507.Chapter 505 504 Famous Detective Lao Chentou’s Unexpected Discovery

Chapter 505 504.Famous Detective Old Chen Tou’s Unexpected Discovery
“Huh? There’s a Dwarf Architect from Gaia Temple who’s coming to visit? Fine, you let him come, teacher will be out on an expedition this time, he might be back in a while.”

The Chosen Grey Beater who stayed in the Scarlet Fortress today quickly received a reminder from his senior brother Samoyed, and after learning that the Silver Dwarf Priest had come to visit Old Chen Tou on his own name, the Grey Beater immediately began to pack up the Stonemason Brotherhood’s office in the city.

The reserve architects studying here were all mobilized to clean up the courtyard of the office before the arrival of the “honored guest”.

Although Old Chen Tou is calm, but out of the old school of intellectuals is still very important to treat others with decency, if this makes him lose face in front of the “otherworldly counterparts” of the dwarven architects, the gray man will definitely be severely punished by the tutor in reality.

At the beginning of Professor Chen was the cunning gray man with dwarves and elves that special architectural style “abduction” to the game, now there is a real dwarven architect over, the character of the old Chen Tou will not let go of this “business exchange” opportunity.

Although we all said that this game is really fun, but the old Chen Tou is a real professor, real senior intellectuals, you have to say that he has been in the game for so long in the heart and still do not have some of their own ideas, that is certainly unrealistic.

It is just that the old man is more stable.

No matter in the forum to see young people blowing water, or in reality and three students talk, he never in this topic to express any opinion, but also did not see Prof. Chen decisive AFK, it shows that the old man so far for their own later years of the “game career” is still quite satisfied.

As for the gray man himself.

His mentality has been slowly adjusted from the previous period of collapse back, before and his temper tantrum Parian sisters also seems to be nothing like a person back to the stonemason fraternity side to help, and in the meantime to continue their studies.

Old Chen Tou personally taught these two very “spiritual” local girls to learn drafting and architectural theory, they learned quite fast and were very good at pleasing the old man, the old man was already more patient with young boys and girls, now Prof. Chen was even bringing the Palian sisters around all day long to increase their experience.

This makes the gray people feel not quite right.

Out of the wonderful intuition of a single dog, he felt that the Parian sisters seemed to be playing a “very new” thing, and its “tactical target” was him, although he did not know what they were planning to do, but his Excellency had already made up his mind.

He knew that he couldn’t delay any longer, and had to fix the complicated relationship between himself and the Parian sisters as soon as possible, lest he would be sacked by Lady Parian’s guards in the alley of the Scarlet Fortress one day, and then continue to be ridiculed by his companions on the forums for not knowing how to cherish them.

Alas, the word love just hurts, helpless ah helpless.

While preparing for the reception of the gray people, Old Chen Tou, escorted by Little Reed Name and Lumina, took his two local apprentices, the Parian Sisters, to go deep into the “Great Rift” in the city.

The Great Rift that cuts through the Scarlet Fortress is the most obvious “scar” left by the disaster of Cadman City on this land, and it and the “Starworld Creation” hanging in the sky of Transylvania are like a remembrance of the past sufferings.

Let’s not talk about the Star Creation in the sky, but the time has come to deal with the fissure in the city.

In the city plan for Scarlet Fortress designed by Old Chentou and his two students, the large fissure would be brought in from the Cadman River to form a waterway dividing the different functional zones of the city, which on the one hand could increase the aesthetics of the city and solve the problem of daily water supply for the residents, and on the other hand, it could also bring in the demand for shipping into the city.

According to Prof. Chen’s plan, they will bring water into the city in the first phase of the project, while the second phase of the project will continue to expand the “artificial river” and extend it to the pier near the Andromeda Hills.

In this way, the shipping business of the Cadman River could be logically extended to the Scarlet Fortress, which would not only shorten the time of transporting supplies, but also add some more jobs for the city residents.

For the design itself, Governor Murphy and Consul Miriam were in favor of it with both hands, and they could see the benefits the river would bring.

The only problem was that the Great Rift contained a thick aura of Star Realm filth, which had been cooped up for the past four months, and it was only after the first snowfall in Transylvania, perhaps due to the sudden change in climate, that the aura of the Star Realm in the Great Rift dissipated.

Old Chen Tou’s expedition today was to figure out what was under the rift that had been covered for the past four months, as a means of determining the subsequent construction program.

Originally, he didn’t need an escort, the four Witch Hunter veterans dedicated to protecting him were more than enough to maintain security, this was after all in the Scarlet Fortress not in the dangerous wilderness, but Little Vikrama and Lumina came uninvited nonetheless.

The main reason was that the Parian sisters seemed to have inherited their mother’s long-sleeved dance skills, and both of them had a “liaison” job in the Pride of the Silver Moon group, and were considered to be NPC members of the group, and their relationship with the female players was also quite good.

At this time, the Swamp Shadow operation was over, the girls had had enough of the swamp environment, so they didn’t even intend to stay and take over the cleanup mission there, and when the loot distribution was completed, they ran back to the Scarlet Fortress in a rush.

They were idle these days, and when they heard that the Parian sisters were going to explore the Great Rift, Little Vikrama and Lumina immediately followed them.

This rift that spanned across the city was actually not a hot topic of discussion on the forums.

Many newcomers who hadn’t experienced the disaster in Cadman City were speculating about what was down there, and there were also those who weren’t afraid of death who had actually jumped down there, but unfortunately the heavy Astral Boundary aura blocked observation and perception, and visibility into the bottom of the rift was even less than half a meter, and there was also the awesome negative status of Astral Boundary Erosion, which didn’t allow the newcomers to last very long at all.

However, some players who jumped into the chasm were sure that there was something in the chasm, and this made the chasm become the “urban legend” of Scarlet Fortress.

However, facts proved that urban legends were unreliable in most cases!
“It’s been half an hour now, and there’s nothing here except for the rocks that have turned purple due to the Star Realm’s aura!”

Little Vikrama was flying around with her Hammer Guard on her back, holding two revolvers and flapping her wings as she said to the people behind her with a disappointed look on her face:

“I was counting on some powerful Star Realm beasts hiding here, I thought before that this might be a ‘challenge area’ left for us by the development team, but I didn’t expect it to be so boring!”

“It’s not exactly boring.”

Lumina, who was dressed as an explorer, said as she played with a few stones that emitted a purple shimmer in her hands:
“Didn’t Professor Chen say? These rocks have already been affected by the rules of physics from their long term exposure to the Astral Realm’s spiritual energy, although I don’t know what these rocks can be used for, but bringing them back will definitely be useful, look at it, it can still explode.”

Lumina threw the stone in her hand out and smashed it on the cluster of rocks growing like crystals next to her, and with a flash of purple light it made a thumping echo, like the movement of a two-kick being detonated.

I can’t say it’s powerful, I can say it’s not powerful at all.
But it would be just right for a child to use as a toy.

“Okay, okay, I’ll admit, this adventure really isn’t as fun as we thought it would be.”

Lumina, who was tossing a few purple stones up and down in her hands as little Vikrama looked on slyly, shrugged her shoulders and bristled:

“I should have known to stay at Mrs. Water’s store to help her design uniforms, I see that the few uniforms she and that hairy fucker designed for the People’s Army Commander are quite nice.”

“Can that not look good? It’s a direct copy of the classic design from our side, and it’s close to getting the Third Reich’s military emblem on it.”

Lumina spat:

“That’s because Mrs. Shui and Brother Hairy still have the bottom line of being designers, they are determined to make their own style and refuse to use the pasting and copying method, otherwise our side would really be in ecstasy. That said, Mr. Hairy even invited us to his gallery to have coffee, this guy seems to be the kind of classic artist geeks who are out of touch with reality.

He’s also planning to make a 1:1 statue of Mrs. Tris in his gallery, and he’s reportedly started work on it.

If I hadn’t reminded him, he’d have forgotten that the pandemic is closing the city right now.”

“Yeah ow yeah ow, I always thought that the hair of the hairy brother was so weird, like an older middle-aged slayer, but he’s really good at making leather.”

Little Reed Name patted the leather armor on his body and said:
“You see, the armor he changed for me even has attribute phrases, Mrs. Shui said that Brother Engrossed Hair is a leather master, now it seems that in terms of craftsmanship alone, Brother Engrossed Hair seems to be a little bit more powerful than Mrs. Shui.”

“That’s of course, he is Mrs. Water’s senior, and Mrs. Water herself has said, she said that she is a tailor is actually more inclined to designers, do-it-yourself clothes just for the sake of interest, and after becoming a broad wife there is even less need to sell her craft to support herself.

Now she is just playing the ticket it, but screw Mao brother is playing for real.

People have their own stores on various platforms, specializing in this kind of antique protective gear and leather clothing from various countries, I searched online before, that price is really beautiful ah.”

Lumina covered her face and said in shame:
“I haven’t even gone to work yet and I feel the jaggedness of the world, I estimate that when I go to work in the future, half a year’s salary will only be enough to buy a pair of ladies’ leather gloves at the screwed up brother ah, how can it be so expensive?
This is probably the legendary craftsmanship?”

“Hehehe, but now you say a word, he will give you free equipment ah.”

Little Reed Name patted his own sister’s shoulder and laughed:
“Engage Mao to rush skill proficiency, it is said that he is preparing to apply for the Blood Vulture Clan’s protective gear smith, he has to rush the leather making skill to the master level before Mrs. Cuice’s reply, if you miss this village, you won’t have this store.

It’s one thing if you can’t afford it in reality, but here you can even order it if you bring the materials!

Little Lumi, this is a great opportunity, why don’t we go hunting this afternoon?
I know that the Smuggler’s Woodland has a lot of wild beasts coming over because of the Battle of the Swamp, and Hogg has a lot of good fur goods, so let’s go over there and say a word, and his wife will open up the warehouse for us to pick from.”

“Hmm, that makes sense, let’s make a trip to Smuggler’s Woodland this afternoon.”

Lumina nodded and added to Little Vikramana:

“By the way, introduce me to that mysterious friend of yours, didn’t you say he works in the field hospital near the Smuggler’s Woodland?”

“Yeah, he’s been taking students there anyway, and he’s been having a boring day.”

Little Vikrama patted her chest and promised down.

The two girls said goodbye for the afternoon, and with the boredom in their hearts dispersed a bit, they ran back to Professor Chen’s place to ask for a leave of absence, only to find that old Chen Tou was frowning and pinching a mining pickaxe, personally taking samples of some peculiar minerals with the help of the witch hunter guards. The Parian sisters were beside them with special boxes to sort these samples, preparing to bring them back to the Brotherhood of Stonemasons to slowly analyze and study them.

“Wow, this ore is so beautiful!”

Lumina moved over to take a look and instantly marveled:
“It’s the same as diamonds! What’s with this shimmering crystal? Is there a local mineral like this in Transylvania?”

Next to her, Vikrama also reached out and took out a small piece of ore from Parian’s box and put it in front of her eyes, she could see a cluster of crystals extending out of the cracked stone, which was hard to describe, not like a companion mineral but more like it was “growing” directly into the stone.

But it was beautiful.

As Vikrama’s fingers twirled, the crystals on the stone gave off a strange glow.

Old Chen Tou did not answer.

He only used his mining pick to continue to strike the ore in the pit dug out in front of him in a very serious manner, and the several knowledgeable Witch Hunter veterans beside him were also discussing in low voices, having traveled extensively during the Ten Years’ War and likewise not having seen similar minerals before.

“This is not a native Transylvanian mineral, I’m certain of it!”

It took Old Chen Tou several minutes to crack and pack up a whole block of strange ore from the pit in front of him, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned back to Little Reed Name and Lumina:

“I’ve visited a few mining areas in Transylvania when I was doing territory planning before, and there aren’t too many rare minerals in the local area, let alone this kind of strange ore that’s extraordinary just from its appearance. I’m guessing that this should be some sort of strange change that has happened to this rift valley from prolonged exposure to the energy of the astral realm.”

“Ah? What you mean, Mr. Chen, is that these ores are newly grown?”

Little Reed Name exclaimed:

“How is that possible?”

“It’s definitely impossible on our side, but not over here, spiritual energy is really a unique catalyst that can’t be described in concrete words.”

Old Chen Tou stood up as he looked at the refilled sample pit at his feet and said:

“This unique energy will entangle with almost everything in the material world, some time ago I heard a term called ‘psychic energy erosion’ from Sister Marianne, perhaps this ore is a unique manifestation of the phenomenon of psychic energy erosion.

But what these minerals are good for can’t be known for now… I’ll have to call a couple of traveling scholars over here…

They are students of the geology department, so they might be able to see some clues.”

“But you also have a PhD in geology.”

Lumina said with a wink:
“You can see what they can see.”

“Yes, I can study it.”

Old Chen Tou touched the Cold Tooth Sword hanging at his waist and revealed a subtle smile as he said to Lumina:

“But with all the work being done by me, how can these kids just have fun in the game? Although they aren’t my students, if they don’t get their hands on this kind of research now, they’ll be blind when they really need to use their experience in the future.
Now sleep can play the game, every day out of thin air out of eight or nine hours of time, young people can not always think of playing, effective use of time is also a very good quality.

Speaking of which, little Lumi, you are a turtle graduate student from a famous university, why don’t you come too?”

“Uh, I still have a part-time job in Mrs. Tris’ lab na.”

Lumina immediately waved her hand and declined saying:

“I’m really here to have fun, not to study in an otherworldly world, so please let me off, I’m really not familiar with the geology discipline.”

“But you’re good at crystallography, right?”

Old Chen Tou squeezed his eyes and said:
“Come on you, don’t want to run away, a brain full of knowledge has to be put to good use know? Or else it really becomes knowledge and can’t be transformed into wisdom.

Little Vikrama also come!
You didn’t even graduate from high school, maybe it’s time to make up for your academic regrets in the game.”

“But I don’t have any regrets at all! I obviously have a master’s degree by correspondence, Professor!”

Little Vikrama’s wail of grief traveled out a long way.

She had planned to go hunting in the afternoon, but she ended up hanging her head and was dragged back to the Stonemason Brotherhood’s office in the city by Old Chen Tou, who had planned to immediately start researching the nature of this peculiar mineral, but as soon as she entered the door, she saw that the Graybeard was talking to a dwarf wearing the robes of the Priests of Gaia.

Upon seeing Old Chen Tou enter, the Gray Beater immediately rose to introduce this Lord Irich Um Battleheart to his mentor.

Upon hearing that the other party was a genuine Gaia Temple Architect, Old Chen Tou immediately became interested and enthusiastically went forward to talk, while Little Vikrama and Lumina, who had been captured and brought here, glanced at each other and immediately started their own “escape plan”.

The two of them put the box Old Chen Tou used to contain the mineral fragments on the table and planned to run, but the result was that little Vikram made a mistake in her busy schedule and didn’t lock the box, and as soon as she got up, the mineral samples in the box fell on the ground.

The mineral fragments that emitted strange streams of light spilled all over the ground, Old Chen Tou got up with a helpless face and prepared to clean up, but the Silver Dwarf across from him was shocked when he saw the mineral fragments on the ground and stood up with a start.

Master Illich’s eyes were rounded, as if he had seen something shocking, perhaps too shocking, causing him to lose his voice and shout:
“Gold-burning raw stone! Where did you get this? Transylvania actually has this.”

The old dwarf’s reaction was quick.

After realizing that he had said something he shouldn’t have said, he immediately covered his mouth, but this action was a bit too much of a cover-up.

Everyone in the entire room was unusually silent.

In the next instant, everyone’s eyes turned to those ores that were accidentally spilled on the floor by Little Vikrama.

This kind of ore was the divine Burning Gold?
Unbelievable!
—
“Bang.”

Murphy, who had just returned to the Blood Wyvern Corridor with the intention of apologizing to Tris, who was still sulking, stood up from his chair with a start, he didn’t monitor his little players all the time, but he did set up a “keyword” in the link between the Core Pearl and the Computing Pearl.

“Burning Gold” was one of them.

In the office of the Stonemasons’ Brotherhood, when the Silver Dwarf Ilych shouted out “Burning Gold”, it was immediately captured by the arithmetic beads of several people around him, and this information was also transmitted to Murphy’s core bead almost at the same time.

“Transylvania has discovered a gold burning mine?”

The Vampire Governor’s face changed greatly.

He couldn’t change his clothes in time and dashed out of the office and pushed open the door of Tris’s office again, only to see the Blood Vulture Archon sitting on a chair with a sad face and drinking mulled wine.

After seeing Murphy appear, Cuice’s eyes glared and slapped the table and said:
“Get out! You little bad egg .”

“Something’s wrong, Tris, this is not the time for a tantrum.”

Murphy stepped forward and yanked up the drunken Tris, pulling her out the door and telling her:
“Professor Chen has discovered raw gold-burning ore in the city.”

“You’re making a scene!”

Tris shook off Murphy’s hand and said in dissatisfaction:
“Even I, a vampire who has traveled the continent, don’t know what a raw gold burning mine looks like!

Dwarves protect those things as their lifeblood, and all the ones that flow into the market are gold-fired powder or gold-fired liquid that have been processed at least three times, so no one has ever seen the real gold-fired raw stone except for the dwarves’ senior miners.

They regard it as forbidden knowledge.”

“But Master Ilych confirmed that the ore that old Chentou dug out of the city’s rift was gold-burning! I don’t know why gold-burning appeared beneath the city, but I at least know that it doesn’t appear alone.

This proves that there is a vein of burning gold beneath our feet!
We’re rich, Tris!”

(End of chapter)