Chapter 50

"Bitter, bitter."

In the workshop, Ji Jue opened his eyes with a dirty face, crawled up from the floor mat, and wailed: "So bitter, I'm too bitter."

To be honest, he had long been prepared to suffer, but he didn't expect it to be so bitter.

A short week was just like hell.

Professor Ye didn't do any cram training camp; on the contrary, she paid great attention to the combination of work and rest. In addition to letting Ji Jue maintain the previous practice and continue to consume the pile of waste and scraps in the warehouse, she only added two fixed courses every day.

One hour of basic courses, explaining the specific classifications, branches, and various fields of alchemy, from kindness to blessings to the application of various runes in different situations.

Pure theory.

Ji Jue learned it like a thirsty person.

Then, there was... a disastrous practical class.

Under Professor Ye's guidance, he analyzed and practiced on the waste and scraps in the warehouse. Professor Ye would explain in detail the process and problems encountered when creating this piece of waste, and accurately and detailedly evaluate Ji Jue's ability, then give a problem that just reached Ji Jue's limit or slightly exceeded it, letting him practice.

The depiction of spiritual quality circuits, the engraving of multiple runes, the connection between attached kindness badges—all are problems and places that are not in the textbook but are extremely difficult or prone to problems in practice!

So much so that Ji Jue began to fall into a cycle of flipping over—trying, flipping over, trying again, flipping over again, and then trying again. Until he finally succeeded once, changed the problem, and started flipping over again.

Excessive consumption of spiritual quality is secondary, but the psychological blow is constant and cannot be stopped, making Ji Jue now just approaching the furnace, his hook can't help but clench.

Scared.

Even if this broken furnace came alive and fought with him, it would be better than torturing people like this!

Although, under this pressure, his level is indeed changing with each passing day and advancing by leaps and bounds, the process is really too torturous.

And just after Ji Jue finally relied on liver waste and eating dog food to light up all the twelve kindness badges, the new course started again.

"As a craftsman, you must understand alchemy products, especially the things you use."

Professor Ye said indifferently: "Generally speaking, a craftsman with pursuits will not use other people's works, not only out of trust in his own level, but also for more realistic reasons."

On one hand, the items he makes are definitely better than other people's things in terms of understanding. How to use them, how to make them, when they can be overclocked, and where their limits are, are all clear.

On the other hand, it's because... other people's things are buried with too many mines!

Modern things are okay; at most, they install monitoring and backdoors for you. Your spiritual quality fluctuations, conditions, and specific physical conditions, and detailed ability effects are all recorded and seen through by others... This is still okay. If one day you are fighting and someone shuts down your machine through the backdoor, it won't work, and you can only wait to die.

And pushing further back, the era of catastrophe, or even earlier... that is a hearty competition of quality!

Before the Taiyi Ring, the industry environment was shitty and the craftsmen were even shittier. In terms of being wicked, they were innovative and blooming. Just looking at the things unearthed now, some start to cost your life while using them, some suddenly mutate while using them, some cause all your relatives and friends to be cursed to death while using them, some have a thousand-year-old ghost hiding inside that crawls out at night to kill your whole family, and some have a thousand-year-old ghost that accumulates over time to erode your soul and wants to borrow your body to be reborn...

It simply broadened Ji Jue's horizons!

And he was pressed by Professor Ye to engrave the vigilance into his heart. In ancient tombs, rift realms, and time ruins, if you encounter something you haven't seen before that seems very powerful, if you don't understand it, then just walk around it, stay away, and don't touch it no matter how powerful it is. There are lucky people who touch it a thousand times and are fine, and there are unlucky people who die just by touching it.

Therefore, the current top priority is to figure out the principles, materials, and effects of the alchemy items worn on the body, such as the Emperor's figurine fragment hanging on Ji Jue's neck—the Mouth of the Ancient One.

Of course, as the Emperor's statue and the official genuine figurine of the Eternal Empire, no craftsman is bold enough to do anything on it. But at the same time, in order to highlight the majesty of the Empire and the dignity of the Emperor, it must be meticulously crafted without a trace of flaws.

This is the beginning of hell...

In a fragment the size of a thumb, there are thousands of spiritual quality circuits, hundreds of miniature runes, and more than nine kindness badges... most of which have been scrapped, and the other blessings shackled and contained by runes and badges have all been lost, leaving only the only blessing.

According to Ji Jue's estimation, if it were in a complete state, the complexity would exceed this fragment by a hundred times, or even a thousand times!

In a workshop, dozens of craftsmen might spend decades, regardless of cost and labor, to create such a symbolic thing. The extravagance and madness of the Eternal Empire can be seen.

With Ji Jue's current level, let alone imitation, just the interpretation and analysis of the structure is enough to cost his little life.

What's the difference between this and letting a junior high school student who has just taken a few math classes analyze a higher math paper? And it's only two pages of fragments, and you have to figure out what it means, how to calculate it, and why it's calculated that way.

"You might as well let me die..."

Ji Jue lay on the table, groaning in despair.

"Where have we reached?"

Ye Chun, who finally got ashore, gloated, "I spent more than a year in these days when I was young."

In fact, in the first week, Professor Ye found that her niece was not this material at all, but she didn't stop at all, completely ignoring Ye Chun's crying and little pearls.

In that year-long time, she stuffed all the knowledge that a Heaven-Chosen needs to know, learn, understand, and understand into Ye Chun's brain, from alchemy to identification to all other general knowledge, and even all courses from junior high school to university.

Until it was determined that Ye Chun could be self-reliant in the future and could live well alone.

Then, she fell into a rice worm at light speed.

Every day she is idle, looking like living is just to make crayfish-flavored potato chips expensive, which is really enviable... no, shameful!

"Here, do you want to eat?" Ye Chun handed over the potato chips in her hand.

Ji Jue glared angrily, am I the kind of person who craves your potato chips?

Then, subconsciously, he opened his mouth obediently.

"... Yes!"

"Alright, stop howling. Auntie is going out today, so you have a holiday."

After feeding half a bag of potato chips, Ye Chun, who felt that she had been very hard today, lay back on the sofa and waved her hand: "Aren't you going to the Security Bureau? Don't cause any trouble."

"What do you mean by causing trouble? I am a person who doesn't fight with the world, sweeping the floor is afraid of hurting the life of ants, cherishing moths covering the lamp gauze, I hate causing trouble the most."

Ji Jue retorted solemnly. After washing up in the public bathroom downstairs, he carried his bag and happily took the little Niu Ma out.

The sun was bright and the wind was fresh.

Praise freedom!

If the course tomorrow could be a little easier, it would be even freer!

He whistled, sent a message to Wen Wen, and followed the address above, all the way to the busy commercial area of the Beishan District, repeatedly checking the address.

Look up, look forward.

In front, there is only a huge shopping mall, people coming and going.

"Damn?"

Ji Jue scratched his head: "Is the Security Bureau so grounded?"

"Because Sister Wen said it's lively, which helps the mood." Someone behind answered.

Ji Jue was shocked and saw the child leaning on a crutch. Short hair to the ears, young face, as if still in junior high school, the green breath rushed towards him.

"Hello, may I ask if you are Brother Ji Jue?" The visitor asked politely.

"Ah?"

Ji Jue was stunned for a moment, then reacted. It was the person he saw at the scene the day before yesterday, following Wen Wen, and immediately became enthusiastic, reaching out: "May I ask how to address you?"

"An Ran, An of safety, Ran of so. Brother Ji Jue, you can call me Xiao An or Xiao Ran." The child showed a bright smile: "It just so happens that I just arrived, I'll take you up, let's go."

As he spoke, he leaned on his crutch and walked to the front.

Ji Jue followed obediently, but when he aimed at the other party's back, he couldn't help but think, is this... a man or a woman?

"A man, oh."

An Ran, who was walking in front, said without looking back.

"Ah?"

Ji Jue was shocked. Could it be the legendary mind-reading ability user?

"I'm not a Heaven-Chosen of the Heart Pivot, my family has been White Deer for generations."

An Ran looked back and smiled brightly, "However, generally everyone is very curious when they meet for the first time. Maybe it's because I can't exercise, my skin and constitution are not very good, so it's easy to get confused."

No, no, no, this is not a problem of skin and constitution at all, right?

Ji Jue raised his eyes, looking at the other party's exquisite cheeks in the reflection of the showcase. It's broken, his thoughts started to slide... How come there is a feeling of his little heart pounding?!

Following An Ran, he finally felt the lineup of the Security Bureau.

Even if it was just a branch of the Beishan District, it actually directly contracted an entire floor of the shopping mall and was equipped with an exclusive elevator. According to An Ran, there are more exaggerated lineups.

The branch of the Nanlu District directly found a place to build an entire building of more than 40 floors, and then Team Leader Lu Shenzhou directly used public office for private gain, opening the largest, most complete, and most awesome 24-hour gym in Yacheng... Just thinking about it is a mental injury to the absolute poor class like Ji Jue who takes out loans to go to school.

"Here."

In the elevator, An Ran suddenly said.

With a ding, the elevator slowly opened.

Then, the piercing scream rushed towards him.

Like a nightmare...

Half a minute ago, the lobby.

It's called a lobby, but it's completely a rest area for members of the Beishan District Security Bureau, with everything from sofas to TVs, and unlimited free snacks, enough for a slacker like Tong Hua to stay for 24 hours and not have enough.

"Wow wow wow, here, here! Famous Quote Brother is here!"

Tong Hua held her phone, waving her fists excitedly, making an excited monster scream: "Quack, I'm going to perform Famous Quote Brother's aphorism on the spot today!

My performance will definitely not disappoint Famous Quote Brother!"

Camera, on!

Recording, start!

Her eyes were shining, infinitely looking forward to it.

I, Tong Hua, am going to record Famous Quote Brother's glorious moment today!

Ah, asking for monthly tickets!

There is also a reading theme reward in the event, but the current monthly ticket gap is still a bit big, I want it so much, woo woo woo woo.