Perfume Alchemist

Chapter 408 Cleansing Incense Burner
After completing the alchemy optimization of [Spicy Sour], Blancpain begged Ah Hao to continue to help optimize other alchemical explosives.Ah Hao did not resist this, after all, Blancpain provided the refining prototype and initial alchemy ideas, and he provided alchemy optimization suggestions for forming an array.

To some extent, this can be regarded as an equivalent exchange.

So Ahao, Blancpain, and Luke nestled in the room and studied alchemy all night.

The next day, Ah Hao yawned and walked down the street not far from Agadhi Central Avenue.

Ilya looked back with concern: "Didn't you sleep well yesterday?"

"A little bit." Ah Hao rubbed his heavy eyelids.Looking back carefully, he only felt that last night was really crazy.

Blancpain's safety furnace was blown up and repaired, and it was blown up and repaired more than a dozen times.

But the result is quite gratifying.Ah Hao not only gained a lot of knowledge in making alchemy bombs, but also gained a lot of alchemy props.

In addition to the first high-impact explosive [Spicy Sour], he also successfully refined a deflagration material [Fire Cotton] with excellent concealment; a jet bomb that needs to be ignited by a fuse [Explosive Salt Ball]; and [Green Fire Throwing Bomb] that will detonate only after the two materials mix and react.

Ah Hao squeezed his new storage ring on his left hand, feeling a little uneasy.

After this kind of bomb was placed in the storage ring, he didn't dare to put other things in it, for fear of accidentally taking it wrong.

"The light is on, let's go." Ilya's voice woke Ahao up again.

"Shall we go directly to Shirley's house now?"

"Well, I have the key." Ilya nodded, "Go and collect the things in her house first, and then block all the doors and windows."

"Otherwise, if things are really as you said, when Shirley comes back, the clothes in several closets will be smelly. Then she will feel very distressed."

Ah Hao couldn't help being dumbfounded: "You girls!"

He never expected that when he and Ilya vaguely expressed that the bad smell problem in the lower city might intensify and would not get better, the first thought of Ilya was to help Shirley collect her clothes.

Ahao couldn't help being curious: "Aren't you worried about these issues at all? Have you ever thought about leaving Agadi?"

"No." Ilya looked back at Ahao with some puzzlement, "Anyway, I've already bought a house on Offa Avenue."

"Ofa Avenue is a relatively independent space, and it doesn't actually border the downtown, so the stench can't permeate there. So this incident has little impact on me."

"Besides, without Agadi, there won't be so many arcane mages to communicate with. In the case of working behind closed doors, my advancement speed will be greatly delayed."

Ahao nodded: "That's true. If you have been living on Offa Avenue in the future, maybe you can really stay out of this accident."

Offa Avenue is indeed the most hidden and safest place in the city.

Just as the two of them crossed the street and continued to move forward, a faint foul smell emanated from a group of pedestrians by the side of the road.

These people had just taken the elevator from the lower city to the upper city, and their clothes were unavoidably stained with some peculiar smell.

Other passers-by covered their noses and stayed away, and some even yelled at them: "Smelly ghosts from the lower city, get out of the way, don't make the upper city stink too."

The person who was scolded immediately glared at him, and tried to rush up to confront that person, but was stopped by the people around him: "Don't pay attention to him, let's go find a place to get rid of the smell."

Ilya withdrew her curious gaze and sighed softly: "We are all in the same city, why is there a gap now?"

"The gap will only get deeper and deeper. Now people can tell whether you are from the upper city or the lower city just by the smell. If this continues, people in the upper city will not want to go down, and people in the lower city will not be able to come up."

Ahao felt a little emotional in his heart: "I didn't expect the smell to become the booster of the differentiation between the two."

After this little farce was over, the two came to Shirley's house and stuffed all the clothes in several cabinets into the large suitcase that Illya specially brought.

While the two were chatting casually, Ahao suddenly felt something, and looked out of the window to glance at the sky above.

The bright blue light hit from the sky, dragged a bright light tail, and quickly smashed into the arcane star gate.

In the three rings that stopped rotating, a strange-looking airship jumped out of the star gate.

That's not a regular cargo airship.It does not have a deck in the conventional sense, but instead has a fully enclosed metal front cabin and exquisite green glass windows.

Under the airship, some heavy metal is tightly coiled.

It wasn't until three days later that Ah Hao knew what the airship had brought.

"You just said that Agadi is going to seal the upper city and the lower city?!"

Natasha, who just came back from Fez, nodded to Ahao with a serious face: "That's right. Agadhi's high-level officials are trying to add a glass cover to the top of the crack in the lower city."

"In this way, the smell of the lower city will not pollute the upper city."

"Ah?" Ah Hao looked in disbelief, "Wouldn't the problem of the smell in the downtown become more and more serious?"

"It is said that Agadi officials will send people to continue digging tunnels in the lower city, so that the lower city can be connected to Hurricane Canyon further away, and the stench can be dissipated. That's what they said, but I don't know if it will be done."

Natasha gathered up her waistcoat and glanced out the window inexplicably.

The two were sitting in the coffee shop on the second floor on the side of the central square.

In the central square not far away, a large-scale demonstration is being held.

Ah Hao also turned his head to look, and caught a glimpse of the protest sign they were holding high: "Stop dividing the upper and lower cities!"

"Splitting will bring deeper prejudice!"

"Please find out the source of the smell and fix it! Instead of smothering the townspeople with the lid!"

"Refused to suffocate, I want fresh air!"

Natasha took a sip of the mocha coffee with chocolate, and sighed: "It's a mess. I talked to Master Xiaduo, and he said that this is just the beginning of the chaos, and it's far from the most chaotic time."

Ah Hao seems to have realized something: "Agadi is going to give up the downtown directly? They don't want the night economy in the downtown?"

"It's all about abandoning the car to save the handsome man. In the face of the economy brought by the star gate, those bars in the downtown area and those hotels with purple lights are not worth mentioning." Natasha's eyes flashed coldly.

"Besides, who wants to go downtown now? That place stinks to death. I don't even want to drive over a bridge across a crack right now."

Ah Hao sighed and didn't know what to say.He still has a lot of affection for the lower city, after all, the first store opened there, and he used to go to the lower city to drink and eat.

"What about the star gate? Have the Agadi people discovered the relationship between the opening of the star gate and [Calamity Qi]?"

Natasha held the coffee cup in her hand and frowned deeply: "They probably don't know? Or pretend they don't know."

"Anyway, the stargate is still operating as usual, but the number of flights has been reduced a lot. I finally squeezed into a flight of airships and rushed back yesterday. You came back in time. After you left, Fez waited five Genius has a second airship back to Agadi, and I spent a lot of money and connections to buy the ticket."

Natasha shook her head and changed the subject: "It's all over, let's not talk about it. You want to meet me today, is there anything you want to talk about?"

"Indeed, and it's related to the topic we just talked about." Ahao took out a bottle of perfume that was as white as snow from his pocket.

In the past few days, he has been running between Northon Manor and his home. In addition to studying alchemy, he also found time to refine some special items.

"This is [Clean Snow], a new fragrance based on the theme of snow and pine wood. But its smell is not the point, but its use is more important."

"what is the usage?"

"I'll give you a try and you'll know."

Ah Hao took out an old sweater with a faint smell from the space ring, and Natasha immediately stretched out her palm to cover her nose: "Is it stained with the smell of the downtown?"

"Yes."

Ahao didn't explain much, and directly sprayed [Clean Snow] on the sweater.In the blink of an eye, the light and elegant woody fragrance spreads out along with the fresh and cool snow smell.

Natasha put down the coffee cup and picked up the sweater in surprise: "When you took out this thing, I vaguely guessed what you wanted to show. I just didn't expect it to work so well?!"

She pushed the sweater so close she ended up almost burying her protruding nose in the fabric.Natasha put down the sweater, her expression was a little shocked: "The smell is completely gone, I can only smell a faint smell of cold snow."

"In addition to [Clean Snow], I have also researched some new gadgets in the past few days."

Ah Hao put an incense burner and two bars of soap on the table.In the process of communicating with alchemists like Blancpain, Ahao's understanding of ether has become more and more profound.

After deepening his understanding of wind-forming ether and water-forming ether, he made these things: "They are all new products with the same raw materials as [Purity Snow], and the effect should be similar. But I haven't tested it yet. If If you dare, you can accompany me to the city to test them now."

Natasha left enough Canadian coins on the table, and picked up the satchel without saying a word: "Let's go, I have nothing to dare."

The two bypassed the protesting crowd and walked towards the lower city.

In the elevator leading to the downtown, Natasha wrapped herself tightly in a scarf, and glanced at Ah Hao from time to time.

Ah Hao was quite calm: "Wait a minute, it won't work in the elevator."

"Ding~"

After the crisp bell rang, the diamond-shaped iron elevator door was pulled aside, and a thick yellow-green mist rushed over immediately.

The few passers-by in the elevator had already put on various masks and left the elevator in a hurry.

I haven't seen you for a few days, and the lower city of Agadi has become much more desolate.Most of the bustling shops in the past have closed their doors.The neon lights of these store signs flashed and flashed, emitting an unstable light.

The businessman who once lavishly solicited customers and sold goods at the elevator door has disappeared.

There are a few scattered shops that are open, and all of them have installed thick glass baffles at the door.Most of the front ones in the store are heavy masks.

Ah Hao didn't prepare any masks and masks, and only relied on the [clean snow] sprayed on his body to resist the stinky smell in the lower city.

However, in such an environment, the strong foul smell gradually overwhelmed the smell of snow diffused from the perfume on the neck.Ah Hao could already smell a trace of stench, which floated to the tip of his nose faintly.

"Cough, cough." Natasha clutched the scarf on the tip of her nose, and couldn't help coughing.

She walked out of the elevator quickly, and looked back with tears in her eyes: "No, I don't think this rotten, thick, sticky smell is like gas at all. It's like some kind of thick liquid. The tip of my nose, drilled into my eyes."

"Mr. Ahao, no matter what you want to try, please hurry up, I can't take it anymore. I can't keep my eyes open."

"I see."

When Ah Hao opened his mouth, he felt that green gas suddenly entered his mouth.It drills into the nasal cavity from the mouth, bringing the pungent and fishy smell to the extreme.

Feeling disgusted in his heart, Ah Hao hurriedly walked to the bottom of the abandoned shop and took out the incense burner he made himself.

The whole body of the incense burner is made of brass, with a round belly and a wide cover, with ears on both sides.The two slender metal lifting wires next to the ears are bent into the shape of a handle, and the overall shape is a bit like a lantern.

Open the stove lid, and there is a plate of light white curved incense sticks lying inside.Ahao rubbed his fingertips slightly, allowing the fire-forming ether in his body to gather at his fingertips.

A moment later, a pinch of flames suddenly lit up at his fingertips.

This is the ether control method he learned from Blancpain not long ago.

This way of using it is not considered [supernatural power] at all, but it is extremely easy to use in daily life.This is also the most enviable point for Huocheng Ether users.

After the flames approached the incense sticks for a while, Ah Hao immediately shook his hands, extinguishing the flames on his fingertips.

Although he had wrapped his fingertips with Huocheng Ether, he was still a little afraid of being burned by the flames.

Natasha was a little dumbfounded: "What kind of secret method are you?"

"It's just some tricks, don't worry about it. You pay attention to the smell of this incense stick."

Burning incense sticks was never popular in Agadhi.In the field of incense burning, Ah Hao only got acquainted with it in his hometown.Incense and perfume are slightly different in essence. When Ah Hao refined incense, he added more woody spices.The rest of the spices were extracted and rubbed into the powder.

At this moment, Ah Hao feels that there is nothing more suitable for the environment in the lower city than the incense burner.

Curly smoke wafts from the burning incense sticks.

The clean and long-lasting fragrance slowly diffused from the censer, and the invisible aura formed by the fragrance dispelled the yellow-green mist in the air.The fishy smell in the air gradually faded until it completely dissipated.

Natasha gradually put down the scarf covering her mouth and nose, leaned close to Ah Hao and took a deep breath of air, with an intoxicated expression on her face:

"It's a beautiful fragrance. It's not as smoky as other incense, but with a sense of coldness. If I close my eyes, I can't feel that I am in Agadi. This kind of pure and distant, let the soul The feeling of relaxation reminds me of the Buddhist temple in Niah."

Ah Hao was also slightly absent-minded. The unique smell of burning incense reminded him of his hometown: "This is the taste of Nia in my memory."

The dilapidated and dim street scene in the lower city made him slightly disappointed in Agadi.

Maybe Shadow is right, Agadir is already a sinking freighter.No matter how prosperous he used to be like a dream, it is all the clouds of the past.

"It will be New Years in a while, and it's time for me to go home."

Ah Hao looked down at the censer in his hand: "[Cleansing Snow] and [Cleansing Censer] are the last gifts I leave for Agadi before I leave."

Natasha's eyes were bright: "Such a product appears at such a time. I can't imagine what kind of sensation it will cause!"

(End of this chapter)