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"I'm so hungry...... "Pannis and Catherine stepped on the early autumn sunset and returned to the mansion in the darkening sky. As soon as I pushed open the door of the foreign pavilion, I heard a mournful and miserable, tactful, and long tail sound sounding from the dark corner of the foreign pavilion.

As soon as Catherine entered the door, she suddenly heard such a voice, and was startled, but immediately said angrily: "Where did the ghost come from, go back to the realm of the dead." ”

"I'm not going back. The miserable voice maintained the previous weirdness: "I was starved to death, I am not reconciled." ”

Catherine took out a pack of snacks she had just bought from her bag and threw it over to the place where the voice came from: "Let you get up when it's almost dark, you deserve to starve to death." ”

Soon, the sound of Vivien clattering snacks could be heard in the darkness.

"Why don't you turn on the lights?" Catherine sighed and tapped the wall lightly, trying to turn on the living room light, but the light didn't turn on as she hoped: "Hey, why isn't the light on?"

"It should be that the small leyline drawing circle in the basement has failed. Vivien's mouth was full of snacks and said vaguely, "After all, that thing has to be re-debugged once a month, and I found out just now." ”

"You've figured out why don't you debug it. Catherine asked.

"Because I'm hungry. Vivien replied confidently, "I'm hungry and don't have the strength to work." ”

"You don't come much, there are still your snacks at home, you can't just go and get them. Catherine walked over and poked Vivien on the head and nagged, "Don't make excuses. ”

"No, no, eldest sister, I was just doing a psychological struggle. Vivien shook her head, freeing herself from the punishment of Catherine's finger poke on the head.

"What's going on in your heart?" Seeing that Vivien said very seriously, Catherine stopped bullying her.

"Just now I felt so hungry and wanted to find something to eat, but suddenly I remembered a problem, so I started to do a difficult psychological struggle. Vivien gestured very seriously and said, "In my head, a voice said to me, go find something to eat, if you don't look for food, you will starve to death." But another voice is a** me at the same time, I'm too tired to find food, so let's lie down in the chair for a while. The two voices have been fighting, inseparable, one moment this voice has the advantage, the other voice has the advantage, and then before they can decide the winner, you will come back, En, that's it. ”

"Finished?" Catherine looked at Vivien with unkind eyes, and suddenly shouted loudly, "When I'm done, get out of here and adjust the circle, go quickly." ”

"Yes. Vivien jumped up on the spot and rushed to her room at a fast speed: "I'll go get the tools." ”

"Pannis, you should come along. Catherine watched Vivien leave with a smile in her eyes: "Look at her." ”

"Huh, what do you say?" asked Pannis, confused.

"Normally, we don't leave her unoccupied unless she's in her own room. Catherine said, "Otherwise, with her ability to wander away, she might have left herself underneath and starved to death and would not have remembered to come up." ”

"Okay. Pannis nodded helplessly: "Where's the basement?"

"I'll take you. Vivien ran down the stairs in a hurry, guessing Catherine's arrangement without hearing it, and took Pannis's hand and ran to the basement: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

"Why are you in such a hurry all of a sudden?" Pannis, dragged by Vivien, involuntarily ran forward.

Vivien said as she ran, "Hurry up and adjust the circle, and I can continue to lie down." It's so tiring to stand up, but it's still comfortable to lie down. ”

Pannis laughed angrily at Vivien's reasoning: "Be careful that Catherine hears it, she's going to nag you again." ”

"Hmph, I'm not afraid. Vivien pretended to be disdainful, but her voice involuntarily lowered: "The eldest sister is like a nagging grandmother. Oops, we're here. ”

The basement of the Western-style building is different from what Pannis imagined, not cluttered and dusty. Perhaps because the girls hired sweepers to clean it every three days, the entire basement was even cleaner than the rooms on the ground level. The basement was very spacious, and all kinds of miscellaneous items were sorted and neatly arranged, but Pannith looked left and right, and he didn't see the existence of the circle in the basement.

"Don't look for it, it's not here. Vivien walked to the wall and opened a door: "The basement of this mansion is very large, and it is divided into four floors, and the cleaners can only enter the first and second floors, and they only know that there are two basements, and they don't know the other two. Lina occupies the third floor, but it is still half empty, I occupy the fourth floor, and the entire fourth floor is my laboratory. ”

Vivien said as she carried a lantern and descended the spiral stone staircase. Walking to the second basement floor, he had reached the end of the stairs, and there was no way down, but Pannis stared at a wall carefully: "It's there." ”

"It's a keen observation. Vivien sighed and grabbed Pannis's hand: "Remember this frequency and energy attribute, only in this way can you open the secret door normally." As long as the input is incorrect twice, or the secret door is opened abnormally, the protective circle behind it will be activated. In the back, I laid down eight protective circles, the first two will only prevent entry, but once someone forcibly breaks through the first two circles, the six circles behind will be launched, and the five offensive circles are stronger than the other, and as for the last circle, ......"

At this time, Vivian smiled like a little fox who had stolen a chicken, and her face was full of pride: "The last magic circle is a chaotic teleportation circle, random teleportation, I don't know where it will be teleported to, the possibility of a different space is the greatest, hehe." Okay, you open the door and try it. ”

Pannis pressed his palm against the door and tapped the wall at the frequency of the magic vibrations that Vivien had just demonstrated, and the secret door descended silently, revealing a space of less than ten square meters behind the secret door.

"This is it. Vivien was the first to walk into the small space: "This is both a defense center and a lifter, which can only be controlled by magic, so only Lina and I can use it, and the eldest sister can't come in, but this is after asking her opinion before transforming." ”

Pannis looked around and nodded: "This protection is perfect, even the sandman thieves may not be able to enter." ”

"Haha, of course, I'm a genius. Vivien put her hand on the wall, silently manipulating the magic circle, and the secret door that descended rose silently, returning to its original state, and at the same time, the small room began to descend at a uniform speed: "The third floor is Lina's, she has changed it into a library, and only novels are left in her room, and other collected books are placed here." But she's not very interested in those books, and she rarely comes down, and I'm basically reading them, haha. Let's go straight down to my level, and I'll transform it into several labs. ”

The door of the lifter was lowered slowly, and when Pannis came out, he realized that the lifter was embedded in a rather large column, and the space on the fourth basement floor was divided into seven or eight rooms, around which a circular structure was built.

"I don't have enough time today, so I won't take you to visit my laboratory, but there will be opportunities in the future. Vivien pushed open a door and led Pannith inside. There were a lot of unknown machines in the room behind the door, but there was still no magic circle.

"Where's the circle?" said Pannis.

"Circle...... On the fifth floor, hehe. Vivien smiled slyly, and opened another secret door on the wall of the laboratory: "The opening and closing method of this is the same as just now, come in, this time it will be longer, and it is very deep underneath." ”

"Fifth floor?" Pannis, stepping into the second lifter, asked, "Did you dig it?"

"Yes, Lina and I joined forces and used earth magic and earth magic to dig for a total of ten days. The elevator descended at a silent and uniform speed, and Vivien took the opportunity to explain to Pannis, "This was originally an ordinary foreign pavilion, and after discussing it with the three of us, we decided to rearrange it into a half-mage tower. It took me half a year to tear down and rebuild the walls of almost all the buildings above, and each wall was covered with a magic channel of the Mithril core magic steel shell, every room was illuminated with magic energy, the kitchen also had a freezer compartment to store food, and at critical moments, you could also call on the stored energy of the energy pool to launch large-scale offensive magic. Unfortunately, I have made the leyline drawing circle small, and it can only absorb some free magical energy, which is not comparable to the mage towers that occupy the intersection of the leyline energy, and can only launch a limited number of attacks, and cannot provide other functions other than lighting in addition to the energy needed to maintain the laboratory. But even so, it cost nearly 300,000 gold coins. ”

"Shhh Pannis took a breath of cold air, and his first reaction was, "Isn't Catherine crazy?"

"Hahaha, almost. Vivien laughed and replied, "But we have discussed before, I will pay 200,000 yuan, and they will each pay 50,000 yuan." Fortunately, in the past few years, counting the income from the adventures, and counting the income from some of my usual achievements, I basically returned the 200,000 yuan to the eldest sister, and Lina should have paid it off as well. ”

"It's not Catherine's money alone, that's fine. Pannis, who suddenly realized, teased, "No wonder he almost went crazy." ”

"Of course, we can't let the eldest sister go out alone, she has worked hard for several years to save the money to pay off part of the debt, how can we say that we will use it. ”

"Is this just a partial debt?" Pennis was frightened: "Her debt ......"

"I don't know, but many, many, many, very, very much. Vivien said, "It's here, I'm going to get to work." ”

After a long descent at a constant speed, the elevator finally stopped running, and according to the speed, the position here is at least 500 meters underground. Walking out of the elevator, Pannis saw that this was a confined space of more than fifty square meters, and all the walls and floors in the space, including the columns inlaid with the elevator, were covered with a layer of Mithril plating, and a very complex three-dimensional magic circle was densely depicted on the plating, and sometimes there was a glimmer of magic along the line of the magic circle.

"Next, when I have money and time, I'll renovate this place again. Vivien was busy changing tools on the ground as she said to Pannis, "Transform this place into a self-adjusting compound circle, like a real magic tower, so I don't have to go through the hassle." ”

"Just to be too lazy to come down and debug it once in a few months?" said Pennis amused, looking at Vivien.

"Of course. Vivien was not embarrassed by laziness at all: "Don't you think it's troublesome to come down and debug every once in a while? It will take up a lot of my rest time, and I must take a firm stance to avoid this kind of thing." ”