Volume 9: Outbreak Chapter 18: The Keeper of Knowledge

On the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, near the Odeni Coast, there is a castle known locally as Oswalt, which is located on a cliff about 200 meters from the coast, and the cliff is more than 30 meters high. Originally built in the late 18th century as a post to monitor the nearby coast, this small castle was gradually expanded by the Portuguese and then the English to become a small castle for hundreds of people.

More than 100 years have passed, Oswalt Castle has slowly faded out of people's sight, and its last prosperity can be traced back to the turn of the century in the early 21st century, when the Sydney government wanted to make this a new scenic spot, preparing to integrate Oswald Castle and the nearby beach, and transform it into a resort with beach bathing as the main function, but unfortunately, because it is more than 50 kilometers away from the city of Sydney, this plan was considered fantasy from the beginning. The City of Sydney simply didn't have the money to improve the area's transport and infrastructure, so the development was abandoned less than a year later, and Oswalt Castle was restored to peace.

It wasn't until three years ago that the castle was bought by an unknown wealthy man and a large area of nearby beach was designated as a private area, and the castle was finally restored to its former glory. Today, Oswalt Castle has been converted into a private museum, which can be visited for less than $1,000 in tickets.

What about liars! A thousand Australian dollars! Why don't you grab it!

So, the castle is now even more secluded!

For some, though, it's the best outcome!

Fat Ray walked to the castle's sea-facing lookout with a bath towel draped, there was no one near it, even if he ran naked here without worrying about being seen, there was no more suitable place for a person who has been defined as "death".

The current Lei Fat Man is completely different from the obese college student at the beginning, and his body after many times of strengthening seems to have shaped him from beginning to end, at this moment, even if he stands in front of his parents like this, I'm afraid no one can recognize him! With a height of nearly 1.8 meters, a perfect body like a fitness trainer, and the six glossy abdominal muscles in the abdomen, there are no traces of the past except for some of the former appearances that can be seen on the face.

"Sir, breakfast is ready!" A housekeeper walked up to the lookout and said respectfully to the fat man.

"Let's get here, the weather is good today, and the wind is not too strong!"

"Yes, sir! I'll let them bring breakfast! The butler bowed to the fat man again, and then left to arrange the master's breakfast.

In addition to Fat Thunder, the castle is also home to eight servants, including the butler, who are all appointed by the Snake to take care of the daily life of the Fat Man, and who are also the administrators of this private museum. As for Lei Fatzi, he is not among the residents registered with the City of Sydney.

Shortly after the housekeeper left, the mobile phone that was put aside suddenly rang, and Lei Fatzi opened it to see that it was a receipt message from the bank, showing that a sum of money had just been remitted to his bank account. There will be one such message every day, and the time is very stable, even more punctual than an alarm clock. But unexpectedly, today's message is not ordinary, because after Lei Fatzi read it, his originally relaxed expression immediately became official.

"Looks like something is wrong!" Lei Fatzi deleted this message, sat on the chair, and secretly thought, "It is estimated that Lao Chen and Xuzi also received it, hehe, I didn't expect to use it so soon!" ”

The two servants quickly placed all kinds of bread and meals on the small round table in front of Lei Fatzi, and poured him a glass of red wine, which is the habit of Lei Fatzi, since he began to live here two years ago, he slowly developed the habit of drinking a glass of red wine at every meal.

"Marlin, how much time is there until the next handover?" Lei Fat Man asked while slowly destroying the breakfast in front of him with the knife and fork in his hand.

Marin, the housekeeper, replied: "It was just handed over a week ago, and according to the plan, the next handover should be eight days later!" ”

Few people know that Fat Thunder, who has not explicitly joined the Snake of Eater, actually leads a team of tens of thousands of people who have been carrying out a mission for two years, and Oswalt Castle is the key core of this mission.

Unlike Chen Tao's Alan Shadow Song and Yu Bin's Ice Whisper Dry Bone, Lei Guang, the character of Lei Fat Man, withdrew from the adventure of their small team after making up his mind to plunge into the ocean of books and knowledge in order to become a real mage, and went into the libraries of the three undead empires wholeheartedly, hungry for the knowledge he needed.

The current level of Lei Guang is still maintained at the level of the third order, which is not only far behind Bin and others, but also cannot be compared to most ordinary players. It can be said that the time advantage brought by entering the world of Entagri in advance has disappeared in Lei Guang!

But Lei Guang is not dissatisfied with this, because he has already gained great satisfaction and benefits from this seemingly meaningless behavior!

With Yu Bin's help, Lei Guang joined the Necromancer Association two years ago, and showed excellent talent, and was appreciated by the legendary necromancer Arantir half a year later. The veteran necromancer, known as "The Mentor", took Ray Light as an apprentice and began to teach him about necromancy.

By the way, the undead knight Ernilla Glovin, who was once valued by Yu Bin and even begged Andrew, has been resurrected from the noble cemetery at the foot of Mount Murdore by Arrantiel at this time, and has become a heroic undead knight, and serves by Arrantiel's side.

After being cultivated by Alantir and having the background of the Necromancer Association, Lei Guang naturally became an "otaku" with peace of mind, immersed in the ocean of knowledge every day, which also brought him great benefits.

As we all know, players need to pay academic points and obtain corresponding academic scrolls from academic tutors to master this academic, but this mastery does not mean that players have understood this academic, and it is more like having the right to use this academic, rather than ownership.

This does not happen to the natives of the world of Ntagre, who can only master a certain scholarship after they fully understand it, so the aborigines have no so-called academic points, nor do they need to spend such things in exchange for the right to use it.

Lei Guang's approach is actually equivalent to giving up the convenience of becoming a player on his own initiative, and like the aborigines, he mastered academics through learning and understanding. The advantage of this is that the player can truly understand the content of this academic, and once it is fully mastered, it means that the player has the ownership of this academic, not only does not need to spend academic points, but can even teach this academic to other players.

In addition, the academic mastery in this way can bring greater bonuses and help to the player, and the skills based on these academics will also produce more powerful and less expensive effects than the skills mastered by ordinary players.

For example, the current Lei Guang has fully understood and mastered the basic academic science of magic, as well as several corresponding branch academics, which is also an important reason why he can be appreciated by Alantir. If you are an aborigine, it will take at least five years to fully master these studies!

And at the same time as learning about the world of Ntagre. Lei Guang also leads a team that translates and transcribes various information about the world of Ntagre. These people are scattered among the various races and nations of the continent, and they work day and night to memorize and translate the books in the libraries of various places, and then transcribe the memorized content to the computer after exiting the world of Ntagre. Academics, skills, various herbs, drawings, alchemy recipes, etc., as long as they are considered valuable, will be copied by the team led by Lei Guang and stored in a huge array of servers.

And this server array is located just underground in Oswalt Castle! The Serpent has hollowed out the entire interior of the cliff and transformed it into a vast underground space, where an array of servers far more advanced and larger than the root servers of the global Internet has been in operation for two years, and has stored a steady stream of knowledge from the world of Entagre.

At the same time, there is another group of people who collect all kinds of important scientific theories and knowledge in reality, including almost all basic science, machinery, manufacturing, medicine, etc., and this knowledge is also stored in this huge server array.

Every half month, a mini-submarine belonging to the Snake of Devouring Bodies arrives here, enters through a secret underwater passage on the nearby coast, and then arrives in the submarine cavern beneath Oswalt Castle, where some storage devices that are already stuffed with data are transported and new ones are brought in. The storage devices that were transported away would be sorted and selected in another place, copied into dozens of copies, and stored in secretly built vaults around the world.

Even in order to avoid the possibility of damage or destruction of electronic devices, the Serpent of the Body Eater printed this knowledge on specially made paper and parchment rolls through a secretly built printing plant, which was vacuumed and stored in the vault.

This is the truth of the so-called Frozen Project, a huge project led by the Seventh Pillar, Philinton Hemmer, whose ultimate purpose is to analyze the technologies of the two worlds and deduce a way to merge them and ultimately use them. The enhancement technology that the Devouring Serpent has developed so far is just a by-product of this plan.

There are several people like Lei Guang, who are either leading the collection and collation of relevant technology in the real world, or leading the intervention in commercial activities, providing corresponding financial and technical support for this project, in short, while everyone is looking at the benefits brought by the world of Entagre, the Devouring Serpent has begun to prepare for the future.

It is foreseeable that once the connection between the two worlds has some accidents and some serious consequences, the Snake will become the only existence in the world that has mastered the complete technology of the two worlds and has sufficient knowledge reserves.

"Eight days to go!" Lei Guang swallowed the last piece of soft bread and motioned for the two servants to take the plate away, "Recently, more and more people have learned various scripts, which has led to the continuous acceleration of transcription, and the equipment replacement once every half a month can no longer meet the requirements." ”

Even in the real world, all kinds of knowledge and documents are not completely recorded in English, and many of them are in some small languages, so it is necessary to translate these materials into English and then store them, which also involves errors and omissions caused by translation, and many technologies in history have been lost because of this.

The world of Entagre is even more serious in this regard, and many ancient texts use scripts that are either ancient elves or dragons, and even divine language documents that are recorded with runes. In order to translate these materials, the translator not only needs to master the corresponding language and writing, but also needs to have a good understanding of the history of that period and the habits of those ethnic groups, so that he can translate these materials into the lingua franca used today.

Even some sources with a relatively short history have this problem. The lingua franca of the world of Ntagrea was only used at the beginning of the Third Age, and it was not until the middle and late Third Age that the lingua franca was widely recognized and became the main language of communication between the various races.

Even now, many races still rigidly follow ancient traditions, and although they use the lingua franca in daily communication, they still use the script of their own race when recording information and knowledge, which on the one hand can minimize the leakage of information, and on the other hand, it also increases the mystery.

For example, the elves, even today, the elven language and the lingua franca are still the two official languages of the elves, and the elven language is the language used by the elves of the early days, and was also known as the sun script in the early days. In addition to this, there is the moon script used by the Moon Elves, the High Elf language used by the High Elves, and the Sukka language used by the Dark Elves. Small elven races such as Star Elves and Wood Elves also have their own language systems, and are not members of the corresponding race, making it almost impossible to understand the information represented by these words.

"However, changing the frequency of transportation requires the approval of Your Excellency the Seventh Pillar! Frequent submarine entry and exit also increases the risk of exposure, and the accident a few months ago almost made the Australian government find out! Butler Marin said worriedly.

Lei Fat Man waved his hand indifferently: "I will apply to Your Excellency the Seventh Pillar!" You just have to be ready! ”