It's snowing.

Cod stood behind the wide floor-to-ceiling window of the office with his pipe in his arms, staring at the falling snowflakes outside the window, and the factory building that looked a little hazy as the snowflakes danced.

In this northern country, the first snowfall always comes very early, and even before winter officially arrives, early snow often visits in advance.

In the past...it has not been long since passed, snow that has come too early is often regarded as a bad beginning and is even associated with death.

The early cooling means the early end of outdoor activities, and it becomes difficult to store fuel. Civilians will have to use limited food and fuel to fight the longer winter. For the poor who have to be careful with even a piece of firewood and bread, extending winter for one day is often a world of life and death.

Therefore, people even have a special name for this kind of snow that is coming early: White Death.

But that was the past, at least in most areas of the southern border. In Cod's eyes, the scenery of the first snow was gradually covering his mind's impression of "White Death" was good.

I just hope that the coverage of this snow will not be too large, especially the Holy Spirit Plain... After all, there are still many areas in this country that cannot withstand the power of the White Death God.

Cod bit his pipe, and a red light flashed through it, and the rich smoke slowly dissipated, and his thoughts also dissipated involuntarily with the dispersed smoke.

The wind was blowing snowflakes and beating large pieces of crystal glass. This crystal clear material has always been associated with expensive and scarce in the past. It is rare that such large-sized white crystals were manufactured to be cheap. The technology of large white crystals was monopolized by the Tifeng Empire for a long time. The transportation difficulties and the deliberate blockade of Tifeng, resulting in the standard pane sizes of various buildings in the Ansu era never exceeding half a meter. It was not until a year ago that Cecil's alchemy factory successfully cracked the technical secrets of the Tifeng people's cheap white crystals, and large-sized crystal glass gradually appeared on various buildings in the southern border.

With the emergence of large-sized crystal glass, coupled with the new architectural style brought by Emperor Gowan Cecil, the new architectural element of "floor-to-ceiling windows" has gradually become popular this year.

As for how the technicians of the alchemy factory cracked the Tifeng people's technology without samples and information... Cod, as a businessman, knows this.

The rare leisure time did not last long. A rhythmic knock on the door interrupted Cod's thoughts and heard the voice of his eldest son Parr from behind him: "Father, someone is looking for you."

The big businessman turned his head: "Is it a representative of Marlin Trading Company?"

On these snowy days, the other party came very early.

However, the young man at the door shook his head: "No, he is a young man from the north, claiming to be Firm. He said there is something very important to show you, and he also said you will definitely be interested."

"Young people from the north?" Cod blinked unexpectedly, "It is not easy to travel long distances on this cold and cold day. Maybe it was a chance to come to the south by taking the 'Highlander'..."

The big businessman muttered, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

It is not surprising for him to have strangers visiting him. As the boss of the growing reputation of Cod Family Communications Company and the leader of the Carroll Regional Merchant Association, he always has constant visitors, and there are many brave young men with dreams, His Majesty Gao Wen, who brings a new order that has brought to the whole land. In the vast crowd, young people are always the most courageous. They are looking for various opportunities in this rapidly changing land with novel ideas, and there are undoubtedly opportunities here in Cod.

But most of the time, brave young people are just brave. They lack knowledge and experience, so many exquisite ideas in their minds are actually not useful. However, Cod will still treat these young people as much as possible. From the perspective of businessmen's interests, Cod Family Communications Company must create this image of inclusive innovation and attracting talents. Only in this way can we continue to attract talented people. From the perspective of personal feelings, those with novel ideas and courage to challenge make Cod unable to help but think of himself, his reckless business trip when he was young, and also the challenge passion he rekindled in the past two years.

But I didn't expect that a stranger from the north would come to visit... The young man probably had some inquiries after coming here.

The partner who made the appointment to negotiate had not arrived yet, so it would be okay to meet the young man.

"Let him come in," Cod nodded, "tell him in advance, only twenty minutes."

"Yes, father."

The eldest son Parr exits the room, and a moment later, a young man in a blue coat and blonde hair appears in front of Cod.

Because of habit, Cod first looked at the young man's dress and temperament

The more decent coat is made of wool. Although it looks old, it is clean and tidy and well maintained; the smile is gentle and polite, with a humility that seems to be habitual, without any superior momentum or aristocratic details.

It should be a citizen with a moderate family background, well-educated, perhaps he had served the nobles, or he was engaged in a profession that he often had to deal with people with higher status than him, and his financial resources were obviously affordable for the Highlanders and the medium-class tickets.

"Hello, very happy to see you, Mr. Coder," the young man smiled, with a hint of excitement on his face, "I'm from Barron, you can call me Philm..."

"I'm glad to see you too. Please close the door, Mr. Philm," Cod nodded, signaling the seat reserved for the guests with his chin, "Please feel free to do it."

Philm quickly closed the door and sat down on the high-backed chair with soft cushions. He heard the famous merchant questioning: "Mr. Philm, I don't know much about the North, Barron is..."

"Oh, it's a town near Saint Sunil, not that famous," Firm said with a smile. Since he was taught by his father since he was a child, he had seen many markets in the old capital. He knew the importance of keeping a smile, but he was young after all, so his nervousness and excitement could not be well concealed. His speaking speed was much faster than usual. "It was on the west side of the capital, and he was lucky to have not been affected by that war..."

"Mr. Film, let's talk about your purpose for me first," Cod interrupted. "It's not an easy journey from San Sunil to this place. What's the reason why you're so far away from home during this winter?"

"Yes, it's really far. If the "Highlander" had not been much faster than ordinary ships, I'm afraid I'm still on the Gorgon River, and I might even have to trek on the shore for half a distance, after all, the river will be stopped," Film said, while opening a small box he carried with him and putting the things inside solemnly on the table in front of Cod. "I came to you to show you something... I asked some people on the side of the Rock City, and they all said that if there are novel ideas and things, you can go and find the president of the Carroll Chamber of Commerce to try your luck. You are always willing to help young people, generous and unique in their eyes, and often buy their good ideas..."

Cod didn't care much about the praise in his words, but turned his eyes to the small box, but the things in the box made him frown.

It was just a piece of crystal. The shape of the crystal should be an artificial crystal produced in the south. The grade seemed not high, but as a magic item, its price in the north should be quite expensive. Judging from the appearance of Film's careful appearance of this crystal, he knew that this thing must be very precious to this young man from the north. It is probably the most valuable property on him.

After all, the north is not like the southern border, and items related to magic are still a very scarce precious object there. Although the new transportation line composed of mechanical ships and magic vehicles has recently begun to transport magic items and various cheap artificial crystals from the southern border to the north, due to the limited quantity, this still cannot change the high price of magic items in the north in a short period of time.

But no matter what, the crystal of the film is not a rare thing for Cod... So, what is valuable should be the recorded one?

He raised his head and looked at the young man standing in front of him: "What is it here?"

"Yes, sir, please let me show you..." Feilm said, taking out a few metal plates with runes from the box. They were rune substrates, but there were no regular steel stamps and standard snaps. Perhaps it was the imitation products produced in the small factories established in the north during the "Ansu Reform" of the North. Feilm combined these things together, and then fiddled with them for a long time, and finally let these unstandard magic devices run successfully. Then he placed the crystal of the shadow produced in the southern border on the magic of the pile of things, "It's almost done, it's almost done, sir."

Cod wanted to say that he had an advanced Magic Net terminal here, a new model with universal slots, which could directly play the content in the Cinema crystal without such a struggle, but in the end he watched the young man complete all this with curiosity and patience.

He saw that the poor quality crystal finally gradually brightened up, and then a picture appeared above the crystal.

A man in bright and exaggerated costume stood in the projection, praising someone outside the picture.

A woman in a long skirt walked in from outside the picture and argued with the man.

After a funny dispute, the third person came to the center of the picture. He seemed to be trying to mediate the conflict, but was attacked by a man and a woman...

Cod stared at the projection until the short plot ended and until the screen began to play repeatedly, he finally muttered to himself: "This is...what..."

"The Lady of Butterfly Manor", ah, that's the play in the capital of the king in recent years... I mean the old capital, a very popular play in the capital of the old capital," Firm said quickly, his spirit was flying, and all the tension seemed to have dissipated. "Of course, of course it was just a short paragraph, and I made some adjustments... because after all, crystal is not a stage... Ah, sir, actually I should have made a longer period. There was a very wonderful fight and debate behind it, but there was no way, Wangdu... The magic network terminal on the old capital was only allowed to be used within ten minutes, and I still took a lot of effort to ask the management staff to help me record the picture with the crystal of the image... And I dare not let my father know about this..."

Cod felt his mind was running fast, and his thoughts were flying, but he subconsciously asked, "Your father?"

"Yes, his name is Barna. He is a very famous playwright in Saint Sunil and the surrounding areas, and his own troupe... But no one knows here..." Firm's tone was proud and a little embarrassed, "We often perform for the nobles, but now... you should know that the nobles don't seem to have much energy to watch our performances, and there are not so many nobles in Saint Sunil... If my father knew that I made his most proud script like this and took his actors to the square to 'show', I'm afraid he wouldn't be very happy..."

"Child," Cod suddenly interrupted Film's slightly nagging story. His eyes were bright and he stared at the young man's eyes. "How did you think of it? I mean to record the drama on the crystal..."

"I went to see the crowning ceremony of His Majesty the Emperor," Firm laughed, a little shy, "but I stood far away, and I could only see huge images suddenly rising in the square, and someone told me that it was a magic net terminal from the southern realm. Unlike the magic net terminal created by the mages, the magic net terminal seemed to have many in the southern realm, and it was placed on the streets and alleys..."

Speaking of this, the blonde young man paused a little awkwardly before continuing: "Sir, our troupe is in poor condition now. Everyone is in poor condition. The theater in San Sunil has been closed halfway."

The wars in the north have changed the lives of many people.

That's why there is the "Highland Man" and the various things that Philm saw on the ship.

The stubborn father was still waiting for the nobles to return to the theater, but the brave young man ran out, wanting to go far away to see the world and see where those incredible magical devices were born.

Perhaps the nobles would visit the gorgeous and elegant theaters again after they recovered, but Cod looked at the crystal that was still playing the picture repeatedly in front of him, and he knew that some things were about to be changed.

He even trembled a little.

It wasn't the only one who could think of installing the heating runes on the iron plate and putting the ice cone in the food storage box.

How much is this thing worth?
Chapter completed!