Chapter 1 The Beginning
"Bai Mo, we are going out to eat. Remember to put away the experimental materials and lock the door of the laboratory before leaving~" Several classmates in the same laboratory as Bai Mo said in unison.
"Yeah." He responded casually.
Bai Mo is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Physics of Tianhai University. Like his classmates in the laboratory, his main job is to read literature and complete various experimental tasks for his tutor. Several people in their materials laboratory are all senior materials scientists. Senior Professor Zhao Jiasen.
"We're finally out." To others, Bai Mo spends all day in piles of documents and laboratories. He secretly has an unknown hobby, which is reading novels.
He likes to read all kinds of fantasy novels with extraordinary power systems. He often puts himself into the protagonist of the novel and fantasizes about what he would do if he had the protagonist's abilities.
"This world without extraordinary abilities is so boring. Whether it's cultivating immortals, magic, or super powers, they don't appear in this world."
He is also at an age when his thinking is wild and unrealistic. He often has some unrealistic ideas. He has even conceived a complete power system. However, he can only write straightforward essays and has no understanding of the emotions of the characters in the novel. I know how to describe it, so I just keep it deep in my mind.
This kind of fantasizing about power all day long seems to be called chuunibyou on the Internet. His chuunibyou was well hidden and became something similar to Li's personality.
The outer personality is packaged as a mature and sensible good student, pursuing the things that mainstream college students pursue, such as GPA. Bai Mo also knows that only by wearing a mask in this way can he be recognized by the mainstream of society and not be regarded as an alien.
"The Tenth Update of "The Fighting Lord" today?!" "The Fighting Lord" is a novel that Bai Mo has been following every day recently. Every time there is an update reminder, he will immediately take out his mobile phone and open the client to read it.
It seems to be because the Dingmin Novel Network has recently launched an event with more rewards. Many popular book authors are getting excited, and the update speed is quite alarming.
Just when Bai Mo was obsessed with the novel, a strange thing happened...
After the experimental materials to be tested in the heating kettle were heated for a period of time, they gradually began to release some unknown light green gas. Bai Mo, who happened to be sideways and blocked by his right hand holding the mobile phone, saw a wonderful brain. He was so absorbed in it that he didn't notice the experimental phenomenon at all.
In his memory, the material that the instructor ordered to be processed still needed to be heated for about ten minutes, and ten minutes was enough for him to watch the Domination of Domination, which was updated twice a day on weekdays.
People who are addicted to online novels know that they will basically not put it down halfway through the climax. Everyone will want to finish reading the protagonist's pretentiousness first.
But Bai Mo missed a little calculation. Usually he can read two novels in ten minutes, but today he finished ten novels! By the time he reacted, more than twenty minutes had passed.
"What does this smell like?" He suddenly felt something was wrong. He quickly put down his phone and turned to look at the samples in the heating kettle.
The stone-like sample is slowly emitting some light green gas. The gas continues to float in the air, and the green color becomes lighter and lighter.
"According to the experimental requirements left by the instructor, this unknown material must be heated steadily and slowly to 50 degrees within 10 minutes, and because the chemical properties are unknown, water bath heating is not considered for now."
"As a result, more than twenty minutes have passed. The thermometer shows that it has now reached 200 degrees Celsius. The originally black ore material has turned into light green. The experiment is ruined."
"But what could that green gas be? There is no such thing in the experimental prediction results in the instructor's experiment manual. There are very few light green gases in my memory. It seems that there is no one that matches the number. I also inhaled a lot of it invisibly. Less, but there are no signs of poisoning, but I feel a lot more energetic.”
Talking to himself all the way, he started to pack up the experimental equipment according to the laboratory rules, and then stuffed a set of relatively normal-looking data into the experimental data recording form, pretending that there were no problems.
But when cleaning up the experimental waste, he cunningly put the sample that had returned to its original color after cooling down into his trouser pocket without throwing it into the experimental waste disposal area. After packing up the experimental equipment, he went to the disinfection room to wash his hands. , and then closed the door of the laboratory.
While walking on the road, he was still thinking about what the green gas was, but his thoughts were interrupted by his stomach's protest.
Following his usual habit, he bought a plate of chicken drumsticks and rice at the canteen window, but he had all of it in his mouth within a few seconds. At first, Bai Mo thought it was because his aunt had brought less rice today. He still felt hungry after eating a whole plate, so he went to queue and bought another plate of rice.
After finishing the second plate, he finally realized something was wrong - he was still a little hungry!
Soon the third plate was eaten, and the fourth plate was eaten. Only then did he feel full.
Because he always sat in the same place to eat, several people nearby watched the birth of this big eater. Looking at Bai Mo's slightly thin figure, he suddenly felt that the world was so unfair. Why did he Drinking cold water will also make you gain weight!
At this time, he was surrounded by slightly envious and jealous eyes, and he realized that his unusual food intake today had attracted the attention of the people around him.
As a person who has little confidence in his appearance and is used to living under the neglect of others, he decisively chose to pack up the dishes and run away.
Back in the graduate dormitory provided by the school, Bai Mo, who was lying on the bed and ready to continue reading novels, thought about his abnormal appetite today. Thinking of the plots of the novels he had read, it seemed that many of them had something like washing hair and marrow, refining essence into qi, or starting the road of evolution. It seemed that there would be a period of binge eating, and a large amount of energy intake was needed to make up for the demand.
"Will I also encounter such a magical thing? Such an abnormal appetite is really hard to explain. I didn't do any heavy physical activities, and even if I did heavy physical labor, I couldn't easily eat the amount of food for four people. The only strange thing that happened today should be that I inhaled a few mouthfuls of the gas generated by the experimental reaction." He, who usually eats the same amount as a normal person, began to think about today's abnormality.
"If that light green gas is spiritual energy, it seems to make sense that I was washed hair and marrow." He was originally planning to read a novel, but this idea inexplicably emerged in his mind.
"It feels good to inhale spiritual energy. Then the stone that can release spiritual energy... Is it a spiritual stone?"
He didn't think about it in the real direction, but used the logic of online novels to deduce it all the way.
"Then am I the legendary protagonist? I can pick up treasures for no reason, and I also found the way to use the treasures by accident. Could this be my 'plug-in'? But using a piece of spiritual stone as a plug-in... It's too shabby no matter how you look at it. At least it should be a magic weapon that can emit infinite spiritual energy to be worthy of my protagonist halo." Bai Mo picked up the sample on the table and played with it boredly.
Just when Bai Mo was thinking further and further under the logical deduction of the crooked building, and was about to make up a modern cultivation novel with himself as the protagonist, the alarm clock rang, reminding Bai Mo that it was time for a nap.
As for why the alarm clock reminds you to go to bed instead of getting up? Old bookworms know that it is easy to keep reading novels in bed and go past bedtime, so he specially set such an alarm clock to remind himself that it is time to take a nap, so as not to affect his spirit in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Bai Mo's mentor Zhao Jiasen came to the laboratory. Seeing Bai Mo carefully reading the instructions for the new equipment in the laboratory, he walked up to Bai Mo, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Xiao Mo, how was the experiment this morning? Have you recorded the physical and chemical properties of the samples?" Bai Mo, who was guilty, was startled, but he quickly came to his senses and replied, "Good afternoon, mentor. The experiment this morning went smoothly. The waste residue left after the sample test has been processed. I will get you the data record." After that, Bai Mo went to carry the laptop to open the database and show the data to Zhao Jiasen. "Well, the data is recorded very detailed. Keep working hard. By the way, Xiao Mo, does this ore have any special properties?"
"Teacher, do you have any questions about this?"
"I picked up this ore in the crater when I was investigating in Hawaii before. I feel that I have never come into contact with this material before. I have been dealing with various materials all my life. When I see a material that I can't judge at a glance, my first reaction is to take a sample to test its properties. It has become an occupational disease."
"This is ordinary volcanic rock through preliminary chemical tests, without any special properties. Teacher, I have some questions about the document you asked me to read last time..." Bai Mo quickly changed the subject.
After a daily academic question and answer session, the two continued to do their own things. Bai Mo continued to read the manual of the new equipment, and Professor Zhao went to find other graduate students to learn about the progress of other experiments.