When Gutas opened his eyes, he saw Richard standing to the side, with dancing flames burning on his fingers, and a blister on his elbow, which was obviously done by Richard.
"What do you want to do?!" Gutas asked very much, but because the rag was stuck in his mouth, the only sound that came out was "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".
Fortunately, Richard understood what he said and explained aloud: "You can't sleep."
"Well?"
"Sleeping will reduce the metabolic rate and blood flow, which will have an impact on many body data. In order to minimize errors, I have to humiliate you and cannot sleep until the first phase of the research is completed. Hold on!"
Gutas: "Huh?!" You don't play tricks like this! His blood was drawn, his mouth was stuffed, and now he wasn't even allowed to sleep. Is there any justice left? !
For Richard, there is no natural law, only science.
What’s wrong with sacrificing something for science? This is all science! Well, his science.
Richard turned around, picked up the syringe, and drew blood again from Gutas.
Gutas was speechless and wanted to say: "Give me a good time!"
But all he could say was: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
In the days that followed, Gutas finally knew what hell was: having his blood drawn constantly and being subjected to various researches. He felt that he was not a person at all, but a toy.
And days like this seem to have no end at all.
Kill him!
"Uh-huh!"
…
A few days later.
White Rock Tower Academy, Library.
Richard appears here.
There are two main reasons for coming here. One reason was to see if the burning phenomenon of the ancient ring a few days ago could be repeated. It turned out that it was not possible, as if it was just an accident before. Another reason is to look for some books about bloodline seeds so that they can study the secrets of bloodline seeds.
After selecting a large number of books from the bookshelf, Richard walked to the long table on one side and sat down, and began to sift through and read.
Next to the long table, there was also a person sitting, also reading a book, it was Gro.
I have to say that Gro has been working very hard recently. Although my qualifications are a bit low, I have been catching up. I not only signed up for many basic courses, but also devoured a lot of books in the library.
At this time, Grotto was reading "On the Difference between Sorcerer Apprentices and Wizards". He frowned and took a long time to turn the page, as if he was thinking carefully about every sentence on it.
In comparison, Richard was much more exaggerated. He scanned the book at a glance and kept flipping through the book. In a short time, he had already skimmed through the book. After thinking for a moment, I put the books aside according to their own classification: those with reference value and need to be read in detail are placed on the left, and those with no reference value are placed on the right.
Richard and Groo were reading like this without affecting each other.
After a while, Gro struggled to finish reading half of the book, but Richard had already divided more than ten books into categories, most of which were useless and only three were useful.
At this moment, the loud sound of the copper bell outside the library rang, marking the end of one class and heralding the beginning of the next class.
Grotto reluctantly closed the book and stood up, looked at Richard, his eyes flashed and asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency Richard, the swordsmanship class is about to begin, won't you go?"
"Um." Richard said, "I still have something to do, so I won't go. You can go by yourself."
"Uh, okay." Gro said without thinking much, he put the borrowed books back on the original bookshelf and walked to the library door.
At this time, a voice sounded next to him, shouting: "Gero!"
"Huh? It's you." Gro looked back at the speaker and saw that it was a muscular man nearly two meters tall - Bucky. He immediately asked enthusiastically, "Are you going to take swordsmanship lessons too?"
"certainly."
"That piece."
"good."
Then Richard saw Gro and Bucky walking past him side by side. They looked very familiar. Their eyes flickered and they said with a slightly weird expression: "You two..."
"Well, it's like this, Mr. Richard." Groo quickly explained, "You didn't go to the last swordsmanship class. Bucky and I practiced together. He said that what happened in the first class was a misunderstanding. For Clear up the misunderstanding and help me practice swordsmanship. He is much better than me and has taught me a lot, so he can be considered my friend now. Right, Bucky? "
"Uh..." Bucky nodded, "Yes."
Richard's expression became even weirder.
Bucky quickly explained: "Richard, don't get me wrong. Gro and I are really friends, um, just normal friends." But in Richard's view, this explanation always had a feeling of guilt.
Richard shrugged: "Okay, I didn't misunderstand. You two... good benefits."
"Forehead… "
"Let's go quickly, Bucky, or we'll be late." Gro said.
"Uh, okay."
"Goodbye, Mr. Richard."
"Goodbye Richard."
Gro and Bucky said goodbye to Richard and walked out of the library quickly.
Richard glanced meaningfully at the backs of the two of them, shook his head slightly, picked up the useless books on the table and put them back on the bookshelf, and then walked to the door of the library holding the three useful books. desk.
Standing behind the service desk was a gray-haired boy who was also a third-level wizard apprentice in the academy. The other party serves here specifically to earn crystal coins. The service content is to register books to be borrowed and charge corresponding borrowing fees. The monthly salary is one and a half low-grade crystal coins.
Richard knew all this very well, so he put the three books on the counter without much nonsense and said briefly: "Borrow them for a month."
The gray-haired boy glanced at the names of the three books, quickly checked the list, took out the two books and said: "The price of borrowing these two books for a month is half a low-grade crystal coin, and the two books cost one low-grade crystal coin." Wait for crystal coins.”
"What about the other one?" Richard asked.
The gray-haired boy hesitated and said, "This book is not... not allowed to be borrowed."
"Huh?" Richard raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure? There's no sign on it that says no loan is allowed, right?"
"Um..." the gray-haired boy hesitated, "Yes... there are some reasons why it cannot be loaned out for the time being. As for the logo, it will be added later..."
The gray-haired boy spoke incoherently and looked guilty. Richard couldn't help but frown after hearing this. In fact, he has already made some guesses about the matter. The most likely possibility is that the book was booked by other people through some connections, or the gray-haired boy wanted to ask for some benefits, or something else.
After thinking about this clearly, Richard did something very simple and said: "Okay, I won't borrow it anymore, I'll give it back."
Richard turned around, walked towards the bookshelf with the books that were not allowed to be borrowed, and then came back empty-handed.
I paid a low-grade crystal coin at the service desk, then walked out of the library with the two books that were allowed to be borrowed, and walked along a remote path next to it towards the entrance of the college.
As he walked, the two books in Richard's hands suddenly disappeared out of thin air, then reappeared, and then there was another one - the one that was not allowed to be borrowed and returned to the bookshelf - of course Richard would not really He returned it, put it directly into the space iron ring while putting it back on the bookshelf, and took it out easily without being noticed at all.
In fact, all books can do this. Richard was confident that as long as he was given enough time, he could vacate the entire college library.
Having said that, there is no need to do this - he is not short of crystal coins and can borrow books through normal channels, so why should he use illegal channels? Stealing too many books through illegal means might arouse some suspicion in the academy, which is really not worth it.
But in some special circumstances, he is not pedantic and will still use it when it should be used.
It's all for science.
Well, for science.