The sound of the collision woke up Kasia, and when he opened his eyes, there was a blur of color inside, and he blinked vigorously, and then he felt a little better.

There was still a pain in her stomach, and it took more than half a minute for Kasia to remember what had happened. Breathing was not very smooth, and the white light from the lamp reminded Cassia that he was indeed lying in an object that resembled a refrigerator.

"We're going to give you a large dose of inhibitors, which can seriously affect your vital activities. Coupled with our surgical techniques, you can be suspended in a state of suspended animation in a matter of hours. Of course, that's not enough to fool the Templars, we'll fake you as a corpse and send it to the corpse storage room of the military school. There's just a batch of students who have just died on a mission there that need to be sent away, and you can mix in and there will be almost no problems. ”

Kasia recalled what the old professors told him at the military school: "I will prepare a few tranquilizers for you, and when you wake up from suspended animation, remember to inject them in time, which can help you recover some strength quickly." After all, you have to dissect your body and spend hours in an icy environment, and you don't stand that kind of environment after suspended animation. ”

Bearing back the pain in her stomach, Kasia struggled to prop up her body, and her abdomen was indeed cut open, and the internal organs that were frozen and a little white could be seen. The cold felt only now with the pain, and Kasia closed the long wound with her hand, and the strange feeling of flesh and blood sticking together again made him lie down to rest for a while.

Feeling in his pants, Kasia found the tranquilizers and injected them all. The stiff body, which was close to freezing, began to thaw and quickly regained its body temperature, but the recovery of strength seemed to be a little slower.

"How dare the old professors do such a thing. Kasia felt the opening in her stomach, where the healing speed was affected by her own state, a little slower than usual, but still at an alarming rate. After a few minutes, the separated flesh had bonded together, and a layer of coagulated blood scabs appeared on the wound, and in less than a few minutes, only thin lines of fresh flesh would remain, and finally disappear.

"Remember to rest for a while after going out, it's not good to fake your death, don't leave you with any sequelae. But for you, we don't think there should be any problems, at most the physical consumption will be a little larger. That was the last thing Kasia heard.

The sound of collisions from time to time made Kasia feel the passage of time. When his strength reached the usual level of seven or eight layers, he buttoned up the mechanical watch in his trouser pocket, which showed that the time was already nine o'clock the next morning, a little earlier than the old professors had expected. Jumping down from the shelf where the corpses were kept, Kasia muttered as she looked at the corpses around her with bluish-white skin.

"Is this the ration? I don't know if I have such a day. ”

I asked the old professors about the specific meaning of "rations", and they replied very easily: "The empire has raised so many dragons, you can't let them go hungry, right? Otherwise, where will the tranquilizers that the empire continue to produce, as well as all kinds of hormones and related tissues needed for surgery, come from? But the main source of food for captive dragons is the creatures of the second class, and there are special institutions to make these foods. If you can, the military school will soon give you the first joint mission of this batch, and it will be about these things. Be careful, the difficulty of the task is directly raised a lot, and the end result is either you become food, or those second-class creatures become food. Based on our years of experience, the proportion should be more than you. But it is not excluded that we are wrong, after all, in this period, anything can happen. ”

"It's just a pity that I shouldn't be on this mission. Kassia glanced at the corpses, most of which had broken parts, and said as he moved his body and walked to the door of the cooler, listening to the movement outside.

Everything went well, and he was still in the transport car, and he had indeed deceived the people on the other side of the temple after faking his death.

"Then I waited for the transport vehicle to stop at the airship and quietly left while the bodies were concentrated. Kasia sat down and waited for the time to come.

Three hours later, Cassia left the airship harbor on the Blue River and, at noon, returned to the base of the secret villa.

After coming to the underground cold storage and relying on the concentration of dragon blood, Kasia completely restored his physical condition to normal, and then went to the hall to contact Delya and them.

"It's over on my end. Kasia breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't spit out anything on her chest.

"Commander, we have contacted Sotagan, but there is no good news, and according to the information he provided, he cannot contact anyone now. Didn't reveal much, he left contact details for you to get in touch with him as soon as possible. Derya replied, "And about the books you mentioned, Captain, I was lucky enough to buy one in the dark world, which is for the study of ancient ruins." As for the other series of books, there is no news yet. But it probably won't be easy to collect, and it took nearly half a million Holy Coins to get my hands on this book, and their value seems to be somewhat beyond my expectations. It seems to be something that has been going on for some time, and you can look at a lot of cultural relics to collect. ”

"Don't worry about the money. Kasia smiled, "Have you ever seen the seller?"

"It was bought through black market middlemen. Dya knew what Cassia was worried about, "We've done the follow-up, the books have been fully checked, and nothing has been done. It is completely impossible for the seller to track us. ”

"Very well handled, and the rest of the books are collected with more attention. Please be careful about what these things may involve. ”

Turning off the communicator, Kasia took juice and food out of the cooler and filled her stomach.

Back in his room, he took out the detailed map of the empire and a thick book of geographic information that he had bought when he came back to look through it.

It took Kasia a long time to find the name of the place that Shako was talking about—near a mountain range in the region of Borghese.

"Volcanic area?" said Kasia, looking at the map, because the exact location had long since faded into history, and the detailed names of the places mentioned by the first knight King Grote could no longer be studied. Based on some of the geographical features that Grote had told him, Kasia finally settled on a rough range, and then found some brief information about it in the Geospatial Information Book.

His mother and sister were under the watchful eye of the mother, and he planned to wait until the whole thing was over before picking them up. And while he was waiting, he was going to try to find what Grote had left him in the first place.