Volume 1 Chapter 43 Alchemy
Dead silent, although the distance was far, the two still did not dare to slack off, and followed lightly. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the more the trailing team goes into the hole, the more Wei Dubai and Luo Coral can feel a strange sense of oppression around them.
The white and blue ring of Wei Mu also exudes a burst of ethereal brilliance in the hole, and the fluid and shaped substance embedded in the center of the ring floats out a small light floating in the air, as if blowing blue soap bubbles. The closer you get to your destination, the more obvious this phenomenon becomes, and you can already illuminate the expressions of the two.
Falling Coral looked at the ring in surprise, her fingers gently poking at the spherical blue light, and those "soap bubbles" went up and around her fingers, which seemed to her to be amusefully tight. But Wei Mubai looked solemn, just because every time the thing moved, there would be a critical situation.
This secret passage leads to two tall stone doors, behind which is an underground palace.
Wei Mubai saw from a distance that there were two rows of burning fire altars on both sides of the rectangular dungeon, and there were many figures in it who were busy walking around and working, but they couldn't see what they were doing, and those figures only looked down to deal with the things in hand, silent, no communication, more like the parts of the machine were running step by step.
The two of them were more careful, and slowly walked into the space hiding behind the stone gate, Wei Dubai was in front, leading Luo Sango to look in through the gap in the stone gate.
There are many stone pillars with gargoyle statues in the dungeon, gargoyles with long necks and horns, bright fangs, and wings like Western dragons, which are held high on the pillars. It seems to be quietly monitoring everything in the dungeon.
And in the center of the underground palace, there is a tall iron reverberatory furnace, there is a calcining pot on the stove, the lid on the pot is hung high, and the lid is connected to a rubber tube with the thickness of sugar cane, and the other end of the rubber tube is connected to the water bath, and then there is a bunch of large and small, high and low glass vessels, distillation vessels, jars, thin-necked bottles, a series of tools around the underground palace for most of the circle, no gas or liquid substances have been seen in the vessels, but there are pink water droplets on the glass walls are particularly conspicuous.
Two mysterious men in armor walked to the dungeon with the captured sheep, and the people who were busy inside stopped at the same time. They were all dressed in gray robes, with high brims covering their faces, and in the firelight they could only see the black pressure under their hats.
A somber voice finally broke the silence. But Wei Dubai couldn't understand it at all, this language was not like any other language family in the world, because his pronunciation was not coordinated between the human tongue and the trachea, and it was stiff, sharp and sharp. The one who spoke was also a mysterious man in robes, but his clothes were more high-end and dignified than the others, and he seemed to be the leader of these. Similarly, he wore a sheep's head badge on the collar under the brim of his hat.
He examined each captive he had brought with him, examining their hair, teeth, and physique. After confirming, with a wave of the sleeves of their robes, the captives seemed to have just recovered their senses, from expressionless to panicked, looking left and right, crying bitterly, and Dawan was constantly crying and begging for mercy.
The robed man and the armoured man did not move, without the slightest humanity or emotion, but just watched quietly around these helpless and pitiful captives.
"Haha—I knew, I knew this place must exist!" There was a very unusual man among the captives, who was in high spirits, curiously commenting on every thing and costume in the dungeon, and behaving in a particularly dazzling manner.
"Finally made me wait, finally let me see!"
He spoke in Spanish.
Wei Mubai finally remembered what he looked like.
He was the Xiwulin prisoner who had been imprisoned with Wei Mubai before, recognized Lancelot at a glance, and kept saying that they couldn't escape!
How much does he know about this dungeon?
At this moment, the armorer holding the transparent long sword suddenly untied the rope of the first captive with a sudden swing of his sword. The captive had to take off his hands and run away, but a dozen robed men instantly surrounded him, and the pale hands and claws of the monsters rose in unison, and the captives were easily lifted high. The captives wept bitterly in fright, begging for mercy, but could not break free.
The robed man lifted the captive above the top and slowly walked up the stone ladder next to the reverberatory furnace, and the calcining pot emitted a strange gas at this time, although he couldn't see what was inside, he could figure out that the temperature inside the pot must not be low.
The captives seemed to understand what fate they were going to face.
Those robed men want to throw themselves into a boiling cauldron!
Falling Coral also understood their intentions, as a horse thief, she had never used such cruel methods as boiling people alive, she leaned her face on Wei Mubai's shoulder, unwilling to look at it. Wei mute Bai bit his lower lip and endured his nausea as he watched as the robed men threw the captives into the pot.
Ahh————h
There was only a long howl of despair, and then there was no movement, and there was no sign of struggle from the people in the pot. Immediately afterwards, the boiler cover was buckled, the rubber tube slowly perisquished and changed at this moment, the moisture in the water bath was vertical and horizontal, the pink water vapor became heavier and heavier, and began to condense into drops, the speed of condensation was very slow, and then the pink turned to blood red, and gradually took shape, a drop of blood-like liquid slowly flowed to the next vessel, and each time it passed through an appliance, the amount was less, until the last equipment small test tube, only a small drop of transparent, semi-coagulated blood red fluid dropped in the test tube.
Falling Coral was about to vomit, she held Wei Mubai's hand tightly and asked, "What are they going to do to do these inhuman things?" ”
There were many possibilities in Wei Mubai's mind, and there was only one speculation that was close to this kind of scene, and he said solemnly, "If you guessed correctly, they are refining the Sage's Stone. ”
"Philosopher's Stone?" Falling Coral repeated in a low voice, "That test tube is obviously a drop of liquid, why is it called the Philosopher's Stone?"
"The Philosopher's Stone, also known as the Philosopher's Stone, also known as the Fifth Entity, the Red Elixir, is the ultimate goal pursued by Western alchemists, the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant in the history of alchemy, he endowed with great miracles, great creative abilities, and legend has it that it can convert base metals into gold, and it can also make elixirs. ”
Falling Coral scoffed: "A little stone turns into gold, immortality, it sounds like it's just a legend." ”
"Legend has it that the exercise of the Sage's Stone is indeed made by people. ”
When Luo Coral was about to ask again, the deranged Xiwulin captive began to sing praises: "Beautiful, wonderful, this is the purest and most effective alchemy, the most perfect refining furnace, I have come here to throw myself into the net after all the hardships, just to prove my speculation." I have finally found it, and those alchemists who look down on me should bow their heads in shame!"
"It's simply the power of God, the power of God!"
Wei Mubai secretly thought, you may be disappointed, the person with the sheep's head badge can never have anything to do with God.
The power of this alchemy is definitely related to the evil Satan.
"Why are you doing these inhumane things here. Falling Coral frowned.
Wei Dubai exhaled: "The most critical link is finally strung together." ”
"Did you find anything? ”
"One thing we all overlooked was that the hot spring itself wasn't underground, even though it fell under the hot spring...... Xiao Wan's entire cave is carved by the mountain, and we have walked for a long time, perhaps in the interior of the mountain and going up unconsciously. ”
"What you say makes sense, but what does it mean?"
"Listen carefully, what other sounds are there on the top of the dungeon?"
Falling Coral closed his eyes and listened, and after a while, he was stunned and said, "There is the sound of flowing water, and we are still under the hot spring." ”
"The water of the hot springs does not have this vitality, and above us is the Jinsha River. ”