Chapter 4132: When the Pumpkins Ripen (Part 25)

Compared to Metropolis, the sunny days in Cat Getan always have a kind of thorough chill. The air under the sunlight is more like a piece of clear ice, and it is also like a thin and soft gauze thrown down from the sky, and everything is shrouded in a slightly cold tone.

God is a slightly clumsy painter. By late autumn, he had already used up most of the pigments, leaving only gray-green, dark brown, and orange mixed from other colors. In order to fill the remaining blank space on the canvas, he made a stroke to the left and a stroke to the right, paving the wild grassland into a kind of wild dim yellow. The golden leaves of maple and beech trees cut the clouds on the horizon into pieces, and the light spots scattered between the shadows of the trees were like warning letters sent by the first snow that was about to arrive.

Greed and Pride were walking by the stream in the woods, stepping on those smooth stones and damp mud, walking into the tunnel built by the gloomy tree shadows.

Originally, they should have been busy in the kitchen at this time, but they obviously didn't have such good luck. Because after checking the quality of the fish they bought, they unanimously agreed that this thing couldn't be served on the table. Because the steamed fish they wanted to make was best to be able to slap someone in the face the second before entering the pot. Although the fish sold in the supermarket were alive, they were obviously not that lively; they were fine in the water tank, but stopped moving a few seconds after being put on the cutting board.

This banquet was originally intended to show off cooking skills, but a clever woman couldn't cook without rice; the ingredients were not fresh, and no matter how you cooked them, it was useless. But if they went to the dock area again, it was obviously too late, so they decided to take materials on the spot.

There were actually fish in the lake, but unfortunately, fish were not the main creatures here, and it was too time-consuming to go to the lake to fish. So, they found the small stream upstream of the lake.

The water source of this lake didn't come entirely from underground, but also had a part of surface water system, but it was hidden in the woods on the east side and was very difficult to find. They searched for a long while in the forest before they found this stream.

"Why do I feel that this place doesn't look like there are fish?" Pride looked at the stream and said.

"We have to walk further ahead, judging from the water flow speed and flow rate, there should be a small lake ahead," Greed continued to walk forward.

Both of them wore water shoes, stepping on some slippery stones, and the progress was slightly difficult, but the speed was not slow. Soon they passed through a bend overgrown with dense trees and weeds, and then were surprised to find that there was not only a lake here, but also a natural small waterfall.

This small lake was clear to the bottom and was not connected to the underground water system. As soon as they walked over, they could see some anadromous fish that seemed to be trying to jump up the waterfall. Greed picked up a fish fork and stabbed a fish with one hand.

Pride used a net to catch that fish, and when he picked it up to look, the fish was not big, but it looked very energetic and could still flutter left and right after being hit.

Greed immediately preserved this fish, and then they caught fish here, catching about five or six such small fish. Greed thought for a while and said: "Steamed fish should not be done, stewed fish is also good."

Pride nodded, and then they talked about what kind of stewed fish to make, and finally decided to make Cat Getan-style specialty stewed mixed fish. This was a very typical fisherman's farm dish, and coastal cities around the world had such dishes, putting all kinds of different small fish together to stew, almost without adding any extra seasonings, they could stew a golden fish soup with a layer of oil film floating on the surface and slightly sticky. This fish soup was the essence, paired with freshly baked white bread, it could make people swallow their fingers.

However, the two of them prepared to make steamed buns; no matter what, bread still had too many holes, and it didn't have a very solid texture when eating, and the wheat flavor was heavy, but the flour flavor was insufficient, and of course, Chinese food should be paired with steamed buns.

After preparing the fish, they walked back. This stream was very beautiful, clear all the way, and would splash slight water spray. The stones at the bottom of the river were round large cobblestones, with different colors, and arranged very cleverly. There was also a cobblestone ground next to the stream, which was very suitable for camping. The trees on both sides also blocked most of the sunlight, so there was no need to worry about being too sunny.

At this time, the trees in the forest were almost all yellow, but the leaves had not fallen off, still looking lush, which was the best time of autumn.

They walked down all the way, enjoying the beautiful scenery all the way, and just when they were about to return to the lake, they suddenly saw a figure flash by in the forest.

Greed thought it was an enemy, but Pride recognized the outline and shouted to that side: "Principal Sivana!"

After a while, a figure walked out of the woods. He looked at the two with some doubt and said: "You two..."

"You can understand it as twin brothers," Pride didn't intend to say more, he immediately asked, "What are you doing here?"

Sivana opened his mouth, hesitated for a while, and then said: "I am looking for something."

"Looking for something, looking for what?"

"In fact, I don't know, I only know that there is such a thing, and quite a few people are looking for it."

Greed immediately thought of the Mother Box, so he asked: "You don't know what this thing is, how do you know you can find it here?"

"Of course someone told me," Sivana said.

Pride immediately understood, he said: "You met someone when you went to chop wood that day, right?"

"Nothing can hide from you, Professor. That's true, that day I just entered the woods and saw a man wandering in the woods with a child, and I caught him red-handed."

"What did you ask out of his mouth?"

"To be precise, it wasn't me who asked it out of his mouth." Sivana snapped his fingers, and a blue light ball floated beside him. Greed suddenly realized: "You are a magician."

"Correct, I used some small means to ask something out of his mouth."

"They are looking for something?"

"No, I asked them how they bypassed Brainiac, and they said he had a device in his hand. Recently they were caught, so I wanted to try my luck to see if I could find this device."

"Obviously you didn't tell the truth, but I don't care," Greed said, "No matter what you are looking for, you can't find it."

The flaws in Sivana's words were too obvious, although the first half might be true, such as he met kidnappers and victims when he went to chop wood, such as he conducted torture and asked something out, but what he wanted to find definitely couldn't be any shielding device, mostly the Mother Box.

Pride also remembered that when Sivana entered this community, it was because he perceived abnormal energy fluctuations here. The Seven Deadly Sins he got seemed to be very sensitive to various abnormal energy, I'm afraid he mostly perceived the origin power leaked from the Mother Box, so he searched nearby.

Because if he was really looking for a shielding device, he should have started looking long ago, instead of waiting until the chestnut tree was dug out and the Mother Box appeared before wandering around here.

I'm afraid it was mostly that his Seven Deadly Sins detected residual energy, but because Pamela did some processing on the scene, the residual energy was very weak and could not lock the specific location, so he found such a far place.

"It seems you know what that is," Sivana was not angry either, he still said calmly, "I just felt some abnormal energy fluctuations, even for the sake of my own residential safety, I have to find it. You are not magicians, you may not understand, these things that emit abnormal energy fluctuations are usually very dangerous."

"Then you are right," Greed nodded and said, "However, that thing has been processed."

Sivana frowned slightly, and then said: "It's not that I don't trust you, but are you sure the processing is thorough enough? It's best not to put it in some museum or the basement of the administration, that will sooner or later cause trouble."

"In your opinion, how should it be handled?"

"If you don't understand a thing, and you put it away, sooner or later someone who understands its use will snatch it away, right?"

Greed nodded, he actually agreed with this point, after all, Marvel likes to do this kind of thing. S. H. I. E. L. D. finds some strange things, doesn't process them, doesn't research them, just puts them in their own warehouse, as if it's clear that people are coming to snatch them.

"So I think if there really is such a thing, try to figure out what it is and how to use it. If you really can't figure it out, you should also build a protective cover that can completely isolate its breath and power, and then store it, instead of throwing it around."

"I must praise your safety awareness, Principal," Pride said, "Now it seems that having a principal like you is a blessing for the students and faculty of the Magic Academy."

Sivana didn't show any smugness either, he just shook his head and said: "Precisely because I am the principal of the only magic school in the world, I have such responsibility, otherwise I would be blamed for anything that happens."

Greed could actually see that Sivana didn't lie, and his urgency to find the source of abnormal power was indeed mostly out of safety considerations. If a powerful magic item really exploded on his territory, then he, the principal, wouldn't have to do it.

However, he himself was a very ambitious person, if he could really find some powerful magic item, he would definitely not be stingy about using it.

Greed stopped his steps, looked at Sivana and said: "To tell you the truth, we did find something. This thing can be said to be a combination of technology and magic, and it also comes from an alien planet. Currently, enough scientists are studying it, I think you can rest assured."

"Rest assured? How do you want me to rest assured? You said it's a combination of technology and magic, but you only found scientists, and you found a lot of scientists, you are really not afraid that this thing will explode and destroy the future of the human scientific side!" Sivana couldn't help but hold his forehead.

"This is something Brainiac needs to consider," Pride also said on the side, "Although I personally feel that those scientists may not be able to figure it out, since Brainiac arranged it this way, I think there must be his reason."

"Of course they can't figure it out, because as long as a thing is stained with a little magic element, it is very likely that all elements are related to magic, even if it looks like a mechanical creation, the parts may be virtually created by magic, and the only thing that affects its actual operating principle is the magic operating principle. Taking that set of modern human science to study it, you may not be able to figure it out in a century."

"Then do you want to participate in the research? With all due respect, Brainiac didn't come to you at the first time, there must be his concerns."

"Of course, of course," Sivana looked very helpless, he said, "Because he thinks my desire for power is too strong, afraid that I will take it as my own after getting it, or use some means to extract power from that thing."

"Then will you do that?"

"Uh... usually not."

"That is to say, you will," Greed nodded with satisfaction and said, "Now I will go to persuade Brainiac to let you join the research group. Humans need talents like you who are enterprising. Let's go." ===== CHAPTER 4133 =====