Volume 2: Empire Chapter 108 Amelia
The mobilization meeting is over.
In the next few days, Luke kept convening small meetings with personnel from various departments, and Raging Waves City quietly completed the transformation of its urban strategy. The city still looked prosperous, with ships arriving at the port one after another, and everyone was running for wealth.
Everything seems to be thriving, as if the war taking place in the empire is a matter of another country. The dividends from the booming market have attracted a large amount of foreign investment to continuously pour into the city.
Countless opportunities also attract those who are not appreciated for their talents.
Reginald Amelia is a somewhat neurotic young man, whose autistic personality makes him suffer from severe social phobia. His low sense of presence during school years made his tutor unable to call out his full name during the graduation debate.
My graduation thesis was terrible in the eyes of my supervisor. It was just a strange mixture of fantasy, magic and science fiction. Even if it was published as a novel, I'm afraid the magazine editor would not accept it.
In the end, the kind-hearted instructor reluctantly let the nervous young man graduate because he was afraid that he would faint on the spot.
After completing his studies, Amelia's job search was also very difficult. His colleagues were afraid that he would go crazy and blow everyone up one day because of his unsociability, stubbornness, and crazy ideas.
Amelia's life was basically spent in job hunting and unemployment. She lived a very tight life and often had no food to eat.
When Amelia was in dire straits, the City of Nutao sent people to find him.
A laboratory that is entirely under your control.
Unlimited research funding.
You can use the patented technology of the City Alchemist Association of Raging Waves at will.
There are no additional conditions, no research indicators or tasks.
Just do whatever you want!
At first Amelia thought he had met a scammer, but he quickly used his extraordinary intelligence to determine that the man was not deceiving him.
Amelia didn't know how the government office of Nutao City knew about him, a nobody, and why they gave him such generous treatment. But he knew what kind of city Nutao City was, because many of his classmates bought a boat ticket to Nutao City without hesitation after getting their graduation certificates.
It's a place where dreams can come true.
Even the instructor said so.
Amelia's personality made him very reluctant to leave the familiar city. Going to an unfamiliar environment... The thought of it made him feel nervous and a little suffocated. But if he continued to stay here, he would most likely starve to death.
So Amelia picked up her only suitcase, got on the car sent by the City of Rage, and then boarded a boat to an unknown future.
Amelia locked himself in his room for a whole week after arriving in Raging City. He was terrified by the city. He had never seen so many tall buildings, which looked like a jungle made of cement and bricks. He had never seen so many cars on the road, which seemed to crush them to pieces if he took a wrong step.
Everything is so different from my hometown.
Amelia would look at the city from behind the window every day, and gradually his state of mind began to change. He saw what the city had behind it, and he saw how well the city matched the imaginary world that burst out of his mind.
He became more and more confident in his choice and believed that he could realize everything in his mind here.
Amelia took the initiative to leave his room and told the escort arranged by the City Hall that he wanted to see his laboratory.
The answer he got was: "Mr. Amelia, there is a gentleman who wants to see you."
"Who?" Amelia asked nervously.
"The ruler of this city, Governor Meteorite!"
Amelia became even more nervous: "Can I not go to see him?"
"I'm afraid that's not possible. Governor Meteor is your biggest and only sponsor, and being summoned by him is an honor that many people would only dream of.
Please follow me... The Governor said that he will take you to see him whenever you leave the room, and he is always available."
Amelia had to take a deep breath, muster up the courage to follow her escort into the car heading to the City Hall.
This time in the car, Amelia did not have the panic she had the first time she entered the city. Although she was a little nervous about meeting such a big shot, she also had a lot of expectations.
Is he someone who can appreciate me?
…
The Governor's Office in the City Hall of Nutao City.
When Luke heard that Amelia had left her residence and was on her way here, he immediately put aside all his work and waited for the incoming guests with a slightly excited mood.
At the beginning of the era, the whole world entered a period of rapid development driven by the breakthrough of steam engine technology. The Industrial Revolution brought about the liberation of productivity, and based on steam engine technology, a wave of technological innovation was set off, one after another.
Although magic and alchemy technologies also had great development momentum, they were mostly driven by steam technology , which served to add icing on the cake for the steam engine mechanical system.
To use the players' words... it's like walking with a limp.
This stage of asymmetric development will eventually be ended by Amelia.
The element fusion reactor used in the heart of the clear sky was invented by Amelia.
This invention has broken through the bottleneck that restricted the development of magic alchemy technology and started another technological revolution. Strong, sufficient and sustainable magic energy has enabled many magic alchemy experiments to be launched.
The world's development has entered the platinum period from the golden period.
There's a knock on the door...
"Come in!"
Amelia followed Kailena in, bowed first and then stammered, "Sir, no... Governor, hello. I'm Ami... My name is Reginald Amelia, from the city of Faroth, graduated from Faroth Magic University, my mentor is..."
"Don't be so restrained, sit down first." Luke said with a smile to Amelia, who was sweating nervously.
"Yes, thank you, Governor." Amelia walked quickly to the desk. Because she walked too fast, her legs hit the edge of the chair: "Oops! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Governor!"
Kylena stepped forward and pulled out a chair for Amelia: “Please sit down, Mr. Amelia. The Governor is a very easy-going person, you don’t need to be too nervous.
Would you like something to drink?
Coffee? Or tea? "
"Thank you, miss... and give me a cup of tea, please."
"Please wait a moment."
Luke looked at the young man sitting in front of him. His face was a little thin, and his skin was a little dull due to malnutrition. His hair was still a little messy even after being combed. His eyes flickered and he didn't dare to look at him, full of insecurity.
If this had been a normal interview, Amelia would have scored very low.
But it is fortunate that he has this kind of character, otherwise his talent would have blossomed long ago.
"I've read your graduation thesis."
When Amelia heard the topic that interested her, her eyes instantly lit up, and her cheerful mental state was like two different people compared to when she just came in.
"Governor, you have read my graduation thesis! Did you invite me to work for you because of my point of view?"
This is Reginald Amelia!
Luke smiled and said, "'Electrolysis of Water Molecules in High-Temperature Steam and Abnormal Amplitude of Water Element.' In your paper, you believe that when water vapor at high temperature and high pressure is subjected to strong electric shock, it will not only separate oxygen and hydrogen, but also cause abnormalities in the water element.
So you think that in the right environment and conditions, the water element can be broken down like water.
But it is well known that...elements cannot be decomposed."
"But before water was electrolyzed to produce oxygen and hydrogen, who would have thought that water could be decomposed?" The professional topic put Amelia into another state. He forgot who he was facing and the current occasion. He took the tea brought by Kylena and drank it in one gulp regardless of whether it was hot or not, and then said: "There must be a reason why the high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor encountered electric shock, causing the water element to have abnormal amplitude. It may be the magic energy oscillation caused by the influence of lightning energy, or it may be that the electrolysis of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor produced some unknown substance, which caused the water element to react.
If I want to prove what caused the abnormal amplitude of the water element, I need a professional laboratory, the best steam engine, the best analytical instruments. I also need a lightning generator, a pure water refiner, and... in short, many, many things. "
Kylena whispered to Amelia, who was dancing in her own world, “Please calm down, Mr. Amelia.”
"Ah!" Amelia woke up immediately. He finally realized where he was and apologized to Luke in panic: "I'm sorry, Governor. I always fall into my own world involuntarily. Please forgive me if I have offended you."
Luke reminds Amelia, “There’s a fine line between genius and madness. Your brain is very different from ours. It can make you or break you.”
Follow the inspiration it brings you, but also learn to release the pressure it brings you, otherwise your life will soon be consumed by it."
Amelia looked at Luke: "You seem to know a lot of things I don't."
Luke hadn't expected Amelia's intuition to be so sharp.
"You should know the news of the revival of the World Tree."
Amelia replied: "Yes, the newspapers in Raging Waves City report extensively on the World Tree every day. It is a miracle."
Luke said, "Yes, the World Tree is a miracle. It can see many things that the world cannot understand. My good friend Miss Qingkong is the queen of the Moonlight Court. After communicating with the World Tree, she told me some things.
After reading your paper, I found that the content was related to the information of the World Tree, so I sent someone to invite you to Raging Waves City. "
Amelia finally understood why she, who was in such a poor state, was invited to the City of Raging Waves and was even personally received by the Governor of the City of Raging Waves.
It turns out to be related to the World Tree.
The World Tree is indeed a transcendental creature that has existed since ancient times, and its power is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
Amelia asked curiously, "Can I know what information the World Tree revealed? It's actually related to my thesis!"
Luke suddenly felt that using the World Tree to explain such mysterious things was really effective. If there were any problems, he could just push them directly onto the World Tree. It wouldn't refute him anyway.
"Your guess is partially correct. The high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor was subjected to a strong electric shock. In addition to decomposing into hydrogen and oxygen, new substances were also produced. That is an unstable mysterious energy that caused the abnormal amplitude of the water element, but the water element will not decompose.
It’s just that this mysterious energy only exists for a very short time, and there is no way to collect and store it.”
Amelia suddenly felt a sense of loss, as if she had found a fun puzzle game, but someone told her the answer right away. If the other person wasn't her boss and the governor of Raging Waves City, Amelia would have let him see what it was like to be an honest man when he was angered.
“It seems like my paper is very boring.”
There are thousands of types of mysterious energy, and a mysterious energy that cannot be collected and stored is worthless.
"If it was boring, I wouldn't have invited you to Raging Waves City and built a professional laboratory for you." Luke said to the frustrated Amelia, "Miss Qingkong is a master of mysticism. After reading your paper, she said: Since this mysterious energy can cause abnormal vibrations in the water element, it means that a mystical language is in a state of being activated, but the secret language is not complete and needs other conditions to be completed.
Lightning electrolyzes water vapor, and the lightning element should be one of the auxiliary words; oxygen and hydrogen can burn to produce fire, and the fire element should also be one of the auxiliary words. If the lightning element and the fire element can also produce the same frequency amplitude as the water element, perhaps the conditions for the secret language to be activated can be met. "
What will happen if you use a short-lived mysterious energy to gather the elements of lightning, fire, and water to release the words of the secret technique?
Amelia instantly regained interest.
"Can I meet Miss Qingkong? Although I don't understand the secret arts, I am willing to assist Miss Qingkong in completing this secret art."
Luke said, "Miss Qingkong has already told me part of her deduction. The rest of the experiment is not what she is good at. Since you can discover the abnormal amplitude of water element under high temperature and high pressure steam under strong electrolysis, only you can do the next research.
I have sent all the equipment you may need to your laboratory. If you need anything else, please tell the City Alchemist Association directly. The president, Mrs. Michelle, will do her best to help you.
I look forward to your discovery of this secret language as soon as possible."
Amelia stood up and saluted Luke: "Thank you, Governor! Please also express my gratitude to Miss Qingkong on my behalf. Although it is a pity that I did not discover the mysterious energy myself, knowing that it exists proves that I am right, which is very important to me.
Now I know how to conduct the experiment, and I believe I will be able to find the secret language soon.
It has been an honor to have been involved in the development of this Mystic Word."
Luke replied, "I will convey your thanks to Miss Clear Sky. Let the people from the City Alchemist Association take you to see your laboratory. I hope you like it."
"I look forward to it very much... Thank you again. Goodbye, Governor!"
