It is now afternoon, and the freshmen and sophomore students have just finished their special training and are walking to the cafeteria wiping their sweat.
"boom!"
The sudden earthquake almost shattered the windows of surrounding buildings, cracked several holes in the outer walls of nearby buildings, and dust fell.
The well in front of the Hall of Valor spewed out 10-meter-high blood flames. The students in the distance stopped and looked indifferent. Not one of them took out their mobile phones to take pictures. They seemed to have become accustomed to it.
The underground laboratory of the Equipment Department is underground. No need to guess, there must have been another accident. Maybe it was an explosion of refined sulfur, maybe a mercury steam pipe burst, or maybe it was a new weapon that the Equipment Department recently claimed would save the world...
The firetruck, with its siren on, rushed to the burning wellhead and stopped. The strong and vigorous school workers skillfully set up a water hose and sprayed it at the wellhead.
Kassel College's Ministry of Education came to the scene to provide rescue.
They looked relaxed, chatting and laughing while doing their homework. Such incidents happen every day on the campus on the top of the mountain, so it is not worth making a fuss about.
"It's brimstone flames!" the person in charge of fighting the fire shouted, "Everyone put on gas masks!"
Schneider thought for a while: "The only problem now is that with the strength of the academy alone, the production speed is too slow, but we dare not and cannot share these weapon blueprints with any country. And when it comes to using these weapons
By that time, there must have been no point in exposing the Dragon Clan’s secrets.”
Deputy Minister Karl suddenly raised his voice and said: "We used one of Constantine's little knuckles to extract a Philosopher's Stone weighing 0.8 grams, and we only used a 2.75-gram Philosopher's Stone to kill him.
Stone ground into bullets!”
The vice-principal shrugged and said: "It is mentioned in the book "The Book of Mysteries of Nature - The Fifth Element" written by master alchemist Raymond Lule that dragons study spirit, while humans study matter.
The fifth element can bridge the boundary between matter and spirit."
After a few glances, the students lost interest and continued to walk toward the cafeteria, discussing privately the results of today's special training.
Schneider was silent for a moment: "Yes, maybe this is the root of the principal's unconditional support for the equipment department these years."
"I remember last year, the Equipment Department successfully tested a new alchemical weapon that claimed to be able to reverse the balance of power between humans and dragons?" Manstein suddenly frowned, "The test was in the hinterland of the Sahara Desert. At that time, the Pentagon's spy satellite observed
When it came to that explosion, it was misjudged to be a nuclear test."
Of course, although the students had become accustomed to it, Mr. Manstein, the school representative and manager of daily affairs, still made an angry call to the Equipment Department.
As the ancient king of the dragon clan appeared in front of them, the secret party knew clearly that the plan that had tried to hunt the Black King by relying on the monsters in the ice cellar was just a dream.
For example, along the way, I reflected on what small mistakes I made when I overcame the Pentagon's firewall today, or what difficulties I encountered when I cracked the encryption system of a certain satellite, or what I did today.
The junior brother asked the senior brother if there was any secret method that he could teach the junior brother?
The senior brother patted the junior brother on the shoulder and said that everything is easy to talk about. As long as there are a few pork knuckles on the dinner plate tonight, I will teach you how to peek into the stories that the Secretary of Defense and the secretaries of the Pentagon have to tell...
"Although it cannot be confirmed, the actual existence of the 'spiritual' element can certainly prove the existence of the soul."
Manstein glared at him: "I'm afraid that before they develop new weapons, they will blow us up instead of killing the enemy!"
"By the way, you said earlier that the 'principal' approved the production of the weapons arsenal. Which principal were you talking about?" Manstein suddenly asked.
When he heard "the last arsenal", Manstein's brows jumped.
So the strong men put on gas masks, continued to calm down, and continued to put out the fire, and the fire was gradually brought under control.
"Yes, there is no time to hesitate. Let's prepare for the battle with all our strength." Manstein nodded heavily.
Is this reasonable? It seems reasonable, but it seems unreasonable, but no alchemist has ever questioned it in the field of alchemy, because this is a recognized theorem in the field of alchemy.
Not long after, the ground shook again, and a second bloody flame rushed out of the dark well mouth, as if a fire-breathing dragon was roaring underground.
"This is the secret party's trump card, right?" Manstein whispered, "Just like what Meineke Cassel expected back then, the future belongs to technology, and humans will develop better firearms and
Cannons, use them to blow down the dragon clan’s ambition to subvert the world.”
"Do you know what is stored in the 'Arsenal'?" he asked in a low voice.
Vice Minister Karl looked at Lu Mingfei again: "Director Lu gave us the answer to this question, although we are currently unable to confirm whether the answer is reliable."
"We received Herzog's research data and sorted out the parts about dragon genes."
The Philosopher's Stone is the materialization of spiritual elements. It is extremely poisonous to the dragon clan, but where does this poison come from?
Since ancient times, there have only been four high priests and two kings who have ascended the throne to master spiritual elements.
But no one picked up.
Manstein angrily punched the table, "This is the seventeenth time this week!"
Lu Mingfei said nothing. He quietly looked at Deputy Minister Karl on the stage, waiting for this man's performance.
Otherwise, the battle between kings will no longer be decided by swords, but whoever sees blood first will die first.
Fortunately, a weapon called science was born in their hands.
The Equipment Department specially invited him and the vice-principal here, saying that they had made great progress in the study of meteorites and had new views and answers to some past doubts, and they needed the two of them to help them verify it.
Manstein looked solemn and said: "It's really hard to imagine what such a person has developed in the past few decades."
"When we heard this, we had doubts. Why is the Nibelung root rich in a lot of 'spiritual elements'? And why is the Nibelung root full of dead matter? It's because it is the country of the dead.
?But even if it is the country of the dead, is it innate or acquired? If it is innate, what did it evolve from? Even the universe has a big bang theory."
"Carl Voss proposed the 'three-domain system' in 1977. The three-domain system believes that the evolutionary tree first splits into three trunks, and all living things in the world are branches and leaves subdivided from the three trunks.
They are the Bacterial domain, the Archaeal domain and the Eukaryotic domain."
"They are some large-scale weapons specifically targeted at dragons." Schneider said calmly, "Some time ago, the principal had approved an inspection of the 'weapon arsenal'. The equipment department has selected some of the most lethal weapons and opened up corresponding production lines."
…
"No, according to the deputy minister, they are studying a new type of special range weapon."
This sentence silenced the vice principal.
"First guess, what kind of creatures are dragons?"
When Manstein made the tenth call angrily, the external person in charge of the equipment department reluctantly answered the phone and said that everything was under control. There was no need to call desperately for this small explosion.
Do you know the specific situation? It is expected that there will be two to three more explosions in the future, so please be mentally prepared.
"A winged reptile?"
Then, without waiting for Manstein to question, the other party hung up the phone.
"Gentlemen, I must say that even venomous snakes usually do not die from their own poison!"
Having said this, the deputy director of the Equipment Department looked at Lu Mingfei and the vice principal seriously, "The vice principal told us the rest."
He came here as promised, and Deputy Minister Karl in front of him gave him the surprise he was expecting as promised.
Before hanging up, Manstein clearly heard someone shouting "One more time, all units are ready."
…
"If they can be called 'matter'."
In front of the "last arsenal", the monsters sealed under the ice cellar seem not worth mentioning, as long as the former can be mass-produced and put on the battlefield.
Deputy Minister Karl looked at the silence of the two special guests with satisfaction, which proved that the equipment department's discovery was a loophole that the alchemists had not noticed for thousands of years.
"It's our new principal, Caesar Gattuso." Schneider whispered, "He said that he liked the words of senior Lu Shanyan very much. If there is a mountain in front of us, we will climb the mountain. If there is a sea in front of us, we will cross the sea. If there is a sea in front of us, we will cross the sea.
If it's the palace, we'll fire! We have nothing and we never defend."
Professor Schneider on the side pondered: "Is it already seventeen times? That is indeed a bit too much. It is twice as many times as before. It seems that their experiment is in full swing."
Schneider waved his hands and said: "I admire the principal very much for being able to bring milestones in the history of modern science to him for scientific research. If it hadn't been for Doug Jones, the development of the atomic bomb in the United States would have been delayed by several years, maybe more than ten years.
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"So, why is the Philosopher's Stone highly poisonous to dragons?"
"Think about it, if we completely refine Constantine's dragon bone, how many Philosopher's Stones can we refine?"
Deputy Minister Karl asked in a deep voice, his eyes widened, and he looked around the room. Everyone nodded in cooperation, with doubts on their faces.
Speaking of which, the real use of the Philosopher's Stone was discovered by hybrids. In the earliest era when dragons were rampant in the world, the dragons themselves did not realize that the Philosopher's Stone condensed with spiritual elements could easily kill their own kind.
"Isn't this ridiculous?"
"Humanity began to study the subject of spirit and soul thousands of years ago. Our ancestors generally believed that the soul is real."
"There are quite a few, almost all weapons with large-scale indiscriminate destruction have been thrown in." Schneider sighed regretfully, "You know, the most favored and powerful department in the school has always been the equipment department, and the college's annual expenses
More than half of it is invested in the research and development of the equipment department, and the people who chaired the equipment department decades ago were figures such as Doug Jones and Blair Buettner who left their names in the history of science."
"Oh, that time you mentioned, I remember." Schneider remembered something, "It was a tactical missile equipped with a silver-refined warhead, combined with refining mercury, nitrate refined from the ash of Vesuvius, and the blood of the Holy Infant.
The explosion can fatally poison the dragons in the central area, but this thing obviously cannot be used in the city, so it was stored in the final weapons arsenal."
The vice principal nodded.
But today, researchers representing science, with the attitude that science has always had: "We question everything, including science itself", have issued a solo statement against the theorem that has been maintained for thousands of years.
"As we all know, alchemy calls the 'Philosopher's Stone' the fifth element, which is the materialization of 'spirit'. It is rumored that the Nibelungs are full of dead matter. An alchemist once described that country...
…There is no day or night, and there is always a half-dark light floating in the sky. The ground and mountains are bronze, made of dead earth and metal, the sky is gray, made of dead air, and the fire is cold blue
Form is made of the dead element of fire, and water cannot lift anything, because water is also dead. There are cities there, built from the bones of dead life.”
Schneider said calmly: "Don't panic. They are blowing themselves up now, which is at least better than our soldiers blowing themselves up on the battlefield."
This is the style of the equipment department. In fact, he should have gotten used to it along with everyone else, but Manstein felt that he could not let such abnormal things become normal because of everyone's acquiescence. At least one person should always warn those bastards.
Be restrained, or they will really blow up the school one day.
"Already in production?" Manstein murmured, "It seems that war is really not far away."
"Theoretically, all living things in the world must belong to one of these three domains."
The corners of Manstein's mouth twitched and he was speechless.
"In response to this issue, we quickly conducted research and tentatively came to the following conclusions. Of course, for now, it may be better to call it a guess."
"The fifth element 'spirit' is enriched inside."
"In the field of alchemy, it is believed that the Philosopher's Stone is as poisonous to the dragons. Once injected into the dragon's body, it is like a dagger tempered with arsenic to humans. The poison infects the dragon's body through the blood circulation, and the cells quickly
The earth is decayed and the blood is as thick as paint..."
Deputy Minister Karl said indifferently: "This does not explain why the Philosopher's Stone can kill dragons, or even specifically kills dragons."
"Director Lu said that most of the Nibelungs are not innate, but evolved. They are fragments of the world from the ancient and ancient times. Well, Director Lu described it this way. We can't understand it for the time being.
However, some of Director Lu's theories can be justified for the time being. For example, the world has been destroyed several times, which explains why it is a dead world, and the large amount of fifth element in it is also the remnants of dead creatures.
'Matter' in the Nibelungs."
"Then, another question arises for us - how can the Philosopher's Stone, which is made of the fifth element and is hailed as the ultimate achievement of alchemy, and a pure spiritual element, be able to kill dragons?"
He looked out the window at the ten-meter high blood flame rising again, felt the vibrations coming from under his feet, and couldn't help frowning: "What on earth is the equipment department experimenting with this time? Is it a tactical missile?"
"But dragons do not belong to any of these three domains. Herzog proposed the idea of a fourth domain, the fourth domain of genes, the world of dragons."
Deputy Minister Karl said in a low voice. His expression was a bit complicated, with both admiration and disgust for someone. From Herzog's experiments, they could see a large number of human experiments, which went against scientific research.
basic moral categories.
"Based on Herzog's information, we conducted further research and refined our final views."
"Dragons are spiritual creatures!"
Note 1: The names of the Academy of Sciences here were changed by old thieves. In addition, when I wrote this, it suddenly occurred to me that if there was a Philosopher's Stone between Herzog and Lu Mingze back then, the fight would have been completed long ago, where would it come from?