At nine o'clock in the morning, the sunlight outside the window had filled the entire room. Todd was lying on the bed with his eyes open, still replaying the scene from last night in his mind.
The contact lasted only ten seconds, not a word was exchanged, no greetings were exchanged, but Black Sheep made him feel like an old friend whom he had not seen for a long time.
When the girl returned to the stage and accepted the cheers of the audience, Todd chose to leave on his own initiative, without waiting outside the tent or looking back at the beauty in the darkness. Perhaps this had something to do with his character in his previous life.
When encountering good and joyful things, you should always leave some room for lightness. Too much contact will only destroy the beauty of the first acquaintance. You will not allow yourself to indulge. I have always been so restrained.
He shook his head and smiled to himself. Being sentimental was not a good thing. Todd sat up from the bed, got dressed, took his notepad, gave up on the idea of reading in the morning, and walked directly to the underground laboratory under the cemetery.
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"Let me see, the material sorting in the laboratory is basically finished. The next step should be to make the equipment for biochemical experiments. First of all, what we need to do is..." While flipping through the notes full of words on hand, he used the key on his waist.
Opened the door to the laboratory.
A small sound of rocks hitting came from inside the room. Hearing the sound, Todd raised his head and looked forward. A figure that he never expected appeared in his sight.
Wearing a light white round cake-style headdress, her long black hair was combed back and tied into two braids hanging down her cheeks. The front-open loose top naturally hugged her underdeveloped body. Her black hair was lightly applied with powder.
The sheep sat on the marble experimental table, two cowhide paint boots swinging back and forth.
Todd opened his round eyes and stammered: "You...how are you...not...you're not..."
Black Sheep looked at the table full of various equipment and weird vials with interest. He picked up a dark vial made of metallic glass and sealed with wax, and slowly read the label in jerky Latin.
text on.
"Thick... sulfur..."
"No! Don't touch that!"
He hurriedly threw the object in his hand at the door. Todd rushed to the girl and was about to reach out and grab the vial.
The girl flicked her finger, and a small stone hit the wall at the other end. Her figure disappeared and instantly appeared at the place where the stone fell.
Knowing that chasing her would have no effect at all, Todd opened his hands and said in an almost pleading tone: "Miss Black Sheep, please give me the bottle in your hand."
Hearing the title from the other person's mouth, the girl was stunned for a moment, then rubbed the mouth of the bottle with her fingers and asked: "What is this?"
Seeing Todd's hesitation and silence, Black Sheep smiled mischievously and scraped off the sealing wax layer by layer with his fingers, blinked his eyes, and pretended to unscrew the bottle cap.
"Concentrated sulfuric acid!" Seeing the other party's actions, Todd's mind tightened and he hurriedly said: "It is a highly corrosive and strong mineral acid that can cause burns to the skin and the mist formed can cause blindness. In short, it is a
A very dangerous thing. Now, please give it to me..."
After getting the bottle, just when Todd thought he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw Black Sheep opening the cap of the black powder bottle. He immediately had a headache and covered his forehead, sighing heavily.
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An hour later, after confirming that the other party led by Huggins had no ill intentions, Todd taught the girl what she could touch and what she couldn't move, then followed him and turned on the kerosene lamp, preparing to start today's experimental life.
A pair of dark eyes wandered around him, watching him weigh powder, prepare reagents, dilute gas, heat and filter. Todd shrank his head in discomfort and said, "Can you please
Don't you stare at me like this while I'm doing experiments?"
The girl holding her chin did not have the slightest intention to avoid it. Instead, she asked him: "Are you an alchemist?"
After thinking about the rationality of this title, Todd nodded first, then shook his head.
"It doesn't look like it to me. I've seen those alchemists. What they do is boring and dull. It looks much more interesting here."
Todd raised his eyebrows, secretly thinking that was natural.
The girl started chatting with him one after another.
Todd, who was concentrating on the experiment, slowly let down his guard and unconsciously began to introduce what he was doing to the other party.
"Although there is so much equipment in this room right now, in order to really carry out the experiments I want, a lot of cutting-edge equipment and precision instruments are still needed. The equipment I am making now is a microscope."
"microscope?"
Gradually rediscovering the feeling of teaching students in a laboratory classroom in his previous life, Todd moved his left and right hands relatively apart, extended them to a distance of about 25 centimeters, and said to the black sheep: "Normally, at such a long distance, the human eye can only
Being able to distinguish two objects 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters apart is probably slightly thicker than a human hair. In other words, when the distance between two objects is smaller than this distance, the human eye will see them as one object."
"Really? Let me try." The girl actually pulled out a piece of hair and put it in front of her face, trying to distinguish it.
"With a microscope, I can magnify things 100 or even 1,000 times, so I can see many things that I couldn't see otherwise."
Black Sheep's eyes lit up when he heard what the other party said. He happily grabbed the edge of the table with both hands and shouted loudly: "Then what are you waiting for?! Let's do it now!"
Todd put down his hands and shook his head helplessly: "How can it be so easy? The most troublesome part of manufacturing a microscope is the production of lenses. And the production of lenses requires the production of optical glass first."
The girl was confused again: "I have heard about glass. I heard that it is a secret treasure made by craftsmen in the southern part of the mainland, but what is a lens?"
After hearing this, Todd didn't know how to answer. Lenses involve optical principles, which is not a theory that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences; and optical glass is not something that can be explained in movies and novels by setting up a pot on the beach and cooking it.
Things that can be made from sand; he has also seen the glass made by southern craftsmen, but the production technology is really poor and cannot meet the requirements of optical glass at all.
While briefly explaining the production process to the girl, and watching the light flashing in her eyes, Todd finally realized why the black sheep gave him a familiar feeling.
The exploration of the world and curiosity about things in the girl's eyes reminded him of himself.
The sunlight refracted by the cracks in the roof turns golden again.
Black Sheep held a piece of translucent crystal in the pot and pointed it at the sun. He was fascinated by the colorful light scattered on it. He carefully put it into his bag and extended his hand to Todd.
hand.
"Mr. Todd, it was such a pleasant afternoon that I almost forgot the purpose of this trip. On behalf of the downtown circus, I would like to extend an invitation to you and hope you will come again tonight."