Chapter 197: Operation Kicking the Can
More than a decade has passed since Anne Cecil took real control of the lab. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Climbing up the ladder in this kind of place is certainly not as simple as doing experiments.
Luckily for her, the other researchers in the lab didn't realize this at the time, and most of them were confident that as long as they did the best research at hand, they didn't have to worry about their future. The brains of those guys were still stuck in the era when they were in a corner of the Aurora Kingdom, and they never noticed that it was now the era of the empire, and closely following the big people who controlled the empire was the foundation for survival.
Anne Cecil hardly had to exert any effort to deal with these guys who seemed to have the ability but only knew how to pounce on the square inch test bench in front of her, and even when she kicked those important people away, she didn't have to find any reason at all, anyway, those experimenters who never looked up would not see these at all.
As for the reason for this, it's just that what they have on the test bed is valuable.
Leaving such a valuable thing in the hands of these outdated thinking guys is the biggest waste. Anne Cecil thinks so.
Of course, this may reduce the efficiency of the laboratory's research somewhat, but the level of this laboratory is unmatched by any other institution in the entire Sunset Islands, and those scattered researchers and their poor equipment, even if this laboratory stagnates for ten years, there is probably no way to catch up.
Cecil, who has had a smooth ride for decades, certainly won't let the "strong adhesive on the road" accidentally affect his plans.
"Don't be too happy, the scope of this enchantment core can be expanded, what will happen if you are squeezed against the wall by this shield? I'd love to observe!" Cecil has only used this trick until now, it's not that she really has any teacher-student affection for Phil, it's just that expanding the scope of the enchantment core like this is really a bit expensive, and if it doesn't last minute, she doesn't want to use this way.
"This month's budget is probably going to be a lot more than that. She muttered under her breath and began fiddling with the controller in front of her.
The white guide paint on the ground began to shake slightly, emitting a low humming sound. Although it can't be seen, everyone can guess that the shield, which even Lukka can't perceive, should be expanding outward inch by inch.
However, this terrifying momentum suddenly stopped ten seconds later.
Thea was standing in the circle at the heart of the enchantment, and she overturned the jar in one of the nodes, spilling its contents all over the ground.
"It's disgusting, what's all this?" Thea wrinkled her nose, and in front of her was a puddle of viscous liquid, with some indistinguishable pieces of material faintly visible inside. The jar was half her height, and it contained a lot of contents.
Not only Luca, but everyone present, including Cecil, whose face was distorted in the broken mirror, was speechless in shock.
It was a full ten seconds before Lukka was the first to ask, "How did you get in?"
"Huh?" Thea looked confused, "I just walked in." ”
Of course, this is not normal, even if you don't think about how Thea wore the shield, just the jar that she overturned, it is not normal.
The enchantment was supposed to be in a fragile state of equilibrium, and only one node was broken through, which would definitely lead to an imbalance of the entire enchantment, and all kinds of energy would still be light, and if it was serious, it would be likely to blow up the entire building into ruins.
But now, even though the jar has left its original position, the stability of the barrier has not been destroyed, and it continues to operate.
But Anne Cecil, behind the mirror, knew that the barrier was only stable now, and no matter how she triggered the device in front of her, the shield she had obtained from the carapace of the stone sickle crab no longer responded.
"I'll kick and break a few more cans, you wait!" Thea said, about to stride.
"Wait! you must not move!" Shut up and suddenly shouted.
Lukka also found out what the problem was, and now there was nothing on the broken node.
Thea was standing in that position.
"The material that keeps the enchantment stable and intact is usually made of dragon scales. Different types of dragon scales can also provide additional effects, such as silver dragon scales will have a forbidden effect. Shut up and tried a metamorphosis in the air, but it still didn't work.
"Now I'm sure!" it said, flapping its wings, "and the silver dragon scales are used here, so you kick over a jar and stand on top of the node yourself, and you use it as the material for the node." ”
Lukka also understood what it meant to shut up: "So now there are only two effects of this enchantment that the silver dragon scales provide: keeping the enchantment stable, and suppressing magic. ”
"Is that shield not working?" Ollie protruded his greatsword in disbelief, the tip of which was unhindered.
"So what do I do now? You can't let me stand here all the time, can you?" Thea was a little anxious.
"Don't worry, the rest of us will go to the jars one by one. Lukka commanded everyone, "Listen to me and kick the four cans together, and at the same time, Thea, you jump away from that junction." ”
It was so simple that it took Luka less than half a minute to complete it perfectly.
"Is this the end?" Nora was a little confused, she felt that nothing was happening around her, no loud noise, no dazzling light, only the constant scolding of Anne Cecil from above the hall.
"It's supposed to be over, you try the Living Flame. Luca said.
When the living flame burned again in front of Nora, the fire elf was so excited that she cried directly, but in fact, this ability was only limited for more than an hour.
"However, that still doesn't explain why Thea can just walk in!" Shut up and still struggle with the question.
Phil pulled out a wooden stick in the shape of chopsticks, which he often used to stir solvents, from his backpack, and walked over to the broken jars.
He crouched down and muttered to himself as he picked up the mixed materials with his stick, "The carapace of the stone sickle crab has been used so much, the eternal cold crystal, this must have suppressed the fire, and uh, this smell, is it added to the excrement of the petrified lizard?"
Eventually, a half-dissolved piece of silver scale was flipped to the top.
The first time she saw this scale, Thea cried out: "Oh, this is my scale!"
However, the diameter of this dragon scale is fully forty centimeters, which shows that the size of its owner is far from being as small as Thea in the form of a young dragon.
"Look, don't you believe it, this is my scale before you were cheated like this!" Thea said.