Nelson looked at the old man expectantly and said, "When I was in the academy, I read an article on the study of the Wyziks, which described the Wyzks as the masters of the Black Forest, the most herb-savvy race in the world. Teacher, since you have the main sacrificial ornament of the Wyzk people here, then the Wyzk people record the human bone book of the Black Forest herbs......"

The old man raised his head slightly, glanced at Nelson angrily, and said, "If I found the Book of Human Bones, I wouldn't stay here, but sat in the spacious office of the Academy, smoking a cigar from the Mogaganno Kingdom and drinking the Bodo wine of the French Empire. ”

Nelson scratched his head in embarrassment and sat back in the chair next to the old man.

Leo looked at the necklace back in his hand and fell into deep thought, while Jason walked around the store a little bored.

After about a dozen minutes, the old man finished writing the letter, took out his special seal from the drawer, stamped it on the letter and envelope, and handed it to Nelson.

Nelson took the letter, carefully put it away with a waterproof wallet, and then asked the old man again, "Teacher, I still need to buy some deworming medicine you made." ”

"Insect repellent?" the old man frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Are you going through the Black Forest?"

"Yes. Nelson looked at Leo, and after receiving a nod of tacit approval, he told the old man their plan, and said, "If you cross the Black Forest, if you are lucky, it will only take you four days at most to reach Miria City, but if you walk around the Black Forest Avenue at the edge of the Black Forest, even if you take a carriage, it will take more than ten days, and if you ride a horse, it may be shorter, but it is not too short." ”

While listening to Nelson's words, the old man took out his pipe and lit it, took a hard puff, and when he exhaled the smoke, he said: "Don't you know that it is the foggy moon of the Lower Black Forest, and it is not suitable to enter the Black Forest?"

"Misty Moon?" a blank look appeared on Nelson's face, apparently he didn't understand what that meant.

"I forgot, you're not from the Black Forest and don't know what the Fog Moon means. The old man smoked a cigarette, took out a map of the Black Forest printed by the Royal Press of the French Empire, and said while sketching the map with his fingers: "Every year, there is a period of one to two months, and the dense fog of the Great Black Forest in the north will go south and enter the Lower Black Forest, and this time is called the Fog Moon by the Black Forest people. It is very dangerous to enter the Lower Black Forest during this time, and this danger does not come from the poisonous insects of the Black Forest beasts hidden in the fog, but from the fog itself. People who break into the fog usually lose their way, and are guided by the fog to the depths of the Black Forest, and eventually die in the Black Forest. ”

"There is such a thing!" Nelson's expression also became serious, he knew very well that the character of the old man in front of him would never say anything exaggerated, since the old man said so, then the Black Forest of the Foggy Moon must be very dangerous. So he looked at Leo with some concern, and asked, "What do you think, Mr. Leo? Shall we take the Black Forest Road instead? If we use fast horses, we can take the steam train to the nearest Doha in two days, and we should also reach Miria City in seven or eight days." ”

"We don't have to take a diversion, we're going to take the Black Forest. Leo could hear the flinch in Nelson's tone, but he ignored it, still maintaining his original decision, and said with great confidence: "If you are just worried about getting lost in the fog, there is no need at all, because I will never get lost." ”

The reason why Leo is so confident is that the parabrain system can help draw any map easily, and it is also three-dimensional, which has been proven countless times in the past, so the dense fog of the forest, which can be called a death trap for ordinary people, has no effect on him.

Leo's self-confidence made Nelson and Pierre stunned for a moment.

It's just that Nelson has seen Leo's ability to choose the right route in the mountains and forests before, and he is surprised and inexplicably feels that Leo's self-confidence is not untargeted.

On the contrary, the old man Pierre felt that Leo's performance was just ignorant rhetoric, and once he really entered the Black Forest, he would definitely pee his pants in fear like those hunters and rookies.

So, the old man prepared to persuade Nelson not to adopt this plan, which he thought was no different from seeking death, through the Black Forest of the Misty Moon.

However, Nelson seemed to expect the old man to persuade him, so he preemptively said, "Teacher, I think that since Mr. Leo said such a thing, he will definitely be able to do it, and we will not change our plans." ”

"Damn it!"

The old man knew very well the character of his student, so he could only curse in his heart and did not persuade again.

Instead, he walked up to Leo and grabbed Leo's shirt, as if he wanted to spill his anger on Leo, ready to say two harsh words to teach people.

But for some reason, after seeing Leo's extremely calm look, he couldn't help but feel that the other party might not be talking big, but he could really do it.

So, when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them again, and finally he could only glare at Leo fiercely, and then turned and walked to the small room behind the shop.

After a while, the old man took out a simple wooden box from the house, put it on the counter, pushed it in front of Nelson, took three bulbous incense burners hanging on his body, put them on the box, and said: "My anthelmintic medicine may weaken in the foggy moon, in addition to wearing it on your body, you must also light one and put it in the incense burner to scrape it outside your body, and the deworming medicine in the stove cannot be stopped until you leave the forest." ”

"Thank you, teacher. Nelson said with a heartfelt thanks.

Jason on the side suddenly asked in English with some slight, "How much does this cost? Do we have enough money?"

Leo and Nelson glared at Jason in unison, motioning for him to shut up.

The old man's face was a little ugly when he heard the English language, although Nelson had already said that they were soldiers of the Kingdom of England when he introduced Leo just now, but when Nelson and Leo talked to him, they both spoke in the French language with a Bodo regional accent, which made him forget for a moment that there were several people from the enemy countries in front of him, just his own students and his friends.

But Jason's English with a strong local accent reminded him of his bad memories and reminded him of the current hostile relationship between the two countries, and the expression on his face was naturally not much better.

I saw that he glared at the three people in front of him fiercely, and said angrily: "Needless to say, the price, with your current situation, you will definitely not be able to afford it." As he spoke, he took out a very thick book and put it on the counter, opened it, quickly flipped to the bookmarked page in the middle, pointed to the herb pattern on the page, and said, "However, as long as you can help me find this herb, I will give these things to you." ”

"What is this?" Leo looked at the page, confused.

I saw that the pattern on the page was a flower that looked very similar to the earth's plant lily of the valley, but this flower only had one flower, a flower stem and a flower leaf, and the overall color of the flower was purple, and there were some swirling gold threads on the surface, which looked very beautiful.

"This is the purple crest. Nelson had only glanced at the page, and without looking at the description on the pattern, he had already identified the flower with such obvious characteristics. It's just that, immediately after that, he asked suspiciously, "Didn't the Herb Association say that the purple crown flower didn't exist at all?"

"When did that fool say it right!" the old man snorted with great disdain, and then said very cautiously: "I have accurate news, the purple crown flower will appear in the Black Forest of the Foggy Moon, but it needs to be packed into a special container in order to be well preserved and will not wither. ”

Leo interjected a little abruptly at this time, and said: "Wait, since you know that this plant will appear in the Black Forest of the Misty Moon, then it means that someone has entered the Misty Moon Black Forest and come out alive, didn't you say that no one has ever ...... before"

"Stupid, it's not necessarily people who come out. Without waiting for Lei Roar's words to finish, the old man retorted.

"Not necessarily human?" Leo was stunned, not understanding the old man's words for a moment, and was about to ask again, but the old man preemptively signaled that he wouldn't say anything.

The old man asked, "What do you think of such a deal?"

Nelson hesitated for a moment and said, "I won't necessarily be able to find this legendary plant. ”

The old man said cheerfully: "It's okay, it's best to be able to find it, and it's okay if you can't find it." ”

"Alright then, I can give it a try. Nelson nodded in agreement.

Leo interjected at this time, "Wait, I think we seem to have a bit of a loss in this deal." As he spoke, he pointed to the pattern on the page and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this plant is unique in the world, right? Don't you think it's too much to trade just a few insect repellent for such a unique plant that can make you famous and rich?"

"Don't forget, I'm in danger of losing money!" the old man immediately showed his merchant instinct and bargained with Leo, "After all, you may not be able to find the purple crown flower, but I must invest in these precious insect repellent medicines in advance. ”

Leo directly hit the old man's vital point and said, "But you will never find anyone willing to enter the Black Forest in the Foggy Moon, will you?"

The old man was silent for a while, gritted his teeth, and said angrily to Leo, "All right! What do you want to be paid for?"

Leo didn't know the value of the purple crown flower, and he couldn't consult Nelson right now, so he deliberately acted like you wouldn't cheat me, and exchanged the pricing power to the old man, saying, "It's not what I want, but what you're willing to pay." ”

"Three thousand gold flanges. The old man thought for a moment and said.

Leo said, "No, I think three thousand gold guilders is more suitable. ”

"Are you crazy!3,000 gold guilders?do you know how much 3,000 gold guilders are worth?" the old man showed an exaggerated expression, as if Leo had offered a sky-high price enough to buy the entire Francois Empire.

Leo said calmly: "I know how much the three thousand gold shields are worth, and I think the purple crown flower is worth this price." ”

Although the French Empire was one of the most powerful countries on land, it was much poorer than the Kingdom of England, which started with maritime trade and had commercial contacts with countries on three continents. And because the Kingdom of England has commercial dealings with all the countries of the Continental Parliament, the golden shield issued by them has become the common currency of the members of the Continental Parliament, and the price of the gold flange is two to one.

The old man's face was gloomy, and he pondered for a while before gritting his teeth and saying, "Okay, it's just three thousand gold shields!"

With that, the old man took out another barrel-shaped container that was supposed to be used to hold the purple crown flower, handed it to Nelson, and then told Nelson the address of the city of Miria, and told him to go there whether he found the purple crown flower or not.

During the whole process, the old man didn't look at Leo again, obviously hating Leo for asking for such a ruthless price.

After leaving the herb shop, Nelson took Leo and Jason to buy some hunting clothes, leather shoes, tents and other items for the forest, and spent most of the money found from the dead body, and it took more than an hour to return to the hotel.

"I needed a separate room. While in the lobby of the hotel, Leo suddenly asked the hall manager.

The lobby manager quickly responded, "Sorry! ”

Not hearing the answer he wanted, Leo frowned.

Nelson, who was next to him, didn't understand why Leo suddenly needed a separate room, but he could see that Leo must be in trouble, so he proposed: "It's unlikely that you can find a separate room in the inn now, if you really need a separate room, you can use our own one, I just need to prepare medicine, I can go to the teacher's to do it, and it's okay to rest at the teacher's place at night." As he spoke, he looked at Jason and said, "Jason can help me." ”

Jason seemed reluctant, glancing at his lips, but didn't refuse the offer either.

Leo was not pretentious, nodded, and said, "Let's arrange it like this! I don't need a lot of time, maybe only half an hour, I'll look for you when I'm done." ”

Hearing Leo's words, Nelson and Jason both showed the same ambiguous eyes, and looked Leo up and down, obviously Leo's words made them a little misunderstood.

Leo could tell that the two had misunderstood, but he had no intention of explaining, so he took the key from Nelson and went upstairs.

Back in the room, Leo dropped the package on the floor, locked the door, checked the latch of the window, and lowered the curtains. After that, he checked the walls of the room again, although the appearance of the room was a wooden room, but the walls between the rooms were sandwiched with a layer of fireproof asbestos, and this asbestos also played a role in absorbing sound, no matter how much noise was made in the room, no sound could be heard in the rooms on either side.

After checking it carefully and finding no problems, Leo stripped all his clothes off, took out the Wyzik necklace from his pocket, and lay down on the bed in the most relaxed position.

"Check the physical state, adjust the body data in real time, and project the system. Leo commanded the subbrain.