Dragon Clan: Restart your life

Kassel Academy.

It is now afternoon, and the freshmen and sophomore students have just finished their special training and are walking to the cafeteria wiping their sweat.

"boom!"

The sudden and huge earthquake almost shattered the windows of the surrounding buildings. Several holes were cracked in the outer walls of the nearby buildings, and dust fell.

The well in front of the Hall of Valor spewed out 10-meter-high blood flames. The students in the distance stopped and looked indifferent. Not one of them took out their mobile phones to take pictures. They seemed to have become accustomed to it.

The underground laboratory of the Equipment Department is underground. No need to guess, there must have been another accident. Maybe it was an explosion of refined sulfur, maybe a mercury steam pipe burst, or maybe it was a new weapon that the Equipment Department recently claimed would save the world...

The firetruck, with its siren on, roared to a stop at the burning wellhead. The strong and powerful school workers skillfully set up a water hose and sprayed it at the wellhead.

Kassel College's campus management department came to the scene to provide rescue.

They looked relaxed, chatting and laughing while working. Such incidents happen every day on the hilltop campus, so it's not something to make a fuss about.

"It's brimstone flames!" the person in charge of fighting the fire shouted, "Everyone put on gas masks!"

So the strong men put on gas masks, continued to calm down, and continued to put out the fire, and the fire was gradually brought under control.

After a few glances, the students lost interest and continued walking towards the cafeteria, discussing privately what they had learned from today's special training.

For example, along the way, I reflected on what small mistakes I made when I cracked the Pentagon firewall today, or what difficulties I encountered when I cracked the encryption system of a certain satellite, or what I encountered today.

Junior Brother asked Senior Brother if there is any secret method that he can teach Junior Brother?

The senior brother patted the junior brother on the shoulder and said that everything is easy to talk about. As long as there are a few pork knuckles on the dinner plate tonight, I will teach you how to peek into the stories that the Pentagon Secretary of Defense and the secretaries have to tell...

Of course, although the students were used to it, Mr. Manstein, the school representative and the manager of daily affairs, still called the equipment department angrily.

Just no one answered.

Not long after, the ground shook again, and a second bloody flame rushed out of the dark well mouth, as if there was a fire-breathing dragon roaring underground.

When Manstein made the tenth call angrily, the external person in charge of the equipment department reluctantly answered the phone and said that everything was under control. There was no need to call desperately to question him because of this small explosion. Are you specific about the situation? It is expected that there will be two to three more explosions later, so please be mentally prepared.

Then, before Manstein could question him, the other party hung up the phone.

Before hanging up, Manstein clearly heard someone shouting "One more time, all units prepare."

Manstein angrily slammed his fist on the table, "This is the seventeenth time this week!"

Professor Schneider on the side pondered: "Is it already seventeen times? That is indeed a bit excessive. It is twice as many times as before. It seems that their experiment is in full swing."

Manstein glared at him: "I'm afraid that before they develop new weapons, they will blow us up instead of killing the enemy!"

Schneider said calmly: "Don't panic. They are blowing themselves up now, which is at least better than our soldiers blowing themselves up on the battlefield."

Manstein's mouth twitched and he was speechless.

This is the style of the Equipment Department. In fact, he should have gotten used to it along with everyone else, but Manstein felt that he could not let such abnormal things become normal because of everyone's acquiescence. At least one person should always warn those bastards. Be restrained, or they will really blow up the school one day.

"I remember last year, the Equipment Department successfully tested a new alchemical weapon that claimed to be able to reverse the balance of power between humans and dragons?" Manstein suddenly frowned. "The test was in the hinterland of the Sahara Desert. At that time, the Pentagon's spy satellite observed When it came to that explosion, it was misjudged to be a nuclear test.”

"Oh, you mentioned that time, I remember it." Schneider remembered something, "It was a tactical missile equipped with a silver-refined warhead, combined with refining mercury, saltpeter refined from the ash of Vesuvius, and the blood of the Holy Infant. The explosion can fatally poison the dragons in the central area, but this thing obviously cannot be used in the city, so it was stored in the final weapons arsenal."

Upon hearing "the last arsenal", Manstein's brows jumped.

"Do you know what is stored in the 'Arsenal'?" he asked in a low voice.

"There are quite a few. Almost all weapons with large-scale and indiscriminate destruction have been thrown in." Schneider sighed regretfully, "You know, the most favored and powerful department in the school has always been the equipment department. The college's annual expenses More than half of it is invested in the research and development of the equipment department, and the people who chaired the equipment department decades ago were figures like Doug Jones and Blair Buettner who left their names in the history of science."

Schneider spread his hands and said: "I admire the principal very much for being able to bring milestones in the history of modern science to him for scientific research. Without Doug Jones, the development of the atomic bomb in the United States would have been delayed by several years to more than ten years. "(Note 1)

Manstein said solemnly: "It's really hard to imagine what such a person has developed in the past few decades."

"They are some large-scale weapons specifically targeted at dragons." Schneider said calmly, "Some time ago, the principal had approved an inspection of the 'weapon arsenal'. The equipment department has selected some of the most lethal weapons and opened up corresponding production lines."

"Already in production?" Manstein murmured, "It seems that war is really not far away."

Schneider thought for a while: "The only problem now is that with the strength of the academy alone, the production speed is too slow, but we dare not and cannot share these weapon blueprints with any country. And when it comes to using these weapons By that time, it must be no longer important to expose the secrets of the Dragon Clan."

"This is the secret party's trump card, right?" Manstein whispered, "Just like what Meineke Cassel expected back then, the future belongs to technology, and humans will develop better firearms and Cannons, use them to blow away the dragon clan’s ambition to subvert the world.”

Schneider was silent for a moment: "Yes, maybe this is the root of the principal's unconditional support for the equipment department these years."

In front of the "last weapons arsenal", the monsters sealed under the ice cellar seemed not worth mentioning, as long as the former could be mass-produced and put on the battlefield.

As the ancient king of the dragon clan appeared in front of them, the secret party knew clearly that the plan that once tried to hunt the Black King by relying on the monsters in the ice cellar was just a dream.

Fortunately, a weapon called science was born in their hands.

"By the way, you said earlier that the 'principal' approved the production of the weapons arsenal. Which principal are you talking about?" Manstein suddenly asked.

"It's our new principal, Caesar Gattuso." Schneider whispered, "He said he liked the words of senior Lu Shanyan very much, there is a mountain in front of us, so we climb the mountain; in front of the sea, we cross the sea; in front of us is a sea. If it’s the palace, we’ll fire! We have nothing and we never defend.”

"Yes, there is no time to hesitate. Let's prepare for the war with all our strength." Manstein nodded heavily.

He looked out the window at the ten-meter high blood flame rising again, felt the vibrations coming from under his feet, and couldn't help frowning: "What on earth is the equipment department experimenting with this time? Is it a tactical missile?"

"No, according to the deputy minister, they are studying a new type of special range weapon."

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"As we all know, alchemy calls the 'Philosopher's Stone' the fifth element, which is the materialization of 'spirit'. It is rumored that the Nibelung roots are full of dead matter. An alchemist once described that country... …There is no day or night, and there is always a half-dark light floating in the sky. The ground and mountains are bronze, made of dead earth and metal, the sky is gray, made of dead air, and the fire is cold blue Form, made of the dead element of fire, water cannot lift anything, for water is also dead. There are cities there, built of the bones of dead life."

"The fifth element 'spirit' is enriched inside."

Having said this, the deputy director of the Equipment Department looked at Lu Mingfei and the vice principal seriously, "The vice principal told us the rest."

The vice principal nodded.

"When we heard this, we had doubts. Why is the Nibelung root rich in a lot of 'spiritual elements'? And why is the Nibelung root full of dead matter? It's because it is the country of the dead. ? But even if it is the country of the dead, is it innate or acquired? If it is innate, what did it evolve from? Even the universe has a big bang theory."

Vice Minister Karl looked at Lu Mingfei again: "Director Lu gave us the answer to this question, although we are currently unable to confirm whether the answer is reliable."

"Director Lu said that most of the Nibelungs are not innate, but evolved. They are fragments of the world from ancient times and ancient times. Well, Director Lu described it this way. We can't understand it for the time being. However, some of Director Lu’s theories can be justified for the time being. For example, the world has been destroyed several times, which explains why it is a dead world, and the large amount of fifth element in it is also the remnants of dead creatures. ‘Matter’ in the Nibelungs.”

"If they can be called 'matter' at all."

"Humans have begun to study the subject of spirit and soul thousands of years ago. Our ancestors generally believed that the soul is real."

"Although it cannot be confirmed, the actual existence of the 'spiritual' element can certainly prove the existence of the soul."

"Then, another question arises for us - how can the Philosopher's Stone, which is made of the fifth element and is hailed as the ultimate achievement of alchemy, and a pure spiritual element, be able to kill dragons?"

Deputy Minister Karl asked in a deep voice, his eyes widened, and he looked around the room. Everyone nodded in cooperation, with doubts on their faces.

The vice-principal shrugged and said: "It is mentioned in the book "The Book of Mysteries of Nature - The Fifth Element" written by master alchemist Raymond Lule that dragons study spirit, while humans study matter. The fifth element can bridge the boundary between matter and spirit."

Deputy Minister Karl said indifferently: "This does not explain why the Philosopher's Stone can kill dragons, or even specifically kills dragons."

"In the field of alchemy, it is believed that the Philosopher's Stone is as poisonous to the dragons. Once injected into the dragon's body, it is like a dagger tempered with arsenic to humans. The poison infects the dragon's body through the blood circulation, and the cells quickly The earth is decayed and the blood is as thick as paint..."

"So, why is the Philosopher's Stone poisonous to dragons?"

Deputy Minister Karl suddenly raised his voice and said: "We used one of Constantine's little knuckles to extract a Philosopher's Stone weighing 0.8 grams, and we only used a 2.75-gram Philosopher's Stone to kill him. Stone ground into bullets!”

"Isn't this ridiculous?"

"Think about it, if we completely refine Constantine's dragon bone, how many Philosopher's Stones can we refine?"

"Gentlemen, I must say that even venomous snakes usually do not die from their own venom!"

This sentence silenced the vice principal.

Is this reasonable? It seems reasonable, but it seems unreasonable, but no alchemist has ever questioned it in the field of alchemy, because this is a recognized theorem in the field of alchemy.

But today, researchers representing science, with the attitude that science has always had: "We question everything, including science itself", have issued a solo statement against the theorem that has been maintained for thousands of years.

Lu Mingfei said nothing. He quietly looked at Deputy Minister Karl on the stage, waiting for this man's performance.

The Equipment Department specially invited him and the vice-principal here, saying that they had made great progress in the study of meteorites and had new views and answers to some past doubts, and they needed the two of them to help them verify it.

He came here as promised, and Deputy Minister Karl in front of him gave him the surprise he was expecting as promised.

The Philosopher's Stone is the materialization of spiritual elements. It is extremely poisonous to the dragon clan, but where is this poison?

Since ancient times, there have only been four high priests and two kings who have been on the throne who have mastered the spiritual element.

Speaking of which, the real use of the Philosopher's Stone was discovered by hybrids. In the earliest era when dragons were rampant in the world, the dragons themselves did not realize that the Philosopher's Stone condensed with spiritual elements could easily kill their own kind.

Otherwise, the battle between kings will no longer be decided by swords, but whoever sees blood first will die first.

Deputy Minister Karl looked at the silence of the two special guests with satisfaction, which proved that the equipment department's discovery was a loophole that the alchemists had not noticed for thousands of years.

"In response to this issue, we quickly conducted research and tentatively came to the following conclusions. Of course, for now, it may be better to call it a guess."

"First guess, what kind of creatures are dragons?"

"A winged reptile?"

"We received Herzog's research data and sorted out the parts about dragon genes."

"Carl Voss proposed the 'three-domain system' in 1977. The three-domain system believes that the evolutionary tree first splits into three trunks, and all living things in the world are branches and leaves subdivided from the three trunks. They are the Bacterial domain, the Archaeal domain and the Eukaryotic domain respectively.”

"Theoretically, all living things in the world must belong to one of these three domains."

"But dragons do not belong to any of these three domains. Herzog proposed the idea of ​​a fourth domain, the fourth domain of genes, the world of dragons."

Deputy Minister Karl said in a low voice. His expression was a bit complicated, with both admiration and disgust for someone. From Herzog's experiments, they could see a large number of human experiments, which went against scientific research. basic moral categories.

"Based on Herzog's information, we conducted further research and refined our final views."

"Dragons are spiritual creatures!"

Note 1: The names of the Academy of Sciences here were changed by old thieves. In addition, when writing this, I suddenly thought that if there was a philosopher's stone between Herzog and Lu Mingze, the fight would have been completed long ago, so how could so much blood be shed?