After eating, he could basically go home, but Bai Ze was left behind by his father.

It was said that there was something for his cousin to tell him, and something for his cousin to pass on to him, and some things—for the old man was too lazy to call everyone over and ask him to tell each other, and let those who already knew tell each other.

"Aze, how are you eating?"

"Surprised, big brother, your cooking skills are really amazing, although your homemade instant noodles with homemade seasonings were already very delicious in the past summer vacation, but I didn't expect your skills in traditional dishes to be even more amazing, when did you practice such an authentic cooking skill?!"

When he came to the back kitchen, he looked at his cousin who was standing in front of the stove and carrying a wok, which was nearly one meter wide, and finished frying a hot dish in just two or three minutes, Bai Ze was amazed and almost applauded.

The prepared side dishes are placed on an empty table on one side, so that he can cook a steady stream of dishes that are full of color and flavor.

In addition to the boss and chef, there are four people squeezed in this kitchen that is only about 20 square meters, including a chef in his thirties who looks like an experienced chef, a sous chef in his twenties, and two people who make people wonder if there are adult cooks, who don't look like outsiders, but like work-study students.

None of these people are simple, even the two cooks who don't look a few years older than themselves have strong skills and excellent knife skills.

A person's knife light is like a shuttle, endless, seemingly bulky kitchen knife in his hand looks light and agile, and a large carp weighing dozens of catties is cleaned up in a breath, and nearly 100 pieces of crystal clear fish meat are ready to be put into the pot; One person's knife technique is wide open and close, powerful and powerful, each knife is deep and fast, accurate and ruthless, even the thick leg bones and cavity bones are under the meat chopping knife in his hand to become moderately sized and suitable for boiling.

And standing in front of another set of stoves of the sous chef is even more amazing, a piece of white noodles in his hand like the flying sword of the sword fairy envoy, shuttle and fly in the air, and in the blink of an eye it is divided into hundreds, each of which is as thin as a hair, when it falls into the boiling water, it quickly turns into a dragon that has a life and scatters away, and when it is immediately fished out by a colander and poured into the sea bowl that has a little clear soup, it is the finishing touch, forming a gorgeous posture like a peony blossom, which makes people dizzy.

The head chef, who was supposed to have been hired by his cousin with a high salary, never started to cook any specific dishes, but stood in front of a cooking table with no less than 100 kinds of ingredients and a table full of bottles and cans, just like a talented painter holding a palette and choosing his favorite dye, he easily prepared a plate of spices and placed them on the shelves marked with the name of the dish for people to use.

"I'm sorry, I'm going to make you wait a little longer, I have to finish frying these dishes before I can change shifts, you go to the lounge on the second floor and wait for me first, it's the room with the lounge sign on the door."

At this moment, it was the busiest time at noon, and the young man was a little sorry for disturbing his cousin's business at such a time, but when he heard this, he also retired first. Push open the glass door on the side of the main hall of the restaurant, you can enter the stairwell leading to the upper part of the stairs, the upper two floors are residential units, because it was built as a hotel in the past, even if it was renovated some time ago, but there was not much change to the original layout, and the rest room mentioned by my cousin was originally used to store bedding and bed sheets and other items, and a preparation room for waiters to rest - but now it has been converted into a rest room for hotel employees. and where my cousin works and lives on weekdays.

The lounge has two entrances, the large outer room has a long table, several chairs and a row of lockers, and a small room separated by a hollow wall on one side has a set of beds, wardrobes and a desktop computer for work. The rest room outside is not locked, perhaps because the valuables are placed in their respective lockers, and there are no valuables outside, but more because it is not open to tenants now, so there are no idle people waiting to walk around.

The young man who pulled out a chair and sat down, after waiting for a while, because he was used to taking a nap, suddenly felt a little sleepy at this moment, so after trying to pull the door of his cousin's room to no avail, he moved a few chairs and put them together, and lay down to rest temporarily as a simple bed.

- but I never thought that when I closed my eyes, I quickly fell asleep.

"Uh-huh?"

When he opened his eyes in a daze, what he saw were rows of quaint bookshelves neatly stacked in the dim candlelight, and on the long table where he was lying on his stomach were rows of hardcover books that exuded a faint smell of ink, as high as a city wall.

Bai Ze, who was stunned for a while, soon realized that he was back in the underground library of the ancient castle in the virtual city built on the imaginary space.

However, at this moment, he is in a completely different state from before-as if he has turned into some kind of ghost, and the things in his eyes have faded from their original appearance, and the colors and forms that are represented outside are all composed of some inexplicable thing tangled together, and the number and density of inexplicable things contained in different things are also very different, and the whole world has become fragile and full of voids in his eyes at this moment.

"It feels weird...... Oh, by the way, it looks like the experiment I did before has already dismantled the incarnation used to descend here?! ”

The boy floating in mid-air looked down to observe his body at the moment, but he didn't see anything, as if he only had a pair of eyes left at the moment.

He didn't expect that dismantling Avenger's servant body would lead to such serious consequences. After all, many contestants only participate by projecting spirit bodies, and at this moment, it seems that a person like him who has obtained a stable incarnation cannot enjoy the same treatment, but fortunately, he later put it back together, and he should have relied on that magic furnace as the core to descend here at this moment, otherwise he would probably lose the right to participate.

However, this form of existence, which does not have a materialized body at all, after being a little familiar with it, does not have the fatal flaws that Bai Ze is worried about that will seriously affect the "game experience".

"Interestingly, my form of existence at this moment should be more like some kind of spirit, or something in between."

Although he couldn't see his own limbs, he could feel his body manifest itself as his senses expanded—just as when he held out his hand to a book on a desk not far away, he could clearly feel the reward of holding it in his hand, and when he withdrew his arm, he could take it back in front of him.

Unfortunately, what he saw in this state was very different from what he had seen in the past.

Although the original shape of each object can be seen through the external outline, it has lost the original memory, the original color, texture, and the pattern and text drawn on it.

He could perceive the traces of the written words through his subtle perception of the ink attached to them, but he could not properly recognize the difference between the different colors and dyes, which made it impossible for him to observe the titles of the books anymore, and even the patterns drawn on them turned gray to his eyes, and he could not see anything.

"In this state, you can't see what's written on these at all—huh?"

When the boy opened the book, he didn't have time to see any of the contents of the book, and he was filled with words and pictures flying out of it like a swarm of swarms!

These words and drawings are not fragmented, but are interrelated and interconnected, like a large emoji patchwork of various words and symbols, or a picture of countless patterns that at first glance seem unrelated.

These vaguely closely linked words and patterns interpret and complement each other, and finally form several well-structured information clusters of different sizes, which are absorbed into his body, and then disappear with a faint feeling of dizziness.

"Uh- what is this? "The Basics of Alchemy", "The Transformation of Life and Spirit", and "Alchemy - The Order of the Demon"? ”

This knowledge is not new to him, he has previously systematically learned the "magic structure" of modern magic from Rin Tosaka and the "Fluid Magic" passed down from the Tosaka clan for generations, which originated from the enchantment school in classical spells, and recompiled according to modern magic theory, during this period, he also learned the secret methods used by the Tosaka clan to convert life force and magic, as well as several basic magic tricks, and mastered the basic spell-casting ability. Some time ago, I only spent a few days of self-study in the Maki family, and I mastered more than a dozen runes and spells of the spell school inherited by the Ma Tong clan from the ancient Mariki clan, although I didn't have time to carefully study the mysteries, but I also mastered the basic theory of the spell school, as well as the use and matching methods of these spells.

It is precisely because of this occult knowledge as a foundation that although he is in contact with the alchemy school for the first time, he can use his previous accumulation to touch the bypass, and correctly understand and absorb the knowledge that pours into his brain.

Nearly half an hour had passed since he had simply combed through the information he had just been instilled in his mind, but he was surprised to find that it was just that one contact that he had absorbed all the knowledge recorded in the book. And because this book is a hand-copied rare book, it also contains a lot of understanding and supplementation from the writer himself beyond the scope of written records, so that even if he does not have the accumulation of the past, he can smoothly understand the various secret words used in it. At this moment, because he has a foundation in the past, he now has a deeper understanding of the knowledge about the school of enchantment and the school of spells, and has discovered many deviations and even mistakes left over from the past.

You must know that just trying to read this book from beginning to end, even if a native German speaker reads it all the time, it will take at least two or three days to read it through, not to mention saving a lot of time and energy needed to translate the language, identify the secret words inside, and understand and memorize the key points. Seeing the joy of hunting, Bai Ze looked around the room with a large number of other stacks of books, and only felt a heartfelt sense of happiness, and he realized that he would definitely not be bored in the following period......

"Uh-my head hurts......"

Bai Ze, who was floating in mid-air, rubbed his non-existent head with his invisible hand, and did not get better in the slightest without any psychological comfort.

put the last book he picked up from the table back to its original position, and he finished reading the table of books that Ye Kexin recommended to him. It took more time than he expected, and more brain power and mind than he expected—the dizziness and nausea that he wanted to vomit but couldn't vomit made him give up his ambition to exhaust the entire stack, knowing that it was time for him to go out and breathe and relax.

"Strange, where have all the people gone? Haven't they come here yet? ”

Bai Ze, who did not leave from the main entrance and flew directly upwards, only felt a slight sense of restraint, and broke free from the shackles of the castle's layers of marble roofs and walls, and came to the outside air.

During this time, he did not see the soul fluctuations around him or the brilliance of the fire of life, even if he could see the light of life shining like stars in the forest thousands of kilometers away, but he did not find a figure similar to the classmates and seniors he was familiar with—strangely, he did not see the barrier that the senior sister said blocked the castle from the outside world, and he could easily enter and exit this place and move outside.

In addition, although he had expected it before he came here, he still felt strong self-blame and regret after he didn't find Saber. He didn't know how the girl who had the ambition to rebuild the kingdom of Great Britain, but who had no choice but to find out that she was nothing more than a hypocrite, was in the mood before she was overwhelmed when she was accidentally summoned out of this world into the warped void, but no matter what, he had no shirk.

"I remember that she mentioned that the purpose of this contest was to eliminate those who were not orthodox contestants, and although it happened to be the same goal as mine, I would like to start with this as the first attempt to make up for her last wish."

The young man, who had secretly made up his mind, found the right direction and flew towards the front.