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Wang: "You are right. But to be on the safe side, you should go ahead."

Xiaobai: "You are a wizard who specializes in the school of prophecy, but you don't believe in your own ability to predict the future?"

Wang: "The main thing is that my ability may not take effect, it's random."

"Okay," Xiaobai sighed, "I'll turn into an animal and walk in front."

After a druid turns into an animal, the damage done to the animal will generally not be reflected in the original body unless it is extremely serious.

This is the power of a druid like Xiaobai who specializes in transformation. She has many lives.

Of course, if she were to be attacked suddenly and severely, causing death, she would still be seriously injured.

Xiaobai turned into a mink and touched the door with the Nerenis symbol painted on it.

Seeing that Xiaobai was fine, Wang boldly pushed open the door.

As soon as a crack opened, Xiaobai, who had transformed into a mink, jumped in.

By the time Wang pushed the door open completely, Xiaobai had turned back into human form and cast a light spell.

Xiao Bai: "It looks like a blacksmith shop in the Second Epoch Human Empire's barracks. There's a vent on the blacksmith's furnace that's the same as the one we came in from."

Wang walked in and took two steps, then bent down to pick up the weapon on the ground. However, as soon as he touched the wooden handle of the weapon, the wood broke due to disrepair and turned into powder.

Wang patted the dust off his hands and asked Xiaobai: "Did you find anything interesting?"

"No. I suggest you just call Marika. Wanderers are experts at searching these places. So what are we looking for?"

Wang: "Power core, anything written in the First Age language, and something that looks like a map. Keep going."

Xiaobai nodded, and this time he turned into a small bear, so that he could push the door open with his own strength.

The bear walked straight to the closed door at the other end of the room and pushed it.

With an ear-piercing creak, the door opened, revealing a complex mechanical structure on the other side.

The king looked at the mechanical structure and exclaimed: "It's amazing. The dwarves and gnomes today can't make such a sophisticated mechanical structure. The gnomes today definitely can't make this bearing."

Xiao Bai turned back into human form and asked, "Can you analyze where the power core is based on this mechanical structure?"

Wang: "Of course I can. Look for the maintenance passage. There must be one."

Xiaobai: "This is simple. Look, isn't it this?"

Wang looked in the direction Xiaobai's hand and found a square and clean entrance.

He immediately felt something was wrong: "Why doesn't this thing have any vines? And there are no signs of the vines being burned?"

Xiaobai blinked: "Yeah, it's a bit weird."

Wang had already squatted down, picked up a piece of something unknown on the ground, and threw it over with a wave of his hand.

The fragments were swallowed up by the flash the moment they hit the hole.

Xiao Bai had sharp eyes and shouted, "Wait a minute, there is a sign with words engraved on it next to the entrance."

After she yelled like that, Wang Ye saw the sign. He walked forward and examined it carefully. "The text on it is the text of the Second Epoch Human Empire. It says..."

Xiaobai: "How come you know so many ancient characters?"

Wang: "To study their magic. And in fact, many ancient characters have commonalities, as if a god above the multiverse created the world directly according to the same template.

"For example, the writing system of the Second Epoch Human Empire is from the same language family as the writing system used by an ancient civilization on a plane called Rubicon. There are many similarities."

Xiaobai: "Rubicon?"

Wang: "Yes, that plane of magic went in a completely different direction, using magic through a giant golem."

Xiaobai: "Giant Golem? Then what should we Druids do?"

Wang: "It seems that there are no druids in that world. Okay, I'm going to start reading the words on this sign, don't interrupt me."

Xiaobai: "Blame me. It was you who wanted to talk to me. It was you who mentioned Rubicon!"

Wang ignored Xiao Bai's words and read the words on the sign directly: "'No approach to Class A areas. All exits of Class A areas must be monitored by shifts of sentries. If you find any abnormal situation, please contact the chief engraver of the guard station immediately.'"

Xiao Bai: "It sounds like this thing has had this feature since the Second Epoch of the Human Empire. What is an engraver?"

Wang: "An expert in the Second Era Human Empire who is responsible for studying the devices left over from the First Era. Their era was close to the First Era, and there are a large number of devices left over from the First Era civilization.

"The humans of the Second Age knew much more about these devices than we do today."

Xiao Bai: "Are you just saying that the Cyclops Empire is bad?"

"No, because in fact, in addition to the Cyclops Empire, there were other highly developed civilizations in the First Epoch. They took different technological paths from the Cyclops Empire, and they would also fight with the Cyclops Empire. Otherwise, think about it, why did the Cyclops Empire build such a powerful weapon? To suppress the slave rebellion?

"Think of the damage our floating islands will cause when they descend upon us."

Xiao Bai looked at the ceiling and said, "That's right. For the purpose of suppressing the two-eyed slaves, a weapon that can directly create an earthquake is a bit too powerful."

Wang: "And suppressing slaves doesn't mean to kill all the slaves, it means to make them work."

Xiao Bai: "I understand. Then how do we deal with this one? Resurrect a great engraver of the Second Epoch Human Empire on the spot?"

Wang: “This is difficult. My knowledge of magic devices is not as good as my knowledge of magic… I only know ancient languages.

"After all, magic and language are closely related. To understand a civilization's magic, you must first understand their language."

Xiao Bai looked shocked. "You still feel that things are difficult! I thought you would just slap your head and yell 'watch me' and solve the problem. After all, you even solved the puzzle left by the One-Eyed Empire."

Wang: "That's a hint, 'The lack of an answer is also an answer', remember?"

He paused, then said, "Let's look for the office of the Great Engraver in the barracks first. Perhaps we can find more information about this colossus there."

Xiao Bai: "Then the question is, how do I find this engraver's office?"

Wang: “Can you smell it?”

"How can I smell it!" Xiao Bai raised his voice, "You have to at least give me something to confirm the smell! For example, a small piece of the engraver's clothing! Also, there has to be some smell left on it!"

Wang was shocked: "Is that so? Then let me do some divination."

Xiao Bai: "You actually prepared divination today? Are you going to waste a spell slot like that?"

The king took out the divination staff from the dimensional bag.

Xiao Bai: "Okay, I forgot that you are a rich young man from the Mage Tower where magic wands are free. So why do you only use low-level magic wands? You should have a few high-level magic wands."

Wang: "The staffs of high-level magic are all treasures of my senior brothers. How can they be easily taken away by me?"

Xiao Bai: "I don't believe that you don't have a female senior brother with your luck in love... Oh, there are no women in your Mage Tower, then it's okay."

Wang: “I thought there was…”

Xiao Bai: "I know, I know. The person you thought was a girl didn't have a bang, right?"

Wang: “Yeah…wait a minute.”

He looked at Xiaobai.

"Huh? I suddenly think he might be a girl!"

Xiao Bai was speechless: "You... just realized it? You were focusing on the women with bangbang, right? Elizabeth Rosalie, Mary Kanini, and you didn't notice that Oscar and I were both girls, right?"

Wang: “Yes.”

Xiao Bai sighed, "Oh, I don't know whether to say you are honest or you are a coward. Come on, find a way to find the engraver's office."

King: "According to the tradition of the Second Epoch Human Empire, people of high status should live in high places. The barracks we just passed by are where the big soldiers live. I suggest we go up. The status of the engraver should be lower than that of the chief soldier in the barracks, so the room we are looking for should be between the chief soldier's office and the big soldier's barracks."

Xiaobai: "Let's go then."

After saying that, she turned into a little bear and continued to lead the way.

Wang followed the little bear's pace.

In the next thirty minutes, they explored seven or eight rooms. It seemed that the human empire of the Second Era had hollowed out most of the Colossus's mechanical devices and converted them into barracks.

As Wang walked, he put a lot of ancient mechanical parts into his dimensional bag. Anyway, his dimensional bag had unlimited space and no weight, so he could put as much as he wanted.

Xiao Bai couldn't help but change back to human form and asked, "Why are you installing these?"

Wang: "In the future, we may have to ask the dwarves to build propulsion machinery on the floating island. Then these parts of ancient machinery may come in handy. These are things that dwarves and gnomes cannot forge now! Great stuff!"

Xiaobai: "Wait a minute, since your dimensional bag is so useful, why didn't you use it to put all the goods in it before, and then take it out on the floating island?"

Wang: "It's tiring. This dimensional bag of mine is fine to put away, but when I take it out, it doesn't spray automatically, so I have to use my strength to take it out. Others can't take it out."

Xiao Bai: "You are kidding me! In Monrovia, when I went to the dwarf to order the dragon saddle, the gold coins sprayed out automatically!"

Wang: "Except for gold coins. Think of it this way. This dimensional bag was made by my uncle. What image do you have of my uncle?"

Xiao Bai thought about it and said, "Hey, now that I think about it, it seems reasonable that it is so strange?"

Wang: "Of course. Okay, let's continue."

So another thirty minutes passed, and after going through about twenty houses and rising about dozens of meters inside the hot and humid Colossus, Xiaobai pushed open the door of the new room.

Wang said from behind Xiao Bai, "Wait a minute! This room has a door number!"

Xiaobai returned: "Ah? What's written?"

Wang: "It's hard to recognize... Engraving, I'm sure the first few letters spell out the meaning of Engraving!"

Xiaobai: "Great, I finally found it!"

Wang: "Hurry up and take a look. Are there any...paper notebooks here? They are probably ruined. After all, this environment is so humid and hot. Are there any stone slabs with words written on them, or stone tablets with drawings on them?"

Chapter 241: Records of the Slave Catcher Captain

After Wang Gang finished speaking, Xiao Bai shouted, "There's something weird here."

She held up what she had found so that the king could see it.

"Looks like a memory disc."

Wang walked over, took the thing from Xiaobai's hand, observed it carefully, and said, "I'm not sure if this is an ordinary mirror or a recorder unique to the Second Epoch Human Empire."

Xiaobai: "Recorder?"

"Yes. In the Second Era, the human empire felt that paper was unreliable, so they developed a technology to print on a crystal disc. Such a small crystal disc can record the contents of an entire book, but it requires a special instrument to read it. Where did you find this?"

"In this box." Xiaobai said and tried to point out the box, but accidentally pulled the box off the shelf.

She and Wang tried to catch the falling box almost at the same time, but neither of them was agile enough and failed.