Thanks to the high mobility of the steam locomotive, Quercus soon returned to his home outside Alma, although his heart was full of doubts, but he didn't care much, returned home and took a shower, and when he woke up, it was close to dinner.

The serious black and white reversal caused the oak forest to not rest well, after simply eating something is still groggy, the windmill in the steam farm is completely autonomous due to the super high technical level, the oak forest is only responsible for the maintenance part, occasionally lazy is no problem,

At present, the most urgent desire of the Quercus Forest is to get the Yaoshi to make the stabilizer, yesterday in the mine did not gain much, and because of the rescue of two inexplicable people delayed a night, speaking of which, the Quercus Forest has not even known the names of those two people until now,

Because there was really no substitute to be found, and the time was pressing, it was getting late, and it would soon enter the curfew period, and then the activities in the city would be greatly hindered.

This time I plan to try my luck at the largest chamber of commerce in the city, hoping that there are some Yaoshi mines that have not yet been sold.

In a blink of an eye, I came to the city gate, but I looked from afar and found that some people were stranded at the city gate, and I felt strange in my heart.

Although a curfew system is in place, Alma City does not set up guards to check passers-by on weekdays, and I don't know what happened.

Quercus walked to the end of the line, waiting in line to investigate, but he was puzzled, and said hello to the people standing in front of him, hoping to get some useful information.

"Friend, what's wrong?"

The man standing in front of the forest seemed to be a merchant in the city, holding several packages large and small, and he didn't lead the camel, and kept looking at the city wall, as if he didn't expect anyone to talk to him, and was slightly stunned.

"Oh, I don't know the specific situation, I just came back from visiting relatives in my hometown, and I'm confused, I heard the people in line before tell several theories, some say that there are foreign spies, and some say that the city lord's mansion has entered the thieves, and even more exaggerated that the beast has come back again, there are all kinds of rumors, I don't know which ones are true"

Didn't get any useful information, Querca Lin was simply polite to the passers-by who lined up before, but Querca Lin was a little concerned about the statement that the Lord's Mansion had entered the thief, and was a little worried about Alice's safety, so he decided to go to the Lord's Mansion to take a look at it when he entered the city.

The efficiency of the guard's work is very high, and the team is also moving forward slowly, and soon the investigation is carried out on the passerby who talked to Zhulin just now.

Two guards, one of them took a small notebook and asked and recorded basic information such as the visitor's intention, name, what he was doing in the city, and proving his identity, and the other guard took out something like a crystal and swept it in front of passers-by a few times,

Magic Crystal

In the days when steam technology was not developed, crystal magic has always been the only sword for humans to fight against fierce beasts.

In that era when history could not be recorded in detail, the sages of mankind discovered a kind of crystal formed by the natural condensation of the essence of magic, and the sages could not explore the basis and principle of their formation, but accidentally discovered the ultra-high elemental affinity of this crystal, and the sages communicated with the most primordial power of the world through this crystal, in order to borrow the power of the origin of the world for their own use.

However, that group of human fighters, after paying an incomparably tragic price, time, and incomparable wisdom and perseverance of ordinary people, finally succeeded in developing a complete set of magic crystal application methods, so that anyone who can successfully communicate the origin of the world can use crystal magic, which directly or indirectly plays a decisive role in promoting the development of human civilization, and the person who can communicate the origin of the world and apply this ability is called a crystallizer by the world.

Quercus's father originally hoped that Querca could become a crystallist, but in addition to having a weak reaction to the fire attribute, Querca was too incompatible with other world elements, but showed a genius-like talent in steam technology and mechanics, so he had to give up.

The crystal magic used by the guards just now is probably a camouflage detection technique, this low-level crystal magic is set up in advance and directly sealed in the magic crystal, and it doesn't need a crystallist to guide, ordinary people can also use it, not so much crystal magic, but a prop to apt,

Although Quercus Lin can't feel the fluctuations of the natural elements very well, he has also learned some simple applications of low-level spells in books, this kind of magic energy crystal only needs to be guided in a special way to release, and there is no need to communicate the origin of the world, theoretically as long as everyone receives systematic education can use it, and there is no need to be affinity with the origin attributes,

It was the turn of the Quercus Forest, who was still routinely asked some questions, and then accepted the test of the magic energy crystal.

Soon Querca Lin passed the guard's check, because he was a little worried about Alice because of the news he had just heard, Querca gave up the choice of going to the Chamber of Commerce first, and ran directly to the Lord's Mansion after entering the city.

The guards on the streets have obviously become more than usual, and it barely takes a few steps to see some guards patrolling or checking passers-by, and it seems that the guards of the whole city have been mobilized to patrol the city, such a large formation, I hope nothing will happen,

When Zhalin arrived at the Lord's Mansion, he found that there were a lot of carriages parked at the main gate of the Lord's Mansion, looking at the magnificence of the carriage and the family crest carved on it, the people who came here were basically Alma's big men with heads and faces, I don't know what these big men were doing in the City Lord's Mansion at this time,

Bypassing the main gate, Quercus came to the back door where he usually entered and exited the lord's mansion,

The wheel room itself is separated from the main part of the lord's mansion, it is behind the side of the lord's manor, and from here only the courtyard where Alice lives can pass by, and the gate of this back door to follow up the goods is not next to each other, only the steam craftsmen who need to enter and exit the lord's mansion often will use it, and then there are the servants who are against the country, on weekdays, there is only one old man who guards the door here to drink tea and walk the birds, but today there is an unusually more team of heavily armed soldiers guarding,

"Stop" Quercus was stopped,

"I am Alma's steam craftsman, and I have come to be ordered to overhaul the steam pipelines of the lord's mansion" Quercus took out his steam craftsman certificate, which was a small badge carved with a hammer and gear, made of special metal, and was a steam craftsman technician certificate directly issued by the empire, except for some fundamentalist countries that regard steam technology as an evil way, this badge will be recognized by all countries on the entire continent, and there is an extra circle of patterns imitating the form of steam on the badge of the forest, which is a proof of the identity of the master craftsman,

The guard's face softened a lot when he saw the badge, after all, it was almost equivalent to the greatest explorer and engineer of mankind, although it was not a representative of noble status, but in this era, these people with a spirit of exploration would be more or less respected by the world.

"I'm sorry, I just received an order, the lord is now under martial law, no one is allowed to enter, I believe you also saw the carriages at the main gate, it seems that those big people are discussing matters, I hope you understand"

The words were said to be dead, and Querca Lin couldn't break in, and he didn't know what these big guys were doing, but he was more worried about Alice's safety than curiosity, and he had to go to Alice to confirm anyway, the gate was impassable and he had to find another way.

Because Alma was built on the ruins of the previous city, the desert area itself is lacking in materials, and the transportation is not very convenient, in line with the principle of saving and saving, some of the objects left over from the previous city are naturally able to come in handy and continue to be used, plus the steam transformation in recent decades, the main structure of the whole city is intricate, and there are countless pipelines, sewers, and underground facilities under the entire city.

It was originally a pipeline connected to the city's sewer system, and it was not easy to maintain the sewer system in the desert, and the lines would often be changed, some of which would be abandoned because of their age and function, and there was no complete file system, and many underground lines were forgotten.

Fortunately, thanks to the steam transformation, part of it was transformed into an underground pipeline to lay huge steam transmission facilities.

Entering through the sewers, some rats were alarmed along the way, and this important project was named a permanent facility from the time it was built, and it was generally made with the best technology and materials at the time, so it was not bothered to maintain it, and no one usually came down.

It didn't take long to walk from the sewer to enter the familiar underground pipeline of the Quercus forest,

The road conditions of the underground pipeline are not difficult to walk, the only problem on the road through the line is the light source, the oak forest lights up a crystal light source, which is also the lighting crystal set by the crystallist in advance, and the fire crystal that provides energy to the desert motorcycle before, ordinary people can also use it, but depending on the limit of the energy of the crystal itself and without the guidance of the crystallist, this magic energy crystal can only play the most basic energy attributes, just like the fire crystal will heat, and the ice crystal can be refrigerated, but it is indeed very convenient for the human way of life,

The crystal light source in the hand of the Quercus forest can shine for about two hours, can be used repeatedly, the size is small and easy to carry, and the Quercus forest will also be carried with you on weekdays in case of emergency.

Affected by the tension of the whole city and the confined and small space in the dark, Zarin became even more worried about Alice, praying that nothing would happen, and at the same time speeding up his pace.

It didn't take long for the tree forest to come to the underground shaft of the wheel room of the lord's mansion with a familiar road, because usually no one would come down here, the original wooden ladder was rotten and broken into two sections with a light hand, and the tree forest could only find a way to climb up from the shaft,

However, at this moment, Quercus didn't notice the wall at the corner of the underground pipe behind him, and at some point, a pair of miserable white hands climbed up. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ