Chapter 10: The Candle Man
Push open a wooden door carved with a beast with teeth and claws.
Known as the top potion master of Beluye, Richards Murphy, who developed two new potions, the Blood Drop Elixir and the Blood Activating Potion, stepped in.
He had just sold all the blood-invigorating potions in his hands at the Outlaw Bazaar, and he should have been in a good mood after making a lot of money, but the smell of wax and oil coming from inside after opening the door made his face more and more gloomy.
It was a stylish house, but there was no heating, not even a basic fireplace, only wooden tables of varying heights arranged in a seemingly messy but regular manner.
Brass candlesticks with white candles fill almost the room, not all of them are lit, in fact only a third of the total number of candles are lit today.
Richards' gaze swept around cursoryly, if he remembered correctly, the number and position of the candlesticks he saw every time he came over were different from the last time, he was not a person who pursued perfection, but looking at those sparse and misplaced candles, he always felt a strange imbalance in his heart.
Add to that the wax that drips after burning or slipping down the body of the candle, and imprints the wooden table that looks very good with a messy mark, and this uncomfortable look is even more obvious.
"Mr. Murphy, count the days, today should be the day when your blood-invigorating potion is first marketed, how is the situation?"
A voice came from the shadows ahead, and behind the innermost table sat a man in a black cloak.
"It's very popular, it's only been half an hour, those blood-activating potions have been sold out, and there are still many people who want to order from me, saying that if there is a new finished potion, they will be provided to them first......
"You remember the agreement we made, right?"
The man behind the long table interrupted Richards and asked.
"Of course I remember, you provide the formula, and I am responsible for catching vampires and making potions, and each person is limited to one bottle, and each time it is sold, it must be limited...... And in the end, you have 70% of the income, and 30% of mine. ”
Outsiders thought that Richards Murphy had already saved a lifetime of money for eating and drinking with these potions, but they didn't know that he was actually a part-time worker, although he also earned a lot, but it was really uncomfortable to see a lot of gold pounds in his pocket and have to take them out again.
"Just remember, I came to you to remind you, the vampires in the blood castle found this time, don't miss it, catch as many as you can, and then the production needs to be expanded if there is no accident, these vampires are good raw materials, you can release the news, a living vampire can be exchanged for a bottle of blood drops and a bottle of blood activating medicine. ”
Once a vampire dies, their blood will be completely inactive within a few minutes, and if these monsters that have survived for hundreds of years lose the living blood in their bodies, they will immediately turn into dried corpses, and the sun will become a place of flying ashes, worthless, so only living vampires are worth detaining.
"I took note of your words. ”
Expanding production means an increase in production, which is equivalent to an increase in income, and Richards couldn't hold back when he thought of the scene he had seen in his dream sleeping on a pile of gold pounds.
"Lord Candle, in fact, many people in the market have been eyeing my business recently, and this month alone, there have been three waves of people who have come to steal the formula..... In addition, the core materials of this blood drop potion and the blood activation potion itself come from those vampires, if you want to expand production, you have to have a bigger place to store these monsters, and we are responsible for these things, the government has to deal with it, and we have to find a special place and hire more people, I won't talk about these things, I will do things for you, this is what I should do, but the money to be consumed in this is not a small amount, so I want to ......"
The candle was the name of the man behind the table who told Richards, and the meaning of Richards's words was clear enough,
"Modify profit share?"
The existence behind the desk directly said what Richards was thinking in his heart, without saying a word, his fingers tapped the brass candlestick, as if he was thinking, and the wax oil fell on his fingers without realizing it, this silence did not last long, and he said again after ten seconds,
"That's not what you told me when you were just an ordinary alien. ”
"Hey, it was the beginning, it's now, I didn't think your business would be like this, now there are competitors everywhere, all sides have to work hard, I am the only spokesperson for your industry, and you know the pressure you are under, if you don't have enough financial support, it will undoubtedly be a little difficult to operate. ”
Since some words have been said, there is no need to hide them, emphasizing the identity of the only spokesperson, and Richards now does have this confidence.
The person in front of him only collects money, and the affairs outside are all handled by himself, if he didn't have to get the prepared liquid from him every time, Richards would have already found a way to get rid of him and do it alone, in his eyes, this person is relying on his own formula to hang himself, he takes this thirty percent, it is really a little less.
"Then ...... Divide it into five. ”
This reply made Richards' eyes light up, what he thought in his heart was actually that he earned it by improving the next level, but he didn't expect the other party's opening to be such a big concession, which made him a little uncomfortable for a while.
"But I have one condition, that is, you must do it well this time, and you must catch more than 10 vampires, otherwise my proposal will be nullified. ”
"No problem. ”
10 living vampires, obviously a little difficult on their own, but if you can hire those alien teams, it will be different, and if you are lucky, the chances of success are not small.
"That's it, please go back. ”
"Goodbye, Lord Candle. ”
Exiting the door, Richards' face looked much better than when he came.
"It turned out to be a flower shelf for paper paste...... After a little temptation, I compromised, and it seems that there is no need to be so afraid of him, hmph, it would be great if those two formulas really became my own. ”
Richards actually didn't know anything about the configuration of the potion, and when he produced the potion, he was more just doing it according to the operation manual given to him by the candle man, and the core liquid was not in contact at all, but during this time, the assembly-line potion configuration made him have an illusion, as long as he could get the formula, he could easily configure the two potions.
If so, what about the weird guy behind the door?
Sometimes that's the case, you take a step back, and someone else takes a step forward.
Your compromise is cowardice and cowardice in the eyes of others.
It's just that Richards didn't know that the weird pharmacist wasn't as unbearable as he thought.
As the footsteps departed, a bulging ball of wax behind them crawled towards the people inside, clinging to the table legs and gradually dispersing, and then piecing together the characters.
Exactly those things Richards said before.
"Rotten mud is rotten mud, something that is low to the bones, even if it is mixed with gold powder and put into a porcelain bowl, it will not become a good thing after all, it will only defile those good things......"
With a casual wipe of it, the handwriting on the desktop that was pieced together with wax and oil disappeared completely in the next second.
**
On the second day of arriving in the city of Beruye, the whole morning was shopping time, and according to the list that Anthony had made the previous night, he walked through the shops one by one.
After lunch, I purchased some loose items, and it was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that I was completely prepared.
Looking at the large carriage in front of you, the carriage behind is obviously larger than the ordinary carriage, although it is still wood as the main material, but there are a lot of rivets and iron sheets at the joint, and the wheels under the bottom are also added with non-slip accessories, if you look carefully, you will find that the central position of the chassis still has some mechanical structure, like a protruding metal barrel, which is specially used to place firewood to heat the carriage, and in front of it are three tall horses, all of which cost a lot of money.
There were still a lot of things piled up on the roof of the carriage at this time, and after covering it with a rain canopy, it had to be tied twice with rope.
"I'm going to sleep in the wild tonight, and I don't know if this car can be squeezed by then. ”
In this kind of weather, it is naturally impossible to get a cover and lie on the ground alive, otherwise the low temperature in the second half of the night can definitely wake anyone up from freezing or simply freezing and never waking up.
"We can't all be crowded in the carriage at that time, the two of us and Lilo have to take turns keeping vigil, after all, we are not going to take a predetermined route this time, but to participate in this search for the Blood Clan's castle, and there may be vampires sneak attack at night. ”
Riding on another horse, Anthony said, holding the reins in one hand and a whip in the other.
Donald didn't call them all together immediately when he returned from the Outlaw Bazaar, but chose to talk to them about it at breakfast this morning.
Anthony didn't have any opinions, and they all said that Donald was in charge.
That being the case, the Kesser Mountains were on their way to their next city anyway, so there was no reason not to check them out.