The ferry was still bumpy in the raging storm, but Xiao Chen was no longer in such a mess. He sat cross-legged on the deck, leaning against the bulkhead. Not a drop of water could enter within a meter around him. Every gust of wind and every drop of rain chose to avoid him. He became stronger and took the first step to control this conscious world. He was still weak and could only use the power of the scroll to exert the power of magic.
When will I have my own power
Xiao Chen stared at the lightning in the sky in a trance. The power of the lightning was strong and majestic, shocking.
He had never wanted to master a power so much.
If he was in the outside world, if he was in that burning night, with such power in his hands, then goblins and the like would be no problem at all, right
Xiao Chen extended his consciousness into the sky.
Incredibly slow and incredibly difficult.
However, he persisted, extending it one inch at a time...
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After an unknown amount of time, he felt someone patting his shoulder and woke up.
There was no wind or rain, it was a clear and crisp autumn afternoon, the sun was a little hot on his body, but the wind from the roof was also a little cool. Xiao Chen saw from the corner of his eye that a bare hand was being taken away from his shoulder.
Xiao Chen turned around and saw Luo Ling and a man.
"You are quite lazy. You found such a good place on the roof." Luo Ling threw an apple over and Xiao Chen caught it.
"It's produced in Sameria Village. It's pollution-free and all-natural fruit. It's good except that it's small and not sweet."
Luo Ling took out another apple and took a bite herself. She smiled brightly, just like the sun, which made people feel warm, but over time it would make their faces hot and sweaty.
Xiao Chen wiped the apple with the corner of his clothes, bit off half of it, and said helplessly: "The expedition team has stopped working, so let me, who has survived the disaster, take a break."
He glanced at the man with his hands behind his back and asked, "Who is this?"
"Qin Mu, like Mr. Luo, is also a teacher at the school. We are the two leading the second expedition team." Qin Mu stretched out his hand out of habit, but seeing that Xiao Chen and Luo Ling both had sticky apple juice on their right hands, he retracted his hand. He said in a concerned tone, "Student Xiao, we have heard about what happened this time. It is really too much pressure to put on you students."
Luo Ling winked at Xiao Chen and said, "Student Xiao, Teacher Qin heard about your situation and must come to comfort you."
Xiao Chen's mouth was full of apples, and he said vaguely: "Thank you very much for your concern, Teacher Qin. No one could have expected to encounter such a thing in the wild."
"It looks like you have recovered well and are in good spirits. Young people must have an indomitable fighting spirit and must not back down after being hit." Qin Mu patted Xiao Chen's shoulder heavily.
Seeing Luo Ling secretly grinning, Xiao Chen secretly rolled his eyes at her and said to the "sincere" Qin Mu: "Yes, I am not as independent as Teacher Qin. Next time I have to follow our team leader Luo. What do you think?"
"Ah? Okay." Luo Ling responded quickly.
"Ahem." Qin Mu coughed a few times and asked, "I heard that those goblins are not very tall? Their fighting power is not strong either, but there are a lot of them?"
"Indeed, with a physique like Teacher Qin, he can take on ten people at once." Xiao Chen said seriously.
"Student Xiao, please don't talk bad about me. I'd rather keep a low profile when I'm in danger. Carelessness can lead to failure. In the future, we should make a good plan so that we can remain calm in times of danger. Don't you agree?"
"Luckily we encountered the goblins once before, so Teacher Qin had a chance to make a plan. Next time, maybe it can save lives."
"Haha." Qin Mu touched his nose and said to Luo Ling, "Your good students are not ordinary." He waved to Xiao Chen and said, "Keep up the good work. I have a meeting, so I have to go first!"
"Is this person tired?" Xiao Chen complained as soon as Qin Mu left.
"Teacher Qin took the initiative to come visit you. It has nothing to do with me." Luo Ling said with a smile, "But he seems to be able to arouse your fighting spirit."
"Whatever he thinks is written on his face, and it's just towards you..."
"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. I'm here to remind you that the report has been submitted to the committee on your behalf. But you will definitely have to accept their investigation and questioning. After all, Mr. Lin's death is not something that can be easily brushed aside. I heard some not-so-good news. Zhao Rui seems to have put all the blame on Zhang Sicheng and you. And Zhang Sicheng seems to have accepted it all."
"Let's fight back when the enemy comes." Xiao Chen said with a sigh.
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"What a great place, what a great place!" Morey put on Xiao Chen's shirt and trousers and walked on the campus road. He held a folding fan in one hand, a plastic electronic watch on his wrist, a magazine in the other hand, and a pair of frog-eye glasses on his face. These were all exchanged by him with the gold coins hidden in his clothes and passers-by. These belongings almost used up all his savings, but his interest was getting higher and higher.
Li Jia was also looking at Morey. This young man who spoke Chinese fluently was about 24 or 25 years old, with sharp features on his face and short dark red hair. He was quite handsome. With a shirt and sunglasses, he looked like an international student walking on campus.
Her hair was the same color, Li Jia couldn't help but think. And he had walked all these roads with her. The same curious eyes, the same questions. However, he was so happy at that time, but now he felt tired, confused and bored. Until now, Li Jia couldn't be sure whether she had betrayed him or made him a traitor.
"Hey, what kind of building is this? It's so beautiful and magnificent, but it was burned down?" Morey waved his fan and pointed at the library from a distance and asked. This question temporarily brought Li Jia back to her senses.
"That's the library. It caught fire a few days ago." Li Jia didn't want to talk about it anymore and simply replied.
"Is there no fire-proofing array in the library?" Morey asked curiously, "Was the loss great?"
"Fortunately, probably more than two thousand books were burned." Li Jia replied in a flat voice.
"More than two thousand books? God of Nature, what a huge loss. The person who caused the fire must be severely punished! If such a thing happened in the Kingdom Library, the director of the library would definitely be beheaded by the king! If I started a fire in the teacher's library, he would definitely turn me into a golem." Morey said these words indignantly, making Li Jia a little confused.
"What are you doing?"
"Books! They are all knowledge! From the first day I learned to read, my teacher said: 'You and I will perish, only knowledge will last forever.', 'People who don't respect books don't deserve any respect.', 'Every book is an angel born with difficulty.' Don't you have similar sayings?"
"Ah, ah, it seems... it makes sense. However, the fire started from the shelves of 'News Magazines' and 'Success Studies', which is a blessing in disguise."
"News magazine? Success studies? What is that?"
"Well, just think of it as waste paper."
"What is that?" Morey once again pointed his folding fan at a construction site in the distance that had just started, and asked with interest.
Li Jia hesitated for a moment, but still answered: "That is a small blast furnace that is being built. They are going to try to make iron."
"Iron can actually be smelted using a furnace like this. Dwarves use furnaces and hammers to forge iron, and alchemists use formations to separate iron. I didn't expect there is a way to use this blast furnace."
He took off his sunglasses, looked carefully, and asked, "Can you tell me what's going on? Or let me go over and take a look?"
"I'm sorry, I can only take you around the public areas on behalf of Xiao Chen. There are some places that even I can't enter. Besides, this furnace is still a long way from being completed." Li Jia shook his head and said after a while, "It's nothing, just burn iron ore, coal, limestone and so on together."
Morey propped his chin with his fan and thought for a while, then suddenly said, "Li Jia, please tell Xiao Chen that I want to stay. I am willing to use my alchemy to exchange this knowledge and technology with you. I can even serve you as an alchemist!"
Li Jia looked at him with some surprise. Could it be that this person realized the value of our technology so quickly
To be honest, he didn't quite understand why Xiao Chen brought this person back, and why he had to go through so much trouble to get the committee to agree to let this person stay on campus, and even solemnly asked him to treat him well. In Li Jia's opinion, the backwardness of this world meant that the locals didn't have any technology worth paying attention to. As for alchemy, isn't it just a scam and superstition on Earth
He was considering how to politely reject the request when he saw Morey take out a small bottle from his arms.
Morey pulled Li Jia to a stone table beside a lawn, opened the bottle in front of his puzzled gaze, stretched out a silver thread from his fingertips, dipped it in the red liquid in the bottle, and used the thread as a pen to draw on the stone table.
The red lines twisted and turned, slowly forming characters and lines. Li Jia was surprised to find that these characters were very similar to Chinese small seal characters, but the characters had many variations and distortions in shape, and were not square. These characters were also combined with various points and lines to form new patterns.
Often Morey would overlap part of one word on top of another, so that the words would intersect and cover each other, and soon they would become unrecognizable.
Li Jia could not recognize a few small seal characters, and could only barely recognize the word "炼" (refined) and the word "分" (divide). He had no idea of the other dozens of characters. He just felt that when Mo Lei's characters were connected together, there was a strong sense of harmony, as if they were a whole. When Mo Lei wrote for more than ten minutes and finally stopped writing, the faint red light emitted by the entire diagram array was like a neon light embedded in the stone table.
"Look, this is the alchemy I learned. It is inherited from the Moncayo School and is the best in the continent." Morey boasted with some pride. "I know you come from a place completely different from here. This must be useful to you."
After saying that, he took out a gold coin from his pocket, placed it in the middle of the magic circle, and then whispered a spell. The gold coin was immediately surrounded by red smoke rising from the magic circle. After nearly a minute, the smoke dissipated, and two square pieces of metal appeared on the magic circle. The larger one was golden, and the smaller one was gray-black.
"Is this... the refining of metal?" Li Jia stared at the piece of gold that was shining brightly in the sun, and couldn't even speak fluently.
"Yes, this is the core of alchemy, but also the most useless formation, the alchemy formation. This is real pure gold, and the small ones are impurities in the gold coin. I also have formations for refining iron, copper, and many other metals, and even formations for synthesizing metals."
"It's amazing, how could this be useless?" Li Jia asked puzzled.
Morey shook the red bottle and said, "The materials used to make the alchemy array are much more expensive than that piece of gold, but it is still an unheard-of technology for you, isn't it?"