"congratulations."

The sunlight outside the window shone in from behind the thick curtains and refracted on Liu Mengchao's face. Liu Mengchao squinted his eyes and stared at the man sitting behind the table. This man had short hair and a band on his right eye.

Wearing an eye patch and a dark blue military uniform.

"The Great President."

Liu Mengchao said coldly, but there wasn't much of a nice smile on his face that was illuminated by the sun. Maybe it's not accurate to say this, but Liu Mengchao didn't seem to have much affection for the president sitting in front of him. If he insists,

If we could find a reason, we could only say that the smell coming from the great president smelled too familiar to Liu Mengchao.

"I will give a title to every qualified national alchemist." The president slowly raised his head, still with a kind smile on his face, which made him look like he was not a real person at all.

After all, no one in a high position should be so talkative, right? At least Liu Mengchao didn't think so. So he narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at the man sitting in front of him.

of the great president.

"My name?"

As Liu Mengchao spoke, he sat down and took the thin piece of paper from the hands of the president. At the beginning, he saw that there were a lot of things written about the national alchemist assessment, about Liu Mengchao.

His detailed personal information. In the end, Liu Mengchao finally saw the most important thing to him.

Name, every national alchemist will get a name that represents his identity and alchemy. For example, the name of Edward Elric's national alchemist is Steel, and Roy, who met Liu Mengchao in Dongcheng.

Colonel Mustang's name is Flame, the Alchemist of Flame.

Thinking of this, Liu Mengchao himself became a little curious. He really wanted to know what the name of his alchemy would be?

"This is……?"

Looking at the words that appeared in front of him, Liu Mengchao's eyes widened instantly. Liu Mengchao couldn't help but couldn't believe it. In other words, he even felt that the entire military was joking with him.

"Is this my name?"

Liu Mengchao asked softly, but the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously. Perhaps even Liu Mengchao himself didn't realize that he was actually not very repulsive to this name. Not only was he not repelling it, he even liked it a little bit.

"This name...if you look at it from another perspective, it's really a name that suits me."

As Liu Mengchao spoke, he stood up from his chair. According to convention, Liu Mengchao should bow to the president, or say something like a salute. But Liu Mengchao changed all this in an instant.

Everything was simplified. Liu Mengchao just stood up directly and walked past the president. He held the mocking title of National Alchemist in his hand.

"I look forward to your performance...my alchemist."

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"Name, name, name?"

Brother Edward couldn't wait to ask Liu Mengchao as soon as he saw him. Although he couldn't see the expression on his brother Alphonse's face, Liu Mengchao knew everything just by looking at Edward's tell me quickly expression.

"See for yourselves."

Liu Mengchao raised his hand and threw up the original appointment letter. The fluttering white paper drew a beautiful arc in the air and staggered into Edward's steel hand.

"This is...?" Edward looked at the name with a surprised expression on his face. "This name sounds..."

"What does it sound like?"

As Alphonse spoke, he couldn't wait to poke his head over and get close to his brother's side, staring at the words written on the piece of paper.

"Fraud!?"

This was Alphonse's subconscious exclamation. After all, this name was not friendly to Liu Mengchao at all. It seemed that this alchemist was just a liar.

"It's like blaming you, Liu Mengchao." Edward said subconsciously, and suddenly raised his head and glanced at Liu Mengchao, with an embarrassed expression on his face. After all, this was not a very beautiful name.

"But it's very impactful, isn't it?" Liu Mengchao narrowed his eyes and laughed directly, "I originally thought it would be a tangible name like fog, but I didn't expect it to be this."

As he spoke, Liu Mengchao shrugged casually and laughed.

"But it doesn't matter if it's this way or that way. For me, as long as I have the title of alchemist in this country, it will be fine."

Liu Mengchao said with a smile, but only Liu Mengchao himself understands the matter. Because for Liu Mengchao, as long as he can stand on the same front as the Edward brothers, he will definitely be able to get closer to the entire Fullmetal Alchemist anime.

The core of the plot. In other words, it is also able to get closer to what you need.

Chu Zhi had never spoken to him before, but it was indeed a transaction that he must carry out.

In exchange of equal value, Liu Mengchao has been in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist for a long time, and he has almost understood the rules of this world. In other words, if Chu Zhi must let himself enter this world

, what he wants to achieve must be related to this matter, right?

Liu Mengchao is not good at guessing what Chu Zhi is thinking in his heart, but Liu Mengchao can only work hard in this direction. Instead of waiting, it is better to give it a last try. Liu Mengchao has always held this idea in mind and reached this point.

"Right!"

Looking at Liu Mengchao's face, Edward was a little unsure whether he wanted to say such things to Liu Mengchao.

"When you went to the Gendarmerie Headquarters today, I already rushed to the National Library first." Edward said, but his brows relaxed immediately. It seemed that he was in a very good mood, "Alvon and I

Si found some information about the Philosopher's Stone there."

"Oh?" Liu Mengchao raised his eyebrows and laughed directly, "What's going on?"

Edward turned his head and looked at each other with his younger brother. They looked at Liu Mengchao in unison.

"As we told you before, during our trip back to our hometown, we met the national alchemist who used to study the Philosopher's Stone." Edward said, but there seemed to be unconcealable joy on his face.

With a look on his face, he said, "He turned out to be a national alchemist. If I speculate, he should have already started researching the Philosopher's Stone during the Ishval Annihilation War."

Liu Mengchao nodded slowly and motioned for Edward to continue.

During the Ishval Annihilation War, had this country already begun research on the Philosopher's Stone?

"His name is Margo." Edward said, glanced at Alphonse standing behind him, and said softly, "When we found him, he was working as a doctor in an unknown small town.

And he has a Philosopher's Stone in his hand."

"You didn't grab it." Liu Mengchao said firmly. He knew that although the Edward brothers really wanted to get the Philosopher's Stone to restore their bodies, they also had an extremely strong sense of morality. This kind of thing was already about to be thrown away by Liu Mengchao.

The feelings inside the trash can still control the two Edward brothers very firmly.

"That's right! Now that we have seen the Philosopher's Stone and Mr. Margo made it himself, there is no reason why we can't make the Philosopher's Stone." Edward clenched his fist fiercely, and his face was filled with emotion.

A determined look came on, "Although the second library where the Philosopher's Stone was stored had been burned down on the first day we arrived at the center. But... Liu Mengchao, guess what we found?"

What was found?

As soon as he saw the excited look on Edward's face, Liu Mengchao laughed unconsciously. He seemed to be able to guess what Edward was going to say next.

"We later went directly to the general bibliography of the First National Library to inquire, because Alphonse and I both guessed that if it was information about the refining of the Philosopher's Stone, it is very likely that there would be a copy."

"But it's not there." Liu Mengchao gave the answer before Brother Edward had finished telling the truth, "But I think... maybe some people just happened to lend Margo's research materials."

The two Edward brothers looked as if they had seen a ghost. They looked at Liu Mengchao blankly, and it took a long time for the two of them to slowly nod their heads.

"almost……"

Alphonse said softly.

"We found someone who has read all the books in the library." Edward said with a surprised look on his face, "I originally thought it was impossible for someone to have such a photographic memory, but I didn't expect that I would actually be able to do so in my lifetime.

I saw such a person with my own eyes. She has read all the books in the Second Library. In other words..."

"She should also have read Marg's research information on the Philosopher's Stone."

"That's right!"

Edward nodded excitedly.

"Then I think... the most important thing to do now is to get to her, right?" Liu Mengchao said, his eyes narrowed, "If someone really doesn't want you to get this information, they should prepare it now

Do you want to stop you from feeling bored?"

"We have already thought of this." Edward laughed, "But I don't think they know what Yang's books we are looking for in the Second Library."

"How do you say that?"

Listening to Edward's words, Liu Mengchao became a little confused. After all, according to Edward's words, they were going to the Second Library to find Marge's research materials. How did they get here and become enemies again without knowing that they were going to

What kind of book are you looking for?

"It seems that Liu Mengchao's memory of this aspect has not been restored!" Edward looked at Liu Mengchao and laughed, "For an alchemist, his research notes need to be kept confidential. But from another perspective

, we actually cannot guarantee that our research notes will not fall into the wrong hands."

"Correspondingly, for us alchemists, we need to use some small means to ensure that our research materials will not be read by others." Alphonse continued after Edward's words, "Just like me

My brother's research notes are actually written in the form of travel. If someone who doesn't know it just takes a casual look, they will just think that they are travel notes. Colonel Roy Mustang's alchemy notes are also written in the form of Ms.

Arranged by name, it looks like an address book or diary."

"I understand. With a simple disguise, you can keep your research in the fog. Unless you tell others the password to decipher, it is impossible for others to read your research notes."

"That's right!"

Alphonse nodded vigorously, and a smile broke out on his face.

"So... you want to tell me... that you found such a piece of information?"

"Well! I think it is absolutely impossible for the enemy to think of this. Moreover, we did not directly visit the lady who recorded all the books yesterday, but directly asked her to write them out today." Edward laughed as he spoke.

"Just in case, we asked her to write some other books as a cover."
To be continued...