Chapter 298

"Please tell me carefully what is going on, Mr. Abatuyi."

"Okay, my mechanical creation was lost in the rain forest, so I want to ask Miss Nasreen if you have seen it when you were patrolling the forest."

Facing Nasrin's inquiry, Abatuyi immediately explained the reason why they came for help while gesticulating.

"A mechanical creature that looks like a crab?"

After Abatuyi finished speaking, Nasrin couldn't help but frown.

The crab-shaped mechanical creation the other party mentioned seemed to have been mentioned by other rangers recently.

According to colleagues, they recently encountered a caravan that was robbed while patrolling the forest.

From the mouths of these robbed businessmen, they learned that these people were suddenly attacked by a giant crab-like mechanical creation.

But what is puzzling is that the other goods were not lost, only the boxes containing mechanical parts were snatched away.

Nasrin's colleagues then searched for the other party's whereabouts in the rain forest, but unfortunately they couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

"How could Kakata attack people? This is impossible!"

After listening to Nasreen's story, Abbatui was dumbfounded. He stood there and kept mumbling to himself, as if he didn't believe what he heard.

"I never gave it any instructions to actively attack others. How could Kakata take the initiative to attack the caravan?"

"Unfortunately, it did, Abatui."

At this moment, a steady male voice came from behind Han Xiao and the other two.

Han Xiao, who heard the sound, couldn't help but turn around and look behind her. She saw a ranger holding a bow and arrow, with a pair of towering fox ears on his head and a slightly childish face appearing behind them at some point.

"Tinari!"

Seeing the figure appearing behind him, Abatuyi shouted in surprise.

"why you?"

"I am originally a ranger, and this is my patrol area."

Hearing Abatui's words, the ranger named Tinari smiled.

"Also...Long time no see, Abatuyi."

Chapter 480 Han Xiao: This is taboo for me

Huachengguo·Temporary station for forest patrol officers.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Tinari invited Han Xiao and Abatuyi to his temporary residence.

"You two, please have some tea."

Tinari placed two cups of hot tea in front of the two of them, and then pulled up a chair and sat down.

When the other party sat down, Abatuyi did not rush to ask Kakata's questions, but first chatted with the other party about old things.

"We haven't seen each other for many years, Senior Tinari."

"Yeah, long time no see!"

Hearing Abatui's words, Tinari also showed a look of nostalgia on his face.

After graduating from the academy, his advisor wanted him to stay at the school and teach after graduation.

However, due to Tinari's own meticulous observation skills, he keenly noticed that some of the ways of the Order were unflattering, so he rejected his mentor's suggestions.

In addition, he himself preferred a freer research environment, so Tinari chose to come to Daochenglin to become a ranger.

After completing his duties as a ranger every day, he never forgets to conduct research on plants.

After sighing, Tinari suddenly changed into a teasing tone and joked about Abatui:

"By the way, the teacher's letter said that your boy was expelled by the Order of the Order?"

"Don't mention it!"

It was okay if Tinari didn't say it, but Abatui became very depressed when he mentioned it.

"You said that I just believe that mechanical creations can also give birth to their own life consciousness, and I have not used forbidden materials or touched any bottom lines."

"The sages of the Order Council expelled me because I violated a taboo. Isn't this a bit too cruel!"

"..."

After listening to Abatui tell the whole story of his encounter, Tinari suddenly fell silent.

He thought he knew his junior fellow student relatively well.

The other party has been extremely fascinated by the mechanical field since he was in school, and has always believed that mechanical creations will give birth to their own unique life consciousness.

Although in Tinari's view, the chance of success of Abatui's idea is too slim, this perseverance in research is still worthy of praise.

It's just that my junior brother's research field is a bit sensitive, and he always feels like he may hit the bottom line at any time.

Even if Tinari himself believes that Abatui will not touch taboos wantonly, others may not believe it.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at his junior brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and sighed softly:

"The teaching council's approach is indeed a bit inhumane, but..."

The next second, Tinari's conversation changed:

"Abatui, your research field is indeed a bit dangerous in the eyes of others to be honest."

"Ranger Tinari, I think your judgment is biased on this point."

Han Xiao, who had been watching the conversation between the two brothers with a cup of tea, suddenly interrupted the conversation.

Upon seeing this, Tinari was not angry. Instead, he looked at Han Xiao with interest:

"This is Mr. Roman, right? Please tell me your reasons."

"I wonder if Ranger Tinari has ever heard of Creationist alchemy?"

"I have heard that the alchemy school mastered by Albedo, the master of Mondstadt alchemy, is well known even in Sumeru."

Tinari's eyes lit up. He probably knew how Han Xiao wanted to refute him, and what he said next was exactly what he expected.

"The main purpose of the creation school in alchemy is to create new life through alchemy. Abatui wants to give life consciousness to mechanical creations. It is not a particularly dangerous research."

"Isn't it dangerous?"

After Han Xiao finished speaking, Tinari immediately shook his head.

"Mr. Roman may have misunderstood what I meant. The danger I am talking about does not refer to the direction of Abatui's research, but to the process."

The ultimate goal of Abatuyi's research is to give life consciousness to mechanical creations. From this point of view, it is indeed very similar to the purpose of Abedo's School of Creation and Alchemy.

In fact, Xumi had similar ideas a long time ago. The main reason why it was gradually banned is that most scholars who conduct research in this direction unknowingly touch taboos and make mistakes during their research.

This is also a common problem among Sumeru scholars. After entering the laboratory, they often feel that they are the gods in the laboratory and can control everything, and eventually lose awe.

As he said that, Tinari couldn't help but summarize his views.

"I believe in Abatui's bottom line as a scholar, and he will not touch the bottom line of taboos."

"But Mr. Roman, do you think others will believe it?"

"So that's what the Tinari ranger thought."

After hearing Tinari's explanation, Han Xiao subconsciously glanced at Abatui, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and did not choose to continue arguing.

Although he had heard from Abatui before that Tinari was dissatisfied with some of the ways of the Order, so he chose to leave Xumi City and come to Daocheng Forest to become a ranger.

But he also knows that the current opponent does not know the virtues of the sages of the Teaching Order, so he still has trust in the Teaching Order.

As for taboos...hehe.

Han Xiao knew very well that his plan to leverage the earth's veins to transform into a heroic spirit, and that the Apostolic Order use the void system to harvest people's dreams to create gods, were truly taboo.

Abatui's little research is not taboo at all.

Seeing that Han Xiao was not planning to continue the argument, Tinari frowned.

The other party's attitude was a bit strange, especially the strange smile on the corner of his mouth, which made him feel that something was not right.

It's a pity that Han Xiao has kept silent, and Tinari can't continue to talk about this topic.

"Ahem...Senior Tinari, let's talk about business."

Tinari didn’t understand how the ‘resurrected’ Abatuyi could not understand the meaning of the smile on Han Xiao’s lips.

After all, he has become a 'sample' on display when the other party trades with the sages of the Order Academy.

So he immediately interrupted the 'argument' between the two and changed the topic to business.

"Senior, did you say before that Kakata really took the initiative to attack the caravan?"

"Based on the traces left at the scene and the testimony of eyewitnesses, this is indeed the case."

Pressing down on the sudden strange feeling in his heart, Tinari followed Abatui's words and got down to business.

During his daily inspection, he encountered a group of caravans that had been robbed.

After questioning, Tinari learned that the caravan was suddenly attacked by a huge mechanical creature while traveling.

Although most of the goods were not robbed in the end, and only a small amount of goods containing mechanical parts were robbed, they were still greatly frightened.

Chapter 481: Suspicious Tinari

"I didn't expect that Kakata would really do such a thing..."

Abatuyi knows Tinari well, and he knows very well that the other person treats everything very strictly.

If it hadn't been for careful investigation and strict logical inference, the other party would not have concluded that the 'real culprit' who attacked the Chamber of Commerce was a mechanical creation.

Moreover, his previous confrontation with Nasrin could be regarded as a disguised form of "throwing himself into a trap".

If Kakata were a real person, I'm afraid he would angrily call Abatuyi a pig teammate and even betray him.

Although Abatui's muttering was low-pitched, how could he hide it from Tinari, who had a well-developed hearing organ.

"Abatui, are you hiding something from me?"

When he learned that his junior disciple was surprised to make such a mistake with his own mechanical creation, Tinari immediately realized that something was wrong.

Abatui treats every mechanical creation like his own child, which Tinari knew when he was in school.

In addition, there was another point that puzzled him.

That is, in my impression, it is precisely because he cherishes it so much that the other party never seems to lose his mechanical creation even once.

And according to eyewitness descriptions, the mechanical construct this time was very large, as tall as a person.

Such a large mechanical creation was lost by Abatuyi, which seemed strange to me.

"How is that possible, Senior Tinari?"

Seeing that Tinari seemed to be suspicious of Kakata's 'lost' incident, Abatuyi laughed and quickly changed the topic:

"Senior, I wonder if you have tracked Kakata's whereabouts?"

"Unfortunately, not really."

Upon hearing Abatui's inquiry, Tinari temporarily put aside his doubts and opened his mouth to explain.

When he encountered the caravan while on patrol at the time, the entire team was already in a state of being attacked.

Although after asking the person in charge of the caravan for the specific situation, Tinari led the ranger and followed the traces left by the other party towards the rainforest.

But unfortunately, they were eventually blocked by a large area of ​​death.

When Tinari finally cleared the Dead Realm, the traces left by Kakata were cut off.

He had no idea where the other party had gone.

"It should be that the cleaning instructions I set have taken effect."

Abatui reached out and rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully. From Tinari's story, he knew that this was probably because the cleaning command he entered for Kakata had an effect.

Thinking of this, Abatui looked at Tinari and asked directly:

"Senior, can you tell me where you encountered the caravan that was attacked?"

"It's just north of Weimo Village and west of Huacheng City."