Chapter 210 8. "God's Contract" is too cheap, hey, where's the sense of ritual? -Happy New Year's Eve【1515】
"Successfully completed an alchemical creation of excellent quality and outstanding craftsmanship, wisdom enlightenment took effect, and alchemy skill proficiency increased by X80, currently Lv5+1."
In the cabin of the Black Pearl late at night, when Mason looked at the slightly turbid liquid in the golden cup in front of him, a familiar reminder popped up in front of his eyes.
At this time, more than half a month had passed since the last improvement in alchemy, but everything fell into place. After exhausting the necessary time to practice hard, Mason once again ushered in a breakthrough in technique.
But he is no longer as excited as he used to be.
Perhaps it was not long but too much experience that had settled his temper and made him calmer.
He pushed up the wisdom frame on the bridge of his nose that exuded a cold breath, took out a spoonful of the liquid in the golden cup and looked at it. The information label quickly popped up:
Improved Green Goblin Transformation Agent
Quality: Excellent alchemical creation·Outstanding craftsmanship
Item effect: After drinking, it will give the drinker a number of temporary enhancements within 48 hours. The effects include [super strength/maximum 9 tons], [super reaction], [super endurance], and [enhanced regeneration].
When the transformation agent takes effect, the user will be in a state of mental excitement and immune to low-level mind-disturbing spells and illusion effects.
Notice!
Although the drug has been improved, it still has a great stimulating effect on the pituitary gland. After drinking it for many times, it may give rise to a second personality, but the symptoms can be alleviated through psychological intervention and drug treatment.
Producer: Mason Cooper
Item Description: Take a sip to refresh your mind! Two sips and the world turns upside down! Take three sips and you will cry like a ghost! One more bite, tsk, hell report.
"Good life."
Mason looked expressionlessly after reading the item description, which was also very nervous today, and then picked up the transformation potion and drank it for himself.
Although there are hidden dangers, for traditional alchemy, an alchemist who dares not even drink the potions he makes is definitely unqualified!
As the gardenia-scented liquid entered his mouth, it brought a bitter taste, but it was quickly replaced by a strange feeling of clearing up his mind. Mason let out a sigh of relief. His back was sore from hours of continuous alchemy. The pain suddenly eased a lot.
At the same time, an exciting force surged out of the body.
He turned around and grabbed a seamless steel pipe on the workbench. His fingers left clear fingerprints on it with great force. He then picked up a knife forged with Isu skills and made a cut on his skin. The blood flowed out, but in an instant it was gone. Hemostasis and healing.
The effect of this transformation agent made him very satisfied.
After Consus, the Isu ghost who specializes in the field of biotechnology, gave suggestions for improvement, the side effects of this product have been reduced a lot. After a period of observation, it can be distributed to the servant army as a mature combat medicine.
Of course the main members of Team K don't use this thing.
They have better ones.
With a sense of satisfaction and a clear mind, Mason walked to the window of the captain's cabin and opened it to let the smell of herbs in the house dissipate.
After a short rest for a few minutes, he took out a bottle of Gravityium and a bunch of engineering components that had been prepared in advance, intending to make a prototype of the unscientific thing called "Gravity Well" tonight.
But just when Mason was putting the gravity chromium into the electromagnetic generator according to strict proportions, the hatch of the captain's cabin was suddenly pushed open.
At the evil hour of five o'clock in the morning, a drunken Captain Jack Sparrow walked in with a lady in a cloak.
"Mason, I brought you a guest."
Jack introduced with a man's dissatisfaction:
"She strongly demanded to see you, especially after hearing about our mission and your crazy plan. She was unwilling to delay for a moment. She even forced me to get up from the bed."
"I'm busy."
Mason sat in front of the workbench and said without raising his head:
"Can you wait a little longer, or come back tomorrow, this strange lady of the gods?"
"No!"
The uninvited lady lifted her hood, revealing a beautiful white face, which was very different from the human form of the female sea goddess Colypso in Mason's memory.
But this is not surprising.
If she, a true god of nature, couldn't even freely transform into a human form, then she would be a bit of a loser.
She stared at Mason and said hoarsely:
"This is a matter of life and death.
Not just for me, but for the world. I can feel the stars above my head forming a gleam of death, and the world beneath my feet has smelled the lament of doom and is trembling.
Every minute and every second that follows is important.
It will directly determine whether everything in this world will come to an end or be reborn, including me of course. ”
"Well, you are starting to care about everything in the world now?"
Mason snorted, and his dexterous hands continued to combine the components in his hands while adjusting the position of the liquid gravity, and said with a hint of ridicule:
"You turned a blind eye when the hounds of the Society of Stars spread the virus, you looked on coldly when the old continent fell into hell, and you turned a blind eye when the last batch of survivors fled to the sea in despair.
Over the past few months you have acted like you have no connection with this world, and creatures like us have no value in your eyes.
Why did he suddenly become a good and compassionate god?
Is it because the disaster that you have always thought was insignificant has finally spread to your feet, so you feel the fear from the bottom of your heart for the first time? ”
The captain curled his lips and said:
"The arrogant Poseidon finally realized the true meaning of cruel fate, but he was still not candid enough. When he started talking to me, he talked about the world and the future, which was full of a familiar feeling of 'painting a big pie'.
Maybe I should acquiesce that you plan to trick me? ”
"How dare you say that."
Captain Jack who was listening carefully glanced at Colypso's gloomy face, took another sip of wine to suppress his shock, and whispered to his captain:
"I keep words like these in my heart."
"It's okay, Jack. Ms. Colypso is very aware of her situation. It's just like when she was down and out, she would endure and compromise with the pirate kings in order to regain her throne.
She has always been a person who knows how to assess situations. ”
Mason shook his head and said:
"But now I want to ask you to go out, Jack. Stay outside the door and don't let others disturb us. By the way, send a message to Barbossa and the others for me. I will talk to them early tomorrow morning."< br>
"Received."
Jack snapped his fingers, turned around and left, and gently closed the door to the captain's cabin.
When only Mason and Poseidon were left in the cabin, Colypso finally stopped saying those high-sounding words about the world and the future.
She was silent for a moment and said:
"They are coming for me! Every rushing tide is warning me. I wanted to hide deep in the sea and survive this doomsday, but under your instruction, those damn pirates got the trident. .
They coerced me into helping them, but they had no idea that all their efforts were meaningless.
Like a bilge rat before a ship sinks, jumping up and down driven by the fear of the unknown and doing everything possible to try to save the situation. But I could have stayed out of it.
You let me"
"Stay out of it? Are you kidding me?"
Mason raised his head and looked at the angry and "wronged" Poseidon in front of him with a look that looked like a fool. He said:
"You are just a low-level god, Colipso. Your existence is based on the fear and worship of the sea by the sailors and pirates of this world.
You are a natural god and cannot be separated from nature.
If this world were to end, do you still think you can avoid death if you are incarnated in every drop of sea water? If you still have this childish idea of staying out of the situation, then I think there is nothing left to talk about between the two of us.
I need you to be a brave warrior in the next few days, but you act like you're scared out of your wits even before you go into battle.
Then why don't I kill you right here to give you a happy ending, so that you won't be humiliated and tortured again after being captured, what do you think? ”
Collypso fell silent.
She was speechless, and that was true.
Even Will Turner, the captain of the ghost ship Dutchman cursed by her, can feel the march of doom. It is impossible for her, a god of nature who relies on the world to exist, not to feel it.
She just doesn't care and regards everything that happens in the mortal world as a cruel drama to please herself. After all, some past experiences have caused the relationship between this female sea goddess and humans to be unfriendly.
From her dark mind, she even earnestly hoped to see the demise of these cunning things.
"What do you want?"
Seeing that Mason was immersed in assembling those strange things and did not intend to speak anymore, the female Poseidon had to take the initiative to ask:
"I don't hide my hatred and contempt for humans, but I also know from Jack that you intend to save them and take them away from the doomsday.
If you show full confidence, then maybe you can also help me, a God with no way to escape? ”
Collypso didn't want to be so humble.
But the keen perception brought by being born as a god was rolling in her mind like a hot iron rod at this time, allowing her to feel the coming crisis more clearly than a weak human being.
She couldn't even control the overflow of fear.
After all, the biggest crisis she faced in her long life was just being sealed into a mortal by a group of cunning pirate kings. But now, what she has to face is death
"It's not easy to save you."
Mason finally stopped the assembly at hand. He frowned and looked at the half-assembled gravity well in front of him, which seemed to have encountered some kind of mechanical problem.
While picking up the handkerchief and wiping the lubricant on her fingers, she said to the goddess of the sea:
"For example, you first need to figure out what the coming destroyers are here for? They are not here to cause massacre but for a very clear goal.
Divinity in you, Colypso.
As the last remaining source of supernatural power in this world, it can break the rules and elevate a weak world to a level that does not belong to it.
Belongs to the power of the sea, the true and only treasure of this world.
They won't give up until they get these things, and even if I can take you out of this world, you have to lose your divinity in advance.
Otherwise, you won't be able to get through the escape door prepared for mortals. ”
"Impossible!"
Colipso in human form suddenly frowned, and waves of rolling and lapping sounds also sounded outside the window, representing the rapid changes in the thoughts of the goddess of the sea.
She refused:
"I will not let myself be weak for a second time. It is enough to lose power and be humble and weak once."
"Then we have nothing more to say."
Mason shook his head and said:
"Being unwilling to give up your power means that you must face the invaders and defeat them. This is not impossible, but if you want to retain your power and escape, you are asking for too much.
I'm just an ordinary C-level person. I don't have a magic lamp in my hand, so I can't give you everything you want.
But we can bypass this topic and talk about sub-level cooperation. ”
He looked at Colypso and said:
"We can stand with you against the invaders, the emotionless killing machines, the sweepers, who are also our enemies.
My guys and I would love to see these guys buried here.
The more they die, the happier we are.
Jack, that guy who likes to brag, should have told you when we had sex with you just now that we defeated them in another world and we are not afraid to fight them.
We can help you share the pressure, allowing you to better control the storm and destroy it.
But it's not free, Collypso. ”
Mason stretched his voice, walked to Poseidon, picked up the wine bottle, poured her a glass of wine and handed it to her, saying:
"You still have illusions. You think your world can survive. Even if there is no human being, you can still make a comeback in the next lingering era.
I appreciate your optimism.
I will also reserve this opportunity for you, that door of escape will always have a place for you, but you know what it will take to get through it.
This is the last condition I can give you. ”
"Deal! Now what? What do I do?"
Poseidon glanced at Mason, took what he handed to her, drank it in one gulp, and asked dumbly.
"Ride the sea and do what you know best, Collypso, Lord Poseidon."
Mason pointed out the window and said:
"Bring all the living people who are still scattered on the sea here, the sooner the better, I know you have this ability."
"Are you really planning to save everyone? I thought Jack was bragging after drinking too much, thinking how could such a saint be born in this world?"
The female Poseidon was stunned for a moment, then she covered her mouth and let out bursts of weird laughter.
She looked Mason up and down and said:
"You know, I saw that man being crucified with my own eyes. Compared with him, you really don't look like a savior. But you are doing things that only a savior can do
How arrogant! ”
"I'm not as great as you say."
Mason waved his hands and said humbly:
"Just like when I first entered this world, I once told my team members that I didn't like the end of the world, and he also ridiculed me like you that I couldn't resist the arrival of the end.
I may indeed be no match for the fate of everything turning into ashes.
But I just want to tell you that when I say I am going to do something, I must mean it! Don't joke, don't try, do your best, and die.
Either do it or don’t do it!
Didn't give this argument a try.
So, will you help me? Ms. Collypso.
At this time when we are all entering the unknown, you will repay those who have shown you disdain for thousands of years of admiration and respect by giving them some much-needed help. ”
He watched Poseidon add more wine to her glass, and he also picked up another wine glass to clink with her and said:
"The end is coming, and mortals will have their own struggles in it. Gods like you should also return to your place. Doesn't it mean that God loves the world?
If you can, why not love them for once? ”
"I am not so powerful that a mortal would imagine being a god."
Colipso curled her lips, and Poseidon drank the wine in her hand, wiped her mouth, and said:
"Just because I'm grabbing you, the visible life-saving straw, doesn't mean how much I will like these bastards who have hurt me."
"Don't be like this. The unhappiness of the past should be forgotten."
Mason shook his head and said:
"If you meet again in another world in the future, fellow villagers will have to take care of each other and leave a trace of love so that it won't be too embarrassing to meet later.
This is the choice of smart people.
Well, I wish us happy cooperation in advance, Lord Poseidon. ”
A few minutes later, Colypso left the Black Pearl alone. Mason didn't even go to see her off because he didn't want to waste time, and he still had a gravitonium device on hand that he hadn't finished yet.
"That girl just now was interesting."
Zha Kang was like a bee that smelled the sweetness or a buzzing fly attracted to the rotten fruit. He poked his head out of the meditation room above Mason and said to Mason:
"You said, if I plan to develop something with her."
"Whatever you want, I won't tell Xiao Zha."
Mason said without raising his head:
"Hurry up and get familiar with that component, John. Now, all your lives are in your hands." (End of Chapter)