Chapter 3207 "Pharmaceutical Merchant"
"Mr. Mortis" does not deny Xia De's speculation:
"That guy is missing, someone should have gone to him. Although I sold a lot of information, I will only give the most detailed information about a high-ring warlock like you.
I can tell you what you want to know. If you can really get him back, he will definitely give you a generous reward as a famous local drug dealer, and I can give you an extra reward."
So Xia De suddenly changed from "information buyer" to "accepting commissions to find someone". However, since this matter is related to the so-called "demonic sword", and when he first came to a new city, he should have taken more tasks to experience the local environmental warlock ecology, so he did not refuse:
"I am indeed a high ring warlock, but I want to warn you in advance that it is very expensive to hire me."
Mr. Mortis pushed the box containing two [lucky coins] to Xia De:
"I heard that you hung up a commission to purchase coin relics in the clock tower for a long time? These two coins you want to buy happened to be mine. In addition, I can also get you two other types of relics coins from other places.
If you can get my friend, the extra two coins can be considered rewards.”
Xia De then pressed the box under his hands:
"No problem, but I want to emphasize again, I'm really expensive."
Mr. Mortis, the missing Central Magic Man's name, did not tell Xia De, but said that the local Ring Warlock generally calls him "Pharmaceutical Man", which is simple, straightforward and highly direct.
The other party is a thin man in his forties. Because he likes to smoke cigarettes he rolls with tobacco, he has a heavy smell of smoke.
The activity areas of the "Pharm Merchant" provided by Mr. Mortis to Shade are spread all over the island, and some are even on the other end of the island far away from Shilun City. Because Shade admitted his identity as a high-ring warlock, the information provided by Mr. Mortis to him was more detailed than that of others, and only he knew some of the information:
"The bartender at Clock Tower said that you are a new guest introduced by a family of Millennium Ring Warlocks with a deep connection with this black market. Someone guarantees that you are completely trustworthy. Then I will tell you some of his secret hiding points. Please try not to destroy my friends' belongings casually."
The "Thousand-year-old Ring Warlock Family" should be the inheritance of the space witch lineage. Even if Sylvia doesn't come here often, there are still stories about the witches in the local area.
It must be troublesome to visit and find the marked areas one by one, but Xia De is not tired of it. He regards this as his new area and uses the "seeking mission" to familiarize himself with the map of the new area.
His first stop was the black market store of the "Pharmaceutical Merchant" located on the dock. Xia De didn't know whether the most dangerous place was the safest, but he didn't want to investigate and couldn't find anyone else. Finally, he found out that the other party had been hiding in his shop.
The cold water port in the north and the "city of wealth" Yuewan are both typical port cities. The former has the best unfrozen port in the northwest of the old continent. Xiade's impression of it is cold, humid and old, which may be brought by fish people; while his impression of Yuewan Port is that ships flow continuously during the day, and at night, the crescent-shaped bay is illuminated by the stars and the city's lights.
As for this port located on the island city of the southern harbor in the Old Continent, Xia De's initial impression was that the smell of fish was everywhere.
Because the north-south span of Fatumonster City is not large, he still walked forward after leaving the black market. After following the map, he found that after walking downhill, he actually entered the vegetable market in front of the pier.
Although there are vegetable vendors, blacksmiths and butchers in the open market in the mud depression, there are more fish vendors that can be seen almost everywhere.
Live fish were packed in iron buckets covered with ice slag and squeezed each other and beat their tails desperately. Fish scales and blood were everywhere on the ground. The whistling sea breeze passed through the stalls covered with shabby wooden boards. The fishy smell in the air was mixed with other smells, and even Xia De felt very disgusting.
Now is not the time for purchase, so although the vendors are setting up stalls, no one shouts loudly. Xia De noticed that the fishmongers set up stalls all look very similar. There are several curved scale scrapers on the stalls, and the remaining mucus and fish scales are stuck on the blades. In winter afternoons, they are wearing shabby cotton coats, with a black apron covered with dirt on the lower body, and rough towels on their shoulders. In some stalls, they can also see severely worn black leather gloves.
Even though Xia De held his breath and quickly left the market and arrived near the port pier, the smell of fish did not dissipate from the surroundings.
Under the gloomy sky, most of the unloading of goods at the ports are fishing boats. Although Fatumonster is the largest island in the "Falling Star Bay", the size of the ports and docks here is far from being compared with the Cold Water Port and Moon Bay facing the New World. It is just that the city has silver-white snow-capped mountains as the background, so the scenery here is quite good.
When Sylvia first brought Xia De to the Snow Mountains, she said that the economic pillar here before the steam era was the traditional fishing industry. In the morning, Xia De saw many local clocks and watches symbolizing the new era in the city, and in the afternoon, she also saw the traces of the remaining fishing industry in the old era.
"Fortunately, I didn't bring Xiao Mia, so it must hate this fishy smell."
The "Pharmaceutical Merchant" runs a not-so-large fishing gear shop on the dock. When Xia De found the shop between a local freight company and a warehouse rental company, the door was indeed closed. Although he was very embarrassed to break into someone else's house on the first day he came to the local area, Xia De still walked around the neighborhood twice and crawled into the uninhabited alley.
Close your eyes and feel the space, take a step forward, and then directly enter the fishing gear store.
Compared with the fishy smell, the smell in the deserted shop is normal. This shop is just a single-story building, with fishing rods, nets, oars and other goods placed on the metal shelves being seen at a glance. Xia De did not stumble over others' things, closed his eyes again to determine the underground structure of the shop, and then stepped into the locked basement.
The door lock leading to the underground was reinforced by the owner of the shop using magic tricks, but unfortunately Xia De didn't need to unlock it at all. The basement of the fishing gear store is larger than the ground. At first glance, it looked just an ordinary storage room, and Mr. Mortis told him just that there was a space hidden by magic behind the basement.
"The Truth Crystal."
He raised his right hand and raised the glowing white transparent crystal. The light emitted by the crystals illuminated the wall, allowing the wall to "melt" and reveal the potion workshop that was hidden in the second half.
The shelves against the wall are filled with bottles and jars, and the artificially made ice chamber in the corner of the wall is frozen in storage-impaired materials. The stove with red flames is still heating the potions in the big pot at this moment, but this does not mean that the store owner is here. It is not rare for the potions to be cooked for weeks or even months.
Xia De still did not go through other people's things. He just looked around, hoping to find the help letter or other clues left by the "Pharmaceutical Merchant".
The pot was boiled in the pot for deformation and disguise, and the glass test tubes labeled on the table were filled with therapeutic potions. Xia De even saw a bottle of No. 3 Holy Water pulp on the shelf. Although this was something that could be bought from Priest Augustus for money for the four of them, No. 3 Holy Water pulp rarely falls on the market:
The newest ⊥小⊥小⊥ said⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥⊥!
"His he assisted the church in completing tasks? Iluna said that such things can only appear through this way."
There are only alchemy notes and experimental records on the notebook on the experimental table. The Principality of Lagson has never been conquered by Carsonrick. It has its own language and text here, but Carsonrick is also a common language, and the text on the notebook is "Lagson".
This language is actually very similar to Carsonrick, and they are both classified as Southern languages.
The only valuable clue after careful investigation was the piece of cotton cloth stained with black stains found in the trash can. At first, Xia De thought it was just a rag that he planned to throw away after being dirty. Until he finally turned on the "Echo of Blood" to look for the blood stains, he found that the black stains were actually blood.
But except for the red halo that you see at this moment, the stuff that is not like blood, whether it is odor, texture or color after drying.
Finally, Xia De endured the nausea and touched it with his fingers, and actually felt the very, very slight whispering elements:
"Is this the drug dealer left behind after he dealt with the wound? What relics can contaminate blood like this?"
Even if the blood that is contaminated is obtained by the enemy, it cannot be used to curse the owner of the blood. However, although the blood itself is deteriorated, it is not toxic or polluting.
Xia De took some and put them in a small bottle, planning to leave the place in the evening and ask someone to help him take a look.
There were no other clues in the store, and Xia De confirmed it again and left here. It seemed that he should be the first person to break into this place, or the intruder in front was also "civilized" like him.
After the fishing port pier, the second location provided by Mr. Mortis was a steam bath located in the west of the city. However, it was not that the "pharmaceutical merchant" liked to take a bath in the steam bath, but that he had a small warehouse in the nearby warehouse area.
Mr. Mortis didn't know the specific location of the warehouse, but just provided Xia De with a rough range. Xia De sought went around the warehouse area and found that there was really no clue and left.
The third location followed requires Shade to continue to go west until it leaves the urban area. The coastal area on the southern side of Fatumonster Island is relatively flat. Except for the snow-capped mountains in the north of the city, the iron mine areas in the northwest and the real coastal fishing villages, most of the other areas are rural farms, orchards or contiguous forests.
Chapter completed!