Chapter 146: A Gift from Lunatic Guan (1/2)
Chapter 146: A Gift from Lunatic Guan
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Ye Chong forced his eyes open… his pounding head felt heavier than the meteorite. It was cracking so hard that he could literally hear the cracking sound in his head. ”Ow…” He managed to get up, though laboriously he did, as he attempted to get his mind clearer, he shook his head forcefully like swinging the wrecking ball.
”I did not expect you to stay in one piece. Such miracle,” teased Shang.
”The heck happened, Shang?” Holding his throbbing head, he expressed his doubt in his mind right away.
”Mhm, it’s a pity for I don’t have much information regarding this in my databank so I can’t give you an explanation, although she did leave you with something, a gift, perhaps it could be an aid for you. Tsk, tsk, tsk, Ye, your alertness had been degrading quite badly these few days. Don’t tell me it was because of a lack of stimulation of bloodiness for your bloodthirsty self? Yikes, you are indeed a beast who lived on its instincts, Ye. I did not see it coming, the day where you actually get snuck upon by a lass. Tsk, tsk, tsk, oh my Fal galaxy, please don’t tell me you actually had some chemistry occurred between her inside you? Hmm, even though this is quite understandable, I think…” The motivational talk had commenced once again, under the supreme enlightenment of Shang…
Ye Chong tried standing up. It was supposed to be a simple action yet it was so energy consuming that he almost collapsed again. The heck in Orbits that Lunatic Guan had done to me? I could not move a muscle… I could not feel my strength. Waking up seemed to be the greatest challenge ever to Ye Chong currently.
?
His eyes discerned a piece of microchip laying on the table nearby. That should be it, the gift which Lunatic Guan left for Ye Chong, as mentioned by Shang. He grabbed the chip and inserted it into the processor sitting at one spot of the room. A visual of Lunatic Guan was projected on the hologram after that.
”Oh, my Little Ye, my Ye boy, *Zzt* I simply did not foresee these much of surprise from you. Mhm, I had gotten what I wanted to know from your mouth. *Zzt* Thank you again, Ye my boy. If it wasn’t you, I would have taken forever to find my beloved sister. *Zzzt* The good old me is in search of my younger sister now! *Zzzzt*
*Zzzt* Hehehe, Ye, my sweet, my lovely, you are greater than I had ever expected. Looks like I had really underestimated you way too much. *Zzzt* Kekeke, you know it by heart, that I always have something for potent men like you. *Zzzt*
Regarding that necklace, don’t worry, *Zzzzt* I’ll have it, in exchange for a little~gift~ I left~ for my s-w-e-e-t Ye boy~ You would love it! *Zzzt* Yes, yes, I finally got some clues on my sister’s whereabouts and I’m not letting it slip through my fingers. *Zzzt* Also, Ye, again, thank you for saving my sister, even though you did not intend to save her.
*Zzzt* Lastly… Hmmm, what should I say to conclude this love letter to my boy? Okay.
Take care, my juicy fruity pie! *Zzzt* Oh, I almost forgot, I hope that you would learn from your lesson after this. Always be alert when you’re facing ones from the Alchemy, *Zzzt* be it like an old but charming lady like me, promise me, okay? Kekekekekekekekekekeke!”
Lunatic Guan was holding her glass in the visual, cheekily she swung her glass, a gesture for her version of ”cheers” to end her regards. The visual was immediately terminated afterwards. And right when Ye Chong was going to leave, Zzzt! The processor prompted, ”More data has been discovered, perform Reading?”
Ye Chong was stupefied at first and he quickly regained himself, ”Yes. Perform Reading!”
Reading…
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Reading complete!
Ye Chong finally understood what the so-called ”gift” from Lunatic Guan was after the processor had done playing everything. The chip generally contained the entire syllabus of the Alchemy course for Ye Chong, with every single section prepared wholeheartedly by Lunatic Guan herself. And Ye Chong, without doubt, could master the course all by himself with the help of this chip, although… ”Man, this is quite a long course…” The size of the syllabus was beyond his expectation, it was large… larger than Trash Planet Ye Chong assumed, for one second. He hurriedly skimmed through the course structure and he reached for the eject button, ”Hold up!” Lunatic Guan’s visual jumped at him.
What else does she want to tell? Ye Chong’s head was jammed with bewilderment.
Unlike the visual before, the Lunatic Guan in the hologram this time was sterner than her usual self, ”Little Ye, technically, I actually did not have the intention of providing you the following information… but you are my only student, my only apprentice to my succession while you seemed to be in quite a sticky situation. Thus, I decided to keep this for you, although I’m not certain if it would be useful for you, hopefully it would at least. However, there’s one thing you have to remember by heart, likewise to my other advice before, this is equally important - do not, never ever be overly dependent on it. The only thing you could depend on is the knowledge you mastered all by yourself, no aid, no shortcut, nothing else. You have great talents, I must admit. If you keep up the good works, you would one day indeed, surpass me and become the best chemist in history of alchemy. Kek… though I don’t think I’ll live to witness that…” Her smile was bitter, bitter than the white wine on a funeral night.
”I know, Ye my boy, you want to leave the Orbits. Kekekeke, wonder why would I know? Well, you would know it after learning everything I have tailored for you. If you got out successfully, yes, Ye my boy, ‘if’ you got out, could you please… do this good old me a favor, head to L. Shaft City on Planet Guang Hua for me? It’s Line Shaft City in full… And remember! It must be done only after you finished my course. While… for me… I don’t think I would ever be able to leave this place… My only last wish was to see my sister again. Mhm, Little Ye, may the odds be with both of us! Oh yeah, please don’t forget to tell your master the formulae of the strengthening liquids he wanted, that was probably what he really expected you to learn from me anyway! Don’t disappoint him!”
The voice of her last syllable trailed off as the visual vanished instantly. Beep. A window prompted on the processor, ”The Guan’s Automatic Analysis Mechanism has been activated. Please insert the main ingredient and final request.”
Ye Chong’s eyes were fixed at the demonstration on the hologram in blank dismay.
”Fantastic! Magnifique! Ye, this Lady Guan is marvelous! See! Ye, like what I had told you earlier, Lady Guan is absolutely a beauty who wields both appearance and wisdom! Tsk, tsk, tsk, I can’t believe there are humans able to produce such a self-analytical system. Genius I must say! And very gorgeous too! Ye, how many times have I suggested you before? You should have hooked up with her! But did you listen to me? Nooooo! Great, guess what? Such a bright and demure lady had gone to nowhere! Tell me where are you going to find a replacement?” Shang sounded truly agonized in his tone…
The words obviously did not go through Ye Chong’s mind. In actuality, he was utterly dumbfounded by the invention, as never once in his life he would see someone being able to make something like this, especially when it was based on expertise of alchemy. And no chemist gain their skillfulness from text books, they have and always have been gaining it from experience, since a majority of the concept behind the working of alchemy was unknown to mankind, they could solely depend on their experience to identify a certain kind of pattern, formula, combination that would work in consistency. And this was why those ancient families of aristocrats stood a better chance to dig much deeper into this profession than the folks, as their forebears had accumulated much more experience as well as expertise throughout the ages.
The program before Ye Chong however, had broken the thumb rule of the field. Ye Chong could be a total illiterate towards the workaround of processor but for the basic fundamentality of it, he knew it better than anybody else. This program was unquestionably the outcome of a kind of calculation, with basis on a kind of known theory, an identified pattern, a string of formula and they were clear, clear enough to run a program. If it was a fuzzy theory founded by experience, there would be no way for a motherboard-and-circuits to process it and provide calculated judgement based on requests.
How would such innovation not shock our Ye Chong? Right when everyone else in the galaxy assumed how a chemist was built upon experience than knowledge, this half-drunken, half-mad, half-conscious drinker namely Lunatic Guan had already hit the core of the whole profession!