After listening to Anna's explanation, the president of the Alchemy Association glanced at Lu Tao thoughtfully, and said: "I am the president of the Alchemy Association, you can call me Douglas, then according to what you proposed just now, one person can write down the metal color reaction he knows on a piece of paper, and then I will judge who wins." ”

After saying these words, President Douglas turned his head to look at Hargrove again: "How about Hargrove, if I were to judge, you wouldn't feel unqualified, right?"

Hargrove nodded hurriedly: "Of course, there is an adult, you as a referee, of course I agree, but it's a bit of a waste of your time, this kind of inexplicable little ghost can be just sent away......"

After a pause, Hargrove glanced at Proas next to President Douglas again, revealing a somewhat clear expression: "Ah...... But it is also appropriate to teach him some lessons, then it will also be good for his future life, will he not grow without setbacks......"

Lu Tao seemed to understand that Hargrove should have regarded him as a member of the royal family to say such a thing, and from beginning to end, Hargrove didn't believe that Lu Tao knew more types of flame reactions than him, so he looked full of confidence until now, Lu Tao shook his head, and wanted to see what Hargrove's expression looked like when he was shocked? Speaking of which, fortunately, the names of the metals in this world and the metals in the other world are similar, in case the two sides use completely unrelated names as the names of the metals, Lu Tao has no hope of winning.

Hargrove's assistant returned to the laboratory and took out two pieces of paper and two pens, and handed them to Hargrove and Lu Tao respectively, and under the leadership of Anna, everyone found an empty laboratory, and Lu Tao and Hargrove began to write on the table what they knew about the metal color reaction.

Lu Tao originally wanted to write down the mantra of the flame reaction in his memory, but after thinking about it, maybe others wouldn't be able to understand it if he wrote it like this, so he directly separated the metal and color in it and carefully wrote it on the paper line by line.

Looking up at Hargrove on the other side of the table, he seemed to have written everything on the paper quickly, and then put down the pen, sat on the side and closed his eyes to recuperate, after Lu Tao looked over, he seemed to feel Lu Tao's gaze, opened his eyes and glared at Lu Tao, and continued to sit there with his eyes closed, looking like he was sure of victory.

Shaking his head, Lu Tao was completely relieved at this time, no matter what, it was impossible to write more flame reactions than Lu Tao knew in such a short time, in fact, even in Lu Tao's time, the research on flame reactions was still continuing, and not all elements could have flame reactions.

After writing down the metal elements contained in the mantra and their respective colors on the paper, Lu Tao thought about it, added some other elements that he still remembered in his memory, and sorted out nearly twenty pieces.

"Hey, little ghost, are you deliberately wasting your time? If you can't think of it, don't do unnecessary struggles, it's useless to scribble casually, you still kneel down obediently and apologize to me as agreed, and I can forgive you after that." ”

Lu Tao: "???"

When is there such an agreement to kneel down and apologize, the man has gold under his knees, Lu Tao will not kneel down for this bad old man, put the pen in his hand on the table, Lu Tao turned back to President Douglas of the Alchemy Association and said, "Lord, I have finished writing here."

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"Hmph, I've already finished writing here, okay?"

President Douglas did not pay attention to Hargrove's words, but took the notes written by Lu Tao and Hargrove respectively into his hands, and compared them and looked at them separately.

The paper received from Hargrove President Douglas only looked at it for a few seconds and put it aside, while the paper handed over by Lu Tao took President Douglas a long time to look at it, looking at Lu Tao thoughtfully while checking it, and finally, after reading both sides, a reddish-brown flame suddenly rose from President Douglas's hand, wrapping the two pieces of paper written by Lu Tao and Hargrove in between, and soon burned out and turned into black ashes and scattered away.

"How about growing up, I'm winning!" Hargrove looked at him proudly: "Compared to the results I reported to the elders last time, this time I tried to analyze the color reaction of a metal, it took a lot of effort, I was just about to tell the elders about this great discovery, who knew that I met this little ghost standing outside peeking!" Later, you must make a pact with these royal fellows that you will never leak the results of my experiments, they are all mine! By the way, this little devil must kneel down and apologize to me! If he behaves well, I may be able to forgive him!"

President Douglas glanced at Hargrove and slowly shook his head: "Hargrove, you lost this time. ”

"Hahaha, it's really ......" Hargrove's smile was halfway through laughter, and suddenly stopped, the expression on his face was still in a state of half-smiling, looking a little too hideous, and he asked a little out of shape: "What? What will Douglas tell you to say? What do you mean I lost? Just kidding! How could I lose? I have been in the Alchemy Society for fifty years! Who else can be older than my qualifications here?!

President Douglas continued to shake his head: "Hargrove, although you have been in the Alchemy Association for a long time, if you lose, you will lose, as the president of the Alchemy Society, I must be impartial, you only wrote four metal color reactions on paper, do you know how many kinds he wrote? There are twenty of them! I can't guarantee that each of them is correct, but I already know more than your four, so it is absolutely not wrong that you lose." ”

"Impossible!" Hargrove stood up suddenly, he shouted with some excitement, and even the old age spots on his face turned red because of the excitement, Lu Tao was very worried, would he be so excited that he would have a heart attack all of a sudden, but fortunately, Hargrove's body seemed to be very healthy, and he was still standing there steadily: "It took me so long to experiment with the content, how could he write twenty kinds of so many?!" I know, he must have written nonsense, President Douglas, you can't favor them because they are members of the royal family, even if it is a royal family, it can't override the status of our Alchemy Society, this is the agreement made by King Harias and our Alchemy Association back then, President, although you are a person from Harias, you must not violate the rules set by the president back then, if you really want to be partial because of the identity of the other party's royal family, I have to mobilize the rights of all the alchemists of our Alchemy Association and hold a plenary meeting to impeach you！”

President Douglas sighed, looked at Hargrove's eyes, and seemed to be sharp in an instant, and there was a sharpness that Lu Tao hadn't felt before, which passed from President Douglas: "Hargrove."

In fact, for the sake of you being the patriarch of the Alchemy Society, I never wanted to be too harsh on you before, I will let you study whatever you want to study, and I will give you as much funding as you want, but Hargrove, if you want me to say that you are really not a qualified alchemist, those new discoveries you have already discovered in the Alchemy Association before, haven't you seriously turned over the library of the Alchemy Association? There are many detailed descriptions of the color reactions of metals, and they are the result of research more than 100 years ago......"

President Douglas seemed to want to say something, but he hesitated again and stopped, and on the other side, after listening to President Douglas's words, Hargrove seemed a little confused, and he stammered a little, "Figure...... It's all in the library? How did I never know about ......?"

"Hargrove, you didn't know there was a librarian in the library, did you? In fact, this position is held by the alchemists of the Alchemy Association in turn, after all, the resources of the library are the foundation of our Alchemy Association, and the knowledge in it is priceless, and even any literate person who enters the library of the Alchemy Association can use the knowledge inside to become an alchemist, in order to ensure that the character of each alchemist can be worthy of his title, so our Alchemy Association conducts a test before joining the association, and the young people recruited into the Alchemy Association will be assigned to each alchemist as assistants, and they will be allowed to enter the library after their character test is completed。 Hargrove, you probably forgot, you think you are a patriarch, every time you push away such a job, so for so many twenty or thirty years, you have not even worked in the library as a librarian, and according to the library's borrowing records over the years, Hargrove, you have never been to the library once, every time you run to drink after work, or go to the Harrias Prair Theater to watch a play, you have not spent extra time on research at all, naturally I don't know, there are still books about the color reaction of metal hidden in the library。 ”

After a pause, waiting for Hargrove to digest his words, President Douglas pointed downstairs and said to Anna, "Anna, you go to the library and borrow a book called 'How Can We Tell Different Metals', hurry." ”

"Yes!

Listening to President de Grass's instructions, Anna rushed out directly, Lu Tao had always thought that Anna was just a receptionist of the Alchemy Association, if you look at it this way, since Anna can enter the library of the Alchemy Association, maybe she is also a person who can become an alchemist.

Of course, the alchemist here seems to be completely unskilled in Lu Tao, whether it is the guy in front who was poisoned because he casually prepared a certain liquid, or the guy in the back who kept dying and igniting gunpowder, and now the old man Hargrove who was sitting on a chair stunned, it was like a farce of a schoolboy, each holding a bowl made of mud, living from home.

After Anna ran downstairs, she didn't seem to be able to come back for a while, and Hargrove's side seemed to be a little broken for a while because of what President Douglas said, and the two Hargrove assistants naturally didn't dare to talk more in this atmosphere, and the laboratory that was temporarily used as a competition venue was quiet.

President Douglas glanced at Lu Tao and suddenly said, "This little brother, are you interested in joining our Harias Alchemy Society?"