The Duke in the Spire of Thorns

Celeste has been with Escrit for a while, and the memory that Escrit has opened to Celeste spans a long time, but in order to avoid wasting unnecessary time, Escrit will Speed ​​up some memory fragments that don't require careful observation.

At the same time, in order to keep Celeste from getting bored, Escrit would talk to him from time to time.

Celeste floated in mid-air and looked down. Ever since Mansfield and Durian became good friends and studied machinery together, Escrit became particularly surly.

He was Mansfield's right-hand man in alchemy, but now that Mansfield changed his research direction, he could no longer occupy the most important position beside his master.

This gave him an almost instinctive aversion to the subject of mechanics.

But Celeste knew that at the beginning, Escrit had little aversion to machinery. When Mansfield first started studying machinery, Escrit took the initiative to learn the subject of mechanics. .He is not a fool, on the contrary, he masters mechanical knowledge very quickly, almost comparable to Mansfield, but no matter how fast he learns, it is still not as fast as those who have been immersed for decades. Durian.

When Mansfield encountered difficulties, it was not Escrit who could answer his doubts, but Durian. As time passed, Mansfield gradually forgot about his closest partner in the laboratory, and began to pay attention to Durian.

This made Escrit intolerable.

"I was really a bit stupid at the time." Escrit's voice came from Celeste's ear with a smile: "Isn't it? Are you laughing at me in your heart at this moment?"

"Of course not." Celeste said, "To be honest, I thought you were cute at that time."

Escrito chuckled and fell silent.

And his memory is still going on.

While Mansfield and Du Lian were immersed in mechanical research, a guest came to the castle.

This guest startled Celeste when he lifted his hood: he was Celeste's "sister", Abenomo.

Abu Nuomo came with bad intentions, but he didn't come for Mansfield, he looked directly at Durian with angry eyes, and he mocked the mechanical discipline that Durian advocated with the sharpest words, which also annoyed Mansfield.

With a cold face, Mansfield briefly apologized to Du Lian, and then led Aponomo to the study.

In the study, a quarrel broke out between them.

"Can't you see? He's deceiving you!"

Aponomo was extremely angry: "Just for the illusory future, you have to give up the wonderful alchemy? What do you think?"

"I've been thinking a lot during this time."

Mansfield's tone was very calm, he was not affected by Aponomo's anger, he said in a flat tone: "I have read a lot of books under Du Lian's suggestion."

"Especially in the history books, I started from the earliest myths and legends I could find, from ancient times to the present, and I discovered a few things."

Rather than saying that he was answering Mansfield, it would be better to say that he was talking to himself, as if convincing himself, "As time goes by, our human race is getting better and better. And it’s the tools and technologies we’ve invented that have allowed us to get better.”

"However, I found a very interesting place, that is, no matter what it is, whether it is a subject or a tool, they will age over time, and there will be more advanced things to replace them. And this more advanced Things will make human life better. This is what Du Lian said, the evolution of civilization, or it can also be said to be the development of civilization."

Aponomo was expressionless, and he stared at Mansfield closely, not missing any slight changes on his face.

"How was alchemy invented?"

Mansfield asked abruptly.

Abenomo replied:

"The predecessor of alchemy is herbalism, a mixture of utensils and theology. A long time ago, people accidentally discovered that some herbs can heal wounds. At that time, wounds and diseases were what people most wanted to overcome. Explore the functions of herbs. They believe that there is a mysterious power in herbs, and different herbs represent different gods or demons. Slowly, people began to make various utensils, and they put herbs with various uses on utensils. In the hope that the mysterious power contained in herbs can be blessed on utensils, especially weapons, and then the rudiment of alchemy was born."

Mansfield nodded, "Yes, you are right. In the beginning, the emergence of alchemy can bring benefits to most people, or in other words, because it can bring benefits to most people, so alchemy Learning will emerge."

"But now, it has lost this function. It can only bring benefits to a very small number of people, such as you, such as me. But for most human beings, not only can alchemy not bring them benefits, but it will make them Victim."

Mansfield said: "Now, what is alchemy? It is a discipline based on flesh and blood. It exchanges the pain of most people for the pleasure of very few people."

"This is enough to show that it is old, and it is on the road to extinction. And machinery will replace it in the future."

"Really?" Aponomo didn't seem to be convinced at all, he sneered, "According to what you said, as long as a subject does more harm to mankind than it can bring benefits to mankind, Shouldn't it be thrown away?"

"But have you forgotten that only human beings can decide whether a subject can benefit human beings?" Aponomo said: "It is not alchemy that hinders human beings, but human beings themselves. ?"

"Do you think that machines can bring more benefits to humans? I think you are very wrong! Guess what if someone could make the iron bird you made, what would that person do? He Will he ride it up into the sky to be a robber? Will he throw stones from above?"

The two stalemate for a long time, and neither can convince the other.

"Are you really going to give up our relationship for that guy Du Lian?"

"You are wrong." Mansfield remained calm: "I am abandoning rotten things."

"Yes, yes! Rotten things!" Aponomo laughed sharply: "He, Durian, is fresh, full of vitality, and his blood is warm, which is what you want, right? ? And I, a cold person, even my blood is cold, of course I can't compare to him, right?"

Celeste: "...?"

He always felt that there was something wrong with this conversation.

"Aponomo has become very extreme since you brought him back to the human world." At this time, Escrito's voice rang in Celeste's ear, and he said as if chatting:

"You saved his life with alchemy, so he valued alchemy very much, and because of this, he was very angry when he saw that you gave up alchemy, because in his opinion, you gave up alchemy, just It is equivalent to abandoning him, after all, his life is maintained by alchemy."

Escrit sighed, and said with a bit of distress: "Of course, I think you can see that Aponomo is very jealous of Du Lian. Although he looks like a man, his soul is still that girl... ...Girl's jealousy, but you are his only relative, and he cares about you very much, which is understandable."

Celeste's thoughts immediately followed Escrit's words, and he suddenly realized, and the doubts in his heart disappeared.

The two people below were still arguing, and Aponomo pressed on every step of the way, trying to make Mansfield change his mind and return to alchemy.Mansfield remained indifferent, letting Aponomo say nothing.

Finally, Aponomo said: "I will prove it to you, I will let you know that it is not alchemy that is harmful, but people, and I can use alchemy to make most people live well , just wait and see!"

After saying that, he left.

This little episode didn't seem to have any effect on Mansfield, who still studied machinery with Du Lian.After a while, Escrito's resistance to machinery gradually disappeared, but it was just not resistance.

"Next is the last paragraph."

Escrito whispered in Celeste's ear, this is the last memory that Celeste needs to see.

Celeste was condescending, he looked at the weird instrument in the middle of the hall, and felt very calm.

"Let's go and verify our conjecture together." Durian and Mansfield conducted an experiment, and the results of this experiment will not be known until hundreds of years later, so they built an instrument that can take them through time and space .

Du Lian walked into the instrument first, and Mansfield followed closely.

Escrit stood aside. This time, he did not follow Mansfield. He needed to stay and control and observe the experiment at any time.

At the last moment when he was out of Escrit's memory, Celeste saw a smile on Escrit who was waiting outside the shuttle.

This smile is hard to describe, and Celeste can't accurately express his feelings.