The situation with the swamp serpent "Orr" is bad.

Despite the fact that it had been lying here for three days and had been purified of the poisonous blood by the Avalonian priests, the process was progressing very slowly, not because the priests didn't make an effort, but because they hadn't dealt with a similar situation before.

Seeing that the "magical Murphy" had miraculously pacified the enraged serpent, the amazed Marianne stepped forward and said to the vampire governor:

"The serpent obviously has a strong self-healing power, and it is supposed that it can heal its injuries on its own, but during the purification process, we discovered that there is a special force in the wound behind it that prevents it from healing itself.

This is the main reason why the serpent is constantly weakening.

I can tell that the serpent's injury came from the astral plane, and it must have been injured by a powerful astral giant beast that led to the current result.

If we continue to purify, it is indeed possible to help it get out of trouble, but it will take a long, long time, and the situation of the giant snake is too bad right now, it may not be able to survive. ”

"It's called 'Orr', don't always call it a serpent, it's not a beast, it's actually much more noble than most of the life on this continent, it represents not only power, but also the past.

Great, already forgotten times

They are the last shadows left by that era. ”

Murphy sighed and reached out to pat Orr's head.

The latter still ignores him, closing his eyes and ignoring Murphy's "almost" behavior, but allowing Murphy to touch it without attacking it already shows that Orr no longer sees Murphy as an evil vampire enemy.

If Murphy can cure it, maybe their relationship will go further?

Beside the Governor, the still a little weak Grand Duke Triss stepped forward to take a sample of the serpent's wounds, she threw out a speciocular spell for reconnaissance, and after distinguishing it, she turned back to Murphy and said:

"If I can get the venom of the astral beast that hurt Orr, I can use that thing as an ingredient to make a potion to help it get rid of its weakness, and we won't have to worry about the rest. With the healing power of the legendary creature, give it enough time and it will be able to regain its health. ”

"It's not difficult, it's just very risky."

Murphy touched the Vientiane device that hung from his wrist as an ornament.

The first form of this thing will record the coordinates of the Astral Exile, and if Orr is indeed thrown into the Astral by this thing, then Murphy can easily find the behemoth that hurt it by activating the recording function again.

However, the real problem is that the adult Ningji Nanka already has the strength comparable to that of a gold-rank individual, but he is still beaten so badly in the Star Boundary, which fully shows that the opponent Orr encountered in the Star Plane is strong.

With Murphy's current rank, it is estimated that the fate of rashly pursuing the astral beast will not be too good, even if there is Tracy next to him, it is difficult to say what kind of attitude the astral beast that injured the legendary creature will face him.

Astral Boundary, even Tracey says, it's not a place to explore or find secrets

"I need to prepare a celestial communication ritual."

The Vampire Lord hesitated for a moment, then said to Tracy:

"We'll try to find the perpetrator tonight or tomorrow, and it would be great if they could communicate."

"Astral beasts are all intelligent, the longer they live, the more wisdom they accumulate, although it is a boring act to measure astral creatures by the righteousness and evil of the world, but I do know that the wisdom of those big guys can even be called cunning and vicious."

Tracey shook her head and said:

"And astral creatures have such and such abilities, Murphy, I don't recommend you to do this, you are an astral summoner, once your consciousness enters the astral plane, it is easy to be discovered by dangerous things"

"But I can't just leave it alone."

Murphy glanced at Orr, the serpent lying in the muddy water with his eyes closed, and he sighed and said:

"It's my job as a curator, and while I don't know if there's an attendance system, I guess if Orr's death happens under my management, my career will be tarnished.

If the strange 'Eye of the Overseer' is recorded, our quest for more secrecy will be overshadowed by it.

Most importantly, I wanted to see if I would give a little more of my 'Curator's Perk' next month if I saved Orr.

Reasonably, this is all something that must be done.

But before we do, there's one more thing we can do to get closer to the Swamp Serpents, I mean, by brushing up on their 'personal reputation'.

Don't forget, Trace.

In the other three districts, there are Orr's compatriots, who are only asleep but ready to be awakened. ”

Murphy looked at the legendary serpent in front of him, which was like a hill even lying in the muddy water, and he whispered with some subtle expectation:

"If the army of gnolls tries to trample on my territory again, then I, the curator, will be under pressure to activate 'lethal force'. These are seven legendary serpents, and even if they don't want to leave their homes, they are enough to patrol the vicinity of the ecoregion.

You tell me? ”

"Murphy!"

Tracy was excited, she subconsciously held Murphy's wrist, and whispered:

"You're going to use legendary creatures to attack the gnolls? Can you command them? ”

"Command, no."

Murphy sighed regretfully and said:

"But when I'm threatened as a breeder, it shouldn't be a big problem for the baby snakes I take care of to help me out, right?"

"That's great! Ah, I mean, this behavior is so inappropriate! ”

Tracey first jumped up excitedly, and then was hugged in the arms of Murphy as a princess, and then reacted that saying these words as an "assistant to the curator" might be regarded as "dereliction of duty".

Therefore, she quickly straightened her face again, and counted Murphy down:

"You really know how to exploit loopholes, that's not good, Curator Murphy, we should pay more attention to our duties."

"Yes, yes, I know it's not good, that's why I need to have a good relationship with my baby snakes in advance."

Murphy put Tracey down.

He approached the rock dome that Orr was guarding beside him, and when he reached for it, the huge claws of the giant snake rubbed and popped out of a claw blade the size of Murphy's whole person, but the vampire was not afraid, just patted Orr's huge claws, and said:

"Do you remember how you were born? Your eggs won't hatch because you didn't work hard enough, silly boy, but those guys put a limit on your bloodline to protect you.

I can lift this restriction.

If all goes well, tonight, you'll be able to see your child. ”

"Whew"

The serpent let out a low whimper, as if to confirm that Murphy wasn't joking, and when Murphy shook the Curator's badge he had taken from the control room in front of its eyes, Orr let go of his claws.

Apparently, it also recognizes the badge that represents the power of the swamp ecoregion.

"That's good."

Murphy smiled and reached out to force the psionic energy to hold the rock dome in the air, the thing had a unique power that made it impossible to teleport using space, so he and Tracy had to return to the exhibition hall in the black levitating wheelchair again.

Murphy, the "new curator", is finally about to begin to fulfill his duties assigned by the Creator, which makes him feel a sense of "great responsibility".

Under the curious gaze of assistant Tracey, Murphy, holding the dome, walked into the hatchery room on the other side of the staff hall, and even after countless years, the facility left by the creator still maintained a fairly good accuracy.

Their unmarked doors silently sliced open to the sides, revealing a gentle blue glow in the hatchery.

What appeared in front of Murphy and Tracy was a huge precision instrument, encased in a cylindrical metal can, with a compartment for eggs in front of it, and after Murphy had been washed with a layer of "disinfectant light", he walked into the hatching room and put the giant egg in his hand, and then activated the instrument with the Vientiane Key.

This thing is obviously fully automated.

After receiving authorization from the curator, the egg was quickly sent into its predetermined position by four mechanical tentacles, and then a blue-purple light burst out from it, enveloping the giant egg, and a steady stream of detection information was projected on the operation panel in front of the incubator.

"It's amazing."

Triss couldn't help but sigh:

"Even if I don't understand how these machines work, I can feel traces of supreme wisdom in them, which is a very different path from psionic energy, but it also leads to the truth.

These facilities left behind by the Creator seem to be the vein of technological developments in the world on the warriors' side. ”

"Far from it."

Murphy shook his head and said:

"The level of technological development in the world of warriors is far from reaching the level of creator technology, just like this incubator in front of her, even if the most professional Moe Ha in the current warriors comes over, she may not be able to distinguish the principle of action of this thing.

Even taking a battery out of it is enough to make them aware of the future of technology.

Wait a minute! ”

Murphy was struck by lightning all of a sudden.

He froze in place, staring blankly at the futuristic incubator that was operating automatically in front of him.

A genius thought quickly crossed his mind, and he was so excited that he hugged Tracey's waist and spun around her in a long circle as the Blood Vulture Grand Duke screamed.

"I see! Trissy, I know how to continue the conversation with the other side. ”

The vampire lord said with joy on his face:

"Equal communication is based on mutual need! In the past, we needed the help of the warriors more than their curiosity about us, this kind of interaction was unequal, the initiative seemed to be in my hands, but they also had the confidence and bargaining chips to flip the table.

However, this is no longer the case!

These Creator Technologies!

Yes, the gifts left by these Creators represent the future!

These technologies and machines can work a variety of magical effects without the involvement of psionic energy, which means that the knowledge of these technologies is equally applicable to them, and their thirst for this knowledge cannot be extinguished once it is aroused.

I finally have the confidence to negotiate terms with them! ”

"Ah, that's pretty good."

Tracey was very smart, and she was a little confused at first, but soon she understood where Murphy's joy came from, and she said with a joyful face:

"Doesn't that mean we can recruit more professional and elite warriors from the Atlas without interference? It's like a mercenary army, we can pay with knowledge! And our current warriors are all playing tickets, we need professional soldiers and commanders like Brother Bang and Lao Qin!

As long as we come up with enough returns."

"Yes, that's the perfect state to take what you need and respect each other."

Murphy nodded.

He walked back and forth in front of the running incubator, but soon he and Tracey both realized something important.

"If we're going to share knowledge, then we have to understand it first."

The Grand Duke of the Vulture whispered:

"But I can't even read it. The blueprint of the big tin can in front of me only makes me look like an idiot and a fool. ”

"It's not really a problem."

Murphy rubbed his chin and said:

"It's actually an effective way to have them send someone over to study these Creator technologies, but we have too few samples on hand, and if something like this is dismantled by them, it means that it can't be studied deeply.

So we need to find more Creator technologies.

Looks like we have to go to the Land of Origin once, didn't you say there are a lot of ruins over there? ”

"Yes, there are many ruins in the yellow sand of thousands of miles, such as stars in the sky, and the Songhai people have not been able to find all the gifts of the Creator after digging for a thousand years."

Tris Says:

"But again, the Songhai people will not allow us to step into their holy land, let alone dismantle their holy relics, and the Songhai Empire is one of the two ancient kingdoms on the current continent, and their strength is enough to protect their treasures."

"Well, maybe you can follow the path of Lord Pa Ying."

Murphy pondered:

"If we can convince the Lord to join us, let's talk about this matter later, before the end of the Black Plague, I estimate that neither the Songhai people nor the Lord will have any extra thoughts to participate in our incident."

"Ding"

A crisp chime from the incubator indicates that the inspection of the Rock Dome is over and it is time to move on to the next stage.

Murphy and Tracey turned their heads to see that the specific information about the egg had already been posted on the monitor:

Name: Astral Orphans, Codename "Ningji Nanka"

Status: Unhatched, awaiting instructions

Creature Template: Legendary Creature: Dragon-like Serpent

Faction Preference: Nature/Earth Psionic Bias

Creature Traits: Molt Reborn, Toxin Domination, Swamp Wandering, Seismus, Gem Scales/Crowd Bewitchment, Legendary Tenacity, Legendary Endurance, Legendary Weapon Resistance

Source: Unknown Home Star, Destroyed

Ethnic Status: Endangered

Below the race information is the detection of this egg, which has been petrified and is in good health inside, and the incubator gives a countdown to hatching in about 8 hours.

Without hesitation, Murphy activated the incubation program.

The hatchery showed that it needed to be closed and put into a special environment, so Murphy and Tracy left the room.

The two were talking and laughing, walking hand in hand through the staff hall being cleaned up, Murphy turned his head to glance at the indescribable "family planning and entertainment goods vending machine" in the corner, and then looked at Trace, who looked ignorant.

He felt an urge in his heart, but then shook his head to calm himself down.

Hey, at the moment of the black disaster, let go of the love affair of children.

He took Tracy back to the monitoring room and called up the monitoring situation of the three areas of the swamp ecoregion B, C, and D, except for Orr, the six swamp snakes were sleeping in their respective nests, their size was similar to Orr, and they were obviously born in the same batch as Orr, but their personalities were obviously not as irritable as Big Brother Orr.

The six giant snakes were all obediently accepted by the sleeping procedures of the ecological zone when it was closed, and there were a variety of giant eggs beside the six giant snakes.

Murphy counted them, and there were five.

"Once all the eggs have been hatched, they have almost reached the limit of what this swamp ecoregion can bear."

Tracey, with the demeanor of a polymath who has traveled the continent, said in an affirmative tone:

"Unless you open up the entire Filthy Swamp for them to live in, the ecology here will not be able to support more Legendary Serpents, but once the entire Filthy Swamp is opened, it is thought that this swamp will become a 'life exclusion zone'.

With the territorial consciousness shown by the giant serpent, other beings don't want to enter it.

But this may be good news, as it means that the Filthy Swamp will be locked down permanently, and with the seven legendary beasts and the Forbidden Land's creator defenses, even Murphy the Gnoll may be invincible. ”

"yes, it's nice not to think about losing, now you just have to think about how to win completely? However, allowing the Behemoths to participate in the war is not what a curator should do, and I reckon that given the intelligence of this base, if I do, I will most likely be stripped of my status as a curator and permanently expelled from this place for 'dereliction of duty'.

I don't want to take risks, so this choice can only be made in the most desperate moments.

It is equivalent to a one-time guarantee plan, and you can try not to use it if you can. ”

With a sense of discretion and pleasure, Murphy activated his curatorial privileges, ending the sleeping procedures of the remaining six-headed serpents and allowing them to enter the awakening process.

He said to Tracey:

"It took more than a thousand years for Orr to grow this big, which is enough to show that their species is growing slowly, and the baby snakes and their parents can spend a long time in the swamp ecoregion before they consider leaving.

This means centuries for mere mortals, and we have plenty of time to wait for them to grow up and become symbols of Transansia.

I'm now glad I'm a vampire and don't have to think about the passage of time.

I can hatch them and watch them grow, Trace, do you remember when you said that as a vampire of the immortal species, you need to find a little spiritual support for yourself? ”

Murphy leaned back on the console, and against the backdrop of the Creator's legacy, he opened his arms and said with a smile on his face:

"Look, I think I've found a mission from the Creator, and in the future we will not only receive more than just a swamp ecoregion, but many more prehistoric mysteries and Creator bequests waiting for me to sort out.

I feel like I've found this thing that will keep me busy for a long time, and besides chasing you and gaining the love of the Scarlet Witch, I have other jobs in my life that I can do to pass the time. ”

"Ding"

A prompt pops up on the character card in front of Murphy's eyes:

[The third class "Historian: Pre-Epoch Mysteries Explorer Specialization" has been inaugurated! The hidden achievement 'Bury you in the sand for a thousand years, and you will be worth a lot' has been lit up.

+10 achievement points. 】

"Cool!"

Murphy smiled and straightened up, and made a very pompous scholarly salute to Tracey in front of him, and he introduced himself:

"Then, the best theologian and historian on the continent, Ms. Trissy, standing in front of you is Murphy, the historian who is on the way to the rookie, please give me more advice in the future."

"Hmph."

Tracy crossed her arms very cooperatively, she looked Murphy up and down, and then sneered:

"Do any cats and dogs dare to call themselves historians now? Where is your paper? What is your degree? What's your point of view? What is your attitude towards history? Bad student Murphy, I think you still need a little bit of sharpening.

Why don't you come and give your mentor a back whack? Otherwise, you will fail this year. ”

(End of chapter)