I'm Ornn, and I'm about to be beaten to my knees by the Man-eating Horse Girl!

"This is definitely not normal!!"

Qingyun Sky shook her head in refusal. She turned to look at the rest of Dolan's team, only to see that March and Little Chestnut Hat, who had just looked so determined, were now slumped unconscious in their recliners.

She tried to get up and run away, but her hands were held down tightly.

Orn nodded in satisfaction and said, "Well done, Aldan. Thank you for holding them down."

Aldan smiled and said, "Mr. Orn, you don't need to be so polite. It's only right that you let them get some rest."

"Senior Chiaki went a bit too far in the mock competition, but that's just his personality. Oguri and March have been training for six hours already. If we don't force them to rest, their bodies probably won't be able to take it."

Ornn nodded, then grabbed Qingyun Tiankong's knee with one hand and raised his hammer with the other.

Qingyun Tiankong struggled for a moment but couldn't break free. He quickly said, "Tuoreina! Stop! I'm much calmer than Guanghui and the others! I won't continue training! I'll go slack off! I'll go fishing!"

"Hey hey hey, the unstoppable sky, is it break time now?"

Ornn smiled slightly and wagged his finger, saying, "It's time to go to bed."

Before Qingyun Tiankong could react, Ornn swung his hammer and lightly tapped Qingyun Tiankong's knee!

“Gu→Eek↗Ya↘Ah↑Ugh↓Oh————!!!!”

An extremely tingling sensation instantly spread throughout Qingyun Tiankong's body. After a series of violent convulsions, the fisherman fell into a peaceful sleep.

This was the first time the Dolan team had faced such a formidable opponent. Representative Qianming, with her exceptional strength, made them realize the gap between themselves and the current top-tier teams.

The marchers and the girls in the little chestnut hats were the most severely affected. After Orn returned to the playground, they pushed the weight on their shoes to the limit of what they could bear and began tireless training.

Although Qingyun Tiankong didn't say anything, she secretly increased the weight on her shoes, still feeling somewhat resentful.

Of the five, only Aldan remained clear-headed. As someone who had dealt with Chiaki before, she knew the vast difference in their abilities and naturally wouldn't train impulsively.

As for the new radiance... it was simply that Ornn was annoyed by her dejected appearance and found an excuse to teach her a lesson.

Ornn is using the Sleep Hammer Technique now to let them rest properly, and then turn their impulse into motivation to become stronger after they wake up.

After all, he needed to go to the lab the next day to check on the great inventor's condition, and he didn't know if the inventor had come up with anything.

Central Teresen, fourth floor of the experimental building, the wondrous laboratory, the third day of the appointed day.

Alice has been awake for three days straight. Perhaps due to differences in their physical structure, the horse girls can rely on "short naps" to break up their sleep into segments, but when they are awake, they are as energetic as if they had slept for eight hours straight.

Some female horses even prefer to sleep standing up, and their sleep quality might even be better than when they sleep in a bed, which is truly unbelievable.

Based on this unique physiological structure, Elizabeth has further developed an energy drink that can significantly relieve mental fatigue and allow cerebrospinal fluid to be metabolized without the need for sleep intervals.

Not sleeping for just three days had no effect on her health whatsoever.

But on a spiritual level, the impact is probably much greater.

Alice lifted her head from the microscope and carefully removed the stone from under the special frame.

After marking the 121st method in her notebook with an "X," she took off her gloves and slumped weakly against the back of the chair.

"What? Has our brilliant scientist been stopped by this rock?"

Manchester Tea House gently opened the laboratory door, placed the food box she was carrying on the lab table, and slowly walked behind Alice, asking, "Time is running out, you know? Do you have any clues about this stone?"

"A clue..."

Alice looked up at the ceiling, closed her eyes, and shook her head, saying, "No, I have no clue."

"Ha, I'm starting to wonder if this thing came from outer space. It just doesn't look like something from Earth."

"Just like in that movie, people found a black monolith on the moon. The monolith's length, width, and height were in a ratio of 1:4:9. No matter how people measured it or what instruments they used, they could only measure its ratio as 1:4:9, without any error."

“This stone is right there. It has stood in the same place for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years or even longer, as if it were a warning to people.”

She reached for the white stone on the table and murmured, "This stone looks a lot like that black stone tablet, but it's also different."

"If the Black Monument insulted the people of that world with its unrepeatable precision, then this stone insults the entire field of fundamental physics,"

"Perhaps after countless experiments and trials, I will be able to unlock the secrets of this stone, but... not today, and certainly not by me now,"

"At least... with my current knowledge, I can't figure out the cause of this."

"I truly lost this bet, and I accept it wholeheartedly."

After saying this, Alice sadly put the stone back on the table, sighed, and then curled up in her swivel chair.

This was the first time the Manchester tea house had seen Alice so dejected. Her once confident and wildly smiling best friend had disappeared, and she felt a strange sense of loss.

Just as she was about to offer some words of comfort, there was a sudden knock on the laboratory door.

"Ah, there should still be a little over an hour before the three days are completely over, but I still came early,"

Orn gently opened the laboratory door, and the instant he stepped inside, Alice reacted immediately.

The brilliant scientist, who had just been devastated, instantly regained her composure. She pushed her hands against the lab table, and the wheelchair glided rapidly toward Orn.

In the instant she passed by Ornn, Alice reached out like lightning and grabbed Ornn's sleeve.

With bloodshot eyes, she asked excitedly, "You...you've finally come!!"

"Quick! Tell me where this stone came from!? Tell me how it was made!? Tell me now!!"

"If we can't uncover the secret here, Vadashi...!!!"

Orn chuckled and patted Alice's stained lab coat, saying, "Want to learn? I'll teach you."

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Chapter 247 The Strange Doctor That Every Main Character Group Has

Seeing his dear friend instantly regain his composure, the perpetually icy expression on Manchester Tea House finally showed a dramatic change.

She picked up the teacup beside her, wanting to take a sip of coffee to calm her nerves.

But when the liquid in the cup entered their mouths, the Manchester tea house patrons' expressions changed in two stages.

She slightly opened her mouth, her tongue sticking out, as if making a vomiting motion.

Alice had somehow spilled the coffee she had made; it contained saccharine, cloyingly sweet... black tea laced with stimulants?

Calling this tea is giving it too much credit; it's basically just a lump of thick...

Meanwhile, the culprit who caused all this was oblivious to her best friend's thoughts; she was completely absorbed in her research, eager to know the answer.

"Okay, loosen my pants first, and I'll go over to the platform over there and show you, okay?"

Alice quickly let go of his hand, and Orn adjusted his belt before striding over to the lab table where Alice had just been working.

He reached out and picked up the white stone, then turned and asked, "After your research, have you discovered anything?"

"Yes, of course!"

Alice reached out and pressed a button on the armchair, and the chair slowly moved towards Orn, like some kind of electric wheelchair.

"The material used in this stone should still be from Earth. I think it's about 70% calcium carbonate, and about 20% magnesium oxide, silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, and other elements,"

"But what I don't understand is that these things didn't exhibit the true appearance of compounds as they usually do. On the contrary, with the combination of the remaining 10% of unknown elements, they actually produced new changes and took on new forms of appearance,"

"After these components were recombined, not only did the hardness increase dramatically, but the chemical properties also became so stable that it was almost despair-inducing,"

"I've tried hundreds of methods, from soaking it in strong acid to laser cutting, but this stone is like the hardest and most stable substance in the universe; it doesn't react at all!"

At this point, Alice crossed her wide sleeves, her hands seemingly gesturing something, venting the confusion and bewilderment that had accumulated over the past three days.

"Not to mention, this stuff even has some therapeutic effects! My God! Therapeutic!! I can't believe my eyes!!"

"It only made me feel a slight fatigue, yet it emitted a very weak healing effect!! This is truly unbelievable, utterly unbelievable!!"

Orn didn't interrupt the mad scientist in front of him; he simply stood quietly to the side, listening to Alice recount her discoveries.

He nodded from time to time, and even obscure and difficult technical terms didn't seem to hinder his understanding.

Seeing how cooperative the other party was, Alice completely let go of her inhibitions. She became more and more enthusiastic as she spoke, even pulling out a sheet of paper from the side to list her guesses and analyses for Orn.

"...Therefore, I believe that, based on my calculated chaotic macrocosm model, elements capable of composing this kind of matter exist. However, I have tried many methods, including the UHJKIL method and the UUSIO method, but without success. So, I adopted a third method, the Garburua measurement method, which can detect slight energy fluctuations under ultraviolet light..."

'My God, even though we've moved to a different place, I still have to listen to a calculus professor's lecture...'

'Oh no, at least I can understand the symbols in advanced mathematics, but who knows what these self-invented symbols are?!'

Ornn, who had arrived an hour early, was forced to listen to nearly two hours of incomprehensible nonsense. The woman in front of him was engrossed in the story, and he couldn't very well interrupt her, so he could only stand there with an awkward but polite smile.

If Orn didn't also work part-time as a blacksmith, making him stand for two hours, listening to such hypnotic things and having to give positive feedback would have been a nightmare!

At least, looking at Eliseko, who was currently immersed in academic discussion (one-sided), Orn could vaguely see the legendary horse girl who had won four out of four matches, appeared on the Japanese derby field with unparalleled confidence and an aura of dominance.

In the end, it was the Manchester City tea lady, who was rinsing her mouth, washing her teacup, and brewing a fresh cup of coffee, who stepped in to help Ornn out of the predicament. She coughed lightly, interrupting the great inventor's incessant reasoning, and said, "Sukiko, let Ornn's trainer demonstrate first."

"Your inference is ultimately just an inference; it still needs to be tested in practice, doesn't it?"

Alice nodded sheepishly, pushing aside the dozens of sheets of draft paper already covered in formulas, revealing the weathered surface of the lab table.

The brilliant scientist glanced at the time, then said somewhat apologetically, "Ahem, sorry, I was too excited earlier."

She cleared her throat and said in a rather exaggerated manner, "Reverend Master Blacksmith Orn, please set aside past grievances and show this poor scholar your miracles!"

"Of course, I will keep my bet. I will listen to you and treat my legs. But don't worry about that now. Quickly demonstrate how this thing was made!"

Orn stretched his stiff shoulders, took out a hammer from his waist, and explained to Alice, "Alright, I'll demonstrate it then."

"However, let me preface this by saying that there are many things I don't know where they come from. I only know that combining two certain things can produce this, but I don't know the reason why."

"Just you wait and see!"

After saying this, Orn picked up a specially modified furnace from the side and placed the stone on it.

Alice frowned and said, "I've also used a large fire to forge it. This furnace was specially designed by me; its maximum temperature can reach 1800 degrees Celsius, enough to melt most substances in the world."

"But the stone was completely undamaged, and its temperature was hardly affected. When I took the stone out after heating it for two hours, its surface temperature had only risen by less than 100 degrees Celsius!"

Orn shook his head, holding the stone firmly with pliers in one hand, and with the other hand, he picked up a hammer and struck the white stone heavily.

Alice immediately shut her mouth, because she saw that under Orn's hammering, the stone slowly began to deform, eventually separating completely into two stones, one red and one blue!

How is this possible? How is this possible? How is this possible?

Alice's heart was screaming, but she couldn't utter a sound. She could only watch silently as Orn raised his hammer and brought it down, stabilizing the two red and blue hues.

After extinguishing the fire and allowing the stones to cool, Orn, wearing heat-resistant gloves, placed the two stones in front of the great inventor.

"Look, these are the two stones I used to make the Eternal Catalyst Stone. Do you understand now?"

Alice stared blankly at the red and blue gems. She slapped herself, as if to make sure she was still conscious.

After feeling the burning pain on her face, Alice finally realized that a world-changing variable was unfolding before her.

This man must be captured!! Not just him!! But also that hammer and those two stones!!

In a flash, she reached out to pick up the two stones.

But Ornn picked up the stone first, and said with a smile, "Hey, don't rush, do you still remember the terms of the bet?"

Alice missed her target. She awkwardly lay on the lab table, looked up and muttered, "Of course I know. I won't experiment on my legs anymore, so give me those two things now. We can talk about the treatment later!"

"nonono~~"

Ornn shook his finger and turned to ask, "Senior of the Manchester City Tea House, you should still remember the promise that the great inventor Alice made before, right?"

The black-haired horse girl replied, "Yes, what Suko actually said was, 'If I can't find a result, then I'll listen to you and do the treatment.'"

Orn nodded and said, "Yes, so now you should listen to me and go get treatment, shouldn't you?"

Alice was stunned; she had never imagined that a single sentence could be broken down into four or five phrases for explanation.

What a cunning liberal arts student!! Is this even possible??

She was about to retort when Orn didn't give her the chance. The cunning trainer spoke first, saying, "Don't worry, after you promise me you'll go for treatment first, I'll give you a new task."

“It might be too difficult for you to study these two stones right now. I will give you a research topic that is equivalent to a prerequisite course.”

He spread his hands and chuckled, "Of course, you can choose to refuse, but you won't be able to get anything from me to study in the future."

"So, what's your choice?"

Alice narrowed her eyes. The man before her had indeed grasped her weakness. As a scholar, faced with such a completely unfamiliar research environment, she simply couldn't bring herself to refuse.

Was she really going to be so easily manipulated by him? The scientist's inner pride would never allow her to yield so easily.

After a moment of contemplation, Alice straightened up, sat upright in her wheelchair, crossed her right leg, and said, "Hmph... tell me what your new project is first. If I'm not interested, I won't agree to your proposal."