Chapter 24: Stand firm

"You're late. ”

Alexei shook the reagent tube in his hand, and the dark green liquid was still mixed with the fully ground grass stems.

"I'm not late. ”

Lan Meng licked the cream on the side of her lips as she turned her eyes to the wall-hung clock.

1:47 points.

"Dora is just an ordinary person, and it takes time for me to come down. ”

Suddenly, she noticed a strange sound coming from Dora's throat not far away, snorting, as if she had been stuck in her throat by some kind of hard object. Lan Meng glanced to the right vigilantly, only to hear the sound of the bell, a breeze blew in front of him, and the spoon used to deliver food fell to the ground.

She looked down at Dora's figure, and the woman who acted as a temporary maid was holding her throat with her hand uncomfortably, trembling all over, and the hair on her sideburns was sticking to her face, drenched in sweat.

"What's wrong with you?" Lan Meng frowned, "Alexey, what did you do to her? ”

"I don't think so. ”

As Alex walked slowly, Dora's pupils narrowed more and more, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, and the bloodshot gradually spread to the entire whites of her eyes.

"Don't try to defy my will, next time, it's not just a matter of two minutes. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... Have mercy on ......"

Dora, whose lips were blue from lack of oxygen, fell to the ground with all her might, begging Alexei for mercy, hammering the ground, slapping the masonry, crying, sobbing, clutching the nails that clung to the tiles without knowing it, and the blood and tears gushing out of the cracked nails fell down like tears, and together with the sweat, mixed with the tips of the chin, and gathered into a river.

Next time she'll remember the lesson. "Behind Alexey, the second hand walks past the clock one by one.

Two minutes later, Dora, drenched in a drenched body, walked out the door with a vague step. Once again, only Blue Dream and Alexei were left in the lab.

"I've flipped through your notebook, you should have some experience with herbalism. Any idea what this is?"

He lifted the tube of reagent and shook it slightly, the dark green liquid glowing slightly transparent in the light.

"Poisonous hop leaves. ”

"Looks like you know. The rhizomes of the poisonous hops can be used to make wine, and the leaves are the hottest stars in Darune. For you, I spent a lot of tasu. ”

"You want to give me this?" Lan Meng was stunned, "I know it can be used as an anesthetic......"

She opened her mouth, as if she thought of some terrible bloody experiment, and her eyes quickly covered with a layer of fear: "I ......."

Isn't that what I'm expecting?

The girl wanted to say, "Come on, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time." But when she came to her lips, she found that she was far from being as calm as she imagined.

She was scared. Fear of losing hands and feet, fear of losing life.

Am I a greedy person who is afraid of death?There is a slight crack in the belief that Lan Meng has always insisted on, is it self-righteous or nervous?She is reluctant to answer, but even if Alex does not say anything to mock her, Lan Meng has an inexplicable sense of shame that cannot be avoided.

This shame that contradicted her made the proud girl open her mouth, but she was still speechless. I had to stare at the mage hatefully with a pair of eyes that were fierce and inward, in order to alleviate the turbulent frustration in my heart.

"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood. ”

Alexei pinched Lan Meng's lips and teeth as gently as he could, pouring a drop of dark green liquid into the girl's esophagus.

"In addition to being able to be made into anesthetics, it is also one of the raw materials for several popular hallucinogens. ”

The subconscious resistance affected Lan Meng's absorption of the potion, and some of the liquid entered the trachea during the struggle, and the liquid drug immediately caused a rejection reaction in the lungs. First it was a lack of breathing, and then the obvious foreign body sensation caused the throat to keep squirming and coughing low, and the droplets splashed everywhere, and the violent coughing amplitude even made the girl's cheeks flutter red, and it looked very painful.

"Suffer a little, and next time you'll know to listen to me. ”

Stand by and watch. Alexei waited patiently for the potion to take effect, reassuring that a little liquid that had strayed into the trachea would not suffocate the girl.

The occasional physical punishment can better help Alexei control Blue Dream.

He was happy to see it, and just watched it like this, until the coughing sound in his ears gradually stopped, and the sparkle in Lan Meng's eyes was fading rapidly as the effect of the potion deepened. As Alex expected, she would enter the peak of the effect of the poisonous hop leaves in ten minutes, drifting away from the world in psychedelic bliss, just like the eyes in her eyes at the moment, constantly rising, rising...... Let the whites of the eyes occupy almost the entire eyeball, and the consciousness that used to be guarded will also be temporarily opened to the mage.

"Poison hop leaves that are more than seventy percent pure need to be used with healing potions. ”

"But this time, for the sake of effect, I only prepared a fifth of the neutralizer. ”

"Don't let me down. Alexei stroked Lan Meng's cheek, and from other angles, it seemed to be a kiss, close to the girl's small earlobe, and slowly, whispered.

"Tell me, your biggest secret. ”

......

Slum, West Street, second floor of the Brotherhood Hall.

Kapol has been living a comfortable life lately, the mountain on his head is gone, and he has successfully defeated the rest of the competitors with a single appointment and ascended to the throne of the big boss of West Street.

Through Alexey's support, he is aided by a shadow killer.

Although Kapole still remembered the mysterious shadow as he threw Gruger's head at him at the door of the tavern. At first, he felt scared, but after submitting a few assassination lists, Kapole's fear faded.

He still remembers the first time he saw the unpleasant roadblock a few days ago, accusing him of not having enough qualifications, and half a day later he was carried out of the house covered in blood...... It's hard to describe, but there is an addictive pleasure that rushes straight to his brain from the soles of his feet, and he feels that there are more wet stains on his trouser legs, so happy that he can't hold back and find two warblers to solve.

The life and death of others are in his own hands, and every time he writes, a name is a life, and at this moment, what Kapole thinks of is not prudence, but a numbness and excitement that almost makes him shudder.

No one is immune to the assassination of the men in black.

Murby, and then his successor. There were also a few small leaders who dared to openly rebel against him, and they all died, silently.

Insults to Kapol are often spoken at sunset, and his headless body is found in the abusive's home early the next morning.

There's no way not to connect.

Without figuring out Kapole's means, they began to converge. Even the group of people who rejected Kapole's leadership the most, these came from rival gangs, and the gang leaders of different factions invariably chose to hibernate.

No one wants to die in vain.

As a result, Kapole's position on West Street quickly solidified.

Subsequently, he took advantage of the chaotic period when the Black Stork lost its leaders one after another, and was busy fighting for power and power, and was unable to resist, and successively seized two partitions that originally belonged to the Brotherhood. This was something Gruger could not have done during his lifetime, and with this remarkable success, Capol initially established his authority in the Blue Brotherhood on West Street. Now, several gang members who were still not convinced would take the initiative to greet him after seeing him, calling him the boss.

"Success. ”

Kapole continued to copy down a list of names on the paper, and since he had a one-way connection with the mage, the two of them had a perfect understanding of the format on paper.

They agreed that the briefing would be delivered by courier every day that followed. On the limited paper, you should clearly record the big and small things that happened on that day, even rumors should be listed at the end of the letterhead. The back of the paper was used to record the list of people to be assassinated, and this time, he wrote the names of several merchants. These hateful fellows dare to try to lower the purchase price of the Brotherhood's loot, and he is not enough to challenge the local Chamber of Commerce power personally, so since he can't defeat and subdue his opponents organizationally, he will physically destroy them.

As for the Chamber of Commerce's counterattack, Kapole would never admit his relationship with the Assassins, even if he deliberately did not argue with it, deliberately leaving some room for reverie between his subordinates and the enemy.

Since he has decided to obtain the true leadership of the Brotherhood within a month, he will need to take risks and do some dangerous things that ordinary people simply cannot imagine. In fact, Kapol understood that in just a few days, he had touched the bottom line of the Sheriff's Department several times in a row, and if it weren't for the fact that the private affairs between the various gangs were mostly handled by the gangs themselves, and that he was in an unsupervised slum, he would have gone to prison a long time ago.

But there is no way, time waits for no one. No matter how beautiful it is, if Alexei has the heart to support another spokesperson, he will also not be able to escape the assassination of the man in black.

I had to obey.

Kapole packed the briefing in an envelope and was about to summon the messenger when there was a knock on the door to the private lounge.

"Who is it?"

"Boss, it's me. A familiar voice came from outside the door, and Kapole remembered him, a man who had been in the gang for two years, and he didn't fight well, but he was quite clever as a janitor, and his popularity was also very wide. Kapole took a fancy to his well-run social network, so he deliberately cultivated him, and deliberately transferred him to his door to be on duty, so as to facilitate the communication and inform the rest of the gang to gather.

"Come in. ”

Kapole closed the letter and took the envelope, and the door opened a crack, and he heard a low cry outside, and a large hand pushed the door open, and a sturdy strong man entered.

"Who are you?"

Kapol was startled and half of the man kicked into his chair in the air, looking a little funny.

"Don't be nervous, brother, it was the crow who told me to come to you. As soon as the strong man entered the door, he looked at the decoration of the room, took two steps, pointed to an empty corner, and said unceremoniously, "That's it, put me a bed." ”

"Dead Raven...... Who are you?" Kapole's fingers as he touched the handle of the dagger relaxed slightly, and he returned the slightly unsheathed dagger back into its sheath.

"Apprentice. Oh yes. I forgot to introduce you, Kapole, I'm Joannis, maybe we met the other day. ”

"Apprentice, what proof do you have, what did he tell you to do?"

"Agent, or watchman, whatever you think of me, the mentor told me to come and help you, and you don't have to send the briefing to the rat path in the next few days, just give it to me. As for the evidence, I don't know if it counts. ”

As he spoke, a figure suddenly flashed behind Ioannis, and when Kapole looked closely, it was actually the man in black wrapped in a black robe!