Vivien's mind was in turmoil, stumbling down the spiral staircase that led to the basement, the sound of familiar footsteps behind her, and even if she didn't look back, she could make out that it was Pannis's undisguised footsteps. Vivien ignored Pannis's tailgating and ran all the way to the second basement floor, opening the secret door on the wall leading to the third and fourth floors.

It was still the small space of a few square meters, and Vivien had just walked in to close the door, and Pannis sneaked in like a ghost, floating silently behind Vivien as if there was no weight. Vivien glared at Pannis, but Pannis looked at the wall of the elevator as if she didn't see it, as if the walls were carved with exquisite murals, Vivien glared angrily for a while, and found that Pannis had made up her mind to follow her all the time, and also felt helpless, sighed and closed the door of the elevator, and in the low roar of machinery, the elevator shook and began to slowly descend.

When the door of the lifter was reopened, it was already the exclusive space of Vivien on the fourth basement floor. Vivien also gave up trying to get rid of Pennis, and when he didn't exist, she stepped out of the elevator alone, stood in the circular hallway, thought about it, pushed open a nearby door and walked in.

As soon as you enter the door, you can smell a strong smell of herbs, which is mixed with a faint floral fragrance and a faint fishy smell. Inside the door is a circular space of about 30 square meters, surrounded by the walls of the room, there are eight long tables, each of which has a large number of wooden shelves, and the shelves are neatly stacked with transparent crystal bottles and crystal cups of various specifications. In addition, there is a small crystal energy furnace for heating on each of the eight tables, and a small sink is also installed in each of them, and on the right side of the table, there is a standing cabinet with a large number of drawers, and each drawer contains different materials, but surprisingly, there are no labels on the outside of these drawers, and there are nearly five hundred drawers in the eight cabinets, and I don't know how Vivien can distinguish the materials contained in each drawer. In addition to the eight long tables, there is a load-bearing column in the center of the room, around which several odd medium-sized instruments are placed in the middle of the room, with instruments of various shapes and unknown functions.

Vivien walked into this laboratory, found that Pannis had also come in very consciously, and couldn't help but glare at him again, but still didn't say anything, took a loose robe from the coat rack on the side of the door and put it on her body, and threw it to Pannis, who was in a daze on the side, and then bit her lip and thought about it for a while, put the goblin code disk as an excuse on the low cabinet that contained clothes and miscellaneous items at the door, walked to a long table without saying a word, silently took out a bunch of crystal cups and crystal bottles, and began to use water attribute magic to clean the container in front of the pool。 It is very convenient to use magic to clean the container, especially Vivian, a person with high magical control ability, who can shape the magic water formed by the elements into the form of the container, and then carefully and quickly clean every corner, pour out the water in the container after washing, as long as the elemental energy in the container is dispersed, the wet inner wall of the container will be dry again, and there is no need to go through controlled drying at all. After washing hundreds of small containers, Vivien lowered her head and thought for a moment, as if she had finally made a decision and began to get busy.

This was the first time Pannis had seen Vivien busy in the lab, and he leaned against the door of the lab with his arms folded around his chest, watching Vivien dance in front of the long table and perform the cleaning operations with rhythmic movements.

In reality, Vivien was barely moving. She wasn't even standing. There was a special chair with wheels in the lab, and Vivien sat on it. The chair was soft and comfortable, just fitting Vivien's figure, allowing her to sit on the chair semi-reclining, but with several belts installed on it, Vivien used the straps to secure her body and prevent herself from slipping off the chair.

After doing all this, it can be clearly felt that Vivian's body is paralyzed, if it weren't for the belt fixing, she would even have to hang her head down, but the fixed belt perfectly solves all the problems. Although she gave up control of her body, it didn't mean that she didn't move. If you strengthen the eyes with magic power, you can see a large number of magical threads emanating from Vivien's body, each of which performs different operations like tentacles.

So, the lab was busy. Drawers were constantly being opened, containers containing different alchemical materials were constantly moving around the long tables, the mortar was automatically grinding the hard monster teeth, the cutter was rotating to cut the thick crow grass roots into small pieces, the crystal energy furnace was heated with refined silver rat oil, and several unknown materials were mixed and poured into half a bottle of water, which was placed on a machine in the center of the laboratory, and the disc on the machine began to hum and rotate rapidly, driving several bottles on the disc to rotate at high speed. The chair with the wheels is at its most effective, and whenever it is necessary to confirm with a gaze, the magic thread will drive the chair to the target without any lag in the process.

In this way, Vivian, who was completely unable to act on her own, actually carried out the work that only multiple mages could do, and carried out more than ten different operations at the same time, and there was no conflict between the operations, as if she had more than ten different brains, and each operation was absolutely standard, without a little error.

Pannis watched Vivien's movements, but sighed softly imperceptibly, because he knew what the hidden price behind this ability that was enough to make most mages envy to death. It is a severe headache caused by frequent mental overdraft, the depression of not being able to move, not talking, and only blinking, the pain of dividing one's attention into countless parts to control the body at any time, otherwise you will fall and be paralyzed, and most importantly, the fear of death that may come at any time. How many of those who envy are willing to pay such a heavy price in exchange for such an ability? What's more, this ability has spent more than 10 years painstakingly cultivated in order to get back on his feet on his own.

"Don't be surprised, it's nothing. Hearing Pannis's sigh, but misunderstanding what Pannisy meant, Vivien, who should have lost the ability to speak, spoke, obviously these operations in front of her were not enough for her to spend all her energy: "My limit is to refine fifteen bottles of potions at the same time, which is three times more difficult than these operations now." With what I'm doing now, hehe, it's actually not as complicated as when I let myself move forward. ”

Pannis smiled behind Vivien's back and asked softly, "Do you need my help?"

"Do you have to come down with me, just to ask me if I want to help?" Vivien was still maintaining the alchemy operation, but the main body turned the chair to face Pannis, rolled her eyes and said, "No, didn't you come down and coax me to comfort me?"

"But do you need someone to coax you, do you need someone to comfort you?" said Pennis, crossing his arms and lazily asking rhetorically, "If you really need someone to do these things, it's not Vivien." ”

"What do you think Vivien should be like?" asked Vivien, "being impersonal, indifferent, numb, arrogant, always living in her own world, always taking for granted the care and love of others?"

"You see yourself that way? But I don't see it that way. The corners of Pannis's mouth turned up, and he said with a smile: "In my eyes, Vivian is firm, self-reliant, has perseverance and determination that ordinary people do not have, has self-confidence beyond ordinary people and has the strength to maintain this self-confidence, Vivian in my heart will always be the girl who laughs and says that I am a genius and achieves the corresponding achievements of genius, not the current sensitive and depressed, who will always fall into fear and panic, but dare not show the fear and pain in his heart to his relatives." ”

Vivien didn't speak, and continued the previous operation in a daze, finishing the more than ten bottles and cups flying in the air, but did not move on to the next step, but sighed lightly: "It's not that I don't dare, but I don't want you to worry about my business." I can bear all these pains and fears alone, and there is no need for you to bear them together. ”

"Do you remember? Just over twenty minutes ago, you were questioning why we didn't tell you about your treatment, you were still blaming Catherine for not hiding it from you, and you were still asking Catherine to share the pressure with you so that it could be a family. Pannis said funny: "But, how can it be changed to you, it is enough for you to bear it alone? We hide it from you, you feel sad, you tell Catherine that you should share the pain with you as a relative, have you ever thought about what Catherine will think when you endure the pain but hide it from her? You should know, among you girls, Catherine is the eldest sister, carrying everything for you, but in fact, she is the most sensitive and soft in the heart, have you ever thought about her feelings?"

"But that's something I can only do on my own. Vivien bit her lip and said, "Even if I tell you this kind of thing, you can't help me relieve my pain now, it can only increase your pressure, so why bother?"

"Indeed, we may not be able to help you relieve your pain and fear for the time being. Pannis nodded: "But if you say what is in your heart, at least it can relieve your stress and depression, and it can make you more relaxed mentally." Moreover, you should also think about Catherine, you can at least make her feel that you don't treat her as an outsider, and there is no estrangement between her, you say. ”

"I don't know, I don't know at all. Vivien looked at Pannis blankly and said blankly, "Are you saying that my behavior makes the eldest sister very sad?"

"Think for yourself, when Catherine and Lina hid it from you, you knew they meant well, but did you feel sad?" Pannis asked rhetorically, "Your feelings are their feelings, your actions are the same, and the final result is the same." Therefore, why do relatives have to hurt each other, maybe because only relatives really care about each other. (To be continued.) )