Please be my partner.

Following Xiao Honglian's perspective, Melen also saw what was happening inside the metal door.

It can be said that this is a force that can create steel puppets. This metal door is also a fully automatic mechanical structure, but the problem now is that the energy to start it has been exhausted.

However, this situation did not exceed Mellen's expectations. Asking Xiao Honglian to take action also had another meaning, which was to confirm whether there were any valuables behind the metal door.

The answer is, no.

A large amount of blood mist evaporated from Mellen's body, and in a blink of an eye, the power gathered by the little red lotus exceeded the third level, reaching the legendary level.

Melen looked up at the sky with a smile on his face. This was just a secret space, so naturally, it didn't have world-class suppression power.

"Boom!~"

The metal door's delicate mechanical structure quickly broke apart under the erosion of the blood mist, and then fell directly to the ground, raising a large amount of smoke and dust.

Chapter 171 Harvest and Language Barrier

The colorful light formed two huge fan blades that rotated rapidly, forming air convection, which not only blew out the dust and decayed smell in the palace, but also brought fresh air in.

After pausing for a while and waiting for the air to circulate enough, Mellen leisurely entered the palace.

What you see is a circular hall with many rotten wooden tables and chairs left. It seems that this is also the place where this force holds daily gatherings.

After taking a quick look and finding nothing valuable, Mellen walked straight into the palace.

There are also mechanical devices similar to elevators here, but like the palace's metal doors, they are all out of use due to lack of energy.

Fortunately, there are several spiral staircases in the corners of the hall, so you can walk upstairs.

Because time was limited, Mellen did not delay and began exploring quickly.

There are quite a few rooms on the second and third floors. Judging from the layout, they seem to be places similar to residences. The clothes, books, diaries and the like in them have completely decayed and are not of much value.

We did find quite a few objects with extremely sophisticated structures, which we will put in the fairy tale kingdom for now and study in detail later.

The fourth floor seems to be an office area. The layout of each office is slightly different. The situation here is similar to that of the two lower floors, but there are still a small amount of documents and materials that have not been completely damaged.

What really troubled Mellen was that these recorded texts were not the common language he was learning now. They were even completely different from the wizard language that wizards in the extraordinary era preferred to use, and the even more ancient ancient Hermes language.

In other words, if he wants to decipher these languages, he still needs to find an expert in linguistics.

After exploring the entire fourth floor, we only found seven or eight documents that were barely readable. The reason they were able to survive, in addition to the good quality of their materials, was probably that they were stored in a sealed environment.

Although, Mellen felt that even if he could decipher the documents on this level, it would not bring him much benefit.

Next is the fifth floor, which is also the highest floor of the palace in terms of height ratio.

This once again slightly hindered Mellen's steps, because there was no spiral staircase connecting the fourth and fifth floors. If he wanted to go up, he had to take the mechanical elevator.

A lump of iron without any protection would naturally not be able to stop Mellen.

When Xiao Honglian received the order, she naturally happily led the way for her master.

The blood mist penetrated into the mechanical elevator. Originally, the little guy wanted to see if he could find the force point along the structure of the mechanical elevator, and then apply force to make the mechanical elevator open by itself.

It turned out that this mechanical elevator seemed to be connected to the overall mechanical structure of the palace. The complexity of it made Xiao Honglian dizzy in just a moment, and even spiral patterns appeared on her two small eyes.

In the end, it was through brute force that a hole was torn open, allowing Mellen to successfully reach the fifth floor.

The fifth floor is obviously much more important than the fourth floor. It only has four rooms, and each room is quite large.

Mellen searched these rooms quickly and carefully. The first two were relatively smaller offices. In addition to the office space, they were also connected to functional rooms such as the living room, bedroom, and reception room, and were more mechanized.

The third office is obviously a level higher.

There wasn't much to be found in the first two offices, not even any signs of decay in the books. It seemed as if they had made preparations before the disaster and had taken away the more important items in advance.

The third office was quite messy. Here, Mellen finally opened his business. He found an exquisite box in a hidden compartment. After opening the box, he found two books inside.

The books are made of an unknown type of leather, which is not only as thin as a cicada's wing, but also extremely strong and flexible. Even after being stored for thousands of years, there is no sign of damage or decay.

After a quick look, I found that these two books contained design drawings of mechanical creations. From the pictures, I could roughly infer that one was a giant steel fortress, and the other was a mechanical puppet creation that was more sophisticated and complex than the steel puppet that served as a gatekeeper.

However, there is bad news and good news.

The bad news is that the text recorded in the book is different from the information obtained on the fourth level, which undoubtedly further increases the difficulty of translating these materials.

The good news is that a very small part of these texts are similar to the ancient Hermetic language that Melen had learned for a period of time. Although these similarities are far from being able to be read normally, they at least point out a direction.

Afterwards, Mellen turned his attention to the fourth room. Just from the style of the door, it could be seen that this room was different from the other three offices.

Moreover, from a mechanical point of view, the three offices also had only two lines of protection, while the last room had as many as five.

Of course, without energy, no matter how many layers of protection there are, it is meaningless. It is just the difference between a thinner or thicker metal door.

The Little Red Lotus brand prying tool easily opened the door. A breeze blew, and smoke and dust rose up. Mellen's eyes showed a look of regret. These smoke and dust were the traces left after the books decayed.

Looking around, rows of metal bookshelves also indicate that a large number of books and materials were once placed here. It was obviously a place similar to a library. And judging from its location and degree of protection, it is most likely the core of the core of this force.

Scanning the rows of bookshelves, Mellen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly walked to a bookshelf in the deepest part of the library. On this bookshelf, there was a row of nine metal books.

There seemed to be something underneath the metal booklet, but it has now rotted away and cannot be seen.

Mellen carefully picked up a metal booklet. The specific material could not be seen, but thousands of years had not left any trace on it.

The cover of the metal booklet is a pattern formed by some mechanical structures, which has a geometric beauty. When it is opened, it is engraved with dense small characters and patterns.

The thickness of these metal books varied, some had eight or nine pages, and some had more than ten pages. The text used was similar to that in the two design books he had just found in the office. This made Mellen breathe a sigh of relief, as he no longer had to worry about the third language.

The specific content recorded in the metal book could not be seen, but Melen had a vague feeling that this might be his main goal of exploring the secret realm this time... a career path related to machinery.

Of course, the specific situation needs to be confirmed later, and even if it is confirmed, this career path may not be suitable for Garuru.

Speaking of which, language is indeed the biggest obstacle to communication between civilizations.

Not to mention between countries, even different regions, or even the same region at different times in history, can have huge differences.

In those old martial arts novels, the story in which the protagonist jumps off a cliff and accidentally obtains the secret book of ancient magical skills, and after learning it, he soars to the sky and becomes invincible from then on is really impossible to happen.

Putting aside the question of whether modern people can still understand the text recorded in the ancient magical secret books, let's take a look at a famous saying...'True transmission can be conveyed in one sentence, false transmission requires ten thousand volumes of books'. The more magical and secret the manual is, the more secret doors it may contain.

Think about the Taoist canon and Buddhist secret scrolls. There are so many terms in them that it is difficult for normal people to get confused. Without special instruction, it is difficult to get started.

Mellen withdrew all these thoughts. Although he only found some things that he couldn't understand at the moment, he was still satisfied with today's gains, because it was obvious at a glance that these things were of high value.

At this time, two hours had passed since Mellen entered this secret space. He could feel that the constructed space channel had shown signs of instability, which also meant that the time for departure was not far away. Of course, he could not go back in the last minute.

Just when Melen was wondering if he had missed anything, Xiao Honglian suddenly conveyed a thought.

Mellen was stunned at first, then he laughed and said, "I see, there's an underground part?"

Following Xiao Honglian's guidance, Mellen came to the mechanical elevator. In addition to the passage he had come up from before, a new passage was also opened inside.

This new channel is a direct connection and can only be opened and entered at the fifth level without brute force cracking.

Going down the passage, the blood mist here is thicker than in other places. It is obvious that Xiao Honglian has invested a lot of energy here.

When you walk out of the passage, you will see a huge laboratory, and what you see in front of you is only a part of it. According to what Xiao Honglian has discovered so far, although this huge laboratory has only one floor, it is divided into many areas, and the total area is even larger than the five floors above combined.

However, what made Melen frown was that there were still some traces of battle here, and there were a large number of wreckages of mechanical creations.

Ignoring all this, Mellen quickly followed the path opened by Xiao Honglian and headed straight for the core area of the underground laboratory.

The core area of the underground laboratory is a huge metal cylinder. Densely packed defense structures can be seen around it, giving it a feeling of being impregnable.

This is indeed the case. All traces of fighting stopped at the front half of the fortifications. The enemy was defeated before they could even start to exert any strength in the second half.

But at this time, Melen naturally had a smooth journey.

It was unknown what material the core cylinder was made of. Even with Xiao Honglian exerting legendary power, it took her quite some effort to open it.

The things placed inside made Melen's eyes sparkle.

This is actually an energy core as big as a watermelon.

This large source energy core fell to the ground at this time. It looked intact on the surface, but there was no source energy left.

The energy contained in the large source energy core far exceeds that used in the steel puppet. The reason why the former's energy has been exhausted while the latter still has some remaining is naturally because the consumption of maintaining a large base is far higher than maintaining a steel puppet in standby state.

Large energy cores are naturally quite precious, even if the one in front of you has used up the last bit of energy.

As long as Melen can research the energy of source, he might be able to ignite it again.

After putting the large source energy core into his pocket, Melen looked at Xiao Honglian, who shook her head slightly, indicating that she had not found anything else.

Seeing this, Mellen took one last look at the underground laboratory, then turned and left.

To be honest, there are still many valuable things here, such as this underground laboratory in front of us. Even though many things have been damaged due to the battle, if you look carefully, you can still find some useful things.

If we piece things together, it shouldn't be difficult to build two or three mechanical production lines.

Unfortunately, Mellen doesn't have that much time. Besides, the secret space is here anyway. After he deciphers the information in his hands, if there is really something useful in the secret space, he can just come back again when the time comes.

In a moment, Mellen arrived at the node coordinates of the space channel and stepped into it without any hesitation.

In the real world, ripples like water waves appeared in the space, and Melen walked out of it in a daze.

Perhaps because the secret space was about to disappear, the fluidity of the space was greatly enhanced, which made the space channel constructed by Mellen even more unstable.

This series of results resulted in Mellen's dizziness and mental exhaustion being several times higher than before when he returned.

Mellen suppressed all the nausea and disharmony coming from his mind and body, and staggered back to his fairy tale cottage. He felt at ease only after lying down on the bed. He no longer suppressed the double fatigue of mind and body, and fell into a deep sleep.

Little Red Lotus took shape, and the blood mist condensed into threads in the air, interweaving into a thin blanket that covered Mellen.

Then Xiao Honglian came to Mellen, leaned her little head against Mellen, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

Mellen slept for a whole day and night. When he woke up again, it was the second day after he returned from the secret space.

He came outside in high spirits, breathing the crisp air and feeling pretty good.

He looked back at the fairy-tale cottage where he had lived for several days, snapped his fingers lightly, and the fairy-tale cottage suddenly exploded and disappeared like a dream bubble.

His goal has basically been achieved, and he won't come back here in the short term.

So, what's next?

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The city of Princeton is the cultural center of the entire Crow Kingdom, and Princeton University is the cultural center of the city of Princeton.

Here gathers the best scholars and the most outstanding students in the entire Kingdom of Kro.

It can be said that any scholar at Princeton University is a guest of honor from all parties, and any student who successfully graduates from Princeton University is sought after by countless forces.

Princeton University itself is a golden signboard.

When Mellen graduated from Stanley College, his mentor offered him a place in the Princeton University entrance exam, but he was so focused on finding traces of the extraordinary at the time that he simply said he would go back and think about it.

Later, Sir Light came to him with a place in the Kingdom's Mystical Academy, and he put this matter behind him.

Now that he is here, Melen feels somewhat emotional.

Chapter 172 Professor Moss

Mellen wore the loose robe that was popular in Princeton, and he felt like he had a more cultured air.

Compared to the generally impetuous and fast-paced life in other cities, Princeton seems much slower.

Mellen tasted the local specialties along the way, and when the agreed time was almost up, he leisurely headed towards the designated location.

The DINK area is also known as the scholar area.

This place is adjacent to Princeton University. It was originally a residential area for the university's lecturers and professors. After several expansions and a large number of scholars moving in, it was nicknamed the Scholars' District.

The most basic requirement for applying to become a lecturer at Princeton University is the status of a scholar.

Scholars undoubtedly hold a high status in the entire Kingdom of Crow, but scholars themselves are divided into two types: one is lecturers or professors at Princeton University, and the other is other scholars.

When Mellen entered the Dink area, his unfamiliar face immediately attracted the attention of the patrolling guards. He was not allowed to pass until he produced Professor Moss's invitation letter.

Soon, Mellen arrived in front of an ancient and elegant villa and knocked on the door.

After the servant opened the door, Mellen handed over the invitation and said, "I'm Mellen Warwick, and I'm here to visit Professor Moss. We had an appointment before."

In fact, these invitation letters are equivalent to passes to meet these lecturers and professors. Without them, it would be quite troublesome to meet the latter.

The servant recognized the stamp on the invitation at a glance, so he took the invitation and led Mellen into the living room, where other servants served him tea.

In the study, Professor Moss was concentrating on reading a few pages of paper in his hands. When there was a knock on the door, he subconsciously frowned and said, "Come in."

After the servant came in, he respectfully handed over the invitation and said, "Master, a young man who claims to be Mellen Warwick is here to visit you. He said he has an appointment with you."

Professor Moss looked at the clock in his study, nodded in realization, and said, "I see."