Early in the morning, Duan Xiaofei and Miao Ke had already walked out of the inn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Miaoke, are you sure your teacher still lives here?"

The two of them had already walked to the edge of the city, and in the distance, they could already see the continuous mountains.

"I don't know. Miao Ke shook his head and said, "In the past few years, the relationship between the Atlantan Empire and our demons has been very tense, and it is difficult to send letters, so I haven't been in contact with my teacher for a long time. ”

"I think it's like you're in a slum here, and your teacher is also a high-level magician, why would you live in such a place?" Duan Xiaofei looked at the dilapidated little bungalows in front of him and asked.

"It seems to be related to a study by a teacher, I once heard the teacher say that on the flint mountain, there is a magical spar, and after mixing this spar with the other two raw materials, you will get a black powder, which can produce a powerful explosion. Miao Ke recalled.

"Black powder?" Duan Xiaofei thought for a moment and said, "Your teacher can't mean gunpowder, right?"

This idea put forward by the teacher was not accepted by the Wizards' Association. "But, gunpowder?

"Uh...... You continue. Duan Xiaofei asked Miao Ke to ignore this term brought from the earth.

"Well, the teacher's original idea was to mix three ordinary materials to achieve the power of intermediate magic, but traditionally speaking, in order to achieve this level, at least magic materials such as flame grass and bellflower are needed, as well as appropriate neutralizing potions. ”

"So, your teacher wants to make a finished product without using anything related to magic. Duan Xiaofei roughly understood, according to Miaoke, then the kind of black powder that her teacher wanted to make, Bacheng was gunpowder.

"Hmm. Miao Ke nodded, "Although the Magician Association does not quite agree with the teacher's point of view, but the teacher's guess is not without basis, in the southeast of Flint City is the Qianren Mountain Range, which stretches for thousands of miles, and the Flint Mountain is the first peak of the Qianren Mountain Range, although the Flint Mountain is only a few hundred meters high, but there is a strange stream on the mountain. ”

"The water of this stream is too poisonous to be cited, but white hedron grows on the edge of the stream, and some magicians have tried to burn this hedron with flames, but they find that after burning, all the white hedron disappears, and the flames will become more vigorous, and the color of the flames will turn strange purple. Miao Ke introduced, "This is the content of magic potions, because the white spar can make the flame burn more vigorously, so he named it Fire Crystal, and the name of Flint City probably comes from here." ”

While listening to Miao Ke's description, Duan Xiaofei secretly thought in his heart, according to the knowledge he had learned on Earth in high school, this white spar might be potassium nitrate, at least, something similar in nature to potassium nitrate......

You know, potassium nitrate is an important material in the preparation of gunpowder!

Miao Ke said this, Duan Xiaofei Ke wanted to meet her teacher even more, and it was definitely not an ordinary person to be able to put forward the concept of "gunpowder" first.

After walking along the path for a while, Miao Ke looked around, and suddenly said excitedly, "It's over there!

Duan Xiaofei looked in the direction that Miao Ke pointed to, it was a very ordinary appearance, even a little dilapidated small bungalow, the room was only one story high, there was a small window embedded in the brown wall, and the wooden door looked like it was a certain age.

"The teacher must still be here!" Miao Ke now wanted to see her teacher as soon as possible, and Duan Xiaofei also followed her to the front of the small bungalow.

Knock, knock, knock!

Miao Ke knocked on the door and shouted inside, "Teacher, teacher, I'm Miao Ke, are you there?"

"No response?" After waiting for a few minutes, Duan Xiaofei listened to it and said.

"The teacher is out?" said Miaoke, "but where will the teacher go so early?"

"Nope. Duan Xiaofei patted Miaoke's shoulder, then pointed to the doorknob and said, "Look, there is already a layer of dust on the doorknob, and no one has been here for a long time." ”

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Duan Xiaofei pushed the door hard, but was surprised to find that the wooden door was actually pushed open from the outside.

"Huh?" Duan Xiaofei stretched out his head to look at it, and said to Miao Ke, "Miao Ke, come and see, no one has lived here for at least a few years." ”

"Why is it so thick with dust?" Miao Ke also thought it was incredible, and she said, "Could it be that the teacher has already moved away?"

"Let's go in and have a look, it's okay, right?" Duan Xiaofei asked, after all, this is Teacher Miaoke's house, and here, he is also considered an outsider.

"Well, let's go in and have a look. Miao Ke nodded.

In the room, Duan Xiaofei stood in front of the windowsill, in front of him was a large table, there were some small grinding utensils on the edge of the table, next to the table, on a large shelf, all kinds of thick books were neatly placed, although they were all covered with a thick layer of dust, but they were still in order.

As for the floor of the room, it was a little messy, with open books, papers scattered everywhere, and test tubes and containers poured on the floor, as if they had just been robbed.

"The teacher's room has always been like this. Miao was not surprised when she saw the situation on the ground, but said, "The teacher often does experiments for a long time, and he doesn't have the time to organize his own things. ”

"This room ......" Duan Xiaofei looked carefully at the table in the room, and he suddenly said, "Someone came here not long ago. ”

"Someone has been here?!" asked Miaoke, startled, "who is coming here?"

"I don't know. Duan Xiaofei first shook his head, then pointed to the desktop, and said, "The desktop is full of dust, but there is a trace of a finger scratch. ”

Of course, Miao Ke immediately leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, in the place Duan Xiaofei pointed out, a finger pressed it, and the marks of the scratch were very clear.

"Could this be a thief?" Duan Xiaofei asked.

"But if it's a thief, why don't you take this mortar away? Miao Ke denied.

"That's right, if it's a thief, he won't come here to leave a fingerprint. Duan Xiaofei asked again, "Look, are there any traces of theft of the things on the ground?"

"The only valuable thing in the room is these experimental equipment, but there is no less, as for the teacher's notes and books, they are not worth anything at all, and the teacher's theories have never been recognized by the Magician Association. ”

Miao Ke said, bending down to clean up the clutter on the ground, and she said, "Did the teacher really move away?"

"But......" Miao Ke looked at Duan Xiaofei with some concern, and said, "There are only more than 80 days to go before the decisive battle with the second prince, Your Highness must stimulate your magical talent as soon as possible." ”

"That's right...... Now that your teacher doesn't know where he moved, and he hasn't been heard from at all, I don't want to ask the people from the Magic Association, maybe they're the second prince's subordinates, trying to kill me in secret. ”

Duan Xiaofei clasped his arms in his hands and lowered his head to think, but when he lowered his head, he found something strange......

To be precise, there are some strange patterns, on the floor of the room, there is actually a complex circular pattern, and in the center of the pattern, there is something similar to a container.

"Miaoke, what is this?" Duan Xiaofei called Miaoke and asked.

"This is the magic array!" Miao Ke saw it at a glance and said, "Moreover, it's a fire-type magic array!"

"Magic Array, then what does this Magic Array do?" Duan Xiaofei asked.

"I don't know, this kind of thing is only known to the person who designed the magic array, but the teacher is not here now, and I can only guess its attributes based on the characteristics of the magic array. ”

"Miaoke, isn't this a fire-attribute magic array?

"No, this may damage the magic array. Miao Ke flatly refused.

"But what are these black things?" Duan Xiaofei squatted down, touched his fingers in the grooves of the ground, and put his fingers stained with a little black dust to his nose and asked.

"Gunpowder?!"

Duan Xiaofei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "That's right, this is burning gunpowder!"