Chapter 530

The man who claimed to be the master stood up.

"Then, let's clarify the matter first. Is the 'Ji Xun' you mentioned written on this piece of paper?"

Jing Huang agreed.The owner asked again: "Then what is 0305?"

"...his other name."

"0305 is the real name, right? According to this naming method, are there three hundred and four people in front? Or, like the mage in the seventh iteration, 03 represents the number of iterations, and 05 is the improved part?"

No doubt he was right in part, for Allerica saw Joan's brow furrowed.

"where is he?"

"Unfortunately, I cannot answer this question."

Jing Huang looked at the white paper on the table.The owner said: "It was sent by another ship. According to the location where it appeared, it should come from the same place as those babies."

"When?"

"Just when you beat my guards to pieces—by the way, the fire spell you cast also damaged the roof of the Judgment Hall. It's just pure decoration, but it's already a cultural relic with a history of thousands of years. If you are also from a place that can be called civilized, then you should know how to respect other people's history? Or are you going to pretend that nothing happened? "

Jing Huang didn't speak anymore.Allerica caught the bewilderment on his usually expressionless face.For a moment she's sure he's looking at her, the way they used to when they were shopping for supplies.And so far, she is still in charge of most of the financial affairs of the Silence, so she knows that Jing Huang has no awareness of personal savings.She planned to teach him the necessary knowledge before leaving.

The gaze aimed at her fled away like a hallucination.

"Where did the ship come from?" Jing Huang asked.He seems to have decided to skip the previous question for now.

"You've asked enough." The master replied, "Before asking others for answers, maybe you should explain your relationship with the owner of that ship."

Jing Huang replied without batting an eye, "The enemy."

"What kind of enmity is it?"

"Prefer not to say."

The master made no objection.Conservative mages have always liked to hide their backgrounds, and they also advocate maintaining privacy with their own kind.

"So," asked the master, "all the destruction you did before was to find him?"

"Yes."

"If this is the truth, then you really don't distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. Judging from the trajectory of the spaceship, that person is probably not in this city. Do you think there is any use in causing damage in my territory?"

"He can see here."

Jing Huang reaches out and taps the paper on the table, using this material evidence to back up his statement.The master's gaze also fell on those two strange characters.Allerica knew that he was probably thinking the same thing as himself: the white ship that appeared before her, and the secret message that came just in time for the riot caused by Thorn, both of which proved that someone was Pay close attention to their whereabouts and actions.In front of the master of this capital city, the ships he dispatched go back and forth unscrupulously, ignoring all order as nothing—how did he do it?

The master pondered, and then turned to the two-winged beast sitting quietly behind him.

"I have some questions about spacecraft technology," he said. "I think only experts can answer."

Qiaoqiao Tianyi bowed to him in greeting: "It's an honor to be able to serve you."

"Can a spaceship suddenly disappear?"

"Many ways—spells are the hardest to narrow down, and there are plenty of spells that can do this. There's someone of my kind who can do it with horns."

"But that cannot escape the eyes of the Guardian."

"Yes." Qiaoqiao Tianyi agreed, "Most spells cannot pass, unless it is an extremely powerful magic creature... as powerful as the original species. It is difficult for such a creature to leave its birthplace."

She cast a glance at Jing Juan, and added: "—usually."

"Should there be a non-spell method?"

"Yes, yes, of course. Many ships have a similar stealth mode, and there are two basic principles: adjust the ship itself, or adjust who sees your ship. The former method involves optical paint, and various anti-detection Equipment, the latter one uses more acoustic and electrical radiation. I have also seen some attempts on chemical methods, such as the nebulizer that makes the ship's hull continuously release the extract of drunken mushrooms—whew! The smell is unbearable!"

"From what you've seen, which one did we encounter?"

Sky Wing raised her gorgeous wings.

"I think it uses optics," she said. "Easiest and least traceable, sir. If it's possible to get past the city's defenses against spells, I don't see why he would use a ship as a carrier." .We all know that the original species can travel directly through the lunar environment."

"What about chemical or sonic hypnosis?"

"That would leave a lot of marks, on all those affected. Of course, I am not saying that optical methods are easy to do. It is not enough to trick your guards with light tricks, it will take at least one A self-enclosed ether isolation system. But that ship is so small, sir, that I can't imagine how it packs so many systems into such a small ship. I know of a few similar examples whose size Both are about ten times bigger, not to mention its shape design. You see, its shape is very clever in terms of aerodynamic design, but it leaves almost no extra space for the load. The smallest marine isolation system on the market Can't put it on either."

"Are you saying it's impossible?"

"No, but I think that would be very ingenious, and would take a long time and effort... It's not cost-effective to design a technical stealth system for such a ship. It may be better than flying this ship here Difficult. I think it must have some special reason, non-technical reason. That's what I can tell from its appearance. If you want to know more, I'm afraid I need to examine the ship up close Boat."

Qiaoqiao Tianyi bowed to the master again to show that she had expressed all her opinions.The master also thanked her, and then turned to Jing Huang.

"Don't you have anything to say about this ship? Since I have asked someone to explain it, maybe you, as the enemy of the owner of the ship, can provide us with some evidence?"

"I've only seen the prototype." Jing Huang said, "I don't know the principle."

"So you don't know how to track that ship?"

Jing Huang didn't answer.Yale Liga observed that there was some disapproval in his expression.He asked his master, "Where are those children?"

"They can't talk."

"Is there a spell that can be read?"

"Failed many times."

The master replied calmly, and then stretched out his hand from under the heavy cloak.Yareriga saw that he was holding a rough and simple gray stone staff with a complex hexagonal pattern carved on the top of the staff.The material of this staff looked very similar to the stone house they were in and the railings outside the stone house, and when it was exposed to the sight of everyone, the top of the staff also shone with violet brilliance.

"Let's go and have a look outside." He invited, turning around and walking out first.The rest of the people followed him one after another, and came to the mossy stone courtyard where the violets shone brightly.When the master raised the scepter, the golden guardians surrounding the courtyard and a small open space adjacent to the street all disappeared.The world took a kind of transformation in an instant, leaving them in a dreary gray field.

The endless gray stone forest stretches, and at the top of each stone tree grows a peaceful sleeping face.Some are exceptionally clear, while others are blurred like tree grains.When Yale Liga carefully distinguished, she realized that all the particularly clear faces were near the stone courtyard, and almost all of them looked exactly like the abandoned babies.

"This is a cemetery." The master said straight to the point, "People who died in the gate city will be buried here if they do not want to return to their hometown. According to the laws of this world, their bodies will be turned into stone tree species, and then used Roots creeping up into nothingness. These are the ones who are now near the grave-keeper's house."

Jing Huang looked at him in astonishment.

"all?"

"It's an inborn lesion. Judging from the results of the anatomy, these babies need a specific infrasonic environment. If they can't meet it, they will die of internal hemorrhage due to decay, and because they didn't get this infrasonic environment on the way they were sent." The environment, all have brain lesions that severely damage intelligence-so, even the empathy spell can hardly detect much. The head of the foster agency I appointed tracked down the children who were placed in foster care, and found that none survived More than a thousand hours. It reported this to me and asked for my assistance. Although I also tried to get the doctor to provide the infrasound environment they needed in theory, so far there have been no individuals who have survived successfully. I am afraid they require a very precise and periodically varying frequency."

The master held up his short staff and said in his ruthless mocking tone: "If your enemy still sends new babies, I'm afraid you can only continue to bury them here. Although the capacity of this cemetery will never be full, I will Don't want my city to be his morgue."

"Why don't you go to him?"

"I have no obligation to take risks for strangers. Taking these babies is just to avoid causing chaos in the city. If you want to abandon the responsibility of managing the city for them and go to a completely unknown place to deal with completely unknown enemies, it is irresponsible Something a responsible planeswalker would do."

Jing Huang gazed at the field of death covered with stone forests.In the gloomy and rolling mist, he seemed to be looking for some figures.

He asked his master, "What do you want me to do?"

"Do what you want to do. Naturally, if it also meets my purpose, I will give appropriate assistance and rewards."

"I'll go find him." Jing Huang said.He seemed to have finally calmed down from that smoldering rage.

After that, facing the ancient cemetery, the master talked with them about many details.He promised them that all their past criminal records would be erased, and they would be allowed to move and trade freely in Gate City.He also heard that Jing Huang is waiting for a prosthetic surgery, and he can negotiate with the White Tower to pay for the best prosthetics that are difficult to buy on the market, as an advance payment for their next journey.Everything will be done as quickly as possible, but they also have to go as soon as possible.

"Come and find me at the Nightingale Theater next time," said the master at the end.He put down the gray stone scepter, and the stone courtyard returned to the streets of Gate City.Before he walked out of the stone fence, Jing Huang called him to stop.

"If you caught that man," he asked his master, "what would you do with him?"

The master smiled mockingly: "Perhaps arrange him in this house and appoint him as the gravekeeper here."

"Do you think he feels guilty about it?"

"I don't see any sense in moral punishment," replied the host, "but waste of talent and time is a hopeless torment for capable men. In this house, without my permission, even pen and paper It cannot be used for writing, and the gravekeeper can only focus on watching the dead forever. That is more abominable than sin to those who pride themselves on living."

"...do you understand well?"

"If you wish to imply that I am such a person, I shall not be offended," replied the host, "However, this reminds me of a question—when you find your enemy, what are you going to do with him? "

Jing Huang remained silent for a while, then turned and walked into the stone house's half-hidden door.

(End of this chapter)

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