Jim, who didn't know what was going on, watched Graylingt messing around alone, and anxiously circled around him.
Unfortunately, the "Weight of Knowledge" became the size of a full-length mirror, and its thickness was two or three times the height of others standing up, so he was unable to "steal" this sealed object and attract Gray Linte's attention.
Then he simply jumped onto Gray Lint's shoulder to watch him operate.
"Did you find anything? Jim."
Putting away the "weight of knowledge", Gray Lint held Jim in the palm of his hand and pinched the back of his neck out of habit...
Jim shook the long beard on both sides of his mouth:
"It makes me want to steal it."
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This may prove that it is more valuable?
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After resting for a night, Gray Lint and Joan bid farewell to Weize, and under the leadership of Extraordinary Fitch, set foot on the road south to Vertek.
Fitch is a mid-sequence Beyonder, Sequence Six. However, Gray Lint is not clear about the Beyonder path he is on, and can only confirm that he is not the "arbitrator" or "lawyer" path.
He is a short man in his fifties, with simple features and a high hairline.
He has the military rank of "lieutenant colonel", but he does not wear a military uniform, but wears clothing with the characteristics of the southern continent.
According to what he said, his father immigrated to the Southern Continent before he was born, so he was considered a native of the Southern Continent.
On the west side of the ancient deep forest is the Pass River Valley.
On March 5, a group of three of them plus the driver took a special ox cart from the Southern Continent and drove along the edge of the Pas River Valley towards Vertek.
Although it is said to be a "special oxcart", its speed is only about 1/5 of that of a steam train. At this speed, it would take them about eleven or two days to reach Vertex.
At such a speed, if something unexpected happened in Vertek and there was no time to send a telegram to notify, basically by the time the first-level branch received the news, the entire city might have been captured.
"So the Vertek branch has a special sealed item."
Fitch explained:
"That is a level 2 sealed object, its number is 2-07, and its name is 'Guiding Lantern'."
"Extraordinary people who hold the 'Guiding Lantern' can use the spirit world to travel."
"This can ensure that at least one Beyonder survives and conveys the latest situation to the headquarters."
Many members of MI9 in the Southern Continent often call the "Tetnik First Level Branch" "Headquarters", and the other three "Second Level Branches" are simply called "branch offices".
Using the spirit world to travel?
Which poor "traveller" was made into a magical item?
Upon hearing Fitch's description, Gray Lint immediately guessed that the "Guiding Lantern" was made of the extraordinary characteristics of "The Traveler".
Presumably this lantern cannot carry others through the spirit world, otherwise the headquarters would send a telegram directly asking the captain to pick them up, which would be much faster.
"By the way, Mr. Fitch."
"Can you tell us some information about the Vertex branch?"
"I hope I can learn more about it in advance, so that we may be able to integrate more quickly after arriving."
This journey was boring anyway, so Graylint simply asked Fitch to tell him more information about Vertek.
For this reason, he specially spent 18 soles to buy 10 sticks of relatively good quality dry cigarettes for Fitch.
The soft-spoken Feiqi wiped the sweat from his face, nodded and said:
"it is my responsibility."
Unfortunately, he is not a very good narrator, and the information he gives is quite messy and disorganized.
Through Fitch's narration, Gray Lint learned that the city of Vertek existed as early as the Fourth Age. At that time, the Southern Continent was still ruled by the Balam Empire established by the God of Death.
After the death of the God of Death, Vertek later belonged to the Kingdom of Pas.
About two hundred years ago, after the Kingdom of Pars was destroyed by Loen and Intis, Vertek, located in East Balam, became one of Loen's four colonial cities.
The main people in Vertek today are immigrants from the Northern Continent and their descendants, as well as some indigenous people and mixed-race people.
The city's army is composed of Loen soldiers and servants, and is actually quite large.
Under the suppression of these military forces, the resistance forces launched in various small cities and villages actually did not have much strong anti-entrapment power.
However, to the west of Vertek there are indigenous forces that Loen is eager to conquer, and to the east there are unfriendly Feysac colonial forces. After allocating some forces to the two fronts, there are actually not many troops stationed in Vertek.
Sometimes it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of manpower.
As for the extraordinary power of the Vertek branch, Fitch was very clear in his explanation.
"Because in other small cities and towns, we have not set up lower-level branches."
"So we actually have a relatively large number of personnel in the Vertek branch. It is precisely for this reason that the attack on Vertek by the West Balam natives caused us considerable losses."
He tore some dry tobacco, twisted it and put it in the pipe, but did not light it.
"The Vertex branch's resident extraordinary forces include two mid-sequence extraordinarys and five to eight low-sequence extraordinarys."
Through the previous conversation, Gray Lint knew that most people here classified sequence nine to seven as low-sequence according to the ancient grading standards.
Considering that Vertek probably doesn’t have Sequence Five, the “mid-Sequence” that Fitch calls should be Sequence Six.
This kind of configuration is indeed relatively high for MI9, which is not focused on combat.
"Before that group of damn natives attacked, Vertek had two captains, deputy captains, and six ordinary members."
"After this battle, Kevin, the vice-captain of Sequence Six, was killed directly. He was a powerful 'judge'. In addition, four ordinary members were also killed."
"The Extraordinaries left behind are Captain Morgan and two ordinary players. One of them is the young man Mick, and the other is Ms. Athena."
"Colonel Morgan is a senior 'Corrupted Baron'. Only he relied on his strong strength and several second-level sealed artifacts from the branch to defeat the enemies who came in surprise, and protected the same route but one level lower than him.
Lady Athena."
Having said this, he chuckled and said:
"I heard that Colonel Morgan is secretly pursuing Ms. Athena."
"After this raid, they became obviously closer and seemed to have come together."
"I met Morgan several times before, and he was a very selfish person at that time."
"But I have to say that in the face of love, he is a real man. In order to protect Ms. Athena, he even broke off his right arm."
"Maybe this is the price he pays for impressing Ms. Athena."
After talking about the gossip, he said without paying much attention:
"As for Mick, he is a young man who was favored by the god of luck."
"He is the child of an Intis immigrant couple, and he has only joined the Vertex branch for half a year. When the raid occurred, he happened to be very lucky and went to the small town of York outside the city to carry out a simple mission.
Mission accomplished."
"Although he is from Intis, his parents both sacrificed their lives for the kingdom's colonial cause, so after Colonel Morgan reported to Your Excellency Calvin, Your Excellency agreed to include him as an exception."
"By the way, his extraordinary path is 'Soothsayer'."
Fortune teller!
Speaking of which, this was the first time that Gray Lint encountered a living Beyonder of this sequence in reality, the sequence where Klein, the protagonist of the original work, was located.