It didn’t take long before the City Guard brought over a brand-new wine barrel.
Louis directly drew his sword, stabbed a hole in the barrel, and found so cotton to twist into a simple fuse.
He also found so flour in the warehouse that hadn’t been directly burned in the explosion.
Louis poured the flour into the wine barrel, grabbed it with both hands and a tail, and shook it hard.
Olivia was sowhat puzzled.
She didn’t know what Louis intended to do.
Louis looked at her and said:
"Do you know fire magic?"
She took a glance and understood that Louis wanted to set the wooden barrel on fire.
So Olivia put her hands on her hips:
"How dare you underestimate the future world’s top mage?"
"Okay, use fire magic to light the fuse... Oh crap, Li Zai Gan God-Demon?"
Louis was dumbfounded as he watched the little swan directly toss a fireball at the barrel.
Without a word, he rushed forward, grabbed Olivia by the waist, and ran.
As he ran, he shouted to the Royal Guard:
"Get down, get down, don’t get caught in the crossfire."
Olivia widened her eyes, looking at Louis who was running while holding her, shouting loudly:
"It’s dangerous, isn’t it just..."
In the next mont, the barrel that Louis had shaken suddenly exploded with a bang.
William, who had been prepared for defense, trusted Louis.
As soon as Louis shouted, he raised his shield, and a wall of azure flas erged.
The fiercely burning flas accompanied the explosion and directly collided with the invisible barrier William had set up.
William took one step forward.
The invisible wall instantaneously collapsed, forcibly extinguishing the burning flas.
The little swan’s tuft of hair bounced up and down, and after Louis set her down, she jumped up:
"Did you see that? Even with a weakened fireball, I can create an explosive effect... Ow!"
Louis imdiately gave the little swan two knocks on the head:
"I told you to light the fuse, not to blow up the barrel!"
"Also, this is called a dust explosion, and it doesn’t have much to do with your fireball!"
Louis grabbed a handful of flour from a bag, and it floated down through his fingers, scattered by the wind.
Olivia pouted.
Did she not already know?
At the mont of the explosion, she realized that Louis had solved the mystery of the warehouse explosion.
Because she knew she hadn’t used the third-tier magic Fireball Technique, known as the "low-circle magic cannon."
But rather the second-tier magic [Lesser Fire Orb], which has lower damage and a smaller range in spell casting.
Olivia would be mad to throw a Fireball Technique in her own "house."
If it caught fire, she’d still have to pay for it, wouldn’t she?
This spell has so piercing and high-temperature damage, but undoubtedly, it wouldn’t cause such an explosion.
She looked at Louis with so bewildernt and confusion.
"Why does a barrel with flour explode?"
Louis felt as if he saw a question mark hanging over the little swan’s forehead.
He smiled and said:
"This is a secret discovered by the elders from the village I used to live in."
Louis grabbed a handful of flour, and it drifted down through his fingers, scattered by the wind.
"Combustible dust in a confined space forms a dust cloud with the air."
"If soone lights a fire in such an environnt, the mixture of dust and air will rapidly burn and cause a small-scale explosion."
"Dust from tals, wood shavings, sugar, wheat flour, tea leaf powder, such things, can all cause dust explosions."
"William, ask your patrolling brothers if they’ve been smoking in private."
William said, "No need to ask, he does smoke often."
Louis nodded, then continued:
"I will inform Beatrice afterward, and ensure that no fire sources are brought into such sealed environnts."
He could guess that it was likely that personal guard’s smoking habit kicking in.
But not wanting to smoke publicly, he sneaked one or two puffs during an inspection.
The result was unexpected; this autumn was rather dry.
Even the dust was more flammable.
That puff almost took his soul away.
Seeing everyone looking completely puzzled, Louis said nothing more.
He recalled his high school physics teacher.
Using a Tesla coil to summon lightning."
Fearless of nail-pierced balloons.
Chopsticks and straws, which can pierce into potatoes.
Knocking a wooden stick inserted into an apple, whether the apple goes up or down.
Outdoor demonstrations of how harmful dust explosions can be.
Thanks to that innovative teacher who instilled in Louis a lot of love for physics.
—And then reality told him that physics didn’t love him back.
Ahem.
Looking back now, that really was a morable past.
So, in the end, Louis grumblingly chose to study liberal arts.
Many incredible things are often just because what you learn is insufficient to explain them.
Only Olivia looked at Louis with so suspicion.
—This guy has beco smart now?
Olivia looked at the Royal Guard, not understanding the whole situation but having a hint more admiration in their expressions.
Sotis, to win people over doesn’t require money or force.
As long as you know a lot, and can convert that knowledge into tangible value, it’s enough.
She felt slightly frustrated.
No, what’s going on with this country?
You weren’t like this before,!
Why do you now enjoy solving problems with your wits?!
Wait!
Olivia’s gaze sharpened.
If Louis originally knew about dust explosions, why was this case unresolved in the past?
Could it be this country... was hiding its knowledge?!
The little swan was furious.
Fine, you nation, you have the ability but pretended to be useless?
As she was filled with righteous indignation, suddenly another thought flashed through her mind.
"No, no, did I miss sothing?"
After carefully thinking it through, Olivia couldn’t figure out what she might’ve missed.
Suddenly, seeing Louis, she quietly turned her gaze away.
A lightning bolt struck through her mind.
"Ah, I understand now!"
"It’s not that the nation got smarter, but this guy... in the past, he was lazy and didn’t co to the scene!"
Darn it!
A mistake.
She was already silently cursing the nation for the "sin of laziness..." in her heart.
And yet, he managed to showcase himself in front of others.
Though there’s a small bit of unhappiness, since the truth is uncovered, she still gave him a complint:
"Louis, what you ntioned is most likely the truth, but it’s worth a little more investigation."
"Even if there was flour dust in the granary, it shouldn’t explode so easily."
"There must be sothing strange about this!"
Olivia declared firmly.
Louis’s mouth curled into a subtle smile.
Just by coincidence, he also felt sothing was amiss.
Everyone nodded in agreent.
Prince Louis discovered the truth.
The Second Princess added details.
The two sides even reached a consensus on conclusions.
A group of Royal Guards and City Guards only felt their heads itch.
"Are they growing brains?"
But there’s one thing they were sure of.
If the two wise figures of the empire reached such judgnts, it must be taken seriously!
Investigate!
It must be thoroughly investigated!
Louis: "Has the little swan already sensed sothing? She isn’t as dumb as expected!"
Little swan: "Hmph, at least I can’t expose that I haven’t co up with any solution, right? The presence of a behind-the-scenes mastermind... it shouldn’t affect Sister Wang at all!"
Neither of them noticed.
Amid the Royal Guards and City Guards, soone furrowed their brows and lowered their head, a trace of unease flickering across their face.
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