Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor

[Nightingale]: Really, no need. I'm just a burden. Although I can't help much, at least I can't hold the mage back.

The online player community divides netizens into three levels: big guys, buddies, and noobs.

There is nothing shameful about clinging to the big guys. After all, it is just a matter of convenience for them to advance the map, and they can finish the task with just one click.

But for a player with dignity, it is really unacceptable to stay by your buddies' side and watch them sweat and bleed like a parasite.

Lin Bo was silent for a moment and nodded.

After returning to the lighthouse, he paused for a rare moment. In the dungeon chat, [Nightingale] began calling friends again, looking for teammates to run the Infernal difficulty level together.

Today's challenge attempts have been exhausted, and the dungeon rewards are 108 Disaster Coins, 540 General XP, three pieces of gray equipment, and two pieces of white equipment. These items are either duplicates or useless, so I sold them directly to the merchant for a total of 87 Disaster Coins.

Lin Bo looked at the 380 disaster coins he had saved and casually browsed the cargo list on the Duolian Duoyi platform.

Dungeon invitations are often out of stock. After all, this thing is the most hard currency in the current version. Even invitations of novice difficulty are rarely circulated in the market. Even if a few invitations are occasionally put on the shelves, they are immediately sold out.

Lin Bo asked Brother Agilent when the invitation letters would be restocked.

[Agilent]: Don't count on it. If you're not wealthy enough, you won't be able to snatch it from others. And to be honest, the invitations circulating on the trading platform are somewhat problematic.

[Lighthouse Operator]: Is there a trap?

[An]: It's more or less the same. Either the returns are known to be extremely low, or the intention is extremely malicious. When you trade with other players in the future, be careful of a special kind of dungeon invitation. The envelope will be stained with blood, or even with flowing fresh blood.

[An]: If the invitation letter looks like this, it means that a player is trapped in the dungeon and cannot be resurrected and return to the real world.

[Lighthouse Guest]: How do trapped players escape?

[An]: I don’t know the details, but it is said that we have to wait for the next player who gets the Bloodstained Invitation to clear the dungeon. Those trapped players will offer a portion of their wealth as a reward to increase the dungeon rewards and attract other players to clear the dungeon.

Lin Bo said he learned a lot.

He gave up the idea of ​​buying a copy invitation on the trading platform and decided to find an opportunity in reality.

Lin Bo got a lot of debris in the dungeon today, but he was not in a hurry to hand it over to the enthusiastic scrap yard. Instead, he used it to practice the surface touch and endoscopy method.

The mechanical guard whose neck was pierced by the electrified short spear must have had multiple short circuits and fuses in his body. These very minor injuries are difficult to judge unless you are an experienced veteran.

Lin Bo continued to use his ability to listen to all things, skipping the reasoning process and finding the answer directly.

After just half an hour, the skill proficiency was accumulated enough.

Surface touch and endoscopy: Lv1 (60.9/60)

【Upgrade requirements met】

"upgrade."

A familiar cold current surged from the center of his eyebrows, passed through his skin again, and gathered in his palms.

Lin Bo quietly savored the feeling brought by the skill upgrade. He felt as if a layer of fine invisible hair had grown under the skin of his hands, like a probe. Any movement would trigger a burst of nerve signals.

Surface touch and endoscopy: Lv2 (0.9/300) By touching an object, you can perceive its overall internal and external structure.

Skill upgrades bring very intuitive progress.

On the one hand, it is the skill itself. Now Lin Bo can not only sense the damage points inside the mechanical wreckage, but even the tiny internal structures, such as hairsprings, gears, motors and other small-sized parts, can be vaguely captured.

He put his hand on the wooden storage box and tapped it gently. He could guess through the box how many books and clothes were inside.

On the other hand, his heightened sense of touch synergizes with his Listener trait, allowing him to more clearly perceive previously intangible "languages." Even stone, in his hands, breaks its silence and speaks.

Lin Bo patiently dismantled all the scraps collected today, increasing his experience in surface touch endoscopy. He then picked and chose, keeping some of the parts he thought were useful, and finally gave the rest to enthusiastic netizens.

[Picking up trash makes me happy]: Oh, you are so thoughtful. You even helped me to take them apart, saving me a lot of time.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Something that comes handy

[Garbage Pickup]: Are you practicing your watch-touch endoscopy technique? Hehe, just thinking about you scratching your head with junk makes me want to laugh. Experience the torture I went through back then~ If you need more weird junk to practice with, just let me know and I'll definitely arrange it.

Lin Bo did have this need. The experience that the mechanical guards could provide for tactile endoscopy was limited. As a mechanic, his research path would inevitably require him to come into contact with various types of machines. The two of them hit it off immediately.

He took the initiative to contact [Starry Eyes] again. This soul-calling witch was an expert in the field of medicine. Lin Bo planned to buy some herbs from her to practice the pharmacist's tongue identification.

[Lighthouse Guest]: If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to buy some non-toxic medicinal herbs. I don't need too much, but I want more varieties.

[Starry Eyes]: Sure, Master, do you need anything else?

[Lighthouse Guest]: That’s all for now.

[Starry Eyes]: Master, are you planning to study medicine? Wait a moment! (Offline)... (Online) I'm back, Master, let's open a trading channel.

The sea-blue vortex opened, and a large number of ancient scriptures fell out from the passage. Lin Bo flipped through them and found that they were all medical books.

For all text materials, during the transaction process, players can choose to spend a certain amount of disaster coins to let the automatic translation module of the comprehensive network translate a copy, and only hand over the copy while retaining the original.

Previously, [Picking up trash makes me happy] had sent Lin Bo a lot of knowledge materials related to mechanics, and now [Starry Eyes] was so enthusiastic that Lin Bo was overwhelmed.

[Lighthouse Guest]: This is so... I don't know how to thank you.

[Starry Eyes]: It was Brother Mage who always took care of me and Brother Nightingale in the dungeon. If I didn’t do something, I would feel very indebted. We should keep in touch in the future. If there is a chance to meet again in a dungeon in the future, let’s run the map together again!

[Lighthouse Guest]: Of course

Lin Bo sat at the head of the bed, flipping through a medical book, but he didn't read a single word. Suddenly, he felt very good and couldn't help laughing to himself for a while.

The sun is about to set, and it's time to light the lighthouse as usual.

Chapter 22: A First Look at Magical Language, the Foundation of Spells

At night, Lin Bo spread a tarpaulin on the floor of the mechanical room on the third floor as a mat, sat there cross-legged and began to tinker with the waste.

For the mage, the purpose of taking the machine apart is not to put it back together.

What he wanted to know was why the ancient mechanics designed the components in this way.

The structure of a machine determines its function, while how to design the structure embodies the ingenuity of the maker.

Lin Bo uses his sense of touch to communicate with every gear, every drive shaft, and every piece of metal plate, listening to them describe the processes that have happened to them, how they were cast, polished, and embedded in larger components.

By communicating with the machine, Lin Bo was able to glimpse the torrent of history and see the traces of ancient mechanics in the chatter of metal and plastic.

Although he could not communicate directly with the deceased, just by observing their works, he was able to capture their philosophy and style, including design ideas and research directions.

This is the essence that only mature professionals possess. Just like when you see useless but funny junk such as kitchen knife mobile phone cases and piano barbecue grills, you can guess that they are Geng's masterpieces.

As a beginner, he couldn't even understand the existing design drawings and couldn't make anything useful, let alone any design concepts.

But when Lin Bo understood the mechanical designers' ideas and looked back at their works, the originally complex structures suddenly became clear and intuitive.

Why do some modular components require special modifications? Is it to improve efficiency or increase stability? Is the shape of the external armor considered for protection or aesthetics?

Questions like these are answered during the disassembly process, and by comparing them with the general structures of various components in books, the designer's ingenuity can be seen more clearly.

Bringing together intangible theories and concrete objects is like passing a torch, connecting fragmented knowledge to each other and inspiring the entire train of thought.

The joy of sudden enlightenment filled my heart. It was not like the intense stimulation of blood rushing in a fierce fight, but a kind of open-minded and comfortable feeling as if I was in the countryside and my heart was as calm as the wind.

Lin Bo knew that he had tasted the true meaning of learning. With this idea in mind, when he studies mechanical theory in the future, no matter how boring the problem is, he will be able to enjoy it and will not feel lonely.

The progress of the surface touch endoscopy method is still improving. After reaching level 2, the difficulty of gaining experience has increased a lot, and it is necessary to accurately judge the types and distribution positions of parts inside the machine.

Machines of the same model can only provide proficiency a few times, and then the skill success judgment cannot be triggered due to excessive structural repetition and reduced difficulty.

He had analyzed and disassembled all the mechanical guards he had picked up in the dungeon, except for the shield soldiers, and found that the proficiency they provided was only 52.5. He even knew very clearly that even if he disassembled the shield soldiers, it would only provide a dozen or so points of proficiency at most.

The design concept of this series of mechanical bionic people is no longer new to him.

Level 2 tactile endoscopy has reached a stage where it needs to learn from many sources, and only the works of different mechanics can bring about an expansion of ideas.

So Lin Bo was glad that he had an online friend who could provide him with a variety of research materials.

Seeing that it was almost late at night, he put down his pen, put away his study notes, stood up to stretch his legs, and applied the plaster given to him by [Star Eyes] to the bruise, feeling the cool medicine penetrate his skin.

Not long ago, the Soul-Calling Witch brought him a package of herbal medicines. Just as Lin Bo requested, it contained many kinds of herbs but in small portions, suitable for him to chew slowly and savor them.

The most important thing is that these carefully selected drugs have no toxic side effects, and will not cause harm even if multiple materials are mixed and taken orally.

Lin Bo plans to use the medicinal materials provided by the witch to raise the level of the pharmacist's tongue identification product to Lv3. When the pharmacist's tongue identification product reaches level 3, it will undergo important changes and will be immune to the toxicity of drugs in the mouth.

In this way, Lin Bo can begin to identify the medicinal herbs around Shita Town.

Before he gained sufficient poison resistance, he would not rashly go out to taste wild plants. Everyone knew how Shennong died, and Lin Bo did not want to repeat the same mistake.

Take a piece of medicinal material and put it in your mouth to taste it carefully. Use your tongue to communicate with the medicinal liquid, listen to what it says, compare it with the knowledge points in "Pharmacist's Prescriptions" to judge the medicinal properties.

When the skill is successfully judged and the proficiency increases, Lin Bo will spit out the medicine in his mouth, rinse his mouth with boiled water, take out the next batch of medicinal materials and put them into his mouth to chew.

Lin Bo felt like he was eating chewing gum of different flavors, which was quite interesting to think about.

The taste and flavor of medicines are all kinds of strange. Sometimes the pungent taste of the medicine makes it difficult for him to maintain facial expression.

This is a repetitive job. Even if you concentrate on it at the beginning, you will inevitably be busy and flustered. But as you gradually become proficient in it, you can start to take it easy and even have time to think about other things.

Since acquiring the professional trait of Listener to All Things, Lin Bo has heard many voices of nature, and he has gradually become aware of a strange phenomenon.

Those inanimate objects, such as wind, waves, metal, medicine, etc., although the languages ​​they speak are obscure, have extremely high correlations in grammatical structure and phonemic syllables. There is even a high possibility that they use the same language.

This is a very exciting discovery.

Lin Bo knew clearly that all things in nature did not use the mundane language created by intelligent life, but a magical root language.

For a True Name Mage, language is power. As long as he masters the magical language, he can perform miracles with his power of words.

Magical language is divided into two parts: true names and non-true names.

The true name is all the essence and appearance of things, just like Lin Bo’s true name "Bronze Moon". He is this true name itself. His body, soul, emotions, and destiny are all gathered in this true name.

The non-real name part includes nouns and verbs, such as "stars", "flames", "internal organs", "flash", "jump", "wriggle", and various abstract concepts, such as "up and down", "life and death", "love and hate", and "you and me".

These non-real name languages ​​are what Lin Bo usually hears from the mouths of all things. The mage has never heard any real name words.

All things will not easily reveal their own or other things' true names, but are referred to by various nouns.

Lin Bo once listened to the whispers of the asters in the yard. They only referred to themselves as "flowers" without giving their real name "aster".

Learning the magic language is very difficult. After two days of listening, Lin Bo only remembered a few simple words. When he started learning Kening from scratch, he could communicate with Old Tim without any problems in just four days.

He was sure his memory was reliable, but the syllables of the magical language floated in his mind like ice, dissolving very slowly.

So far, Lin Bo only remembers the two magic words "come" and "go".

He realized that only when he truly understood the meaning of a magic word, rather than just remembering its pronunciation and meaning, could he remember it in his heart and express it verbally.

The magical language spoken by the wizard will manifest miracles under the influence of the words. These words are the spells of the true name wizard.