“Well... all in all,”

Li Ang muttered to himself, rubbing his chin, “the final ending should be a happy ending, right? The loop is broken, everyone is still alive, and I can be considered to have retired successfully.

But that world's tech tree is really specialized.

They can create mechanical dolls that are indistinguishable from real people,

but their medical research has only just started on alkylating agents...”

“What are you mumbling about?”

Chai Da Xiaojie emerged from the floor, floating in the air and looking down at Li Ang, “Is the mission complete? Why don't I feel anything?”

Li Ang casually said, “Same as before, solo play.”

“Eh? What's the plot?”

Li Ang thought for a moment and summarized, “A man locks himself in the basement, wears rubber clothes, and self-imprisons and tortures himself for 15,000 hours, eventually finding redemption.”

“...Okay then.”

Chai Da Xiaojie hesitated and nodded, her eyes a little strange, “Give me the Qing E armor, I'm going to play games.”

She took the armor Li Ang threw to her, climbed into it, hopped back to the living room, jumped onto the sofa, put on her headphones,

raised her arm with great momentum, index finger pointing to the sky,

and then slammed her arm down, her finger slamming on the pause button of the game console,

accompanied by the exciting music of "gamestart!", she began a new round of fighting.

Li Ang shook his head, walked into the alchemy workshop, jumped into the breeding tank, and began to summarize the gains from the script.

This mission lasted less than two hours, but the reward points and experience points were still added as usual.

“1000 experience points, 1500 game coins, no reward coefficient bonus.”

Li Ang calculated, “That's much higher than I expected. Is this the world after Lv15?

At this rate, I'll be able to reach Lv20 after just two or three more normal missions.”

He muttered, and took out the [Alchemist's Travel Diary].

Reward points are secondary, the most important thing is this book.

After completing the mission, the description of the book changed.

[Alchemist's Travel Diary]

[Attribute: Special consumable, disappears after one use]

[Type: Book]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Effect: After use, translates and transmits the contents of the book into the user's brain.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooldown: None]

[Usage conditions: Intelligence attribute greater than or equal to 12 points, sanity value greater than or equal to 500 points]

[Note: Morgan Anderson, academician of the Amestris Royal Academy of Sciences, traveled to different continents as a traveler in his youth to conduct field research. This book is his experience and心得(xin de, insights) written during his travels while studying alchemy in other regions]

[Note: Morgan, Morgan! How can you be so depraved! Have you forgotten the research plan you set earlier? Stop indulging in the extravagant and decadent balls of the Ross Principality's upper class!]

[Note: Ehe, the little hands of the Ross Principality's noble ladies are so fragrant and soft~]

"...I didn't expect you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to have been wild when you were young."

Li Ang squinted his eyes and complained, then directly used the diary.

Before entering the mission, he added the two extra attribute points brought by the upgrade to intelligence, and his sanity value had exceeded 500, meeting the usage conditions.

The heavy book in his hand disappeared instantly,

A massive amount of information poured into Li Ang's brain, making his eyes go white and his head involuntarily tilt back.

“Well... is this the feeling of memory transmission...”

Li Ang rubbed his temples and said in a low voice, “Compared to the systems in online novels that provide meticulous support to the protagonists, this Killing Field game is simply brutally cruel, like a heartless stepmother in a tearjerker...”

Fortunately, his physical fitness far exceeds that of ordinary people,

If a player with a weaker physique were to experience such a memory shock, they would probably be dizzy and have a nosebleed on the spot.

Alchemy is an extremely mysterious and complex subject, involving chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy, astrology and other fields. It is difficult to give an accurate definition.

In Morgan Anderson's world, different regions have developed their own unique alchemies.

The basis of Amestris alchemy is the circle. They regard the circle as a cycle of power.

Alchemists can draw transmutation circles based on circles on the ground, use the power flowing in their bodies to communicate with the earth, resonate with the earth, and thus extract matter from the soil and transform it into the desired object—

The soil contains substances such as oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, titanium, potassium, phosphorus, and sulfur, making it a very suitable transmutation platform.

“The essence of alchemy is to understand, analyze, decompose, and recombine matter. The different geometric shapes in the circular transmutation circle are the constituent formulas of the target object. Only by writing the correct transmutation formula can you refine the desired object.”

Li Ang murmured, “Advanced alchemists can even achieve circle-less transmutation based on their understanding of matter,

However, the more complex the target object, the more complex its constituent formula and the more 'power' it consumes.

It's okay to refine a simple bicycle from the soil,

but to refine a tank, even an early tank,

the difficulty increases almost geometrically...”

He rubbed his chin and眯(mi, squinted) his eyes, saying, “The energy mentioned in alchemy should be similar to the player's psionic power, right? Why don't I try it first?”

Li Ang stood up from the ground, went back to his room to get a chalk, and returned to the breeding tank again.

Following the records in the travel diary, he used chalk to draw the simplest transmutation circle recorded in the diary on the soil.

“The pattern on the transmutation circle, or rather the transmutation formula,

is actually a kind of auxiliary means adopted by alchemists because of insufficient brain computing power.

It allows natural energy to flow naturally along the transmutation formula, without the need for oneself to painstakingly guide it.”

Li Ang said as he drew, “In other words, as long as the spirit is abundant, the control precision is high enough, and the understanding of the transmutation formula is deep enough,

one can completely rely on the brain's computing power to draw the transmutation circle in the mind and achieve circle-less transmutation....”

Thanks to his extremely high attribute values and body control ability, the transmutation circle drawn by Li Ang freehand was as precise and beautiful as if he had borrowed a compass and ruler.

After finishing the last stroke, he pressed his hands on the back of the transmutation circle, closed his eyes, held his breath, and concentrated, slowly sinking his psionic power deep into the soil as recorded in the diary...

Ci la— (onomatopoeia for crackling sound)

Subtle electric light flashed around the transmutation circle drawn with chalk, illuminating Li Ang's face.

When Li Ang opened his eyes again, there appeared in the middle of the transmutation circle....

a smooth, gem-like heart-shaped stone?

Li Ang picked up the stone with a懵比(meng bi, stupefied) look, and hurriedly searched his brain to find the relevant memory of this transmutation circle.

“This heart, I accidentally picked it up in a place, a natural stone heart, how much wind and sand and water erosion did it take to become this shape. I hope our love, like this heart, is strong and can withstand all tests.”

Li Ang read the private letter Morgan Anderson wrote to a certain noble lady of the Ross Principality, and then looked at the heart-shaped stone transmutation circle that had been repeatedly used and improved several times in the book memory, and couldn't help but感慨(gan kai, sigh),

All scumbags are generally the same.