In Lin Youde's era, countless novels that traveled to modern times would drag the great Tesla out for a couple of laps, which seemed to deify Tesla.
Lin Youde is actually not too interested in this kind of deification. He would go to Colorado Springs, USA, to find this Croatian, mainly for two reasons:
The first is the practical level. Tesla is currently frustrated, but he is indeed very talented, so it is relatively difficult to find him. Other talented people like Lin Youde and a despised Easterner may not be able to find him even if they have money.
The second reason is due to Lin Youde's personal hobbies, such as magnetic storm infantry. That is a man's romance. Just imagining that his troops might be equipped with magnetic storm tanks and then crush the enemy, Lin Youde felt that he should
Come and try it out to see if this deified great scientist is really that awesome.
Moreover, in this world, there are beings like Goddess who are equivalent to superpowers, and there are also technologies such as alchemy and force-guiding technology that are completely incompatible with science. Maybe those in Tesla are limited by the overall technological level of human society.
Can a grand vision that has not been realized be realized in this world?
Or maybe Tesla here has the same BT abilities as Magneto, and is he a real superhero?
All in all, it's definitely worth a try.
So after paying homage to Magiffin, Lin Youde got on the train to Springs.
On the train, Lin Youde was bored reading the newspaper to practice English, and then a piece of news caught his eye: the continuous disappearance of the goddess.
This news was placed on the second page of the newspaper, which made Lin Youde very strange, because things related to Shenji are basically the top priority of a country. But after reading the report carefully, Lin Youde immediately understood why it was on the second page.
version.
The missing Goddess are all Goddess with very low blood purity and who were born in black families. In the report, the reporter blamed the Ku Klux Klan for this because they had done secret things just after the Civil War.
The execution of the young daughter of the liberated black slaves who had the blood of Shen Ji.
Generally speaking, goddesses are not treated as pure human beings in Christian areas. They are messengers sent by God to the world and the inheritors of the Virgin's will. But obviously the Christian God does not favor black people.
So the black goddess disappeared and could only stay in the second edition.
Lin Youde shook his head and put away the newspaper. At this moment, two men dressed as policemen opened the door of the box.
"We are state police in Colorado, and we received a report that there is an unregistered Chinese goddess here."
The arrogant tone of the leading police officer made Lin Youde frown. He calmly took out the inspection-free pass issued by Theodore Roosevelt and handed it to the two state troopers.
Then he happily admired the changing expressions on the faces of the police officers in charge. The pass paper was made using alchemy and had anti-counterfeiting measures comparable to the currency of later generations. It was extremely difficult to forge, and the police officer obviously knew this very well.
this point.
"Sorry." The police officer returned the pass to Lin Youde, and then stood at attention and saluted him, "Due to the recent disappearance of Shen Ji, we have been ordered to strictly investigate all non-American Shen Ji."
"I understand. It is commendable that you perform your duties so hard."
Lin Youde was also happy to give the Americans a step down.
**
Colorado Springs is said to be the 49th largest city in the United States. According to Lin Youde's impression half an hour after getting off the station, he felt that if Colorado Springs was already the 49th largest city in the United States, it would mean that
There are approximately only forty-eight places in the United States that can be considered cities.
However, such a small town is quite suitable for a person like a great scholar to live in seclusion, so Tesla also has a bit of a taste of working in Nanyang without seeking to be famous or famous among the great powers.
It didn't take a lot of effort to find out the location of Tesla's laboratory, but when Lin Youde wanted to rent a carriage to go to the laboratory outside the city, he seemed to have hit an iron plate. All the carriage drivers heard
The moment I reached my destination, I shook my head like a rattle.
Lin Youde had no choice but to go on foot.
Fortunately, Lin Youde likes to walk. As a person who spent a lot of time and effort to finally get rid of his nine-to-five work and concentrate on staying at home and doing what he likes, he has a strange hobby of walking. Everyone has a strange hobby.
There are always a few days when he gets nervous. He starts from his home in Guangzhou and walks to Shangxiajiu in three hours, and then walks back in the same amount of time.
Lin Youde enjoyed the feeling of thinking about things while walking, and he still does so now. What's more, he now has a beautiful girl walking beside him.
Arriving at Tesla's laboratory was after Lin Youde walked for two hours from Springs.
It was a lonely building built on a mountain. It looked eerie from a distance. After walking in, Lin Youde found that the building was surrounded by a garbage dump. The small shrubs surrounding the building were filled with all kinds of indiscernible things.
There is a strange smell of equipment in the air.
Arriving at the door of the building, Lin Youde reached out and pressed what appeared to be a doorbell button.
Nothing happens.
The entire Western-style building was surrounded by silence, and the two windows reflecting the gradually slanting sunlight were like the eyes of some wild beast, staring at Lin Youde.
This feels quite bad.
"It's strange." Ba whispered in Lin Youde's ear, "I didn't feel the presence of anyone in the house."
Lin Youde curled his lips and thought to himself that he had gone out. After hesitating for a while, Lin Youde decided to sit at the door and wait. Liu Bei had only visited the thatched cottage three times back then. He wanted to invite a master of the world to come out, so he had no patience.
As a result, Lin Youde waited until dark and saw no sign of anyone moving in the house. In desperation, Lin Youde could only decide to return to the Springs to find a place to stay under Ba's escort and inquire more about the information.
Make further plans.
**
"Do you want to see Mr. Tesla?" When Lin Youde inquired about the situation, the bartender at the hotel and tavern where he stayed showed his professionalism - of course, after taking Lin Youde's fifty-dollar tip, which was equivalent to this
This is the salary of an average mid-level employee in an American company for three months or more.
"If you really want to see him, you have to visit his laboratory after midnight. He likes to conduct his experiments at night."
Well, Lin Youde thought, this kind of genius always has one or two quirks.
But at this time, he was so tired that he could no longer run, so he decided to rest for the night and then visit the genius tomorrow night.
The next day, Lin Youde spent money to buy a carriage, and after losing thousands of dollars playing bridge with some unknown Yankees in a tavern, he asked Ba to drive the carriage to Tesla's laboratory outside the city.
.
Halfway through, Lin Youde heard Ba banging the front wall of the carriage with his hand.
"I think you should take a look at this."
"I've already seen it." Lin Youde replied softly.
In front of the carriage, the small hill where Tesla's laboratory is located is now shrouded in dots of lights.
Lin Youde recalled the scene he saw when he visited yesterday. He did not remember anything that looked like a power transmission line on the hill.
When the carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain, Lin Youde didn't wait for the bus to open the door, got out of the car and walked towards the nearest light source. It was an incandescent light bulb, one of Thomas Edison's great inventions. He picked up the light bulb
He picked it up and took it in his hand, being careful not to touch the metal structure at the bottom of the bulb. There was no wire connected to the bulb, but even in Lin Youde's palm, the bulb was still glowing.
"Wireless power transmission...that guy really completed this kind of thing..." Lin Youde whispered, his tone full of admiration for the scientific master. In the last time and space, he had read popular science articles about wireless power transmission, but as a liberal arts student
He didn't understand it at all, but he just thought it was awesome.
Now, this scientific miracle, like magic, was held in Lin Youde's hand.
Lin Youde was suddenly curious and wanted to touch the metal structure at the bottom of the light bulb with his hand to see if he would pass the electricity. At this time, someone's voice penetrated his ear.
"If I were you, I would never touch that place."
Lin Youde was startled and accidentally dropped the light bulb to the ground. He looked around and saw a small man with a goatee, who fit his impression of a scientific madman, standing at the entrance to the path leading to the gloomy Western-style building on the top of the mountain.
.
"Excuse me, are you... Nikola Tesla?"
"Yes, Thomas Edison sent you here without letting you see my photo?"
Lin Youde was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this guy thought he was an assassin sent by Edison or some similar special profession.
Lin Youde hurriedly explained to Tesla that he had nothing to do with Edison - although he had indeed visited the inventor king in the past two weeks. Then he began to explain the purpose of his visit.
About twenty minutes later, Nikola Tesla shook his head at Lin Youde.
"The conditions you offered are very tempting. But I like to conduct scientific research, and your country obviously does not have the conditions to conduct scientific research."
"But as far as I know, you are a person who is very good at applying scientific theories to practice." Now that he has seen Tesla's awesomeness in this time and space with his own eyes, Lin Youde must work hard and take pictures no matter what.
Flattery or something like that.
But Tesla obviously doesn’t like this.
"I just have some experience in applying scientific theories to people's lives, but I am not good at using science and technology to kill people. What your country needs most now is a fast and efficient killing machine. What do you want?
, is to use my lightning to roast your enemies. So, I’m sorry, I can’t agree to your request.”
Damn it, Lin Youde cursed secretly, these scientists are indeed good people who love peace.
What Lin Youde needs is a mad scientist like the villain in third-rate science fiction novels.
Lin Youde wanted to try harder, but Tesla raised his right hand, and the mountain of lights behind him went out. In the few seconds when Lin Youde's eyes were busy adapting to the sudden darkness, Tesla had already turned around.
He walked along the mountain road towards his laboratory - he didn't even say goodbye to Lin Youde.
Lin Youde moved his lips and finally decided to give up.
"Let's go back." He also turned around and said to Ba, who had been guarding the carriage.
**
On the night of the third day, Lin Youde came to the foot of Tesla's laboratory again.
This time, there were no mountains of lights welcoming his arrival.
Lin Youde groped in the dark, climbed to the top of the mountain, and stood in front of the house that had the same devoid of human atmosphere as when he first came two days ago.
Lin Youde pressed the doorbell that still didn't ring, and then waited in front of the house for a moment. He turned around and glanced at Ba, who shook her head. It seemed that the girl still didn't notice any signs of human activity in the house.
Lin Youde sighed. If they refused to come, he didn't want to use any strong methods. This was American territory. It would be unrealistic to openly kidnap a scientist who already had a certain reputation but had no ambition.
But just leaving like this still makes me feel unhappy.
So Lin Youde risked his life. He opened his voice and said loudly to the gloomy house: "Mr. Tesla, I understand your reasons for not wanting to come out. However, I want to remind you that cutting-edge technology will be used first.
War is an eternal truth in human history. Especially in the next half century from now, it is destined to be the half century with the most frequent and largest wars in the history of the earth. All scientific achievements of mankind will be the most important.
Fast speed is transformed into a killing tool! The progress of chemistry will become poisonous gas on the battlefield, the progress of biology will give birth to germ warfare, and the progress of physics will be no exception. The law of mass-energy conversion will lead to the creation of the most powerful bomb in the world.
Birth.
"In the face of this major trend, your persistence is completely insignificant. Unless you don't publish your results at all, it will definitely be applied to the war."
After shouting so many words in one breath, Lin Youde was a little out of breath for a while. After resting for a while, he once again said to the silent house in the dark: "Therefore, I have lost a good person to realize my own value for you.
I feel sorry for the opportunity. I'm done, I'll take the train out of Springs tomorrow and you'll have one night to reconsider your decision!"
After finishing speaking, Lin Youde continued to stand in front of the house for about ten minutes. He always had a feeling that the door of the house would open in the next moment, and Tesla would run out and say: Lord, Liang has been waiting for a long time.
Unfortunately, reality does not always meet people's wishes.
Finally, Lin Youde shook his head in frustration and left.
He was completely drunk in the tavern that night, and when Ba woke him up the next day, his head felt like it was being recited a tight spell by Tang Monk, and his head was in pain.
Until Lin Youde arrived at the station, his head was still groggy, but he did not ignore the figure of the lonely girl on the platform.
Because that girl is so unique.
Judging by European and American height standards - no, even by Asian height standards, that girl is small and exquisite, and can be regarded as a veritable lolita. She is wearing a black dress with exquisite design and tailoring.
But the fabric of the dress exudes an old-fashioned atmosphere and is no longer shiny. She has silver hair full of porcelain luster, but it is obviously such high-quality and beautiful hair, but it is very obvious that it has been neglected and full of porcelain.
Inexplicably curled and tangled, it's as messy as a feather duster.
And all these weird features are not as eye-catching as the cane in the girl's hand.
It was a black metal rod with a glass ball on the top. Although you couldn't see anything wrong without paying attention under the bright light of the day, Lin Youde was sure that he saw a continuous flow of energy in the glass ball.
The magnificent flashing arc was unmistakable. It was a small Tesla coil, but Lin Youde didn't know where the power source for its operation came from, because in his memory, humans in this era could not build anything that could
AC power supply in a small walking stick.
Lin Youde stared at the cane for a long time, and then suddenly realized that the girl was also sizing him up.
The girl's eyes left an even greater impression on Lin Youde than her cane: they were a pair of red eyes. The ratio of the pupils to the whites of the eyes was larger than that of ordinary people. The huge pupils almost filled the entire eye sockets, but the pupils in the pupils were
But it is as thin as a slit, which reminds people of a cat's eyes - they are exactly the same, except for the color.
At this time, the three characters "should it be" popped up in Lin Youde's mind, and he said the content behind the three characters smoothly: "You...are Nikola Tesla?"
The girl grinned, and the corners of her raised mouth revealed a creepy evil aura.
"Now," she spoke, her voice light and airy, "Where does the law of mass-energy conversion come from?"