Chapter 19: Saving Maple Sugar
The fire goose took Lu Xiao into a sewer and walked forward along the sewer.
"Is your stronghold in the sewers too?" Lu Xiao asked.
"Only the sewers are the safest, and the forbidden army of Haizhou City generally does not run into the sewers to search."
The fire goose pointed ahead: "Just walk through an iron gate over there." ”
The two of them passed through the iron gate, turned to the right, and suddenly opened up in front of them.
The bunch of test tubes and metal cans that Lu Xiao imagined did not appear.
What appeared in front of him was a fire, surrounded by several slightly worn couches.
"Everything we have here is improvised, so it's a bit shabby, so please don't mind." A woman stepped out of it.
Lu Xiao looked at it, it was a red-haired woman, and her appearance was quite similar to that of a fire goose. However, compared to the fire goose, she is taller and more delicate, exuding a mature charm.
"Hello, my name is Huoyue, the president of the Haizhou Alchemist Association." The red-haired woman walked up to Lu Xiao in her high heels and stretched out her white and tender right hand.
Lu Xiao raised Huoyue's right hand, leaned over and kissed it, which was considered a courtesy.
"Hello, my name is Lu Xiao."
"I can guess your identity from my sister's description." Huoyue raised her hand to cover her mouth and chuckled.
"What! Are you Lu Xiao? The fire geese were shocked.
"Why don't you keep telling me who you are?"
"Didn't you tell me that your sister was the president of the Alchemist Guild?" Lu Xiao asked with a smile.
"Fire Goose, go inside and review your potions homework, adults and children don't interject." Huoyue glanced at the fire goose.
Huoyue's eyes looked very gentle, but Huoyan didn't dare to resist her order, and walked inside with a pouting and some dissatisfaction.
"Mr. Lu, sit here, let's communicate slowly." Huoyue said to Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao sat on the sofa next to the fire, opposite Huoyue.
"I don't know what Mr. Lu's plans are for the members of our Alchemist Guild, you don't want to report us to earn a bounty, do you?" Huoyue cocked a long, snow-white leg and put it on the other leg.
"I want your help, so I'm willing to help you first." Lu Xiao said straight to the point.
"Oh? How can you help you? How can you help us? Huoyue looked at Lu Xiao with interest.
"It doesn't matter what kind of help I need now, that's a long time later. I'm here now to understand your difficulties so that I can help you. Lu Xiao said.
"Like, why are you wanted? How are you going to escape from Haizhou City? ”
"Not long ago, the church suddenly issued a hunt order for our alchemists, and this time not only the church went out with all its might, but even the forbidden army in the city also poured out." Huo Yuefeng's eyes were a little helpless.
"Although the church has had a lot of friction with us before, it has not had much impact on us. And this time, the church suddenly attacked and caught us off guard. We're just going to have to hide in this sewer. ”
"Aren't you all transfiguring? Why is it not easy to get out of the city, as far as I know, the sewers can also be connected to the outside of the city. Lu Xiao asked.
"It's not that easy." Fire Moon shook her head.
"Haizhou City is completely composed of two islands, one large and one small, isolated overseas, far from the land, and we must leave by boat if we want to leave Haizhou City."
"And if you want to take a boat, you must go to Haizhou Port to find a ship, we have already secretly gone to Haizhou Port to reconnoitre, and all ships leaving the port must now be carefully searched by the Praetorian Guard."
"And everyone on the ship needs to show their departure papers, and they also have to wash their faces in front of the forbidden army with water, and the disguise potion has no way to work at all."
"Can't you leave Haizhou City by boat somewhere else?" Lu Xiao asked suspiciously.
"As the son of the former city lord, don't you know that there are two Seagod ships in Haizhou City? As long as a ship dares to leave the island from other places outside Haizhou Harbor, it will be attacked by the Poseidon ship. "There was some surprise in the Fire Moon.
Lu Xiao scratched his head a little embarrassed: "It seems that there is such a thing." ”
"What's more, we don't have a ship at all, and it is impossible for us to quietly build a ship out of Haizhou City."
"I can figure out how to do this." Lu Xiao said.
"Now, escaping Haizhou City is not the most urgent thing, the first thing we need to do is to rescue Maple Sugar." Huoyue said.
"Maple sugar?"
"Maple Syrup is a member of our Alchemist Association, she was captured by the military of Haizhou City, and she will be executed at the inauguration ceremony of the new city lord the day after tomorrow, we have to find a way to rescue her as soon as possible."
"Do you have to save it?" Lu Xiao asked.
Huoyue nodded firmly: "We in the Alchemist Guild will not give up any of our members. ”
"I can help you with that too."
"Okay, as long as you are willing to help us, we will not hesitate to lend a helping hand to you in the future." Huoyue looked at Lu Xiao.
"Do you have a preliminary plan now?" Lu Xiao asked.
Huoyue nodded and said, "For the time being, there are three plans, but they have not yet been finalized, and the details of the rescue have not yet been discussed. ”
"Then you tell me, and I'll see if I can make some comments." Lu Xiao said to Huoyue.
"Wait a minute, I'll call the others over and we'll discuss it together." Huoyue stood up and approached the room in high heels.
It wasn't until Huoyue called the others out that Lu Xiao knew that there were only five people in the so-called Alchemist Association!
The two sisters of the Fire Moon and the Fire Goose, Maple Sugar, and a couple.
"There are only five of you?" Lu Xiao didn't hide his surprise at all. "Is this still called an association?"
"No way." Huoyue sighed softly. "There used to be seven people, but then two people left, and there were only five people left."
"Let me introduce you, this is Xu Yue, this is Zhao Ri, they are a couple."
Xu Yue is a middle-aged woman with high hair in a bun, wearing a dark purple long dress, giving people a dignified feeling.
Zhao Ri was a middle-aged man wearing a hat, and because of his status as an alchemist, Lu Xiao couldn't help but guess the amount of hair under his hat.
"This is Lu Xiao, you've all heard of it."
Lu Xiao and the couple greeted each other.
"Time is precious now, so let's start the discussion quickly." Lu Xiao said.
At the behest of the fire moon, the fire goose took out a map from the room and spread it flat on the table next to the fire.
"Now, I've come up with three options to save Maple Sugar." Huoyue said.
"Which three?" Lu Xiao asked, looking at the map of Haizhou City.
"The first is to get maple sugar out of prison. The second is to rescue Maple Syrup on her way to the Sect Leader's Square. The third is to wait for her to be transported to the Sect Leader Square before rescuing her. ”
"Which do you think is better?" Huoyue looked at Lu Xiao.