Chapter 510: Alchemy Society
The golden alchemy association, close to always make people want to reach out and touch the surface of the building, human beings like gold is not accidental, from the beginning of the written history, gold has always been the most valuable thing when human beings exchange items, this is really not because gold has any use value, after all, until the electric age, gold will be used as a highly conductive electrical raw material in all aspects of the electrical era, then gold has a small value.
Human beings like gold, and use gold as an exchange for general housework, of course, because gold is as bright as the sun, and human beings have been yearning for the sun since birth, and naturally have a different kind of intimacy with gold, Hou Yi is to shoot down the sun in the sky, and human beings are more inclined to keep the sun in the sky in their own hands, every night before going to bed to take a look, there will always be a different sense of pleasure.
"If you want to touch it, you can touch it, I asked them, in fact, this is not gold on the outside, but a golden metal, and it is very hard, once someone tried to steal this layer of metal from the outside of the Alchemy Society, it took a night, almost exhausted and paralyzed, you see, there are still traces left by their tools. β
Lu Tao looked in the direction that Proyas was pointing, and sure enough, on the golden wall of the outer wall of the Alchemy Association, he saw several dents, which were illuminated by the sun's rays, and if he didn't look carefully, he couldn't see clearly at all.
Shaking his head, Lu Tao naturally rejected Proyas's proposal, just kidding, he is from modern society, he has seen gold bars piled up on TV I don't know how many, how can he be excited because of the exterior wall of a building?
Entering the door of the Alchemy Society, there is a hall in front of you, the style of the hall is similar to the outer wall of this building, there is gold everywhere, there is a counter facing the door, there are two people standing behind the counter, a man and a woman, they saw Proyas come in, first bowed deeply, one of them walked out, and after saluting again, he asked, "Your Highness, is there anything I can do for you?"
"You find someone to take me to meet the president of the Alchemy Society, and then find someone to take him around the laboratory. β
Proyas pointed at Lu Tao with his finger, and the questioner glanced at Lu Tao with some embarrassment: "Your Highness...... The adults of the Alchemy Society hate it when people interfere with their experiments, and even if I say it's your order, they'll kick me out...... I'm not saying it's useless to give your orders, but the grown-ups are not good-tempered......"
"I know what you mean, it's okay, you just have to take him outside to take a look, if you can get in, you can enter, if you can't enter the laboratory, forget it. β
"Very well, then I'll take this gentleman to the laboratory myself, and let Ross take you to the president's office." β
Rose was the other man standing behind the counter, and when Proias and Charlotte, the mayor of the city, followed Rose upstairs, the woman who came to ask at the beginning said to Lu Tao: "Sir, you can call me Anna, and then I will take you to the laboratory of the Alchemy Society to have a look, but please don't expect too much." β
Lu Tao nodded: "I know." β
Anna then turned around and walked in with Lu Tao, and after passing through a door with a handle, there was a long corridor, on both sides of the corridor were several closed doors, and there was a layer of glass on the door to see inside, but the scope of the glass was very small, and it was almost impossible to see anything clearly.
"This layer of glass is meant to avoid experimentation
Under normal circumstances, the adults of the Alchemy Association will do experiments for several days, and no one knows if there will be any mistakes in the middle, and whether any toxic gases will be produced...... Well, let's take a look inside from this small window, and if you dare to go in, I'll knock on the door again to see if I can go in and watch. β
Anna seemed to be very embarrassed, and Lu Tao also understood her embarrassment, after all, Proas also said that the alchemists here are very difficult and don't care about the royal family's orders, which is the so-called arrogance.
Nodding, Lu Tao agreed to Anna's proposal: "Then I'll take a look first." β
Lu Tao stood outside the door of the first room and looked in through the small window, but he didn't understand what the other party was doing for a long time.
The alchemy laboratory here already has the prototype of the later laboratory, and the two rows of light bulbs above the head ensure that the laboratory is extremely bright, and you can see it clearly no matter what you do, of course, you can see it clearly, it means that you are staying in the laboratory, Lu Tao can only roughly see the prototype of the laboratory in this position, but those transparent glass jars can be seen clearly, beaker flasks and test tubes, have appeared in this alchemy laboratory, Lu Tao even saw the alcohol lamp and the scale.
Standing in front of a laboratory table, the middle-aged man with his back to the door, he was wearing a golden robe, the robe was engraved with some silver silk threads, reflecting strange lines under the extremely bright bulb above his head, the middle-aged man was adding something to a beaker on the table, one moment was a white liquid, and another was a red liquid, Lu Tao watched him go back and forth, adding different colors of liquid to the beaker no less than ten times, and finally the whole beaker became a mass of black-brown liquid, and then the middle-aged man put the bottle of black-brown liquid on the alcohol lamp to burn, as those black-brown liquids began to boilA layer of pale cyan smoke rose above the beaker and began to slowly fill the laboratory.
In addition to the middle-aged man in the laboratory, there are two experimental assistants, as well as two rows of bookcases full of vegetables, and there are many other miscellaneous things, all of which are messily thrown in the corner of the laboratory, some are weird dolls, some are unknown what they are for, carved pillars, and some strange black jars, but there is only so much that can be seen from this small window, and there are other things, Lu Tao can't see.
"Poof!"
The sudden sound made Lu Tao's attention return to the middle-aged man standing behind the desk, only to see that he didn't know when he had fallen to the ground, followed by two dull "poofs", and the two assistants in this laboratory also fell to the ground, one was within Lu Tao's field of vision, and the other didn't know where he fell.
Lu Tao: "......"
Glancing back at Anna, Lu Tao asked with some uncertainty, "That...... What the hell is going on in this lab?"
"I'll take a look...... Anna took out a notebook from somewhere, turned to one of the pages, and read it seriously: "...... It seems that Lord Lin Ke has discovered several mysterious liquids from a ruin, and is making them according to the documents in the ruins
Make a liquid that can live forever. β
Lu Tao: "......"
This sounds unreliable, Lu Tao let go of the window, pointed to the inside and said to Anna: "There seems to be something wrong inside, everyone has fallen down, as if the liquid they are making is poisonous." β
"What?!" Anna looked in from the window, seemed startled, then turned around and ran, saying to Lu Tao as she ran: "Don't open that door, I'll call someone!"
After almost five minutes, Anna ran back out of breath: "Sir...... Sir, let's stay away from here for a while, and let them take care of it......"
Lu Tao naturally obediently ran to Anna's side, and retreated to the position of the staircase, the people who were called over by Anna were all heavily armed guys, with rough gas masks on their faces, although they were very rough, but they were also gas masks, and I don't know how the technology here is ordered, not to mention the previous electric lights, even the gas masks have come out at this time.
In addition to the gas masks, the men were wearing thick coveralls, covered with iron plates in important places, and it was unknown what they were used for, and one of them was carrying a round metal object in his hand, from which several hoses the thickness of an arm protruded.
After a few people entered the laboratory, the door of the room was closed tightly again, not even letting the cyan smoke leak out a little, and then there was a roaring sound from inside the room, Lu Tao turned his head to look at Anna: "What is this doing?"
"They're sucking the gas out of the room, don't worry, they're professional. β
Sure enough, after a while, the men walked out carrying the original three people from the lab, and the round metal object seemed to grow in size.
Lu Tao and Anna watched a few people leave, then turned their heads to Lu Tao and said embarrassedly, "That...... Let's go to the next lab, it's just an accident......"
Lu Tao nodded, it seems that the experiment here is quite dangerous, this time you must see it clearly, and then consider whether to go in, in case it explodes just after entering, it will not be good, although Lu Tao's physique is very good, but no matter what, he can't bear the power of the explosion.
I don't know if the sound insulation effect of each laboratory is very good, even if the accident just now, there was a loud noise, and no one around opened the door to see the excitement, Lu Tao walked to the second door to look inside, the furnishings in the laboratory are different, compared to the previous laboratory, the part of this laboratory that can be seen from the outside seems to be much empty, there is no bookcase for books, and there is no miscellaneous clutter, but there is a metal instrument with a handle in the most corner position, and I don't know what it is forγ
There was something strange about the experiment inside, an old man with white hair was using a small silver medicine spoon to carefully put some black powder on top of a black stone, and then directly ignited the powder.
"Whew!"
A piercing sound sounded, accompanied by billowing white smoke, Lu Tao rubbed his ears, the sound insulation effect of this laboratory is not very good.
By the way, Lu Tao still has some bad premonitions, after the black powder is ignited, a large amount of white smoke will come out, and it will also make a sound, this can't be making gunpowder, right?
Well...... It's better to stay away from this laboratory, Lu Tao made a decision as soon as possible.