Chapter 37

Not only Mali, the old alchemist also benefited a lot from the exchanges in these few days.

Although Mali repeatedly reiterated that the power he mastered was not necessarily the so-called ancient alchemy in Lievre's mouth, the deeper the exchange, the more the old alchemist believed in this point.

Especially after Mali demonstrated the production method of the compass for him on the spot, Lievre almost widened his eyes throughout the whole process and almost cried with joy.

Although the whole process was very short.

Mali just used the magnet at the tail of the magnetic reading lamp to rub the needle tip, then placed it on a leaf, and then put the leaf into the water, and the compass would point to the south.

This was almost the difficulty of a manual class in the second grade of elementary school.

But it still shocked the old alchemist who knew nothing about magnetic fields. And even if Mali explained the principle of magnetic force to him as much as possible afterward, in the eyes of Lievre, who had already accepted the existence of magic elements, the invisible and intangible magnetic field was nothing more than another special mysterious element that had not yet been discovered.

This was a major research sufficient to subvert the magic world! The old alchemist's heart was surging.

And while he was swimming in the ocean of knowledge, he didn't forget to promote his beloved disciple.

Under his strong recommendation, Leini became Mali's teacher of the mainland common language. In these three days, Mali would take a bottle of animal communication potion every day, which was equivalent to having spent fifteen Gold Eagles calculated at the market price of five Gold Eagles.

However, the results were also significant. It wasn't that he learned how much mainland common language in this short time, but he used his mobile phone to record a complete set of common language teaching videos.

In addition, there was a set of introduction to alchemy recorded from Lievre.

You know, Lievre was the vice-dean of the Alchemy Branch of the Guangyao Staff. Even if he had been possessed by the devil in the last ten years and fell into the deep pit of ancient alchemy research and couldn't extricate himself, his own academic literacy was still solid.

Not only the Fusion School, but he also had dabbled in the Potion School and the Runic School. Plus his rich historical knowledge, his lectures were deep and simple, and interesting.

And on the morning of the fourth day, Xia'er and the others also came out of the Endless Forest.

With Suoluo and Laibutousi, two old birds, leading the team, this goblin clearing mission went very smoothly, and the whole process was safe and sound.

The group touched the lair of those goblins at dawn and knocked down the guards outside, while the goblins in the lair were still in sweet dreams at this time.

What awaited them was a massacre without suspense!

Those green-skinned little monsters couldn't form any decent resistance at all. Many had their heads cut off before they could even pick up their weapons. The remaining ones struggled in a pretentious way, and soon began to scatter and flee.

Without time to search for trophies in the lair, Suoluo and Laibutousi immediately split into two paths, each leading half of the manpower to continue chasing those fleeing goblins.

Among them, the monster hunter's side went smoothly, but Laibutousi and others ran into a pig in heat on the way back. To save a militiaman beside him, the older brother of the adventurer siblings, Weier, was pushed down the hillside by the wild boar and broke his arm.

This was also the only casualty situation in this encirclement and suppression.

In addition, Xia'er also reported the results of the experiment to Mali. The empty canned bottles she left after eating were all gone when they returned. In fact, on the second day after they set off, the remaining unopened canned food and biscuits in her backpack all disappeared.

On the other side, the four bars of chocolate hidden by Jiaxiya, three bars were still there, and one of them was missing.

And the small trash that Mali threw away everywhere these days, some were still there, and some disappeared.

He summarized all the experimental results collected together, and then made himself a cup of latte. Since the thermos had been sold by him, he could only make do with a stainless steel rice bowl as a coffee cup.

Mali held the coffee, sitting under the cherry tree in front of the house, drinking and watching.

He believed that the key points he had ignored before were hidden behind these experimental data.

Now, the point that 【items brought out from the Red Mist will disappear】 had basically been confirmed.

But a part of the supplies also remained.

The chocolate experiment could rule out the differences caused by the items themselves, while the empty canned food experiment seemed to prove that this difference was related to time.

But the trash-throwing experiment Mali did himself overturned this proof.

Looking at the contradictory experimental data, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Mali took another sip of latte, feeling the fusion taste brought by the mixture of milk and coffee in his mouth, and a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

Right, he had always subconsciously thought that there was only one influencing factor, but what if there wasn't? If there were other influencing factors besides time, it could explain the contradiction shown by the experimental data.

So what was the second influencing factor? Location?

This was also what he had suspected from the beginning. The distance from the Red Mist would also determine whether the items disappeared.

But this conjecture was not reflected in the experimental data.

Unknowingly, a cup of coffee had been finished.

Mali put down the rice bowl and took out the data of the trash-throwing experiment he did alone.

He even drew a simple map of Baimu Cun for this experiment.

Mali spread out the notebook, placed it on the ground, stared at the large area of o and × representing existence and disappearance on it, then took out a ballpoint pen, drew a large circle, and circled almost all the o's in it.

And in the center of that large circle was the half-elf girl's house.

But this didn't make sense.

Mali frowned. Xia'er obviously had nothing to do with the Red Mist. Why would the small cabin she lived in affect the experimental results? Wait, no, the influencing factor was not Xia'er's house, but himself!

In the few days when Suoluo and others left, Mali stayed here temporarily, and his main range of activities was in this small cabin.

And the small trash he threw nearby, without exception, all remained.

On the contrary, a large part of the trash far from the cabin disappeared.

Finally, Mali combined the two influencing factors of time and location and reached a deduction.

——Items brought out from the Red Mist, as long as they are too far away from him, will disappear after one day.

This deduction could basically fit all the experimental results obtained from the three independent experiments.

Mali even went a step further and reached an approximate range, which was between two and three kilometers. Items beyond this distance would disappear once they left him for more than a day.

He spent a few more days verifying this deduction and refined the final range to 2452 meters.

Mali couldn't explain the reason behind this, but at least now it seemed that there was some inexplicable connection between these ubiquitous modern industrial products and him.

He was like an extra-large battery, continuously providing mysterious energy to these things to maintain their existence.

Mali even found that even if these things spent almost a day 2400 meters away, as long as he rushed over in time, touched them, or stood near them for a while, their disappearance time would be reset again.