Chapter Two Hundred and Three: The Alchemist

"This, this, this?"

"You're not framing me. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Lynch, we're friends, right? ”

"It's not a good thing to cheat on friends, right. ”

"Some jokes can't be made, right? ”

With a look of disbelief on his face, Edward looked at the white, reddish particles in his hands.

These things that will be dirty in your hands are extremely precious at this moment.

Because the large-scale refining of Jin Kela has always been the wish of alchemists.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with the fact that Edward can also be made into gold through gold, and it is not like gold, which cannot be refined anyway.

But how to refine on a large scale, about this point alchemists challenge how many people die.

Although Edward did not challenge this question, he still knew some relevant information.

"Ed, it's because I'm your friend that I'm telling you this top-secret information today. ”

"You can't even tell Al, it's a big deal. Lynch didn't want to tell Edward, but he didn't believe Edward, a person who would owe hundreds of thousands of gold coins for the sake of the poor people who had nothing to do with him, how could he not be a person who was consumed by interests and betrayed his friends for profit.

It's just a concern about Edward's ability to keep secrets.

Besides, when the nobles of the southwest are willing to make this deal together, there will be no need to hide.

Although Elliot is a friend, his business experience is definitely not bad, and he is a person who can usually joke and frolic, and talk about business with a business attitude.

From his standpoint, the best way to make a profit was to lead Toposo, himself, and His Majesty the Emperor.

In the face of the two giants in this way, the Toposso Collar has no strength at all.

The reason why I want to tell Edward is because if you want to produce the Jinkela 1 jointly developed by the next doctor and professor, you need a lot of materials, a lot of flint stones, and you can't hide it from Edward at all.

Edward was a smart man, and it would be good if he didn't know about the initial experiments, and he needed to be allowed to do such a core job, but he was hiding so much information from him.

Will you still be able to be friends then?

No.

Some people can talk about interests, others need to talk about feelings.

Edward is clearly the one who needs to talk about feelings.

While there is nothing wrong with thinking that people need benefits in their dealings with others, some people cannot be impressed by interests in the usual sense.

Doing so is often met with shameful failures.

How could Lynch make such a common mistake for villains?

It's like a brave man going to attack the demon king, and the demon king always puts forward a series of unattractive and inferior conditions, and he has no level at all, and he doesn't agree to change Lynch as a brave man.

The demon king who can't correctly analyze the needs and pursuits of the people around him is really a matter of course for hitting the streets.

"Ed, I never cheat on my friends. Even if it's such a crucial thing. Looking at Edward, who had been blinded, Lynch couldn't help but add.

"This is one of the greatest achievements of alchemy, capable of making waves, and the greatest achievement of classical alchemy is the discovery that gold can be refined into almost everything desired, hence the alchemy called alchemy. "Seemingly battered, Edward began to look back in history.

"But the biggest problem with classical alchemy is that it is not practical. ”

"Almost most of the alchemy results show that the refined items tend to be worth less than gold. ”

"The result haunts the alchemist like a nightmare, the magician can create value, and the alchemist wastes gold. Speaking of this, Edward couldn't help but show a mocking look

The classical alchemy era is not completely impractical, it can be said that they replaced the exchange rate on the earth and balanced the price of the world economy, because once there is a large-scale price increase, there will be alchemists who use gold to make arbitrage, causing countless merchants to go bankrupt.

But with the advancement of magic technology, under the leadership of the legendary magician Lucian, magic production technology has achieved a rapid effect, which has led to the loss of meaning of classical alchemy, such as the fact that one gram of gold can be exchanged for ten kilograms of salt in the past, which was profitable, but with the large-scale production of sea salt, the trade became a loss-making business.

The cost of gold mining and smelting has fallen much slower than the progress of other material production, making classical alchemy a court game rather than a force that can decide the situation.

"Relying only on gold to refine can no longer adapt to the times, so modern alchemy was born, no longer pursuing how much gold can be made, improving the efficiency of using gold, but focusing on the finishing of things. ”

"For example, what I'm good at is smelting all kinds of iron ore into steel. The more Edward spoke, the more excited he became, but Lynch was stunned.

What does this mean?

Lynch couldn't understand it anymore.

It seems that seeing Lynch's bewilderment, Edward is almost looking up to the sky and screaming.

"I mean, in order to follow the progress of magic, modern alchemy has spent so much effort, how much manpower and material resources have been expended, and I don't know how much gold has been wasted, especially in Jinkola, which has a huge amount of gold invested almost every year. ”

"The Alchemy Society believes that as long as we can succeed in this field, all the investment is worth it, and we are already close to success, and the price of the gold that is now produced is only five times more expensive than the price of the Elven Kingdom. ”

"Also known as earth gold, it is more precious than gold in the eyes of alchemists. ”

Hearing this, Lynch finally understood.

Edward was.

If he was the kind of alchemist who put all his heart and soul into refining the gold.

The results that I have struggled all my life have not achieved have been succeeded by people who are not alchemists.

No one can be calm.

If the Alchemy Association knew that they were throwing more than 20% of the funds into research every year, they would have made it effortless, and they were far ahead, and they had completely reached the stage of practical use.

That's not just going crazy.

I almost vomited blood.

If you want to make a comparison, it is a mathematician, who has been exhausted, in order to solve a mathematical puzzle, when he is very likely to be close to the answer, but suddenly sees in the journal that someone else has solved the puzzle and obtained a perfect solution, and all his efforts have been in vain.

"Ed, you're not trying to smash this machine, are you? Lynch asked cautiously.

It seems that Edward's mood is very unstable.

"I would like to, but I'm also an alchemist. Edward reluctantly crushed the gold in his hand.

No matter how emotionally unstable he is, he would still be excited to see the progress of technology, if it weren't for this project.

Because Edward's real teacher, the main project is Jin Kela. (To be continued.) )