After the "visit", the two apprentices rushed out of the hall like a rabbit with an arrow, and went straight to the gate of the mage's tower. From behind him came Pilkin's somewhat distorted shout through the empty hall:

"Thank you, thank you for being so enthusiastic, you are even more helpful than I originally thought, it is so ...... to know you"

"-That's it!" As the main entrance of the tower slammed shut behind them, Jin Shaolan and Finley were expressionless/gritted their teeth, not knowing whether to sigh hard or add up to the second half of what they hadn't heard.

After talking in unison, the two of them look at me, I look at you, and suddenly laughed like two little boys in a full-time boarding school.

After taking the map, Jin Shaolan and Finley first took a general look at the village together. After a brief acquaintance along the way, they found that it was a tedious but safe way to talk to the villagers who had become ghosts and gather information. Take a tour of the village, sense that the magic power of a certain location is slightly higher or lower than that of other places, and record it; Talk to the ghosts of the villagers and look for clues from their memories as the village has become the eerie it is now. Anyway, all they had to do was walk around the village, as long as they could sense the flow of magic and see ghosts - no wonder Pilkin told them that "a little aptitude is enough".

"It seems that the two side tasks given to us by the space are actually quite flexible." Finley laughed, "Just to be on the safe side, as long as we limit our investigation to the village, proper action will always keep us safe." ”

Jin Shaolan nodded in agreement. "Risks are not without risk; The extent to which Karazan's magic has been distorted, and what effect it will have on people, is unknown. "Just watch the dead villagers turn into wandering ghosts, and you know that being exposed to this distortion for a long time is never a good thing. Also, if you can see the ghost, it means that the ghost can see you...... Once the other party is a ghost full of malice and mental power enough to interfere with reality, the consequences are self-evident. "Luckily, we didn't stay long, so it didn't pose too much of a threat to us. Take care of the overly deserted places, stay alert, and run back to the tower at any unusual moment, and I think it should be fine. ”

"It's perfect for us." Finley held his right elbow with his left hand, and his free right hand supported the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. "'Dr. Juniper's Son. Gin)', do you have any clue about the next move? ”

Jin Shaolan thought for a moment, pressed his right hand on his left wrist, and said in a deep voice: "I plan to observe the ghosts of the villagers to see if there is anything special about them, and in addition, I will focus on talking to them and asking them if they have noticed something unusual before they died. You know, an anomaly of this magnitude is always going to show a little hint beforehand. 'Teacher', what about you? ”

"I think that if we want to record the different data presented by the divination crystal in different places, this can also be done at the same time as the survey, and the time when we can put it aside to sense and interact with the nearby magic is just the right time for us to talk to the villagers, so that we can kill two birds with one stone."

"Also, since we're new to the city and don't know anything about the specifics of this place, I think we should split up to collect intelligence and data for the sake of efficiency?"

"That's what I mean, and I agree with you very much!"

They analyzed it this way, and they did it. Happily and simply dividing the scope of activities, sincerely telling each other to be more careful, putting safety first in case of abnormalities, and saying goodbye to each other, Jin Shaolan and Finley each went in different directions. The two people who turned their backs looked quite confident in the next task, Jin Shaolan lowered her eyes, smiled, and looked smug; Finley rested his slender fingers on the side of the frame of his gold-rimmed glasses, his gaze relaxed and determined.

……

Two hours later. Returning according to the previous plan, under the hall of the Tower of Medivan, Jin Shaolan and Finley looked at each other and smiled. "Is it going well, 'Doctor Juniper'?" Finley laughed, he was as clean and tidy as he had been when he had set out this morning, "I'm lucky I didn't encounter any violent ghosts!" ”

"That's great," Jin Shaolan also replied with a smile, "Although I am not as good as you, I have strayed into the area where mana creatures roam two or three times, but fortunately, Lady Luck has not abandoned me, I noticed the danger in time and managed to escape before I could attract their attention." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a stack of paper full of handwriting and symbols, "So I have high expectations for my report." ”

"Each other," Finley said, pulling out his report, which was also neat, with a simple table and coordinate graph, "I'm an electronics engineer in the real world, so I'm confident, 'Doctor, 'You don't want to be beaten by me?' ”

As he spoke, Pilgin hurried out of the stairs leading to the library. "'Teacher', 'Juniper Berry', you're back! Great, it's great to have you here to help Karazhan. He rubbed his hands together, and his old-fashioned face radiated. The two of them understood his eagerness, and Pilgin also showed them his side quest during the gushing of his side, which was a long line of assisting the three Violet Eye mages in Karazhan, but in order to make progress, it would take a lot of people to offset the time spent on a lot of investigations, but Karazan's weirdness always scared away the apprentices brought by the mages, and the same was true for those who were sent in one after another. In the end, Pilkin, the contractor, even became the apprentice leader for many years - unfortunately, the apprentices who are characters in the plot are always frightened and run away, but his apprentices are not afraid of Karazhan's weirdness, but they will also run away as soon as they achieve their small goals.

"I'll see, I'll see......" pucked Pilkin, who at this time had a bit of his teacher's "nerdy" air. But he held the report of the two in his hand, flipped through it, and his face gradually sank. Finally, Pilgin stopped reading, and shook his hand in the report resentfully, as if it would throw them flying in the air the next moment:

"What is this?! What is it?! There's no real content, it's completely superficial! You call this a report?! ”

Pilkin's face sank as if it were about to drip water, and he waved his arms and scolded:

"Do you think that every person who comes has to take the divination crystal and go through the easiest places to measure, and repeat the old saying that every villager repeats ten or eight times?! Any person who is not afraid of ghosts can do it to your level, so why do you want the contractor to do it? I'm just going to make a report and apply, and hire ten or eight random villagers who can feel the flow of magic?! ”

The merciless reprimand made Jin Shaolan and Finley both hot. They did start the game in a very cautious way, Finley was cautious about this strange territory, and Jin Shaolan knew something about Karazando's monster farming. But as Pilkin said, how can there be anything in the world that can be rewarded without taking a little risk, and even more so in a nightmare world?

Before they could say anything in shame, Pirkin flicked his sleeves away, and the muffled sound of the hallway door seemed to slap them in the face. After a long time, Finley finally smiled self-deprecatingly and said:

"I think...... I don't think it's for nothing that other people don't want to see our charismatic contractors. ……”