Chapter 57: The Black Dog in a Desperate Situation

"So, we have an extra consultant, don't we?" After Aaron left, Annelli looked at the information sheet in her hand repeatedly, a little incredulous.

After a period of negotiation, Yalian became half of the club, why he said half, it was because he didn't usually come to participate in activities, because he had to focus on his own research, but if there was anything the club needed help with, he would also help, and he was also a consultant to the club.

"That's not bad, in fact, I also like that the members can be more relaxed, and they don't have to worry about their own things in order to be gregarious." Ti Lan drank a refreshing flower tea, then looked at the six seeds left on the table.

Purple Pomegranate Seeds [Pyroxene Grade] are seeds that can grow extraordinary plants, but they are demanding on the growing environment, and if cultivated properly, they can produce the fruit 'Indigo Pomegranate' with extraordinary effects.

After receiving Tilan's teaching, in return, Aaron also left a gift in return, which was the six seeds.

"Although the tree of this purple pomegranate is small and does not occupy a large area, it needs a very stable environment of Ai Qi card particles (magic power), and if the magic power fluctuates in the middle of the way, or is disturbed by other factors, the quality of the fruit will decline significantly, and it will probably only produce a copper-grade 'indigo pomegranate'." After the girl checked the information, she tilted her head and looked at the seed in front of her.

"If it is a low-concentration magic environment, it grows extremely slowly, and it may take decades to take shape, and if it is a high-concentration magic environment, the highly active magic energy can easily cause other abnormalities and cause environmental changes."

"The database in the large library shows that if you want to plant, you need to remove the soil and other organisms in the environment, such as fungi, weeds, insect eggs, etc., before creating a suitable environment."

"And you have to make sure that you don't grow with these things."

"That means you need a sterile environment." Annelli came to the girl's side and looked at the six seeds.

"Yes, but that's just the bare bare things, and it's important that it grows to be able to shine on the afterglow of the sunset."

"Because this extraordinary fruit of purple pomegranate is to precipitate the afterglow of the twilight sunset and form a special 'concept'."

Transcendental, magical, sorcery, the reason why these words are used to describe the Aerica particles and their effects is because these extraordinary abilities and effects do not follow the laws of science, but follow the laws of 'concept'.

'Concept' is a certain imaginary product sublimated by the spiritual will from real things, although it does not really exist, but it really affects the relationship between life, such as 'friend', 'country', 'loyalty', 'beauty', etc., these concepts often do not exist alone, but are combined with various things.

One of the most common is celestial worship, such as the sun, moon, stars, etc., in the innate myths of peoples around the world, the eternal burning sun in the sky, is so magical and special, it is natural to entrust many imaginary concepts, such as 'powerful', 'burning', 'blazing' and so on.

It is also for this reason that many extraordinary fruits, creatures, minerals, etc., that enhance one's strength, are related to the 'sun'.

The condensed fruit of this purple pomegranate is also taken from the milder afterglow of the sunset part of the concept of 'sun', which is absorbed and solidified to form a special magic, so that it also has the concept of making life 'strong'.

The condensation of magic is the condensation of concepts.

The scattered magic is very weak and interferes with each other, and if you want to condense it, you must rely on a certain concept.

In addition to the sun, people's cognition of some animals in primitive life has also formed certain concepts, such as 'lion' and 'poisonous snake', 'lion' is often associated with 'powerful' and 'fierce', and 'poisonous snake' is often associated with 'toxin' and 'cunning', and even derives the concept of secondary level, such as 'lion' corresponds to 'king', 'snake' corresponds to 'wisdom' and so on.

If you want to make a supernatural potion that makes people attractive and kingly, you probably need to find some lion beasts to extract related materials, and in the same way, if you want to become quick thinking temporarily, then the materials of 'snake' beasts are also indispensable.

However, the natural world is also abundant, in addition to lions and snakes, there are also many similar concepts, such as 'elephant' and 'goshawk', in some regional myths, elephants are powerful, goshawks are wise, so they can also produce corresponding effects.

The concept of 'powerful' is a lock, but there are many keys that can be opened, such as 'sun', 'lion', 'elephant', etc., among which 'sun' and 'powerful' are the most matched, the most undoubted, and the most effective.

If there were no life, the Aelica particles would be like ordinary dust and would not change anything in the world.

But because of life, the birth of thoughts, imaginations, fantasies, etc., the Ejika particle has the possibility to change everything.

It is the perfect medium to project what is in the spiritual imagination into reality and make it happen.

The ability of the mind and the imagination to interfere with reality is the origin of all transcendence.

However, the Agarica particle is so weak that the simple imagination barely perceives any change, nor can it drive anything to change.

So, wouldn't it be possible to gather thousands of Aika particles, arrange them neatly, and drive reality according to the same ideological spirit?

That's right, that's the first step in forming the Transcendent Core, gathering enough Aeka particles (mana) and aligning them in a uniform pattern to form a stable structure that can be called upon at any time.

But such an extraordinary core is still very primitive, the ability to drive is not strong, and the efficiency is low, so in order to focus on a certain field, life begins to specialize its own Ai Jie Ka particles (magic power), so different transcendent sequences are formed.

From the most primitive primordial sequence, it has evolved and improved, and finally formed today's natural sequence, slashing blade sequence, light feather sequence, spirit child sequence, dragon sequence, withering sequence, tide sequence, blood pupil sequence, and primordial sequence, each with its own characteristics and strengths.

After selecting the sequence, it is not enough, in order to further enhance the driving force of magic on certain fields, the transcendent continues to specialize its core structure, condensing into different imprint patterns, these imprint veins, can allow the transcendent to interfere in certain concepts and fields in an extremely powerful and efficient way, forming different skills and abilities, such as 'fire', 'solid', 'water flow', 'atmosphere', etc., and the high-level transcendent core can also build more abstract conceptual imprints, such as 'shuttle', 'memory', 'time', 'dream', and so on.

To get back to business, if you want to cultivate these six purple pomegranate seeds, then the afterglow of the sunset is indispensable, but this part is unpredictable.

The uncertainty of the same seeds, all tended in the same way, all placed together to receive the afterglow of the setting sun, but the fruits of different quality, are the biggest factor restricting the birth of this rare and extraordinary fruit.

"According to the materials in the current large libraries, the best way at the moment is to cultivate them uniformly and on a large scale, and then after harvesting the fruits, classify them according to their high and low quality." Annelli looked at the materials projected on the screen on the desk and spoke.

"This probability is a bit low, about 200-300 plants only have a high-quality 'indigo pomegranate', and most of the others are bronze-grade 'indigo pomegranates'." Tilan's gaze swept over the data below.

Annelli pouted: "Aaron turned out to be perfunctory to us." ”

"Probably not, he said that this is a variety that he has been researching and improving recently, and the success rate is much higher than that on the market." Tiran shook her head.

"Let's plant it first, if not, it will be an ornamental plant in the club room." Saying that, the girl laughed again, she originally wanted to buy potted plants before, but now she simply saves it.

If you don't make expectations, there will be no disappointment, and you don't expect to produce high-quality fruits, even if it's low-quality, it's good for the members and themselves to taste it.

After going through many things, Tilan now sees many things openly, and no longer deliberately pursues the so-called best, first, perfection, and so on.

Being able to live well, without any grievances and torture is already the greatest happiness, and why bother adding unnecessary troubles to yourself, is it not delicious tonight's meal, is the bed uncomfortable, is the game not fun, is the little animal not cute, is the place to go tomorrow not interesting, after leaving behind many of the shackles set by yourself, life should be very easy.

When a person becomes persevering, it is likely that she has received a lot of positive feedback, and the process is not uncomfortable, and if she makes herself miserable in order to stick to something, that kind of thing is destined to not last long.

Six flower pots were found, first sterilized and disinfected, then the seeds were planted, covered with a special glass cover, and the two of them placed the flower pots on the windowsill of the activity room.

"If you cultivate it in the most basic way, if you can grow it, you won't lose." Annelie said to Tilan.

The recruitment continues, and I don't know who the next new member will be.

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At night, the water rat area module in South 1 District.

The steel-style hovercar was parked at the mouth of the alley, and the headlights flickered slowly, illuminating the figure at the end of the alley.

His coat and clothes were very tattered and messy, mixed with dried blood, charred edges, water stains, dust powder, etc., and dark red wounds could be faintly visible in the broken places.

Although the laser laser will penetrate the flesh, the advantage is that the wound burned by the high temperature will become ripe instantly, and it will not cause any infection, which sounds like some kind of hellish joke, but in this situation where there is no way out, he can only think about this joke to relieve the tense nerves.

Grad took a deep breath, activated the transcendent core in his body, temporarily suppressed the pain from his limbs, and then clenched the hilt of the sword on his lower back, raised his gaze, and looked at the burly man who was walking step by step.

With short gray hair, a square face, and almost clumpy muscles and torso, this man seemed to be made of steel, and he was still wearing a wide trench coat on a hot summer day, while holding a smoking, cooled laser gun in one hand, and a slight movement of the other, and the sound of bones colliding with thick knuckles.

After coming to five meters in front of Grad, the man stopped, stood still, and watched the young man who had no way to escape slowly speak.

"Where did you get East XZ?"

"Something? What do you mean, you thing? A mocking smile appeared on Grede's lips.

Hearing this senseless mockery, the man's grim expression remained unchanged, only repeated again.

"You know what I'm talking about, ask you again, where did you take East XZ?"

"I don't say what's going to happen?"

"I'll let you speak." His voice was still so calm and unshakable.

"Tsk, that's scary, hehe." Although Greid was sarcastic, his hind legs were really trembling slightly, after all, the man in front of him could indeed do it.

'Iron-B7300', the code name of a burly man, no one knows what his real name is, but this code name often appears in the underground world of South 1 District, he acts coldly, even if it is a very dangerous task, and has a very high completion rate, and now he is very valuable, and is only employed by some large enterprises.

After a few rounds of thoughts and thoughts in his mind, Greed finally relented, his eyes shrunk, and then his heels kicked forward sharply, and his body sprang out like a black wolf.

The hilt of the sword behind his back suddenly swung up, and the bright blue lightsaber burst out, and the violent particle rush reflected the alleyway white, and Grad himself was also reflected by this dazzling lightsaber, and a small dazzling blind spot appeared in his vision.

The powerful lightsaber slashed down the burly man from the head, and the violent sparks and piercing sounds burst like firecrackers, and after a single sword, Grad didn't have time to take a closer look at the other man's injuries, but rushed to the alley without looking back, trying to quickly get out of here.

However, just when he thought that the man was not dead and seriously injured, a ruthless iron hand reached out from the bursting sparks and dazzling blind spots, grabbed Greed's shoulder, as if to tear him in half and pull, forcibly dragged Grad back, and then threw him directly against the wall.

The back of his head slammed against the wall, and Grad briefly fainted, his body sliding off the wall like rags, rolling on the ground several times, covered in dust.

Enduring the severe pain, Grad woke up and propped himself up on the ground, trying to grab the hilt of the lightsaber and continue to resist.

A foot in iron boots stepped straight down, then turned with force, shattering the bones of his hand and the hilt of his sword, and twisting the bones.

"Uhh

Then, a hand resembling iron pincers grabbed him and pressed him against the wall.

"Where did you get East XZ?" The burly man continued to ask, the pupil in one of his eyes dilating and constricting, as if to test the veracity of Grad's answer.

"I ...... I'm hiding in ...... Ahem...... Why am I telling you...... I said before that if I get the secret of the 'Three Hands Workshop', I will be paid a proper reward...... Outcome...... Is this the pay...... Ahem. ”

"What you handed over is not worth that kind of payment."

"Enough when I'm a child! If I hand it all over and you don't give you a penny, can I still sue you!? ”

"You've already received the first money, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to buy the equipment." Codename 'Iron-B7300' pointed to the shattered lightsaber hilt at his feet.

Although he was slashed by a lightsaber, his coat was only damaged, and the actual subcutaneous muscles were made of high-strength alloy fibers, not the usual flesh and blood.

Such a body would not be easily split by the swing of a lightsaber, but only a long cut of a centimeter deep in the surface.

"When you made the second payment, the verification of the information you gave failed, and the company judged that you did not confide the truth, but were perfunctory, so it issued a warning to you."

"But you didn't pay attention to it, but continued to ask, saying that it was the key thing that would be given after the money was in hand."

"Before, there was Edus School Park for you for a while, and you didn't realize how precious this opportunity was, and you actually wanted to bargain with the company." There seemed to be a mockery in his eyes, mocking Grad's innocence and childishness.

"You don't understand the rules of the South 1st District, this kind of behavior is not allowed, the company does not accept threats, and does not admit to changing the agreement halfway."

"So, they let me come."

"Ask you again, where did you put East XZ, the 'Three Pointers Workshop' started martial law after your action and announced the suspension of new product research and development, even if the stock price will fall sharply, they have not changed their minds."

"It's unconscionable, and it shows that they're really losing something important."

"So I'm asking you one last time, where did you put East XZ?"

As the words fell, the muzzle of a black hole slowly pressed into Grede's eye socket, and he could even feel the hot and hard barrel on his cheek pressing against his bones.

"I ...... I ......" Grad's voice was rapid, as if he couldn't breathe, but in the end he kicked hard and kicked the burly man in front of him.

"I'm not a wild dog!"

There was anger and fear in his voice, and while he was screaming and howling, he also exposed his own despair and vulnerability.

However, the black-shirted young man did not reverse the situation after roaring like the legendary hero, but was directly held by the leg, lifted and fell to the ground hard, and passed out.

The roaring sound just now stopped abruptly, and the alley became silent.

(End of chapter)