Chapter 253 Tower of General Knowledge
Afterwards, Oleile led the way and guided Luo Xiu and Pamier into the "Fangbei Courtyard".
Inside the Fangbei Courtyard, there are small stone houses with simple decorations.
They are hidden among the lush trees, exposing the ancient stone gate to the side of the road. The door leaf, which is full of vicissitudes of life, is carved with exquisite reliefs. Most of them are lines composed of standard geometric figures, giving people a neat and neat aesthetic feeling in a mathematical sense.
——That is the "Knowledge Researcher's House" in Fangbeiyuan.
Each "Knower's House" is conducting research in at least one field, and during wartime, the scholars inside have become busier visibly.
A looping road paved with bluestone connects all the "Knower Houses" in Fangbeiyuan. Scholars are walking through it. They walk out of the door of one "Knower House" and soon disappear into another. Behind a door.
Luo Xiu looked around at the scene inside the "Fangbei Academy". The style here was completely different from the "Alchemy Academy" in Sina City, but it was more in line with his inherent impression of an academy similar to "Ancient Scholars".
This is like the difference between a century-old famous school and a new school... But Fangbei Academy is obviously the new one... Luo Xiu was thinking about this in a divergent way. He saw a dozen scholars walking towards him at the same time.
They all had dark expressions on their faces, as if they were immersed in thinking about something. When Luo Xiu passed by them, they seemed to have not heard anything.
"Please forgive me, dear guest."
Oleler explained to Luo Xiu, "They are not ignoring you, they are just swimming in the ocean of truth."
"I can understand." Luo Xiu responded with a smile, "Rather, this is the attitude of seeking knowledge that 'scholars' should have."
The church's "officiating ceremony" seemed to be gentler than expected, which surprised Oleile.
He nodded in agreement, a smile appeared on his face, and said:
"It's great that you think so. After all, even we, the scholars of Fangbeiyuan, really feel that we lack some etiquette in hospitality."
After that, Luo Xiu asked Oleler some questions about Fangbeiyuan, such as why the architectural style of Fangbeiyuan adopts the ancient system, what is the focus of recent research, and whether there have been outstanding research results, etc. Oleler answered each one in detail.
From this, Luo Xiu learned that the "Fangbei Academy" was not a newly built academy using materials from the original site, but was moved directly from the "Tower of Sage" main academy in Songyuan City. They were originally the main academy." Alchemy Institute" part.
——It's like a certain college of a certain university has independently established a new university... Luo Xiu quickly understood, and with the technical power of the Tower of Sage, it is not difficult to move buildings directly.
Luo Xiu and Oleile were chatting and walking like this. Soon, they had arrived in front of the dome tower where "Acting Dean" Alfan was located.
"This is the 'Tower of General Knowledge', Lord Irfan is in the tower, distinguished guests."
Oleile bowed slightly to Luo Xiu and Pamier, and said, "After that, you two can enter on your own. Lord Alfan is on the third floor of the tower."
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Olele." Luo Xiu nodded and responded to him.
After that, Oleile turned and left. Luo Xiu and Pamier did not stay much, but walked straight into the dome in front of them.
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Fangbeiyuan, the Tower of General Knowledge.
Looking from the outside of the tower, you don't feel that there is a lot of space inside. But it wasn't until he actually entered the tower that Luo Xiu realized that the range of activities was much larger than he had imagined.
At this time, in front of Luo Xiu was a space with a wide view and an interior decorated purely with geometry.
It was comparable to a small courtyard, and the interior decoration was completely different from that of the Fangbeiyuan as a whole.
On the wall inside the Tower of Knowledge, there are perfectly round white-edged panes hanging at a certain distance; under the panes there is a long rectangular inner groove, in which is an unfinished golem.
In addition, some tables, chairs, and ornaments were also neatly arranged in a simple style. Luo Xiu looked around and recalled the scene of the "Alchemy Yard" in Sina City.
There are quite a few similarities between the decoration style here and that of the Alchemy Institute in Sina City. Luo Xiu gradually went deep into the Tower of General Knowledge and came to the stairs leading to the upper level.
As he walked up the spiral stairs and was about to reach the second floor of the Tower of Knowledge, Luo Xiu gradually smelled the strong smell of blood.
It came from behind the door on the second floor. When Luo Xiu came to the door, the door surface suddenly flashed with dark blue mottled luster, and the creaking sound of the machine's rotation came from both sides. The door was slowly moved towards Pull the sides apart.
A scene that was completely different from the first floor of the tower caught Luo Xiu's eyes for the first time.
——Those are all corpses! They are the corpses of the abyssal beasts "Blood Corpse Hyena" that emerged from the forest earlier!
The abdomens of these bloody hyena corpses have been cut open, and the internal organs have been taken out. The remaining parts of the corpses are hung in front of the walls on both sides with special metal chains, and there are seats and A blood tank big enough to hold a full-grown bull.
A drop of deep red to black blood flowed down from the cross section of the hyena carcass, spread to the nose of their head, and then dripped into the blood tank.
"..." Luo Xiu noticed that Pamier's armor behind her seemed to tremble slightly. She seemed not very used to such a scene.
Although Pamier was used to judging heretics and the chaotic and bloody scenes on the battlefield, it was still difficult to accept the slaughterhouse-like scene in front of him... Luo Xiu thought to himself, he also had a similar feeling of nausea, but it was just Mild, not serious.
He and Pamier then entered the second floor, quickly walked to the end despite the smell of blood, and came to the door leading to the third floor.
"——Creak, creak..." Just like before, a long and dull sound came from both sides of the door, and the door was slowly opened to both sides.
The entrance to the hanging steps once again appeared in front of Luo Xiu. He stepped onto the first step without hesitation and climbed to the third floor of the Tower of Knowledge.
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The scene on the third floor is completely different from that on the first and second floors.
This place is more like a clean and tidy research room, with various alchemy and rune-related equipment placed in various eye-catching locations on the third floor.
Luo Xiu walked deeper, and the sounds of "Puff, Puff" came from time to time in his ears.
Just when he passed a corner, Luo Xiu suddenly saw an entire wall containing glassware.
On the three rows of display cabinets in the middle, there are transparent glass jars of different sizes.
Those glass jars are filled with dark green transparent liquid, and various organs are soaked in them - those are the organs dissected from the corpses of bloody hyenas. The labels on the walls of the jars are very good. Proved this.
"Puff, puff," the rhythmic sound, as if made by squeezing the body, came from the room on the other side.
Luo Xiu stopped staying and walked towards that room.
He then saw the figure of Erfan, the "Acting Dean" and "Great Alchemist" of Fangbeiyuan.
He was currently bending over a long blue table. When he heard the footsteps of someone walking in, Irfan raised his head and glanced at his guest. "Ah, you are here, Mr. Luo Xiu."
Alfan greeted Luo Xiu with a kind expression.
An apologetic expression appeared on his face immediately, and he said: "Sorry, I am still busy with the research on the previous hyena monsters, and I may not be able to receive you for a while."
"It's okay, I can wait." Luo Xiu responded calmly, looked around, and found a clean chair to sit down in front of.
After that, Erfan leaned down again, and the sound of "Puff, Puff" came from behind the long table again and reached Luo Xiu's ears.
The same smell of blood that he smelled on the second floor was now permeating the entire room, which made Luo Xiu couldn't help but have some suspicions.
But he did not stand up to observe, but waited calmly for Alfan to complete the work in his hands.
About three minutes passed, and Irfan suddenly straightened his back and said excitedly:
"I seem to have succeeded!"
Then he stood up and raised his hands.
Unlike his originally clean and tidy upper body, the clothes on Irfan's lower body and his hands were covered in blood!
He even held a short knife carved from crystalline stone in his hand, with fine minced meat stuck to the blade!
"..." Luo Xiu felt that Pamier behind him seemed to be shaking slightly again.
As if he noticed that the atmosphere at the scene was a bit strange, Irfan suddenly smiled and said:
"Ah, please don't worry, Sir Luo Xiu. I just completed an experiment."
"Now, it's time to test the results."
With that said, Irfan walked out from behind the long table and walked to the center of the room.
He raised the crystal knife in his hand at the same time. The crystal blade exuded a faint luster of pyroxene, and several light blue lines spread like blood vessels on it, and gradually spread to Irfan's arm. .
"——In the name of Diouf." Irfan chanted softly, "Obey my command."
"——Roar..." There was a low roar from behind the long table where Irfan was before.
Then, a two-headed corpse hyena covered in blood and without skin staggered out from behind the table.
Just at the position of its chest, a blue crystal was inlaid on it, and several blue bending lines spread outward from the crystal.
The azure crystal stone is flashing with mottled broken light, squeezing the inner flesh and making a "puff, plop" sound, just like a heart pumping blood.
"-Hoho..." The blood corpse hyena's throat rolled, and the scarlet luster in its eyes flickered on and off, and it was walking towards Irfan - to be precise, towards the spar knife in his hand.
"Look, Sir Luo Xiu, this is the experiment I am doing."
Irfan smiled and said: "The turquoise stone that has been finely tempered with alchemy techniques, and then supplemented with rune circuits, can replace the hearts of these monsters."
"I want to name it 'Lihuan False Heart'."
"The process of making it is not complicated, and the method of installing it on these blood hyenas is also very simple. In this way, if we encounter such monsters again, we may be able to control one of them..."
"--roar!!!"
Suddenly, the blood-corpse hyena that had been equipped with the "Fake Heart of the Slave Ring" let out a violent roar, and its originally dim eyes suddenly turned scarlet. It showed its claws in the direction of Irfan and pounced towards him.
"...Tsk."
Irfan frowned. He flicked the crystal dagger in his hand and drew two intersecting traces in the air. The mottled broken light stagnated in the air, slowly pouring down like a stream of hemp.
And on the surface of the "fake heart" in the chest cavity of the blood corpse hyena, a trace of "X" also appeared simultaneously.
The next moment, the color of the azure crystal stone quickly changed to deep red. A "sizzling" sound came from it, and the crystal seemed to have become extremely hot, burning the blood and flesh of the bloody corpse hyena.
--boom! ! !
When the color of the crystal completely changed to deep red, cracks spread out on the surface like spider threads, and then there was a violent explosion!
The roar of the blood corpse hyena was annihilated together with the deafening explosion. Its flesh and blood was also blown to pieces by the explosion, and not a trace of residue was left.
Irfan quickly opened a light blue shield barrier to protect himself, Luo Xiu, and Pamier. The aftermath of the crystal explosion hit the barrier, shaking out pieces of light like water waves. Pattern.
It wasn't until the smoke and dust from the explosion dispersed that Irfan put away the shield barrier and said to Luo Xiu with some embarrassment: "...It seems that the experiment failed, Sir Luo Xiu. I'm really sorry to let you see. To the embarrassing side.”
"Yes, but this failure is not entirely worthless. At least I have learned that the inner spirituality of the 'Lihuan False Heart' is not stable enough..."
"We still need to improve it, um... you can try Tiansong spar, or dragon spine spar... and the engraved Toles-style rune ring can be replaced with Arando-style... ah, I'm sorry. , I started talking to myself again.”
...In the short period of one hour since he came to Fangbeiyuan to pick up the demon doll, Luo Xiu had already witnessed two "failed experiments".
"It's okay, I understand." He looked at Irfan, who was not discouraged in front of him, and just nodded with a smile.
"Let me change my clothes first, Mr. Luo Xiu. What you are wearing now is really not in line with etiquette."
As Irfan said, he walked to the small room on the other side and soon changed into clean lore robes.
"Then, Sir Luo Xiu, as I promised you before, I will give you a 'Crazy Calamity Level' demon doll as a meeting gift."
Irfan clapped his hands, and the wall on one side of the room suddenly opened, and a tall and thin golem walked out of it.
It has four arms, and its bionic palms are holding four pendants inlaid with different crystal stones.
——Those are all "demon pendants"! Luo Xiu, who had seen a similar scene before, quickly knew what it was.
"These are magic crystals that seal spirituality, and there is a third-level demon doll 'sleeping' in them."
Irfan said: "You can choose one of the 'Ghost Falcon', 'Mountain Giant', 'Oak Healer' and 'Vibrator' to take away."
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(End of chapter)