Magus Tech

Standing in the study, Richard saw five or six tall bookshelves lined up next to the wall, each of which was filled with books and scrolls.

With narrowed eyes, Richard walked to the front of one of the bookshelves, stepped on a dedicated wooden ladder, and reached for the top of the bookshelf.

Pushing away a large number of books and scrolls, Li Cha felt a cold black iron box placed on the innermost part of the bookshelf.The black iron box is more than thirty centimeters long and five to six centimeters high, with cumbersome lines engraved on the surface, which looks weird and mysterious.

With a slight effort, Li Cha pulled the black iron box out of the bookshelf, walked down the wooden ladder, and placed it on the wooden table in the study.

Put your hand on the surface and feel the ice-like touch. Your eyes flicker and your eyes fall on a depression on the surface.

The depression is matched with the metal lines on the surface. It looks like a cracked mouth. If you look at it from a special angle, you can still see a small line of uncheckable characters: wake me up with magic, I will tell you the world The truth.

Wizard Book!In other words, this is the shell of a wizard book...

This was found by Li Cha in the deepest part of the royal library, and its origins are not even clear to the oldest librarian.I only know that this is a quirky book, full of evil power, with a vicious curse. If you are in constant contact with it, it will be sick at the most, and deadly at the worst.

Li Cha naturally does not believe in the so-called curses and evil forces. In Li Cha's view, this book contains nothing but a volatile substance that is toxic to the human body.As long as you pay attention to the circulation of air, you can completely avoid chronic poisoning.

But trying to unlock the secrets in books is not easy.

Because the iron shell on the outside of the book has a special design, it is difficult to forcibly destroy it.If you really want to forcibly destroy it, there is a high probability of damaging the contents of the real books inside.

Richard can use some methods to reduce the chance of damage to a tolerable level, but he does not want to take risks, so he has been working hard to find enchanted creatures and people related to spells, hoping to get "magic".

Now it is done!

"call--"

Richard took a deep breath and tilted her head slightly, looking at the golden liquid on the side of the table.

"Right or wrong, the answer will be revealed immediately?" Richard said to himself, next time he picked up the bottle with the golden liquid, opened the stopper, and slowly poured it into the depression on the surface of the iron box.

Before long, the depression was filled.After half a day of rest, the click sounded like a chain reaction. The liquid in the depression boiled quickly, a large number of bubbles appeared, and the entire iron shell began to vibrate slightly.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

Then something seemed to be triggered, "Goodong", all the liquid was swallowed by the book instantly, and disappeared completely.

The vibration of the iron shell intensified, as if humans were trembling, which caused the tabletops to follow a vibration. At the end, there was a "click". The iron shell automatically opened like a box, revealing the true wizard book inside.

Richard gently took out the book and carefully placed it on the table. At this time, if there was a non-existent voice, it sounded from the depth of the book: "Who... who? Is... who?"

"Ok?"

Li Cha raised her eyebrows and opened the book.

I saw the first page of the book, empty, with an extremely horrifying skull in the middle.

There was a blazing flame in the skull's eyes. Like it was real, I don't know if it was an illusion. Richard felt that the temperature in the whole room was rising linearly.

This……

At the next moment, something even more shocking happened, the skulls in the painting moved, and the jaws whispered coldly together: "Who is it? Who wakes me up in the end? Who is ready to peek into Master Monroe's treasure of knowledge ? Answer me, or you will be punished the harshest!"

If the rest of the people were scared to death by seeing this, Li Cha did not. Instead, he squinted and looked at the skull on the page with interest, and asked, "Who are you?"

"I am a calligrapher created by Master Monroe to protect the safety of this book and screen the qualifications of people who read it."

"What can you do?"

"I can verify that everyone who reads this book is smart enough. If it is, then he will be qualified to read this book. If not, then he will pay the price for his own recklessness and ignorance."

"What price?"

"Death!" Shu Ling's voice was very cold.

Richard smiled: "It's a little interesting."

Then Richard asked: "How do you verify that everyone is smart enough?"

"I will exchange a question with everyone. If he can answer my question correctly and make me unable to answer his question, then even if he is smart enough. During the period when I cannot answer his question, he can Read the contents of this book at will without penalty."

"Is this..." Li Cha's eyes flashed. "So what's your problem?"

"Anyone who wants to peek into Master Monroe's knowledge, are you sure you want to start a challenge?" Shu Ling's voice became solemn.

"Always give it a try." Richard said, "Whether it is success or failure, I want to study your mechanism of action."

"..." Shu Ling was silent for a moment, as if thinking about what Richard said, and a half-loud voice came out, "Well, since you are sure of the challenge, then come to answer this difficult question: there is a strange creature, There are four legs in the morning and two legs at noon..."

Richard couldn't help but be surprised. Isn't this the Sphinx mystery on Greek mythology on modern earth?In Greek mythology, the sphinx monster "Sphinx" sits on a cliff near the city of Bibai, stopping passers-by and asking them the same riddle.

Many people couldn't guess the answer, and they were eaten up mercilessly by Sphinx. Later, a person named "Oedipus" guessed the correct answer. "Sphinx" was extremely ashamed. , Jumped off the cliff and died.

The next moment without waiting for Shu Ling to finish talking, Richard couldn't help but interrupt: "Don't tell me, what you want to say next is,'This creature will have three legs at night, when there are the most legs, It is also when he walks the slowest and has the weakest physical strength." Then asked me, "What is this creature?"

Shu Ling's voice came to an abrupt stop, falling into silence, falling into a long silence, as if he had encountered this situation for the first time.

Richard spoke again and said to Shu Ling: "Well, if this is really the case, then I can only tell you that the puzzle is'human'. Because people crawled when they were babies (morning) There are four legs, two legs for normal walking in adulthood (noon), and three legs for crutches in old age (at night).

But... the criterion for assessing cleverness is just such a puzzle similar to a brain teaser, is it really rigorous?Or does it mean that what you said is not the same as what I understand?You're biased towards wit, and I'm biased towards wisdom..."