The Exchange Game Starting with Lu Mingfei

Chapter 119 Matching Ambition

Huo Yuhao was unable to find an answer.

However, he did consider going to the BJ subway again.

Perhaps the Nibelungen was simply closed down, and not destroyed?

"Lu Mingfei?"

A male voice with a strange accent rang out near Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao looked up and surveyed his surroundings, only to find that the person who had called him was Qi Lan.

He was the same student who invited Lu Mingfei to join the freshman social club and become its leader during his entrance exam.

Huo Yuhao stood up and smiled at Qi Lan: "Hello."

It's already the second semester of my sophomore year, and I wonder how the freshman social event organized by Qi Lan is going.

Lu Mingfei had no impression of him; it seemed that he had no contact with this classmate since the entrance exam.

Therefore, when Huo Yuhao suddenly saw Qi Lan, he felt that he was a complete stranger.

"Are you reading books related to alchemy?" Qi Lan's gaze fell on the "Jade Record" in Huo Yuhao's hand. "I heard that you single-handedly held off the White King in Japan, which allowed the space-based kinetic energy weapon to successfully land on the White King's head and kill it completely."

This handsome young Indian man, who looked like a Bollywood movie star, had his large, clear eyes filled with admiration and excitement. He repeated the words he had spoken when he first met Lu Mingfei: "Could you sign your autograph for me?"

Huo Yuhao politely declined with a smile.

Although this classmate was very polite, and was the only person in Lu Mingfei's life who was of equal status but always used a respectful title towards him, Huo Yuhao did not intend to grant his request again as Lu Mingfei.

"Successfully killing the White King wasn't all my doing. I only made a tiny, insignificant contribution, so I'll leave the signature out."

Aside from signing exam papers and various notices, Lu Mingfei's only crooked personal signature was given to Qi Lan.

In this world where strange and mysterious incantations and alchemy might appear out of nowhere, Huo Yuhao felt it was best to be cautious.

Although Lu Mingfei has already signed at least several hundred names.

Qi Lan's face showed extremely obvious disappointment.

He lowered his eyes, remained silent for a few seconds, and then said, "The student council president is graduating soon. Will you be taking over?"

"Won't."

Qi Lan hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

He seemed to have many questions he wanted answered, but after seeing Huo Yuhao's indifferent gaze, he swallowed them all.

"Excuse me, I wish you all the best." His gaze swept over the *Jade Record*, and he left with a polite smile.

Huo Yuhao did not stare at Qi Lan's back for long.

Although the other person was born in a poor neighborhood, had an alcoholic and abusive father, a weak and helpless mother, and a pitiful grandmother who died young, he was surprisingly ambitious.

What was his purpose in establishing the freshman fraternity?

Oh, to break the Lionheart Club and the Student Council's recruitment of freshmen, to form clubs belonging to freshmen, and to try to bring a fresh atmosphere to the school.

He wanted to break the duopoly between the Lionheart Society and the Student Union!

He wants to replicate Caesar's success!

Looking at the other person's seemingly strong but unsteady figure, Huo Yuhao suddenly wondered if the freshman social club had already disbanded.

To break the status quo, you need sufficient strength.

If one lacks the strength to match their ambitions, they can only exit the stage in disgrace.

Huo Yuhao looked at Qi Lan's retreating figure and reflected: Do I have the strength to match my ambition?

Huo Yuhao thought of Caesar again.

Caesar is certainly very capable. In just one or two years, he led a new club to rival the Lionheart Society, which had existed since the school's founding.

But he's rich, powerful, and has connections!

"Money power?" Huo Yuhao stroked his chin and sat back down.

He plans to replicate the successful domestic model on the Douluo Continent, so that the people of Douluo Continent can also live a peaceful and stable life where they can have enough to eat and wear.

Therefore, force alone is not enough.

He needs to know how to make money; he needs to enable Soul Masters to fully utilize their initiative, so that they are no longer just destabilizing factors in society, but essential to building a harmonious society.

Producers.

What exactly is a Soul Master?

A combination of a ninja and a Celestial Dragon?

They weren't as miserable as ninjas, nor did they lose their humanity like the Celestial Dragons.

Huo Yuhao couldn't figure it out for a while, so he only thought about it for about ten minutes before starting to read again.

Only by acquiring knowledge can he gain a broader perspective.

And most importantly, he has to clear this world first.

At 10 a.m., Huo Yuhao arrived at the entrance of the clock tower's attic once again.

The breakfast he left at the door in the morning was untouched, indicating that the person in the attic had not opened the door.

But it was already this late, and Huo Yuhao didn't plan to wait any longer.

He knocked politely, but the knocking was a little too loud.

"Hoo-ha~"

The room was still filled with the sound of snoring.

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"Vice Principal, I'm here to learn," Huo Yuhao had no choice but to call out.

"Hoo-ha~"

Huo Yuhao was speechless.

He can't possibly call the principal again over such a small matter, can he?

Doesn't the vice principal have to give lectures? It's this late and he's still fast asleep!

Huo Yuhao knocked on the door again and called for help.

There was still no movement from inside the door.

So he took a few deep breaths, sat down right by the door, and continued reading.

Since the teacher wasn't awake and he couldn't wake him up, and he couldn't just break down the door, he had no choice but to find something to do himself.

He finished reading "The Jade Record," but he couldn't understand its deeper meaning.

However, this book, "Alchemy: From Beginner to End," is relatively easy to understand.

"The essence of alchemy is equivalent exchange. This is not a simple material replacement, but a concrete expression of the universal law of conservation that connects the micro and macro, matter and spirit in the phenomenal world."

"Its mathematical prototype can be traced back to the Hermetic axiom of identity between superiors and inferiors": For every loss, there must be a gain;

Every change in form comes at a price.

"This principle is manifested in alchemical practice as a triple balance: conservation of mass, energy mapping, and causal symmetry."

Huo Yuhao pondered: Conservation of quality?

This theory seems to differ from the theory of soul tools; he has hardly ever seen a soul tool that follows the principle of conservation of mass.

Could it be that he only knew how to use soul tools but not why?

It seems that he didn't really think carefully about why the magic circle was drawn that way when he was studying.

Because of the innate advantages of his martial soul, he can quickly memorize the contents of the magic array and easily copy it. However, as for the improvement or creation of soul tools, he is still young and his teachers have no requirements for him.

Therefore, he has almost never created a soul tool from scratch on his own.

"I'm not as good as Teacher Xuan," Huo Yuhao thought to himself.

After a moment of reflection, Huo Yuhao blinked.

He felt he should relearn physics and chemistry.

It's not just about theoretical learning from textbooks, but about doing experiments yourself to verify what you've learned.

Huo Yuhao gathered his thoughts, quickly finished reading the book in his hand, and took out his phone to check the time: 13:27.

It's already afternoon.

The snoring from inside the door quieted down considerably.

Huo Yuhao got up, packed up the breakfast at the door, and then respectfully said to the vice principal who was still sleeping inside, "Vice Principal, I'm going to have lunch now. I'll bring your lunch over in about half an hour."

After saying that, Huo Yuhao waited for three minutes but received no reply, so he went to eat.

He could certainly call the cafeteria directly to have food delivered, but considering Lu Mingfei's precarious wallet, it was better not to be so extravagant.

Huo Yuhao had also experienced poverty, and he fully understood the heartache Lu Mingfei felt after being ripped off by Fingel for a lavish meal on his first day in Kassel.

Of course, Huo Yuhao knew very well that his time was precious and should not be wasted on things like eating, drinking, and relieving himself.

But aren't humans the kind of species that wastes their lives on such trivial matters?

Huo Yuhao finished his Western-style light meal in a good mood.

For Huo Yuhao right now, hamburgers, fried chicken, and pizza are still a bit novel, and he hasn't gotten tired of them yet.

However, Huo Yuhao chose a wider variety of meals for the vice principal.

There were hamburgers, fried chicken, braised pork knuckle, and roast goose, enough for the vice principal to eat. Considering that he smelled alcohol outside the door, Huo Yuhao also brought a bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) for the vice principal.

When he stood at the door and knocked again, the vice principal's slightly hoarse and lazy voice came through indistinctly:

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"Come in, the door's unlocked."

The attic door was indeed unlocked, so Angers would always push it open without any hesitation.

Huo Yuhao opened the door and looked at the room, which was filled with all sorts of useful and useless things, and found that he had nowhere to stand.

With a smile, he said to the vice principal, who was brushing his teeth with baijiu (Chinese liquor), "Vice Principal, would you like me to help you clean up?"

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With white toothpaste foam escaping his lips, the vice principal glanced blankly at Huo Yuhao and said, "Do as you please, but you can't just throw my things around."

Huo Yuhao nodded, first cleaning the only table in the room and placing lunch on it: "Would you like to eat after you wash up? Leave the trash on the table, I'll clean it up later."

The vice principal took a swig of wine, gargled, spat it into the sink, then quickly washed his face before sitting down at the table to eat.

Huo Yuhao began cleaning up the trash on the ground without changing his expression. He wasn't sure which items were useful and which were not, but it was always right to clean up the kitchen waste first.

As for the magazines, CDs, and newspapers scattered on the ground, he picked them up and put them in an empty wine box instead of placing them directly on the bookshelf.

Finally, there were the vice principal's dirty clothes and some other things whose purpose he didn't understand. He threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine to wash them, and tried to avoid touching the unfamiliar things.

He wasn't sure if the vice principal had set up any formations in the room, so he decided not to touch anything he didn't recognize to avoid causing trouble.

Huo Yuhao had almost finished tidying up, and had even mopped the floor twice. Finally, the vice principal leisurely finished his meal.

The vice principal leaned back in his chair, glanced at the sofa with its cleaning cover removed, and said with a hint of teasing, "Mingfei, I didn't expect you to be so perceptive."

Lu Mingfei couldn't possibly be that good at housework. Although he did a lot of chores at his uncle's house, most of the time, his aunt, who usually only scolded him and didn't give him a good look, wouldn't let him do too much work.

Even washing dishes is something Lu Mingfei doesn't do often.

Perhaps this is related to the fact that his aunt is a housewife. Although she would ask Lu Mingfei to run errands, she would not ask him to cook or do laundry.

Of course, she would have Lu Mingfei wash the dishes occasionally and sweep and mop the floor frequently.

Huo Yuhao still had a faint smile on his face: "I'm used to cleaning."

Indeed, during the time Wang Dong and I lived in the dormitory at Shrek Academy, he was the one who did most of the cleaning.

He never imagined that Wang Dong would be Wang Dong'er, nor did he ever imagine that Wang Dong'er would not be Wang Dong'er.

The vice principal noticed the disappointment in Huo Yuhao's expression, but did not ask any further questions.

He stretched, and without caring that the sofa didn't have a cover, he lay down on it, turned on the extremely old-fashioned television, and started watching an old movie.

Huo Yuhao quickly tidied up the desk. Seeing that the vice principal had no intention of giving a lecture, he picked up a book and started reading after finishing cleaning the entire room.

After listening to a very explicit old movie, Huo Yuhao carefully studied its contents but found no hidden meanings. He then decisively cut off and discarded the memory.

The vice principal glanced at Lu Mingfei with a speechless expression.

This kid isn't as fun as he used to be.

Even when the school board came to cause trouble last year, he could still find something interesting about the child.

Now, he seems to be just a tool.

It's become almost like Angers.

"This book is just a gimmick. Go get the seventh book on the third row of my bookshelf; that one is more suitable for you right now."

Upon hearing the vice principal's words, Huo Yuhao put down his book without hesitation and found a book titled "Analysis of the Basic Principles of Alchemy" on the bookshelf on the wall.

The author of this book is Flamel.

He has only a surname, but no given name.

Huo Yuhao knew the surname Flamel, which was synonymous with the highest achievement in alchemy.

Legend has it that Nicolas Flamel forged the Philosopher's Stone through the Book of Abraham, gaining immortality and wealth.

Huo Yuhao knew about the Philosopher's Stone in this world, which was a pure fifth spiritual element extracted from the corpses of dragons.

Those are weapons used to slay dragons.

Huo Yuhao believed that after slaying the dragon, one could use the dragon race to gain wealth and extend one's lifespan.

But immortality?

They'll still die, won't they?

Although Nicolas Flamel in Harry Potter possessed the Philosopher's Stone and could live for over six hundred years, in the end, perhaps the Philosopher's Stone's energy ran out? Or perhaps because the Philosopher's Stone could only grant immortality, not agelessness, he grew tired of his aging self.

He chose to give up the Philosopher's Stone, and also to give up immortality.

Compared to that, becoming a god seems better.

Because God is immortal.

Huo Yuhao recalled his ambition to become God.

But he hasn't read the Bible. Perhaps he needs to read it to know what other characteristics God has besides creating the world and being omniscient and omnipotent.

I need to find out more about it.

Of course, his current task is to read books.

This book by Flamel might be the key to him truly entering the world of alchemy.