"Short sticks?" Lin Nian asked.

"Short sticks." Masashi Toyama nodded.

The second piece of evidence is that there is a short rod lying in the box, about 70 centimeters, with a smooth appearance and a sense of material between gold and ceramic, without any patterns or flaws, and it is round and makes people want to plate it.

"Can you touch it?" Lin Nian looked at this short stick and found that the size of the two ends was not the same, if you had to describe it, this short stick was actually no different from a baseball bat, but its appearance was much more exaggerated.

"Don't." Masashi Toyama shook his head: "Unlike the previous stone ghost face, this item is an out-and-out alchemy weapon, and it is extremely dangerous!" ”

"Does it have some hidden mechanism too?"

"Absolutely." Masashi Toyama nodded, walked to the side of the bookshelf and pulled out a stack of blank paper: "But we don't need to trigger its mechanism today, we just need to understand its basic characteristics." ”

Lin Nian looked at Masashi Toyama and handed him a blank piece of paper, and asked suspiciously, "What is this for?" ”

"Have you ever heard of 'Heavy Sword Without Edge'?" Masashi Toyama said.

Lin Nian nodded, and said in his heart, how to paint the style, and suddenly changed from the magical werewolf of Leningrad to Jin Yong's martial arts.

"Place the paper vertically above it and let go." Masashi Toyama prompted.

Lin Nian did so, and after letting go of his hand, the white paper fell vertically, and at the moment of contact with the short stick, a strange thing happened, the boxy white paper was "cut" in half by the short stick from the middle and fell on both sides, and the fracture was extremely smooth without any stubble.

Hair breakage.

Lin Nian instantly thought of this idiom.

"This short stick is actually a sword, an extremely sharp alchemy knife!" "It's also the most dangerous of the three things I brought with me today, but if you don't touch it, you won't hurt - after all, danger is relative, and even if I put a bread stick in the lockbox, you can use it to choke me in my throat." ”

"If I catch him, will my hand be cut open?" Lin Nian looked at the golden short stick and asked curiously.

"Possibly, probably not." Masashi Toyama gave a very ambiguous answer, and immediately explained: "This alchemical weapon was once stored in the Academy's 'Ice Cellar', labeled 'high-risk' along with other collections, and it first appeared in England in 1756. ”

"The time of the outbreak of the Seven Years' War." Lin Nian learned to answer now, Lin Xian said the historical background first with his mouth slightly open, Lin Xian had to look at him funny and shook his head.

"It is said that the craftsman who cast it was an English royal swordsmith, and the British royal family was popular for fencing at that time, so this weapon was born for fencing, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with the historical background of the time." Masashi Toyama said funny, which made Lin Nian's face a little embarrassed.

"It's actually a short sword, made using traditional English swordsmithing techniques, and the royal swordsmith was troubled by losing every fencing to his opponent, so he suddenly wanted to build an invincible weapon." Masashi Toyama said, "If you want to defeat an enemy in fencing, you either lock the enemy with the tip of your sword, or... Picking off the enemy's weapon, this swordsmith's thinking may be a little off, compared to the more technical victory of the flying one, he wants to directly and neatly 'break' the enemy's weapon. ”

"It's... Imaginative and imaginative. Lin Nian didn't know what to say.

"This sword doesn't seem to have a blade, but in fact, all of its contact surfaces are sword blades, because its raw material is very rare and is made from the tail vertebrae of a third-generation black dragon, so when it is made, it is endowed with a sharp alchemy field, and this field cannot be expanded and can only exist in the sword body itself." Masashi Toyama put down the blank sheets of paper, all of which were cut to pieces.

"Isn't that no one able to use it?" Lin Nian asked suspiciously.

"Of course it is, otherwise it would have been in the ice cellar and no one cared about it." Masashi Toyama nodded and said, "There was once an 'S' class student who entered the ice cellar with Principal Angers and mastered this weapon, on the grounds that his bloodline was good enough to be recognized by the living spirits in the alchemy weapon, and later they even discovered that this short rod was actually cast according to the specifications of a sword, and when the bearer's bloodline purity reached a certain level, it would metamorphose and reveal its true form." ”

"'S' class students? Is he still in the Kassel Academy? Lin Nian was a little surprised.

"No, he graduated early, and now he has joined the Executive Department to search for dragon ruins all over the world, maybe you can meet him when you graduate and have the ambition to join the Executive Department." Masashi Toyama said with a smile.

"Impressive." Lin Nian watched as Masashi Toyama closed the black lockbox, and his gaze turned to the third box, but then he spoke: "Actually, the two items just now have almost convinced me of the dragon civilization. ”

"No, I believe this third item is the most convincing." Masashi Toyama shook his head and said, "After all, there's nothing more impactful than actually putting a dragon in front of you." ”

As he spoke, Masashi Toyama opened the third lockbox, and when he saw what was inside, Lin Nian opened his mouth slightly, revealing a look of shock.

He couldn't help but be shocked, because there was actually a 'dragon' in front of him.

Lying across the black lockbox was a cylindrical glass bottle filled with pale yellow formalin, in which slumbered an animal about the size of a medium-sized dog of about 3 or 4 years old, resembling a lizard, with dense and beautiful scales, and folded membranous wings on its back that resembled a tough canvas.

The animal slept quietly with its eyes closed, its wings and long whiskers flickering in formalin, curled up in its mother's womb like a baby, waiting for the day to crank to the ground.

"In India in 1796, we found 'he', a cub of a red dragon, but for some unknown reason he was swallowed by a python when it had just hatched, and the locals found him when they killed the python and skinned it for meat. Believing that they had angered the gods' heir, they offered him in the temple, but luckily the secret party arrived in time, and later they could see that the village had been burned by the dragon flames. Masashi Toyama looked at the red dragon cub in the glass bottle, and his eyes were full of admiration and incredulity: "No matter how many times I see it, it makes me feel amazing, you look at these lines, scales and membranous wings, they are really perfect creations!" ”

Lin Nian stood in front of the lockbox and looked down at the 'animal' in the glass bottle, for no reason he felt that his heart was beating fast, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the body of the glass bottle, this action was not stopped by Masashi Toyama, because everyone would make this action when they saw this scene.

The room was silent, and everyone was admiring the perfect creation of the Creator's handiwork, the red dragon cub suspended in formalin, tentacles floating from its mouth as if rising between thin clouds.

"Will he ever come back to life?" Lin asked in a young voice.

'Absolutely!' Noble things do not pass away, and death is only a long slumber under the ice for them. ’

Someone replied to him in a soft voice, as if telling a beautiful fairy tale.

can answer Lin Nian's voice does not belong to anyone in the study.

Lin Nian suddenly woke up, a chill crawled from his spine to his neck, he took a step back and looked around with a look of surprise, as if someone was going to hurt him, but in the study, only Masashi Toyama, Manstein and Lin Xian were startled by his movement and were looking at him.

"What's wrong? Was it an impact? Don't worry, it's not dead, but it won't come back to life, and its awakening day should be in 2077, maybe by that day humanity will enter the cyberpunk era. Masashi Toyama comforted.

"Didn't you hear anyone just now?" Lin Nian asked, the sudden fright made him breathe a little, and he looked a little excited.

"Who spoke? What did you say? Manstein frowned, also stepped forward and hurriedly said: "None of the people in the room spoke just now, and you suddenly took a step back with a ghostly expression. ”

"Sister, did you hear that?" Lin Nian decisively turned his head and asked Lin Xian.

Manstein was about to say something, but Masashi Toyama stretched out his hand to stop him, shook his head slightly and signaled him not to speak, just waiting for Lin Xian's reply who was asked by Lin Nian.

Under Lin Nian's gaze, Lin Xian also glanced at him slightly inexplicably and shook his head and said, "I didn't hear anyone speak, are you hallucinating again?" ”

"Does he often have auditory hallucinations? Scientific superficial auditory hallucinations are caused by nervous exhaustion and uncoordinated schedules, and you are still jet lag after you get off the plane, so maybe we need to plan a new schedule for him. Masashi Toyama said.

"No... Maybe I just heard it wrong. Lin Nian took a deep breath and calmed down, he felt his heartbeat slowly accelerating, and his eardrums were also a little bulging, and after glancing at the glass bottle on the table at the end, he twisted his head decisively.

Masashi Toyama immediately closed the lockbox and relocked it in turn: "Your current state doesn't look very good, and you're done with your stuff and that's it for today, Professor Manstein, I suggest canceling his afternoon physical test and moving it to tomorrow, what do you think?" ”

"Yes, I'll let the on-call instructor know." Manstein stood beside Lin Nian, reached out and patted him lightly on the back and said, "It's better, right?" No, I'll take you to the dorm to take a break. ”

"What about my sister?" Lin Nian nodded slowly, he also realized that there seemed to be something unknown in his body now, and he needed time to recuperate.

"Your sister was specially arranged by me to live in the staff dormitory, and Teacher Masashi Toyama will take her there, where the environmental conditions are very good. Your words, because the dormitory has been allocated now, you can only be aggrieved to live in the dormitory of the senior year, and most of the senior students have gone out for internships, so there are a lot of vacant seats in the dormitory. ”

"Then it's a problem for Professor Manstein." Lin Nian said.

"Get along with She, don't fight." Lin Xian stood next to Masashi Toyama and reminded Lin Nian who was taken out of the study by Manstein.

"You too, take care of yourself." Lin Nian glanced back at Lin Xian, but his gaze couldn't help but drift on the lockbox on the table, and was finally blocked by the closed door of the study.