At noon the next day.

In the room of the Lettuce Hotel, Xu Nan put the rough potion in his hand in the sunlight and looked at it carefully.

In good sunlight, he could see a pale green sheen and a large amount of cloudy floating debris.

"It's a typical small workshop potion."

"The purity is very average......"

Xu Nan narrowed his eyes.

With his level of alchemy, it is not difficult to see that the quality of this thing is really not good, at least in terms of alchemy technology, it is not very high-end.

The name of this potion is [Call of the Wilderness], and the name is quite compelling, but unfortunately the texture is really a bit embarrassing, at least not worthy of this name.

The potion was purchased by Xu Nan from a small alchemy workshop on the second roundabout, and the address was naturally the one provided by Thomas yesterday.

In order to solve the mystery of stray cats, Xu Nan took Xie Yutong and took a boat to the second roundabout early in the morning and found this address.

At the beginning, the apprentice of the small workshop was still a little wary of two strangers who came in a hurry.

Fortunately, both of them are warlocks, and the most important thing is charm, and when dealing with this kind of elementary school apprentice, Xu Nan can easily get it with all the charm.

The signature product of this alchemy workshop is [Call of the Wilderness], according to the young apprentice, this thing is unique in Stephen Sand, even the wizards of the Life School in the main city can't make it.

As for the specific effect, although Xu Nan asked, the junior apprentice was reluctant to explain clearly, and he looked like a mysterious look that you would know after drinking.

This made Xu Nan want to knock him out on the spot, and after losing his mind, he would train him well......

Fortunately, he is still quite sober, after all, this is Stephen Sand, it is better not to use force easily if he can not use force.

In this way, Xu Nan bought all three potions in the hands of the junior apprentice, and as a result, the junior apprentice still looked like you had earned your blood, which made Xu Nan puzzled.

"Liar, huh? Is this thing really as valuable as the kid said? ”

"Could it be that he deliberately pretended to be fooled by my charm, but actually secretly blackmailed me?"

Xu Nan doubted his charm.

Because he really can't see anything special about this thing.

But when he thought about it, Thomas didn't need to deceive himself, and if this young apprentice could resist his transcendent charm, then Stephen Sand would have been able to dominate the world a long time ago.

Again, the problem is with this bottle of potion.

Xu Nan was a little hesitant.

His level of alchemy knowledge is insufficient, and he has been knocked up by hard books, among which the [Alchemy Analysis] skill is obviously biased, and he can only draw some very rudimentary conclusions, and he is completely unable to further analyze the pharmacology of this bottle of medicine.

But Stephen Sand is one of the few places where he can't return to Paradise Lost directly, and Xu Nan can't find a laboratory to analyze this potion for a while.

"You can't really just take a sip like that kid said, right?"

He was thinking so in his heart.

But the hand honestly opened the stopper.

A single scent of grass comes to the nose, and it seems to be mixed with mint, which is slightly irritating at first smell, but it will feel very comfortable after a long time.

"More than 95 percent harmless."

Xu Nan was silently sure in his heart.

Pharmacy is a very advanced science, which belongs to one of the branches of alchemy, and the introductory knowledge of pharmacy analysis is to see, smell and taste. Xu Nan couldn't see the name after looking at it for a long time, but after smelling it, he could be sure that the medicinal properties of this medicine were very mild, and there was a high probability that it was not toxic.

Unless the toxicity is well hidden.

But this contradicts the clumsy production method of the potion itself, so Xu Nan prefers to believe that this potion should not have too many bells and whistles, and its own effectiveness is the most important.

He hesitated, wiped the potion with a cotton swab, and then placed it on the tip of his tongue with a gentle touch.

This is the "taste" part.

Generally speaking, most potions do not react too strongly in very small amounts, even if they are ultra-lethal, but an experienced alchemist can analyze the general composition.

Xu Nan's experience is obviously not rich, he is just pinning his hopes on the Paradise Lost system.

Unfortunately, nothing happened from the system.

He smashed his mouth, only to feel a fragrance spread between his lips and teeth, and at that moment, he actually had a strong urge - he wanted to drink the whole potion!

That impulse hit his mind like crazy.

Fortunately, Xu Nan's will is firm enough, he has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, and he will never joke with his body and life!

He resolutely reinserted the stopper, then dropped the potion into the corner of the storage equipment.

"Hoo ......"

"It's a strong attraction, it's a little weird."

He wiped his sweat and decided not to try to analyze it himself, and instead of taking the risk himself, he would send the potion back to Paradise Lost and let John find someone to help analyze it.

However, just as he was thinking this, the following entry suddenly flashed through the notification bar:

[Your shared quest - the mystery of the stray cats has been completed!] 】

[Number of Newcomers +1]

[Your blood affinity with Xie Yutong +1]

"That's it?"

He was a little surprised.

"What about the reward? What about my rewards? ”

Xu Nan checked it and found that he couldn't get additional rewards for helping Xie Yutong complete the task!

The only benefits he can get are the "number of newcomers promoted" on the surface and the "blood kinship" with Xie Yutong. It is quite useful to bring up the data of new arrivals in the later stage, otherwise strong people such as Romans will not leave their own bloodline fruits in Paradise Lost; As for the blood kinship, Xu Nan studied it for a long time, but he didn't find that this thing was useful!

The system setting of Paradise Lost is as mysterious as ever...... There are a lot of things, and it is estimated that even Aoife does not know how to explain them, after all, this is a complex system designed by Ron himself, and it is said that less than one-third of the content has been effectively developed so far.

Blood affinity, as the name suggests, probably means blood affinity? It's not that Xu Nan helped Xie Yutong do a few tasks, and the two became relatives, right?

His mind was full of thoughts.

But what made him even more puzzled was that he had only tasted a drop of potion and had not yet figured out what the mystery of the stray cat was about, so why did the system suddenly determine that the task was completed?

"Was it yesterday?"

"That means there's a delay in the Paradise Lost system?"

This explanation was obviously unreasonable, Xu Nan looked at the [Call of the Wilderness] that he had thrown into the corner, suddenly thought of something, and stood up suddenly.

At this time, a little black cat suddenly jumped over from the balcony of the next room, whined, and jumped into Xu Nan's arms unreasonably!

It frantically scratched Xu Nan's clothes, and then slammed Xu Nan's stomach with its head......

Xu Nan looked at it thoughtfully, suddenly grabbed its neck with one hand, grabbed it and looked at it in turn, and found that the situation was wrong:

"Huh? This, this is a male cat, huh? ”

"Did I guess wrong?"

Meow meow!

The little earth cat waved its paws dissatisfiedly.

Xu Nan asked tentatively: "Xie Yutong?" ”

The little earth cat began to nod frantically with tears in her eyes!

Xu Nan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, instantly let go of his hand, and threw it on the ground.

The little earth cat rolled on the ground in embarrassment, pitifully grabbing Xu Nan's trouser leg.

Xu Nan looked at her, angry and funny, but what made his scalp tingle even more was that the mystery about stray cats had finally been solved!

Xie Yutong also has a [Call of the Wilderness] potion in his hand!

It is not difficult to guess that this guy is more reckless than himself, and in order to solve the mystery of the stray cat, he did not hesitate to risk his life and drank the potion.

The effect of the potion is to turn people into cats.

"Ordinary Transfiguration, which can only transform into the general appearance of an animal, but cannot have an absolute animal body structure......"

"This kind of medicine can actually turn people into cats, and even have reproductive organs...... Damn, I don't know if it's a random assignment of sex, or a fixed transfer of gender......"

"In short, this potion has only one effect, which is to let humans try the cat's perspective, or...... Well? ”

Xu Nan didn't dare to think about it anymore.

The effect of the potion, combined with the repeated hints from the schoolchildren that the potion, was very hot in Stephen Sand, and even the high price was hard to come by—the answer was already forthcoming!

He thinks that there is no limit to the Ron Warlocks, but the wizards of Stephen Sand are even more outrageous!

He finally knew why Roger, Thomas, and the others always had constipated expressions when they talked about it.

It's hard to say!

Those elegant, queuing up to get on the boat are not real stray cats at all!

That's a wizard who has nowhere to vent and needs to be stimulated by tedious and boring witchcraft research on weekdays!

How depressed they are to try such a violent way!

Xu Nan recalled the scene he saw yesterday in the Wisteria Park on the second roundabout, and his scalp was numb!

No wonder their eyes are so wrong.

I almost became a public enemy of wizards unintentionally!

"Can't be provoked, can't be provoked......"

Xu Nan was a little afraid.

Fortunately, I got the truth of the matter from Thomas, otherwise I might have found many embarrassing pickled incidents in the follow-up investigation.

"Anyway, the task has been completed, and the follow-up will be as it goes."

Anyway, the mystery of the stray cat has been solved, and Xu Nan can be regarded as completing the first task for Xie Yutong.

As for what benefits this task will bring him......

Xu Nan thought for a moment, rolled his eyes, opened the [Internal Database-Strange News System], and used his junior explorer authority to confirm the editing of new entries——

[Stephen Sand's Stray Cats].

The [Son-in-law of the Arcane Empire] he established last time has been approved, and he has gained 50 exploration points, which can be used to check information; This time, the stray cats probably contributed to this.

……

Xie Yutong accidentally turned into a little earth cat, and it was also a little male cat, although he was still sane and sober, but Xu Nan simply took her with him in order to prevent accidents.

In the afternoon, he was told by Miranda that someone from the law enforcement team had come to visit.

Xu Nan was a little surprised, his first reaction was that Akai finally replied to himself.

But when I got downstairs, I found that it was Thomas.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Xu Nan."

Thomas seemed to be in a good mood and made a few jokes with the proprietress to make Miranda excited, giving him a handful of home-brewed beer.

"Good afternoon." Xu Nan motioned to go upstairs to speak.

Thomas nodded and followed.

When he arrived in the room, he saw Xie Yutong, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then smiled:

"So you really have a pet cat."

Xu Nan sat down quietly: "Otherwise? I'm not as boring as some of Stephen Sand's wizards. ”

This sentence actually suggests something.

Thomas smiled awkwardly, obviously understanding Xu Nan's hint.

He told Xu Nan the address of the small workshop last night, and Xu Nan found the pet cat today and said such a clueless sentence, naturally Xu Nan knew the secret of the stray cat.

"Thank you for your advice." Xu Nan sincerely thanked: "Otherwise, I'm afraid I will have to make a lot of detours." ”

"It should."

Thomas's attitude was very gentle, he looked around, and suddenly whispered:

"I'm here today for yesterday's business."

"All the information you need about the [Sneak Attacker in the Back of the Head] is here."

He quickly pulled out a brown paper bag and placed it on the table, the contents heavy inside.

Xu Nan smiled and quickly took the things over.

Thomas's productivity was far beyond his expectations.

He quickly browsed through it and found that there were a lot of very valuable internal information of the law enforcement team!

"Other than that, I want to remind you of one thing."

Thomas said solemnly: "The sneak attacker in the back of the head is not a simple vicious attack, with the addition of some imitators, it has become a modus operandi that can be used maliciously. ”

"Imitators?" Xu Nan narrowed his eyes.

Thomas sat in his chair, his back straight, his hair meticulously combed and shining in the sun:

"At first, it may have been a sensational folly done by some prankster lover or a fan of vicious events."

"But as the incident was reported in the newspapers, there were many imitation incidents in the city, and these incidents were most likely not done by the original criminals, so it greatly increased the difficulty of solving the case."

Xu Nan put the information on the table, frowning slightly:

"I don't understand."

Thomas patiently explains:

"I know what puzzles you are – why are there so many imitators?"

"That's why I'm visiting today."

"According to my investigation, these imitators are targeting people from Paradise Lost!"

Xu Nan narrowed his eyes: "Someone is targeting Paradise Lost?" ”

"It's embarrassing to say, but it's true."

Thomas sighed: "There are always people who don't know the general situation and try to make their presence felt. ”

"These people pose a great threat to the law and order of Stephen Sand."

"Although it is only my guess, I am more than eighty percent sure, so I came here to remind you. Although you are interested in this case for unknown reasons, it is important to know that this case itself is very complicated, and there are people who follow suit, so there is a great danger to the warlocks of Paradise Lost. ”

"My advice is not to go out at night."

He reminded with all sincerity.

Xu Nan nodded, pressed his right hand on the intelligence bag, and his eyes swept between Thomas and the intelligence bag from time to time, falling into deep thought.

……