novelbin Chapter 467 - 264: Fox Secretary’s Little Classroom, Plant Neurology Vessel, Clumsy Thief
Chapter 467 - 264: Fox Secretary’s Little Classroom, Plant Neurology Vessel, Clumsy Thief
The night was deep, and the wild wind howled.
In the dormitory hall, a group of foxes gathered together, discussing their insights on organizing documents.
"Ying ying ying, ao ao ao ao..."
Bai Liandan’Er had worked in the warehouse for a long time, dealing with various documents, copper plates, and stone slabs. Now, as the main lecturer, he stood in the middle of the circle, shuffling a few slabs, speaking in fox language, gesticulating. He even brought a branch to use as a pointer.
The other foxes formed a circle, pricking up their ears, widening their eyes, and setting their fluffy faces sternly, their dark red eyes full of seriousness!
They even held stone slabs, occasionally scratching them with their nails, making notes in their own way.
Recently, the excavation industry of Fox Mountain had achieved a comprehensive upgrade!
Quanquan Hu learned the stratified excavation method of mines on a business trip to the mortal world last time.
With Immortal Qi Vine Armor, the foxes utterly unleashed themselves...
Wherever it was, wearing the vine armor, they dared to dig down!
No matter the cave, wearing the vine armor, they dared to explore within!
After letting loose, the efficiency of exploring relics also accelerated greatly!
Moreover, the workshop produced several new excavators...
Additionally, the master also created a large batch of document cleaning machines...
This led to a significant increase in the efficiency of document excavation!
And they, as the master’s most diligent little apprentices, most capable assistants, and smartest little secretaries... needed to learn to help the master organize the documents!
"Ying ying ying, ao ao ao ao..."
Bai Liandan’Er had a serious expression, imparting everything he had researched over the years.
Although foxes were illiterate, they were very cunning!
He held up a copper plate, showing his fellow apprentices the rust patterns on it.
"Ying ying ao ao ying ying..."
...A qualified little secretary needed to learn to observe the direction of the rust patterns on copper plates. Those with matching patterns or similar styles would likely have similar content and could be packaged and handed to the master!
A group of fellow apprentices widened their eyes, suddenly enlightened.
What he said made so much sense!
They craned their necks, looking at the copper plate in Bai Liandan’Er’s hand, as if trying to imprint it deep in their eyes.
"Ao ao ao, ying ying ying ao ao..."
Bai Liandan’Er continued the lecture, moving on to the texture of the copper plates... The casting technology of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty’s copper plates was poor, and quality control was very lax, leading to uneven product quality. Therefore, copper plates with similar textures, tastes, and hardness were often from the same batch and could be organized together.
The foxes had their eyes opened anew!
Each one stared slack-jawed, listening attentively and learning earnestly.
Bai Mo, sitting on the Simmonds bed in the middle of the dormitory hall, looked at Bai Liandan’Er, pulling at the corners of his mouth, quite surprised.
"This guy... really came up with something?"
Then he saw Bai Liandan’Er finish lecturing, and Wind and Fire Wheel jumped into the circle again, speaking in fox language, gesturing, and began sharing.
"Ying ying ying, ao ao ao ao..."
This guy was actually holding a stone slab engraved with Sequence Six text with one paw, gesticulating at the script.
Could it understand?
The information contained in the text was vast, and it didn’t contain universally used symbols like Arabic numerals, so was it just putting on a show... huh?
Bai Mo frowned, seeing where the disciple’s paw was pointing.
It was pointing at the strokes of the text!
It didn’t recognize the text, but just like different people have different handwriting, the writing of different Ancient Immortals was also different, and it could recognize the strokes left by different Ancient Immortals!
The circle of foxes that accepted the sharing craned their necks even more, widening their eyes, focusing their gaze on the strokes of the copper plate, deep in thought.
Bai Mo chuckled aloud.
"You’ve really outdone yourself."
Sitting in the master’s lap today, serving as a tablet stand with its head, was Thousand-Mile Eye, the best-sighted apprentice in Fox Mountain!
Its work was in the workshop, not planning to be a secretary, but it still widened its eyes, its gaze shooting out from below the tablet, looking at the document classification mini-class... Foxes were all very cunning! All knew that skills were not a burden; perhaps this skill would be used one day?
Bai Mo grinned and continued to look at his documents.
This "Plant Machine Research Institute" was surprisingly a very large organization, with a huge variety of unearthed documents, a mix of everything.
"Is this... the idea of a machine to make cow feed from cow dung?
"What do they want to do?"
"Is this plant wheel intended to use plants to achieve perpetual motion?"
These documents weren’t all from Cyan Moon Pill Palace; some were included by the palace, exciting documents in the history of plant machinery research.
For example, there was an article recording guesses by Ancient Immortals about plant neurology.
[Humans have nerves, animals have nerves, by extension, might plants also have some kind of undiscovered nerves...]
[Since ancient times, Immortals have had two factions of speculation]
[One faction guesses that plant nerves are too tiny for us to perceive]
[The other faction guesses that plant nerves aren’t physical, but some kind of abstract mechanism]
[Both factions have researched independently, producing high theories, disproving one another, undermining each other, with conflict spanning ten thousand years...]
Bai Mo frowned.
This seemed very similar to the historical wave-particle debate on the nature of light?
Long ago, great scientists like Newton, Laplace, and Einstein believed the nature of light was particulate.
However, great scientists like Hooke and Huygens insisted the nature of light was wavelike.
The two camps engaged in a long-running debate in scientific history for hundreds of years.
But in the end, physicists successfully proved that light possesses wave-particle duality... light is both a wave and a particle.