(In order to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, tomorrow will be better, in addition, please recommend and collect, your support is my biggest motivation)

No one spoke.

Ever since Rachel fell asleep again, there had been silence in the cavern, save for the occasional gurgling sound of the stewed food in the pot.

Catherine slowly walked back to the lamp, staring at the ground in silent thought.

"It shouldn't be a group of people. Lina, who was immersed in reading, did not raise her head, still staring at the book, but said her thoughts: "There are several differences. ”

Catherine thought for a moment and said, "It really shouldn't be the same group of people, first, their fundamental purpose is different. The Moonlight Adventure Group encountered them for the purpose of arresting people, and the specific reason is unknown, while the Rachel they encountered was just for the purpose of killing. ”

"Second, there is too much difference in image. Lina continued Catherine's topic: "The two people who captured the man wore exactly the same cloak, which should belong to the standard, while the one who killed the man wore completely different clothes, and there was no similarity at all. If it really belongs to the same force, this should not be the case. ”

"Thirdly, there is also a big difference in strength. Catherine continued: "From Lisa's account, it can be seen that the two men they encountered, even if they were exhausted, were able to put up a brief resistance with the two strongest men in the group until she and the other escaped, and Rachel they encountered this ...... It's hard to say. Mr. Pannis, do you have any judgment on the strength of this man they met?"

"I? I haven't really met it, I don't have any opinions. Pannis prevaricated casually.

"It's okay, you haven't really seen it, it's just a rough analysis based on the current information. After all, it is also one of the responsibilities of the explorer to provide advice on possible future battles. Catherine was not dissatisfied with Pannis's prevarication, but looked directly at Pannis, and said flatly: "Judging from the fact that the other party made the cavemen dare not attack him by relying on his power alone, the other party's strength is probably very strong, and I think it is even possible that he has advanced to the legend." What do you say, Mr. Pannis?"

Pannis didn't answer, and Catherine didn't urge, just looked at him. After a long time, he sighed helplessly and looked up at Catherine: "Okay, you won." In my opinion, the other party is not a legend. ”

"Why, after all, the other party is an existence that can kill the golden primary. Catherine asked in detail.

Pannis pointed to Rachel as he fell asleep, "Because you saved her." ”

"I see. Catherine's eyes lit up, and she echoed approvingly: "Indeed, if the other party is really a legend, and as she said, he has been following him not far behind, he will never stop chasing her because he is afraid of our appearance, and it is almost impossible for three golden mid-level professionals plus Mr. Pannisy to challenge a legendary professional." In this way, the other party should indeed not be a legendary professional. ”

"But even if it's not, it should have touched the threshold of legend. Pannis poured a basin of cold water: "In the ordinary golden rank, no one can make the demonized caveman back down with coercion. ”

"As long as there are no advanced legends, even if it is the apex of the gold level, we have the ability to fight. Catherine encouraged everyone with confidence: "Everyone has this strength." ”

"So. Lina took out a bookmark, slowly sandwiched it between the pages, gently closed the book together, raised her head and said: "For the time being, consider the other party as two groups of people, one group of people is two or more gold intermediate or high-level professionals, and the other group of people should act alone, and their strength is above the gold legend, and no one knows the location of these two groups of people, so every time they fight, they must devote a part of their energy to sneak attack, right." ”

"That's it. Catherine nodded, "Do you have any questions?"

"I have. Lina stood up softly, slightly straightened her leather armor, every movement, every look, even the most discerning aristocratic etiquette teacher could not find a flaw: "Mr. Pennis, we originally thought of the lower cave too simply, and did not have a detailed search plan, just thinking that with the assistance of an excellent explorer, we can always find the location of the research room by searching the lower cave." After coming in today, I realized that with the scale of this place, if we searched according to the method we had envisioned before, I am afraid that we would not be able to find it in a few years. But I think that since you have taken on this task, you must be certain with certainty. And looking at how you're doing today isn't an aimless exploration. So, do you have any plans that we need to work with?"

Looking at Lina, who had changed not long since she set up camp, Pannis secretly showed a toothache and took out a tightly wrapped cowhide bag from her backpack. Peel open the layers of leather, and in the center is a map of lambskins that have been nitrated. Carefully unfolding the map, Pannis pointed to the map and said: "This is what I have drawn intermittently over the years, although the distribution of the monsters in it often changes, and the terrain sometimes changes due to the collapse of the cave, but it can always be a minimum reference." ”

"Wait a minute. Catherine interrupted Pannis's introduction and said to Lina, "Wake Vivien up first, she's fascinated again." ”

Lina also sighed helplessly, walked up to Vivian, patted her shoulder gently, and raised her voice slightly: "Vivian, Vivian, wake up." ”

Vivien was awakened from her thoughts, looked up at Lina in confusion, and suddenly jumped to the side like a ghost, pointed at Lina and shouted, "Hey, you, why are you ...... Forget it, I should have gotten used to it, and what is it this time?"

"Aristocratic arrogance, Anna. Lina introduced herself, folded her hands in front of her, and leaned forward slightly: "Sister asked me to call you, and now I am preparing to discuss the next move." What the hell are you thinking? It's been an hour now. ”

"Big discoveries, super big discoveries. Vivian heard Lina's question, her eyes lit up, her face was full of excitement, regardless of Lina's protest, she took Lina's hand and ran to Catherine to sit down, and her excited voice was a little out of voice: "My name is going to go down in history, Catherine, my dream is coming true, and our adventure party is about to become famous." Can you imagine, as long as my idea is verified, the gold will only become a burden to us in the future. ”

Hearing the word gold, Catherine's eyes began to glow: "What did you find? Is it related to those spores?"

"It's the spores. Vivien glanced at Rachel and found that she was sleeping deeply, so she said reassuringly, "The specific situation still needs to be studied at home in my laboratory, but as it stands, those spores can be used to improve the three potions." ”

"Ahem. Pannis coughed dryly and stood up, "I'll go check the nodes of the alert circle." ”

"No, you don't. Vivien grabbed the corner of Pannis's coat: "At least we're still teammates on the same team now, so we don't need to avoid it." ”

Pannis swept over Vivien, Lina, and Catherine in turn with a very strange gaze, and saw that the three girls all had a hint of a vague smile, and swept Vivien's hand that grabbed the corner of her clothes without flinching, and finally looked up at the dome of the cave, and sat down helplessly.

Catherine secretly made an admiring expression to Vivian, who smiled smugly and continued to lower her voice and said, "You can never imagine what kind of potion it is, a spiritual recovery potion, a meditation potion, and a sleeping potion. ”

"Ahh Lina exclaimed in surprise for the first time tonight, covering her lips lightly: "The three most important spellcasters?"

"That's right. Vivien's face was mysterious: "If everything goes well, with the characteristics of the spores, I can increase the magic recovery speed of the spirit recovery potion by fifty percent, and reduce the fatigue of the muscles caused by entering the meditation state after taking the meditation potion by twenty percent, and the meditation time can also be shortened by eighteen seconds, and the magic power recovered remains the same." As for the Sleep Potion, it can shorten the thirty-minute sleep time to twenty-five minutes, compressing it by a full five minutes. ”

"Two hundred and fifty years. Catherine asked suddenly.

"Yes, the formula of the Spiritual Recovery Elixir has not been improved for two hundred and fifty years, the Meditation Elixir has been two hundred and seventy years, and as for the Sleeping Elixir, it has not changed since it came out two hundred and seventy-seven years ago. Although Vivian's body remained stable, her lips were constantly trembling with excitement: "Vivian's name will be remembered by all spellcasters because of this, and I don't have to be afraid of unknown ......" At the end, I don't know what to remember, Vivian's eyes began to redden.

"You're going to make it. Catherine patted Vivien's head lightly: "We all believe in you, and we will succeed." ”

"But there's a problem. Pannisy didn't show much excitement: "The spores only last five minutes." ”

"It doesn't matter. Vivien waved her hand vigorously to strengthen her tone: "What you need to use is the inactive spores, the ones that have just erupted can't be used, I estimate that the ones that have just erupted will explode." ”

"But if these spores are so useful, why haven't the others found out?" said Pennis, who seemed to be pouring cold water on him, but in fact asked every question he could imagine: "Could there be anything else? ”

"I know you're kind, but you seem to be underestimating Vivien. The expression on Catherine's face was subtle, with a mindset of watching the excitement.

"I've just done a simple analysis with a drug analyzer, and as I perceived, I'm almost certain that I'm going to be successful. As for why didn't the others find out?" Vivien's immature face showed a sneer that stood at the apex and looked down on the ordinary beings: "I am one of the owners of the thirteen personal exclusive laboratories in the highest star tower of the Alchemy Mage Guild, the only researcher who was invited to enter the Star Tower with the strength of the gold level, and one of the seven members of the Alchemy Achievement Council, what I can discover, others may not be able to discover." ”

Hearing this long list of titles, Pannis was speechless, and could only change the topic with a dry cough: "In this case, can the mission be terminated? After all, the benefits of your project are much higher than this task." ”

"Of course not. Vivian looked at Pannis with a stupid look: "How can the improvement of potions succeed without a few years of accumulation, and if you don't complete the task, where will you get the funds to do research?" I don't want to quarrel with investors every day for a few thousand gold coins like those old people." And I can't just count on this achievement, and if it fails, I'm not so proud that I lose my mind and think that I will succeed. By the way, didn't you just say that we want to discuss the next step? I have a few more experiments to do in a moment, so don't waste any more time, let's get started. ”

"Okay. Pannis couldn't refute the question of who was delaying the time, and moved his finger on the map little by little: "This is where we came in, this is the Spore Forest, this is the location where we killed the five demonized hyenas, this is the location where we met the group of demonized bats just now, and along the road is their lair, we didn't go over, but went to the other side." This passage is the passage where we fought the cavemen, and after the battle, we walked down the lowest branch and arrived here. ”

"See, this is the cave where we are resting. Catherine studied the map intently.

"Now that I can understand it, let me tell you what I think. What you are looking for is a research laboratory, whether it is an alchemy laboratory, an engineering laboratory or a magic laboratory, the most important thing is energy. For a research laboratory of a certain size, I am afraid that it is difficult to maintain consumption only by spars, and there must be an energy source that can be converted and used at any time and is not afraid of waste. The Mage Towers in the Mage Nation are like this, they are all built in special locations to collect scattered energy for daily consumption. ”

"Definitely. Vivien affirmed, "Including the Starlight Tower, all Mage Towers are like that. ”

"In the lower caverns, there are only three stable sources of energy, ice energy, fire energy, and demonic energy. Among them, demonic energy can be ignored, and it is nothing more than two kinds of ice and flame. ”

"I see. Catherine pointed to a location on the map and said, "Before you set out, you said that in the lower caves, some locations are very hot, and some locations are surprisingly low, and these locations should be the convergence points of ice and fire energy, such as here." So, let's go through them one by one?"

"Well, there are a total of thirteen areas with abnormal temperatures that I have discovered, and I can explore all thirteen locations in two months at most. If none of the thirteen locations are targeted, new areas will need to be explored, in which case I can't guarantee that the mission will be completed within the deadline. ”

"It doesn't matter, as long as you have a goal. Catherine gave her final order for the evening: "Rest early today, tomorrow won't be easy." ”

"What is she going to do?" Pennis pointed to the sleeping Rachel.

"Ask her tomorrow if she wishes. Catherine had already decided.

"You still want to take her?" Pannis looked at Catherine in surprise, "Are you sure?"

"Of course. Catherine patted the chain mail on her body: "I'm a knight." ”