Mary, a young low-ranking mage, walked down the stairs leading to the magic laboratory with heavy steps, the magic crystal lamps embedded in the corridors emitted a constant brightness, but the light did not dispel the uneasiness in her heart.

During this time, the apprentices in the entire tower were suffering from the same uneasiness - the old magician's mental problems seemed to be developing and worsening in a new direction, and the obedient and gloomy old man seemed to have been stimulated by the last "connection", he first asked the apprentices to dismantle the mental protection circles in the tower day and night, and then did not hesitate to dismantle one of the three magic laboratories, and set up a large number of incomprehensible new experimental devices inside, He locked himself in his new laboratory all day long, studying what the apprentices couldn't understand and didn't dare to inquire about, and he began to talk to himself more often, grunting, and sometimes suddenly dancing and laughing in the lab......

He seemed to be completely insane.

The only thing the apprentices feel happy about now is that the old mage's new madness seems to have no time to punish others, not a single apprentice has been whipped or scolded for so many days, and the old mage seems to have been completely immersed in his deranged mental world, and even forgot that he still has a group of apprentices.

So Mary felt that she was probably the unluckiest of all the apprentices, for the old mage Daniel had remembered himself in his madness, and had sent a servant to tell her to go to the new laboratory to find him......

Is it a new crazy experiment? Or is it an inexplicable punishment? Or was it just a casual greeting from the old mage in a state of delirium?

At the end of the stairs, a slightly dimly lit corridor appeared in front of me, and at the end of the corridor was the magic laboratory, and a slave in a short black robe came from the corridor, bent slightly in front of Mary, and said in a stiff and deep voice, "Master is waiting for you." ”

"I see." Mary nodded, and walked past the servant.

The slaves in the mage tower are all slaves purchased by the old mage, except for the old butler who doesn't know how old he is and is always unpredictable, all the slaves have undergone neuronal transformation surgery and spell brainwashing, and these stiff and emotionless "living dead" take care of the old mage and all the apprentices, and when necessary, also serve as experimental materials for the old mage.

Mary had feared them and sympathized with them, but now she was numb to the slaves of the living dead, no different from the puppets.

Anyway, everyone in this tower is pretty much the same.

She walked down the hallway, pushed open the door to the new lab, and saw that the old mage was already waiting for her inside—he had his back to the door, seemingly staring at something on the bench.

Mary took a breath and walked into the lab, "Mentor, are you looking for me?" ”

Several of the artificial nerve cords behind the old mage twitched, and then he turned and stared at the female apprentice with his brown eyes: "Mary, you came just in time, come here—close the door." ”

Mary walked over apprehensively and took a look at the newly renovated laboratory.

The shelves containing animal samples and potions had been moved elsewhere, and the original stone alchemy tables were gone, replaced by a large test bench in the center of the room, and several long tables and magic material storage cabinets on either side of the room.

The young female apprentice came to the laboratory table and was about to ask her instructor what he had to say, but she saw many drawings spread out on the laboratory table, and a lot of scratch paper full of calculations.

"You, you are the best math and science skill of all my apprentices, and I have chosen you - to complete the task assigned by my master with me!" The old mage glanced at Mary and said in an unquestioning tone, "You take these first, and make these questions!" ”

Do the question?

Mary was confused, but she didn't dare to disobey her mentor's orders, but she took the paper and began to read it carefully.

She had a hard time understanding, and although the paper was full of mathematical problems that could be solved with mathematical skills, the choice of words and sentences was very different from the magical concepts she had encountered before, but anyway, she still stubbornly read it.

Then, she began to try to use her understanding to solve the problem of calculating the scope of the rune domain.

Halfway through the solution, a thin finger suddenly stretched out from the side, Mary was startled, and then heard the words of the tutor coming from the side: "Idiot! Where's your square symbol?! ”

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Mary's forehead, but the expected electric shock or whipping did not come, and the mentor just said coldly, "What are you doing in a daze?" Change it! Do you want to get the question wrong?! ”

Mary hurriedly corrected her mistakes and continued to do so.

But she still had a hard time doing it—she knew all the math and physics, but the definitions and formulas were too new and abstract for her.

Comprehension of the questions added extra difficulty to her, so much so that things that she could have done would have gone wrong, and soon she heard her mentor yelling in her ear, "Don't you have a brain?!" The theoretical value is 277! The actual interference value has already exceeded it! You're still doing it?! ”

"Have you ever seen a magic array with rune knots that can be unpaired? That extra starting rune, are you going to take it into your head? ”

"Quartz sand is negative, it is negative! Do you think it's Mithril and Adamantite? Let you design the magic array, you will blow yourself up sooner or later! ”

The mentor's rebuke and roar rang out almost every once in a while, and each time Mary couldn't help but shudder, but slowly, she realized one thing—the mentor was actually teaching herself something.

This is the first time since the mentor was completely obsessed with performing the "connection" ritual a few years ago that he has once again taught the apprentice the actual content!

As soon as he was stunned, the mentor's voice sounded again: "What are you doing in a daze?" You still have two big questions to write! You are not allowed to eat until you finish your paper! ”

Mary quickly lowered her head and read the last two questions carefully, but a strange feeling came to her mind: Could it be ...... The mentor hasn't been completely crazy lately, but has really made a huge breakthrough in the study of magic, so he is completely immersed in the research?

She knew that the original cause of the old magician's mental problems was some desperate problems he encountered in the process of magical research, and it took decades of inability to break through the original powerful and wise genius mage to become gloomy and distorted, cold and twisted - the strange and terrible "connection" ritual only magnified his mental problems.

Ten minutes later, Mary pushed the manuscript paper to Daniel: "Mentor, I'm done with ......"

The old magician glanced at her, "Have you checked it?" ”

"I ...... Checked it. ”

"Let me see."

The old magician snatched the paper from Mary's hand, and read it carefully from beginning to end.

At that moment, I don't know if it was an illusion or not, Mary seemed to see a glimmer of a smile in the always gloomy face of her mentor.

"Hmm...... So-so," the old magician's expression changed slightly, and the next second he had regained his face, "It's far worse than when I did it, it took twice as long." ”

Mary heard something else from this sentence: Didn't the tutor come up with these questions himself? Did he do it again when he wrote the question?

Obviously, the old mage would not explain his words, and Mary did not have the courage to ask such details, she just lowered her head and listened to the old mage continue: "Although it took you a long time, you almost passed. Take it back, read it carefully, learn it all, and then teach it to the bunch of rubbish and idiots hiding at the bottom of the tower - tell them that I will test them in three days, and if they can't learn it, they will wait for me to make them the living dead. ”

Mary shrunk her neck, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Mentor, these things...... What is it used for? ”

"This is great knowledge!" The old mage opened his hands and said excitedly, obviously he was in a good mood at the moment, and he was very patient to explain to his apprentice, "It is the knowledge that my great master has given him! You have to study hard, and when you do, I'll teach you how to build a magic net, how to simplify the magic circle—this is your great honor, and it is your great honor to be able to serve your master! ”

Mary nodded hurriedly, and she began to doubt her optimistic estimate that her mentor was still insane.

He really went completely insane after coming into contact with a terrifying being and making a deal with it.

At this time, the old mage suddenly frowned, and then waved his hand impatiently: "Go out, that's all I can teach you today." My master is calling me, and I must respond immediately. ”

Mary knew that the "master" in the old mage's mouth was a terrifying mythical creature, or a similar mysterious existence, so she didn't dare to stay for a moment, and quickly nodded back.

Before leaving the laboratory, she heard the old mage shout from afar, "You are doing well, you can eat meat at night!" ”

Mary bowed, "Thank you, mentor. ”

After the young female apprentice left, the old mage muttered some muttered some slurred words, and then stood on a magic circle in the corner of the laboratory in a panic, and after activating the surrounding warning and protection runes, his spirit quickly emptied, and the nerve cords began to help him establish a connection with the surrounding runes.

In the next second, he saw that the environment around him was turned upside down, and the space with a high blue sky, endless water, and a large number of metal platforms appeared in front of him again.

Sure enough, as long as he is connected to the psychic network, he will inevitably be brought to this place - the control of the extraterritorial wanderer is absolute, and there are no loopholes to exploit at all.

The old mage had already given up resistance, and he respectfully bent down to the blonde-haired figure in front of him and saluted: "Master, what do you command?" ”

"Let's make some papers first," Gawain casually conjured up two sets of questions, "I'll see how you master." ”

Old Mage: "...... Obey your orders. ”

After a moment, Gawain's scolding began to sound:

"What about your brain? Forgot the basic definition of address mapping?! ”

"Who told you that open ports can't be disguised!"

"What does the only valid code mean? It must always match the mental frequency! Let you design the IP index, sooner or later you will burn your brain! ”

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"Finally...... Have you checked?! ”

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