Chapter 66 Fluid Alchemy (Added for Liang Buruo's Silver Alliance
In this dark place where it is hard to tell the difference between day and night, the sound of young children crying echoes in the silence.

Like a baby.

Ji Jue felt numb all over.

No way.

An embroidered shoe, two red lanterns, a dark mansion on a rainy night, a pale bride wearing a red veil, and other scenes suddenly emerged from his mind. It was all because of that bastard Lu Feng, who always downloaded horror movies to his computer and liked to play them out loud, which almost traumatized Ji Jue.

At this moment, silence came, and the tiny sounds became more and more obvious. What made Ji Jue feel cold all over was... that it came from behind him.

In the dead silence, he turned back stiffly.

Then I saw the calf shivering like a dog!
After noticing Ji Jue's gaze, the motorcycle came closer, as if seeking warmth. It was so scary!!!

Why the hell are you so disappointing?
Ji Jue wanted to throw a huge toss at him, "You're a motorbike expert, what are you afraid of?"
"Do you want to go and take a look?" Xiao An asked in a low voice.

Ji Jue shook his head decisively.

No hesitation!

Are you kidding? This kind of person who wants to go over to watch the fun when hearing strange noises will definitely be the first to die in a horror movie, okay?!
But it would feel a bit awkward not to watch it. After all, sitting in this gloomy ruins with the background music playing, it's just creepy.

But don't be afraid, at this time, you need to take out the magic props...

Ji Jue rummaged through the bag in his backpack for a long time, then lifted up the item at the bottom with great excitement:
——Drone!

After experiencing the convenience of this thing last time, Ji Jue gritted his teeth and ordered a high-end military version from Sister Leila. It was a rotary reconnaissance type, stealthy and silent. The Imperial Army in Middle-earth was bombed and praised it. After being strengthened with the Shangshan emblem of the ruins, it can already prevent small-caliber semi-automatic weapons from shooting.

In order to prepare the things needed for this trip, he was detained at the security company and spent the entire afternoon modifying their guns.

Ever since Ji Jue performed a spiritual maintenance on Lu Feng's pistol, everyone who used it has been crazy about it. I heard that at Leila's place, Master Ji's consecration service projects will be scheduled until next year.

At this moment, with a thought, the drone had already taken off into the air, and the screen in his hand lit up, showing the picture. The small drone flew silently through the air, without alarming the monsters living in the dark, which relieved Ji Jue's worries.

However, just when he flew around a corner, he almost collided head-on with a spider monster. The spider monster seemed to have seen nothing and did not react at all. This made Ji Jue even more confused about their crazy mechanism - could it be that the local guys all like to eat fresh food and not eat vegetarian food?

Just like that, they carefully crossed a not-so-long distance and found the source of the crying on the back of the ruins, an apartment full of cracks.

Behind the collapsed and dilapidated wall, the lights flickered dimly and intermittently.

The family sits around the dining table, enjoying dinner after a hard day’s work, smiling gently in the wonderful reunion…if it were only like this, it would be great.

The ragged husband's outline could be vaguely distinguished, but his head had already hung from his neck, and the blood on the crack had coagulated and dried long ago.

It seemed as if he was using his right hand, which had long disappeared, to pick up the food and enjoy it. His stiff face twitched as if he was forcing a smile: "It's so good to eat, eat, eat. Thank you for your hard work."

The table was empty, with only dust on the broken plates.

The hard-working wife, who was busy with housework, looked back and smiled gently, revealing the deep depressions on her face, and sticky black liquid slowly dripped from the corners of her eyes.

"The child, the child, the child is crying again, look away..."

In the tattered cradle, the baby howled sharply. The mother's alienated claws slid across its face, gently stroking it, leaving another bloody wound.

"Mom, it hurts. Mom, it hurts."

"Yes, baby, mommy loves you too." The mother picked up a piece of rag with only tattered lint left and asked gently, "Do you like the new clothes daddy bought for you?"

“It hurts, Mom. It hurts.”

The baby in the cradle cried and uttered, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts——"

Beneath the baby's rotting flesh and blood, it seemed as if there were invisible insects or something else wriggling violently, rising and falling, constantly supporting vague outlines one after another.

The wailing became more and more mournful and sharp, echoing throughout the entire apartment.

But it seemed that it was gradually becoming different... or in other words, gradually becoming inhuman. From the once tender voice, it gradually became hoarse, shrill, sharp, deep, or even numb!
It was as if there were countless people hidden inside that tiny body, screaming in despair over and over again, becoming increasingly insane.

Until the end, when the wailing stopped without warning, the tattered baby in the cradle exploded, and under the blood plasma and broken flesh, wriggling tentacles and insect-like limbs grew out, swaying, crawling, and jumping out of the cradle, screaming away.

Disappeared under the dark sky.

The mother was still smiling, facing the empty cradle, comforting the non-existent baby. Then, she cleaned up the dishes, sorted out the housework, and finally, turned off the lights that had long been extinguished, and together with her husband, welcomed a peaceful sleep on the tattered bed.

In the dream, beneath the broken bodies of the couple, invisible things were wriggling and undulating, like parasites absorbing nutrients in the host's shell, waiting for the day of delivery to arrive.

The drone slowly flew back and fell into Ji Jue's hands.

The two looked at each other speechlessly.

At least, Ji Jue now knows where those messy things came from...

An inhuman thing bred from an inhuman thing.

Butterflies, birds, crocodiles, snakes, and even the terrifying giant insect that lurks in the ruins and can treat Ji Jue to several packs of snacks without burping, all those messy ghost things, I'm afraid they all came from this! Although I don't know why those "people" are so persistent in imitating normal human life, there is no doubt that these are all masterpieces made by mercury!

Temporarily transform the material into fluid, conform to the physical properties and essence, adjust it to the best state that suits its inherent nature, or reversely catalyze the creation through the qualitative change of spiritual essence, giving it a further level of transformation.

This is the proof that mercury can become a master and a sage, and it has become the "fluid alchemy" that has disappeared in the history of alchemy!
Even this title comes from this skill.

Products created through fluid alchemy are often extremely hidden, with no signs of any external processing at all, and may even have multiple forms and appearances.

Therefore, it is called the art of ever-changing.

The scene that Ji Jue just saw was probably the transformation of creation in the midst of spiritual chaos.

According to the information Ji Jue read while cramming in the book: If this kind of transformation is not restricted, it will definitely not happen only once. They can continue to grow like living things and turn into something even more weird, until the spiritual essence is overloaded and the physical nature collapses!
What made him even more horrified was that even with the chaos and loss of control to this extent, there was still no sign of any evil change in the entire rift.

There is not a single blemish of pollution or evil.

The hell before our eyes was all created by the power of Supreme Good!
"What the hell has he come up with?"

Ji Jue sat on the gravel, his scalp tingling, as if a newly graduated young programmer had accidentally opened a mountain of data piled up by his predecessors over decades.

I don't know where to start, I don't know where to figure it out, and I'm at my wits' end

I don't know what mechanism is hidden inside, nor do I know what mysterious surprise is hidden at the bottom that can cause my heart and lungs to stop. The only thing is that the desire to die is getting stronger and stronger.

Xiao An sat quietly on the ground, still in a state of confusion as if something had happened but he had no idea what was going on. Anyway, Sister Wen said to listen to Ji Jue if there was anything, so wouldn't he not have to use his brain?
This is the first time I have explored the rift so easily!
Great!
Brother Ji Jue is great, no need to say more!

Feeling the admiring gaze from the young man, Ji Jue hesitated to speak, and then he wanted to die even more.

And in the silence, he finally felt a slight tremor in his arms.

The ghost ball, which had been running hot since a few hours ago, seemed to have finally cooled down.

There was a weak response.

The moment Ji Jue reacted, he immediately scooped it up and hastily poured all his spiritual essence into it, letting the ghost ball swallow it up like a whale sucking water. It was not enough to just drain Ji Jue's spiritual essence, and even drained more than half of his cousin's spiritual essence reserve, and finally let out a faint sigh.

"How are you, Brother Qiu?" Ji Jue was surprised.

[…Half dead, but still OK. ]

The ghost ball, which was still warm, responded with a groan-like sound: [I didn’t expect that after going through so many storms over the years, we almost capsized in the ditch.

Things like taking apprentices on an outing almost went wrong.

As soon as the door opened, he came to cheat and attack me, bullying a helpless old man like me, and almost kicked me to the mold line. How despicable and shameless, extremely vulgar! 】

The ghost ball was shaken violently, and cursed angrily: [What kind of master is this bastard Mercury? ]

The moment it entered the rift, when it turned on the detection mode according to the logic of the underlying circuit... it was reversely detected by another signal that was so powerful that it was astonishingly powerful!

It's like two sonars observing each other in the deep sea.

The moment it sensed the other party's presence, the ghost ball already felt something was wrong and wanted to shut it down, but it was too late. The malice from the other side was already surging.

The moment the second signal appeared, the workshop guard module left by Mercury was activated, and the wave of spiritual essence directly stirred up the tide of invasion.

Thousands of miles away, he began to invade the spiritual circuits of the Ghost Ball through the air, and even wanted to completely overwrite the underlying instructions of the Ghost Ball based on Professor Ye's work.

This is also a compulsory course for the Embers in the workshop struggle, suppressing the opponent's alchemical items, and even plundering control to retaliate.

Sadly, four hundred years have passed.

The times outside were still changing, and the establishment of modern alchemy had led to completely different versions. In addition, the guarding procedures without human control were too rigid, and were eventually completely eliminated by the ghost ball.

The price was that it itself was down for an unknown period of time.

Unfortunately, no counterattack was launched.

Because of this level of struggle, Ji Jue is useless! If Ye Xian was here, not to mention being humiliated, by now, the workshop opposite has changed its surname to Ye!

But at least, in that brief confrontation, it had at least some basic understanding of the workshop left by Mercury.

"Found it so quickly?"

Ji Jue's eyes lit up: "What a fast efficiency, Brother Qiu! Where is the workshop?"

[Don't you see it yet, silly boy? ]

The Ghost Ball sighed, just like Professor Ye once expressed his regret for others' low IQ: [We have already been in Mercury's workshop.]

It said: [The entire Rift is her workshop! ]

(End of this chapter)