The east bank of Jinghu Lake is where the nobles live, while the west bank is planted with large tracts of cedar.

It has become a scenery that the nobles can overlook from their terraces.

Fortunately, these scenery are not prohibited for ordinary people to visit.

But in fact, except for some high-income people, big businessmen and small nobles who come to have fun when Yanyuejing Lake is not frozen and the weather is relatively mild, there is almost no one here on weekdays.

But there are some exceptions today.

Today, Lurisigard was wearing a large cotton coat and walking alone in the cedar forest by Mirror Lake.

He stepped on the thick pine needles and snow, walking unconsciously with his hands in his pockets and his eyes distracted.

Recently, his eyelids have been twitching violently, and his mood has been inexplicably irritable. When he goes to sleep at night, he dreams that he is either engulfed by explosive flames, or frozen by the cold snow.

I went to see Dr. Snake Emblem, and I also went to Morning Glory Monastery to have a priest baptize me, but it didn't seem to have much effect.

This is probably related to the fact that he does not believe in any gods.

He took advantage of the fact that nothing was wrong today, but in fact he was fine every day.

He wanted to go out and walk alone, hoping to relieve the anxiety in his heart.

Yes, he is very anxious now.

Every day he went to the Christopher Institute, his bad premonition became stronger and his anxiety became stronger.

"well!"

Turning around, Lulici Gard looked at the aristocratic area on the east bank of Mirror Lake, and involuntarily began to imagine the lifestyle of the aristocrats in his mind.

Sensual and sexy?

Indulging yourself?

…

…

Since he completed his promise to Marvin, Jiangxi Lin's plan for the teacher-student pair Lurisi Gard and Cammons has been completed.

As for how Marvin will act next and what method he will use to achieve his goal, Jiang Xilin doesn't care.

And he wasn't worried that Marvin would fail.

For the resentful and "resurrected" Marvin, he himself will never allow failure.

Jiangxi Lin has now almost returned to his normal research life.

But the operation of Tongen Research Institute seems to be in trouble again.

…

…

The 30th of Brumaire.

As the last day of the foggy moon, it was supposed to be a day to summarize work, but the entire institute, whether it was apprentices or assistant arcanists, were secretly discussing that the institute was in financial crisis.

Even Ang Di, a junior arcanist, took the initiative to find Jiang Xi Lin and talk about the recent situation in the institute.

"Xilin, have you ever felt that there is always a lack of materials for experiments conducted by the institute recently?"

"Yeah?"

Jiangxi Lin looked up at Andy, and with a smile, he tidied up the plan written to Anglia Tongen on the development of arcane element storage devices.

"I haven't done much experiments recently, so I don't know much about it."

"Damn it, I forgot."

Andy patted his forehead lightly,

"You have recently been completing the largest business of the institute. By the way, how is your research going?"

"It's basically done."

Jiangxi Lin put a dozen pages of "plan" into an envelope.

In fact, after he tested all the control commands, the research was completed.

But what Sainz Burns wants is the path to Candesbronn.

Therefore, Jiangxi Lin spent a few more days searching for anything similar to a map in the system of the Mithril Xenon Analyzer.

But in the end he failed.

There is no map in the analyzer system.

Or to be more precise, except that the Analytical Engine itself may be related to the Candesbronn civilization, there is not even a word about Candesbronn in the Analytical Engine system.

However, Sainz Burns did not give up.

He hoped that Jiangxi Lin could continue to conduct in-depth research and settled half of the contract payment for this purpose.

Jiangxi Lin didn't want to continue studying the Analytical Engine system. He wanted to dismantle the Analytical Engine itself and study its internal structure.

But... Anglia Tongen shamelessly bowed to money.

So disassembly became a fantasy for the time being.

…

After finishing the chat with Andy, Jiangxi Lin came to Anglia Tongen's office with the plan he wrote.

Not only the plan for the arcane element storage device, but these days, he also submitted suggestions for the daily construction and management of the institute, such as "Suggestions on the establishment of a special reception room", "Suggestions on the management of dedicated personnel".

In terms of dedicating dedicated personnel to full-time work, it has been implemented these days. The suggestion of designing a dedicated reception room has not yet seen any signs of implementation.

…

Bang bang bang!

Jiang Xilin knocked on the door of Anglia Tongen's office, and when Tongen weakly "entered", he opened the door and entered.

A strong smell of smoke came to my face.

Jiang Xilin raised his hand to fan himself back and forth, then walked in with a frown.

Through the thick smoke, he saw Angria Tongen sitting behind the desk with her legs crossed, her clothes disheveled and her hair messy, her head buried deep in her head, calculating something.

"Cough, cough, cough, Xilin, what's the matter?"

Anglia Tongen coughed violently several times and asked without raising her head.

"A new plan."

"Okay, you can put it on the table and I'll look at it when I'm free."

Anglia Tongen shook the ashes of the thin cigar held between the fingers of her left hand, then brought it to her lips and took a deep breath.

Jiang Xilin stepped forward, put down the plan and planned to turn around and leave.

But after taking two steps, he stopped again.

"President, did the institute encounter any difficulties?"

Anglia Tongen, who was immersed in calculations, was slightly startled.

She didn't expect Jiang Xilin to suddenly ask herself such a question, so that she didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"I'll be able to solve a small problem soon. Just don't worry and do some research."

Are you comfortable researching?

There are no arcane materials in the warehouse. Can people still research with peace of mind?

Jiangxi Lin shook his head slightly,

"Then I'm leaving. Smoking less is not good for your health."

"Um!"

Anglia Tong En hummed casually.

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…

The border between the waste dump and the shed area.

Marvin, who was wearing a shabby cotton-padded jacket, was thin, with dry and messy hair, was sitting at the door.

The dazzling light shone on him, but he stared blankly into the distance.

Not long ago, his wife helped him out and got into a carriage.

Now all he could think about was the conversation he had with his wife before they left.

…

"Are you going again?"

"Well, I'm sorry."

"Can't you just go?"

"When it gets dark, go into the house by yourself, and remember to close the door."

…

He looked down at his leather-booted feet, then took off his gloves and looked at his nimble fingers.

After a long time, he sighed, stood up slowly holding on to the door frame, and looked back at the dilapidated shack.

"For you and me, maybe this is the best ending."
Chapter completed!