"Huh? There's a dwarven architect from the Temple of Gaia coming to visit? Okay, you ask him to come, the teacher will go out to investigate, and he may come back in a while. ”

The Chosen Grey Beaters who stayed in the Crimson Keep today soon received a reminder from their senior brother Samoyed, and after learning that the Silver Dwarf Priest had come to visit Old Chen, the Grey Beaters immediately began to clean up the office of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in the city.

The reserve architects who studied here were mobilized to clean up the courtyard of the office before the arrival of the "distinguished guests".

Although Lao Chen Tou is peaceful, he still attaches great importance to the system of dealing with people and things out of the style of old-school intellectuals, if he loses his position in front of the dwarf architect who "walks in the other world", the gray man will definitely be severely punished by the mentor in reality.

At the beginning, Professor Chen was "abducted" into the game by the cunning gray man with the special architectural style of dwarves and elves, and now that a genuine dwarf architect has come, the character of Lao Chen will definitely not let go of this opportunity for "business exchange".

Although everyone is happy to say that this game is really fun, but Lao Chen Tou is a real professor, a real high-level intellectual, and if you want to say that he has not had his own thoughts in his heart after so long in the game, it is definitely unrealistic.

It's just that the old man is more stable.

Whether it is watching young people blowing water in the forum, or talking to three students in reality, he never expresses any opinions on this topic, but he has not seen Professor Chen's decisive AFK, which shows that the old man is still quite satisfied with his "game career" in his later years.

As for the gray man himself.

His mentality has slowly adjusted from the collapse some time ago, and the Parlian sisters, who had been angry with him before, have returned to the Brotherhood of Stonemasons to help as if nothing happened, and continue their studies by the way.

Lao Chen Tou personally taught these two very "aura" local girls to learn drawing and architectural theories, they learned very quickly and were very good at pleasing the old man, the old people were already more patient with young boys and girls, and now Professor Chen took the Palian sisters around all day to gain experience.

This made the Ash Fighter feel that something was not quite right.

Out of his strange instincts, he felt that the Parlian sisters seemed to be playing something "very new", and their "tactical target" was him, although he didn't know what they were going to do, but the Grey Man had already made up his mind.

He knew that he couldn't put it off any longer, and that he had to get his complicated relationship with Sister Parlian done as soon as possible, lest he would be sacked by Madame Parin's guards in the alleys of the Crimson Keep, and then continue to be ridiculed by his fellow companions on the forum.

Alas, one word of love is hurtful, helpless, helpless.

While preparing for the reception on the side of the Gray Man, Lao Chen, escorted by Xiao Wei Ming and Lumina, took his two local apprentices, the Palian sisters, into the "Great Rift" in the city.

The Great Rift that crosses the Crimson Keep is the most visible "scar" left on the land by the Cadman City disaster, and it and the "Astral Creation" hanging in the sky of Translancia are like a reminder of the suffering of the past.

The creation of the astral plane in the sky is not mentioned for the time being, but the rift in the city is time to deal with it.

In the urban plan designed for the Crimson Fort by Chen Tou and his two students, the large fissure would be diverted from the Cadman River to form a waterway that would divide the city's different functional areas, adding to the city's aesthetics and providing daily water for its residents, as well as bringing shipping needs into the city.

According to Professor Chan's plan, the first phase of the project will bring water into the city, and the second phase of the project will continue to expand the "man-made river" to extend it to the pier near the Under Armour Hills.

In this way, the Cadman River shipping business could be extended to the Crimson Keep, reducing the time it takes to deliver supplies and adding more jobs to the city's residents.

For the design itself, Governor Murphy and Archon Miriam raised their hands in favor of it, and they could see the benefits of the river.

The only problem was that the Great Rift contained a thick astral filth that had been entrenched for the past four months, until the first snow fell in Translasia, perhaps due to a sudden change in climate, that the astral aura in the Great Rift dissipated.

The purpose of today's inspection is to find out what lies beneath the cracks that have been hidden for the past four months, so as to determine the follow-up construction plan.

Originally, he didn't need guards, and the four witch hunter veterans who were dedicated to protecting him were enough to maintain safety, after all, it was in the Crimson Keep and not in the dangerous wilderness, but Reeds and Lumina still came uninvited.

The main reason is that the Parlian sisters seem to have inherited their mother's long-sleeved dance, and the two of them also have a "liaison" job in the Pride of the Silver Moon, and they are considered NPC members of the Pride of the Silver Moon, and they also have a pretty good relationship with the female players.

At this time, Operation Swamp Shadow was over, and the girls were fed up with the swamp environment, so they didn't plan to stay behind to take over the clean-up task over there, and when the loot distribution was completed, they ran back to the Crimson Castle.

They had been idle for the past few days, and when they heard that the Parlian sisters were going to explore the Great Rift, Reedina and Lumina immediately followed.

This rift across the city is actually not low in discussion on the forum.

Many newcomers who have not experienced the Cadman City disaster are speculating about what is below, and there are those who are not afraid of death who have really jumped down, but unfortunately the strong astral breath obscures observation and perception, and the visibility to enter the bottom of the rift is not even half a meter, and there is also the powerful negative state of astral erosion, so that the newcomers can't last long at all.

However, some players who jumped down were sure that there must be something in the Rift, and this back and forth made this rift an "urban legend" of the Crimson Keep.

However, it turns out that urban legends are really unreliable in most cases!

"It's been half an hour, and there's nothing here except the stones that have turned purple due to the astral breath!"

Xiao Wei Ming carried her hammer guard on her back, and flew around with two revolvers flapping her wings, and she said to the people behind her with a disappointed expression:

"I was counting on some powerful astral beasts hiding here, I thought this might be a 'challenge area' left for us by the development team, but I didn't expect it to be so boring!"

"It's not boring, is it?"

Dressed as an explorer, Lumina played with a few stones that emitted a purple shimmer in her hand, and she said:

"Didn't Professor Chen say that? These rocks have been exposed to the astral psionic energy for a long time, and the rules of physics have been affected, although I don't know what these stones can do, but it will definitely be useful to bring them back, and you can see that they can still explode. ”

Lumina threw the stone in her hand and smashed it against the crystal-like cluster of rocks next to her, and the purple light flashed and reverberated with a thud, like the sound of a second kick being detonated.

The power cannot be said to be great, it can be said that there is no power at all

But it's just right for a toy for a child.

"Okay, okay, I'll admit, the expedition wasn't as interesting as we thought."

Under the faint gaze of Xiao Weiming, Lumina, who threw a few purple stones up and down in her hand, shrugged her shoulders and pouted:

"I knew that I stayed in Mrs. Shui's shop to help her design military uniforms, and I think she and that Brother Mao designed a few sets of military uniforms for the commander of the People's Army are quite good-looking."

"Isn't that pretty? Directly copy the classic design of our side, and it is almost like getting the military emblem of the Third Reich. ”

Lumina complained:

"That is, Mrs. Shui and Brother Mao still have the bottom line as designers, and they are determined to make a style and refuse to directly paste and copy Dafa, otherwise we will really be ecstatic here. In other words, Brother Mao also invited us to his gallery for coffee, this guy looks like a classic artist old otaku who is out of touch with reality.

He also plans to make a 1:1 statue of Lady Triss in his gallery, and it is said that construction is already underway.

If I hadn't reminded him, he would have forgotten about the pandemic lockdown now. ”

"Yes, yes, I always think it's weird to mess with Brother Mao's hair, like an older middle school second killer Matt, but his leather-making skills are really good."

Xiao Weiming patted the leather armor on his body and said:

"Look, the armor he changed for me even has attribute entries, Mrs. Water said that Brother Mao is a leather master, and now it seems that in terms of craftsmanship alone, Brother Mao seems to be a little more powerful than Mrs. Water."

Of course, he is Mrs. Shui's senior, and Mrs. Water herself said that she is a tailor who is actually more inclined to designers, and she makes clothes by herself just for interest, and after becoming Mrs. Kuo, she doesn't have to sell her skills to support herself.

Now she's just playing with tickets, but Brother Mao is really playing.

People have their own stores on various platforms, specializing in this kind of antique protective gear and leather clothing from various countries, I searched on the Internet before, and the price is really beautiful. ”

Lumina covered her face and said angrily:

"I haven't gone to work yet, I feel the difference in the world, I estimate that I will go to work in the future, and half a year's salary will be enough to buy a pair of women's leather gloves from Brother Mao, how can it be so expensive?

This is probably the legendary craftsman spirit? ”

"Hehe, but now you say it, and he'll make you equipment for free."

Xiao Weiming patted his sister on the shoulder, laughed and said:

"Brother Mao's skill proficiency, it is said that he is preparing to apply for the armor master of the Blood Vulture Clan, and he has to rush the leather-making skills to the master level before Mrs. Triss replies, you don't have this shop in this village.

It's one thing if you can't afford it in reality, but you can even order it as long as you bring the materials here!

Little Lumi, this is a good opportunity, why don't we go hunting this afternoon?

I know that there are a lot of beasts in the Smuggler's Woodlands because of the Battle of the Swamps, and that Hogg has a lot of good fur goods, and if we go over and say it, its wife will open the warehouse for us to pick. ”

"Well, that makes sense, I'm going to take a trip to the Smuggler's Woods this afternoon."

Lumina nodded, and then said to Xiao Weiming:

"By the way, introduce me to that mysterious friend of yours, didn't you say he worked in a field hospital near the Smuggler's Woodland?"

"Okay, anyway, he's been taking students there, and it's boring every day."

Xiao Weiming patted his chest and promised.

The two girls talked about the afternoon, and the boredom in their hearts was dispelled a little, and they ran back to Professor Chen to ask for leave, only to find that Old Chen was frowning and pinching a mining pickaxe, and with the help of the witch hunter guards, he personally took some strange mineral samples.

The Parlian sisters were holding a special box next to them to sort the samples and prepare to take them back to the Brotherhood of Stonemasons for analysis and study.

"Wow, this ore is so beautiful!"

Lumina leaned over to take a look, and exclaimed:

"Same as diamonds! What's the deal with this shimmering crystal? Is there such a mineral in Translasia? ”

Xiao Wei Ming next to her also reached out and took out a small piece of ore from Sister Parin's box and put it in front of her eyes, she could see that there were indescribable crystal clusters extending from the broken stone, not like an associated mine, but more like "growing" directly in the stone.

But it's beautiful.

As Reed's fingers turned, the spars on the stone emitted strange points of light.

Old Chen didn't answer.

He just used his pickaxe to continue to tap the ore in the pit dug in front of him, and several well-informed witch hunter veterans beside him were also discussing in a low voice, they had not seen similar minerals in the ten years of war.

"It's not a native mineral deposit of Translasia, I'm sure!"

It took several minutes for Old Chen to smash and pack up a whole piece of strange ore in the pit in front of him, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned back to Xiao Wei Ming and Lu Mina, and said:

"I've looked at a few mining areas in Translansia when I was planning my territory, and there aren't many rare minerals in the area, let alone this exotic ore that is amazing just from the outside. I guess this is some kind of strange change that has occurred in this rift valley after a long period of exposure to astral energy. ”

"Huh? Mr. Chen, you mean, these ores are newly grown? ”

Xiao Wei Ming exclaimed:

"How is this possible?"

"It's certainly not possible on our side, but not necessarily on this side, and psionic energy is a unique catalyst that can't be described in words."

Old Chen Tou stood up, he looked at the refilled sample pit under his feet, and said:

"This unique energy will be entangled with almost all objects in the material world, and some time ago I heard from Mama Marianne a term called 'psionic erosion', perhaps this ore is a unique manifestation of psionic erosion.

But I don't know what these minerals are used for the time being, so I'll have to call a few travelers.

They are geology students and may be able to see some clues. ”

"But you also have a Ph.D. in geology."

Lumina blinked and said:

"You can see what they can see."

"Yes, I can figure it out."

Old Chen Tou touched the cold tooth sword hanging from his waist, showed a subtle smile, and said to Lumina:

"But I've done all the work, so what's the point of these kids just having fun in the game? Although they are not my students, if they don't get started with scientific research now, won't they be blind when they really need to use their experience in the future?

Now I can play games when I sleep, and I have an extra eight or nine hours of time every day, so young people can't always think about playing, and the effective use of time is also a very good quality.

Speaking of which, little Lumi, you're a turtle graduate student at a prestigious university, why don't you come too? ”

"Well, I have a part-time job in Lady Tracey's lab."

Lumina immediately waved her hand and refused, saying:

"I'm really here to have fun, not to study in another world, just let me go, I'm really not familiar with geology."

"But you're good at crystallography, aren't you?"

Old Chen squeezed his eyes and said:

"Come on, don't try to run, you have to make good use of your knowledge, you know? Otherwise, it will become knowledge and cannot be transformed into wisdom.

The name of the reed is also coming!

You haven't even graduated from high school, so maybe it's time to make up for your academic regrets in the game. ”

"But I don't regret it at all! I obviously have a correspondence master's degree, Professor! ”

Xiao Weiming's mournful voice spread far and wide.

She was also going to hunt in the afternoon, but she was dragged back to the office of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons in the city by Old Chen, who was going to immediately start studying the properties of this strange mineral, but as soon as she entered, she saw the grayman talking to a dwarf wearing a Gaia priest's robe.

After seeing Lao Chen Tou enter, the Gray Man immediately got up and introduced His Excellency Ilyich um Zhanxin to his mentor.

As soon as he heard that the other party was the real Gaia Temple architect, Lao Chen immediately became interested and enthusiastically stepped forward to talk, and Xiao Wei Ming and Lumina, who were caught strong men, glanced at each other, and immediately started his "escape plan".

The two of them put the box that Lao Chen used to hold the mineral fragments on the table and were about to run, but Xiao Wei Ming made a mistake in his busy time and did not lock the box, and the mineral samples in the box fell to the ground as soon as they got together.

Mineral fragments that emitted a strange streamer were scattered all over the ground, and Old Chen Tou got up helplessly and prepared to clean up, but the silver dwarf opposite him was shocked when he saw the mineral fragments on the ground.

Master Ilyich's eyes widened, as if he had seen something shocked, perhaps too shocked, and he cried out:

"Burning Gold Rough! Where did you get that? Transencia actually has this."

The old dwarf reacted quickly.

After realizing that he had said something he shouldn't have said, he immediately covered his mouth, but this action was a bit too cover-up.

Everyone in the room was eerily silent.

In the next moment, everyone's eyes turned to the ores that had been accidentally spilled on the ground by Xiao Weiming.

This ore is the godly burning gold?

Incredible!

——

"Bang"

Murphy, who had just returned to the Blood Vulture Corridor to apologize to Tracy, who was still sulking, suddenly stood up from his chair, he didn't monitor his little players all the time, but he did set a "keyword" in the link between the core orb and the arithmetic orb.

"Burning Gold" is one of them.

In the office of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons, when the silver dwarf Ilyich shouted "Burning Gold", he was immediately captured by several people around him, and this information was transmitted to Murphy's core orb almost at the same time.

"Transnicia has discovered a gold mine?"

The vampire governor's face changed dramatically.

He didn't have time to change his clothes, dodged out of the office, and pushed open the door to Tracey's office, only to see the Great Vulture sitting in a chair with a sad face and drinking alcohol.

After seeing Murphy appear, Tracey widened her eyes and patted the table and said:

"Get out! You little scoundrel."

"Something's wrong, Trace, now is not the time to lose your temper."

Murphy stepped forward and picked up the drunken Trace, pulled her out the door, and said to her:

"Professor Chen found a raw gold mine in the city"

"You're making trouble!"

Tracy shook off Murphy's hand and said dissatisfied:

"Even I, a vampire who has traveled across the continent, don't know what the Burning Gold Mine looks like!

The dwarves protected those things as if they were their lifeblood, and all that flowed into the market was gold powder or liquid that had been processed at least three times, and no one had ever seen a real gold rough except for the dwarves' senior miners.

They see it as forbidden knowledge. ”

"But Master Ilyich has confirmed that the ore that Old Chen Tou dug up in the city rift is burning gold! I don't know why there's a burning gold underneath the city, but I know at least that this thing doesn't appear on its own.

This proves that we have a vein of burning gold under our feet!

We're sending it, Tracey! ”

(End of chapter)