Chapter 2: The City of Dolon

A few days later, Sean, who was in the dust, came to Doron City again.

The city of Dolon is not large, with a population of less than 100,000.

Sean's impression of the romantic Middle Ages, such as magnificent castles, knights in bright armor, passionate noblewomen, elegant and shy princesses, is not particularly here.

There are only crumbling and low walls, narrow streets with potholes, garbage everywhere, beggars on the streets, and there is no drainage system in the city, so it will become muddy when it rains.

Although the city of Doron was a border city of the Turan kingdom, it had no neighbors.

Even though the Tanggula Wilderness in the west is said to be the territory of the orcs, the Alps, which stretch for thousands of miles, are themselves a natural barrier.

Therefore, the remoteness and backwardness of this region are inevitable.

The lord here is the Marquis of Grinton, and he has many territories, and this is just one of them.

Even the retainers who were entitled, they thought it was barren and remote, and no one wanted it at all.

The Marquis of Glinton had no choice but to have his knights take turns serving as consuls here, and he himself had never been to the territory at all.

As soon as Sean arrived at the city gate, he saw three people riding horses, galloping out of the city.

At this time, there was a long queue waiting to enter the city, but the people on the horse did not slow down in the slightest.

There was a great chaos in front of the city gates, and the cries of women and children were everywhere.

There is scum everywhere, and Dolong City is certainly no exception.

The person who dares to gallop in the city must be the gang members of various gangs in Dolong City.

Because there is less oil and water in Duolong City, the knights who take turns to serve as sheriffs let the gangsters in the city do whatever they want, and they accept the filial piety of the gangsters with peace of mind.

The gangs in the city are becoming more and more rampant without restraint.

They colluded with the city guards and engaged in all kinds of shady activities in the city, such as extortion, smuggling and collecting stolen goods, and selling people.

Although Sean is only a half-grown child and often has ruffians to make things difficult for him, Sean would rather suffer a loss than entangle with them.

You can't fight them because of all this.

Sean really doesn't fight, he only kills.

And with his father and sister at home, he has more worries in his heart, and he doesn't want to get into trouble.

Sean ducked to the side and looked coldly at several gangsters on the horse.

One of them he knew, who was also a resident of Greystone, was named Giles.

This guy was a good gambler, and later owed a lot of money, and the woman in the family ran away with the child.

In the past, Gilles did not go to the grocery store at home to pay for things on credit, but after being taught a lesson by Flender, he did not dare to come again.

Gilles left Greystone two years ago and never returned, hearing that he had joined the gangs in Doron City.

Sean entered the city to sell his prey, and then came to the west of the city.

To the west of the city is the wealthy area of the city, where most of the people live are wealthy merchants and wealthy families, and some are down-and-out nobles who have lost their fiefs.

This is also the only pure land in Duolong City, the streets are clean, and the law and order situation is good, even the gangsters in Duolong City do not dare to make trouble in this area.

Hotels, restaurants, pastry shops, bars, clothing stores, antique shops, theaters, doctors' clinics, pharmacies and other high-end consumption places in Duolong City are almost all concentrated in Xicheng.

Sean walked into a pharmacy, said hello to a few apprentices, and went straight to the backyard.

There is no perfect medical system in this world, and the low-level civilians can only resign themselves to fate when they get sick.

There are a few clinics and a few pharmacies in Dolon.

But both physician visits and the purchase of medicines were very expensive, and only the aristocracy and the wealthy could afford to consume them.

As soon as Sean entered the courtyard, he saw an old man in his sixties walking towards him.

He has white hair, wears a gray robe, and has the temperament of a scholar, and looks very stylish.

The old man's name was Joseph, and he was one of the few pharmacists in the city of Doron.

The city of Duolong is backward in commerce and has underdeveloped resources, and there are very few rare herbs.

Although it is backed by the Alps, most of the rare herbs grow deep in the mountains.

There are dangers in the area, and even old hunters who have been hunting in the mountains all year round dare not set foot in them.

In the past, Joseph was not much troubled by the matter of herbs, and he also hired hunters and herb pickers at high prices to help him go into the mountains to find cherished herbs.

He even hired mercenaries at a high price a few times, but the effect was half the effort.

Although the depths of the mountains are full of poisonous snakes and beasts, for Sean, it is not a problem.

No matter how dangerous a place is, can there still be a danger of the end times?

Therefore, Sean often went deep into the mountains to collect medicines, and each time he could bring a few rare herbs, which also made Joseph ecstatic.

So, he began to teach Sean all kinds of herbal knowledge, so that Sean knew various ways to identify and preserve cherished herbs, and he also offered a very considerable price.

Joseph's eyes lit up when he saw Sean.

Full of anticipation, he asked, "Sean is here...... When you go into the mountains this time, do you find the herbs I mentioned?"

Listening to Joseph's words, Sean nodded, then took out a couple of wooden boxes and handed them to him.

"Garcinia cambogia, tansy, aconitum ...... Great......"

Joseph opened the wooden boxes one by one, excitedly recited the names of several herbs, and then happily picked up a few wooden boxes and walked into the next room.

Sean also followed the old man into the house, which was where Joseph specialized in making potions.

One side of the room is densely packed with drawers, a bit like the medicine cabinet of a Chinese medicine store in a previous life, and on the other side there are writing desks and a few bookshelves.

In the middle is a huge stone platform, on which are placed a large number of bottles and jars, as well as various alchemy utensils.

Joseph stood in front of the workbench, excitedly handling a few rare herbs.

Sean picked up a book from the bookshelf and sat down on a chair next to him to read it.

For Sean's actions, Joseph didn't care.

There are many pictures of cherished herbs in these books, and Sean will look at them every time he comes to the pharmacy.

Of course, Joseph also hopes that Sean will have more knowledge of herbs and collect more rare herbs for him in the future.

In this world, cultural knowledge is a luxury, only the aristocracy can afford to play it, and the commoners at the bottom are purely illiterate.

In Joseph's opinion, Sean is just a country hunter, let alone know how to read, it is good that he can read the pictures in the book.

So in the past few years, every time Sean came to the pharmacy, Joseph let him look at the books on this shelf at will.

Joseph disposed of several rare herbs and put them in the medicine cabinets.

Sean also stood up in time to put the book back on the shelf.

"My lord, what herbs do you need, I'll try to find them for you next time you go to the mountain. ”

Listening to Sean's words, Joseph smiled and said, "Next month I am going to refine a potion, and I need some wood laurel and manla grass......"

After he finished speaking, he took out a money bag and handed it to Sean, which was the reward for several cherished herbs this time.

In order to win over Sean, Joseph was paid very high every time, and Sean earned hundreds of gold coins from him alone in the past few years.

Sean took the money bag, swiped it with his hand, and put it in the leather bag around his waist.

"I'll try it......"

He nodded at Joseph, then turned and walked out of the pharmacy.

Joseph looked at Sean's back and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

This taciturn teenager, although he is not very old, is down-to-earth, not greedy, and knows how to advance and retreat, and is very low-key.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Sean was needed to help him collect rare herbs now, Joseph might have taken him as a student.

Sean walked out of the pharmacy and had just walked a few hundred meters when he saw a carriage slowly passing by him.

The carriage stopped in front of the door of a fancy restaurant in front, and a man stepped out of the carriage.

The man was tall and thin, wrapped in a black robe, with a delicate cross sword at his waist and a wide hood on his head, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly.

As soon as the black-robed man appeared, Sean's scalp suddenly exploded.

Strong perception, coupled with the countless experiences of life and death in the last days, made him instinctively feel that the other party was very dangerous.

Although the other party's entire body was wrapped in a black robe, Sean could clearly feel the eerie aura.

Sean has been fighting for more than ten years in the cruel apocalypse, and he is always sensitive to unknown dangers.

He hurriedly stopped, and it wasn't until the black-robed man walked into the restaurant that he quickened his pace and hurried past the door of the restaurant.