Heaven's Formula

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When Qianyan rebuilt an ice wall according to Xia Fan's thinking, forming a double-layer airtight structure with the ice cap, he stabbed the front end of the sword out of the ice cap.

The copper wire fell into his palm and turned into blue smoke, and then the lines on his arms became clear and hot.This is a complete triple technique - when he completed the idea of ​​the streamer technique, countless electric lights emitted from the tip of the short sword, connected with other metal furnishings in the room, forming a very dazzling grid!

For a while, the basement seemed to explode.

Under the "licking" of the electric current, sparks burst out from those experimental equipment, and crackling explosions could be heard endlessly.Some lead products with a low melting point began to melt, and some cabinets inlaid with metal also emitted bursts of white smoke.

At this time, the streamer technique in Xia Fan's hands is no longer the original shock-based alchemy - he can now skillfully control the intensity and shape of the current, as well as the duration of the technique. As long as the energy is not exhausted, the flickering grid will not will be interrupted.

"Look at the ground, the fog has changed color!" Li suddenly said happily, "This method seems to work!"

Qianyan also noticed this change.

Since the dead fog is sprinkled from the ceiling, the concentration below is higher, and at the peak it looks like a layer of gray-green floating clouds attached to the ground.But now, the mist is turning into a maroon color little by little, and the concentration has become much lighter, revealing the brick pattern of the floor again.

No one knows how lethal the transformed dead fog is, but Xia Fan guessed right, that is, electrolysis and high temperature can indeed change the nature of the dead fog quite significantly.

She also saw the other party blinking at her triumphantly.

For a moment, Qian Yan only felt angry and funny.

But there was another feeling in her heart that she couldn't describe.

During the long years, she also fought side by side with several alchemists, and performed her duties perfectly.All of these people are outstanding geniuses among the sensitizers, and they respect her a lot, but no one has ever given her a completely different cooperation experience like Xia Fan.

The characteristic of the living dead is that they can withstand higher trauma, and a powerful alchemist will naturally use this as much as possible to establish a chance for victory in the battle between the two.As for those alchemists who couldn't make full use of their resources, most of them were defeated in brutal duels, and the undead who partnered with them didn't fare much better, they would basically be completely killed by the enemy.Therefore, there is a saying in the Fang family that it is better to be scarred every time than to fight with the indecisive.

Because they often break themselves and harm others.

But the winking guy in front of him had nothing to do with indecision.

His intentions are very clear, and his actions are quite decisive, but his thinking is very different from that of ordinary people, and it is difficult to measure his actions with normal people's thinking.

Qianyan had a vague illusion.

That is, the other party did not treat her as a living dead.

—He was protecting her.

Obviously he himself is as fragile as a piece of paper, even Li is ten times stronger than him.

After a hundred years, she became a protege for the first time.

Chapter 615 The Hideout

After a quarter of an hour of discharge, most of the gray-green dead fog in the room has changed, and the rest is basically concentrated in the corners, under tables and chairs and other places where the electric light is difficult to reach. It looks like half-frozen cotton candy.

"This should be enough." Xia Fan finished the spell, "After the nature of the dead fog is changed, even if it is still poisonous, it will not be as terrible as the document said."

"Having said that, let me go out and find out first." Qianyan walked into the mezzanine, "If it's just ordinary toxicity, the living dead are basically immune."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xia Fan to stop her, she broke the ice cap first, and stepped into the basement filled with maroon heat.

Qian Yan sniffed it tentatively, and suddenly felt a strange smell rushing straight into his nostrils.

"Cough, cough cough..." She couldn't help coughing.

"If you can't, come back quickly, don't hold back!" Li worried.

"No...I'm fine." Qianyan shook his head, "The mist is just a bit fishy, ​​but I don't feel it poses a threat to my body."

The fox demon breathed a sigh of relief.

This result was also expected by Xia Fan. After all, in all of Du Lin's experiments, no matter whether they succeeded or failed, there was no case where the toxicity of the mixture did not decrease but increased. In other words, the most deadly state of the dead fog is very likely to be In its original state, any changes to its nature will reduce its lethality.

At this moment, there was the clicking sound of the mechanism running again in the basement.

Xia Fan's heart tightened, "No way, come again?"

"It's different this time..." Li turned his long ears to catch the source of the sound, "The strange noise seems to be coming from the ground."

Immediately afterwards, the click turned into a low hum.

There was a gust of cold wind blowing in the room without windows and doors!

"Watch your step!" Li reminded.

I saw that under the action of the wind, the dead fog accumulated in the corner also began to move. They followed the direction of the wind and gathered towards the bottom of a vertical cabinet little by little.

Qianyan skipped and jumped to avoid the dead fog, and returned to the ice cap lightly.

"What's the situation?" Li couldn't help being a little puzzled.

"I understand, this is the cleaning up after the disinfecting!" Xia Fan suddenly realized, "The buzzing sound is a mechanism similar to a fan. It will automatically suck out the air in the basement after the dead fog is released, and at the same time Take away all the remaining dead fog!"

Why didn't he think of this just now—since it was for regular cleaning of the basement, it was impossible for the fog to keep accumulating. Even if they stayed in the ice cap and did nothing just now, the dead fog would dissipate sooner or later.

"There must be a mystery on the other side of this cabinet," Xia Fan further judged.The current mechanism technology is limited by the power source, and it is impossible to achieve a large power, and the requirements for pipe exhaust are too high, so there may be natural ventilation openings where the dead fog is drawn. "A thousand words, I leave it to you."

The latter nodded, and when the dead mist was completely removed, she grabbed the sides of the cabinet and pulled the cabinet off the wall!

A new secret door has appeared behind the cabinet.

Sure enough!

Du Lin didn't leave this place early, but there are other entrances and exits in the basement!

The three of them looked at each other, ready to fight with a tacit understanding.

Li first leaned on the secret door and listened for a while, then pushed open the secret door.

A burst of moist air with a slightly salty smell suddenly flooded into the room.

There was also a soft rustling sound in the distance.

Xia Fan couldn't help being taken aback.

He went through the secret door and found himself on top of a high cliff!

Even though it was night, he could still see the raised stone arch above his head and the surrounding cliffs.The light source comes from the distant sea that shimmers with cold light—driven by the waves, scattered silver lights sway and pour into the cave, briefly illuminating the surrounding environment, and at the same time inlaying your own reflection in the cave. Towering grotto tops.

"The underground passage of the nursing home... actually leads directly to the depths of the green hills behind?" Li was surprised.

"No mistake, this is a huge mountain cave, and it is directly connected to the sea." Xia Fan squatted down and looked down for a while, "Look there."

He pointed to where the cave meets the sea.

With the help of the moonlight refracted by the sea, the other two clearly saw a simple horizontal trestle bridge and two sailless boats.

There is no doubt that some people regard this place as a hidden port.

"No wonder the jury couldn't find the whereabouts of the Sons of the Holy Spirit. It turns out that the criminals hid them in such a place." The fox demon whispered.

It needs to be reached by water, which means that there will be no footprints to chase, and the ebb and flow of the sea will swallow all smells and suspicious evidence.

"There are wooden deeds here, nine out of ten are used to hang rope ladders." Qian Yan also found something new on the side of the cliff, "The wear and tear marks on the deeds are very clear, proving that it has been frequently used recently."

Li Probe glanced down the cliff, "Without tools, I'm afraid it will be difficult to reach the ground smoothly."

The place where they were standing was tens of feet high from the bottom of the cave, and if they fell, they would definitely not see anything better than a puddle of muddy meat.

What's more, there are other caves on the stone wall, so it is obviously impossible for the three of them to search the entire cave in one night.

"Let's go back first." Xia Fan quickly made a decision, "This time the investigation has gained enough. Not only have we obtained evidence related to the attack, but we have also found the murderer's most likely hiding place." Land. There is a high probability that we will face-to-face with the enemy next, so we have to make complete preparations first."

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The evacuation process can be described as quite smooth.

The three of them left the sanatorium quietly without being noticed by anyone, and returned to the foreign affairs building of the port by the same route.As soon as he walked into the room where he was staying, he saw Olina coming forward eagerly, "Xia Fan, it's not good, something serious may have happened to Baiguoyuan!"

"Important matter?" Xia Fan noticed that she was accompanied by a thin young boy who looked like a hired worker from Baiguoyuan from his attire. "Don't worry, take your time."

Is this the ambassador?

Lars suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and cast his eyes on Xia Fan—in terms of age alone, the other party was not much older than Momola, and his image was not the kind of strong and powerful man. It was hard to believe that such a person could breathe a sigh of relief. Bring down Azie and turn the situation around the factory.

But the moment he saw Li, his courage surged up again.

"Miss Li, Your Excellency the Ambassador, the factory management has taken action against everyone..." Lars took a deep breath and quickly recounted what he saw, "Ms. Karan may have suffered a misfortune... Brother Horn is also unknown. , Momola is even missing, now only you can help us!" At this point, he knelt down and said, "You can tell me to do anything, please save everyone!"

Chapter 616 Collaborators

Xia Fan stepped forward and pulled him up, "I understand. Don't worry, everyone in Baiguoyuan is destined for me. Now that something like this has happened, I will definitely not sit idly by."

"You... agreed?" Lars raised his head in disbelief.

He stumbled all the way to the foreign affairs area, and at the risk of being beaten out by the guards, he asked them where the Eastern Ambassador lived.Although the request was not rejected, he also saw the undisguised contempt and indifference in the other party's eyes.This is not a place where low-level employees should come. Before the accident happened, Lars never thought that he would deal with foreign messengers.He had no doubt that as long as the other party spat out a word of no, or even showed a slight disgust on his face, the group of guards would pounce on him like hungry wolves and throw him into the stinky ditch on the side of the street.

However, things went smoother than Lars had imagined, and his inquiry attracted a noble lady.Not only did the young dragonborn not chase him away, he led him into the room and waited.And when the rumored ambassador came back, he agreed to his request without making any excuses, which made Russ very happy.

You must know that Azie is not an easy character to deal with.

Even the local aristocrats are unwilling to deliberately turn against this big businessman, not to mention that Ambassador Xia is a foreigner who came across the sea from the far east, even if he refuses his entreaty, it is completely reasonable.

"Momoola is my...friend's friend. If she encounters trouble, I will definitely help her." Xia Fan nodded and said, "Are you sure all the workers have gone to the dock?"

"This... I don't know too much." Lars frowned and thought hard, "The horn said that there is a new cargo ship arriving at the port, but it didn't say which port. There are far more than one docks where Azure Fort can unload cargo."

This point was also mentioned by Olina when he first came to Azure Castle.

After all, the three sides in the southwest are surrounded by the sea, and there are important rivers passing through the territory. There are at least a dozen ports for docking ships, some of which are privately built and not open to outsiders.The Baisha docked at the city's largest main port of entry, and its owner has always been the previous lord of Azure Fort.

"It seems that we need to determine their whereabouts first..."

Just as Xia Fan was pondering, Qianyan tugged on his sleeve.

Judging from what she meant, it seemed that she wanted to talk alone.

Xia Fan followed the other party to a corner of the back room, squatted down, "What's wrong?"

"Are you sure you want to help the hired workers?" Qian Yan said bluntly, "Now that the enemy's hiding place has been exposed, we probably don't have that much energy to take care of the Baiguoyuan. At most, when it's dawn, Du Lin will notice that someone has sneaked into his nursing home , once the other party is prepared, it will be extremely dangerous for us to enter the cave to explore."

"You're right," Xia Fan replied in a low voice, "but I have a hunch that perhaps Azie chose to act at such a time not purely for revenge on the workers, but because the real murderer behind the scenes had planned There are relationships!"

“How come you see?”

"Doctor Du Lin's test records mentioned that there is not much time left for his test, which means that the drug he developed will be put into use immediately. In addition, the purpose of the other party is to create a strong enough resentment, so the number of people will naturally increase. The more the better. I suspect that's what Azie planned in the first place—since the hired workers are out of the control of the factory, it's better to make them all the raw materials for surgery."

"This..." Qian Yan pondered for a while, "What you said is not impossible. But it is unclear where the hired workers were taken, and the caves in the mountains are places where there is a great possibility to find the Son of the Holy Spirit. We have limited manpower. In any case, you should choose the latter.”

"Indeed. There are only four of us, and it is almost impossible to protect hundreds of hired workers from Azie." Xia Fan admitted, "But we still have helpers."

After speaking, he took out the ruby ​​emblem from his pocket.

Qian Yan was a little surprised, "Are you going to cooperate with the jury?"

"If I could, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with the Church of Hera, but in the entire Azure Castle, I'm afraid they are the only ones who can completely suppress Azier." Xia Fan looked at her, "The church has a huge influence in the Holy Wing Islands , it may be a hidden danger to get too close to them, but this is the only way to take care of both ends. And I personally think... that leader of the judging team is not a difficult person to get along with."

After a moment of silence, Qian Yan did not raise any objection, "I understand, do as you want."

Xia Fan closed his eyes, and poured Qi into the emblem - the usage of this magic weapon is basically the same, as long as it is activated with Qi, it can operate according to the spell written in advance.Soon, a crack appeared on the gem in the center of the emblem, and then it shattered into powder with a ding.

Is love still a one-time thing?

Xia Fan and Qianyan returned to the main hall, "I have already contacted those who are willing to help, but it is already early in the morning, and they are probably sleeping. It will take at least an hour or two for them to arrive here after receiving the news. Taking advantage of this time, we'd better prepare our next plan—"

bang bang bang.

Xia Fan's words were interrupted by a sudden knock on the door.

The guards in the foreign affairs area did not report.

I hadn't heard any noise from downstairs before.

Who will be the uninvited guest at this time?

Olina immediately dragged Lars into the cloakroom, Xia Fan held the copper wire pendant to guard the door, and Qian Yan stepped forward and slowly opened the door——

"Have you finally considered it?"

Accompanied by a familiar voice, Taxis and her guardian knight eagerly pushed the door open and walked into the house.

"puff."

When Xia Fan mentioned it, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Miss Taxis?"

"Of course it's me. Otherwise, who would come to visit me at this time." She crossed her arms, her expression seemed rather dissatisfied, "I thought you would have figured this out earlier, it's been almost two days, Could it be that the invitation from the Church of Hera doesn't catch your eye?"

In the middle of speaking, she suddenly froze, because Xia Fan and Li were standing some distance away from the gate, and their postures were completely defensive when dealing with the enemy, not like someone who could open the door for her.

So who is the one who opened the door?

Taksis turned her head and saw the little girl holding her nose after being swept through the door.