Chapter 79: Keep the diary well and don’t let others see it casually.
After a small encounter, everyone re-evaluated their situation: a few shields were injured, the person was a little confused from the fall, but everything else was fine.
Geralt scanned the room with his witcher senses. Since there is a magic mechanism, there must be something wrong with this room.
Suddenly, the witcher's gaze turned behind the statue. In his field of vision, there was a hazy light attached to the wall there.
He walked over, raised his hand and struck [Alder's Seal]!
Immediately afterwards, the entire wall collapsed, and there was indeed a cave behind it.
Everyone stepped forward to observe and saw another simple and simple passage behind the wall. It seemed that the style was completely different from the ancient elf style buildings they had seen before.
Obviously, the builder of this passage relied on this relic to build his own secret laboratory. The gold and silver on the outside were even placed deliberately to hide the real treasure inside.
Only now have they truly seen the tip of the iceberg of Thomas Moreu's secret laboratory.
Following the tunnel, the group quickly reached the end. I saw a huge stone ball two people high embedded in the corner in front, with a pair of broken bones sandwiched between the stone ball and the wall.
"Someone doesn't seem to have escaped the trap."
Obviously, the stone ball rolled over from the other side of the passage, just in time to smash the tomb robber against the wall.
Lan probed his head and looked into the passage. There seemed to be a few broken bones and pieces of cloth in the darkness. This stone ball seemed to have achieved great results, crushing many people.
Geralt stepped forward to search the corpse and found a piece of parchment, which was surprisingly well preserved.
Lan took the parchment and began to read the content:
"...Since suspicious people began to appear outside my laboratory, I had to take more security measures. I thought they were just ordinary criminals looking for valuables. He has no interest in my research, but it’s better to be cautious.”
[Unrecognizable handwriting]
In addition, I decided to follow the advice of an old acquaintance of engineers and use simple mechanical devices to protect the safety of the laboratory. In one of the rooms in the corridor leading to the laboratory, I installed a mechanism that can lock and unlock the door. It is operated by pressing four protruding stones high on the wall.
I just need to cast a simple magic to open the lock, but the average thief will face two challenges: first, he must notice the four stones and deduce the function of the stones, and then he must try to press the stones... [Unreadable handwriting]
"
The parchment seems to be an experimental diary. A large section of the writing on it has become blurred and unrecognizable due to time and improper preservation. However, the only remaining text on it is also very valuable to Lann and the others. The owner of this diary
is The name is already coming out - Thomas Moreu!
The Druid sighed: "It's just a group of tomb robbers, and they really found Professor Moreu's magic laboratory. It's a pity that life comes in but life doesn't come out. Lann
said to Geralt: "Then it's easy now. You can definitely find the secret laboratory by following where these tomb robbers have walked." "
With Geralt's witcher senses present, everyone followed the tomb robber's escape direction and searched in the opposite direction, and soon arrived at the edge of a huge underground canyon. At this time, there were no traces of the elven palace ruins around
. It has transformed into the simple architectural style of a traditional research warlock.
The rock walls on both sides were simply carved out with bold techniques. The road is very crowded, and it is difficult for two people to pass side by side. If you are not careful, you may fall into the canyon below. There
are some traces of construction on both sides of the canyon, and there is also the remains of a small bridge on both sides. Obviously, the two sides could have communicated with each other in the past. Geralt
pointed to a small section of rope tied to a pillar on the edge of the canyon and said: “These tomb robbers entered through a different entrance than us. They slid over along the rope from the other side and established a small stronghold here. "
There are some traces of human life on the ground, including food remains that are almost integrated with the dust, braziers and torches that cannot be lit, and temporary construction fortifications that are completely inconsistent with the surrounding architectural styles, etc. Geralt pointed in front of him
. : "And the purpose of building a temporary camp here is for this, this is a door. Geralt
pointed at the wall in front of him. There was a small piece of sunken brick "wall" inside.
If it weren't for the reminder of the witcher's senses, no normal person would think it was a door.
The druid was actually quite different. He stepped forward to observe and commented: "It is indeed the architectural style of hundreds of years ago, so it must be right here. "
Sward asked: "Then how do we get in? Why don't you try stacking the remaining bombs together and blowing them up? "
The Sword Attendant's face shone with excitement. After the battle with the Water Ghost, he seemed to have developed a strong interest in alchemy bombs. Although he said that this method was harmful to the enemy, he actually tried every means to do so. They were looking for a place to explode.
Lann slapped Sward on the head and scolded him angrily: "We are on the edge of an underground canyon. Who knows whether a large-scale explosion will cause a landslide or something like that?" chain reaction, don’t explode without my order now! "
Then ignoring the attendants who rubbed their heads and nodded in agreement, Lan took out Geralt's parchment and scanned the surrounding environment.
This was the scene he had experienced in the game in his previous life. Regarding how many monsters he encountered and how many he found, His memory of the treasure may be fuzzy.
After all, no matter how strong the monster is, as long as it has a health bar, it can be cut off with one knife in the game; no matter how precious the treasure is, it can only be converted into coins and turned into a string of numbers in the backpack. These It's simply not worth occupying Lann's precious memory. What
really remains in my mind are the tedious maze decryption and escape room procedures. For example, the one in front of me embarrassed Lann for more than half an hour.
He once thought he had to go to the other side of the canyon to find the laboratory, instead of opening the damn door in front of him!
"Isn't this written in Professor Molu's diary? "Lan unfolded the parchment so that everyone could see. "One of the rooms in the laboratory corridor is equipped with a mechanism that can lock and unlock the door by pressing four protruding stones high on the wall. operate. Lann
looked around again, and everyone followed his gaze.
Geralt had never thought that the environment described in the diary was here. After he finally connected the contents of the diary with the surrounding environment, he consciously looked for "protruding stones" "After that, four places on the rock wall suddenly flashed red light in his demon hunter senses.
"Found it! "
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