Chapter 285: Intelligence and Search Strategies
Fang Plover looked in that direction, and the warlocks who entered the hall were dressed in purple robes, and their hoods were tattooed with the abstract pattern of 'Revealing Eyes', and they were in the same hurry as the last time they had seen them—these people always seemed to be in this state, the leader was very tall, and Fang Plover always felt that he should have seen each other last time.
He looked at it for a while before he turned around and asked, "What are they doing here?" ”
Camila shook her head slightly, "I don't know, Mr. Ed. ”
"When was the last time these people came?"
Camila turned off the buzzing machine, looked over there, and replied, "About three days ago, they came once three days ago." ”
Fang Yu pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Is the president here?" ”
"President Erna went out earlier, and she told me to tell you, 'Don't think of another idea of anything in the guild!' The little girl pursed her lips a little amusedly and looked at him, "Hee-hee, that's what President Erna said, Mr. Eddard—"
Fang Yu was speechless for a while, he had set a lot of parts from Ms. Erna in the past few days in order to design 'Wasp-I', but what could he do, poverty was not his will - but if he thought about it carefully, it was really the fault of the two old guys, Arquette and Merriffin, if he had more than 10,000 points, would it still be like this?
However, it is expected that the president's wife will walk around him for the next two days.
Fang Yuan scratched his cheeks, but had already gotten the answer he wanted from Camilla.
The warlocks were walking towards the stairs on the second floor, and Fang Yu said to Camilla, "Then I'm sorry for you, Camilla, I'll go over there and have a look." ”
"Is there nothing else going on with Mr. Ed?"
Fang Yuan's jaw bowed: "Camilla, do you want to go over and have a look together?" ”
"I'll forget it," Camilla quickly shook her head, "I still have to read," she patted the thick book next to her seat. "Also, Mr. Edder needs to be careful, I've heard that those 'Secret Blowers' think very highly of themselves, and they don't have a good face for outsiders."
Fang Yu looked at her a little surprised, and heard the meaning of the little girl's words: "Camilla, have you ever had a conflict with them?" ”
Camila shook her head and said, "It doesn't count." ”
Fang Yu roughly understood what was going on, and smiled: "It's okay, I'll help you out." ”
"Huh?" Camilla was stunned and hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, Mr. Ed, no need." ”
But before she could finish the second half of her sentence, she saw Fang Yu hurriedly walking in that direction.
Camila hurriedly whispered, but Fang Yu didn't look back, she was speechless for a while—she couldn't help but look in that direction and shook her head and sighed, thinking that Mr. Ed was really exactly what President Erna said—not at all reassuring.
But Fang Yu wasn't all joking.
After he asked those questions, he actually had an idea in his heart, and he planned to go up and set up information. In the past, this kind of thing was not within his scope of operation, but under the familiar ears of the big cat man and Miss Attila, now he can be regarded as an old fritter.
He hurried up the stairs on the second floor, where a large oil painting hung on the wall at the corner of the staircase of the Tansnier Artisan Society, depicting a serious middle-aged man in a taupe coat, monocles, and a moustache on his lips.
Five platinum crosses are pinned to the collar of his coat to indicate his status as a master craftsman, who is the founder of the General Association of Craftsmen of Astania.
Fang Yu happened to catch up with the 'tail' of the warlock team there, he glanced down at his alchemist coat, and then stood up his collar before he called out to the people in front: "Wait, everyone. ”
The warlocks stopped one after another from back to front, and turned around.
Fang Yu took a light breath, went through how the big cat man set up information on weekdays in his heart, so as to make himself look a little more natural, and learned the tone of the middle-aged craftsman and asked:
"Guys, this is the Tansnir Artisan Guild, is there anything we can do to help?"
The warlocks looked back.
At this time, the leader whom he had recognized before separated from the others, walked down the stairs, came to him, and looked Fang Plover up and down—Fang Yu also noticed that the brown skin of this man's face under the hood was covered with criss-crossing wounds, and he could not help but be slightly startled.
There was a faint light purple tinge in the other party's eyes, but it was not a specific eye color for locals, and I heard that this was a major characteristic of the 'Secret Tellers', and it had something to do with the way they penetrated into the Internet network.
But Fang Yu also saw the depth and vigilance in these eyes.
The leader looked at him for a moment before asking, in a hoarse, tense voice, "Have we met?" ”
Fang Yu replied as usual, "I remember that you also came here once three days ago. ”
The leader pondered for a moment, and then glanced at him with some suspicion, Fang Yuan's heart was pounding, for fear that the other party's memory was too good, and he remembered the incident half a month ago.
But fortunately, no, the other party asked, "Then may I ask if President Erna is here?" ”
He obviously recognized the wrong person, thinking that Fang Yu was the alchemist of the Tansnir Artisan Guild, but in fact, it was not to blame that he was not cautious - wearing an alchemist coat, and taking the initiative to come up to talk to them, anyone could admit his mistake.
Who called Fang Yu too thick-skinned?
Hearing this question, Fang Yu was sure in his heart.
But he understood that he couldn't show it, but he was deliberately stunned for a moment before replying, "It's really unfortunate that Erna will go out with her." ”
After a pause, he looked at the man's expression and continued, "Although the president is not here, is there anything I can do that I can help with?" ”
The leading warlock looked back at the others, who were astrologers, but not prophets, nor prophets, nor could have they expected such a coincidental miss. He turned his head again, his gaze fell on Fang Yuan's face, his tense lips moved, and he said a short sentence:
"We need to use the Aether Tower."
Fang Yu's heart moved.
It looks like these people are searching for something.
The Aether Tower of the Craftsmen's Guild is a large mana probe, which is also found on floating ships, and the Electors intuitively refer to it as a 'radar', or an aether 'sonar array' - as both work on a similar principle, positioning by echoes.
It's just that the nature of the 'wave' is slightly different.
However, searching for different targets requires different scanning strategies, so to figure out what the other party is searching for, you need to know the specific search strategy.
However, Fang Yu maintained restraint, knowing that he couldn't ask this question, and even if he asked, he wouldn't answer. Fortunately, he had other ways to get the information, but there was another thing to figure out before then.
"Aether Tower?" Fang Yu asked, "Do you have any authorization?" ”
The man nodded, and took out a piece of letterhead and handed it to him—Fang Yu noticed that the letter had been opened, and it looked like it had been used once, and he remembered that these people had come to the Artisan Guild once three days ago, so it was likely that he had presented an authorization at that time.
He opened the envelope and took a cursory glance, and found that it was the authorization of the Tower of Stars and Moon, and there was also the seal of the six-pointed star array of the stars and moons on it, this was the Warlock Alliance of the Kaulin-Ishurian Continent, and it seemed that the people of the Council of the Stars and the Moon had entrusted these mystical sorcerers to do something.
He was a little curious, but he didn't ask much, and just handed the letterhead back untouched.
"I see, if the president was here, I would have agreed." Although he was not an alchemist of the Tanthanil Artisan Guild at all, he still nodded pretending and said, "But the Aether Tower is not under my jurisdiction, why don't I help you ask?" ”
The warlock didn't have much expression on his face, only nodded slightly.
Fang Yu could feel the coldness of the other party's attitude, and thought to himself, no wonder Camilla would describe it like that, these people did seem to have a natural arrogance. Fortunately, he didn't care about this, and said that he wanted to help Camilla get angry, so he just hung these people here.
So after saying goodbye to the warlocks, he went straight to the second floor, where most of the alchemists on duty knew him and greeted him kindly:
"President Erna isn't here, Eddard."
"You're not here at a bad time."
But Fang Yu only nodded to everyone and replied, "I heard about this from Camilla, but there are some mystics from the 'Revealed Eye' outside. ”
"They," the craftsman on duty looked abruptly, "I came here a few days ago." ”
Fang Yu said, "Those people seem to want to borrow the Aether Tower, do you know who is in charge of the daily affairs of the Aether Tower except for President Elna?" ”
A craftsman sitting on the sofa, with a chessboard in front of him, was amusing himself with chess pieces, and when he heard this question, he looked up and replied: "Generally speaking, it is old Faisal who is looking after the place." ”
"Where can I find him?"
"Ed, you're really enthusiastic."
Fang Yu smiled: "It's just a matter of doing it." ”
An alchemist pointed upstairs: "Old Faisal is in his own office on the fourth floor, and you can go up the stairs from there. ”
Fang Yu hurriedly thanked him.
He walked through the hall and up the spiral staircase, which led to the upper level of the Artisan Guild, which was a ring of overhanging cloisters, surrounded by different house numbers, some with doors open and others closed. Fang Yu continued to go up to the fourth floor, where the space was a little more cramped, and after going upstairs, he could only see four closed doors on all sides.
Fang Yu glanced at it, found the one labeled 'Orphen Aether Tower Management Room', walked over and knocked on the door.
After only a moment, an old voice came from inside:
"Please come in."
Fang Yu pushed the door in, and saw an old man sitting behind the desk opposite, with meticulously combed silver hair, wearing a crisp alchemist coat and several medals of honor on his chest, looking at him with a serious expression, giving people the feeling of a retired old general.
The other party took the first step and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Fang Yu replied straight to the point: "Mr. Faisal, my name is Ed. ”
The serious look on the old gentleman's face disappeared at once, he looked him up and down, and asked curiously, "So you are the one who made the president cry?" ”
Fang Yu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, thinking that he was famous in the Tansnier Craftsman Association, as if there was no one up and down who didn't know him. But in desperation, he could only nod his head, indicating that yes, it was under him.
The old gentleman asked in a puzzled tone, "I don't think you're anything remarkable, huh?" ”
"It's just a misunderstanding," Fang Yu Khan hurriedly changed the subject, "Actually, Mr. Faisal, I have something to ask you for help with. ”
"Say," replied the old man, "what is it?" ”
Because of Elna's orders, everyone in the association knew that they were doing things for Her Royal Highness the Princess, and this old gentleman was no exception.
"That's right, Mr. Faisal, I would like to ask if anyone used the Aether Tower three days ago?"
The old man paused for a moment before picking up his reading glasses and said, "Then you wait, I need to check." ”
Fang Yu looked at the other party's appearance and couldn't help but be curious: "What, is there a lot of people who use the Aether Tower?" ”
"That's not it," the old gentleman shook his head as he put his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, "If I'm not mistaken, only one group of people have used them these days." ”
Fang Yu opened his mouth wide, and suddenly felt that this matter was a little unreliable—he asked in a daze: "Then this still needs to be investigated?" ”
The other party raised his head, glanced at him through the frame, and shook his head with disdain: "Young man, it's still too frizzy, what do you know, this is called being serious and responsible." Of course, I can tell you the answer from memory, but do you think memory can be relied on? ”
"It's better to have a good memory than a bad pen, you know?" The old man sighed while saying: "But if you want to talk about memory, it's not me who blows, and many young people can't compare to it." ”
"No," Fang Yu was sweating profusely, "Mr. Faisal, isn't it just necessary to extract the scan records of the day?" ”
It's not a secret.
But the old man was stunned for a moment, slapped the table and said angrily: "Of course the record is reliable, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no mistakes, what do you know, boy, do you still want to check?" ”
Fang Yu immediately learned to be obedient, and nodded hurriedly: "dei, dei, dei, Mr. Faisal is right, you always have the final say." ”
Only then did the old man squint his eyes, revealing a teachable look.
Fortunately, it didn't take much time to check the information, and he probably realized that his ideas were not very reliable, and Fang Yu saw that the old gentleman was just pretending to flip through the form there - he endured it for a while, and he didn't tell the other party:
The form is reversed.
Fortunately, he thinks that his EQ is still a little higher than Luo Yu, if the latter is here, he may have been blasted out.
And after Fang Yu got the scanning drawings, he immediately found that he couldn't understand them, the scanning record of the Aether Tower was not a text report, but a distribution chart, up and down coordinate points, ordinary people couldn't understand it without annotations.
But the old man obviously expected this, and said proudly: "Young people are young people, now you understand, do you think you can understand the chart when you get it in your hand?" Are you an aether analysis professional, Crystal Craftsman? Have you studied the theory of aether distribution? ”
Fang Yu was dumbfounded, he was really a crystal craftsman - but specifically, not every crystal craftsman could understand this diagram, the development of magic technology so far, just like the technology on the earth, the classification has been very detailed.
All-rounders like Ed and his pupil Hain Plumm in the Numerin era are rare, if not none, today. Moreover, the reason why the Noumerin elves can have generalist alchemists is also related to their long lives.
The old man commented on him honestly, and finally came to the conclusion: "So the young man is frizzy, now you understand why I checked it first, don't listen to the old man, suffer in front of you." ”
Fang Yu was speechless for a while, thinking to himself that this old gentleman had learned some colloquialisms in the third division quite well, but what does it have to do with whether he can read the chart or not and check it before, and you just took the table backwards, right?
It's just absent-minded, and it's not checking, is it?
But he didn't dare to say that, and he probably figured out the other party's routine, so he only said respectfully: "Please Mr. Faisal help me take a look." ”
The old man's vanity was greatly satisfied, so he took the chart, pointed to the distribution data on it and said to him: "This is actually very simple, the coordinates are up and down, left and right four areas refer to the direction, the higher the data distribution, the more dense the magic reaction-
Our world is full of aetheric magic, so even scanning into an empty place will have clutter back. But the echoes of real magical creatures, or magical items, are much denser than the feedback of clutter, like here, and here—"
He tapped a few places on the page with his hand, and Fang Yu glanced at it, and found that it was the same direction he had seen the mystics go that day.
A thought flashed through his mind, for that was the same direction in which their later investigation had shown that the slave traders had left, and he had not connected the two events before. So it could be that these mystics were also tracking down the slave traders?
No, it should be said that it is a blind follower.
He thought for a moment before asking, "Mr. Faisal, what is the scanning strategy for this chart?" ”
This question made the old man look at him: "I didn't expect you to know this, it seems that you are also knowledgeable, let me take a look......" He said while holding his glasses, and then muttered: "Strange, I haven't seen this strategy yet......"
"High mana feedback, low elemental response...... What kind of messy strategy is this," the old man suddenly realized: "I remember, I see, this chart was made by those mystics three days ago, and I said that these laymen don't know anything about magic exploration at all. ”
He waved the chart in his hand with some excitement: "Look at what kind of mess this is, I'll just say how can there be a scanning strategy that I can't understand......"
But Fang Yu only remained silent.
The old man didn't understand it, but he did, and he probably didn't understand this scanning strategy in the past, but after the previous adventures, he understood it now. This is indeed a relatively rare strategy, as the average person uses crystal towers to explore the location of magical items, magical creatures, or floating ships.
Most of the aether magic is elemental.
But there is only one class, which requires a low elemental reaction.
In other words, a class of elements other than the normal five types of elements is required.
Dark elements.
The sixth element does not exist in the mouth of scholars.
Those mystical sorcerers are searching for 'demons'.
Fang Yu looked at the excited old man, and after getting the answer he wanted, he didn't seem as eager as he had at the beginning, and he only reminded the other party out of kindness: "That, Mr. Faisal, I have to remind you of one thing. ”
"How?"
"The mystics you speak of, they're down there."
"What!"
"They dare to come!"
The old man was furious.
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