The first gust of summer wind is passing through the forest, making the sea of long-leaf pine trees in Xinta'an float with waves of leaves. The sky is like a wash, and the cloud wall is like the sea.
Three or four clockwork creatures with shells shining with orange light were patrolling in the sky. They were turning their cameras to record every scene. They stayed for a moment and then turned to another direction.
Everything is empty inside and outside——
Fang Plover stood on the hill, put his hands into the pocket of his coat, raised his head and looked at the towering wall of clouds on the horizon and the low shadows of the northern mountains. Several militiamen from Sid town were standing respectfully behind him.
The wind blew through the young man's collar, curled up his hair, and swept over his eyebrows, like an invisible hand gently caressing his face. But he said nothing, wearing bronze goggles on his head, looking down at the rapidly zooming green land - where the picture was splitting into countless pieces.
See the world from a broader perspective.
The tall, gray, evil and twisted creature waved its tentacles and vines, and fell wailing under the siege of knights in silver armor.
In the green and clear land below, the forest was covered with ugly charred marks in the east and west. Mercenaries from several nearby towns held torches and burned the forest to a white ground.
The militiamen formed a scattered human wall and were advancing deep into the forest.
Fang Yu clicked a batch of photos, then raised his hand to open the eyepiece.
"Three and four o'clock are in area A7, safe, group three and two are in area E8, safe, H9, area U10 is safe, P8, J4, F10..." A little girl wearing an adventure guild uniform counted from behind, raising her head from time to time. Starting, he looked ahead with a mixture of surprise and awe.
But Fang Plover had already put down the goggles in his hand, turned around and walked back.
The several militia youths on the side all looked solemn, and they hurriedly made a way out of the way, not even daring to talk to him.
Only an older militiaman saw this scene from a distance and came over to greet him warmly: "Ed, it's so early today."
"Well, Mr. Leonardo, this is the last batch, and I will finish the work early." Fang Plover looked at the other party and replied.
"Thanks to you," Leonardo looked at him with admiration, "By the way, the Adventurer's Guild sent a group of reckless little girls to help in the last few days. They didn't delay anything, right?"
"Mr. Leonardo!" the little girl in the guild uniform shouted angrily.
"No, everyone helped," Fang Plover looked in that direction and smiled. "It's me. In fact, after the imperial army intervened, I didn't do much to help. I just took the opportunity to practice my skills."
"You don't have to put in a good word for those bastards. I know what their character is." The militia captain shook his head. "But those bastards are not serious in front of others, but they don't have a temper in front of you, Ed." .”
"Yes, Mr. Ed is awesome," the little girl in the guild uniform couldn't help but said, "Even the knights are very polite to Mr. Ed. As we said before the Adventure Guild sent us here, we are here to help Ed." Mr. De did it."
Fang Yu was a little embarrassed by the two people's remarks, and couldn't help but blush.
Although he had tried his best to get used to people's gaze over the past month, it was not something he could accomplish in a day, and he still felt uncomfortable from time to time.
Leonardo listened and suddenly said: "Speaking of this, I remembered something."
The militia captain came over and lowered his voice: "Ed, some people have been wandering around recently, as if they are investigating you. But you did a big favor to the Northern Army before. The Knights took action to kill those people some time ago. Please leave."
He raised his head and added: "I originally planned to tell you this, but I have been so busy the past few days that I almost forgot."
When Fang Plover heard this, his heart trembled.
Even the Northern Legion only asked for "please". If what Leonardo said was true, the origins of those people might not be that simple.
The Imperial Army is not that civilized and polite, especially on its own territory. If it is a reporter from a tabloid like Ayin Block, the Imperial Army will probably use 'bombing', or maybe arrest them directly.
However, if the investigation comes from the Imperial Army under different affiliations, it is not incomprehensible that the people of Carnand Province would not give face to their colleagues.
The image of the imperial army with black helmets and black armor appeared in his mind.
Could it be that their whereabouts in Nozpitz were exposed so quickly, or are the Oshurs so concerned about this matter?
There were so many doubts in his mind that Leonardo complained on the sidelines that the imperial army's response was too slow, and that he didn't hear clearly that the town paid so many taxes in vain every year.
When the Imperial Army was mentioned, the other party was obviously very angry, saying that if it weren't for him and Ms. Ming, the town would have suffered huge losses this time.
"Hide Town is on the edge of the Sea of Trees. There are less than one regiment of knights stationed in the town. Every year we apply to Apenand for more manpower, but the result? Nothing happens. Something really happened, the Imperial Army It took several days to arrive slowly."
Leonardo spat on the ground with a thick mouthful of phlegm, "Bah! I think it's enough to collect the corpses for us!"
Fang Yu heard the militia captain's complaints and couldn't help but ask: "Is this the case in Sid Town all these years?"
"Isn't it?" The other party spread his hands, "Especially in the past two years, the activities of the withered tree people have become more frequent. Our militia team simply does not have enough manpower. When recruiting young people in the town, we must consider whether it will affect production."
The middle-aged man finally said in a long tone: "I see, this empire is going to end."
Fang Yu shook his head dumbfounded, thinking he was joking.
Now the Oshur people's empire is at its peak, and it doesn't look like it is going to end.
But are the abnormal activities of the withered tree people related to the imperial plan?
Although the tree people will have some active periods in the one-hundred-year cycle, it is not surprising. But Fang Yu is now very suspicious and ill, and he can't help but connect it with the information he heard before.
The two said goodbye quickly, and Fang Plover walked into his tent alone - this was the tent specially set up for him by the people of the Northern Army, and he was allowed to live in the military camp as a military 'advisor'.
These days, apart from occasionally working as a teaching assistant for Ming in the town, he lives in this place most of the time.
The multiple parallelisms taught by Ming were of little significance to him. After all, considering the progress of others, the Construct Queen would not teach too advanced knowledge.
However, in private, she will still further teach Fang Yu and Luo Wei the skills related to swift tactics. While others were preparing for the next competition, Fang Plover devoted most of his time to honing his remaining skills.
With an in-depth understanding of the use of margin skills in swift tactics and by analogy, he even went a step further in the Key Chapter and once again solved some of the things that had always confused him in the Key Chapter.
For example, he has always been puzzled by the use of margins of multiple constructs.
Ke Ming's theory actually already has ready-made applications.
Some things are just a layer of window paper. You can't understand it even if you don't break it, but if someone gives you guidance, especially for people like Fang Plover, learning will come naturally.
For example, after he cut off the connection with the construct during residual training, he was finally able to encapsulate five and seven commands. This was the limit of his current computing power.
But after learning the idea of quick tactics and discarding some details, the number of encapsulated commands suddenly doubled to fifteen or even seventeen.
It doesn't sound like much, but don't forget that he also has the skills to master the closed loop device and the star device at the same time. The latter two are further amplification of the residual skills.
After one or even two levels of amplification, the margin technique began to move from the field of research to the field of practical use.
What surprised him even more was that this in turn further promoted his research on the star device. In the past month, since he learned the true use of swift tactics from Ming, his various skills at hand have made great progress.
And even in the most difficult ones, the bottlenecks have obviously loosened.
This realization really surprised and delighted Fang Plover.
Ming believes that what he and Luo Wei are currently learning is the basic theory of swift tactics. From theoretical learning to practical implementation, Fang Plover may need half a year, while Luo Wei will need at least a year and a half.
But in fact, Fang Plover has already begun to try to add some of his understanding and application of swift tactics in this month's battle. Although it is not much, it is effective.
But besides that -
He also has a deeper purpose.
That is the real treasure that Jeldm left to future generations through the problems in that institution.
Reach for the stars with remaining skills.
When Fang Yu learned this secret from the reminder in the letter, the shock in his heart could not be greater. In fact, this was what he had been lacking all along.
It seems to him that the subsequent formation of the Star Device has always been confusing. Although the complex device seems to be related to the margin technique, from the outside it looks more like a black box.
If he cannot understand the ultimate connection between the principle and its application, then in the end he can only use the existing star devices, instead of reproducing this miracle from the principle level.
But it was not easy to talk about reappearance. The closest thing he had to the truth was the gray gem he got from the old servant of the Lin En family. It was already the product closest to the prototype of the star device.
But even so, there is no clue.
But a line underground gave him two important hints.
First, the inspiration for the star installation actually comes from the flow of the blue light.
Second, Jeldham had actually left the biggest secret within that agency, and he later learned this fact from the letter.
After mastering these two clues, he began to focus on unlocking the real secret of the Star Device, but progress was still slow. When he arrived in Sid Town and met Ms. Hades for the first time, he actually wanted to discuss with the Construct Queen more than once what he saw on the Star Device.
But after that, because of the withered tree people, I missed the opportunity several times due to a combination of circumstances. Later, he began to have a deeper understanding of the application of margin skills in swift tactics, and he was out of control.
And it was from that time that Fang Yu suddenly found that he seemed to understand the technical language left by Jeldham.
In the past month, in addition to studying the margin technique itself and practicing swift tactics, he has actually been studying the treasure left by Jeldham.
Although there is not much progress, we have finally stepped over the threshold and entered another new world.
He has gained so much in the past month that even Fang Plover himself has a vague feeling that whether he is a combat craftsman or in alchemy, he feels completely different from before when he went underground to Nozpiz. .
Although that feeling may be just an illusion, it at least shows that he has indeed mastered many new things. So these things now only lack the foundation to be truly transformed into him.
All that is needed is time.
Fang Plover lifted the curtain and walked into the tent. His mind was still thinking about technology-related things, but when he raised his head, he couldn't help but be startled. He found Ms. Ming sitting on his bed, silently flipping through the notes he left on his desk.
Ming Mingming had already noticed that he had entered the tent, and gently closed the books with his hand before turning back to look at him. With a hint of shock and surprise in her eyes, she looked Fang Plover up and down.
"I just saw that you released twelve clockwork fairies in each wave," Ming said: "There are twelve seconds between each group. After you complete the first search, divide the area. The most important thing is What is it?"
"It's the coverage rate," Fang Yu replied subconsciously without thinking. "The twelve clockwork fairies can be divided into four groups. What's important is not the accuracy of the retrieval, but improving the coverage rate of the scan."
"how did you do that?"
She asked very tightly, leaving almost no room for Fang Yu to think. Fang Yu pondered for a moment and then answered: "Using encapsulated commands to let them use video crystals to scan and take pictures of designated areas can save computing power to the greatest extent...I can barely do it."
"More than sixty clockwork goblins?"
Fang Plover nodded.
Ming's eyes lit up, "For craftsmen, the efficiency of the naked eye is far inferior to the calculation of constructs. When you trust your vision, you give up trust in your constructs. And vision will take up a lot of your computing power, isn't it? Systematic, but here——"
She pointed to her brain.
"Human attention is limited after all, even if you have received special craftsman training." The construct queen crossed one leg, "It seems that you have understood how to give up part of the calculation when controlling the construct. Even though it’s very counter-intuitive to the average person.”
Ming said it lightly, but his heart was filled with turmoil.
"Disconnect the sensory connection from the node crystal, and use the remaining skills to encapsulate it in the video crystal to complete the task mechanically. This is indeed what I taught you."
"This is a little trick, Luo Wei can do it," she raised her eyelids and looked at Fang Plover, "but at the same time, applying it to a huge network of constructs is called swift tactics, at least it is the basis of it, you know How difficult is this?"
Fang Plover choked.
Only then did he realize that when he released the Clockwork Fairy before, the Construct Queen had already arrived and was watching from the side.
Although Ming did say that it would take at least half a year for him to truly turn theory into practice, but the Construct Queen did not know before that he had actually studied the margin technique in depth for a long time.
His multiple parallel skills did not come from the wolf girl.
But in fact, not long after that, he had already obtained the ticket to enter this world from Shana.
He may not have been studying margin techniques for a long time, but compared to the newcomers at the same time in the first world, he is definitely one of the first people to enter this field.
But Ming obviously didn't think so much.
She just laughed and glanced deeply at Fang Yu: "It seems that I still underestimated you, little guy. I was originally worried that letting you study margin skills this month would make you lose points in the competition. Xin, it seems that you are still worrying too much now, maybe you can give the people of the Empire a small surprise."
"A surprise for the people of the Empire?" Fang Yu was stunned. "Aren't quick tactics a combat skill? Are they still useful in the Spire Trial?"
"It's not a quick tactic," Ming shook his head, "That's exactly what I was worried about originally, but now that you've gone this far, it's different."
She raised her head and looked at Fang Plover, "As for why, you will naturally know it when you enter that world. No matter how much I say, it is better for you to experience it yourself."
It's not a quick tactic, is it a margin technique? Fang Yu was startled, but compared to the swift tactics, the margin technique was simpler, at least the basic part was simpler.
Advanced swift tactics are based on margin skills. If Ming refers to margin skills, there seems to be no need to worry about him wasting time on advanced techniques of swift tactics?
He was a little puzzled, but Ming did not struggle with this topic and said to him directly:
"Don't think about it so much, there are some things that you may not be able to figure out even if you think about it in your head," she smiled, "Princess Brianne is back, that's why I came to find you. Are you enjoying yourself here and helping the Empire deal with the withered trees? Have you forgotten the real thing?"
Fang Yu was startled and suddenly realized what he was doing.
"Princess Brianne is back," he immediately realized what this meant. "The training is over. Are we going to the Silver Tower?"
Ming nodded slightly.
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I have something to do today, so I’m a little late writing. I'm going to visit my grandma's grave tomorrow, and I'll write again when I get back, but I won't necessarily finish it.
