"You're stupid! I've seen the reviews of that Echo Magic: It's groundbreaking, but limited by the strength of the creator, there are quite a few areas for improvement. There's no easier way to score points than this kind of magic! And he's an apprentice.
Super magic is just right for us to study!"
"After dinner, go buy bats!"
"Let's go together! Let's go together!"
The boys and girls walked out in twos and threes, talking about the research topics left by the great magician. Gretel was walking slowly behind, and when he heard that half of the seventy or eighty people planned to get bats, he couldn't help but shed a cold sweat.
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After finishing this sonic-related course, the great magician left a topic for everyone: to improve the echo detection magic, or to explore their own unique magic by referring to the idea of the bat flight experiment. As soon as he said it, there were cries of mourning.
The courses of the training class are either loose or tight. There is one big class every day, and the rest of the time is spent reading books, doing experiments, and doing research. For ten days, each of the eight schools of thought has one class, and the remaining two days are off.
One day, start all over again.
There is a small test once a month to assess the growth of mental power and the progress of learning magic; there is a major test every quarter to assess the students' magic research results. Although you don't have to do all the questions left by the great magicians after class, you can still do them.
Not here, but everyone who has done any research knows:
How valuable it is in scientific research to have a mentor who can point out the direction of your topic selection!
It is still a direction with low threshold, rich ideas and in line with current hot topics!
Just this one, as a tutor, you can already be the corresponding author!
The students rushed forward in a swarm. Gretel also wanted to start B-ultrasound related research, but when he searched and inquired all the way and touched the magic materials center in the college, the salesman regretfully told him:
"Sorry, the bats are out of stock."
"All of them are gone?" Gretel was shocked. His classmates are also very good at shopping... However, maybe bats are a niche casting material and the center does not have many stocks?
He thanked the clerk and went out to inquire. Their training class was located at the Bridge Magic Academy, at the foot of the mountain of the Magic Council headquarters. The surrounding area was very prosperous. Gretel walked less than five hundred meters from the school gate.
I found a small shop that specializes in magic materials. When I entered, someone happened to be asking about the price of bats:
"Bat? A living one costs 5 gold coins, and a dead one costs 1 gold coin. The big ones are the same as the small ones."
"Five gold coins?" Grete was shocked. He did still have some savings, the gifts given by others when he opened the hospital, the allowance he received after the war, the teacher's private room before coming to the Magic Council...bits and pieces, plus
It looks like more than a hundred gold coins. It looks like a lot of money, but if you use it to buy bats, it will be gone after you swipe it.
This does not include the cost of purchasing other experimental equipment and experimental animals!
Researching magic is expensive, really.
"What? Five gold coins?" The magician who asked the price jumped:
"Are you kidding me? It was only 1 silver coin last month!"
"Would you like to buy it?" the clerk urged impatiently: "There are only 12 left!"
"Why are they selling so fast... Hey, look, the bats here are all different sizes. They are not the same species at all. They are not very easy to use... Can they be cheaper?"
"There have been so many people asking for it recently, and they are all sold out!" the clerk answered very skillfully. It was obvious that he had been asked countless times these days: "Do you want to buy it or not?"
The magician struggled for a while, but finally paid the bill and covered all the inventory of this store. Gretel had no choice but to go out and ask another store, and the answer he got was:
"An ordinary black bat costs 5 gold coins each, a flying fox costs 10 gold coins, a fruit bat costs 8 gold coins, and a vampire bat costs 25 gold coins. How much does it cost?"
Gretel: "..."
I couldn’t afford it. When I asked about the third store, the clerk replied cheerfully:
The boss has gone to purchase the goods. If you want, pay a deposit and leave a batch for you.
"Then...when will the next batch of goods arrive?"
Grete stood on tiptoes and glanced at the large standing cabinet behind the clerk. The product cabinet in the material center was made very similar to the Chinese medicine cabinet he had seen in his previous life. It was a tall cabinet with floor-to-ceiling drawers and drawers labeled with material names.
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Each drawer is not big, seven or eight inches wide and three or four inches high. When Gretel just opened it, he saw at a glance that it was actually divided into at least two compartments...
You can imagine how much one drawer can hold.
"Arrival time? That's hard to say." The clerk leaned against the counter and crossed his arms across his chest. There was not much customer traffic at the moment, so he was idle. Grete asked with a gentle smile.
I’m also happy to talk about some gossip:
"This thing was not of much use at first. I sold at most ten pieces a month. Recently, many people are buying it. Not to mention my place, every small shop in the city has been wiped out. It is said that there are already
The adventurer went to catch bats in the mountains..."
"So...how many bats have been sold on the market these days?!" Gretel already had a bad feeling.
He glanced at the inner room and found no trace of the boss, so he put a finger on the counter and pushed a silver coin silently. The clerk glanced at him and took it quietly, still shaking his head:
"It's hard to say. Our store is average, with two to three hundred stores. On this street alone, there are at least three stores larger than ours. As for places like the college, the parliament headquarters..."
He raised his head and thought for a moment, then hissed and sucked his teeth:
"Hard to say."
The ominous premonition in Grete's heart became more and more serious.
Two to three hundred pieces in one store, thousands in four stores, plus the academy, the Magic Council, etc., it might be doubled...
How many people are toying with bats? With so many magicians, how many innovative ways will they come up with to toss bats?!
This thing is full of viruses! I read information in my previous life that bats carry more than 4,100 types of viruses, including more than 500 types of coronaviruses!
Is it because Ebola is not scary enough in killing people?
Or is SARS less powerful?
Or maybe Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has no sense of existence?
Even the less famous Marburg virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, Hantavirus, one or two, are not so easy to deal with...
It's better to live peacefully in peacetime, but now it's become lively, with dozens or even hundreds of magicians swarming to study bats. There are no latex gloves, no protective masks, no protective glasses, no positive pressure protective clothing, no
The p4 laboratory that can effectively isolate viruses...
I have no experience, no protection, and I still want to study living bodies.
As long as one of them is infected and is unlucky, the plague can spread from person to person, and the plague can sweep across the parliament headquarters!
Grete took a deep breath and exhaled deeply. When he heard the content of the paper in class, the excitement of wanting to study B-ultrasound had completely faded, and he was filled with uneasiness:
What can be done to stop this trend of studying bats and eliminate possible risks of infectious diseases?