First University has four faculties and also has four research institutes.

These eight schools are located in all corners of Phuket Island, and their locations are hidden and horns of each other, forming a huge guardian circle. What connects them is a series of corridors of different shapes and styles.

However, most of the time students at First University go to other colleges or graduate schools, they do not choose to take these corridors. Not only because they are tortuous and long, but also because there are often hunting teams in these corridors, and if they are not careful, ordinary passers-by will get involved in right and wrong.

Except for events such as hunting competitions held by schools, when access roads that need to withstand large crowds are fully activated, they are rarely used on weekdays.

What's more, there are other channels for students to travel between different institutions.

For example, the nameless passages hidden in all corners of the school, or the 'gates' in the first hall.

The first hall was the first formal building that Zheng Qing came into contact with after entering the school, and he was deeply impressed by the murals in the hall, the star lanterns cruising in mid-air, and the tall columns.

But these are not the most important components of the first hall.

The most important part of the first hall is the nine gates that surround the first floor of the hall, leading to the four faculties and four graduate schools of the university, as well as the first gate leading to the outside of the university. These doors are a shortcut to different faculties or institutes.

Of course, there are certain procedures required to use these gates.

For example, the school has approved and recorded the class schedule, the temporary pass issued by the school working committee or the student union, and the approval slips of the professors, etc.

The note given to him by Professor Montella that Zheng Qing held in his hand just met this requirement.

Professor Montella's lab, like Su Shijun's two-dimensional evolution lab, is part of the Institute of Applied Magic. Zheng Qing had been to this research institute through the Huanfu promenade before, but it was the first time to take the convenient passage of the first hall with the approval slip in hand.

The situation behind the gate of the Applied Magic Research Institute was completely different from that of the Nine Talents Academy.

The gate of the Nine Colleges is directly attached to the side door of the school, and after passing through the gate, there is the wall of the front yard of the school. Behind the gate of the Institute of Applied Magic is a white, seemingly endless corridor.

Along both sides of the corridor, there are many small doors of different materials and shapes, leading to different laboratories or research institutes of the Institute. Zheng Qing grabbed the note given to him by Professor Montella, walked in this corridor, looked at the huge locks on those small doors, and suddenly realized in his heart that if he didn't have the corresponding permission, he would definitely not be able to enter those small doors.

Along the way, a dizzying array of names for the various applied magic laboratories is displaced.

For example, the "Druidt Laboratory" studies the role of magic in promoting agriculture, the "Classical Elemental Analysis Laboratory" studies traditional magic, the "Equivalent Summoning Laboratory" studies the communication of heterotopic planes, the "Charm Equation Construction Laboratory" studies the unity of talisman and incantations, and the "Totem and Spirit Field Theory Laboratory" studies the spiritual world under the dimensional worldview, and so on.

Originally, Zheng Qing also planned to look for Su Shijun's 'two-dimensional evolution laboratory', but after searching for a long time, until he found Professor Montella's laboratory, he still had no trace of it, and finally had to give up.

The door to Professor Montella's laboratory is made of bronze, and the door is engraved with many mysterious patterns and patterns.

Above the door, there is a brass plaque with the inscription 'Montlia Laboratory', which is very different from the name of other laboratories and has a lot of personality. However, there is also a row of small letters under the name of the laboratory, which reads 'Bloodline Research and Advanced Magic Analysis', which explains to visitors the scope of the laboratory's main research.

There is no doorman at the door.

There is no door god or peach talisman hanging on the door, only a beast head suspected to be a bull's head, and a copper ring biting.

Zheng Qing grabbed the copper ring a little nervously and knocked it hard.

After a while, the bronze bull opened his eyes with great difficulty and glanced at the young wizard, the meaning was obvious—what was the matter?

Zheng Qing hesitated to bow to the head of the bronze bull before speaking.

But soon, he remembered the old saying in "The Appearance of Officialdom", "It is not strange to have many people", hugged his fists, and sang a fat song to the bull head: "I have seen my predecessors." Professor Montella asked me to come to the lab at one o'clock in the afternoon to find him, please let me know, hard work!"

The bull blinked and opened its mouth.

A cyan tongue poked out from behind the knocker and reached out in front of Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing immediately put the note that Professor Montella had given him on it, and with a slight roll of the cyan tongue, he rolled the note back into his mouth. But listening to it squeak and chew a few bites, the young public scholarship student was worried that the bull's head would chew the note, and the small bronze door 'creaked' softly and slowly opened outward.

Zheng Qing took a deep breath, touched the gray cloth bag on his waist, and walked into the bronze door with some nervousness.

It was similar to what he had envisioned.

Behind the door is a large laboratory. Dozens of black-robed figures buried their heads in front of the wide test benches, with the help of various exquisite alchemy tools, seriously doing the experiments in front of them.

Almost no one cared about the bronze door opening and closing, or the young wizard who crept into the lab.

A slightly thin gray-haired middle-aged man, holding a heavy notebook in his arms and a thick ochre-yellow brush in his right hand, shuttled in front of the test benches, from time to time to check the work of those black-robed wizards, occasionally splashing ink, bowing his head to record something in the notebook.

Zheng Qing stood behind the bronze door in a daze.

No one paid attention to him, and he didn't know if he could interrupt Professor Montella's work, so he seemed a little helpless for a while.

The gray-haired middle-aged man, that is, Professor Montella, after checking around the laboratory, happened to come to the position of the bronze door and looked down at Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing tried to muster up the courage and looked up at the professor who had been lost for a long time and had admired the great name for a long time.

Compared to the last time they met, Professor Montella's face now looks very tired. Although the gray hair is a little shorter than before, it looks messy, but it is not as neat as before. With thick bags under his deep eye sockets and dark yellow skin tense on his towering cheekbones, it was obvious that he hadn't had a good rest for a long time.

Only the blue-gray eyes, as sharp and deep as ever, constitute the most dazzling part of the whole face.

Zheng Qing avoided his gaze with some uneasiness, and his gaze fell on the professor's cheekbone. The dark brown spots on it clearly tell everyone who sees it that this body has been lacking effective rest and care for a long time.