Constructing-Style Wizard

Chapter 20 20. Slightly plump (2 in 1)

The reconnaissance team found the binding spirit and the stone mound on the second floor of the tomb!

As soon as the news came back to the camp, it immediately caused riots.

The young private asked the sergeant for information, and the corporal who had never encountered a spirit bound asked the sergeant about the situation, and the sergeant shared the information he knew with his teammates while looking solemnly at the commander, Sergeant Alvin. tent.

For a moment, Li Nuo felt precarious, as if every soldier had a dark cloud floating over his head, bearing enormous pressure.

Think about it too.

What is a spirit-binding cairn?

A sinister structure capable of taking the souls of both the living and the dead.

What do soldiers fear most?

He could not serve the Empire before his death, and he could not rest in glory after death.

The various characteristics of the spirit-binding stone tomb hit the heart of the imperial army. It is rightfully capable of stirring up turmoil.

The soldiers had different opinions.

If Sergeant Alvin is wiser, he should order to delay the attack now, right?

It is not impossible to even retreat here.

"Jarvis, come with me, someone wants to see you."

Sergeant Mars came back from the commander's tent and patted Li Nuo who was dozing off by the wall.

Li Nuo opened his eyes, and his eyes were clear - but it wasn't because his mind became clear after he squinted for a while, but because he expected early that he would be called to talk.

He is such a person who takes one step and sees three steps, and sees the details.

Some people will say that a person like him will live a very tiring life, because he will think about many things and predict many things.

But as far as Li Nuo himself is concerned, he doesn't feel tired, but enjoys the process and enjoys it.

"Sir, please lead the way."

Li Nuo stood up, wiped his face twice, arranged his clothes, and followed Sergeant Marrs to leave the rest area of ​​the team.

All the way through the large tents of the temporary camp, the two soon came to the door of the commander's tent.

Sergeant Mars did not take Li Nuo into it, but made a detour and came to a more remote corner.

In front of a tent full of sundries, Sergeant Mars stopped, pointed towards the inside, and then stood up beside the warehouse-like tent.

"Go in, Jarvis, there are people waiting for you inside. I will guard outside, and no one will disturb you. Remember, don't reveal who and what you see, this is the highest priority of MI4. confidential."

"Yes, sir."

Li Nuo took a slight breath, calmed down, opened the thick curtain, and stepped into the tent.

A faint scent lingers on the tip of the nose, it seems to be a precious perfume, or some kind of medicine with its own fragrance.

There is a gentle glow of coal lamps inside the tent. The screen behind the curtain blocks most of the light and the peeping of visitors.

Li Nuo walked around the screen and saw the Lord, his eyes narrowed slightly.

A woman is leaning against a table and smoking a cigarette.

She was wearing a black women's military uniform, plain but hard to hide her charm.

She put her arms without a trace of fat on her chest, held a thin cigarette in her right hand, sipped lightly, inhaled slowly, and exhaled the refreshing smoke for a long time.

After hearing Li Nuo's movements, her eyes turned from being absent-minded to focused, she turned her face, and cast her gaze at the person who came.

Therefore, Li Nuo saw the other party's exquisite face from the front.

The facial features are three-dimensional, the eyes are bright, and the lips are slender, which can be called glamorous. Coupled with the slender legs and waist-length hair, there is a kind of temperament that should not be entered by strangers.

"Reporting to you, sir."

Li Nuo raised his right hand and saluted decently.

The opponent's military rank is much higher than that of Sergeant Alvin. He is a captain and possesses the strength of the third-tier "Imperial Fist".

"Leno Jarvis, do you know who I am?"

The female captain's tone was cold, she kept her original smoking action, she didn't become restrained at all because of Li Nuo's arrival, she was full of aura.

"Report, sir. I don't know your identity, I have only a few guesses."

"What guess?" The female captain raised her chin slightly, "Just say it."

"The letter that Sergeant Marrs gave me should be written by you."

"Yes, it is indeed me. I have also seen the academic level of the college's teaching assistants, which are indeed much better than me, a soldier with a non-academic background."

"You are overrated, sir. I have to thank the empire for cultivating me." Li Nuo said without changing his face.

"Not all flowers bathed in sunlight can bear fruit. Your achievements are also related to your own talents and hard work. Sit down, Jarvis, and let's talk about business."

The female captain waited for the other party to sit down and continued:

"I'm Martha Murphy, an MI4 captain in charge of the secret program you're going through."

Captain Murphya paused:

"In MI4, we call this plan 'Broken Coffin', which means to use a simple and efficient method to crush the conspiracy of the Necromancer sect. Have you seen the stone tomb on the second floor of the tomb?"

Li Nuo nodded:

"Yes, sir. It's a stone building, ancient, eerie, and unearthly."

"Have you noticed that there are many black marks on the surface of the stone cairn? They are regularly distributed on the stone bricks, as if carved by humans."

"I see it, sir."

Captain Murphy put the thin cigarette in his hand into the ashtray, turned around and sat down in his seat, changing into a standard sitting posture:

"Then what do you think those black traces will be?"

Li Nuo knew the answer in advance, but still pretended to be thinking, and said hesitantly:

"...Could it be a necromancer rune?"

"People who have read the book are indeed different, and their thinking ability is much higher than that of ordinary people." Captain Murphy said:

"Now that you've grasped the point, I won't turn the corner with you, Jarvis. We need you to modify the necromancer rune on the stone mound and weaken this evil death-like magic device."

Captain Murphy saw the astonished look on Li Nuo's face:

".You may not know that there is a magical protective cover outside the coffin. There are also a large number of undead runes on this protective cover. Our original plan was that after the army cleaned up the undead on the third floor of the tomb, you To modify the undead runes on the magic protective cover, so as to remove the magic protective cover, so that the imperial army can directly attack the main body of the coffin.

"However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. No one expected that there would be a magical building carved with undead runes on the second floor of the tomb, and it was a more sinister kind."

Captain Murphia bent his arms on the table and crossed his fingers in front of him:

"So you have to accept your mission in advance, Jarvis. Just today, on the second basement level of this tomb."

Confusion and hesitation flashed across Li Nuo's face, as if he knew his fate for the first time.

He didn't let these expressions stay on his face for too long, but within three to five seconds, he replaced them with calmness and determination, shaping himself into an imperial man with courage and conviction.

"Yes, sir. I will do my best."

Captain Murphy saw the change in Li Nuo's expression, and he became more fond of this handsome and decisive young man in his heart.

There was a faint arc on the corner of her mouth, and she said with a smile:

"You don't have to worry too much about your own safety, Jarvis. There are two criminal soldiers in Alvin's army. I will give them to you to command. It is up to you to distinguish the undead runes on the stone mound, and It is up to you to direct them to modify the necromantic runes. Before they die for the empire, you don't have to worry about the consequences of correcting the wrong runes."

Sure enough, dead monks don't kill poor monks, can't the empire send more criminal soldiers? Li Nuo sighed secretly, thought for a while, and decided to maintain his personality.

"Sir, Sergeant Marrs told me that if I change the wrong rune, I will be torn apart by death magic. Can you tell me what will happen? Is there any way to avoid this risk? I want to have a psychological preparation .After all, every mistake costs a life. I don't want people to die because of my mistakes."

"I know what your worries are." Captain Murphy stretched out his white right hand, took out another thin cigarette from the cigarette case, and held it between his right fingertips:

"The young assistant professor of history has never fought a war, never seen blood, and his attitude towards life is as simple and kind as ordinary citizens.

"But, Jarvis, you are commanding two criminal soldiers, not real soldiers. Each of them has the blood of good citizens on their hands. You are not murdering them, but representing the Empire against them. Sentencing. Thinking of it this way, you might feel better."

Li Nuo nodded silently, just rightly showing what a young assistant should look like, without showing the recklessness of being a time traveler.

He is such a cautious person.

"As for the death magic that appeared after changing the wrong rune. I can tell you that it is not unsolvable."

Captain Murphya lit the thin cigarette, took a puff slowly, exhaled the fragrant smoke and said:

"That death magic is called "Death Storm". We think of it as a pulsed energy beam made of high-energy particle rays. From the monitoring data, it looks a bit like an ultra-miniature gamma ray storm."

Li Nuo raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He didn't expect that the empire would conduct in-depth research on death-like spells, and analyze them in a scientific and theoretical way, not from the perspective of mysticism.

No wonder there is a saying: All magic can be mathematicalized—that is, use mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge to analyze the principles of magic.

Captain Murphy continued in a pragmatic military tone:

"The physical quality of the first-order "Imperial Fist" is already enough to resist this level of pulse-shaped energy beam. But he would also suffer serious physical damage as a result, and the kind of damage that cannot be repaired. Because the energy beam would interfere with the cell activities in his whole body, resulting in disorder in his cell division process. like this."

Captain Murphy put the lighted cigarette on the edge of the ashtray, and reached out to touch his chin.

Under Li Nuo's surprised gaze, Captain Murphy pinched the "skin" on his neck, and slowly lifted his "camouflage" from bottom to top, revealing a severely burned face.

On the crimson flesh, there are black earthworm-like protrusions all over, hideous and ugly.

"Hiss..." Li Nuo looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but gasped.

The severely burned face was Martha Murphy's real face.

The cold and glamorous face that was like an iceberg beauty before was just a bionic face made artificially.

It is hard to imagine how much the 19-year-old girl in front of her has paid for the empire in her mind.

How many people would willingly let themselves be covered in pain for the sake of the erratic imperial honor?

"In order to verify whether the necromantic runes I translated are correct, I have personally modified the necromantic runes on death-like magic buildings many times. There have been successes and failures. The price of failure is very painful, but fortunately the empire has not given up on me. I Didn't fail the Empire either. I didn't scare you, Jarvis?"

"No, no. You are admirable, sir. Without your contribution, there would be no translation I have seen."

Li Nuo was in awe, not for anything else, but for the dedication and courage of the other party.

Captain Murphy covered his face with a "disguise", and gently rubbed his hands on his cheeks to make the two faces fit together perfectly.

"So, you understand, Jarvis. Your predicament is only temporary. As long as you can prove the effectiveness of the 'Broken Coffin' plan with actual actions, you will be able to get funding from the empire. Get rid of the status of criminal soldiers, Become a real soldier and be promoted to "Fist of the Empire". Considering that you are not the "Fist of the Empire", but let you carry out such a dangerous operation, we have arranged two criminal soldiers for you, let you try your hand. "

Captain Murphy picked up the burning smoke:

"Military Intelligence instructed me to convey some things to you. After the end of this legion mission, you can enjoy all the treatment of legion soldiers, clean hot water, sufficient vegetables and meat, warm marching tents, every half Once a month's 'cool time' and so on. This is MI4's promise to you. Of course, your identity is still a criminal soldier, and you should know the reason."

"Yes, I know the reason. It is the rule of our great Emperor."

——According to historical records, Thatis I, who is still in power, was born as a criminal soldier. At that time, there was no such thing as a criminal soldier becoming a regular. After he established the modern Tatis Empire, the criminal soldiers had a chance to become regulars.

This historical knowledge was found by Li Nuo from the memory of the original owner.

"Okay, I've finished what I need to say." Captain Murphy put down the thin cigarette, raised his right hand to salute Li Nuo and said:

"Hail to every warrior of the empire."

Li Nuo stood up, with a piercing expression, and raised his hand in salute:

"Salute to the intrepid pioneers. Sir, you are my role model."

With a firm tone, a resolute expression, and an excellent appearance, Captain Murphy was very satisfied with the criminal soldier in front of him.

She smiled and nodded:

"Go, Jarvis, I await your good news. Sergeant Marrs will teach you how to use the rune modification tool."

"Yes, sir."

Li Nuo left the tent.

Outside the tent, Sergeant Mars saw Li Nuo coming out, and immediately cast a questioning look.

Li Nuo walked to the other side and whispered:

"Sir, I know what I have to do. I'll do my best."

Sergeant Marrs patted Li Nuo on the shoulder:

"Okay, I knew you wouldn't flinch, you're an upright imperial man! Let's go, I'll take you to meet those two criminal soldiers, and then I'll bring you the tools to modify the undead runes."

Li Nuo was half a step behind and followed Sergeant Marrs forward.

About 40 minutes ago, Li Nuo thought he was still a social horror who was not good at scheming.

But when he faced Captain Murphy just now, his performance and acting skills should be as natural as possible.

This surprised Li Nuo himself.

Could it be that he was inspired by a series of events after the time travel to some kind of potential personality?

Well, maybe I just unleashed my true self...

Li Nuo turned his head, squinted at the tent, and quickly drew a plan of the entire camp in his mind, and marked the location of the tent on the map.

I have to say that the tent is really very inconspicuous.

If it weren't for the insider, no one would have thought that there was a female captain squatting in that tent smoking a cigarette alone to relieve boredom.

A female captain with the strength of the third-tier "Imperial Fist".

Li Nuo recalled it carefully.

It can indeed be called "slightly plump", but under this delicate appearance, there is a devastated body.

It's a pity...