When I was supposed to be slaying the dragon, I accidentally started cultivating immortality - Chapter 192: Joining the Taoist Priest in the Equipment Department and Sotheby’s Auction House

After flying back to China from Kassel and spending the summer vacation with Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei reluctantly flew to Kassel again and officially joined the Equipment Department as an external researcher.

Senior Brother Chu came to the school with him, and with his excellent ability, Senior Brother Chu was already recruited by Professor Schneider before taking the entrance exam and became his official student.

Professor Schneider is not only the actual leader of the executive department, but also a senior professor in the school. Each senior professor is the best selected from the tenured professors, and there are no more than ten in the entire school.

Senior Brother Chu can become a student of a senior professor at the beginning of his enrollment. This starting point is very high in the entire school – provided that he is not compared with special cases like Lu Mingfei.

As a special external researcher of the Equipment Department, and also a second-level researcher after special-level and first-level researchers, Lu Mingfei, who is only seventeen years old, can be considered a middle-level and high-level researcher in Kassel College.

The positions of members of the Equipment Department are divided into six levels. From low to high, they are intern researcher, assistant researcher, third-level researcher, second-level researcher, first-level researcher and special researcher.

Among them, the only special-level researchers in the entire equipment department are Director Akadulla, two deputy directors, and four senior researchers who lead different categories.

The director of the equipment department has the highest status among all department leaders in the school, roughly between the principal and the vice principal, while the deputy director’s position is between the vice principal and senior professors.

The other four special fellows are equivalent to senior professors like Professor Schneider, but because Professor Schneider also serves as the leader of the executive department, Professor Schneider’s actual status is higher than the deputy director of the equipment department, second only to the principal. , Vice-Chancellor and Director Akadulla of the Equipment Department.

The next-level researcher is equivalent to an ordinary tenured professor, Lu Mingfei’s second-level researcher is equivalent to a full professor, and the third-level researcher and assistant researcher below him are equivalent to associate professor and assistant professor respectively.

As for intern researchers who are even more humble than assistant researchers…

Until they can tolerate the madmen in the Equipment Department and are accepted and assimilated by them, the people in the Equipment Department do not regard them as one of their own.

Director Akadulla originally planned to directly promote Lu Mingfei to a first-level researcher as an exception. Although the direct promotion to a second-level researcher is itself an exception, under Angers’ suggestion, in order to prevent Lu Mingfei from attracting the school board of directors Due to the attention of the families behind the school board, Director Akadulla only assigned Lu Mingfei as a second-level researcher, but he actually enjoyed the treatment of a first-level researcher.

Of course, in the end, the second-level researcher still attracted the attention of the Gattuso family in the school board of directors. Fortunately, other families seemed not to be very interested in Lu Mingfei, the second-level researcher who suddenly appeared. Otherwise, once other competitors appeared, it would be almost impossible. The first subspecies of dragon beast will definitely not scare the Gattuso family’s investigators.

With the beginning of the new semester, Lu Mingfei also began his leisurely and fulfilling research life in the Equipment Department – the reason why he is said to be both leisurely and fulfilling is because although he spends a lot of time doing research every day, It’s not like other researchers who torture their brain cells every day.

As a person who has inherited all the knowledge of alchemy and weapon refining from the Heavenly Book, Lu Mingfei is only a little better than ordinary alchemists and weapon refiners in that world at this stage. If alchemy and weapon refining also have nine years of compulsory education and high school. , he is at most a junior high school student. Currently he only needs to study, and there is no need to actively study at all – he is far from that stage yet.

Compared with those colleagues in the equipment department who need to constantly explore their future, all Lu Mingfei needs to do is to continue to study in the Book of Heaven, and then occasionally produce some research results, which attracts the sour “It’s just that” and “It’s okay” from his colleagues. Right?” “It’s just average for the equipment department.” “It would be better if it could explode.”

Well… the last review appears more often than the previous ones combined.

Mingfei did not bring Xiaotian with him when he came to Kassel this time. He took a few flowers and leaves from the dragon-headed and phoenix-tailed golden hairpin he picked from the Nibelung roots in Shennongjia, and made it into something suitable for the demon clan. The medicinal solution was surprisingly effective after being given to Xiao Tian. Xiao Tian actually had a tendency to break through the realm.

The five realms of spirit demon, mysterious demon, great demon, demon king, and great sage respectively correspond to the monk’s gas-eating, spinning, heartbeat, elixir formation, and golden elixir. As for the “Daluo” where the monk stands at the top of the monks, The realm of “Tathagata” and “Suwang”, until the world explodes, no demon can touch it.

Xiaotian fell into a deep sleep and transformed after taking the medicinal liquid refined from the golden hairpin with the dragon head and phoenix tail. If nothing happens, when he wakes up again, he will transform from a “spirit demon” to a “mysterious demon”. …Senior Brother Chu will definitely not be able to defeat Xiao Tian.

Since Xiaotian is still in the transformation stage, in order to avoid affecting its transformation, Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang can only temporarily leave it at Su Xiaoqiang’s house and let the housekeeper take care of it. After Xiaotian wakes up, the housekeeper will contact Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang. .

During Xiaotian’s absence, Lu Mingfei, besides talking on the phone with Su Xiaoqiang every day, his main focus was on analyzing new prescriptions – he planned to use the powerful medicinal properties of Dragon Head, Phoenix Tail and Golden Hairpin to refine it. Some medicines that can be given to him and Su Xiaoqiang.

But compared to the simplicity and crudeness of the medicine for demons, the medicine for human use is not only more difficult to refine, but also requires more and more precious materials, so Lu Mingfei gave priority to refining the medicine for Xiaotian. medicine because it is easier to refine.

Lu Mingfei was wearing a white coat and standing in the independent laboratory assigned to him. Various precious materials were spread out in a chaotic and orderly manner on the large experimental table. Lu Mingfei checked the materials on the table again and confirmed the quantity. Once the type is correct, you are ready to start refining.

The prescription he analyzed this time is quite special. The full version of the prescription is complete with monarch, minister, assistant and envoy. The effect is very good and can bring great benefits to the monks from the three aspects of essence, energy and spirit.

He used the classics in the equipment department to find various substitute materials. Unfortunately, although the substitute for the ministerial medicine was not as “a treasure of heaven and earth” as the dragon head, phoenix tail and golden hairpin, which is the king’s medicine, he It is still extremely precious, at least he has confirmed with Director Akadulla that it cannot be found in the inventory of the Equipment Department.

Even if there was, Lu Mingfei did not have the power to enrich himself with such precious materials. The privileges given to him by Director Akadulla were also limited, and he could not really be allowed to completely use the equipment department’s warehouse as a private treasury.

Although all the materials on his desk now were secretly written by him during this month.

Fortunately, this prescription does not require a ministerial drug. It can be used even if it does not have it. However, the efficacy of the drug will be greatly reduced, especially for the strengthening of “god”, which is less than 20% of the original prescription. “Jing” and “Jing” The effect of “Qi” has also been weakened to less than 60%.

But there was nothing he could do if he couldn’t find the elixir. He couldn’t keep looking or waiting. If he waited for more than ten years, he would have finished building the elixir.

So the effect is almost there, let’s start practicing!

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath, and then an electronic display next to the table suddenly lit up with a red light – this was a signal that someone was looking for him outside.

Perhaps because most of the experiments conducted are dangerous, the private laboratories of the Equipment Department not only have all kinds of safety measures, but also pay great attention to privacy. If outsiders want to come in, they can only ring the “doorbell”. It’s the button on the door frame that’s connected to the display.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, then turned towards the door, opened it, and found Director Akadulla outside.

“Mingfei, are you doing research?”

Director Akadula was holding a pancake in his hand, but it was filled with hamburger meat. He was still chewing something while talking to Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei nodded and his eyes fell on a beautifully crafted color printed leaflet in his hand.

“Didn’t you ask me two days ago if we had any ‘Crystal Mandalas’ in our warehouse?” Director Akadulla raised the flyer in his hand, “You are lucky. A mixed-race auction house in Chicago happens to have one. A few crystal mandalas for sale tonight.”

Crystal Mandala, this is the “minimal medicine” that Lu Mingfei needs. Mandala is a very symbolic flower in Buddhism. It is the transliteration of Sanskrit Mandala, which means “altar” or “altar”. field”.

Li Shizhen recorded in detail in “Compendium of Materia Medica” that “when the Lotus Sutra was preaching the Buddha’s sermon, it rained mandala flowers from the sky. In addition, there was a messenger from the Daoluo star in the Taoist Beidou, holding this flower in his hand. Therefore, later generations named the flower after it.”

The mandala in Buddhist records contains the spirit of insight, transcendental enlightenment, and endless transformations. In fact, the toxicity of mandala can make people fall into a coma and confusion, and it can even be used as a raw material to make products. into an anesthetic.

The “Crystal Mandala” Lu Mingfei needs is a kind of Datura flower infiltrated with dragon genes. It is an extremely rare species. Its toxicity and medicinal properties are thousands of times better than ordinary Datura. It has miraculous effects that ordinary mandala does not have. After being concocted by an alchemist, it can even make the user have a “transcendental enlightenment” state of mind in a short period of time.

Of course, there is a certain possibility of death from its strong toxicity afterwards.

This kind of medicine is generally used in high-end bloodline strengthening medicines or evolution medicines, and is also used in higher-level and more precious bloodline locking medicines. Once crystal mandala is added to the evolution medicine, the user will use the crystal mandala in the evolution medicine. The medicine can perfectly contain one’s bloodline before it disappears, and there is no risk of losing one’s mind and degenerating into a Deadpool.

How long this time can last depends entirely on the amount of Crystal Mandala added. The larger the amount, the longer it will take, and the more serious the toxicity and side effects will be afterwards. It is generally a precious consumable used to fight on the dragon-slaying battlefield.

The college stored some potions containing crystal mandala ingredients, but there was no crystal mandala that could still be used. Lu Mingfei was originally ready to give up, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a dark place.

“I have applied for a batch of funds with the principal.” Director Akadulla took out a document bag from the big pocket of his white coat. “In it are the invitation letter for the auction, the bank card and password for mobile use, and For other materials and data, as a specialist, you can go to Sotheby’s auction house to take pictures of them.”

Director Akadura raised his eyebrows at Lu Mingfei and said in a meaningful tone: “The materials did not state how many flowers were sold in this auction!”

Lu Mingfei’s eyes lit up and he accepted the document bag handed over by Director Akadulla – this kind of task is usually carried out by senior students in the school as commissioners, but this time it was obviously the most “suitable” for him to go. .

“But what does a directed auction mean?”

Lu Mingfei said curiously.

“A targeted auction is an auction of items that are legally stipulated to be circulated only within a certain range, so this kind of auction usually only invites specific customers,” explained Director Alka Doula, “Sotheby’s Auction House It is the property of a certain mixed-race family, and this targeted auction is specifically open to mixed-race people.”

“By the way, most of the things in directional auctions have unknown origins. To put it bluntly, they were obtained through dishonorable means, so there are occasionally great risks. In 2003, Sotheby took your Dou from the Western Han Dynasty of China. The pottery figurines in the Queen’s tomb were printed on the promotional materials, and there were six of them, but it turned out that these six pottery figurines were all stolen cultural relics, which caused an uproar at the time and caused a big uproar among ordinary people.”

Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Fortunately, the Chinese Embassy in the United States learned about the situation in time. They went to negotiate with the U.S. government, intercepted the six pottery figurines that had not been sent to Sotheby’s, and sent them back to China,” Akadu said. Director La shrugged, “Sotheby’s is one of the best auction houses in the world, but they obviously don’t have a strong sense of professional ethics.”

“What do you mean by making a big fuss only among ordinary people? Do mixed-race people not pay attention to this matter at all?”

Lu Mingfei asked.

“It’s not that I didn’t pay attention, but a bigger thing broke out in the mixed-race world at that time, and it was also Sotheby’s.” Director Akadula showed a gloating smile, “At that time, Sotheby’s Auction House was holding an auction. In the targeted auction for mixed-race species, there is an alchemical treasure from the Western Han Dynasty.”

“It was also stolen? Did the Chinese mixed-race world take action?”

Lu Mingfei said curiously.

“It can be said that they took action, but we can’t say that they took action because no one has any evidence and they themselves can’t admit it on their own initiative,” Director Akadulla said. “It is said that at that time, an old man with an Asian face wearing a monk’s robe suddenly came in. I entered the auction and took away the alchemy treasure. Well… I didn’t pay for it, but it was reasonable, after all, it was your thing.”

“Will the people at the auction house allow him to leave? The auction house can’t think it’s reasonable, right?”

Lu Mingfei grasped the key point.

“Of course they thought it was unreasonable, so the entire security force of the auction house was dispatched to keep the old Taoist priest and the alchemy treasure behind. As a result…”

Director Akadulla drawled.

“What happened?”

Lu Mingfei answered the question very intelligently and put on an “I’m very curious” expression.

“Let’s put it this way,” Director Akadulla said, “Before that auction, Sotheby’s was the most powerful mixed-race auction house in the United States, and the family behind them was the top mixed-race family in the United States.”

“But after that auction, Sotheby’s did not hold a mixed-breed auction for two years. There were three auctions that kept pace with it in the field of mixed-breed auctions, and the family behind Sotheby’s is now even one of the top mixed-breed families in the United States. I can hardly keep my status.”

“The root cause of all this is that at that auction, the mixed-race security force that Sotheby was so proud of was almost completely destroyed in the hands of that Taoist priest!”