Earth Culture Publicity Bureau

"People of God living in this land, please pray devoutly, you will be saved."

Accompanied by the priest's words on the radio, in the snack bar, Edward and his younger brother Al were drinking a drink, and they were caught off guard by the shopkeeper's complaint after examining for a while: "...are you street performers?"

"Pfft——" Edward spit out the orange juice in his mouth, put down his glass and said speechlessly, "Why do we look like entertainers?"

As soon as the words fell, the huge "armor" Al got up and accidentally knocked off the sounding radio on the shelf above his head.After the radio fell to the ground, there was a loud bang, and the priest's voice that was playing inside disappeared. The shopkeeper said frantically, "Hey, customer!"

Edward comforted: "I'm sorry, sorry, I'll fix it for you right away."

The shopkeeper looked at the broken radio and complained, "How to fix it?"

"Just watch." Edward said with a proud smile.

As soon as the words fell, Al took out the chalk and drew an alchemy formation neatly on the ground.He clapped his hands together, and then pressed them to the array on the ground, a white light flashed by, and the brand new and shiny radio appeared in front of everyone's eyes intact.

"Oh..." A group of onlookers applauded immediately, and the shopkeeper complained again in a low voice: "This is more like a street performer."

Edward explained speechlessly: "We are alchemists."

"Alchemist? This is the first time I've seen it."

Edward raised his nose and said, "Hmph~ Have you heard of Brother Elric?"

"Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric, wow... Are you a famous and talented alchemist? I see."

Edward stood on the spot with his arms folded and his head held high, but the crowd surrounded his younger brother Al who kept praising and admiring him: "Is it because he wears a steel helmet that he was awarded the title of Gang?"

Al quickly explained: "That...it's not me..."

As a result, everyone's mood suddenly cooled down, and they looked at Edward beside him with puzzled eyes: "...Eh? Is it the little man over there?"

Edward suddenly jumped into a rage, and rushed into the crowd with his teeth and claws: "Who do you say is a short melon, the small ones are as invisible as fleas!!"

"We didn't talk about it to this point!"

The audience sitting in front of the screen burst into laughter.

They stared intently at the picture on the screen. After the shocking and fascinating story of the first episode, they immediately clicked on the second episode, eager to watch the next content.

The two brothers Edward heard from the people that the priest in this small town would use "miracle techniques" to make the living live forever and the dead resurrected.The two brothers, who had been looking for clues to recover their bodies, immediately felt suspicious. They came to the square and witnessed the priest transforming a flower into a huge flower-shaped gemstone. The two looked at each other, convinced that the change was definitely alchemy , but violates the law of conservation of mass.

It also means that what they have been looking for has finally appeared.

The two came to the church and saw the stone statue of the gods erected on the side of the church.Under the stone statue, a woman is praying devoutly. In her words, she seems to hope that someone can be resurrected.

After hearing the sound, Edward frowned and raised his eyes to her and said, "Resurrection of the dead, do you really believe in such words?"

Seeing the woman's warm voice replying "Yes", Edward sighed, took out the notebook in his pocket, and read to the woman: "35 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia water, 1.5 kilograms of lime, 800 phosphorus grams, 250 grams of salt... and a small amount of trace elements, these are the various materials that can constitute a standard adult after calculation. By the way, even children can buy these things in the market with pocket money Buying them all, human beings are really cheap."

"Human beings are nothing. Are you not afraid of being punished by God for saying these words?" the woman said to Edward seriously.

"Hehe, alchemists are essentially scientists. It is impossible to believe in a creator or gods. Unraveling the principles of creating the world and pursuing the truth, to a certain extent, our group of scientists who least need gods are the ones. The closest thing to a god in the world—what an irony."

The woman frowned and looked at Edward with displeasure: "You think you can be compared with the gods? How arrogant."

"Arrogance? Speaking of which, I have heard a myth. There is a hero who is dedicated to chasing the sun, but because he flies too close to the sun, his wax wings are melted and he falls to the ground." The hero's ending, It is no different from the situation of the two brothers at the moment.Edward said the words that only they themselves knew how painful the price was. Looking up, he saw a woman who seemed to be in the same situation as the two brothers back then. She raised her hand to express "surrender", stood up and bowed in a gentlemanly manner, and said to the other party: "Then Miss, may I ask if a scientist with this kind of thinking can also be redeemed by the gods?"

The woman looked gratified and expected, and said to Edward: "Of course, the gods will always accept everyone who repents."

She took Edward and the two to find the priest, and the priest's expression became very ugly when he heard that Brother Edward, the legendary genius alchemist, had actually visited.He ordered people to take the two of them deep into the church, and when the woman was unprepared, he asked his men to take out a gun and point it at the two, calling them "heretics who want to harm the priest."

The two brothers who were pointed at by the police did not panic at all. They defeated the enemy swiftly and swiftly, and pointed to the priest to expose the essence of his so-called "miracle technique", that is, alchemy plus "alchemy amplifier" - Xian The stone of the hunter.During the battle, the priest saw through his brother Al's empty body under his armor, and also saw Edward's mechanical right hand and left leg. He crazily laughed at them as "people who violated the taboo" and told the woman that the two brothers wanted to be resurrected. The deceased paid a heavy price.

The woman recalled Edward's self-deprecating words not long ago, and listened to all this in disbelief.Edward held up his steel wrist, and on his shoulder, there was a hideous scar linked by machinery and sex, and said to the woman: "This is the punishment for sinners who violate the realm of the gods and try to resurrect the dead. Do you have the awareness?"

They took the woman to escape the priest's attack. On the one hand, the younger brother Al, who was more gentle than the elder brother, persuaded the woman. The woman was still unwilling to believe that the dead could not be resurrected. She believed that the failure of the two brothers was due to their lack of ability and miracles. The priest of Zhishi will surely fulfill her wish.On the other side, his elder brother Edward blocked the priest in the room with his outstanding force, and talked about the other party's ambitions with the priest who had completely torn off his disguise through dialogue.

The priest arrogantly stated that he intends to use the "miracle technique" to establish a strongest army in this city that completely submits to his beliefs, but the proud face and ugly face are hidden behind the broadcast that Edward secretly turned on. Next, it spread to the ears of everyone in the entire city without hindrance.Everyone was dumbfounded listening to all this. In the small town, there was no sound, only the furious priest's unbelievable "What——!!" roared constantly echoing over the city.

Edward knocked down the priest, and reached for the ring inlaid with the Philosopher's Stone on the priest's finger, but the ring suddenly disappeared into ashes because of the priest's overuse.Regrettably realizing that he had found the wrong one again, Brother Edward turned around and left the church. Outside the church, a woman tremblingly raised her arms and raised her pistol, ordering them to keep the Philosopher's Stone.She understands that as long as she has this, her lover may be able to live in the world again.

Even if Edward said that the stone is fake, the woman refused to give up and said: "You are lying, you want to swallow the stone alone! You want to use the stone to restore your body, yes, and you can see your mother again! "

Hearing this, Edward suddenly shouted angrily, "Shut up." He wore his clothes torn from the battle, showing hideous and horrifying old wounds, and said to the woman, "Death cannot be brought back to life. Never, never." Impossible!" He stared at the woman with sad eyes, and the woman felt Edward's emotions, let go of the gun in her hand, knelt on the ground and cried, "He said that he can be resurrected, and he said that prayers can make wishes come true. , He said that miracles will appear... from now on, what should I rely on to survive! Tell me..."

Edward stared at the woman's weeping face in silence, and said to the woman with the maturity and strength that should have been immature but not in keeping with his age:

"Think about this kind of thing yourself. Stand up and walk forward, don't you have two healthy legs. Don't rely on anything else."

With tears in her eyes, the woman looked up at the boundless sky above her head.

……

"what is this……"

"You actually told me that this is a cartoon?!"

"I feel like my worldview has been refreshed."

"Whoa, why do you have to wait three hours for the next episode? How do you want me to spend the rest of the time!!"

"Not enough to watch!!!!!!"

An hour after "Smelting Steel" was broadcast, a lot of similar remarks erupted on the Internet.

Some netizens who only heard a few words, but did not pay too much attention, immediately attracted the attention of such speeches. They curiously flipped through the remarks of "not enough to watch" and "Oh my God", and were tickled by those words, and then joined To watch the ranks of the animation.

And those people who stayed on the starblog of earth culture from the beginning and clicked to watch it at the first time, seeing the number of hits rising to 7000 million in that hour, couldn't restrain the surging emotions in their hearts, and unfolded their lively discussions.

"This animation completely subverted my imagination. If it wasn't for the way he expressed it in the form of animation, I wouldn't be surprised to say that he is a movie just because of the interesting and in-depth content!"

"This is not the kind of thing we imagined for children to read. His connotation and stories are enough for even experienced adults to read."

"I feel like I've dug up a treasure. Thinking of the male god saying that this animation has a total of 64 episodes, I can't wait to watch all the rest..."

"Can't believe how much each episode tells and how amazing each episode is!"

Some animation enthusiasts who were here for the challenge also sent out their professional insights:

"I really underestimated the animations made by people on earth before. As far as the two episodes in front of me are concerned, the storyboard, soundtrack, dubbing, picture, background, character design, and world view substitution are all impeccable! No, it is simply Amazing! I can't find anything to criticize, he did it perfectly."

"At first, I thought the PV was already amazing, but who knew that the feature film was a hundred times better than the PV!"

"Telling this work beyond the scope of animation, it is also very good. The bloody battles, in-depth stories, and occasional laughs wash away the atmosphere that may be somewhat heavy, and make people feel connotative. At the same time, it doesn’t feel dull and monotonous at all.”

"And...the so-called 'equivalent exchange' actually has nothing to do with chemistry. Even if there is, it's just a basic background setting that appears in every work..."

Look at those die-hard fans of earth culture who have completely cleared away their grievances and feel refreshed and proud at the moment. They are so ecstatic that they are almost throwing flowers to celebrate, as if they slapped those slanderers hard. face.Hearing their voices of "I'm dying of laughter, even saying that our idol's animation is plagiarizing someone else's chemistry textbook, hahahaha", a group of people can no longer say any slanderous words.The vast majority of people immediately deleted the past stupid remarks, apologized humbly, and said that they will always pay attention to the follow-up works of Earth Culture in the future, and look forward to more exhibitions of their cartoons in the future.

On the other side, because the story connection between the second episode and the third episode is not strong, You Yunran deliberately set aside a three-hour buffer time for them to discuss freely, so as to attract more people to accompany the discussion Join the queue to watch.Many people took advantage of the gap to curiously buy the animation of the so-called "leading leader in the industry", expecting that the other party's works can be as interesting as "Smelting Steel". "Refinement", everyone saw a boring and calm "Chemistry Course", and chose to close it within 5 minutes, and some people, like fans of this company, left very directly under the other party's space They posted comparisons and disgusted comments, saying that their animations are nothing compared to the works of people on earth.

Many people are quick to speak, mocking the other party, "This is plagiarism? If you have the ability, can you copy one and show me?", thinking that their big company is bullying others, causing the earth's culture to be wronged and humiliated for no reason. For a long time, some people think that they are coveting the popularity of the earth people and want to touch porcelain, so they use their own works to "collide" with the earth animation to attract more people's attention.Thinking about it carefully, a short 1-minute pv, the content of which has nothing to do with chemistry, how could it be possible to be scolded for plagiarism to such an extent, and it's not all because of this group of people behind the scenes.

Originally, before the broadcast of "Smelting Steel", no one was optimistic about the practice of earth culture deliberately choosing to screen at the same time as the leader in the animation industry.Not to mention whether the work is actually plagiarized, but in terms of the quality of the work, two of the same content have been produced by different animation companies, and there is no doubt that the company with more qualifications will perform better.

No one believes that "Smelting Steel" can be better than the company that has dominated the industry for hundreds of years.

At the same time, with the same theme, when they are released together, everyone will inevitably compare and choose one of the two without hesitation.And comparing the two, it is undoubtedly just a rookie Earth culture, and it is destined to lose a lot.

They all felt that the competition between the two would end in crushing.

But they never imagined that the one being crushed was not the earth at all, but the animation company with a high reputation and a high status in the interstellar world.

Under the circumstances that no one expected, the animation of the people on earth is really so amazing, the work that is enough to attract the attention of every viewer, and the undoubted outstanding performance, severely overturned the previous animation company. The slander made them too big to end at this moment.

In order to curry favor with the bosses in the industry, those guys who immediately scrambled to stand in line and want to crowd out outsiders were all unlucky together.Whether it is a famous master who expresses his position, or an official Starblog representing an entire company, all of them are ridiculed and held accountable by netizens who feel wronged for You Yunran and them by the culture of the earth, to avenge the earth.

They are dissatisfied with the behavior of a group of people uniting to bully the earth, blame the whole industry for being a mess, and insult people's innocence out of nothing.Not to mention washing away the dirty water superimposed on the earth in one fell swoop, I also let out a big breath for the earth by the way, and made a very strong and effective publicity.

Now, no matter how late the news is, people should have heard about this incident, knew the cause and effect of everything, and set their eyes on the animation of the earth...

It is said that this is an animation that has completely crushed the industry leader since its debut.

It is said that this animation is very beautiful, and everyone can't wait to see the follow-up.

It is said that this animation comes from a country named Earth with particularly good music, and the content of the story is enough to refresh the general public's perception of animation...

Even those who never watched cartoons joined the watching team without hesitation.

You Yunran's plan was undoubtedly a great success.

He is very happy to see the perpetrators get the punishment they deserve, and the embarrassing appearance of reaping the consequences is simply pleasing to the heart.

After happily witnessing the embarrassing situation of the other party at the moment, You Yunran no longer cared about the other party's situation, and continued to browse the star blog of the Earth Culture Propaganda Bureau. He was satisfied to see that the popularity continued to rise, and everyone was full of enthusiasm because of the earth culture. Feeling excited, his heart was filled with a strong sense of satisfaction.

He saw that everyone apologized to You Yunran and the earthlings for the previous slander, and said that they would pay attention to the earth animation from now on. This attitude undoubtedly pleased You Yunran and erased the dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart these days.Looking at the stars and stars in the Xingbo space, there are flowers and stars everywhere at a glance, and all of them are blessings from netizens, which is undoubtedly an honor.

After three hours of brewing and fermentation, the topic of "Smelting Steel" quickly spread and attracted more and more people to watch.In addition to the popularity attached to You Yunran and Earth Music, keywords about [Earth Animation Steel Refining] soon became popular searches, and quickly climbed towards the first place.

Many people who have never paid attention to music or watched animation, heard that the story of "Smelting Steel" is enough to shock everyone. Out of the desire for interesting stories, they joined the queue to watch, but within a few hours, When the third episode of "Smelting Steel" was broadcast, the number of hits exceeded [-] million, and continued to increase rapidly towards [-] million.

Then, after the third episode was broadcast, "Rain of Sorrow", which was enough to become the famous scene of "Steel Refining", instantly aroused violent repercussions from the entire Internet, and thoroughly established the "magic work" in everyone's mind. status.

In the story, a kind and kind scholar has researched a synthetic beast that possesses human intelligence and can even speak human words.Brother Edward, who heard about this, came to visit, hoping to gain professional inspiration.They heard that the scholar's wife left here two years ago because she disliked the difficult life of the scholar, leaving behind only a lively, lovely and sensible daughter, and a docile and well-behaved big dog who accompanied her.Apart from the synthetic beast, the scholar has made no other achievements in the field in the past two years. If he does not continue to make contributions, he may be revoked the title of national alchemist and cut off subsequent funding.

The scholar led the brothers to his own library, and generously let them watch it at will.In the middle of speaking, he looked at the two brothers who were so absorbed in reading that they couldn't even hear the sound of the outside world, raised his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said with emotion: "There are indeed such geniuses in this world. At such a young age, Possesses abundant potential and ability..."

He turned and left the library, letting the brothers read and study.Time passed unknowingly, and the two brothers scratched their heads and couldn't find a way to restore their bodies from the books. The little girl beside her blinked her big black eyes and played with the tall Al at some point, looking for the sound. Edward who came jumped up and reprimanded Al, but he was also defeated by the "temptation" of the cute girl and the active dog. He put down his boring books and played chasing each other in the yard with the two little guys up.

As dusk fell, it was not too early.Tired of playing, Al and Edward bid farewell to the owner of the house, saying that they would visit and study again tomorrow.The officer who came to pick up the two brothers issued an ultimatum to the scholar, saying that tomorrow is the deadline for the assessment, hoping that the scholar can submit satisfactory answers, and the scholar expressed his understanding.

The little girl waved her small arms and said to Edward reluctantly, "Brother, come to play tomorrow." Edward waved back with a smile, and left here with his brother.

After everyone left, the little girl stood at the door, raised her head and asked her father what the assessment was.Scholars said that every national alchemist has to be assessed regularly, and he failed to get a good evaluation last year. If he fails again this year, he may not be able to become a national alchemist.

After hearing this, the little girl stood on her tiptoes nervously, and encouraged her father, "But Dad obviously works so hard, and he keeps reading every day." In order to support her father's work, she endured loneliness every day, and lived with the big dog. Play and don't bother Dad.She knows better than anyone how hardworking her father is.

After hearing this, the scholar squatted down and hugged the little girl, saying to her, "Yes, I have to keep working hard."

Already, there is no way out.

The next day, on a cloudy day and in a city covered with dark clouds, Edward and Al visited the scholar again.

The room was extremely quiet, and no human activity could be felt. Edward and his younger brother walked into the room. In the laboratory, they saw scholars and a creature they had seen for the first time.The scholar introduced to the two brothers with a smile on his face, "It's finished, this is my work, a synthetic beast that can understand human speech", there was a bang, the thunder suddenly fell outside, and Edward stood in the dim room, looking down at the Looking at the wonderful creature in front of him, and hearing the scholar's persuasive teaching of the synthetic beast, narrating the name "Edward", he exclaimed, "It's amazing, it can really talk."

The scholar also said sincerely with relief and joy: "Haha, then I don't have to worry about losing my qualification as a national alchemist."

Edward looked at the creature in front of him excitedly, the creature stared at Edward, and repeated "Edward", "Edward" again and again, and then at a certain moment, the creature whispered:

"Edward... big brother..."

The surrounding air suddenly cooled down.

Edward's pupils shrank, and he stared at the creature in front of him... It was all white, and its size was no different from a large pet dog. The color of its eyes seemed familiar.

Edward restrained his extremely depressed emotions and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Tucker, when did you obtain the national qualification?"

The scholar said: "Two years ago."

"When did your wife run away from home?"

The scholar's expression changed slightly: "Two years ago."

"I heard that although the synthetic beast two years ago could speak human words, the words he said back and forth were always 'kill me'..." Edward's voice has become very dangerous: "I can One more question, where did Nina and Alexander go?"

As soon as the words fell, Edward's cold and violent eyes were aimed at the scholar, and Al immediately understood something, and his whole body was shocked in disbelief.

The scholar raised his glasses, paused, and said viciously: "I hate you the most intuitive brat!"

Edward couldn't hold back his emotions anymore, he rushed up and beat the scholar hard with his steel arm.

"It turned out to be like this. I used my wife two years ago, and this time I used my daughter and pets! Can't you get better results because of animal experiments? Of course it's easy to practice with living people!"

Edward's rage caused controversy among scholars, and he was pinned against the wall by Edward and shouted: "Why are you angry? Isn't the progress of science the product of countless human experiments? If you are also a scientist—"

"What a joke!!" Edward yelled angrily and punched the scholar, angrily said: "Do you think this kind of behavior can be forgiven, this way of playing with people's lives..."

The scholar covered his face and sneered: "Human life? Hehe, Fullmetal Alchemist, your hand, that leg, and your brother's body, aren't they the result of your playing with human life?!"

"That's different!" Edward, who was completely dazed by his anger, beat the scholar fiercely. He punched the opponent's body one after another, as if there was no end to the moment.Al sadly came to stop his brother, worried that he would kill someone if he struck too hard.Edward pushed away the opponent, turned around and tried to strike again, but saw the synthetic beast trained by a little girl and a big dog walk up to the scholar, crying and saying, "Daddy...does it hurt..."

Edward, who witnessed this scene, had trembling eyes and a sad expression.He couldn't take the action of hurting his father in front of his daughter, his angry brain suddenly became dazed, his arms lost strength, and he feebly knocked the lifted scholar down to the ground.

The synthetic beast whispered, "Dad...does it hurt..."

The rain poured down continuously outside the house, as if feeling sorry for the girl, silently washing away the unbearable sins in the world in this way.Like yesterday, Al stroked the top of the girl's head and said to her sadly, I'm sorry, we can't change you back with our strength alone, I'm sorry...

With a weird and distorted voice, the little girl said to Al as usual: "Let's play together, let's play together..."

The scholar sitting in the corner cherished the pocket watch representing the national alchemist, and said to himself in relief: "Great, there is still time, so that I can continue to be a national alchemist."

Edward's expression suddenly became ferocious. He kicked the pocket watch in the opponent's hand away, and watched the scholar crawl towards the pocket watch in a panic, as if he had lost some important treasure. That embarrassing, ugly, and selfish look, Make him sick.Hearing the little girl's words "Let's play together", he couldn't help but take a deep breath, closed his eyes angrily and shouted: "Asshole!!"

The sad heavy rain fell, and at some point a few hours later, Al whispered to himself: "If there are demons in the world, this must be one of them."

"A demon? But national alchemists must obey orders, even if they take the lives of others. From the perspective of treating human life, there is no essential conflict between Tucker's behavior and our position. We are Knowing all of this, I still chose this path, right, Edward." After hearing the news, the officer who had dealt with everything came out of the office building, completely oblivious to the fact that he was squatting on the steps and drenched in the rain Edward said: "I'm afraid you will encounter similar things in the future, and even you will have to dirty your hands. Do you have to stop like this every time?"

Edward tightened his palms on his arms, and his whole body curled up more and more.He said in a deep voice: "Whether it is called a lackey of the military or a devil, Al and I will regain our original bodies. But ah...we are not demons at all, let alone gods, but A mortal, we are mortals!!"

A voice containing anger and powerlessness resounded in the rain, Edward stood up and shouted loudly towards the sky.He frowned, looked at the front with self-blaming eyes, and said in a low voice: "I can't even save a girl, a tiny human..."

The gloomy sky and the dripping rain revealed sadness everywhere.

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All Star.com viewers who watched this episode in a daze were undoubtedly completely blown away.

"My goodness……"

"I can't believe it..."

"You actually told me it was a cartoon?!!!"

"Ahhh I'm going crazy!!!"