Chapter 118 Coincidence?

Su Lun put the four "Divine Forbidden Objects" on the platform into the small void realm, leaving behind the [Eleventh Cosmic Source Material - Myriad Aspects] and [A Fragment of a Shattered Plane Manifestation Body].

This was because these two treasures were the core of maintaining the existence of this mirror space, and Su Lun wasn't sure what would happen after he took them.

Looking at the bookshelves in the sky, Su Lun didn't want to leave them here. But moving them all would be too much work.

Stuffing them in one by one was definitely unrealistic.

Now the royal family and the academy must have discovered the hidden barrier in the library, and they were probably studying how to break in. So every moment of delay increased the risk.

The appraisal of the [Fragment of a Shattered Plane Manifestation Body] showed that it could be integrated into Su Lun's own small void realm, but he wasn't sure what would happen after the integration. If these copied books were destroyed, it would be a loss.

Fortunately, Su Lun wasn't alone; he had a strong support team.

He contacted the knowledgeable Mr. Black with the communicator.

But Mr. Black said that he had seen some descriptions in the classics, but because these things were too high-end, he couldn't give any accurate advice and told him to ask Mr. Mirror.

Su Lun thought about it and dialed his senior sister's communication: "Senior sister, I have encountered some problems here and want to consult you."

A concise response came quickly from the communicator, "Speak."

Su Lun said: "I am now in the mirror library of the Luying Royal Library. I see several 'Divine Forbidden Objects' and I don't know how to deal with them..."

After listening, Mr. Mirror knew as expected.

She said directly: "You can directly integrate the plane fragment. The entire folded space will become part of your small void realm, including those books. The two spaces will not have any impact. As for the other [Cosmic Source Material], this is a very precious material. It is the ultimate product of alchemy after refining the laws, and an essential item for alchemists to advance to the ninth-tier. You can also understand it as the cosmic law foundation similar to the 'divine spark' condensed by the divine system. It's just that the ancient alchemists developed this alchemical product to replace it, allowing alchemists to have a way to touch the original cosmic laws..."

"..."

Su Lun was shocked by the explanation of these high-end words.

The effect of merging the space fragment was similar to what he thought.

But that [Cosmic Source Material], it turned out that this thing was needed to advance to the ninth tier?

Hearing this, a strange thought immediately popped into Su Lun's mind.

His senior sister's talent was [Mirror Guardian], and her ability was to replicate various techniques. It couldn't be such a coincidence that this thing was the material she needed to advance, right?

Su Lun asked directly: "Senior sister, can you use this thing?"

On the other end of the communicator, Mr. Mirror responded without thinking, "Yes. This is the opportunity to advance to the ninth tier that I told you I was looking for."

Coincidence?

Obviously not.

Su Lun tasted these words slightly and felt that things seemed to be pulled by a rope called fate.

Since this [Cosmic Source Material] was an alchemical product, it meant that it was artificially refined. And it had the effect of "mirror copying", not some other seventh, eighth, or ninth source material... It seemed that someone had specially left it for his senior sister.

Su Lun thought of something and asked, "Senior sister, did your father leave this for you?"

"Well, most likely."

Mr. Mirror didn't hide anything from Su Lun.

Although she didn't say it definitively, she was actually certain.

She added: "Every time an alchemist advances a level, they are actually deepening their understanding of the entire universe. And alchemists cannot rely on the path of believers to assist their understanding of the world like the divine system. So we need some external objects. Especially when we are about to step into the ninth tier, touching the peak of human beings, it is almost impossible to cross through normal perception. Therefore, the predecessors in the alchemy field have developed an alchemical object that steals the original cosmic laws - [Cosmic Source Material]."

After a pause, she continued: "Refining the Cosmic Source Material requires a magical object [Philosopher's Stone], but that kind of thing can no longer be refined in this broken plane, and the refining method has long been lost. Even a thousand years ago, if eighth-tier alchemists wanted to advance to the ninth tier, they could only rely on chance to advance with materials excavated from various ancient ruins. Using one means one less. And when I was in hibernation, no new Philosopher's Stone was found in Dawn City. But you said it was the [Eleventh Source Material - Myriad Aspects], it should have been found and refined by my father later..."

Su Lun also understood after listening.

This material was an exclusive law material, and it was almost useless for others to obtain it.

Only Mr. Mirror could use it.

So no matter when she woke up, as long as the thing was still there, it would most likely enter her field of vision.

Her father had really put a lot of thought into it.

Sure enough, when in doubt, look for senior sister.

Having a senior figure who had seen the scenery at the top of the world could save a lot of detours.

Su Lun felt that he had gained a lot by listening to his senior sister's explanation of the origin of this [Cosmic Source Material].

Although he couldn't use it himself, as long as his senior sister could advance to the ninth tier, "Dawn" would really have a master of the heavens.

This also indirectly increased Su Lun's ability to protect himself.

The golden thigh became thicker and thicker, which was a good thing.

At least if Su Lun wanted to be a salted fish in the second half of his life, someone could cover him.

But Mr. Mirror said that she didn't know the origin of the other items, such as the coffin and the golden wings.

Don't look at the fact that Sir Isaac was a demigod back then, but in terms of the number of treasures and wealth, the Isaac family was definitely not as rich as the monarchical Bonar royal family of Luying.

These six collections were the result of the entire empire's collection for hundreds of years.

After hanging up the communication, Su Lun didn't delay and began to arrange the alchemical array on the platform.

He began the work of directly integrating the entire space into the small void realm.

......

On the other hand.

As Su Lun expected, Winifred, the dean of the Royal Library, discovered the traces left by Kit's second explosion in the treasure room and quickly discovered the anomaly.

Originally, only some collections were lost, which wasn't too big of a problem.

After all, the most valuable item among the lost items was [Isaac's Alchemical Manuscript], but those contents had already been completely copied. Losing the manuscript was just a loss of face.

But seeing the big pit that exploded in the treasure room, Winifred didn't even need to observe too carefully to discover the hidden restriction.

As the old dean of the Royal Academy for decades, no one knew better than him that the Royal Academy had a "Mirror Library" hundreds of years ago.

This was an incredible discovery.

Even if it was really that mirror library, the stolen items could be considered a blessing in disguise.

After all, the Royal Library had suffered dozens of natural and man-made disasters in the past few hundred years, and hundreds of thousands of precious collections had been lost. If there was a backup in the mirror library, those lost knowledge could be seen again.

But the method of entry had been lost, and even if he discovered that there was a folded space here, he didn't have the authority to enter.

Then the old man notified the royal family.

The royal family also sent experts to investigate and help break the restriction as soon as possible.

There was even a royal prince who came to supervise in person.

But the initial progress of the cracking was not ideal.

The Royal Academy's treasure room had the strongest anti-theft restriction in the plane, which was not just bragging. The folded space was a barrier from hundreds of years ago, but it was still a top-level encrypted restriction even now. Not only was it not easier to unlock, but it also stumped a group of experts.

After all, it was a royal private collection, so the experts first thought of breaking the restriction little by little instead of violent destruction.

Fortunately, the court offered to search the treasure room of the Friedrich Palace and accidentally found some diagrams of the barrier design.

With the diagrams, the group of restriction-breaking experts finally had a way to crack it.

A group of experts worked from midnight to morning before finally breaking the barrier.

When they were full of expectations to see what treasures were hidden in the legendary "Mirror Library", they saw a scene that made them unbelievable.

They found that behind the barrier gate, it was empty and there was nothing!

Not to mention any mirror collections, even the folded space was gone.

It disappeared without a trace.

But since it had been determined that this barrier was where the "Mirror Library" was located, it was a big problem that it was now gone.

Although the royal family wasn't sure whether the Mirror Library disappeared during the coup hundreds of years ago or later.

But looking at the traces of the second explosion, they also vaguely guessed that Kit might know something.

After calculating the power of the explosion, the experts also determined that Kit had opened the barrier.

The royal family immediately sent people from the military intelligence department to search for Kit all over the city.

But unexpectedly, that guy had already left Lington on a midnight smuggling ship.

.......

The first ray of sunshine in the morning shone through the window glass, illuminating the cabin.

The vendors in the downstairs district had already started the morning market, and the noise gradually increased. The early morning steam train also made a roar, speeding past on the track, and the sound of the wheels rubbing against the rails was momentarily noisy.

Su Lun was meditating with his eyes closed, but his will descended into the small void realm to count the classics he had gained this time.

After succeeding last night, he didn't contact anyone again.

Although the mirror library had been integrated into the small void realm, cutting off all tracking methods, he wasn't sure whether the royal family of Luying would find him through other clues.

After all, the intelligence in Shabina's hands showed that the royal family and the military intelligence department had many top detective experts with mysterious methods.

The reason why petty theft couldn't be caught on weekdays wasn't because they couldn't be caught, but because it wasn't worth spending high-level manpower and resources to find them.

Now the matter of this mirror library would definitely use top-level resources.

Therefore, Su Lun didn't plan to take out those "stolen goods", including the manuscripts, in a short time.

He would feel relieved only after the storm had passed for a while and no one had come to him.

......

In the small void realm, after several months of transformation, the environment had changed greatly.

Because he had found many ancient classics in the cursed space in the North Sea before, including space transformation, Dr. Banks and the others had taken the time to transform the environment of the space while studying.

Now there was a large area of muddy ground covered by a gravitational field in the small void realm.

In addition to a castle for the researchers to live in, there was also a mechanical war factory exposed outside.

Not far from the castle, a pool of clear lake water was introduced, with fish and aquatic plants in the water. Flowers and grass were also planted on the open space outside the castle, and the trees became lush under the promotion. Artificial alchemical light sources provided light and heat to the entire space like small suns. The air circulation system blew a refreshing wind...

All of this wasn't arranged randomly, but a very advanced ancient energy circulation system.

It only needed to consume a little energy to maintain the circulation of all the energy in the space for a long time, including earth, wind, water, light, gravity... and so on.

If there were no edge restrictions in the space, it would have become an excellent secret survival realm like the "Void Secret Realm" at the beginning.

The hundreds of large mechanical equipment that Su Lun had obtained before had been put into production, and several mechanical production lines were continuously producing mechanical war armors and mechanical octopuses.

In the warehouse, hundreds of specially made mechanical puppets had been neatly stacked, as well as mountains of various ammunition.

The volume of the small void realm was also increasing day by day with Su Lun's advancement and his understanding of the laws of space.

Given time, it might not be impossible to become an excellent secret survival realm like the original "Void Secret Realm".

Now there was also a mirror library, which directly expanded the entire space by nearly twice.

Dr. Banks and the others were also surprised to see the sudden appearance of the library.

Knowledge was the best entertainment for these researchers.

The mechanical technology of Luying was very backward, but that didn't mean that there was no ancient mechanical and biological technology knowledge excavated from the ruins in the Royal Library.

In fact, the quantity might not be less than the collections in the Mafa Royal Library.

It was just that they were not popular, and they were dusty in the corners of the bookshelves.

And the mirror library had almost all the collections in the Luying Royal Library, including those high-authority classics that ordinary people couldn't access.

With these classics, Dr. Banks was overjoyed and said that he could even stay here for the rest of his life.

......

Su Lun saw two black notebooks lying in the corner of the small void realm, and had a sense of accomplishment of collecting stamps: "Two now... It is now confirmed that the Lejia family still has one. Yekaterina agreed to use it as a condition for exchange, so it can be easily obtained at that time. As for the last two, we have to inquire about it..."

After looking through the second alchemical manuscript, it still introduced the refining method of the [Isaac's Giant Power] implantation from the shallow to the deep.

Su Lun had already learned some secrets of the notebook from Cerelia. The notes in this manuscript not only recorded a refining method of implantation, but also a complete alchemical system and idea.

After carefully looking through it from beginning to end, he understood some of it, and there was still a lot that he didn't understand.

But after all, the thing was in his hands, and he would have the opportunity to look through it slowly in the future.

And this [Isaac's Giant Power], the main material needed was some kind of "muscle tissue with the power characteristics of the giant race".

Su Lun's warehouse happened to have an [Arm of the Hundred-Armed Giant King] brought out from the cursed space.

Even if it was a corpse material, its power-based curse characteristics were the most Su Lun had ever seen.

It was perfect for refining this implantation.

However, because the grade of the main material was too high, his current ability couldn't refine such a high-level implantation.

It wouldn't be too late to start after Mr. Mirror brought the [Vulcan's Furnace Lamp], the tool necessary for refining top-level implantation.

......

After looking through the contents of the manuscript, Su Lun's consciousness floated back and forth in those bookshelves again.

Su Lun found too many classics that he was interested in.

The contents of these hundreds of millions of classics were all-encompassing, not only involving almost all the knowledge in the field of alchemy, but also various ancient contents left by other civilizations, such as magical civilizations, witchcraft civilizations, combat qi civilizations, alien beast civilizations, gods, ancient bloodline races... and so on.

It was really like seeing a kaleidoscope, allowing Su Lun to see the tip of the iceberg of this colorful world.

Those ancient secrets that were once monopolized by the Luying noble class were all in front of him.

Su Lun felt that if he had nothing to do, he would be willing to stay here for many years to read the knowledge treasures left by the many brilliant civilizations that had been submerged in the dust of history.

Even if he only looked at the titles of these books, it would probably take several months.

It was really a sigh of the ocean, and he was also full of expectations for the joy of swimming in the ocean of knowledge.

Su Lun was immersed in this feeling.

Before long, he heard a noise.

The sun came out, and the early morning newsboys were already hawking today's newspapers in the streets.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers! Come and see, super big news! The Royal Academy was stolen last night, and the 'Phantom Thief' Kit successfully stole Isaac's notes! Assassination reappears, important members of the Grand Councillor's family were assassinated on the street..."

Listening to the hawking downstairs, Su Lun got up and opened the window.

The newsboy downstairs heard the sound and looked up: "Sir, would you like a copy? It's only one Liso."

Su Lun said: "Give me a newspaper."

"Okay!"

The newsboy responded excitedly, rolled it up, and threw it into the window very accurately.

Su Lun also flicked a coin down.

Then he opened the "Lington Daily", which was still filled with the fragrance of ink, and began to read it.

As soon as he opened it, the front page was printed with Kit's very handsome face.

Suit and hat, monocle, the corner of his mouth was raised evilly, and his eyes had a strong sense of lens.

It looked like this guy himself found that he was being caught by a reporter and then showed his face in front of the camera.

The photos in this newspaper would probably be treasured by the ladies of Lington again.

Su Lun couldn't laugh or cry, and looked at the content again.

Many people witnessed the theft last night, and the newspaper described the entire process in great detail. However, it didn't mention that the royal treasure room was blown open by explosives, but only said that the Lington Police Department was investigating the theft methods.

The entire content didn't have any reports about the "Mirror Library", so it seemed that the outside world didn't know.

In addition to Kit's front page, there was also the news of the assassination.

But obviously the content was deliberately restricted. The assassination involving the top nobles only had a title short news, and the content only had a general time and place. Other than that, even the name of "Augustus" didn't appear.

Su Lun glanced at the few pages of content in the newspaper and didn't find any information that he was too interested in, so he put it down and continued to meditate.

In the room, the harbinger "Crow Grandpa" was lying on the bed in the shape of the Chinese character "大" like a human, waving its wings while sleeping, without any appearance of a bird.

Time was also peaceful.

If there were no accidents, Su Lun planned to stay here for a few days. Until Mr. Mirror came, or until the day he was scheduled to go to the palace to bless with Yekaterina.

But for some reason, after dawn, Su Lun always felt an increasingly uneasy feeling in his heart.

Mirror library? Kit was too high-profile and was caught?

Or the Red Death, Evil God, or something else?

Su Lun didn't know where the source of the unease was.

But Crow Grandpa didn't issue a warning, and he didn't move abnormally either, vigilantly paying attention to all the movements around him.

A few hours passed like this, probably at noon, and Su Lun's communicator suddenly rang urgently.

It was a urgent message from Aberk: "Teacher, it's not good, my sister seems to have been kidnapped!"

Su Lun's eyes narrowed as he listened.

He finally determined the source of the unease.

Since awakening the second solution of the [Death Reaper] talent, Su Lun's crisis perception ability was extremely strong. Although it wasn't clear enough, he was also sure that the previous unease was directed at him!

Hearing this news, Su Lun's first reaction was that the brother and sister were implicated because of something he did.

Hearing Aberk's communication, he didn't ask in detail at all. He pinched the warlock's seal, and in the blink of an eye, he had appeared in a hotel room.

There were many puppet parts in the room, which was the temporary studio of Aberk's siblings.

Su Lun looked at Aberk, who had a serious face, and asked, "What's going on?"

Aberk watched his teacher come over, put down the communicator in his hand, and explained the whole thing very quickly, "Yesterday, my sister received an invitation from that Alex Roberts to take a boat to visit the Loko Warren River today. An hour ago, a car came to pick up my sister. I also specifically confirmed that one of the people who came was the bodyguard of the young master Alex that I had seen before. Then I didn't pay much attention and continued to work on my puppet. But three minutes ago, another car came and said that it was sent by young master Alex to pick up people. Only then did I know that there was a problem..."

An hour ago?

Su Lun's eyes narrowed when he heard this.

Aberk said all the key information, and just by listening to this information, an atmosphere of conspiracy rushed towards him.

The one who did it was definitely not young master Alex.

But there was one of his bodyguards in the first group of people, which meant that the force behind the scenes was definitely not small. Otherwise, it would be impossible to install an undercover agent in such a Grand Councillor's family.

Su Lun didn't have time to question that young master Alex and immediately perceived Karma's location.

He had given space-marked jewelry to the important people around him, and Karma also had a ring on her.

"Twelve kilometers southwest, it should be near the leather market in the Franklin district..."

Su Lun thought in his heart, pinched the warlock's seal, and black light of the space alchemy array lit up under his feet.

Looking again, the surrounding scenery changed, and he had teleported to the intersection of a noisy street.

Su Lun didn't teleport directly to the location of the space coordinates, but was a few hundred meters away.

After walking a few steps in the direction of perception, he saw a shop with the sign "Fuxing Pawnshop" hanging. The space coordinates of Karma's ring were inside.

Su Lun's eyes turned and revealed a hint of thought.

He took out the black umbrella as a cane, cautiously perceived it, and found that there were no high-level professionals around, so he walked in.

The pawnshop was not large, and inside was a treasure collection platform separated by an iron fence, with a man with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks sitting inside.

Su Lun guessed that the ring might have been pawned.

He also deduced some information: the ring could only fall into the hands of a kidnapper. Most likely it was a member of a gang. Lacking money, ignorant, greedy, secretly took off the ring and pawned it here.

He asked directly: "Someone pawned a bronze rune ring here before, where is it now? Who pawned this ring?"

Hearing this, the pointed-mouthed man knew that he was looking for trouble, and his eyes also showed disdain and gloom. He said coldly: "I don't know where you came from, but don't you know whose territory this is?"

Su Lun released his killing intent and said coldly: "I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. You only have one chance, speak. Otherwise, you will die."

Karma had been captured for an hour, and now every moment of delay increased her life risk.

If it was a layout against Su Lun, he himself was in more danger.

Only by finding a breakthrough as soon as possible could Su Lun find someone before the other party's layout was perfected, so as not to be controlled everywhere.

The pointed-mouthed man was not afraid at all. He raised his hand and took out a three-barreled shotgun from under the counter, mocking: "This is the territory of the 'Viper Gang'. Before you speak, you should first weigh whether you are qualified..."

The key words were said by this guy, and Su Lun didn't give him a chance to waste his time with the following threatening nonsense.

Su Lun also saw from the man's micro-expression that this man must know the kidnapper!

With a single hand gesture, a silk thread had already cut a blood mark on the pointed-mouthed man's neck. He didn't understand who he had offended until he died.

A cloud of "gray fog" emerged.

Su Lun frowned slightly after harvesting, "Kahn 'Rotten Teeth' of the Viper Gang..."

The person who pawned the ring was as he expected, this pointed-mouthed man really knew the kidnapper, who was a gang member.

But this "Viper Gang" had a big background. This was a part of the underworld organization left behind after the "Hydra", one of the three major gangs in Lington, was whitewashed.

And the gold master behind Hydra was the Andres family, one of the six Grand Councillors.

Su Lun sorted out the causal relationship and frowned. He felt that he didn't seem to have any grudges with this Andres family, and the other party shouldn't have the motive to attack.

"That's not right! Caroline, who I met on the cruise ship before, knew about the relationship between Karma and me, and she was a member of Hydra. The information should have been leaked from her!"

Su Lun didn't delay and asked Shabina about the main activity places of this gang, and went directly to the door.

He didn't know who was plotting against him now, but obviously, he might have to kill a lot today.