In the end, Nuomi's request was not met, and Professor Dou took him back, and Gudu naturally joined the team.
No more accidents happened along the way. Several people arrived in Occi County successfully. At this time, there was no one here. It seemed that the clearing done by Maple Leaf High School was really very thorough.
However, it’s a blessing that it’s Oci County, so it wouldn’t be so easy if it were other places.
Occi County is a very well-known tourist destination in Maple Leaf County. The entire city was built in an ancient city that was once very famous in Maple Leaf County, but the area has been reduced a lot. Naturally, there are not many local residents here. Those places that seem to be private houses are actually homestays. Most of the people here are staff members who come to work from other places.
Several people parked their carriages on the streets of Occi County. Except for the taciturn coachman, the others followed Professor Dou through retro alleys and arrived outside a tower.
Compared to the Chinese-style purple tower that Yi Liuling had seen, this tower is a typical Western-style pagoda, with snow-white all over the body and exquisite reliefs on each floor.
Before walking to the entrance of the tower, they also need to pass through an extremely empty square square. Professor Dou walked to a corner of the square and squatted down. This piece of the square planted a tall pine tree, so the ground was not sealed with stone slabs.
"Nuomi, take out my plate." Professor Dou stretched out his hand to Nuomi. The latter had been pouting since the beginning of being stopped by Professor Dou. He didn't look very good, but once it was involved in the scope of work, he immediately became serious and took out a metal plate with complex runes on it from the storage prop and handed it over.
"Wow, is this a compass?" Fei Huihua thought this thing was very similar to something in her hometown. "Are you going to start surveying?"
"Oh, no, this is the lock screen interface." Professor Dou quickly shook his head, pointed to the runes on it with his fingers, connecting part of them, and then the runes on the metal plate disappeared, revealing a complete alchemy screen. "In this era, we no longer need such ancient things, tools, Nuomi."
Nuomi took out two L-shaped metal needles from the storage props again, held the shorter section of them in both hands, and pointed the longer one in parallel to the front.
"I wonder if this isn't it more primitive?" Ji Shuzhai looked at the dragon-seeking ruler Nuomi was holding in shock, and whispered to Yi Liuling, "I thought there would be a scanner that would sound drippingly in the ancient tomb."
"Didi." Nuomi suddenly made a sound, then looked at the few people who were successfully attracted by her attention, and said proudly, "It's ringing."
"We did use alchemy detectors at the beginning, but these high-tech things are very expensive and often cannot withstand damage or inaccurate results in harsh environments. This is also something we must face in our daily work." Professor Dou saw this and explained, "This probe was found in a secret tomb. Its conditions for recognition are extremely harsh. Only Nuomi can be used in our group, and it is not effective in others' hands."
As he said that, he glanced at Nuomi, who smashed his mouth and lit his head: "It doesn't work."
So that seems to make sense. Yi Liuling looked at Professor Dou thoughtfully. For some reason, he always felt that the latter's attitude was a bit strange, because generally, people from the Scholars Association rarely explain so much to the guards, as if they were afraid that they would think too much.
Of course, it is impossible to say that Professor Dou is such a rare scholar who is "appropriate" and "loves explanation".
Nuomi turned around, and the dragon-seeking ruler in her hand suddenly pointed in a direction: "Huh?"
"Finished?" Professor Dou asked.
Nuomi nodded, walked for a while with her calf shaking, stopped in front of a stone brick, and made a "drip" sound.
It seems that Nuomi has kept Ji Shuzhai’s complaints in her heart, because what she makes is the sound of human thoughts, not the sound of machines. She is obviously not an alchemy doll loli.
"It's actually in the town, which is similar to the previous inference." Professor Dou was happy at first, but then he became frowning. "Will you have to pay for the repair fee in this way? It's a huge expense."
"Oh," Nuomi also had a bitter face, "The funding is small."
"Then are we going to smash this stone brick?" Jonathan was eager to try. The incident that broke the wall in Grugway before that secretly revealed that the secret passage had obviously given him great inspiration.
"Just pry it open," Professor Dou showed a rare panic expression. "You can still pay less if you leave a complete brick."
"Then leave this to me," Feihuihua volunteered, "I have worked as a bricklayer."
"You are really 360,000, and you are just a slap in every way." Kun Yi complained.
Feihui gave him a blank look: "You are more like a person when you sleep in a carriage."
"What does it mean to be like a person? Is it okay to be a human being?" Kunyi retorted.
Fei Huihua stuck out his tongue at him, then took out the tool from the bracelet, and pried up the stone brick about one square meter in a few seconds. Ji Shuzhai and Jonathan on the side were prepared, and each of them lifted him aside.
"Thank you for your care," Professor Dou reminded him, and then he squatted down beside the exposed ground, pinched a small handful of soil with his hands, and rubbed it, "Nothing is abnormal."
"Does it need to be dug down?" Ji Shuzhai asked enthusiastically, "Brother Ling's potted plants can be dug in the ground."
"I can indeed dig down," Yi Liuling added beside him, "My potted plants can reach deep underground, but are you sure what you are looking for is just below the geographical location?"
"You are very keen," Professor Dou's eyes were filled with appreciation, "I guess you have heard of the story from that time, right? Those ancient tombs are all in different spaces, so it depends on this."
This time, Professor Dou did not ask Nuomi for anything again, but pulled out a red rope from his collar. At the end of the red rope was a jade bi the size of about half a palm.
He carefully untied the metal buckle of the jade bi with the red rope, took it off, and then placed it flat on the soil.
At this moment, the jade bi suddenly burst out with dazzling golden light, covering everyone.
After about five seconds, the light faded.
"I'm super, Brother Ji, don't let go suddenly!" Jonathan looked at the stone bricks that fell to the ground because he was only holding them. "If you lose money, you will be repaired by Sister Hua."
"This is not the point, right?" Angela said, "What's important is that we didn't get in the car!"
Jonathan turned his head and saw Angela standing alone next to the exposed ground, while the others who were originally here disappeared without a trace with the jade bi.