Chapter 1 The Beginning
"Bai Mo, we're out for dinner. When we leave, remember to put away the experimental materials and lock the laboratory door~" said several classmates from the same laboratory as Bai Mo.
"Yeah." He responded casually.
Bai Mo, a graduate student in the Department of Materials Physics at Tianhai University, is the main job of judging documents and completing various experimental tasks for his supervisors. Several of them in the materials laboratory are all senior professor Zhao Jiasen of Materials.
"Everything was finally out." In other people's eyes, Bai Mo was sleeping in the document pile and the laboratory all day long. He secretly had an unknown hobby, that is - reading novels.
He likes to read various fantasy, fantasy types, novels with extraordinary power systems. He often substitutes himself into the master's kilometer surface of the novel, and fantasizes about what he will do if he has the ability of the protagonist.
"This world without extraordinary abilities is so boring. Whether it is cultivating immortals, magic, or superpowers, it doesn't appear in this world."
He is also at the age of being imaginative and often has some unrealistic ideas. He even conceived a complete system of power, but because he only knows how to write straightforward papers and does not know how to portray the emotions of the characters in the novel, he has always kept it deep in his mind.
This kind of fantasy of power all day long seems to be called the secondary disease online. His secondary disease is well hidden and becomes something similar to the personality of the inner person.
The outer personality is packaged as a mature and sensible good student who pursues what mainstream college students values, such as GPA. Bai Mo also knows that only by wearing a mask in this way can he be recognized by the mainstream of society and not regarded as an alien.
"The Lord of Fighting" is a novel that Bai Mo has been following every day. Every time there is an update, he will immediately take out his mobile phone and open the client to watch it.
It seems that because the Endpoint Novel Network has been launching a rewarding event recently, many popular book authors are experiencing their lives, and the update speed is quite amazing.
Just when Bai Mo was addicted to novels, something strange happened...
After heating the experimental materials to be tested in the heating kettle for a period of time, they gradually began to emit some unknown light green gas. Bai Mo, who was just sideways and blocked his sight by the right hand of the mobile phone, was obsessed with it because he saw a wonderful imagination and did not notice the experimental phenomenon at all.
In his memory, the material that the instructor ordered to be processed must be heated for about ten minutes, and ten minutes is enough for him to finish watching the two updates every day.
Anyone who is addicted to online novels knows that they will basically not let go of the climax part when they see it. Everyone will think about reading the protagonist's pretending to be.
But Bai Moluo calculated a little. He could read two novels in ten minutes, but today he got ten updates! By the time he realized it, more than twenty minutes had passed.
"What does this taste like?" He suddenly felt something was wrong, so he quickly put down his phone, turned his head to look at the sample in the heating kettle.
The stone-shaped sample is slowly emerging from some light green gas, which is constantly floating in the air, and the green becomes lighter and lighter.
"According to the experimental requirements left by the instructor, this unknown material should be heated smoothly to 50 degrees within 10 minutes. Moreover, because the chemical properties are unknown, water bath heating will not be considered first."
"So after more than twenty minutes, the thermometer shows that it is now 200 degrees Celsius. The original black ore material has turned into a light green color, and the experiment has been ruined."
"But what would that green gas be? The experimental prediction results in the instructor's experimental manual do not have this one. There are very few light green gases in my memory, and it seems that there is no match for the top number. Invisibly, I inhaled a lot, but there was no sign of poisoning, but instead I felt a lot more energetic."
He talked to himself all the way, following the laboratory rules, began to clean up the experimental equipment, and then stuffed a set of data that looked relatively normal into the experimental data record form, pretending that there was no problem.
But when cleaning up the experimental waste, he accidentally put the sample that returned to its original color into his pocket and did not throw it into the experimental waste treatment area. After packing up the experimental equipment, he went to the disinfection room to wash his hands, and then put it on the laboratory door.
While walking on the road, he was still thinking about what the green gas was just now, but his thoughts were interrupted by the protest from his stomach.
According to his usual habits, he bought a plate of chicken leg rice at the canteen window, but after a few strokes, he put them all into his mouth. At first, Bai Mo thought that the aunt had made less food today, and he still felt hungry after eating the whole plate, so he lined up to buy a plate of rice and came back.
As a result, after eating the second plate, he finally found something was wrong - he was still a little hungry!
Soon after the third plate and the fourth plate, he felt full.
Because he had been sitting in the same place to eat, the few people next to him watched the birth of this big eater throughout the whole process. When he looked at Bai Mo's slightly thin body, he suddenly felt that the world was too unfair, why would he gain weight by drinking cold water yourself!
At this time, he was surrounded by the slight envious and jealous eyes around him, and realized that because of his special appetite today, he attracted the attention of people around him.
As a person who has no confidence in his appearance and is used to living under the ignorance of others, he decisively chose to pack up his tableware and run away.
Back in the school's single dormitory, Bai Mo, who was lying in bed and was bored to continue reading the novel, thought about his abnormal appetite today, and when he thought about the plot of the novel, he seemed to have many things such as washing hair and cutting marrow, refining essence into qi, or starting the path of evolution, it seemed that there would be a period of binge eating, which required a lot of energy to make up for the needs.
"Will I encounter such a magical thing? Such an abnormal appetite is really hard to explain. I didn't do any heavy physical activities, and even after doing heavy physical labor, one person could not easily eat the food of four people. The only strange thing that happened today should be the gas generated by the experimental reaction." He usually had the same appetite as normal people, and he began to think about today's abnormality.
"If that light green gas is spiritual energy, it seems to make sense that I was washed and cut off my marrow." He was originally planning to read the novel, but this idea came to his mind for some reason.
"It feels good to inhale spiritual energy. The stone that can release spiritual energy...is it a spirit stone?"
He did not think about it in reality anymore, but used the logic of online novels to deduce them all the way.
"Am I considered the legendary protagonist? I could pick up treasures for no reason, and I found the way to use the treasure by accident. Could it be that this is my 'plug'? But using a spirit stone as a plug-in...it's too cold no matter how you look at it. At least it is a magic weapon that can emit infinite spiritual energy to deserve my protagonist's halo." Bai Mo picked up the sample on the table and played with it boredly.
Just as Bai Mo thought about it further and further under the logical deduction of the wicked building, he was almost imagining a modern cultivation novel with himself as the protagonist, the alarm clock of "Lingling" sounded, reminding Bai Mo that it was time to take a nap.
As for why the alarm clock reminds you to sleep rather than wake up? Old Bookworm knows that it is easy to read the novels in bed and pass the bedtime after reading them, so he specially adjusted such an alarm clock to remind himself to take a nap time so as not to affect his spirit in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Bai Mo's instructor Zhao Jiasen arrived at the laboratory and saw Bai Mo who was seriously chewing on the instructions for using the new equipment in the laboratory. He walked up to him and patted Bai Mo's shoulder and asked, "Xiao Mo, how did the experiment in the morning? Have the physical and chemical properties and parameters of the sample been recorded?"
Bai Mo was shocked, but soon came to his senses and replied: "Good afternoon, tutor, the experiment in the morning went smoothly, and the remaining waste residue after the sample test has been processed. I'll get you a data record."
After saying that, Bai Mo went to carry the laptop and opened the database to display the data to Zhao Jiasen.
"Well, the data is recorded quite thoroughly, keep working hard. By the way, Xiaomo, is there any special properties of this ore?"
"Teacher, what questions do you have about this?"
"I picked up this ore at the crater when I was inspecting Hawaii. I feel like I have never been exposed to this material before. I have been dealing with various materials for a lifetime and saw any material that I could not judge at a glance. The first reaction was to sample and test the properties, which became an occupational disease."
"This passed the preliminary chemical test and is an ordinary volcanic rock, which has no special properties. Tutor, I have some questions in the document you asked me to read last time..." Bai Mo quickly changed the topic.
After a daily academic question and answer, the two continued to do their own things, Bai Mo continued to read the new equipment instructions, and Professor Zhao went to other graduate students to learn about other experimental progress.
Chapter completed!