It wasn't until he sat at the dining table that Schiller realized that the news Matt was going to tell him was related to the Sand People.
They previously suspected that the Sandman had been kidnapped, and also found a strange invisible man. They also initially suspected that the Sandman and the kidnapper might have a cooperative relationship, and Schiller designed a plan to lure the snake out of its hole.
It is also very simple to execute. It is known that the person who got the mysterious invisibility cloak was an ignorant teenager. The other person suddenly gained such a powerful power from poverty. What he wanted most, besides satisfying his vanity, was more powerful power.
In other words, the two are the same thing. Only by gaining stronger power can one satisfy his infinitely expanding vanity.
Although the invisibility cloak allows him to do some petty theft, but with only the invisibility ability, he definitely can't do anything big, otherwise he wouldn't just go to the women's bathhouse to peek or steal things. If he could, who wouldn't want to make a fortune?
The bottom position?
Taking advantage of his greed for power, Schiller made up a series of stories and dropped a lot of bait, just to catch him to the designated place and find out what was going on.
Schiller didn't know where the invisibility cloak came from, because this character is really a bit too marginalized. He is a very small person, and there is no need to remember his origin story so clearly.
But this does not prevent Schiller from fabricating a reasonable origin story for the cloak. Anyway, the Supreme Mage also has a cloak. If you say that the two of them are brothers, no one can refute it, except the cloak itself.
Fortunately, the Supreme Mage's cloak can't speak. I didn't know what an outrageous origin story Schiller had arranged for him. Anyway, one day many years ago, a god gave two cloaks, one of which was left behind.
The mysterious magical holy land of Kama Taj, the other one fell into the folk and disappeared.
Both cloaks have extremely powerful power. If the two cloaks can be combined into one, they will have the power of a god.
Anyway, it's still the same story of relying on heaven and slaying dragons to be invincible. The story is a bit older, but teenagers really believe it.
According to Matt's investigation, in the past at least half a month, there have been no traces of mysterious invisible people in Manhattan, and at the same time, there have been some abnormalities in the temple in New York.
About a week ago, the mages of the New York Temple discovered some unusual energy fluctuations. They were somewhat familiar, but because they were too inconspicuous, they were regarded as relics of the mages' experiments, and no one cared about them.
But just one day after the energy was discovered, the New York Temple was stolen, but the important magic items were not lost. Instead, the library was turned into a mess, and several geographical atlases were taken away.
The stolen books were basically about Kama Taj, and there were many secret secrets in them. The archmages immediately felt a sense of crisis, thinking that someone might be plotting against Kama Taj, so they immediately reported to Kama Taj.
Taj Report.
The person who received the report was the Chief Butler King, but there are basically more than a dozen reports like this every year. Basically, all the monsters and ghosts all over the world are plotting against Kama Taj, but so far no one has been able to break into the headquarters.
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Strange has been busy with poverty alleviation work in the village recently, and Wang didn't want to disturb him with this kind of thing, so he just strengthened the patrol around Kama Taj as a routine and left it alone.
Schiller calculated the time, and he estimated that the boy had taken the bait. He believed that it wouldn't be long before there would be good news from Kamal Taj.
Unexpectedly, Schiller was called back by Strange before he even finished his meal. When he returned, he found that not only Strange was there, but also the mayor of the village below and the county magistrate whom he had met before.
They are all here too.
After chatting for a while, Schiller learned that there were no mysterious cases in Brooklyn. Instead, mysterious invisible men suddenly committed crimes in Sherpa Town at the foot of the mountain, which had already led to more than a dozen theft cases.
Schiller didn't understand at first. Wasn't this invisible man here for Kama Taj? He had stolen so much information on the map, so he couldn't find a way out, right?
Then suddenly Schiller remembered something that is often ignored by most people, and he himself had also ignored it, that is, altitude sickness.
Everyone living in the Himalayas behaved as if nothing was wrong, which made this matter easily ignored. It is possible that this kid could not find the way, but could not climb up at all.
The Sherpa town at the foot of the mountain is located about 4,000 meters above sea level. Although it sounds very high, it is just the starting point of the plateau. As long as you don’t fly into Tibet but take a train and slowly get used to it, it usually won’t be too difficult.
Big things.
But judging from the lack of common sense among American teenagers, Schiller felt that this kid probably came by plane and probably lay down as soon as he arrived.
And from 4,000 meters up, every 500 meters is a threshold. Even after 5,000 meters, every 200 meters is like a chasm. As for going up further, it is no longer about physical fitness, but more about talent.
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As for the villagers who live six or seven kilometers away, they have been here all their lives and have basically never left for their entire lives, so they are naturally very adaptable. Not to mention the mages, without this willpower, they simply cannot become mages.
But it is still a bit difficult for an ordinary person with only the ability to become invisible to find a way to climb to such a high place and have to adapt to strong altitude sickness during the climb.
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Schiller's target, Parker Robbins, has no experience in altitude work or military training. He is just an ordinary Brooklyn street gangster. I am afraid that even if he gets the ticket to go to Kama Taj
According to the road map, it is impossible to climb up at all.
Where else can he go if he can't climb up? Of course he can return the same way, but the altitude of about four thousand meters is not comfortable. If he came by plane and lay down when he landed, he would have to rest for at least a week. During this period
I'm afraid he can't go anywhere.
Schiller thought it was possible that Robbins was unwilling to give up and felt that he could climb to a higher place after taking a breather. Maybe he could reach Kama Taj just by lying down, so he stayed at the bottom.
He refused to leave the town, and relied on his invisibility to commit crimes everywhere.
And because this town is relatively close to Kama Taj, most of the mysterious incidents are mistakenly thought to be related to Kama Taj, so the village chief and the county chief came over to ask if anything had slipped through recently.
out.
Strange told them sternly that it was absolutely impossible for students to do it, and it was impossible for Kamal Taj's students to steal anything.
The village chief and county chief didn't suspect that the students had stolen anything. They just wanted to ask if some spiritual beast or something had escaped, and whether there would be any consequences if they found someone to catch it.
Now not only did they want to catch him, but Strange also wanted to catch him. He wanted to see who dared to attack him.
Schiller remained silent and pretended not to know. After all, he really didn't expect that this Robbins could be such a good person. He couldn't even survive the altitude sickness. He was either fishing or catching, but the fish drowned him.
Schiller originally wanted to follow her over to see what was going on, but Pamela stopped him and wanted to tell him about the progress of the experiment, so Schiller went with her and stopped caring about arresting people.
What Pamela wanted to talk about was actually the cultivation of magic medicinal materials. She took a stack of information and said to Schiller: "Now it is basically confirmed that the principle is fine. It can indeed be achieved by injecting weak magic energy into plant cells.
Transform their properties to extend their lifespan and enhance their magical affinity."
"There are two main problems now. First, we cannot use manual methods for energy infusion. As mentioned before, because the output is too low, the current research direction is the radiation machine developed by Stark.
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"Second, and the newly discovered problem, is that the soil is not good." Pamela snapped her fingers and said: "We need to inject energy into the plants during their growth, but if the plants are still planted on ordinary land, the energy
It will spread out very quickly.”
"Don't you mean to use continuous radiation for perfusion? Just keep the perfusion, isn't it?" Schiller asked.
"That's too wasteful." Pamela said helplessly: "Although the magic energy in this universe is quite sufficient, it cannot be wasted like this. Isn't this equivalent to wasting money?"
“Can’t it be recycled?”
"This is a research direction, but so far there is no clue. It is a bit troublesome to recycle it in natural soil. We are studying the use of radiation to allow the soil to preserve energy and provide a way for plants to absorb it."
"This is not bad." Schiller said: "The growth of plants is always inseparable from soil, water and sunlight. It is much better to think of ways to do these three things than to forcefully pour energy into the plants."
"That's the problem. We've tried it. Water doesn't work. Although it can bring energy into plants, the conversion efficiency is too low and uncontrollable. Neither does sunlight. Magic light will cause mutations in plants.
It will help me research on beating people."
Pamela touched her chin and said in thought: "We are conducting different soil analysis to see which kind of soil has a stronger affinity for magic. I think the soil that is originally more fertile and suitable for planting should also perform well in this aspect...
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"Does it have to be planted on the soil?" Schiller said: "If there are other things with strong magic affinity, can't the plants be planted there?"
"Theoretically speaking, it's not possible. You can't get a piece of magic metal and make plants grow from it, right? This is unscientific, er, I mean it's not magic."
Pamela waved her hand impatiently and said, "It is precisely because of the stability of plants that they can become a carrier of magic and be eaten and absorbed by humans without causing poisoning or cell infection."
"If you want to transform a plant that can grow on metal, first of all its stability will be destroyed. What can grow is not necessarily a plant. It's hard to say what the consequences will be if someone eats it."
"Metal is still a bit exaggerated." Schiller said: "Can't we make a compromise? For example, some things may have the potential to grow plants, which is something that is not usually used for plant cultivation..."
Pamela looked at Schiller and asked tentatively: "Do you have any ideas?"
"Yes, there is, but no one else can know it. You have to keep it a secret from me." Schiller said in a conspiratorial tone.
Pamela curled her lips and said, "Have I not kept enough secrets for you?"
Schiller stared at her and then said, "Are those flower fertilizers any good?"
Pamela suddenly realized what he was talking about. She took a breath and said, "You don't want to plant plants on people, do you?"