my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 55 The Weight of the Soul

"I'm very sorry. I often indulge in it accidentally, and I bothered you to make dinner."

This was the third time that Il had apologized. His words did not stop him from eating the mutton stewed rice specially prepared by Aqua Regia. The younger brother next to him was also eating the rice. He seemed to be a taciturn person.

"No need to mention it again. If you want compensation, share your knowledge. I also want to see how far your alchemy research has gone."

The two of them didn't waste much time. They ate quickly and went back to the study upstairs. They handed the tableware to their younger brother to clean up. It looked like he wasn't full yet.

Wang Shui checked Il's analysis of his [Plant Rebirth Technology]. I have to say that Il is indeed a genius. Not only did he quickly analyze the combination of alchemy and alchemy, he also used traditional alchemy to make Note.

Il was very interested in the "automated alchemical processing process" designed by Aqua Regia. Aqua Regia did not hide any secrets and imparted his knowledge very generously.

But without a large number of workers, water, fertilizer, and enough high-quality grain seeds, it is still impossible for Il to build a grain factory with his own ability.

Wang Shui was very selfless. He even reminded Il to mobilize the chief elder of the tribe and ask him to recruit people as workers and improve agricultural production.Wang Shui's selflessness is based on the fact that he is not worried that Il will enhance Ishval's food security independence.

After all, at least producing a lot of food requires a lot of water and fertilizer.

Needless to say, the importance of water resources to the oasis, and large-scale fertilizer production has long been monopolized by aqua regia. Whether it is chemical technology, bulk raw materials, or even logistics and transportation issues, none of them are taken care of by Ishvar people. It can be solved with your head.

There is no shortage of smart people from every nation in the world, but how many countries have grown up?

Moreover, Aqua Regia also has the card of "low price dumping". For this tribal people who have no concept of country and tariff, large capital companies are behemoths that they cannot imagine.

Wang Shui's "selfless" professor received Yi's sincerity in return. He took out many precious ancient books, some of which were seriously damaged, and some of which could be called orphans. He was worried that these books would be damaged if placed in the study room, so he usually It was treasured. He didn't have time to read many of the books in it. After all, translation also takes time.

Wang Shui declined Il's translation help. He said that he knew some new Chinese characters and asked Il to verify and perfect plant growth first. He even encouraged him to persuade the tribal leaders of Ishvar to promote agricultural development.

In the next period of time, Wang Shui began to study those ancient books.

Wang Shui discovered that the alchemy gaze supplemented by the dream system was no longer a category similar to alchemy in the world of steel refining. These contents began to become complicated and metaphysical. Wang Shui even classified a dozen different "Qi" schools. And those encrypted words made it impossible for him to start.

Therefore, Aqua Regia started from scratch by learning basic medicine, as well as knowledge about herbal medicine, prescriptions, acupoints and meridians, the balance of yin and yang, the perception and guidance of "qi", etc.

A few days later, in the stone mountain near the oasis, Wang Shui was controlling a small ceramic cauldron to boil a thick medicinal soup.

It is difficult to find comprehensive herbs in the desert. Aqua Regia directly used the Philosopher's Stone to create similar medicines and boiled them directly in the ceramic cauldron. Then as expected, they all failed.

But today was just for practice. Wang Shui had already contacted his caravan in the new country and asked them to start collecting herbs. He also sent three drones to pick up the goods. He would be able to see the first batch of medicines as early as tomorrow.

Along with the medicines, there were also various books that Wang Shui found from others. The trade route had been open for more than two years, and Wang Shui really ignored these things.

In other words, before meeting El, Wang Shui thought that alchemy in this world would not have such detailed settings.

In addition to alchemy, Wang Shui also had other research to carry out, such as the cloud explosion bomb that had not been completed before. This was one of the reasons why he ran to the stone mountains.

The development of cloud explosive bombs was much smoother. After all, the theory was very mature and the formula was already planned.

With the help of the Philosopher's Stone, aqua regia easily synthesizes a large amount of flammable and explosive gases, liquefies it, and then glycerolizes and gels it.Aqua Regia also found suitable energetic materials and sustained-release agents, and obtained a very ideal ammunition formula. He rubbed a few of them with his hands and secretly experimented deep in the desert.

After the technology matured, Wang Shui remotely controlled his industrial base through "Hill Network". The structure robot quickly established several production lines to produce missile bodies, cloud explosives, high explosives, small rocket boosters and electronic controls. System and other components.

After assembly, it is a cloud burst rocket. However, many ideal chemical preparations are difficult to produce industrially and can only be synthesized slowly through alchemy. Even with the help of petrochemicals and chlor-alkali factories, this synthesis process is very slow. Aqua Regia predicts that every The monthly output is only about a dozen rounds.

Aqua Regia has no plans to expand production. He is the only high-end arms dealer in the world and does not need to use low price and quality to gain attention.

And he doesn't need to use this weapon of mass destruction to make money. When he leaves this world, he won't be equipped with rockets to bounce back. This kind of weapon is enough for him.

In a stone mountain community in Ishval, Wang Shui burned through and emptied a large mountain in one day. He used the steel he brought to create a batch of structures, and drew a spiritual interaction array to They connected to the [Sylvia Network], then introduced artificial souls, and now created a group of structural workers.

Using the hollowed-out mountain, Wang Shui planned to build a simple alchemy workshop here.

While helping with the construction at night, Wang Shui returned to his temporary laboratory while playing with the bright red Philosopher's Stone in his hand. He weighed it with a relatively accurate mechanical balance, weighing 42 grams.

Now there are three philosopher's stones in Wang Shui's possession. The first one, the one he just weighed, originally weighed more than 50 grams, but now he has consumed it to 42 grams, but its size has not changed.

That's right, even counting the other two in the King's Mariner, all of his Philosopher's Stones are exactly the same shape and size, with only the weight and the number of wailing sounds inside them differing.

And Aqua Regia suddenly returned to the laboratory to be weighed because he had just discovered that there was one less wailing voice in his Philosopher's Stone...it had been consumed!
Aqua Regia then immediately weighed the other two, which were 75 grams and 144 grams respectively, and the number of souls wailing inside were four and seven respectively...

75 is three times less than four times that of 21, and 144 is six times more than seven times that of 21!
[The weight of each complete soul in the Philosopher's Stone is 21 grams. 】

This idea suddenly appeared in Wang Shui's mind.

Thinking of this, Wang Shui immediately opened the mission panel and confirmed his main mission - to obtain 32.76 kilograms of the Philosopher's Stone, which is 32760 grams.

Divided by 21, there are exactly 1560 Philosopher's Stones...

How to describe Wang Shui's current mood?This amount is surprisingly small.

The system actually only requires the souls of 1560 people. Compared to [The Little Man in the Bottle], which often requires hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions, of big moves, the requirements of the dream system are actually so low.

"Good news Hill, the main plot doesn't seem to be difficult. Once I get the formation of the Philosopher's Stone, I can complete it soon."

"It's normal. Exploration missions in a fantasy world are not like plunder or control missions. The difficulty is generally not too high. With your current monopoly position, financial resources, and knowledge of the world, you think it is easy."

"But, I encountered an old problem again..."

Wang Shui took out the heaviest Philosopher's Stone and muttered to Sylvia:

"I'm facing an adventure now. I don't know what kind of risks there will be. I don't even know if I will die directly... No, I probably won't die. I just want to see the truth. If I have the Philosopher's Stone as my ticket, You don’t even have to pay the price…”

Wang Shui stopped as he spoke, and after he was silent for a short period of time, Sylvia said:

"Based on my understanding of you over the years, you must have already made up your mind. What you say now is just to be pretentious and relieve your own tension."

Wang Shui suddenly smiled. He remembered the last person who encouraged him to take risks, Asada Shino, who had two completely different styles from Sylvia.

"Yes, I have probably made this decision before entering this fantasy world. [Truth], what a great and attractive text, study and study all kinds of knowledge, how can I not be willing to see it. A week later Well, I need to make some preparations."

"It's up to you."

Wang Shui's preparations were not only for the construction of the alchemy workshop at his feet, but also for the main mission. Now that he roughly knew the requirements, he had to prepare tickets in advance. Of course, he did not plan to leave so early.

Preparing the consumables for making the Philosopher's Stone is very simple. Wang Shui now controls a huge business empire and has many indigenous forces under him.

Wang Shui issued an order to let his younger brothers who had never seen him recruit heroes from all walks of life in prisons across the country. He wanted to buy healthy prisoners with severe enough sentences and transfer them to new prisons overseas for protection.

It was left to Sylvia to select a location for the new prison, and Wang Shui had to design a way to transfer these people, ensuring quantity and quality while being as hidden as possible.

The next day, Wang Shui went to Yier's house again.

In addition to continuing to study, Wang Shui also wanted to ask Il about the writings of the destroyed country [Xerxes] and their ancient alchemy. It was at this time that Il discovered the anomaly in the energy of the earth's crust.

He felt a powerful force stuck between the energy of the earth's crust and the alchemists on the surface, affecting the projection of energy.Once this blocking effect is doubled, alchemists will be unable to use alchemy.

El was puzzled. He didn't think this was a naturally formed barrier. He subconsciously tried to decipher the reason. In the process, he condensed what he had learned throughout his life into two concepts of alchemy, [decomposition] and [fusion]. , by fixing the two concepts through tattoos, you can break away from the traditional alchemy formation to complete the activation of alchemy.

Wang Shui was also very surprised. The setting of the special [Alchemy Formation] is the basis of alchemy in this fantasy world.

Through special tattoos, Il simplified and abstracted similar alchemy formations, and alchemy created a new technology - [Imprinting Alchemy]. Although it still belongs to the category of [Equivalent Alchemy], the method of activation is the same as The starting principle is almost completely different.

He used a tattoo to replace many functions of forming an array, and he did not need to set up a separate circle to cover the target area. He had almost achieved the effect of not needing to form an array after seeing [Truth], and he did not need to put his hands together. !
Ir showed it to Aqua Regia very excitedly. He touched the bottle with his right hand covered with temporary tattoos. The wheat seeds in the glass bottle sprouted and grew immediately, and matured in 5 minutes. The efficiency was quite good. The only problem was the consumption of energy. Very big.

Wang Shui read the research notes with a serious look.

El is a genius. He absorbed the ideas of Aqua Regia and pioneered and perfected his own [Sealing Alchemy].

These tattoo engravings can be simplified, but simplification is not El's goal. He doesn't care whether the engravings are complicated. What he pursues is a remote alchemy-like effect.

He wanted to record the engraving on the machine, so that the alchemist could serve as a conduit to communicate the energy of the earth's crust and the dragon's veins, so that an alchemist could control the effects of alchemy in large quantities, so as to achieve the effect of the food project designed by Aqua Regia.

This idea is very advanced. Shui Wang's large-scale food production relies entirely on the [Sylvia Network] and his modern alchemy array.

It should be said that the depth and breadth of Wang Shui's knowledge, as well as his insight and learning ability, far exceed that of Il.

And Yi Er's thinking, observation and creativity are no worse than Shui Wang's. Creative thinking is very valuable. Shui Wang pays more attention to the communication with Yi Er. During this time, they came up with many novel ideas.

But El was not happy for long - war broke out.

In the original fuzzy control area, the Amestolis military was only suppressing the rioters. The situation was not particularly bad. A large number of people from both sides lived in the border area.

Just a few days ago, an Amestorian officer fired an unprovoked shot in a public place and killed a little Ishvar girl. Then there was a sudden riot. Before the matter was investigated, various rumors turned into truth. , the war is about to break out.

There were suddenly more people in the oasis tribal area.

In just a few days, the Ishval people gathered from various loose tribes and quickly pulled out a large force. Judging from their complete weapons and training status, it was definitely not improvised.

The riots escalated, and Wang Shui learned through informants from various places that the androids had sent many alchemists to join the battlefield, and had begun to recruit national alchemists.

Ishval was also surprisingly prepared. They sent a large number of monks and had sufficient equipment. At least the number of soldiers was not less than that of the Eastern Army.

The battle front immediately expanded, and the number of casualties began to soar, but the battle situation immediately became strangely stalemate.

(End of this chapter)