Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 479

2021-11-20

Chapter 478 Dr. Alfred

As he spoke, Shade looked up and looked towards Miss Maid's Face.

Although the black-haired girl didn't know the specific condition of Shade's eyes at this time, she quickly covered her cheeks:

"Mr. Hamilton, then let me come too. Try it. I've never heard of a potion with such an effect."

Shade thought about the nodded:

"Yes, but the potion doesn't last long, I've felt the effect wear off."

He looked towards Miss Serveit's nose again:

"Demoness's skin is so good? Every one I've seen Demoness, your skin seems to be fine. Look, your pores are even and the tip of your nose is black."

Seeing her suddenly sharp eyes, Shade consciously didn't continue talking.

So the black-haired girl also dropped a drop of magic medicine on herself. Although she did not have Mystic Art related to her eyes, she could experience the enhancement effect on her eyesight.

The feeling of different ring warlocks is basically the same, so in this way, it can be roughly inferred that Mr. Alfred, an ophthalmologist, is absolutely impossible to be a ring warlock.

A rare potion with such effects would not be wasted on an ordinary person, even if it were to be tested, and the doctor would not even collect it afterwards. Although Shade can't directly estimate the potion, the half bottle of potion he is holding now, even if it only has the effect that he has explored so far, even if it is 1,000 pounds on the black market, there is a high probability that someone will be willing to buy it.

The musician who was born blind was cured, probably using this potion. However, Shade guessed that the amount of the medicine used by the other party during the treatment was larger, so after the vision was restored, he could see the truth of the world more "clearly", and thus died in madness.

Knowing more is not necessarily a good thing. In this world, actually knowing and seeing less is not a bad thing.

When the magic medicine efficacy in Miss Serveit's right eye also subsided, the two immediately set off to visit Dr. Alfred.

The ophthalmologist's clinic is on the street on the northern edge of Tobesque, two blocks north from here and officially out of the city into the northern village strip.

This is one of the most remote locations in Tobesque, and it is normal that the client, Mr. Mandis, cannot be found. However, this neighborhood is not a slum. Although it is located in the northernmost part of Tobesque, due to its unique location and large-scale traffic, this neighborhood is the center of the Northern Part of City bulk cargo transaction in Tobesque.

Wood, food, fresh fruits and vegetables and flowers are usually transported into the city from the northern plains of Tobesque, where transactions are settled nearby, and then distributed to all corners of the city.

So, even on a Wednesday afternoon, the neighborhood around Dr. Alfred's eye clinic was unusually busy.

It's just that his clinic is not imposing at all. On the left is the office building of the Sikh granary. People on this street come here to run errands on 1/4/2022; on the right is a house. The small private bank opened by the Kasenricks is mainly engaged in borrowing and currency exchange, so it has an unusual appearance.

In the middle of the eye clinic, the yellow three-storey building with broken walls is narrow and dilapidated. In addition, the steam pipes and gas pipes on the left and right sides must pass through the walls of the clinic, which makes the small building of the ophthalmology clinic look like a small child shrunk between two giants, and it looks like two grand buildings. Garbage dump between buildings.

Except for the people who live nearby, I am afraid that few people from other places dare to treat their eyes in such a place.

The door of the clinic was closed. After getting off the carriage, Shade knocked on the door a few times, and when no one answered, he pushed the door open:

“No one is here now. Do you like to close the door? Yesterday when I went to the musician's flat, when did Tobesque get so good?"

He joked with Miss Serveit, and the maid thinks it's not closed. , because this is an open eye clinic.

After the detective and the assistant walked in, wearing an apron like a tall and thin middle age person who was cooking, he pushed open the door on the other side of the front hall, and looked towards the guest who entered the door in surprise:

"Hello, do you want to see your eyes? I'm Dr. Jacob Alfred, who is the patient?"

while talking He took off his apron and threw it aside, carefully looking at the two who entered the door.

Shade notices that Dr. Alfred wears a very beautiful gemstone ring on his hand, which is probably a fake, and the doctor doesn't seem to be so wealthy.

"Do you know Mr. Frank Bundy, the blind musician of the North Mountain Opera Troupe?"

Shade asked standing at the door. The tall and thin ophthalmologist was a little surprised by what he mentioned. name, but still nodded:

"Yes, did he entrust you to get the medicine? I remember those medicines ran out at the end of this month. Am I wrong? Oh, I'm too old Haven't seen him for half a month, what's up with Bundy's eyes? Need a booster?"

"He's dead."

Shade interrupted him .

"Dead?"

Of all the people who heard about Mr. Bundy's death, Dr. Alfred was the most surprised:
"What? I'm sorry, when is it?"

"The middle of last month, about 25 days from today."

Shade said, and then asked tentatively:

"Don't you know about this? Or, you don't see a problem with his mental state?"

"No, every time he comes, I just record his The frequency of medication and the recovery state of the eyes, Bundy did not say that he has a mental problem."

Shade can understand this, the blind musician was worried that the doctor stopped giving the medicine because of his mental state, Judging from the last suicide note left by the musician, he was also afraid of returning to his original state.

"In that case, I'm Detective Shade Hamilton, investigating the cause of Mr. Bundy's death. This lady was my assistant. Do you have a place to talk here, please."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the doctor, who quickly wiped his hands on his clothes and held them up.

[ordinary person. ]

"Oh yes, detective, please come with me. But I swear, I have absolutely nothing to do with Bundy's death!"

He led the way, leading the two People came to the narrow study room on the second floor. It seemed that Dr. Alfred really didn't know what the consequences of the medicine he gave would cause him. He only thought that he had found a special medicine to treat eye diseases, so when he went upstairs, he couldn't help but regret Mr. Bundy's death.

In the study, Shade sat on the sofa and told Dr. Alfred the information he had gathered from the landlord, the North Mountain Opera Company, the Three Cats Inn, and Miss Mary. Today, Miss Serveit follows Shade and is mainly responsible for the record work, so every time Shade mentions something, she will show the corresponding record.

Of course, the record omits the Rhodes scene.

The doctor lowered his head to check the records. This tall, thin middle age person wearing a checkered shirt was sweating more and more on his face. When Shade finished his message, he immediately said loudly:
"No, I can guarantee that my potion is absolutely fine!"

"What's your relationship with Mr. Bundy the musician?"

"I'll try him. Medicine! I made a potion formula myself! If I succeed, I will change the history of eye care!"

"This is the sample I got from that Miss Mary."

Shade took the flat bottle from his pocket:
"There's still half of the liquid in it, and I think it's enough for Ridwich Field to test."

He looked at each other. Then he lowered his voice, as if the two parties were doing a private transaction, which made Dr. Alfred even more nervous.

"Doctor, the evidence I have at the moment is very unfavorable to you. Although I am not a police officer, I can think of how they will handle this case for convenience."

Shade actually started from Having never dealt with the police of this era, but with more sweat on Dr. Alfred's face, he opened his eyes wide and re-emphasized:
"There is absolutely no hallucinogen in it! Detective, my The potion doesn't cause madness! I trust my potion."

"If you can convince me that I can have enough information to report to the client, I will trust you and not call the police. But 1st Step, I want to know"

Shade put the bottle on the coffee table in front of him:
"What is the composition of this potion?"

Miss Serveit looked at Shade, she thought that Shade would speak frankly and persuade the other party to tell the information, but didn't expect to use the threat of half true half false instead.

I followed Shade all the way today. She has seen that Shade treats different people in different ways to obtain information, which made the maid have a better understanding of Shade.

This kind of person doesn't look like he was a fool two months ago.

"The ingredients, yes, there is absolutely no problem with the ingredients."

With that, the doctor wanted to stand up and get his notebook. But Shade sat him down and asked Miss Serveit to take the documents instead of the doctor.

The files are all in the study, not only the recipes of the potions, but also the cases of the blind musicians and the recovery records of up to three months. Those stacked documents with densely packed letters can fully explain the long-term effect of the drug and prove its medicinal effect.

Let his "assistant" check the recovery record, while Shade flipped through the formula of the potion under the nervous gaze of the doctor.

This formula was invented by Dr. Alfred himself, and the treatment performed on Bundy, a blind musician, is also an experimental treatment.

This kind of unregistered drug experiment is of course illegal, and because the specific efficacy and side effects are unknown, even if Dr. Alfred's near-miracle-like success in restoring blindness, he did not hype his drug. , but thinking about confirming that there are no side effects after half a year, and then going to win honor for myself.

This is why Detective Hamilton's real client, the blind Mr. Mandis, couldn't find out the doctor's information from his friend Mr. Bundy, who promised to keep it secret when he took part in the experiment.

The ingredients for the recipe are so complex that the list of ingredients alone fills a whole notebook page. But Shade took a closer look and found that it was mostly cheap medicinal herbs that didn't contain the chemical compounds that had appeared in the age of steam, which made the recipe more like an erroneous recipe handwritten by a crappy Witch Doctor.

And, among those medicinal herbs, there are only two common warlock medicinal ingredients. Even a novice 2nd Year Student Shade knows that these two materials are impossible to play a role in this potion.

"So what exactly is an active ingredient? It can't be a combination of ineffective ingredients, right?"

Shade was skeptical, and carefully checked the following The specific synthesis process, and then frowned slightly, looking up towards the nervous doctor:

"Sorry, what is this 'red potion'?"

(end of this chapter)

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