"Poor Bell and Susanna, they probably never imagined before they died, that their bodies would not be found until seven hundred years later. Poor little Anne will never be able to wait for her parents to come home. Lina sighed faintly and closed Susanna's journal.

"Therefore, the most important thing is to cherish the happiness that is close at hand. Catherine also sat at the desk, as if she had thought of something, her face was not very good, and she sighed with feeling: "Parents often leave their children's side for the sake of their children's future, in fact, they don't understand that what children need is not an ethereal future, but only to grow up under the care of their parents, for children, this is real happiness." Unfortunately, when parents find out about this, it's often too late, and there's no room for recovery. ”

Vivien walked up to Catherine, stood on tiptoe comfortingly, patted Catherine's shoulder gently, leaned over to Catherine's face and kissed her heavily: "Don't be sad, I hurt you for them." ”

Catherine laughed angrily, grabbed Vivien and slapped her ass a few times before letting her run away: "Don't make a fuss, what do you guys think about this information?"

"What else can you think. Vivien shrugged: "I already know the location, it's in the cryopreservation room in the core area, we can just go there." ”

"Do you know where the core is, and where the cryopreservation room is?" asked Catherine.

"Of course. Vivien clapped her hands and said confidently, "I don't know." ”

Seeing Catherine standing up and beating herself again, Vivien replied seriously: "Okay, okay, eldest sister, you have something to say, sit down and sit down, in fact, I know." Didn't Engram Ribel mention the core area just now? After passing through the residential area, it is the R&D area, and the R&D area used to be the experimental field, and then it is the core area. As for the cryogenic storage room, it was simpler, and when I got to the core area, I found a man-made magic pipe, took it apart, and walked along the pipe to find it. ”

"Okay, then leave it to ......" Catherine's eyebrows suddenly furrowed: "Put it down." ”

Gasteen was picking up the soft leather money pouch that had been placed with the diary from under the lizard-tail gum, and when he heard Catherine's words, he looked at Catherine very inexplicably.

"I said, please put it down. Catherine's face sank, and she said word by word.

"Why?" Gasteen asked suspiciously, suddenly as if he understood something, "This is what we found out together, and Rachel and I also have a share, you can't kick us out of the way and take the money yourself." ”

Rachel shook his head and whispered, "Gastin, put the money down." ”

Gasteen looked at Rachel puzzled: "Why do you say that? ”

"That's not ours. Rachel replied lightly, "It doesn't belong to anyone here." ”

"Why?" Gasteen raised his voice with some dissatisfaction: "These are ownerless money. ”

"Not really. Rachel replied softly, "These are the rewards of the mission, the last task of a parent's life." Or are you going to take on this task?"

Gasteen looked at Rachel in surprise, "How did you become so rigid, you weren't like that before." Anyway, no one objected, no one knew, and it wouldn't affect our reputation, so why didn't we take it?"

"I've done it wrong before. Rachel secretly glanced at Catherine gratefully: "I've figured out a lot of things these days, I understand what is right and what is wrong, I used to go the wrong way, and now I want to get back to the right path, I think, it's not too late to start now." What about you? Don't you want to go back to the right path?"

"I, I, I didn't do anything wrong. Gasteen looked at Rachel with some weakness: "Back to what?"

Rachel closed his eyes in disappointment and sighed, "Put the money bag down, Gastin, no one here will agree to you touching this money, it's a matter of principle." ”

"Yes, it's a matter of principle. Catherine shook Rachel's arm vigorously and smiled approvingly: "It's our money, we must get it, it's not our money, we can't even touch it, that's our principle." In this situation, no one has the ability to fulfill the two of them on their deathbed commission, so no one can take this money, even if it is put here and eventually rotten, it is not allowed to be taken. So, please put down your money bag. ”

"Are you all crazy?" Gasteen waved his hand angrily and shouted, "This is two hundred Mithril coins, a full twenty thousand gold coins, you look at the ordinary people outside, they may not be able to earn twenty thousand gold coins after working hard for several lifetimes, you actually, you actually want to throw it here? Your brain is fine, right?"

"Twenty thousand gold coins is indeed not a small amount. Catherine nodded: "Even for us, it's not a lot." However, in exchange for our principles and our conscience, twenty thousand gold coins are not enough. Not to mention 20,000, even 1,000 and 20,000 gold coins are far from enough. ”

"Actually, for me, 10,000 and 20,000 is about the same. Vivien whispered to Pennis.

"I don't need 10,000, 1,000 is enough. Lina raised her gaze from the book and said lightly.

"You two shut up. Catherine looked back at the deliberate Vivien and Lina.

"You're all crazy. Gasteen held the money bag tightly, his eyes swirled over the other five people, and found that none of them supported him, and finally threw the money bag back on the bed angrily, and opened the door of the room angrily, but looked at the empty corridor and hesitated for a while, turned his head back to the room and secretly angry.

Ignoring Gasteen, Catherine asked, "Pannis, do you have any problems with this diary?"

"The diary is fine. Pannis touched his chin and pondered, "But there are a few common sense issues that come with a diary that I don't understand. ”

"What common sense questions?" Lina asked with interest, "I'll help you look up the book." ”

"First question, earthquakes" Pannis stretched out a finger: "According to the records in the diary, it can be inferred that there is a precursor to the explosion of demonic energy, that is, frequent earthquakes. However, this is not recorded in any of the records. In other words, a normal burst of demonic energy does not cause an earthquake. ”

"There is such a situation. Lina shook her head and retorted, "I didn't have that book with me, but I still remember it." In the year 786 of the Third Age, the city of Menica in the Elven Kingdom had a large-scale demonic energy pollution, which was accompanied by frequent earthquakes. Fortunately, Menica City is a surface city, and the demonic energy is directly exposed to the sunlight and moonlight, and it is quickly consumed, so it does not cause much tragedy. Later, it was believed that the demonic energy originally erupted in the depths of the underground of Menica City, and that it should have slowly penetrated upwards under normal conditions, perhaps hundreds of years before it could penetrate the surface, and the concentration would be much lower. However, because the earthquake caused some cracks in the ground, creating a good channel for the infiltration of demonic energy, it will erupt directly on the surface shortly after the earthquake. I guess this is also the reason here, not because of the demonic energy that caused the earthquake, but because the earthquake caused the demonic energy to explode in advance and high concentration. ”

"Okay. Pannis nodded and raised a second finger: "Second question, you feel it, the concentration of demonic energy here is now very light, even much lighter than in the cave outside." ”

"That's right. Vivien said, "Now even ordinary people here can stay for a month without being completely demonized, and Gold-level professionals can even live here for four to six months. ”

"yes, that's weird. Lina also reacted: "Looking at the situation written in the diary, the concentration of demonic energy is obviously very high, and it is said that in seven hundred years, the concentration of demonic energy will not escape to this point." ”

"There is only one explanation. Vivien tapped on the table to reinforce her tone, "This is the source. The source of the demonic energy burst is below the research institute, and in fact, the total amount of demonic energy is not large. Only in this way will the current situation occur, the demonic energy is gradually spreading outward, and the energy of the source part has dried up, so there is a phenomenon that the energy concentration in the central area is low and the outside area is higher here. If that's the case, I don't estimate that in two hundred years, the demonic energy of the entire Weeping Cave will have escaped to the point where normal creatures can live. Well, in that case, maybe you can ......"

"What's wrong Vivien, what do you think?" Catherine asked worriedly, noticing that Vivien was in a state of distraction again.

"Nothing, nothing. Vivien came back to her senses, and changed the subject with some weakness to prevaricate Catherine's question: "Pennis, do you find anything else wrong besides this?"

"One last question. Pannis held up a third finger: "I've searched six rooms, but have any of you found a word or a piece of paper in the room?"

Without waiting for anyone else to say anything, Pannis quickly continued: "There are no bodies, no records, no belongings, no daily necessities, is this like a place of daily life that has suddenly suffered a disaster? It may be a coincidence that one room is like this, but it is no coincidence that six rooms have passed, all of them. ”

"You mean, someone cleaned it up?" asked Catherine.

"Obviously, that's right. It is recorded in the diary and in the engram that there have been fierce battles here, and many people have died, from the entrance all the way to the core area, there should be dead people everywhere, but what about the corpses? Will they be dragged away and eaten by the demonized monsters? But will they wipe off the blood and clean up the corpses when they drag them away?"

"So, that's the conclusion, someone came in lately?" asked Lina tentatively.

"No, not recently. Pannis shook his head and said, "Along the way, there is no smell of corpses." If a large number of corpses had been stored here for hundreds of years, they would have left a smell, but not now. This shows that hundreds of years ago, after the disaster broke out, someone successfully came in, and it should belong to the owner of this place, so they packed up this place and dragged the corpses away for disposal. Otherwise, no one else would do such a thing. ”

"The royal family of Naryn. Lina clapped her hands and suddenly said, "Even the king of Naryn." In historical records, several neighboring countries that destroyed the kingdom of Naryn did not find the king of Naryn, and he disappeared, and must have fled here to hide. However, judging from the concentration of demonic energy here at that time, I am afraid that he will not be able to hide for a few days before being demonized. ”

"Maybe. Pannis nodded: "I believe we are close to the answer, let's go deeper." ”