The sun is high

Amid everyone's rather strange looks, Xiuge directly pulled Wei Lin, who had just sat down, into a room.

Before Weilin could ask, he explained everything that happened in the Ernst Manor Hotel as quickly as possible.

After listening to Xiuge's narration, Weilin, who had originally planned to ask Xiuge some questions, frowned. She took the glass jar wrapped in layers of magic book pages from Xiuge's hand and looked at it carefully. The black mouse trapped in it suddenly reached out and flipped through the pages of the magic book that was still working. His originally gloomy face suddenly relaxed a lot.

After that, she came to the wall of the room and inspected it carefully.

After a while, Wei Lin said: "This hotel itself... should be a large ceremony venue."

"Same as Salem City?"

Hearing Shuge's words, Wei Lin rolled her eyes slightly: "Mr. Shuge, as a spell caster, not all problems and cases can be answered with our existing experience, not to mention your experience in this area. It is really……"

Wei Lin did not finish her words, but the contempt almost overflowed from her words.

"The ritual venue we encountered in Salem City is essentially a 'wall' built using magic rituals. Its biggest function is to block the internal and external space to a certain height and depth. But now, this hotel is more like A whole."

Weilin raised her hand, brushed her fingers across the wall separated by wooden boards and velvet cloth, and closed her eyes gently: "In ordinary large noble mansions, the secret rituals used to provide basic protection rituals should be in place at the beginning of construction. It has been laid in advance, and circuits for magic flow and feedback will be reserved in the walls and foundations..."

"Once the construction of the mansion is completed, the magical power of the large-scale secret ritual will be successfully closed in the circuit of the building wall. After that, any attempt to add a permanent magic ritual will be difficult to achieve."

Wei Lin very professionally spoke a long list of nouns that Xiuge didn't understand, but fortunately, Xiuge could still barely understand what she wanted to express.

Obviously, Wei Lin also agreed with Xiuge's views on this weird mouse, but she made corresponding additions based on Xiuge's views, that is, she believed that when this mansion was first built, it had already been considered to what will happen in the future.

The fundamental reason why the rats composed of magical power can come and go freely in the solid stone walls is that the builders and the planners and designers of the mansion's secrets left a space for them to walk through from the very beginning. "channel".

"If the Ernst family has been affected by the Black Sun Society from an extremely long time ago, then I am afraid that the construction of this entire mansion is related to the Black Sun Society... and even the members of the Black Sun Society will also Some of their occult magic or forbidden rituals were used here."

Wei Lin finished her perception of this mansion. She opened her eyes and said, "The traces of magic here are very well hidden. If you hadn't warned me in advance, I probably wouldn't have noticed anything strange about it."

"They also placed many objects with traces of magic in the room, but there was no ritual or magic attached to them."

As he spoke, Xiuge looked around, then easily picked up an old small picture frame from the desk and handed it to Wei Lin.

Weilin reached out to take it and checked it as usual. She quickly made a judgment: "I have seen this kind of case, but it was in Merlin Lehe's file... It does not pose any threat in itself, and it cannot even be constitute complete rituals, but in fact they are extensions of the magic.”

Wei Lin said: "If a certain ritual set up under this mansion is like an anemone living in the sea water, then these objects placed alone are like its tentacles... Different people are in them Different reactions will occur under the influence of the emitted magic power, and based on these reactions, the 'sea anemone' can identify which prey it needs to catch."

"It sounds like this is also part of the 'screening'?"

"Probably so."

Wei Lin gently put down the picture frame and said: "Although Mr. Shuge succeeded in detecting the existence of the underground floor through some... small means, this also completely exposed you to the ritual setters. .”

"But it seems that this is not important now. After all, you are ready to use violence to solve the problem, right?"

Wei Lin untied her scarf a little, and then she raised her head slightly: "Although facing the battle head-on is the only way for a spell caster, it does not mean that you can close your eyes and run rampant like a reckless man... Tell Me, what preparations have you made?"

So Xiuge pushed his magic book forward slightly: "There may be people related to the Black Sun Society and enemies similar to the Rat Swarm in the underground floor, so the magic I temporarily imprinted is mainly aimed at causing direct damage. ... Considering the underground environment and my initial impression of the rats, I specially prepared a larger number of fire spells."

Wei Lin looked at this thick and high-quality magic book with some surprise, then opened it and quickly browsed through the magic spells engraved by Shuge.

She had just handled the resource withdrawal document reported by the Fifth Chasseur Regiment for Xiuge last night, so she naturally knew what her student had taken, which meant that he had just started learning the magic seal...

"It's all... stream-level magic?"

Wei Lin silently swore to Goddess Mel in her heart that she had never heard of such exaggerated results.

If a person like this was found out by the mages that Merlin and he were working with, they would probably be locked up directly and trained as future deep-sea level mages.

And after she saw more than thirty pages of "Instant Fire" magic, Wei Lin's expression became a little weird.

"I remember……"

"Miss Wei Lin said that 'Instant Fire' is a somewhat 'redundant' stream-level magic, but I searched for a long time and couldn't find a suitable alternative."

Shuge explained sincerely: "Miss Weilin's appearance when she burned down the entire old Ernst mansion was really impressive, and I think Marshal Zeke Ernst didn't mind burning down the hotel in the manor. It was torn down and rebuilt.”

…

everything's ready.

In order to facilitate movement, Weilin deliberately changed out of her Mage Council robe and put on a brand new manor hunting outfit found in the hotel. Although she still wore glasses and held a magic book, But his every move and gesture revealed a special temperament that was different from ordinary mages and scholars.

After adding a new revolver that Xiuge "scrounged" from the guards, Wei Lin's capable temperament could no longer be concealed.

However, now is obviously not a good time to "appreciate" and "collect materials". After using magic crystals to replenish the tiny magic vacancy in his body, Xiuge quickly checked the various items he carried and put 5 A metal bullet was filled into the bullet chamber of the revolver rifle, and the remaining four bullet chambers were vacated by Xiuge.

This is Xiuge's experience accumulated from the last experience. If you don't want to change bullets on the spot when facing some special enemies, then it is best to leave space for loading magic bullets in advance.

When everything was ready, the two of them stepped into the old-fashioned elevator that was previously only open to hotel waiters and housekeepers.

The structure and style of this elevator are extremely old. The ones used to select floors are neither mechanical levers nor magic buttons, but a whole row of keyholes, and huge metal keys suitable for these keyholes hang on the side.

As explained by the clueless waiters, these keyholes correspond to the six floors from the hotel lobby to the top-floor restaurant. There is no hole or mechanism that allows people to control the elevator to the so-called underground floor.

The inside of the old elevator was a little narrow, so Wei Lin reached out and pushed Xiuge aside. She came to the row of keyholes. She thought seriously for two seconds, then spread out the magic book and tore out a piece of it. page.

"Hold it down for me."

Hearing what Weilin said, Xiuge immediately reached out his hand and helped the other person press the pages of the book above the row of keyholes. After that, Weilin took out a spare high-quality crystal bag from her waist. crystallized, and used it to gently tap the four corners and the center of the page in a specific order.

As if some switches had been turned on, when the last tap was over, Xiuge saw a faint light blue light lighting up the complex patterns on the hard pages. These patterns started from the four corners of the pages towards The center quickly converges and ends up forming a somewhat abstract key pattern.

"Let go."

Wei Lin said softly, so Shuge immediately stepped back. In the next second, a slight vibration burst out from the key pattern in the center of the page. It quickly swept across the entire elevator room, so Shuge saw There are countless traces of deep magic that were hidden before.

Also revealed was an independent keyhole, which was hidden lower down without any numerical identification.

"This is the latest achievement of the Council, specially used for searching and testing for magic traces... It will probably be used on the battlefield in the future."

Wei Lin destroyed the invalid magic book page, and then she pointed to the keyhole: "It seems that we have only this choice... Let's go, hoping to solve it as soon as possible. There are too many things in the Council, my I’m afraid there will be a huge backlog of documents on the office seats again.”

In Weilin's familiar helpless tone, Xiuge reached out and pulled the metal door of the old elevator, then picked up the huge key hanging on the side, inserted it into the hidden keyhole, and twisted it hard twice.

As a series of heavy metal mechanical sounds came, the elevator trembled violently, and then began to slowly descend.

Although he had already used the running rat's vision to explore this place before, when Shuge stepped out of the elevator and stepped onto the ancient, cold stone floor, he felt as if he had crossed time and returned to this ancient place. The first moments of the founding of the family.

This is different from those well-maintained monuments that can give people a strong sense of immersion, because when walking here, Xiuge can feel a wave that is extremely obscure, but extremely active.

It seems as if the huge stone bricks under your feet are whispering, and the ancient magic lamps on the walls of the corridor are peeking...

Shuge noticed that his metal disc was continuing to accelerate.

"It's not like I feel a dangerous approach, but more like I've been stimulated by an external force... There must be something related to the ancient gods underground, and judging from the reactions of the metal disks and the messengers in the mirror, , that thing may be an anomaly among ancient creations, but it’s not very popular anyway.”

"However, the feeling here is somewhat similar to the Dream Sanctuary..."

The memories belonging to the spell casters and experienced soldiers were once again recalled, so Xiuge quickly adjusted the position of the magic book, and then skillfully raised the revolver rifle, entering a state of full alert.

The changes in Xiuge's movements attracted Wei Lin's surprised eyes. She did not ridicule Xiuge for relying on firearms as a spell caster. Instead, she carefully looked at his gun-holding movements and the hanging position of the magic book. Then a little confusion flashed through.

If Xiuge's astonishing efficiency in learning magic can be explained by his "talent" and his weird "magic engraving" experience, then it requires practical exploration and accumulation of practical experience, but there is no way to achieve it quickly.

Wei Lin has confirmed in the archives of the Council that Sugar Ernst has neither military experience nor the opportunity to contact or use firearms, nor has he been exposed to any form of actual combat training...

But the action doesn’t deceive.

Wei Lin was convinced that his set of reactions could not be developed by learning and imitating just two or three times. Instead, it was more like a "habit" carved into his bones.

But now is obviously not the time to ask these questions. As a lake-level spell caster, although Weilin cannot react to ancient creations like Shuge, she can still feel the piercing magic power flowing in this underground space. , that power seemed to be a vicious beast dormant in the darkness. Under the vague and solid malice, every breath and heartbeat seemed to have to pay a huge price.

However, in this indiscriminate malice directed at everyone, Xiuge seemed to have no feeling at all. He quickly called out the running rat and ordered it to take the lead in exploring the other end of the corridor. Then he started to advance steadily with his revolver rifle.

That look didn't look like he had stepped into an environment with hidden dangers. Instead, he looked calm and confident as if he had returned home.