"Tianxuan, although this place is full of holes now! But I have good news for you. Jason Klozo teased to Tianxuan.

"What's the good news?" Tianxuan was puzzled and looked at this strange Shu Huang suspiciously.

Jason Klozo's beard cocked and said, "That's because it's basically completely destroyed, and it has to be rebuilt rather than repaired." The fault of the equipment you destroyed is no longer there because the building has been destroyed, and you don't have to stay and work hard to pay for it. Ares, what do you think? ”

Ares said expressionlessly: "What else can I see, I have said everything I have said." Do it, you're free! ”

After listening to their conversation, Tianxuan's face twitched slightly, and he wanted to laugh but couldn't, so he joined the disaster relief team and carried the supplies together. After a while, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder from behind, and Tianxuan looked back to see that it was Hestia.

"Lady Hestia, what are you looking for me?" Tianxuan asked

"Come here, I've got something to tell you!" Hestia said.

So, Tianxuan followed Hestia to a free place. Then Hestia said to Tianxuan, "Now you don't have to stay to make up for your mistakes, do you understand?" ”

"Understood! I just want to help! Leave tomorrow! Tianxuan said.

"I want to tell you that you can go with Sal and the others to the main city of Maya tomorrow; You can also stay for ten days, because the damage this time is too great, we have to report the situation first, and we alchemists also have to go to the main Mayan city to allocate materials. I saw earlier that you made explosives out of diatomaceous earth, and I think you have a talent for alchemy, and you can stay for 10 days to learn something interesting. Hestia blinked as she spoke.

At this time, Sal and the others came over and said with a smile: "Tianxuan, pack up, we will go to the main city early tomorrow!" Look, you're tired, go and rest, lest you lose sight of tomorrow. ”

Tianxuan looked at Sal, scratched his head and said, "Mr. Sal, I won't go with you tomorrow, I want to stay for a few days." ”

"What? You don't want to go home anymore? Sal asked

"No, look at me and I won't get in the way, I'm afraid it will affect your speed, and besides, in 10 days, the big army will go to the main city of Maya, I'm so confused!" Tianxuan felt a little embarrassed to directly refuse Sal's kindness, so he politely refused to go forward with them.

Sal left with a little loss after Tianxuan's statement, this is also a helpless thing, everything is fate.

Hestia waited for Thrall to walk away, then looked at Tianxuan with her bright red eyes and said, "You decided so quickly! ”

Tianxuan scratched his head and said a little shyly: "I don't think there's a harm in staying here, maybe I can learn some interesting things!" ”

Hestia blinked her eyes charmingly, stroked the brown curls on her ears with her hand, and said, "Wise choice!" With that, she left with a smile.

After Hestia left, Tianxuan walked alone to the entrance of the stairs and looked at Sal's shrinking figure, a trace of melancholy appeared in his heart, he recalled the scene just now and always felt that Hestia had something to say, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy about Sal's departure. His hunch was right, and it was his timely heediability to change his fate, but that would be revealed in the future.

There is no alternation of day and night underground, but humans generally maintain this routine for a period of time, so Tianxuan couldn't stand the tiredness and fell asleep in the lounge at about night, and it was already the next day when he woke up. He rubbed his eyes and slowly walked out of the lounge looking for something to eat.

"Good morning, Tianxuan!" Hestia greeted Tianxuan.

"Hello!" Tianxuan spoke into the air.

"Hey, where are you looking?" Hestia looked at him talking into the air and reminded with a smile.

"Oh!" Tianxuan only reacted at this time, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I haven't woken up yet!" ”

It is said that the Mayans did not alternate day and night underground, and how did they distinguish day and night and calculate time, just a key phenomenon - geothermal heat. Just like the ebb and flow of the ocean, magma also has eruptions and dormant periods, and the heat produced is also periodic, which is basically the same as the cycle of day and night, although some exceptions are normal, and the sun and moon are often seen in the sky on the ground.

After breakfast, Hestia invited Tianxuan to accompany them as an alchemist to collect the fire tongue grass. This tongue grass is a plant endemic to the streamer, and it is the Kirin's favorite food, and today he has the honor of serving as a keeper. However, there is still a method for the collection of this fire tongue grass, and it cannot be picked at will, and a tongue of fire will come out as soon as the root is pulled, and if you are not careful, you will be burned by this flame. But for alchemists like Hestia, it's easy to get started. I saw that Hestia and the others took out a tool similar to a red dagger but there was no blade, and when they opened the outer shell of the knife handle, a thing like a grenade appeared, and then Tianxuan saw Hestia hold it hard, and suddenly a blue beam of light appeared, and the blue beam kept flickering, as if it had magic power.

Hestia told him that it was called the Photon Harvester, and instructed him to hold the grenade-like elastic part on the handle of the knife, the greater the force of this part, the stronger the beam emitted by the Photon Cutter, and the stronger the penetrating power, and instructed him to adjust the strength of the beam according to his needs before starting to cut the soil around the Flame Tongue Grass. The cutting officially began, these soils are formed due to the condensation of magma, and they contain a large amount of crystal ore inside, and the hardness is still relatively large, Tianxuan tested several times and finally determined to cut with sixty percent of the force, and after cutting, these firetongue grass must be carefully loaded in a sealed container, which is also to prevent fire.

After the collection was completed, Tianxuan followed them to the Qilin's breeding base to help feed the Qilin, don't look at the Qilin is covered with scales, and it will breathe fire, which is a bit scary, in fact, they are still very docile, they are authentic herbivores, they are free-range rather than captive. After the unicorn that Tianxuan fed was full, it not only rolled on the ground like a puppy, but also took the initiative to let Tianxuan ride on it and run, and the picture was simply harmonious.

After the rearing was over, the Hestias continued to collect the residue spit out by the unicorn. It is said that after eating the firetongue grass in person, the remaining crystalline soil and their saliva will produce some kind of chemical reaction, turning into rare ore that can be used to refine high-purity catalysts. This efficiency of resource use has been deeply embedded in the consciousness of the Mayans.

After returning from the Qilin breeding base, Tianxuan went to Hestia's studio, where there were dozens of operating tables in a space of 300 square meters, on which were all kinds of props, potions, and strange graphic boards, like the alchemy room of the legendary wizard, which made him dumbfounded.

While looking at the studio, Tianxuan spotted the △ figure, which looked very familiar, and asked, "Ms. Hestia, what do you mean by △?" ”

"What does it mean!" Hestia said with a smile.

"Huh? It's the same as the chemical equation on our ground, hehe! Tianxuan felt that the Mayans actually used the same things as on the ground, and felt a sense of belonging. But this sense of belonging was immediately killed by her words. Hestia pointed to the △ symbol and said, "Tianxuan, the heating symbol has always been the special symbol of our alchemists. You see, we have a lot of them here, but you probably don't actually use a few on the ground! ”

Hearing this, Tianxuan hurriedly checked these alchemy symbols, and from these symbols he found ∞, which was also interpreted as infinity, but Hestia told him ∞that there was another name called Uroboros, which means that the beginning is the end. Other symbols such as ▽♀♂?? and other symbols contained various meanings that made him pause. Now Tianxuan finally understood the so-called alchemist Standing Guard in the legend as heresy, crooked and heretical, but he didn't know that it was these so-called inconsistencies who laid the foundation of contemporary chemistry, which has been suppressed for thousands of years, but they have been stubbornly passed down, and they are great scholars worthy of respect.

After a general understanding of the basic principles of alchemy, Tianxuan began to study more deeply, and it happened that he saw a workbench with discs of the same size that Hercules used in the Iron Tree Layer, and there were dozens of them. It was on this disc that a shining five-pointed star appeared and sent out an arrow of light, piercing and shooting the spider down. But what made Tianxuan feel strange was that Hestia was an alchemist, and how could he do the work of a foundry, so he asked with a smile: "Lady Hestia, you are really versatile, and you have also taken care of the work of a foundry?" ”

Hestia smiled and said, "How can I be a foundry, geniuses who wear many hats are very rare, at least not me. ”

Tianxuan looked at Hestia in confusion.

"It's normal that you don't understand." As she spoke, Hestia picked up a disc and slashed it across it with her pink hand, and then, as seen by the Iron Tree, a five-pointed star appeared in the center of the disk. Hestia then went on to explain: "Foundries give tools form to ensure quality, while we alchemists give them souls and abilities. Now you get the idea! ”

Listening to the words of this alchemist, Tianxuan was deeply shocked, the alchemist was not just simply fiddling with some tools, but injected his soul into this research, and every prop pinned their hopes. Thinking of this, Tianxuan couldn't help but be in awe, and sighed that alchemy was really worthy of a noble profession.

In the days that followed, Tianxuan came here every day to study alchemy, hoping to return to the ground to carry forward these lost arts.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is noon on the 10th day, and the alchemist's team is ready to march towards the main city of Maya!

This book was first published in Reading Books