Chapter 3208: Looking for a Man and a Mermaid
Mr. Mortis said the "Pharm Merchant" had his own herb hut in the western part of the city, where he occasionally lived and helped the villagers in the fishing village to deal with illness or injuries.
The address of the herb cottage is very clear, which is a location that only his friends know. After leaving the city, Xia De turned into a red butterfly and flew forward. Then he walked not far along the muddy forest path after the snow. He saw the small house surrounded by fences, with herb fields in the yard, and licorice leaves drying on the outside wall of the wooden house.
The doors of the courtyard and the wooden house were locked. There were no footprints on the thick snow covered in the yard, but there were other people outside the yard besides Xia De.
The woman wrapped in a gray numb shawl, holding a child wrapped in a quilt in her arms, stood outside the fence, and was looking into the yard when Xia De appeared, as if she wanted to determine whether the herbal doctor was at home.
The child looked less than one year old, but the woman's face seemed to be as old as forty years old. She had been living by the sea for many years and let the sea breeze blow her cheeks into a dark red like a pickled fish, and her withered yellow hair was tied into a bun with fishnet wires, revealing the skin that was molted on the back of her neck.
Xia De did not cover himself up, so the woman who looked anxious and trembling in the cold also noticed Xia De. Even if she didn't have enough knowledge, she could tell at a glance that the handsome young man was a very identifiable city man.
She didn't dare to talk to Xia De on his own initiative, and when Xia De used "Stone Heart" to confirm that there was no one in the hut, he heard the heartbeat of the child she was holding was a little fast:
"lady."
He called it like this, but the tail sound trembled slightly to make the title seem less formal:
"Is the doctor not at home? I heard that there is a herbal doctor with good medical skills here, and I want to visit it."
The woman glanced at the child in her arms, but was still a little afraid of Xia De because of the gap in identity, so she felt very guilty when she replied:
"The doctor's medical skills are indeed very good, but he is not often at home. My child seems to be infected with cold, so I'll ask the doctor for help."
Only then did Xia De realize that this woman from the fishing port village that is most likely not far away was worried that she would be regarded as a thief by Xia De, a city man.
Xia De walked towards her two more steps, then looked at the Herbal Doctor's house like she had just now:
“Is anyone at home?”
He shouted loudly, and indeed he didn't get any response. Then Xia De unexpectedly reached out to the child who was holding the woman, put his right index finger and middle finger together, and put it on the child's forehead:
"The temperature is a bit high, take him to the hospital in the city to see it. This kind of thing cannot be delayed. There is a Snake Heart Hospital in the north of the city. The nuns in the hospital are very good at treating childhood diseases. Don't wait here."
He did not choose to treat the child directly. Instead, he gave the advice, grabbed a handful of change from his pocket and stuffed it into the woman's hand holding the child. Then he ignored the woman's surprise and surprise and walked away along the path in the forest.
Of course, he didn't really walk. After walking a distance, he entered the higher woodland on the north side of the road. After getting closer to the Herb Doctor's hut, he entered the room with "Lagra's Jump" just like before.
There is no valuable clue for the house on the ground, and when Xia De tried to invade the basement this time, he encountered a slight spatial obstacle. It was a ritual force similar to the "space stability halo" to prohibit the movement of space within a certain range. Unfortunately, this ritual is completely ineffective for Xia De, who is now in space attainment.
"Sure enough, Mr. Mortis provided the right place."
The basement is no longer the warehouse of herbal doctors. The pentagram ritual array painted on the ground is also placed on the burning halfway out of the candles. There are dense alchemy formulas on the blackboard beside the wall. There are two bookshelves filled with old books and manuscripts. The frog that was dissected and removed his heart was originally lying on the alchemy platform. At this moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Xia De.
Wu Shen's swollen eyes turned black, and then it opened its mouth and was about to whistle, but Xia De pointed:
“Adele’s time is still!”
The heartless frog, who was about to open his mouth, immediately solidified on the table. Xia De walked over to observe with great interest:
"Oh? Such a primitive spell?"
Except for a few of the magical spells used by modern ring warlocks, most of them are transformed from the secret magical magic handed down from ancient times. This transformation is to make the casting more suitable for the modern ring warlock system. Most of the secret techniques that can be passed down are the essence of the past spell casting system, but a few of them are quite backward, and they have not died due to various strange reasons.
The alchemy item in front of you that uses the warning effect made by animal corpses is obviously a means of combining primitive witchcraft with modern spells. Even if you do not use the "high-end" time power to counter, there are corresponding means to crack it.
Xia De was just curious about where the other party learned such a technique:
"But this is very good with the identity of a rural herbal doctor."
Various leather products used to make scrolls were hung on the walls, and the green light lingers made of the lighting fixtures made by plant branches and buds made the basement not dim. There was no whereabouts of the "Pharm Merchant" here, but Xia De checked it out without touching others' things and found traces of healing again.
This time, he no longer just wiped the dirty blood cotton cloth. He found that several glass conical bottles without labels had traces of light magic potions, and the notebook on the side recorded the way these self-configured magic potions were made:
"This is him trying to use herbal therapy to heal himself. As a result, the more he drinks the potion he has configured, the more serious the injury becomes."
The notes are not diaries, but just simple records of this treatment. However, there is indeed a date above, and the last treatment record that announced the complete failure of this treatment was on the end of the year, that is, last Wednesday.
“Echoes of the past.”
Close your eyes and listen to the echoes from the past, but after trying several times, I didn't hear anyone talking. It seems that he hasn't come back in the past half week.
But Xia De's discovery here is not worthless. The treatment notes record in detail the injury of the "magic drug dealer" by the "magic sword".
The initial manifestation was just that the injured part could not heal normally and was bleeding all the time; three days later, it developed into surrounding flesh and blood necrosis, and with the injured part as the center, black blood vessel traces spread throughout the body.
The Central Warlock was very cautious and at this stage he directly dug out the large piece of flesh and blood on his left arm.
But it was too late at this time. The blood affected by the "Demon Sword" had flowed all over the body. On the penultimate day before the end of the year, a large area of ​​black patterns appeared on normal skin, and the black blood vessels showed signs of hardening, and the Central Warlock felt that his personality had undergone serious changes.
He then came here and used the holy water to trade herbal formulas from the tribes at the foot of the snow mountain to match the snow mountain water to configure potions for himself, but obviously this was useless, or its effect was just to prevent him from completely losing consciousness.
"Is the snowy mountains and rivers of Fatumonster Snow Mountain so magical? You can use it by making tea, making wine, and potions."
Xia De muttered in his heart, and when the self-treatment was completely failed, the symptoms of the "Pharma Manufacturer" had become intermittently unconscious, and strange sounds were constantly hearing in his heart giving orders to himself. But after he woke up, he couldn't remember what those voices said.
He has become quite weak in his awake state. Although he can still control himself for the time being, he will definitely not be able to get close to a densely populated place like the city in this state.
At the end of the diagnosis and treatment notes, he wrote "Maybe he should go to someone for help", but he did not write down who he wanted to ask for help, nor did he write down the other party's identity information, home address, hobbies, and background:
"Can't you leave me a clearer clue?"
However, the description of his situation by the "Pharma Manufacturer" is indeed like a symptom of being gradually controlled by the demon after being hurt by the demon, so Xia De's journey to find someone should continue:
"But is it really a demon? The other party is so high-profile?"
It was already four o'clock in the afternoon. After leaving the Herb Doctor's hut outside the fishing village, Xia De planned to leave here after two more stops. The task of finding someone was not very urgent. He could go back first to summarize the clues, or ask Luvia to help divine.
The fourth stop after the shops, warehouses, and herb huts continued to move along the edge of the island towards the northwest. Mr. Mortis said that the "herb merchant" had a secret warehouse in the grottoes on the coast to pile up illegal materials - it was impossible for black market merchants to not involve such materials.
Mr. Mortis only knew the location of the warehouse, but did not know how to enter. With the "strong spatial perception", Xia De finally found the well-hidden cave in the snow on the reef coast. However, after trying a lot of effort to enter, he did not find any clues.
However, before he planned to continue his departure, standing on the reef beach, facing the towering snow-capped mountains, listening to the sound of waves and enjoying the beautiful scenery in front of him, he saw something on the sea in the distance. It was not a boat. He squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and then he realized that there were three mermaid girls playing in the sea.
When Xia De discovered them, the mermaid girls also found him. After screaming, the girls immediately got into the sea and disappeared.
Of course, there will be no mermaids in the busy ports of Moon Bay. In addition to the deep sea, mermaid communities are also distributed in relatively remote coastal areas like Flying Star Bay. Island cities have never lacked legends and stories such as mermaids, water monsters, bird monsters, etc.
[Since you think of legends and stories, what kind of fairy tales do you, Jiuhuan, plan to come into contact with?]
"She" asked softly in Xia De's ears blowing the sea breeze, looking at the sea, and Xia De sighed a long sigh:
"Let Dorothy and Lessia decide that maybe it can be related to snow, white snow."
Chapter completed!