In the stone room, the four people raised their heads and looked at Lu Ning in confusion, but they really didn't start copying.
"Excuse me...is there something wrong?"
Lu Ning looked at the first character that appeared on the crystal ball. This was a text that she didn't understand at all. The transcription was just a copy of it, and it was enough to inject magic into the process. However, it is this process of injecting magic power that truly completes the communication between the magic book and people.
"It's very wrong."
Lu Ning took the second box and pressed out the words on it, and asked those people: "Have you seen similar words?"
"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 say that he knows all the characters in the world. Even Percival does not dare to say so. This is obviously some kind of magic script. , only knowledgeable people can understand..."
He explained here, and Lu Ning felt relieved. Since these four people didn't recognize them, she could make up something to fool them.
"I have seen."
She interrupted.
"It just so happened that I had been exposed to this type of text in an event I had done before, so I had a little understanding of it. However, what my employer told me that time was to never inject any 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. The result was that his laboratory was subjected to forbidden spell-level purification measures. No one in it, including the auxiliary personnel sent by the employer, was released. ." Lu Ning now makes up stories without thinking at all. He just opens his mouth, and this kind of thing obviously frightened the four of them. It is probably due to the bonus factor of the strange surrounding environment.
"This...what is this?"
"For people of our level, the less we know, the better, as long as we understand that it cannot be touched. Go to the door personally to see what is going on outside, and don't make any noise."
Immediately, someone touched the door, opened a small crack and looked outside 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 believes it when they say it’s okay.
"What should we do? What happened to us..."
"I knew this easy money job wouldn't fall into my hands."
Several people cursed in a low voice, including Gear. Lu Ning sat at the table, staring at the boxes and thinking. The purpose of the Twilight Thieves is to spread out the people contaminated by the grimoire, which is no different from before. And in order to ensure that everyone has copied, we have done this to lure these wandering mages to take over the work, so there is no need to evacuate everyone. After all, it is better to make a complete show to deceive people.
"come here."
She waved to the first person who spoke.
"May I have your name?"
"Fabio."
"Okay, you go out now, walk around a bit and act a little surprised. If anyone comes out and asks you, just say we want some food and drinks and ask if we can provide them."
"This, this can..."
"Don't worry, their purpose of asking us to copy books is not to kill us directly. As long as we don't show any abnormality, nothing will happen." Lu Ning waved her hand, Fabio responded and walked to the door, opening the door. out.
About ten minutes later, he came back holding a paper bag with a surprised look on his face.
"What's wrong with you? Why have you been gone for so long?" someone asked.
Fabio put the paper bag on the table. Inside was fried chicken and ale - the kind that was not drunk at all.
"I had just walked out for two steps when a man came out of nowhere and asked me what I was doing out there. It almost scared me to death. I said I wanted something to eat and drink. It was a lot of work, so they let me I stood there, and after a while someone came over and gave me this bag of stuff.”
"It doesn't sound like much."
"Are you going to try it?" Fabio stared, "I thought I was going to be silenced!"
Lu Ning walked over silently, took out a piece of fried chicken, took a bite, and nodded: "No problem."
"Um?"
"It's still a little hot. You probably bought it fresh, and the taste is also very unique." Lu Ning glanced at the door, "How long did it take from the time you went out to the time you were called to stop?"
"Four or five seconds, they must have been monitoring this place!"
"That's for sure." Lu Ning didn't panic. He dug around in his pocket and found a map book. He turned out the page of the Opal area, looked for it in the direction he was locating, and then Click below a building.
"Close to the amphitheater in Topa District, we are below here... Oh, there is a guard station here. But that shouldn't actually be the case."
Lu Ning turned her gaze back.
If he had really walked this far, he would have gone to Hot and Sour Cocktail to buy fried chicken and it would not be still warm and crispy when he came back. At least Lu Ning didn't think that the people outside were so considerate that they would keep heating it with magic to bring it back.
She picked up a wine bottle and opened the cork, and a lot of foam came out.
"The space is stretched, and the actual distance is not as long as walking in the passage... Well, it is indeed not within the scope of surveillance. Is it also to confuse our sense of distance to facilitate evasion of searches later... But people themselves are always lazy It will cause all kinds of mistakes."
"Then how do we escape?" Fabio asked in a panic.
"No need to run away." Lu Ning returned to her seat and put all eight boxes together. "We just don't copy these things now."
"ah?"
After Lu Ning said these words, she went to bring down a stack of parchment. This is a transcription workshop. All things related to writing are complete. In other words, everything needed to draw the transformation formation is also complete. .
She checked the box. Apart from the closed structure, it was a very simple magic prop. With eighty mages present, it is inevitable that someone will try to violently open the box to see what is inside. Since the Twilight Thieves are not afraid of this, it means that the magic book inside is likely to be fragile.
Alchemy is very useful at this time. As long as she exchanges the shell for something in the gaseous state, she can take out the contents without damage. The only thing she has to be careful about is not to replace any poisonous gas.
The drawing of the refining formation is easy. The quality of the quill pen and magic ink is of course higher than that of the carbon rod, and these inks can also provide magic flow instead of the magic liquid.
Soon, the first refining formation was drawn. Lu Ning didn't have any golden staff with her, but she wasn't going to refine anything. She just let the magic flow flow naturally according to the refining formation.
In the shimmering light of the formation, the outer shell slowly disappeared, turning into gray smoke that floated up and hovered over the room, forming a small smoke vortex. And the contents of the box were slowly revealed.
A coiled silver wire.
Based on this alone, Lu Ning was unable to deduce the original appearance of the magic book. She followed the same method and started to dissolve the other boxes one by one, and got seven more silver threads. She carefully wrapped the silver wire with a piece of parchment, put it in her pocket, and turned to look at the crystal.
This is a timing device, which releases a new batch of magic books every once in a while. Of course, this time was not yet the time for the next batch to be released. Lu Ning sat down and used the magic power of his fingers to pull the gray vortex in the air to slowly rotate, and continued to draw and change the formation.
"Um... can we... do this?"
Lu Ning nodded.
When she decided to save the four people here, the people in the other rooms had already been given up.
The magic books have different effects on people. This is probably why there is no one standing guard outside. The Twilight Thieves used some method to monitor the situation in the cave, but did not reach into the studio - they were probably afraid of the people in the room. Grimoire pollution.
As long as Lu Ning is passive and slow in his work, those who are actively copying will definitely get more small boxes of magic books, and the intersection of magic power will be further deepened during the copying process. A few words in the magic book will not immediately affect intermediate magicians, but this may not necessarily be the case for beginners and apprentices.
"Pay attention to what's going on outside."
After saying that, she concentrated on her drawing work and didn't say another word.
Unknowingly, there was already a stack of parchment of refining and transformation beside him. What no one noticed was that the gray smoke vortex in the air had also become much smaller, and now the specific appearance was 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 wonder 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 tucked it under her arm, and walked to the door.
As soon as he arrived at the door, a frightened and shrill scream came from along the crack of the door!
The four who were already a little sleepy immediately became energetic. They jumped up one after another, holding their strongest magic in their hands, and had the momentum to open the door and rush. Lu Ning raised her hand and pressed down on several people twice. She looked around and found the room where the screams came from and the soundproof door had been opened. She threw up the black block in her hand and ignited a cluster of flames at her fingertips. He also grabbed his throat and let out a scream.
There were some messy and slight footsteps outside, which were going away. Only two or three came this way.
At this time, the black block also fell on the flames, and the turbulent water instantly burst out from the inside. Lu Ning rolled out along with the water, and opened the other door closest to her.
A bloody bone spear was thrown from the room, whizzing past Lu Ning's head. The people running over hurriedly dodged left and right. When Lu Ning turned her head, she had already seen the scene in the room.
Inside was a ferocious monster with white bones. Countless insect-like bones grew out of the chest cavity. They were too long and pierced into the stone wall. There were three skulls on its head. At this time, it was growing from a He pulled out the fourth one from the corpse that was pierced on the bones and installed it into his neck cavity.
At the same time, the door of the room where the scream came from was finally opened, and a man whose clothes were completely torn ran out in panic, followed by a second, a third, and behind them, two The burly monster, with its whole body nailed into steel torture instruments, its mouth stretched open, and its sunken eyes protruding from its mouth, walked awkwardly behind.
Hopeless.
Lu Ning clearly saw that the three people were all injured, and a steel-gray metallic color had appeared from the wounds, and some protrusions protruded from the surface of the metalized skin. It probably won't be long before they will also turn into that kind of monster. .
"But these are weak points. What they want is obviously not the weak ones." Lu Ning rolled to avoid a bone foot spike, then got up and threw most of the transformation formation scroll into the air.
"Give Gust!"
The few who followed behind activated their wind magic without thinking, and threw the scrolls around the cave.
The few people who came back to check also rushed out of the door. Before they could react, Lu Ning activated the magical energy escaping here and activated the scattered refining formations at the same time.
As we all know, alchemy is a subject that strictly follows procedures. Although some requirements can be adjusted according to different situations, the result of random operations without supervision is 100% failure.
"I don't think you know how to build an earthquake-resistant structure for a temporary place like this, right?" Lu Ning shouted at the three people.
All the alchemy formations exploded, with slightly different sequences. However, the laboratory accident explosion that killed more than twenty alchemists every year did not reduce its power due to the level of the alchemist. Several explosion points near the door instantly destroyed Those stone doors were shattered, and some were flattened. Lu Ning lay on the ground and avoided a large number of explosion waves, but his ears were also buzzing from the shock, and he probably couldn't hear anything for a while.
"Damn it, don't do that again."
All the transformation formations were drawn by her, and through subtle connections she knew whether all the ones thrown had exploded. Only when the smoke from the explosion dissipated did many people come out to see the situation.
Of the sixteen rooms, only four had problems. In addition to the two rooms, White Bones and Xingren, there was another room where purple-gray liquid covered with black hair flowed out from the crack in the door. Those substances were covered with The eyes, mouth, nose, hands and feet that seemed to be painted on them quickly wrapped around the door. Finally, 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, covered in indigo flames, sitting at the table in a copying posture. , but everything in the house was frozen.
The three people who had just come in from the entrance saw the scene after the explosion, turned around and ran away without saying a word.
No matter how slow the reaction was, the rest of the people had forgotten it at this time and immediately ran out after him. The few behind Lu Ning also rushed towards the entrance in panic. That is to say, Fabio still thought about it. Lu Ning helped him up from the ground.
"What are we going to do?" he yelled, his voice too quiet to be heard.
