Chapter 444 A transitional chapter for some small talk
A few days later.
Today is the anniversary of the 865th anniversary of the founding of Luying Royal College, and it also commemorates the victory day of an ancient war. The college has prepared a grand celebration and invited many prominent people from London to attend.
In the evening, Su Lun changed his clothes and waited on the street for Sabina to pick him up and go to the Royal Academy together.
It’s not that he is interested in any celebration party, but Kit plans to go to the Royal Library today to steal the [Isaac’s Alchemy Manuscript]. Suellen must be there in person to handle it. Just in case of any special circumstances,
Can you help me deal with it.
At ten minutes past six, exactly as promised, a white Gothic-style steam locomotive decorated with silver horns appeared from the corner, drove up and parked on the street.
The female driver wearing a white condom got out of the car and opened the door respectfully, and Su Lun got on.
As soon as the car door closed, a hot and delicate body clung to it, and the soft and tender voice said: "Master, I haven't seen you for many days. Do you miss your dearest maid?"
Su Lun smiled and naturally put his hands on the soft waist.
Sabina is wearing a sexy black low-cut dress today, which is elegant and full of mature woman charm. If you take a closer look, there is a different light in her expression than before.
Su Lun asked: "The colonial clothing has also been successfully integrated?"
I haven’t seen him for so many days. Naturally, after he advanced to the fourth level, he integrated some colonial equipment.
There was a charm on Sabina's face that she had never shown in front of outsiders, "Yes, thanks to your 'Void Potion', Master, the advancement and integration went very smoothly. I am even more powerful now~"
As she spoke, she hugged Su Lun's neck seductively. This posture seemed a little inconvenient and more intimate, so she lifted up her skirt again, exposing her slender legs to the air.
The carriage was obviously very big, but she stayed stuck together.
Su Lun raised his eyebrows, "More powerful?"
Sabina smiled with a crooked eyebrow, "Yes, Master, do you want to try it?"
"Tsk tsk..."
Su Lun didn't feel bad either.
The charm of the succubus is deep in one's bones, and it is the ultimate addictive enjoyment.
His hands were not idle and he asked: "Is there any special information these days?"
Sabine responded enthusiastically, saying: "Raphael has been particularly active recently after becoming the sixth member of the House of Representatives. The biggest thing is to amend the Imperial Arms Act. He has used his absolutely crushing technological strength to change the Luying military.
The arms supply list has now become the number one arms dealer in Luying. For this reason, some old arms families have great resentment and are secretly obstructing it. However... after three congressmen were assassinated recently, they openly opposed it.
The sound also disappeared."
Su Lun chuckled: "Haha, does the Luying royal family allow such a method?"
Sabina said: "This is also strange. The royal family has no intention of intervening at all. Moreover, there are several senior congressmen secretly supporting Rafael, and he is very confident. Preliminary intelligence shows that it is the Lance family and the Roberts family.
.”
Su Lun didn't sound too surprised.
Archduke Raphael has been developing for decades, and he has a huge army of super mechanical warriors and super battleships.
Have money, technology, and connections.
The level of military industry far surpasses any of the old arms groups in Lu Ying, and it indeed has the strength to challenge the old nobles of the empire.
But...the Lance family?
For some reason, Su Lun suddenly thought of Ekaterina.
The Lance family has been operating in the north of Luying for so many years and is very powerful. Just looking at the layout of the four countries in Beizhou, we know that their plans are very big and they will not simply build bridges for others.
And when Su Lun was killed before, William was on Raphael's super battleship. In other words, the Raigadi family and the Raphael family had already secretly cooperated.
Now the Lance family is about to marry Raigadi again...
The relationship becomes more subtle.
Su Lun also guessed that his identity as "Fick" would be a springboard for Yekaterina to take advantage of. But this marriage was an exchange of interests, and there was nothing to say.
He asked again: "Where is the other information, what is the situation with the Red Death?"
Sabina said: "The situation is very bad. The Red Death suddenly broke out on a large scale, and there are now reports of cases in several large factories south of the Locovalen River. However, the official has not expressed its position for a long time, and seems to be deliberately suppressing it.
This news was not accurately reported in the newspapers. But judging from the data obtained through various channels, the number of infected people is probably quite large."
Su Lun's pupils shrank slightly when he heard this.
Sabina continued: "On the other hand, the [Scarlet Potion] produced by 'Bakchi Biopharmaceutical Company' has passed the health review and is being produced vigorously. Several families that previously opposed it, except the Lance family and Raphael
The Er family is still resolutely resisting, and several other major congressmen have compromised. According to the information I have received, it is the senior management of the pharmaceutical company who used shares to buy off members of several other families..."
After hearing this, Su Lun also felt that the matter was so serious that there was nothing he could do about it.
After all, if there is no quality problem in the pharmaceutical inspection, there is no reasonable reason to stop production.
And now that interests are used to divide the internal affairs, four of the six congressmen are in favor. Now it is even more impossible to ban [Scarlet Potion] from a policy level.
Sabina said: "And because of the dispersion of equity, the pharmacy's interest groups have expanded a lot. This also directly led to the attitude of those at the top of the Congress towards the Red Death being very perfunctory, and even meant to allow the disease to spread. I also got
They obtained a top-secret record of their high-level meeting, saying that because there was no specific medicine on the market, the pharmaceutical merchants were not in a hurry to put the [Scarlet Potion] on the market, but instead joined forces to hoard it, preparing to increase the number of infected people before releasing it.
Pharmacy monopoly to make huge profits.”
When Su Lun heard this, his eyes suddenly became serious.
Those nobles may not necessarily all be believers of the outer god. It was just because of greed that they thought of allowing the Red Death to spread and make huge profits.
Although the Red Death has a high fatality rate, the process is very long and may torture the patient for several months before dying in pain.
If it is not controlled, it will take only a few months for this disease to infect Lingdun.
No, it even threatens the entire Luying Empire.
The endgame on the cruise ship was still fresh in his mind, and it was hard for Su Lun to imagine how terrifying the evil god would be then.
But knowing clearly that this is a conspiracy by an alien god and still being unable to stop it makes people feel that personal power is really pale.
Lu Ying's aristocratic system is really rotten to the core.
In the eyes of the great nobles, the lives of the lower-class civilians are probably no different from slaves and livestock, and no one cares about their life or death.
This also facilitated the alien god's conspiracy.
Su Lun couldn't think of a better solution, so he asked again: "What about tonight?"
Sabina was obviously well prepared and said: "I just got the list of participants before I came. The Royal Academy invited some alumni of the academy, and there are quite a lot of big shots in London's upper class. Your fiancée Ekaterina
The young lady will attend. Oh, and Young Master William of the Raigadi family is also coming."
"oh?"
Su Lun listened with great interest.
...
The steam car drove into the gate of the Royal Academy, and Jike had been waiting for a long time.
After making the bomb, he spent the past few days copying various alchemy classics in the academy's library.
Explosives is only a very small branch of pharmacy. Among the tens of thousands of students in the academy, only a handful of people study "munitions science".
However, there are advantages to having fewer people.
For subjects that no one pays attention to, materials are cheap and knowledge is also very cheap.
Knowledge books such as some advanced alchemy formulas, ancient scrolls, and unique books would require a lot of credits to be exchanged for other majors, but about gunpowder, you can browse them at will in the library.
This is also convenient for Jike.
Regardless of whether I can understand it or not, I just copied it down first.
As soon as he got off the car, Jike, who was waiting by the car door, saluted Su Lun respectfully, with an expression of great reverence: "Teacher!"
He saw Sabina getting out of the car again, and also saluted: "Hello, madam."
Although she was not a "teacher's wife", he didn't know that this beautiful lady had an extraordinary relationship with her teacher.
Sabina smiled slightly and praised: "Our little Jike is dressed very handsomely today."
Jike was a little shy, "Thank you for the compliment."
He is wearing a punk style dress today.
The fabric is not high-end, and the style is not too special.
What makes him handsome is not the clothes, but the confidence in his eyes that is completely different from before.
And this confidence comes from Su Lun in front of him.
In the past few days, Jike also went out to read newspapers from a month ago. Only after reading this did he realize how terrifying his teacher's combat power was!
In that battle, the Moros city-state shocked the world by defeating 200,000 pirates and killing tens of thousands. This was the headline on every page of the newspaper in Linton, and related reports even lasted for half a month.
However, the newspaper reports are only part of it!
In the past few days, Jike had been making explosives in the small void world. He saw Sullun's large-scale war workshop with his own eyes, and then he realized that his teacher was not only powerful, but also had an extremely deep foundation.
Mass production of mechanical battle armor that only the Marfa Empire can manufacture, as well as those mechanical octopus, rune puppet assembly lines...
Everything you see is inspiring.
This is something that no one in the Luying Empire can do, not even the royal family.
As a disciple, Jike now knows how powerful his teacher is!
No wonder Mrs. Demakula would say that as a teacher's disciple, her status is definitely no worse than that of any noble.
This is the source of Jike’s confidence: I have a strong teacher!
Su Lun looked at his disciple and probably guessed why he saw the sparkle in his eyes, and smiled slightly: "How does the new mechanical prosthetic limb feel?"
What Zeke needs is not a combat prosthesis, so he doesn't need a pure silver hand like Barrett. Instead, a mechanical arm with complex functions can better meet his daily research needs.
So after using materials to make up for the defects in his fingers, Su Lun used his superb mechanical knowledge to design an external robotic arm.
It is usually folded on the arm with a thin layer of iron sheet. When unfolded, it becomes a multifunctional robotic arm that can meet the needs of some dangerous experiments.
This way, even if an accident occurs next time, you can avoid hurting your body to a great extent.
When talking about the robotic arm, Jike raised his left hand. The palm that was originally broken by the explosion has now been completely restored. Because of the bionic skin, it looks no different from a normal palm.
He said excitedly: "Teacher, I feel great. It is exactly the same as my own hand. And the function of the external robotic arm is also very practical. I have never seen such an exquisite robotic arm in the whole of Linton!"
Seeing that he wanted to show off his robotic arm on the spot, Su Lun chuckled and stopped him.
After all, a functional exclusive robotic arm will only become more perfect after continuous improvement after trying it. He added: "Just get used to it. If you have any other functional requirements, you can tell me. I will let the workshop's machinery
The teachers will help you modify it."
Jike nodded, "Yeah."
He suddenly thought of something and his expression darkened inexplicably.
After spending a few days in his teacher's war workshop, Jike saw the most advanced mechanical technology in the world and the senior mechanics of Marfa, which also gave him a deep understanding of the technological differences between Luying and Marfa.
huge gap!
I feel like a country bumpkin who comes to the city and feels a huge difference in everything he looks at.
It also let him know that he still has a long way to go in the future.
At this time, Jike said seriously: "Teacher, I have thought carefully about the proposal you mentioned before. I have decided to study in Marfa."
Su Lun was not surprised when he heard this, "Oh?"
Jike added: "The Royal Academy is indeed the holy land of traditional alchemy, but its research in mechanical engineering and ammunition science is too backward. Only by going to the Marfa Empire can I learn the knowledge I want, and also be able to study in this field.
Delve deeper.”
Su Lun had long known that he would make such a decision.
A genius in ammunition science really wasted his talent in Lu Ying, and he felt like a trapped bird in a cage.
If the ceiling is too low, you won't be able to fly high after all.
Although Jike looks pretty good now, already shining like a star.
But those are all his talents, small inventions that come from a flash of inspiration.
Not enough to make him a great ammunition master.
After truly understanding more, Su Lun also realized how important systematic knowledge is. It will help people avoid too many detours and go further.
Only in the Marfa Empire, there is a complete and mature ammunition division system.
Su Lun said: "Just think about it. The road ahead will be long. Now that you have chosen it, no matter how difficult it is, you have to walk on your own."
Jike said extremely seriously: "Yes! Teacher, I have thought about it!"
Hearing this, Su Lun didn't say much, "Okay. You handle the affairs of the college these days. I will make arrangements for your studies later."
"Um."
Jike nodded.
But at this time, Sabina on the side cleverly saw the hint of reluctance quietly suppressed under the determined light in Jike's eyes when he spoke. She asked with a smile: "Little Jike, have you made an appointment with your partner recently?"
Phoebe, do you want to eat?"
Hearing this, Jike's eyes suddenly became evasive, and the confidence he had just evaporated, and he stammered: "Ah... no... no."
If there was anything he couldn't let go of at the Royal Academy, it was his only friend Phoebe.
Sabina didn't understand. She smiled and said: "True love will not fade due to distance and time, but will become more and more mellow. As long as the girl agrees, I will personally deliver the invitation to her family."
Jike no longer has any relatives.
As the master's disciple, she is considered an elder herself, so she naturally has to care a little more.
Sabina's words were too straightforward. Jike was at a loss for a moment and said in a panic: "Ah... Madam, I... Phoebe and I are not what you think..."
He wanted to say that he and Phoebe were friends, but others might not think otherwise.
When we met outside the small auditorium that day, the girl's thoughts could not be hidden from Sabina. She did not have those youthful coquettishness, and said bluntly: "Be brave, that little girl actually likes you. Let's dance in a while."
When the time comes, invite her to dance."
Previously, Sabina originally planned to invite the little girl to her home for dinner as an elder, but she was busy advancing to the fourth level recently and didn't take the time to do so.
I just had the opportunity today to help facilitate this matter.
Otherwise, if you really have to wait for Jike to speak on his own, you might miss it.
Hearing this, Jike was still a little hesitant.
Because his life in the academy for more than a year has been too humble.
He was so humble that apart from the small sense of achievement in his studies, he felt that anything else was a luxury.
But I thought that I might go to the Marfa Empire to study in the future, and if I didn't open my mouth, this separation might last a lifetime.
Jike then plucked up the courage and responded: "Oh."