"Ho, I see, that="

Hermia, who had changed into a neat coat, looked at Curt with a teasing smile, and stirred in a glass filled with grass-colored liquid with a stirring stick in one hand. The crimson snake body on the lower half of her body swayed irregularly, and the wonderful pattern attracted the attention of all passers-by.

Even among the Cattris, who live in a variety of races, the Lamian snake race is extremely rare. According to Hermia herself, there were only a hundred or so of her people in the whole of Catrice, and among the tens of thousands of inhabitants, they were very few of them.

So wherever Hermia goes, she faces the curious gaze of many people. What's more, the kind of highly exposed "national costume" she always likes to wear on weekdays, it is impossible not to be eye-catching...... Maybe that's one of her goals.

"Please, don't act like I'm a liar. Curt, who sat across from her, smiled wryly, "What do you say I said to him that is not the truth?, and I really want to help him—after all, he has a lot more to do than revenge." ”

At this time, Curt and Hermia were in the middle of the Catrice Academy, on the shopping street near the medical building. The two of them sat in a coffee shop facing its door, gossiping and chatting while looking at the infirmary not far away.

But Hermia smiled, and said in a mocking tone, "It's true that 'all' of what you said is true, but you didn't finish it." It's really funny. When it comes to combat, you're obviously a lot better than me. What kind of 'True Eye' can actually make you, a good old man, not hesitate to sell someone to me, and pull me into the gang...... I'm curious about what kind of enemies you are. ”

Hermia was like a snake filling her lips with her tongue. There was obviously more ill-intentioned than curiosity in the reptilian eyes. The serpent's mind was always on her mind to say this to something dangerous, Lizzie, and Curt was convinced.

"What kind of guy...... I guess it's just some dangerous guys, after all, the situation of those guys is almost all still wrapped in fog. The Order's membership includes a large number of mages, and their tentacles seem to have infiltrated many places, such as the Academy. ”

After a pause halfway through, Curt shook his head and dipped his hand in some water and drew several circles on the table: "They've been doing a lot in Cutrice City lately. Looting spell supply warehouses, killing citizens, assaulting members of the garrison, and creating dryads in the city. If you count the monastery and the imp's companions, the group must have done a lot of things, and their members seem to be dangerous creatures. ”

Curt connects the circles drawn on the table. They are then surrounded by a larger circle to form a large group.

"I'm not insane enough to fight against their organization on my own, and even if I count the Mercenary Administration, I can't rely on it. Pointing to the pattern he had drawn on the table, Curt drew a few smaller shapes around it. "Garrisons, Academy, Slots, reliable mercenaries...... And you or someone else. The other side is a crazy organization, so we can only deal with them if we are united. ”

Curt didn't know exactly how many people there were in the group that called itself the True Eye, but the few members known to have had the quality to fight a certain amount. Recklessness is just self-defeating, and if it's to defeat the organization, Curt doesn't mind being a little more cautious.

"Hmph, you're really exaggerated enough to want a whole bunch of hostile groups to unite. Hermia smiled and drank the liquid from the glass, smiling playfully, "Tell you the truth. Even if there is a common enemy, I don't think they can unite - not to mention the garrison and your mercenaries. The Slots gang are a bunch of violent maniacs who can't talk well. ”

Then she changed her words, pointed to a figure outside the window by the door of the infirmary building, and said, "But it's not that I can't understand your thoughts - if it were me, and I would have been a gang to learn that old man was actually a member of the 'True Eye'." ”

Curt looked in the direction he was pointing, and the old man in the portrait that Lizzie had shown him in the Soul Connection was talking to a young doctor. His expression was as leisurely as ever, but the young doctor he was talking to looked a little embarrassed.

Looking at the old and young doctors who were talking, Curt sensed that something particularly unusual was happening in the infirmary. After Lizzie caused a commotion in the infirmary building last night, such a commotion has continued to this academy, and with the "explosion" some time ago, the defense level of the entire academy has risen. Not long ago, Curt and Hermia were subjected to much stricter than usual checks when they entered the Academy.

But it wasn't the old man's conversation with the young doctor that mattered to him, but Hermia's words—she called him "the old fellow," which meant that she still knew some of his information—and it wasn't surprising that Hermia was still working part-time as a pharmacist.

Curt raised his eyebrows, his puzzled gaze met Hermia's eyes, "You call him 'that old man'...... Do you know the old doctor?"

The only information provided by Lizzie was the name of the Humpty Dumpty Doctor, but he was clearly just a pawn. From their conversation, the old man knew better, and he had some command rights.

"Hey, anyway, I came to this city a long time before you, and we have our own intelligence circle here. ”

Laughing lightly, Hermia said with a mysterious expression: "There may not be anyone in our circle who does not know that old man—after all, he is also a very famous doctor." In Catrice City, he should be one of the most prominent people in the medical class. ”

The old man didn't notice that two pairs of eyes were looking at him in the coffee shop in the shopping street, and he was talking to the young doctor. In the corner of the coffee shop, Hermia looked at the old man walking into the distance, and at the same time slowly talked about the information he knew about the old man.

"You know that Catrice College is a school of integrated research, and the scope of research is wide, and the purpose of cultivating talents in various fields at the same time is slow. So not only spells, but also alchemy, engineering, and some other obscure schools of study, all have research institutes in the Catrice Academy. ”

Hermia's fingers slid through the silver zipper of her coat, a rare fit for the first time, but she looked rather uncomfortable. When she sat in the coffee shop, she would squirm from time to time, and it seemed that she was wearing something unaccustomed to and having a slight rejection reaction.

"I know that, but what do you mean?" Curt shrugged, obviously not knowing what Hermia was trying to say, "It's normal that there are a lot of research institutes in the Academy, but what does this have to do with that old doctor, he works in the Academy's infirmary." ”

At least the two didn't seem to Curt to have one side to the other, and the old man was now working in the infirmary, so it was impossible to have time to join the Academy's research institute.

"Okay...... It seems that you don't know about that - at least not yet. But it's only a matter of time, and I can take a moment to explain it to you. Hermia spread out her palms indifferently, and the crimson snake tail kept shaking under the table, "At that time, you and your lovely sister probably didn't have a self-discipline, and the Catrice Academy set up a life phenomenon research room. ”

The person in charge is, of course, the old man—Hemia said softly.

Where does life come from?

This question has been bothering many people for a long time, and it has also fueled many people's thoughts. Some religionists advocate creationism, while some mystics advocate intelligent design...... There are many other theories, but the arguments between them have never been conclusive.

As a researcher, the mage is naturally very concerned about this question, and many academies in history have studied this question, but there is still no answer. So driven by intellectual curiosity, a large number of sorcerers devoted themselves to it, and Catrice Academy was no exception.

"But the old man was a 'heretic' - judging by all the ethics of most people at the time, he was probably a disgusting madman. ”

The old man was probably the best at healing spells in the Catrice Academy at that time, and neither the limb spells nor the concoction of special potions could make it difficult for him. Therefore, he was naturally the most suitable leader when it came time to establish the Laboratory of Life Phenomena - but in the end, something went wrong.

Hermia shook her finger and glanced at the old man playfully: "It can't be helped...... After all, although the mage is a researcher that everyone can understand, research that is too out of the ordinary is still not allowed in the world. Unfortunately, 'geniuses' are often not well understood. ”

There may be many means of research, but most of them have already been explored before - and the relevant fields of the study of the phenomena of life are undoubtedly the same. Even though the Catrice Academy had all the cutting-edge equipment and a great spellbook group, they still had the same problem.

"The old man would have come up with some 'crazy' ideas from time to time, and when his research team was locked in one field for a long time, he came up with a path that no one had thought of but had not taken. ”

Not knowing whether to feel sorry for him or to mock the old man, Hermia said in a strange tone, "He decided to use magic to create 'artificial life'. (To be continued!u.)

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