Arad's unruly savior

Chapter 3954 Don't Get Caught Doing Bad Things
After the inventors' conference concluded successfully, Chongquan took the opportunity to celebrate the beginning of the golden age of Mist Mechanics, which meant a week-long holiday.

Humanity stands on the foundation of history, constantly accumulating knowledge and experience, making commemorative days essential.

The beautiful scholar Ruiqi has completed her work at the Inventors' Conference, but she remains in the Misty Forest and has not returned. She often attends academic exchange meetings with another beautiful scholar, Laura.

This is quite normal. Not only Ruiqi, but also a considerable number of scholars from different places, different academic factions, or independent statuses take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Inventors Conference to hold one academic exchange meeting after another in Wulan.

It's important to know that although Mist Machines originated in Chongquan, various works of it have spread throughout the entire God Realm.

Scholars are unevenly distributed across the three continents of the divine realm, with Chongquan having the largest number, but the scholarly strength of Baihai and Qianhaitian should not be ignored.

Therefore, unless invited by a highly prestigious professor or an official academic authority, exchanges among scholars are often limited to their own localities.

A scholar from Baihai, without joining a major power or having friends to introduce him, would find it difficult to come into contact with the big names in Chongquan's academic circles.

Moreover, although the divine realm has some methods for instant communication, such as the innate abilities of the constellation spirit turtles and special star magic, none of these methods are as intuitive as scholars communicating face-to-face on the spot.

Wisdom is more easily sparked through communication.

So even though the inventors' conference has ended and the holiday has begun, many scholars have not yet left Wulan. They are taking advantage of this rare opportunity to hold academic exchange meetings, compete with other scholars in various fields, exchange ideas, and also meet more like-minded new friends, expanding their network and horizons. This is a very beneficial thing.

Maishere has a great understanding of the divine realm and expressed his appreciation for its academic atmosphere and the implicit resources provided by the Inventors' Conference. He believes it is similar to the Yellow Dragon Conference and Azure Dragon Conference in Xuzu and has many benefits.

She wondered if she could follow suit and use the Seven Gods' elytra and the royal family to lead a similar inventors' conference in the heavens.

Ye Lin offered a timely suggestion: it could be adapted to local conditions and appropriately modified according to the academic environment of the Celestial Realm.

For example, the royal family could take the lead and fund an annual academic conference to award honors, and then expand the scope beyond mechanical science to include medicine, literature, economics, and more fundamental physics and chemistry, selecting scholars who have made significant contributions and awarding them public honors and recognition.

The purpose is to encourage scientists in the celestial realm to have new goals to strive for.

There is actually a rather awkward reason behind this: apart from the Seven Gods' elytra of Lady Meryl's generation, which was a special case and relatively weak, and was kicked out and reorganized by her in anger, almost every other member of the Seven Gods served for life.

Therefore, the Seven Gods' Elytra, considered the highest honor and the most advanced science in the celestial realm, have a very low frequency of member replacement.

Especially since this generation of the Seven Gods is mostly young, and after Mrs. Meryl took the initiative to retire, the oldest of the Seven Gods, Pera Wayne, is only in her forties. Many scientists may lose their motivation as a result.

Therefore, Ye Lin believes it is necessary to set a new goal and a new honor.

Maicher thought it was feasible and immediately discussed it within the Seven Gods. After a general outline was formed, it was reported to Her Majesty Alizee.

The realm of gods, the White Sea.

Ruiqi stayed in the mist and didn't return, but Chimera came back first, riding in a beautiful two-person airship. It was brand new, quite expensive, and purchased in full, paid for in one lump sum. Her patent fee was thus almost entirely spent.

Just as Ruiqi had worried, although Chimera would take coins from the vending machine and be happy for a while if she got one for free, she never actually planned her spending in detail and always bought some strange and unnecessary things.

She's quite different from Beyana. Chimera uses her money to buy strange and unnecessary things, while Beyana's money disappears like bubbles, "pop!"—it just vanishes inexplicably.

Chimera strongly argued that an adult divine being, a renowned scholar, and an independent woman must have her own airship; it represents status, class, and convenience.

Buying an airship would be very beneficial for my travel and research.

Ruiqi teased her, saying that she just hadn't mastered the skills enough, couldn't fly, and still wanted to go for a drive.

Spending money and finding money are two different things; the latter is getting something for free, and you'll be happy even with just one dollar.

Chimera came back to pack her things. Many of her belongings, purchases, and unfinished inventions were still at Ruichi's house.

When he attended the inventors' conference, he brought the chisel bow and all his money, and followed Ruiqi to Wulan for one last gamble.

Attending the inventors' conference was just a side event; stealing the Rubik's Cube was her real purpose, and she had the air of a hero going to his death.

Chimera opened the door and returned to her room, where she propped up her table legs with books and newspapers. Looking at the golden Rubik's Cube toy on the table, she sighed:
"I have the real deal now."

A real Rubik's Cube appeared before her eyes, radiating a dazzling golden light. Then she gathered up everything in the room and used the Rubik's Cube to create a separate space.

Ye Lin looked at the room where the floor tiles had almost been blown away, and smirked, teasingly saying, "Didn't you say you'd come back to live here again? How come you even moved your old bed away?"

"That way, Sister Ruiqi can buy me a new one," Chimera replied confidently, while searching the room like a bandit to see if there was anything valuable she hadn't taken.

Ye Lin glanced at the soft, comfortable sofa and gestured to Chimera, "Would you like to rest for a bit?"

As soon as Chimera sat down, Ye Lin forcefully pressed her head onto the sofa. Her cheeks were slightly deformed from the pressure of the sofa fabric, and her eyes were full of astonishment. Then Ye Lin demonstrated to her how to untie two people's belts with only one hand.

"Crack, crack..."

……

Chimera also tidied up the laboratory she shared with Ruichi, and casually took a few valuable materials with her, calmly stating that Ruichi wouldn't be back in the mist for a while, and these materials would expire if left unattended.

Then, by accident, Ye Lin pinned him down on the lab table.

"Crack, crack..."

.........

Before leaving, Ye Lin was entrusted by Rui Qi to give the local specialties she bought in Wu Lan to her friend, the herbalist Cynthia.

Of course, as a purely man-made commercial city, Wulan can hardly be said to have any special products. The special products that Ruiqi gave were a set of commemorative coins from the Inventors Conference and some rather expensive snacks.

On the way back to Misty Mist in the two-person airship, Ye Lin pulled Chimera to sit with him in the same seat. He strung Chimera underneath him, using a mortise and tenon joint structure, making it very stable, and they traveled a thousand miles a day. Misty Mist.

Having just returned to the misty port of Stadmos, Chimera rubbed her forehead, sensing a slight pain in her mind, and said:

“I have a fairly clear feeling that my desire personality and I are largely integrated, and she is very weak now.”

Ye Lin nodded and said seriously, "It's probably because you released and satisfied your desires, which greatly weakened the power of your corresponding personality."

In short, the desire-driven personality was no match for Ye Lin, and entered a temporary state of sagehood.

"No wonder." Chimera counted on her fingers for a while, then said in an incredulous tone:
"It hasn't even been two days since our first time, and my combat power is already over ten. Master, do you really not have any sage state at all? And every time you are so juicy and full."

"Well, no."

After leaving the port of Tadmos, Nightwood's last task was to deliver the Chimera to the Clockwork House.

As the other party to the magical contract, the House of Clockwork did not restrict Chimera's personal freedom; on the contrary, they granted her a considerable degree of freedom, which was already a very generous treatment.

However, there is one restriction: after the Inventors' Conference, Chimera, as a contractor, must come to the House of Clockwork as a formal scholar or student to complete a series of required courses and courses specifically designed for her.

In other words, after the higher-ups at Clockwork House reluctantly accepted her, they prepared to take advantage of the situation and cultivate Chimera as a key member, giving her ample resources.

The logic behind this isn't hard to understand. Chimera is currently the only known person who is compatible with the Rubik's Cube, and whether she likes it or not, she will be the face of the Clockwork House in the future.

This is the responsibility she must bear after obtaining the extremely precious Rubik's Cube.

At the same time, although Chimera's invention of the chimera bow was not selected as the most valuable invention at the Inventors' Conference, it still received a large order from the Demon Strike Team, which means that she actually had research results and had surpassed most scholars.

It is important to understand that many scholars may spend their entire lives as assistants to others, struggling to produce inventions of great value, receiving fixed salaries, and unable to break free from the mundane world.

The academic world is just as ruthless as the spiritual world; those who are not talented enough will find it difficult to stand out from their many peers.

Resources are limited, and only the truly outstanding can stand at the top.

It may be inappropriate and somewhat vulgar to measure the overall value of scholars with money, but in general, it is not a big problem. In most cases, making money is the primary motivation. If one cannot even feed oneself, it is hard to say that one has sufficient motivation to strive, and it is hard to say that one's inventions have great significance.

Moreover, academic research is not about standing still and daydreaming; it requires a lot of experiments and materials to verify one's ideas, and it requires a lot of money. Otherwise, one will become like the former Ruiqi, a complete theorist.

Moreover, the merchant guilds in the divine realm have an extremely keen sense of smell. As long as you can offer something of value, they will swarm to you, giving you everything you want and providing all the conveniences for your research.

If you can't offer anything of value, then resources will be diverted to others.

Therefore, the higher-ups at Clockwork House had no objections to focusing on developing Chimera; she was indeed a promising talent.

Ye Lin also indicated that there might be a slight chance for her to become the future successor of the Clockwork House and become its leader. She already possesses a golden stepping stone, but currently, Chimera is still far from that position.

Clockwork House Park.

Holding a map, Ye Lin kept checking the signs to determine directions, and complained:

"I always feel like I'm sending my daughter to school."

Chimera, holding the ice cream, licked the cream, then linked arms with him, looking completely nonchalant, and said:
"It's not like I haven't called you Dad before, and of course you've called me Mom. You're my master, my husband, my dad, and I'm your disciple, your wife, your mom. We can call each other whatever we want in private."

Ye Lin rubbed his forehead and started looking around the dormitory area and the school area again.

As one of the three major scholarly forces in the divine realm, the House of Clockwork now has many schools in various parts of the divine realm that cultivate basic abilities after being improved by the hermit Kelton. Among them, the school located in the mist is undoubtedly the core of the core, and only true geniuses can be admitted here.

Chimera will spend some time here in a "university" until she completes all the required courses and achieves excellent grades, after which she will be free again.

That's what the magic contract says, and the Chimera must abide by it.

Although the Rubik's Cube possesses the ability to distort the power of contracts, Chimera, at her current high-level Awakened state, is not strong enough to distort the contract witnessed by two Origin-level powerhouses: the leader of the Clockwork House and Camerin, the guardian of the Netherworld.

If she can really twist the contents of the contract, graduating early is not out of the question.

Just like when he paid Beiana's tuition, Ye Lin felt he had a responsibility as an adult, so he couldn't help but start nagging:
"Chimera, you are a core member, so you can make appropriate requests to the House of Clockwork."

"If you have excellent grades, you can skip class or ask for leave to go out and have fun. Of course, you can't say it like that. You can say you're participating in an academic exchange or a survey in another city."

"The atmosphere at Clockwork House is relatively free and relaxed, not as rigid as Gear Workshop."

“I used a little bit of my connections to put you and Arsa together. You’re next to her in a single room.”

"Although Arsa is younger than you, she is a genius girl who is in no way inferior to you. Do you know the Blue Eagle Pirate Crew? It's now called the Blue Eagle Transport Crew. It's an organization with over a thousand members. She is the chief engineer there. Isn't that amazing?"

"You should get along well with her; she is a very gentle child."

Chimera rolled her eyes. "So talkative. Who's the chatterbox here?"

"Wait, when can I speak?" Chimera suddenly touched her throat, completely forgetting about it.

Ye Lin continued nagging, "Chimera, I know you have a restless personality, and it's a bit difficult to get you to calm down and study, but I still want to remind you to be careful not to mess around with your Rubik's Cube during your studies, and not to do anything bad."

Chimera asked casually, "What if I accidentally do something bad?"

"Then let's not let anyone find out." Ye Lin looked at her, and then the two of them laughed and bumped fists.

(End of this chapter)