The time was 8 a.m.

Cartrice had long since woken up.

The morning breeze blows across the corner of Central Street, and the red and white, green coffee and restaurant signs sway around with the snowflakes. The roar of work was already ringing in the factories on the streets, and the merchants in the market had already put together their goods for the day and were ready to start the day's business.

Standing next to the stall selling breakfast were three men in suits, who were supposed to have just left work, and their faces were visibly tired. A few teenagers in the uniforms of a nearby school frolicked through the streets, and when they saw the regular bus coming in front of them, they immediately picked up their pace, trying to catch up with the ride.

"Woooooooooo The sun is so dazzling. ”

Lizzie, who was sitting in the corner of the regular car, whispered, struggling to avoid the sunlight shining into her eyes.

At this time, she did not wear short clothes that were easy to move around as usual, and she did not wear the white clothes that she often used as a coat. On the contrary, he uncharacteristically changed into a well-tailored one-piece dress, but this dress is not quite like a formal dress for a formal occasion, but a bit like a mourning dress.

- Because she was covered in black almost from head to toe.

There was no superfluous decoration on the dress made of a large number of simple black fabrics, and her thin body was simply wrapped, with only some gray seams at the edges of the hem slightly adjusted the color difference. A pair of slender legs protruded from under the knee-hugging skirt, but they were also wrapped in black over-the-knee socks, and the feet were more like a pair of lace-up boots painted black to match the overall style.

The long black length that was deliberately left has also been straightened out, and it is no longer as random as usual. It's just that this black long and black suit makes Lizzie feel like she's black from head to toe. Because of this, her occasionally pale skin looks even more sickly.

"How long has it been since you've seen the sun just rising?" Curt, who was standing beside him, looked out the window with a blank expression, "and there's nothing you can't do." The time we made with each other was half past nine in the morning, and if we didn't go now, we wouldn't be able to catch the agreed time. ”

Like Lizzie, he wore a neat outfit that would inevitably ruin the image of those who knew him before. The black shirt and black straight-leg pants replaced the armament he had always pretended, and the long black was lying on his stomach as always, only a little bit of tidying up.

Wearing such an uncomfortable outfit, Curt felt a little unnatural. It's just that he didn't come out, but just looked out the window through the glass of the regular car.

Why did they get on the regular train at this time? It goes back to the plan that Lizzie had come up with a few days ago after she had made her mind clear to Curt.

In a rather serious tone, Lizzie uttered something that still finds Curt incredulous: "The plan is simple - I'm going to school." Well, didn't the eldest sister say all day long that she wanted me to get in touch with society? This time, I went to the academy as she requested. ”

"What?"

Curt remembers that he almost bit his tongue off when he heard this decision, and in order to avoid hearing it wrong, he subconsciously asked Lizzie to say it again.

But Lizzie only pouted, and ignored the surprised Curt, and began to talk about her current situation and her planned course of action.

According to Lizzie, when she dealt with some rock spiders in the cave, she also attached terminals to the lapis lazuli cores of those spiders that could be used for positioning. And except for the core she brought back, the other cores with terminals attached to them are all in place.

A mage who can create rock spiders must be able to easily notice the movement of magic. In order not to attract his attention, Lizzie attached very little magic to the terminals, and it could not last long, so she did not expect to be able to find the enemy's lair with these terminals.

Sure enough, the other party started to act without carefully investigating whether there was a change in the core. It's just that the magic she retained when she made these terminals couldn't record all the paths of movement, and most of the traces left by the terminals were cut off halfway. The most striking targets on the extension of their trajectory were the Academies on the outskirts of Catrice, a few of which had already entered all of the Academies.

"From the information available so far, the Academy is one of the most suspicious locations. "Of course, I don't rule out the possibility that the other party deliberately guided us in that direction, but the person who recovered it didn't have time to check the core, so it's not very likely." ”

In any case, Lizzie's decision is to end her three-year career at home, and to start with the academy to investigate whether there is a mage in the academy who is making warplanes with technology that should not have been preserved.

When Curt told the eldest sister of Liqi's nominal decision, the eldest sister's eyes lit up and Curt refreshed his perception of her again. Perhaps it was because she felt that she had been talking about it for almost three years, but Lizzie finally changed her mind and was overjoyed, and the eldest sister not only volunteered to help Curt and them contact the relevant personnel at the school, but also helped them contact the tailor shop that made the Zuò formal clothes.

That's the basic reason why Curt and Lizzie are here.

Catris was one of the Empire's earliest colonies in the Dominion of Osattaria, when it was still a wilderness inhabited only by savage natives. Over the years, it has gradually developed into a civilized world, and the most indispensable of these are schools of all levels.

The vast Dominion of Osattaria has countless schools, but only a handful of them qualify as "colleges". Institutions of higher learning need funds and teaching resources that cannot be easily obtained, and a college can prove the quality of education in a city.

Not far from the outskirts of Catrice lies a college that is famous all over the world.

Officially, the official name would have been "Catrice Higher Institute of Unity and Studies", but because the full name is so awkward, the residents of Catrice generally refer to it as a "college". Even outsiders will only call it Catrice Academy.

Since its inception more than 200 years ago, the school has carried out extensive and multifaceted research in accordance with the concept that "knowledge is the cornerstone of civilization", and has carried out a series of educational popularization activities and established many affiliated schools in accordance with the principle of "the integration and application of knowledge based on the popularization of education".

The exhibition of education promoted the exhibition of Catrice in all aspects, and many of the famous figures in the Dominion were graduates of the Catrice Academy, and their success naturally led to the exhibition of Catrice. It can be said that the prosperity of Catrice today has a lot to do with the efforts of the college.

Although the college is located a certain distance on the outskirts of the city, it is definitely very easy to get around, with many buses running between the two places on time every day. If you're in the mood for a hike on a whim, you can walk the streets in just half a day at most.

The overall scale of the college is quite large, including all the land under its jurisdiction, the scale is definitely comparable to that of an average size town. Moreover, the facilities of the college are very good - if you compare it with the average town in terms of its self-sufficiency and independence in all aspects.

"It's almost there... You can already see the Silver Tower. ”

Curt's eyes looked in the direction of the regular car, and not far away there was a tall white tower on the hill pointing to the sky. From a distance, you can vaguely see many myth-centered portraits carved on the white stone walls. A large number of glass windows with silver frames glitter in the rising sun.

This is the most recognizable landmark of Catrice College, the Silver Tower.

This is the library tower built more than 100 years ago by Huey Grostest, then director of the Cutrice Academy. This great warlock with the name of "Silver Dragon King" kept all the precious documents he collected throughout his life in the tower. Since then, more books have been included in this collection, so that this overseas academy also has a collection that can be as long as the Imperial Capital Central Library.

Towering over the earth, the "Legacy of the Silver Dragon King" - the name of this library, even Liqi, who has been squatting at home all year round, has heard of it. Some areas of the tower were actually open to the general public, but she had stayed in Catrice for so long and had never been here.

"It's worthy of the legacy of the Silver Dragon King... It's spectacular to look at from afar. Lizzie sighed, then suddenly changed her tone and continued, "It is said that as long as you have the appropriate permission, you will definitely be able to find the information you need-do you think there will be any such things in it?"

"It wouldn't be strange if there were," Curt replied after a moment's thought, "and there may have been an outflow of their information before the start of the war, and now it's normal that if the lost information happens to be sent enough by someone to use it as a collection." ”

"That's right," Lizzie muttered silently, "if that's all it takes, it's easy to solve." ”

Not far away, several modern buildings made of large quantities of concrete appeared. The sleek lines and simple design of the building were casually coated with different styles of ornaments - the new living quarters that had been built only a few years earlier by the Catrice College.

After passing through a small area of purpose-built green space, you can see a vast courtyard separated by a high wall, and the buildings behind it.

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