Barral grinned and touched his butt, shouting: "Are all your graduation projects so dangerous?"
"Danger?" The soldier was stunned. "Isn't it fun? No one was hurt?"
"Look at my butt before you say this!" Barral turned around sadly. There was a hole in his pants and his butt was burned red. Just when he was indignantly preparing to scold the two pirates in the car and demanding a huge amount of medical expenses, another voice suddenly came from the distance:
"Those people over there! Get out of the way! They're going to hit you!"
Balal and Ural turned around when they heard the sound, and their faces suddenly turned green - a trebuchet had been erected over there at some point, and a huge, round thing had just been thrown out by the trebuchet in a parabola. The trajectory flew straight towards their direction.
"Oh my God!"
Balal and Ural hugged their heads and jumped up. Soon enough, the round object hit the ground where they were just standing, making a hole as big as half a head on the ground.
"What mistake did we make? We obviously had good luck along the way." Barral was about to cry. "We have chariots and trebuchets. Why do we feel like these pirates are treating us like a city wall to attack the city?" ?”
The reactions of the two pirates and the soldier who were holding car parts on the ground were completely different from Barral's - although the pit was less than half a meter away from them, they were more excited than panicked. They circled around the ball with great interest, carefully observing how it was different from ordinary stone bullets.
Not long after, two more pirates ran over. So the soldier shouted to them: "Little chicken! Big catfish! What are you messing with? I looked around and it seems to be bigger than ordinary rocks?"
The two pirates, called Little Chicken and Big Catfish, chuckled and said, "That's what it looks like from the outside, mainly from the inside."
"in?"
"We always felt that the King of Sweden's trebuchet was too slow to throw stones at the city wall, so it would be better to throw us directly into the city. But the King of Sweden said that we would fall to death, so we designed a protective device!"
As he said that, the big catfish circled around the round thing and was very satisfied with the damage: "It's intact! As long as we make something like this in batches, we can throw the army directly into the city wall with a trebuchet!"
"But why doesn't the big rooster inside stop crowing?" The little chicken scratched his head, "Is there something wrong?"
"Don't make trouble, it's so perfect outside, what could happen inside? It's just that your big rooster is timid and was scared to death."
The big catfish happily pressed the left side of the round thing and kicked it on the right side. Soon, the round thing was torn apart by him. There was a real big cock inside.
However, the big rooster had already died in a pool of blood.
"Strange thing, weird thing!" The big catfish shook his head repeatedly, "Why is the rooster inside dead when the outside is intact? You have to ask the King of Sweden for advice when you get back."
"Let's wait until the King of Sweden comes back." The little chicken mentioned the dead big rooster and patted the big catfish on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll treat you to chicken soup tonight!"
Barral slowly turned his head to the soldier: Are these two students of the academy too? "
"Yes, the first class of students is about to graduate. In the past two days, you can see people conducting engineering experiments throughout Gotland!"
So Balal slowly turned his head to Ural: "Brother, would it be better for us to carefully consider our future life? If we continue to stay here, I'm afraid that I will be killed by these students before I graduate. !”
Ural asked the soldier carefully: "Is there no safe place in the city?"
"Is the entire city safe?"
"...I mean, a place where engineering students can't experiment."
"Yes, there are two." The soldier replied, "One is the palace of the King of Sweden, and the other is the campus of the alchemy major. The teachers of the alchemy major are not very friendly towards the engineering students, and they are strictly prohibited from approaching. It’s only half a step away from the alchemy major’s campus.”
"That's good!" Ural patted Balal on the shoulder happily, "Don't be afraid of these crazy engineering majors, the two of us are born to learn alchemy!"
Ella's academy is one of Gotland's landmark buildings, and Ural and Baral found the place easily. All buildings in the entire academy are made of marble, similar in style to the buildings in the Seven Hills Empire. An avenue divides the college into south and north parts. On the south side is the old school building, where students major in engineering; on the north side is the new school building, which is used by the alchemists brought by Ella from the island republic, as well as many newly recruited students from the local area. There are several houses at the end of the road, where students from both colleges come to study general courses, including but not limited to logic, astronomy, botany, mathematics and other subjects.
When the academy was newly opened, Ella was the only one who could serve as a teacher. But now there are more than ten teachers in the school. Except for astronomy, logic, and some advanced engineering courses that still need to be taught by Ella, there are dedicated teaching staff for various other subjects. After the first batch of students graduate this year, these three subjects can also be taught by outstanding graduates.
Ella is very busy. In addition to handling government affairs, she also has many subjects to study, and recently she has added swordsmanship. Although she is still the principal in name, in fact, it is the mathematician she brought back from the Alemannic Federation - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz - who is in charge of the affairs of the college.
However, the mathematician also had a somewhat eccentric temper. The most striking thing is that he doesn't like bathing. The people of Gotland are very fond of the big bathhouse built by Ella, and they visit it once every three days on average. According to statistics from people in Gotland, the great mathematician only went to the bathhouse four times a year - spring, summer, autumn and winter, and he was forced to go there by other teachers. In addition, he often forgets what he is doing and squats down to write math problems by himself, even during class.
Right now, the mathematician was squatting on the ground writing a bunch of incomprehensible mathematical symbols on stones, while Balal and Ural had been standing aside for almost an hour after explaining their reasons for enrolling.
Barral asked in a low voice: "Brother, I remember you know how to settle accounts, right?"
"That's of course. Mathematics is one of the subjects I'm proficient in. Whether it's addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or making false accounts, it's all easy for me."
Ural sat on a chair and slowly sipped the wine that came from the cabinet behind Gottfried.
"Brother, what is this guy writing now?"
Ural stretched his neck and glanced at the formula Gottfried had written on the ground.
"Obviously, this is not a math problem. It's probably some kind of witchcraft symbol. After all, the Pythagoreans are a very famous school of magic."
"Pythagoreans?" Gottfried heard the term and suddenly woke up from the math problems on the floor. Looking at Balal and Ural behind him, he had a look of confusion on his face, "What...are you here for...?"
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