Returning from the abyss

Chapter 461 Local Pollution

In the stone room, the four raised their heads and looked at Lu Ning in puzzlement, but they really didn't start to transcribe.

"Excuse me... is there something wrong?"

Lu Ning looked at the first character that appeared on the crystal ball. It was a text she didn't understand at all, and the transcription was just a copy of the original, and it was enough to inject magic power into the process.However, it is this process of injecting magic power that truly completes the communication between the magic book and people.

"Very wrong."

Lu Ning took the second box and pressed the text on it, and asked those people: "Have you ever seen similar text?"

"No..." Several people looked at each other with blank expressions.

At this time, the person who first talked to Lu Ning said: "But no one dares to guarantee that they know all the characters in this world, even Percival, they dare not say that. This is obviously some kind of magic script , only those who know how to do it can understand..."

When he explained here, Lu Ning felt relieved, since she didn't recognize these four people, she could make up something to fool her.

"I have seen."

She interrupted him.

"Coincidentally, I have been exposed to this type of text in a certain event I did before, so I have a little understanding. However, the precautions that my employer told me that time was not to inject a little magic into this kind of thing, let alone try to copy."

"why?"

"I don't know the specific reason. I only know that someone secretly tried it that time. As a result, his laboratory was subjected to curse-level purification measures, and none of the people in it, including the auxiliary personnel sent by the employer, were released. .” Lu Ning doesn’t even need to think about making up stories now, she just opens her mouth, and this kind of thing obviously bluffed the four, probably because of the weird environment around her.

"This... what is this?"

"For people of our level, the less we know, the better, as long as we understand that it can't be touched. Go to the door and see what's going on outside, and don't make any noise."

Immediately, a person touched the door, opened a small gap and looked out quietly, and soon he ran back.

"There's no one there." He whispered in a suppressed and frightened voice, "It's empty outside, those people and the carts are gone."

Now no one will believe it.

"What should we do? What happened to us..."

"I knew this kind of easy money job wouldn't fall into my hands."

Several people cursed in a low voice, including the gears.Lu Ning sat at the table, staring at the boxes and thinking.The purpose of the Twilight Thieves Group is to spread the people contaminated by the magic book, which is no different from before.And in order to ensure that everyone has transcribed such a game to lure these wandering mages to take over the work, there is no need to remove everyone, after all, it is better to make a full-scale play to deceive people.

"come here."

She waved to the first person to speak.

"What's your name?"

"Fabio."

"Okay, you go out now, take a walk around the outside twice, and act a little surprised. If someone comes out to ask you, just say that we want some food and drinks, and ask if they can be provided."

"This, this can..."

"Don't worry, they let us copy the books. The purpose is not to kill us directly. As long as we don't show any abnormalities, we will be fine." Lu Ning waved her hand, Fabio responded and walked to the door, opened the door out.

About 10 minutes later, he came back with a paper bag in his arms, looking surprised.

"What's the matter with you? Why have you been away for so long?" Someone asked.

Fabio puts the paper bag on the table, which contains fried chicken and ale - the kind that can't be drunk at all.

"I just went out for a couple of steps, and out of nowhere, a guy asked me what I was doing, and almost scared me to death. I said I wanted something to eat and drink, it was a lot of work, and they let me Standing there, after a while, someone came over and gave me this bag of things."

"It doesn't sound like anything."

"Go and try?" Fabio stared, "I thought I was going to be silenced!"

Lu Ning walked over silently, took out a piece of fried chicken and took a bite, then nodded, "No problem."

"Ok?"

"It's still a little hot, probably bought on the spot, and this smell is also very distinctive." Lu Ning glanced outside the door, "How long did it take from when you went out to when someone stopped you?"

"Four or five seconds, they must have been monitoring here!"

"That's for sure." Lu Ning didn't panic. She fumbled in her pocket twice, found a map book, and turned out the page of the Opal District. Dots below the building.

"Near the amphitheater in Topa, we're down here... oh, there's the site of the guardhouse here. But it shouldn't be like that."

Lu Ning turned his gaze back.

If he had really traveled this far, it would be impossible for him to go to the Hot and Sour Cocktail to buy the fried chicken and return it warm and crispy. At least Lu Ning didn’t think that the people outside were so considerate that they would always help heat it up with magic and send it back.

She picked up a wine bottle, uncorked the cork, and a lot of foam gushed out of it.

"The space is elongated, and the actual distance is not as long as the walking distance in the passage...Well, it is indeed not within the scope of surveillance. Is it to confuse our sense of distance to avoid searches later...But people's own laziness is always It will cause all kinds of mistakes.”

"Then how do we escape?" Fabio asked in a panic.

"Don't run away." Lu Ning returned to her seat and put all the eight boxes together, "We just don't need to copy these things now."

"what?"

After Lu Ning ordered this sentence, she took a stack of parchment down by herself. As a transcribing workshop, all the things related to writing are complete. In other words, the things needed to draw the evolution are also complete. .

She checked the box, and it was a very simple magic item except for the closed structure.There were eighty mages, so it was inevitable that someone would try to violently open the box to see what was inside. Since the Twilight Thieves were not afraid of this, it meant that the magic book inside was likely to be fragile.

Alchemy is very useful at this time, as long as she replaces the shell with something gaseous, she can take out the contents without damage, the only thing to be careful of is not to replace any poisonous gas.

The drawing of the evolutionary formation is easy to handle. The quality of the quill pen and magic ink is of course higher than that of carbon sticks, and these inks can also replace the magic liquid to provide magic flow.

Soon, the first refining formation was drawn. Lu Ning didn't have a golden stick on her body, but she didn't plan to refine anything, just let the magic flow flow naturally according to the refining formation.

In the flickering light of the formation, the outer shell slowly disappeared, turning into gray smoke and floating up, hovering over the room, forming a small vortex of smoke.And the contents of the box are slowly revealed.

A coiled silver wire.

Based on this alone, Lu Ning couldn't deduce what the original appearance of the magic book was. She followed the same pattern and began to melt into several other boxes one by one, and got seven more silver threads.She carefully wrapped the silver thread with a piece of parchment, put it in her pocket, and turned to look at the crystal.

This is a timing device, and a new batch of magic books will be released every once in a while.Of course, this time is not when the next batch will be released, so Lu Ning sat down and used the magic power of her fingers to drag the gray vortex in the air to rotate slowly, and continued to draw and change.

"That... we... can we do this?"

Lu Ning nodded.

When she decided to save the four people here, the people in the rest of the room had already been abandoned.

The influence of magic books on people is also different. This is probably the reason why no one is standing guard outside. The Twilight Thieves used some method to monitor the situation in the cave, but they didn't reach out to the studio - probably because they were afraid of the people in the room. Spellbook pollution.

As for Lu Ning's negative work, those who are active in copying will definitely get more small boxes of magic books, and then the magic power will be further deepened during the copying process.A few words of the magic guide book will not immediately affect intermediate magicians, but the same is not necessarily true for beginners and apprentices.

"Pay attention to the movement outside."

After finishing speaking, she concentrated on her drawing work without saying a word.

Before he knew it, there was already a stack of parchments around him. What no one noticed was that the gray smoke vortex in the air had also become much smaller, and now it is almost invisible.Lu Ning stretched slightly, glanced at the hourglass next to her, and asked, "How's it going outside?"

"It's very quiet." Fabio yawned, "I don't know what happened to the others... If they copied the book..."

"It's almost time."

Lu Ning took out a black rectangular strip from her chest pocket, then rolled up the parchment and put it under her armpits, and walked to the door.

As soon as he reached the door, there was a terrified and shrill scream along the crack of the door!
The four who were already a little sleepy immediately regained their energy, and jumped up one after another, pinching their strongest magic in their hands, with the momentum of opening the door and rushing.Lu Ning raised her hand and pressed a few people twice, looked around, and found the room where the scream came from and the door of the soundproof room had been opened. She threw the black block in her hand and lit a cluster of flames with her fingertips, while He also choked his throat and let out a scream.

There were some messy and slight footsteps outside, and it was a direction that was going away.Only two or three came this way.

At this time, the black lump also fell on the flames, and the turbulent water burst out from the inside instantly. Lu Ning rolled outside along the water flow, and opened the other door closest to him.

A bloody bone spear was thrown from the room, whistling and flying over Lu Ning's head, those who ran over hurriedly dodged left and right, Lu Ning had already seen the scene in the room when he turned his head.

Inside was a hideous monster with white bones. Countless insect-like bones grew from the place where the chest cavity was originally, and pierced into the stone wall due to being too long. There were three skulls on its head. The fourth one was pulled out from the corpse worn on the bone and installed in his own neck cavity.

At the same time, the door of the screaming house was finally opened, and a man whose clothes were completely torn ran out in panic, followed by the second, and the third, behind them, two The whole body was nailed into steel torture tools, the mouth was stretched open, and the burly monster with sunken eyes protruding from the mouth walked awkwardly behind.

Hopeless.

Lu Ning clearly saw that the three people had wounds on their bodies, and a steel-gray metallic color had appeared from the wounds, and some protrusions also protruded from the surface of the metalized skin. It probably won't be long before they will become that kind of monsters .

"But these are weak points, and what they want is obviously not weak points." Lu Ning rolled to avoid a bone spike, then got up and sprinkled most of the transformation scrolls into the air.

"Give the gust!"

Without even thinking about it, the few who ran out behind them activated the wind magic and threw the scrolls all over the cave.

And the few who came back to check only rushed out of the door. Before they could react, Lu Ning activated the scattered magical energy here, and simultaneously activated those scattered transformation formations.

As we all know, alchemy is a discipline that strictly abides by procedures. Although some requirements can be adjusted according to different situations, no one controls it. The result of random operations is [-]% failure.

"I don't think you will make earthquake-resistant structures for such a temporary place?" Lu Ning shouted at the three people.

All the alchemists exploded, and the sequence was slightly different, but the laboratory accident explosions that killed more than 20 alchemists every year on average did not reduce their power because of the level of the alchemists. The Shimen shattered, and some pieces were flattened. Lu Ning lay on the ground to avoid a lot of explosion waves, but her ears were also buzzing, and she probably couldn't hear anything for a while.

"Damn it, don't do it in the future."

All the formations were drawn by her, and she also knew through the subtle connection whether all the things that were thrown exploded, and when the smoke from the explosion cleared, many people came out to check the situation.

Of the sixteen rooms, there were actually only four that had problems. In addition to the two rooms of bones and criminals, there was another room that leaked a purple-gray fluid covered with black hairs along the cracks in the door. The eyes, mouth, nose, hands and feet, which seemed to be painted on, quickly wrapped the door in.Finally, the cold mist drifted out from the room closest to the entrance. If someone could look inside through the broken door, they would find five people inside, burning with indigo flames, sitting at the table in a posture of copying. , but everything in the house is already frozen.

The three who had just entered from the entrance saw the scene after the explosion, turned around and ran away without saying a word.

No matter how slow the reaction of the rest of the people was, they had already recalled it at this time, and immediately chased and ran out. Those behind Lu Ning also rushed to the entrance in a panic, which is what Fabio still remembered. Lu Ning got up from the ground.

"What are we going to do?" he yelled, so softly that he couldn't hear him.

(End of this chapter)