Chapter 436： explosion is art

The location of the Luying Royal Academy is in the Quentin District, where the wealthy gather on the north side of the Rocco Valen.

There is a very wide area of ​​classical Gothic gardens, which is the main campus of the college.

Because there was no trouble left at the dance last night, Su Lun and Sabina didn't have to worry about being targeted, so the two took a limousine to the north.

It's not that Suren doesn't want to ride a more convenient steam motorcycle, but that motorcycles are banned in the wealthy area to the north.

In the eyes of the gangsters, those cool locomotives are just cheap means of transportation that only the underprivileged can use. They are dangerous and vulgar.

After the car passed the Lington Iron Bridge over the Rocco Vallen River, the road conditions on this side were immediately different.

Su Lun looked out the window in the carriage.

The streets are clean and tidy, with classical-style buildings everywhere.

Different from the common area of ​​Nancheng where steam machines are blooming everywhere, it almost completely retains the ancient style of Lington hundreds of years ago.

There are few people on the streets of the wealthy neighborhood, but it is either rich or expensive.

The only means of transportation were limousines, bicycles, and carriages with the coat of arms of the nobles.

Every block is patrolled by Royal Female Mounted Policemen riding **** horses, which is heroic.

It looks very backward, but there is luxury everywhere.

The street trees on the street are thick broad-leaved sycamore trees that cost hundreds of thousands of miles. There are always delicate and bright flowers in the flower beds by the roadside, and there are gold and silver coins in the fountain and wishing pool that no one picks up. Even the pigeons here are rare varieties of Shenghui white-feathered pigeons. They are proud and beautiful, and have their own territorial circles. They will never get together and mate with ordinary pigeons...

In the carriage, Sabina introduced to Su Lun: "Lingdon wealthy area is like this, the nobles almost refuse to use all new things. In their eyes, the more ancient objects are used, the more they can reflect a family's heritage. Ancient heritage. Some guys can't wait to hang the mummies of their ancestors hundreds of years ago in the carriage to show their pure noble blood..."

After a pause, she said again: "It's the group of stubborn old guys who want to hold power all the time, and they are also afraid of change. So Lu Yingcai is far behind Mafa, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger."

Su Lun listened to the brows twitching slightly and chuckled lightly.

At this time, the car passed the corner of a block, and the field of vision suddenly widened, and a splendid building group appeared in the distance.

Sabina pointed to the white city wall in the distance, with some buildings with sapphire blue spires emerging from the top, and said: "That is the castle where the Bona royal family lives - Frederick Palace."

Although Su Lun had heard of it, it was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.

The building in front of me is really beautiful.

Magnificent, majestic, beautiful, holy, majestic...

All the beautiful words that can describe the royal buildings are used on it.

Thinking that in a month or so, I would have to go to the palace as a "Fick" and accept the betrothal blessing from the Queen with that Miss Catherine. Su Lun was suddenly not very interested in this building again.

What's more, it is now determined that the believers of the Outer Gods have infiltrated the royal family.

In this palace, there is an unknown big boss.

......

After a while, the car drove all the way to Academy Street, and then saw the gate of Luying Royal Academy.

The Royal Academy does not prohibit outsiders from entering, provided you are a noble.

Sabina's car had her family crest of "Count Demacula" on it, and the car drove unobstructed all the way to the dormitory area of ​​the academy.

It is as beautiful as a garden, and the buildings are hidden in the green trees. The luxurious two-storey villas with wine-red roofs are the students' dormitories.

Su Lun and Sabina got out of the car.

Although the explosive genius Jike was his disciple in name, in fact, the two masters and disciples did not get along for a long time.

And only after leaving Blizzard City, Su Lun never contacted him again.

So he didn't know how Jike's situation was now.

The two strolled along the boulevard, and Su Lun talked about the experience of accepting Jike as a disciple.

After listening to it, Sabina also sighed: "Sir, you have accepted one of your disciples before, but I haven't heard of you. As your maid and information officer, this servant feels very dereliction of duty."

Su Lun smiled and didn't care, and said: "It was also a coincidence that he accepted Jike as a disciple before. His experience was also quite tragic. His stepmother killed his father and his family was ruined. I don't want him to be implicated in my trouble again.. ."

This is what he deliberately did not say.

At that time, his own situation was not good. He had just been hunted down by the Lei Jiadi family in various ways. Later, there were many big disturbances in Beihai.

It's not necessarily a good thing to have such a teacher as Ji Keduo.

So have been stocking.

Now that I have the conditions, I just happened to come to the Royal Academy to find notes, so I naturally want to stop by and take a look.

......

Suren had only heard that Gek had successfully entered his coveted Royal Academy, but didn't know anything else.

Counting the time, he should be a second-year student.

But the Luying Royal Academy is the largest alchemy academy in the entire empire, with more than 50,000 students.

Even the dormitory area is terrifyingly large, it is definitely unrealistic to find it slowly.

Su Lun went directly to the dormitory administrator. When asked, the administrator actually said that there was no student "Jick James" in the second-year dormitory?

This can be a big oolong.

After walking out of the dormitory area, Sabina looked at Su Lun's puzzled expression and asked, "Will it be a year late for admission, now a first-year student?"

Su Lun also found it very strange, and analyzed: "It shouldn't be so. Jike's alchemy knowledge level at that time, it is reasonable to say that passing the entrance examination of the Royal Academy is completely enough."

Thinking about it, he also felt that Sabina had a point. Maybe for some reason, Jike was late for admission.

The two planned to go to the new student's dormitory area and ask.

The Royal Academy has a very good environment and is full of birds and flowers.

It was still early anyway, so the two of them were not in a hurry, and just strolled leisurely around the campus.

Along the way, they met many students wearing the uniforms of the Royal Academy. All of them are full of vigor and vigor, and their young faces are full of vigor.

Those who can go to school here are either rich or expensive. No matter what their talents are, the students here are destined to be "big men" in the future of Lu Ying Empire from birth.

While walking, the two happened to meet a few students with their second-grade logos on their school uniforms.

Thinking about it, Su Lun went up to him directly and asked, "Several students, may I ask, have you heard of a second-year student named 'Jick James'? He should be from the School of Pharmacy."

I didn't expect it to be so coincidental. These people really know this question.

"We're from the second-year pharmacy school. Never heard of 'Jick James'..."

"Jick? Oh my God! It's not the maniac who studies bombs? That guy hasn't been fired yet?"

"It seems to be our classmate, but... that guy hasn't come to class for a long time, right? I heard that after he blew up half of the laboratory building last time, the college will not allow him to conduct such dangerous drug experiments in the laboratory. He is not allowed to do experiments in the dormitory. Long time no see..."

"Oh, that guy is really a lunatic. It is estimated that he is the only guy in the history of our Royal Academy who blew up the pharmacy laboratory three times. Last time, I didn't know what dangerous things had happened, and the burning flames could not be thrown. Extinction, it almost affected the entire test area. That guy who deserved it, also blew up a few fingers..."

"You said that, I seem to have a little impression. Jike is the only guy in our class with a perfect score in the dangerous pharmacy exam?"

"Well, it's him, a poor and sour guy from a furry's family! I also heard that the college won't let him pay for the bombing of the teaching building, and he still refuses to drop out. Now he lives with the lowly gardener's servants. Together. Seems like he's continuing his dangerous experiments..."

"..."

Su Lun listened to everyone talking about their classmates with the labels "mysterious", "crazy" and "terrorist".

He was immediately certain that this Jike was the disciple of his bomb genius!

Sabina, who was on the side, listened to the descriptions of the students and looked strange. What kind of special disciple did her master recruit?

Because they said they were looking for Jike, Su Lun and the two were also despised by those little nobles.

I thought maybe some poor relatives came to visit.

Su Lun doesn't care.

Fortunately, now that he got the exact news, he was relieved and said to himself, "It turns out that he lives in the utility area, no wonder the dormitory can't be found."

Jike is just a child of a merchant family, and naturally he is not in the eyes of these little nobles.

Although they are all students of the Royal Academy, there is also a chain of contempt.

That is aristocratic students, which are superior to those civilian students who have been admitted by themselves.

After all, the best civilian students can find the best job after graduation, which is to work for major companies controlled by nobles.

This class divide, which has been going on in camping for thousands of years, is almost impossible to break.

......

Now that they knew the direction, Su Lun followed the sign and left the dormitory area, walked around the dormitory area, and walked to the back of the remote lake.

Although the landscaped courtyard of the Royal Academy is pleasant, it also requires a large number of servants to take care of it.

Planted a lot of water lilies next to the lake, where there are a few low buildings, that is the utility area of ​​the college.

Su Lun looked at the old buildings and guessed where Gek should be at a glance.

Among them was a hut with obvious burn marks, which was out of tune with the house next to it.

The two walked over, but before they got close, they watched a strange green flame suddenly burst out of the room.

The handymen who lived on the side seemed to be used to it, and they ran out after listening to the movement, beckoning to come to put out the fire.

"Get some water! That Gek guy has set the house on fire again!"

"Don't use water! He said that green flames can't be used with water, wait for the fire to burn itself out!"

"Oh my God, I hope the Gek kid doesn't burn himself."

"..."

Su Lun listened to the conversation of the handymen, and the corners of his eyes were full of black lines.

Thick smoke, green fire, not too much movement.

At this moment, a guy with a gas mask hurried out of the house.

As he ran, he cheered: "Hahaha... I succeeded! My experiment with ingredients for the phosphorus fire bomb finally succeeded!"

The handymen on the side seemed to have a good relationship with Jike, pouring cold water **** them.

"Hey, Jake, you have to be careful. If you make such a big noise, the academy will really kick you out."

"That's right, keep a low profile. You see you've made the smoke rise again. I'm afraid the whole academy can see it now."

"..."

Hearing this, the young man wearing a gas mask bowed again and again and apologized to everyone: "I'm sorry everyone, there is something wrong with the ventilation equipment, which has caused everyone trouble. I will pay more attention next time."

Saying that, he lifted off his gas mask, revealing that excited face.

But upon closer inspection, half of his face was clearly burned with scars. This made his apparently handsome and sunny boy look a little terrifying.

But Su Lun could still recognize that the intact half of his face was the appearance of his own disciple, Jike.

Gek also seemed to notice the two outsiders who were watching by the lake for a while.

A lady in a black dress with an extraordinary temperament, and a gentleman in a hat.

He was very puzzled why someone would come to the handyman area. He didn't want to pay attention to it, but he had to burrow into his smoking laboratory.

But suddenly, Jike recalled for a moment, and instinctively felt that the gentleman with a smile on his face was a little familiar.

He woke up suddenly, recognized the person, and exclaimed excitedly, "Teacher?!"

Su Lun smiled and nodded from a distance, "Jike, long time no see."

......

Realizing that he was not mistaken, Jike ran over excitedly all the way.

As soon as they met, he respectfully saluted a teacher and apprentice: "Teacher! It's really you!"

He didn't forget that if it wasn't for the kindness of his teacher, he would have died in Blizzard City in the Northland. Without the teacher's guidance, he could not have been successfully admitted to the Royal Academy.

This is the most important person in his life after his father was killed by the poisonous woman.

After we parted from Blizzard City, we didn't hear from him again, but I didn't expect to see him again at the academy!

Oh, it's like a dream!

After saluting, Jike looked at the beautiful lady in a big-brimmed hat beside Su Lun who was hugging his arm affectionately, and guessed, "Teacher... Is this the teacher's wife?"

No matter who it is, since it is an elder, it is natural to salute.

When he spoke, he also bowed to Sabina to see her elders.

"This..."

Su Lun smiled, not knowing how to introduce Sabina.

That's not bad, but it's not very accurate either.

Sabina didn't understand what she didn't know, and before Su Lun spoke, she subtly resolved this moment of embarrassment. She praised Jike with a beautiful smile and said, "The mouth is so sweet."

She seemed very happy to hear the name, but she immediately changed the subject and said, "But I'm not your 'mistress'. I'm a good friend of your teacher."

Jike seemed to understand, but also respectfully said, "Hello, Madam."

Sabina smiled and nodded, then took out a golden pocket watch that had been prepared a long time ago, and said, "This is a gift for you."

Su Lun's disciple, although he is not a teacher, is also a very close elder.

When meeting for the first time, etiquette is still indispensable.

As she said that, she also said another blessing, saying: "As an excellent alchemist, I hope you can accurately grasp every moment of your life in the future."

"Ah...this..."

Gek looked at the pocket watch and recognized at a glance that it was valuable.

The handmade pocket watch of this "Wanda Philippe Watch Company" is one of several luxury brands that nobles love most. Each piece is worth at least a few hundred thousand lisos.

The lady said she would give it away?

Although he also knew that this was a meeting gift for the elders, it was too precious!

Even when the family was the most prosperous, my father never wore such a precious pocket watch.

Gek looked a little flattered, and turned to Su Lun again for help.

Su Lun didn't expect Sabina to be so caring, and even prepared a welcome gift for his disciple, and smiled: "Take it."

When Jike heard this, he dared to accept it, and said in a complicated tone: "Thank you ma'am."

......

When Jike reached out to take the pocket watch, Su Lun also saw the difference in his hidden left hand.

It was blown off, leaving only the stump of two fingers.

He asked, "Jick, your hands and face were injured in a laboratory accident?"

Jike was a little embarrassed by the teacher seeing his predicament, and responded: "Yes, teacher. Before, because the experiment was not very proficient, the response data of some new materials was misestimated, and then it caused an explosion..."

After listening to Ji Ke's classmates gossip, Su Lun also knew that his disciple's situation in the academy was not very good.

He didn't say much, just glanced at it lightly and said, "It's not a big problem. I still have some activated silver in my hand. I will make you a mechanical prosthesis later, which will not affect your future life. As for the burn on your face, This can be solved with advanced cell activity agents, and it is not a big problem."

Ji Ke was startled when he heard it, and complex emotions emerged in his eyes: moved, joyful, surprised.

But after a moment, he was relieved, since the teacher's friend could easily give away a welcome gift worth hundreds of thousands. The stump problem that I felt powerless to recover was naturally not a big problem in the eyes of the teacher.

In the end, he only said one sentence: "Thank you teacher."

Although Jike still doesn't know the origin of his teacher, from the moment he met, Su Lun gave him a strong sense of trust.

After meeting, Jike remembered something and asked, "By the way, teacher, why did you come to the Royal Academy?"

Su Lun said straight: "I have something to do with coming to the academy. Come and see your situation."

As he spoke, he remembered the words of the previous students, and said with concern: "I met some of your classmates before, and I heard that you haven't been to class for a long time recently. Did something happen? Also, you are so good at it. live here?"

Although I know that the Royal Academy is not friendly to civilian students.

But since he accepted this disciple, he naturally didn't want to see him being treated unfairly.

Hearing the question, Jike couldn't hide a hint of embarrassment, hesitating: "Teacher, I..."

No matter how you look at it, he, as a disciple, is now mixed up like this, and he has lost the teacher's face.

But Jike still mustered his courage and explained: "In the first year of admission, I have already completed all four years of homework in the academy. Explosives are a very unpopular branch of pharmacy. Lu Ying's mechanical and military industry is backward, correspondingly. This subject is also very unpopular. In the academy, dynamite is not taken seriously by the academy at all. So this semester, I mostly look up materials in the library by myself, and then do experiments..."

Su Lun heard the helplessness in Jike's tone and didn't speak.

He also knew it was the truth.

Pharmacy is indeed one of the basic subjects in alchemy.

But the science of dynamism is indeed unpopular.

The traditional alchemist's impression of gunpowder is still on bullets and artillery, and naturally they look down on this low-level alchemy product. Especially in the traditional alchemy holy land of Luying Royal Academy, it is even less valued.

Jike looked embarrassed again, and continued: "As for why he lives here...it's because...because there were several explosions in the laboratory before, which caused a lot of damage to the academy, and the loss was also huge. Then the dormitory is not convenient to do some dangerous experiments, so I just came here..."

Su Lun listened silently, frowning slightly.

What his disciple said was the truth, but he avoided the main point and said something lightly.

This is an aristocratic academy, and civilian students will definitely be ostracized by their classmates.

Especially students who have no money.

Seeing that the gas mask around Jike's neck was so old and rotten that he didn't want to change it, Su Lun knew that he was in a dire situation.

He directly pointed out the difficulties of Jike and asked, "Have the family's savings been used up?"

Jike felt embarrassed, but finally nodded: "Well. Although the materials in the academy are cheap, the explosive formula experiment requires a lot of materials and equipment. I have spent all the savings from selling furs before my father passed away..."

His tone was very self-blame, as if it was because of his extravagance that he had caused such an embarrassing situation.

But looking at his teacher's calm and concerned expression, Jike finally said the grievance that no one had ever said in his heart: "I don't want to give up. Because the academy has Lu Ying's best library and the cheapest supply of materials, the best experimental equipment... once I drop out of school, there will be no chance of this. So... that's why... I will live here. It's not good, but at least I can continue to live College stay..."

In a word, there is no money.

The Royal Academy has top educational resources that are unmatched by any alchemy academy in the Luying Empire.

Although full of ridicule and cold eyes, Jike's love for alchemy made him reluctant to give up this only way to study.

So he can only stay in the academy with a stubborn face, even if he lives with the handymen who are despised by his classmates, he doesn't care.

Hear this,

Sabina on the side listened to the sparkle in her beautiful eyes.

Su Lun's expression didn't change. After listening, he just said lightly: "It's the past. Now that I'm here. In the future, you can concentrate on your favorite dynamite. As for everything else, it's me."

Hearing this loud "there is me", Jike stood on the spot as if struck by lightning, "I...I..."

After a moment, it was as if the clouds were turning the clouds into the sun, the haze in his eyes suddenly dissipated, and the light gradually became brighter.

Ever since he stepped into the Royal Academy on the first day, he has never been as excited as this moment.

It was the warm confidence that Jike, who was alone after his father's death, never felt again.

Only then did he realize that he still has a teacher with a strong backing!

Su Lun didn't say much, and said lightly: "Clean up the laboratory, let's go shopping in the academy."

Wen, Ji Ke's slightly grim face after being burned showed a very serious expression, "Yeah!"

......

After a while, Gek packed up his laboratory.

He followed Suren Sabina and walked around the campus.

After a few chats, Su Lun also found that his disciple was really aggrieved.

Studying alchemists is very expensive, and this is even worse in the discipline of "pharmacy".

And the most expensive is the pharmacy apprentice.

Every qualified pharmacist must have burned a large amount of materials and piled it up.

This was barely enough for a fairly wealthy merchant family like Jike. But the death of his father left the family without a sustainable source of income. A large number of experimental consumables have used up all the savings.

So now that he is in the academy, he can only scrape together various things, earn credits, and work hard to get some compensation. Even picking up the corners and scrap materials discarded by other students in the laboratory can be used to support one's own experiments.

Even now, even eating, you have to let go of your dignity.

However, he didn't feel bitter, because the firm belief in his heart has always persisted.

Listening to those experiences, Su Lun felt a little mixed in her heart.

Jike looked at his teacher and the lady with a serious expression, pretended to be indifferent, and said, "Teacher, it's actually nothing... The food here is the same as everyone else, very rich."

The academy provides free and hearty meals to the students.

It was true that everyone was the same, but the gardeners and janitors ate the overnight food that the noble students had left over and should have been thrown away.

Su Lun listened and fell into deep thought.

His own disciple has had a tragic life experience, but these hardships have now become a more and more tenacious quality in him, gradually exuding excellent light.

Sullen thinks this is a good thing.

He didn't say more on this topic, and instead asked: "By the way, Jike, what did you study before? I mean that green flame..."

When it comes to the experiment, Gek's eyes immediately light up.

He excitedly introduced his results: "Oh! Teacher, that is a special combustion-supporting formula used by ancient dwarves to forge, called white phosphorus combustion-supporting agent. This is an ancient formula I found in the library, and it was hard to decipher it. Come out. But because it is an ancient formula, many materials are missing, and then I want to try to change it, and the phosphide produced will not extinguish the bomb. It is the kind of bomb that cannot be extinguished no matter what, until it burns the target... "

Having said this, all he could see in his eyes was the enthusiasm for explosives, "Teacher, my preliminary experiment has been successful! As long as there are enough material experiments, I will soon be able to make that kind of finished bomb!"

Hearing this, Su Lun nodded and praised himself without hesitation: "You have done a good job."

"Really?"

Jike seemed to be affirmed by others for the first time, his face flushed with excitement, "Teacher also thinks my research is very good?"

"yes."

Su Lun affirmed again: "Dynamite is a science with infinite potential. It is not inferior to any other discipline of alchemy."

Having said that, he looked at Jike's eager eyes again and encouraged: "Keep going. When your dream comes true, you must be like a bright star in the night sky, and the world will see your brightest light. "

"Uh-huh!"

Jike seemed to be greatly encouraged, and his eyes trembled with excitement: "I knew... I knew! Even if the whole world doesn't understand, you can definitely understand my thoughts, teacher!"

This sentence is like walking alone in the dark, suddenly seeing a guiding light!

That kind of excitement is hard to tell.

Once in Blizzard City, it was because of a word of encouragement from Su Lun that he determined his future career path to become an ammunition engineer, not a dentist or a lawyer He excitedly shared My own career planning, "Teacher, you know, many people look down on ammunition specialists and explosives. They think it can only be used in low-level alchemy formulas in the field of low-level occupations. But in fact, they are wrong! They explode on people. Our cognition is too narrow! We can't limit explosions to explosives, and some special energy release processes can also be called explosions, compared to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc. When the state of some substances changes, It will also produce a terrifying energy explosion! That is also the direction I have been researching. Even those people don't even know that in theory, some special explosives can blow up the entire Lingdu with only a few hundred kilograms! That level of explosion. ..is the most perfect art in my heart!"

"..."

When Suren heard the pictures Gek described, she suddenly felt... very familiar.

Explosion is art?

After all, geniuses are paranoid.

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