Chapter 749 (2/2)

If that was true, maybe Sui Xiong could find him of help.

Sui Xiong was not an engineering student, but he had heard of a story wherein creating an invention, the most important factor was luck or inspiration. There was once a journalist who was interviewing the king of inventions, Edison. He had asked him why he had been able to come up with so many marvelous inventions and whether it was because he was a genius or not. To that, Edison had replied that being a genius was 99% effort and 1% genius. Yet, the second factor was the deciding factor.

Sui Xiong had also heard two other versions of this story. The first one was told to him by his parents and teachers when he was young, and there was no mention of the deciding factor but rather an emphasis on hard work. The second version was told to him by an online friend in his games. It said that Edison was tooting his own horn and that most of his inventions were leached off of other people. The key lesson there was that being a genius lay in being able to make good trades with wealth.

Of course, Sui Xiong was unsure as to which version was authentic, but he agreed that luck was extremely important. For example, before he had entered this world, the country had just created a hydrogen bomb that could hide an identity. The country then created different hydrogen bombs from other countries, and although this was accomplished through hard work, luck was also important for the scientists as there were definitely more talented scientists who just happened to not have come across the right material. After all, reality was not a fairytale! Thus, when he thought of Fira, he changed his mind about finding Palin.

That night, Fira had a strange dream when he slept. He dreamt that he had walked to a hill, and there was a glowing man on the hill who had passed him a few hard stones and asked him to grind them into powder.

When he awoke, he witnessed the stones in real life at his bedside.

“Is this some sort of revelation?” Fira stared at the stones, dumbfounded, and tried to use his bedframe’s leg to grind it.

There was an obvious white line across the bed frame, but the bedrock was as good as new.

“Why is it so hard?” Fira was shocked. He found a piece of steel and ground the bedrock again. Yet again, there were signs of wear and tear on the steel, but the bedrock remained untainted.

“My goodness! This stone is as strong as steel! How can I grind it? It’s impossible…”

Thus, he gave up on the task.

That night, he had another dream on the same mountain with the same glowing man giving the task of grinding the rock.

“It’s too hard! It can’t be done,” Fira explained.

The glowing man only smiled, but Fira eventually understood his meaning.

If it were to be so simple, it wouldn’t have been a task easily given to him.

After he woke up, Fira thought for a long time before taking up the two stones at the same time and grinding them against each other.

Even if it was extremely hard, it wouldn’t be able to withstand grinding on a similar material…

Watching Fira get to work, Sui Xiong nodded and smiled. Only time would tell, but perhaps this lucky fellow could find a solution to the issue that had been plaguing the dwarves for the last tens of years….