Chapter 144 Defense Subsystem
The angry wizard skeleton vented his anger unabashedly.
There were unlucky students who fell to the ground in great pain and screamed in agony under the opponent's mental attack spells.
The hundreds of students gathered on the deck were panic-stricken and their faces tensed up, fearing that the next mental attack spell would fall on them.
The wizard apprentice who maintained order next to him no longer looked indifferent. The corner of his eyes looked at the angry skeleton from time to time, feeling a little nervous.
Li He looked at all this and frowned slightly. From the overly angry skeleton, he detected another deeper emotion - the other party seemed to be afraid.
Because I am afraid, I am angry, so I want to use anger to cover up my guilty conscience.
The angrier you are, the guiltier you feel.
After thinking about it, Li He pressed the lower left part of his heart. The heart of regeneration in his chest began to beat faster, and the enhanced sensory function it brought was like a layer of membrane extending around, quickly covering the entire deck.
Carefully discerning the emotions perceived, a very secret panic was gathered from the location of the skeleton.
Sure enough... Li He was sure... Sure enough, the skeleton was not afraid of the few corpses that appeared on the deck, but was afraid that more corpses would appear next, and that the wizard Mo Xin who fell into the sea was not dead. Hide in the dark and prepare to recapture the ship.
So there will be changes in this voyage?
Maybe.
Li He didn't care very much, shook his head, turned around, followed the flow of people, and walked towards the entrance of the cabin below the deck. After venting his anger, the skeleton did not get the desired result, and finally announced the disbandment.
Although it was disbanded, things obviously did not end so simply, and many aspects changed accordingly.
Because of the anger, the students who were killed by the skeleton using spiritual magic were not thrown into the sea as before, but were burned to ashes by the wizard apprentice using fire magic.
The bodies that appeared inexplicably on the deck were treated in the same way, burned to ashes, put into boxes and sealed.
Afterwards, the entire ship declared martial law, and all students were ordered to stay in their rooms and were not allowed to go out except at specially designated times. The so-called special stipulated time, in addition to bloody fighting, is an hour of relaxation every afternoon.
All wizard apprentices were mobilized and divided into nearly ten teams to continuously patrol the entire ship.
This brought some inconvenience to Li He in studying the big ship, but after the familiarity in the previous period, Li He was already very familiar with the structure of the big ship. He avoided the regular patrols of the wizard apprentices, hid his figure, and continued to carefully study various parts of the big ship. How much progress is affected.
With continuous research, the principle of the entire ship gradually became clear to Li He. He couldn't help but sigh that Solomon University, which originally built this ship, is now the Dark Heart Academy. There really is a lot worth learning for him. .
...
And as Li He continued to study the big ship, the deck of the big ship became increasingly unquiet.
Every day new bodies appear, and the number keeps growing.
And strange purple-black flowers grew on the surface of the corpse, like some kind of parasite.
A few days later, the corpse appeared on the deck. Most of its surface was covered with strange purple-gray flowers. The corpse was no longer dead and began to have the ability to move, attacking and destroying everything crazily.
Although it was easily solved by a large number of wizard apprentices, it made the skeleton feel worse and worse.
However, this doesn't matter to Li He, and he is even a little happy to see this situation. It can involve most of the energy of the skeleton and the wizard apprentice, allowing him to conduct research on the big ship more smoothly.
In Blackstone Castle, there are more and more records about the research on the big ship, and the number of parts in various locations on the big ship is constantly decreasing, and they are all collected by Li He. Of course, he did not touch the core parts of the ship, so as not to have too much impact and disrupt the normal navigation of the ship.
Research, research, research, Li He couldn't help himself in the research.
...
a few days later.
With only seven or eight days to go before reaching shore, the ship experienced another natural disaster.
A large rose-colored rain cloud enveloped the ship, followed by pink alkali rainwater pouring down, falling on the sea surface and the deck, reacting violently, and rising into a large cloud of pink alkali mist.
Two wizard apprentices who were patrolling unfortunately fell into it, and before they even had time to scream, they were corroded into two skeletons.
The skeleton then took action to disperse the alkali fog and ordered the ship to speed up out of the rain cloud area.
After struggling to escape from this sudden natural disaster, the entire deck and shell of the ship were stained with corrosion, and holes appeared in many parts.
However, the skeleton had no intention of letting anyone repair the damaged parts of the ship. He just asked the wizard apprentice to continue to maintain order on the ship, be on high alert, and speed up as much as possible to arrive at the pick-up location - Lengzhu Pier - as early as possible.
Night came soon, and the entire ship was quiet. Except for the occasional patrol of wizard apprentices, not a single person could be seen in the cabin corridors on the deck and below.
In this silence, Li He appeared quietly on the side of the ship.
Where he was, there was an irregular hollow the size of a washbasin, with burnt black edges and a pungent odor, which was caused by strong alkali rain during the day.
However, the corrosion of strong alkali rain did not completely penetrate the deck - this large ship manufactured by Solomon University can sail on dangerous seas, and its quality is relatively good. Various precautions were taken at the beginning of the design.
Therefore, after being corroded by strong alkali rain, it did not penetrate into the cabin below, but exposed an interlayer - this is exactly why Li He appeared here this time.
Li He squinted at the corroded hole, waved his hand lightly, and a wind blade flew out, cutting open the light gray wooden board at the bottom of the hole, revealing a dense metal chain underneath with complex patterns on it.
"Sure enough." After looking at it, Li He's eyes lit up slightly and he smiled.
After this period of research, he had a very good understanding of the big ship and surmised that there should be something he was interested in here.
If you guessed correctly, this should be an important node of the Conch, which can sense some conditions on the deck and allow the operation room to make corresponding adjustments. In times of danger, after a large amount of energy is injected into the control room, the nodes can be fully activated and the reserved spells can be released to cause some changes in the deck, strengthen defense, and respond to attacks.
In short, this is a defense subsystem in the overall system of the ship.
This should be the most valuable thing besides the control system and energy source in the large bilge operation room.
Li He was not polite and took a deep breath. The thick black mist wrapped his arm, reached into the hole, opened the metal chain, fumbled for a moment, and took out a fist-sized purple crystal with golden lines engraved on the surface.
He held the purple crystal in front of him and observed it carefully for a few seconds before Li He nodded.
Yes, it is consistent with the results of his research and speculation.
Looking at the radiance surging inside the purple crystal, Li He was sure that this was the most important part of the defense subsystem - the magic item that stored defensive spells.
This thing has great use and research value. If it were a normal situation, out of caution, he would not do it so directly.
But things are different now. The situation on the ship is complicated and the skeleton has no intention of managing it. This is a good opportunity. In addition, judging from the fact that the ship resisted the strong alkali rain and refused to activate this defense, he very much suspected that the skeleton and the wizard apprentice currently operating the ship might not understand the situation at all.
Then he won't be polite.
Quickly putting away the purple crystal, Li He waved his hand and a ball of strong lye flew out, corroding everything in the hole, destroying the traces, and turned around to leave.
Suddenly, he sensed something and looked toward the front of the deck.
(End of chapter)