After the meeting of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Amber went straight to Gao Wen's study.

Gao Wen was sitting behind the desk and carefully looked at an ancient book that had been repaired and strengthened. His eyes slowly moved on the mottled pages and letters re-depicted by the bookmaker. It had not yet completely dissipated. The smell of alchemy potion slowly drifted into his nostrils. The contents of this ancient travel notation made him fall into thought from time to time. Then, a sudden sound from the air interrupted his movements-

"Hey! I heard you look for me just after the meeting!" Amber's figure emerged from the air, with a sense of eternal joy, "Is there another task to process money?"

Gao Wen raised his head from the ancient book and glanced at Amber standing in front of him. A smile appeared on his face and pointed to the chair next to the desk: "Sit down, I have something to let you see."

At the first moment, Amber noticed a trace of unusualness from Gao Wen's smile and tone. The "half-elf" who seemed careless and actually quite keen immediately shook his ears and frowned suspiciously: "What are you...what are you going to show me?"

Gao Wen stood up from behind the desk, breathed a long sigh, and gently pushed the ancient book forward: "For you - don't worry, it will not be damaged so easily after repairing it."

"A book?" Amber was stunned for the first time when she saw that it was just a book, and subconsciously took it over, but soon her expression of indifferent care gradually became stagnant. She vaguely noticed something, and a complex and incredible gaze appeared in her eyes. She slowly raised her head and looked at Gao Wen, "...Is that book?"

"The exact evidence has been found," Gao Wen nodded slightly. "A shadow thief of unknown origin tried to steal it from a church - so the book was sent to the library of St. Lu'an Cathedral. We compared all the information we could find and finally confirmed that it was what your adoptive father wanted to steal back then."

"It's it...just for it..." The eternal expression on Amber's face gradually faded away. She grabbed the mottled cover of the ancient book with some force, but soon let go of her hand as if she was afraid of damage. She stared at the repaired letters on the cover, and her fingers slowly stroked it, her eyes changed several times, but in the end she neither cried nor laughed.

After a long time, she looked up at Gao Wen: "I saw you were reading it just now... What's the special thing about this book?"

"Strictly speaking, it is made up of several books - several broken chapters and a broken editor forced them together. Among these 'parts' that make up the book, it accounts for the largest proportion, and I think the most likely to attract your adoptive father's interest is a travelogue."

Amber widened her eyes: "Travel Notes?"

"Modir Travels," Gao Wen nodded, "The author is Modir Wilder, the Duke of the North six hundred years ago."

As the head of intelligence, Amber is no stranger to the name and the relevant information behind it. She was shocked: "...you mean, the note lost by the Wilder family?! The one Victoria mentioned to you too?"

Gao Wen nodded and pointed at the ancient book in Amber's hand with his chin: "Now it's in your hand."

"But... why did my adoptive father..." Amber looked down at the "travel note" in his hand with an incomprehensible gaze. "Is this worthy of his risk?"

"I was also trying to find the reason just now, looking for the reason from the content of that travel notation, but haven't found it yet," said Gao Wen. "I only have the last little left. Maybe we can look for it together. If your adoptive father decided to take the risk after hearing some of the content of this travel notation, and his information was correct, we would definitely see it."

Amber nodded immediately, came to Gao Wen and opened the book. After taking a look at the contents, she scratched her hair awkwardly: "Uh... it seems that it's mainly for you to find..."

She saw that the main text of the travel notation was composed of a large number of dizzy and difficult to identify words and phrases: it was the common word of human beings six hundred years ago, which was closer to the text of the ancient Gondor Empire. Although the common word of modern human beings came from it, after hundreds of years of changes, these words have been very different from the contemporary ones from the spelling form to the grammar of the whole sentence.

Amber could only vaguely identify some short sentences in it, and to fully understand it, the difficulty was probably comparable to understanding an ancient Gondor book.

She suddenly understood why a "crazy editor" would piece together such a book with several other irrelevant miscellaneous books. Obviously, only professional, senior scholars who have studied text and priests who have mastered a lot of knowledge can understand this thing - of course, an old Zongzi who has been resurrected from the Gondor era is fine.

Gao Wen naturally knew this, so he did not refuse. After moving the book a little to himself, he began to identify the words and sentences on it with Amber.

This ancient travelogue contains staggering rich content. Its author, the North Duke six hundred years ago, was obviously very different from the contemporary aristocrats. Modir Wilder lived in an era closer to the first pioneers. He was even deeply influenced by the first great Duke Wilder, which made him far more adventurous and... innovative in terms of death than his descendants in later generations.

His footprints were spread throughout every corner that humans could explore at that time (even areas where no humans had ever set foot in them except him), especially after completing the transfer and arrangement of the Duke's power and responsibilities, his adventure was even more surprising, from the border of Gondor's wasteland to the Violet Kingdom, which was still mysterious to humans at that time, from the frozen mountains of the Duchy of Holy Dragon to the depths of the desert in the east of Tifeng, and even some different space occupied by elemental creatures, and from unknown to which corner of the universe... he explored and stepped into it.

Every time he explores a new place, he will hand over the already-organized notes to a loyal servant in advance (the loyal servant will wait for his master to return in a safe place), and write new records in the subsequent exploration journey. After returning safely, he will sort out these new notes, integrate them with the previous notes, and take them to the next adventure.

This behavior seems quite incomprehensible to Amber, who was born hundreds of years later. After watching several thrilling adventure records in succession, she couldn't help but frown and asked, "Why are a great noble like him so keen on adventures? Many of the 'adventures' in it are obviously beyond the level of leisure, and it is no different from seeking death..."

"...He was a generation close to the pioneers. The descendants of the pioneers at that time were deeply influenced by their fathers and ancestors," Gao Wen shook his head. "Many people firmly believe that human beings will one day return to the peak of the Gondor era. For that day, they will travel every inch of the land on this continent and find a safe boundary for the human civilization at that time. I have never seen Modir's generation, but I can imagine what their descendants look like based on my generation. I am sure that Modir Wilder was not the only adventurer at that time - but only a great noble and extraordinary man like him can pass on his notes to this day."

Amber blinked in a vague way, no longer having any problems, and turned his gaze back to the second half of Modir's notes, and beside her, Gao Wen's eyes suddenly slowed down as he swept through some of the old paper lines.

Amber noticed this immediately: "What did you see?"

"...I suspect that I found the content that attracted your adoptive father's interest..." Gao Wen said as he quickly flipped the next few pages and read the contents briefly. After several changes in his eyes, he slowly frowned.

"Then read it to me," Amber saw Gao Wen not saying it for a long time, and was a little anxious. "Hey, I must know that these contents are mostly related to my life experience. I am mentally prepared. Tell me..."

"In his later years, Modir Wilder had explored the Shadow World and successfully established communication with the residents of the Shadow World..." After a moment of thinking, Gao Wen nodded and pointed his hand at the words in the travel notes-

The following is the handwritten record left by Modir Wilder:

"x-month x-day... After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally found a weak point in the real world, a natural shadow rift. This rift can be expanded and stabilized by rituals, so that a human can step into it completely and stay for a long time, rather than briefly shuttle through the shadow boundaries like other shadow professions. I'm not sure if the ancient Gondor mages used this way to open the shadow door, but this is the best way I can find...

"On x-month, with all preparations, the rift opened, as stable as I thought, but slightly smaller than expected, yet still sufficient. I decided to pass through this door at the moment when the shadow power was the most powerful tonight, and wish me good luck...

"...On the other side of the door is a world that is even more desolate and strange than I imagined... Colorless, the dead black, white and gray colors build everything in this world... Things in the real world are projected in this space in a bizarre state. The town I temporarily lives in is here presented as a large pile of twisted building fragments, and the mountain peaks in the distance seem to have turned into a constantly waving black fog...

"This world is obviously not suitable for ordinary people to survive, and I can't see any value in resource mining, but I still decided to go deeper. The good news is that in addition to the imbalance of elements, the magic here is still the same as the outside world. I can exert more than 80% of my strength here...

"On the x month... I met those creatures! They looked very similar to humans, wearing strange clothes like rune cloth, like smoke restricted into human form... They floated by from a distance, and I don't think I was alarmed. I am sure that is the legendary Shadow Inhabitants, the wise inhabitants living in the Shadow World. It is said that only a few masters who specialize in Shadow Way have witnessed these mysterious creatures by chance, but even those masters have not successfully established records of communication with Shadow Inhabitants...

"I, Modir Wilder, the most powerful human spellcaster in this country - although not Shadow Mage - intend to challenge me, and I want to try to communicate with these mysterious creatures, and they may be able to tell me what secrets this strange and bizarre world has...

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

"On x month, I was ready to go all out and even returned to the real world to perform some special rituals. I believe I have accumulated enough experience, including how to deal with their elusive invisible bodies and their increasing numbers, and I no longer have weaknesses.

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

"Modir, Modir! Look at your shameful record! You are the most powerful human spellcaster in this country! How can you escape one after another by a group of strange enemies who can only murmur?

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

“I think I should be out of my mind.

"I am no longer young, and I have to rely on strategy like an old mage who is in line with my age... If the methods are right, those shadow residents may also be reasonable.

"I want to keep all my previous failure experiences completely, which may give some warnings to adventurers in future generations. Of course, this may damage my image, but as an adventurer, trying a path is a duty, and no matter how embarrassed the experience is, it is a valuable experience. I cannot hide my failure.

"In the positive sense, I am old, so I can not rush to publish these records, leave last words, and let future generations publish them, so that I can't hear those ridicule... Maybe someone will even be impressed by my sense of humor..."

Gao Wen had just read it briefly, so his expression was still tense at this time, but Amber next to him couldn't help but pull the corner of his mouth. After a while, he couldn't help but say: "This person has a big brain..."

Gowen: "He was one of Victoria's ancestors..."

Amber: "This is what Dazhi Ruoyu said..."

"It's just that his personality is quite special," Gao Wen said solemnly and calmly, pointing to the following words, "Let's go ahead, he has begun to try to approach the Shadow Inhabitants in a special way."

Amber quickly shut up and put her head over - although she couldn't understand it very much, she still followed Gao Wen's fingers and looked down:

"…The Shadow Inhabitants seem to be extremely repulsive of foreign uninvited guests. They regard me as an invader of the real world and refuse to communicate again and again. What if I make myself look like a creature living in the Shadow World?

"This idea is bold and feasible. I know some special rituals and potions - large doses of shadow potions may not be so friendly to the stomach, but maybe it will make the shadow residents more friendly to me, and a little stomach discomfort is not that important...

"On the day of x month x... I completed the ritual according to the above ideas, transformed myself into a form similar to a shadow creature, and took enough shadow potion. I found an old friend who knew the shadow spell, and said that I now "just look like a shadow". In this way, I must be foolproof.

“I decided to try to contact those shadow residents tonight—then the shadow power in me will reach its peak, and my disguise must be without flaws.

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

“I experienced severe diarrhea after coming back.
Chapter completed!