"The mark was freshly struck and is the same style we found on the remains of Zweig and Mr. X."

Although Turner, the "expert in twilight affairs", had already examined the remains of the original Earl of Sico, Archduke Triss could not come in vain since he came. After Turner and Valland left, Triss used vampire tactics to examine the recovered remains again.

While maintaining the movement of the Crimson Psionic on the bones, she said to Murphy, who was waiting for the results:

"So it's certain that the guy who is secretly presiding over this tomb robbery operation should also be the 'source' or one of her servants."

"I've found that almost all actions involving 'sources' are related to necromancy."

Murphy frowned and said:

"So can you tell that this guy is a necromancer? Based on your previous inference, she must have something to do with the Moon Temple of the Songhai Empire, the place of origin? Could it be a Songhai man? ”

"No, it's not."

Tracey shook her head and said:

"Using this power doesn't mean she's related to the Songhai people, the mysteries of the Moon Priests have apparently been leaked a lot, and we can't even be sure when the leakage of this knowledge began.

Murphy, you have to understand that although necromancy has always been monopolized by the Moon Priests, that doesn't mean that others can't peek into Hades from other aspects.

That real plane is not unique to the Moon Priests, and the leakage of undead power has occurred all over the continent over the years.

It is nothing more than the difference between a professional background and a wild roader who is self-taught.

However, the necromantic power used by the 'source' really doesn't seem to have been figured out by Ye Luzi himself, and the undead legion under the ruins of Xike City alone is not a job that a beginner can complete.

So, for now, we have to wait for the promised support from Lord Pa Ying, and I guess that Lord Pa Ying will definitely come to a deal with the Moon Holy City.

The Lord has always been a long-sleeved and good dancer, and he has a high reputation among various forces. ”

"I trust the Lord, but I just wish his reinforcements came sooner, we don't have any more time."

Murphy rubbed his eyebrows, and he said:

"I'd love to get rid of this damn 'source' and her hidden forces before the Black Plague breaks out, but for now, we probably won't have that chance."

"She won't get you in trouble anytime soon, I promise.

You can focus on the filthy swamp first, and wait for the support of the Lord to arrive, and then find a way to solve the trouble in Sike City. ”

Tracey said in a subtle tone.

The affirmative tone of her words made Murphy look at her in surprise.

Tris wasn't going to tell Murphy that she had actually fought the Source head-on, but she just couldn't catch the other and let her run, but the Psionic Master was confident in her destructive power.

She was sure that the last confrontation in the Bingwan area had already injured "Yuan", and with what she knew about that guy, she wouldn't jump out to make trouble again until she recovered from her injuries.

Tracey can believe this, because the other party is the one she has trained her.

She was familiar with the guy's style.

Murphy didn't ask, he trusted Tracey's judgment in such matters, and a few minutes later, Tracey applied a psionic protection spell to the bones of the first earl, and then took Murphy back to the Vulture Corridor.

Thanks to the frequent use of portals by young players to travel around Transylasia during this time, Tris has enough samples to improve the teleportation techniques that were previously despised by psychics.

She tells Murphy that the probability of teleportation getting out of control is now low, but Murphy is still cautious.

Unless necessary, Murphy would never use it without a portal.

After all, his life is only once, but there is no such thing as a three-day resurrection, and if he is thrown into the astral boundary, he will not be able to return quickly, and maybe the players will have to organize themselves to enter the astral realm to save him

Hey!

That's another great idea!

By the way, why not open a mission chain of "Astral Rescue"?

It's just the right time to give players a glimpse of the hidden scenery of this magical world.

Murphy's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out his notebook to record this "inspiration" of his own, and waited for the right time to release the task chain.

Tracy next to her was speechless when she looked at this scene.

As a member of the "development team", she knew exactly what Murphy was up to.

"Aren't you going to experiment?"

After Murphy recorded his inspiration, he looked back at Tracy next to him in surprise, and he said curiously:

"Why are you so idle today?"

"The experiment is done."

Tracey rolled her eyes and said:

"From the birth of the inspiration to the design of the experiment to the completion of the experiment, the results just came out last night, and I am preparing to check the results, why don't you come with me?"

"Okay."

Murphy gladly accepted the invitation.

He'd been wondering what Tracey was doing in the lab all this time, and now that Tracey was so confident, he was even more interested.

He followed Trith all the way down into the collapse area at the bottom of the Vulture Corridor.

Although it has been cleaned up, due to the complexity of the internal structure of the Vulture Corridor, the workers are always able to find those inexplicable collapse points, making the cleaning work feel like a labor that never ends.

However, according to the eldest lady, most of the current collapsed area of the cloister has been cleared, and the rest will be completed within a month, after which Murphy can consider redesigning and building the cloister.

The Brotherhood of Stonemasons is producing blueprints.

Old Chen Tou meant that this time not only the underground structure should be repaired, but also the planned "Midnight Tower" should be built directly above the Blood Vulture Corridor as a landmark building of the Crimson Keep and even Translasia.

Alas, from this point of view, it is certain that the impulse to "make wonders" is an eternal desire hidden in the mind of every earthy dog.

It never goes away with age.

"Where's the finished product of your experiment?"

Murphy knew he had reached the test area when he saw Tracey stop, but he couldn't see anything of interest in the empty place.

If I have to say, several spherical bombs have been planted under the collapsed passage ahead.

it!

Tris won't take advantage of her inattention and quietly turn into an "exploding witch", right?

"Right there, keep your eyes open and take a good look, the amazing wisdom I've drawn from otherworldly knowledge!"

The Scarlet Witch laughed, stretched out her finger and swiped lightly in the air in front of her, and three small suspended psionic fireballs flew forward under her control, igniting the planted explosives.

And she swooped herself, turning into a small bat flying in the sky, jumped to the back, re-stabilized her body, and reached out to cover her ears.

Seeing Triss do this, Murphy knew something was wrong.

But the damn fuse of the explosives burned so fast that he only had time to close the wide wings of blood in front of his body, and then there was a loud bang, and the collapsed tunnel was blown open.

Murphy's wings thumped in the splash of rocks, but fortunately, although the explosion was violent, it was just an ordinary physical attack, and it was not accompanied by psionic shocks, so that the vampire lord would not be opened by the flying bricks.

That's a shame.

The explosion came and went as fast as it could, and soon the shaking in place subsided.

In front of the tunnel with dust and the heavy smell of gunpowder, Murphy spread his blood wings and looked at the large crater that had been blown out and the tunnel that had been broken through.

He glanced at the smug Triss with a strange look in his eyes, and said:

"Why is this explosion so powerful? It's not at all like black powder, and you added gold powder to it? ”

“NONONO！”

Tracy stretched out her finger and shook it in front of Murphy's eyes, and she blinked her big bewitching eyes and said:

"You can guess a little bolder, as I said earlier, this is from the enlightenment of otherworldly knowledge, I did add something to the ordinary black powder bomb, but it was not gold."

“？？？”

Murphy's eyes widened.

He had already guessed what Tracy had been working on in the lab all this time, and the first image that flashed through his mind was the "periodic table" he had seen on Tris's desk earlier.

That was a special "tribute" given to Lumina's little fool in order to brush up on Tracey's favor.

So, Tracey actually learned some pretty terrible things out of that watch, right? Is this the gold content of the alchemist?

Damn, self-taught periodic table from scratch to make TNT?

"I can't guess, after all, it's knowledge from another world."

Murphy's heart was as clear as the mirror, but he still made an incomprehensible look of confusion, and Tracey pursed her lips, too lazy to say anything more to her scumbag.

She waved her hand and said:

"You are not a professional, so naturally you can't understand it, but I successfully made the first dose of picric acid on this continent, which is not a profound thing, it just means that I have not wasted my time during this time."

"it!"

Murphy's face was expressionless, but in fact, his heart was already happy.

Rao hadn't studied the subject in his otherworldly experience, but he knew what the name of the thing meant, and if Tracey had made a "fantasy version of picric", she would be one step away from getting the real TNT recipe.

It doesn't sound like a big deal, but Murphy, who is familiar with the "Otherworldly Tech Tree", knows that the success of Tracey's experiment is no less than the first step of "changing your life" for Translancia!

Once the Arsenal in Translancia can mass-produce yellow powder, the ammunition problem that plagued Brother Loyal will be solved immediately, and his intention to arm his soldiers with otherworldly weapons will no longer be an illusory ideal.

From this point of view, although Tracy is unlucky, she really has the hidden attribute of "Wangfu"!

"I didn't understand, but I was blown away."

Murphy stepped forward and said to Tracey:

"I knew you were so proud that you were making something terrible, and the power of the gunpowder explosion without the addition of gold powder was so great that I couldn't help but wonder what a horrible thing you would get by adding gold powder to your new gunpowder.

While I don't really understand alchemy, I guess you'd be willing to share with me a little bit about your journey during this time? ”

"Hey, there's nothing to say."

Tracey pouted proudly, but how could she bear to disappoint her lovely Murphy?

So on the way back to the office from the underground collapse area that had been blown up, Tracey explained her learning process during this time.

It wasn't as difficult as Murphy thought, because Tracey didn't start from scratch without a foundation.

When she surfs the forums, she always peeks into the posts discussed by the "very criminal" craving party.

As we all know, you never know if the guy you're talking to across the street is a human or a dog, and there's always an expert on the amazing internet, and Tracey learned about the development of "Otherworldly Gunpowder" from those posts.

So she had an idea, and with the help of the periodic table in her hand and Lumina's occasional guidance in chemistry, Tracey quickly got some basic knowledge of chemistry.

After learning how to balance molecular formulas and derive formulas, the Scarlet Witch began to experiment with this.

She is a master alchemist herself, and she is familiar with the design and advancement of chemical experiments, and she can also find a variety of alternatives to instruments in her laboratory.

Picric acid is not an advanced technology, and it has been prepared in its entirety since the 18th century.

Standing on the "shoulders of giants", what Tracy needs to do is to restore those technical processes and do "localization", which is not difficult for her at all.

"I feel like I've opened the door to a new world!"

Tracey was as happy as a girl who had scored a perfect score in an exam, and even turned around beside Murphy, and said with a glint in her eyes:

"The art of otherworldly alchemy has proven to be much more advanced than the processes we currently use, especially in extraction and crystallization.

It gave me many, many inspirations, like when I was an alchemy apprentice, and the magical state of having a burst of inspiration every day made me feel like I was back in my youth.

I want to see more, I want to learn more."

Speaking of this, Tracy rolled her eyes, she approached Murphy and put her hand on the vampire lord's shoulder, and whispered:

"Aren't those little guys going to build an 'information platform' and a forum in their world to complete the link?

I still don't understand the mysterious way of interacting with information, but I guess that through the platform they built themselves, we otherworldly people can enter their 'infinite library' and browse freely, right?

I will no longer be bound by the information of the forum, and I will be able to swim in the ocean of knowledge of the otherworldly.

But I know that all this needs to be done with your permission. ”

"They do have built-in browsers and search engines in their third-party platforms"

Murphy hesitated.

He said to Tracey:

"But there's not always a lot of information over there, and there's a lot of darkness."

"What you say is like an uneasy father telling his daughter who is not deeply involved in the world that there are bad people in this world."

Tris slapped Murphy's head and complained fiercely:

"However, I have lived for more than four hundred years, and I know better than you what the truth of this world is, and although you have always stubbornly thought that I am a wonderful person, the truth is that for a long time in the past, I could be classified as the 'bad person' of your imagination.

I know how to protect myself, and all my understanding of otherworldly knowledge will be under your watch, and I am willing to obey whatever you have set for me.

I just want to see their world with my own eyes."

"You'll become an 'electronic ghost' wandering the internet, an 'otherworldly internet addict vampire.'"

Murphy sighed and said:

"I don't know if it's good or bad, but I'm sure you're definitely not going to be the first, and speaking of which, I've been planning to open up forum access to Miriam, Femis, and Maxim as well.

The former can learn from the political experience of another world, while the latter has to quickly become a commander by reading and watching a large amount of war experience.

As for the eldest lady, she must know our warriors better in order to form her own unique Midnight faction.

What do you think of this idea? ”

"That's great."

Triss clapped her hands and said:

"So is the 'development team' going to recruit new ones again? There is no need to grieve for Assistant Cui's promotion, because it is 'Assistant Cynthia', 'Assistant Femis' and 'Assistant Mark' who are about to join the battlefield."

"Smack"

Murphy reached out and knocked on Tracey's head with an expressionless face, and said:

"Okay, don't learn optics, these are not scored, and the names of the three of them can't be so straightforward and obvious, you know, there is never a shortage of smart ghosts among the little players, you have to give the three of them some localized names.

Well, let's call it Xiaomi, Fei Fei and Lao Ma.

There's one more thing, though. ”

He looked at Tracy and said very seriously:

"Lumina helped you with all this, she was the one who guided you into the new world, so as an alchemist who worships knowledge, should you give her a little reward?"

"I've got the treasure chest key ready for her!"

Tracey nodded and said:

"I secretly put several very powerful things in the treasure chest, and I will definitely make little Lumina very satisfied."

"No, no, no, that girl doesn't pursue gear, she's an RP party."

Murphy shook his head and said:

"You and I both know what she wants, so I think maybe we should try to satisfy her desires."

Tracey blinked, and she said:

"You mean, help her become an 'elf'? But that cosmetic modification is risky. ”

"Players don't care about that."

Murphy gave a subtle and strange smile, stroked Tracey's long hair, and said:

"As you said, they are the best 'test subjects', and it's time for the development team to make a little bit of a gimmick by letting out the wind of the big move. So, let's put our 'turn race' feature on the testing schedule.

I'm sure Lumina will be 200% enthusiastic about helping us with this functional test, but before we can do that, we need to get the work done.

For example, a drop of blood from a moon elf

I was going to do it myself, but I suddenly realized that maybe Maxim could help me with this~"

(End of chapter)