The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 660 Rushing
In the crowd, Ankarina looked at Bal who had discovered her and exchanged a glance with him calmly.

Although she was somewhat surprised to meet Baal, that was all.

After Richard appeared, Barr's value was gone. After being brainwashed by the Control Bureau, Barr's memory of that night and even the Control Bureau was deleted.

Ankarina still has great confidence in the technology of the Control Bureau. If they can't even delete the memory of an ordinary person, then all the specialists in the Memory Department should commit suicide.

"Miss, have we met before?"

Just when Ankarina was full of confidence, Bal walked towards her and asked with some uncertainty.

"No." Ankarina answered simply and quickly, then she pretended to be disgusted, "This way of chatting up is too old-fashioned."

"Really? Then maybe I'm wrong."

Bal noticed Ankarina's expression and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Being treated as a hit-and-miss guy.

After being rejected, Bal returned to the camp without any entanglement. But Ankarina's figure kept lingering in his mind. His feeling told him that he had definitely seen this woman. But how could he have no memory of such a beautiful woman?
Ankarina was the kind of beauty who could be noticed even without makeup, standing in a crowd. He considered himself not an old scholar obsessed with learning, and he would definitely be impressed by such a beautiful woman.

"Could it be because of the amnesia last time?" Bal wondered in his heart.

After washing his face, Bal ate while searching his memory. Just as he was wondering if he had lost other memories, the leader of the expedition team came over.

"Professor Baer, ​​have you finished your meal?"

Bal finished the dry food in his hand in no time.

"Okay, what's up?"

"Nothing. If you're done eating, we'll set off."

"So anxious?" Bal asked in surprise.

The leader walked up to Bal with a smile, and whispered, "Professor, this team is heading to a similar destination as ours. If we don't move faster, we might not even get a sip of soup."

"almost?"

Bal was slightly startled. Their destination this time was an ancient relic from before the Cataclysm. The address was found by the expedition's sponsor after he had spent countless efforts to find it from the remaining ancient materials.

Normally, they wouldn't even meet another expedition team traveling the same route, let alone having the same destination.

"Are you sure?" Barr whispered.

The leader shook his head slightly: "Yes, I saw the map of that team, and that location is exactly the same as ours."

"…Huh, let's hurry up then."

A trace of anxiety flashed through Bal's heart. He had a feeling that something big was going to happen on this journey.

……

"You mean, this team's destination is the same as ours?"

In the Control Bureau expedition team, Ankarina listened to her subordinates' reports and a trace of astonishment flashed across her face.

"Yes, Captain." The subordinate confirmed, "I looked at their map, and their destination is exactly the same as ours."

Ankarina rubbed the outer corner of her lower left eye with a headache. Why were all the recent missions going smoothly?

"This is a bit troublesome. Can we find the sponsor of this expedition team?"

Each expedition team will have a sponsor who is responsible for providing the expedition team with financial support as well as material and human support. As long as the sponsor can be found, controlling the expedition team will not be a problem.

The subordinate shook his head and said, "We can't find them. This team is very tight-lipped, and we couldn't get anything out of them. Moreover, all the guards of this team are awakened. I think the only one who can hire these people is the Hermitage."

The world of the four-eyed people is not dominated by the Bureau of Control alone. The central government is in charge of the Invasion Processing Bureau and the Invasion Processing Corps. In secret, there are also monastic orders founded by other ascetics who are unwilling to accept the management of the Bureau of Control.

The founders of these organizations basically have some friendship with Avery, Stasin and Gregor, the veterans of the Control Bureau, so the Control Bureau also acquiesced to the existence of these organizations.

As long as these organizations do not cross the red line, the bases under the Control Bureau will not be able to do anything to them.

"Then just ignore them." Ankarina waved her hand and replied helplessly, "The Priory has been exploring the ruins for a long time, so let them do what they want."

The roads in the Crow Mountains are very difficult to travel.

Without the ability to fly, dense bushes and vines acted like fences that blocked the expedition team's entry. Not to mention the mist in the mountains, the various uneven terrains, and the poisonous insects that could be found everywhere.

"Hoo-hoo-Professor, you are in good physical condition."

In the expedition team, Bal held a trekking pole and walked briskly.

"Not bad." Bal smiled modestly at the guards, "I didn't bring anything with me, so I could barely keep up with you."

After discovering that the Control Bureau team had the same destination as theirs, the expedition team that Barr was in began to speed up their journey. As a professor, Barr naturally traveled light in this situation, and all his belongings were carried by the guards.

But even so, being able to move in the mountains for four or five hours with only a slight sweat, Bal's physical fitness was already comparable to that of most guards.

The guard didn't ask any more questions after hearing this. He just smiled at Bal and said, "Professor, remember to go to the hospital for a checkup when you get there. There's something wrong with your physical condition. Check it out. Maybe your energy has awakened."

"Haha, let me lend you some good words."

The team that Bal is in is very familiar with the Kro Mountains, and their maps are more detailed than those of the Control Bureau.

After determining the route of the Bureau team, they chose not to chase them, but to take a side road that almost no one knew about.

Taking this path, they can reduce the distance required by the Bureau by one third. "Stop."

The leader's order stopped the entire expedition.

He looked at the map in his hand, and then jumped onto a nearby tree to carefully observe the surrounding terrain. They were now in a valley, and right in front of them was a dangerous peak about 3,000 meters high.

The place they wanted to explore was behind this dangerous peak.

"Go this way."

The leader determined the direction, jumped down from the tree, and then led the team towards the mountain.

Their shortcut was simple, which was to cross this dangerous peak.

……

"That team disappeared?"

Ankarina looked a little surprised as she listened to her subordinates' reports.

"They have a shortcut?"

"It's unclear, but our knowledge of the Crow Mountains is indeed not very detailed."

Ankarina frowned slightly, and with a tiptoe, she flew into the air. Then a faint blue light flashed in her eyes, and the surrounding scenery gradually became clear in her eyes.

Suddenly, her eyes stopped at a position about ten kilometers northeast of the team. There, she could vaguely see some figures moving around.

"It seems there is indeed a shortcut."

Ankarina dropped from the sky and made a mark on the map. She then connected the mark with the location where they found the expedition team and estimated the distance.

"Go straight ahead."

Ankarina muttered to herself as she moved her finger across the map, following the route of the Bal expedition team...

“Is there anything special about this place?”

Ankarina's finger stopped at a marked location on the map, which was exactly on the straight line extending from the route of the Bal expedition.

"It's a warning sign of geological instability. There was a big earthquake here a few years ago and there were huge landslides on this mountain."

"No one from the bureau went to check it out?"

The subordinate said helplessly: "Captain, we are the Control Bureau, not the Geological Bureau. There has never been any trouble in this place, why would our people go to see it?"

"……Fine."

Ankarina blushed. As a senior operations specialist, she was always very good at intelligence in her daily tasks. So she habitually looked at this mission from the perspective of the past.

But the danger rating of her mission this time was only level three, which was far from her usual level five missions. The reason she was sent here was mainly because of the recent loss of low-level specialists and the shortage of manpower in the base.

"Inform the team to speed up. The quality of their personnel cannot possibly be compared with ours."

"Yes, Captain."

……

In the dark rift, a glowing "worm" is slowly moving forward.

After two and a half days of travel, Bal's expedition team finally entered their shortcut - a narrow crack formed by an earthquake.

Through this crack, they can go straight through the mountain and enter the ruins behind the mountain.

The space in the rift valley was limited, and many places could only accommodate one person passing sideways. Moreover, due to earthquakes, the structure of the rift valley was actually unstable. Although theoretically, they would be fine as long as they did not make any noise, but if something happened, it would be a matter of life and death.

If it weren't for the fact that they were in a hurry, the team leader would never choose this road.

"Come on, all right, go ahead!"

As the guard pulled up the last member of the expedition team, they safely crossed the rift and arrived behind the mountain.

Following the instructions on the map, if they walk another two or three kilometers, they will find the ruins marked on the map.

"Huh, I'm finally here."

The team leader stood beside Bal, with a look of relief on his face. He looked at the direction marked on the map and said with some emotion:

“We’ve walked this road several times, but we never expected there would be an ancient ruin just a few kilometers away from us.”

"Haha, sometimes it's like this." Barr replied with a smile, "Opportunities are sometimes just one step away from us."

The leader looked at the sky. Although the environment in the rift valley was very dark, it was actually only around three o'clock in the afternoon. Although the sun had already slid towards the horizon, the environment was still bright.

"Professor, are you still strong enough?" the team leader asked. "We have been traveling quite hard these past two days. It doesn't matter to us, but you scholars should not push yourself too hard.

Professor Loren has already asked someone to carry him on his back, would you like to…"

Bal patted his chest and said, "It's okay. I'm fine."

No one noticed that as Bal spoke, a flash of blue light flashed under his skin.

(End of this chapter)