v2 Chapter 40： Take away the spring of life

Ethan walked back and forth in the cave, determined a position, and looked up at the top of the cave full of rocks.

"What did you find?"

Jack and Elizabeth didn't bother him quietly. They came up after seeing him stop, but after seeing Ethan with his hair hanging for a while, they opened their arms directly, and then the unremarkable top of the rock cave. A ray of light was cast, and Ethan was enveloped in it.

"come on in."

was feeling magical for the sight in front of him, Ethan promptly reminded the two of them to recover, and hurriedly ran into the scope of the beam of light.

The moment they rushed into the beam of light, their heads dizzy, and then a feeling of water soaked in their calves came. When they recovered to see the surrounding situation, Jack found that he had left the cave before. Came to a place with a very unique scenery.

"it's beautiful……"

Elizabeth's emotion made Ethan roll his eyes speechlessly. He really didn't see the beauty of this barren mountain. Even if the magical work of nature has created countless wonders, not to mention the magic of the old spring, but only the beauty. Excluding this place.

"Don't move yet."

Ethan stretched out his hand to stop the two people who wanted to go forward, took out the book of inheritance, and then urged the book of inheritance, letting it float high in the air.

"What is this doing?"

For Ethan to take out such a big book out of thin air, the two people don’t think it’s weird anymore. They are better now, what is Qi Ethan doing? At the same time, I stared at the book open in mid-air, letting out a ray of light, scanning every inch of this place.

"Record the environment here."

He previously guessed that Bu Laoquan is a natural magic circle formed by nature. To determine this, you need to analyze all the details of this place. At the same time, you can use the specific details of the environment to infer the principle of this'magic'. He was able to replicate this fountain of youth.

This function of scanning has always been available, but Ethan has never used it before. It is more used to copy books. Later, he got inspiration from Tony's holographic workbench, and thought that his own book of inheritance could also do this. In fact, his ability to use the book of inheritance to construct a magic circle is similar to this.

The Book of Inheritance with full power scans and records the information very fast, just a few white light sweeps through, and all the details of this place are recorded.

In the future, Ethan can analyze all the details of this place through the Book of Inheritance at any time to ensure that there will be no mistakes or omissions.

"All right."

Looking at the book of inheritance that he returned to his hand, Ethan tried to check the contents recorded in it, and when he was satisfied, he put the book away, indicating that the two people could move around at will.

However, both Jack and Elizabeth were looking at Ethan’s empty hands. It was not until Ethan reminded them that they remembered that there was something more magical not far ahead, waiting for them to discover and verify. Authenticity.

"This is the fountain of youth?"

Jack walked a few times around the strange ring-shaped stones, and he didn't see anything special about the clear water flowing on it.

Elizabeth also felt a little disappointed. This fountain of youth is not as magical as that of Ethan. What is the difference between this and ordinary spring water?

"It was originally an ordinary spring."

Ethan recorded all the details through the Book of Inheritance. He himself was not idle. He had been observing the environment of this place, feeling various fluctuations, and had already made his own judgment.

Similar to what he had previously guessed, this place has produced a special magical effect by virtue of the unique natural environment, which can inject abundant and pure vitality into the stone platform in front of it.

There happened to be clear spring water flowing over the stone platform, almost perfectly flowing through the area with the most vitality on the stone platform, and then at the moment it dripped down, the vitality carried reached a peak.

Then, as it dripped and melted into the clear water below, the vitality gradually passed away, and was absorbed by the magical ability again and poured into the stone platform, and then again engulfed by the flowing spring water, and so on.

In other words, the little water that drips from the stone platform, and has not yet fallen below. Only this part of the water is the legendary fountain of immortality.

"The vitality in the spring water is constant."

This spring water contains abundant vitality, so as long as drinking this water can replenish vitality, that is, it can increase life expectancy and restore the body to its peak state. For older people, it is to restore youth.

But the magical thing about this place is that the vitality contained in it seems to be constant. It will not exceed or decrease. If someone wants to take a part of it, this place will automatically draw vitality from the surrounding to supplement the missing part.

This supplementary method is more violent, and you will choose targets at will within a certain range. For example, Jack now drinks a large cup of the spring water from the Fountain of Eternal Life. After a part of the vitality is reduced, the mysterious power will be activated to draw enough vitality from the vicinity to supplement the missing part.

Ethan and Elizabeth, who are currently in this range, will be the targets of extraction, and even Jack himself may be killed by this formation, regaining his vitality.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this uncontrollable situation that someone has created something like the Holy Grail, which makes this magic circle no longer draw at will, but replenish the lost vitality from a specific target.

Of course, these are the conclusions that Ethan has drawn by speculating on the environment and the content of the original plot. It may be a little bit deviated from the facts, but as long as there is such a risk, he must try to solve it and avoid bad situations. .

He didn't think about analyzing this place thoroughly, but now he was thinking about how to take away these vitality springs and prevent this mysterious power from launching attacks against them.

"I need some time."

Seeing Jack was about to reach out for the spring water, Ethan stopped his movement.

"Don't touch this thing for now, it is not absolutely safe for you."

Elizabeth, who originally wanted to reach out, immediately stopped her movement, retracted her hand that had just been raised, and then asked Jack the same question.

"Now I have found Bu Laoquan, what are we going to do next?"

"Next." Ethan touched his chin, thinking about where he should start: "I may stay here for a while to crack the secrets of this place."

"and then?"

"Then?"

Ethan calculated the time, he should have a lot of time left, but who knows how long it will be delayed here? Maybe the time left was just enough for him to completely analyze the Fountain of Ages, and it might even be enough for him to solve the problem of how to take the Fountain of Ages away.

"Then I may have to go back to where I came from."

Whether it's Jack or Elizabeth, suddenly there is a feeling. The place where Ethan was going back was not a place they could go to at will. Jack even asked a ghostly question: "Is it heaven?"

"……"

Ethan really wanted to say that you just went to heaven, but in a sense, such a world full of oceans that requires constant adventure, seems to be the heaven of this stuff.

Ethan dismissed these two goods casually and refocused on the research of Bu Laoquan.

Of course, he is not the kind of research madman who is immersed in research and ignores other things. He does other things every day. For example, chatting with Jack nonsense, asking about Gibbs's situation there, and even in the mood to give Elizabeth some basic sword skills.

Elizabeth's talent is indeed good, anyway, much better than Ethan. Not only did she learn well about sailing, she also learned fast in swordsmanship. The only limitation was her physical fitness. After all, she is a big lady, only agility is not bad, strength and physical strength are very poor, after a period of training, she can barely get rid of the fancy name.

However, with Jack Sparrow as a boring person as a sparring partner, Elizabeth has fully learned how to reasonably use the terrain and environment to create an advantage for herself is not limited to using swordsmanship to fight each other head-on. , And her mind is flexible enough, she can't even think about it for ordinary people.

Such days are boring and boring. The restless Elizabeth and Jack who are also unable to live are a bit unbearable, but seeing Ethan’s increasingly dignified face, they know that this mysterious guy has come to the study of Bu Laoquan. The critical moment.

In the next time, in order to avoid disturbing Ethan, the two of them no longer let Ethan send them out, but honestly watch Ethan's work.

Until this day, they watched Ethan draw the twentieth strange pattern on the stone platform with their own eyes, and Ethan, who had become more and more serious, finally showed a long-lost smile.

At this moment, they felt that the whole air had become fresher, the environment was no longer so depressing, and it seemed that their breathing had become much smoother.

"Are you done?"

Jack looked forward to the answer he wanted most.

"Just completed the first step."

Hearing this answer, he thought he still had to stay in this desolate place, but Ethan quickly gave him new hope.

"We don't need to stay here anymore. When I seal up these vitality springs, we can leave."

As for the fountain of youth? Ethan will not be destroyed. According to his calculations and arrangements, Bu Laoquan will not collapse because of what he did, but will recover restrainedly and slowly, when the magic circle he set up completely fails. , It will also replenish enough vitality and return to its original state.

Ethan just took all the life spring water at one time, making the Eternal Spring lose its function for a short period of time.