Blooming Tower of the West Wind

Theron has already started to prepare breakfast. She dug out a flat stone from the fire, washed it, and used the technique shown by the archmage yesterday to fry two eggs. The tray was passed to Hipper.

Hipper ate silently for a while, then asked, "You got up by yourself?"

"Yes."

"And didn't notify me?"

"I haven't settled with you yet for not calling me up."

"Settling accounts? My actions are completely justified. This is to retaliate against your violation of the agreement last night." Hipper put down the soft cake in his hand, stared at Theron seriously and said.

"Although I did not abide by the agreement, it does not mean that you can violate the agreement and not be punished."

Hipper couldn't help laughing, "Okay, how are you going to punish me?"

After arguing a lot, Theron didn't know how to proceed. She looked at Hipper as if she was laughing at her, her face turned red again, and she suddenly said loudly: "Then I will punish you not to come out, today I will Come catch the car!"

Seemingly confident, Hipper washed his face and mouth with a water polo that appeared out of nowhere, and said, "Modano is an important border town, which means that there are many fork roads near it. Are you sure you know the way? What if we get lost? It seems There is no more dry food."

The arrogance she had finally ignited was extinguished like this. The old mage packed up her things, put her clothes back on her body, climbed into the driving seat by herself, stretched out half of her body and asked her: "Are you going back to sleep?" , or sit here with me?"

Theron quickly climbed up and sat down. The son of the soil was ready to push the cart hard. When the car drove onto the main road, Theron couldn't help asking: "When did you come to Mordana?"

"Probably... when you were your age." The old mage showed a thoughtful expression, but deliberately winked at her, and said, "Virgil and I took an escort mission with a lot of money, but we encountered robbers nearby. Of course the people were defeated by us, and Virgil stripped their equipment and sold it for a lot of money, much more than the money we paid for the escort mission."

"Escort mission...about how much?"

Hipper suddenly sighed and said, "Actually, it's so pitifully small that you can't even afford the money I get."

"Am I now, or was I then?"

Hipper glanced at her and said with a smile, "At that time."

"That's very little," Theron agreed earnestly.

"That was more than 20 years ago. There were many dwarves craftsmen in Modanlu, and the handcrafts here were well-equipped. Virgil used the money to buy a lot of weapons and shipped them back to sell, so we made a lot of money. Before that, the two of us All of them are poor students who can't even bear to use the teleportation array."

Theron glanced at her, finding it difficult to associate Hipper with the word "poor".

Hipper leaned on the back of the chair, put his chin in one hand, and said with a smile: "My family is not poor, and they give me a lot of money. If you study in the tower, the teacher spends far more money on apprentices than I do. I pay a lot of tuition fees, not to mention that I also study with a scholarship. But I know that if I don’t have money, my mother will definitely not let me go. Okay, don’t ask, turn left at the next intersection and go down the mountain. Are you sleepy? ?”

"No, I'm not sleepy." She still thought about it and said, "If you keep talking to me, I won't be sleepy all the time."

The majesty of Modanlu is reflected in the breadth of its extension, bypassing this mountain, overlooking the city from the halfway up the mountain, the first thing you notice is the roads extending in all directions outside the city.

The road under their feet can be counted as one, and the entire road is paved with gravel to facilitate the passage of heavier carriages or ox carts.It stretched from under their ruts, converging into more forks outside Modano.Hipper pointed to those roads and said: "This road leads to Hypano in Tugundale, this one leads to the Marmara Dominion, and the other two lead to the two dwarf tribes, namely Valkam of the Black Hammer Clan. , and Peng Lin of the Redbeard Clan, these are the names of the two mountains. There are several mines between Hypano and Modanlu, which produce copper, iron, tin, and some minerals that I don’t know what they are.”

"How do you know? Remember so clearly?"

Hipper smiled, "Did you notice the different colors of the stones on the ground? It's a sign of different roads." Theron read a little complacently from her smile, and suddenly realized: "Could it be different mines?" Pink color, right?"

The whole of Modanlu was originally just a border market. Later, some urban buildings gradually appeared. The whole city was chaotic, as if the noise of hammers and blowers could be heard everywhere, and even the air smelled of coal dust.Their heights are really tall here, but they can't be said to be very tall. There are dwarves of various skin colors walking around the road, but humans are also mixed in, and there are many other humanoid creatures that are far taller than ordinary humans, such as There are coolie draconians (huge lizardmen with low intelligence), and even golden-eyed orcs.

Theron looked around and felt that their Son of the Earth carriage was unique in the crowd, but the people around them seemed to turn a blind eye to it, and occasionally they could hear someone boasting "the carriage is not bad".

After entering the city, Hipper took over the son of the earth, and now they walked into a fairly quiet neighborhood, and the carriage drove into a yard, the archmage jumped out of the slow-moving car, and Theron jumped off in a hurry.The rich old mage booked a suite, and after the two water lords put down their luggage, Hipper took her to the library diagonally opposite.

As they walked, Hipper said to her, "Put Lenning away."

"why?"

"The water lord is too eye-catching. There are no mages here."

"Huh, really?" She couldn't help looking left and right, and sure enough, everyone on the street was secretly looking at the blue fat man behind her, and looked away perfunctorily when her gaze passed by.

"Yes, let's go." She pushed Theron's back, took advantage of it quietly, and pushed her into the corridor on the lower floor of the library, and from here to the borrowing room on the second floor.

She doesn’t borrow books, so she doesn’t need a library card. Hipper seems to be familiar with this place. She quickly found the index room and looked for books about alchemy in the entry marked with “T”. , very strangely said: "No?"

She switched another box, this time with an "H" entry, and still got nothing.

"What are you looking for, should you tell me?"

Hipper said seriously, "I'll have to see it with my own eyes to be sure."

The words were very vague, but Theron seemed to understand a little bit, and asked tentatively: "You mean...you don't remember your name either?"

Hipper's face was slightly embarrassed: "Cough... Strictly speaking, it's not that I don't remember at all."

So the two of them traveled across mountains and rivers and bought a carriage, and slept in the wild for two days. In fact, they just came to find a book that they didn't even remember the name?It's hardly Hipper's style anymore.

Seeing the suspicious expression on her face, the old mage tried to calm down and said, "Don't worry, I can still look for it in the nearby bookshelf instead of relying on the index."

"Well... don't worry too much. Since you remember, it must be here. Maybe the index here is not perfect, so you can't find it in the index box. And, we can also find out if there is any related information. You can find it in the alchemy entry, so it can't be the only one in alchemy, can it?"

No matter how dull Hipper was, she could hear her little beast comforting her, and thought dumbfoundingly: I'm not old enough to need my little apprentice to cover for me.

She bit her lower lip, put her hands in her pockets, and briskly walked out of the index room. After searching for a long time, she found the cabinet marked Alchemy. Unfortunately, even in such a forging city, there are still books about alchemy. Not many, just this one bookshelf, Theron glanced roughly, and there were other items before and after.

Generally, everyone thinks that writing and collecting books are the work of the official—or even more specialized, the mage guild—the craftsmen only have formulas passed down by word of mouth, and people don’t care much about how and why these things come from. Of course, there is no idea of ​​writing a book about it.

Hipper started to look from the top of the bookshelf, her brows were furrowed, as if she was thinking about something.Even Theron found out that something was wrong - it was placed too messily here, and each layer could not be filled, but even so, there was no book end to fix it, but the end was allowed to fall askew, and some The ones marked with "TU" are also mixed in here, obviously the administrators didn't put their minds to tidying up here.

Theron couldn't help asking: "Teacher, do people really come here often?" When she came in just now, the administrator at the door was still dozing off, but now she saw that there were spider webs on the top floor.On the contrary, there were quite a few people passing by the library next to it just now, and they didn't know what kind of books it was.

Hipper shrugged, and didn't care much about whether there was anyone, but asked: "The books here are weird..."

"Yeah, it's messy."

Hipper slowly shook her head, leaned against the window, and looked out the window thoughtfully. Outside the window was the courtyard, only the courtyard was very clean and beautiful. The gardener was a black iron dwarf with dark skin, and he was watering a pot of flowers. water.

"I seem to remember that it's not in this position." She stretched out her hands and gestured side by side, "It's not in this position."

Memory is made up of a series of very complex images. There is a memory method called "memory palace" circulating among old-school researchers. It associates everything with spatial locations and images, so that as long as you Take a walk through the "memory palace" and you'll be able to recall everything you need to remember.

This is the principle of memory. Although Hipper obviously didn't put her heart into memorizing this book that she might use to pass the time, the space and location still left a deep impression on her memory.

The author has something to say: You can do more extreme things...

In fact, the old mage just wanted to come out on a date.