Volume 19 Chapter 135 Essinger Has a Power Outage

Essinger's Equipment Research Institute has a very high-precision microscope. Although it cannot be compared with the electron tunneling microscopes in reality, the optical microscope used for teaching in the school can still do it. What I want to do now is to find the center point on the map, not to regenerate cells. A microscope like this is enough.

After finding the approximate coordinates on the map, I used special equipment to find the center point, and then used a pen knife for micro-engraving magic circles that I borrowed from the magic circle research institute to click a small dot on the map. Use the same method to mark the locations of all three circles, and then it’s time to go find them.

The circle closest to me on the map is less than 100 kilometers away from Essinger in a straight line. This is of course the priority search object. However, there are only three circles marked on the map to indicate that the three books are in these three places, but it does not say which place corresponds to which book, so it becomes a bit troublesome when asking about things. It was for this reason that Rose originally approached me to do this task that seemed to be accomplished by just running errands.

Although I usually act very strong and capable of fighting, don't forget that my affinity and intimidation attributes towards NPCs are much stronger than those of ordinary people when collecting information. If it is a non-hostile NPC, then the other party will not only tell me everything they know, but sometimes they will also take the initiative to help me contact other NPCs who may know the information to help. If an ordinary player comes to ask the same question, it will be completely different whether or not the NPC asks for help, let alone offering help. If you encounter an NPC such as a hostile or wild monster, most players will fight with the opponent, and then depending on the outcome of the battle, the opponent will often choose to fight to the death or deliberately mislead. But if I ask, as long as the strength of the hostile NPC is not If it is beyond my level, he has a high probability of telling me directly what I want to know, and the greater the difference in strength between the other party and me, the easier it is to ask for the result. Of course, if I encounter an NPC who is stronger than me, it will still take a lot of effort, but compared to ordinary players, the effort I put in is definitely less than them.

I flew all the way according to the location marked on the first circle, and I quickly arrived at the coordinate point, but this was not a city or a leveling point, so it was really troublesome to find someone to ask questions. After looking at the rolling mountains below, I finally had no choice but to land on the ground first, and then use the old method - looking for dead souls and sprinkling crystal powder.

"Dear Lord, what are your instructions for waking me up?" An undead soul that I pulled out from under a big tree asked very respectfully. If any other player besides me were standing here now, unless he also played the undead system, the first words the undead said would never be the respected lord, and I can almost conclude that when the undead touched The first thing you do after picking up a living person is to pounce on them and launch an attack.

After looking at this guy who was in tatters, I asked directly: "Have you ever heard of the Book of the World?"

The undead immediately shook his head like a rattle. "Sorry sir, I have never heard of such a thing."

"What about the "Book of Time"? Or the "Book of Space" or the "Book of Energy". Have you never heard of it?"

The undead still shook his head and said: "Sorry, I really haven't heard of it." After hearing the other party's answer, I could only throw him a handful of black crystal powder and prepared to find other creatures to inquire again, but Unexpectedly, the undead suddenly added after receiving the crystal powder: "Sir, although I have never heard of the books you mentioned, if you are sure that the books are nearby, I suggest you go over there."

I looked in the direction of the undead's finger, and I couldn't see any difference between that side and this side.

Probably knowing my doubts, the undead explained: "When I was still a human, I heard a legend. It is said that there is a powerful mage living in the valley in front. I think if If there is a book anywhere in such a mountain forest, it can only be the residence of the Master."

As soon as I heard this answer, I knew the mission goal had appeared. I threw a bigger bag of crystal powder directly to the undead, and then without waiting for the other party to say thank you, I stepped on Yeying and ran towards the valley in front.

Judging from the energy concentration of the old ghost just now, he has been a ghost for a while. The soul of a newly deceased person will not condense to this level. And when he was still a human, he heard that a powerful mage lived here. That is to say, as long as the mage didn't happen to know the Lich Transformation Technique, he would probably be dead by now. But this didn't have much impact on my mission. I'm looking for books, not someone. It doesn't matter if he dies or not.

After rushing all the way into the valley, I discovered that this place was actually a dead end. Only the side of the valley where I had just entered could be freely entered and exited. Except for that entrance, the entire valley was surrounded by a C-shaped mountain. Although the surrounding The mountain is not vertical, but a slope of more than 70 degrees is no longer accessible to anyone.

A valley like this is simply the best place to build a fortress or base. It's not surprising that a mage lives here. As long as you want to find the mage's residence, this is easy. Anyway, there are a lot of skeletons of the dead in the valley, so if you just recruit a dead soul, you will basically be able to find out.

During the experiment, I summoned two undead souls. After a brief inquiry and exchange, I learned from them that a mage did live here, but the mage had been dead for many years, and because There is no one to maintain it, and even the house where the Master lives has been buried in the mountain due to a mudslide. But fortunately, the two undead knew the exact location of the house, and as long as they knew the location, it wouldn't take much to dig it out.

"Be careful, don't demolish the house!" After knowing the exact location, I summoned Lucky and Plague to help dig the house.

Although the mage's house was buried by the mudslide, it was not buried deeply. After a few simple digs, we discovered the remains of the house. The house with a mixed structure of wood and stone had collapsed in the mudslide, so all that was dug out now was the remains.

After confirming the specific location of the house, I replaced Lucky and others first, and let Qilin Warrior continue digging. Although the Qilin Warriors may not be any more careful than Lucky and the others, they are only so big, and no matter how careless they are, half of the house will disappear with just one paw.

After carefully removing the surrounding soil and rubble, some items from the house appeared under the ruins. However, these items did not seem to have anything to do with books, so we had to continue to expand the cleaning area around and downwards. It took more than half an hour, and we finally found something valuable after clearing almost the entire house.

"Basement?" Looking at the rock frame in front of me, I immediately guessed the original purpose of this thing. However, there is a small problem that needs to be solved before starting our book-hunting journey, and this problem is-"Damn, Why is there all mud in here?”

"Obviously, the door to the basement was open when the mudslide broke out, so according to the natural law of water flowing to lower places, it is not a strange thing for the basement to be filled with mud, right?" Lucky said, standing behind me.

"Isn't it strange, but the question now is how do I get down? It will take at least a day to clear the soil here!"

The basement is different from the houses on the ground. Its entrance is only large enough for two people to squeeze through, which means that the working surface left for us is very small. On the ground, we can speed up the progress by simply increasing the number of workers, but it is useless to have more people here. At most, one person can dig there at the damn entrance. Although it is actually big enough for two people to dig in parallel, it needs to be Working requires space, and this area is obviously not enough for two people to move around.

"Maybe we can give Crystal a try," Lucky suggested.

"Then let her try." Anyway, there is no other way now. As a fairy dragon, Crystal at least knows a lot of 'messy' magic. Although it may not be used in battle, it is very good at dealing with many small problems. Still used.

After the crystal was released, she first turned into a human form and looked closely at the structure of the basement. After thinking for a while, she said: "I think I can handle it, give me five minutes."

After telling us, Crystal immediately started casting spells. She first cast a strange spell on the cave. As she cast the spell, a thin line of water suddenly appeared from the entrance of the basement. The water continued to emerge from the ground as if alive, then flowed to the valley floor behind us and was gradually absorbed by the soil there. After completing this spell, Crystal suddenly pointed at the entrance of the cave and shouted at the same time: "Shocking waves." With a bang, the surroundings around us were instantly completely covered by dust. . Of course, the entrance to the basement is still blocked. The smoke looks big, but in fact, just a thin layer of soil is enough to create such a huge smoke. Compared with the soil in the entire cave, this is just It's just a hair from a cow.

"Ahem...Crystal, please say hello next time you do something like this." Lucky complained while quickly flapping his wings twice to blow away the dust.

"Sorry, my mistake." After Crystal finished speaking, she pointed her finger at the hole again, and then she suddenly remembered something and said to us: "Everyone, please stay away, it may get a little dirty after a while."

Originally, we were going to ask her what she meant just after she finished speaking. Who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, she threw a small cyclone at the entrance of the cave, and then we saw the small whirlwind sweeping the entrance of the cave like a vacuum cleaner. All the dust was sucked up, and with the suction of the whirlwind, the soil layer at the entrance of the cave was rapidly receding downwards at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"How did you do that?" I asked as I looked at the crystal in surprise as I looked at the falling soil surface.

Crystal said with some pride: "It's very simple. I first use the gathered water element to pull out all the water in the basement from the soil, and then the soil will become extremely dry. At this time, I use shock waves to remove all the water in the basement. All the brittle soil will be shaken away, and the connected soil will turn into flour-like dust. At this time, just use a small tornado to suck the dust away. Isn't it very simple? "

"Well done."

Crystal's super vacuum cleaner is really very efficient. It took less than three minutes to clean up all the steps at the entrance to the basement. After that, Crystal went down to repeat the previous magic again, and the tornado began to clean up the soil in the basement again. In less than twenty minutes, the space in the basement was basically cleared. Although there was still a large amount of dirt and stones piled on the ground in many places, at least it no longer hindered us from finding things.

This basement is really too old, and there is no protective spell unique to the temple, so all the items are basically rotten, including all kinds of wooden furniture that have been soaked in mud for a long time. It turned into rotten wood. Just after the water was extracted by the crystal, it was hit by a shock wave. These rotten things were swept away by the tornado along with the dust.

We are not here to hunt for treasure anyway, so the damage of these things means nothing to me. The absence of these things will make it easier for us to find things. Everything that could be blown away in the entire basement has been pumped out. Now the only things left here are some magic items with protective spells and large rocks in the mudslide. These things cannot be hurt by the previous magic, so In the end, these were the only things left after the tornado.

"Some people come down and move all the stones out." I took a brief look in the basement and then asked the Qilin Warrior to clear the stones out. The entrance to the basement is only that big, and the stones that can be rolled in are not too large. After being quickly cleaned up, there were only three things left in the basement.

The last three items left in the empty basement were not books. The first item was a box, which was about half the size of a home computer case. It was probably used to store valuables, because the box had strong protection on it. Array. Apart from the box, the remaining two items were a palm-sized disk and something that looked a bit like a microscope.

Because the three items are all covered with a layer of soil, the specific shapes cannot be seen for the time being. After confirming that there were no other secret passages in the basement, we took our things and returned to the surface. After washing away the soil on the surface with water, the three items immediately glowed with dazzling magic light. It was obvious that the magic on these items was still in effect.

The microscope-like instrument was quickly recognized by Crystal. This thing is said to be a device used to analyze the magical performance of materials. It is a technology from a long time ago. The Dragon Clan has used it before, but it has been eliminated for a long time. In short, according to Crystal, this thing really has no other value besides being an antique collection.

Although I quickly figured out what the microscope-like thing was, I couldn't figure out what the disk was used for. After cleaning this disc, we discovered that its surface was engraved with dense words and patterns using a mixture of intaglio and embossed patterns. But the problem is that we don’t recognize any of the words on it. Even the demon pet is said to be the most knowledgeable. Even Ling couldn't figure out what was engraved on it. In short, this thing that looks like an enlarged pocket watch is a complete mystery. Even if I use the identification technique, there is no response at all. Of course, even though I don't know what it is used for, I won't throw it away. Something that can be protected by powerful magic and remain undamaged after many years is definitely a very precious thing. Even if we don't know the purpose of such things, we should collect them first. Anyway, we will figure it out sooner or later.

Although one of the first two things was recognized and the other didn't know what it was, at least they were intuitively visible, but the last box made us blind. The box must be used to hold things, so the box itself is not the focus. What is inside it is what I am eager to know. However, although this box is not what we are looking for, it is definitely a treasure in itself, because this thing cannot be dismantled violently, even if it takes eternity. Eternity, which cuts artifacts like tofu, can't do anything with this box. I even turned Eternity into an ax and couldn't cut it open.

"It seems we have to take the things back and find a way." Ling said after studying the magic circle on the box for a while: "I don't know what kind of protection magic this box uses, but I know there is a way. You can open it. But you need to return to Isengard."

"Then go back first. If nothing else happens, there must be a certain book in this box."

After returning to Essinger with those things, I asked Ling how to solve it. As a result, Ling gave me a very violent way to open the box.

"Protective magic is like a safe. It can tightly protect the things you want to protect. There are only three ways to get through it and access the protected things inside. 1. Open the safe with the key and corresponding password Second, you understand the structure of the safe and use special tools to pry it open. Third, directly destroy it with a force that the safe cannot withstand. We obviously don’t have the key, so the first method is impossible. The same goes for the second method . We don’t understand the composition principle of this protective magic, so it’s almost impossible to crack it.”

"You mean to use a power that exceeds the upper limit of protection to break through the protective magic?" Lingdu said so clearly, of course I guessed what she meant.

Ling nodded as expected: "Although I didn't figure out how the power of this protective spell works just now, I at least confirmed its energy intensity. If we temporarily transfer Essinger's power core to this thing, then as long as one In seconds, this thing will explode automatically due to overload of magic power, and then it will be just an ordinary box. The advantage of this method is that the box can be opened quickly and accurately, but the disadvantage is that the box will definitely be scrapped. "

Although a box that can block eternity is pretty cool, our guild doesn't seem to be short of things like safes, so no matter how strong it is, it's not of much use to us. Because of the above reasons, I quickly agreed to Ling's suggestion and took the things directly to Essinger's power room.

Now Essinger is no longer using the original power core. Because of the application of liquefied magic crystal steam technology, the power core of our guild has now become a hybrid power. A huge blue liquid ball with a diameter of twenty meters is suspended in the void and rotating slowly. Around this huge liquid ball, thirty-six syringe-like metal probes are evenly distributed around the liquid ball, but the needles are a certain distance from the liquid ball. A distance of about meters. However, the huge liquid ball was rotating while constantly discharging electricity towards the metal needles. Arcs of various shapes were twisting around the entire ball, as if a group of blue electric snakes were dance.

The tails of the syringe-like devices facing the liquid ball are connected to a metal ring. This ring is wrapped with many metal pipes. It looks quite complicated, but it does not appear messy. The pipes connect each syringe-like device, and the other end is connected through the base to a huge device that looks like a multi-layered birthday cake. This device is located at the bottom of the entire suspension device. A thick blue energy ray is emitting from the tip of the inverted multi-layer cake-like thing. After passing through an eight-sided crystal crystal, the blue energy ray The rays are evenly distributed into eight thinner rays and are directed into eight receiving devices in a circle around the room. The other parts of those devices are buried in the wall, so they cannot be seen. However, those things are actually very huge. They will be responsible for transmitting energy to various energy-requiring devices in Essinger, providing the energy required for the operation of the entire Essinger.

"What should I do?" I asked Ling nervously, standing on the huge telescopic platform of the power room. You must know that even if it is any one of the eight dispersed rays, its instantaneous output is enough to kill me in seconds. Regardless of how high my defense is or how thick my health is, under the energy rays that can drive the entire city, I will be burned to ashes in just a few tenths of a second, so every time I face these things I was super nervous.

Ling didn't seem to care about my nervousness. She just pointed at the thickest 'radiation' line in the middle, and then said: "Just throw the box over. It should be ineffective when it flies out from the opposite side."

"I hope your method works." After I said that, I threw the box directly towards the energy pillar in the village. The box drew a beautiful arc in the air, and finally hit the main energy ray released by the city's power core exactly according to the route I expected. There was no confrontation or offset. Just like a watermelon hitting a speeding train, the box exploded into fragments the moment it came into contact with the energy beam. But...but an accident happened.

The smashed box had no impact on the energy core. It was smashed to pieces without even being able to resist. However, although the box was broken, the contents inside were still there. As we had expected, the box contained only one thing - a book. Although I don't know which one we want, I'm sure that's what I want. However, the next second, the book did something extremely surprising.

We just watched helplessly as the box shattered, and then the book flew out and crashed into the energy rays, and then the light beam that originally shot towards the reflective crystal was instantly cut off. The book was like a black hole, and all the energy rays shot towards it were sucked into the book. And just as it was sucking in energy rays, the entire power room suddenly It all went dark.

"Warning, there is an unexplained output disorder in the main power room. Start the backup power room in three seconds, three, two, one, switch." Along with a burst of popping sounds, the room lit up again, but The equipment in front of us stopped completely, and the energy rays were automatically extinguished due to the protective shutdown of the energy extractor. After the energy rays went out, the strange book fell down as if it suddenly remembered that it should follow the law of gravity.