"My doubts?" Ella looked the girl up and down, "...are you?"
"The 'grey wolf' you just mentioned refers to stibnite. Stibnite is believed to be related to lead. Pliny, the naturalist of the Seven Hills Empire, once recorded in his "Natural History" that stibnite is easily Be converted into lead; Stibnite is written as '' in the text of the Alemannic Federation, which means the luster of the weapon, so its name is said to belong to the warlike Ares; molten Stibnite can instantly Dissolving a gold nugget, the impurities float to the surface, and the gold becomes a white alloy that sinks to the bottom, so that the 'gray wolf' devours the 'king'; and when this white alloy is baked, the gold reappears,' The king' was thus redeemed and turned into pure gold."
The girl was talking to herself in front of Ella. Amy was confused, and Ella gradually opened her mouth in shock: "You are right. After trying many possible substances, I found this' "The gray wolf' refers to stibnite. Are you a student at the school? I'm about to enter school. What do you mean there is no answer here that I'm looking for?"
The girl cleared her throat and was about to answer when a shout suddenly came from the corridor: "Everyone, come out quickly! That damn Avicenna is coming to school again!"
As soon as the shouts stopped, the whole building exploded. Panic footsteps sounded from every room, the alchemy laboratory doors were opened one by one, and various strange smoke floated from each room into the corridor, filling the corridor with a strange smell. The disheveled alchemists rushed out of the room and ran towards the door. Someone looked back and saw the girl wrapped in white cloth, ran over and grabbed her, shouting: "What are you doing here? You are not a student of the school! Go mop the floor!"
"Not a student?" Ella was stunned for a moment and stopped the man to ask what happened. But the man shouted anxiously towards Ella: "There is no time, didn't you hear? Avicenna is here! Put out the fire in the boiler quickly and stop him at the gate!"
The entire building soon emptied out, leaving only the dark smoke gathering on the roof.
"Avicenna?" Ella stood in the room and said to herself, "Is it that Avicenna? Is he in the Island Republic now?"
Poor Amy experienced too many incomprehensible things in just a few minutes, and her mind turned into a lake of slurry: "Your Majesty, what kind of Avicenna do you know? Everyone is so panicked, what kind of fire-breathing thing is that?" A monster? Oh no, I can also breathe fire... I have never heard of such a thing. The guards should be resting in the woods behind the building now. Should I take them to the school gate to intercept it? "
"Avicenna is a personal name... When I was a child, my father was seriously ill, and all the doctors in the Seven Hills Empire were helpless. Finally, a young man named Avicenna came to cure him. That year he Only nineteen years old. That Avicenna should be a quite famous miracle doctor now, but I don’t know if the Avicenna they talk about is the same person... Forget it, this is an internal matter of the University of Alchemy. , we don’t care about it.”
Ella shook her head and rolled up her sleeves.
"What we have to do now is to pass the entrance test! I have many questions that I need the teachers at Alchemy University to help me answer - Amy, hasn't the fire been lit yet?"
While Ella was concentrating on taking the entrance test, Lacy and his group, who had just held an open-air lecture by the pool at the school gate, were confronting Avicenna. A group of more than 20 people gathered together, all wearing black robes and gold badges. In comparison, Avicenna's group consisted of only three. Avicenna had a square face, with a large beard covering his entire chin and cheeks. His head was wrapped in a white turban and he was holding a thick book in his hand. He looked like a very wise scholar. The two people following Avicenna were short and fat, and the other was tall and thin. They dressed like businessmen, and their status in the island republic was not low.
Although Lazi's group had an absolute numerical advantage, and teachers and students kept coming from the school building to support them. But their momentum was obviously lower than Avicenna's.
"Lazi, I'm calling you, raise your head quickly. Lacy, you are a committee member of this school and one of the most famous alchemists of this era. What does it mean to lower your head like this? Weren't you there just now? Is there a lecture here? Are you talking eloquently?" Avicenna said with a mocking tone, "Come, the students are here, tell them quickly, what did you just say?"
"Based on the newly discovered fragments of Jabir, I successfully separated the four properties of cold, heat, dryness, and moisture..."
"Oh, it is really a great achievement to separate the properties that are more basic than the four elements. Your achievements surpass Jabir Yin Ben Hayan, surpass Zosimos, and even... It is not an exaggeration to surpass Aristotle. After I return, I will report it to the Governor of the Island Republic and ask him to name you Para Aristotle - I just hope that this time you can go smoothly in front of the Governor. Show your experiment and don’t have any accidents like last time.”
Avicenna said sarcastically.
"But, Lacy, this is only part of your lecture. What else did you say just now? Why hide the knowledge? Come on, repeat it to the students and teachers behind you who are hungry for knowledge. They will definitely I'm shocked by your intelligence!"
"Each metal is a combination of four properties in precise mathematical proportions, what your medicine calls the four humours that maintain the health of the body. Gold is a healthy metal, with four properties in perfect proportions. While the others The metal is sick and needs to be cured by adjusting the body fluids. Therefore, as long as the gold is dissected through dissolution, volatilization, etc., the correct proportion of the four properties in the gold is analyzed, and then the four properties of the elements I separated can be correctly Gently adjust the proportions of the four properties in base metals, turning them into gold..."
Avicenna laughed loudly: "Did you just hear that? He said 'volatile gold'! What kind of alchemical joke is this? As a doctor, I know that gold is the most perfect and stable metal. Who can volatilize gold?" ?Can you? Can you? Can you?"
Avicenna pointed at the alchemists in front of him one by one. The people he pointed at all turned their heads away as if they couldn't see. Avicenna pointed everyone aside, and finally returned to Lacy: "Lazi, none of them seem to know how. But since you proposed this plan, I think you must already have a plan to volatilize gold. Alright?"
Lacy gritted her teeth and whispered: "This kind of thing needs further research..."
"Oh! Further research! That's a perfect answer. But the Governor is tired of hearing it."
Avicenna pointed at himself and then at the two people behind him.
"I and the other two members of the committee have reached an agreement, with a majority of three votes, to decide to re-examine the qualifications of the tutors at Alchemy University today."
