand inside the classroom.
Orin Zetaman was among the first batch of students to charge into the classroom. He was currently in the first row of seats in the lecture hall and were chatting with the students around him in a loud voice.
“Evan, I dare bet that the teacher who comes out later will definitely be chairman Xu Yi. Do you dare bet with me?” Orin was provoking a tall male student to his right.
The male student called Evan gave a cold snort, “You’re speaking nonsense. In this entire Banta City, other than chairman Xu, who else understands magic machines? Could it be that you could find someone else? If I were to bet with you, that would mean my brain is broken.”
“That’s right, Orin, your bet is too rigged. I think we should bet on what chairman Xu will be lecturing on later.” A male student who was further back agreed with him.
“Theoretical of magic machines…...Based on the name of this class, it should be a simple introduction since this is the first class chairman Xu is teaching. If he goes too deep, I’m afraid a large group of people won’t be able to understand him.” A golden haired girl sitting to the left of Orin spoke in a soft voice as she pointed at the students with doubtful and expectant looks inside the lecture hall.
“That’s right, other than us, would these other fellows understand what magic machines are?” Orin confidently said.
If Xu Yi was here, he would have found that the students sitting with Orin were the students who had jobs drawing Magic Arrays in his factory for the past few months.
Compared to the other students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy, they did have the qualifications to say this.
But Orin’s words were a bit too loud and when the students not far behind him heard this, they were immediately dissatisfied.
“Hey, Orin, a kid like you is acting this arrogantly? Isn’t it just working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for a few days, do you really think you understand magic machines that much? I’ve heard that you only draw the most simple Magic Arrays, what are you talking about understanding magic machines. I think at most you only understand a few things about this.” A male student scoffed at him.
Orin turned his head without backing down and looked up as he said, “Even if it is a few things, it is more than you. What? Not satisfied?”
That male student flew into a rage and pointed at Orin as he roared, “Good brat, don’t run after school is over!”
Orin gave a snort, “Isn’t it just not leaving, who is afraid of who?”
When their fighting was about to escalate, a teacher entered the large lecture hall. The students all recognized that it was the stern director Shearer, so they instantly calmed down.
Orin and that male student glared at each other before giving up for now and focusing on what was in front of them.
Shearer looked over the silent lecture hall before nodding in satisfaction. He gave a soft cough and said in a loud voice, “Students, let us warmly welcome the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu Yi!”
Orin and the students around him revealed a look of “as expected” before they gave vigorous applause.
Xu Yi stepped up to the lectern and saw Orin and the others sitting in front before giving them a nod with a smile. Then he raised his right hand and the students became silent as they looked at him with curious gazes.
During this time, each new magic machine released by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce attracted countless eyes in Banta City and they were all very popular.
Towards these magic machines, those traditional machines have called them messes and have even called them a shame to magic, but the rebellious students of Baron Rickto Magic School were very interested in it. It filled them with interest towards chairman Xu Yi of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had invented all of these magic machines.
Although they had already heard from Orin and the others that Xu Yi was a young man in his twenties, after personally seeing Xu Yi, they were shocked by how young Xu Yi was.
From what these students could see, studying magic was a very difficult thing. To be able to grasp Magic Arrays like this, even casually changing Magic Arrays and combining them with ice cold machines, it was something that seemed close to impossible.
This chairman Xu Yi didn’t seem that much older than them, but not only did he have a powerful understanding of magic, he had many strange ideas that had shocked people.
Faced with the curious gazes of the students, Xu Yi began speaking.
“Students, I know that everyone doesn’t like hearing idle talk, so I’ll get to the main topic. The reason why I requested director Shearer to organize this class today was not to teach everyone as a teacher, rather it was to have a chat with everyone. As for what we are chatting about? Of course it is magic machines. This class is called theoretical basics of magic machines, so I’ll talk about the basics.”
“I think that everyone has some understanding of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s products and should understand what are magic machines. Towards something like magic machines, as students of Baron Rickto Magic Academy, everyone should understand magic, but should be unfamiliar with the word machine, so we’ll focus on machines today.”
“The so called machine is a kind of tool. Using this tool, people can save energy in doing some work, while also reducing the difficulty of that work. To use a simple example, when digging the earth, I think that everyone will not use their hands to dig, but rather use a shovel. This is because after using a shovel, it is much easier to dig the earth and it is more convenient. This shovel can actually be considered a machine.
“Of course, a shovel is a very simple machine and the machine I want to talk about are a bit more complicated. Students, you should know that our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has made a Magic Rice Cooker. This is a magic machine normally used in one’s household and as for its concrete’s use, it is to cook rice. Without the Magic Rice Cooker, when someone wanted to eat rice or gruel, they would need to use firewood to light a fire and then boil rice in a large pot. With this Magic Rice Cooker, one only needs to add rice and water into the Magic Rice Cooker. After pressing the switch and waiting for a bit, the rice will be naturally cooked. How about it? Compared to lighting a fire to cook rice, isn’t this more convenient?”
“A magic machine can also be called a magic powered machine. This is because the base of the machine is using a Magic Array to power the machine. Students, you should have all studied Magic Arrays before, so you should be clear on the fact that magic is very powerful. Then have you ever thought that other than being used to kill people, can magic be used anywhere else? I have thought about it and so I have designed these magic powered machines. I did not come to discuss with everyone where magic should be used, rather I just want to introduce to everyone what magic machines can be used for. For example, the Magic Rice Cooker can be used to cook rice, the small Magic Harvester makes it easier to harvest grains, the Magic Fan can be used to create a cool breeze…...Magic can be used in many different places and our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has just been established. In the future, I’m certain that everyone will be able to see many different kinds of magic machines. I also believe that magic machines will change everyone’s lives bit by bit.”
“So how can magic machines achieve this? This is the main topic of our class today. Magic can be used as power and can move these machines to do work that are hard for humans to do, so it actually involves some very specialized knowledge. This knowledge is the theoretical basics of magic machines. The basic idea there is to use magic as a power source and have machines present a use with it. As for the specifics……”
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In the beginning, the students had a bit of doubt and didn’t listen too seriously.
But as Xu Yi’s lecture became deeper and deeper, the students became more and more focused on the lecture.
The theories that Xu Yi discussed were things the students had never heard before.
The students were already absorbing knowledge of the world and for a novel and interesting thing like the theory of magic machines, of course they were very interested in it.
So as Xu Yi’s lecture became deeper and deeper, the students were more and more enthused listening to it.
After director Shearer’s third reminder, Xu Yi realized that the sky outside had already turned red and it had long passed time for school to be let out.
Xu Yi had to announce that today’s class would end here.
The students hadn’t had enough and they all requested Xu Yi to keep lecturing.
Xu Yi was helpless about this, he could only stop here today. He also hinted that he would lecture again in the future and if they were interested, the students could come to the lecture then.
Only then did the students let Xu Yi go, passionately discussing with each other as they left the large lecture hall.
Seeing the passionate appearances of the students, director Shearer on the side let out a sigh. He shook his head at Xu Yi and said, “Chairman Xu, you really shouldn’t have agreed that you would come lecture again. Look, the students have been hooked by you, I’m worried about if they will be distracted in their future lessons.”
Xu Yi laughed, “How could that be? Director Shearer, My class today has always been related to magic. It is a good thing for the students to be interested in this, they will be even more interested in studying magic in the future. You should be happy about this.”
“Are you certain they are interested in magic and not magic powered machines?” Director Shearer said with a cold snort.
Xu Yi laughed. He had donated five hundred gold coins to Baron Rickto Magic Academy to let Vivian attend the school while also exchanging for a chance to give a lecture. If he couldn’t put seeds in the hearts of the students to become magic machine engineers, it would have been a waste of five hundred gold coins.
As a merchant, how could he do any business that suffered a loss?