Chapter 73 Come to the bowl
"Mr. Black Jack, are you in there?"
Standing outside the camp, Goron shouted softly in a very respectful tone, and countless stories in his mind taught Goron the importance of etiquette and courtesy in human society.
The Magician's camp is no obvious difference from the outside from other official fairy tale members. Apart from the door, there is a sign with a magician's hat on the top of the door, it is located at the outermost location of the entire circus camp. A simple wooden fence is used to separate the inner and outer areas of the fairy tale circus from a short distance.
"The door is not locked... come in by yourself." The magician's lazy and vague voice came from the tent.
Goron carefully opened the door and walked into the tent. With the morning sunlight shining through the gap, Goron also saw the scene in the tent. In an instant, Goron thought that the place he came was actually a place where the garbage and debris were piled in the fairy tale circus.
It was so messy here, with props, boxes, boxes and hats of all sizes filled every inch of space on the ground, and the highest garbage piled up even higher than his people. Geron had to clean it up with his feet before he could find a place where he could stand.
He could not see Black Jack, nor did he know where the beautiful and neatly dressed magic master was buried now.
But Goron was not anxious or impatient, and he just stood quietly and waited quietly. From the stories he had heard, Goron also learned the importance of patience.
After about ten minutes, accompanied by a sound of stretching and yawning, a pile of "trash" not far from Goron churned. The great magician sat up from inside with his shirtless eyes. He looked at Goron in front of him without any focus, as if the person standing in front of him was not a living person, but just a piece of air. After a while, Black Jack seemed to have finally completely escaped from the entanglement of Sandman. He rubbed his palms with his cheeks a few times before looking at Goron, waved his hand and said, "Stand here, are you afraid that I will eat you?"
Goron looked at his feet, looking embarrassed on his face, and he couldn't find a place to stay.
"Forget it, just stand there, by the way, are you full of breakfast?"
Goron nodded, and then Black Jack showed a malicious smile and said slowly: "It's good to eat enough. Maybe for a long time to go through this breakfast... Wait for me, let me put on my clothes first."
Goron looked at Black Jack, and his expression on his face went from being respectful and cautious, to being slightly surprised, to being shocked so much that he couldn't even close his mouth... Because Goron witnessed with his own eyes how a middle-aged man, a sloppy and vulgar man, turned into a handsome and beautiful magician in an instant.
It's really like magic.
The magic master who was dressed neatly and restored his normal instrument searched in the garbage dump under his feet, then moved out a small box from somewhere and threw it to Ge Long.
"Hold it and come with me."
Judging from the feel of the hand, the things in the box would not be very heavy. Goron didn't know what Black Jack wanted to do, but he followed him obediently and walked to the beach closest to here.
Looking at the extremely familiar sea tide and listening to the sound of waves slapping on the coast, Gelon, who had grown up by the sea since childhood, suddenly felt countless sadness in his heart, but he did not dare to show any abnormality.
Black Jack looked around, as if he was quite satisfied with the surrounding environment. Then he turned around and walked to Goron, opened the box in his arms, and took out three huge wooden bowls from it.
"Look, what's in it?"
Looking at the small bowl held in front of him, Ge Long smelled it, picked up the things inside one by one and pinched them, and then said, "This is a bowl of white sesame seeds, a bowl of iron sand, and a bowl of... is it yellow sand?"
White sesame has appeared on the list of goods by goblin merchant Takin Hillman. Goron has seen it twice. As a chef, he naturally can recognize that there is nothing special about iron sand. It is just waste residue produced during iron smelting. Its unique feel and texture can be guessed even if you have never seen the real thing. As for yellow sand, Goron is not sure, because the beaches here in Haishiwan are made of smooth and beautiful white sand. Except for the yellow color, these yellow sands are exactly the same as white sand.
"Very good..." A strange smile flashed on Black Jack's face. He then picked up the bowl of iron sand and the bowl of white sesame seeds and sprinkled them all on the beach in front of him.
Looking at Goron with a puzzled look, Black Jack sneered: "If you want to be my student, you have to pass my exam first. The first item is to pick up all these white sesame seeds and iron sand for me, put them in this bowl, and I'll give it to you... Well, three hours should be enough."
Geron was completely stunned. Although the sea breeze was not strong this season, Black Jack had no power when he threw these sesame iron sand just now. Just a few minutes later, the iron sand was fine. The farthest white sesame even floated out more than twenty meters away.
"Before you complete the task, you are not allowed to drink water, eat, talk to others, and help others. Of course, you can give up at any time and get out of the fairy tale circus by yourself."
After saying these words, Black Jack turned around and left, leaving behind a stare blankly, looking at Goron, who was dazed on the beach.
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Three hours later, Black Jack, who had just had a second sleep, returned to the beach while yawning, and saw Goron lying on the ground like a dead dog, panting. Beside him, two wooden bowls contained the white sesame seeds and black iron sand that had been spilled off before.
When Goron found out that Black Jack had returned, he was exhausted, but he still struggled to get up and greet the magician.
"How did you do it?" Black Jack said calmly without joy or anger on his face.
Ge Long sorted out his thoughts and replied slowly: "It is obviously impossible to pick up these iron sand and white sesame seeds according to normal methods, so I spent half an hour thinking about how to separate them. Then I spent another hour gathering all the nearby sand with a broom, throwing them up one by one, and using blowing methods to separate the lightest white sesame seeds in the sand. The sea sand and iron sand are not easy to separate, so I soaked them in a basin in batches, filled half a basin of water, and stirred vigorously. The sea sand is lighter than iron sand. It is easier to float on the upper layer of water in the whirlpool of water, and only iron sand is left under the water. In the remaining time, I dried these iron sand in the sun and picked out the sea sand mixed in it... I can only use this stupid method. If I have magnets in my hand, it would be simpler."
After saying these words, Goron lowered his head and waited for the magician's task assessment. To be honest, Goron was quite satisfied with his task completion. If he had not thought of these separation methods from a large number of stories he had heard, he would have to stare at this task. And he had almost perfectly completed this task that should not be completed within the specified time. No matter how he thought of Black Jack, he should have admitted that he was.
The magician stretched out two fingers and pinched a small handful of them in the wooden bowl filled with iron sand, then slowly twisted his fingers, allowing the iron sand on his fingertips to fall into the bowl one by one, then opened his fingers in front of Goron, and a small grain of sea sand was suddenly left on his fingertips.
Goron instantly broke out in cold sweat.
The magician threw two wooden bowls behind him, and the two large bowls were spinning in the air, and finally fell back into the box steadily. With this hand alone, you can see that the magician's wrist skills were almost no less than those of the Axe King Karaman, and even more so in terms of slimness and precision.
"I haven't picked up the iron sand and the amount of white sesame seeds is about one-thirty. I really don't know where the complacent smile on your face comes from. Forget it, I never expect you to do better. Go and bring me the wooden bowl with yellow sand."
When Goron took the wooden bowl tremblingly, Black Jack surely raised the bowl of yellow sand and sprinkled it all on the white beach in front of him.
"This time the task is much simpler than the last time. You just need to pick up all the bowl of yellow sand for me, but this time it's not a mistake. The rules are the same as the last time. Before completing the task, you can't drink water, eat, talk to others, and get help from others. Of course, you can still terminate the task at any time. Then you will be very relaxed." After walking away a few steps, Black Jack patted his forehead as if he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, since you have been busy all morning, I will give you a preferential treatment. This time the task has no time limit."
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Iron sand and white sesame have different quality and nature. It is not difficult to separate them by mixing them in sea sand with some tips. However, yellow sand and white sand are both sea sand. There is no difference except for the slight differences in color. Wind blowing, blisters, grinding, and screening?
One thought flashed through Goron's mind, and he rejected it himself. Goron sat on the beach, holding a handful of sand in his hand. After thinking for two hours, he couldn't find a way to separate the two colors of sand.
Ge Long held the wooden bowl in one hand, his eyes were dull, and his other hand mechanically picked up yellow sand and threw it into the wooden bowl in his hand.
When Ge Long glanced at the wooden bowl in his hand, he found that a thin layer of fine sand had been covered with at the bottom of the wooden bowl.
In an instant, it was like lightning blew up in Geron's mind. He finally realized that the method of distinguishing the two kinds of sand was that simple? Isn't it enough to pick up the damn yellow sand piece by piece and put it in a bowl?
With a somewhat silly and even a little crazy smile on his face, Geron lay on the beach, bit by bit, bit by bit, meticulously starting to complete his exam.
"I'm...never...give up."
Ten minutes have passed...
An hour has passed...
Ten hours have passed...
It's dark...
Goron was still lying on the beach, picking up sand grains one by one.
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The fairy tale circus is not big. The fact that Geron picked up sand on the beach all day soon spread. Many people were as excited as watching monsters and rare beasts, and even went to the beach to visit the fool, madman who picked up sand.
They first started by looking from a distance, then slowly approached, and found that Goron was like a magic puppet, not paying any attention to the outside environment, and was still lying there to pick up sand without resting for a minute. So everyone began to laugh at his stupidity, his idiots, and even began to guess the real intention of the magician Black Jack ordering his disciples to do such boring things. Then a few hours later, a group of people who could not resist the boredom came and another group left, and in the end there were only a few people left.
There are Monica, Kaka, Marvin, Lukara, and Suarez...
The red-haired girl looked at Goron with gritted teeth at first, but after she looked at Goron for a full three hours, there was no expression on her face.
Lukara walked to Suarez and sneered, "Hmmm... It seems that the respected Mr. Black Jack and my teacher's idea of treating this brat Goron is surprisingly consistent. He clearly wanted to force this guy away, or just play him to death, and said what exams are there? Why don't I remember what exams Mr. Black Jack had taken when he chose Xiu as a disciple, and this brat with a woman's face. He was also a bit stupid and bizarre, if it were me..."
"If it were you, you would hold on for an hour or two at most, and then you would leave angrily, right?" Suarez took Lukara's head, but her eyes never left Goron. After a while, she murmured to herself: "If it were me... how long can I last..."
Seeing the girl she had been pursuing looked at Goron with the look she had never seen before, Lukara gritted her teeth and squeezed out a few words from her teeth: "Suarez, you'd better..."
No one cared about what Lukara was going to say, because just now, she was lying on the beach and picking up sand for twenty-six hours and forty-five minutes. Suddenly, her head tilted and she fainted on the beach...
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Chapter completed!