In the auction hall, no one spoke for three seconds, the scene was a little deserted, and the host couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Turning his head to look at this, then to look at that, his lips couldn't help but tighten.

But this situation, the host also expected.

In fact, this happens once or twice in every auction - the auctioneer is not a fool after all, he is not easy to coax, and he needs a little luck in addition to good eloquence to sell an unused thing for a high price - and now luck is running out.

"Whew-"

Taking a deep breath, the host was about to announce the unsuccessful auction, who knows, at this moment, a sign was raised.

Richard said loudly: "A thousand gold coins, I want it!"

"Huh?" the host was stunned.

Richard repeated, "A thousand gold coins, I want it." ”

"Uh. Only then did the host react and looked at Richard, his expression was a little grateful, but also a little strange,

Richard's face hidden under his cloak did not change.

The reason why he did this was not because of kindness, nor because he wanted to pick up the leak, nor because he suddenly changed his temper - he was interested in corpse paintings, simply because he ...... Picture frame.

Well, the frame.

If he read it right, the frame should be a relatively rare metal, although it is a bit expensive to buy it for a thousand gold coins, it is likely to be used in some of his recent experiments, and it is not too much of a loss to buy it, and it can save a lot of trouble.

The host on the stage didn't know this, only thought that Richard was kind enough to save the scene, smiled a little, confirmed that no one competed with Richard, a "kind fool", and happily announced the ownership of the painting: "Then this painting will be obtained by the 21st auctioneer." ”

After that, the host swallowed his saliva, moistened his throat, and said, "Okay, we have the next auction item ......"

And so the auction went on......

In the course of the auction that followed, Richard occasionally made a move, except for a few small magic spell props, what he got from the auction was worthless "rags" in the eyes of others, which made the people around him not have much malice at all.

Seeing Richard so cheering, the corners of his mouth were almost cracked, and his attitude towards Richard was extremely friendly, and he sincerely expressed his hope that Richard could participate in the next tattered sell...... No, auctions.

Richard was noncommittal about the host's invitation, and after the auction ended, he simply completed the handover of the money and left with a box of auction items.

Along the way, without any tracking or robbery, Richard returned to his rented place in Florence without incident.

......

In the afternoon, in a remote corner of the south-eastern corner of Florence, a slightly shabby courtyard stood, Richard walked back and walked through the door.

This is the place that Richard rented soon after he arrived in Florentine, and the surrounding environment is similar to the courtyard in White Rock - remote, quiet, undisturbed, not at the risk of prying eyes, and not too much trouble to get in and out.

In addition, the courtyard of this place, compared with the courtyard of White Rock City, is one entrance larger - it is a three-entrance courtyard.

Due to the perfection of the Garden of Eden, most of the experiments did not need to be carried out in the outside world, and although the courtyard area was large, many of the rooms in it were not renovated, but simply used as temporary storage warehouses for supplies.

There are only a few rooms, some treatments, and some test equipment, mainly for experiments that are not easy to carry out in the Garden of Eden, such as experiments that must be carried out in natural light and natural environmental conditions.

"Squeak!"

Closing the door with his hand, Richard walked quickly through the courtyard to the last house.

It was an ordinary-looking study, nothing out of the ordinary, but Richard walked over to the bookshelf and flipped a mechanism on the shelf, and a downward passage immediately slid open in the corner of the room.

Walk down the entrance of the passage, go deeper than ten meters underground, and enter an empty hall covering an area of more than 100 square meters.

The walls of the hall were inlaid with several fluorescent stones, which exuded a dull sheen that barely illuminated everything.

In the center of the hall, you can see that there is a half-meter-high stone platform with a suitcase on it.

Richard walked over, did not use the suitcase, but bent down, opened a hidden compartment from under the stone platform, pulled out a suitcase that was exactly the same as the one on the stage, and opened it.

The white light faintly peeked out of the suitcase, and Richard stepped into the white light with the wooden box.

......

Eden.

Richard appeared with a wooden box.

Over the course of several months, the Garden of Eden has changed a lot.

The first change is that the power system has been upgraded, the energy supply ceiling has been increased, and the lines have been optimized to reduce the probability of power failures.

The second change is that around the main laboratory of the center, many functional sectors around the center have been improved, including the laboratory animal feeding sector and the machining sector.

The machining sector was Richard focused on perfecting, putting a lot of effort into building a lot of equipment, and almost using the parts that Pandora had worked so hard to process for so long.

After appearing in the Garden of Eden, Richard looked around the Garden of Eden and found that there was nothing wrong, making sure that Pandora was not causing any trouble, and put his mind at ease a little.

First, he walked to the lighting console in the main laboratory, adjusted the light intensity in the Garden of Eden, adjusted it to a state of four hours until sunrise, which was consistent with the outside world, and then walked to the machining sector.

......

Machining sector, research room.

It is a white room covering an area of more than 50 square meters, and there are many instruments that look sophisticated. In the corner, there is a wooden table, and next to the wall are several bookshelves with numerous books and scrolls.

Richard walked in, walked over to the wooden table, set aside the wooden box in his hand, and then took a few scrolls from the bookshelf, opened them and browsed them, trying to get back to the last broken train of thought.

There was a knowledge he had gained from the treasures of the island, and on the way to Moore, he was thinking about it, and after settling in Florence, he studied it even more seriously.

And the more you research, the more complex and difficult it is, which of course shows that it has extremely high value.

This knowledge is another application of the magic pattern.

The so-called other application is not to produce some kind of magical spell effect on spell props, nor to make explosives on items such as white jade tablets, but to put it on a larger scale of equipment, through the connection and superposition of many magic patterns with each other, to play a systematic role.

To put it simply, if the general magic pattern effect is an attacking cannonball, then the effect of this application is a multi-stage launch vehicle that can be spaced, but a multi-stage spell launch vehicle.

In this way, it is no longer a simple way to depict the lines, but to exert a specific spell effect through the collision of mana or free energy elements. This method, compared with the ordinary way, is more fundamental, deeper, and more esoteric in the application of magic patterns.

If it is simply a circuit diagram of the previous magic pattern, then the current magic pattern is equivalent to a highly integrated chip - a spell chip.

A circuit can be used to control a light switch, and only to control a light switch.

A chip is different, and it can do all kinds of things depending on the production.

This is the core of the magic pattern, and this is the right direction for research!