Chapter 117: The corruption of the Netherworld is spreading silently

At the clock tower of Mist Town, the little devil on temporary duty yawned and rang the six o'clock bell, announcing that Mist Town had officially entered the night.

Considering that the reward could buy two sesame cakes, she neither slacked off nor played pranks, and after finishing the job, she flew excitedly toward the Town Hall to claim her reward.

That place was currently managed by a group of four-legged lizards, and besides that, there were also some undead helping out.

However, unlike other annoying four-legged lizards.

Those guys who called themselves acolytes covered their ugly faces with cloaks, not only breaking the habit of being arrogant but also becoming very polite.

It seemed they had been tamed by the Demon King.

Really curious what means that lord used...

On the street not far away, dim light lit up the roadside.

The Mole-men of Iron Yacheng, under the leadership of Sharp Tooth, were installing street lamps carved with Nether-runes onto wooden poles by the roadside.

This was the Demon King's requirement.

He said there must be light in Mist Town at night.

As for the daytime, he would try to fix the crystals on the dome, let the withered forest regain its vitality, and let night and day reappear above the Mist Forest.

The Dark Elves were surprised by this.

However, thinking that the Demon King could even defeat Chaos, many Dark Elves still held a glimmer of hope in their hearts.

Although they wouldn't be surprised if it couldn't be achieved.

As for the "municipal engineering" of Mist Town, it was the first problem the Necropolis had to solve.

According to the Demon King, they wanted to prove to the surface humans that this place, where the light of Saint Xisi could not reach, was not much worse than those places that were bathed in the light of Saint Xisi all day long.

Even better than those places! "Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Wearing the only "safety helmet" of the construction team, Sharp Tooth waved his big hand to urge and scream, adding BUFFs to those mice who were afraid of heights and light.

And the reason he was so anxious was actually for the same reason as the little devil rushing to the Town Hall to claim her reward—

Working for the Demon King meant getting Nether-coins.

And Nether-coins could buy roasted sweet potatoes.

Nether-coins equal roasted sweet potatoes, like a formula, had been deeply engraved in the minds of these Mole-men.

Although Nether-coins could do far more than that, at least for now, this formula alone was enough for them to exert all their strength to work.

On another street next door, the mice who had completed the construction task first had already lined up in a long queue in front of the small stall under the street lamp.

They were all employees of the "I Think Group".

Unlike the "work mice" of Iron Yacheng itself, their wages were calculated on the account of the I Think Group and paid directly in roasted sweet potatoes.

Anyway, there was no difference, and it was very convenient.

At this moment, one Mole-man after another stretched their necks, looking at the huge iron barrel emitting heat, and the saliva hanging next to their front teeth wished it could drip onto the ground.

The alluring aroma drifting from the hole of the iron barrel was simply like a demon leading people to fall, making these little guys who hadn't eaten many good meals unable to move their short legs once they smelled it.

As soon as the fresh sweet potatoes came out of the pot, the queue that could barely be maintained instantly squeezed into a ball, erupting into chattering screams.

"Mine!! Mine!!!"

"I came first!!"

The front teeth that reflected light shook up and down, and the flashing light made Gou Shi, who was standing next to the iron barrel, unable to open his eyes.

He knocked on the iron barrel with the long-mouthed pliers in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Come one by one! Those who paid have a share, don't grab!"

The squeaking sound was translated by the translation crystal into a language that the Mole-men could understand, looking like a skeleton soldier speaking human language.

Two patrolling mercenaries stood not far away, looking at the roasted sweet potato stall surrounded by Mole-men, both with curious expressions on their faces.

"What is that roasting?"

"Pumpkin?"

"Doesn't look like it... a bit like sweet potato."

"Isn't that for feeding pigs?"

"Who knows... maybe monsters love to eat this."

Although the skeleton roasting sweet potatoes made people feel a bit nauseous, the skeleton doing business didn't use its own hands to grab the food, but operated through a pair of long-mouthed pliers.

Truly rare.

A mercenary sniffed and showed an interested expression on his face.

"Hey, it smells quite fragrant."

The mercenary next to him encouraged him eagerly.

"Why not try it?"

"Let's go!"

It just happened to be shift change time.

The two hit it off, curiously crowded to the stall, and directly squeezed the group of noisy short-legged ones to the side.

"Boss, how is this sold?"

Gou Shi pointed to the wooden sign hanging on the side.

"One for 2 Nether-coins!"

Both mercenaries were stunned.

"Nether-coins?"

"What is that thing."

Their wages were paid in silver coins, and it was the first time they had heard of such a strange thing as "Nether-coins".

However, facing the confused mercenaries, Gou Shi had an expression of "it should be like this".

"Nether-coins are naturally Nether-coins! Does the Necropolis use RMB instead of Nether-coins? Go, go, go, if you don't have money, go play on the side."

The Mole-men on the side also joined in the fun, shouting and screaming.

"That's right!"

"You can understand it this way, but in natural conditions, the oxygen element that exists alone mostly exists in the form of gas," Gulping Down the Chemical Pool continued, "And it is the gas with combustion-supporting function that I mentioned... although its function is far more than just combustion-supporting, it can also accelerate the oxidation of metals."

So understanding rusty iron as a combination of earth, fire, and wind elements is actually not wrong. The inability to understand this alternative perspective is perhaps one of the reasons why most players find it difficult to use magic.

Most people can't imagine this process at all, and don't even consider the problem from this "tricky" angle.

However, after listening to the ghost's explanation, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool immediately understood what the elemental magic system was all about.

This is a magic system completely different from Nether-runes.

Its existence serves the caster's cognition, and exists with the caster as the core. And at the same time, this cognition is not just the cognition of one person, but the consensus of the vast majority of "conscious individuals" in the game world.

Iron comes from earth, is smelted by fire, and rusted by wind... This is the consensus of the NPCs in the game world, or people in this era background! That is the concept of "everyone's thought" guessed by Brother Ye Zhiqiu.

However, now is not the time to discuss this.

Looking at the ghost with surprise on his face, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool took out experimental equipment and began his demonstration.

Oxygen and water causing iron to rust no longer needs demonstration. What he wants to demonstrate is filling the container with powder ground from rusty iron and charcoal, mixing and heating, and reducing the rusty iron to pure iron.

Not only that—

He also used a glass flask and a conduit to collect the carbon monoxide gas generated in this process, and ignited it in front of Miranda with a fire stone.

He was very careful in this process, for fear of blowing it up.

However, fortunately, his experiment didn't explode this time, and although it failed several times due to sloppy operation, it was finally ignited successfully.

It turns out that gas can really burn!!! Unlike Gulping Down the Chemical Pool who had completed the work, Miranda was as excited as seeing Saint Xisi descending to earth! Watching Miranda, who was excited and wanted to smell it, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was so scared that he reached out and patted the back of his head.

As a result, the former smelled nothing, and the latter patted nothing.

This guy is a ghost, can't be touched, and naturally can't smell.

"What are you doing?" Miranda looked at Gulping Down the Chemical Pool's action in surprise and asked inexplicably.

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool coughed and said.

"I want to say this thing is poisonous... uh, I just remembered you are a ghost, poison can't kill you."

Miranda: "Poisonous?! Why???"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool almost vomited blood.

"Are you a hundred thousand whys!?"

Miranda was stunned and said subconsciously.

"A hundred thousand whys... what is that?"

"... Anyway, it's poisonous, just remember it like that, as for why, study it yourself, I don't know either." Gulping Down the Chemical Pool actually knew the answer, but really didn't want to explain it anymore.

Because once this problem is explained, it involves the fact that people are also composed of countless small things, and the name of this thing is "cell".

Forcibly ignoring that thirsty-for-knowledge gaze, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool pulled the topic back to the theme he wanted to talk about.

"In short, as you can see, 'gas' and 'gas' are also different. Some gases can burn, while some gases can extinguish flames. You cannot explain this phenomenon with simple six elements, so it can be concluded that wind element can be further subdivided."

While speaking, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool covered the waste gas generated after combustion on the burning flame, the flame flickered, and soon extinguished.

Miranda widened his eyes.

"This is?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool said with a smile.

"Another product of the combination of oxygen element and carbon element. This time it is two parts of oxygen and one part of carbon. Unlike the previous 'carbon monoxide', it is generally non-toxic, and at the same time cannot burn or support combustion, and can be used to extinguish fire."

Actually, this laboratory is not rigorous, it belongs to shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target.

If he were serious, he wouldn't be able to confirm whether the flame was extinguished due to lack of fuel or was really extinguished by high-concentration carbon dioxide. But this is not the college entrance examination.

He just needs to let the ghost in front of him understand what's going on.

Although he felt that what he said was just the most superficial knowledge, it sounded like a thunderbolt in Miranda's ears, shaking him for a long time without returning to his soul.

That feeling was as if a door to a new world had been pushed open in his mind! What Imperial Archmage—

The research of his life's learning was not as good as a skeleton in the Necropolis! Unfortunately, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool didn't know what he was thinking, otherwise he would definitely be smug for a while.

Lifting his skeleton arm to wipe the dust off his face, Brother Gulp said.

"Are you satisfied now?"

Miranda nodded excitedly, but soon shook his head and said.

"Oxygen and carbon... I know iron, what about other elements? Is there any rule between them? You must know, right?!"

"Damn!" Gulping Down the Chemical Pool stared at him, "Are you addicted to listening?!"

After saying that, without waiting for his plea, Brother Gulp continued in an irresistible tone.

"No, no, I'm losing too much money by giving you lessons for free every day, just to prove this thing to you, I haven't done any of the Demon King's tasks!"

Miranda immediately asked.

"What task did the Demon King give you?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool: "Capture adventurers! Female knights! Princesses!"

"Uh, this... can you change one?" Miranda said with fear, he had already caused a huge disaster and really didn't want to harm people anymore.

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool said regretfully.

"There is also killing monsters."

Miranda immediately said.

"That's no problem, I can help you."

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool looked at him in surprise.

"Really?!"

"Of course," Miranda smiled slightly and said confidently, "Don't look at me like this... actually, I'm a bronze-level magic apprentice anyway."

In fact, he was originally black iron level.

It's just that after completing Novell's ritual, the God of Chaos, in order to reward him for pleasing himself, sublimated his soul once.

Although it seems to be a bait now, for him, it can be considered a blessing in disguise.

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool smacked his lips, thinking it was okay, at least he had one more bronze-level thug.

Although he had more awesome robots to use, those things couldn't be used in the labyrinth, and moving them was a "crystal-swallowing giant beast".

"Alright then... I'll give you four hours of class every day, and you take me to level up for eight hours, which means hunting monsters."

"Four hours?!" Miranda exclaimed, "Why so short?!"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool said angrily.

"Be content! Knowledge is valuable! I haven't even charged you tuition!"

Thinking of this, he got angry.

Having held the closed beta qualification for so long, although he hadn't made much money, he rarely did loss-making business.

However, on this dead ghost, he directly lost it back!

It took three whole days just to do a physics and chemistry experiment that a junior high school student would know, and he specially bought a second-hand chemistry textbook online.

Don't doubt it—

This must be the malice of the development team!

And the purpose is to let him cooperate in testing the game's physics engine.

But having said that, he didn't gain anything in these three days.

At least in the understanding of magic, especially the theoretical level, he might have walked in front of Brother Ye Zhiqiu.

In addition, receiving a bronze-level younger brother is also not bad, especially since this guy is a ghost mage with "physical immunity".

Just when Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was thinking this, a deafening roar suddenly came from not far away.

It didn't sound like an explosion.

It looked like something heavy had smashed to the ground.

"What's the situation?!"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool's heart suddenly skipped a beat, thinking that the prototype of "Gabeng No. 2" had a problem, and he didn't want the experimental equipment all over the floor, so he hurriedly ran back toward Iron Yacheng.

Miranda followed closely behind him.

The two undead had just rushed to the gate of Iron Yacheng when they bumped into a group of screaming fleeing moles and a humanoid monster that looked like clay!

The moment he saw that guy, Miranda exclaimed.

"Clay Golem?!"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was also shocked.

"Monster siege?!"

Seeing the skeleton boss appearing at the gate of Iron Yacheng, a group of Mole-men suddenly drilled behind him like finding a savior.

"Boss! Help!!!"

"Save, save, save!!!"

"Damn?!" Looking at the Mole-men drilling behind him, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool panicked, "Don't shout help at me, you guys use magic guns to shoot them!"

Why are these Mole-men so useless?! Just as he was speaking, the sound of fighting came from afar, Bond, wielding a great sword, had just chopped down a clay golem, and was soon targeted by another golem.

There were at least thirty clay golems gathered in front of the Mechanical Temple at the gate of Iron Yacheng, among which there were many huge clay giants!

And the Mole-men side could compete with it, but there were very few, only two experimental exoskeletons were driven out, but because of the lack of actual combat experience, they were beaten dizzy.

Bond and several acolytes of the Palace Guard clan soon fell into a bitter battle.

And facing these golems, the engineering spiders of the Shadow Nest had no choice but to jump their feet except for spitting from afar.

Arachdo was not here.

As non-combat spiders, they had no combat power at all.

At this time, a clay golem suddenly targeted the skeleton soldier standing at the entrance of the Mechanical Temple, and immediately stepped on dull steps and rushed toward him.

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was startled, just wanted to turn and run, but saw Miranda raise his right hand, a wind blade whistled out and roared on the clay golem.

"Bang—!"

The violent airflow raged! However, the clay golem ate this blow with its sturdy chest, standing in the chaotic airflow unscathed.

"Damn, are you okay—" Gulping Down the Chemical Pool just blurted out this sentence, and saw Miranda snap his fingers.

"Ignite!"

That is the most basic black iron-level fire magic.

However, the moment the spell was released, an incredible scene happened! I saw the suddenly protruding flame flash and disappear on the chest of the clay golem, and then the chest that was as sturdy as a city wall exploded like a powder keg, a deafening roar and eye-stinging firelight!

"Boom—!"

The shock wave of the explosion not only instantly destroyed the clay golem, but also knocked over three others around it.

The dust blown up drifted more than ten meters away, and soon filled half of the hall, scaring all the Mole-men on the spot.

Not just Mole-men.

One by one, the clay golems also looked at the center of the explosion, and the dull foreheads faintly flickered with light of disbelief and fear.

Looking at the scene in front of him with the same astonishment, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool felt the hot airflow passing through his ribs and said dumbfounded.

"You, what did you do?!"

Miranda was obviously stunned too.

He just learned and sold what he just learned, but didn't expect the effect to be so amazing.

"I, I just followed what you said, combined oxygen element and carbon element one-to-one, and combined it into that combustible gas... seems to be called 'carbon monoxide'?"

Although he couldn't understand what carbon monoxide was, he already had a basic concept of the combination of carbon element and oxygen element, such as being poisonous, such as being able to burn, etc... its principle is similar to the niche metal magic.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that when he cast the ignition magic, the effect produced was not combustion but explosion.

After listening to his explanation, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was completely dumbfounded.

This works too?!

Magic and science combined organically at this moment, and countless possibilities that had never been imagined flashed through his mind in an instant!

Immediately after, those brain holes were like firewood, filling the soul fire burning in his skull.

Magic crystal cannon? That kind of brute force miracle thing is simply weak!

The I Think Group will have its own black technology!

And as long as he doesn't make it public, others absolutely can't copy it!

That fanatical gaze made Miranda's heart tremble, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

However, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool grabbed him and said excitedly.

"That... the magic of filling carbon monoxide into wind blades!"

"Teach me!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 119 =====

Everyone exclaimed, all shocked by this news.

The person who spoke had a serious expression, and continued to say firmly.

"Can't be fake! My buddy's buddy saw it with his own eyes! He also said that in order to clean up this mess, the people of the Knight Order and the Demon King's people tacitly stopped fighting and aimed their spears at the evil spirits pouring out of the crack!"

As he spoke, he sounded like he was on the scene, using a dreamy voice.

"The living and the dead stood together, fighting against the evil spirits from Chaos... simply like a story in a legend!"

Everyone was amazed after listening.

"Saint Xisi above..."

"This is how! Incredible!"

The corners of Finis's mouth curled up slightly, never expected that what he heard was not "how blasphemous", but "how incredible".

It seems that in the eyes of people with different identities, the first reaction to the same problem is different.

Mercenaries often deal with the dead, so they can accept the food eaten by the dead... Finis thought to himself.

And what surprised him even more was still to come—

From that word-of-mouth voice, he actually heard his own name!

"Heard that the battlefield was chaotic at that time, a group of people ran out of the small town and didn't know what to do at all, and even the Demon King hesitated whether to solve these obstructive guys first... but at this time, a guy named Alex stood out and made those brainless mercenaries and adventurers unite."

"Alex?! I recognize that guy! Seems to be called... Brave Sword?!"

"That's the name of their adventurer squad."

"I remember besides him there were two others, one named Xiuwen, and another magician..."

"Seems to be called Finis!"

The corruption of Chaos has faded, while the corruption of the Netherworld has just begun, and all this is just the dusk before the night.

The shock brought to the people of the other world by the players from Earth is far more than just a roasted sweet potato, and there are too many things that the latter has never imagined—and even dare not think about deeply.

A small alley not far from the clock tower.

A skeleton and a ghost are huddled together, looking sneaky as if they are performing some kind of unspeakable ritual.

With a flash of emerald green light, a piece of orange-yellow metal gradually appeared in front of the two undead.

Looking at the metal block that appeared out of thin air on the ground, the slender bone frame immediately let out an excited squeak.

"Oh oh oh!! Done! Done!"

Unlike 【Gulping Down the Chemical Pool】 who was dancing with excitement, Miranda's body swayed, and the turbid body seemed to become more transparent than before.

"And then?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool calmed down again and coughed inscrutably.

"Next, you try to imagine gold—"

The translation crystal had just translated his words when it was interrupted by a scream.

"Impossible! With my magic power, I can't do it at all! Copper is already my limit, and this can't be maintained for long at all!"

Miranda screamed and interrupted Brother Gulp, and continued to speak quickly.

"What you asked me to do, I have already done, now you should tell me what that 'flame reaction' is all about?!"

At the same time, the copper block that fell on the ground began to become illusory, crumbling like a sandcastle on the beach, as if a wave could disintegrate it.

Finally, it couldn't be maintained, and with a light "bang", it turned into bronze-colored light particles and flew away in the air, disappearing.

Watching the light particles flying in the air go away, the soul fire burning in Brother Gulp's skull swayed gently.

After pondering for a long time, he spoke slowly.

"Everything is composed of elements... have you realized it?"

Miranda was confused and didn't understand at all.

"Is there any problem with this?"

Expecting him to have this reaction, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool smiled triumphantly and continued inscrutably.

"Simply put, it's not just the six basic elements, including the metal you just created, and the metal you can't create, essentially they are all composed of smaller particles! Even the so-called six basic elements can continue to be subdivided..."

"How is this possible?!" Miranda exclaimed and said eagerly, "I can understand that everything is composed of elements, but the six basic elements are already the smallest elements that make up everything, how can they continue to be subdivided?"

For example, the brass he just condensed was a combination of earth magic and water magic, thus evolving into a metal-based variant.

Everything in the world is composed of six elements, except for life and death which belong to separate systems, any magic book is written like this! However, the skeleton standing in front of him shook his head and said with a smile.

"Too little! Haven't you thought about whether pure water can continue to be subdivided?"

"You mean water vapor? That is a combination of water element and fire element—"

"That's just the appearance," interrupting Miranda, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool continued, "The division I'm talking about is a more direct division... continue to disassemble the water element, disassemble it into oxygen element and hydrogen element."

"What is that?!" Miranda was completely stunned, listening to those inexplicable terms, feeling like he was a student.

Although he was originally an apprentice of the Academy.

"It is one of the elements that make up the world," Gulping Down the Chemical Pool continued, "They often exist in the form of gas."

Miranda blurted out.

"Isn't that air element?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool said with a smile.

"You can understand it this way, but have you thought about it, gas and gas and gas can also be completely different. If you use your theory, how do you distinguish the difference between air element and air element?"

Miranda was stunned and couldn't answer this question for a while... mainly because he couldn't imagine why gas and gas would be different.

"Some gases can make fire burn, while some gases can make fire extinguish... you can figure this out yourself, it's too much trouble for me to explain to you."

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool paused for a moment and continued.

"In short, in the Necropolis, we listed common elements into a table, called the 'Periodic Table of Elements'. There are 118 elements in this table, divided into 7 periods and 16 groups."

"According to the characteristics of different elements, when copper is burned in a flame, the electrons in the copper atoms absorb energy, jump from low-energy orbits to high-energy orbits, and will release light of a specific wavelength when returning to the ground state... and this light is the green light you see."

Miranda looked at him blankly, his eyes first astonished, then suspicious, and finally turned into suspicion of himself.

He had been in the Academy for so many years and had never heard of such an amazing theory.

This completely overturned his understanding of the world! "... There are 118 kinds of elements?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool shrugged his shoulders.

"There are 118 known kinds, the rest... theoretically infinite, anyway we don't know where its limit is."

Miranda immediately asked.

"Then how do you prove the existence of these 118 elements?"

Gulping Down the Chemical Pool was stunned.

"This... of course there is a way, it's just more troublesome."

Damn!

This guy wouldn't want him to demonstrate it to him, would he?

How to demonstrate this in the game?!

He originally wanted to brush off this question, but the ghost in front of him seemed to be energized, staring at him with burning eyes.

"I'd like to hear the details!"

Facing that thirsty-for-knowledge gaze, a bad feeling arose in Gulping Down the Chemical Pool's chest—

He seemed to be entangled in incredible trouble.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====