"It wasn't very unexpected. ”

Izzy next to him seemed to see Huai Shi's doubts, and replied with a smile: "Before Garandion became a great master, he also spent seventy years on Helios. ”

, one or two of you, how can you read minds!

"I'm not a mind reader, you're about to write my curiosity on your face. Izzy shrugged and smoked her cigar with pleasure.

And Huai Shi couldn't help but take out her mobile phone and take a selfie.

From beginning to end, he was just a cold and calm face, and since graduating from Ai Qing's training class, his expression control had never gone wrong.

Believe in him to have ghosts.

But here's the problem......

Galland Deon had been on Helios for seventy years?

But now he looks like he's in his fifties.

Huai Shi's expression twitched, and he asked softly, "Garandion, how old is he?"

"Ah, probably...... More than two hundred and ten?" Izzy thought for a moment and replied, "After all, he is a great grandmaster, and he has the skill to stay in the face, so it's not strange." ”

yes, it's an old monster again.

As if hearing the conversation between the two people at the back of the line, Garandion, who was at the front, swept his gaze, and quickly retracted it again, continuing to talk about his plan to explore and look back.

The first expedition team didn't require an in-depth investigation, and the task wasn't difficult, just to set up a safe site for further exploration at the internal entrance to the Helios Workshop.

It's the job of shooting base cars.

Commanded by the Grand Master from afar, everyone obeys orders.

After making sure that everyone understood the plan, Garandion bowed his head and motioned for the disciples to distribute the contents of the box.

It was a small bag large enough to fit on the arm of a spacesuit, and it contained a piece of crystal that shimmered brightly.

Landmarks.

To put it simply, a one-time return to the city scroll.

It only takes a short reading note to be able to return to the bridge of the Son of Leviathan immediately, well, Huai Shi doesn't know what the name of the place is, but it looks like a bridge, so it's called.

In addition to this, each person also has ten injectable silver blood potions, and ten essentia supplies.

In terms of cost alone, before people go out, everyone has already hung more than 50 million US dollars in supplies, not counting the cost of private customization such as boundary markers.

It's just that Huai Shi inevitably resurfaced doubts in his heart: things like boundary markers take a lot of time to make, have a narrow application area, and have many restrictions...... On top of that, once the manufacturing is complete, it faces a short shelf life of half a month.

Huai Shi was curious, how did she prepare so many people in such a short period of time?

Is the realm of the Great Grandmaster so awesome?

Because of Grand Master Mikhail, he once went deep to inquire about the records of the Grand Master.

Eleven people in the whole territory...... When Publius died, there were only ten left.

These ten people are all recognized as the pinnacle of alchemy in the world.

But all the alchemists couldn't understand the realm of the Great Grandmaster.

Because there is no such thing.

It's just a title.

Moreover, each alchemist is good at different aspects and categories, and it is difficult to have the same criteria for judging. However, every virtue of learning to cut the door with the stone cauldron, and the awarding of the name of every great master is cautious, and it will never be recognized if there is no truly epoch-making technological discovery and achievement.

This leads to the fact that it is absolutely impossible to reach that level of longevity and proficiency.

The alchemists who can become great grandmasters are all terrifying characters who are not one in ten thousand, and even one in billions.

When you reach this level, you can't generally be regarded as a 'person' in common sense.

And in the news and intelligence that Huai Shi learned, Garandion also belonged to the top layer among the great masters.

At the age of 210, I don't know how many calamities and miracles have been gathered, and I don't know how many storms and rains I have experienced.

He had seen firsthand how much damage Grand Master Mikhail could do when he lifted the table.

Once Dome Giant Atlas reaches completion, it will not be a problem to smash the entire Underworld.

Moreover, being able to hold a high-level position in the Stone Cauldron Society, which is full of factions and serious infighting, proves that he is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp.

For him, Huai Shi has gradually been unable to maintain his former admiration.

Rather, it is full of fear and defensiveness.

But Galandion didn't care.

After calmly arranging everything, the final link begins.

Answer questions for everyone involved.

One question per person.

Outside the door of the workshop, Izzy, who smoked a cigar, lay on the sofa in the lounge area, humming a song nonchalantly, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Have you thought about asking anything?"

"Nothing to ask. ”

Huai Shi shook her head.

Indeed, he may have only just achieved a little in the mysterious and complex field of alchemy, but that didn't stop him from having a lot of thighs around him.

Even if Tong Ji is often unreliable, she likes to play disappear.

But there are also Grand Master Mikhail on the Iron Crystal Throne who can ask for benefits, and closer there are countless alchemists in the alchemy workshop of the Ivory Tower who can teach them by hand.

No matter how bad it is, there is still a little incense in the abyss with the suncaster.

Huai Shi is not afraid of not being able to learn, what he is afraid of is that there are too many things and he can't finish learning.

For the time being, in a few years, I don't plan to put my heart and soul in alchemy into a field other than metallurgy.

Therefore, this reward is a bit of a chicken rib for him.

However, there is nothing to know about alchemy, and the rest of the place ...... He had a ton of questions to ask.

It was up to Garandion to answer his puzzles.

As Rachel hurried out the door, Izzy got up and waved his hand in.

After a few minutes, he came out leisurely.

It was like drinking a cup of tea, relaxed and enjoyable.

Beckoning to Huaishi.

It's your turn.

When Huai Shi pushed the door in, he saw the old man in front of the stove in the workshop.

"Garandion. ”

Huai Shi touched his chest and saluted.

"I think we can omit it if I want to be polite. ”

Galandion turned his head and looked at him, and the old pupils were so different from the fire that it was impossible to tell which one was brighter for a while.

"I'm curious about your question, Huaishi. "But until then, I want you to understand something—I don't want any surprises on this expedition, especially because of you." ”

"Doesn't I look so unreliable?" Huai Shi laughed.

"How can Tanbo's hero be a good-looking character?" Garlandion said indifferently: "I heard that Mikhail even used you as a 'furnace core fire', using you as the base point to carry out 'smelting of things' again, and you are also a great master, how can I underestimate his vision?"

He said: "For any great master, you are a rare 'catalyst', your fate, your style, your orientation, will make all contradictions arouse in the most thorough way. I had to take precautions. ”

After listening to Huai Shi, he was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help but shrug his shoulders: "I have to say that this is all a coincidence." ”

"Fate never coincides, Huai Shi, never. ”

Garandion lowered his head, stared at the metal statue with an angel's face at the front of his cane, and suddenly said, "Let me hear your question—what questions will the only remaining 'forger' in this world ask me for?"

"Actually, I don't have any alchemical doubts to ask you for answers. ”

Huai Shi raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows: "I don't really like this attitude and decision to treat me as a flammable object, although it seems reasonable...... But actually, I never wanted to be a stepping stone to anyone. ”

He told the old man in front of him: "Usually those people are asking for trouble. ”

"I have only one question, Grand Master Garand, my purpose is simple-"

Huai Shi raised his eyes and asked bluntly, "Where is the crystallization of Helios's reflection?"

Huaishi didn't care if Garandion was going to annex Helios, what he was going to do, and he didn't want to get involved in troubles that didn't belong to him.

Therefore, I am too lazy to play any more dumb riddles with Galandion.

The reason he came was as simple as that.

Anyway, the Crystal of Resurrection is not the only place like yours to have it, and it's a big deal that Helios blew him up and went to find it elsewhere.

No matter how bad it was, he simply went to collect the wool of the Astronomical Society.

Besides, he can't go to London, he can also go to Dongxia, he just doesn't want to owe new favors before the past wishes are repaid.

All roads lead to Rome, not Rome to Yenjing, not to Yenching, and Cairo, Yorkshire, St. Petersburg.

Why hang yourself from this tree?

Wouldn't I be able to eat hairy meat without you and the butcher?

Silent.

There was a long silence.

The old man raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Huai Shi.

That look seemed to be surprised, and it seemed like self-deprecation and helplessness, which was meaningful...... Only there is no confusion and incomprehension.

It's as if something was foreseen.

Of course, he knew where Helios's Afterglow Crystals were kept, and even knew it well, and it was precisely because of this that he felt extraordinarily ironic and emotional.

"I see...... Seems to be Russell's chosen heir?"

He shook his head in understanding, raised his palm towards the fire, and flicked his fingers.

So, the firelight jumped.

Magnificent flashes emerge from it, intertwine, metamorphose, and soon, the temperature fades from the changing firelight, and the final process is completed.

The countless changes in an instant, even the alchemy fire of Huai Shi is incomparable.

Eventually, a key appeared in front of Huai Shi.

"You're looking for the near and the far. ”

"If you make such a request while on the moon, I can even use the Cauldron Society's inventory in exchange for you going home." Of course, if you're willing to stay here until the exploration is over, I can make good on my promise when I return to the present world.

But I'm guessing you prefer to take it yourself. ”

"What is this?"

Huai Shi took the key and noticed the complex alchemy matrix in it, in which countless subtle essentia flowed, outlining a structure that was so complex that it was dizzying.

But the structure is of no use, it's just complicated, and it's hard to replicate.

It just exists as a verification of something.

"This is my credentials for permission in Helios. ”

"Although I have been away for so long, I am afraid that the rules are not so quick and easy to change. As far as I know, a treasure like the Echo Crystal should be kept in the vault of the core area: 'Between Hephaestus'. ”

As he moved, a complex map appeared in the air, pointing to the deepest part of Helios.

The heart of the Broken Labyrinth.

"However, now that the Helios core is out of control, all vigilance measures and defense matrices will be activated, and it will not be easy to get in. ”

He said, "As the one who has received the favor of Helios, I can't help you more, and what you want depends on your own ability." ”

"Thanks, the trouble doesn't get in the way. ”

Huai Shi weighed the key and threw it into her pocket.

It's just that before turning to leave, Huai Shi couldn't help but turn around and asked, "But I think that as a person who has received the favor of Helios, I'm afraid I shouldn't encourage others to take advantage of the fire, right?"

Garandion did not answer.

His face was as usual, but he just waved his hand.

Signal that it was time for him to go.

.

And so, a few hours later, at 6:10 p.m. in the present time.

The first members of the expedition team stood in front of the exit, repeatedly checking and checking all their equipment, put on their helmets, and prepared for their departure. Travel to the shattered chariot above Jupiter's orbit

Only Huai Shi was still squatting on the ground, looking at the friendly puppy in front of him, scratching his head.

- Is it really okay to bring this thing?