Chapter 8: Sequence Nine Readers
After leaving the party's apartment, Abner, who had 350 gold pounds plus two extraordinary materials and a handbag of study materials, did not rush home, but after removing his disguise, he made a detour in the bridge district and returned to the Brave's Bar.
After finding Caspars in the break room, the other party smiled and said hello, and then the first sentence was: "The storm is above, I'm glad you're still alive, it seems that you didn't provoke them." ”
Abner ignored his ridicule and interrupted directly: "Mr. Caspass, I have a few more things I want to ask you for!" ”
Hearing this, Caspers also restrained his smile, frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" But first of all, I have to say that I feel that I owe your father a favor that is almost repaid, and there is no discount for me to do things again. ”
Abner, who was carrying a few hundred gold pounds, now had a much stiffer waist, and only nodded and said, "Money is not a problem...... Well, there are three things for now. First, I need a revolver. ”
Thinking of the powerlessness he felt when he faced the extraordinary powerhouse just now, even if the other party was not malicious, Abner still desperately longed for some self-preservation! Even if it's relying on external objects.
"Yes, three pounds! Plus, I'll give you 50 rounds of ammunition as well as a gun pouch. Caspars immediately quoted the price, saying that there was no discount, but it was cheaper than selling it to someone else.
"Second, I'd like you to introduce me to a shooting club...... "I can't use weapons alone, so why don't you go and play random marksmanship?"
Caspars nodded, tore off a piece of paper from the notebook on the table, wrote a few lines, and then handed it to Abner, saying, "Go to this address after nine o'clock tomorrow morning, find a man named Div, and he will take you there." By the way, a similar club annual fee will not be cheap. ”
Abner took the note and looked at it on Riverbank Street in St. George's district, and he recalled that the place seemed to be very remote, almost to the outskirts. Will you have to take the subway to practice guns in the future?
Secretly throwing some messy thoughts out of his mind, Abner's expression on his face was still very serious, and he continued: "Third, I want to rent a laboratory with infrastructure equipment, preferably now!" ”
Hearing this, Caspars glanced at Abner in surprise, he obviously knew something about the extraordinary, so he immediately guessed what the other party was going to do, and couldn't help but persuade a little vaguely: "Are you really in such a hurry? Don't prepare for it anymore? ”
Abner nodded firmly, and only said, "Long nights and dreams!" He hadn't been in such a hurry, and had planned to borrow the public school's laboratory tomorrow to complete the potion, but tonight's encounter touched him so much that he thought he had to protect himself as soon as possible. And in less than three days since he crossed over, he has been directly or indirectly exposed to several transcendent events, and although it seems to be okay for now, it is difficult to say whether he will encounter real danger in the future.
Because of Russell the Great's outstanding contributions, Caspars clearly understood the idiom "the night is long and dreams are many", he sighed, and while motioning to Abner to follow him, he spoke again in a careful tone: "A friend of mine once told me that the extraordinary seem to be beautiful, but in fact they are just a bunch of poor worms swimming on the edge of crisis......
"Thank you, Mr. Caspass, I know a lot about the risks of the extraordinary, but I had to choose this path." Abner followed the other party's limping footsteps, and couldn't help but sigh secretly: The original owner's father really made a good friend!
When Caspars heard this, he stopped talking, and in silence led him out of the bar, to a courtyard on the next street, and took out the key to open the courtyard door and walked in.
Abner looked around and found that it was located on the corner of the street, and it was hidden from buildings on three sides.
"This is where a friend of mine used to stay, and the lab wasn't demolished when he moved out, so you can borrow it. Anyway, everything is his, so I won't charge you. Well, you can stay here for one night temporarily. Opening the door to the living room, Caspars turned and spoke.
"Thank you sincerely, Mr. Caspers!" Abner was genuinely grateful. If it weren't for the other party's help, how could he have such convenient conditions as he is now.
Kaspas waved his hand and said, "It's just a deal, be careful yourself!" I'll come back tomorrow morning to take you away, and bring the revolver you want by the way...... If you had been around then......" Then, without waiting for Abner to reply, he left the courtyard directly.
Drinking Sequence 9 potions isn't so easy to get out of control, right? Abner was a little furious by him, but he didn't turn back when he opened his bow, and he wouldn't flinch at this time.
After taking a deep breath, he turned on the switch on the gas lamps in the house, and the flames lit up and quickly grew larger, and the bright light first occupied the interior of several wall lamps, and then passed through the transparent glass, covering the room with bright colors.
With the help of the light, Abner soon found the laboratory of the previous owner of the house. He didn't have to rest long before he began the ritual, creating a 'spiritual wall' in the laboratory to avoid disturbing the process of mixing potions.
"The auxiliary materials are carried on the body except for pure water, and the main materials are currently placed in a tin box, and there is no need to deal with them...... All I have to do is distill the pure water, grind the thread into a powder, extract the juice of the calamus, and stir all the ingredients in turn. ”
Although according to the Master of Mysteries, the preparation of potions in Sequence 9 is so simple, as long as the ingredients are put in according to the proportion, Abner was still a little nervous, and it took nearly half an hour to really prepare the potion.
Abner swallowed hard at the blue viscous liquid, which was hard to tell whether it was a glass or a lump, and then he gritted his teeth, picked up the glass flask, threw his neck up, and drank the potion.
Grunt! Grunt!
The icy potion went down his throat, and countless bubbles burst at all times. There was a huge stream of information pouring in in his mind, turning into fireworks one after another.
If a weak-willed person encounters this situation, I'm afraid that he will lose control and become a monster on the spot!
Fortunately, Abner is not only quite strong, but also often perceives the sensation of this flow of information in his mind when using the 'Pure White Eye', and has long been resistant to this, so he has passed the most difficult step compared to the others with relative ease.
But even so, he still felt that his head was swelling, there was a tendency to be torn apart, there were countless ghosts in everything he saw, and there were countless buzzing and roaring sounds in his ears.
Abner knew that it was the potion power that he could not fully control, and that it was caused by spillover. He recalls the method that Neal Sr. taught Klein in the novel, and enters a meditative state, which is the only way to get rid of that abnormal state of sight and hearing.
After a long time, Abner awoke from his meditation, clenched his fists, and said to himself with some excitement:
"Finally Extraordinary!"
Then, he looked down at his body, but he didn't notice anything unusual. But his ability to think clearly told him that his concentration, memory, and even comprehension skills had been significantly improved, and although it couldn't be compared to the 'Pure White Eye' state, it was at least two or three times stronger than his self before drinking the potion.
After calming down his excitement, Abner took out the blue gem in the iron cigarette case, intending to verify that his white eyes had improved after becoming a "reader".
The left and right eyes blinked four times alternately (a hint that Abner had set up to actively open the Pure White Eye), and his pupils instantly turned pure white.
Ten seconds later, his pupils returned to their usual pale blue color as his eyes blinked rapidly again, but this time, he was only a little tired and did not mean to be unconscious.
"After becoming an Extraordinary, the limit of the Pure White Eye has increased to about 15 seconds. Turning it off within 10 seconds is not too much of a mental burden, but it can't be turned on continuously, and according to my guess, at least two hours or more should be intervened. Once you use it to the 15-second limit, or if you turn it on continuously for a short period of time, there is a high probability that you will still fall into a 6-hour coma! Well, this limit is not set in stone, it should be related to the spirit body and one's own spirituality, as the potion is digested and the spirituality is enhanced, the use time of the Pure White Eye will gradually increase. ”
"But more importantly, after I became a 'reader', I was finally able to control the gold finger in the first place. This control is not only a switch, but also an act in the state of pure white eyes! Every time I opened it before, it was actually working on multiple threads, not only recalling and understanding the books it had read, but also parsing extraordinary characteristics, analyzing and planning various information...... This is too much of a waste of computing power. I couldn't do it before, but now I'm able to limit this operation to one scope! For example......"
Thinking of this, Abner opened the bag in his hand, took out the Gufsak language information given by the old gentleman of the "Eye of Wisdom" from it, and then blinked his eyes alternately, and entered the state of pure white eyes again!
Just a few seconds later, Abner's eyes closed and he fell to the cushion he had prepared, and his last thought before passing out was:
"My reasoning seems to be correct, continuous opening really leads to forced coma......"
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At the same time, Hugh and a man in his thirties sat opposite each other in a corner at a workers' bar near the docks. Amid the noise of the bar, Hugh seemed to ask some question that made the latter quite emotional, and he slapped the table and said hatefully:
"You ask why the Boss kicked me out and hired that little white face named Hick? Shit, I still want to know! Can you imagine? That person just met the boss, and after talking to the boss for less than 10 minutes, he gained all the boss's trust! Even more trust than us old fellows! You must know that Boss Lawson is a suspicious person, and he doesn't trust any strangers at all! If it weren't for the fact that the boss was normal in other aspects, I would have suspected that he was manipulated by that little white face! ”