If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

The dazzling bright blue light was slowly roasting on the dark golden metal block, and amidst the cutting sound that was denser than buzzing, bright sparks sputtered out without stopping.

The beauty of the fiery trees and silver flowers on the workbench of the precision instrument made Lin Nian stop in his tracks. The glass-like illusion in his eyes only bloomed for a moment, and then turned into blue smoke.

The tip of his nose twitched, and he smelled the scent of fireworks and white jasmine.

Some pictures flashed through his mind for no reason. It was probably the scene of the cold fireworks lit by squatting at the entrance of the corridor with his sister when he was a child. Only two figures sitting in the stairwell were projected on the wall in the empty and cold corridor. Outside the window is the colorful fireworks all over the city at midnight on New Year's Eve, but what really belongs to them is the cold fireworks exuding white flowers in their hands. Longer, longer.
A finger snapped next to Lin Nian's ear, crisp and ear-catching.

Lin Nian regained his composure slightly, and looked at Ange. In the sight of the other party, he slightly lowered his head and forcefully closed and opened his eyes, his brows were slightly frowned, looking troubled, "I'm sorry."

"Did I say that the perversion of smell and mental influence caused by 'Bronze Purgatory' has nothing to do with blood?" Anger didn't show any blame but asked after seeing the noise, smoke, arc light and metal vapor when the instrument was in operation.

"Principal, you didn't say that."

"The strength of the bloodline does not affect the temptation of the 'Bronze Purgatory'. On the contrary, people with greater desires and stronger desires will be more affected in this environment. After research and analysis, We found that this is not a bad thing, because both the Orthodox and Secret Party researchers are generally not of the best blood, but the will is the strongest."

Lin Nian silently glanced at Angers and the staff manipulating the instrument at the workbench not far away from him. The other party was completely immersed in the work of manually cutting metal, and he didn't even notice the two of them approaching. It is estimated that if someone stabbed him from behind, his reaction would not be too big, and he would not realize that he was stabbed until he lost too much blood and became dizzy.

"Speaking of business, it's something you're interested in. What did we do with the 'Bronze Purgatory'?"

Ang Hot led Lin Nian to the precision instrument, and introduced him, "Do you still remember the imitation Seven Deadly Sins you met in the FG-CHI-013 incident?"

FG stands for fourth-generation species, CHI stands for location, and 013 is the serial number.This is the numbering method that Norma has always archived tasks, and Lin Nian naturally knew that Ange was referring to the incident of Shao Nanyin and Shao Nanqin.

"Is that 'Envy' a work of the academy?" Lin Nian asked looking at the dark golden metal that was cutting very slowly on the workbench.

"To be precise, it is the work of the orthodox 'Ministry of Tiangong'. We are only responsible for the cutting and transportation of the original materials." Anger raised his hand and patted the cutting equipment in operation, but it was this small action that disturbed the work in progress. The staff glanced dissatisfied, the former stopped and smiled at him apologetically, and continued to explain after successfully eating the other side's eyes,

"The simplest plasma cutting machine, the principle is to heat the plasma to an extremely high temperature and a highly ionized gas, and then transfer the arc power to the material. The high heat of 30000 degrees Celsius will melt the material and be blown away."

"Can I ask where these materials come from?" Although Lin Nian knew that this question was quite nonsense, he still asked.

"Don't worry. According to our observation of 'Bronze Purgatory', only a small number of 'side-office' cuts will not affect the overall stability of the prison." Anger knows where Lin Nian's worries come from, " Although you are the first witness of the 'Bronze Purgatory', you don't really understand the depth of this prison. For example, you know that the 'Bronze Purgatory' is a gaseous state that will involve 'metal' and 'flesh' at high temperature ' and 'plasma matter' for growth?"

"Growth?" Lin Nian was puzzled.

"'Bronze Purgatory' is alive." Anger said, "The big tree we saw gave us the impression that it has life. Most people would mistakenly think that the living one is the imprisoned Norton himself. But in fact we were wrong, it is not the Dragon King who is really active, but the 'seven deadly sins' parasitic on the Dragon King."

"'Bronze Purgatory' was born after His Highness Norton personally reforged the 'Seven Deadly Sins'. According to our long-term observation and testing, we found that it has 'living spirits' residing in it. Compared with a lifeless cage, we I tend to describe it as a terrible parasite." Anger looked at the dark golden giant tree and said lightly,

"Living in or on another creature's body and getting nourishment from it is the definition of a parasite, and what 'Bronze Purgatory' does fits that definition perfectly. It grows in Norton's body and draws its rage. Flames and dragon blood will not kill the host easily, but will form a protective layer to keep the host alive for a long time, so as to grow more nutrients and flesh to feed it back."

"Listening to it makes one's scalp tingle." Lin Nian said in a low voice.

"When we first captured Constantine's 'cocoon', the way we dealt with it was to put him in an environment without metal and flames, and to control him in a magnetic levitation way so that he couldn't touch anything. Supreme, things related to their authority will become food for them to become stronger." Anger said,

"His Highness Norton is certainly no exception, but due to the parasite 'Bronze Purgatory' entrenched on his body, nearly ninety-nine percent of the nutrients he grows through being involved in metal, flame, and flesh and blood will be lost to 'Bronze Purgatory' In itself, the form shown is that the tree we see will continue to grow and flourish, and then expand its influence in turn, attracting more food to the blood."

"A living cage." Lin Nian's eyes were gloomy. Only now did he truly feel the turbulent malice of that supreme being like a sea of ​​black tide mud, which couldn't stop the icy cold chill from the tail of the spine.

You must know that this instrument of torture was prepared for him at the beginning. If Constantine's remains were not sent by the "Emperor" outside Baidi City, causing the opponent's moths to fly into the flames, then the person locked in this prison should Substitution.

"Since the cage is alive and has the nature of growth, then we can naturally work on it." Anger looked at the long strip of metal on the plasma cutting machine and said, "Through Norma's intervention in the giant tree Statistical and mathematical modeling is done on the growth rate of the indeterminate metal. After calculating the ratio of the input metal to the growth rate of the big tree, we start to formulate the periodic "feeding" work. And our dangerous behavior of dismantling the cage has naturally become The harmless work of 'pruning the grass'."

"You raised the former 'supreme' in the basement of your own house, and fed it blood regularly, just like raising a pig waiting to be slaughtered." Lin Nian said slowly.

"As far as the facts are concerned, we did do that." Anger admitted slowly without any quibble;

"Don't let Lu Mingfei know about this." Lin Nian said flatly.

"Actually, the fewer people who should know about this, the better." Ang Rou nodded.

"Is the 'jealousy' in the hands of the executive department created by using it?" Lin Nian asked looking at the dark golden metal branch that was finally cut off after the plasma cutting machine had been working for some time.

"This is just the first embryo. You are a former user of the Seven Deadly Sins. You should know that even without the protection of the alchemy field, the material of the Seven Deadly Sins itself is extremely difficult to destroy. It represents the pinnacle of alchemy weapon forging technology. Initially, we tried to use Various instruments tried to cut something from the giant tree, but they all failed. It was not until the equipment department launched a new generation of plasma cutting machine that we completed the easiest and most difficult step, which is to replace the Prune the branches of a big tree."

"The high-temperature cutting process at 30000°C even takes more than half an hour to cut such a small piece of material less than three centimeters thick." Anger picked up a small piece of dark golden branch that was broken on the workbench, "It's hard to imagine What a terrible power Norton wielded in his heyday."

"It's so difficult just to cut it off, so how can we talk about further alchemy processing and reforging the metal?" Lin Nian asked.

"About this part is naturally not the work of the Secret Party." Anger said, "We are only responsible for cutting and secretly transporting raw materials, and the further processing of materials is handled by Orthodoxy. In your hometown, on the land on the other side of the ocean , In the orthodox headquarters, there is a department called 'Heavenly Engineering Department', which is comparable to the college's 'Equipment Department'."

"Oh? Will they also make bombs?" Lin Nian asked subconsciously.

"They don't know how to make bombs, and they even hold considerable prejudice against modern thermal weapons, thinking that they are 'demons and heretics. , they advocate the most traditional iron forging skills in their bones, and pursue the forging realm of "cutting gold and breaking jade, and seeing gods are not bad". I heard that the orthodox "Heavenly Engineering Department" has a serious inheritance of forging techniques, so The legacy of foundry that remains today can be traced all the way back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and flourished in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Generation after generation, the history of thousands of years has never been broken."

"The seven deadly sins of imitation are made by them?"

"Yes. The Ministry of Tiangong has a very mature and inimitable processing system for metals that we are helpless to deal with. This involves an ancient alchemy tool for casting, called the 'Ruyi Bagua Furnace', which corresponds to the Chinese The casting tool of the mythical 'Taiqing Daotianzun'. Through this unique alchemy tool, combined with the casting skills inherited from the Ministry of Tiangong, the metal of the seven deadly sins is melted, and then the imitation is made, and it becomes possible from impossible When Angers mentioned these things, he couldn't help but have a little strange look in his eyes, and it seemed that when he first learned this information, he couldn't help re-evaluating the true background of orthodoxy.

There are thousands of Chinese myths, and each one is higher than the other. This time, in order to cooperate and divide up the property of the Dragon King, Orthodox exposed the real prototype of the "Ruyi Bagua Furnace" that melts all things in the world in mythology. Will they be able to dig out the next time? Come out with "He Ding Di Shen Zhen Bao Tie", or go a little further and come up with a "Map of Zhuge Mountains and Rivers" and "Opening the World and Chaos Axe"?

How much orthodoxy has hidden so far, no one knows.

"However, I have a question. Since only Orthodox can smelt and reforge this metal, why is 'Bronze Purgatory' located in Kassel College?" Lin Nian frowned and asked, "Technology is monopolized, and the dominant power should not be in Orthodoxy. Do you have it?"

"There are actually many reasons for this," Anger said after pondering for a while, "For example, the safety of 'Bronze Purgatory'. Have you seen the chains on that big tree?"

Lin Nian cast his eyes on the dozens of iron chains on the giant dark gold tree connecting the four walls of the cave.

"That is the chain that the vice-principal excavated from the ruins of the Sumerian civilization. According to legend, its prototype is the 'Sky Lock' in Mesopotamian myths and legends. It has strong effects on creatures with dragon blood. The concept of suppression and restraint, coupled with the alchemy matrix "Yuktrazil's Vines" carved by Yuanxu itself, which can be called the pinnacle of human alchemy, can be regarded as one of the few in the world that can be stored safely. Bronze Purgatory' place."

"Principal, do you really think that Orthodoxy, who has the skill to deal with 'metal', will not have the means to safely store 'Bronze Purgatory'?" Lin Nian asked in a low voice, "Orthodoxy's 'Qing Wushu' attainment is ahead of Kasai We don’t know anything about the Nibelungen, but the other side already has its own system of use and countermeasures from the ‘Little World’.”

Angers was silent, and after a long silence, he said slowly, "If you want to say why the 'Bronze Purgatory' is in the academy instead of the orthodox, probably the only convincing answer I can give you is: they have Ask us."

"Can you ask us?" Lin Nian looked at Angers.

"Specifically, I need to ask Flamel mentor." Angers looked sideways at a red wine bottle on a table in the distance, and no one knew who would put that A bottle of old Bordeaux wine was brought in, and Gong Ji was simply ignored.

"You mean the vice principal?" Lin Nian was stunned.

Leonardo Flamel.

That humorous, potbellied old cowboy who likes to emphasize that he used to have full abs is also the couch potato that everyone remembers lying drunk all day in the assistant school room of the clock tower.Many people are paralyzed by his laziness on the surface, forgetting that he is also one of the few friends of Angers who has survived to this day, a monster whose blood is not lower than or even higher than Angers, and most importantly, he is also drunk all year round The reason why he is still respected by the elders of the secret party and even the school board despite being inconspicuous - he is also the true successor of the "Flamel" of contemporary alchemy.

"The orthodoxy lies in Qingwushu, that is, the research direction of alchemy is actually quite different from that of the secret party. The empathy and longing for the world lead them to be more inclined to observe and use 'feng shui' and 'general trend'. But in our Here, the main direction of alchemy usually tends to 'recreate' and 'reshape concepts' of matter. In an easy-to-understand way, the orthodoxy and the secret party have special differences in different fields of 'array' and 'art' , The two roads of macro and micro, which also lead to the difference in the achievements of both of us on the road of alchemy." Anger said.

"One engineering, one science." Lin Nian commented.

Speaking of this, Angers paused, the color under the protective clothing was a little inexplicable, ".In fact, at the beginning, I didn't expect that the final ownership of the 'Bronze Purgatory' would be the secret party, although it was only temporary. The real problem lies in the negotiations. Orthodox made an intriguing request—they wanted the vice president of Kassel College to come forward and talk with Orthodoxy's contemporary 'commoner' for a while to decide the direction of future cooperation."

"Commoner?"

"Similar to the name 'Flameur', 'Buyi' represents the true inheritance of the generation of Qingwushu. It can be traced back to the period of Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Prophet Shanren' name taboo patriarch of geomancy." Anger said,

"In short, after the first meeting between the orthodox 'commoner' and the secret party's 'Flameur', I saw the vice-principal hugging the fairy-tale old man, looking like he hated seeing each other late, and Claiming to have negotiated with Orthodoxy, the 'Bronze Purgatory' will be kept by us for the time being, but relatively, he will stay in Orthodoxy for a period of time as a guest for a month-long friendly academic exchange, but this was all half a year ago. .”

"They reached some kind of ulterior deal." Lin Nian keenly sensed the core of this matter.

"Yes, even I don't know the content of the transaction. The Night Watchman is very tight-lipped this time, and even my old friend didn't miss a word. But all in all, the 'Bronze Purgatory' is still in the ice cellar, and through We also got a lot of benefits from the orthodoxy in that negotiation, and the other party was so generous this time." Anger said slowly.

"Principal, does this mean that I can enjoy some of the so-called benefits you mentioned?" Lin Nian looked sideways at Angers knowingly.

The old guy looked at Lin Nian, smiled and nodded as a reply.

Lin Nian sighed and said, "Don't laugh, let me tell you exactly what the benefits are. I'm a little tired recently and don't want to guess riddles."

The old guy paused, smiled wryly and shook his head, "Young people nowadays are less and less able to understand the art of language."

In the end, he collected his expression, looked at Lin Nian and asked slowly, "Lin Nian, if you were to face the king of the earth and the mountain again, what chance do you think you have of winning?"

Lin Nian was silent, and after a long while, he said, "Less than [-]%, maybe even less conservative. Some of my hole cards have been used last time, but I still don't know its true strength. The theory put forward that the four monarchs are all twins, in the future we may face more than one supreme being.”

"Less than [-]% is great, so how much do you know about the 'Nibelungen Project' and the 'Snatmo Sword Project' launched against you?" Anger turned his head and met Lin Nian's eyes, and the latter Suddenly his eyes were awe-inspiring.