Chapter 31 [Nutrient Solution 7000 plus update]

Eight forty-six in the morning.

"Shh, don't wake him up..."

Hearing the sound coming from the lower bunk, Gu Liang opened his eyes in a daze.

The sun was shining brightly outside the window. He stared at the flickering light on the ceiling, rubbed his eyes, yawned, and stretched himself. "Good morning...why did you all get up so early today?"

This morning's class starts at nine o'clock, and he set the alarm for eight o'clock. Generally speaking, he is the first one to get up in the dormitory. Occasionally, Yi Yan will get up early to exercise, but when did Zhuge Xiao and Yan Beichen become so diligent?

"It's getting late," Zhuge Xiao leaned on the railing and looked at him with a smile, "It's already half past nine."

Gu Liangyi: ! ! ? ?

He sat up from the table with a start and glanced at the time in a daze.

Good news: class hasn’t started yet.

The bad news: He was almost too late.

"Why didn't you call me!" He took a breath, quickly got dressed, got out of bed and started to wash up. And damn - didn't he set the alarm last night?

"Why are you in such a hurry? Look at our dormitory, apart from you, is there anyone who is not late for class?"

Zhuge Xiao looked at his flustered look and couldn't help but said, "Anyway, you and Brother Yi are usually very busy, so the teacher won't say anything even if you don't ask for leave. Oh, now the second brother has also joined the special action team, so he counts as one too."

But Gu Liangyi was just busy brushing his teeth and washing his face, and didn't even have time to pay attention to him.

"College life is incomplete if you don't get up and go out within ten minutes," Yan Beichen agreed with Zhuge Xiao this time. "Old Fourth, you've always been a light sleeper, right? I saw you slept well last night, and we didn't wake you up when we got up."

Yi Yan was obviously one of those who advocated not waking him up, but compared to the other two in the dormitory, he was obviously more considerate. He took a bag of bread and coffee from the table and put them in his bag, as breakfast for Gu Liang and his group.

"Dong Dong"

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the dormitory. Yi Yan walked over to open the door and found that it was a student he didn't recognize.

"Gu Liang, Principal Zong asked why you didn't go to see him this morning," the student said on behalf of Zong Qinyuan, looking at Gu Liangyi, who was standing by the table packing his schoolbag. "He has been waiting for you for half an hour. If you have something to say, you can tell him first. He also asked if you are free at 3:30 in the afternoon?"

"……ah???"

Even after the student who came to deliver the message left, Gu Liangyi still looked as if a mountain had collapsed and the earth had split.

“I didn’t receive any message at all!”

"It seems that you really slept very deeply last night," Yan Beichen stroked his chin and thought. It was almost time for class. He even made himself a cup of tea. "Yes, it turns out that Mr. Gong's psychological counseling is very useful."

Ever since Gong Ming became the captain of the second team, he would come to talk to Gu Liangyi during the break in training every afternoon and bring him some snacks and drinks, which made Gu Liangyi feel embarrassed.

Yi Yan didn't say anything about his attempt to get close to him.

But every time Gong Ming came to find Gu Liangyi, his expression was not very good, and the consumption of bullets during shooting also increased significantly.

After the chaotic morning passed, in the afternoon, Gu Liangyi went to the principal's office to meet Zong Qinyuan embarrassedly.

"I'm sorry Headmaster, I didn't hear from you."

"It's okay, sit down." Zong Qinyuan didn't really care that Gu Liangyi stood him up. It's not like he didn't do other things during this period. He just worried that the other party might have had an accident, so he sent students to ask.

When Gu Liangyi sat down opposite him, Zong Qinyuan got straight to the point and said, "There's news from the store that they caught a spy, but he's from Fermat's side."

Gu Liangyi opened his eyes slightly and immediately reacted: "He took the rumors about the demon god seriously?"

"It seems so at the moment," Zong Qinyuan pondered for a moment, "So you must be careful when you enter the city tomorrow. Although the fallen mages are all dressed similarly, if someone sees you entering a shop, they will definitely have other ideas."

The Seris store is now extremely prosperous in Morton City. It is no exaggeration to say that it is making a fortune every day.

However, this "gold" must be replaced with an equal amount of magic crystals from another world.

While Gu Liangyi and his team were returning to school, other members of the special operations team were not idle either.

Every two days, two silver-faced men in black robes would mingle among the wizards entering and leaving the fortress, and quietly bring back the magic crystals, intelligence, and other precious items they had traded to the school, where they would be transported to the experts at the Earth Command via the Cainiao Station for research.

During this period, Gu Liangyi could see that the civilization points on the light screen had been rising at a slow rate, and had now reached a very gratifying number.

【47】

Only three points left and we’ll be halfway!

This is also thanks to the research results of scientists who have been working day and night. Up to now, the scientific community has published nearly 30,000 papers on the research of Fajing, 14 of which have been called "epoch-making" by the media.

Especially in terms of improving energy efficiency and material revolution, these research results have almost affected the development of countless downstream industrial production of mankind.

From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age, it can be said that the progress of materials science represents the progress of human society.

If we imagine more boldly, if humans have figured out the flying principles of the undead in the city of Morton, especially the bone dragon, will there be countless magical aircraft with only "skeletons" flying in the sky of the earth in the next era?

But at the same time, Gu Liangyi also noticed that the rate at which civilization points increased was gradually slowing down.

Their opponent has been hiding in the darkness until now. If he is really the legendary demon, is he an experienced and confident veteran hunter, or is he hesitating to take action because he has other intentions or is subject to certain restrictions?

"Gu Liang," Zong Qinyuan looked at him thinking and suddenly asked another question, "Have you tried meditation again during this period?"

"You mean learning magic?"

Gu Liangyi sighed and said, "I don't think I'm that cut out for it. And Principal Zong, maybe it's because I'm good at physics, I always have a hard time feeling those fantasy things."

Zong Qinyuan: "That is to say, even if you saw it with your own eyes, it would be difficult for you to accept the existence of magic power."

Gu Liang nodded slightly.

"In fact, you can try it again occasionally," Zong Qinyuan smiled, "but this does not force you to learn it. After all, this thing cannot be forced. I am already at this age, and I still have to go to the library to borrow fantasy novels to strengthen my beliefs."

Gu Liangyi, who was drinking tea from a disposable paper cup, started coughing on the spot.

“Bang!!!!”

Suddenly, a loud noise came from downstairs.

The sound sounded very much like gunfire, and was accompanied by the sound of glass windows shattering.

Gu Liangyi was so frightened that he almost crushed the paper cup in his hand. Zong Qinyuan was also stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something, rubbed his temples and said, "Instructor Jiao told me before that he wanted to borrow the room on the second floor for the special action team to do simulated intrusion training. Don't panic, it's nothing serious. After they finish their training, do you want to go downstairs together to take a look?"

Gu Liangyi was quite curious about what kind of gun could make such a sound, and nodded when he heard it.

After waiting for half an hour, Zong Qinyuan, who was reminded that the training was over, went downstairs with Gu Liangyi.

Because they were worried about unrelated injuries, the entire floor was cleared out. The corridor was littered with smashed and tilted furniture. Zong Qinyuan felt distressed when he saw it. "These are all antiques! Wooden tables from decades ago, although they are not worth much... Oh, why make such a big fuss?"

When passing by an empty room, Gu Liangyi looked out the door and found that this was the room with the broken glass window he had heard before.

In the middle of the room were two dummies made of cotton and wood. One of them had fallen to the ground, with its head - or rather, its entire upper body - completely blown to pieces.

Looking in the direction where it fell, in front of the empty window, a pile of transparent glass fragments were sparkling in the sunlight.

Gu Liangyi walked over, bent down and picked up a sniper bullet from the ground.

——Without a doubt, he was shot dead.

Is there a sniper in the special operations team?

It has to be said that the heavy sniper rifle is the dream of almost every boy, and even Gu Liangyi is no exception.

He squinted his eyes and looked out the window, and found that the nearest sniper point, which was also convenient for hiding, was a teaching building about 900 meters away in a straight line.

At such a distance, if he had taken off his glasses, he would probably have been unable to tell the difference between humans and animals.

Thinking of his broken glasses, Gu Liangyi felt a little depressed. He was now wearing the spare glasses that the headquarters had given him. Yi Yan took his broken glasses away and said he would help him fix them, but Gu Liangyi didn't really have any expectations.

but--

Gu Liangyi looked down at his sniper bullet that was as long as his palm. He pressed his thumb on its sharp bullet tip and played with it over and over again, unable to let it go.

...So handsome.

Gu Liang put the bullet into his pocket with his eyes shining, thinking that if he saw him in the special operations team next time, he would ask for an autograph.

"Classmate, have you seen a - Hey Guliang, why are you here?"

Jin Xuan, who came to retrieve the bullets, stood at the door and looked at him in surprise.

"Senior, do you know who the sniper of the special operations team is?" Gu Liangyi greeted her and then immediately asked anxiously.

"Ah, you didn't know?"

Jin Xuan showed a very surprised expression, but before their conversation could go on for long, Jin Xuan turned her head and saw Zong Qinyuan walking over from the other side of the corridor. She quickly greeted him, "Hello, Principal Zong."

"Well, remember to clean up here later."

Zong Qinyuan was obviously still worried about his table. He waved at Gu Liang absentmindedly: "Gu Liang, come here. I have something to tell you about the spy."

Gu Liang responded, and before leaving, he gave Jin Xuan a look that said "sorry, let's talk next time", and then followed Zong Qinyuan's footsteps upstairs.

"The little mascot didn't know that Brother Yi was a sniper?" Jin Xuan looked at his back with an incredible expression, "The captain hid it too well... But he didn't say anything, isn't he afraid that someone will be kidnapped by the fox in the second team?"

Everyone in their team saw how close Gong Ming and Gu Liangyi had been during this period.

Although she had a good impression of Gong Ming, the teacher in the psychological counseling room, because of his appearance, it was only limited to appreciation of his looks. Moreover, Team One and Team Two naturally had a strong sense of competition. In comparison, Jin Xuan would of course support her own captain.

only!

Why are these two people so stupid?

Whenever Jin Xuan thought about the time when she passed by Tang's classroom and saw them sitting side by side during class, with their heads put together to discuss the questions, she wanted to bite her handkerchief and press their heads together.

It’s not that she is a lesbian, but anyone with eyes can see how special Yi Yan’s attitude towards Gu Liangyi is, right?

"What are you standing here for? Where's the bullet?"

The deep questioning voice behind her frightened Jin Xuan so much that she turned her head sharply: "Captain Yi, you are here?"

She gave an embarrassed smile as if she was caught distracted in class by the teacher, but when Jin Xuan saw Yi Yan's outfit in front of her, she couldn't help but her heart beat faster.

In fact, Yi Yan was still wearing his usual black T-shirt and overalls today. Although he looked very handsome, you would get used to it after seeing it for a long time. However, today he also had a heavy sniper rifle on his back, and his cold and sharp eyes were like a bullet piercing the sky.

But Jin Xuan knew that Yi Yan always had the same cold attitude in front of everyone.

——Except Gu Liangyi.

...I really hate some double standards in showing affection, the key is that the parties involved haven't noticed it yet.

Jin Xuan secretly complained.

But she immediately went to work quickly and reported to the captain: "Captain, the bullet is missing!"

Yi Yan frowned immediately: "Who took it? Go check the surveillance!"

"Report, it must be Gu Liangyi who took it! I saw him walk out of the room just now like a thief!"

Seeing Yi Yan's sudden silence, Jin Xuan tried to tighten the corners of her mouth, lowered her head and bit her lower lip tightly.

No! Hold on, you can't laugh!

"Since the bullets have been taken away in advance, you should clean up this floor." Yi Yan glanced at her and said calmly, "I will help you put in a few good words in front of Instructor Jiao when the time comes."

“…No, Captain!!!”

School hospital.

"This is a heart rate monitoring patch," the school doctor unbuttoned Gu Liangyi's chest and helped him stick a thin, round patch with a faint blue glow on his left chest. "It will record your heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse oxygen data at all times. Once it reaches a dangerous value, it will immediately notify all special task force members and the school's liaison department within 3,000 meters of you."

"alright."

Gu Liangyi lowered his head and glanced at his chest. He didn't feel anything, but this high-tech thing really looked a bit like the same power source in the chest of a certain Iron Man, except that it was thinner and attached externally.

"It shouldn't be harmful to health if this thing is kept close to the body for a long time, right?"

Zong Qinyuan asked with some concern.

After all, he has reached the age where he often watches health short videos and forwards them to family groups, so he is very sensitive to radiation and all food safety issues.

"Don't worry, it's just like wearing a watch. It just records data. Its structure is very simple."

The school doctor smiled and started to pack up: "Okay, Gu Liang, get up and move around. See if there's anything wrong."

As soon as Gu Liang got out of bed, he tentatively did a couple of chest expansion exercises while sitting down, then jumped a couple of times on the spot. He felt no different from usual.

"Yes, the heart rate has increased," the school doctor looked down at the data, "once it exceeds or falls below a certain range, an alarm will be sounded. Congratulations, Gu Liang, you have succeeded in getting the same treatment as my 98-year-old grandfather."

Gu Liangyi: “…………”

Zong Qinyuan rubbed his head and said, "To put it nicely, it should be the treatment of a giant panda. By the way, Gu Liang, I heard that you adopted a cat from the school?"

"Yes." Gu Liang nodded slightly. It was the fat raccoon cat that he had once held in his arms on campus.

"Have you registered your name with the stray cat club?"

Speaking of this, Gu Liangyi couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"I've registered," he finally said hesitantly under the curious gazes of Zong Qinyuan and the school doctor, "My name is... Guliangmao."

“Hahahahahahahaha!”

Sure enough, a burst of happy laughter came from the school infirmary.

Gu Liangyi lowered his head deeply, his ears turned red, and he looked like he wanted to bury himself under the tiles.

"It's okay, this name is good and catchy," Zong Qinyuan said with a smile, "It sounds nice and easy to remember."

He smiled for a while, looked at the sunset outside the window, and the smile on his face suddenly faded away.

"Gu Liang."

"Hmm?" Gu Liangyi finally raised his head and looked at him, "Principal Zong, what's the matter?"

"Go into the city tomorrow, remember to be careful." Zong Qinyuan warned, "You may have to stay in the city for a long time this time. As for the matter of the spy, although I said that the trickery can be left to Mr. Gong, if there is a need for you to show up in person, remember, nothing is more precious than your life."

Gu Liangyi couldn't help but become serious because of his attitude and nodded heavily.

"I understand, Principal Zong."

*

Morton City, inside the city lord’s tower.

The city lord in a black robe propped up his chin and looked down at the fortune teller who was trembling with fear and was predicting the resurrection of the demon god. He slowly opened his mouth and asked impatiently, "So, has the demon god awakened? And is the Seris store in the city opened by a demon god believer?"

"The answer to the first question... I can't see it clearly for now," the fortune teller said while holding the crystal ball in his hand. "It's very vague... But the answer to the second question is very clear."

He bent down humbly, with the tip of his long nose, like Pinocchio, almost touching his feet.

"——They are indeed believers of Seris, brave warriors who are not afraid of death, respected Lord City Lord."

The city lord above fell into a long silence.

Could it be that this group of people are collecting a large amount of magic crystals in order to resurrect the devil?

Are they here for the "key" as well? Or do they already know the whereabouts of another key?

"You know what?" He suddenly said, his hoarse voice echoing in the empty Central Inquisition, with a strange, captivating resonance, "For decades, I have been trying to uncover the secrets of this mechanical city."

He raised his pale and skinny fingers and lowered his eyes to admire the strange mechanism in his palm that looked like an irregular Rubik's Cube.

At first glance, it is just an angular polyhedron, but upon closer inspection, it is actually a spell entity composed of countless tiny cubes, whose shape is constantly changing.

"Do you know what this is?" he asked kindly.

"No...I don't know."

"It's a key," the city lord said in an exaggerated aria-like tone, with a long tail sound, "It is one of the three most outstanding works left by the demon god Seris in his life, and it is also the only mechanism that can control this tower."

"But this is not enough."

"As long as I have the other key, and the two are combined, I can truly revive the legendary Morton Mechanical City!" The city lord suddenly raised his voice, "The city you see now is just a boring, inferior and ugly imitation! The real Mechanical City can not only fly into the sky and hide underground, but can even transform itself into a weapon that can dominate everything -"

He panted, then suddenly relaxed, leaned back, and laughed nervously:

"Tell me where the remaining two keys are, and I'll let you go."

The fortune teller held up the crystal ball tremblingly.

"Two... one is in your hand, and the other one is in..." Pale green blood gradually flowed out of his seven orifices, but the fortune teller was shaking with pain, but he did not dare to stop, "In..."

"I saw it!" The fortune teller suddenly shouted in ecstasy, "It's in this city! Yes, it's here!"

The curve of the city lord's mouth gradually widened and he smiled.

"very good."

He praised softly.

After saying this, his index finger moved slightly.

The fortune teller screamed because he found that the flagstones under his feet suddenly began to lower, while the ground around him rose in steps.

Six bone judgement seats that were several meters high rose from the ground. Each seat seemed to be made of the bones of a skull dragon. The inside of the hideous skulls hanging at the top of the judgement seats seemed to be filled with the cold resentment and murderous intent of the undead.

As the space changed, the surrounding skylights opened one by one. The light was like the first ray of sunlight shining into the pyramid. It was refracted repeatedly by the mirrors in the room, and accurately passed through the empty eye sockets of the bone dragons on each judgment seat, projecting into the center of the open space.

That is, the unlucky fortune teller.

The fortune teller's legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

"Look at this miraculous mechanical creation," the city lord stood up suddenly, opened his arms on the steps, and looked at the mural on the dome with a crazy look, "feel proud! You are lucky enough to witness its activation with your own eyes - three thousand years ago, the great demon god descended from the sky on it!"

"What do you mean his power disappeared after being sealed... He just fell asleep in the 'cocoon' again!"

The fortune teller suddenly looked around in horror, because he saw six black-robed and silver-faced wizards suddenly appeared on the originally empty judgment seat!

"But after today, this will no longer be a treasure that belongs exclusively to the Demon God." The city lord announced, "I will definitely get the key. Thank you for witnessing this moment."

"Goodbye, lowly incompetent."

Screams echoed throughout the courtroom, and a raging fire suddenly broke out on the open space where the fortune teller was standing!

In just a few breaths, the originally vibrant life turned into a pile of charcoal.

At the moment when the charcoal fell to the ground, a crack appeared in the ground. The black hole completely swallowed it and then spit it out again in front of a mage of the Judgment Seat.

——It turned into a magic crystal.

However, the city lord has worked hard on research for decades, but still hasn't figured out how it is able to turn corpses of any race into magic crystals, and why they are teleported to a different judgement seat each time. It is so mysterious and there is no pattern to it at all.

——It was like even if he had the "key", he could not see the true secret of this tower.

"My friends," the city lord suppressed his inner thoughts and sat back on the main judgment seat. He looked around and was satisfied to see that these fallen mages were all shocked by the scene just now. He said in a soft voice, "Next, let's discuss how to make the followers of the demon god hand over the key obediently."

But what he didn't know was that all the unusual movements inside the tower at this time were recorded in 360 degrees without blind spots by the detection drone flying at high altitude using high-powered detectors.

The footage was transmitted to the basement floor of the Seris shop. The two special task force members sitting in front of the surveillance camera did not speak for a long time.

"Well," after a long while, someone finally spoke up slowly, "Look at this place... Although it's very magical and grand, the ventilation and incineration followed by secondary processing and sorting looks a little familiar, doesn't it?"

"…What do you want to say?"

The member crossed his arms and thought:

"——I wonder if the actual purpose of this tower is to be a garbage recycling station."

The author has something to say:

That’s right, in fact, the real Demon God Seris and the Singer are in the same industry, both are cleaners from a higher civilization.

The different levels of development and directions between civilizations led to a strong information barrier, so the city lord had not figured out the problem for half his life, but University student Mo could see through the truth at a glance. So far, there are a total of three different types of records left by civilizations in this world. Looking back at Antonio's predictions, everyone should understand what he meant.