Returning from the abyss

Chapter 443 Poisonous Words
Saving some gold staff is indeed a result that can be remembered by the alchemist but is of little use.After all, to an alchemist, spotting a golden rod is like food and water for ordinary people. This method cannot be popularized and used, and secondly, it has no practical value. It is only displayed as an academic achievement at most.

After telling the story, the two also went to the place where they separated. After thanking Rochester, Lu Ning watched him walk into the dining area at the back, while she came to the shelf of rainbow mushrooms.

As a well-known alchemy shop, it naturally also sells a variety of finished products.Lu Ning searched a little on the shelf of the medicine, and found what she needed.

"Pharmaceuticals for heartbreak..."

She took two pill bottles tied together with a knot from the shelf.

It is the three-point poison of medicine, and this theory is also common in this world.Alchemy potions are effective due to purity issues, but there is also the danger of overdose. Even standard potions need to be used according to certain guidelines.The main function of the potion is to relax, relieve mental stress, and distract attention. It is a very useful pressure-relief potion. People who are too busy at work or nervous may need such a bottle of potion to sleep peacefully. But this kind of potion takes a long time to take effect, so it is usually equipped with a bottle of antidote to prevent accidents.

Lu Ning took the medicine to the counter, and the price was not high, only ten copper coins.

After doing these things, she left the Rainbow Mushroom and turned her head towards the direction of the Crow Hotel.But after walking a few steps on the commercial street, she saw a tall, thin figure in black robe striding around a corner and walking into an alley on the commercial street.

It's Anli, the owner of the old bookstore.

"His shop doesn't seem to be there... Isn't it open in broad daylight?"

Lu Ning was a little puzzled, but she didn't follow along because of this curiosity. After all, everyone may have some abnormal behavior occasionally, and she can't investigate all of them.

She paid attention to this matter for a while, and then continued her actions.Because of the earlier departure this time, when she arrived at the Crow Hotel, the door was still closed.

After several knocks on the door, Pierre came out yawning.

"I just lay down... I said, is there anything urgent?"

"Did you hear about the closure of the commercial street in the morning?"

Pierre rubbed his eyes and nodded his head: "The council found some traces, and then used them to find the address of a book thief. It's not in the commercial street, but that guy should be just a downline, kicked by the guards." The door slammed immediately, and I used the transfer magic to escape, but I got stuck in the wall."

"Stuck in the wall?"

"The spatial fluctuations in the entire Ewa Gallery are under surveillance. Of course, this kind of teleportation is directly typed out. It's just that the luck is not good. But... Anyway, the council already knew about it, and they must be there Expand the search..."

"No." Lu Ning recalled Xue Ni's words last night, "The council will give priority to interrogation. Although they have enough resources, the interrogation has to go through a process, and it will take two days at the earliest to get specific clues from that person. Come. Two days."

"Two days? Tsk, wait, two days?" Pierre's eyes widened and he was no longer sleepy.

"In two days, the effect of the mental barrier will disappear, and there is no guarantee that the person will suddenly change during the interrogation." Lu Ning said in a deep voice, "It is easy for the parliament to suppress, but the problem is that even if they arrest people at this time, the remaining Those 'bombs' that are dropped will go off together."

"that is not……"

"What we need to ensure is our own safety here, and the priority should be clarified. Have you done everything I said before?"

"That guy has been calmed down, and he has eaten all the food delivered in the morning." Pierre nodded, "This kid is also a guy who has not experienced much in the world."

"Put this in your lunch." Lu Ning took out a medicine bottle from her pocket and gave it to Pierre.

Pierre was stunned: "So cruel? Is it necessary? He is also a victim..."

"When he decided to let the magic book be lost, he was a perpetrator. What's more, he will definitely die. Unless you kill him with a spell now, his end is already doomed." Lu Ning said coldly , "But I want to exchange his life for valuable rewards instead of squandering it at will. This is alchemy."

"I understand why the lady asked you to be in charge of our affairs." Pierre took the medicine bottle, "I still can't bear to face this kind of thing."

"Because you don't know the consequences."

A little negligence and soft-heartedness will bring disasters like an avalanche, whether it is from personal experience or reading records, Lu Ning already knows enough.Pierre said that Todd was not deeply involved in the world, but under the protection of the holy capital, doing some underground transactions that slightly exceeded the law did not allow him to understand the consequences of certain things getting out of control.

Pierre went into the house to prepare lunch for Todd, and Lu Ning walked into the alchemy laboratory again.

This time she didn't use the three-layer refining formation, but took out a charcoal pencil from her pocket.When Lilian was the poorest, she practiced alchemy by picking out some coke that could be made into pens from the extinguished fire by the roadside, and drawing alchemy formations on the cheapest parchment.

Although Lu Ning disapproved of Lilian's leaving her hometown, her efforts were at least commendable.

But this time, Lu Ning was back to her old business. She couldn't use the materials casually, but the parchment was provided here quite adequately.She sat down at the desk and began to draw the evolution formation according to Lilian's memory.This was just a familiarization process. After two sheets of paper, she drew a usable transformation formation.

This kind of refining formation can generally only refine medicines, because the maintenance time is too short, and it is also a one-time product, and the paper cannot withstand the high temperature released by the substance exchange during refining.

Then, Lu Ning took out the materials she bought yesterday from under the table, and she didn't take them with her when she left. After all, there is no more professional processing place than here.

"If it's just a test..."

She broke off two sections of the rhizome of the silver-thread grass, pressed out the juice with a small silver knife, took it out with the dropper, and carefully dropped a few drops of the liquid on several corners of the refining formation.

So far it's no problem.

Then Lu Ning took some magic liquid. The parchment alchemy formation is different from the alchemy platform. There is no magic outlet, so the original liquid is usually dropped in the center and the alchemist guides it manually. Lu Ning operates according to the process in memory and uses it as the original liquid After all of it penetrated into the paper, he rubbed his fingers slightly, and a flame appeared on his fingertips.

This kind of small spark can just evaporate some excess water, and then activate the magic liquid to produce magic flow.But this time, Lu Ning still needs it to cooperate with her experiment.

When the magic flow was generated, Lu Ning guided it with a golden stick, and the magic flow gradually began to change into a rather complicated shape. During this period, her other hand kept the flame at the fingertips.After about ten seconds, the flow of magic power began to become unstable, and even the complex configuration could not be maintained. Lu Ning pulled out the gold stick, pinched a corner of the parchment and threw it out.

With a whoosh, a group of silver flames swallowed the parchment, a failed refining.

"It's more difficult than I thought. The formula can't be complicated at will, otherwise the disturbance will spread evenly to each item, so that the filtering effect will not be produced..." Lu Ning reflected on the previous mistakes, and then pulled the next piece of parchment .

After about an hour or so, Pierre finally knocked on the door of the laboratory.

"Miss Lilian, something is wrong with that kid."

"how?"

"What kind of medicine did you give? There was nothing wrong with him when he ate, but when I went to collect the bowl, his expression was a little bit wrong, and his facial expression was a little distorted. I went there just now, and he was hitting his head against the wall."

"Bump into the wall? That may not be the time yet." Lu Ning didn't move.

"Not yet? When is it time?"

"When he starts swearing and crying."

Pierre shrugged: "Okay, I'll watch."

But Todd's stay was shorter than Lu Ning thought, and Pierre came back again after more than an hour.

"Now he is begging for mercy while yelling and cursing a liar, kneeling on the ground as if praying to someone, and sometimes jumping up and continuing to scold, is this okay?"

"Okay, let's go and have a look." Lu Ning folded a piece of parchment and put it in her pocket, got up and followed Pierre into the prison again.

As soon as she passed through the wall, Lu Ning heard hateful cursing and miserable begging for mercy, but she didn't specify the target. When she got closer, Todd was kneeling on the ground crying with blood on his forehead.

"What's wrong?" Lu Ning asked, maintaining the tone of the previous conversation.

Todd raised his head suddenly, saw Lu Ning, and rushed to the door directly, poking his hand out from the gap in the railing, but even so, there was still a distance of about one meter between the two.

"They're liars, they lied to me! Spellbook! It's a Spellbook! I can hear! I hear heaven! But I shouldn't be there, I'm not... I'm not him! Help me! Help me! help me!"

He roared hoarsely, the despair in his tone even made Pierre next to him get goosebumps.

"Sure enough, it's a lie, and you fell for it without even thinking about it." Lu Ning sighed slightly, took out a medicine bottle from her pocket, and put it gently in Todd's hand, "Maybe this will make you feel better." Better."

Todd's eyes lit up a little, he grabbed the bottle and bit off the cork, and poured all the medicine inside without even asking what it was.

And soon, Todd fell silent, kneeling on the edge of the railing and panting heavily.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"That spell is fake, it can't block the effect of the grimoire... it just delays the effect. Now the spell is taking effect! I can feel it! I can see what he saw! I'm just...no, I'm not... ..." Todd held his head, and began to suffer again, "I can't hear it now, but I still remember, it's the magic book... it's the magic book..."

"So you are just being used. Avalon has not yet found a way to allow low-level mages to read the magic book safely. This is not to enjoy the benefits of the magic book." Lu Ning put her hands in her pockets, calmly Looking at him steadily, Todd slowly raised his head under her unchanged tone.

"The potion you gave me just now..."

"It can delay it a little bit, but just like the antidote is just a general-purpose emergency medicine, it naturally cannot really prevent the contamination of the magic book."

"What should I do? I don't want to die...With that potion, it must be..."

"How can I do things that even Ewalang can't do? Now that things are up to now, it's better to pin our hopes on that spell."

"That's fake!"

"That's right, but what if a temporary spell has a high-level permanent version? Maybe the person who gave you the magic book really mastered it, but they also don't want to share it, just like the psychology of many people." Lu Staring into Todd's eyes, there was a strange attraction in her dark blue eyes that belonged to Lilian, "After all, I am not a researcher of magic books, and it is impossible for me to know too much about magic books. Secret. As for the person who taught you the spell, think about what they did, they must have studied the magic book for a long time, and it is more likely to find them anyway."

"Find them?"

"That's right, since you are in such a situation, there is no need for us to lock you up. Your things are all there, and we haven't touched them. Except for the magic book, which cannot be returned to you, everything else will be returned to you. "

"You want me to leave?"

"Otherwise? We can't save you, and we can't stop you from surviving and let you die in this prison, right?" Lu Ning shook her head slightly, "But what happens next is up to you, let me tell you another news Yes, the council seems to know about the operation of dismantling the magic book and handing it off, there was already a raid in the morning, you'd better be more secretive when you act."

"I got it, I got it! Thank you, thank you! That..."

"I'm sorry, no one will carry a bunch of emergency medicine with them. I can't give you a second bottle. You have to find a way to find those people as soon as possible. Based on what you said before, those people may transfer their residency location, but the communication channel may not be closed yet, you can try to start from here."

After Lu Ning finished speaking, she stepped aside and gestured to Pierre.

"Let him out."

"what?"

Pierre froze for a moment, but opened the cell door as Lu Ning said.

"Hmph, you're lucky... everything is in that box, go get it yourself."

Todd didn't care about Pierre's attitude, and he didn't care about it at the moment of his life. He hurried to the opened box and took out his most important magic tool, and then rushed out of the phantom wall.

"Just let him go? There won't be any trouble?"

"There is going to be a disturbance. Where there is a disturbance, the group of book thieves will be hiding. It will be around tomorrow night." Lu Ning said.

"That won't break out completely..."

"Pierre, controlling the pollution of magic books is a matter for the council. I'm going to cut off the source now." Lu Ning turned her head and looked at him, "I'm not here to judge right from wrong, I'm here to execute the sentence, figure it out at this point."

(End of this chapter)