Volume 5: Taming the Beast Chapter 2 Functions of Telescopes (Part 2)
However, although the existence of these street vendors has greatly promoted the prosperity of urban commerce, their negative impact is also obvious. For example, now they are piled up in the city like weeds, blocking the originally wide and smooth roads, and people can only crowd each other and stagger forward slowly.
A rude half-orc in front of me on the left was moving slowly, so he shouted impatiently to his companions: "Fuck, if I met these guys normally, I would definitely confiscate all these street vendors' goods and make each of them pay 500 yuan for occupying the road and 200 yuan for management fees, and then see if they dare to occupy the road again."
His companion immediately looked at him in surprise and asked him, "What are you doing?"
Answer: "Urban management!"
"Oh..." The people around him suddenly realized and cast meaningful looks at him.
It was not easy to find someone in this crowded crowd, but the telescope helped me, allowing me to lock on to Xiange Yayi's position from a distance. The elven ranger with poor eyesight had a hard time walking on this congested road, blindly following the crowd. His body, which was not strong to begin with, looked even thinner in the crowded crowd, and even gave people the feeling that he was compressed and looked taller.
"Hi, Xian Ge Yayi!" I finally squeezed to a position not far from the Elf Ranger and waved to him and said hello.
"you……"
"I'm Jeff, Jeffreys Kidd..." Seeing his blank eyes and confused face, I didn't expect him to be able to see who I was. "...Stand there and don't move. I'll take you out!"
As I said this, I squeezed to his side, grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the city. After much effort, we finally squeezed a bloody path through the crowded crowd and rushed out of the city gate, and suddenly the world was clear.
"Huh..." I heaved a long sigh and straightened my armor and helmet that had been squeezed crooked. "...I didn't expect there would be so many people here now."
"Yeah..." Xiange Yayi nodded and said, "...the free public beta has started!"
Free public toilets? I do remember there was a small building called a public toilet in the city, where you could get a task to clean and catch rats, and the rewards were pitifully small, but it seemed like they never charged any fees?
"Um... um, that's it..." I agreed vaguely, then asked, "...where are you going?"
"I want to go to the blacksmith shop and repair my equipment."
"Blacksmith shop?" I almost fainted. "I remember it seemed to be near the east gate of the city?"
"Yeah? Where are we now?"
"We are at the west gate, and we just squeezed out of the city gate..." Looking at the surging crowd at the city gate, I couldn't help but take a breath and asked hesitantly, "...Well... do you want to go back the same way..."
Finally, we didn't squeeze into the city from the west gate, but walked along the walls of Campnavia and went far to the east gate. Although we walked nearly twice as far, according to my estimation , if we returned from the east gate, I'm afraid we would still be stuck at the city gate.
After helping Xian Ge Ya Yi repair his equipment, I took him out of the city and walked to a secluded place in the woods outside the city. Then I took out the finished telescope and put it in his hand:
"Take this and have a look," I said.
"What is this?" he asked me, looking at the thing in his hand curiously.
"This is a telescope, I made it..." I told the Elf Ranger the origin and function of this thing, and then made my bold guess, "...If you wear it, it may improve your eyesight a little."
"Will it work... to do this?" Xian Ge Yayi hesitated, half-believing and half-doubting.
"You never know, just give it a try and you'll know." This novel idea aroused my curiosity and made me feel inexplicably excited. I answered eagerly, and I couldn't wait to put the telescope on Xian Ge Yayi's neck.
Xiange Yayi took the telescope, looked at it with confusion, then hesitantly put it around his neck, looked at the bushes not far away, took off the telescope and looked twice again, repeated this several times, comparing carefully.
"How is it? Is it effective?" I asked hurriedly.
Xian Ge Yayi took off the telescope, pointed at a hare crawling in the bushes and said to me: "Without this telescope, I can only see a blurry black dot."
As he said this, he put on the telescope and pointed at the hare and said, "After putting it on, the feeling is indeed obviously different..."
"How is it? How is it? Can I really see clearly?" I couldn't wait.
Xian Ge Yayi shook her head, then stretched out her right hand, clasped her thumb and index finger together , and opened them about one-third of the way:
"When I put it on, I can see a big, fuzzy black dot!"
As he spoke, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.
"Ah, no?" Although this matter was only closely related to Xian Ge Yayi, I felt more depressed than he did when I saw that my expectation could not be realized. I took back the telescope dejectedly and threw it into my backpack.
Xiange Yayi noticed my low mood, and he consoled me gratefully, "Jeff, you spent so much effort to complete this equipment, and you thought of me first. Thank you very much."
"This isn't something I prepared specifically for you. I just happened to see you, and this thought just popped into my head. There's nothing to thank me for..." I explained, waving my hands. "...Also, don't bow to a tree to thank me. I'm standing behind you."
Suddenly, Xiange Yayi's eyes rolled, as if she remembered something: "By the way, Jeff, are you saying that you polished these lenses manually?"
"Yeah, didn't I tell you, what's wrong?"
A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the face of the Elf Ranger: "If that's the case, Jeff, I have a good idea..."
