Chapter 437: Illusion
As night fell, Xia Lan quietly returned to the Black Wolf's cabin without alerting anyone.
In addition to buying a large number of alchemy tools and materials all afternoon, he only used the price of one gold coin to let the little boy lead him on a cursory tour of Monteres, which gave people a feeling of revisiting the old place in a trance, and the thin memories of Montelles in his mind became clearer and clearer.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, after choosing the hotel, Xia Lan and the little boy verbally agreed to meet after the rental was resolved.
"Xia Lan, you're finally back."
Changing back to her original face, as soon as she pushed the door and entered the room, Adrina, who was sitting on the edge of the bed bored, suddenly burst out in surprise when she saw him.
Charan nodded, glancing at Winnie and Magnison, who were honest in the corner of the room, their complexions not looking very good, and their spirits were quite sluggish.
He walked towards the other party, and with a flash of the void ring in his hand, a pile of miscellaneous things fell in front of them in an instant.
"The alchemy tools and materials have been bought, and now it's your turn."
Winnie yawned lazily, reached out and picked up an off-white crucible from the large pile of debris in front of her and examined it left and right, after a while, she shook her head, looked at Xia Lan and sighed softly: "Your Excellency Xia Lan, can you tell me how much you spent on these alchemy tools?" β
"Eight hundred gold coins." Xia Lan didn't know why.
"Here I have sad news to tell you, you have been deceived." Winnie shook the gray-white crucible in her hand and said, "These things are all inferior goods, and they can basically be declared scrapped after a few uses." β
"I don't have the heart to care about the quality of these utensils, I just want to know if you can make what I want." Xia Lan said indifferently.
"The disfiguring potion you need most is not difficult to make. It is rare how to ensure the duration of the drug's effect. β
Winnie rummaged through the clutter pile, rummaging through the materials. Suddenly picked up a thumb-sized blue-gray pearl in his hand and said, "You have to be clear." The quality of alchemy materials is related to the quality of the final product, although such materials can indeed be used to make disfiguring elixirs, but the efficacy is ......."
"I'll buy new equipment and materials after I'm settled in Montreles, I don't have a lot of time, and if I don't see what I need by the early hours of the morning, you should know the consequences." Xia Lan's voice was cold, and she no longer paid attention to Winnie, and her eyes moved directly to Magnison beside her, and said, "Master Magnison." I remember when you were in the real yΓ n room, you tried to make a potion that manipulated my mind, and now, I need you to make them. β
Magnison couldn't help but tremble after hearing this, and said, "Your Excellency, the potion you said can indeed manipulate people's minds, but the domineering nature of the medicine will also completely erase a person's self-consciousness......
The meaning in his voice is self-evident, if you try to use this medicine to control us, you will only get two waste people who don't understand anything.
"Master Magnison, you're thinking too much." Xia Lan said calmly: "I have other uses for this potion. β
"With all due respect, where are you going to use these potions?" Magnison wreaked.
"The pirates who stayed on this ship." Xia Lan said truthfully.
"Pirates?" Magnison was stunned. It seems a little confusing.
"You'll understand then." Charland Road.
ββ¦β¦ If you need to make a potion to manipulate the minds of these pirates, I'm afraid you'll have to trouble collecting their blood. Magnison said.
Xia Lan nodded. He remembered that the pirates who had stayed on the Black Wolf were gathering on deck to drink and gossip, seemingly completely carried away by the influence of alcohol, without the slightest taboo.
It wasn't difficult to get their blood, but it was just a bit of trouble to distinguish between the potions they were making.
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The One-Eyed Rose tavern.
Blunding. Sitting alone at the bar, Gucci gulped the spirits from the wooden glass, his ears were full of the wanton noise of his subordinates, and he slammed the wooden glass on the thick countertop, he exhaled a strong and unpleasant smell of wine, and shouted to a woman opposite him who was bowing her head and calculating on the paper, "Obala! Why can't you change your greed for money! Every time I bring someone to you, has I ever failed to pay for the drink? Hurry up! Give Lao Tzu another cup of "submarine volcano""
Obara raised her head, and in the dim light reflected a still charming face, her healthy wheat skin and delicate facial features could vaguely see her youthful beauty, but the only fly in the ointment was that her blind eye completely ruined the beauty of the face.
"Gotch, I heard that you have been chasing you like a mad dog under the pursuit of the Grenadian Navy for most of the month, and I am really worried about it...... "Obara re-arrested Brundin. Gooch laughed after filling his wooden cup with wine.
"Yo-I didn't expect you to worry about me, Obala? What a flattering thing it is! Gooch smiled at Obara, his eyes glancing at the towering half-naked white greasy on the other's chest.
"Alas...... If you let the Grenadians catch you, where will I go to find a big money owner, don't you say? Obara covered her mouth and chuckled.
Blunding. Gochi's face instantly darkened, and he said, "Am I in this position in your heart?" β
"For the sake of the gold coins, I can rank you in the top three of my heart." Obara smirked.
"Get out! Who is rare! "Blunding. Gooch raised his wine glass and gulped it down, the brown-yellow liquid dripping from his mouth continued to drip on his chest, and after wiping the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, he burped hard, and his eyes gradually became blurred.
"Obara, if one day I do die, will you feel sorry for me?"
"Gotch, what nonsense are you talking about!" Obala retracted the smile on her face, reached out and took the other party's cup without pouring any more wine, she stroked the hair hanging down her ears, and said calmly: "This is not like the lawless you normally. β
"I know you haven't let go of that man in your heart......" Blunding. Gotch kept his face composed, clasped his hands and muttered.
"Enough! Gotch, if you keep talking, we won't even be friends in the future! Obara said with a cold face.
"Okay, okay!" Blunding. Gochi closed his eyes, suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and opened the topic: "Obara, have you read the wanted article that has been making a lot of noise recently?" β
"Of course! When you fled around at sea for most of the month, my mother already knew about it. Obara regained his original expression. Why do you ask this? Do you want to go from pirate to bounty hunter? No kidding! β
"I don't want to risk my precious life." Blunding. Gooch sneered, "It's you thinking too much!" β
"Having said that, since the wanted document came out, the number of people who have infiltrated MontrΓ©s has increased several times recently." Obara sneered, "A bunch of poor creatures who dream of getting rich overnight! I don't want to think about the terrifying power of a woman who can destroy a city under the nose of the "Radiant Sanctuary"! β
"The text says that as long as they follow the clues of the murderer's whereabouts, it will be a reward, no wonder they have such naΓ―ve ideas." Blunding. Gooch said calmly. "Speaking of which, I had a strange encounter two days ago."
As he said this, Gotch glanced left and right, and his voice was lowered a lot.
"What is the mystery of God?" Seeing the other party's attitude, Obala didn't have a good airway.
Gooch hooked his hand and motioned for the other party to stick it up, and Obara frowned, finally poking her head out of curiosity.
Immediately after, Brentin. Gooch told Obara all the follow-up events and conjectures he had about meeting Xia Lan and others.
"Gotch, regardless of whether the other party wants the person on the text or not, all in all, you are in big trouble." Obara retracted from the bar and took a deep breath.
"I know......" Gochi sighed, feeling a slight bitterness in his mouth, "and I also violated the warning of the Lord and revealed this matter to you privately." β
"Why are you suing me about this?" Obara Road.
"Instinct it! You know how sharp my instincts are, and it's because of this that I've been able to dodge countless traps and ambushes over the years. "Blunding. Gotch mused. "Even now, I still have a sense of foreboding lingering in my heart."
"Gotch, if you want to avoid this trouble, I advise you to go out to sea and hide for some time." Obara sighed. "And I'm here to help you keep an eye on Cledor. Ochie's thing, if the other party really came to trap Cledor. Sooner or later, Och will make a noise in Monteres, and when you come back when it's over, I don't think your Excellency will blame you...... If the other party is the prisoner you guessed...... I'm sorry, but all I can say is that your good luck has really come to an end. β
"You say...... Shall we report to the ruling government or the Shining Church? "Blunding. Gotch hesitated, as if he had the mentality that he would rather guess wrong than let go.
"Do you want to die impatiently?" Obara snorted coldly.
"Pour me another drink, I want to be alone." Blunding. Gooch tapped on the bar and shook his head.
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Midnight.
Charan stood on the roof of a tall building and looked out over the coast, watching the Black Wolf sail silently out of port in the night.
After Winnie and Magnison finished making the potion, he forcibly poured the sane potion on the ship's pirates, and he gave the deprived puppet pirates only one order, to drive the Black Wolf into the depths of the vast sea and sink themselves.
His idea was simple.
According to Winnie's prediction, the poison she had given the pirates would be completely poisoned by early this morning at the latest, and all the pirates they had saved would die.
If a group of pirates suddenly died of collective poisoning in Monteres, it would be easy for the Monterres government to pay attention to the investigation, and Xia Lan's countermeasure was to create the illusion of pirate civil unrest, pointing all suspicions to the pirates left behind on the Black Wolf who left the port and disappeared.
It can not only complete the planting of blame, but also erase its own traces, so as to kill two birds with one stone.
After his misguided thinking of Brentin. Even if Gooch finds out something strange, it won't be too late! (To be continued......)