In the dark night, there is silence all around! Skinny old trees are all around, and a few ravens are arranging their feathers on the branches.
boom! ! !
The grass under the forest was lifted, revealing a black passage.
Leylin was covered in a black robe covering his entire body, covering his face so that he couldn't see his specific appearance.
There were still some lights in the manor not far away. The mercenaries patrolling and guarding did not know that their master had already left the manor secretly.
In Leylin's laboratory, there is a secret passage leading directly to the outside, which was arranged by Leylin himself, and no one else knew about it.
"Since the Manxet snake is an experimental subject, there must be a wizard's laboratory nearby! Moreover, the Manxet snake has been entrenched in the Dark Night Forest for several years, and no wizard came to recover it. There is only one possibility!"
Leylin's eyes flickered: "That laboratory should have been abandoned! The wizard inside, due to other circumstances, couldn't take care of it, and even died! That's why the giant snake escaped!"
For wizards, exploring ruins has always been their favorite.
Remnants of ancient wizards, laboratories of official wizards, etc., often leave behind a lot of precious experimental materials, advanced research subjects, powerful witchcraft and magic tools, etc., all of which are things that many wizards dream of.
In the rumors, there is no shortage of cases where a certain wizard apprentice was originally useless, but later discovered the ruins and started to make a fuss.
Of course, the failure of exploration is also indispensable, and the wreckage corpses that eventually died under the ancient mechanism and the curse.
But for wizards, exploring the ruins is still a matter of great interest.
For a wizard laboratory that can produce a semi-adult Manxter snake, any random thing that flows out of it can make Leylin rich immediately, and even obtain a lot of precious materials and knowledge, which can be used for promotion to a full-time wizard in the future. Pave the way.
"Since the traces have been found! I must go to that laboratory!"
Leylin's eyes were firm. He was not afraid of taking risks, especially when the risks were low and the rewards were high.
For this expedition, he also specially prepared a lot of things, enough to deal with sudden crises.
As for those subordinates? Not only is it easy to leak information, but under the trap of an official wizard, even a knight is just a slightly bigger ant, completely useless, Leylin simply hid it from his own people.
Leylin hurried on the road overnight, because there were no outsiders, so many methods could be used.
A cloud of green medicine splashed onto the ground, creating a circle of green energy particles of the wind element, enveloping Leylin's body, and his whole body seemed to be transformed into a breeze, disappearing into the night.
What Leylin used was the acceleration potion he had prepared over the past few years.
As an excellent pharmacist, Leylin was very handy no matter whether he was using potions for traveling or fighting.
The original crypt, the place where Leylin and the others fought against the Manxter giant snake.
The broken limbs on the ground and most of the body of the Manxter giant snake have been transported back to Polar Night City by the people sent by the City Lord's Mansion, leaving only the potholed surface and the remnants of flames and ice, still telling the story of the battle intense.
"I have recorded the previous situation with the crystal ball issued by the academy, and it will definitely not be a problem as a proof of the completion of the task."
During the last battle, Leylin used a crystal ball to record most of the contents of this exploration mission, especially the corpse of the Manxter giant snake at the end.
With some materials from this corpse and the records in the crystal ball to prove it, Leylin's mission in Polar Night City can be said to have been successfully completed.
But he had no intention of leaving at all.
Not to mention that Black Bone Forest Academy is currently in the quagmire of war, even if the winner has already been decided, Leylin doesn't want to go back during this time.
He had just successfully developed an alternative formula of Azure Potion, and it was time to use the potion to push himself to become a third-class apprentice. How dare he go back to the academy to expose himself now
But in Extreme Night City, Leylin didn't meet an official wizard at all, allowing him to carry out experiments and promotions with confidence.
After three years, the battle at the Black Bone Forest Academy must have been settled, and with three years as a buffer, although Leylin's promotion to the third-class apprentice was still very fast, it didn't seem so dazzling!
If you find some other excuses at that time, you can easily get away with it.
As for the corpses of the apprentices on the ground, they had already been inspected by Leylin long ago. After collecting all the valuables, they left with the seriously injured Jackson and Melfield.
"But those apprentices are all poor ghosts, and the magic stone does not exceed ten yuan at most! Only the half-orc wizard apprentice has a cold alchemy rune, which is not bad!"
While complaining in his heart, Leylin came to the center of the cave.
Under the light of the flashing jellyfish in the sky, the entire cave is very bright. Leylin can see that on the ground in the center, there is a track-like trace clearly visible, which is formed by the long-term entanglement of the giant snake. trace.
"It has pressed such a deep imprint, and the Manxter giant snake has the same habits as the book says, very lazy!"
Leylin squatted down, stroking the soil inside the mark.
"Chip! Record the ingredients!"
"It has been recorded that compared with the data of ordinary soil samples in the database, there are 0.005% more material residues in the target, and it is initially judged to be Michael alloy!"
The chip gives information.
Mike alloy is an artificial metal made by wizards using witchcraft, and is widely used in the manufacture of hatching pools and other items in laboratories.
"Sure enough!" Leylin's eyes lit up with joy.
"Chip! Can you find out where this big snake used to be based on the snake path?"
"Scanning! The target data is covered by a large number of traces of other beasts, lacking important information, and the mission failed!" The chip feedback.
Leylin scanned his surroundings, and the ground was covered with claw marks of various beasts, which were traces of the rampant parasites of the giant snake Manxter.
"Unfortunately..." Leylin shook his head.
"However, judging from the habits of the Manxter giant snake and other traces, that laboratory must not be far from here!"
Leylin issued an order to the chip: "Chip! Scan all surrounding scenes!"
"Mission established, start imaging!"
With the sound of the chip, a blue terrain map was projected in front of Leylin.
There is a huge cave in the center, and there are many small tunnels around it. Leylin even found a few surviving parasites. It is not known how long they can survive after being separated from the mother body.
As the terrain map expanded more and more, it finally came to an end.
Leylin frowned: "Chip! Re-scan! Keep the accuracy to a minimum, expand the scanning range, and focus on checking the radiation concentration!"
As the order was issued, the topographical map in front of Leylin's eyes suddenly became blurred, but the range suddenly expanded, and almost all the surrounding terrain was detected.
"Keep that range and precision!"
Leylin walked out of the cave and began to run in one direction, and as he moved, the edge of the map continued to expand...
Several hours later, Leylin came to a huge black rock.
"I have checked several places around. Although the radiation concentration is relatively high, it should only be the place where the Manxter giant snake used to live and shed its skin!"
"And the only place without radiation, but not within the range of the chip scan, is here!"
Leylin looked at the huge black rock in front of him. This rock was several people high, almost like a hill.
In the map scanned by the chip, there was no trace of this rock at all. Even now, when Leylin stood in front of the rock, the chip didn't notice it.
"This kind of situation has only happened a few times in the academy, and it is all because of the influence of the witchcraft circle arranged by the official wizard, which will interfere with the operation of the chip!"
Leylin stroked the surface of the black rock, it was cold and damp, and there were some parasitic moss and the like.
"But...how do I get in?"
Leylin exerted a little force with his right hand and grabbed a piece of stone powder.
"Chip! Analyze the ingredients!"
"Ding! Mission established, data collection..." The sound of the chip kept coming, and a light curtain appeared in front of Leylin, which densely recorded the composition data of rocks.
"It looks no different from ordinary shale!" Leylin compared the composition map, and called up the shale composition map in the database for comparison. Finally, he had to admit that the wizard did a good job of keeping it secret. Leylin couldn't find the entrance to the laboratory at all.
"However, since the Manxter giant snake can come out, it means that there must be something wrong with the defensive magic circle in this laboratory, but it still needs time to observe..."
Leylin rubbed his chin and set up a tent beside the rock.
He decided to squat here for a long time, constantly testing the weak parts of the defensive circle, hoping to find a way to enter.
Anyway, this area belongs to the area of the withered forest. After the city lord's mansion sent people to transport all the corpses of the soldiers, apprentices and the remains of the big snake back, no one would come here at all.
Leylin ate a few pieces of biscuits he brought with him, and then fell into the analysis of the rocks covering the witch formation.
Of course, his daring to do so was entirely based on his previous observations and guesses, and he was sure that the owner of the laboratory had abandoned this place long ago, and perhaps even the unknown wizard had died long ago.
"I've been here for so long, and no wizard has come out of the rock. The accuracy of this judgment has increased by at least 30%!"
Leylin stared at the black rock in front of him, with a look of fanaticism in his eyes.
"As long as the defensive witch array is eliminated, everything inside is mine!"
A complete official wizard's laboratory is a great treasure for Leylin, who is still a second-class apprentice! ! !
"It's just... the arrangement of official wizards must be extremely terrifying. I must not be blindfolded by interests and end up in danger!"