Volume 2 The Stars Chapter 57 The Crow's Nest
Mu Tu crossed his arms and looked at the huge map, and every point was said by Mu En, but it was just ......
"It doesn't really make sense to say this, because these things have already been made public, and I don't know where you saw it, after all, it's our family's scandal that is everywhere when you open a newspaper now. And I also feel that knowing this will not help me solve the current dilemma. So, I wonder if you have any more in-depth insights?"
"Don't worry, there are a few more things I want to know. Do you know where the sorcerer is fleeing?"
"It's a pity that we had too few people at that time, so the formation was very compressed, and it was a stubborn trend. And the eyes of the adults are focused on the enemy to attack a few archmages, those archmages escaped through the pre-branded space nodes on the pre-prepared space magician link, it is said that the person who imposed the space buoy is a master, and there is no one present who can be tracked. Mutu said a little helplessly.
Mu En stroked his hair, pointed directly above Vic Province and said, "I just thought about it a little less, the reason why they took your province as the target of revenge was that the four birds were right at that time. After all, your province is the territory of the Dark Elves, and in a strategic sense, it is much more meaningful to disturb you than to kill them. β
"Hmph, after all, the nobles waiting for the fiefdom can line up from the Imperial Southern Frontier Temple to the Northern Great Wall. β
"Then the enemy is likely to flee in that direction, I guess you must have searched the cities and counties around the provincial capital, right?"
"That's right, even in the wilderness, but there is no harvest. β
Hearing this, Mu En scratched his head a little eagerly, he found that the other party was very experienced, and he didn't seem to be able to find any flaws.
For a moment, the scene calmed down, just like the scene of the daily meeting in the lord's mansion during this time.
After some time, Mutu may have lost his patience and beckoned a clerk to come over. Tell Mu En that if there are any documents needed, let this clerk pick them up, and he still has some things, so he has to take the first step and look forward to Mu En's good news.
Mu En ignored him, as he was concentrating on the map and thinking.
There is no such thing as a perfect thing in the world, because when you make a choice at the same time, you mean that you have actually rejected all other options. It is impossible for such a thing to be perfect, just as if someone speaks, it means that at that time he cannot stop talking, and from a purely rational point of view, that side is not perfect.
"So the world I'm in can't be perfect, there must be a loophole in him that I didn't find. Mu En sat on the sofa unconsciously, the golden cup in his hand was filled with autumn fruit tea, and the wind blew in from time to time to turn the pages on the table.
"Do you have any recent records of carriage clearances here?" said Mu En suddenly.
"Yes, sir. But to his surprise, the voice of the answer was suddenly changed to a weak female voice, which startled him by surprise.
He turned his head to look over, and the clerk was also startled when he saw him, and there was a trace of horror and confusion in each other's eyes.
"Who are you?
The secretary was a little embarrassed, but he still repeated what Mutu said before leaving to Mu En. After listening to this, Mu En nodded to indicate that she understood, and explained that her decision just now remained unchanged, and then the clerk took the order to leave.
For more than half a month, God knows how many carriages were used to clear the customs, anyway, the female officer who looked very thin moved back and forth three times, and stacked up as tall as Mu En one and a half times, which made Mu En a little panicked just looking at the height.
"Then help me find a list of missing people in the provincial capitalβit's the entire provincial capital, not just the banquet...... By the way, there is also a list of high-level mages who have recently entered and exited the province. β
"Yes, sir. The clerk looked a little tired, but he still wiped his sweat and trotted to carry the materials for Muen.
Mu En lay back on the sofa again, and sighed that he finally understood why so many nobles were pot-bellied.
It's a depraved comfort.
However, he could not relax and enjoy himself, so he pulled out a book and began to look through the reports for features similar to those of missing persons.
The list is also half a book thick, Mu En sighed, asked the clerk for some refreshing tea, and planned to stay up all night tonight.
Overnight?!
I feel that the last time I had the courage to say such a heroic thing was already a lifetime ago.
It's amazing how good it feels to be able to give it your all and not get tired.
Thinking of this, Mu En was suddenly very excited that he could naively return to his peak state, after all, no matter how well his current false prosperity is disguised, and how true Di Yaxun's polishing is, after all, it is still in the air, and there will definitely be a gap between him and his true state.
Because of his previous experience, Mu En developed the habit of taking a nap after being awake for about two hours, and this habit has continued to the present, which actually gives him the ability to always maintain full energy. And because I have more energy now, I often only need to take a 10-minute nap to be alive.
So for the next few days, Muen watched the sword with the lamp every night, and ate and slept alone in the study of Mutu's annex, except that Dengdong bathed and almost never left the room for half a step.
"Are you still human, how do I feel that you have been sleepless for three days and still have so much energy?" On this day, Mutu came to the study again, the room was clean and tidy, and it could be seen that Mu En had spare energy to keep the surrounding environment comfortable in addition to reading.
"No, actually, I slept. By the way, you've come just in time, and I already have some general ideas and directions. β
"Oh, tell me?"
"I think they're heading southwest, and there's a barren part of the province there, so it's barren and there's no one to manage it, and it's probably where they're hiding. And I think they are likely to be a small force, and the remaining few great magicians should have used space magic to escape to the 'Avalon Reflection' in the north, after all, they are still too obvious in the tower's induction, and staying in such a deep interior is undoubtedly looking for death. β
The Avalonian Reflection is the forest where the Dark Elves live, and although they have been corrupted, they are still unabated, and the name of the Goblin Forest next to it is unpretentious, but they still think of the place where they once lived and represented the supreme glory.
"If this hadn't happened, I would have believed you unconditionally. But if they hadn't been able to lurk, we wouldn't have been so embarrassed that night. Mutu spread out his hands, as if regretting that Muen had passed out that day and did not feel the tension.
"It won't be too long, I've checked the five Magus who came to your province for the ceremony, and I guess they're all dead and dropped. β
"Well, and one thing to tell you can also be, it seems that they received some secret order to come here together, but what it is, I'm sorry, I don't have the right to know. β
"I heard that the adjudicators have entered the city, do they have any clues?"
"Kill those five imposters. β
"How many squads?"
"Two squads have killed five magic masters, and the crows are terrifying. β
"They didn't have a mouth left to ask?"
"Big brother, the other party is an evil magician, and he blew himself up when he encountered danger, okay? β
Evil sorcerers have always been a very strange group in Mu En's eyes, after all, people who deviate from the scriptures for the sake of immortality must be afraid of death, but evil sorcerers will become more fearless than too many people when death is near, and I don't know how they reconcile the weight between the two in their bodies.
Muen stood up and drew out several places where he thought the sorcerers might be hiding, and told Mutu to send someone to investigate.
"I'm here to tell you, because the adjudicators decided to intervene after consulting with the Tower. So our side basically has no right to meddle in this matter, after all, it has been almost a month and there has been no results, and the young Duke is about to go crazy. β
Hearing this, a question mark slowly appeared on Mu En's face.
"So I spent four days here studying loneliness?"
"I don't want to, I was dismissed this morning, I just got the news after breakfast, and then I came to you. β
Then Mutu suspected that he might have said something wrong, as Muen's expression began to grow unkind.
"It's almost ten o'clock, and you've just finished breakfast?!" Mu En felt very frustrated, he tried to resist his urge to scold, and left the study to find a place to sleep with only a sentence of "No wonder you have no results".
Half an hour later, Muen got out of bed again, and he had to deliver a letter to the tower before the adjudicators could go on a killing spree.
The Adjudicator has always been known as a terrifying organization, even for the aristocracy.
Because they were founded with the original intention of maintaining order and eliminating hostile forces, they often left no survivors for their subordinates. Although this mission and situation are special, Mu En doesn't think that their group of guys who seem to have been numb to humanity will carefully identify other hostages, and it is estimated that when the time comes, they will look directly at the clothes, and if they don't meet the standards, they will be cut off directly, and they will also prevent betrayal.
I really believe you are a ghost.
On the other hand, Simon's pleas for mercy didn't seem to have much effect, although he wasn't embarrassed in any way, and the normal-looking sorcerer named Barton would come to see him every day, even feed him personally, and "encourage" him to swim for anywhere from half an hour to an hour a day of free time - meaning that he could get off the shelf and wander around.
The most outrageous thing is that he can even get out of the prison door, which makes him suspect that he will not care about himself if he just walks out of the sorcerer's camp like this.
"Damn, I haven't suffered this kind of grievance since I grew up. No, Simon has to find a way to get them to take me seriously. Simon slammed his fist into the stone wall, grinning in pain.
It's just that having said that, he even got involved with these weird-tempered sorcerers in the next few days, and looking at it like this, no one would believe him when he told others that he didn't join the enemy.
In this "joyful" process, there were even "enthusiastic neighbors" who took the initiative to teach him the power of corruption, but he was rejected by a meal.
But it was also in the process that Simon gradually wrote down all the roads in this labyrinthine stronghold underground, and also saw several soft-boned nobles choose to take refuge in the sorcerers, and those who defected even flattered the other sorcerers to decide what to do with the rest of them.
This made Simon sick.
"My lord, you must have given up on me...... Simon looked into the distance and muttered in his heart, "But it's better not to come, after all, this place is 'Dum Gobi'......"
A few moments later, Muen receives a reply from the Tower, who rejects his request to get the Adjudicator out, but thinks he can help the Adjudicator give them clues, and then in exchange for that.
After reading the letter, Mu En felt that things were more difficult.
Looking at that group of cold-faced kings, it doesn't look like they will pay attention to him as a little kid.
But no matter what, people still have to find a way to save it.
Before heading to the Adjudicators' temporary headquarters, the Mututo brought Muen a small gift, which referred to the size of the gift rather than its value. On the contrary, that gift can be called valuable.
The gift was a small coffin, and there was a huge spar inside.
This gemstone has a common name on the road, called "Falling Star". Not a meteor that actually fell from the sky, but something like a source stone. However, it is special in that it does not and will not generate mana itself, but it can be used as a reserve of mana to infuse it into it.
This ore is crystal clear and has a high affinity for mana, and only needs a little refining to turn it into an excellent reserve energy.
And the output of this ore is actually not low, although it is still sky-high for ordinary people, but in the eyes of the upper class, its unit price can also be regarded as decent, because it is similar to the texture of gemstones, can be used to make jewelry pendants, can also be used for cutting materials of some precision instruments, so it has been widely loved and sought after.
And almost all the great magic circles, the power source of the drive is this, and it is also the main source of cost.
A falling star the size of a goose egg is basically worth a few crystal discs.
Having said that, this thing can also be regarded as an upgraded version of the crystal disc, after all, the effect function is the same, but there will be a lot of differences in the proportion of reserves and intermediate losses.
And as the core of energy, once the falling star really falls from the sky as a falling star and detonates it somehow, the power is really not to be underestimated. It's just that there are really very few people who will do this throughout the ages.
After all, it's easy to blow up a high wall, but it's hard to prevent others from blowing it up. There are many literati who always have some "high power paranoia" and use very naΓ―ve thoughts to oppose the high wall. The so-called "When an egg hits a wall, I'm always on the side of the egg." "But I don't want to think about why this rotten egg is hitting the high wall, and who drives it.
The wall always stands there and does not move, it will of course prevent the people inside from going out, but more importantly it will prevent the ugly things from outside from coming in.
Is there anything you can't walk through the door?
I don't know what kind of ruins those people can rebuild after blowing up the high wall with the falling star.
Mu En only thought of these things suddenly, and this set of theories was not something he came up with by himself, but the result of his senior brother Anschel's love of carrying private goods when he used to teach.
Because of his brother's leapfrog thinking, Mu En often felt that he couldn't keep up with Anschel's brain circuits when he was a child, and later he felt that he was also a little homogeneous. However, when I grow up a little bit, I will see and experience some things with my own eyes, and I will admire my senior brother very much, and at that time, he seemed to be telling a story, and he told himself many truths from different perspectives, so that he would not hesitate when faced with many choices.
It's like he wants to save his friends.
"Why do you want to love all people at the same time? People have likes and dislikes, so they are inherently close to each other. β
So for me, of course, friends are more important than many other people. If you hurt my friend, I will hurt you.
The crow's "nest" is set up in a church outside the city that has been abandoned for many years. There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, just moving and communicating like machines, and they were the most vicious evil in this huge empire.
Mu En walked there, and was stopped half a kilometer away from the church, and the other party didn't care about showing his circuit level as a deterrent. However, Mu En's perception could detect that there were more and more hidden auras around him.
However, Mu En was not stage frightened, and took out the tower's voucher, and the adjudicator's expression changed after checking it, and he couldn't believe that the tower would allow such a young child to participate in the action.
Isn't that adding to the chaos?
But the most important thing for the adjudicators is discipline, and as long as they are wearing the robe of the crow, they will only act according to the rules, no matter who is in front of them.
So the adjudicator stepped out of the way and blew his whistle, which to be honest hadn't made Muen nervous before, but it did startle him when it sounded.
Because the adjudicator's code words were kept strictly secret, not even half a page of the Tower's library could parse the pronunciation of a codeword. Moreover, this kind of code language changes every thirty years even when there are no unexpected circumstances, so it can be said that it is impossible for outsiders to understand things.
In other words, it sounds the same in Muen.
"Don't worry. The adjudicator saw Mu En's body tremble for a moment, and he spoke out to reassure him, but how cold the voice sounded would only make Mu En feel more nervous.
Someone swept out of the shadows and took the place of the adjudicator who had escorted Mu En into the lair, and the two did not communicate in the slightest.
Mu En slowly approached the lair under the leadership of the other party, during which the person had used different whistles many times, which should have been transmitted to different secret whistles, which made Mu En sigh that although these people were not welcomed, they were really iron-blooded.
Pushing open the empty door of the church, Muen saw a figure he could not feel the slightest breath standing in front of the statue.
The man felt the sunlight and turned around, and a pair of vicissitudes of life seemed to see through Mu En's soul.