If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Get in from the back of the one-piece white protective suit, and Angers behind him helps to zip up the zipper. After putting on the protective suit, Lin Nian turns around and helps Angers do the same protective work. The air is filtered through the special filter paper of the gas mask. , properly purifying the ubiquitous mercury vapor in the entire huge cave space.

First of all, review the physics knowledge in junior high school. The volatile point of mercury is very low, and it will quickly melt into the air even at room temperature. It is highly toxic, colorless and tasteless. This is a well-known basic knowledge.But the strange thing is that in this cave known as "Yuanxu" or "Well of Oblivion", even if it is filtered through a gas mask that exceeds level 4, it can still smell a scent clearly.

How to describe this smell?Different from the offensive and irritating smell of butene thiol, Lin Nian is more inclined to define this smell as "attractive", "sweet" and "familiar", which makes him feel weird and With a sense of vigilance, in the protective clothing, he looked at the staff running back and forth in the cave several times, while Angers on the side just watched his reaction in silence.

Feeling that it was almost time, Anger asked, "Do you smell anything?"

"It should be said that it's not normal if you don't smell it?" Lin Nian raised his hand subconsciously to rub his nose, but he touched the glass mask of the protective suit and had to give up.

"Oh? Tell me what the smell you smell is like, describe it as much as possible, and use other things you know to outline its image or a more specific way of expression." Anger gave Lin Nian a small small exam questions.

"White jasmine, darkly roasted coffee beans, and a touch of paper ink," Lin Nian said.

"It's very specific, but do you know what the smell I smell is?" Angro led Lin Nian into the cave, and people in protective suits hurried back and forth around them, holding dense data in their hands Report sheets, working in front of computer equipment surrounded by clumps of cables and transmission data lines.

"Principal, do you smell different from me?" Lin Nian immediately understood the meaning of Angers' words, and frowned.

"I can still smell the faint aroma of nuts, coffee, and whipped cream after passing through the filter paper, and finally add a little bit of wood and mud." No one cares about the two of them, and no one is aware of the identities of the principal and Lin Nian. Everyone here is immersed in the eager work environment, just like the gears in a high-speed machine, leaving no gaps for other idle things insert.

"Everyone here smells different smells. According to EVA's statistics, there are a total of 38 staff working in the 'Yuanxu'. There are a total of 38 different smells in this specific environment. Each A person can accurately describe what they smell and find something that matches it in reality." Anger said, "For example, the smell I just described basically matches the 'Monte No. 2 Cigar', and the vice The principal claimed that it smelled the scent of white wine. And when you describe the smell you smell, you probably have something corresponding to it in your mind, right?"

The image of the woman's long hair fluttering in the sun flashed in Lin Nian's consciousness, and he looked at Anger and nodded slightly.

"EVA took a sample of the air in this space, and after passing the test of 22 kinds of air inspection equipment, it came to the conclusion that the smell permeating this space is not as endlessly variable as we know, It itself has only one smell, that is the smell of iron rust, imagine the smell of putting red-hot iron in the water and blowing through the steam, that smell is now filling the entire underground space."

"Or the smell of blood?" Lin Nian asked in a low voice.The dark red bloodstains scattered on the Mercury Lake at the base of the huge dark gold twisted thing silently explained everything.

Ang Hot headed, "The reason why we can smell all kinds of different smells is very simple, that is, our olfactory center has been attacked. There is a clear name for this phenomenon in the medical system, which is called 'perversion of smell', Patients will mistake an obvious smell for another smell, which occurs in many cases due to trauma to the patient's olfactory center, old damage to the nasal mucosa, etc., and the influence of stress cannot be ruled out."

"Psychological reasons?" Lin Nian felt that any illness involving psychological reasons was paradoxical.

"Most of the psychological reasons can be attributed to the abnormal secretion of brain hormones, and some of them are caused by lesions in organs such as the liver and kidney. After rigorous systematic analysis, EVA believes that there is more than 80% possibility of causing us to experience olfactory perversions. The reason is the former, that is, our brain nervous system has been attacked." Anger watched Lin Nian tap his temple (in fact, he only tapped the hood of the protective suit), "As for the instigator, of course I don't need to say any more."

They stopped in front of the huge mercury lake, which is the place with the most mercury and the environment with the highest air poisonous content. It can be seen that the working areas of all the staff are as far away from this side as possible.

In the distance, a worker hurriedly walking around with a bulletin board accidentally looked up and saw the figures of Lin Nian and Angers beside the Mercury Lake, and subconsciously shouted to warn them of the danger over there, but Angers just turned sideways and looked up. The hand made a few gestures to that side, which seemed to indicate the identity and intention of the well-determined signal, and the staff put down the thought of rushing to the equipment pile to raise the alarm.

"Even if the gas mask that comes with the protective clothing we are wearing now has the improved Type IV carbon filter paper from the equipment department, there are often staff members who are exhausted after overwork, subconsciously approaching Mercury Lake because of the temptation of the smell, and almost fall In one of the most serious accidents, the deluded person even swam tens of meters away from Mercury Lake before regaining consciousness through the shouts of his companions and the alarm.” The giant said quietly,

"According to the person involved, he only felt that he had just fallen into a light sleep for a while from the beginning to the end, and vaguely dreamed that his grandma in Naples was sitting by the stove, baking with the old-fashioned fruit wood in his family. baked him his favorite Parma ham pizza, and greeted him warmly to come and sit by the fire."

"The moment he woke up, he suddenly discovered that grandma had become the Dragon King. I don't think that feeling is very good?" Lin Nian asked.

Under his gaze, the twisted dark golden giant tree in the center of Mercury Lake was like a twisted flesh pillar, which looked terrifying and eerie under the light source of the cave. Half a lifetime of nightmares are filled with the shape of its shadow.

"Because of serious psychological trauma, Masashi Toyama from the Psychological Department suggested after seeing the doctor that he should directly use 'hypnosis' to cut off this memory, otherwise this experience may cause the person concerned to have serious PTSD towards his grandma. Symptoms, the worst case is that one day he will even accidentally hurt his favorite family.” Anger said, “Afterwards, the equipment department also upgraded the filter paper of the gas mask overnight, and installed more cameras from various angles in the cave. , monitored by EVA 24 hours to prevent the same accident from happening."

Lin Nian was silent, he was no stranger to everything Ange said and what happened here!
"Exudes the scent that the prey crave most to lure them closer. The closer to the source of the smell overflow, the stronger the smell will make the prey desperately moth to the flame. There is no shortage of such animals and plants in nature. The most common "Dionaea" (the god of love and beauty "Dionaea Venus". The scientific name of the Venus flytrap is "Dionaea muscipula"). Usually, no matter what it is in nature, there are probably only a few that do this kind of behavior. purpose."

"Eat and reproduce." Lin Nian replied.

"But I don't think our large flytrap seems to be in a hurry to reproduce."

"Then we can only eat." Lin Nian wanted to pinch his brows to relieve the pressure rising in his mind, and he raised his hand with an arc before slowly lowering it.

Angers looked at the weird and terrifying Bronze Purgatory and said in a low voice, "Yes, although the official written report says that the 'King of Bronze and Fire' has been declared dead, in fact our Lord Norton is not dead yet, he is still alive. Struggling to be resurrected, this cage can only restrain him but cannot really kill him, he needs energy, a lot of energy to break out of this cage and return to the world."

"Such a dangerous thing should make him sink in the isolated Nibelungen for the rest of his life. Why did he bring him to the academy?" Lin Nian turned his head and asked his biggest puzzlement directly.

"This is not a decision that I can make alone, nor can I veto it alone." Anger shook his head slowly, "If you are careful enough, you will find that there are many people who passed by when we came here. face."

"Many people are new faces to me." After enrolling, Lin Nian had the most contact with the student group. He rarely had contact with the faculty members and those scientific researchers who had been hiding in the ice cellar all year round. On the contrary, most of the scientific researchers On the contrary, he is very familiar with Lin Nian.

"Then let me put it another way." Anger turned his head and looked at the scientific researchers who were busy in front of a large number of sophisticated equipment in the cave in the distance, constantly creating dazzling sparks and small explosions on the experimental bench, and said, "You Do you think that the secret party alone can transport this thing from far away China to Kassel College?"

The boy sighed.

"Many people are curious about how the orthodoxy and the secret party turned hostility into friendship overnight, how the secret party let go of their pride and greed, and how the orthodoxy broke through the stubbornness of the closed door. But in fact the answer is very simple, one requires both sides A treasure that works together, two keyholes that need to be inserted and twisted at the same time." Angers whispered.

"'Bronze Purgatory' is not the exclusive property of any party in the hybrid world, but it does have a clear 'ownership' in the short term, and this 'ownership' is divided between the orthodox and the secret party in its current form Two. A dragon king who has not really died, what a tempting treasure! Anyone with ambition and a desire to make progress wants to dig him. But it is obvious that the strength of one of the parties cannot shake this secret treasure, naturally Yes, the so-called partisanship seems to be easily let go before the huge interests that are enough to change the future world pattern."

"On the development and cooperation of the Bronze Purgatory, both the Secret Party and the Orthodoxy have sent agents. The agent on the Secret Party's side is Hilbert Jean Angers, who is also the principal of Kassel College, and the Orthodoxy is A middle-aged man who claimed to be Li Yuande, the Zuo Shiguan from the military department of the Li family, was dispatched. We were at the top of a steep cliff in Kuimen, which is called the boundary between Yin and Yang, at the auspicious time of 'sunrise oriental crimson cloud rising', according to the orthodox In the traditional tradition, blood is an alliance. Two men who cut their palms with sacrificial knives shook hands vigorously under the witness of Huang Tian, ​​Hou Tu, and Yangtze River. The bamboo slips are used as the carrier of the contract to ensure that before the contract is completed, the two parties will learn from each other's strengths, treat each other and never betray." Anger said in a low voice.

"Then you took a huge risk, risked the disaster that might wake up the Dragon King and bring about another catastrophe, what did you get?" Lin Qingnian asked.

"A lot." Angers shifted his gaze to the huge golden tree and said slowly, "I was against this proposal at first, but now it seems that both the secret party and the orthodox have got a lot. Facts have proved that those risks It looks like it's worth it for both parties."

"for example?"