In the courtyard of the laboratory, the main laboratory.

Richard was at the lab table, continuing to read the letter from Heidi, and when he reached the last part, his eyebrows furrowed, he read it several times.

"By the way, Mr. Richard, I almost forgot to tell you at the end. Wood Island is not actually an island, but a simple place name. The reason why it is called this seems to be related to a legend from a long time ago. Legend has it that there were many bandits raging here, and people built forts out of wood for safety. In the end, it seemed to be a heavily guarded, like a large island surrounded by water in the sea, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so that all the thieves retreated and achieved peace.

After the peace, the fort was demolished, but the name has been retained, and there is the so-called Wood Island. Of course, now people are more likely to call it by its new name, which is ...... Moles.

Yes, this place, it's called Moore.

Anyway, if you're going to leave White Rock and don't know where to go, Mr. Richard, you can come to Moore, and I'm always looking forward to meeting you.

Be grateful, Heidi. ”

"Whoa—"

Richard folded the letter and set it aside, his fingers tapping lightly on the tabletop, making a rhythmic "click" sound.

"Wood Island, Wood Island, Moore, Moore!"

A simple name is nothing, but when two names are linked, he can't help but think of something. Like what......

Richard flipped through his hands and took out a wooden box from the spatial iron ring, opened the wooden box, and took out a small piece of cut, well-preserved parchment from inside.

This is exactly what was taken out of the inside of the metal ball when the seventeenth-order Rubik's Cube was unlocked, and after it was unfolded, it was written on it the name of the place that had not yet been found-Stockholm.

Wood Island, Moore, Stockholm?

No matter how you look at it, it seems that all three of them seem to have some special relationship.

Not to mention the current world, at least on the modern earth, this is the case.

Richard remembered very well that there was a city on the modern earth that was very similar to Stockholm - Stockholm.

The city is the capital of Switzerland, and of course, more famous than it is, the name of the mental illness that bears its name - Stockholm syndrome, the so-called hostage complex, hostage syndrome.

This is a hostage in criminal behavior, and the fear of bearing has a fragile bottom line, when the criminal he encounters is completely unreasonable and can take his life at any time, he will subconsciously entrust the right to life to the criminal. After a long time, when the hostages eat a bite of food and drink a sip of water, they will feel that it is the forbearance and mercy of the criminals to him. Eventually, the hostage's fear of the criminal will be transformed into gratitude, and finally into a kind of worship. At this time, the hostages will be mentally delirious and think that the safety of the criminal is their own safety, and will take the initiative to help the criminal escape punishment.

In simple terms, this is the surrender of human nature to tyranny.

This situation was first discovered during the bank robbery and 130-hour standoff in Stockholm, the capital of Switzerland, hence its name.

Of course, Richard is now focused on the city itself – Stockholm!

Stockholm, it's a special name. In the local language, "Stockgo" means wood, and "Ermo" means island, which together means "island of wood".

Therefore, Stockholm on the modern earth is also called Wood Island.

There are many origins about this name.

One of them is that in ancient times, there was a huge log floating on Lake Mälaren, which led the first immigrants from Sigtuna to this place and established the city, so it was called Wood Island.

There is also a legend that the local people were often infested by pirates, so they built a castle out of giant logs on a small island at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, and put stakes in the water to prevent pirates, hence the name "Wood Island".

The latter legend is very similar to that told by Heidi in her letters.

This is obviously not a simple coincidence that can be explained, which makes Richard can't help but wonder if there is some unknown secret in this.

The current wizarding world, compared to modern Earth, has many similarities, which Richard has known for a long time, and the generality of some physical rules illustrates this. However, he doesn't really feel that this is really the same world, or the same world at different points in time.

He has always thought so, but as he gets to the more places, the more things he experiences, and the more people he meets, the more he feels that the truth of the matter may not be as simple as he thinks.

For example, Moore is a living example.

"Wood Island?Stockholm?Stockholm?Moore?" Richard muttered to himself, his eyes narrowing into a slit, "not to mention, whether this is really a place, whether it hides the follow-up secrets of the Black Spirit King's treasure, but now there is a reason to go here to have a look after leaving White Rock City." ”

"So, just tidy up for a few last days, take care of the trivialities, and then leave White Rock City and go to Moore?" Richard decided.

At this moment, a sudden "boom" explosion sounded not far from the courtyard, the entire courtyard shook, and a large amount of dust fell on the roof of the main laboratory.

"Huh?!" Richard's eyes sharpened, and with a flick of his foot, he quickly left where he was, dodging the falling dust.

Then the No. 1 ring on his finger lit up slightly, the magic pattern of "Light Wind Spirit" activated, the air condensed under his feet, the speed increased, and he slammed the door open with a "bang" and reached the courtyard.

Scanning around, seeing no suspicious targets, Richard raised his eyebrows, thinking of something, and the powerful spell "Lord of the Wind" obtained from the tomb was immediately cast.

The power of wind spells has been strengthened across the board.

"Smack!"

With a soft sound, Richard jumped up, stepped on the wall with one foot, and quickly swept up the roof, and then quietly fell like a feather, bent down, and looked in the direction of the sound before.

Then Richard saw that at the end of the street, a dark figure was fleeing in front, and several figures were chasing closely behind. The chasing figure constantly unleashed spells in an attempt to slow down the fleeing shadow, but the fleeing shadow was extremely agile and could not be hit at all. The previous explosion was caused by a spell that was dodged.

After seeing it, Richard felt slightly relieved in his heart, knowing that it was not coming at him. But then his brows furrowed again: Anyway, the place where he lives is far enough in White Rock City, and the people who fight can actually chase them all the way here, it seems that the situation in White Rock City is really bad to the extreme, and the rest of the place doesn't know what the fight will look like.

In this case......