"There must be secrets we haven't discovered!"
"Could we have been tricked by Wapol?"
What's more intriguing is that after this disassembly video went viral online, the three major scientific giants still maintained a strange silence.
Vegapunk's lab simply responded, "All procurement activities comply with regulations"; Queen irritably stated, "None of your business"; while Judge simply said directly, "Do you want that one you disassembled? If not, you can give it to me."
This Rashomon in the scientific community intensified, with all sorts of bizarre speculations emerging endlessly:
-Some said these toys were carriers of some kind of code
-Some believed this was a new type of game in the scientific community
-Some conspiracy theorists even claimed this was a mysterious plan by the World Government.
Meanwhile, Wapol, at the center of the storm, was sitting in his small shop, counting his suddenly booming income while scratching his head in confusion: "I'm gonna get rich... But what exactly are they fighting over?"
Wapol stood in the center of Winter Island's largest junkyard, his round belly sticking out, waving his chubby hands smugly: "From today on, all the metal trash here belongs to me!" He grinned widely, his gold tooth glinting in the sunlight. Since inexplicably becoming famous, this former disgraced king seemed to have found a new direction in life.
In the following days, Wapol completely fell into a frenzy of collecting metal, and the entire Winter Island witnessed the birth of a "Metal Maniac".
Every day at four in the morning, while the residents of Winter Island were still in their dreams, Wapol's modified giant garbage truck would already be rumbling onto the streets.
This monster truck, which he called the "Metal Devourer," was entirely pieced together from recycled metal, and an exaggerated metal shark decoration with a gaping maw was welded onto the front.
"Get out of the way! The Metal Hunter is here!" Wapol leaned half his body out of the car window, shouting excitedly.
His eyes were bloodshot but gleamed with an unusual light, just like a prospector who had discovered a gold mine.
In the back of the garbage truck, several temporarily hired workers followed along groggily with the bumps, holding special metal detectors in their hands.
Their scavenging route covered the entire Winter Island:
-Starting from the palace ruins, Wapol personally went into action, using his chubby hands to scrape clean every bit of gold leaf remaining in the wall crevices.
-Next, they swept through the abandoned shipyard, not even sparing rusted ship nails.
-Finally, the trash heaps in the civilian area, where any object with a metallic sheen would be picked up.
"Metal! More metal!" Wapol muttered this phrase all day long as if possessed.
His small workshop had been expanded three times, filled with all sorts of metal scraps. The time he used to spend playing games was now entirely dedicated to chewing metal and making toys.
The most exaggerated thing was that Wapol even slept on top of piles of metal.
He said this was to "cultivate feelings with metal," but in reality, it was because he was afraid someone would steal his "treasures." Some residents claimed to have seen Wapol grinding his teeth and talking in his sleep late at night: "Mine... it's all mine..."
The children of Winter Island gave him a new nickname: "Metal Monster Wapol".
Whenever his clanking garbage truck passed by, the children would follow behind, both scared and curious, wanting to see what strange and unusual metal had been collected today.
But Wapol didn't care about any of this at all,
He only knew that for every ton of metal he ate, he could make another batch of toys; and for every batch of toys he sold, a dizzying string of numbers would be added to his account.
As for why the scientists were frantically buying them?
Who cares!
Anyway, now all the metal on Winter Island is his!
New items were added to the shopping cart every two seconds, and each time they sold out instantly.
Wapol's account balance soared like a rocket, boosting the entire economy of Winter Island along with it.
"My luck has finally changed!" Wapol counted money until his hands cramped, not even bothering to eat his favorite fried chicken. But he still couldn't figure it out: "What exactly are these scientists fighting over?"
Until one day,
A materials science professor named Morse released an explosive video.
In front of the camera, the elderly scholar was so excited his hands were trembling:
"After 72 hours of continuous testing, I discovered a brand new alloy in Wapol's toys!"
He displayed a set of shocking data:
-Memory recovery rate: 100%
-Tensile strength: 5 times that of aerospace titanium alloy
-Corrosion resistance: Zero loss after soaking in seawater for a year
As soon as the video was released, the entire internet was in an uproar!
Only then did everyone suddenly realize:
"So the three major scientists discovered it long ago!"
"Wapol has struck gold!"
"No wonder they were fighting so hard for them!"
Wapol sat on piles of metal trash, scratching his head blankly: "So... the scrap iron I've been eating all these years... hid a treasure?"
Subsequently, Wapol began his research. After countless attempts and failures, he gradually figured out the trick to making this magical metal.
His plump body was immersed in piles of metal all day, carefully savoring the subtle changes brought about by different metal combinations, just like a sommelier tasting fine wine.
"This ratio... isn't right!"
Wapol spat out a twisted metal lump, wiped the metal fragments from the corner of his mouth, "Need to add more copper..." He then grabbed a few pieces of wire and shoved them into his mouth, chewing heartily.
After tireless experiments, he finally found the perfect formula:
"Three parts scrap iron, two parts copper wire, half a part aluminum can, plus..." Wapol mysteriously pulled out a handful of shiny metal flakes from his pocket, "This secret formula!"
Following the "crunch, crunch" chewing sound, a glistening lump of metal was spat out from his mouth. This metal displayed a dreamlike rainbow color under the sunlight, and a gentle tap produced a crisp, pleasant sound.
"It's perfect!" Wapol's entire body of fat trembled with excitement, "I'm going to call it... Walpol Alloy!"
He immediately set up his camera and recorded a demonstration video:
"Folks! The moment to witness a miracle has arrived!"
In the video, Wapol first forcefully bent the metal lump, but it instantly returned to its original shape; then he hammered it hard with an iron hammer, and the metal lump was completely undamaged; finally, he even used a flamethrower, and the metal lump remained as smooth as new.
This video exploded online like a bomb:
-Likes exceeded ten million within twenty minutes of release
-Reached the top of the TikTok hot search within 1 hour.
-The number of likes directly crushed the research videos of the three giants.
The comment section went completely wild:
"This is simply a revolution in materials science!"
"Wapol is actually a genius?!"
"The three giants must be crying in their labs!"
Orders from all over the world flew in like snowflakes!
Wapol sat on piles of orders, grinning from ear to ear.
Now he only needed to do one thing: constantly eat metal and spit out alloy.
This was much easier than the effort he put into making toys before, and the profit increased by hundreds of times!
"If I had known it was this simple..." Wapol mumbled, chewing on a handful of screws, "I should have changed careers to become a gourmet... no, a metallurgist!"
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