Alexel's experimental samples came from two sources.

The first, of course, is the newly buried body. But this kind of fresh corpse is not easy to find, although the cost is low, only a shovel and a few hands of sweat, but tens of thousands of people in the city, there is no money to erect a tombstone in the church cemetery, and the poor family is still a minority. Most residents still attach great importance to the funeral of the deceased and do not bury them hastily in abandoned fields on the outskirts. And the cemetery of the church was guarded by priests, so it was really not easy to steal, and after half a year, Alexei also had experience, and he no longer went around the slums to ask who had died, lest others look at him strangely. So he found a second way, which was to buy.

Who to buy?

Ordinary things can be found in the squares of the city, but the only merchants who dare to do the work of corpses are the gangsters in the city.

A corpse with a complete head is ten tasu, which is a small silver coin.

A body that was wounded, but with its limbs intact and in good shape, and no lost organs, was able to take out four tasu in Alexey's pocket. As for the more mutilated corpses, they are all added to the head, and they are given away for nothing.

Compared to the Ardri, a tin-doped currency minted in the kingdom, and the large purity silver coins that circulated from the Empire, the Tasu fluctuated in value and was more popular. Usually, one tasu in the market can be exchanged for two and a half adri, and although these silver coins are worth the same amount in the official statement, you will never be able to exchange the adri for a full tasu from a private bank, nor can you buy a dress that requires a tasu to buy with one adri.

No one is a fool, except for the poor who are in a hurry to find a loan shark merchant to make a loan.

Of course, Alexei would not admit that he was a fool, even if he still owed three thousand ducats, that is, gold coins, to the wealthy merchants of the city.

It was Adri who borrowed it, and it was Tasu who returned it. The merchants who used this method to lend money were very slippery.

One can only hope for the prize money from next year's Unko Master Conference.

Alexey, who has been obsessed with soul research for half a year, not only sold his old mansion, but also owed a huge debt.

Whether it's a corpse or some other experimental material, even the paper that was torn off yesterday is a lot of money.

The young mage counted with his hands in his head, listening to the metal in his waist bag swaying - ten tasu is a ducat, and the cost of making a bottle of swift potion is three tasu, the price is seven tasu, and the consignment store has to take a tenth of the commission, and in one day, I can earn up to fifty-five tasu, which is still ideal, and if the price of raw materials increases, I am afraid it will be even less. After removing the food and clothing, Alexei has already begun to grind his teeth.

I can't pay it back at all!

"Either you just won't pay it back. ”

Dangerous thoughts flashed through the mage's mind, and he hurriedly shook his head, pressed his wallet and closed his eyes to think: If I find a dark and windy day and leave......

No, I can't think about it anymore!

You still have to find a safe way to repay your debts. Alexei thought of the forces behind the Chamber of Commerce, and after careful consideration, he was still ready to save his face.

After all, with this face, it can still be worth three thousand ducats. Thinking about it like this, Alexei felt that his face was becoming more precious again. He touched his dark circles and pondered whether to use a potion bottle to smooth out the dark lines and blemishes on his face.

"No, you can't spend money indiscriminately. ”

Ruthless, Alexei turned his legs back from the long way to the square, and walked towards the real destination of this trip, the largest gang gathering in the city of Darune, that is, the slum within the outer city walls.

The inner city of Daru is divided into two walls, the inner wall and the outer wall, which are used to distinguish the status of the inhabitants on both sides.

Although this was not the original intention when the walls were first built, as time passed, money spontaneously divided the citizens on both sides of the walls.

Rich people naturally prefer to be close to those who have power, and the latter also needs the support of the former. In the past, Alexei had been one of the nobles of great status, but now, in order to experiment, he left his glamorous life behind and lived in the rat path of Darune. Rents are cheap, and of course, the living conditions are far worse than before, not to mention the hygienic environment, Alexei, who is looking for wild food from time to time, can often find a little surprise in the corner of the rat path.

Of course, this is a fright, but it is a beautiful thing for him.

According to Alexey's self-consoling words, as a capable and pursuing mage, it is indeed nothing to find fault with saving him a lot of Tasu's rat path.

But that's only for him.

Thieves, murder, and filth are always the unchanging image of the bottom of the kingdom.

Without exception, the same is true of the slums.

Due to the lack of good sewerage facilities and effective supervision, the slums are as bad as rat paths.

As soon as you step into the ground, you will be greeted by the jagged roofs of buildings that block almost all the sunlight. Narrow, open-air, and even curved buildings clinging to the walkways of the outer city walls are built haphazardly, with no rules and no plans. From time to time, you can see a cloud of filth falling from the sky through the wide open windows, surging along with the foul mud of the ground, dripping all over the horizon, except for a small spot on the tip of the shoe.

Recalling his past encounters, Alexei, who had been prepared, held up his leather umbrella. When he first arrived, he hadn't been cautious enough to pay attention to the sky, so he was taught a lesson by the spilled feces and urine. It was a nightmare that he didn't want to open his mouth, and even if he just remembered it now, he still felt itchy and foul for no reason.

Waving his hand to disperse the original memories, a gust of wind blew, he stood on the side of the street, turned sideways, and several hairy children ran past him with bare feet like the wind, shouting and frolicking loudly. Listening to the voice, he stopped early, and carefully avoided the bastards who had passed through the slums. Because he didn't want his wallet to run away with long legs.

In the slums of Drone, if you don't want to lose your belongings, stay away from the inhabitants of the area, even if they are underage imps, who are old enough to put their hands in your pockets.

Alexey knows this.

After a few hairy children and a familiar stroll through the block, Alexei tightened his grip on the handle of the umbrella, and under a crumbling canopy above his head, he met the connector of the local Brotherhood of Blue, a bald man sitting on a barrel with his bare upper body exposed.

The sun has risen.

The strong man had several animal heads tattooed on his back, and he was playing cards with his back to Alexey, playing cards with his new friend, as if the roar of the beast was so loud that you could hear some dirty words in his mouth from a distance, and it seemed that he had lost the whole day.

With a snap, the angry strong man threw all the cards in his hand on the small table. He took out a few coppers and threw them out without looking at them, and Ding Ling fell and rolled all over the ground: "Don't play, don't play, what shit luck." This time you're the best, but next time don't ask me to catch your old dog's paws, if you catch it once, chop a pair. ”

"Hey, Gruger, what do you mean?"

Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. It is not easy to play with the gang member Gruger, they just look at each other, and they immediately have a tacit understanding, and several people scold, that is, the duck that refuses to put it in their hands - some people bend down to pick up money, and they refuse to lose face - some people click between their hands and feet, and walk up and push Grujie. This horse-faced bastard who shot first was not big, his strength was not small, and he relied on the large number of people behind him, and he used twelve points of strength, and as soon as he used his strength, he pushed Grujie to a stumble and almost fell to the ground: "What, if you lose, you want to fight?"

"Fight, fight! Lao Tzu will be afraid that you will not be able to do anything!"

Gruger's face changed color, and he raised his old fist to smash the horse-faced bastard's head into a swollen lump the size of his fist.

Seeing that the streets of the slums were about to take place in the streets of the slum in the form of a daily martial arts, the mage, who was anxious to go back and continue the experiment, was not willing to waste time, so he snapped his fingers and recited a short incantation in his mouth.

"Get on your knees. ”

Gravity.

Invisible power gushed out from the mage's fingertips, silently, and in an instant, all the debris in front of Alexei seemed to be swept away by a gust of wind, and several passing birds were not spared, screaming and being slapped to the ground. The smaller ones were all sprinkled on the streets at that time, and the larger ones were also bleeding from their mouths and noses, and their legs and feet were convulsions.

Similar to the sparrows who have suffered an unjustified disaster, the thugs who are ready to fight are no exception. They all have a posture, but the screams they make are almost the same, and the effect is like the gravity technique of carrying a thousand pounds of mountains in an instant, which is worse than the impact of a flash flood, and in an instant the embankment that was blocked in the first place will be washed away, and the gangsters will immediately cry and roll to the ground with a wolf howl. And one of the poorest creatures with the most fragile flesh even showed obvious signs of fractures on his outstretched limbs, and he was afraid that he would not have been able to heal without ten days and half a month of recuperation.

"Spare your life, your lord!"

Just as powerful as their love of bullying the weak is their ability to steer the rudder, and a few of the thugs who immediately understood that they were attacked by magic opened their mouths to ask for mercy, and they rushed to cry and beg Alexei to raise his noble hand, begging him to only punish the evil, and let go of the accomplices who were lost for a while, and the old and young in the family still needed to be cared for.

"My lord, spare your life!"

"My lord, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a half-year-old brother in my family, spare my life!"

"My lord, it's all John's fault, it's all the bad things he instructed us to do, please spare your life, the little one, the little one really doesn't know anything about it!"

"Hey, wronged, my lord, I don't know, you just treat me as a fart, let me die......"

“......”

". Alexei frowned, glanced at Gruj, who was speechless, and with a movement of his mind, the effect of the spell was gone.

A few gangsters who were still crying and screaming immediately got up and ran away like the wind. Even the guy who was traumatized by the fracture covered his wound and stood up desperately, running with a rolling belt, just trying to get as far away from the mage as possible, for fear that the former would change his mind and lose his life if he was not careful.

Seeing the last thug disappear around the corner, Gruger wiped the dirt on his body, and when he realized that he couldn't wipe it clean, he lowered his head and spat at the backs of the gangsters: "Why let them go." ”

"You just have to talk, and they're naturally yours. ”

"You're too expensive, sue the crow. These pieces tied together are not as much as the price of your little finger, and I'll settle the bill, mage. ”

Alexei smiled at the corner of his mouth, and left the topic aside: "What about the goods I want?"

"There aren't many new items lately, but ......" Gruger looked at the cards on the small table, his eyes flashing with hatred, "it just so happens that someone has supplied me with a batch of new goods, it depends on whether you want it or not." ”

"You're trying me to kill them?"

"No, I'm not just trying to kill them all. I also want to retake West Street. ”

Hearing Gruger's answer, Alexei was stunned for a moment, and then he pursed his lips and chuckled, and the laughter implied his deep interest in Gruger's mouth of West Street.

He then followed Gruger's gaze to the cards, meaningfully, "It seems that you have lost a lot recently. ”

"A new gang from Kherson. ”

Gruger stretched out his hand and made a five: "In two weeks, they won five Ducats from me. It's a bit of a skill, but it's not enough to be afraid, but I personally can't swallow this breath, West Street is lost in my Grujie's hands, and I can't explain it to the boss. ”

A punch fell, and cards flew all over the sky: "They have to pay!"

"Interesting, interesting. ”

"I'd be happy to help you with this, but it's not exactly what I've planned lately. For the sake of our old days, listen, Gruger, you only have one chance, and the only thing I can tell you is that I don't have much time, and you'd better think about it quickly. ”

"Don't think about it, don't think about it, crow. In the slums, they were the first to dare to snatch something from my Grujie. As a tribute to their courage, everyone, I offer this price. ”

He lifted his palm, and the card embedded deep in the table was drawn with a dripping and spinning gold coin.

"Ten times. ”

"It's hard to get hands on here. ”

Alexei looked around, although the slums were chaotic, but not so chaotic that he could be asked to kill people in the street.

The impact is too bad, and if you dare to do this, you will not be able to get along with the sheriff of Daru's inner city.

"I know where they live. We concocted them one by one. ”

Gruger stared at the board and sneered.