"If only I could find the treasure trove directly." Lao Jian muttered, although he also knew that this was impossible, otherwise the troll would have been gone a long time ago, and he would still stay here to die, the ruins without control of the core are not a good place, and the ghost knows when he will be killed.

Carrying the war hammer and walking at the back of the team, after the battle just now, Lao Jian already trusted Yan Xu very much, and gave him the position of the head of the team with confidence.

Although Lao Jian shouted all day long that he was in the prime of life, in fact, his strength had begun to fade, after all, the perennial adventures made his strength progress extremely fast in the early stage, and he became a high-level warrior before he was even fifty years old, which was already a genius among the long-lived dwarves.

But there are also countless dangers encountered in the adventure, some companions died, some companions were crippled, some companions lost their fighting spirit, and some companions retreated bravely. Although he was lucky to live until now, his body that had suffered countless traumas was not as good as before, and not only did he not go any further, but he fell from the high-ranking warrior decades ago.

His strength is gradually degrading, and he doesn't know how long he can fight, but he knows that it is time for him to retire. If he retires now, he will be able to strike iron for decades, and then spend the rest of his life sitting by the fire drinking ale, and if he insists on taking risks, he will probably be prepared to die in the wilderness.

More and more small rooms appeared, and everyone quickly judged that this should be the scope of the apprentice's activities. Although he was a little disappointed, he was also relieved, just looking at the scale of the apprentice area, he knew how high the strength of the mages here was, and if he really wanted to go straight to the core area, he really didn't know the bottom of his heart.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, not to mention that it has not been explored here, and the oil and water are more abundant.

"Because of the low strength of the apprentices in the apprentice area, except for the guard puppets, there are generally no magic traps in the unimportant areas, so as long as we solve the puppet guards, we can search with confidence." Lao Jian has explored at least dozens of well-known and unknown ruins, and he is full of experience, and while looking at the surrounding environment, he will pass on his experience to Yan Xu and them.

Yan Xu knew that these experiences were all exchanged for his life, so he naturally listened very carefully, Xiao Ming may have been possessed by Xiao Ming, and those who listened carefully to what they were talking about were floating clouds.

Maybe it was because they knew that there was no oil or water here, or maybe it was because of the limited manpower, and the trolls didn't step into this place, so the defense system here was still running, and not long after they entered, some puppets reinforced with copper and iron at the joints of the wooden structure appeared in front of everyone.

"Wooden golems, very common things, it seems that this ruin is still functioning, otherwise these puppets would have rotted a long time ago." Lao Jian breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't know how many of these things he had dismantled, and he was naturally familiar with them.

"These things are almost useless, and the only thing that is important is in the chest where the defense is strongest, so be careful not to bring the habit of fighting people here." Lao Jian mentioned the war hammer and wanted to show them a demonstration.

"I'll give it a try." Thinking of the Wooden Man Alley and the Bronze Man Array in Shaolin Temple, Yan Xu's hands suddenly itched, and he carried a double-edged axe to meet him.

"Well, Atai's double-edged axe is a high-level enchanted weapon, not to mention this kind of low-level puppet, even a high-level steel golem is not an opponent." Lao Jian was full of confidence in Yan Xu, and also full of confidence in the weapon in his hand, touched his beard and said with a smile.

Although the wooden puppet has the protection of the magic of the ruins and does not decay, the lack of daily maintenance of the apprentices causes it to creak everywhere, especially in the joints, and the sound is very harsh, so the movements that are not flexible become slower, as long as they don't stand stupidly and wait for death, they are basically no threat.

Yan Xu was curious about the structure of the wooden puppet, first removed the limbs of the wooden puppet, and then dismantled it little by little under Lao Jian's guidance, and finally took out the core inside.

The core of the wooden puppet is a palm-sized white copper plate, made of white copper with certain pro-demon attributes, on which a complex magic array is depicted, and a piece of crystal is inlaid in the middle as a magic storage and transformation center.

"This is the core of the wooden golem, all golem golems have cores, but they are almost the same as none, because they are installed in the strongest defenses, and it is less effort to break the outer defenses than to destroy their joints, but some special golems have the ability to repair themselves, so this method is sometimes not enough insurance." Lao Jian looked at the color of the copper plate, put it in his pocket with great satisfaction, and then explained to a few people the more common kinds of golems.

According to modern people's understanding, the copper plate is the circuit board, the crystal is the battery, and the whole wooden puppet is the same as a child's toy robot.

The combat effectiveness of the wooden golem is average, but it is a disaster for ordinary soldiers, unless they are directly dismantled with heavy weapons, otherwise they do not know how many casualties will be caused. This is still the lowest-level wooden puppet, and the white copper as the core has an average bearing capacity, and it cannot depict a high-level magic array. Crystals are the same, in order to ensure the cost, only ordinary pure crystals are used, and there is not much magic power stored, so the wooden puppets are more used in the ruins, and once the magic support of the ruins is left for a short time, unless they are willing to give the wooden puppets better and more advanced magic crystals.

But in Yan Xu's hands, it can also be said that under the extremely sharp double-edged axe, these wooden puppets were cut down and dismantled from the core one after another. However, just in case, these wooden golems are not too badly damaged, and if there is a buyer, it can be easily repaired. After all, the nobles are very fond of buying these puppet golems to protect the family's treasury, and they don't have to worry about having no buyers.

In this regard, Yan Xu had to sigh that there was a treasure in the family, if ordinary people only had gold, silver and magic equipment in their eyes, the rest would be ignored. But in the eyes of the old dwarf, there are things everywhere that can be exchanged for money, there were no conditions before, but now no one has found this ruin, and they can maximize their benefits.

After killing a few wooden puppets, they can search with confidence, everyone nodded to each other, except for Lao Jian, everyone else is exploring the ruins for the first time, so they are all excited and expectant, and they can't wait to disperse into the room to search.

Each mage has a large number of apprentices as helpers, who are in fact exploited just as brutally as sweatshop workers. Many of the mage's jobs are very dangerous, such as taking care of the Warcraft as the target of the experiment, the apprentice itself is one of the sources of Warcraft food, and only the apprentice who is familiar with the habits of the Warcraft and is vigilant enough can survive completely.

Handling magical materials is also a very dangerous job, many magical materials are toxic and corrosive, even if there is no danger, some precious magical materials are very cumbersome to deal with, once the mistake destroys the quality of the material, the mage will definitely give him a fireball or make him the target of the experiment.

In addition, even if it is so hard and dangerous, mages rarely give apprentices guidance, and they can only rely on themselves to constantly try to learn and improve except for their work in exchange for reading magic books and magic materials. However, this process not only consumes precious magical resources, but also needs to be careful of the dangers that arise at all times, because the number of apprentices who die because of learning new magic is not a small number, it can be said that half of the number of apprentices who die unexpectedly.

The mortality rate of apprentices has been high for various reasons, but in order to learn, for resources, they have to use their lives to buy time for themselves, as long as they perform well enough, they can get more resources, and finally become mages, break away from the constraints of the original mages, and then scavenge resources, accept apprentices, and then start this cycle again.

It can be said that the more powerful the mage, the more apprentices there are, and even some formal mages will work for him, looking at the number of apprentice dormitories here, at the peak, I am afraid that there are hundreds of apprentices working for the mages here, so that Yan Xu and their chances of getting the harvest are greatly increased, and at the same time, they are more careful about the next exploration.

Each apprentice's room is independent and managed by the ruins, so the security is still guaranteed, at least the apprentices have no way to ban any magic. So after the ban expired, their search process went very smoothly, and it was easy to find what the apprentices were hiding in some corners.

Even if they are only the lowest level of mage apprentices, their net worth is not comparable to ordinary people, except for a few gold and silver coins and a small amount of magic materials, as well as the magic notes they have painstakingly recorded, these alone are enough to exchange for a knight's manor in any nobleman.

Occasionally, some of the best people still have one or two pieces of magic equipment or magic scrolls, but most of these treasures that were treasured back then have lost most of their magic power, and only a few pieces of magic equipment are just inferior goods with one or two attributes. It may be a rare treasure for ordinary people, but it is worthless for Yan Xu, whose attributes are starting from dozens of dollars, and in the end they were given to Xiaohong and Xiao Ming, which increased their combat effectiveness a little.

The apprentice's lab is at the end of the dormitory, where every apprentice dreams of squandering magical materials to an infinite extent, usually in dreams, of course.

Standing in front of the gate of the laboratory, Yan Xu did not use brutal methods, but waited for the dwarf to identify the magic trap on it. After all, he was not a professional mage or a thief, and Lao Jian was dazzled to distinguish that it was a fire-based primary magic trap. No matter how meticulous it is, it is impossible, even if the conclusion just now Lao Jian does not dare to guarantee that it is correct, after all, there are too many means of mages, and it is not impossible to hide the ice magic array under the fire attribute magic pattern, some powerful mages like to use this pit man the most, Lao Jian just bets that the other party will not be so boring, and he plays so many tricks on an apprentice laboratory.

Yan Xu is not afraid of the trap of the fire system, Lao Jian and they also saw Yan Xu ignite the flames, but this is not unique, after all, the races in this world are very diverse, and there are no longer a few humans with alien blood. Some professionals with special bloodlines or special professions can use elemental skills, which are more powerful than ordinary skills, but they are easy to be restrained because of their single attributes, but in general, the combat power is greater than that of the same level.