Chapter 1724: 576. The Flywheel Consortium’s office in Transylvania has been established! – Extra update [18/30]_3
Seeing Sulk Flywheel pulling out an enormous coil gun in a fit of rage, Murphy immediately waved his hand and said:
“Don’t worry, how could I, a Governor of Transylvania, stoop so low as to concern myself with the petty grievances and disastrous love stories of a bunch of Half-body Men? Still, I advise you to stay strong.
Besides, you’ve already formed your own engineering faction, so why not take it a step further? Establish a consortium to operate technology products?
We’ll call it the Flywheel Consortium!
I can invest with this batch of Burning Gold, and you just need to give me half of the proceeds you finally earn.”
“You’re dreaming! At most one-fifth.”
Old Flywheel almost jumped up from where he was standing, cursing greedily, but Murphy nodded without any mental burden and said:
“One-fifth it is. I’m very satisfied with this distribution ratio. Besides, don’t rush, there’s something else I need to discuss with you about the origin of the Burning Gold.”
Murphy squinted his eyes and said:
“You’ve been researching Burning Gold for so long, haven’t you had any doubts about this strange all-purpose mineral? My personal Spiritual Overlord told me that she suspects the birth of Burning Gold is related to the release of Subspace Power.”
“Pfft, we’ve known that for ages.”
Sulk Flywheel scoffed at this, saying:
“When my mentor Old Bach developed the first generation of Calculating Pearl, he had already confirmed that the Burning Gold Mine was related to Subspace. He believed that the birth of Burning Gold was consistent with the ‘Spiritual Energy Corrosion’ phenomenon currently present everywhere in the world, a product formed after Subspace permeated into the material world.
Otherwise, it cannot be understood why, after adding the Burning Gold medium, the previously lackluster computing system of the Calculating Pearl would be transformed instantly.
This defies the laws of physics!
The only reasonable explanation is that the energy released when Burning Gold is used is a kind of ‘Idealist Energy,’ similar to the composition of Spiritual Energy.
Look, Psychics can convert free, non-attributive Spiritual Energy into fire or ice according to some ridiculous spell formula. Do you think this state and energy transformation are reasonable?
It’s not reasonable!
Right.
But that’s the nature of Spiritual Energy.
It doesn’t rely on solid scientific principles to work, but instead relies more on the user’s mind and skill. This is also the nature of Subspace Energy, which will change into various harmful things based on those Fallen’s thoughts.
You want them to do something, they can do it.
So in the eyes of fools, Burning Gold is ‘all-powerful.’ Of course, the specific process of effect is much more complex, even Idealist Spiritual Energy has its own method of effect, which is the significance of the existence of spiritual energy incantations and mana models.
But this means of use is essentially a kind of ‘ritual,’ do you get what I mean?
They aren’t wielding power, they’re invoking power, no different from some weird Divine Arts, but engineering is different! The world might deceive you, women might deceive you, but math and physics won’t!
Math simply won’t let you down!
Once you learn how to craft a high-energy coil gun with your own hands, then regardless of the environment, as long as you have the materials, you can complete the manufacturing!
That’s the significance of engineering.
It’s a universal form of knowledge that can be learned, replicated, discussed, and improved. Only such widely disseminable knowledge constitutes true power!
Hmm, look at me, I’m in quite the talkative mood today, but why am I discussing these truths with a damned vampire idiot?
After all, your very existence is based on the bizarre night Spiritual Energy, you also fall under the category of ‘unscientific,’ you can’t deny it yourself.”
Old Flywheel snorted, extended his hand, and aimed the coil gun at Murphy. Amidst the dangerous sound of energy concentrating, he yelled:
“Stop using that weird spell that’s interfering with my mind! Otherwise, I’ll send you soaring with this big gun! Vampire, this is a ray gun modeled after sunlight, one shot can turn you to ashes.
I call it ‘The Foolish and Arrogant Vampire Lord’s Slayer’!”
“Alright, alright, you really are a sharp and irritable little guy.”
Murphy raised his hands and said:
“But this is what I’m here to discuss with you, Flywheel. I don’t know how much you know about the creator’s relic, but I can be sure that there existed a super civilization before this Era started.
Currently, the Sanghai Empire is merely the shadow of that super civilization, and I can be certain that the civilization left a considerable relic somewhere in the Dark Mountain Range. Considering it was likely destroyed by a massive release of Subspace Power, considering the entire Dark Mountain Range is a Land of Death molded by that Subspace Disaster.
So, I believe somewhere beneath the Dark Mountain Range lies an undiscovered super Burning Gold Mine!
Just like the process of the Burngold Veins beneath the Crimson Castle, what I mean is, if you are really planning to form a consortium to challenge the Brass Dwarves’ monopoly on Burning Gold, perhaps we can truly begin to collaborate.
Look!
This is the big business I wanted to discuss with you. The problem now is that I don’t have the instrument to track the Burning Gold Mine, so…”
“Logically, it seems to make sense.”
Sulk Flywheel thought carefully for a moment and said:
“But the Black Disaster is coming, the civilization’s camp won’t have much energy to explore the Dark Mountain Range for a few years thereafter, and in fact, they have failed in their explorations over the past few hundred years.”
“That’s precisely because no one pays attention, making it our only opportunity. Once the dwarves get ahead, the knowledge monopoly behavior you disdain will continue.”
Murphy said:
“I need some sufficiently powerful partners to find that Burning Gold Mine… Alright, to be more honest, I don’t care about any Burning Gold Mine, I just want to find the last relic of the Golden Age in the Dark Mountain Range.
Want to cooperate?
Flywheel, you will get immensely rich because of it, Transylvania will rise because of it, and we will both get what we want.”
The laboratory fell silent.
After several tens of seconds of contemplation, the wild warlord moved his slender fingers and said:
“Give me some time, I can contact some ‘old friends’ to get you the prospecting instrument you need, and I can also find some people from the Explorer’s Association to help. That bunch is so zealously engaged in the pursuit of the creator’s relics that they’d willingly be our tools.”
“Hmm, the use of the word ‘we’ is quite nice, I like it a lot.”
Murphy laughed heartily and extended his hand to Sulk Flywheel, saying:
“So, salute to you, big boss of the Flywheel Consortium.”
“You shouldn’t have become a vampire, Murphy, really. My dear Handsome Murphy, have you considered becoming a Warlock? Your eloquence could surely make you famous in this line of work. Want to change careers? I know some people, selling you this opportunity cheaply is not out of the question.”