Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 145 High-Tech Alchemy

Li Nanke wandered around the square and got a lot of information from some stall owners.

This information is not a secret to ordinary nightmares, it is common knowledge. However, for Li Nanke, it overturned his understanding of the other side.

There is a column of information in the nightmare panel called "nightmare authority", which is calculated cumulatively based on the number of times the nightmare experiences dreams and the score obtained in each dream.

The authority not only affects the length of Nightmare's stay in the Deep Dream World each time, but also a series of unexpected benefits.

One benefit is that when your authority is raised to a certain level, you can learn the background information of the next dream world in advance.

When Li Nanke learned of the information, he immediately realized that there was something fishy about it.

The only way to enter the next dream is to obtain the forbidden object and enter the related dream world by visualizing the forbidden object.

Before Nightmare finds the next forbidden object, it is impossible to determine whether the next dream will be a science fiction world, a fantasy world, or a mysterious world.

How could the Great Other Shore give the information about the next dream world to Nightmare before confirming the taboo?

This doesn't conform to basic logic at all, unless the other side can predict the future with extreme accuracy.

After a rough inquiry, the news he got shocked Li Nanke.

It turns out that the difference between him and ordinary nightmares is not just the power system of the four major matrices.

Nightmares seem to come from different worlds, where there are no taboos and one does not need to rely on visualization to enter dreams.

Ordinary nightmares have a chance to enter a random dream once every thirty days. If you do not enter the next dream for up to 90 days, the Great Other Side will forcibly pull you in.

Only Li Nanke needs to find forbidden objects to enter the next dream.

I still remember the reminder from the Great Other Shore before entering the Deep Dream World: "Because the world you are in is unique, your identity is different from that of ordinary nightmares."

"The problem is, this is too unique..."

There are tall buildings around the Island Square. Li Nanke left the square and came to the trading house.

The trading house is an official trading place. As soon as you enter, you will see extremely modern facilities and people coming and going.

An NPC-like staff member came up to greet him and explained the transaction details to Li Nanke.

The trading house will evaluate and recommend a price for each item for sale, which is much more reasonable than the recycling price of the Great Other Side. Of course, sellers can also increase the price by themselves, but on each item for sale, the trading house will mark the evaluated price for buyers to browse.

Therefore, there is generally no phenomenon of being cheated or ripped off in trading houses.

"No wonder some people set up stalls in the square. It turns out that there are restrictions on transactions and browsing of goods, and a 10% handling fee is deducted for each transaction."

Most of the items that Li Nanke saw with his authority were mid- to low-end, with few high-end items.

Now he is short of money, and when he occasionally sees those armors and battle suits with strong protective capabilities, he can only ignore them.

Li Nanke took a quick look and put all the extra equipment on the trading floor.

Chainsword, blast rifle, linear laser cannon and power protective armor. The trading house gives different prices according to the quality and score of the weapons and armor. If he sells all the equipment, he can earn more than 660 points, which can be said to be a big return.

"Not only do I have enough money to make alchemical items now, I can even continue to draw prizes."

"I just don't know how much the alchemical items I create are worth. Can I make some money from the alchemist's logistics profession..."

Li Nanke’s nightmare authority is not high now. Although his scores in several dreams are not low, he has experienced fewer dreams. Apart from the trading house, he can only visit the square and the training ground.

The training ground is also a magical product of the Deep Dream World. Nightmares can consume a certain amount of points. In the training ground, you can have safe simulated battles with various monsters, or you can train your extraordinary abilities. There are even various special skill trainings, such as fighting, shooting, attacking, rock climbing, diving, driving, and survival in the wild.

Li Nanke took a quick look around the training ground and decided not to waste points on this place.

The long-term black dream transformation work has made him proficient in these specialized skills far beyond ordinary people, and there is no need to spend points or a short stay in the deep dream for this.

As for the targeted training of extraordinary abilities, or even combat training with extraordinary people, he just happened to have an opportunity in reality to do it for free.

Having just finished a forbidden dream and wandering around in the deep dream world for most of the day, Li Nanke was extremely exhausted and wanted to take a good rest urgently...
-
Li Nanke opened his eyes and saw a small secret room.

He leaned back in his chair, pressing his hands on the transparent glass box. The azure crystals stored in it glowed dimly, as if most of their energy had been consumed.

After many days, I returned to the secret room of the Wistaria family castle, and even my movements and postures were exactly the same as before I fell asleep.

Even though I have experienced this many times, I still can't help but feel like it's a lifetime ago.

After experiencing the dream of "Dolls and Angels", Li Nanke can now feel that the so-called driving crystal is just a special self-element crystal.

He stood up, opened the door of the secret room, and said to the security guard at the aisle: "I'm done. Please ask Miss Minian to come over."

Not long after, the blonde and blue-eyed eldest daughter of the family, Minian, hurried over.

Before she could even open her mouth, she was stunned by Li Nanke's words.

"Ms. Minian, I discovered the hidden properties of the forbidden object."

Minnie Ann was obviously stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted, opened her eyes wide, and asked the man in front of her: "Mr. Li, are you sure?"

She did not feel that there was anything wrong with Li Nanke's behavior of getting on the bus first and buying the ticket later, and taking the salary first and then working.

After all, to put it bluntly, the other party is currently just a low-level transcendent. When faced with a transaction request from the giant family of Wistaria, he has almost no right to actively refuse.

Even if the family regretted their decision and refused to pay Li Nanke after he had done the work, the other party would have no way to resist.

Li Nanke just wanted to ensure that he got the compensation he deserved, so he asked for payment before working. If it were Minian, she would probably choose the same thing if she was in a weak position in the transaction.

But she never expected that just over ten minutes after Li Nanke entered the secret room to "enjoy" the reward, this man said that he was done and even claimed to have discovered the hidden properties of the forbidden object.

"The extraordinary talents of the Wanxiang system are much more powerful than I imagined..."

Soon after Li Nanke joined the company, he cracked two forbidden objects in succession, and recently discovered the hidden characteristics of the "Thorns of Pain".

Now he clearly came here to absorb the pheromones of the forbidden object and ask for his due reward, but in the end he discovered the hidden characteristics of the forbidden object in the reward.

It feels like you pay someone to do a job, you just hand over a few banknotes, the other party takes them, looks at them, and before you even start working, he or she takes out a banknote and gives it back to you.

And they also tell you that this is a rare misprinted banknote, which may be worth thousands of times more than the original banknote.

Li Nanke said calmly: "Since Miss Minian is willing to pay first, then I will naturally return the favor and will not intentionally hide anything from you." "But I don't know whether this hidden feature is valuable to your family..."

The reward is the pheromone that drives the blue crystal, not the blue crystal itself. Li Nanke can't take this thing away, and he has a lot of pheromones in his pocket. He can use the information of hidden characteristics to do Minian a favor.

After all, an existence like the Wistaria family that possesses forbidden objects can be well developed into a long-term meal ticket.

Then, Li Nanke informed the other party that the Self-Element Crystal Stone was the essence of human life.

"…It is precisely because the driving blue crystal contains the essence of human life, human thoughts, emotions, memories and even souls, that those bionic people and machines can awaken a certain self-awareness under the influence of the blue crystal."

"This driving blue crystal contains a lot of essence. If we completely consume the energy in it, the crystal will lose its function."

"However, it is a waste to use the driving blue crystal as a large energy source. Your family can start with the essence and try to dig out the technology and information with higher value."

"I suggest that we allow the spiritual supernatural beings to touch and drive the blue crystal to see if we can make use of the essence in it..."

As an assistant researcher, Li Nanke is a newcomer, but he has a good memory, learns quickly, and works hard in this area. At this time, he can talk about taboos very well.

Even after he finished speaking, Minnian was still immersed in his words, and it took her a while to come back to her senses.

"So that's how it is. There is actually such a big secret hidden in the driving blue crystal, and our family's research team has never discovered it..."

"Mr. Li, thank you so much."

"Nothing." Li Nanke said nonchalantly, "I'm a little tired from absorbing pheromones and researching the driving blue crystal just now. I need to rest for a few days. Is it okay to postpone the research on the twin taboos for a while?"

"No problem at all."

Minnian noticed that the man in front of her looked tired. He had only been in the secret room for more than ten minutes, but he looked as if he had been fighting hard for more than ten days.

It seems that using the extraordinary abilities of the Universal System to crack forbidden objects is indeed very energy-consuming.

Minian ordered the maid to prepare the room and the dinner, apparently wanting Li Nanke to rest in the castle and treat him well. But now Li Nanke just wanted to go home and have a good sleep, so he politely declined the other party's kindness.

Outside the castle, the drizzle seemed like it would never stop.

Li Nanke rode his beloved little motorcycle, rushed home at lightning speed, and fell asleep on the bed in the bedroom.

I slept soundly, just like a vehicle that has been running overloaded for a long time and finally got a rest for maintenance, but broke down as soon as the engine was turned off.

Li Nanke slept for a whole day and night, and only woke up at noon the next day.

Feeling refreshed, he stretched himself, his joints crackling, and he felt like he was finally resurrected with full health and good condition.

He asked the bionic chef to prepare a sumptuous lunch. After enjoying the meal, he drove to the research department of the Control Bureau.

Director Frank's research team is currently on a long vacation, and there is no one else on the entire research floor except the security personnel on duty.

Li Nanke swiped his card to enter the laboratory and began to fiddle with a bunch of experimental equipment and a series of high-tech equipment.

He didn't come here to work overtime voluntarily, but used the company bus for personal purposes to create alchemical items belonging to the science of another world in his experiment.

Use the 'magnetic storm' feature to block the cameras in several corners.

As Li Nanke stretched out his hand, a silver-white glove appeared on his palm, with blue silk threads interweaving and rippling. He stretched out his hand and pulled, and the puppet boy strode out from the summoning space.

"Pinocchio, this is my first time making an alchemical item. You have Carlo's alchemical knowledge, so please stay by my side and help me keep an eye on it. If anything goes wrong, please remind me."

"Okay, boss."

Pinocchio looked around the high-tech laboratory in front of him.

He had never seen most of the strange instruments and equipment. There were only some small objects such as beakers, measuring cylinders, and separatory funnels in the corner cabinet. Although their shapes were slightly different from those in his world, his function could be seen at a glance.

Li Nanke flipped his wrist, and alchemical materials such as precious gold powder, dragon blood stone, dark obsidian, griffin feathers, silver bell wood, etc. were lined up on the table.

The first step in alchemy is material processing.

The precious gold powder exchanged from the other side is of excellent quality, but the particles are a bit large.

According to existing alchemical knowledge, the finer the particles of common alchemical materials such as precious gold powder, the better.

Li Nanke looked at a device in the laboratory and said to Pinocchio, "This is a nano-scale vacuum grinder. It can grind materials into uniform particles as small as 1 nanometer."

Seeing that Pinocchio was a little confused, he made a gesture that Stick hated the most: "Well... look here, this is one millimeter in size, and one millimeter is equal to one million nanometers."

"One million... Is this machine so powerful?!"

Pinocchio's eyes widened in disbelief.

This inconspicuous machine in front of us can actually grind objects into tiny particles that are beyond our cognition.

This machine alone can increase the probability of achieving the final product by several percentage points... This is simply a miracle that alchemists dare not even imagine!
If this machine appeared on the Alchemy Island or in the Alchemy Workshop Tower, all alchemists would fight tooth and nail for this "Nano-level Vacuum Grinder".

Li Nanke poured the precious gold powder into the machine with a wave of his hand. The machine started to grind the precious gold powder with a buzzing sound.

"Dragon Blood Stone needs to be processed into uniformly sized squares without the slightest deviation. The greater the deviation, the higher the probability of failure in the final refining... The CNC high-frequency vibration cutting machine can do this perfectly."

"Griffin feathers are meant to be engraved with more than thirty alchemical symbols. If your hand shakes, the feathers will be ruined... Well, it can be operated by a laser engraving machine."

"For Snow Pattern Refined Iron, all impurities must be removed. This can be achieved using an ultra-high temperature vacuum melting furnace, ensuring that the material is extremely pure..."

Pinocchio opened his mouth wide, feeling that the scene in front of him was too magical.

Every time Li Nanke explains the effect of using a machine, the puppet boy's cognition is overturned.

By the end, Pinocchio was a little numb.

Because these unheard-of machines... no, these unseen artifacts, to alchemists, are all treasures that are no less valuable than the alchemical cube.

Using these magical machines to assist in refining can dramatically increase the success rate of refining, which is no different from cheating.

"The world the boss lives in is so amazing!"

“Could it be that the alchemy here has far surpassed the comprehension of mortals and reached the realm of star gods?”

(End of this chapter)