The sun is high

"Master Justina, it looks like you are in a good mood?"

The soldier in charge of managing the warehouse was already very familiar with this respectable one-armed female scholar. He nodded to Justina and then asked: "Are you here to get experimental materials? Or is it magic? crystallization?"

"Well, we all need some."

The soldier looked around: "Then you should bring someone to help... Oh, sorry, I forgot, magic is enough to help."

Justina smiled, and then she reported a series of items she needed. The soldier recorded it, and after confirming it was correct, he handed it to the two apprentices who were helping in the warehouse and asked them to help select it. ,tidy.

Justina looked around.

The sun had just risen at this time, but there were already a lot of busy people in the station. Large-scale transfers in batches required a lot of manpower to provide support, so no one in the station could stay away from it.

She noticed that the soldiers here have basically replaced the new Votel weapons provided by the emergency committee. Compared with the slightly bulky crystal gun, these new steam firearms with metal and wood as the main parts are significantly lighter. On the sentry tower nearby, Justina also saw the Kalfan heavy machine gun and light crystal cannon set up.

"If we could have these weapons earlier, we wouldn't have to die so many people, right?"

She sighed softly, which immediately attracted the approval of the soldiers on the side: "You are absolutely right. Although I am a Delan and have no good impression of the Votel people, I must admit that these guys are I am really talented at tinkering with weapons..."

"Have you tried it?"

"Of course, I participated in the escort transfer team yesterday, of course I was the first half... There was still some 'silt' on the street that had not left, so we got a chance."

The soldier said with excitement: "Although these weapons use very little magic material, they have no shortage of ammunition, and their rate of fire and accuracy are amazing. They can clear out a large number of enemies in just a few or two strokes." It's all mud, now I know why our country's army has been retreating!"

Mage Justina has excellent appearance and temperament. Although she is missing an arm now, she is still eye-catching as long as she stands there.

This soldier is not stupid. He knows very well that he will never have the chance to have a romantic story with a beautiful and powerful mage. However, out of his deep affection and regret for Justina's mutilated body, the soldier still behaves Be extremely talkative.

"If you ask me, even today's mages should probably be equipped with one of these weapons...I heard that each of the mages in the Votel army is now trained to be a good hand with a gun. They With the help of magic, every shot is accurate, and the distance the bullet flies is much longer than the distance traveled by magic!"

"Listening to what you say, it seems like I should also prepare a weapon for myself?"

Justina smiled: "What are their names? Wheels...guns?"

"If this is what you're talking about..."

The soldier patted the weapon on his waist and introduced: "They call this a steam revolver, but it's the same thing no matter what you call it...Mage Justina, do you need it?"

Justina took a serious look at the revolver, which seemed to be very flexible, and then she nodded with a smile: "It does seem useful. Can I apply for one?"

"sure."

The soldier nodded very positively: "Hermit Jeant has given instructions before. Next is our most important moment. Everyone should be ready... Please wait a moment."

After saying that, the soldier turned and walked to the weapons warehouse on the other side. He did not let other survivors help, but entered the warehouse himself.

Not long after, he came back with two cloth bags. Justina noticed that the two cloth bags had the badges of the Legal Committee pinned on them. Apparently they had been prepared long ago.

The soldier placed the cloth bag on the table in front of him, and then he explained carefully: "According to the rations set by the Hermit Jeant, a mage like you was originally able to own two firearms, one long and one short... But considering that you are physically inconvenient now, you can only use this, and the bullets are also ready."

Justina nodded. She raised her right hand and untied the cloth bag. Then a brand-new and fine new revolver appeared in front of her. Just like other new Walter firearms, this one The revolver appears delicate and stable. Compared with the traditional old-fashioned crystal gun, it is much lighter and the magic crystals inlaid on it are smaller.

Justina relied on her knowledge of traditional crystal guns to quickly fiddle with them. Under the prompts of the soldiers next to her, she quickly understood the specific use of this new firearm.

I have to say that this lightweight weapon is indeed very suitable for her to use after losing an arm. However, loading bullets will be more troublesome, but she can make up for this with the magic hand and the magic bow and arrow trick.

"How does it feel?"

The soldier asked thoughtfully: "Master Justina, if you need it, you can go over there and test-fire. After all, it is a new firearm, and it is definitely different from those bulky crystal guns."

"No need."

Justina shook her head gently: "For me, it is just a backup weapon when necessary."

"That's what you said."

The soldier smiled slightly awkwardly.

At this time, the apprentices who were previously responsible for counting the experimental materials and supplies have also completed their tasks. Now, all the supplies that Justina needs have been transferred out, and several soldiers and apprentices are carefully moving these things towards Send it in the direction of the laboratory.

Justina heard someone calling her name in the distance. She turned her head and saw her friend walking towards her in a hurry.

"Hermit Jeant told me that the experiment was to continue? Are you serious?"

"Of course continue."

Justina's expression did not change much. She looked at her friend and asked seriously: "We all know that the experiment itself did not completely fail. On the contrary, it brought an important breakthrough opportunity... Only by seizing this opportunity can we truly solve the problems caused by those monsters."

"I trust your judgment, but this is not in line with the planned plan."

The female mage frowned and questioned, but she still believed in her friend's judgment in this regard, so she sighed: "It's really strange, how could Hermit Jeant agree to such a proposal that goes beyond the scope of the plan? However, Now that the proposal has been approved, let’s seize the time.”

Justina raised her eyebrows: "You want to participate too?"

"Of course, everyone knows that I have been cooperating with you in experiments for the longest time. Let's go, time is running out."

With that said, the two of them rushed towards the laboratory one after another.

After a moment, the orange magic signal symbolizing "the plan has changed and the experiment continues" flew high into the sky and pulled out a thin line under the sky.

And Xiuge, who once again successfully broke through the encirclement of the descendants of An Abyss and successfully reached the edge of the northern city wall, raised his head. He squinted his eyes and looked at the orange magic line that gradually disappeared into the sunlight, and fell into deep thought.

…

While the experiments on the descendants of Dark Abyss in Salem City were progressing rapidly, Wei Lin in the Emergency Committee of Salem City also made new progress.

After working tirelessly and dedicatedly, a very important step was taken in the preliminary classification and meaning deduction of those strange symbols.

Maybe it was the good luck brought by Sugar Ernst.

Or maybe the great goddess Mel really gave precious blessings and protection to her mages.

An ordinary mage apprentice, in the process of comparing the strange patterns displayed by the humanoid crystal with reference to the symbol tables given by Wei Lin, actually found extremely similar cases, and they were not rare. A single example, but several special patterns with strong coherence.

Weilin gained great inspiration from this "coincidence". She immediately took action and tried to engrave these special patterns on the magic paper. With the injection of magic power, Weilin was surprised to find that, These lines can indeed carry magic, which means that they are by no means meaningless patterns, but some special models that can be recognized and accepted by magic and the magic framework.

With this discovery, Wei Lin's status in the resident laboratory was immediately elevated to an unprecedented height. In order to cooperate with her subsequent research, more manpower was transferred over by Butler Fenn. At Wei Lin's request, Two lake-level scholars with in-depth research on black magic and considerable knowledge of lost symbols and texts were temporarily "kidnapped". They were initially quite dissatisfied, but after seeing the results displayed by Wei Lin, they became dissatisfied. He threw himself into the laboratory eagerly.

After nearly ten hours of unremitting efforts and repeated verifications, Wei Lin and others finally completed the reverse deduction of these lines through a set of temporary magic models just as night was about to fall again.

That is, through the operation of magic power and their similarity to the magic words in "Poetry of the Night", she successfully deduced some of the rules of the lines of these human-shaped crystals. After splicing and combining according to these rules, Weilin successfully Got a short vocabulary.

At the end of the second volume of "Poetry of the Night", Weilin found the words corresponding to them.

It was written by a mad poet after a ridiculous journey, and it can be regarded as a "poetry" for the time being.

The words that make up the poem are still twisted, similar to the lines on the body of the human-shaped crystal, revealing the unique madness after losing one's mind.

"That's the star and that's the sun."

"It's falling, it's rising."

"It's going from dark to dark."

“Run from abyss to abyss.”

"It saw me."

"It speaks to me."

"It smiles at me."

"I'm coming, you run!"

Wei Lin's eyes were fixed on the end of this verse, which was the deeply disturbing sentence "I'm coming, you run."

She has carefully studied the content of the second volume of "Poetry of the Night". In this volume, the mad poet Azifu described that he joined a special "caravan" and traveled in a special "mezzanine" s story.

The so-called mezzanine refers to a special space reached by Azifu through the teleportation magic of "Disordered Tracing". It is located between reality and dreams, between the past and the future. It is both extremely illusory and imaginary. Extremely true.

During that journey, the special caravan he was in accidentally attracted the attention of the "star", which constantly chased the caravan and disturbed the minds of the members. In the end, all the members of the caravan dispersed. After death, only Azifu survived. In fear, he once again used the extremely unstable "Disordered Tracing", and in a half-asleep and half-awake coma, the star "personally" spoke to He said these words.

However, the words "Run quickly", when placed in different contexts, reveal completely different meanings.

For Azifu, who was on the run, these words were undoubtedly some kind of existence that ordinary people could not imagine, a ruthless wanted for his prey.

But to the Emergency Committee, to Wei Lin, and even to the people in Van En, this sentence was like some kind of warning that was shouted hoarsely.

"Are you talking to us?"

This weird idea flashed through Weilin's mind, so she urgently called other mages and ordered them to go to other survivors who had returned from underground cracks as quickly as possible to look for all similar ones. Consistent texture.

With reference, this work proceeds very quickly.

Within a few dozen minutes, she got the results she expected.

Similar things can be found on almost all the survivors - some are crystal patterns appearing from the crystals on their bodies, and others are tragic wounds that exist on their uncrystallized flesh.

The two traces shown in different environments are completely consistent.

The traces extracted from different individuals and samples also show absolute convergence.

After reaching this conclusion, Weilin silently returned to the laboratory containing the human-shaped crystal. She silently injected magic power into the magic container, and once again, a large number of weird lines emerged from the human-shaped crystal.

After that, Wei Lin pursed her lips, pressed her palms on the surface of the alchemy container, and then injected her voice into it in the form of magic power.

"Are you warning us to run?"

"If you can understand me, and you can indeed control these patterns, then please make some clear responses..."

Before the "voice" finished, the lines in the humanoid crystal in the container immediately began to flicker.

The next moment, countless warning lines representing "Run quickly" were all over the body of the humanoid crystal. They were displayed neatly and orderly. At the same time, Weilin also saw that the hole in the mouth of the humanoid crystal began to open rapidly. Although there was no sound during the whole process of absorbing the alchemy potion from the container, Wei Lin clearly felt that the consciousness bound in this cage was shouting at her hoarsely.

"You guys run!"

This is what these souls who retain consciousness but can no longer convey messages through language and sound want to say.