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Ganyu, Shenhe, and their master took Li Qiuzhi outside to see the Mechanical Birds busy around Yuehai Pavilion.
Apart from being made of wood, they looked no different from ordinary birds.
They likewise had a head and a pair of wings.
Their wooden claws gripped hanging baskets containing documents, and they flew up and down and back and forth with the baskets in their grasp.
It looked chaotic, yet everything was orderly, with no collisions or other mishaps at all.
"Do they fly by flapping their wings just like ordinary birds?" Li Qiuzhi asked with some curiosity.
"Naturally. If they needed Adeptal Energy to fly, they would merely be toys, nowhere near deserving to be called ingenious."
Xianyun spoke proudly.
Isn't that pretty much the same as a drone? Li Qiuzhi immediately thought of many possible applications for these Mechanical Birds.
For instance, using large numbers of Mechanical Birds to deliver documents as they were doing now would save everyone more time to do more things.
Then there were things like delivering takeout. If they could manage that,
everyone in Liyue Harbor could enjoy having goods delivered straight to their doors without ever leaving home.
Simply put, it meant using Mechanical Birds as a means of transporting goods.
Clearly, there was a huge market for that, and it could also improve Liyue's technological standards. It seemed like an excellent idea.
He just did not know how much these Mechanical Birds cost to make. If they were too expensive, they could not be used to transport goods.
He asked about that and received the answer that the cost was indeed substantial.
The Mechanical Birds' wooden bodies naturally did not cost much, but their drive cores were made from elemental materials.
Thus, mass-producing them merely to deliver takeout and the like