Chapter 7: The Scholars of Ishbal
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The dim light, the dirty and messy study, a white-haired Ishbal young man who has always been so dedicated to the study of the arts, and who has studied alchemy and alchemy extensively.
"Although I have known for a long time that I can't expect anything from your housekeeping and the cleanliness of your room......"
Look at this sloppy school bully Uzi who didn't even light a kerosene lamp in the dim light. Estes had no choice but to cover his face
This scruffy young man of Ishbal is Uz, the elder brother of Tazz, Estes's recent schoolmate.
"But at the very least, it's the past."
Pick up a few very precious alchemy notes and alchemy scrolls from the east from the ground, and carefully arrange them and put them back on the bookshelf.
"Only when there is order can there be efficiency, and if there is no order, there is nothing."
While helping his academic friend pack up the books in the house, he didn't know how many times he nagged about the philosophy of life that Estes himself believed in.
"But if there is only order without freedom, isn't there no hope?"
Without looking back, he still flipped through the books on the table, and the calm voice was full of intellect and reason, so that one could not suspect that the owner of this voice was a very good and knowledgeable sage.
"Chaos is weak, weak cannot survive, if even survival cannot guarantee the hope of peace talks?"
Not to be outdone, Estes still insisted on his point of view, piggybacking on the hope that this friend would pay a little attention to the hygiene of his room.
"But what's the point of surviving if there's no hope?"
Putting away the thick alchemy manual on the table, closing the notebook, rubbing his astringent eyes, the scholar picked up another notebook from his side and put the one on the table in the garbage heap.
"Hey, throw my hard-managed notebook into a pile of garbage, is that what you call hope?"
As soon as he had packed up a few shelves, the fellow Daoist was about to start destroying the fruits of Estes' labor, and looked at the absolute realm of scrolls and books that surrounded Uzi, and Estes sighed with admiration.
"You don't have the slightest effect on any bookshelf, because you don't know how bookshelves are for books."
Looking at the empty bookshelf in the corner next to him, Estes took the plant milk to the extreme, the bookshelf was made for him when Estes first came, but this guy almost never used it, and still threw the books on the ground as before, sloppy.
She couldn't stand this chaotic and unorganized house. Lack of an orderly environment.
"The shelves are props that let people know where the books are and how to find them, and I can find the things I put myself, so don't worry."
"It's still full of crooked reasoning, and it hasn't changed at all. Obviously, it can be more efficient to change your habits. ”
Estesfee's purpose in saying so much was nothing else, but he hoped that his friend would cause him less trouble and put things in order, so that his research could progress more quickly.
"How's that for now? How's the interpretation of the new country's alchemy scrolls done? ”
Finding a slightly cleaner place to sit down, Estes took his alchemy notes out of the 'garbage heap', took out a pen in his pocket and began today's exchange and study.
"Yesterday we translated the first chapter of the third volume of the Xinguo Pengshan Alchemy, and today we will continue to start here."
"Okay, can you help me find the scroll? I don't have your ability to 'win in chaos'. ”
"Right under your ass."
“…………”
Yes, contrary to what people outside think, Estes did not come to learn alchemy and alchemy from Uzi, but to study them together.
Seriously, for Estes, alchemy is a very tempting thing, a mysterious academic from the East of the New Kingdom, a brother-like technique of alchemy, a technical field that uses completely different energies from alchemy and has its own independent system of systems.
"Didn't you study this paragraph while I was back at work?"
Pointing to the square words in the article, Estes asked
"The text of this paragraph is jerky and difficult to understand when translated, it is written in the ancient Chinese script and grammar, and we in the West don't even have a translation, so I really can't understand it."
This is also the most frustrating part of Westerners when studying the ancient classical books of the East, the ancient New Oriental script is not a combination of children and mothers, but a single text with independent meaning, a kind of ghost-like painting that is more difficult than the Western alchemy array.
"Isn't there a dictionary of ancient and new countries that can be consulted? It's not a difficult thing for you to be a book freak, is it? ”
"Haha~ Although I can find it, there are too many explanations for each word, hundreds of words are connected together, there are tens of thousands of ways to interpret them, and one day is too short, I really ......"
In addition to the pronunciation of the text, each letter has its own specific meaning, often more than one, and the meaning of the combination of two words may be completely different from the previous meaning.
This is just as distressing as the Ishbal scholars, who are members of the Western cultural circle.
"Really? So let me take a look...... : The ancestral stove is to cause things, and Dansha can be turned into gold, and the gold becomes a diet vessel that is longevity, longevity and the Penglai immortal in the sea can be seen, and it is immortal to see it to seal Zen, and the Yellow Emperor is also. The minister tasted the sea, saw the life of the peace period, and ate the giant jujube, which was as big as a melon. Those who give birth to immortals in the period of peace, through Penglai, see people if they are together, and hide if they are not. …… Is it hard? ”
Very casually, Estes read the contents of the alchemy scroll written in the ancient New Chinese script, and read it out in the somewhat tongue-twisting language of Amestories.
"It's not hard, it's quite hard! Aisha! You're a genius! Oriental language genius! I can't believe that you can decipher some Oriental Alchemy Scrolls that some people have never understood in their lifetime after only learning the new Chinese script for half a month, and I will be your student in the future! You taught me how to decipher ancient Oriental characters! ”
Half a month ago, at that time, Estes had just met Uzi, who at that time claimed to be an alchemist girl from the Western region and hoped to exchange academics with Uzi, who had mastered the knowledge of Eastern alchemy.
(At this time, the war of annihilation in Ishbal had not yet begun, and the reputation of the alchemist was still very good.) )
I heard that it was an alchemist who took the initiative to come over to communicate, and Xueba Uzi was naturally very happy, because of religious and cultural relations. There are very few scholars among the Ishbars, and even fewer Western scholars are willing to communicate with the Ishbars who are not divided between church and state because of ethnic and religious issues, so for so many years, in addition to asking some old people for knowledge, more often than not, they can only read ancient books and dictionaries on their own. Its difficulties are self-evident.
"Genius? If someone else says I'm probably okay with it, but Uzi, if you say I'm a genius, then what are you? Monsters? ”
Estes knows Uzi's learning ability very well, and his brain is very good, so that the books he has read are basically unforgettable, and Estes has a fight, and what Estes admires the most is his ability to learn by himself.
Estes's alchemy and knowledge are smashed out by countless innate spiritual superiority conditions and acquired teachers in the whole country.
Nothing else, just talking about the lineup of teachers who gave Estes alchemy courses and tutored her in her studies, no one in this country can compare with her.
Red Lotus's alchemist Jinbri;
Isaac, the alchemist of ice;
Gran, the iron-blooded alchemist;
Armstrong, the big-eyed alchemist;
Although the lineup is a bit combat-oriented, they are all well-known national alchemists anyway.
And then count the alchemist of the flame that he later entangled, Mr. Huo Keai.
Estes's teaching in alchemy alone was enough for all the apprentices in the country to kneel.
And what about Uzi? Just relying on some ancient books and books, he basically mastered a lot of knowledge of alchemy and alchemy, reached the academic height of Estes, and even surpassed her in many aspects.
Although there is a lack of practical experience in many places, the theoretical research results of Uzi have been thrown a few streets away from Estes.
How could such a wise man not be admired by Estes?
If you really want to say that Estes can crush the local alchemy field of Uzi, in addition to the actual use of alchemy, it is the speed of understanding of oriental words and languages.
Although Estes himself did not know why his comprehension of Oriental characters was so astonishing.
"I'm so lucky, I didn't expect to be able to meet Aisha when the research reached the bottleneck and difficulty, I'm so lucky~ Actually, I have understood the basic principles and composition of alchemy, but because I can't understand the key points in some scrolls, I can't always make the core of the refining array core. Okay now, I can solve this problem and get the refining array out. ”
The problem that Uzi encountered was like having built a cannon, but the shells were not up to standard due to process problems, and they could not be fired when they were sent into the barrel.
The most depressing problem is here, because there are basically no people in the West who understand Eastern alchemy, so no one knows where Uzi is wrong?
Is it that the shells are not made well or that there is a problem with the breech itself.
The two ideas and possible leads to completely different results in research, and now with the problem of Estes, a genius cannonball in the oriental language, don't worry, now Uzi can concentrate on carving his cannon, that is, refining into an array.
"What I'm waiting for is your refining array~"
Hearing that Xueyou was already confident in forming a refining array, Estes showed irrepressible joy.