Then Cesare shuddered with a loud "poof", and the mad girl Anya suddenly jumped up, like a hunting feline, and threw herself into the grocery pile with a violent noise, and when Cesare looked at her, she saw that half of the girl's body was stuck in the heap, and only a pair of legs were still on the outside. Anya rolled over and sat up, shook the dust off her hair, pouted angrily and looked around looking for something, and then shouted, "Don't run!" "What? What do you see? Although Cesare has come to understand Anya's habits, she is inevitably led astray when strange situations occur. Following Anya's gaze, a small fluffy earth-colored furball poked out from under a white cloth, and its furry body still had some unevenly distributed patterns, and before Cesare could confirm it, a pair of eyes with erect pupils suddenly opened on the furball, and a frightened cat meow sounded. It was a dirty little cat, I don't know how long I lived in this warehouse without being discovered, when Anya got up again and pounced on it again, the kitten was so frightened that it raised its tail, and its whole body exploded, and it jumped up and quickly shuttled back and forth in the warehouse pile. The cat ran so fast that it was difficult for ordinary people to keep up with its speed, let alone catch it. The girl's light body can follow the cat closely, Anya jumps up from one cargo box after another, and sometimes learns the cat's movements to run with her limbs in the complex terrain at the same time, the crowded pile of goods is like walking on the ground in her flexible posture, to outsiders it looks like a big cat chasing a small cat, only Anya herself enjoys it. "Cesare! It's running away from you! Help me stop it! Anya shouted anxiously, but Cesare only sneered silently and did not look at her again. A man and a cat started a chase in the warehouse, Cesare who was choking on the dust that trampled on the dust had a sore throat, and the chase in the outer circle ended The two magical creatures began to chase around Cesare in the inner circle again, running around Cesare left and right, disturbing him to be unable to concentrate at all, and even when the cat passed by his side, Anya easily jumped onto the table, raised her leg and kicked hard, and her whole body turned over over Cesare's head. Cesare shrunk her legs inwards for fear of being stepped on by her, and when Anya landed smoothly, she immediately regained her balance and ran forward, but the cat still jumped on the edge of the window first, stood in front of the open window, wagging its tail happily from side to side, as if mocking, and then jumped out of the window without a trace, ending the game. "Oh... It's a pity. Anya whispered some regret with her back to Cesare, and when she turned around, she had a sweet smile on her face, as if she had tossed it just to get to Cesare's side. How's your research going, Cesare-san. Cesare rolled his eyes silently, and then carefully placed the mechanical heart on the ground. There is no sign of damage on the outside, just in time for you to have Yaxing patronize, I want to see if I can activate the inner circle with magic. With that, Cesare snapped his fingers, and as the sound spread through the warehouse, the magical fluorescence floating on the ground began to vibrate violently as if it had been sensed in some way, and when Cesare slowly placed his palm on the device, the fluorescent light also gathered and moved like countless fireflies, and finally formed a huge circle of glowing magical light directly below the mechanical heart. Cesare slowly lifted his palm upward, and the gathered magic was drawn from the surface of the earth, surging upwards and into the interior of the mechanical heart. "That's amazing! It's a pity that I don't understand magic and I don't know much about mechanics, so what is this doing? Anya first praised Cesare's magic, then questioned him, but Cesare did not respond to him, just quietly waiting for the mechanical heart to react. However, the surroundings returned to darkness again as the fluorescence on the ground disappeared, but the heart was still cold, and no changes had occurred. "Hmm... Is it OK to applaud now? Or wait? Anya asked, hugging her shoulders and tilting her head. "It looks like the internal structure is completely broken, and it has to be dismantled to have any hope of repairing." Cesare said with some disappointment, and he was about to reach out to pick up his heart, but the moment his fingers touched the iron skin, he felt an unusual temperature. Between the gaps in the intricately crafted iron sheets, a faint light suddenly flickered under the gaze of the two of them. "Wait, there's a reaction." Immediately afterward, the light that burst out of the heart became brighter and brighter, gradually illuminating the expectant faces of Anya and Cesare. Suddenly, a small piston on the structure made a crisp rattling sound, followed by a row of pistons rhythmically bouncing up and down. As the piston turned, there was a heart-like beating sound from inside the machine, which was slow at first, but soon became more and more rapid, sounding almost exactly the same as a real person's heartbeat, and it was terrifying. Cesare tried to touch the exterior of the device, only to find that the mechanism had become warm, as if a flame was burning inside. In the end, the whole machine vibrated with the increase in temperature and the beating sound from inside, and a choking smoke also erupted from above, and the choking Anya coughed again and again, and hurriedly waved her hand to drive away the smoke and dust. It was a happy moment, but Cesare was puzzled, if the device was not broken, why it was sold at auction for a very low price.It wasn't that simple, and it didn't take long for the two of them to be happy, and the machine stopped working after a huge beating node, as if it had exhausted its last bit of strength, and the internal operation gradually slowed down, its temperature gradually cooled, the sound of its heartbeat calmed down, the light inside dimmed, and Cesare's brow furrowed. As the last stubborn puff of smoke was discharged from the pipe, the machinery no longer moved as if it had died suddenly, as if everything just now was just a return to the light, and the calm at this time was the predestined normal. Seeing this, Anya squatted down and touched Cesare with her elbow, pursed her lips and asked, "Is it okay?" Cesare shook his head, knowing that the machine was already at its limit. Cesare picked up the mechanical heart back and put it back on the table, and took out all the tools in his arms and lined them up beside him, peeling back the exterior layer by layer along the traces of the original design and assembly of the device, but the parts taken out of the small machine were spread all over the table, and even stuffed into Anya's arms to help hold some of them. When Cesare pried open the innermost core, a circle of magic was carved on totemic paper that was rigidly attached to the center, which was the most important part of the machine's operation. It was a strangely shaped circle, different from the usual pentagram or moon-shaped, it was shaped like a split bird's claw, like a sapling growing out of the earth, or with three branched crosses branching out of the bottom. Cesare vaguely remembered where he had seen the circle, but after too much time, he couldn't remember the details, and he looked up at the curious girl beside him, and decided not to tell Anya about it. The paint used to draw the circle had almost dried up, leaving only shallow marks in most places, and several lines were completely broken, which was supposed to be the cause of the breakdown. Cesare gently twisted some of the paint that had not yet dried with his two fingers, a black, viscous liquid that formed a sticky strand that smelled like the stench of a corpse. Anya approached curiously, sniffed it, and immediately covered her nose and stepped back. "What is this? How can it stink so much!? "It's some kind of liquid that is highly effective in channeling demons, and obviously this kind of circle can only be drawn by this liquid, otherwise it won't work, and this machine will be no different from being scrapped." Cesare looked expressionlessly rubbed the mucus from his hand again until it dried up completely. "They decided that there was no way to complete the circle outside, so they pushed the price of the machinery down to the same level as scrap metal...... Without this material, I simply couldn't fix this machine, so sorry, that's the end of it. Listening to Cesare's explanation, Anya did not show loss, but the corners of her mouth inadvertently rose. If there is no outside, it doesn't mean that your Hunyadi family doesn't have it, as long as we go to your family's territory, we will definitely find a way to repair the machine. Cesare slowly assembled the mechanical heart back into its original state, responding with little emotion: "Why are you talking about us?" This is not within the scope of what I promised you. At that moment, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door of the warehouse, followed by the sound of a key rushing to unlock the lock. In the darkness, Patrolman Vane's voice said categorically outside the door: "Mr. Anri, I definitely hear a sound in this warehouse, and I don't know who pried open the window, I seriously suspect that a student has run inside!" The door was pushed open with force, and the moonlight from outside shone in, illuminating the dim interior. The interior of the warehouse is indeed chaotic, but who remembers what it looked like before this place was locked, the two adults looked inside and didn't see half a figure, just an ordinary warehouse. The director of teaching, Anri, followed the patrol officer here, and in a hurry he even forgot to put down the wine glass in his hand, a little after-work pastime is not against the school rules, but the strange thing is that he didn't spill any wine all the way to the house, he looked around the warehouse, lifted the wine glass with a sigh of relief, took a sip, and waited for Vane's explanation. "But, but, I definitely heard it, I must have been hiding!" Vane picked up the oil lamp and looked carefully into the warehouse, then raised his foot and walked inside, and Ryan shrugged his shoulders and had no choice but to follow. At this moment, Cesare and Anya were curled up behind a large bound cargo box, Cesare was holding the mechanism, and Anya was holding the parts that had not yet had time to be put back in, and the two of them held their breath for fear of making a sound. As the light of the lantern gradually illuminated the shadow behind the cargo box, Patrolman Wayne had almost faintly seen Anya's boots, and the director behind him, Ryan, quietly watched his feet, watching the faint but not disappearing fluorescent light slowly floating in the ground. "Probably just a feral cat, there's nothing to see here, can I go back to sleep?" "What? Cat? No, no, sir, I'm sure it wasn't a cat's movement. As he spoke, Vane was about to walk in the direction of Cesare and Anya, and the two students could only curl their bodies tighter at this time, huddled together in the shadow of the only remaining cargo, although Cesare did not want to have any physical contact, but the situation was urgent, so he had no choice but to stick to Anya. The patrolman was still walking inside, and Director Ryan was also starting to get impatient, with a slight anger in his tone. "I'm tired sir! The wages paid by this academy are simply not enough to sacrifice my precious rest time and eight hours of thunderous sleep! Also, don't think I didn't see the craft brew in your jacket pocket, if nothing else, this year's financial summary will surprise you. Ryan turned around and left. "But!Wayne looked in the direction Cesare was hiding, then at the direction where Dean Ryan had left, and stomped his foot in a hurry. Mr. Director, you wait for me, you listen to my explanation! As the figures of the two men disappeared into the twilight, nothing happened tonight.

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