Royal Alchemist

Su Tongyang opened his fingers and looked at the hands whose light had not dissipated. His cheeks were flushed with excitement. In fact, he was more excited than the freshman himself. After enduring so much discrimination and injustice, he was finally able to perform healing. surgery!

"Isn't it good? I can be a healer now," Su Tongyang murmured, with a kind of fanaticism in his eyes.

"It's good to be able to perform spells, but you..." Qiuye felt very uneasy.

Su Tongyang's hands trembled slightly: "I can feel the energy in my palm, it's so powerful, I can hardly hold it, it passes through my fingers and becomes a healing power, this feeling is so wonderful, can you Understand?"

"I...I understand, but you..."

"I'm going back to practice spells, let's take a step first." Su Tongyang said leaving Qiu Ye behind and left.

Looking at the thin back in the sun gradually going away, Qiu Ye felt a bad feeling in her heart.

Qiuye was the only one left in the avenue, white pigeons flew past him in groups, and their white feathers fell from the sky.

-

The dormitory at night is quiet, Xiao Feilong sleeps beside Qiuye's bed, because it is too big to squeeze into a single bed, and refuses to melt into the body, so Qiuye can only buy a Large kennel.At first it disliked it, saying it was an insult to Longge, but after sleeping once, it found that it was warm and soft, much more comfortable than a hard bed in a military academy, and fell in love with the kennel deeply.At this time, it was sleeping soundly, snoring lightly and evenly, with a small towel blanket covering its stomach—the same one it brought from home—with its wide wings stretched out outside the kennel.

Who said that the alchemy beast and its master are one?Obviously this guy sleeps like a dead pig, but I have insomnia!

Qiu Ye lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, and the images of Su Tongyang healing people and his weird smile appeared repeatedly in his mind.

He must be hiding something from me!Qiu Ye thought to himself, but he also knew that there would be no result if he forced the question, so what should he do?

With concern for her friend, Qiu Ye turned over irritably.

"Squeak!" With a slender cry, a white mouse crawled onto him from the pillow, and pressed its pointed nose against his face.

Qiuye reached out and touched its head, and it squeaked a few more times, seeming to enjoy it very much.

This white mouse was refined in his laboratory. After many failures, it became the only one that survived.After refining, it suddenly became very close to Qiuye, as if it recognized someone, and always liked to rub against him. According to tests, its intelligence was obviously several times higher than that of ordinary white mice.

It should be regarded as a successful product, but because of the limited tests on the attributes of animals, how much it improves depends on long-term observation.

After thinking about it for a while, Qiuye recalled today's entrance ceremony. Last year, he saw Su Tongyang for the first time in this vast crowd. So today is exactly the first anniversary of knowing him.At that time, even though we had only known each other for a few hours, he extended a helping hand when he was besieged by everyone. The touch of that moment will never be forgotten in this life, and at that moment he finally stopped fighting alone.

But recently his behavior is really weird, Qiuye is determined to find out the reason, Su Tongyang once stood up when he needed it most, so now when he is in the quagmire, he must be helped.

Qiu Ye became more and more energetic as she thought about it, she lost all sleepiness at all, blinked dryly for a while, and simply got up and put on her clothes.

He glanced at Su Tongyang's room, and when there was no movement, he left the dormitory with confidence and walked towards the Heroes' Hall.

It's been a while since I went to the Temple of Heroes. In the past, Qiuye would go inside every once in a while to look at the portrait of Qiu Xingyao and the statue of Ravenor.When I am exhausted to the extreme and feel slack, as soon as I see them, high fighting spirit will fill my body.

Although the door of the temple was not open at night, Qiuye thought that as long as he walked around the door, he could feel their presence even through a layer of doors.

There are many new students who have come to visit today. I wonder if they can empathize with themselves?

Akiba thought to herself, and the towering Heroes' Temple appeared in front of her eyes.

The sanctuary under the moonlight is cooler and more solemn than during the day, and the watery moonlight paints the walls with a layer of silvery white, like a luminous giant standing quietly in the forest.

But under the bright moon, he seemed to see something more in the familiar church.

In doubt, Qiu Ye quickened his pace and ran towards the church, suddenly stopped in front of the door and looked up, when he saw it clearly, he was shocked.

On the high lintel decorated with reliefs, there was a person standing impressively, looking at him condescendingly.

He is tall and slender, standing upright like an orchid and jade tree. His robe is as dark as black in the night, and the corners of his clothes flutter in the breeze. His long silver hair is dazzling white in the moonlight.He stood on the lintel, as if standing on the top of a mountain, majestically looking down at the earth, his deep eyes staring intently at the autumn leaves under his feet.

"Mr. Mirror?" Qiu Ye called out.

This person is the owner of Kong Jing, and others call him Mr. Jing.

Hearing Qiu Ye calling him, Mr. Jing gently pulled out a smile, under the moonlight, his smile was ghostly and ghostly, as if some evildoer in the mountains had absorbed the aura of heaven and earth, transformed into human beings, and appeared in the world.

"Why are you here? What are you doing standing up there?" Qiuye couldn't imagine why he ran to the Royal Military Academy alone in the middle of the night without sleeping, and sneaked up on the roof.

Mr. Jing squatted down, with long silver hair hanging over his shoulders, softer and brighter than the moonlight.

He didn't speak, just looked at Qiuye, and the two of them went up and down like this, looking at each other from a distance.

"I'm here to pay my respects to the hero." After a long time, Mr. Jing said.

Qiu Ye had the urge to slap him, and wanted to pay tribute to the hero, so he came to climb the gate in the middle of the night?What is the logic?

"Long time no see, Qiuye." Mr. Jing's voice was more distant and deep at night.

Qiuye was a little surprised: "Do you remember me?"

"I remember, of course I remember." Mr. Jing leaped lightly, fell in the air, and stood in front of Qiuye. The distance between the two narrowed, and their bodies were almost pressed together.

Qiu Ye hurriedly took a step back, opening the distance between the two of them. As soon as he raised his arm, he wanted to push him away, but he felt impolite when he raised his arm halfway, so he hesitated for a few seconds, and Mr. Jing approached again.

The two retreated and advanced, and within a few steps, Qiu Ye was forced under the tree by him.Mr. Jing stretched out his hand, enclosing him between himself and the tree trunk.

Behind Akiba is a rough tree trunk, and in front of him is Mr. Jing's chest. Through the thin fabric, he can almost feel the warmth of his body.He leaned back as hard as he could, as if he wanted to get as far away as possible, just a centimeter more.

"Mr. Jing, what are you doing!" Qiu Ye lowered her voice angrily.

Mr. Jing seemed to be unaware of his anger, and said with his unique voice: "How could I forget you, the smell on your body is still fresh in my memory."

Qiu Ye suddenly blushed, half angry, half ashamed, and pushed him hard, but his body was like a rock, unable to push at all: "Get out of the way, or I will get rough!"

On the contrary, Mr. Jing intensified, and his handsome and seductive face approached more and more excessively.

Qiuye suddenly remembered being licked by him that day, and a strange feeling came to her heart. She obviously didn't like being treated like this, but she didn't feel disgusted at all, as if she should use her tongue to greet her like this.

Just when Qiuye thought he was going to lick herself again, Mr. Jing just leaned his head on Qiuye's shoulder and sniffed vigorously, as if he was using smell to confirm his identity.The tip of his cool nose touched the sensitive skin on his neck, which was itchy and weird.

Finally, Qiuye couldn't stand it any longer, she burst her palm, and slapped Mr. Jing's chest.

But Mr. Jing's movements were much faster than him. The moment his fingertips touched the robe, Mr. Jing took a step back at a speed too fast to be captured by the naked eye, and let go of the shackles. At first glance, it seemed as if he had teleported a step suddenly.

Mr. Jing stopped three steps away, with his hands in his sleeves, standing upright, as if he had never done anything rude and abrupt.

"Mr. Jing, I respect you as an elder, please pay attention to your words and deeds, and stop making ridiculous moves." Qiu Ye said coldly.

Mr. Jing slowly turned his neck, and a surprised expression gradually appeared on his face, as if he was very surprised that he would say these words.After a long time he laughed, his silver hair was stirred by the night wind, adding a bit of otherworldly atmosphere.

"You are still far behind." Mr. Jing said.

"What?" Qiuye was at a loss.

"Sure enough, there is a big difference between whether there is memory inheritance or not."

Qiu Ye pursed her lips: "Who are you? Do you know me?"

Mr. Jing smiled in a silent manner, not intending to answer his question at all.

Akiba had no choice but to give up, and remembered another thing: "Mr. Jing, I have another question, I hope you can tell me."

Mr. Jing made a gesture of please.

"Is my friend okay with you recently? It's the student of the Light Department. Is his meditation class going well? Has his mental strength improved?"

Mr. Jing still stood there silently, staring at Qiuye without saying a word.

Qiu Ye was taken aback by him: "Can't you say this? It's not a confidential matter. He is a client and I am his friend. I just care about him."

"Because I don't know how to answer you." Mr. Jing said calmly, "He hasn't been to Kong Jing for a long time, so I don't know much about his recent situation."

"What?" Qiuye was surprised.

This answer was completely beyond Akiba's expectations.I always thought that Su Tongyang went to the empty mirror to take a meditation class, and guessed whether it was a course of treatment that made his mental strength improve by leaps and bounds, but now he was told that he didn't go to the empty mirror at all?How can this be?

But Qiuye knew that Mr. Jing didn't need to lie to herself on this issue. If Mr. Jing didn't lie to herself, then Su Tongyang would be the one who lied.

Why did he do this?What is he trying to hide?What happened to his sudden increase in mental strength?

Akiba was very worried.

"Squeak!" The white mouse came out of his pocket, nimbly grasped the buttons of his clothes, climbed onto his shoulders, and rubbed affectionately on his neck.

Qiuye pulled it off casually, and now he was not in the mood to tease it at all.

But the moment Mr. Jing saw the white mouse, his eyes suddenly lit up, bursting out with a strange light.

"Can you show me?" Mr. Jing spread his broad palm.

"Experimental mouse?" Qiuye handed the white mouse over suspiciously.

Mr. Jing stroked the white mouse's body, and rubbed its head with his slender white fingers. A silver light overflowed from his fingertips and penetrated into the white mouse's head.

That silver light was so pure that there were no impurities, as if all the flashy colors had been stripped away, leaving only pure silver.

"Zhizhi——" the white mouse struggled a bit, and cried out in great pain. It slipped out of Mr. Jing's hand, jumped back onto Qiuye's body, got into his collar, exposed half of its head, and looked at Mr. Jing timidly. .

Mr. Jing raised his eyelids slightly: "You refined it?"

Qiu Ye was a little dissatisfied with his mistreatment of the mouse, and stared silently.

Mr. Jing smiled indifferently: "Sure enough, there is no limit."

"What are you talking about, I don't understand at all."

"It's remarkable, but also very dangerous." Mr. Jing turned around slowly and walked into the night.

Qiu Ye looked puzzled, watching him gradually walk away, his figure disappeared into the darkness like a shadow of smoke.

-

Since then, Qiuye has been watching Su Tongyang very closely. Since he refuses to tell the truth, he can only find out the truth by himself.

So he didn't go to the Academy of Sciences for several days, and he didn't do other important things. He just kept up with Su Tongyang, in the name of enhancing friendship.

This made Feng Qi very dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do.

The school is very deserted these days, only half of the students are there.

The freshmen were pulled to participate in the freshman military exercise that must be held every year. This time, there were also unfriendly friendly soldiers, but not all the senior students, but only the third-year students, including You Ziwei.Therefore, Su Tongyang also had more free time than usual, and the two of them returned to the initial stage of acquaintance for a while, without the interruption of outsiders, whether it was eating or going to class, they were stuck together.

The two of them had lunch together at noon, and Su Tongyang's complexion seemed to be a little paler than the previous few days.

"I'm going out in the afternoon. You can go to the Academy of Sciences. You don't have to accompany me. If you don't go for so many days, Dean Zhu should be angry with you, right?" Su Tongyang said.

"Is it Qukongjing?" Qiuye suddenly woke up.

Su Tongyang lowered his head to avoid his gaze, gave a very low hum, and didn't say anything more.

"Well, that's fine." Qiuye said while eating, "I'm planning to go, the experiment I did last time is almost ready to see the results now."

Su Tongyang seemed relieved, and hurriedly took a few mouthfuls.

He also wanted to hide it from me. It seems that the problem is quite serious.Akiba secretly paid attention to his expression from the corner of her eye.

After lunch, Su Tongyang left the school and went to the public transportation hub.

Qiu Ye drove a car and followed him from a distance to see where he was going.He asked Jon to borrow this car, and he even borrowed a car that Jon had hardly driven to hide it, so that even if Su Tongyang saw this car, it didn't matter.

Su Tongyang did not get off the car when he arrived at the next transportation hub, but continued to stay in the car.

Sure enough, he didn't go to the Kongjing Health Center, and Qiuye was very anxious.If he didn't go to the empty mirror, where has he been so many times?

Su Tongyang has been sitting for half a planet, and Qiu Ye also secretly followed half a planet.

In the end, he finally got off the car at a remote station. Although Qiuye had never been here, he had heard that there was a trading city here, which was a black market known as the Shadow of the Imperial Capital. Compared with a planet that does black market business, but because it is located in the imperial capital, its status is extremely special.

Su Tongyang looked around and walked into the city.

Qiu Ye hurriedly parked the car, learned from Feng Qi's lesson, locked the car carefully, and followed Su Tongyang into the city.

At first glance, this city is no different from a general trade city. There are large and small shops everywhere on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of items, from ordinary daily necessities to alchemy-specific products. Cargo carts flew overhead.

Su Tongyang shuttled through the streets and alleys familiarly, and Qiuye followed closely behind. If he didn't run fairly fast, he would have almost lost him.

Suddenly Su Tongyang's figure flashed and walked into a shop. Qiu Ye watched from a distance, waited outside for a while, and then walked towards that shop.

On the surface, it seems that this is just an ordinary massage shop. Several customers lie comfortably on the massage table. The massagers include robots and humans, and you can choose according to your preferences.The entry of Qiuye did not disturb their rest, they still fell asleep peacefully and enjoyed the massage service.

There was a faint sweetness in the air, as if some kind of spice was burning, Qiu Ye took a deep breath, feeling that the breath was somewhat similar to that of Kong Jing, but not quite the same.If the empty mirror is pure natural light fragrance, then the fragrance here has a kind of artificial mixed smell, which makes people feel a little disgusted after smelling it for a long time, but it seems that there is nothing unusual about the people here enjoying it. .

Could it be that Su Tongyang is meditating here?It can be seen that the environment and atmosphere here cannot be compared with the empty mirror.

Qiu Ye's eyes flicked across every part of the massage shop, and finally stopped at the closed doors. Maybe one of them was opened, and there was a hole behind it, maybe Su Tongyang was inside.

But before he had time to think about it, a waiter with heavy make-up greeted him: "Sir, are you here for a massage? Do you have a membership card, and you can just report your membership number."

Qiu Ye pretended to observe, and deliberately lowered her voice: "No massage, I need some special services."

The beautiful waitress looked him up and down, and showed an ambiguous smile: "We don't have special services here, but seeing how handsome and young you are, maybe I can serve you alone." He touched Qiuye's chest affectionately.

Qiu Ye got goosebumps and coughed hard: "Ahem, you misunderstood, what I need is a more special service."

The waiter looked regretful: "Well, I'll go and ask some of the masseurs if they are interested in earning some extra money."

"No!" Qiuye was terrified, pulled the waiter towards the corner, and said in a softer voice, "I heard that the effect of meditation here is very good, so I want to try it."

The waiter's expression was surprised for a moment, but she put it away immediately, so fast that she almost thought it was an illusion, she still smiled and said in a sweet voice: "How can we have meditation here? The meditation halls are specially approved by the empire. , we don’t have the right to operate it, you’ve found the wrong place.”

"Don't lie to me. My friend obviously meditates here. Recently, his mental strength has increased a lot! I'm not a reporter, I just want to improve my mental strength! My mental strength is zero, but I I want to become an alchemist, I am so painful, you can test it if you don’t believe it, you should have an instrument to test your mental strength, right?”

The waiter looked at his side again, this time more carefully than before, from scalp to toe, every inch was checked.

Just when Qiuye thought she was about to let go, she still shook her head and smiled, "Really not, did you admit it wrong, there are many massage parlors similar to ours on this road."

"I just saw him come in!"

"You must have read it wrong." She shook her head resolutely.

Qiu Ye's negotiation failed completely, but he was unwilling to leave like this: "Okay then, I'll wait here for my friend to come out of the head office, shall I?"

"If you want to wait for someone, please go outside. We want a massage in our store."

Qiu Ye gritted her teeth: "Then I'll give you a massage!"

"Okay." The waiter showed a professional smile, "Our place is membership-based. If you come here for the first time, you need to apply for a membership card and pre-charge a sum of money. Every time you come for a massage, you will be charged directly from your membership card." deduct."

"I just need a card for a casual massage?" Qiu Ye bared her teeth.

"This is a regulation. In order to provide excellent massage services, to protect your rights and interests, and to..."

"Okay, okay, I'll do it, how much do you want to pre-charge?"

"It's 10 yuan." The waiter smiled.

Akiba couldn't breathe.

Ten minutes later, Qiu Ye was extremely depressed lying on a massage table, and a robot masseur rubbed his back.

Although the strength was even and just right, and the meridians all over his body seemed to be opened up, Qiu Ye's heart was bleeding.

10 yuan!What is wrong with me?Qiu Ye lowered her head and wiped away her bitter tears, staring at the closed doors while struggling.

A few hours later, a fair figure finally came out from behind one of the doors, and Qiu Ye suddenly jumped up from the massage table, blocking his way.

"Qiuye?" Su Tongyang almost fell down in shock.

Su Tongyang's face was paler and sicker than what he saw in the morning.