"If there were no books in the world, I wouldn't have to regret that I wouldn't be able to finish reading so many classics in my lifetime!"
"If there were no books in the world, I wouldn't have to be angry at some of the scumbags that are so deceptive!"
"If there were no books in the world, I wouldn't have to deal with deadlines!"
——Hans Christian Nasuzu
...
Inside the castle, outside the door of the lord's study.
"Master is in there?"
"yes."
"Are my father and master together?"
"Captain Hamo was called away this morning by Mr. Ke Qing. He said he was taking the soldiers to the forest to protect the slaves from being attacked by wild beasts when they were cutting down trees."
"Well, I have to report to the master. Except for the housekeeper, my father, and the masked guest, no one else is allowed to enter the study. Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
Hadir nodded, patted the soldier on guard on the shoulder - even though the man was 8 years older than him - and knocked on the door.
Boom, boom, boom.
No one answered.
After waiting for 3 seconds, Hadir directly opened the study door and walked in.
Close the door easily.
There was no sign of Chu Yang in the study.
Haldir was not surprised or surprised by this.
He walked to the desk, opened the two drawers, fumbled in each of them for a few seconds, and turned the mechanism.
There was a slight rumble, the hidden cover on the ceiling opened, and the metal ladder slowly dropped.
Just slide the two drawers back together.
Hadir climbed up the ladder and entered the secret room.
There was a slight rumble, the metal ladder was slowly retracted, and the hidden cover on the ceiling flipped back.
Above the study is Federesh's secret workshop.
The workshop has no windows (of course, there must be ventilation ducts).
Internal lighting relies on certain 'wonder minerals' and oil lamps.
Multiple pieces of magical ore embedded on the wall use soft and non-glaring indigo light to adjust the brightness of the entire alchemy workshop appropriately. Several oil lamps stand on several tables, intensifying the visible light in specific areas.
According to Chu Yang, these marvelous ores are the ‘night pearls’ brought from the Saracen region by the ancestor of the family [François Plera Federèche] hundreds of years ago, and they are valuable.
Although theoretically speaking, if Federesh is really poor and crazy, he can take a few pieces of "Night Pearl" to be auctioned in the royal capital of Spain - but when a gentleman starts to sell off his property, I am afraid he will be completely ruined.
Omen - In short, Chuyang has no plans to sell his property at a low price for the time being.
By the way, a certain devil very thoughtfully checked the safety of these luminous ores.
Specifically: I picked a small piece of luminous ore, secretly stuffed it into Glamorgan's den (the goose knight's den is located in the stables of the castle), and observed it for 14 days.
(If you can’t catch a white mouse, use a big white goose to do the experiment)
Glamorgan, he is alive and well and has not lost any feathers.
Well, since the big white goose didn’t die suddenly or lose its feathers, it means that this ‘night pearl’ is not a radioactive mineral and is up to safety standards. There is no need to worry about Chuyang’s hairline fading at a young age.
Ahem, back to the topic.
Hadir saw that behind a table of expensive glassware and alchemical equipment, Chu Yang was wearing a thick purple-blue robe and a magic mask that could filter gases. He was holding a quartz-made stone with fine iron pliers in his hand.
He formed a hemisphere, and carefully immersed the hemispheric vessel in a basin of blood-red liquid.
"Who?" Hearing the movement just now and knowing that someone had entered the workshop, Chu Yang continued the experiment at hand without looking up distractedly.
"It's me. I have important information in the past few days." Hadir said.
The young lord said ‘hmm’,
"Give me five minutes, Dill."
No outsiders are present,
The guard commander and steward were not present either,
Certain trends of thought are not present,
That's the case for the time being.
Some are masters and some are servants.
Some are nobles and some are commoners.
Some people are the elder brothers and some are the younger brothers.
Some are close friends and some are partners.
Social systems can alienate people,
but,
After all, people are not machines, nor are they labels stuck on the wall.
Carbon-based organisms always have errors.
Hadir nodded, pulled out a chair and sat down.
He watched Chu Yang pick out a few rotten leaves from the pottery pot, pour out a few drops of suspiciously colored oil from a glass test tube, and take a few grams of obsidian powder, pouring them all into the blood-red pot.
in the liquid.
Afterwards, Chu Yang held his enchanted dagger, slowly stirred the liquid in the basin with the blade, and recited the incantation in a low voice.
A minute later, the boy took out the hemispherical vessel made of quartz from the basin.
The vessel is turned over,
It looks like a piece of jelly, but also looks a bit like mud. It's black and has a slightly pungent smell. Well, let's call it a [creature] - a black oil ooze monster (but the one created by Chuyang is more like a "jelly"
), about half the size of a palm, fell from the quartz vessel and lay on the table.
Then this piece of black "jelly" began to slowly squirm.
It even made a faint, strange sound of ‘tekeli-li!’, ‘tekeli-li!’.
Hadir, who was sitting not far away, took out his ears to confirm that it was not his auditory hallucination.
Alchemy is so amazing (great reading)
Chuyang used fine iron pliers to clamp this small piece of magically modified version of 'tekeli-li!', placed it on one end of the weighing scale, weighed it with several weights, and placed the sheepskin on the side.
Record the data on paper.
Finally, Chu Yang stuffed the half-palp-sized black oil jelly monster into a quartz bottle, and the bottle mouth was sealed tightly with fire paint and a metal stopper.
Now Hadir can no longer hear the strange sound of 'tekeli-li!'
"What weird thing are you doing?" Hadir asked Chuyang curiously.
"Proliferation experiment." Chu Yang explained to his close friend while packing up the desktop instruments, "Last month, when Ke Qing rescued the four foreigners from the underground ruins, he brought back some unknown monster."
"Ke Qing wants me to study this..." Chu Yang thought about the wording, "an unknown ooze monster that is biological, mycelial, flammable, and proliferative."
"I plan to study it for a while longer. When the experimental data is sufficient, I will go to Axel Larite to discuss the research results in detail."
Hadir crossed his legs and said, "Can I understand that the foreigner is calling you?"
"It's not like 'calling orders', it's just division of labor and cooperation." Chu Yang shook his head.
After packing up the instruments, he took off his magic mask (which could filter gases), took off his thick robe (which prevented liquid splashing), pulled up a chair, and sat in front of his best friend.
"It seems that the foreign guest trusts you quite a lot, and you also trust him." Hadir said.
Chu Yang nodded, "Yes, I paid a sincere price to his boss."
"What price? Your family is considered poor and in decline now, can't you afford thousands of gold coins?" Hadir asked with a smile, his tone was not malicious, "As far as I know, those powerful adventurers or hidden people in the kingdom are
The price of inviting the world's powerful men to be guests has never been cheap."
"Or in other words, for a down-and-out family that can't afford to pay, the strong ones generally don't want to help."
Hadir sighed slightly and said again: "I also observed it some time ago."
"I don't know what the extraordinary level of martial arts you have brought for this guest."
"But in terms of territory [governance] and house-building technology, I have observed that Axelarat is very powerful."
"To hire such a strong advisor to assist, the money or [promise] that the nobles need to spend will never be cheap. Those adventurers and guests are interested in the resources and offerings of the noble family. After all, they are not relatives of the lord.
,Why do you [selfless dedication] to the lord?"
Chuyang is 15 years old this year, and Hadir is 19 years old. They are both elites among their peers. Compared with ordinary free people, ordinary farmers, and ordinary priests in ordinary feudal kingdoms, their visions are naturally different.
Hadir frowned slightly and looked at Chuyang, who was still childish.
The stories of the fathers belong to the fathers, and the stories of the children belong to the children.
many years ago,
Wuyue Fedelesh is the lord;
The little daughter who guarded Hamer was still in her infancy;
Chuyang's elder brother went to the capital of Spain to serve as a retinue of the Royal Cavalry (can only be held by the heirs of nobles) and learn knightly martial arts.
many years ago,
Chuyang is a little brat, and Hadir is a big brat.
Despite different identities and different statuses,
However, the chaotic and disordered emotions of children,
Just like 'fluid mechanics', it is difficult to predict and cannot be controlled.
For a certain devil,
There is a sentence that has been deeply imprinted in the devil's memory like 'ptsd':
"I knew there was already a sadly thick barrier between us."
In junior high school, the little kid read it and then forgot about it.
After entering society,
Or when you are alone on a rainy night,
Or when visiting relatives during the Spring Festival,
Occasionally, it’s like drinking a glass of old wine that has gone bad, and I suddenly come back to my senses.
Some friendships have died without even realizing it.
It's no use crying and crying,
Just like the hairline, once it moves back, you are bald and there is no way to remedy it.
Well, in short, Chu Yang is only 15 years old and Hadir is only 19 years old. They don't have to worry about the 'hairline' problem for the time being.
Although, in front of outsiders,
Hadir had to call Chuyang "Master".
Chuyang mostly treated Hadir "kindly" to reflect the lord's "people-friendly and kind-heartedness".
But privately,
The two of them are too young, but they are still fearless.
Let the damn status differences, status differences, and class differences all go to hell!
This is friendship based on emotion,
Chaos, madness, no regard for gains and losses, and violation of rules!
Lose humanity, lose a lot;
Lose your bestiality and lose everything.
"Chu Yang..." Hadir's expression became serious.
He organized his words for a few seconds, and then said:
"Although, the main reason I came here today is to report to you some important information collected recently, but -"
He looked at his best friend and asked seriously,
"Tell me, what [price] did you pay for hiring that foreigner as your guest?"
"The promise of a declining family is, in the short term, just a blank slate and has no credibility. To make that kind of strong man willing to do his best to help, there must be an equivalent amount of actual payment or benefits."
"[Exchange of equal value is the basic rule of alchemy]. This is the knowledge you once told me."
Chuyang was silent for a moment,
Then, the young man replied:
"Let me tell you this, Dill."
"Mr. Ke Qing, he is a devil."
Hadir was stunned and asked: "Adjective?"
"It's not an adjective." Chuyang shook his head,
"I'm talking about nouns, not adjectives."
My best friend was stunned for a few seconds.
Chu Yang continued: "I used black magic and a precious devil's contract to make a request to Mr. Keqing's boss, a devil or god from a foreign world, and successfully received a response.
A contract was signed."
"The price I paid, haha, is serious, but it is indeed serious."
The young lord smiled at his best friend, as if he didn't care.
"But in my opinion, it's almost like prostitution for nothing, and it's not a big price."
Hadir was still stunned.
"Actually, the price is very simple."
Chu Yang said slowly:
"The devil, he said..."
"The Federesh family, starting from my generation——"
"The generals will [die for three generations], the people under their rule will [overthrow the rule], and [their bones will be shattered into ashes]."