Richard left the long-haired woman and the group, flew all the way, and finally stopped at a tree in the forest.

Looking back at the direction of the long-haired woman and her group, Richard thought: According to what the long-haired woman said before, he can determine that the ancient ruins are in the western frontier of the Soma Alliance, excluding a large area in the direction of the White Valley, and there are about a dozen or so more suitable locations in the area of the remaining three directions.

If he wanted to, he could have rushed to these locations and found out.

However, having said that, he is more convinced of his own point of view: to open the ancient ruins, you must need a red seal and a blue seal to interpret the words on the seal.

In this way, the long-haired woman is destined to fail when a team of people go to explore, and they are destined to come back to cooperate with him.

He just waited, and didn't have to think too much.

Of course, he can also go a little more extreme, snatch the blue seal from the long-haired woman's team, and go to open the ancient ruins and explore alone.

However, from the contact he had just made, it was certain that the long-haired women's team was not ordinary, although it was impossible to determine the specific wizard level of the other party, but they were definitely not weak. In addition, the other party obviously has information in his hands that he doesn't know, and he doesn't have too strong a desire for the things in the ancient ruins, but just wants to use them as a reference for research.

All things considered, cooperating with the other party is a more worry-free choice.

And so the problem comes.

How did he spend his time before waiting for the long-haired woman to take the initiative to contact him and cooperate with him?

Back to Faroe City?

It's too far to go back, and there's no need.

Back to Ashwood?

Yes, but there is nothing to do but try the unpleasant beer in the tavern.

In that case, it is better to ......

Richard's eyebrows were slightly raised, and he looked in a direction deep in the forest, and had an idea.

"Brush!"

The next moment, Richard stepped on the tree, and flew deeper into the forest.

......

Time passed, and the night grew thicker.

After the intensity is extreme, it begins to fade again, and the rising sun rises over the eastern horizon as always, and a new day falls.

It's the morning of a new day.

"Bang!"

With a sound, a figure fell straight upwards and landed in a clearing, it was Richard.

Touching the ground with his feet and unloading the impact, Richard slowly stood up, and heard the sound of many beasts galloping around him, approaching him.

"Rustling ......"

The grass disturbed, and more than a dozen tall beasts appeared in the field of vision, looking vigilant.

Richard glanced at it, without any fear, but commented to himself: "Only so, according to the mood of Ximu when he was just released, I thought there was an army of hundreds of beasts, it seems that Ximu has not worked very hard recently." Is it that you have been out for too long and have become lazy?"

After speaking, Richard turned his head to look at one of the gray wolves among the dozen beasts, knowing that the other party had intelligence, and asked aloud: "I came to find your boss 'Ximu', where is he now?"

"Whew!"

The gray wolf barked in one direction to the side, and without much explanation, he glanced at Richard, grabbed his tail and led the other dozen or so beasts away in a hurry.

"Brush, brush, ......"

As soon as the gray wolf and the beasts left, there was a sound next to them, and after a while, they saw a tin wood nearly four meters high, tear away the trees, and walk to the clearing.

The sunlight cast by the sky, shining on the golden trunk of the tin wood, looked very sacred. The bark twisted, revealing a human face, looking at it with a bit of dissatisfaction.

Ximu looked at Richard and asked in a buzzing voice, "Hey, boy, what are you doing here?"

"Can't I come?" said Richard, "there's something going on nearby, so I'll stop by and take a look." ”

"Hmph, yes, could it be that you didn't worry about me and came here to check, right?" Ximu's tone was not polite, feeling a little suspicious.

Richard said: "If I really didn't worry about you, then I wouldn't have released you in the first place, and I would have locked you up in the Garden of Eden all the time." ”

Ximu: "......" was silent for a while, and he really couldn't refute it.

"Alright. Richard said, "It's not so much that I don't worry about you, in fact, I'm even more worried about the machinery on the production lines that you put here and let you be in charge of, during this time, you didn't break it for me, did you?"

"I'm a wise man of the tree, I know how to operate and how to break it, don't underestimate me!" Ximu said a little angrily, paused, changed his tone, and whispered, "But...... It's true that your machine is not very good, and every now and then there is a little problem, so you better fix it. ”

Richard: "So, you're still breaking it for me?"

"No!" Ximu said loudly, "I said, it's all a small problem, it doesn't affect production, and it can't be considered broken." ”

"Okay. Richard spread his hands, didn't dwell on the question, and turned to the other direction, "Then I'll take a look." ”

Ximu looked at Richard's back, retracted his gaze slightly, and then realized something, and turned his head to look to the side.

The tall gray wolf retreated before and reappeared, and for some reason, there were some blood stains on its paws. It looked at Ximu, and its mouth "whined", sounding a little pathetic, and from time to time it turned its head back, as if to indicate something.

Ximu looked in the direction indicated by the gray wolf, and the expression of the human face on the trunk suddenly became a little solemn.

"Uh-huh—"

The gray wolf barked again.

......

"Uh-huh--"

With the faint howl of a wolf echoing in his ears, Richard stepped several kilometers into the interior of the forest, into a cave dug up a hill.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he could feel the faintly corrosive energy floating, he held up a layer of golden protective energy, opened the "Yijia" state, and entered the cave without fear, and saw that there were many machines working here.

"Boom Boom", a beast-like machine, constantly roaring.

"Flutter and flutter", steam spews out from some pipe connections from time to time, leaving smoke all around.

On the stone wall, the incomparably complex magic patterns glow and darken regularly, which is the energy that is transmitted according to the plan.

In the corner, between several vertical cylinders, dazzling beams of light light light up from time to time, and high-energy lasers are generated and dissipated on a large scale.

Throughout the cave, there is a sense of chaos and order blending, bringing a strange atmosphere where technology and magic meet.

It looks a bit "steampunk", but it doesn't quite fit.

Li realized that it would be more appropriate to describe it in the style of "tech wizard".

Here, he commissioned the management of the plant in Ximu, which was specially used to purify the refined uranium ore powder from the Nancy and Gro mines to prepare for weapons-grade nuclear materials.

Speaking of which, in fact, as far as he is concerned, there is not much need to stock up on a large number of weapons-grade nuclear materials and make a large number of nuclear weapons. After all, he was no longer in the Truth Society, and he didn't have so many powerful enemies—now he was living and studying freely, and he was very comfortable.

But then again, Ximu, as a powerful energy source, signed a hundred-year contract with him, not exploiting Bai and not exploiting. Too many weapons-grade nuclear materials, although not very useful at the moment, are not useless, and if they happen to be used one day, then "the more the merrier".

There are Ximu in charge of providing energy, and Nancy and Gro are in charge of providing cheap raw materials, and the cost is frighteningly low, so don't be too polite.

With this in mind, Richard began inspecting the production line, spending hours dealing with a series of mechanical issues. Ensure that the three assembly lines in the cave can maintain at least one production within three months, no matter how bad it is, and nod with satisfaction and go out.

As he walked, he pondered whether to discuss with Ximu to add a few more production lines and increase output.

After all, in order to release Ximu at the beginning, he agreed to a series of conditions, and it was not difficult to think about it.

"Click......

Richard walked out of the cave and walked to where the tin wood was.

......