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Dwarf In The Future - Chapter 67.2

Published at 30th of November 2023 08:35:12 AM


Chapter 67.2

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He thought of something, looked down at the leftovers in his hand, then looked suspiciously at the scattered gray-brown soil on the ground. He stretched out his hand to grind those loose soil onto his hand, and began to observe them carefully.

Seeing this, the other students couldn’t help showing a speechless expression on their faces, and some even laughed inwardly. 

‘Isn’t this Native the number one in this major? Not only was he interested in paper scraps, but he also stared at those garbage-like dirt?’

‘A bumpkin is indeed a bumpkin, even if he clung into golden thighs, he is still a bumpkin. Do you think it is still a primitive society, where mud can be burned into tools?’ 

The particulates of the “soil” are rough, with a relatively high humidity compared to normal soil. On top of that, it felt sticky to the touch. After Qiao Zhiya took a closer look, he found that this “soil” is actually composed of two kinds of granular objects.

Qiao Zhiya’s ears fluttered, and he couldn’t help but look up at Luo Li.

Luo Li raised his eyebrows at him and asked, “Why, does this student need help?”

“No,” Qiao Zhiya’s lips pursed into a smile. He shook his head with bright eyes. “I’ll use the materials given by you, Laoshi. It’s very satisfying, so thank you.” 

Luo Li inexplicably replied with a grunt, then returned to his half-awake hangover look.

Qiao Zhiya happily collected all the “soil”. He walked to the table next to Sang Bu and stood still, his figure the focus of many other students who looked down on him with disbelievement or mockery. Seeing Sang Bu looking over worriedly, he tried to reassure him. Then, he finally started to process the materials happily.

He was very skilled in handling materials, and his speed was also fast. Even if he took a little longer than other students to select materials, he was still the first to handle the materials well. The instrument beeped non-stop, disturbing the surrounding students who couldn’t concentrate at all – they all peeked at him from time to time.

One after another, the processing results of the materials kept popping up on the system panel, the completion rate was 98%, 99%, 96%… 

The peeking students were getting more baffled as time passed by, their eyes becoming wider and wider. Finally, they were shocked to find that all the materials, as long as they were processed by Qiao Zhiya, were more than 90% complete.

‘This, this is really…’ The student who laughed at him before was completely speechless.

First, Qiao Zhiya processed the raw tin ore, then cleaned up some usable leftovers, and finally fuse and refine them to make some kind of alloy. 

After the preparations were completed, Qiao Zhiya took out his hammer in an unconventional way. Under the sight of other students – who all looked at him as if looking at a monster – he completely put aside the school-provided instrument and pounded the finished alloy fiercely. Once they were shaped, they were tested on the instrument one by one, and the size was actually exactly the same.

‘Damn…’

The other students stopped their movements subconsciously, from peeking to looking openly, their faces full of shock that couldn’t be concealed.

Sang Bu glanced at them with the tail of his eyes, his thin lips slightly hooked upwards. Finally, his worries disappeared completely. He continued to “slowly” process the materials.

After hammering out the auxiliary parts, Qiao Zhiya didn’t even need to use blueprints. He put together a fine part of the mecha’s hand joints and put it into the testing instrument. He also picked up the pile of “soil”. 

Luo Li on the podium had stood up straight at some point, his eyes had been completely opened, and he was carefully observing his movements.

The other students came back to their senses one after another, and felt a sense of urgency after comparing themselves to Qiao Zhiya’s blistering pace. They wanted to quickly devote themselves to making their own parts, and at the same time, they wanted to continue to see what this Native wanted to do with a pile of soil. It was inevitable that in their hurry and unfocused state, they would make a lot of mistakes. For a while, the alarms of material handling errors in the classroom frequently sounded.

“There is only one set of materials. If you waste it, it will be gone. Do you want to fail on your first day?” Luo Li said suddenly, his gaze firmly at the blubbering students. 

When the distracted students caught his sight, for some reason, their hearts suddenly jumped in their ribcage. They didn’t dare to be distracted anymore, so they hurriedly lowered their heads and concentrated on their own materials.

Qiao Zhiya, who found it difficult to notice the outside world once he concentrated, held a pile of soil and observed it carefully. As he frowned, he tried to probe into the “soil” with his simulated spiritual power. After a while, he reached an understanding. 

That’s right, this “soil” is not actually soil, but two high-grade minerals that have been ground into sand and mixed together. It’s also colored with a dye to disguise it to look like normal soil, and that scattered scraps of paper was the clue. 

Each mineral reacted differently when it came into contact with spiritual power, and the same was true for magic power. After using magic power to find out the structure of the two materials, “separation” became much easier. After a while, a pile of “soil” on the table was divided into two piles of sand with different colors. 

After separating them, Qiao Zhiya carefully washed off the pigments on them with an instrument, and finally got a piece of ground Silver Dragon ore and a piece of dried Pear Wood Resin powder. 

The student standing behind noticed the change in the pile of “soil” out of the corner of his eye. He was so surprised that one of his hands was unsteady, and the newly formed parts were crooked a little and were discarded immediately.

He suddenly came back to his senses and couldn’t help wailing: ‘Help, there is only one copy of this material!!’ 

Now, he could only recast the accessories now, but recasting… he has all kinds of equipment at a glance, but there’s just no available operating table for the recasting instrument, and now he wanted to pull his hair out in frustration.

He was not the Native next to him, who could easily mold a part with a toy hammer. ‘What should I do now!!!’ he really wanted to wail. 

Silver Dragon Ore and dried Pear Wood Resin were materials that could only be processed with spiritual power. Qiao Zhiya abandoned the instrument and put his hand on it.

After a burst of power fluctuations that almost no one noticed, the two piles of powdered minerals on the table slowly gathered together, and the color gradually changed.

Luo Li on the podium rubbed his beard again and let out a low sigh.

After processing the high-grade materials, Qiao Zhiya also processed some of the leftover scraps. Then he took out the reaction instrument, put the scraps and the refined material, and finally got a large piece of silvery-gray mixed alloy.

He was about to take out the small hammer to make parts again, when a hand suddenly stretched out from the side, took away the mineral he had just finished, and put it in the testing instrument.

With a beep, the test result comes out, showing that the material is 100% complete.

Qiao Zhiya was taken aback, and looked around, and saw Luo Li appearing at his desk at some point, staring at the various detection attributes under the degree of completion, all scattered on his table. 

“Uh, Laoshi…”

Luo Li raised his hand to stop him, got up and printed out the test results, then picked up the alloy, looked at him and asked, “What parts are you going to use this for?”

Not knowing what Luo Li was going for, he replied honestly, “The adapter shaft at the joints of the mecha’s legs. Using this refined alloy, it will have the proper degree of hardness and fusion.” 

The adapter shaft was already considered an intermediate part. Primary parts were all relatively fragmented and small in size, while intermediate parts were larger. Such a small amount of alloy was definitely not enough to make a complete shaft part. It should only be possible to make a model to scale.

Luo Li glanced at Qiao Zhiya again, turned his hand and stuffed the alloy directly into his space button, picked up the part he had made, and said, “I’ll give you 100 points for this exam. In addition, do you want to be the class’ monitor?” 

‘Huh?’

Qiao Zhiya was stunned, then shook his head quickly, saying, “Thank you for your kindness, Laoshi. But I have to go home to help on weekends, and I usually have a lot of odd jobs to do, so I don’t have time to take care of class affairs. I’m not qualified to be the class’ monitor.” 

–Moreover, he plans to find time to teach himself how to make thermal weapons. He really has zero spare time. 

“What a pity,” Luo Li said in a very perfunctory tone, and then looked at Sang Bu next to Qiao Zhiya.

Sang Bu was keenly aware of his gaze, stopped his slow production movements and turned to look at him, and said flatly, “Laoshi, I’m very busy and I don’t have time to do chores for you.” 

“…” 

‘Aiyah, none of these students are cute!’ Luo Li sighed as he closed his eyes again. Then, he suddenly turned around to look at the dull student who had left a piece of tin ore for Qiao Zhiya before. He called the boy out: “It’s just you then. Jin Li, right? You’re now the class’ monitor, and I won’t let you refuse me. I will give you all the materials left in class from now on as a reward.”

Jin Li looked up stupidly: “???”

The other students all looked at Jin Li who was stunned in the corner and didn’t understand what happened. But they all realized – being the class’ monitor was a paid job! Plus, this could get into a resume, which was a great thing. 

A taller student couldn’t help but protest: “Laoshi, why did you pick him? He seems to be really slow.” 

“No, he’s a great choice,” Luo Li turned to the taller student and waved his hand as he walked back to the podium. He turned his gaze to the protesting student, and said in a flat tone, “Cao Tian, ​​remember to apologize to Qiao Zhiya later. You hit his arm until it turned blue.” 

Now all the students immediately looked at Cao Tian. Sang Bu even stopped his work and glared at him with chilling eyes. 

Cao Tian didn’t expect Luo Li to be able to call out his own name accurately, and he could even see the previous events clearly. Seeing everyone looking over, he felt more guilty, his eyes darted around, and he quibbled: “I didn’t mean to. Yes, classmate Qiao Zhiya is so short, so I didn’t see… I’m sorry.” He looked at Qiao Zhiya very perfunctorily, and apologized reluctantly.

“It’s okay,” Qiao Zhiya rarely lost his expression, looked at him seriously, and said, “Then you should be more careful in the future and look down more. The girls in the class are all about the same height as me. Their bodies are not as strong as mine. If you hit them, it could result in injury.” 

Hearing this, the scattered girls in the class all looked at him, their expressions softened, and then they looked at Cao Tian and the male students around him with a sharp glare.

When they first picked up the materials, these people were all very ungentlemanly. The girls were the last to go up to get the materials, and the materials they got were not very good.

Boys at this age paid attention to the opposite sex. They didn’t feel it when they first grabbed the materials. Now that they are glared at by the girls, they immediately feel uncomfortable. Cao Tian blushed even more and said in a meek voice, ” Got it.” Then he lowered his head and pretended to continue his work, but didn’t look up again.

The classroom was quiet again. Qiao Zhiya had already finished his parts, and had nothing to do. He didn’t want to leave class early, so he simply sat down behind his table, took out his textbooks and started previewing.

Luo Li raised his eyebrows when he saw this, and sent him a textbook through the user terminal.

Qiao Zhiya was taken aback after receiving the textbook. Helooked up at him, remembered what he asked Cao Tian to apologize to him just now, and smiled at him, giving out a friendly and grateful gesture.

Unknowingly, another half an hour passed, and other students completed the parts one after another. The material processing of Sang Bu’s step by step finally came to an end, and the production of parts began.

Qiao Zhiya became nervous, put away the textbooks and stared at him, ready to find a way to help remedy if there was a problem on his side.

Sensing his gaze, Sang Bu glanced sideways at him. With a small smile, he started making his own part.

Qiao Zhiya gradually discovered that although Sang Bu’s movements are very slow, they are actually done in a very meticulous manner, mainly because of his physical disability. All the procedures were standard and correct, and there was no redundant movement, trying to maximize the efficiency. And probably because of the slow and meticulous work, he has a high degree of completion in material processing, and the things he made were all extra fine.

He was relieved, and stopped staring over there so nervously, and buried himself in the textbook again.




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