Chapter 42: Pocket Watches, Preparations for Departure

"You don't have any money on you...... So, what about rare equipment? Or something more valuable? ”

Regarding receiving remuneration, Wang Shui naturally will not be polite.

"No, my stuff is useful, and losing them will reduce my combat effectiveness."

The white cat's clear blue eyes always look directly into the eyes of Aqua regia, not embarrassed, not nervous, not shy.

"Give me the car, you're going to find another hunting group anyway." Wang Shui still likes this armored car.

"No, I need it as start-up capital, you can quote an amount, and I will repay it later."

The white cat said, and also sent a communication exchange request to Wang Shui.

Wang Shui, who was suppressed and couldn't move, didn't bother to continue to test, the stubborn self-respecting character of the white cat was very restrained from his words, and Wang Shui's half-baked words were useless.

"Okay, okay, I really saved an ancestor, the car is for you, and if you are paid, how about 200 silver coins? Give it to me when you've earned enough, and there's no interest or time limit. ”

Faced with this price that is neither high nor low, the white cat pondered and calculated carefully before saying:

"Yes, but the time will not be too short, you are weak, try not to die."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Well, I try not to die. ”

After the remuneration was negotiated, the white cat let go of the royal water, sat quietly on the co-pilot, and caught the probe that had been moving around.

"I'll drive the car into the city first, to the vicinity of Mission Square."

In response to Wang Shui's request, the white cat nodded very generously in agreement, and then stopped talking.

Wang Shui remembered Brother Tu's words, if you want to communicate with the white cat, you have to defeat her first.

Speaking of which, even if he saves the white cat, Wang Shui doesn't have the luxury of asking the white cat to cover him, and Tu Ge can't cover his hunting group! It's better to rely on no one than on yourself.

After getting out of the car, Wang Shui came to the unchanged task square and looked at the familiar vendors.

After quitting his job, Wang Shui didn't rush to find a place to rest, but just walked around the square by the way.

He had decided to find a world to exercise in as soon as possible, but he didn't want to travel directly through a certain world through the system's fixed tasks.

In the free quest section of the dream system, there are basically complex war worlds, and the intensity is much higher than the war zone near Iron Blade City, so this place is called a safe zone.

Wang Shui really found a few fantasy worlds, all of which were entertainment works he hadn't heard of, and he could search for relevant plots on the Internet and find customs clearance strategies, but the prices of these worlds were very high, and they generally didn't last long.

While wandering around, Wang Shui disposed of some of the messy battlefield resources on his body, sold some things with stable prices, and added more than 30,000 dream points, a lot of money.

Rather than settle down or find a job to do, he prefers to keep his money for tickets to a fantasy world.

Wang Shui, whose thoughts were a little blocked, walked back to Artisan Street, and came to the familiar "Moran Bookstore" without stopping, he wanted to read a book for a while and be quiet.

The clerk didn't doze off as usual, but was browsing the Internet, nervously fishing. He looked up and saw that the guest who had just entered the door was the familiar Wang Shui, and casually pointed to the small study inside, meaning that Old Moran was here today, and then did not say hello again.

Wang Shui also came inside, sat quietly beside old Moran, and looked at the bonfire in the fireplace in a daze.

"I survived by luck, why are you so ghostly?" Old Moran asked directly.

"Ah, you see, sorry to interrupt...... Me, I just don't have a proper job right now, and I'm a little lost. ”

"It's hard to know about the Rusty Sword Fortress, and you're still Edward's henchman."

"Well, for various reasons, after this trip, I left Brother Hei's, so I have nothing to do."

"Leave or not, that guy will only drain the value of each chess piece and never care about your life or death. You are an awakened person, you want to live, live well, find the value of your own existence, and the most important thing is your own strength. ”

Old Moran picked up the wine glass on the low table and took a sip and continued,

"I admire you, or rather, I appreciate your talent, your ability to learn, but I can't offer you a job. Sylvia is dead, her hunting group is disbanded, the battle line is being crushed back to the city, and I'm leaving. ”

Wang Shui just nodded, Old Moran is an extraordinary person, but he is not an awakened person or an indigenous, Wang Shui didn't ask much.

"Knowledge will not fail you, but you need time, and I think your confusion also comes from a sense of urgency in time."

As he spoke, Old Moran took out a silver pocket watch, handed it to Wang Shui, and said:

"You should be no stranger, this is a key to the fantasy world, an unknown fantasy world, your system will probably release exploration tasks, let you discover the plot of building this world, looking for extraordinary knowledge inside, and this kind of task, usually has no time limit, it is very suitable for you to learn in it."

Wang Shui took the silver pocket watch with surprise and joy, then looked at Old Moran and said:

"Thank you very much! I was looking for this kind of thing, but there are very few ...... on the market."

"Of course, this kind of primitive and unknown fantasy world will have special explorers to develop, and then occupy the world, or split copies to make money."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Thank you very, thank you very much, I don't know what I have to give? ”

Wang Shui quickly calmed down, he and Old Moran had a bit of a friendship between teachers and friends, but he was an adult, and he knew that free was the most expensive simple truth.

"Very wise, if you were eager for my investment, I would probably sign a contract with you, it's great that you're not so naΓ―ve. Actually, I need your help for something, I need you to take the place of a person in an alchemical extravaganza, the danger is small, but it will be troublesome, and you don't seem afraid to deal with all kinds of people. ”

Old Mo Lan's tone was very flat, Wang Shui thought seriously for a while, and the matter of reasoning with Brother Hei made him a little afraid of being arranged, but the silver pocket watch in his hand was really ......

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【Atlas Key: National Alchemist's Pocket Watch (Special Item: Blue)】

[Rank: 1]

[Hazard Scale: 3]

[Start time: any]

[Time flow rate: 300 times]

[Note: The unknown fantasy world needs to be explored before it can evolve into a controllable key, and the degree of exploration determines the effect of the system's control over this world, and may also make the key disappear.] 】

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It's Fullmetal Alchemist! And it's the original world without mutations!

Although Wang Shui hasn't finished reading this or the related comics, he knows who the protagonist is, and he also knows the source of some dangers, and he was even exposed to the existence of villains and those artificial people in the bottle.

He just, just didn't read it in detail.

Above all, this is a world of existential alchemy! There is an alchemy that is not quite the same as that mastered by Shui Wang!

"I ...... I agreed, but old Moran, tell me frankly, is it really not life-threatening? Wang Shui tried his best to restrain his joy and show sincerity.

"Danger? Walking on the road can also be dangerous, and I can only guarantee that the place I want you to go is much safer than Iron Blade City. ”

Old Moran smiled rarely, "I want you to replace it, just because my old friend, his descendants are too poor and they are embarrassed, so you have to study hard, perform well, and if you can win anything at the event, it will be your own." ”

Old Moran said, and took out two books.

"You just take the place, you don't need to completely become a certain person, you just need to master the characteristics of their family's spells and alchemy, in these two books, there is relevant magic and alchemy knowledge, you can bring these to the fantasy world."

"Is it just two books?" Wang Shui opened the two tomes with some confusion.

"Of course, no, these two books are catalogs, some of the books are available in the bookstore next door, and most of them still need to use my private collection, these treasures can't be taken away from you, come, follow me to the back, you memorize these books first."

Wang Shui had no choice but to follow him to the back.

The time that followed, this night, and even the days that followed, need no detail. Wang Shui seems to have returned to the days before the final exams of the university, to the days of memorizing knowledge mechanically.

Of course, if you don't understand and are not interested at all, it will be difficult to memorize, and old Mo Lan also began to teach Wang Shui's spells less systematically.

Late at night on the seventh day, Wang Shui, who was staying in the small study, was flipping through a book on the introduction to magic, when a woman's moonlight-like voice sounded in his head.

"Let me out."

Wang Shui took out the miniature probe from his pocket and activated the alchemy array on it.

"No, don't probe the machine, let me share your senses."

Sylvia's voice was a little weaker, but in the aqua regia surveillance, her digital life soul was normal, but her mood curve was low.

"Can you only use your senses passively, will it be more free than a probe?" Although Wang Shui was asking, he also unlocked the synchronization control.

"The body of the construct, which only has sight and hearing, and no other senses, will be very painful after a long time, and the same will be true in your mind, only endless silence and darkness."

"Cybersickness? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lock you inside, with your current computing power, it would be dangerous to go directly to the Dream Network. ”

Wang Shui gave cheap comfort while reading a book.

"Hmm." Sylvia accepted the statement, but didn't talk much about why she had been quiet for seven or eight days, or how she thought about it today.

"Are you reading? Learn magic from the basics? Why not...... Oh yes, you're a know-it-all. ”

Sylvia, who wanted to chat and could only divert the topic, remembered the ridiculous panel that Wang Shui once showed her - Order 0, and she was even more ridiculous, she was captured by Level 0.

"Well, do you have any thoughts or advice on learning?" Wang Shui asked casually.

"No, I'm a standard militant who uses my body to learn after instilling knowledge, constantly fighting, constantly swinging my sword, until my skills exceed the description of words, as for magic...... Most Awakened prefer to use it directly. ”

"And then because the knowledge and soul strength are stuck in a certain level for more than ten years, or even decades, if they can stay alive."

Aqua regia's addition made Sylvia nod, and what was even more fantastic was that aqua regia seemed to sense the familiar Sylvia in his mind and nodded.

The magical experience of two souls, Wang Shui took some notes.

"Just reading a book? It's too slow to become strong like this, so what about the monthly call-up? ”

"I'm from the Department of Life, once every six months."

"Raw...... Department of Life! Sylvia exclaimed, "Oh! I almost forgot, only the Life Department can enter the Governor's Castle, and a cunning guy like you can actually be the Life Department! ”

"Then the former queen, do you know how to transfer from the life department back to the combat department?"

"I don't know, don't think about it, it's hopeless...... Just kidding, the system encourages you to become a combat system, and you only need to go to the third level. ”

Wang Shui looked at the panel that had soared to level 0 and level 7 because of a fight, and continued to read with peace of mind, tonight he was going to review all the books on the table, because tomorrow, he was going to another world.

Another fantasy world.

On the shelves, more and more

(End of chapter)