Chapter 33: Scraping the ground is a science

"Are you a city tree?"

The man nodded. "I am an alienated high-level city tree, so I can transform into human form."

"That would be even better, it's more convenient. Let's go and see what's worth keeping, we're going to move."

“Yes, the new master.”

City Tree said as she wanted to lead the way, I quickly called him. "Are you running around like this?"

He looked down at himself. "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"Don't you wear clothes?"

"I am a tree of the city. Even if it becomes alienated into human form, it is still a tree, not afraid of the cold."

"We don't wear clothes just to keep warm, we are to cover up our bodies!"

"Why cover up your body?"

I'm dizzy, how do you explain this? "Anyway, you know that humans and men can't see each other's bodies."

"I'm not a human!"

"Forget it! I can't tell you clearly. Anyway, if you become like this in the future, you must wear clothes, even if it's my order."

"Since the master's order, I'll put it on." He waved his hand quickly, and naturally there was a set of clothes on his body. "Okay, let's go."

Now it looked much better, so I let go of Rose and walked out with him. "Do you have a name?"

"The master used to call me Shizuo."

"Tree of Time? The big tree of Time. What a strange name, but since there is a name, just call it that."

"Thank you, my master, I have always liked this name. This is also the memory given to me by the first master!"

"Is that mage very nice to you?"

"Yes, the first master has no friends. I am the only intelligent creature in the temple. He tells me everything he has. Unfortunately, human life span is too short!"

"Don't be so sad. Although human life is short, this short life can create a lot of valuable things left behind. Now let's see what your first master has left behind."

"This way."

We walked a while and then came to an equally huge room, which was very messy, with many things piled up in a mess. It was obvious that this was a studio, but it looked more like a handicraft workshop. There were a lot of books on the row of bookshelfs on the left side of the room, which were the only relatively neat things in the room. Shi Zhishu introduced: "These are the experimental materials compiled by the owner and some experimental notes and other things."

The research notes of the great magician? That's a good thing! I ran to the front of the bookshelf happily, reached out and picked up a book to take it out. However, when my hand touched the book, I didn't feel the expected resistance when I tried hard, and I just felt the empty hand. The book suddenly turned into a pile of gray powder, and there was a layer of fine powder on my hands and on the stone bookshelf.

Shizuki said: "These notes have been kept for thousands of years, and there is no way to keep them for so long without any processing!"

I ran to the oversized workbench in the middle of the room. At this time, there were a large number of research instruments on the workbench, which was very messy. Shizuki explained: "This is the workbench of the previous owner. He did not let me move his research equipment. Every time I directed the puppet to clean, I would put things back in place after cleaning. The equipment you see now is what the owner left thousands of years ago, but because I cleaned it every day, there was no dust."

I looked at a crystal vessel that looked like a conical bottle. There was a layer of pink crystal inside the colorless vessel. When I picked up the vessel, Shishi Tree continued: "I used to put a red solution here, but it had already been killed, and even the crystals inside turned from blood-red to pink!"

Putting down the bottle, I found another metal bracket, which had a test tube-like thing on it, and there was a piece of green inside, which looked like a dried bark, but the color was wrong.

"That was originally a green phosphorus blood worm, but it has been air-dried for too long!"

There was a little black and gray powder in a silver plate next to it. Shizuki explained again: "It was originally a pile of sulfur. It took too long, and the silver and sulfur slowly reacted into black silver sulfide powder!"

Next I looked at a lot of things, and basically all turned into some strange things because it was too long. I also found a bunch of bones around the corner of the room, which looked like animal bones like dogs, but it didn't look very long. Shizuki explained: "This is Sitobi, the owner's pet, and is a very long-lived small monster. It has low intelligence but is cute. I have been taking care of it after the owner left, but it reached the upper limit of lifespan and died 100 years ago."

"It seems that you are all antiques here!"

"It's been thousands of years, there's no way!"

"What is this?" Rose suddenly discovered the New World.

I walked over and looked at it. It seemed like a big door, but the door panel was metal.

Shizuki said: "This is the master's achievements display room. The master does not allow me to enter, and even the puppet can't do it. My monitoring range does not include this room, so I don't know what is in the room until now."

"Aren't you curious for such a long time?"

"I'm curious, but have you never heard of curiosity killing a cat?"

"Shan! You know this too!" I looked at the door again, "Do you know how to open it?"

"I know. There is a switch on the edge of the door, which can be opened with the Star Ring."

I looked for a while and found the groove that was the same as the ring. After pushing the ring into the groove, the door indeed made a click, but then there was a squeaking sound, and then a lot of smoke suddenly came out from the border around the door.

"What's going on?"

Rose replaced Shizhishu and replied: "You can tell without looking at it. It's too long. This door is obviously a telescopic door separated from both sides. Because it hasn't been opened for a long time, the door gaps on both sides have been pressed together for a long time and have merged into a whole!"

The diffusion phenomenon also exists on solids, but the speed is much slower. The two steel doors have been together for a long time, and the steel on both sides penetrates each other, resulting in a steel plate connected. It is of course impossible to open it now!

"It seems that the door is going to be removed again!" I took Yongheng out, and Yongheng instantly turned into a battle axe. Of course, the heavy weapon is popular for breaking the door. This gate is not very tight, and it was smashed and deformed in a few strokes. I put away the weapon and put it on a few feet and made a clear gap on the door. I reached into the gap with my hands and pulled it hard to pull it to both sides. The door was twisted and turned into a passage. "Okay. Hum? Why is it so dark here? Wow! What's the smell? Vomit!..."

As soon as the door broke, a stench that had never smelled hit me before, almost knocking me over! Rose didn't breathe and his face turned red and ran outside to breathe. When he used to beat zombies in the Dark Canyon, he thought the smell of rotten zombies was disgusting enough. After smelling this smell, he realized that the strong ones were even more powerful ones, and the mountain was higher than the mountain. Compared with the air here, the air full of rotten corpse smell in the Dark Canyon can be considered fresh.

Shi Zhishu explained: "It hasn't been opened for thousands of years, and there is no ventilation equipment inside, so it's normal for you to smell more. You can wait a little while and I'll replace the air here and you can come in."

"Yeah, yeah!" I quickly covered my nose and ran to the distance to breathe. It was nothing compared to the miasma here and outside.

Rose leaned against me and said, "This smell is so terrifying, and the biochemical poison gas smells better than this!"

I comforted her and said, "You have never smelled the stinky storm bomb used by the Longyuan Riot Defense Force! That thing is more deadly than this and can make you spit out the overnight meal in 10 seconds. I accidentally sucked in a little before, but I didn't eat anything for three days and wanted to vomit when I saw it."

"Then you should go to the weight loss center to help treat obesity, just suck a little when you want to eat."

"That's not possible. Anyone who sucks too much will have to consider how to solve the problem of anorexia."

"Master, it has been resolved." The Shizuo behind him shouted.

I pulled the rose back to the room. The air had indeed changed, but it still had a very serious strange smell. Fortunately, it was barely acceptable. The room was actually very large, but now it was filled with a lot of messy things, which seemed a little narrow.

"Can these things still work?" Rose was stunned at the sight of such a large pile of garbage-like things.

"This... seems unusable!"

Shi Zhishu also said: "It hasn't been opened for a long time, and the things inside have not been maintained, so I'm not sure if it can be used anymore!"

I picked up a stick-like thing from the ground and blew hard, but the flying gray almost choked me to death. "Ahem! I don't think I'm in a hurry anyway, so I'll clean it first! I can't even see it!"

"No problem, I'll let the puppets clean right away."

I pulled Rose to check the things outside first. Several non-combat puppets quickly entered the room and started cleaning. Soon, even the laboratory outside could not be used, so we simply hid in the aisle. Although it was completely closed, dust was everywhere. The dust accumulated a few years ago was more than an inch thick. The puppets were quite fast, and the room was almost cleaned in a while.

When we returned to the room again, we had completely changed. We really admired the efficiency of these puppets. Rose said excitedly: "I would have used this puppet as well."

"You'd better stop thinking about it! This thing is definitely very difficult to build, and Shizhishu has already said that the construction materials are difficult to deal with. Even if we have the ability to produce, it will definitely be limited to manufacturing military models. It's impossible to even replace municipal services with magic puppets. That's too luxurious!"

"I just think about it!"

Shizhishu poured a basin of cold water on us: "I'm afraid you can't even make one, because the core control component of the puppet requires a special synthetic material. Not to mention that the formula of this material is only known by the previous owner. Even if you get the formula, you still need three rare raw materials to make this synthetic material. These three raw materials are rare substances that are more difficult to obtain than the red-patterned magic crystal. Not to mention the three, it would be very rare to get one. Otherwise, the owner wouldn't have built only a few magic puppets. Compared with those three materials, even the red-patterned magic crystal can be considered rich in minerals!"

"Isn't that rare?" I don't believe it.

Rose said unconvincedly: "We are not only two people. We are a huge guild leader, with more than 10,000 adventurer members and millions of guild armed forces. There are also a lot of gods who have friendship with us. Even the Earth Goddess who your master pretends to be our acquaintances, so there is nothing we can't even do, right?"

"Although you say this, I still believe it is difficult for you to get these things. The master asked a lot of people to get such a small amount. When the master built the core control components, he didn't even dare to breathe too much, for fear of blowing away the small and pitiful material and not finding it. I remember that once the master accidentally blew off a small piece of it, but he lay on the ground for a week before finding the fragment."

"It's so exaggerating! Is it so difficult to deal with angel tears or demon blood?"

"The first one is the crystal of the Light God Curse. The second one is the tears of the vampire ancestor. The third one is the pill powder in the body of the Eastern divine beast Qilin."

"It sounds strange. We don't understand many things. What's the difficulty?"

"The Light God Mantra is a forbidden mantra used by the superior angels of the Light God Clan, and is an absolute forbidden. Activating this mantra requires 12 superior angels to use at the same time, and the 12 angels will die together after use. After this mantra is completed, it is a terrifying divine punishment. It is said that it can summon the power of the founding god. The souls of the destroyed enemies will automatically gather to form a crystal, which is the Light God Mantra crystal. Only every 100,000 people's soul crystal can be used as a puppet material. Do you think it is difficult to deal with it?"

"There are many people, and it's not impossible to reach 100,000. But it's a bit exaggerated to have 12 superior angels. There seems to be less than 20 superior angels in the Light God Clan. It's only half of them that can be used by fools! What about the other two?"

"The Vampire Ancestor is a mixture of angels and demons."

"Isn't that the Demon Clan?"

"Yes, it's the Demon Clan. She is the ancestor of all vampires, the first vampire in the world. She claims to have the ability to approach the lower founding god. Neither the Light Clan nor the Dark Clan are her opponents. And it is said that she is cold-blooded, cruel and bloodthirsty. What do you think about her tears? And the most critical question is that we don't even know where she is now."

Rose whispered: "Zi Ri, why do I feel like he is talking about Vina?"

"I think too!"

"Vina?" City Tree shook her head. "I don't know what this vampire ancestor is, but I heard from the senior master that she is a woman. It's not easy to do anything about it anyway."

I looked at the ceiling and said, "Vina is bloodthirsty? It seems not! But that crazy woman is very scary! But it is probably not an easy thing to make her cry, but there is always a way."

City Tree said: "Even if you know this vampire ancestor who gets her tears, there are two other materials."

"Yes! Haven't you mentioned the last material issue yet?"

"The final material Qilin Pill Powder is also a relatively difficult thing. Qilin is actually a monster from the east, but he is very powerful and kind-hearted and often helps humans, so he is called a divine beast. The inner elixir is something that monsters have and belong to their power source. This elixir is the powder after the inner elixir is broken."

"I rely on Qilin's inner alchemy powder. That thing is more difficult than dragon tendons. Why do you want that thing for this puppet's parts?"

"How do I know? Anyway, the result of the research of the master is that this thing is needed."

Rose said discouragedly: "If we really need the things Shizhishu said, we really can't get them all!"

"Didn't that say my witch plan is going to go bankrupt?"

Shi Zhishu comforted me and said, "In fact, you can make puppets without these things, but the quality of the finished product is...!"
To be continued...