Richard left the long-haired woman and his group, flew all the way, and finally stopped on a tree in the forest.
Looking back at the direction of the long-haired woman and her group, Richard thought: According to what the long-haired woman said before, he could determine that the ancient ruins were located on the western border of the Soma Alliance, excluding a large area in the direction of Bai Gu. , there are about a dozen suitable locations in the remaining three directions.
If he wanted to, he could rush to these locations to find out.
However, having said that, he believed in his own point of view: to open ancient ruins, a red seal and a blue seal must be combined, so that the words on the seal can be interpreted.
In this case, the long-haired woman and her team are bound to fail when they go exploring, and they are bound to come back to him for cooperation.
He can just wait and don't have to worry too much.
Of course, he can also go to the extreme and snatch the blue seal from the long-haired woman's team, and then open and explore the ancient ruins alone.
However, based on his previous contact, he could confirm that the long-haired woman's team was not ordinary. Although he could not determine the specific wizard level of the opponent, they were definitely not weak. In addition, the other party obviously holds information that he does not know, and he does not have a strong desire for the things in the ancient ruins. He just wants to use them as a reference for research.
All things considered, cooperating with the other party is a more worry-free choice.
Here comes the problem.
How should he spend his time before waiting for the long-haired woman to contact him and cooperate with him
Back to Faroe City
It's too far to go back, and there's no need.
Back to Ashwood Town
That's fine, but there's nothing else to do there except try the terrible beer in the pub.
In this case, it would be better to...
Richard raised his eyebrows slightly, looked in a direction deep in the forest, and had an idea.
"brush!"
The next moment, Richard stepped away from the tree he was stepping on and flew deep into the forest.
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Time passed, and the night gradually became darker.
After being extremely rich, it begins to fade again. The rising sun rises from the eastern horizon as always, and a new day arrives.
It's the morning of a new day.
"boom!"
There was a sound, and a figure fell straight up and landed in an open space. It was Richard.
After his feet touched the ground and the force of the impact was relieved, Richard stood up slowly. He heard the sound of many wild beasts running around, approaching him.
"Shashasha..."
The grass was disturbed, and a dozen tall beasts appeared in the field of vision, looking alert.
Richard glanced at it, without any fear, but commented to himself: "There are only so many. According to Ximu's mood when we were just released, I thought there was an army of hundreds or thousands of beasts. Well, it seems that Ximu hasn’t been working very hard recently. Is it because he’s been left out for too long and has become lazy?”
After finishing speaking, Richard turned his head and looked at a gray wolf among a dozen wild beasts. Knowing that the other person was intelligent, he asked aloud: "I came to see your boss 'Xinmu', where is he now? "
"Ouch!"
The gray wolf barked in a direction to the side, and without further explanation, he glanced at Richard, tucked his tail between his legs, and hurried away with the other dozen or so beasts.
"Brush, brush, brush..."
As soon as the gray wolf and his group of beasts left, there was a sound coming from the side. A moment later, they saw a nearly four-meter-high tin wood. They pushed aside the trees and walked to the open space.
The sunlight cast from the sky shines on the golden tin tree trunks, shining brightly and looking very sacred. The bark on the tree trunk was twisted, revealing a human face, looking at it with a bit of dissatisfaction.
Ximu asked Richard in a buzzing voice: "Hey, boy, what are you doing here?"
"Can't I come?" Richard said, "Something is being handled nearby, so I came over to take a look."
"Hmph, really? You don't trust me, so you came here specifically to check, right?" Ximu's tone was not polite, and he felt a little suspicious.
Richard said: "If I really didn't trust you, I wouldn't have let you out in the first place. I would have kept you in the Garden of Eden."
Ximu: "..." There was silence for a while, and he really couldn't refute this.
"Okay." Richard said, "Rather than worry about you, I'm actually even more worried about the machinery on the production lines that I put here for you to be responsible for. During this period, you didn't break it for me, right? "
"I am the wise man of the tree. I know how to operate it. How can I break it? Don't underestimate me!" Ximu said angrily. After speaking, he paused, changed his tone, and whispered, "But... your machine It’s true that some of them don’t work very well, and there are some glitches from time to time, so you’d better go and fix them.”
Richard: "So, you still broke it for me?"
"No!" Ximu shouted loudly, "I told you, they are all minor problems that do not affect production and cannot be considered damaged."
"Okay." Richard spread his hands and did not dwell on the issue. He turned and walked in the other direction, "Then I'll go take a look."
Ximu looked at Richard's back and looked away with a guilty conscience. Then he noticed something and turned his head to look aside.
The tall gray wolf retreated and reappeared. For some reason, there was some blood on its claws. It looked at the tin wood and made a "whining" sound in its mouth, which sounded a little sad. It turned its head back from time to time, as if to indicate something.
Ximu looked in the direction indicated by Gray Wolf, and the expression on the face on the tree trunk suddenly became serious.
"Ouch-"
The gray wolf barked again.
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"Ouch-ouch-"
With the faint howl of wolves echoing in his ears, Richard walked a few kilometers and entered a cave dug into a hill inside the forest.
As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he could feel the faint corrosive energy coming from him. He held up a layer of golden protective energy, turned on the "First Armor" state, and entered the cave without fear. He saw that there were many machines working here.
"Boom, boom, boom", like a beast-like machine, it kept roaring.
"Puff, puff, puff", steam spurted out from some pipe connections from time to time, filling the surroundings with smoke.
On the stone wall, the extremely complex magic patterns light up and darken regularly. This is because energy is transmitted according to the settings.
In the corner, between several erected cylinders, a dazzling beam of light lights up from time to time, and high-energy lasers are generated and dissipated on a large scale.
The entire cave has a sense of chaos and order, bringing a weird atmosphere where technology and magic meet.
It looks a bit "steampunk" style, but not entirely consistent.
Richard feels that it is more appropriate to describe it as a "technology wizard" style.
Here is the factory he entrusted Ximu to manage, which is specially used to purify the uranium ore powder refined in the Nancy and Gro mines to prepare for weapons-grade nuclear materials.
Speaking of which, in fact, as far as he is concerned, it is not necessary to stockpile a large amount of weapons-grade nuclear materials and produce a large number of nuclear weapons. After all, he is no longer in the Society of Truth and does not have so many powerful enemies - now he lives and researches freely, and is very comfortable.
But then again, Ximu, as a powerful energy source, signed a hundred-year contract with him, and he would not exploit him if he did not exploit him. Although too many weapons-grade nuclear materials are not very useful at present, they are not useless. If they happen to be used one day, then "the more, the merrier."
At present, Tinwood is responsible for providing energy, and Nancy and Gro are responsible for providing cheap raw materials. The cost is shockingly low, so don't be too polite.
With these in mind, Richard began to inspect the production line and spent several hours solving a series of mechanical problems. Make sure that the three production lines in the cave can maintain at least one production line within three months, no matter how bad it is, and walk out with a satisfied nod.
As he walked, he thought about whether he should discuss with Ximu to add a few more production lines and increase output.
After all, Ximu had agreed to a series of conditions in order to be released. Thinking about it, this was not difficult at all.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
Richard walked out of the cave and walked towards Ximu's location.
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