Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 978: Equivalent Exchange
The current Kismet seemed to have forgotten the blow of not being able to become the fifth target. Every day he followed Saul around, either playing music or lying on the roof looking at the sky.
Saul felt his problem should be related to the diary, but Kismet had no intention of discussing this point.
However, although Kismet wouldn’t mention what had happened to him, he had become very obedient.
The only remaining stubbornness was probably that phrase “little brother master.”
After getting off the airship, Saul asked Kismet, “Are you still following me back?”
Kismet tossed the harp in his hands like a ball. “No, I’m not interested in the experiments you’re doing now. If you want to kill someone, you can come find me.”
Hearing Kismet’s words, Saul, who had originally wanted to leave as well, suddenly stopped and turned around. “Anyone at all?”
“Ha! Anyone at all!”
“I’ll remember what you said.”
After leaving the airship, Kismet indeed didn’t follow. As for where he was going, Saul had no way to track him.This guy had been much more low-key since recovering his fourth-rank strength. As long as he didn’t want to show himself, it seemed no one could find him.
Walking toward Byron’s residence, Beth in the diary reminded Saul.
[This Kismet seems to be following you, as if afraid you wouldn’t come back after returning to Stat.]
Saul didn’t stop walking. “You noticed too?”
Suddenly appearing on the airship when he pretended to be angry and returned to Stat. Then leaving when he received Douglas’s letter asking him to come back.
This Kismet, though no longer causing trouble, seemed even more complicated than when he was.
“What do you think he wants to do?”
[I really don’t understand him. But I think he shouldn’t be from the Stargate Council.]
“Right, not the Stargate Council. Then who else would be afraid of me leaving and not coming back?”
Saul raised his hand and saw someone walking against the crowd toward him.
It was Douglas.
“Done throwing your tantrum?” Douglas carried a book in his hand. “If you didn’t come back soon, I would have thought you really didn’t plan to cooperate with the Stargate Council.”
Speaking of this, Douglas handed the book to Saul. “If you still want to continue red worm experiments, take a good look at this.”
Saul took the book but wasn’t in a hurry to open it.
“They agreed to exchange information with us?”
“Not easy to arrange.” Douglas said, “Our experimental progress is too far behind theirs. We don’t have the right to speak.”
Seeing Saul frown, Douglas smiled and said: “However, I provided them with some ideas for dealing with starlight pollution. If they can succeed in their experiments, they’ll agree to leave the most important red worms for us.”
“The most important red worms?” Saul immediately understood the key point for increasing red worm numbers was here. “Could this red worm species also have a queen responsible for reproduction?”
“You guessed right again. Yes, just like a queen ant, an existence that only focuses on breeding offspring. But right now Chairman Alick only agrees to let us see the red worm queen when we help them achieve breakthrough progress.”
“What ideas did you provide? Can you tell me?”
“Of course!” Douglas agreed without hesitation. “We’re now partners facing the black tide apocalypse together. Naturally we should share information.”
He gestured sideways toward a carriage waiting for them on the main road. “Let’s talk while we walk. Chairman Alick knows you’re taking today’s airship and is waiting for us at the Star Observatory Tower.”
“Oh, and that Meurich you mentioned is said to be personally apologizing to you.”
Saul didn’t feel particularly pleased hearing that Meurich wanted to apologize. Although he’d only met him briefly, Saul could tell that guy was quite rational.
Deliberately bullying Agu and angering Saul probably all had ulterior motives.
Maybe Saul’s move to join the stargate escape plan and increase his importance within the stargate to pressure Meurich was also part of the other party’s design.
But Saul had already thought it through clearly – it didn’t matter whether there was a conspiracy or what kind of conspiracy it was.
The black tide apocalypse involved the fate of too many people. All Saul could do now was walk straight toward his goal. Encounter obstacles?
Just crush them.
Having expectations, Saul showed no emotional fluctuation when he saw Meurich at the Star Observatory Tower entrance.
Douglas used secret speech magic to tell Saul, “This stargate escape plan has already entered its final stages. If what you bring out can further improve Chairman Alick’s experimental results, we can get the queen.”
The stargate escape plan – this was how Douglas always privately referred to the stargate’s migration plan.
It had to be said, it was very accurate.
The two ignored Meurich at the door and walked straight in. During this time, Douglas had frequently entered and exited the Star Observatory Tower to research red worms, so he was very familiar with the layout and structure here.
He didn’t even need anyone to guide him and led Saul to the underground laboratory.
[Saul, you need to watch out for this Douglas.]
While walking, Beth in the diary suddenly reminded Saul.
“Hmm?”
[This guy appeared rather suddenly. That’s not much, but I always feel this person has an inexplicable composure about him.]
Saul pressed his hand to his lips and coughed twice softly, secretly glancing up at Douglas.
This middle-aged man with a thin back walked to his right front, head up and chest out, walking with composure. Each of his forward movements and stops had a confident certainty of having everything under control.
As if he wasn’t leading Saul into someone else’s territory, but taking Saul on a tour of his own domain.
This was Saul’s first time entering the Star Observatory Tower’s core laboratory.
This was a blindingly white laboratory.
The area was very large, but there weren’t many wizards here. Before entering the laboratory, both Saul and Douglas had undergone multiple inspections and decontamination to prevent contamination they carried from affecting the experimental results inside.
The core laboratory was equipped with numerous magical light sources. White light gently illuminated every corner of the room.
Both the floor and ceiling were covered with silver-white pipes. These pipes were exposed, intersecting, intertwining, converging together then spreading out in all directions.
Like a precise and complex circuit board, or like the blood vessel network throughout a human body.
All information and energy ultimately gathered in a huge glass cylinder in the center of the laboratory.
Saul carefully avoided all the pipes and walked to the front of the glass cylinder.
He placed his hand on the glass – it felt smooth and cool. The glass cylinder was filled with milk-like liquid, with occasional silver fragments reflecting light.
Before coming in, Douglas had told Saul that in this room, mental power couldn’t be released externally, otherwise it would affect experimental results. Of course, the Stargate Council had also set up many devices to suppress mental power that would sound alarms and isolate test subjects upon detecting abnormal mental power.
“The first batch of test subjects are currently incubating after improvements by Wizard Douglas and cannot be observed. Wizard Saul can look at the experimental data we’ve recorded here.”
Meurich approached. Although he clearly felt Saul’s dislike for him, as one of the main project leaders, he fully didn’t care about Saul’s opinion of him.
Anyway, if Saul and the others wanted to use red worms to counter the black tide apocalypse, they could only get the queen after the stargate left the wizard world by assisting in completing the experiments.
For this, Wizard Douglas had already signed a cooperation agreement with Chairman Alick.
Exchanging knowledge for survival.
Very reasonable.
(End of Chapter)
