Asura of Tomorrow's Ark

Chapter 23 西城区

"No problem, just leave it to me."

It's just a way to run errands in Xicheng District. Li Ang naturally agreed to such a small matter.

"However, Adele, what do you want me to go to Xicheng District to pick up?" Li Ang asked, "There shouldn't be any shops there, right?"

Xicheng District... If Li Ang remembers correctly, it should be the main residence of Brandenburg. There are no particularly famous shops nearby. If there is something to buy, there are usually better choices elsewhere.

Or, where does someone Adele knows live?

"No, I want you to get a sample of volcanic rock." Adele explained, "That type of volcanic rock is very rare in Letania. I searched for a long time and found it in Mr. Austin's shop. A sample was found."

Well, there is some discrepancy with Li Ang's guess just now, this shouldn't be someone Adele knows, right?

"I see." Li Ang nodded.

"This is the price we negotiated before, Leon, you just need to give this to Mr. Austin."

With that said, Adele handed a thin envelope to Li Ang.

He took the envelope in his hand and pinched it. It should contain six or seven Leitania gold coins, which is almost half a month's income of an ordinary family in Brandenburg. This is already quite high for a sample of volcanic rock. the price.

Except for a certain group of people, no one would be interested in this kind of broken stone at all. That Mr. Austin probably saw this, and then killed Adele severely.

But this kind of sale itself is a matter of willing to fight and endure.

"I'll go to Xicheng District to help you get the samples back later."

"Actually, I'm not particularly anxious, just go to Lyon if you have time recently." Adele smiled and said, "By the way, the terrain in the western district may be complicated, so please be careful not to get lost in Lyon. "

Even if the terrain is complex, how complicated can it be?What's more, if he really can't find it, he can still ask someone for directions.

Li Ang didn't take Adele's last reminder to heart at all.

After lunch and helping Adele clean up the kitchen, Li Ang went out to the West District to look for Mr. Austin.

Although it has only just entered autumn at this time, Laitania is located at the northern end of the Terra continent. The temperature at this time is already quite low, and the ground has already been covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost. Li Ang is only wearing a suit. Very thin clothes, but he didn't feel particularly cold.

Li Ang realized this detail when he was fighting the tower warlock.

If ordinary people were placed in the low temperature environment at that time, they would be frozen into popsicles in a few minutes, but Li Ang could fight with each other for a long time in that environment.The high temperature environment, which is completely opposite to the cold, is similar. When releasing the Explosive Flame Wave Sword, the dissipated heat did not affect him.

This should be the racial characteristic of the Agor family. They can always quickly adapt to various extreme environments outside, and they don't need to put on thick cotton clothes even in winter.

Well... In fact, all the above reasons were made up by Li Ang. The main reason was that he had no money. If he had money, who would want to hang out in a single suit?

Adele lives in the house provided by William University for their family, not far from the West District.

With the idea of ​​going out to relax, Li Ang didn't take other means of transportation, but walked all the way there.

It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived in Xicheng District.

After decades of repairs and expansions, the several plots that make up Xicheng District are completely different from the original ones.

Almost every year, there will be one or two new roads here, and the terrain here will become extremely complicated over time. Even the residents living here can't tell how many roads there are to return to their homes.

Only when Li Ang entered this neighborhood in person did he realize how complicated Adele's 'some' was.

It’s fine if the roads are built in a mess, but the most outrageous thing is that the roads here are completely three-dimensional. Follow the road to the west to enter the first floor, and when you walk out from the east, you may reach the sixth floor.

This kind of intricate terrain brought unimaginable obstacles to Li Ang, and the ten-meter perception range was really not enough in this kind of place.

It took a lot of effort and caught several passers-by to ask for directions. Finally, Li Ang finally found Mr. Austin's residence in this maze-like neighborhood - a cheap apartment that looked like it had been around for a while.

After confirming that the house number was correct, Li Ang rang the doorbell and shouted loudly, "Mr. Austin, are you home?"

But Li Ang waited at the door for a while, but no one came to open the door for him.

Is Mr. Austin not at home now?But Li Ang could clearly sense that there were traces of human activities in this room.

Maybe you didn't hear the doorbell?With a little doubt, Li Ang stood at the door and tirelessly rang the doorbell several times.

This time, the people in the room finally reacted. Amidst the sound of slow footsteps, someone walked behind the door.

"Who?" The voice sounded like a very young male.

But this person... doesn't seem to be Mr. Austin?

According to Adele, Austin was a dilapidated aristocrat from neighboring Victoria who came here to take refuge because of a failed political struggle.

Although his family is in decline, Austin has always maintained his old habits and likes to collect some weird things. What Adele asked Leon to help retrieve was one of Austin's collections.

It can be guessed that Austin's living conditions are not very good, otherwise he would not be crowded in such a poor place and sell his collection.

What is certain, however, is that Mr. Austin is a traditional Victorian aristocrat and a member of the Filin family.But in Li Ang's perception, it was a very young Caprini who appeared behind the door.

"Mr. Austin is not at home now, please go back." The young man said very coldly.

"Not here?" After hearing the young man's answer, Li Ang frowned involuntarily.

This is really bad news...

If possible, Li Ang really doesn't want to make another trip, he still has a headache on how to get out of this ghostly place.

After leaving such a sentence, the young man behind the door already had the intention of leaving. Seeing this, Li Ang hurriedly stopped him, "Please wait a moment, can you contact Mr. Austin now?"

"This transaction is very important, and my employer does not want to delay it any longer."

Chapter 24 sample

"...Come in first."

The Caprini youth was silent for a while, and finally took a step back, giving way to the room.

From the young man, Li Ang felt a strong sense of impatience, but Li Ang could completely understand that he would feel impatient if it was him.

That's great... Finally, I don't have to go here again tomorrow, Li Ang secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"excuse me."

After entering the room, Li Ang said, "A lady from William University entrusted me to come here to take a sample of volcanic rock. Didn't Mr. Austin mention this to you?"

"It seems that I have mentioned it before." The young man's reaction was a few beats slower, and after a while, he replied absent-mindedly.

"Come with me first, this way please."

After leading Li Ang to a place similar to the living room, the young man also noticed Li Ang's eyes that had been closed all the time. He frowned and asked, "Your eyes?"

"You're talking about this... I have a problem with my eyes, and I can't see anything." Li Ang explained lightly, "But I can roughly perceive the surrounding situation, but I can't distinguish colors, which is sometimes troublesome. .”

Li Ang has answered questions like this more than once, and he didn't bother to explain his Originium skills to others, so he just fooled around with a few words.

"Feel sorry."

From the other party's apology, Li Ang didn't hear the slightest sincerity, but he didn't care about such trivial matters.

"You wait here for a while, I'll go and look in the collection room."

The young man brought Li Ang to the living room of the room, and let him sit on the sofa to rest first, while he went to the collection room next door to look for the volcanic rock samples that Li Ang said.

However, in Li Ang's perception, the young man didn't seem to do this directly.

The young man quietly walked to the corner of the living room, and stopped before a door, but the young man did not intend to open the door, but turned around for some reason, and looked at Li Ang who was on the sofa.

Regarding this, Li Ang only felt a little baffled, and even felt a little terrified.

In the dead silence, Li Ang even felt a little lucky that the young man turned around and stared at him normally, instead of turning his head back 180 degrees.

If something like that happened, Li Ang felt that he might not be able to bear it, and directly used the Explosive Flame Wave Sword to blow up the apartment to the sky.

After quietly staring at Li Ang for dozens of seconds, the young man withdrew his gaze contentedly, and then pushed open the front door with a creak.

An irritating gas poured into the living room through the crack of the door, but before Li Ang asked the reason, the young man took the initiative to explain, "I was painting those old wooden frames in the collection room just now, so I didn't hear a sound. I hope you don't mind the smell."

"……I do not mind."

Although he said so, the movements of Li Ang's hands were not convincing at all.

After losing his eyesight, Li Ang's other senses were also strengthened to a certain extent. The moment he smelled this pungent smell, Li Ang pinched his nose.

After sitting on the sofa and waiting for a while, the young man came out of the collection room with an object the size of a papaya.

Putting that object on the table, the young man asked, "The sample you mentioned should be this."

Li Ang stretched out his hand to touch it, feeling the touch between frosted glass and coarse sandpaper from his fingers, and then nodded affirmatively, "That's right."

From this stone, Li Ang can also feel a very chaotic and dirty... In short, the origin stone that is not easy to describe in words can respond, and all the characteristics match what Adele described.

After putting the samples in the package that had been prepared long ago, Li Ang took out the envelope containing the gold coins and put it on the coffee table, "This is the agreed reward at the beginning, please forward this letter to Austin gentlemen."

"I'll pass it on to him."

"Thank you very much, then my task is completed. If there are any questions in the future, I can ask Mr. Austin to contact my employer through William University."

The young man didn't speak, but waved his hand, indicating that Li Ang could leave.

Before Li Ang walked out of this room, the young man's gaze was always on him.

……

"Trouble is gone."

Looking at Li Ang's figure disappearing at the end of the street from afar, the young man closed the curtains of the apartment with a bang, completely immersing the whole room in darkness.

The young man slowly backed away from the window, as if he was not affected by the darkness at all, and walked to the phonograph in the living room.

Grab the tonearm of the phonograph, put the needle on the vinyl record, and all the small voices in the room are drowned in this low-pitched melody.

"It's a pity, if he had come half an hour earlier, the result might have been different."

"You're right, Austin."

In the open door behind the young man, a gray-haired film male hangs his head weakly. On the wooden shelf beside him grows spikes the size of a tree root and forearm, completely piercing his chest and limbs, like It's like hanging bacon and the boat is in mid-air.

Under the man's skin, some light blue veins could be vaguely squirmed slowly, and what flowed out from his wound was not fresh blood, but a white viscous liquid with a pungent smell, just It's like all the blood in his body has been transformed into this substance.

"Why do you take things that don't belong to you?" The young man sighed.

The young man moved his fingers, and the male body bounced off the ground as if it had been electrocuted.

He searched through the guy's collection, but couldn't find what he wanted.

Even the stone that the blind man took away just now, he checked carefully and found nothing wrong.

It was just a somewhat special stone. The semi-melted source stone and ordinary rock were mixed together to form a special purple-black crystal. The young man almost knocked the stone open to see if there was anything hidden inside. .

But the length of the stone was not enough. The thing the young man was looking for was more than [-] centimeters long, and it was impossible to stuff it into the stone no matter what angle he used.

That blind man was related to William University. If the other party didn't get what he wanted, even if he made the blind man disappear now, he would definitely send people here again.

In order to avoid attracting the attention of the group of 'knights', after the young man gave the stone to the blind man, he let him leave here.

"Where is the thing hidden?"

"The only remaining unicorn of the Witch King."

Maybe it was because he didn't want to cause trouble, or maybe it was because he saw a blind man who was not threatening at all. The young man showed no hostility from the beginning to the end, so Li Ang never doubted the identity of the blind man.

Li Ang wondered if that young man was a reclusive mental patient. After all, his behavior seemed strange to Li Ang, but now that the sample had been obtained, that strange young man had nothing to do with him.

What's more, Li Ang has encountered new troubles now——

Two Brandenburg gendarmes spotted this suspicious-looking guy, Li Ang.

"Who? Stand there and don't move!"

Tsk... so, why did you run into the gendarmerie here?

Chapter 25 宪兵

As expected, Li Ang got lost in this labyrinthine neighborhood again.

He obviously went back the same way he came, but why did Li Ang turn two intersections and arrive at a place he didn't know at all?It was also very unfortunate to run into two gendarmes.

"Gendarmerie! Put the package on the ground, raise your hands above your head, and back off! Don't let me see any suspicious movements of yours!"

The two gendarmes gave Li Ang a set of standard procedures on the spot.