Chapter 42: The Ruins. The Wizard's Laboratory
Compared to those 'magic lamps' made of magic crystals, the magic traps composed of complete magic crystals and exquisite alchemy have been immortal for thousands of years, of course, compared with the original power, it is no longer the same, but even so, it still opened Tate's eyes to all kinds of magic traps that he had only heard about or recorded in books.
Of course, compared to these magic traps themselves, Ye Qi, who was able to see through these magic traps one by one, was the one who really surprised him!
Could it be that there really exists in the world, the kind of genius who can be done just by looking at it?
Following Ye Qi, Tate's eyes were full of doubts - there was a question of Ye Qi's strength in the Dark World, and after the incident at the Nosd family's manor, no one questioned Ye Qi's strength because of his age; After all, the slashing of five Suns is the best evidence, which no one can refute; However, another theory arose: the bloodline theory!
Like the so-called aristocracy that emerged in the middle of the Age of Chaos; They claim to be gods and descendants of heroes, and they are born with incomparably noble bloodlines, and the children they give birth to are naturally just as noble - Ye Qi's dragon bloodline is extremely clear, and he knows the Tao as a person; Therefore, such a bloodline theory was directly set on Ye Qi's head; And remarks such as 'Ye Qi is extremely powerful because of the dragon's bloodline' also spread far and wide, after all, there is still a legend about the existence of the bloodline Lorant Sword Saint who also carries a dragon, so for a while, the bloodline theory has quite convincing power at the bottom of the Dark World Realm. It is recognized by many people.
But. The true powerhouses of the Dark World Realm are well aware of the twists and turns - bloodlines are not omnipotent. Only a truly strong person can exert the strength that the bloodline should have; Such words are undoubtedly incomprehensible to ordinary people; And for those who are really strong, it is disdainful to express it.
Therefore, many people who were contemporaries of Ye Qi had unrealistic ideas such as 'what if I also had the blood of a dragon' - although Tate would not be so shallow, he also had a slight similar tendency in the depths of his heart.
But when he saw Ye Qi at this moment. The trace of inclination in my heart disappeared unconsciously—after all, no matter how strong the ability of the bloodline is, it cannot completely replace the talent; An being that can reach the level of solar in terms of strength and reach equal heights in other aspects is already a point in itself.
It may be that discovering that there is nothing in the eyes of ordinary people to remove magic traps, but in the eyes of Tate, who is good at tracing and finding traces, it is more difficult than cultivating his own strength - in tracing and finding, a considerable part of the content about the production and arrangement of traps and how to find and remove them is involved; And a person who has not deliberately exercised these aspects cannot understand the difficulties at all; At the very least, Tate knew that his tracing could be at the level he was now. It is simply impossible to leave the exercise that he has been persisting for almost a decade.
And it is precisely because of the perseverance of the past ten years of training that he understands. Even if it was another ten years, even if he specialized in trapping, he would not be able to reach the level of Ye Qi in front of him; After all, the kind of magic trap that Ye Qi showed at the moment that didn't need to be investigated at all, and could not leave any magic traps without leaving any trace just by virtue of the naked eye's glance was really amazing; It's as if he had laid the traps in the first place.
Seeing that Ye Qi was much younger than himself, Tate couldn't think of any adjectives other than the word 'genius'.
"Wait!"
At the sound of Ye Qi's voice, Tate immediately stopped—having had the same experience more than ten times before, he would not have any luck, and thought it was no big deal; No one jokes with their own lives, especially the witchers who wander on the edges, they cherish life even more; Whether it's someone else's or your own.
"Need a 'Pathfinding Stone'?"
As he spoke, Tate took out an ordinary bullet and handed it to Ye Qi's hand.
"You've saved me at least ten Kimptons!"
Ye Qi smiled and took the bullet in the other party's hand - there are some magic traps that must be triggered with a certain amount of force, the first such trap Ye Qi encountered, he didn't think too much about it, he just took out a Kimpton and threw it over; After all, he doesn't have anything else on him that could be used as a 'pathstone' other than Kimpton.
As for the bullets of the azure roses?
Those special bursting bullets, Ye Qi is reluctant, basically five are one less than one - although the mechanical transformation has entered the level of mastery, but for the bursting bullets, the mastery-level mechanical transformation is undoubtedly impossible to make; I don't even know how to start; On the contrary, it was the blue rose, after reaching the mastery level, Ye Qi had a new idea, especially after alchemy also reached the mastery level, if it wasn't for the lack of suitable materials, he would have started to transform it a long time ago.
Obviously, when Colt modified the firearm for him, his original M500 was not intentional, or even just a random modification, and the bursting bullets that came with the gun were the focus - in this regard, when Ye Qi was ready to go to Shak again, he would add more again; Of course, if he had time, he would definitely ask Colt again about mechanical modification.
At the very least, he wanted to figure out how to explode bullets—naturally, this item was added to his agenda as well; Therefore, from a certain point of view, Ye Qi has become more and more urgent about Xia Ke's trip; Of course, this will have to wait until the return of the Holy See again; After all, the latter is the imminent thing.
"Tate, now step back ten yards!"
After Ye Qi, who was holding the yellow-orange-orange bullet in his hand, finished speaking, he aimed at the place where the magic fluctuation in the center of the ground was most violent, and threw it hard; At the same time, the whole person also quickly retreated - although he had not yet figured out which kind of magic trap was in front of him, its violent fluctuations were the most violent he had entered this corridor. Obviously not to be messed with; Fight against magic traps. Such a thought did not exist in Ye Qi's mind. It's wise to step back.
Airplanes!
The moment the bullet landed on the floor, the entire corridor sounded like an insect chirping, with a flash of blue light, I saw that the point where the bullet touched the floor, the cold appeared out of thin air, and rolled out violently in all directions - click, frost and ice appeared in the corridor with the rolling of the cold air, spreading to both ends respectively; That momentum didn't slow down until where Yech and Tate had been standing before. And it wasn't until they reached their feet that the chill gradually dissipated.
Bang Bang Bang ......
Involuntarily, Tate tapped on the frozen ground in front of him, and immediately made a dull sound.
"It's frozen solid, at least ten centimeters later, if it's the middle......"
Speaking of this, Tate couldn't help but shiver in the face of the cold air on his face - when the trap was triggered before, the cold suddenly appeared, and the speed of the surging and tumbling after that, he saw it in his eyes; Tate didn't think he could match that speed. Especially since the trap almost covered the corridor in front of him that was nearly fifty yards long, even for someone who was faster than him. It will also be frozen by the cold and strong.
"In the middle, even steel has to be frozen into ice slag in an instant!"
Walked to the point where the bullet landed before, the center of the magic trap erupted, looked up at the ceiling within reach, and looked down at the bullet that had been blurred in the ice, Ye Qi estimated the power of this trap - just with some moisture, it formed a full five feet of ice in an instant, and this is still after thousands of years of consumption, if it is this magic trap that has just been completed, it will definitely be able to completely freeze this section of the corridor!
It seems that this trap should have been intended to hinder the enemy from going deeper!
Retracting his gaze at Jian Bing, Ye Qi's eyes looked ahead—in his blind battle perception, this was the last place in his perception range with magical fluctuations that could form a threat; Although there are still some magic fluctuations in the front, the fluctuations that are basically like when the magic crystals are about to be completely exhausted are negligible; Obviously, the magic trap that I had just experienced was the last trap in the outer corridor that the dark wizard had activated after leaving his laboratory!
Then it's time for the apprentices' labs!
Ye Qi, who had asked Merlin, the young witch, about the situation in the dark wizard's laboratory, knew very well that a normal dark wizard's laboratory, in addition to the outer buildings and the core of its own laboratory, also has the apprentices' living room, laboratory, magic material storage center, and cultivation room for raising all kinds of special animals and plants, etc.
Of course, this is only what an ordinary wizard asks, and if it is a higher level wizard, they will choose the wizard tower.
Compared with ordinary wizard laboratories, the wizard tower is several times larger in the scale of ordinary laboratories, not only will there be an energy room to maintain the wizard tower and the stargazing platform that may appear on the top floor, but there should also be a giant magic array that can float and move the wizard tower at the bottom - and although the laboratory in front of him is not the structure of the wizard tower, its area is enough to tell Ye Qi that the identity of the wizard here is not ordinary; Everything that is in the Wizard's Tower, there will be it here, and even what the Wizard's Tower does not have, there will be here; After all, compared to the limited size of the wizard's tower, the vast underground space was enough for the wizard to store something.
Otherwise, he didn't have to choose to carve out such a huge space underneath, and even Ye Qi's blind fighting perception couldn't cover it; It is important to know that although the scope of the perception of the blind fight in the road is limited, it is enough to cover almost one-fifth of the area in the market of Sennuma District, even if the market in Sennuma District is not a crowded market, or a prosperous market in the traditional sense, but the area is not small, one-fifth of the area is enough to be the size of a small parking lot.
Maybe there will be an unexpected gain this time!
With this in mind, Leaf and Tate walked to the end of the hallway, and then walked along the wall, turning to the side; A slope of about thirty degrees downwards appeared in front of them again—from the moment they entered the cragy corridor, they had turned three times in succession, and each time in one direction; It was clear that the dark wizard's crater was in the shape of a 'mouth' that was constantly descending.
"We're at least thirty feet above the ground now!" After walking down a slope, Tate estimated it and said to Ye Qi, "And. Depending on the situation, we will have to go deeper! ”
"Don't worry. It shouldn't be too far! "Ye Qi passed another slope. Finally, sensing the familiar and steady fluctuations at the end of the distance, he couldn't help but smile - however, the feeling that the two sides were at different heights made Ye Qi frown and said, "Tate, have you noticed that this corridor is very similar to a special staircase?" ”
"A special staircase?"
"Hmmm! You don't notice that we're going down the hallway, but we're going to walk a little less without going down a slope; It's as if starting from the circular area of a cone that is punched down with a sharp tip. Circle by circle along the periphery and finally reach the bottom! After thinking about it for a while, Ye Qi said in conclusion.
"Looks like that!" Recalling the scene when he walked by, Tate nodded, and then asked in wonder, "How can there be such a building?" ”
"I don't know what to do? If we move on, we may know the answer! ”
"I'd love to see Jacob and Felibel more than the answer!"
Shrugging his shoulders, Tate said nonchalantly—apparently the witcher didn't care about the style of the building, he was more worried about his companions.
"Judging by the current situation. They're fine! Let's go, let's go! ”
Perceive the smooth fluctuations coming from inside through the blind fight. Ye Qi, who already knew that a few people in the Dao were fine, said with great confidence.
"I hope so!"
Tate looked at Ye Qi's confident back, and after praying in a low voice, he immediately quickened his pace and chased after him.
……
"Felibe, what the hell is going on?"
A cage with a circular dome that could only be bent over by an adult at the highest point resembled an enlarged birdcage; In particular, these cages are all hung from the ceiling, which makes people think of bird cages at first glance; Even Jacob in the cage was no exception - Jacob, who had just woken up, looked at the cage he was in, and then looked at Felibe, who was also staying in the cage not far away, and was squeezing at him, and thinking of the previous battle against the suddenly appeared puppet army, Jacob immediately whispered to Felibe with an ugly face.
"I don't know what to do!"
Fei Li looked at Jacob very innocently, and his face looked very aggrieved: "I just want to take Tate to see the lake that suddenly appeared!" Who knew that when Lu Dao walked there, he didn't see the lake, and he actually ran into two puppets, and as soon as he appeared, he knocked Tate unconscious; I had to fight and walk to lure the two puppets away, but I was knocked unconscious and brought here; And then you're carried by a bunch of puppets and you appear here! ”
"Felibe, you fellow! When I get out, I'll keep you in this cage for a month! ”
When a witcher beside Jacob awoke from a coma, and heard Feribe's answer, he immediately said angrily - Obviously, no witcher likes to be kept in a cage, especially a cage shaped like a birdcage, hanging high on the ceiling, as if it were admired; This humiliated all the witchers present, and the newly awake and irascible witcher spat in the palm of his hand, and had already jumped to the edge of the cage, holding the cage's iron rod the thickness of an adult's index finger with both hands, and began to break it to both sides.
Apparently, the witcher didn't think such a cage would be able to hold him.
"Hey, ay......"
The voice squeezed out of his throat, and his face turned red, no doubt that the witcher had exerted all his strength, but the iron rod of the cage did not move at all; Letting go of his hands, the witcher's eyes stared incredulously at the iron rod in front of him that he knew could be broken at will.
"Brace, don't waste your efforts, do you think I haven't tried? Even though you have more strength than I do, you can't bend these irons! Felibe sat in the cage and waved his hand at the witcher: "Moreover, those keyholes cannot be touched, and there will be electricity, enough to paralyze and faint again!" ”
"Not only that, but if I'm right, the moment these irons are bent, all those currents will erupt in an instant, enough to turn me into a 'roast bird'!" Jacob withdrew his gaze from the keyhole of the cage and spoke slowly in a peculiarly hoarse voice.
"So what do we do? Just waiting here? The impatient Brace pointed to the table under the cage where their weapons and equipment were kept, and exclaimed: "Look at the dust there, except for our traces, the rest of the place is already thick; It's been a long time since no one has been here! We're waiting here, no food, no water, and in a month we'll only have corpses left! ”
"No, a month! In a day or two at most, someone will come to us! Feribel grinned and turned his head to look at his friend, "Isn't it, Jacob?" ”
"Hmm!"
Jacob nodded slowly.
"You mean someone from headquarters?"
Brace also reacted a little at this time, and couldn't help but be surprised.
"Don't worry, it's Jacob's son-in-law this time! Although that guy is a little annoying, there is absolutely no problem with his ability! As soon as Felibe mentioned someone, he couldn't help but think of the gambling contract at that time, and immediately subconsciously pursed the corners of his mouth.
"Shak's Dragon?!"
Compared to Felibe, Brace exclaimed loudly.
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