"They agreed?" Sylvia, who had just come down from the city, asked Leo on her behalf.

"Yes, they agreed. Alice nodded and said, "But their requirement is that they must have their technicians by their side, and the knowledge you mentioned before, such as the activation method of those array defense towers, the activation method of the thing above the entrance to the abyss, etc., must be taught to them." ”

Leo had no opinion on this, and was about to agree, but was stopped by Sylvia, and said: "This is too unfair to us, Leo wants to contact that core intelligence, mainly to let Lanxi City's mecha sergeants recover and improve their combat effectiveness, that is to say, Lanxi City is the vested interest, and now these requests made by Lanxi City are also for the benefit of Lanxi City, not to mention that we also have to help you find people who are possessed by the High Abyss Race, and all the benefits are for Lanxi City, so what about us?" It seems that we have not gotten anything, and we are doing things for nothing for Lanxi City. ”

Alice was silent for a moment and said, "So what do you want?"

Sylvia looked at Leo, as if asking for his opinion, then thought for a moment and said, "I believe that since Lanxi City has lived in the Black Forest for so long and has such a close relationship with the surrounding god realm, it must have accumulated a lot of good things on hand. ”

Alice quickly responded, "This is impossible, it is impossible for Lanxi City to pay any more benefits. ”

Sylvia frowned and said, "Are you so sure? You don't need to consult the people above?"

"No, I know too much what their guys think!" Alice said with great certainty: "Contacting the urban intelligence core has touched their bottom line, they think that letting you contact the intelligence core is the biggest reward, and then put forward other conditions, they can't agree, even if they agree, it will take a long time to discuss, I don't think you are willing to spend so long waiting for an uncertain response." ”

"It's okay, we can afford to wait. Sylvia was about to say something when Leo stopped her with a raised hand and said in a calm tone.

Hearing Leo's words, Alice couldn't help frowning, and a look of embarrassment appeared on her face.

Sylvia put forward additional conditions, but Alice didn't take it seriously, because she knew very well that the person who wanted to get access to the core of the city's intelligence was not Sylvia, but Leo, and the methods of the lost city defenses also came from Leo, so as long as Leo didn't speak, then she and Sylvia could talk about it as much as she wanted.

And if Leo opened his mouth at that time, then there was obviously no room for reversal in this matter, and she had to consider accepting the conditions proposed.

"Although it is impossible for Lan Xi City to accept any more conditions, I can pay you for Lan Xi City. Alice thought for a moment and said.

Leo asked with interest, "What kind of payment are you going to pay?"

Alice replied, "The payment I pay is simple, just one message. ”

Although Alice said it very simply, Leo and Sylvia did not despise the news from Alice's mouth, because since Alice was so sure, the news must not be simple.

"This news is where my strength comes from. Alice continued when she saw Leo and Sylvia's expressions of interest.

Sylvia looked puzzled and said, "Doesn't your strength come from the suffering?"

However, Leo on the side showed a look of understanding on his face, because he knew that the source of power Alice was not the source of her current power, but the source of her previous power, that is, the origin of the psionic energy she had mastered in the past.

Alice can be said to be the first person Leo has seen since he came to the world of Veron to master such pure psionic powers, and the second is Sylvigne Belmont, but Severny's psionic energy has mutated and is no longer so pure.

Before, Leo had also thought about asking Alice about the origin of the psionic energy mastered, but for various reasons he didn't ask officially, just asked on the side, and Alice's answer was difficult to distinguish between true and false, so this matter was put on hold by him, and now that Alice took the initiative to mention it, he was naturally happy to see it.

As for the so-called reward, Leo himself didn't care too much, because as those in the upper echelons of Lanxi City thought, the moment he came into contact with the Dao Intelligence Core, he had already received the most generous reward.

Leo gestured to Sylvia, then asked, "Are you going to say it now, or are you going ......to wait?"

"There's no need to wait until you get back from above. Alice interrupted Leo's words, and then with a little nostalgia on her face, she said, "My power comes from a mysterious ruin in the Moissanite continent, and it was a stone in the ruins that told me how to stimulate that power, enhance that power, and use that power. ”

Hearing Alice's words, Leo couldn't help but frown, because what Alice said was so vague.

Perhaps seeing the change in Leo's face, Alice continued to add that what had happened when she was younger.

At that time, the entire world of Velons was immersed in a craze for colonial exploration, and various rumors about the colonies of Mozambia spread throughout the countries of the world, the most famous of which was the legend of the Golden City.

Although these legends are accompanied by a great deal of danger, when everyone hears about them, their attention is focused on the great gains of the explorers at the end of the legends.

For a time, those at the bottom of the world who were looking forward to getting rich overnight took a boat to the Moisan continent, or took advantage of the colonial enclosure to enclose a piece of land and establish their own plantations, or entered the unexplored wilderness to find the legendary ancient ruins and the golden city.

At that time, Alice, like Sylvia now, was extremely adventurous, so after she completed her coming-of-age ceremony, she left Belmont Manor and went on an adventure in Mozambique.

After a few years of wandering in the Moisan Continent, she is also a well-known explorer, and has also discovered some ancient ruins, but most of these ruins are the remains of some known Moisan tribal civilization, which is not a groundbreaking discovery, which makes her always regret.

Later, under the help of a very wealthy and powerful local plantation owner, a group of explorers and scholars who were well-known in Moissanism at that time formed a joint expedition to go deeper into the wilderness in search of more ancient tribal remains.

The plantation owner did this not on a whim, but with a practical purpose, and it was not known where he found a map made of animal skins, in the center of the map, a huge city was drawn, and next to the city was written in the original script of a very ancient local tribe, which was similar to the meaning of origin, so the scholars at the time believed that the ancient city marked on this map was the origin of the Moisan tribe.

This incident caused quite a stir in the colonies of various countries at that time, so much so that when the expedition team set out, some colonial magnates also formed independent expeditions to follow behind, intending to get a piece of the pie.

Because of the need to go deep into the wasteland at that time, even if the expedition teams were fully prepared, they still suffered great casualties, and finally reached the ancient ruins drawn on the map, a third of Alice's expedition had been left in the jungle of the wasteland forever, and only one of the other colonial expeditions was left to follow, and the number of that team was reduced to single digits, and they had to join Alice's expedition.

The surviving scholars of the expedition carefully studied the various information on the ruins, just like the ruins of other tribes in the wasteland, and a large number of stories of the tribe were engraved on these ruins, and through the interpretation of these stories, the expedition knew that the ancestors of this tribe came from the starry sky, and fell into the wasteland on a huge ship to escape something, and then settled here, and built their city on the top of the ship they were on.

Based on these stories carved into the walls, the expedition team judged that there was another ruin under the ruined city, which probably contained treasures left over from before the destruction of the entire ruined city, and as for the interpretation of the so-called ship from the starry sky, the scholars of the expedition believed that the local tribe made up the story in order to show their identity.

Driven by huge interests, the expedition team began to explore the entire ruined city, although it is the remains of the primitive tribe, but the coverage area of the ruins is still very large, the entire expedition team took a month to explore the ruins, and it took another half a month to find the entrance to the lower ruins.

At that time, the expedition team formed two teams to explore the underground ruins, and Alice was placed in the first team because of her rich exploration experience.

After their group went down, they were quickly confronted with some defensive mechanisms, Alice was separated from people by accident, and entered a passage alone, after which she walked to the end of the passage, entered a room, and then suddenly encountered an unknown attack and passed out.

When Alice woke up again, she was deep in an empty room without any entrances and exits, and in the center of the room there was only a spherical black boulder, which was interestingly suspended in the air, with only a very small gap between the bottom and the floor.

After that, the black boulder directly told Sylvia how to activate psionic energy, and helped Sylvia to stimulate psionic energy, and also trained Sylvia to use that kind of power, and it was amazing that in that environment, she didn't feel hungry at all. She couldn't feel the time, until she had fully mastered that power, and then she inexplicably passed out again, and when she woke up again, she was back on the ground, and the ruins had collapsed, as if she had experienced a very large earthquake, and the rest of the expedition was missing.

"Where's the ruin?" asked Leo after listening to Alice's description.

Alice replied, "I can't say exactly where, but I can draw a map of where to go." ”

With that, she found paper and pen in her room, and began to draw a map on it, and judging from her smooth drawing process, it was clear that she was so impressed by that experience that after so many years, the memory was very clear.

Soon two maps were drawn under her pen, one of these two maps is the original animal skin map, and the other is the map drawn by the popular mapping method in the world of Velon, in terms of accuracy, it is definitely more accurate than the map of the animal skin, and it can be compared with the map of the current Velun world, and the error is also very small.

After taking the map, Leo's eyes fell directly on the accurate map, and Sylvia also came up curiously to take a look, and after seeing the location marked on the accurate map, Sylvia showed a look of surprise on her face, and couldn't help but say: "That place is not ......"

"Yes. Leo took Sylvia's words, nodded, and said, "It's the ruins that Old Man Rembrandt is now excavating." ”

"Now that my payment has been paid, I will come and pick you up to manage the city after the arrangements are made over there. Alice didn't leave any thought of continuing to talk to Leo and them, reminded Leo, and turned to leave the room.

After Alice left, Sylvia said with some regret, "We could have asked for more." ”

"There's no need," Leo shook his head and said, "I know you want the treasures of the Black Forest that Lanxi City has accumulated over the years, but those things may not be able to be used outside the Black Forest, so there is no need to go through the trouble for this thing." ”

"You're right, I'm a little greedy, it seems to be affected by blood, the Abyss Demon Dragon's greed for treasure is one of the best among the abyss monsters. Sylvia shrugged her shoulders and laughed at herself, then asked curiously, "When you mentioned that black ball just now, I looked at your expression as if you knew what it was, is it convenient to say?"

"Nothing was inconvenient. Leo smiled and said, "I'm not sure yet, but judging from Alice's description, that thing should be a mastermind." ”

"Mastermind?" Sylvia couldn't help but laugh when she heard Leo's noun in Earth Federation language, "It sounds like the name of some kind of specialty dish in American Galica." ”

Leo didn't explain further, because he didn't know how to explain the mastermind in the language of the Veron world, because even the Earth Federation language could not explain the mastermind, only in the universal lingua franca used by the higher civilizations, that language was a spiritual language, not a language in the conventional sense.