Perfume Alchemist

Chapter 318 Purple Curse
Under Yi Liya's explanation, Ahao quickly figured out the whole story.

His slightly dizzy mind grasped the most crucial point: "So, you want Morris's address now?"

"Yes." Illya nodded in relief, "We have to find him first."

"Yes, there must be." Ahao flipped through his wallet, trying to find out the business card he handed to Morris when he first met Morris.

"I found it! How are we going to find him now?"

Illya turned to look at Shirley.Shirley grabbed her collar tightly, nodded and said, "The sooner the better."

Morris's address was in the suburban area of ​​Uptown.The three of Ahao came here on the Austrian Express.

In the dark sky, a bright gas lamp was shining at the door of this spacious single-family house.

Ah Hao asked the two ladies to wait, and he went forward and knocked on the door.

Moments later, Morris' unkempt face appeared behind the door.

"Ahao? Why are you free to come to me today?" Morris' voice was slightly surprised.His eye sockets were black and blue, and his beard hadn't been trimmed for a long time.

Ah Hao stepped aside and pulled Shirley up: "I need your help with something."

Shirley smiled reluctantly at Morris.

When Morris saw Shirley's face, he immediately understood: "Come in first, and talk slowly. I'll make you a cup of tea or coffee first, what do you want?"

"Tea will do."

Morris' home is not luxurious, and the furnishings are ordinary.But the spacious space and the soft seats that can be seen everywhere seem warm.

Shirley was sitting opposite Maurice at the far end of the room.Ah Hao couldn't see the details, he could only see the faint purple light lingering on Morris's face.

Ah Hao looked at it from a distance for a long time, but didn't see any tricks, so he could only go back to the living room and sat next to Yi Liya.

"Actually, it's been weird from the beginning."

As time passed, the alcohol was metabolized by his body, and Ah Hao felt that his mind became clearer and clearer.He took out a cup of concentration candle and lit it to make his thinking smoother.

Ilya put down the teacup in her hand, and looked over curiously: "What are you talking about?"

"Xue Li's illness." Ahao said quickly, "Recall carefully, among all the patients who contracted [Mutation] back then, only Xue Li's symptoms were different from others."

"If I'm not mistaken, only Shirley should have survived among those people."

Seeing Ahao's piercing gaze, Ilya shrank her hands unconsciously.

She remembered what she had seen and heard that day at San Lodo Hospital.Highly mutated patients, chaotic and terrifying forms, and those lavender fragments!

Illya's pupils shrank quickly: "I just remembered, the things 'conceived' by those patients are also purple! Shirley seems to be cursed by purple now."

"Is there some connection between the two?"

Ahao knew that Ilya was on the same thinking channel as him, so he continued: "I thought Shirley was special at first, she resisted that strange 'invasion', or 'curse'. But now it seems ,it's not true."

"If those mutant patients are giving birth to the 'fragment' channel, it is good to open up the connection between the void and reality."

"Then Shirley, is it possible that something is 'breeding'? And this kind of thing is definitely not a debris channel, but something stronger and more powerful than that."

"Okay, don't say any more." Ilya covered her mouth.

Listening to Ahao's words, she felt the hairs on her skin explode.

“It doesn’t have to be this bad”

"Yeah, the situation is indeed okay." Morris's hoarse voice sounded from behind the two of them.

Ilya immediately raised her head and saw a smiling Morris coming from a distant room.Shirley followed behind him, looking a little confused.

Ah Hao turned around: "How is Shirley's condition?"

"Compared to the data I left before, the area of ​​Xue Li's skin infected by [Baoyu] is actually constantly decreasing."

Morris took out a large case book from behind and handed it to Ahao: "Look, compared with the area I calculated just now, the area of ​​these gemstones is actually reduced by 2 square centimeters."

"In addition, I also feel that Shirley's energy level has even improved a lot compared to before she was admitted to the hospital. After a simple measurement, I found that this is indeed the case."

Upon hearing this, Ilya immediately looked at Shirley: "Do you feel that your strength has improved?"

Shirley walked to Ilya's side, picked up the teacup and took a big sip before saying, "Yes!"

"To be more precise, the speed at which my strength improves even scares me."

Shirley tightly squeezed the teacup in her hand: "In fact, I have already had this situation after I was discharged from the hospital. Ilya, I have already digested all the abilities I just entered. I feel that the next time I advance, It might be coming too."

"So fast?" Illya didn't know if she should be happy for Shirley.She said with a confused expression: "But you have advanced twice in a row in the past two months. If you advance again this time, won't you be about to become a fourth-order arcanist?"

"That's right. Although all the gemstones have turned purple, I have also benefited from it." Shirley stared blankly at the teacup in front of her, not knowing what to say.

Morris also sat on the table with a smile: "That's why I said the situation is fine. Any abnormality of the door is certainly worth worrying about. But if the door is changed, the ability of the arcanist will be improved instead."

"That's something that many people dream of! In the medical field, even some arcane masters call this situation [Second Awakening]!"

"This matter may not be so simple." Ahao interrupted Morris, and he turned his head seriously: "Then how do you explain that Shirley's gemstones form the shape of a fish?"

Ahao's question made Ilya and Shirley look at Morris together.

"Well, it should be Shirley's ability, which may be related to fish or water in the second awakening. So the appearance has changed a little because of this, and there are precedents for this."

"No, no, no." Ahao shook his head, "This is really weird. The space passages where those patients conceive are lavender. The fish that come out of the passages are also purple."

"The jewel 'tattoo' Shirley now has has also turned into a purple fish. I don't believe it's a coincidence."

Hearing this, Shirley subconsciously touched her neck.

Morris bit his nails and was silent for most of the day.

"What you said makes sense. I didn't think carefully. But are you sure that the purple fish came out of those patients? I haven't seen that scene, but I just heard some rumors occasionally."

Illya nodded: "It's a purple fish, the three of us have seen it. But it didn't come out of the patient's body, of course it can be said to some extent."

"What we are worried about now is whether Shirley will become like those patients." Ilya expressed his concern as tactfully as possible.

But Xue Li immediately came to her senses.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she was frightened by the imagination in her mind.

"Ahhh!" Shirley cried out in despair.

"Will all these disgusting purple gemstones in my body turn into fish and come out one day?"

"No, I have to find a way to dig them all out!"

Morris stood up immediately in shock: "You can't do this. It will only damage your body!"

Shirley ignored him, and rushed out the door sullenly.

(End of this chapter)