Jingle ......

On the bow of the ship, which is raised high and bent inward, the hanging brass bells tinkle incessantly.

The bright orange wooden boat breaks through the quietly flowing water.

Scott placed a small lizard on his shoulder.

He sat in the stern of the boat, looking down at the clear, deep water.

You can vaguely see the soft water and grass rippling at the bottom of the river, and the little fluorescent light keeps flickering, dreamy and magnificent.

At this moment, it is like boating on the galaxy.

"It's a magical creature that only lives in this Olabida River."

Lucio turned and sat down at the bow of the boat.

"Fluorescent fish, they have glowing organs on their heads."

He reached out and tapped lightly on the side of the boat.

"They can absorb all kinds of light and store it, but they are afraid of real sunlight, which is deadly to them."

So can only live in underground rivers?

Scott nodded knowingly.

"The Ministry of Magic prohibits wizards from fishing them without permission, if you're interested, I can take you to a pet store and buy a few to keep home, by the way, in order for them to survive, you also need to buy a special fish tank."

Lucio gestured as he spoke.

"I suggest you put the fish tank on your desk, yes, the biggest effect of these fluorescent fish is that they can replace the lamp on your desk to a certain extent."

Seeing him smiling brightly, Scott could only calmly reply to him, "Thank you for the introduction, I don't want to have this kind of pet." ”

Besides, is there any difference between raising this thing and raising a glowing jellyfish?

Lucio shrugged, not surprised by Scott's answer.

Next, he began to introduce Scott to the shops that line the banks of the river.

Scott listened with interest.

In fact, the goods in these shops can be said to be similar to those in Diagon Alley in England, there is not much difference, the biggest difference is only the architectural style of the shops.

Since the underground river runs between the buildings along the street, the shops here often have shop windows on the riverside in addition to the main entrance on the bank, which makes it easy for wizards on small boats to shop.

Lucio probably saw that Scott didn't have much desire to shop, so he chose to be a competent tour guide, and he didn't recommend shopping.

Scott also sat comfortably on the boat in a sightseeing mindset, observing the bustling scene on both sides of the river, as well as the witches and wizards on the other boats that staggered past them.

"Oh, I need to visit this second-hand goods store."

Lucio abruptly stopped the boat at a small pier under a stone bridge.

Scott didn't have a problem with this, and got up with Lucio and went ashore, approaching a small building that looked particularly dark and dilapidated.

[Zugara Moodi Thrift Store]

Planks with an unknown name inscribed on them hung crookedly from the moss-sold, wet stone walls by rusty chains.

The open wooden door looked decaying, and the deep, thick black of the door looked like pieces of dried and clotted blood.

The light inside the door looked dim, and half of the wooden shelves that were piled up with debris and looked like they were about to collapse were hidden in the shadows.

"What's wrong?"

Lucio, who was walking ahead, noticed that Scott had stopped, and turned back to ask.

He looked left and right again, smiled and said, "It looks shabby, well, it's a little weird, but it's one of my favorite shops." ”

With that, he leaned closer and lowered his voice.

"Everything here is very cheap, and I've found good things here several times."

Scott looked at him unmoved, "I'm afraid you should buy more garbage and go back." ”

"Ahem......" Lucio was a little embarrassed, "I can only say that those are the necessary costs. ”

"It's good if you're happy." Scott smiled at him, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”

As he spoke, he walked into the thrift store first.

I have to say that the inside and outside of this store seem to be two worlds.

Although the shop is dilapidated, it used to have glass windows, but the glass has become almost opaque due to a thick layer of dust, which makes the interior extremely dark.

Although the door was open, the false sunlight outside the door illuminated only a small area of the doorway, as if it was afraid of something.

The lighting in the room actually relies more on those mottled stone walls, as if the candles have been burned to the end.

"Let's go on our own treasure hunts, and we'll see you later."

Lucio whispered, and then rushed to the shelves, and began to concentrate on picking the dusty goods.

Scott glanced at him and walked over to another shelf to take a look.

This thrift store seems to sell everything, old books, old clothes, old stationery......

Most of them are piled up on the shelves, and they all look dirty and tattered, in short, they don't arouse people's desire to buy them at all.

Scott glanced at the pile of old books a few times, but didn't mean to reach out at all.

He could imagine that if he pulled one out of this pile of old books, he would kick up a thick layer of dust.

It's a little suffocating just thinking about it.

"Oh, Scott."

At this time, Lucio called him.

"Look at this."

Scott turned his head to see him clutching a silver bracelet that was about to break with two fingers.

"It's supposed to be a broken work of alchemy, it's just that it seems so thoroughly broken that I can't easily tell what it's for." He said with some distress, "If it's just a common basic alchemy work, then its hidden magic circuit will have no effect on me. ”

Scott raised an eyebrow, reached for the blackened silver bracelet, and probed it with his magical senses.

"I can perceive one thing, it should be mainly related to [water]-related magic texts, oh, there is also a little bit of [light], and the specific magic text circuit effect needs to be known after you, an alchemist, can only know after it is successfully disassembled and restored."

"Oh, that's great! I'm going to buy it! Lucio's eyes lit up, "I've learned very little about [water] and [light]. ”

He winked at Scott, "You know, we're always going to run out of credits. ”

Scott handed him the bracelet, "Doesn't Beauxbatons have this knowledge?" Do you need to buy them all with credits at [Knowledge Bank]? ”

Lucio cautiously reached out and took it, took out a handkerchief and put it on his palm, and then placed the worn-out bracelet on the handkerchief.

"Beauxbatons only taught us the basics, and our family has no alchemical heritage, so if we want to go further, we can either be lucky enough to become an apprentice under an alchemist, or we have to think of other ways."

His expression was a little helpless for a moment, but then he laughed heartlessly.

"Go and pick something useful, my friend, you know, you have an advantage that no one else has."

Scott knew he was referring to his own magical perception and nodded in acceptance of his kindness.

He didn't look carefully just now, and he didn't know that he could still find second-hand magic items here, but now that he knew, he couldn't help but be a little more concerned.

Compared to Lucio's careful selection of goods, his operation is much simpler and more crude.

After the fine magic perception was unfolded, he mastered the location of all the goods on the shelves that contained magic fluctuations, and even the weakest magic fluctuations could not escape Scott's serious and preoccupied perception.

Scott began to pick and choose goods according to his own perception.

Of course, he wasn't ready to sweep away all the magical goods, but carefully selected them.

After careful selection, he found that most of the magic items had little purchase value.

Compared to Lucio, Scott has no shortage of opportunities to learn the magic circuit, and he doesn't even have to spend points to go to the [Knowledge Bank] to get them.

With a master alchemist like Ravenclaw as his mentor, his learning resources are better than anyone else's.

Under such a premise, he did not have much eye on many basic alchemy works.

In the end, he picked out a few somewhat quirky items based on his instincts and interests.

A relatively well-preserved brass balance with a little medicinal fragrance,

One of the things that intrigued him the most was a bronze sailor's astrolabe covered in patina.

The sailor's astrolabe looked like a Muggle antique, and it wasn't even what Scott was trying to pick and choose.

Scott was only aware of it when he was looking at another item, and sensed a faint fluctuation in his magical power.

But his instincts told him that it was probably the most valuable item in the store.

So Scott took it up.

As for the rest that he didn't see, he pointed it out to Lucio.

Lucio was obviously not bad for money, and he bought all the goods Scott pointed out.

After that, the two went to the counter in the darkest part of the store to settle the bill.

The owner of this thrift store is a tall, skinny wizard who looks thinner than anyone Scott has ever met.

His eye sockets were sunken, his cheekbones were raised, and his outstretched hands were terrifying, like corpses without moisture.

"Oh......"

He glanced at the goods the two had brought over, and slowly spoke, revealing a few gold teeth.

His drooping eyelids lifted, and the boss looked at Scott with bulging eyes, as if glaring at him.

"I hate customers like you." He said, "I have a strong sense of purpose and I don't understand the fun of gambling at all." ”

"Hehehe...... Boss, I've bought a lot of stuff from you......"

Lucio hurriedly leaned in and said a good word with a hippie smile.

"Hehe, I used to look at you quite nicely."

The boss laughed dryly twice before glancing at him.

"Is it not pleasing to the eye now?"

Lucio deliberately pretended to cry without tears.

"What do you say?"

Fortunately, although the boss complained a few words, he finally sold the thing to them and did not deliberately raise the price.

Even Scott's favorite sailor's astrolabe was only taken for one gold galleon.

Although Scott is not really sure if he has picked up the leak, that does not prevent him from being in a good mood at the moment.

Of course, Lucio was also happy.

After leaving the thrift store, the two returned to the boat, and Lucio warmly invited Scott to taste the special food here, saying that he was thanking Scott for helping him choose useful magical items.

"No thanks, do I want to thank you again for inviting me here?" Scott said with a smile.

"Oh no."

Lucio waved his hand.

"It's nothing, it's actually ......"

He paused, and said with some embarrassment, "Actually...... Well, that's why I invited you, I've heard about your abilities for a long time, and it was my cousin Gavin who told me that your magic perception and transfiguration are both famous at Hogwarts. ”

"I see, it's okay."

Scott certainly wasn't angry, or rather, he would have been more at ease with that reason.

Lucio laughed again, "But it's also a very funny coincidence, I saw you at the bar, I happened to have seen your picture, and it just so happened that you were also a member of the Scholars Alliance, and you could exchange knowledge of alchemy with me. ”

He held out his hand to Scott, "Anyway, nice to meet you, Scott. ”

"I'm glad to meet you, too."

Scott reluctantly shook his hand.

"By the way, my name, my full name is Lucio...... Gonzalez. ”

He said a long list of middle names, but Scott's ears filtered them automatically, and in the end only his Christian name and last name were memorized.

Of course, he can guarantee that the expression on his face will not reveal the fact that he did not listen carefully to Lucio's full name.

Led by Lucio, Scott joins him in a lively riverside restaurant to sample some Spanish specialties that Scott is not used to.

Scott didn't hate Muggle restaurants in Spain, but he always felt that wizarding restaurants in Spain seemed to be going astray.

In Spain, Muggle hash browns are made with eggs and potatoes, but snake eggs are used in wizarding restaurants.

Muggles' cold soups are made with tomatoes and vegetables, but the wizard's restaurant uses herbs such as belladonna and sage, which taste psychedelic like magic potions.

The rest of the food is also in this magical style.

If it weren't for the fact that Lucio was eating quite vigorously, Scott would have thought he was fixing himself.

Anyway, he didn't take a few bites before he put down his knife and fork with a smile.

Fortunately, the drinks and desserts at this restaurant were normal, and Scott ended up barely mixing them up and half full.

After that, the two left the underground water wizard street and returned to Madrid in an alchemy modified car driven by an alchemy puppet, where they parted at the bar entrance.

When he got home, Scott didn't even have time to answer Amilia's question and couldn't help but eat first.

As Emilia and Michael were both a little curious about his new friend, Scott finally had his fill and imported the footage of the little lizard into [Magic Mirror] to share this trip to Barcelona's Wizard Street with his parents.

"I thought you went to Venice......" Emilia looked at the effects in the magic mirror, "Oh, the river is so beautiful!" ”

"Is there such a weird guy among wizards in all countries?"

Michael, who had been to Diagon Alley with Scott, looked at the oddly dressed and strange-looking wizards who occasionally passed by in the picture.

Scott raised an eyebrow, he didn't know how to explain it.

In short, in the wizarding world, many wizards become bizarre in old age.

This may be the result of their years of misspelling, or indiscriminate experimentation with spells.

"Oh no, my son."

After listening to Scott's words, Emilia hurriedly took his hand eagerly.

She said in a earnest tone, "Promise Mom, your handsome face will not be like this in the future." ”