There are countless differences between aliens and humans, and the differences may be even greater than the differences between ordinary creatures and dragons.
However, there is one thing that is extremely likely to remain the same—mathematics, 1+1=2.
The formulas of dragon alchemy are like complex mathematical formulas. If you don't know what 1 is, what 2 is, what their meanings are, or what addition equals, you will find the mathematical formulas incomprehensible. But when you understand the relative meanings of 1, 2, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division... all your doubts will be cleared up.
The principles are always the same... So after the system understood Old Tang's design philosophy, it immediately found a similar formula in "Alchemy: Origins".
Upon hearing the system's words, Old Tang was utterly astonished! Boss Lu, it seems he didn't just have two bristle-less brushes; he had another one hidden away!!!
Hiss, so terrifying!
[...Ronald Tang, with an almost impossible talent, is racing down the path of alchemy, even reaching a point where he can perfectly match the alchemical texts of the dragon race...]
[...A peerless genius? Or a dragon infiltrated among humans?...]
The system felt it necessary to be wary of Lao Tang.
If Tang isn't a mathematical genius like Gauss, then there's only one truth.
As for the claim that he used the Word of Power: Bloodline Binding to find out Old Tang's secrets... In the world of Word of Power, there are different levels. The Black King Nidhogg's Bloodline Binding can cover all of Europe, which means the Black King is capable.
If Old Tang's identity is questionable, and he has disguised himself to some extent, then you can't really expect a human-hybrid to see through that disguise.
Otherwise, the dragon would be too lame.
Even if there are mysteries surrounding Lao Tang's identity, the system cannot stop him.
The matter of the alchemical matrix is quite significant. Even if Old Tang is a dragon, as long as his identity is not exposed and as long as Old Tang can continue to work for the system, the system will not idly remove Old Tang's mask.
Xia Mi, like a rat in the sewer, secretly watched this scene from behind.
Actually, she had always been quite suspicious of Lao Tang, but being around Lu Mingfei, she had very limited time to investigate him.
But she eventually managed to find some time to check on the situation. She had some understanding of alchemy, so she could naturally understand Old Tang's research. Over the next few days, she watched as Old Tang made rapid progress on the right path.
However, some beginners do make mistakes that Xia Mi might not expect... For example, normal people don't think that people need to eat every day to be considered normal.
Although Lao Tang was able to correct it quickly, the very act of raising the question was perplexing.
This left Xia Mi completely bewildered, and for a moment she was unsure of Old Tang's true intentions.
Moreover, are all of our peers that formidable?
If Old Tang's identity is questionable, then his acting is almost flawless. Lu Mingfei's identity is a bit questionable, but he's remotely controlled; you have no idea where his dragon is. He's hiding in Nibelungen, manipulating the front lines from behind the scenes. At most, he'll lose a puppet, like Herzog. How are you supposed to fight like that?
The difference between Norton and Herzog is that Norton's technology has been upgraded, so even if Lu Mingfei is offline for a long time, he can handle things on his own without Norton having to worry about him at all.
Compared to these two, Xia Mi felt like she was in the sewers.
He's a bad person, his skills aren't guaranteed... Sigh, all he can do is pretend to be loyal to Lu Mingfei and see if there's a chance to abscond with the money.
Thinking of this, a look of boredom appeared in her eyes as she watched Lu Mingfei and Lao Tang tinker with the alchemy matrix.
……
"Boss, you are here."
Su Enxi casually handed the handsome guy a half-finished coffee.
The handsome guy looked at the half-cup of coffee, and without even thinking, refused it with a look of disgust, saying, "I don't want your saliva, thank you."
"Boss, you seem to be in a good mood?" Su Enxi asked. "Long-legged and Sanwu are both outside. Do you have something to announce? I'll call them back for you."
“No need to call them, it’s nothing really.” He slumped down on the sofa next to him. “I just wanted to talk to you about something.”
"Hmm?" Su Enxi let out a puzzled breath, then immediately said, "Boss, I am absolutely loyal to you. I have never been corrupted by Lu Mingfei's money and have always followed your lead without wavering."
"Don't think of me as so sensitive. I don't doubt you on this point," the handsome man said.
Su Enxi didn't reply, but tilted her head and looked at the boss's expression. Well, the boss's face was expressionless, as aloof as ever, and it was really hard to tell.
"Oh, so what brings you here to talk to me, boss? My current Ponzi scheme keeps growing and has already reached $850 billion."
She explained the responsibilities she was in charge of, and figured that she hadn't made any mistakes on her end.
It's a bit slow, but once the amount of capital increases, the speed of making money will naturally slow down. After all, there's only so much money in the world, and it's perfectly normal to have capital but nowhere to invest it.
"This isn't about work," the handsome guy said. "Of the three girls, you've had the most contact with Lu Mingfei. What do you think of him?"
This question puzzled Su Enxi. Unlike Xia Mi and their boss, she was just an ordinary mixed-race person and couldn't tell whether Lu Mingfei was controlling the body or the system was managing it.
It's unclear who is in charge of certain operations.
After thinking for a while, she said, "What about Lu Mingfei? I can only say that from my perspective, he seems quite stable. When Japan was about to face a major disaster, his first reaction was not to take a gamble, but to first ask me to arrange a way out so that he could run away at any time. Only when he was sure there was no danger would he choose to act cautiously."
"Yes, his style is indeed based on stability, focusing on a step-by-step offensive and a quick retreat." The man nodded slightly. "Although he is involved in some dragon clan affairs, judging from his plans, it is clear that he is not going to launch an attack now, but rather plans to wait until he is fully developed before making his move."
Lu Mingfei's trip to Japan was entirely due to his efforts in pushing things forward.
Su Enxi asked, "So, boss, what's your question?"
"What is his real goal? And is it Lu Mingfei's goal, or that thing's goal?" The man sighed softly.
He pushed Lu Mingfei to go to Japan to see Lu Mingfei and that thing's attitude towards power, but that thing had absolutely no interest in the White King's power that was about to be within its grasp.
He then tried to induce Lu Mingfei to make a choice, and discovered that Lu Mingfei's choice could indeed influence the final decision of Lu Mingfei's body.
However... normally, Lu Mingfei wouldn't be so concerned about slaying dragons. The power of the White King is right in front of him. He might hesitate to take it, but he would never hesitate to give it up immediately.
After all, with this power that is "second in the world", Lu Mingfei can do whatever he wants. As a result, neither Lu Mingfei nor that dirty thing had the idea of directly obtaining power from the White King's Holy Remains.
From the perspective of someone in the know, many of Lu Mingfei's actions are quite perplexing. He is both arrogant and brave, cowardly and passionate, and many of his actions are completely contradictory.
For example, right now, after the White King saved the world during the Lunar New Year, Shilan Middle School started school half a month later, and it has been half a month since then.
He watched as Lu Mingfei gradually integrated into the campus, leading Xia Mi to dominate the campus and thoroughly enjoying himself.
Once outside the school, he immediately switched to another attitude, heading straight to Lao Tang's lab to work together on the alchemical matrix that could trigger reforms. After leaving the lab, he still had to deal with the staffing issues at the company... A person's time is limited; there are only 24 hours in a day. If you have this much ability, why go to school? And you get along so well with everyone, is that reasonable?
Furthermore, who is in control between Lu Mingfei and that thing? The two can switch control of the body at any time, yet they can still do the same thing together.
He could clearly sense that Lu Mingfei was wary of him. After all, there was something wrong with his identity. He was a devil who was after his life and had tricked him several times. It would be a miracle if he could be completely trusted.
But there's another possibility: Lu Mingfei has something he considers more reliable... What kind of agreement did that dirty thing make with Lu Mingfei? He doesn't believe that the other party is going after Lu Mingfei purely to help him. If there's nothing wrong with what Lu Mingfei is doing right now, then something's definitely fishy!
Seeing the pensive look on the boss's face, Su Enxi felt a little itchy and wanted to grab a bottle of wine to have a few sips.
Not many people could understand how much the boss valued Lu Mingfei; the three women were among the few who truly understood the boss's thoughts.
The boss is now scheming against the filthy thing on Lu Mingfei, but it doesn't really concern her. She's just a bystander, only there to watch the show, with no chance of actually participating.
The handsome guy sighed and suddenly asked, "Potato Chips, do you think there are really people in the world who would be unconditionally good to someone?"
"Yes, we are unconditionally good to you, boss, and you are unconditionally good to Lu Mingfei."
Su Enxi immediately raised her hand to speak. As for the idea that parents are unconditionally good to their children, she was the most qualified to speak on that, since she herself was an orphan abandoned by her parents...
But... well... after answering that question, Chip Girl felt like running away. She vaguely sensed something terrifying upon closer inspection.
Do you even know how to answer this question? Go ask Zero, don't come to me with such a potentially fatal question, understand?! I'm speechless!
Seeing Su Enxi's increasingly shifty and sneaky expression, as if she wanted to run away, the handsome guy smiled and said, "Why are you looking like that? I was just asking casually."
You asked casually, but I have to answer seriously! My life matters too!
Su Enxi really wanted to make a phone call and have a helicopter pick up Lu Mingfei from Shilan Middle School so he could have a face-to-face conversation with the boss and stop putting pressure on him.
To put it bluntly, the boss doesn't trust the dirty stuff on Lu Mingfei, but Lu Mingfei now believes in that dirty stuff... If there were someone in the world who unconditionally believed in Lu Mingfei and stood by him through thick and thin, with completely identical stances, then the boss would be very happy.
However, the premise is that the boss must be able to guarantee that the other party truly and unconditionally trusts Lu Mingfei, rather than secretly plotting something behind his back. What if he treats Lu Mingfei well now, but later betrays him and pulls a big stunt?
People at the boss's level mostly trust themselves. Unless the filth on Lu Mingfei gives the boss enough confidence to completely control him, it's impossible for them to be on the same page. Given what the other party is doing now, the boss is lucky if he doesn't kill him. After all, the more capable that filth is now, the greater the harm it can cause later.
He produced a bronze artifact almost out of thin air: "I bought this from a roadside stall in a small county town near the mountain city. Give it to Lu Mingfei and have him mobilize people to look for the remaining bronze artifacts there."
“Norton is about to wake up. We can’t delay any longer. If we delay any longer, there will be another player behind the scenes.”
Norton? Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire? Is he about to wake up? Su Enxi took the bronze artifact, which, according to the law, could land someone in jail for life, and nodded.
The handsome man vanished in the blink of an eye, as if he had never been there.
……
"Dragon script?"
The system looked at the bronze fragments that Su Enxi had sent over, and gently rubbed the tiny dragon patterns on them with its fingers.
There aren't many dragon characters on this fragment. Apart from the dragon characters that are missing half a character due to the breakage of the bronze, there are only a dozen or so dragon characters. However, these dragon characters are not common everyday terms in the dragon race's script.
The dragon script at Kassel College is mostly written by dragons recording history, with a very high repetition rate and low effective utilization.
And this bronze fragment... is quite interesting—the king of bronze and fire, alchemy.
Without hesitation, the system called Su Enxi, "President Su, where did you collect these bronze artifact fragments?"
“A friend of mine bought it from a roadside stall in a small county town below the mountain city. If it weren’t for the dragon script on it, he would have thought it was a replica of a bronze artifact,” Su Enxi said. “I’ve been helping you collect information on dragon script lately, so he just gave it to me.”
"Hmm...where did he find it?"
The system became interested in this bronze artifact fragment because it involved the pinnacle of dragon alchemy—the King of Bronze and Fire, which was exactly what the system needed at the moment.
Chapter 175 White Emperor City
The twins on the throne of the King of Bronze and Fire are Norton and Constantine.
They are top masters of dragon alchemy. At least in metal weapons, their skills are unparalleled. As for other aspects... Lu Mingfei is not too clear. Alchemy, once it reaches a certain level, is no longer limited to a single category.
At lower levels, metals are a major category in alchemy, but as you progress, living alchemy involves treating people as metal to refine, but it's not simply about refining them as metal, not to mention techniques like "living spirits"...
The folding knife from Angers was almost unresponsive to the summoning of the Heaven and Earth Furnace and the Sword Control. It was no longer ordinary metal, nor was it an alchemical weapon made by ordinary alchemy. Instead, it had been killed by a special alchemical technique that killed the "life of the metal".
Furthermore, it is even possible to give metal consciousness and "life," which is the "living spirit" technology. This is simply beyond the scope of human capabilities. As far as Lu Mingfei knows, no human alchemist has such power yet.
Therefore, Lu Mingfei and the system are now extremely interested in this bronze fragment related to the King of Bronze and Fire.
Knowing the power of alchemy made me realize my own insignificance. Standing at the pinnacle of human alchemy is useless; for dragons, perhaps this is just the beginning of dragon alchemy...
As for the small county town below the mountain city where the bronze fragments originated, the system didn't assign people to such a basic urban unit. After all, the system's business plan was aimed at people with computers and internet access. In a small county town, the place with the most computers was probably an internet cafe, and computers weren't common in small shops or businesses. There was simply no fertile ground for a food delivery plan to survive, so the system didn't want to waste its efforts.
But now, it's clear that we have no choice but to waste some manpower going to the countryside to conduct targeted screenings in that area.
The system immediately mobilized its resources and began to assign personnel to investigate the area. For items resembling antiques, the investigation would begin with the city-level antique market and then gradually expand to the countryside.
"Boss, this dragon script is something special. It involves the King of Bronze and Fire?" Xia Mi looked the bronze artifact fragment over and over, a hint of inscrutable expression flashing across her face.
The dragon runes and fragments are fine, the main problem is that this thing points directly to the clues of the Lord of Bronze and Fire—doesn't that point directly to Norton himself?
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