Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 436: Explosion is art

The Luying Royal Academy is located in Quentin District, north of the Locovalen River, where rich people gather.

There is a very large area of ​​classical Gothic style garden buildings, which is the main campus of the college.

Because last night's dance left no trace of trouble, Su Lun and Sabina didn't have to worry about being watched, so they took a limousine to the north.

It's not that Su Lun doesn't want to ride a more convenient steam motorcycle, but that the wealthy area in the north bans motorcycles.

Those motorcycles that have been modified to be cool in the eyes of the gangsters are seen by the rich as cheap means of transportation that only the lower class can use, dangerous and vulgar.

After the car passed the Rington Iron Bridge across the Lokovalen River, the road conditions here were immediately completely different.

Su Lun looked at the scenery outside the window in the carriage.

The streets are clean and tidy, and classical-style buildings can be seen everywhere.

Compared with the civilian areas of Nancheng where steam machinery is everywhere, this place almost completely retains the ancient style of Linton hundreds of years ago.

There are very few people on the streets in wealthy neighborhoods, but they are either rich or noble.

The only means of transportation are various luxury cars, bicycles, and carriages with noble coats of arms.

Every block is patrolled by a female Royal Mounted Police officer riding a **** horse, who is very heroic.

It looks very backward, but there is luxury everywhere.

The street trees on the street are thick broad-leaf sycamores worth tens of thousands of dollars each. There are always delicate and bright flowers in the flower beds on the roadside. There are shining gold and silver coins in the fountain's wishing pool that no one has picked up. Even the pigeons here are rare species of Shenghui white-feathered pigeons. They are proud and beautiful, have their own territory, and will never get together or mate with ordinary pigeons

In the carriage, Sabina introduced to Su Lun: "This is how the rich area of ​​Linton is. The nobles almost refuse to use all new things. In their eyes, the more ancient objects are used, the more they reflect the The ancient heritage of a family. Some guys even want to hang the mummies of their ancestors hundreds of years ago in the carriage to show off their pure aristocratic bloodline."

After a pause, she continued: "It's those stubborn old guys who want to keep power, and they are also afraid of change. That's why Lu Yingcai lags far behind Mafa, and the gap is getting wider and wider. ”

Su Lun's eyebrows twitched slightly when he heard this, and he chuckled.

At this time, the car passed a corner of the block, and the field of vision suddenly broadened, and a brilliant group of buildings appeared in the distance.

Sabina pointed to the white city wall in the distance, with some sapphire-blue spiers emerging from the top of the building, and said: "That is the Friedrich Palace, the castle where the Bona royal family lives."

Although Su Lun had heard of it, this was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.

The building in front of me is indeed very beautiful.

Grand, spectacular, exquisite, holy, majestic

Every beautiful word that can describe the royal building can be used on it.

I thought that in a few months, I would have to go to the palace as "Fick" to accept an appointment with Miss Ekaterina to receive the Queen's engagement blessing. Su Lun suddenly became less interested in this building again.

What's more, it is now confirmed that believers of foreign gods have infiltrated into the royal family.

There is an unknown SS in this palace

Not long after, the car drove all the way to Xueyuan Street, and then saw the gate of Luying Royal Academy.

The Royal Academy does not prohibit outsiders from entering, provided that you are a noble.

Sabina's car had her "Count Demacula" family coat of arms on it, and the vehicle drove unimpeded all the way to the college's dormitory area.

This place is as beautiful as a garden, and the buildings are hidden among the green trees. The luxurious two-story villas with burgundy roofs are the dormitories of the students.

Su Lun and Sabina got out of the car.

Although the explosive genius Jike was nominally his disciple, in fact the master and disciple did not get along for long.

Furthermore, Su Lun never contacted him again after leaving Blizzard City.

So he doesn't know what Jike's current situation is.

The two were walking on the tree-lined avenue, and Su Lun talked about the experience of accepting Jike as his disciple.

After listening, Sabina also sighed with emotion: "Sir, you have accepted a disciple of yours before, but I have never heard of you. As your maid and information officer, I feel that I have neglected my duty."

Su Lun smiled and didn't care, and said: "It was a coincidence that I accepted Jike as my disciple before. His experience was also quite tragic. His stepmother killed his father and his family was ruined. I don't want him to be troubled by me again. Implicated"

This is something he didn't say on purpose.

His own situation was not good at that time. He had just been hunted down by the Raigadi family. Later, he also caused big disturbances in Beihai many times.

It is not necessarily a good thing that Jikko has such a teacher.

So I just let it go.

Now that I have the conditions, and I happened to come to the Royal Academy to look for notes, I naturally wanted to stop by and take a look

Su Lun only heard that Jike successfully entered the Royal Academy of his dreams, but did not know any other information.

Calculating the time, he should be a second-year student.

But Luying Royal Academy is the largest alchemy academy in the entire empire, with more than 50,000 students enrolled.

Even the dormitory area is intimidatingly large, so it would be unrealistic to search slowly.

Su Lun went directly to the dormitory administrator. When asked, the administrator actually said that there was no student "Jike James" in the second-year dormitory?

This is a big mistake.

After walking out of the dormitory area, Sabina looked at Su Lun's puzzled expression and asked: "Is it possible that I entered the school a year late and am now a first-year student?"

Su Lun also found it strange and analyzed: "It should not be the case. Jike's level of alchemy knowledge at that time should be enough to pass the entrance examination of the Royal Academy."

Thinking about it, he also felt that what Sabina said made sense. There might be some reasons that caused Jike to enter school late.

The two of them planned to walk to the new students' dormitory area and ask again.

The environment of the Royal Academy is very good, and everything is filled with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.

Anyway, it was still early, so the two of them were not in a hurry, so they took a leisurely stroll on campus.

Along the way, they met many students wearing Royal Academy uniforms. All of them are in their prime, with heroic looks, and their young faces are full of vitality.

Those who can go to school here are either rich or noble. No matter how talented the students here are, from birth, they are destined to be the "big shots" of the Luying Empire in the future.

While walking, the two happened to meet a few students with second-year logos on their school uniforms.

Thinking about it, Su Lun went directly to meet him and asked: "Students, may I ask, have you ever heard of a second-year student named 'Jike James'? He should be from the School of Pharmacy."

I didn’t expect it to be such a coincidence. These people really knew this question.

"We are second-year students from the School of Pharmacy. We have never heard of "Jike James""

"Jike? Oh, my God! It can't be the madman who studies bombs, right? That guy hasn't been fired yet?"

"It seems to be our classmate, but that guy hasn't come to class for a long time, right? I heard that after he blew up half of the laboratory building last time, the college no longer allowed him to conduct such dangerous pharmaceutical experiments in the laboratory. What's more, He is not allowed to do experiments in the dormitory. I haven’t seen him for a long time."

"Oh, that guy is really a lunatic. I guess he is the only guy in the history of our Royal Academy who has blown up the pharmacy laboratory three times. I don't know what dangerous things he fiddled with last time, and the burning flames burst out They couldn't be extinguished and almost spread to the entire experimental area. The guy who deserved it had several of his fingers blown off."

"When you say that, I seem to have an impression. Jike is the only guy in our class who got perfect scores in the Dangerous Pharmacy exam?"

"Well, that's him, a poor guy from a furrier's family! I also heard that the college didn't even let him pay for the bombing of the teaching building, and he still refused to drop out. Now he and the lowly gardener servant People live together. It seems he is continuing his dangerous experiments."

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Su Lun listened to everyone talk about their classmate with labels like "mysterious", "crazy" and "terrorist".

He immediately determined that this Jike was the disciple of his bomb genius!

Sabina on the side looked strange as she listened to the descriptions from the students. What a special disciple her master had recruited?

Because they said they were here to find Jike, Su Lun and the other two were despised by the little nobles.

Thinking that some poor relatives might be visiting.

Su Lun doesn’t care.

Fortunately, now that he had received the exact information, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "It turns out that I live in the handyman area. No wonder I can't find the dormitory."

Jike is just a child from a merchant family, so naturally he is not popular in the eyes of these little nobles.

Although they are all students of the Royal Academy, there is also a chain of contempt.

That is, the aristocratic students are superior to the civilian students who passed the exam on their own.

After all, no matter how outstanding civilian students are, the best job they can find after graduation is to work for major companies controlled by nobles.

This class barrier has existed in camping for thousands of years and is almost impossible to break

Now that they knew the direction, Su Lun and the two followed the signs and left the dormitory area. They walked around the dormitory area and walked to the remote lakeside.

Although the garden-like campus of the Royal Academy has a pleasant scenery, it also requires a large number of servants and handymen to take care of it.

A lot of water lilies have been planted beside the lake. There are several low buildings there, which are the miscellaneous areas of the college.

Su Lun looked at the old buildings and guessed where Jike should be at a glance.

There is a small house with obvious burn marks, which is incompatible with the house next to it.

The two walked over, but before they got close, they saw strange green flames suddenly bursting out of the house.

The handymen who lived nearby seemed to be used to it. They ran out after hearing the noise, calling for them to come and put out the fire.

"Get water quickly! That guy Jike has burned the house down again!"

"Don't use water! He said you can't use water for green flames, wait until the fire burns out by itself!"

"Oh my gosh, I hope the Geek boy doesn't burn himself."

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As Su Lun listened to the conversation of the handymen, the corners of his eyes were full of black lines.

Thick smoke, green fire, but not much movement.

At this moment, a guy wearing a gas mask hurried out of the house.

As he ran, he cheered: "Hahaha, I succeeded! My phosphorus fire bomb ingredients experiment finally succeeded!"

The handymen on the side seemed to have a good relationship with Jike, and they all poured cold water on him with sincerity.

"Hey, kid Jike, you have to be careful. If you make such a big noise again, the academy will really kick you out."

"That's right, keep a low profile. Look, you've made the smoke rise again. I'm afraid the entire college can see it now."

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Hearing this, the young man wearing a gas mask bowed repeatedly and apologized to everyone: "I'm sorry, everyone, there is something wrong with the ventilation equipment, which has caused trouble to everyone. I will pay more attention next time. ”

As he spoke, he lifted off his gas mask, revealing his excited face.

But if you look closely, you can see that there are obvious burn scars on half of his face. This made his apparently handsome and sunny boy look a little ferocious and terrifying.

But Su Lun could still recognize that the intact half of his face was that of his disciple Jike.

Jike also seemed to notice the two outsiders who were watching for a while by the lake.

A lady in a black dress with extraordinary temperament, and a gentleman wearing a hat.

He was very confused as to why someone would come to the handyman area. He didn't want to pay attention to them, but he had to dive into his still smoking laboratory.

But suddenly, Jike thought about it for a moment, and instinctively felt that the gentleman with a smile on his face looked familiar.

He suddenly woke up, recognized the person, and shouted excitedly: "Teacher?!"

Su Lun smiled and nodded from afar, "Jike, long time no see."

Finding that he had recognized the right person, Jike ran over excitedly.

As soon as they met, he respectfully made a master-disciple salute: "Teacher! It's really you!"

He has not forgotten that without the kindness of his teacher, he would have died in Blizzard City in the North. Without the guidance of his teacher, he would not have been able to successfully enter the Royal Academy.

This is the most important person in his life after his father was killed by that poisonous woman.

After saying goodbye to Blizzard City, there was no news, but unexpectedly we saw him again in the academy!

Oh, it’s like a dream!

After saluting, Jike looked at the beautiful lady wearing a big-brimmed top hat next to Su Lun who was holding his arm affectionately, and guessed: "Teacher, is this the teacher's wife?"

No matter who he is, since he is an elder, he must salute.

When he spoke, he also bowed to Sabina as an elder.

"this"

Su Lun smiled and didn’t know how to introduce Sabina.

It's okay to call it this way, but it's not very accurate either.

Sabina didn't understand what she was doing. Before Su Lun could speak, she cleverly resolved the awkward moment. She praised Jike with a smile on her face and said, "You have such a sweet mouth."

She seemed very happy to hear this title, but she immediately changed the topic and said: "But I am not your 'Master Wife'. I am your teacher's good friend."

Jike seemed to understand but also said respectfully, "Hello, madam."

Sabina smiled and nodded, then took out a golden pocket watch that she had prepared long ago and said, "This is a meeting gift for you."

Su Lun's disciple, although she is not a master's wife, she is still a very close elder.

When meeting for the first time, etiquette is still indispensable.

As she spoke, she also said another blessing, saying: "As an excellent alchemist, I hope you can accurately grasp every moment of your life in the future."

"Ah this"

Jike looked at the pocket watch and recognized at a glance that it was valuable.

The handmade pocket watches of "Wanda Philippe Watch Shop" are one of the most favorite luxury brands among nobles. Each piece is worth at least several hundred thousand liso.

The lady gave it away just as she said she would?

Although he also knew that this was a greeting gift from his elders, it was too expensive!

Even when the family was at its most affluent, my father never wore such an expensive pocket watch.

Jike looked a little flattered and looked at Su Lun for help.

Su Lun didn’t expect Sabina to be so interested, and even prepared a meeting gift for his disciple, and smiled and said: “Take it.”

After hearing this, Jike dared to accept it, and said in a complicated tone: "Thank you, madam."

When Jike reached out to take the pocket watch, Su Lun also saw something strange in his hidden left hand.

It was blown off, leaving only two stumps of fingers.

He then asked: "Jike, were your hands and face injured in a laboratory accident?"

Jike was a little embarrassed that the teacher saw his predicament, and responded: "Yes, teacher. Because I was not very skilled in experiments before, I misestimated the reaction data of some new materials, and then caused an explosion"

After hearing some gossip from Jike's classmates before, Su Lun also knew that his disciple was in a bad situation in the academy.

He didn't say much, just glanced at it and said: "It's not a big problem. I still have some [activated silver] in my hand. I will make you a mechanical prosthesis later. It won't affect your future life." .As for the burns on the face, this can be solved with [Advanced Cellular Active Agent], and the problem is not big.”

Jike was stunned as he listened, with complex emotions appearing in his eyes: moved, delighted, and surprised.

But I felt relieved after a moment, since the teacher’s friends could easily give out gifts worth hundreds of thousands. The problem of the residual limb that I felt was irreparable was naturally not a big problem in the eyes of the teacher.

In the end, he only said one sentence: "Thank you, teacher."

Although Jike still doesn’t know the origin of his teacher, Su Lun gave him a strong sense of trust from the moment they met.

After meeting each other, Jike remembered something and asked: "By the way, teacher, why did you come to the Royal Academy?"

Su Lun said bluntly: "I came to the academy for something. I stopped by to check on you."

As he said that, he remembered the words of the previous students and said with concern: "I met some of your classmates before and I heard that you haven't been to class for a long time. Did something happen to you? Also, How do you know how to live here?"

Although I know that the Royal Academy is not friendly to civilian students.

But since I have accepted this disciple, I naturally don’t want to see him treated unfairly.

Hearing the inquiry, Jike couldn't hide his embarrassment and hesitated: "Teacher, me"

No matter how you look at it, for a disciple like him to behave like this now, he has lost the teacher's face.

But Jike still mustered up the courage and explained: "In the first year of enrollment, I have already completed all four years of the college's homework. Explosives are a very unpopular branch of pharmacy, and Lu Ying's mechanical military industry Lagging behind, this subject is also very unpopular. In the college, explosives is not taken seriously by the college at all. So this semester, I mostly look up materials in the library and do experiments."

Su Lun heard the helplessness in Jike's tone and said nothing.

He also knows this is the truth.

Pharmacology is indeed one of the basic subjects in alchemy.

But the science of explosives is indeed unpopular.

Traditional alchemists' impression of gunpowder still remains on bullets and artillery, so they naturally look down on such low-level alchemical products. Especially in the traditional holy place of alchemy like Luying Royal Academy, it is not taken seriously.

Jike looked embarrassed again, and continued: "As for why I live here, it is because there were several explosion accidents in the laboratory before, which caused a lot of impact on the college and caused great losses. Then the dormitory It’s not convenient to do some dangerous experiments, so I just came here.”

Su Lun listened silently, frowning slightly.

My disciple told the truth, but he avoided the important points and talked about some situations lightly.

This is an aristocratic college, and civilian students will definitely be ostracized by their classmates.

Especially for students who have no money.

Su Lun saw that the gas mask around Jike's neck was so old and almost rotten that he didn't want to replace it, so he knew that he was in an embarrassing situation.

He directly stated Jike's difficulties and asked: "Has all the family's savings been spent?"

Jike felt embarrassed, but nodded after all: "Yes. Although the materials in the academy are very cheap, explosive formula testing requires a lot of materials and equipment. I have spent all the savings from selling furs before my father passed away."

His tone was very remorseful, as if it was his own squandering that had led to such an embarrassing situation.

But looking at his teacher's calm and concerned expression, Jike finally expressed the grievances he had never told anyone in his heart: "I don't want to give up. Because the college has the best library in Luying. There is the cheapest material supply and the best experimental equipment. Once I drop out of school, there will be no chance of all this. That’s why I live here. Although it is not good, at least I can continue to stay in the college."

In a word, there is no money.

The Royal Academy has top educational resources that are unmatched by any alchemy academy in the Luying Empire.

Although he was full of ridicule and cold looks, Jike's deep love for alchemy made him unwilling to give up this only path of study.

So he could only stay in the college shamelessly, even if he lived with the handymen who were looked down upon by his classmates, it didn't matter to him.

Hearing these words,

Sabina's beautiful eyes flashed as she listened.

Su Lun's expression did not change much. After listening, he just said calmly: "Let the past be in the past. Now that I'm here. From now on, you can concentrate on studying explosives that you like. As for everything else, there are Me."

Hearing the resounding "I am", Jike felt as if he had been struck by lightning and stood on the spot, "I am"

A moment later, as if the clouds were clearing and the sun appeared, the haze in his eyes suddenly dissipated, and the light gradually began to shine.

From the first day he entered the Royal Academy, his heart has never been as exciting as it is now.

That was the warmth and confidence that Jike had never felt since his father died, and he was alone.

Only then did he realize that he had a teacher with strong backing!

Su Lun didn't say much, and said calmly: "Take care of the laboratory and let's go to the college for a walk."

Hearing this, Jike’s slightly ferocious face after being burned showed a very serious expression, “Yeah!”

Not long after, Jike packed up his laboratory.

He followed Su Lun Sabina and walked around the campus.

After chatting for a few words, Su Lun also discovered that his disciple was indeed living a miserable life.

Studying alchemists is very expensive, and this is even more true in the subject of "pharmaceutics".

The most expensive thing is the pharmacy apprenticeship.

Every qualified pharmacist must have burned a huge amount of materials and piled them up.

This was barely enough for Jike's relatively wealthy businessman family. But after his father passed away, the family had no sustainable source of income. The large amount of experimental supplies has exhausted all savings.

So now in the academy, he can only piece together various things, earn credits, and do hard work in order to get some reward. He even had to pick up scraps and scrap materials discarded by other students in the laboratory to use them to support his own experiments.

Even now, you have to put down your dignity even to eat.

However, he did not feel bitter because of the firm belief in his heart that he persisted.

Su Lun felt a little mixed as he listened to those experiences.

Jike looked at his teacher and the lady with serious expressions, pretending not to care, and said: "Teacher, it's actually nothing. We eat the same as everyone here, very rich."

The college provides free and abundant food to students.

It is true that everyone is the same, but the gardeners and handymen eat the leftover overnight food that the noble students ate and should have thrown away.

Su Lun fell into deep thought as he listened.

As a disciple, I have had a tragic life experience, but these hardships have now become an increasingly tough quality in him, gradually radiating the light of excellence.

Su Lun thinks this is a good thing.

He didn’t say much more on this topic and instead asked: "By the way, Jike, what were you studying before? I mean the green flame"

When it comes to experiments, Jike's eyes immediately light up.

He excitedly introduced his results: "Oh! Teacher, that is a special combustion-supporting formula used by ancient dwarves for forging, called [white phosphorus combustion-supporting agent]. This is an ancient formula I found in the library , I finally deciphered it. But because it is an ancient formula, many materials are missing, and then I want to try to change it and make a [phosphide immortal bomb]. It is the kind that cannot be extinguished no matter what, until the target is destroyed Burn clean bombs"

After saying this, all he had in his eyes was his enthusiasm for explosives, "Teacher, my preliminary experiment has been successful! As long as I have enough materials to experiment, I will soon be able to create that kind of finished bomb. !"

Hearing this, Su Lun nodded and praised without hesitation: "You have done a great job."

"Really?"

Jike seemed to have received recognition from others for the first time, and his face turned rosy with excitement. "The teacher also thinks that my research is very good?"

"Yes."

Su Lun affirmed again: "Explosives is a science with unlimited potential. It is not even inferior to any discipline of alchemy."

Having said this, he looked at Jike's longing eyes and encouraged: "Hold on. When your dream comes true, you will be like a bright star in the night sky, and the world will see you the most dazzling The light."

"Yeah! Yeah!"

Jike seemed to be greatly inspired, and his eyes trembled with excitement: "I know, I know! Even if the whole world doesn't understand, teacher, you will definitely understand my thoughts!"

This sentence is like walking alone in the dark and suddenly seeing a guiding light!

That kind of excitement is hard to be strict about.

In Blizzard City, it was Su Lun's encouragement that convinced him that he would become an [ammunition engineer] in the future, not a dentist or a lawyer.

He excitedly shared his career plan, "Teacher, you know, many people look down on [ammunition master] professionals and look down on explosives. They think that they are low-level alchemy formulas that can only be used in low-level professional fields. . But in fact, they are wrong! Their understanding of human explosions is too narrow! We cannot limit explosions to explosives. Some special energy release processes can also be called explosions, which are more powerful than the energy release of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. When the state of certain substances changes, a terrifying energy explosion phenomenon will also occur! That is also the direction I have been researching. Even those people have no idea that in theory, some special explosives can blow up the entire soul with only a few hundred kilograms. Dun! Explosions of that level are the most perfect art in my mind!"

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When Su Lun heard the scenes described by Jike, he suddenly felt very familiar.

Explosion is art?

After all, geniuses are paranoid.