Chapter 12: Entering the Pit

The next morning, he was the first to arrive at the staff cafeteria and went headlong into the kitchen. He took a pot, brushed it and put it on the stove, added water, purified water, and then threw more than thirty kinds of herbs into it one after another and began to boil.

The ballast came in forty minutes later than Nick. At that time, the whole restaurant was filled with a heavy, slightly burnt bitter taste. Xiao Gu was yawning, but the smell rushed directly into his head, making him sober up instantly. In vain, he covered his nose and walked into the kitchen, just in time to see Rick casting a spell on the pot. Blue-purple lightning slashed into the soup, sending smoke of the same color. After two seconds, the water in the pot turned an opaque dark green.

"Good morning, what are you doing?" asked Xiao Jiao.

"I'm boiling up the brain medicine. Wick turned off the heat and scooped up the herb residue with a net. The potion he carefully concocted had a good detoxification effect on the possible pollution caused by magical waste, and it could also perfectly eliminate psychic toxins. Nick turned to Xiao Zhen and asked, "Have you been working here for a long time?"

The way Xi Ke stared at Xiao Ji made him feel that his life was in danger: "It's been a long time. What's wrong?"

Xi Ke poured a little medicinal soup into a small bowl and tasted it himself, and then poured a whole cup to Xiao Zhen: "Very good, drink this." Don't ask what it is, just drink it. Nick poured himself another large glass, and cleaned both of them of the toxins from their bodies.

Xiao Zhen frowned and took the cup. He stared at it for five seconds before he made up his mind, and after a small bite he almost squirted, he covered his mouth with a painful expression, and struggled for a while to swallow it.

"Do you want to add rock candy?" Xi Ke saw this, and quickly took the whole package of rock candy out of the cabinet and handed it to Xiao Xuan, who didn't say anything, but added a lot of it violently to the cup.

Xi Ke took a small sip of the medicinal soup. It's true that the taste is very bitter, but Rick likes this natural bitterness. It's not just bitterness, which quickly recedes, leaving a refreshing aroma on the tongue. After that, he used it as water to drink.

Vick finished his cup and began to transfer the pot of soup to the kettle. Although Xiao Xuan's cup was filled with rock sugar, it was just enough to squeeze into the limit of his patience, and he still covered his mouth with his hand.

"At eleven o'clock, the truck will arrive at the door, and we will go to the scene together to command. Xiao Zhu said.

"Do you have an appointment?" asked Ricke. According to the fourth incinerator workflow, if there is particularly tricky garbage to come in, it is necessary to make an appointment to deliver it first.

"There was a circus that disbanded, and the beast-like artifacts inside didn't find a buyer, so they all threw it away. 」

It sounds like a big Berserk Magic Beast sale, and it should be more dangerous than going head-to-head with a miniature vicious mushroom element.

"It's a big job, we're going to go into the pit, and we don't have time to eat Chinese food, so," Xiao Ji decided that it would be better to have a long nausea than a short nausea, he poured the medicinal soup into his stomach in one go, covered his mouth and opened the refrigerator, and took out something that made Xi Ke so happy that his whole face seemed to glow. "Eat a better breakfast today!" Xiao Ji tossed a large piece of steak on the table, making a sweet, heavy thumping sound.

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Loaded with a belly of beef, and the smell of fried beef all over the body, the two of them arrived on time at eleven o'clock to wait for the truck on the grass without grass. Rick kept licking his mouth, his mind still resting on the medium-rare steak sprinkled with rock salt. It's so delicious! To save the Syk Trance from using psychic toxins, fried steak works better.

He had a head full of beef, and he didn't notice until the truck drove near him and stopped.

It wasn't just a truck, it was a connecting truck towing five containers. He didn't hear the beasts rioting, and the five containers looked smooth, and he could still hope that these magic weapons wouldn't be too difficult to handle.

Like the other magical garbage trucks, the coupling stopped in front of the entrance to the tiny spike-strewn pit, and the driver opened the door, rolled onto his colleague's carriage, and quickly left. Seeing the driver's scared look, Rick began to feel bad again.

"It's our turn. He walked to the door of the pit, where there was a metal box embedded in the wall, he entered the number to open the metal box, and judging by the contents of the box, it was a tool storage box. Xiao Zhen ignored the special fire extinguisher for magic weapons, magic flow destruction scissors and other tools inside, only took out a metal disc, then locked the toolbox, pulled the cuffs of Xi Ke, and the two of them got into the connection car. Xiao Zhen sat in the front driver's seat, and Xi Ke sat in the passenger seat.

The steel door at the entrance to the pit rises upward. Before, Xi Ke had seen that it was all dark inside, but this time there were rows of spherical lights on the walls on both sides. The coupling car drove autonomously, drove under the steel plate door, entered the range of the pit, and after walking for a while, the air shook for a while, and the sound of the entrance closing came from behind.

Rick looked at Xiao Ballast. The ballast puts the metal disc on his lap and operates. The metal disc was larger than the face and was divided into two layers. The lower layer is a plane of concentric circles set together to form a plane. Each circle has a spell symbol on it. The upper layer is also concentric, but divided into two concentric circles, one of which is smaller than the other, and rests on top of the concentric circles on the lower layer. The position of the center of the upper and lower circles is different, and the two concentric circles of the upper layer do not touch. The concentric circles of the upper layer do not extend beyond the concentric circles of the lower layer. The two concentric circles on the upper layer not only have spell symbols on them, but also on the sides. These concentric circles can all be turned, and the two circles of the upper layer can even move on the surface of the lower circle. Since no mechanical structure was visible, Nick suspected that the upper circle was sucked into the lower circle with a magnetic-like liliang. The ballast grasps the entire concentric circle with his hand and twists it, or drags and turns it with his fingers on one of the rings to manipulate the metal disc. Different spell symbols glow different colors when approached.

This metal disc should be the controller of the pit. The spell symbol on it is not a generic spell symbol, but an encrypted symbol specially designed for the magic garbage incinerator, which Xike can't understand.

He turned his gaze around, and in the dim, cold light, he saw that the walls around him were all paved with enchanted silver. Silver, a powerful evil spirit-repelling substance, was quite expensive, and Xi Ke now really felt how much this place was expected to be able to use this grade of building materials so generously.

On the mirror-smooth walls, there are huge spell symbols with a matte surface. It's like a huge calligraphy work written on a wall. Although they can only be seen when they are reflective, the presence that their liliang exudes is not limited by sight. They have a strong grip on every inch of space here.

Rick's goosebumps were popping up. As a mage, he felt the magnificence and delicacy of this place, the interlocking magic liliang, and the fear and the accompanying emotion penetrated into the marrow of his bones. The spells here are woven into a brocade of far more complexity than human perception, and Xi Ke perceives the approximate, and perceives that there are countless details underneath each "probably", and there are details within those details...... Each detail also echoes with other details, like a chorus of multiple melodies without distinction between major and second. It was the first time he had seen such a large-scale modern magical cutting-edge creation. He felt that no mage should be able to remain calm in the face of such magic. He glanced at Xiao Ballast, but Xiao Ballast didn't react, as if he didn't feel any difference in the background energy here and the decomposition chamber. Maybe I'm used to it.

Xi Ke didn't know how far the connection car had gone, and he had lost even his sense of distance after being immersed in such a huge spell energy field. The passage was stopped, and the coupling car stopped in front of a wall. Xiao Ballast turned the controller a few times, and a large closed spell circle appeared on the wall. The circle emitted a burst of golden light, transforming into a chubby squinting cat totem, floating in the air from the wall, the wall opened to both sides, revealing the passage behind it, and the connecting car continued to move forward.

Rick stuck his head out the window and looked back, the cat totem remaining in the air for about twenty seconds before dissipating before the wall shut.

Nick retracted into the car, raised the window, and asked Xiao Zhen, "Do the people who built this place like cats?" There were cat-patterned tiles everywhere outside.

"Cat lovers are obsessed. Xiao Gu stared and continued to operate the controller. Syk had only now noticed that each of the edges of the controller's circles glowed, and the spell symbols usually shimmered, so they could be used in the dark. "He once said that his favorite things on this shijie are, in order: cats, magic, and weirdos. 」

"It means he's living a pretty comfortable life. 」

"How?"

"Someone like me, who doesn't even have to pick a job, would never declare himself an outlier so loudly. Rick leaned over and leaned his head against the window. The light forms a reflective bright spot on his eyes, which flows with the movement of the car: "To be able to show off how different he is from others in such a blatant way shows that he has the conditions to 'live well without being in line with others'. In the case of Xi Ke himself, his sacrificial sword is part of his strength, but he can't take it out when he is working. In order for others to accept him, he had to pretend that he didn't have this special place. As for the ability to evoke necromancy, this must be hidden to the end, otherwise I am afraid that no one will be able to hire him in the whole country.

"I see. Xiao Xiao lowered his eyelids, smiled and said, "I have obviously seen this kind of behavior for so many years, but only now did I realize that there are such prerequisites behind it. 」

"For those who are not well-conditioned, patience and hiding are necessary. Xi Ke didn't know why Xiao Zhen suddenly sighed, so he had to ask directly, "Are you familiar with the person who built this place?"

"Familiar. Xiao Ballast laughed until his eyes widened, and the topic made him very happy.

"He seems respectable, doesn't he?" asked Rick.

"Well, that person is obviously an archmage, and in his capacity, he probably only lives in the upper class of society above the legislator, but he likes to associate with people from different walks of life. He didn't invite those people to his house, but he went out to other people's houses, no matter how dilapidated the destination was. He believes that those people should not be seen as people waiting for alms, and that he will be invited to the homes of those people because he thinks they are capable of sharing. He once said, "Only those who have seen the bottom of the valley know what kind of foundation those who live on high ground." Those who lived on high ground from the beginning could only see the small mountain they were treading on, and could not see how much earth and rocks had been piled up on the mountain beneath their feet. 』」

This statement is the exact opposite of the usual motivational statement. The positive metaphors that Rick hears about mountains and high places always say as if as long as one is in a higher place, he knows everything that is lower than himself, and all the relevant wisdom will come out of thin air because of the position he stands. But what Xiao Ballast said is in line with the reality that Xi Ke sees in his life, those who always move high in the sky in a private spaceship, and even fly directly over the mountains, will not know what kind of shijie is in every inch of space on the ground.

"Sounds like a person who understands the suffering of the people. Rick said heartily.

「haha。 Xiao Zhen smiled even more happily, and he really liked the topic: "He also once said, 'As an elite of society, the most shameful arrogance is to think that you know the suffering of the people. 』」

Hearing this, even Xi Ke laughed. He decided to stop asking. If you ask again, you may find out the true identity of Xiao Ballast, and he also needs Xiao Ballast to accompany him to face this work.

Amid the roaring engine of the coupling car, he faintly heard the voice of Xiao Xuan, muttering, "...... It's only through different experiences that we can really put forward different points of view, and that's probably the key point that the elites overlook......