Upon seeing these words, Odis couldn't help but twitch his lips: How did the treasure of the Tudor Empire become your treasure, Roselle's?
He then speculated that this must have been a map drawn by Russell after he switched to the adjacent pathway and became the "Knowledge Emperor".
Before that, the "Generalist" pathway did not have the ability of "prophecy", while the "Secret Seeker" pathway's Sequence 3 "Master of Prophecy", and the sequences above it, had such abilities.
Perhaps because they were both time travelers, Roselle's prophecy was quite accurate. First, Odis was indeed a time traveler, and second, he did know Bernadette, although their relationship was currently just so-so, a good working relationship.
As for whether or not that treasure will be used, well, who would turn down money?
And it seems there are some sealed items inside!
Odis thought to herself, "I wonder if there are any sealed artifacts inside that grant the ability to 'travel'?"
He felt that they should have had them originally, since the Abraham family was the most powerful noble family in the Tudor Empire and should have accumulated such sealed artifacts.
But Odis didn't expect Roselle to leave him anything good. He knew that the Sequence 7 of the "Generalist" pathway was called "Appraiser," whose ability was to identify the sealed artifacts and their negative effects.
As one advances further, the "Appraiser's" abilities will also improve, allowing them to appraise higher-level sealed artifacts.
When Russell visited that treasure a second time, he probably took all the sealed items that didn't have much of a negative effect with him.
As for the gold and silver, Odis really wanted to dig them up, but there was a big problem: he was currently being watched by the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, and the treasure would only benefit the Church of Steam.
In the end, Odis decided to keep the parchment and dig it up again when the opportunity arose.
Odis then temporarily left the "Wilderness of Knowledge" and returned to her home in the real world. She found two pieces of parchment of suitable size, then prepared some antiquing potion and sent them into the "Wilderness of Knowledge".
Then he imitated Russell's handwriting and tone to compile boxing manuals.
Odis never spoke face-to-face with Roselle, and his knowledge of this "senior time traveler" was basically from Roselle's diary.
Fortunately, none of the people in charge of the Charlemagne case had ever seen Emperor Roselle, so the chances of being exposed were slim.
These two boxing manuals mainly consist of pictures and text, and they explain Bajiquan and Taijiquan in different writing styles from "The Outline of Combat".
In some blank spaces, he even wrote in Chinese characters things like "I'm just that all-powerful," which are really annoying.
Since no one could understand it anyway, I just wrote a few sentences and then used a potion to age it, and soon I got two slightly yellowed boxing manuals.
However, these two boxing manuals were not written by Roselle. If one were to use extraordinary abilities to divine, this would be immediately apparent.
But this did not stump Odis. He took the extraordinary characteristics of the "briber" that he had seized from the 3N Party from a display shelf on the side of the room.
Then, while using the power of the "wilderness of knowledge" to suppress the strong negative effects of the extraordinary characteristics, he used the "association" ability of the sequence to establish a "connection" between the parchment and the metal box.
In this way, when using ordinary divination to verify the origin of these two parchments, it will automatically "connect" to the metal box, thus achieving the effect of confusing the divination results.
This should be able to evade most censorship, since not everyone has a "divination artifact" like "Above the Gray Fog".
As for extraordinary traits, they can actually be used directly, but they seem harmless when they are there (below Sequence 5). However, if you use them, the negative effects will be quite severe.
It may react with the extraordinary characteristics within the body, causing the extraordinary person to lose control on the spot.
However, Odis has the high-level suppression of "wilderness of knowledge," which completely prevents him from being affected by extraordinary characteristics.
After doing all this, Odis looked at the boxing manual he had written one last time, folded it up and put it back in the box, closed it again, and smiled with satisfaction: it was basically enough to get by.
Even if the "substitute offender" still has doubts, he can deny it because he has an alibi.
Unless the "substitute punisher" uses extraordinary means to interrogate the viscount or Odis.
This is why Odis wanted a nobleman to provide an alibi. Many nobles in Rune worship the "Lord of Storms," and interrogating them with extraordinary abilities would have a very negative impact.
The Church of the God of Steam and Machinery would certainly not allow Odis, with her special status, to fall into the hands of other extraordinary organizations, so it would definitely prevent the extraordinary interrogation by the "Punisher".
Next, Odis began his research task for the week: to study the plants, animals, and soil of the "Forsaken Land".
This research should have started long ago, but it was delayed again and again due to various urgent research projects.
Last week, Odis had already sent all the plants and animals she had traded from Little Sun into the "Wilderness of Knowledge," and now she was moving them onto her desk.
They are a strange fish, a blood-sucking, brain-drilling insect, a plant with tentacles, and a black-faced grass.
After the strange fish was killed, it became incredibly foul-smelling. Odis treated it with herbs to prevent the stench from spreading everywhere.
Those blood-sucking, brain-drilling insects are incredibly resilient; they can survive on just water. Odis even tried sugar water and salt water on different individuals, and they accepted both without hesitation. The one that drank the sugar water even gained weight.
The plant with tentacles had already started growing new tentacles. Odis filled it with soil and added some fertilizer, and the plant began to grow wildly.
Odis quickly discovered the key: the place where it was placed before being sent into the "wilderness of knowledge" was sunny, which is why it grew so fast. It seems that even after thousands of years, it still retains many characteristics of plants.
As for the tentacles cut from the plants, they began to rot and dry rapidly. Odis dried them and made them into specimens for current research.
Odis finally focused his gaze on the black-faced grass, which was now completely withered, like a dead wheat stalk. However, its color was dark green, not yellow.
The moment these plants and animals that did not die were placed into the "Knowledge Wilderness," all their life activities ceased, but those that were not dead before being placed in still had enough vitality.
It can be understood that their time stood still at this moment.
In addition, there was a bucket of silt and a bucket of ordinary soil that were also acquired in the transaction, which will be studied last.
After Odis had everything prepared, he began to dissect the strange fish.
He did these studies not to become a biologist, but to try to find ways to increase agricultural and livestock production.
Theoretically, with the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess in existence, there shouldn't be a food shortage in this world. However, the reality is that in Backlund, and in every major city of this world, large numbers of homeless people starve to death every day.
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
According to Odis's observations, in addition to some human factors, the crop yields in this world are indeed not large, and the development of animal husbandry is far from reaching the level of a "livestock factory".
Odis also wondered why the Church of the Earth Mother didn't solve these problems. The angel who guided this path alone should have been able to ensure high productivity within a radius of several hundred kilometers.
It can even be completed in a single day from seed germination to maturity.
Later, Odis probably figured it out: the essence of extraordinary characteristics is distortion and chaos, and large-scale "forced production" will definitely cause crops to mutate!
Most importantly, it could very well cause mutations in the people of that land as well.
What if the residents of that land grow along with the plants?
If it's a child who grows 20 or 30 centimeters taller in a year, no one will mind if they're surprised and celebrate with a good meal.
But what if adults also grow? Growing tens of centimeters every year, in less than ten or eight years, that area would become a land of giants!
The northern continent is alright, as wheat is the main crop. In many parts of the southern continent, corn is also grown. Corn grows one or two meters a year, and the task of the Giant Kingdom can be completed in two years.
So Odis had no choice but to try the second path: genetic modification.
But a new problem arose: he didn't have that ability!
Odis knew that the first mate of the "Star Admiral" had such talent, but it seemed that the talent was too much. That guy always seemed to be messing with cows, wanting wheat to grow on them and beer to be produced by them.
As for other studies, such as making fish taste like beef or turning the blood in fish into beer, in Odis's view, none of them were normal.
Strangely, Odis had previously inquired about the Kingdom of Feneport, but had not heard of the Earth Mother Goddess Church producing any high-yield, disease-resistant seeds, or any livestock or poultry offspring that grew quickly and had a high survival rate.
After some further thought, Odis realized that they did not possess such a concept.
It is said that the priests of the Church of the Earth Mother do indeed pray for a bountiful harvest, and that their prayers are very effective.
I've also heard that they have the ability to mutate plants and animals, but they don't seem to have any idea about optimizing seeds.
This involves concepts that only a time traveler like Odis would know: gene mutation and gene self-correction.
For example, in an entire wheat field, all wheat plants are watered and fertilized the same way, and the wheat stalks don't appear to be very tall or very large. Suddenly, there's one wheat plant that grows very tall and strong, with a large ear of wheat.
This is probably a genetic mutation. That seed, instead of enjoying the good life of ordinary wheat, insisted on becoming inward-looking, making other wheat varieties jealous and envious.
But farmers love this kind of competition, and they will definitely plant the seeds produced by this wheat plant in the ground the following year.
But then you'll find that not all seeds are as fond of involute growth as last year's wheat. At most, two or three plants will grow tall and large, since most wheat prefers a peaceful and stable life.
This is probably the self-correcting ability of genes. Odis estimated that the people of this world must have tried breeding, but the results should not have been very ideal.
Odis had some knowledge of this. In order to stabilize the genes of the seeds, in addition to seed selection, seedling cultivation and artificial pollination are also necessary to obtain excellent seeds.
After some time of deliberation, Odis decided to facilitate the artificial breeding process by combining extraordinary and scientific methods.
The basic theory is to use extraordinary abilities to mutate seeds, stabilize genes using scientific and extraordinary methods, and ultimately obtain high-quality crop seeds.
To achieve this goal, the plants and animals that have mutated due to their extraordinary nature in the "Forsaken Land" are very worthy of study.