Throne Steps

Chapter 163

"Yulia, bow your head!"

A two-foot-long ice pick pierced the air, and at the very moment, the female mercenary lowered her head and lowered her body, and the sharp ice front almost brushed past her hair.

Boom!

A bright venomous snake with a bowl-sized mouth was nailed to the tree trunk behind the female mercenary, with its mouth wide open and neighing as it died.Yulia, the female mercenary, looked back and rubbed her arms exaggeratedly.

"I said you, can you look at it." Li Chen put down his staff, walked past Yulia, and stepped over the fallen dry tree indifferently, "If you are bitten by such a thing, the whole black swan will laugh." Half a year."

"Let me tell you, I'm not running naked. I'll be poisoned if I touch it casually. I'm a fully armed warrior!" Yulia put one hand on her waist, and with the other hand, she swiped her equipment from top to bottom. , as if showing off her new breastplate, "Besides, this place has entered the security range of the research institute. Theoretically, the guards are responsible for driving away dangerous monsters, aren't they?"

Li Chen glanced at her sideways, but before he could reply, the other Black Swan members standing behind had already laughed: "Hahahaha...is such a mere poisonous snake considered a monster? Yulia, listen to what you say joke."

"Okay, okay." Yulia shrugged, turned around to follow the footsteps of the young man, and at the same time adjusted the shoulder strap of the long sword on her back, "I will definitely watch all directions and listen to all directions, so that anyone who intends to approach The small poisonous monster and the big demonic beast all died ten feet away, is that all right..."

Leaving this little episode behind, the team from the Black Swans moved on.

Whoa!

The ice cone melted, and the gorgeous corpse of the poisonous snake fell down, and Akye Clement who walked by stepped on it and crushed its skull.

The Samuel Forest is still lush and green, still dangerous, and still a paradise for adventurers.

Most of the black swans are old lone wolves, and they often go to their own mines, so even entering the deepest part of Samuel is like walking on the ground.But this time, Li Chen's team did not aim at the mine veins.

"arrive!"

Passing through a dense jungle, the vision suddenly opens up, and a natural and man-made flat land appears in front of you.Under the cover of mountains and forests, most of the flat land is framed by a circle of tall walls, and the surrounding area is set aside for patrol and alert.Although the thick trees that make up the wall are not as tall as the surrounding towering giants, the sharpened tops are very intimidating, and they also show a rough and wild architectural style.

The door to the exit was open, but three rows of wooden triangular barriers were placed across the front and back, and two heavily armed guards stood at the door.Coupled with the dense magic circle that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, it is actually quite difficult to break through the defense here.

Li Chen's team approached the door.

"Come here?" A guard came over and smiled at them, "Are you getting up late or procrastinating in the woods, why are you just now...!"

Before he finished speaking, the guard's eyes sharpened, he raised his hands back and quickly pulled out the two knives behind his back, and turned his wrists hard - only to see two blades with cold light crossing and flashing in front of his eyes, and the objects thrown from a distance were caught Cut into pieces and drop to the ground.

After he retracted the knife smoothly, he saw that it was a dead snake on the ground.Mingyan's body was cut into four sections of different lengths, one of which had a bloody hole, and the other had a crushed snake's head.

"Hey, is that how you treat our presents for you?" Julia giggled.Although she didn't throw it, it's fun for someone to be shocked like her.

"I say you……"

"How long are you going to play at the door?" Another guard was behind, knocking on the triangular roadblock with the barrel of a long gun, "I'm already late, can't you move more quickly?"

Yulia stuck out her tongue and finally led someone in.

Inside the walls, one- or two-story houses are well arranged, and the style is very simple and plain.Some are townhouses, some are detached.The more you go in, the more meticulous the arrangement is, and there are people dressed as mercenaries patrolling back and forth from time to time.

Li Chen and his party entered an unremarkable small building in the corner.At this point, Yulia and the others stopped and sat down to rest in the living room on the first floor.Li Chen and Akeye followed the people who came out of the building and continued to walk in.

They walked through the corridor and opened the descending stairs from one room.When the porter turned away, the fire pots on the walls on both sides of the stairs suddenly lit up, illuminating the narrow road.

Fires blazed, and the air smelled of kerosene and burning wood.

Walking to the end of the stairs, I arrived at a quiet stone room, and all the lighting props have been replaced with light stones.Two people who looked like guards stayed here. The tables and chairs placed by the wall of the stone room were places for them to sit and rest, and a whole wall of storage cabinets were neatly arranged beside them.The person leading the way found several new protective masks from a storage cabinet and handed them to Li Chen and Akye.

The guard leaned next to him and pointed to the teapot on the table: "Shenshen tea, how about a cup?"

"No, thank you." Li Chen smiled and put on the protective cover, "I feel like I've gotten used to it and developed antibodies."

Akye glanced at him upon hearing this.

The guide also laughed: "Who among us...isn't?"

They were fully dressed, and finally opened the door of the stone room leading to another place.

A scene that is completely different from the atmosphere of the stone chamber, the stairway, and even the entire ground building is presented in front of you.

In the spacious room, all kinds of light stones illuminate every place brightly or darkly according to needs, and various sophisticated or weird instruments are placed on the table and the ground in an orderly manner; two or three bookshelves are leaning against the corners, and some books It was opened and placed on the table; old and new papers were pasted on the wall, some were written in ancient and mysterious languages, and some were drawn with manuscripts that almost no one could understand.Nearly ten scholars, alchemists and their assistants are busy here, not to mention busy, but busy and orderly.

The entry of Li Chen and others did not attract the attention of these people at all, they were still focused on the matter in hand.

Li Chen went straight to an instrument and watched intently the liquid dripping from the tube into the flask for a while.After a while, he frowned and said, "The concentration of purification... is not as good as before?"

A middle-aged staff member next to him didn't even look at him, he just shook the test tube in his hand, his eyes focused: "They said that the high-purity extract is difficult to condense, so they have to pour it back to study the best ratio. Recently sent up The extracts have different concentrations."

Li Chen nodded, straightened up and glanced at the staff member's hand, then paused and asked, "...what is this?"

With the person shaking gently, snowflake-like flocculent crystals are forming in the test tube, paired with a transparent purple-red liquid, the scene is really lively and beautiful.

"The ratio that was eliminated a few days ago is a phenomenon that was accidentally discovered when using reagents for property testing." The staff finally glanced sideways at the young man, "The team leader said that you will be interested in this, let us make a stable formula and then report to you."

Li Chen was overjoyed, and the voice under the protective cover seemed husky: "I'm really interested, thank you for your care."

"Are there not enough 'toys' for your research?" The staff member replied, paused and said, "Aren't you going to enter the cultivation room? Hurry up, don't stand here stupidly, or you will be driven crazy , the housekeeper is going to give us a warning again."

"Okay, okay, I won't bother you anymore." Li Chen backed away with a smile, and gestured to the guide, "Let's go, let's go in."

At the other end of this room, there is another double door.There is a complex formation attached to the door, invisible to the naked eye, but it is the most severe alarm detection.

Go through this door, then through a small empty room, open the door on the other side, and you will arrive at the "Cultivation Room".The cultivation room is not big, only about a hundred square meters.Carefully adjusted lamp stones hang from the top to weave a light net, and the air supply system composed of magic crystals and arrays continuously pushes the airflow.Rows of black cultivation racks were neatly arranged. Before Li Chen came in, the protective cover—also the isolation cover—had fallen, firmly covering the plants in the middle of the cultivation rack.

Li Chen walked in.

The unmoving soil, the seedlings just sticking out, the green leaves that are stretching, and then some flower buds that are about to bloom.He stopped until red, yellow, white, purple... all kinds of flowers quietly bloomed on the surrounding cultivation racks.

Each of these little flowers occupies a small cultivation space, and they look lonely and simple when viewed alone.However, looking at the whole film, there are various colors intertwined, petite and cute.One can imagine how warm and lively the scene should look when the breeze blows and they sway gently with the wind.

But they are not gentle and lovely flowers after all.

The intoxicating and inseparable dark killer-"Song of the Siren".

When Li Chen came out of the basement, he felt that everything was normal, but was "forced" by the housekeeper to drink a pot of calming tea.

This housekeeper is also the first female officer of the Black Swan, Khorkina, who has inevitably contracted the problem of "must take good care of Li Chen".Because this place is run by her alone, many staff also followed her habit and took extra care of Li Chen intentionally or unintentionally.Besides Li Chen, Akeye was also given two cups of calming tea by her.

"Don't send the finished products and materials here to me or Amoya for now, let them watch and test by themselves. When I saw it just now, I thought there was nothing wrong with it, just let them study it." Li Chen leaned on the back of the chair , fanning the wind with his hands, "The two little highnesses are trying to find fault with our third highness, don't be caught by their tails."

"Understood, then wait for your notification, and we will send it out as needed." The housekeeper replied, "By the way, the 'Instant Destruction' system was just updated a while ago, do you want to see the blueprint?"

"Don't give it to me, it's a headache, I can't compare to their professional people. I have some information here..." Li Chen spread his hands, and a stack of papers appeared in his palm immediately, "According to the requirements of these research madmen, I found a few Although I am not satisfied with all the places, I have worked hard. You let them have a look, pick the one you like the most, and then at the end of this year at the latest, move the important information in pieces."

"it is good."

Li Chen thought for a while, and then said: "Now the situation is getting more and more tense. This center... just destroy it after finishing the current main project. It can be regarded as an on-site verification of the 'instantaneous destruction' system. You make a personnel diversion plan , as long as I can see the outline before I leave, you can just let go and arrange the rest."

The housekeeper still said obediently: "I understand."

"You have been here for five years, my dear girl." Li Chen couldn't help teasing her, "This main project will be finished by the end of next year at the latest. Where do you want to go then?"

"Of course I want to go back to you." The housekeeper smiled, "But I know that no one here can show his face.

"You might as well hide me in a golden house, my lord."