Chapter 122: Cleaning

Shock!

Surprise!

And disbelief!

By the Demon God—

Shirley Moonblade was willing to swear by her name to His Majesty the Demon God that she had never seen such a shocking scene!

When the Demon King replaced the sample in the glass slide with a stained onion skin section, the originally chaotic and disorderly pond instantly turned into an orderly world.

The chaotic cells all turned into one shape, arranged neatly, just like a city wall built of transparent bricks.

Black shadows of the original color floated in the crystal-clear city wall bricks, and one could vaguely see black dots like fruit pits.

Looking at Shirley, who was standing motionless in front of the microscope, Luo Yan stood behind her and said.

"... The transparent squares are the epidermal cells of the onion, the black shadows inside are the cell nuclei, and some are impurities like air bubbles or biological debris."

There were also some suspected to be dust on the lens.

After all, this was just a primitive microscope; apart from the magnification being barely guaranteed, nothing else could be guaranteed.

More precise microscopes still awaited the people of this world to study on their own.

But even so, this world magnified 800 times was shocking enough for Shirley!

"Cell nucleus! What is that?!"

"Imagine it as a Shi Shi Laimu; the cell nucleus is the Shi Shi Laimu's brain."

"Oh oh oh, so that's how it is! Wait, a Shi Shi Laimu is a magnified cell?!"

Luo Yan was slightly stunned and said.

"I'm not sure about that, but it's worth studying... I'll arrange for someone to get some samples back."

While saying this, he had already let Hearing You You issue the task, and soon his little players would be able to catch a bunch for him.

Never having seen Shirley so focused on one thing, Helen, who was originally quite calm, was also aroused by her curiosity, gradually showing an impatient expression.

Especially when she saw the Demon King take out the next slide, she couldn't help but whisper impatiently.

"Please let me take a look too..."

Looking at Helen's appearance, Luo Yan couldn't help but smile.

"No need to rush, I made it for you to use, everyone has a chance... Shirley, let your sister take a look too."

He originally intended to teach one after the other, and then let one teach the other.

However, looking at Helen's appearance, she seemed unable to wait.

Since that was the case, let's teach them together.

"Hmm!"

After hearing the Demon King's order, Shirley reluctantly gave up her position and let her sister move to the eyepiece.

Unlike her carefree sister, Helen cautiously brought her eyes close to the eyepiece, but didn't dare to get too close, looking cautious, fearing that she would break the Demon King's treasure.

Looking at her cautious appearance, Luo Yan couldn't help but tease.

"Don't be so careful, normal use won't break it."

Helen's cheeks flushed slightly, and after saying "Sorry," she pressed her eyes completely against it.

As her eyes gradually adapted to the light source in the microscope, the whole world presented in her eyes became bright.

And at this moment, she finally understood why Shirley was so shocked—

The small lens seemed to take her from the world under her feet to another world.

And everything in this world, even its existence itself, completely overturned her original cognition!

Just as the Demon King said, that onion skin as thin as a cicada's wing was composed of tiny things called "cells"! "Incredible... is this, is this really the world magnified 800 times?"

Helen kept narrating her surprise in an excited voice while moving her eyes, which were full of exclamation, away from the microscope.

One sample was too little—

She wanted more!

"Of course."

Luo Yan nodded, and as she expected, took out a brand-new slide, and in front of the two Dark Elves and Ouke, demonstrated how to use tweezers to take samples from fresh leaves.

After the sampling was successful, he dripped potassium iodide solution on one side of the slide, waited for the solution to diffuse to the other side of the slide, and then placed it in the microscope's card slot.

"... This is the mesophyll cell near the leaf vein; you can clearly find the difference between these cells and the previous onion epidermal cells—"

Before his voice fell, Shirley had already impatiently snatched the control of the microscope, her eyes excited as she shouted at the eyepiece.

"There are some more small light green dots!!"

"Observation is very careful," Luo Yan nodded approvingly and continued, "Those tiny particles are chloroplasts."

"Chloroplasts! What is that!" Shirley asked excitedly.

"Simply put, it's the cell's organ... they are like magic workshops, under the irradiation of sunlight, certain components in the air combine with water to generate nutrients and energy needed to maintain the plant's life activities."

Luo Yan used as simple and easy-to-understand language as possible, omitting the chemical principles.

However, even so, Shirley, Helen, and Ouke were still confused.

"Components in the air?"

"What is that?"

The two Dark Elves asked almost in unison.

Ouke originally wanted to ask too, but seeing that someone had already asked, it didn't speak again.

Luo Yan pondered for a moment and said in a storytelling tone.

"This involves another knowledge point... I'll arrange for someone to explain it to you later. In short, for now, you just need to know that those tiny green dots are the source of energy for most plants."

Biology was still a bit too advanced.

Perhaps he should popularize the concept of the world's composition from the more basic "microscopic particle theory."

However, at this moment, Hearing You You, who was floating on the side, reminded him in a low voice that there seemed to be someone among the players in the Great Graveyard who had popularized similar things to NPCs, and it seemed that they had successfully made that NPC understand.

Undoubtedly, the one who spoke was a talent, and the one who listened was also a talent!

For Luo Yan, this news could be considered an unexpected joy; it seemed that it wouldn't be long before physics and chemistry classes could be arranged.

Helen and Shirley looked at each other, seeing both confusion and a trace of shock in each other's eyes.

After listening to the Demon King for so long, they felt that the Demon King knew everything, and those pieces of knowledge that he picked up were all based on evidence, so they couldn't be made up.

Are the demons of the Demon Capital all so knowledgeable? Or is it that only this lord is special...

After popularizing the cell structure and the concept of organelles, Luo Yan let Shirley give the microscope to Helen, and then explained it to the latter again.

After seeing the "miracle" in front of her, the shock on Helen's face remained, but the confusion in her eyes gradually turned into the joy of gradually understanding everything.

"So that's how it is... we always thought that plants could grow because the light contained some kind of special energy; I didn't expect it to be because of these little guys."

She was clear that plants need sunlight to grow.

However, neither she nor the priests in the tribe, nor the plants themselves, understood the deeper reasons for this.

Luo Yan continued her words.

"Your understanding is actually not wrong, it's just that light and heat themselves are a kind of energy... that is another form of energy different from magic."

"But there is one thing I don't understand." Helen hesitated, and after a moment asked, "But why can some plants live in places without sunlight?"

"Because 'photosynthesis' is not the only way for plants to obtain energy, and not all plants can perform photosynthesis. For example, some fungi that grow on decaying vegetation can breathe like us, while decomposing other plants to obtain energy. For another example, some special magical creatures have many characteristics we don't understand, and it's hard to say if this characteristic can help them adsorb magic elements floating in the air... these are all possible."

Specific problems must be analyzed specifically.

Luo Yan hoped to open up her thinking, rather than fixing her thinking in a dead frame.

Once science becomes a dogma, what he does is no different from Lin Te Aisake.

It's just changing from the Mechanical Sect to the Biological Sect, or some other four-unlike thing.

Looking at Helen and Shirley, who seemed to understand but not quite, Luo Yan continued in a gentle tone.

"There isn't much I can teach you; many things are not just you, I am also exploring them myself."

After a pause, he continued.

"I will return to the Demon Capital in a while; I hope that during the time I am away, you can carefully ponder the materials and after-class thinking questions I left for you. And most importantly, I hope you can thoroughly master this tool and use it to study the influence of natural-type spells on life activities at the microscopic level... and how to actively interfere with this influence."

"Obey! Leave it to Shirley, Demon King!" Shirley was as active as ever, patting her chest with burning eyes, "I will definitely not live up to your expectations!"

"Me too... I feel that I already have some ideas in my mind, maybe it will work!" Helen nodded seriously, her eyes burning with unprecedented fighting spirit.

If she still had a trace of doubt about the usefulness of this knowledge at the beginning, doubting whether it could really help repair the fourth-floor dome crystal, then now she had no doubt in her heart—

The weight of this knowledge even surpassed this labyrinth, standing at a height she had never looked up to before.

Luo Yan was very satisfied with their answer.

Interest is the best teacher.

His half-hanging level could at most lead the two into the door; really delving into it still depends on themselves.

While saying this, Luo Yan didn't forget the other "student" present—Ouke, who was hiding in the corner, listening thirstily and never participating in the discussion from beginning to end.

"And you, Ouke, I have higher expectations for you... Since we can magnify the stone slab carved with inscriptions 800 times, we have a way to shrink the dot matrix of Nether-scripts 800 times, or even integrate the Nether-scripts of a whole book onto a metal plate the size of a palm."

When he said this, he reached out and patted Ouke's shoulder, who looked surprised.

"Keep working hard... In addition, I will move this microscope away. If you have time in the next two days, I hope you can make another one according to the methods I taught you; if you have difficulties, you can also ask my minions."

To avoid fighting between his minions due to religious and cultural conflicts, Luo Yan prepared a separate magic workshop for the guests of the Gray Wind tribe, specializing in research in the direction of "natural-type spells."

As for Ouke, it was mainly about researching Nether-scripts.

After explaining these things, Luo Yan found the Gecko tribe monk, let the latter move the microscope to the cave that Alakeduo had just dug out, and then left Ouke's magic workshop.

Watching the Demon King's back disappear at the door, Ouke's mood was long unable to calm down, his mind constantly chewing on the sentence the lord left behind before leaving—integrating the inscriptions of a whole book onto a metal plate the size of a palm! If someone had said these things to him before, he would definitely have thought that guy was crazy!

However, now, a machine capable of magnifying objects 800 times was placed in front of him, and it had just shown him that incredible world! Not to mention integrating the inscriptions of a whole book onto a metal plate the size of a palm, as long as he found a way to get a needle fine enough, he even had the confidence to carve flowers on a wheat ear! Ouke became more excited the more he thought about it, his eyes first filled with ecstasy, and then replaced by that heartfelt worship.

Praise the Demon King—

"You are simply... a genius!!!"

Luo Yan didn't expect that he just said it casually, but it turned into a surging wave tens of meters high in Ouke's ears, and finally turned into even higher flattery.

However, even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care.

Since becoming the Demon King, he had heard all kinds of flattery, and his ears were almost calloused.

Leaving Ouke's magic workshop, Luo Yan didn't stay long, took Sarah and Oakduo, and rode Alakeduo straight to the third floor of the labyrinth.

Although the leave note for the Demon Capital hadn't been approved yet, he thought approval was just a matter of time.

After all, he had a legitimate reason.

And before heading to the Demon Capital, he had to solve the trouble in his own backyard first.

At the entrance of Iron Yacheng, in the messy Mechanical Temple, a group of Mole-man craftsmen were busy shuttling back and forth.

Sitting on Bond's shoulder, Zhuangzhuang looked down on the surroundings with his head held high, urging the rats to run faster, faster, and then laughed loudly at the guys who tripped.

Although this didn't make much sense, at least it could show that he, the chieftain, wasn't so useless, and the anxious appearance of those rats made him secretly happy.

Unconvinced? Unconvinced, go have a fight with the Demon King's minions! Although Zhuangzhuang couldn't adapt to the identity of chieftain at first, and even screamed and wanted to hide, as time passed, he found that he was simply a natural chieftain!

No one was more suitable for this job than him!

His gaze looking down at the surroundings became more and more arrogant, until Zhuangzhuang saw a figure not far away, and then he jumped off Bond's shoulder in a hurry.

"Respected Demon King—"

"No need for formalities."

Ignoring the Mole-man chieftain's exaggerated salute, Luo Yan looked around and said.

"Just tell me what happened here."

"Yes, yes!"

With a flattering smile on his face, Zhuangzhuang hurriedly narrated the monster siege event that happened yesterday to the Demon King.

Looking at the Demon King's thoughtful expression, Zhuangzhuang coughed pretentiously and said spiritedly.

"... Those clay monsters are really hateful! But Demon King, please rest assured, no matter how many of those fools come, they can only serve as fertilizer for our Iron Yacheng! They can't make us surrender!"

Luo Yan looked at the taciturn Bond.

"Is that so?"

Bond shook his head and said in a voice without much ups and downs.

"Those clay golems are very strong, and there are many of them; I couldn't handle them alone."

After a pause, he said again.

"At that time, thanks to a ghost who took action in time, his spells came in very handy... if he hadn't arrived in time to support, many Mole-men would have died here."

In the final analysis, it was because the combat effectiveness of these Mole-men was too poor; once they left machines and traps, they had no way at all.

Currently, the "I Think" Group and the Zheng Fangxing Group and other relatively large magic workshops could be considered to have pieced together a batch of Nether-script exoskeletons, equipped with combat knives and magic energy guns with inscriptions, which allowed Iron Yacheng to have a certain self-defense capability.

However, having said that, no one could guarantee that the next wave of clay golems would be as numerous as before.

Deciding to solve this problem once and for all, Luo Yan looked up at Bond and continued.

"I heard that some of those clay golems seemed to have escaped?"

"Yes," Bond nodded and answered truthfully, "Due to limited manpower, we didn't chase after them and could only watch them run away."

Luo Yan didn't blame him, but comforted him.

"Not chasing after them was right; only when they run home can we find where their lair is... Sarah, the tracking matter is left to you."

"Hmm!"

Sarah nodded seriously, then revealed the dagger hidden under her cloak.

Since the battle with Chaos, she had become much more taciturn, and her words had become fewer and fewer.

On the contrary, Bond had gradually adapted to the identity of a corpse ghost, and his words had become more than before.

Looking at the Demon King who was preparing to set off, he took the initiative to ask for orders.

"If you intend to head to the lair of the clay puppets, please take me with you."

"No need, you continue to stay here and wait for orders; if necessary, I will call you."

When saying this, Luo Yan glanced inadvertently at Zhuangzhuang standing on the side.

At least half the reason he left Bond here was because he was worried that this guy couldn't hold the fort.

After explaining things, Luo Yan didn't stay in Iron Yacheng and set off with a group of teammates.

However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed a transparent figure floating not far away, secretly peeping here.

Just at the same time Luo Yan discovered the ghost, Sarah also immediately discovered its existence and shouted coldly.

"Who's there!"

Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, the ghost floated out and raised his hands to indicate that he had no hostility.

"Please don't misunderstand... I am not a suspicious person."

"Suspicious people all say that." The taciturn Oakduo grinned and bared his teeth, cast his gaze at the Demon King beside him, and waited for the Demon King to speak.

Luo Yan didn't speak, just sized up the transparent ghost with a playful gaze.

Noticing the playfulness in Luo Yan's eyes, Miranda smiled awkwardly, bit the bullet, and greeted him.

"Res, respected Demon King, long time no see..."

"Indeed long time no see," Luo Yan nodded, his tone teasing and thought-provoking, "I thought you would take the initiative to find me, at least say thank you or something, but you seem to have forgotten your savior."

"That's not the case," Miranda denied hurriedly, "I have always kept your kindness in my heart, it's just—"

"Alright, I was just joking," looking at Miranda who was explaining in a hurry, Luo Yan grinned and said in a casual tone, "Thanks for Iron Yacheng."

Seeing that the Demon King didn't continue to dwell on the previous matter, Miranda breathed a sigh of relief and said with a shy smile.

"A small effort; at that time, your minions were teaching me the 118 elements of the Great Graveyard... I just happened to use those element summons to practice."

The 118 elements of the Great Graveyard? Luo Yan was slightly stunned, his expression immediately became strange, and then he called out Hearing You You in his heart.

"... The guy who listened to the chemistry pool lecture in one gulp, could it be him?"

Hearing You You answered in a brisk voice.

"That's right, it's him! What's wrong, Demon King."

Luo Yan: "... Nothing."

This world is too small.

He never expected that these two guys would actually get together.

However, thinking about it carefully, it seemed normal; only abnormal people could attract equally abnormal guys.

As a talent chosen by Nuoweier, if it were someone else, they might not really be able to understand those complex theories, let alone absorb them.

Looking at the silent Demon King, Miranda hesitated for a moment and then said.

"Regarding Nuoweier... I actually have a lot to explain to you in person, but I don't know where to start."

Luo Yan said indifferently.

"Doesn't matter, for me that matter has passed, I hope you think so too."

Looking at Miranda who still wanted to say something, Luo Yan suddenly changed the subject and threw out an olive branch with a smile.

"Compared to those things that have passed, I want to ask if you are interested in joining my hunt."

Miranda was stunned.

"Hunt?"

"That's right," Luo Yan narrowed his eyes and looked into the depths of the labyrinth, smiling faintly, "A group of guys who don't know the height of the sky and the depth of the earth seem to have forgotten who is the master of this labyrinth. I didn't have time to bother with them before, but now I will let them learn a lesson."

Listening to the murderous tone hidden in the words, Miranda felt a chill in his body.

He wasn't a person who liked fighting and killing, and instinctively wanted to refuse, but he didn't want to miss this excellent opportunity to repair his relationship with the Demon King.

After some hesitation, he finally squeezed out a reluctant and interested smile on his face.

"Wil, willing to serve."

Luo Yan, who was riding on the spider's back, laughed loudly and waved at him.

"Then follow!"

The group walked toward the depths of the fourth floor of the labyrinth.

In the distance, "Gulping Down the Chemical Pool," who had just gone online, was chasing out of Iron Yacheng late, only to see the Demon King's group had "slipped" away without a trace.

Not only that, that guy even took away the NPC he had finally managed to trick!

Discovering that Miranda had disappeared, Gulping Down the Chemical Pool shouted "Holy crap" in his heart.

His leveling tool man! A spell turret that could carry and fight! Was actually NTR'd by the Demon King just like that?!

He had just found a little feeling after leveling up five times yesterday, and hadn't had enough fun yet.

"Pitiful!!!"

The work and rest schedule is completely messed up, and the person is dazed.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 123 =====