Sorcerer's Survival Manual

Xia Wei explained his thoughts in detail, and specifically mentioned Liang Bang's changes.

And what he wanted Ansair to help with was naturally to prolong his life.

"My advancement speed is very fast. Although the further I go, the slower the advancement, but my medical team predicts that my next advancement will be within two or three years at most. I don't think I can advance at this speed. Live to be 30."

This is the biggest worry that has been buried in Xia Wei's heart for a long time.

Ansair could also tell that Xia Wei's aptitude was very good, much better than Liang Bang's. Given the situation of mutants in this world, he was indeed very likely to die in his 20s.

Level [-] and above are not comparable to lower levels, and the risk of each level up is multiplied. If you say that you can still live half of your life after entering [-] and entering [-], when you enter [-] and enter [-], one in a hundred people will be able to survive. That's right, that's why there are only a handful of mutants above level seven in the world, and those at level six can be ranked.

And Ansair felt that it was difficult for mutants to level up not only because they lacked magic cores, but also because their supernatural powers were not cultivated by themselves, but were forced to grow, which naturally led to the consequences of counterproductive growth.

Probably because the magic in this world is in its infancy, and the mutants don't know how to restrain their own power fluctuations, and the power fluctuations will attract magic elements of the same attribute, increasing the strength of the mutants, but the mutants' power storage Very problematic, there is no way to accommodate too many magic elements, so gradually the body of the mutant is on the verge of collapse

And the leveling up is the fuse. During the leveling up process, a large amount of magical elements accumulated exacerbated the deterioration of the body. The dantian couldn't accept the sudden surge of magical elements, so it exploded naturally.

So Xia Wei's worry is indeed possible.

Ansair is not a hard-hearted person, he has a good sense of Xia Wei, and he can indeed help him, so he did not refuse his request.

But he made a request.

When he agreed, Xia Wei was really relieved, and even a little happy, because he kept paying attention to Ansair's expression while speaking.

When he said that he helped Liang Bang, Ansair did not deny it.

And when he asked him to help him prolong his life, his expression was too natural. When he nodded in agreement, he didn't have any entanglement at all, and was even very relaxed, as if what he agreed to was not a major matter of human life, but Small things that can be done easily.

These all show that he is extremely sure about this matter in his heart.

Hearing that he had a request, Xia Wei didn't agree too much and said, "As long as it's something I can do, feel free to ask."

Ansair asked him to wait a moment, he went downstairs to the laboratory to get something, and then returned to the garden.

A drawing of a magic circle, and a bottle of magic ink.

"I heard that the current nanotechnology is very powerful. If you can help me find an instrument that can use this potion to draw this pattern on an object the size of a soybean."

What he took out was not the magic array diagram of the man-made magic core, but a slightly simpler combined magic array.

Large-scale magic circles are composed of various small magic circles and magic lines. As long as the basic magic circle can be completed in one stroke, and finally linked together with other magic circles, no matter how complicated the magic circle is, it can be drawn successful.

But to put it simply, it doesn't mean that small magic circles are easy to draw. This tests not only the drawing ability of magicians, but also their spiritual strength.

If a magician's spiritual power can't even draw a small magic circle, then there is nothing to say.

Although Xia Wei has no experience with this technology, he feels that this requirement is not difficult. Not to mention using nanotechnology, even micro-carving in traditional crafts can do this kind of thing.

He told Ansair what he thought.

Ansair shook his head: "This is the most basic, what I will say later is the key point."

He held a pen with a different color from the magic circle, and marked on the drawing: "This pattern can be divided into several parts, and each part must not be broken. It must be drawn in one stroke. Moreover, the process of drawing is done with spirit." The power is attached to this potion for drawing, so, after all, the person who operates the machine must have a high level of mental power, that is, he must be a mutant."

Xia Wei's gaze was fixed on the blueprint, and she didn't notice it at first, but after looking at it for a long time, she realized that this kind of circles within circles, with complex patterns, was very familiar.

It's like something he often saw when he was watching cartoons when he was a child.

"This is... a magic circle?"

Ansair was stunned for a moment: "You know?"

"I saw it on TV when I was a child." Xia Wei said, "So this is really a magic circle? What is its function?"

A strange thought suddenly popped up in his mind, magical potions, complicated magic circles, these things that only exist in magic stories suddenly appeared. Does that mean that Ansair is actually a magician?

It's not a special name for mutants in some foreign countries, but the real magician that exists in the story.

But this question seems to have involved Ansair's secret, so Xia Wei didn't ask.

He focused on the effect of the magic circle.

Ansair had heard Liang Bang talk about magic novels before, but now that Xia Wei mentioned magic circles, he felt the need to find out whether there was a magic system in this world before, or how would they know about it? .

But he was guessed, so he stopped hiding it, and explained generously: "This is a defensive magic circle. After drawing it successfully, it can be activated with a power, and a protective shield can be released to defend against a power attack below level five."

The defensive magic circle was chosen, naturally, because this kind of magic circle is the most stable and gentle, even if there is a mistake in the middle of the drawing, there will be no accidents - don't think that it is just a picture of the formation, if there is an accident, the mental power and the magic ink will be the first to bear the brunt It is the drawer himself. If it is an offensive magic circle, if the drawer is unprepared, he may be injured by the force rebound.

"If this is drawn manually, it will take a lot of mental energy. I don't know if I can use a machine to succeed. If you can help me get a machine that can draw magic circles, I will help you solve your troubles." .” Ansair added meaningfully: “Once and for all.”

Xia Wei's whole body was shocked, and she suddenly raised her head to look at Ansair, is that what he thought.

Ansair nodded, that's what he meant.

Xia Wei's hands clenched into fists, and then slowly relaxed: "Okay, I'll help you get the machine." Do it with all his strength!

Ansair smiled.

"Then let's sign the contract."

Ansair is not stupid. Since he dared to reveal these secrets to a person he just met, he naturally has his trump cards.

The level of confidentiality is extremely high, and it is absolutely safe and effective contract magic, let's find out.

Dazed, Xia Wei recited a spell that was extremely convoluted and incomprehensible to Ansair. Fortunately, the content of the contract in the spell was in Chinese, otherwise he wouldn't even know if he was being cheated.

This afternoon tea is not a small gain for both parties, and the two parties said goodbye to each other very friendly.

Not to mention that Xia Wei was still looking for a suitable spiritual mutant while contacting experts in nanotechnology after returning home. Ansair temporarily put aside his studies in this area and just waited for good news from Xia Wei. .

At the same time, he started to cultivate and draw artificial magic again. Before the problem of the machine is solved, he can also reserve some artificial magic cores for emergencies.

Currently in Anping Town, only Liang Bang and the newcomer Xia Wei are the only mutants who have reached the fifth level. No, so he has to research which kind of mutant beast is more suitable - if he is unlucky and can't find a mother beast with cubs here in the Qian'an Mountains, then he can only leave it to Xia Wei to find it himself. .

Although what Ansair told Xia Wei was to help him solve the problem after he finished the machine, but he did not reject it for him to use it after it was finished. Anyway, the contract is there, Xia Wei thought. If you renege on the debt, I'm afraid you will die.

He had told him this.

Ansair looked through the mutant beast encyclopedia for a long time. Unfortunately, the several suitable mutant beasts he found were not local species, but only foreign species, so he could only send a message to Xia Wei and attach a picture , making him want to help bring back a pregnant female beast.

Xia Wei didn't know what he was going to do, but she agreed without hesitation—probably because he noticed that the mutant beasts he was looking for were both fire and thunder, which had the same attributes as him.

However, these kinds of mutant beasts are not easy to provoke in foreign countries, and it is not their breeding season, so if you want to find a suitable female beast, you still have to wait.

It took another month to go around and around, and the house next door was finally built. Xia Wei will come to visit Ansair every once in a while, and talk to him about the current progress - he has found an expert in nanotechnology The team, however, did not disclose the drawings of the magic circle, but instead asked the other party to help research suitable equipment with other drawings, and also found a mutant who was engaged in micro-carving technology to cooperate with the experiment.

"Probably because of work. Although the other party is not a spiritual system, but the mental power is stronger than ordinary mutants. I intercepted a part of the blueprint you gave me and let him draw it on a mung bean. The force-attached magic ink was drawn successfully."

Even because the magic circle that Ansair wanted was painted instead of carved, it was even easier than the mutant's original working method.

Ansair nodded and reminded him at the same time: "Don't you attach great importance to patent rights now? If the device is really successfully developed, is the patent right yours or that team's?"

Xia Wei shook her head: "The patent right is in your name. After all, this proposal was provided by you, so when I asked someone to apply for the patent, I directly filled in your name. That team can only be said to work for us. , does not have patent rights."

"In my name?" Ansair was surprised: "But I just told you what to do?"

"Even an idea can be patented. As long as the industry has the strength to make it, the machine you mentioned can be made with the analysis of a professional team. The difficulty is actually not that big. The only difficulty lies in the attachment of mental power. It’s not insurmountable, and they’re doing it with money, so the patent right is naturally yours.”

Xia Wei also said: "Of course, if you need to mass-produce such machines in the future, you can authorize them to me. I am currently preparing a related factory."

In fact, Xia Wei did this to please, but at the same time, he was also faintly aware of the business opportunities involved.

Although he didn't know why Ansair made such a machine, as long as he knew that it was a machine that could draw magic circles, he knew that this was not a simple machine, it represented the popularization of magic circles, and Anyone who has read magic stories can probably tell many things about the magical effects of magic circles.

Ansair didn't dislike his overtures in disguise, and he even admired Xia Wei a little bit.

He is ambitious but not eager for quick success. He has clearly noticed the hidden business opportunities behind this kind of machine, but he can still hand over the patent rights to others.

If it was a different person, maybe after finding out that he didn't understand patent matters, he would find a way to keep it for himself.

So this cooperation, Ansair thinks it is possible.

Although the future cooperation is only a verbal agreement, both parties are not empty talkers, so this matter is considered to be settled, and the follow-up will only be discussed after the machine is researched.

Then Xia Wei said another reason for his visit: "My house is finished, and I'm going to hold a housewarming party. I wonder if Mr. An will show his face?"

Naturally, Xia Wei's housewarming party will not invite people from the whole town. Of course, his relatives and friends are not many, and the only ones who have agreed to come are actually his younger sister Xia Qianqian and the Lin brothers and sisters.

Lin Jin of the Lin family has been his good friend for many years. Even after he awakened his power, their relationship has not been broken. Lin Jin's younger sister Lin Yu, not to mention his younger sister's friend, used to play with them often. So this time my sister said that she would take her here to stay for a few days during the National Day holiday, and Xia Wei agreed.

In addition, considering that he will settle down in Anping Town in the future, the relationship between the two parties must be handled properly, so he also invited Mayor Sun, several of his subordinates, and the two leaders of the patrol team, one of whom is of course Liang Bang it.

In the end, the person Xia Wei most wanted to invite was naturally Ansair, and since he was going to be invited, Dr. Ma, the guardian, and Kong Ru, who had a very good relationship with him, naturally had to be added.

In this way, there is no problem in gathering two tables.

He heard that he knew most of the people who would go, so Ansair naturally did not refuse the invitation, saying that he would definitely go when the time came.

After sending Xia Wei away, he also considered what kind of congratulatory gift would be more appropriate. Xia Wei's housewarming party is different from his kind of moving banquet. For that little money, sending out red envelopes might make him unhappy.

So Ansair felt that it was better to prepare some other congratulatory gifts.

It happened that he had the materials on hand, so he simply made him a box of six bottles of intermediate magic power stabilizer. After drinking one bottle, he would not need to drink the stabilizer again for half a year. This box was only for him to use alone, enough to last for three years.

However, the complexity of intermediate potions cannot be made by potion manufacturing functions, so he didn't plan to promote this.

Ansair even wondered if he should consider bringing in some apprentices, otherwise he would be detrimental to his mage style if he kept making these low-level potions.

And if some capable magicians can be trained, maybe they can help him research the way to go home together. We can't always rely on the big guy behind him.

Speaking of the back, the pattern of the beast god has recently grown up and became clearer. Ansair looks in the mirror every day, so when he finds that the pattern is about the same size as it was before it was reduced last time, he began to look forward to Egowa. Could it be that I found him in my dream?

Recently, he hadn't dreamed of the beast god, which made him really worried, fearing that something happened to the link last time, and the other party couldn't find him.

With nervousness and anticipation, the golden autumn of October comes quietly.

Most people in Anping Town have their own fields, and they usually grow rice. Now everyone is busy harvesting rice. The open space outside the town government is full of people drying millet every day. The booming sound lasted the whole day, but fortunately Xia Wei had already moved into a new home, otherwise I was afraid that he would be disturbed by this kind of sound and cause a riot.

People in Anping Town were very busy, even those who did not farm the land helped. Even Dr. Ma and Kong Ru, who had never farmed the land, rolled up their sleeves and went to the government building to help. Threshing millet.

Ansair also wanted to join in the fun, but he was quickly dismissed by everyone as a child. They thought that he was not suitable for farm work at first glance. If he is free to help here, he might as well go back Make more potions to benefit everyone.

Ansair withdrew his hand in embarrassment—but he just helped to hold a handful of rice that had just been harvested, and a few small cuts were cut on his hand, and he really had no face to refute that he was not skinny and tender.

But he didn't go back, and he just stood on the sidelines and looked at it and found it interesting. Otherwise, he could help pour water and sliced ​​watermelon to quench everyone's thirst.

——Currently, Liu Min, the pregnant woman, is the only one in the town who is treated as him No matter how you communicate, naturally you won't come to help.

It’s not good to watch the excitement. Xia Wei is receiving her younger sister and good friend brothers and sisters from Yunxi City, the capital of Yunxi Province. Xia Qianqian aside, although Xia Wei and Lin Jin often communicate by phone, since Xia Wei came to Hukou It's been a few years since Zhenhou has seen each other, and the two of them have a lot to talk about right now.

Lin Yu and Xia Qianqian sat on the other side, chatting about girls, and secretly glanced at Xia Wei from time to time.

She was in a very happy mood.

Since Xia Wei left Yunxi City, Lin Yu has never seen him again. Although he often hears about him from Xia Qianqian, it is completely different from seeing a real person.

I haven't seen him for a few years, he has grown a lot taller, and he has become mature and stable.

Lin Yu still remembered how Xia Wei left Yunxi City. That was the last time she saw him. Because of a little secret in her heart, she specially accompanied Xia Qianqian to see him off.

At that time, there was no lingering gloom in the tall and steady young man of today, which made her feel startled and distressed.

But she couldn't say anything, and she couldn't even get close. As the daughter of the Lin family, her parents would never allow her to like a mutant.

The most important thing is that at that time, Xia Wei didn't see her as a person.

But looking at it now, although he has no expression on his face, his expression is very relaxed. When he chats with Lin Jin about interesting things, the corners of his mouth will naturally rise, and he doesn't look like he was full of depression in the past.

She asked Xia Qianqian in a low voice: "Why does your brother look so changed? In the photo you showed me last time, he wasn't like this."

Xia Qianqian glanced over there secretly, and whispered in her ear: "I don't know, we haven't seen each other for a month, maybe he is happy about the new environment."

However, will the change of environment bring about such a big change?She didn't think there was anything special about Anping Town, which she had never heard of before.

On the other side, Xia Wei was discussing business with Lin Jin.

"You said you came to see me, but your father asked you to come."

Although it was a question, Xia Wei's tone was very certain.

"I know I can't hide it from you." Lin Jin spread out his hands: "It is true that my old man asked me to come, saying that the mysterious person who made those potions is in this small town, and asked me to come and see if I can get along with him." He made friends, and if Ryan didn't say anything, we had to come and find someone by ourselves—isn't that what you mean by suddenly running here to live?"

Indeed, Xia Wei did not deny it.

Seeing him like this, Lin Jin asked him: "How is it? Did you find out who it was? My dad said he didn't believe that an ordinary little doctor could make such a medicine."

Seeing that this matter would not be kept secret for long, Xia Wei stretched out her hand and pointed in one direction.

Lin Jin thought about the small villa with a different style of painting in Anping Town that he saw not far away when they came in, and suddenly said: "It turns out that there is that person's residence, and I thought there was someone like you there." A thoughtful person."

Xia Wei didn't speak.

Lin Jin asked curiously: "Looking at you, you should have met before, how is it? What kind of person is the other party?"

Xia Wei thought for a while: "A very miraculous person, you will know when you see him."

Lin Jin became interested: "It sounds very powerful, so when you have time, take me to visit the other party. As for the hair growth potion he made, my dad is thinking about it, so I insist on it. Find a way to get the right to sell."

Hair growth potion is not sold in the market now, but it is very famous among the upper class in Yunxi Province. Now many people want to get one to improve their hair problems.

"I invited him to the housewarming banquet tomorrow, and you will be able to see him then."

Xia Wei thought for a while, and reminded her friend: "The other party is young, but you must not really treat him like a child, or you will offend him, and your thoughts may be perverted."

Lin Jin wondered: "You said he was young and told me not to treat him as a child, so how old must he be?" Why does it sound like a minor?

Xia Wei recalled the other party's age: "Fifteen is almost sixteen."

Lin Jin's jaw was about to drop when he heard the words, he wasn't even 16 years old, so young, could it really be the person who made the potion?

Why does this news feel less credible than the rumor that the doctor made those medicines?

But believe it or not, he also knew that Xia Wei was not the type to make such jokes.

Anyway, when he sees the real person, he will know whether it is true or not.