This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 11 Knowing the fake and buying the fake

Hence told Amberxiu that the Alchemy City would never give him five hundred gold coins for the real thing, but he couldn't help but want to see how authentic the fake was.

The saleswoman mysteriously handed a small bottle of silver solution to Amber Xiu's hand.

It feels heavy in the hand, but there is not much difference in weight.

 But when Amberxiu took a closer look, he suddenly showed a disappointed expression.

“Your mercury is stratified, no, it’s just mercury.”

Amberson is not an expert in alchemy, but he is also an expert, and he can tell what it is at a glance.

 A small amount of real living mercury solution is then mixed with ordinary mercury. The appearance looks the same, but an expert can see the incompatible hue layering between the two.

Living mercury can melt almost most metals and can be easily replaced, but it cannot melt real mercury.

 The level of counterfeiting of these five hundred gold coins is too low.

The saleswoman said a little guiltily: "I know you are an expert. Don't worry, this is a sample. It is just for people who know how to understand it before we can continue talking."

 After saying this, the saleswoman quickly changed a bottle.

This bottle of living mercury really surprised Amber Xiu.

 At least there is no flaw in appearance. Whether it is genuine or fake, it is estimated that the bottle needs to be opened for inspection.

“Two completely different levels of fraud, both five hundred gold coins?” Amberxiu asked.

"That's definitely not the case. The bottle just now cost five hundred, and this bottle costs at least three thousand gold coins."

Amber thought about inspecting the goods, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and praised: "You guys, this is not living mercury, this is corpse mercury solution, no wonder you can't tell it from the appearance, you are smart enough."

The saleswoman suddenly showed a surprised expression, and then lowered her voice and said, "Don't be so loud. Do you want to buy it or not?"

The saleswoman was panicking. She originally just wanted to sell the product to get some commission, but who would have thought that the young alchemist in front of her could see the principle of fake products at a glance. This is a fake made by the Council of Alchemists themselves, claiming that it is impossible to see the problem.

As a result, this young man only took one look and guessed the principle without even opening the bottle to inspect the product?

How can this be? I am afraid that I will meet the kind of evil old man who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger. Why is an old guy who is hundreds of years old pretending to be young? !

Looking at the young lady's expression, Amberxiu knew that he had guessed correctly. To put it bluntly, this trick was actually not complicated.

Living mercury is a failure of Alchemy City. It originally wanted to create a new type of slime, but the result was mercury slime in a "vegetative" state.

 Alive, but without any consciousness, unable to even move, only the instinct to devour metal remains.

If it weren’t for this metal-eating instinct, it would probably be thrown away as scrap.

 But "vegetative" slimes are also living creatures, and living creatures always die.

The dead mercury slime will not rot and looks exactly the same as when it was alive, so that the alchemists in the Alchemy City can't tell whether it is dead or alive. The only way to tell is to throw a piece of metal into it.

Live mercury slimes can also eat metal, but dead ones do not have this ability.

I don’t know which genius came up with this method, cutting off a little bit of the living mercury slime and mixing it with the dead mercury slime body, leaving it in this half-dead state.

 The effect of swallowing metal is there, but it is greatly reduced.

But laymen may not be able to figure out whether the quality of this kind of living mercury has declined, or whether the living mercury has been "weakened" during transportation. They may think that it can be restored after a few days of maintenance.

As for the lower-level counterfeiting, it is probably because the people below looked at it and figured it out on their own and came up with defective products. Maybe the saleswoman made it herself, trying to make some extra money for herself.

Just because he couldn't fool an expert like Amber Xiu, he came up with high-end fakes.

Alchemy City also knows that genuine products are too expensive to sell, and if there is no money to maintain them, these living mercury will just continue to die. This is because they are losing money every day, so they come up with this kind of damaging trick.

Amboxiu feels that many people have been fooled into buying this kind of high-end fake at the original price.     A clever but very mean trick.

 It is indeed the city of alchemy. This city has been the richest city in the continent for many years, but it has never appeared on the moral ranking list.

 Amberson originally wanted to refuse.

 Because he wanted to do business with friends from the Mourning Poets Society.

He is very short of money, but he will definitely lose the money he earned through deception and deception very quickly. The eldest brother of the Headless Horseman is the son-in-law of the Bone Dragon family. Once he discovers that his private money has not been hidden, his wife will definitely find out, and this old brother will definitely not hide it for him.

 At that time, he will face the wrath of a legendary bone dragon and the legendary headless horseman.

After this mixed doubles match between husband and wife, the life box of Amber Xiu, a parallel import legend, will be hammered open, and it will be a complete loss-making transaction.

Just as he sent the bottle back, Amberxiu thought of a question.

Does a dead mercury slime count as a corpse?

 Alchemy was only a little understood by Amber Xiu, but he was a real expert in necromancy.

Originally, he wanted to ask the Alchemy Association if they had ever used necromancy on such dead mercury slimes, but he swallowed the words before he spoke.

This idea just came to him on a whim. Maybe the Alchemy Association was also in the dark and didn't have this idea at all? Didn't he remind them by opening his mouth?

If it works, it will give the Alchemy Association a good chance to make a comeback. This group of capitalists will definitely not pay him royalties.

Thinking of this, Amber Xiu said to the saleswoman: "Three thousand gold coins is too expensive. Can it be made cheaper?"

 “The price is clearly marked and there is no bargaining.”

“The price is clearly marked as genuine, but you are a fake!”

 “It really can’t be cheap.”

“Then give me two bottles of this inferior product.”

 …

 After some haggling, Amberxiu spent three thousand gold coins and got a bottle of high-end fakes and a bottle of low-end goods. By the way, he also got two packs of enchanted seeds as extras.

 It can be seen that living mercury is really unsaleable.

 Originally, Amberxiu was planning to walk around a few more times. After all, to feed people in the lich's territory, he needed to prepare more things. But now he only has this bottle of living mercury solution in his heart, and his intuition tells him that there are huge business opportunities here.

After leaving the Alchemy City, Amber Xiu rushed back to his castle as quickly as possible, even turning into smoke and getting in from the roof.

　　With the effect of the transformation spell removed, Amberxiu transformed into the evil and ferocious lich again, and went straight to the laboratory with these two bottles of fake products.

 Isabel is still working hard to prepare petrified lizard oil, and there are already many finished products on the shelf. After Amber Xiu's guidance, she finally mastered the preparation method of this potion. This little girl with solid basic skills prepared ten bottles of petrified lizard oil, and only failed once. This result is already very good.

But when Amberxiu's eyes glanced at the wasted materials, Isabel still felt that her heart was about to jump to her throat.

Will this lich be angry because he wasted these materials, and will he be turned into an experiment for necromancy?

There was no expression on the lich's skeleton face. No matter how you looked at it, it looked ferocious. Such a lich walked towards Isabel without saying a word. She just felt the pressure of survival rushing towards her face and couldn't help but want to find someone. help.

　　What about the little boy who knew alchemy from before? He was also an undead, right?

 Although he only gave me a few words of advice, he can still be regarded as his teacher.

Teacher, come out and save your students!

 (End of this chapter)